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Essential Artists

• Nels Cline/Elliott Sharp
• Anthony Coleman
• Expanse
• Fred Frith & The Gravity Band
• Sarah Hennies
• Incapacitants
• Leap of Faith Orchestra
• Musicworks Magazine
• Neurodivergent Orchestra
• Mike Osborne/Stan Tracey
• Samuel Reinhard
• Rempis/Adasiewicz/Corsano
• Naoko Saito
• Elliott Sharp
• What Is Music
• Yong Yandsen

Essential Labels

Aerophonic
Armageddon Nova
Cadillac Records
elsewhere
Evil Clown
Klanggalerie

MusicNow
Musicworks
Otoroku
Public Eyesore
zOaR Records

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Cline, Nels / Elliott Sharp : Open The Door
(Public Eyesore)

Recorded across two sessions eight years apart, Nels Cline and Elliott Sharp forge a vivid acoustic-guitar dialogue that blends crisp articulation, percussive attack, spectral overtones, and patient, boundary-pushing interplay, creating a set of inventive, empathetic improvisations that expand the guitar-duo tradition with wit, texture, and fearless curiosity.

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Coleman, Anthony: Sounding Board
(zOaR Records)

Alone with his newly acquired 1947 Steinway Model M, Downtown New York pianist Anthony Coleman crafts an intimate set of solo explorations that probe touch, resonance, and the piano's physical poetry, transforming his long-fraught relationship with the instrument into a deeply personal study of sound, nuance, and the possibilities revealed by playing at home.

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Expanse: Hue Cycles
(Evil Clown)

The Expanse ensemble navigates an electronics-leaning improvisation as horns, bass, percussion, and a wide array of auxiliary acoustic and electronic instruments merge into a continuously shifting sonic palette, with long-time Evil Clown collaborators shaping vivid transformations through deft doubling, real-time processing, and deeply seasoned interplay.

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Expanse: The Striking Of Solid Objects
(Evil Clown)

A richly textural electro-acoustic improvisation from a seven-member Expanse lineup, unfolding through shifting combinations of horns, synthesizers, fretless bass, and a wide array of percussion and auxiliary instruments, all shaped by real-time processing into a vivid and dramatically evolving sonic landscape.

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Leap of Faith Orchestra: Nonlocality Becoming Manifest
(Evil Clown)

Boston's Leap of Faith Orchestra unleashes a sprawling large-ensemble improvisation as longtime Evil Clown collaborators sculpt shifting sonorities from an enormous array of winds, strings, percussion, electronics, and auxiliary instruments, creating dramatic transformations through deeply attuned, high-intensity collective interplay.

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Musicworks Magazine: #152 Fall 25 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)

MusicWork's Fall 2025 publication is wide-ranging issue exploring contemporary experimental practice through profiles of artists including Lisa Conway, Kalun Leung, Susie Ibarra, Mali Obomsawin, and Marek Tyler, alongside features on Montreal's late-night listening scene and reviews spanning new music, improvisation, electronic sound, and interdisciplinary performance.

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Neurodivergent Orchestra: Monsters Gonna Monster
(Evil Clown)

Blending freely improvised spoken-word banter from Evil Clown leader David Peck, with a wildly diverse mix of winds, strings, electronics, percussion, and humorous auxiliary instruments, as veteran Evil Clown players and newer voices shape an energetic, narrative-driven performance where playful text, shifting sonorities, and spontaneous interaction collide.

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Osborne, Mike / Stan Tracey: Original
(Cadillac Records)

A powerful 1972 duo performance from alto saxophonist Mike Osborne and pianist Stan Tracey, and the 2nd release on Cadillac Records, recorded live at Surrey Hall and unfolding as a nearly 47-minute continuous improvisation, blending Osborne's fierce, vocal intensity with Tracey's harmonically adventurous, percussive drive in a richly inventive and compelling exchange.

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Rempis / Adasiewicz / Corsano: Dial Up
(Aerophonic)

Two fiercely intuitive trio sessions drawn from concerts in Chicago and Milwaukee by Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz, and Chris Corsano, capturing the group's Chicago-forged, ego-free interplay as they shift effortlessly between surging, full-throttle improvisation and finely detailed, pointillistic exploration, always prioritizing collective motion over individual display.

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Saito, Naoko: The Moon In Diffuse Reflection
(Armageddon Nova)

aJapanese alto-saxophonist Naoko Saito living in New York City presents a full solo effort, shaping airy subtones, soft breath, and tentative melodic fragments into a ghostly, introspective soundscape - a contemplative and quietly expressive improvisational voice that marks her emergence as a distinctive new presence on the Deathrash Armageddon roster.

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Sharp, Elliott: Mare Crisium
(zOaR Records)

Elliott Sharp unites six electric guitarists in a powerful, overtone-rich work built from droning harmonies, graphic scores, shifting rhythms, and open improvisation, transforming his long-running compositional ideas into a vibrant, resonant soundscape that channels the tension of our present moment into bold, electrifying musical energy.

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Yandsen, Yong: Mud
(Armageddon Nova)

Harnessing extreme tenor-sax techniques, Yong Yandsen - known for his collaborations with Christian Meaas Svendsen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Rick Countryman, Sabu Toyozumi, &c. - delivers a solo album that immerses listeners in wet, murky textures and grainy, pressure-driven timbres, shaping breath, multiphonics, and noise into an uncompromising sound world that deepens his distinctive improvisational voice.

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Experimental/Electronic

Incapacitants: Chwalfa
(Otoroku)

Capturing their first UK appearance since 2016, the duo of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai unleash two blistering sets of "hard noise" at Cafe Oto, forging scorched-earth tape loops, feedback vortices, and pedal-chain eruptions into a ferocious, fire-music-level onslaught that channels pure chaos into a gripping, cathartic sonic upheaval.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Frith, Fred & The Gravity Band : s/t
(Klanggalerie)

A vibrant 2014 large-ensemble performance recorded live in Nijmegen and Moers, with Fred Frith leading an extraordinary lineup including Marie Abe, Kasey Knudsen, Aaron Novik, Lisa Mezzacappa, Ava Mendoza, William Winant, Dominique Leone, Wobbly, Kaethe Hofstetter, and Jordan Glenn in dynamic, genre-blurring interpretations of his Gravity-era compositions.

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Composed & Contemporary

Hennies, Sarah: SOVT
(elsewhere)

An extended work for piano by Sarah Hennies, SOVT (Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract) transforms the instrument through putty-muted strings and resonant sympathetic vibrations, performed with rhythmic precision by Richard Valitutto in a hybrid piano-percussion sound world inspired by vocal-tract exercises and Hennies' exploration of voice, identity, and embodied resonance.

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Reinhard, Samuel: For 10 Musicians
(elsewhere)

A four-part work for two pianos, clarinets, bass clarinets, violas, cello, and double bass, unfolding through quietly repeated dyads, chance-shaped harmonies, and sparse, non-directional gestures, as Reinhard's ensemble traces near-silent textures that accumulate, recede, and hover in a state of delicate, slowly evolving stillness.

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What Is Music: Volume 1 Liquid Metal Dreaming
(MusicNow)

Duo music from Robert Evans and Laurie Scott Baker for crwth, tambura, lyre, fiddle, double and electric bass and metal percussion, four slowly evolving pieces rooted in the harmonic series and Pythagorean tuning, weaving airy but focused textures of resonant strings and shimmering overtones into quietly luminous, immersive soundscapes.

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Katie Porter: Conversation No. 1 / Collecting Rocks from the Places We've Been (Relative Pitch)

Eric La Casa / Marc Baron: Contrefaccons (Swarming)

CHANGES TO blind: Volume 9 - I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist (Squidco)

John Butcher / John Edwards: This Is Not Speculation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Webb Crawford / Michael Foster / Joey Sullivan: Against Proper Objects (Relative Pitch)

Lawrence Casserley / Emil Karlsen: Aspects Of Memory (Bead Records)

Magda Mayas / Jim Denley: One Another (Relative Pitch)

Steve Swell
The Squid's Ear Interview

Irene Schweizer / Rudiger Carl / Johnny Dyani / Han Bennink: Irene's Hot Four (Intakt)

Sylvain Kassap / Steve Swell / Benjamin Duboc / Chad Taylor: Edges (RogueArt)

Mats Gustafsson / Ken Vandermark / Tomeka Reid / Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart)

Elliott Sharp / Scott Fields: R�ims� G�ara (Reimsi Geara) (Relative Pitch)

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Jurg Frey : Composer, Alone [3 CDs] (elsewhere)	Eric La Casa / Jerome Noetinger: Off Tracks (erstwhile)	Amanda Monaco (w/ Michael Attias / Sean Conly / Satoshi Takeishi) : Deathblow [VINYL] (Genevieve Records)
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