The British improvising trio of tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall, 7-string bassist Paul Rogers and drummer Tony Bianco performing two long and serpentine improvisations at Delbury Hall, Shropshire in 2010.
The collective trio of Daunik Lazro (baritone & alto saxophones), Jean-Francois Pauvros (guitar) and Roger Turner (drums & percussion) performing live at Instants Chavires (Montreuil) & at festival Jazz En Franche-Comte (Besancon).
The collective trio of Daunik Lazro (baritone & alto saxophones), Jean-Francois Pauvros (guitar) and Roger Turner (drums & percussion) performing live at Instants Chavires (Montreuil) & at festival Jazz En Franche-Comte (Besancon).
Japan's Jinya Disc continues their archive series of guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi with this concert from 1984 at Jean Jean in Shibuya peforming with his New Direction Unit (Akira Iijima, Hiroshi Yamzaki and Akira Sasaki).
Legendary NY free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle takes to "the streets" with his trio of bassist Larry Roland and drummer Michael TA Thompson in a record illustrating Gayle's passionate voice and expressive dialog.
New York trumpeter Jacob Wick, Chicago pianist Marc Riordan, and percussionist Frank Rosaly are Tres Hongos, here performing long and short form improvisations live at Audio For the Arts in WI, and at Strobe Recording in Chicago.
Multi-reedist Vinny Golia playing ethnic woodwinds including danso, kaval, moxeneo, marori bone flute, &c. in a series of duets with Barre Phillips, Joelle Leandre, Bert Turetzky, and Lisa Mezzacappa.
The 7 part "Knotted Alembic" is an improvisation between electroacoustic artist and label leader Thanos Chrysakis and Brazilian based Chilean pianist Philip Somervell performing inside and out of the piano.
A sound project by experimental musician Luis Tabuenca with Wade Matthews and ethnomusicologist Ana Maria Alarcon-Jimenez, inspired by the sonic heritage of Aragon, in pieces that reflect and question issues of memory, space & place.
Three performances from London and Glasgow from New York saxophonists Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich, and guitarist Donald Miller, playing through pedals and distortion devices in unique and irascible free improvisations.
An electronic work from NY experimenter Chuck Bettis in a 3" CD embedded in a full 5" disc, aural assaults and abstracted noise in complex patterns with unexpected twists and turns.
The Borbetomagus trio of Jim Sauter (sax), Don Dietrich (reeds) and Donald Miller (guitar) in a 1982 release on their own Agaric label, high volume jazz compiled from concerts in 1979 and 1981.
Collaborating since 2002 saxophonist John Butcher and no-input mixing board artist Toshimaru Nakamura made these recordings during David Sylvian's "When we return you won't recognise us" project.
A trio of Michigan creative music improvisers with wind player Piotr Michalowski, guitarist Jaime Rodriguez Matos and bassist/trumpter/percussionist Christopher M. Skebo in 3 studio and one live recording.
Experimental artist Chuck Bettis' first sonic exploration into the electronic avant garde, unusual works for guitar, keyboard drum machine and sampler, a factory pressed but hand constructed release.
In 1979 preeminent theremin player Clara Rockmore performed for New York's WQXR "Listening Room" series, performing in the New York Times building, playing solo and chamber pieces to a full auditorium.
Avant blues in Haunted House's return after 10 years, as guitarists Loren Connors and Andrew Burnes, free-form vocalist Suzanne Langille and daf player Neel Murgai burn slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues.
Avant blues in Haunted House's return after 10 years, as guitarists Loren Connors and Andrew Burnes, free-form vocalist Suzanne Langille and daf player Neel Murgai burn slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues.
Violist Eyvind Kang in an album with vocalist Jessika Kenney, plus Stewart Dempster, Julian Priester, Miguel Frasconi, Steve Moore, Cuong Vu, &c.; side B collects 2 pieces from 2008, and side B is a new work from 2011.
Mixing electroacoustic approaches with world flavors and an ecstatic attitude, Starving Weirdo's (Brian Pyle, Merrick Merrick & co.) create a rich freeform album of lush beauty and sonic investigation.
Mixing electroacoustic approaches with world flavors and an ecstatic attitude, Starving Weirdo's (Brian Pyle, Merrick Merrick & co.) create a rich freeform album of lush beauty and sonic investigation.
The first full-length recording dedicated solely to New York-based composer and performer Alex Mincek's concert music, diverse collections of sound-from fragile timbres teetering on the brink of inaudibility to raucous outbursts.
Using low-fi electronics, mixing desk, delay pedals, contact mic, sand paper, singing bowls, &c. &c., Rhodri Davis and Mark Wastell create an amazing audio environment, captured live at the Melbourne Festival in 2005.
Dietrich Eichmann (piano), John Hughes (double bass), Astrid Weins (bass) & Jeff Arnal (percussion) in improvisations that magnify small sounds and gestures in a collective understanding of real-time orchestration.
Drummer Moe! Staiano in a hard-hitting band with members from the Ex, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, and Mute Socialite, collecting songs that extend from those bands, along with great drumming and sound work.
Named for the miraculous recovery of drummer and AACM founder Alvin Fielder, who travelled to Dallas in 2010 to record with trumpeter Gonzalez and his sons bassist Aaron and vibraphonist STefan, with Gaika James on trombone.
Bassist Joelle Leandre's drumless quartet with NY trumpeter Roy Campbell, pianist Marilyn Crispell and violist Mat Maneri performing at the Vision Festival in 2010, one of the highlights of that year's festival.
Drummer Moe! Staiano in a hard-hitting band with members from the Ex, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, and Mute Socialite, collecting songs that extend from those bands, along with great drumming and sound work.
Art Zoyd's 3rd official release from 1980 is a re-recorded version of their 1st 1976 LP, presenting a stronger take on this original Rock In Opposition chamber band's composition, a dark and twisted take on modern music.
Seiji Nagai, trumpeter and keyboardist for Taj Mahal Travellers, in a reissue of his 1999 release with Koichi Watanabe, Koji Kawai and Minoru Yonemoto, dense drone work from computers and electronic instruments.