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AIMToronto Orchestra: Year of the Boar

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 14551
Catalog Code: BR0322
Country: Canada

AIMTorotono Orchestra under the direction of Kyle Brenders was formed in 2007 to perform the music of Anthony Braxton, here in their first studio album of original compositions for their own sophisticated repertoire.

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Abbott, Simeon & Mike Gennaro: Meditations on First

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 17447
Catalog Code: bim-56
Country: Canada

A deft, athletic outing from Bug Incision regular Simeon Abbot on piano and drummer Mike Gennaro (Wrist Error, Gustafsson) recorded in two locations live in Montreal and Toronto.

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Abbott, Simeon + Bent Spoon Duo: saigon, you crazy diamond

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 13125
Catalog Code: bim-32
Country: Canada

Two dense, 20-minute tracks of physical, visceral playing from prepared electric guitarist Simeon Abbot with the Bent Spoon Duo: percussionist Chris Dadge and viola/trombone player Scott Munro.

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Baker, Aidan: Still Life

Label: Primary Numbers
Product Code: 14813
Catalog Code: PRIMA 002CD
Country: USA

An unusual release for Nadja's Aidan Baker, leaving the drone world behind for an album more in The Necks domain, using only piano, drums, and upright bass to create beautiful slow-shifting music.

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Barnyard Drama: Christmas Singalong Volume 6

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 15893
Catalog Code: BR 0315
Country: Canada

Toronto's Xmas series with an amazing lineup Jean Martin, Christine Duncan, John Southworth, Tania Gill, Kyle Brenders, Justin Haynes, Julia Hambleton, DB Boyko, &c. &c.

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Barnyard Drama: Christmas Singalong Volume 7

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 16941
Catalog Code: BR 0320
Country: Canada

Barnyard Drama continues their Christmas Singalong series, here in the 7th volume with an amazing lineup of Jean Martin, Christine Duncan, John Southworth, Justin Haynes, John Oswald, &c. &c.

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Barnyard Drama: Christmas Singalong Volume 8

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 16942
Catalog Code: BR 0328
Country: Canada

The 8th eclectic Christmas Singalong from Toronto's Barnyard Drama with performers and guests including Jean Martin, Christine Duncan, John Southworth, Justin Haynes, Paul Dutton, Jim Lewis, Scott Thomson, &c.

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Barnyard Drama: Memories and a List of Things to Do

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 14837
Catalog Code: BR 0301
Country: Canada

Drummer and electronic artist Jean Martin joins forces with amazing vocalist Christine Duncan for an album of rhythmic soundscapes and free vocal improvisation.

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Barnyard Drama: Martin, Jean: I'm a Navvy

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11163
Catalog Code: BR0302
Country: Canada

Toronto's amazing husband & wife team drummer Jean Martin and unusual vocalist Christine Duncan with guest guitarist Justin Haynes and Bernard Falaise, recommended!

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Blah Blah 666: It's Only Life!

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11579
Catalog Code: BR0307
Country: Canada

An eclectic assortment of old-fashioned entertainment, pre-harmonic bop, and Canada's new wave of avant garde mariachi from Jean Martin, Nick Fraser, Justin Haynes, &c..

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Braxton / Brenders: Toronto Duets 2007 [2 CDs]

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 10987
Catalog Code: 308
Country: Canada

Legendary saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton releases the first saxophone duet recording of two ghost trance compositions performed with reed player Kyle Brenders.

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Brenders, Kyle / Brandon Valdivia

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 15640
Catalog Code: bim-50
Country: Canada

Toronto creative improviser multi-reedist Kyle Brenders (AIMToronto, The Rent) in an unhurried and intuitive duo with the drummer & percussionist of his quartet Brandon Miguel Valdivia (Not The Wind, Not The Flag).

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Brenders, Kyle: Ways

Label: Porter Records
Product Code: 13201
Catalog Code: 4042
Country: USA

Written for musicians from Toronto's burgeoning music scene, this album explores an area of saxophonist Kyle Brender's compositional systems allowing independence in group improvisation.

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Butcher, John / Mike Hansen / Tomasz Krakowiak: Equation

Label: Spool
Product Code: 2105
Catalog Code: SPF303
Country: Canada



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Element Choir, The & William Parker: At Christ Church Deer Park

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 15173
Catalog Code: BR0326
Country: Canada

Jean Martin and Christine Duncan lead this Toronto collective with more than 60 choir members in a stunning improvisational setting, here performing at Christ Church Deer Park with NY bassist William Parker.

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Fraser, Nick: Towns and Villages

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 17384
Catalog Code: BR0330
Country: Canada

A quartet session of composition and improvisation headed by drummer Nick Fraser with Tony Malaby (sax), Andrew Downing (cello) and Rob Clutton (bass), exploring the essence of freedom and abstraction in contemporary jazz.

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Freedman, Lori & Scott Thomson: Plumb

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 10577
Catalog Code: BR 0305
Country: Canada

A recording of wide-ranging, freely improvised solos and duets by Montreal clarinetist and bass clarinetist Lori Freedman & Toronto trombonist Scott Thomson.

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Frith / Bourne / Oswald: Dearness

Label: Spool
Product Code: 11280
Catalog Code: SPL116
Country: Canada

The trio of Fred Frith, John Oswald and Anne Bourne recorded live at the Rivoli in Toronto in 1998, subtle to cantankerous improvisation of the highest caliber.

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Gill, Tania: Bolger Station

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 13798
Catalog Code: BR0316
Country: Canada

Pianist Tania Gill with Lina Allemano on trumpet, Clinton Ryder on bass and Jean Martin on drums, music informed by American song forms, Bartok, free improvisation and the northern Ontario landscape.

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Hansen, Mike & Tomasz Krakowiak: Relay

Label: Spool
Product Code: 15060
Catalog Code: SPF304
Country: Canada

Influenced by experimental and electroacoustic practices, Hansen & Krakowiak attack and disseminate turntables and percussion through improvisations built on layers of sound and interpolated instrumentation.

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Haynes, Justin: Birder

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 12096
Catalog Code: BR 0312
Country: Canada

Birder started as a piece for solo tenor banjo to study of the music of Charlie Parker (Bird), an exhaustive work with Christine Duncan's trombone and theremin at the end.

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Hobson's Choice: Of The Waves

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 16623
Catalog Code: BR0329
Country: Canada

Canada's songwriting Hobson's Choice has developed into a tightly knit ensemble embracing elements of jazz, chamber, and singer-songwriter traditions, with sound-worlds ranging from midnight deep-woods marimba ballads to sunny cicada-sung anthems.

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Israelievitch / Reitzenstein / Stewart / Young: The Test Tubes [Used Item]

Label: Spool
Product Code: 15468
Catalog Code: SPL106
Country: Canada

Part of a sound installation and exhibition of sculptural work by Reinhard Reitzenstein, the Test Tubes perform with strings, glass instruments, and unique instruments to create music of unusual and complex timbral combinations.

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Israelievitch / Reitzenstein / Stewart / Young: The Test Tubes

Label: Spool
Product Code: 15064
Catalog Code: SPL106
Country: Canada

Part of a sound installation and exhibition of sculptural work by Reinhard Reitzenstein, the Test Tubes perform with strings, glass instruments, and unique instruments to create music of unusual and complex timbral combinations.

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Lamp Chops: The Localization Of Noise And Its Endowment With Form

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 12418
Catalog Code: bim-24
Country: Canada

Four beautiful string-saturated improvisations from Toronto's Colin Fisher and Simeon Abbott recording live and playing exclusively on ghuzeng and prepared guitar.

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Lewis, Downing & Martin: On a Short Path from Memory to Forgotten

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 12881
Catalog Code: BR0311
Country: Canada

This exquisite improvising trio in a passionate and lyrical sequence of group improvisations, introducing one of Toronto's extraordinary creative music ensembles.

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MC Maguire: Trash of Civilizations [Used Item]

Label: Innova
Product Code: 16597
Catalog Code: 742
Country: USA

Electroacoustic genre-clashing romps through a universe of sound blending live and organized sources from composer Maguire, works that have to be heard to be believed.

$6.00
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MC Maguire: Trash of Civilizations

Label: Innova
Product Code: 12069
Catalog Code: 742
Country: USA

Electroacoustic genre-clashing romps through a universe of sound blending live and organized sources from composer Maguire, works that have to be heard to be believed.

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Martin & Haynes: Freedman

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11489
Catalog Code: BR0306
Country: Canada

Lyrical and sophisticated improvisations performed on just a ukulele and a suitcase from these Toronto musicians playing the compositions of lap steel player Myk Freedman

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Martin / Lozano / Lewis / Wiens / Duncan: At Canterbury

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 17383
Catalog Code: BR0332
Country: Canada

Saxophonist Frank Lozano brings together four other artists for a first time collaboration that results in this groovy, soulful, and passionate live studio recording.

$13.95
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Martin / Turcotte / Haynes: Get Together Weather

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 12013
Catalog Code: UTY-169
Country: Canada

Vancouver's The Trio - drummer Jean Martin, guitarist Justin Haynes, trumpeter Kevin Turcotte - plays the music of...Dr. Seuss (The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T) and Rogers (Oklahoma).

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Martin, Haynes and Driver: Freedman at Western Front

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 16342
Catalog Code: BR 0317
Country: Canada

"Crude Jazz" from the Toronto trio of Jean Haynes on ukulele, Jean Martinon suitcase, and Ryan Driver on street-sweeper bristle bass, lovely bare-bones jazz using makeshift instruments, captured live in Vancouver.

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Martin, Jean & Colin Fisher: Little Man on the Boat

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11545
Catalog Code: BR0304
Country: Canada

Drummer and loopster Jean Martin with multi-instrumentalist Colin Fisher in a veritable orchestra of sound resources, inspired and imaginative studio work.

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Martin, Jean & Evan Shaw: Piano Music

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11524
Catalog Code: BR0303
Country: Canada

Much more than a simple duo, with overdubbed saxophone Martin & Shaw make large and complex environments & orchestral sections over which they nimbly improvise.

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Martin, Jean: At the Farm

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11610
Catalog Code: BR0302
Country: Canada

After touring Canada extensively for 3 years the trio of Jean Martin, Justin Haynes and Kevin Turcotte released this CD of wide-ranging and excellent recordings.

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Parker / Neal / Sorbara: At Somewhere There

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 14796
Catalog Code: BR0321
Country: Canada

British saxophonist Evan Parker came to Toronto in 2009 as a guest of the AIMToronto (Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto) Interface Series, recording his trio with Wes Neal (double bass) and Joe Sorbara (drums).

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Parker, William: At Somewhere There

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 12879
Catalog Code: BR 0313
Country: Canada

William Parker performed these three solo pieces at Tortono's Somewhere There, performing on acoustic bass, dousn'gouni and double flute, distinctive and inspired solo work.

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Queen Mab: Close

Label: Spool
Product Code: 9083
Catalog Code: SPL111
Country: Canada

Queen Mab (pianist Marilyn Lerner and Lori Freedman on clarinet) in their 2nd release, duos and trios with Lee Pui Ming, Jack Vorvis, Fides Krucker, Victor Bateman, Tiina Kiik.

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Rampersaud / Shaw / Neal / Martin / Krakawiac: Halcyon Science130410

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 14552
Catalog Code: BR0323
Country: Canada

Intelligent and inspired compositions by saxophonist Evan Shaw and trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud performed with Jean Martin (drums and laptop), Wes Neal (double bass), and Tomasz Krakowiak (percussion).

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Rent, The (Thomson / Neal / Fraser/ Brenders / Hood): Musique de Steve Lacy

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 13128
Catalog Code: AM 197
Country: Canada

This Toronto quintet spent two years researching and performing the music of Steve Lacy, focusing on the vocal works, which they play with precision, imagination and love.

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Reveries, The: Matchmakers Volume 2: The Music of Sade

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 16344
Catalog Code: BR 0327
Country: Canada

The Reveries (Eric Chenaux (guitar, voice), Ryan Driver (bass), Doug Tielli (electric guitar), and Jean Martin (drums)) in their second release covering the music of Sade in unusual and alluring ways.

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Saint Dirt Elementary School: Abandoned Ballroom

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 14930
Catalog Code: BR0325
Country: Canada

The chamber rock 8 piece Saint Dirt Elementary School ensemble in their second release on Barnyard, superb sophisticated compositions reminiscent of L'Ensemble Raye or Conventum.

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Saint Dirt Elementary School: Ice Cream Man Dreams

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 12095
Catalog Code: BR0309
Country: Canada

Guitarist and composer Myk Freedman's little big band, a salon orchestra that's both entertaining and remarkably sophisticated, a playground of styles and ideas.

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Shepp, Archie: I Know About The Life

Label: Hatology
Product Code: 10028
Catalog Code: 598
Country: Switzerland



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Smash & Teeny with John Butcher: Gathering [2 CDs]

Label: Spool
Product Code: 15061
Catalog Code: SPF305
Country: Canada

Toronto-based sound artists Smash and Teeny (Nilan Perera and Sarah Peebles) in a double CD of their intertwining spatial improvisation, joined on disc 2 by John Butcher, and with a video featuring Chung Gong.

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Southworth, John: Human Cry

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 13799
Catalog Code: BRJS
Country: Canada

Songwriter/singer John Southworth, supremely crafted, elegiac songs featuring Barnyard artists Justin Haynes on guitar, Jean Martin on drums and Andrew Downing on bass.

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T H O M A S: Janela

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 15172
Catalog Code: BRO324
Country: Canada

T H O M A S is the ongoing brainchild of Toronto's Thom Gill, since 2009 exploring the world of song, at home and abroad, through pieces that blur the lines between pop and avant-garde.

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Tenney, James: Music for Violin and Piano

Label: Hat [now] ART
Product Code: 10348
Catalog Code: 120
Country: Switzerland



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Various Artists: Barnyard Drama Christmas Singalong Vol. 5

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11612
Catalog Code: BR0309
Country: Canada

Put this one in your Wishlist for the next holiday season: 5th in a series drawing on Vancouver's best; unusual approaches to the classics in a oddly skewed yet sentimental ways.

$13.95
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not the wind not the flag: Tintinabulum

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 11484
Catalog Code: BR0310
Country: Canada

A beautifully building release of guitar and percussion, one long track that adds intensity from lovely minimalism to Fripp-ian chords and driving drum work.

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