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Herzbeat Hotel: Eve Of Wide Island Is Not A Child Anymore (Soopa -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Holy Quintet, The (Change / Drouin / Lash / Lazardiou / Ryan): Borough (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The meeting of Johnny Chang (viola), Jamie Drouin (suitcase modular synth), Dominic Lash (double bass), Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga(zither, and David Ryan (bass clarinet) recording at Bourough welsh Congregational Chapel, in London in 2013, recorded by Another Timbre label leader Simon Reynell, for a unique merging of disparate approaches to ea-improv. |
Hughes, Sarah: I Love This City And Its Outlying Lands [SINGLE SIDED CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $9.95 In Stock A contemplative solo work of subtle nuance and laden atmospheres, slowly drifting through a virtual landscape of dampened details, from London composer and improviser Sarah Hughes, performing on zither, piano, Hammond organ, sine tones, white noise, electric harpsichord, and objects, using an eBow to draw sustained tones over which delicate progressions advance. |
HumaNoise: Tutti (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock "HumaNoise Tutti is an opportunity to hear Rodrigues in a large group that's not of his own devising-though there is often such complex and varied activity here, it would be misleading to evaluate it in the context of any one individual... |
Hvizdalek / Nergaard / Tavil / Garner: Juxtaposition (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Sonic sources of a wide variety of timbre, rhythm and tone, mixed with voice, feedback, even bird sounds, make up the strata of this intriguing album from Oslo Improvisers Agnes Hvizdalek (voice), Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (electric bass, electronics, field recordings), Utku Tavil (snare drum, no input mixer, sampler), and Natali Abrahamsen Garner (voice, electronics). |
Hvizdalek / Nergaard / Tavil / Garner: Juxtaposition [CASSETTE] (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Sonic sources of a wide variety of timbre, rhythm and tone, mixed with voice, feedback, even bird sounds, make up the strata of this intriguing album from Oslo Improvisers Agnes Hvizdalek (voice), Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (electric bass, electronics, field recordings), Utku Tavil (snare drum, no input mixer, sampler), and Natali Abrahamsen Garner (voice, electronics). |
Hybrid Ear (Schacher / Unternahrer / Arrizabalaga): Nuda (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock With discographies reaching back to the 80s, the trio of Beat Unternahrer on trombone and Furst-Pless-Horn, Jan Schacher on contrabass, objects and voice, and Pelayo Arrizabalaga, known for his reed work, on turntables and sine-generator, create 16 mostly improvised, succinct works that are influenced by free jazz, ea-improv, and sonic composition. |
Ianes, Luis: Antiguas Construcciones Utiles (Crusoe) (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock With references to "Robinson Crusoe" and titles referencing islands, the sea and shipwrecks, Argentinian guitarist living in Brooklyn, NY, Luis Ianes (Parias Ensemble) records his album that roughly translates to "Useful Ancient Constructions", using effects to create percussive, accompanying, and aquatic sounds, sometimes idiosyncratic, always interesting. |
IKB: Limosa Limosa (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock IKB, a ten-piece reductionist electroacoustic ensemble of strings, reeds, guitar, computer, percussion, piano, drums & objects, continues their exploration of exotic animal species with this 2020 live performance at O'Culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, Portugal, detailing the long-billed shore bird Limosa through intricate, restrained and remarkable expression. |
IKB Ensemble: Ornithorhynchus Anatinus (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Portugal's IKB Ensemble is an electracoustic improvising ensemble with a strong string and wind section, balanced with electric guitar, electronics, and percussion, each album focusing on an object--an art work, Dracaena Draco (Dragon Tree), Chelonoidis Nigra (Giant Tortoise)--and here taking on the Ornithorhynchus Anatinus, or platypus, in 3 fascinating movements. |
Isotope Ensemble: Radium (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Recorded at CreativeFest#12 in Lisbon at O'Culto de Ajuda, the 21-piece electroacoustic ensemble Isotope takes on the chemical element Radium in a gripping piece of evolving improvisation, intensely restrained and extremely detailed, orchestrated with cello, baroque violin, double bass, acoustic & electric guitars, zither, psaltery, winds, brass, keys, electronics and percussion. |
Jack's Son: Everyone Has a Kid Inside (Abolipop Records -- Mexico ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Jack's son is an avant hip-hop/breaks project created at the end of 2003 by Diego Martinez, Mexican young producer who also works under the name Lumenlab. |
Junk & The Beast (Petr Vrba / Veronika Mayer): Trailer (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Petr Vrba and Veronika Mayer use non-idiomatic improvisation to research the combination of textural materials, crossing them with vibrations of objects on the speakers, pure sound waves, feedbacks, tones coming from trumpet, accordion, electronics, and laptop, culminating in the creation of a muscular frenetic soup of tense energy fields. |
Kay, Martin: Courtyards (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sound artist Martin Kay focuses on the intimate and visceral symphony of domestic activity reverberating throughout a variety of shared courtyard spaces in Paris, using field recordings from various locations to examine their distinct acoustic characteristics. |
Knalpot (Fanoli / Jager / Caron): Dierendag (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sporting a strange sense of humor and blending rock and improvisation, instrumentally this Amsterdam is the duo of Raphael Vanoli on guitar, synth, & electronics and Gerri Jager on drums, synths, & electronics, with Sandor Caron providing sound design, here in an album of stylistic amalgamations of unexpected and upbeat rhythmic oddity and fun melodic inventiveness. |
Korn, Christoph : Ich Spreche Diesen Text (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Two conceptual compositions from Christoph Korn: the first, "Ich Spreche Diesen" (I appeal to this) where spoken word is placed in a loop and then slowly erased by custom software using aleatory procedures; then "Stille" (Silent), a Cage inspired work. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Avalanche (2 CDs) (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A double CD of experimental composition from Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, hypnotic works of strangely repeating glitch that bookend shorter works of rich percussive abstractions, including a work with processed voice and an extended percussive "Ritual", singular pieces reflecting Kwang's curious mind and long experience merging aberrant and subtle sound. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Back2Bed (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Goh Lee Kwang recorded these tracks from 2012-2015, a diverse set of pieces using sound, noise, field recordings, even guitar and rhythm to create unique audio environments, a succint and interesting reflection on the inquisitive nature of this audio explorers work. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Draw Sound [3-inch CD + BOOK] (Herbal International -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An unusual release of drawings and coins - 98 tracks in 8 1/2 minutes, where each track is the sound of one or more coins dropping by the hand of sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, plus one track from Woody Sullender; the book has pencil drawings apparently inspired by the sound. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Hands (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A fun and unusual electronic album from Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang's, whose instrument of choice is an old Roland Jupiter analogue synth, with toy keyboards, saxophones, bass and drums also thrown into the pot and merrily melted down by Max/MSP. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Innere Freuden / Internal Pleasures (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The title of this work for a cross-wired analog DJ mixer from Goh Lee Kwang translates to "Internal Pleasures", as he finds unexpected sounds from the noise floor of his equipment, which he develops into 7 untitled sound works of hiss, hum, controlled feedback, and rich sound. |
Kwang, Goh Lee : Good Vibrations (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Aberrant experiments with a stereo DJ mixer from Herbal International label leader Goh Lee Kwang, 5 tracks of unexpected sounds, micro-drills, crackles, purrs, hums, buzzes, quirks and bleeps from the mixer itself, performed live with no overdubs or pre-programming. |
Kwang, Goh Lee / Tim Blechmann: Findars (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A work for heavy electronic drone and glitch, Herbal International Label founder Goh Lee Kwang presents this live performance from Malaysia's Finders Art Space in Kuala Lumpur, for 36 minutes of mysterious intensity that settles and fills the listening space like a pall. |
Kyriakides, Yannis: Wordless (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Lab Coast: Bookflames [3" CD] (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Early recordings from Lab Coast (Chris Dadge and David Laing) from an odd session of improvisation recorded to cassette and restored for the band's debut release. |
Leap Of Faith: The Observed Present (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The debut of this reconfigured Boston-area trio drawn from the Leap of Faith lineup, starting with the core duo of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, with guest Eric Woods on synth and percussion, the trio using heavy percussion and electronics gear in a unique journey of extended freeform improvisation. |
Lepany, Justin: Agnes (In Redemption) (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A half composed, half improvised album for solo electric guitar from composer and improviser Justin Lepany, known for his work with musicians like Sven-Ake Johansson and his composition "Ringing Peace" premiered during the 2014 Peace Nobel Prize ceremony: three diverse pieces using effects to create both density and spacious sonic fields. |
Liedwart, Kurt : Tone (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Kurt Liedwart creates a personal journey through multiplicity of intense abstract layers of electronic and synthetic sound, constructing atmospheres of dronescapes, and cryptic songs, keeping the listener on edge in this album of intense "Tones" wrought from sythesizers, electronics, light controlled electronics, electromagnetic devices, and radio. |
Liedwart, Kurt / Andrey Popovskiy / Martin Taxt: Hjem (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A live concert at Dom Cultural Center in Moscow, Russia in 2015 from Norwegian tuba player Martin Taxt, Saint Petersburg violinist and object player Andrey Popovskiy, and ppool performer Kurt Liedwart focusing on sinewaves and noise, in an extended lowercase improvisation exploring harmonic and microtonal sounds. |
Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba: Punkt (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The debut album of free electronic music explorers Kurt Liedwart on synthesizers, cracked homemade and everyday electronics, and Petr Vrba on synthesizers and electronics, where each track is built upon a permutating sonic foundation of well-paced compositions that transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation. |
Liedwart, Kurt / Phil Raymond: Rim (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Moscow sound experimenter Phil Raymond, recording with computers and percussions, is resampled live by Moscow musician Kurt Liedwart on lloopp, electronics & percussion, to create these 5 darkly ambient tracks merging organized and improvised approaches. |
Lucchese / Kaptra: 777+2 Per Aspera ad Astra (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Visual artists Maria Lucchese is also a multi-instrumentalist and voice performer based in Berlin, working with Gio Kaptra, a filmmaker, visual artist and scientist based in Urbino, take their listeners on a 7 part cosmic exploration using tibetan bells, theremin, voice, modular synth, breath and sound processing, the title translating to "through hardships to the stars". |
Luo, Bao / Jean-Marc Foussat: Surface Calme (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A 5-part work of improvisations on keyboards, voice, guzheng and flute from French improviser Jean-Marc Foussat and Bao Luo (Beijing Talking), a mysterious album of nocturnal sounds, grand expressions, furtive language, and rich textures and timbres, as Bao Luo provides a guiding voice in song and speach to their beguiling dialog; an exotic and expressive album. |
Lutnahimat: Erosions (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Lutnahimat is the London-based project of composer/sound sculptor Ian S. in a work mixing electronic self-built instruments with sound samples recorded in India and Cameroon. |
M2; (M to the power of 2): Pink (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Maria da Rocha's name may not be familiar to jazz and improvised music lovers in Portugal, and this is because this violinist and violist from Lisbon has worked mainly on the Berlin and Stockholm circuits and much of her dedication goes... |
Machinefabriek / Anne Bakker: Oehoe (Where To Now? -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The fourth collaboration between electronic composer Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, and violinist, violist and vocalist Anne Bakker, in a work that merges and contrasts Bakker's string work and wordless vocals with soundscape, obscured field recordings and concrete sounds, using consonance and dissonance to create emotional pressure and release. |
MacLise, Angus: Astral Collapse (Quakebasket -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Black marker strike through barcode, but otherwise new direct from Quakebasket label - last copies available. Experiments in sound from early Velvet Underground member Angus Maclise performing on vocals, prepared tape, cembalum, bells, arp synthesizer and field recordings, joined by Hetty Maclise on organ, piano and autoharp. |
Martin, Luke: So Softly That It Came, A Wild Dim Chatter, Meaningless (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Luke Martin began this work with a field recording at Mentryville Park in Southern California, which was transcribed by himself and Amy Golden, Ben Levinson, Davy Sumner, and Ryan Gaston using Martin's system of notating silence, then combined into the final score for this recording. |
Massaro, Francesco: Maniera Nera (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Translating to "Black Manner", saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Francesco Massaro, a member of the Italian band Bestiario, presents a dark and troubling album of intense and power solo saxophone and acousmatic accompaniment, which he refers to as "fixed media", each of the 8 pieces referencing musicians including Lenoci, La Volpe, &c.; enigmatic and superb. |
Meelkop, Roel: Oude Koeien (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sound artist Roel Meelkop compiles various limited vinyl 7", 10" and lathe cut releases from Korm Plastics and related labels, along with one work made for this release, showing the variety of approaches and concepts Meelkop applies to his fascinating sound work. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Blast Furnace (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock PEK and Yuri Zbitnov's working project exploring chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments using a wide range of sonorities, including gongs, chimes, glockenspiel, Tibetan Bowls and other metallic sounds and horns, plus accompaniment tracks, with special guests Bob Moores on trumpet and guitar and Eric Woods on analog synth and performing real time Signal Processing. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Call Of Cthulhu (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock One of the most prolific Evil Clown ensembles, Metal Chaos Ensemble distinguishes itself through the use of Gongs, chimes, glockenspiel, Tibetan Bowls and many other metallic sounds, with horns, compositions and narratives by multi-reedist PEK, in a rhythm-heavy fantastical journey in a septet with Moouse Traore on djembe and Mike Gruen on Azoth and Basilisk. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Electric Sword Machine (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Each of these Boston-area improvisers handles an arsenal of equipment in the Metal Chaos Ensemble of David Peck (PEK) on reeds, synth, & daxophone, Bob Moores on synths & laptop, Eric Woods on synth, metal & wood, Abby on bass & electronics, and Yuri Zbitnoff on drums & percussion, in a massive work of detailed and passionate electroacoustics over PEK's large synthetic mix. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Syncretic Discipline (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock PEK and Yuri Zbitnov lead the Metal Chaos Ensemble, here in a septet rendering of this Boston-area free improvising group that embraces an impressive arsenal of percussive, electronic and acoustic instruments, using unique strategies to yield densely active and eerily surreal music, an incredible excursion through experimental improvisation. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: The Nameless City (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock One of the most prolific Evil Clown ensembles, Metal Chaos Ensemble distinguishes itself through the use of Gongs, chimes, glockenspiel, Tibetan Bowls and many other metallic sounds, with horns, compositions and narratives by multi-reedist PEK, in a rhythm-heavy fantastical journey in a septet with Moouse Traore on djempe and Mike Gruen on Azoth and Basilisk. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: The Riddle Of Steel (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock This Boston-area collective ensemble explores chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments, heard in this 2019 recordings with three horns, doubled percussion and electronics, analog synthesis, and driving drum and bass work from Yuri Zbitnov and Mike Gruen, leveraging the Evil Clown arsenal of percussive devices as they perform an extended improvisations covering a wide scope of sonority and concept. |
Mohanna, Nickolas: Phase Line (Run/Off Editions -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Digital sound processing oscillating through a variety of media saturated sources including electronic billboards, kiosk stations, traffic control devices and other city environments, knotted into sculptural arpeggiation by sound artists Nickolas Mohanna. |
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa / Miguel A. Garcia: Aq'Ab'Al (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Audio experimenters Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Miguel A. Garcia join forces in an album titled after "Aq'ab'al", the Mayan Astrology Sign about polar opposites--dawn and dusk, hot and cold, black and white--which represents renewal and change, through a series of opposing audio events, forceful sounds of texture, feedback, and intervention. |
Moodring: Scared of Ferrett (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock Moodring is centered around Rollerball's Monte Allen & Mae Starr, mixing rock with sound & noise, tinted with a free post-jazz flavor in deep doom filled grooves and ghostly vocals. |
Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored.: Success in Cheap Prices (Bor Land / Soopa -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Mr. Stonecipher: The Fleeting EP (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock The solo harsh dream sound project of media and sound artist Ryan Lewis, delving deep into his childhood traumas through sound, which he developed as an outlet and meditative release for the artist using sound. |
Mr. Stonecipher / Joshua Marquez: Faux [CASSETTE] (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock A split cassette between Wilmington sound artists Joshua Marquez, a Filipino-American composer, guitarist, and activist who explores the liminal space between tone and noise; and Mr. Stonecipher, aka Ryan L Lewis IV, a sound artist and filmmaker who works with dramatic sound and feedback of a cinematic quality, often employing unusual objects as source. |
Mr. Stonecipher Vs. Somnaphon: The Horsemaster's Daughter [CASSETTE] (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock A cassette release joining 910 Noise and Ack Recordings from Ryan Lewis and August Traeger, harsh American noise that "will destroy the speakers" (Feast of Hate and Fear). |
Musicworks: #134 Fall 2019 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Fall 2019 issue of Canada's premier music magazine covering contemporary, improvisation and experimental music, plus reviews of recordings, books, and events; this issue has articles on Ana Sokolovic, Charlie Morrow, Nadah El Shazly, Laraaji, Amy Brandon, William Kuo, Sami Blanco, Silla and Rise, Mystery & Wonder Records, including a CD with tracks from the same. |
Musicworks: #136 Spring 2020 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Spring 2020 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine covering improvised, composed and experimental music, with reviews of recordings and live events and extensive articles, this issue featuring Anthony Pateras, Xuan Ye, sound artist April Aliermo and composer Lieke van der Voort; with a 15 track CD of work from those and other featured artists. |
Musicworks: #138 Winter 2020/2021 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The final issue of 2020 is is dedicated to the art of conversation in music and about music during the age of pandemic; with Debby Friday on the cover, plus articles about Victoria-based composer Anna Höstman, Tehran-born Araz Salek, Tkarón:to-based saxophonist and composer Olivia Shortt, with a CD including tracks from those artists, plus reviews, articles, &c. |
Nanimo (Area / Torres / Sarramian / Gris): Hapax (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock ... |
Naphtali, Dafna / Gordon Beeferman: Pulsing Dot (Clang -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Gordon Beeferman and Dafna Naphtali perform duet pieces and improvisations for piano and voice with kinetic sound processing, fractal rhythms, and polyphonic/kaleidophonic disturbances, as Beeferman creates solid structures which are augmented by Naphtali's live processing, while she employs extended vocal techniques and hand & voice activated electronics. |
NARTcore (Meggyes / Kovats): Aeluton (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock ... |
Normand, Eric: Demission Definitive Du Patron (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Two large compositions by Montreal bassist Éric Normand, the first in a quintet with Camille Brisson, Antoine Simard, Marc-Antoine Mackin and Sébastien Maltais, using electronics, objects and motors; the second an acoustic work performed by the Quasar saxophone quartet of Marie-Chantale Leclerc, Mathieu Leclerc, André Leroux & Jean-Marc Bouchard. |
Octopus: Cyanea (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A concise and essential concert from the Octopus octet, recorded in performances at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal during the Creativefest XII, the ensemble of mostly acoustic instrumentation (cello, viola, flute, clarinet, classical guitar, piano, percussion and synthesizer) carefully evolving a shade of blue in subtle details of tense restraint. |
Ohta, Takamitsu: Three Relations Among The Flock [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Takamitsu Ohta, known for his work with artists Anne-F Jacques & Ryoko Akama, in three unexpected recordings using the microphone and speaker of small devices with recording and playback ability, from five to fifteen such linked devices creating surprisingly stacatto and expressive voices from feedback, each piece aptly named for the resulting articulation each combination creates. |
Other Plastics (Dominic Coles / Hunter Brown): Overtime Liquor (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Unusual glitch and extreme electronics improvised by the duo of New York artist Dominic Cole and Chicago/NY artist Hunter Brown (Sound Tribe Sector Nine), using approaches including glitch, noise & circuit bending in 9 pieces with tongue-in-cheek titles, balancing erratic moments with exploratory sections and near silence, an interesting and enigmatic album of aberrant electronics. |
Owen, Ben : Turning (Wind Measure Recordings -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Using a reel to reel deck, a mixer, electronics, and extraneous room sound, Brooklyn-based Ben Owens creates an album of contrasting drones and spaces, harmonically rich or pure tones contrasting with slowly drawn tape and abstract environmental sound, bringing enigmatic moments amidst drifting hiss and subliminal resonance; mysterious and intriguing. |
Parzen-Johnson, Jonah: I Try To Remember Where I Come (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Chicago born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson performs live at The Bunker on baritone saxophone, accompanying himself on analog synthesizer, using arpeggiated and repeating structures over which he improvises lyrical work using extended techniques including circular breathing, multiphonics, and overtones to great effect. |
PEK Solo: Closed & Open Universes [2 CDS] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Evil Clown mastermind David Peck (PEK) in a double album of solo work, 1st pure solo, then in a long work accompanied by his own prepared mixes, using clarinets, saxophones, English horn, goat horn, tarota, bamboo, Chistmas & alto flutes, slide whistles, sheng, Melodica, Akai Wind controller, moog subsequent, gongs, brontosaurus & tank bells, Englephone, and delay. |
PEK Solo: Coefficient of Unity (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A great example of the state of David Peck (PEK)'s approach to improvisation & arsenal of instruments, in an epic solo work merging acoustic and electronic sources with an unhurried path in a coherent long-form improvisation using reeds, sheng, fog horn, game calls, gongs, chimes, crotales, daxophone, [d]ronin, mpa 019, therimin, aquasonic, loops, & signal processing. |
PEK Solo: Precedents [2 CDs] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Two discs of solo work from Boston-area reedist, composer and Evil Clown collective leader David Peck (PEK), the first CD with 3 tracks, each focusing on a unique instrument from David Peck's large arsenal, in this case the bass tromboon, a C flute and a contrabass clarinet; the second a large improvisation using a mix from the first recordings along with live signal processing. |
Pek Solo: Pursuing the Ideal Limit of Inquiry (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The fourth PEK Solo effort of 2020 finds Boston-area reedist David Peck in a virtual duo with himself, using a digital delay in a call and response on a single instrument - the tenor saxophone - his primary horn for a large part of his early history, demonstrating his current improvisational thinking & language on his most familiar instrument. |
PEK Solo: Schism (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Approaching his solo work with new compositional strategies, multi-reedist and percussionist David Peck uses time and texture as the principal organizational elements in 9 pre-mixed recordings over which PEK was allowed more flexibility and freedom in instrumental choice during performance, using a vast collection of instruments in dramatic improvisations. |
PEK Solo / An Orchestra Of PEKS: Some Truths Are Known [3 CDS] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $29.95 In Stock David Peck, aka PEK, took advantage of the down time from his typically busy performance schedule with the Boston-area collective of bands centered around Leap of Faith to record a number of solo performances, using a variety of reed and wind instruments and the arsenal of unusual percussive instruments at his disposal, recording the 3 full CDs of new material presented in this set. |
Perales, Fernando / Abdul Moimeme / Ernesto Rodrigues : Siete Colores (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Siete Colores presents a trio of Rodrigues' viola and the dual electric guitars of Moimeme and Argentinean Fernando Perales (perhaps best known for the group Reynols with Anla Courtis). As "23 44'00"S 65 29'00" O" opens what's immediat... |
Red List Ensemble: Scope (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The Berlin-based electroacoustic Red List Ensemble founded by cellist Guilherme Rodrigues in a studio recording of the 3-part "Scope", improvised music created in real time using extensive techniques to create and raise tension in a game of contrasts, exploring orchestration in micro-groups through organization of surfaces that are opposed in terms of timbre and sound texture. |
Remora: Scars Bring Hope (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Silber Records label owner Brian John Mitchell's Remora persona, assisted by Brian Lee McKenzie (Electric Bird Noise) in post-apocalyptic folk songs, drones, and electronic music. |
Riggs, Christopher: Cash Recycling Machine (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock An unusual sound work, the 3rd in a series made up of tracks of equal length with a different track length for each project, with sonic material made from home-built guitars & a quadrophonic amp setup. |
Riggs, Christopher / Carl Testa: Sn (S to the power of n, or Sⁿ) (Gold Bolus Recordings -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock New Haven instrumentalist Carl Testa and Chicago guitarist Christopher Riggs in a large composition for prepared electric guitar and live electronic processing that references Ashley, Stockhausen and Braxton while manipulating one's sense of time, space, and memory. |
Robin, Gregory / Franck Vigroux: Entrailles A Film By Gregory Robin [DVD] (D'Autres Cordes -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Franck Vigroux's performance at Museum de la Mine, Saint Etienne, France in 2012, performed without an audience, dramatic textural sound work in an impressive and twisted industrial setting. |
Rodiguez, Manolo : Trampantojos (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Portuguese guitarist Manolo Rodriguez chose these 9 pieces from about 8 hours of improvised music, recorded on a Gibson acoustic guitar with piezo microphones on various parts of the guitar, passed through effects and finally controlled by a mixer, intended as a tribute to "the sense of sight as an intermediary of thought, and to artists who, with their eyes, have changed the world." |
Rodrigues / Buchinho / Guerreiro: Fall (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock ... |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Santos: Cyclic Symmetry (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Recorded in the studio in 2017, "Cyclic Symmetry" presents an electroacoustic trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and CS mainstay Carlos Santos on field recordings, in a minimal work suggested to be heard on infinite loop, contrasting deep silence with sections accenting the slow, interwining harmonics of both Rodrigues' string work. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto: Spiegel (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Two sets across two nights during CreativeFest #12 at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal, in a septet of six acoustic sources--viola, cellos, flute, trumpet, piano and percussion--and electronics, an extended journey approached with quiet tension and incredible detail, the recording of the first set used as the basis for the 2nd to create a virtual ensemble. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Andre Hencleeday / Guilherme Rodrigues / Carlos Santos: Plane, Line Segments, Rays And Some Dissipations (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock
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Rodrigues, Ernesto / Carlos Costa / Manolo Rodriguez: Macaronesia (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock
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Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Fred Marty / Carlos Santos: Jardin Carre (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock French double bassist Fred Marty joins Creative Sources core performers, violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues and electronic artist Carlos Santos for an extensive improvisation exploring both lyrical and pointillistic improvisation, themed loosely around a garden quartet or frame, the music detailed, active and formidably sophisticated. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Karine Decorne / Simon Proffitt: Way Of Walking (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A lowercase meeting of strings, objects, microphones and computer between core Creative Sources members Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and Karne Decorne (objects) and Simon Proffitt (microphones & computer), investigating microsound in four unhurried conversations that include moments of odd interjections, tones, and timbre. |
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