"This 2013 meeting of baritone saxophonist Daunik Lazro, bassist Jolle Leandre, and drummer Paul Lovens is a deep dive into spontaneous creation at the highest level of free improvisation, uniting three of Europe's most adventurous and ...

"A large-scale work incorporating settings of European poetry - The Cortege is a composition for voices and jazz orchestra with music by Mike Westbrook With texts from Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Hermann Hesse, William Blake,...

"Fear is Heavy, I've Got Plans ... is the debut recording by Turtle Boat, a free-jazz outfit led by Abhilasha Chebolu (Null Copula, Princsex, Gault, Ryan Jewell Quintet) featuring her compositions with additional contributions from saxo...

"For Hind Rajab is a deeply personal and meditative exploration of sound, memory, and sonic embodiment. Across the album's intimate unfolding, Khoury draws on extended techniques, silence, and subtle timbral shifts to create a landscape...

"Amanda Irarrazabal's new album weaves together the mechanical rhythms and textures of paper printers - recorded on site at two working printing houses in Santiago, Chile, in March 2025 - with later studio improvisations that respond to...

"Setpieces captures Cath Roberts and Olie Brice at a new peak of focus and invention, distilling their long-running musical rapport into a set of raw, finely tuned improvisations. Roberts' baritone lines carve out bold shapes and sudden...

"There aren't many all-female vocal groups in the world of improvised music, even fewer of them are working bands, and there are very few projects that are anything more than that. VoiceACT, conceived by Anna Gadt, is exactly that. Voic...

"In March 2022, Joe Fonda and Silke Eberhard met at the Downtown Music Record Store in New York, and just six months later they were on stage together with Austrian drummer Emil Gross in Berlin. The Josilemi Trio was born. The collectiv...

"The great master, improvisational pianist, and musical polymath Steve Beresford; John Edwards, one of the most important double bassists on the global free improv scene; and Mandhira de Saram, an exquisite violinist and former member o...

"This project began as Centrifugal Trio, with Bishop, Borghini, and Griener, recorded in the studio zentri-fuge in Berlin in September 2019 and released on the Astral Spirits label. For my visit to Berlin in 2022, I wanted to expand the...

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"This recording documents a first encounter. For his 60th birthday, Stefan invited two musicians he had previously met only online. We stepped into the same room, the same air, the same sound. By the end of the night, the trio had alrea...