"The fourth CD in Zorn's remarkable series of piano trio recordings exploring classical forms, Nocturnes is an absolute delight. Preceded by Suite for Piano (2022), Ballades (2024), and the Impromptus (2025), Nocturnes is Zorn's persona...

"Presented in a lush CD book including dozens of Zorn's original erotic drawings printed in gold ink on distinctive art paper, this is the definitive presentation of one of Zorn's most poignant and lush creations-an all-vocal setting of...

"Amir ElSaffar (b. 1977, USA) is a composer, trumpeter, vocalist, santur player, and modular synthesizer artist whose innovative compositions blend elements of jazz, classical, and traditional Arabic music. His newly established label, ...

"Amir ElSaffar (b. 1977, USA) is a composer, trumpeter, vocalist, santur player, and modular synthesizer artist whose innovative compositions blend elements of jazz, classical, and traditional Arabic music. His newly established label, ...

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"Haunting, crepuscular composition for an ensemble of 10 musicians, written for, and played by, ensemble]h[iatus. Composed in 2019/2020, the piece was commissioned by ensemble]h[iatus, the French-based group consisting of musicians who ...

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"Two of the pieces are for the full trio, the others being solos for each of the instrumentalists, but the music is augmented with electronics designed by the composer, as well as adding subtle vocal accompaniments: "the voice I have in...

"Three taut, restless chamber works by the Canadian composer: a string quartet played by Apartment House, a piece for solo piano played by the composer, and a new work for ensemble, played by Arraymusic in Toronto.

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"Learning, Sophie Agnel's first solo LP, feels like the dark, physical inversion of her excellent Song which came out on Relative Pitch. Sinking her unique sound into vinyl for the first time, the LP arrives as Agnel recovers from a bra...

"Scattered notes stretch time, their repetitions evoking the infinite iridescence of dawn--a ritual as inevitable as it is unpredictable. Melaine Dalibert's Musique pour le lever du jour, composed over two years and completed in 2017, w...

"The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Full Sun is the joy that a group of creative musicians can bring to the world. Especially in our times, when compassion and unity are much needed. Tuning the antennas, expressing a pe...

"Gorgeous Nothings' is an album of three pieces composed by Cetilia, a US-based composer and cellist who won the ARTZenter's Emerging Composer Completion Grant in September 2024. The album contains Cetilia's solo piece for cello and voi...

"As the battle between the overly cerebral and doggedly hidebound continues to rage in the jazz landscape, a battle-tested warrior has returned, armed with whimsy and melody, to give succor to a populace starving for memorable sounds: D...

""An exploration of buildings emptied of their activities, a crossing of spaces abandoned by their occupants, a drift through the ghostly trace of a vanished presence, a testimony to the general deterioration underway that also applies ...

'Composer, alone' is a collection of twelve solo piano pieces by Swiss composer Jurg Frey, performed by Dutch pianist/composer Reinier van Houdt. It is the sequel to the 2022 triple album 'lieues d'ombres' (elsewhere 020-3) and the thir...

"The Siwnin Sails" is a solo album consisting of eight songs written and composed by Shoko Numao, an emerging Japanese singer-songwriter. Numao studied vocal and composition focusing on jazz at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland,...

A profoundly personal solo recording from Ken Vandermark on tenor and baritone saxophones and clarinets, captured live at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago in March 2025, performing a suite dedicated to Joe McPhee that interlaces composed and freely improvised works — each named for symbolic flowers — into a deeply expressive tribute of melody, emotion, and inventive clarity.

"American composer Kory Reeder's 10th album In Place returns to the Grid Series heard on 2 of the 4 tracks from Reeder's debut release on Edition Wandelweiser Records Love Songs/Duets. With raw recordings of three works from the ...

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"Body of Sound, Body of Music is Norwegian bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen's second solo bass album. The entirety of the recording is based around a framework which Christian calls bass, body, bows: An ongoing introspection in how h...

"Two wind players from Belgium who have been involved in free improvisation for many years: Jean-Jacques Duerinckx on sopranino and baritone saxophones and Jacques Foschia on bass, E-flat and high B-flat clarinets, often met in joint co...

Recording in the studio in Milan, the trio of Riccardo Luppi on tenor & soprano saxophones and flutes, Simone Massaron on guitar & electronics, and Daniel Studer on double bass engage in a textural and exploratory dialogue, blending extended techniques, electronic manipulations, and spontaneous interplay across seven distinct ""Takes", each offering a unique approach to collective free improvisation.