"Creative Inspirations is the debut recording by Trio Imagination, an extraordinary collaboration that brings together pianist David Virelles, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Andrew Cyrille. It pairs Virelles - who is known for his ...

"Creative Inspirations is the debut recording by Trio Imagination, an extraordinary collaboration that brings together pianist David Virelles, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Andrew Cyrille. It pairs Virelles - who is known for his ...

"For more than four decades, guitarist Marc Ribot has made a career out of refusing to stay in one place, moving restlessly between jazz, rock, No Wave, singer/songwriter, solo guitar, music for film, Cuban music, and free improvisation,...

"Over two decades guitarist and composer Miles Okazaki has built a body of work marked by rigor and restless curiosity. With Boomtown, his ninth album of original compositions and his fourth as a leader for Pi Recordings, he presents a ...

"The Realist (OOYH 048) by DC-based cellist and multi-instrumentalist Janel Leppin, featuring their new Realist Trio of Devra Hoff (Sharon Van Etten, Nels Cline, Xiu Xiu) on bass, and Chad Taylor (Chicago Underground Duo, Marc Ribot, ja...

"The title Looking for Consonance popped into my head one day as I began thinking about a name for this collection of music. This title immediately felt important, so I kept sitting with it. I thought I knew what consonance meant in mus...

"The title Looking for Consonance popped into my head one day as I began thinking about a name for this collection of music. This title immediately felt important, so I kept sitting with it. I thought I knew what consonance meant in mus...

"Teresa Riemann - Can I stare at you publicly?: A Living Contradiction

Berlin-based percussionist and vocalist Teresa Riemann presents Can I stare at you publicly?, a new collection of solo works for percussion and voice. The ...

"Tenor saxophonist-composer James Brandon Lewis returns with his third scintillating Red Lily offering, following on the impeccable Jesup Wagon (2021) and For Mahalia, With Love (2023). Fresh off his Tenor Saxophonist of the Year win in...

"Tenor saxophonist-composer James Brandon Lewis returns with his third scintillating Red Lily offering, following on the impeccable Jesup Wagon (2021) and For Mahalia, With Love (2023). Fresh off his Tenor Saxophonist of the Year win in...

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"SEDITION is an exhilarating gem of an album, an astonishing and compelling document of contemporary free improvisation that's firmly situated within the lineage of 21st-century modern jazz. Comprised of five tracks - "Sedition by Attra...

"Zalhietzli is the experimental noise project of French artist, Jean-Baptiste Leveque. This release is the first CD by the project and follows a recent string of excellent tapes on Satatuhatta, Narcolepsia, and Bent Window Records. Empl...

"Here's the last will and testament of Usurper. The final curtain on two decades of heroic toil in the experimental/noise/improv/no-audience underground. Over the course of their twenty year existence, Usurper developed into one of the ...

"Since its formation in 1984, there have been several distinct phases of Kapotte Muziek in which the group changed. The group commenced as a duo of Frans de Waard and Christian Nijs, and operated as such until 1987 when Nijs left and st...

"Debut solo CD by Wuhan-born, London-based artist, Zheng Hao, who also performs in the duos Oishi (with Ren Shang) and ecm (with Joseph Khan). Four lean and sinewy improvisations; the sound of tightly controlled buzzing and rippling ele...

"New collection of Adam's signature cut-up found text pieces and intricate close-mic'd improvisations with homemade stringed instruments and small objects. Guaranteed to get your mouth watering and head spinning. While the ordinary well...

"The music is rich and beguiling - an original and distinctive soundworld. All compositions are by Santiago Lamisovski. He is a fine, distinctive composer, whose style shows influences from Herbie Nichols and Andrew Hill. If you still b...

"Across Breath, Voice, Silence" is music concerned with elemental process. Specifically it is an improvised solo saxophone performance recorded live at the Zen Center of New York City. I had been drawn to zen practice having felt parall...

"I don't write a lot of harmonies," Hertenstein says. "Following the logic of counterpoint, I write a riff that I like, find a melody, and leave it there. I trust the musicians to come up with spontaneous changes during their improvisat...

Four major electroacoustic improvisers — Bryan Eubanks on soprano saxophone, electronics and modular synthesizer, Gert-Jan Prins on electronics and percussion, Tetuzi Akiyama on guitar, and Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board — each recorded separate solo performances, assembled by Prins, Eubanks and Nakamura into four distinct collective works of shifting textures and sonic interplay.

Using microphone, tractor, shovel and tape, Henry and Ken's Dead Mallard project turns rural machinery and found objects into raw electroacoustic noise on a winter 2026 recording from Pennsylvania, extending the absurdist farm-equipment experimentation of their self-titled debut through mechanical drone, object percussion, environmental resonance and tape manipulation.

Indonesian sound artist Theo Nugraha shares a split with Steve Davis' long-running +DOG+ project, pairing Nugraha's 15-minute "Dokset" with +DOG+'s equally expansive "April" in a meeting of Samarinda's experimental noise culture and an American project active since 1991, joining two independent approaches to electronics, improvisation, texture and underground sound.

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