As much a composed work as a work of improvisation, pianist and composer Simon Nabatov's String Trio with Garteh Lubbe on viola and Ben Davis perform six Nabatov compositions, chamber jazz works that express in both buyouantly intricate and languourosly beautiful abstraction, each piece leaving room for each player to improvise and express themselves.

Saxophonist Heath Watts' 3rd Leo release is an album of free improvisation with three Montana jazz mavens--Blue Armstrong on double bass, MJ Williams on trombone, piano & melodica, and Nancy Owens on violin--in nine recordings of sophisticated and intelligent interaction that naturally evolves new directions of irrepressibly enjoyable and diverse conversation.

A much-need reissue of saxophone, reed & wind player Roscoe Mitchell's landmark 1966 free jazz album, advancing the concepts of the AACM through improvisation that incorporates texture, space, and interaction in free playing that doesnt't rely on cathartic playing, but instead uses collective exploration of "sound", opening doors to new and still-modern approaches to jazz.

Documenting the meeting of guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, also singing on "If I Were a Bell", with the Edmonton, CA-based Vertrek Ensemble of Ron de Jong on percussion and Vadim Budman on guitars and trumpet, in a city Chadbourne lived in 25 years prior, as he returns for a serious and well recorded album of informed free improv, plus one solo Chad track from a concert during his visit.

A unique sound document originally envisioned as a sound map of Ireland, collecting and composing with live recordings from performances in Doon, Dungarvan, Plaistow, Shoreditch, Singo & Stratford, using song, sound, spoken word, extraneous, ambient recordings and abstract and unidentifiable elements, making for an absolutely fascinating and somewhat bizarre album; recommended.

Two distinct works by Swiss composer and bass clarinetist Jurg Frey: the 1st, recorded in Connecticut, a quintet composition from 2009 for bass clarinet, cello, violin, keyboard and electric guitar, Frey's harmonies creating an open instrumentation for the clarinet and cello; the second a 1997 composition for multitimbral field recordings and bass clarinet.

French composer and guitarist Clara De Asis composed the extended soundwork "Without" for the duo of Erik Carlson (violin) and Greg Stuart (percussion), defining a precise framework for the position and duration of each sound section and silence, with outlines for texture, volume, use of tone or noise, and percussive materials, but leaving space for many of the performers' choices.

Composer & cellist Stefan Thut performs his composition with Ryoko Akama (electronics), Stephen Chase (guitar), Eleanor Cully (piano), Patrick Farmer (metal percussion), and lo wie (tingsha), where half of the group allow single percussive, ringing or electronic sounds to decay, as the other half play high register pitches, in between walking "about" and uttering monosyllabic words.

"Throes Are The Only Trouble" features fleet, extroverted free improvisations by this multi-generational New York City based quartet featuring Michael Foster (saxophones), Steve Swell (trombone), Brandon Lopez (bass) and Weasel Walter (...

Drummer/percussionist and electronic artist Weasel Walter's solo album presents 99 tracks that represent 4 large movements of "detailed abstract madness", titled "Curse Against Humanity", "Casting Destruction", "Ode To The Death Of Enemies", and "Cursed in Eternity", each a vicious and intensely captivating set of elusive movement in accord and discord; fascinating.

"Almost 80 minutes of jarring, surreal, raw improvised music by the duo of Sandy Ewen (guitar) and Weasel Walter (drums/live electronics) captured on this clear, powerful studio recording. Each musician speaks a distinctively deconstruc...

"7 tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock/no wave/brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster. People who like "Revenge of The Flying Luttenbachers" will most likely be into this. There's no jazz on this one, ...

"Born in Lakewood in the US, Martin Escalante is a photographer, film maker and self taught musician. In 2012 he founded Sploosh Records, publishing various solo and collaborative works. As well as this release, 2016 has also seen Escal...

"A chuckle or a grimace of memento, a shiver of rage or the same, but due to a steamy game and, most of all, a urge. Let the whole world in, and turn it out into an exploration, a clash of fire with this crooked, wooden, coppery, galvan...

"Here is an example of a specially well succeeded co-operation between a notorious representative of the Norwegian scene (Klaus Ellerhusen Holm) and two of the Portuguese one (Hernani Faustino and Nuno Morao), combining the recordings o...

"Mesophase is a term used in physics describing a state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid, sharing properties of both while defining a state unique unto itself. By extension, the concept can also apply to a reconciliation of em...

"The prodigal son of Portuguese jazz is finally on record. Since his teenager years until he became a young man (25 years old in 2018) we get used to only hear him on stage, improvising with the tunes of American masters like Charlie Pa...

"Here is a record of crossed challenges. A band (The Assassins) with a vocation to improvise freely is co-operating with a classical chamber string ensemble (Florence Art Quartet) specialized in the interpretation of written composition...

"A trumpet (by Flavio Zanuttini himself, the mastermind behind "Born Baby Born"), an alto sax (Piero Bittolo Bon) and a drumset (Marco D'Orlando). Nothing more: no bass to deepen the rhythm and no harmonic instrument, be it a piano or a...

"The title says it all: here is music conceived under the influence of Albert Ayler, author of seminal free jazz pieces like "Bells" and "Ghosts" and one of the most celebrated interpreters of a gospel hymn specially cared by the likes ...

"A chuckle or a grimace of memento, a shiver of rage or the same, but due to a steamy game and, most of all, a urge. Let the whole world in, and turn it out into an exploration, a clash of fire with this crooked, wooden, coppery, galvan...

"Wonderful news coming from the Bay Area, even considering that the participants in this ad hoc trio originated from elsewhere-one from Detroit, another from Heathfield / England and the third from Los Angeles. The recording of Lantskap...

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"Welcome to the timbral world of violist Frantz Loriot and percussionist Christian Wolfarth. "An epiphany of sound", writes Jason Kahn in the inside cover, comparing the music pressed on the two sides of this LP with the myriads of nois...

"The musical identity of this trio remains consistent with their eponymus debut album, released four years ago - exemplified by fluctuating tonal centers and the interaction made of convergences and divergences. And yet, its components ...

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Subjectivation is the new solo album from Swiss artist Antoine Chessex. Produced by Rekem Records and Fragment Factory, it features some of his most direct and developed work to date. Using material from solo live performances in San Fr...

"Stones, Air, Axioms" is an ongoing art and research project by French sound artists Jean-Luc Guionnet and Thomas Tilly, dealing with the complex relationships between sound and architecture. Delme is the third phase within this venture...

"In house studio recording of first live show by this new trio with Jah-Rohm Parker Wells, bass and electronics and Steven De Bruyn, harmonica, vocals and electronics recorded fall 2018, Ratschenmuhle, Geislingen, Germany. A Unique Inst...

"Includes Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix covers and much more. One of two new collections from the Doc Chad , collecting the best live and studio recordings from 2017-2018 touring in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bulgaria..."-Chadula...

"While not exclusively country at one point features 11 country classic covers in a row. first edition of these CDs utilize jewel cases pilfered from top Grammy-award winners and unique art work, no two alike. One of two new collections...

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"The night was cold and dark. On the table lay an unopened envelope. Suddenly, I felt a tremor, a dark presence moved through the room. In the distance, a bodiless scream of pain reverberated endlessly. Culled from live concerts in Hann...

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