4 Corners with Ken Vandermark, Magnus Broo, Adam Land and Paal Nilssen-Love in a live DVD from a March 2007 gig in Portugal playing 5 extended tracks. (PAL format)

Multi-reed and wind player Steve Adams, a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet, in 2000 recordings from San Francisco with his trio of Ken Filiano and Scott Amendola.

New 2008 recordings from AMM - Eddie Prevost & John Tilbury with John Butcher - performing at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich, England.

Percussionist Hemingway with John Butcher on tenor and soprano sax performing live in 2005, demonstrating their extended language in a brilliant and eccentric dialog.

Recorded after a tour in Netherlands, Germany & Belgium, Jorrit Djikstra's Flatlands Collective crosses Europe and Chicago with players Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Fred Lonberg-Holm, &c.

New York alto saxophonist O'Gallagher's trio with Jeff Williams and Masa Kamaguchi recording during their tour through France and Portugal.

A first meeting of guitar and electronics artist Keith Rowe with computer and string performer Taku Unami at the Amplify 2008: light festival in Tokyo.

Keith Rowe's solo set from the Amplify 2008 festival in Tokyo uses guitars and radio broadcasts; surprisingly this is Rowe's first ever solo set in Tokyo.

Thomas Lehn & Gerry Hemingway's 3rd "Tom & Gerry" release presents tracks recorded in Europe from 2003-2006, incredible electro-acoustic improvisations.

AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost on roto toms with alto saxophonist Seymour Wright in a 5 part series of G.A.M.U.T. free improvisations and interactions.

Instrumental post rock inspired by a torturous ocean journey: the sounds of hurricanes funneled through violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals; nice squid cover!

Minimalist ambient work from Robert & Amy Brown, who have been recording and performing since '97, creating heartfelt, soulful & affecting sound.

The unplugged industrial orchestra presents a collection of songs & folklore from the half-mythical landscape Trollebotn, deep in the mountains of Telemark, Norway.

Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff.

Tzadik's series reinterpreting John Zorn's Masada compositions releases the 24th "Book of Angels", performed by Klezmerson, a Mexico-based ensemble led by violist & composer Benjamin Shwartz, who founded the group in 2003 to integrate music from a Mexican standpoint.

Michel F Cote, Bernard Falaise, Alexandre St-Onge, Christof Migone, and Sam Shalabi, all members of the excellent group Klaxon Gueule, in a minimalist release of improv.

The debut release of trombonist Johannes Bauer, Australian violinist Jon Rose and analog synth player Thomas Lehn, mutated improvisation for a Futched world.

A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog.

Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways.

Bay area trumpeter and bandleader Johntson in a set of original compositions performed with Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Devin Hoff and Smith Dobson.

Recorded live at Victoriaville in 2007, banjo maverick Eugene Chadbourne teams with Kevin Blechdom for a wild set that blends roots riffs, fractured songs, satire and playful chaos, their banjos, piano and vocals colliding in irreverent, high-energy improvisation that is as sharp as it is unpredictable.

Recorded live at Victoriaville in 2007, the trio of Michael Snow, Alan Licht, and Aki Onda crafts a shifting electroacoustic soundscape where synthesizer, electric guitar and cassette manipulations collide in atmospheric textures and raw industrial edges, improvising form and surprise in a dense yet exploratory sonic environment.

Part of a series of 100 portraits in sound iniated by Anne James Chaton, a journey into the texts and columns of newspapaper and radio broadcasts of a single journalist.

Double CD of bassist Joelle Leandre perforing Solo in Israel, then in duos, trios and a sextet with JC Jones, Assif Tsahar, Albert Beger, Ariel Shibolet, &c.

Pianist von Schlippenbach and drummer Eddie Prevost on an album of two solo works each, and then together for a piece inspired by Thelonius Monk.

Michael Moore, Ernst Reijseger and Han Bennink's excellent Clusone 3 trio in a reissue of their 1993 album playing mostly Irving Berlin compositions.

"Founded in 1965, AMM would spend nearly six decades pursuing and perfecting their art of live, improvised performance. In its early beginnings, AMM was a collective of London jazz musicians looking to break into new frontiers, includin...

Bassist and vocalist Bishu Chattopadhyay leads a nine-piece ensemble featuring Rez Abbasi, Esteban Castro, Birsa Chatterjee, and Mir Naqibul Islam through nine compositions blending contemporary jazz, Indian musical traditions, free improvisation, and structured ensemble writing, reflecting themes of memory, migration, and cultural identity through shifting melodies and open-ended musical forms.

British pianist Alexander Hawkins joins harpist Rhodri Davies, drummer Hamid Drake, flutist Nicole Mitchell, and turntablist Matthew Wright in an imaginative quintet blending acoustic improvisation with synthesizers, sampling, and electronic manipulation, transforming nine compositions and collective explorations into richly layered music shaped through spontaneous interaction and inventive studio post-production.

"With the rare format of a violin and percussion duo, the partnership between Maria do Mar and Cesar Burago focuses on detail, nuance, and subtlety within a context of structured or spontaneous improvisation and an exploration of the tim...

"The titles are taken from *Samtliche Gedichte* by H.C. Artmann (1921-2000) (published by JUNG UND JUNG / 2003) and, due to their linguistic distinctiveness and phonetic nuances, are difficult or nearly impossible to translate into Engl...

Reed player Mat Walerian's 4th album as a leader, in a quartet with Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on double bass & shakuhachi, and Hamid Drake on drums, the name "Okuden" meaning "inner teachings, as Walerian's compositions vary from a fully free introspective opener to joyful jazz idiom, a perfect set for this versatile and enlightened set of musicians.

"Taking up some threads from my thoughts in the previous three entries, Jardin Semantique - recorded in Lisbon this past February - finds Ernesto Rodrigues (on viola only) in the musical company of Joao Silva (trumpet) and Carlos Santos...

"At the moment of creation, the genius knows nothing. Everything must, in fact, arise from nothing."-Willi Baumeister

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"Keith Tippett was just twenty-one when his group recorded the first of these sets for BBC's Jazz Workshop on May 21st 1969, three months before the recording of his first album, You Are Here -- I Am There. The CD is noteworthy for the ...

"An Imagisist Experiment at Welcome to Silkeborg�s Lab is a 2026 free-improvisation album by Portuguese duo Welcome to Silkeborg, comprising Tiago Varela and Monsieur Trinite. Released by Lisbon�s Creative Sources,it continues a duo pro...

Drawing on his work with Annea Lockwood documenting the Columbia River, trumpeter Nate Wooley creates Memorial, combining trumpet, field recordings, and generated voice to reflect on the submerged Kettle Falls, once a vital gathering place for Indigenous peoples, exploring the relationship between sound, memory, and landscape, and the persistence of what remains beneath the altered river.