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Rodrigues, Ernesto / Luis Senra / Gianna De Toni / Luis Couto / Biagio Verdolini: Prima Pratica (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A very open free improvisation of Portuguese musicians recording in Azores, PT from the quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Luis Senra on tenor saxophone, Gianna de Toni on double bass, Luis Couto on electric guitar, and Biagio Verdolini on homemade instruments, using space amid patiently evolving conversation with an overall acoustic feeling in three movements of "Dissonanze". |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Nuno Torres / Abdul Moimeme: Aura (Creative Sources -- USA ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Three frequent collaborators--Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Nuno Torres on alto saxophone, and Abdul Moimeme on electric guitar--captured live in 2019 at Logradouro da Compostinha, in Lisbon, Portugal, each using their instruments with unusual approaches through extended techniques, in a half hour set balancing subtle aural ambience with rich, detailed activity; spellbinding. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Nuno Torres / Carlos Santos / Stale Liavik Solberg : Soon (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Norwegian percussionist Stale Liavik Solberg (Gjerstad, VCDC, &c) joins frequent collaborators Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Nuno Torres (saxophone), and Carlos Santos (electronics) for a studio album of often pointillistic interaction, Solberg punctuating the unusual voicing and techniques of acoustic and electronic interactions as they permute the word "soon". |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Rodrigues, Guilherme / Richard Scott: We Still Have Bodies (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Nine numbered improvisations for viola, cello and analog synth from the trio of Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues and Richard Scott, recorded live at Audience, in Berlin, Scott's synth layers adding subtle nuance including vocal sampling and static and strange noise as a counterpoint to the Rodrigues' subdued but detailed techniques, textures and intense concentration. |
Sa, Joana: Elogio Da Desordem (In Praise of Disorder) (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Composer, pianist and multi-instrumentals Joana Sa gives voice to texts by Goncalo M. Tavares as read by Rosinda Costa, where the text organizes the thoughts that filter the multiple, disorderly, eccentric, voluble mind described in Tavares' work. |
Servant, Robin: Du Souffle Et De L'Espace (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Using a diatonic accordion and electronics, Robin Servant from Rimouski, Canada explores the acoustics of the places he visits by making them vibrate with his accordion and electronics, presenting 3 recordings from concerts in PiedNu in Le Havre, France, the Old Theater of St-Fabien, in Quebec, Canada, and at the Beaulieu Culturel du Temiscouata, in Quebec. |
Sinclair, Iain / London Experimental Ensemble: Dark Before Dark (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Writer Iain Sinclair joins The London Experimental Ensemble to perform his narrative work, a sequel to Living With Buildings: And Walking With Ghosts, telling a surreal story of the imaginary 25-year journey of a whalebone box, told in detailed images and incredible sonic support through keys, strings, brass, winds, guitar, electronics and voice; profoundly powerful. |
Sinton, Josh: Krasa (Irabbagast -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New York reedist Josh Sinton takes the contrabass clarinet on a wild ride, performing live with no overdubs, using clip-on mics, a mixing board, a sans amp box, a volume pedal, and a bass amp, as he explores sonic possibilities and unexpected directions for this big reed instrument in his quest to redefine the old Slavic word for beauty or splendor: krasa. |
[SNDNG STTNS] Kifpfmuller / Janek feat. Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues : Case Study: Sertao (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Since 2014 the collective [SNDNG STTNS] has explored theatrical situations between musictheatre, staging and composition with live music, instruments, recordings, samples, speach and live editing, this work featuring cellist Guilherme Rodrigues bridges the art of the brazilian "violeros" with contemporary music, acoustic and electronic composition and improvisation. |
Snyder, Nicolas: Temporary Places (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock West Coast sound artist Nicolas Snyder is a composer, filmmaker, sound-documenter, gardener, and forager; fascinated by the sounds of nature, he took recordings from streams and National Parks in Vietnam, Pennsylvania, and California and merged them with music composed in the studio to create these works of great beauty as a study of locational and emotional memory. |
Somnaphon: An Aligment of Various Things (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Assembling 13 tracks from obscure compilations released from 2011-2012 by the various monikers of 910 Noise artist August (September) Traeger, a wide-ranging and captivating set of approaches to sound & noise work. |
Somnaphon: Florida (ACK Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The third part of Somnaphon's trilogy, a complex record that ranges from destructive sounds to convoluted construction of rhythm and noise, with the Pony Grabbers on 1 track. |
Somnaphon: Normal People (ACK Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Unusual noise work from Somnaphon (August Traeger) in a 3" CD format, weaving acoustic, electronic, and destructive digital sound into five varied and decidedly not normal pieces of sound. |
Somnaphon / Mr. Stonecipher / Food World: Hayagriva (private label -- USA ) Price: $4.95 In Stock A 5 minute video of a horse-headed suit lost in a sonic world eerily devised by 910 Noise artists Somnaphon, Mr. Stonecipher, and Food World; a brief but disturbing visual and auditory reflection. |
Sontag Shogun: Tale (Palaver Press -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Brooklyn's Sontag Shogun (Ian Temple-piano; Jesse Perlstein-electronics; Jeremy Young-tapes & electronics) in their debut album, compiling three years of composing and directed textural improvisations, presented in 9 rich musical works. |
Space Quartet (Toral / Antunes / Morao / Torres): Directions (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An exploration of space, not outer, but the space we give to each other, the space between events and the space between musical expression, as composed by electronic artist Rafael Toral, using acoustic & electronic feedback and amplification with his quartet of Hugo Antunes on double bass, Nuno Mora on drums & percussion and Nuno Torres on saxophone & electronics. |
SSL (Gorfinkel, Dale / Robbie Avenaim): Sonic Systems Laboratory (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Two unusual approaches to the vibraphone in a duo--Dale Gorfinkel using the tremolo mechanism, additional motors, bows and creative percussive techniques; and Robbie Avenaim using homemade electronic sticks and vibrating objects to create rhythms and textures. |
Steidle, Oli & The Killing Popes (Steidle / Mobus / Nicholls / Downes / Donkin): Ego Pills (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Rapid fire playing and a wicked humor fuels drummer Olie Steidle's album with guitarist Frank Mobus, keyboardists Kit Downes and Dan Nicholls, and bassist Phil Donkin, mashing together electro-jazz, art rock, hardcore and club music into upbeat and twisted music, building up to a narrative "Speed Junky on Funny Human Darts"; insanely embraceable and stunning. |
Strom (Gaudenz Badrutt / Christian Muller): X (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A concept record from Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics & synth) and Christian Muller (electronics & contrabass clarinet), starting with an improvised piece which is then resampled live into 6 new pieces, changing the character with each pass, and presented in reverse order. |
Sub-Unit #1: Potential & Kinetic Energies (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock This "Sub-unit" from Boston's improvising Leap of Faith Orchestra presetns a duo between Eric Zinman on piano, percussion and synth and David Peck on an array of saxophones, clarinets, bassoon and other reeds, plus small percussion, Theremin and accordion, in a unique and active duo with both players suggesting a larger ensemble through diverse strategeis and instrumentation. |
Subliminator, The: Recalibrated (Scared Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Ex-Spaceseed wordsmith/gizmoist Serson Brannen explores the outer limits of high tech spoken word space art . |
Sundland, Dan Peter : Home Stretch (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock ... |
Suspensao: Physis (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The third album on Creative Sources for this 10-piece ensemble with 5 string players, piano, sax, trombone, electronics and percussion, freely improvising in an extended work themed for the Greek theological, philosophical, and scientific term typically translated as nature or physics, in a rich tapestry of meticulous detail and profoundly subtle communication. |
Suspensao: Rayon Blanc (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The fourth release from the Portuguese lowercase electroacoustic ensemble Suspensao, merging viola, cello, bass clarinet, alto sax, electric guitar, piano, double bass, percussion and electronics in intensely detailed, slow moving improvisation, revealing impressive tension and suspension of time in impeccably concentrative collective conversation. |
Suspensao ( Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Mira / Torres / Chagas / Chaprreiro / Santos / Morao): Porto Covo (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock
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Szilard: Spokes (Palaver Press -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Jeremy Young, aka Szilard, in his debut full-length release as a solo performer on guitar and sine waves, with texts from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal" (1857) read by Aki Onda, Ella Joyce Buckley, Liam Singer and Catherine Metayer. |
Tabuenca, Luis / Wade Matthews: Punto Cero Aragon (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock A sound project by experimental musician Luis Tabuenca with Wade Matthews and ethnomusicologist Ana Maria Alarcon-Jimenez, inspired by the sonic heritage of Aragon, in pieces that reflect and question issues of memory, space & place. |
Talugung: Anura (Amorfon -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Canadian artist Ryan Waldron (The Riderless) works with collected and constructed instruments, here in a mystic release inspired by the sound and polyrhythms of frogs. |
Trrma': The Earth's Relief (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock The project of Southern Italy's Giovanni Todisco (percussion) and Giuseppe Candiano (synthesizer), since 2015 touring Japan and Europe to perform in festivals and venues, this album presents their experimental improvisation combining classic afrikaans and symphonic percussion with modular synthesis, merging ancient rhythms with modern electronic excitement. |
Tucker, Dave / Pat Thomas / Thurston Moore / Mark Sanders: Educated Guess Vol. 1 (577 Records -- Italy ) Price: $16.00 In Stock The "guess" was guitarist and electronics artist Dave Tucker's educated guess that these four musicians--himself, pianist/keyboardist Pat Thomas, guitarist Thurston Moore and drummer/percussionist Mark Sanders--would create someting extraordinary if he brought them together for a concert at London's Cafe OTO, this boundary-pushing album the indisputably successful result. |
Tucker, Dave / Pat Thomas / Thurston Moore / Mark Sanders: Educated Guess Vol. 1 [VINYL] (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $18.99 In Stock The "guess" was guitarist and electronics artist Dave Tucker's educated guess that these four musicians--himself, pianist/keyboardist Pat Thomas, guitarist Thurston Moore and drummer/percussionist Mark Sanders--would create someting extraordinary if he brought them together for a concert at London's Cafe OTO, this boundary-pushing album the indisputably successful result. |
Turbulence: Paroxysmal Attacks (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock David Peck's quartet rendering of Turbulence features Evil Clown regulars Bob Moores & Eric Dahlman on trumpets, Duane Reed and PEK on reeds and winds, all bringing electronic & electroacoustic instruments, alongside an arsenal of exotic percussion, following PEK's framework which balances moments of clarity with paroxysmal "seizures" of sound; gripping. |
Ultra-Red: Amnistia (antiopic -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Usurper: You Can Do It (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock An extremely unusual album of sonic interactions from the long-running peformance duo of Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff, aka Usurper, recorded during a residency in Helsinki in May 2010, an eccentric display of vocal and aberrant apparatus with a unique inner logic. |
Valente, Jorge / Carlos Santos: Metallum (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The duo of Carlos Santos and Jorge Valente developed this project around the metallics of a cymbal, recording it and digitally manipulating and transforming it into a musical structure using the maxmsp programming; this recording was captured live at the Hertzoscopio Festival in Fabrica da Polvora, Barcarena, Portugal in 2004. |
Valiente, Candelaria Saenz / Marcin Masecki: Hymnen (Bolt -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Based on the anthems of nations that have endured recent struggles, from the duo of Marcin Masecki on keys and Candelaria Saenz Valiente on vocals and percussion, embraceable songs with unusual structures paying tribute to the beautiful themes for each nation. |
Van Iniitu, Sylvain / Thomas Coquelet / Quentin Conrate: Maneries Ramonandi Fournellos (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock
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Vanoli, Raphael: Bibrax (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Amsterdam guitarist Raphael Vanoli in a solo record of discovery, hiper-amplifying his guitar so that slight motions create forceful statements, where gently blowing on the strings creates dynamics and harmonics rarely explored, effected to create complex sonic compositions with unique, unusual and fascinating properties. |
Variable Geometry Orchestra: Mare Tranquillitatis (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A dynamic and exciting concert captured during the 2018 CreativeFest XII of a conduction by Ernesto Rodrigues leading an ensemble of 28 free improvisors performing on a mix of traditional acoustic & modern electronic instruments, plus a toy piano, with powerful wind & string sections, as Rodrigues directs the musicians into both passionate and peaceful sections. |
Various Artists: Kix Shake Volume 1 (Soopa -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Velkro (Simon / Meidell / Candeias): Too Lazy to Panic (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Hazy free jazz in an hallucinatory blend of passionate music influenced as much by experimental and rock forms as traditional improv, from the trio of Bostjan Simon on sax & electronics, Stephan Meidell on guitar, bass, percussion & electronics and Luis Candeias on drums. |
Verlaak, Maya: All English Music is Greensleeves (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Five fascinating works by the Belgian composer Maya Verlaak, realized by Apartment House and soloists Sarah Saviet & Mark Knoop, experimental compositions including a work of personal reflection based on "Alouette"; a conceptual game piece; a composition layering pre-recorded segments of "Greensleaves"; and two interactive acoustic & computer pieces. |
Vigroux, Franck: we (nous autres) (D'Autres Cordes -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Electronic sound artist Franck Vigroux uses electronics, guitar, percussion, and his voice in this dark release with vocalist Annabelle Playe. |
Vryzas, Dimos: Really Short And Tonal (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Violinist, improviser, songwriter and composer from Thessaloniki, Greece, Dimos Vryzas creates a virtual electroacoustic ensemble using violin, voice and effects, contrasting acoustic and electronic sounds in the search for music expression, his studies with Fred Frith and Alfred Zimmerlin a good indicator of the kind of sound approach Vryzas employs. |
Wabi Experience : Wabi Experience (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Czech improviser and sound musician Tomislav Federsel started work on this project in 2002, remixing in experimental forms the songs of Czech folk musician Wabi Danek, a project Federsel scrapped and rebuilt three times, Jaroslav Tarnovski joining in this ultimate version of the rich, imaginative and well-considered renderings of Danek's music. |
Ward, Jason: If You Had Wings (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Guitarist and 910 Noise artist Jason Ward in a release that explores concepts in sound and string, music that ranges far and surprises with both lovely playing and distressed processing. |
Weston, Grant Calvin / Lucas Brode: Flying Kites [CD + DOWNLOAD] (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock A powerful recording that features heavy, intricate and deep grooves from Philadelphian Grant Calvin Weston (Ornette Coleman's Prime Time) on drums, percussion and synths and Lucas Brode on guitars, effects and loops, a great album of creative improvisation that blends fusion-oriented playing balanced with modern sound collage and atmospheric moments. |
Weston, Matt: Searchlight Swings b/w Is That Helicopter Over Our House? [7-inch' VINYL] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $5.36 In Stock Percussionist and electronics artist Matt Weston (Arthur Brooks Ensemble V, Arc Pair) in a 7" release showcasing his playing skills over his own notation systems employing additional dimensions of pre-and post-gestural strategies, using written standard notation and visual cues based on multiple and simultaneous, graphic scores. |
Wong, Eric: YYSSN (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Minneapolis-born Hong Kong raised and Berlin-based guitar performer Eric Wong is the author of this amazing release on Portuguese label Creative Sources, named after the initial of each of the five pieces he collected here. Since the o... |
Xambuca: Joulupukki (Erototox Decodings -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A series of vignettes inspired by and dedicated to the Saami people living at the top of Fenno-Scandinavian peninsula from Chandra Shukla (Xambuka), in absorbing beats and effects, synthetic sound sculptures and exotic sound. |
Zek, Ame: First Bow (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Croatian guitarist and electroacoustic musician Ame Zek in an album of electroacoustic improvisation using prepared guitars, acoustic percussions, self made objects, contact microphones, analog modular synthesizer, amplified feedback speakers, magnetic field microphones and digital midi machines; an album of raw, raspy, dark and dissonant sound. |
Weston, Matt: Sparky 3 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (4 Men With Beards -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The 3rd installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
Fujiyama, Yuko / Graham Haynes / Ikue Mori: Quiet Passion (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 In Stock A beautiful trio album of compositions from pianist Yuko Fujiyama and presented in a mix of solo pieces and duets & trios with cornetist Graham Haynes and electronic improviser Ikue Mori, for a subtle set of elegant improvisations balancing spacious moments with responsively relaxed interplay rich with anticipation, punctuated with two poems by Shutaro Tankikawa. |
Myers, David Lee: Xenography (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned, an apt description of the rich dialects sculpted from feedback sources and expertly routed through circular circuits of sound processors by New York sound artist David Lee Myers, AKA Arcane Device, captured and layered into these astounding electronic compositions. |
Myers, David Lee: Lustre (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A perfect example of the radiant electronics David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device, has developed over decades, in nine shimmering works of clear tones, controlled feedback and electronic errata, each piece transitioning in sublime ways as Myers evolves luminescent stories in glowing atmospheric sound, a richly lustered album of sound sculpting. |
Ericson, Sture / Pat Thomas / Raymond Strid: Bagman Live at Cafe Oto (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock The first trio collaboration between London pianist and innovator Pat Thomas and Swedish improvisers, Sture Ericson on saxophones, and Raymond Strid on drums, performing live at Cafe OTO in London in 2019 for four improvised soundscapes about the fictional character "Bagman", using extended and prodigious technique with both disruptive and melodic intentions. |
Suzuki, Akio: Zeitstudie [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $32.95 Out of Stock Referring to "Study Time", Zeitstudie presents two works each for two instruments developed by sound artist Akio Suzuki and recorded in Germany in 1984: the ANALAPOS, an echo instrument used to project the performer's voice across a coil spring; and the "De Koolmees" glass harmonica, 5 glass tubes in a metal frame that are struck or rubbed to create unique sounds. |
Shiroishi, Patrick: Hidemi [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (American Dreams Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A meditation on the life of Japanese-Americans after living in California's concentration camps during World War II, performed by Patrick Shiroishi through layering of c melody saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone and voice, reflecting on his own grandfathers's seemingly unbearable experience through patience and dignity. |
Bootstrappers (Elliott Sharp / Melvin Gibbs / Don McKenzie): Xenolith (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The first new Bootstrappers album since 1992, joining band leader Elliott Sharp for this 3rd album are longtime collaborators Melvin Gibbs on electric bass and Don McKenzie on drums, for seven assertive rock-based improvisations fueled by electronics, free jazz, no wave and electroacoustic sound, manifesting a hardboiled NY ethic of focused grooves and free playing. |
Semantics (Elliott Sharp / Ned Rothenberg / Samm Bennett): Bone Of Contention (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Including three previously unreleased live tracks, one of Downtown NY's supergroups of drummer Samm Bennett, reed & wind player Ned Rothenberg and guitar & bass player Elliott Sharp's 2nd album is reissued, bringing this collection of seemingly endless possibility in improvisation back to the foreground, sounding as modern today as it did in the percolating creativity of 1987. |
Radigue, Eliane / Frederic Blondy: Occam XXV (Organ Reframed -- UK ) Price: $20.95 Out of Stock Commissioned by Organ Reframed, the organ-only experimental music festival curated by Scottish composer/performer and London's Union Chapel organ music director Claire M Singer, this piece of deep overtones ascending through octaves was developed with organist Frédéric Blondy at the Église Saint Merry in Paris, this specially packaged release captured at the Union Chapel festival concert in 2020. |
Niblock, Phill: Ghosts And Others (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $19.95 In Stock An engrossing set of compositions through field recordings captured around the globe, transitioning by passages of trains, trucks and cars and accompanied by unusual percussive elements and strange melodies, as Niblock invites us to a funeral procession, a collective farm, and untold other exotic and fascinating streets and unexpected environments. |
Hiroui, Larsson Andreas: Seduced By (A) Last Year (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Seeking to combine the interdisciplinary practices of Swedish percussionist, artist and philosopher Larsson Andreas Hiroui and his ensemble of Johanna Arve and Johan Jutterstrom into a single method, this extended work compiles their collective history into digital archives that are presented in a layered set of spoken observations and instrumental improvisations. |
Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion [VINYL] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $21.95 In Stock Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions. |
Ensemble Var (Gustafsson / Lindal / Lindstrom / Nordwall): VAR (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A fully free improvisation of subtly disruptive, extended electroacoustic mastery, recorded during the Svensk Musikvår Festival at Aliasteatern, Stockholm in 2021, in a piece conceived by Mats Gustafsson who performs on saxophone & flute, with Anna Lindal on violin, Mats Lindstrom on electronics, effects & sampler and Joachim Nordwall on analog synths, effects & tapes. |
Tucker, Dave / Pierpaolo Martino: Melophobia (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Dave Tucker, a one-time member of The Fall and long-time free improviser involved with the Alan Tomlinson Trio and his own School of Velocity quartet with Evan Parker, John Edwards & Steve Noble, in a duo with double bassist Pierpaolo Martino for 11 succinct and assertive dialogs titled "Melophobia" I - XI, diverse works from active Crimson-esque playing to dark & introspective ruminations. |
Tern (Philipp Wachsmann / Martin Hakett / Emil Karlsen): In Air (FMR/Bead -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Two sessions from the free improvising electroacoustic trio of Philipp Wachsmann on violin & electronics, Martin Hakett on synthesizer and Emil Karlsen on drums & percussion, first for three studio recordings in 2019, and then in concert at the 2020 "Sounds Like This" festival at Leeds College for two wonderfully idiosyncratic and masterful conversations. |
Musicworks: #142 Summer 2022 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The Summer 2022 issue of Canada's essential music magazine exploring improvised, compositional, experimental and other musical hybrids, this issue with composer Gayle Young on the cover, articles on violist Ig Henneman, composer Du Yun, Mark Ellestad, plus reviews, interviews and a 10-track CD with music from artists covered in the magazine. |
Funambulists, The (Tibor Takacs Faki / Laslo Lenkes / Goran Grubisic): The Funambulists (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An energetic trio of Serbian free improvisers from Tibor Takacs Faki on reeds, Laslo Lenkes on guitar and Goran Grubisic on drums, Tibor Takacs Faki and Goran Grubisic both part of the rock band Wooden Ambulance, that energy translating into their indefatigable approach to collective improvisation, just keeping a lid on their rambunctious interaction. |
Artifacts (Nicole Mitchell / Tomeka Reid / Mike Reed): ...and then there's this [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Confirming their place in Chicago's improv legacy, the second album from the Artifacts Trio of Nicole Mitchell on flute & electronics, Tomeka Reid on cello and Mike Reed on drums & percussion expand the AACM canon with compositions from each member, plus several insightful and lively collective improvisations and one piece each from Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams. |
Marhaug, Lasse / Jerome Noetinger: Top (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A tribute to late experimental sound artist Peter Rehberg (Pita) from collaborators and friends Lasse Marhaug and Jérôme Noetinger, ten recordings of wildly creative, slippery electronics, crunching sound bunts, rapid fire electronic turmoil and tapehead jamming, ending with a beautifully drifting tribute to an artist who widely influenced modern sound culture. |
RedGreenBlue (Paul Giallorenzo / Charlie Kirchen / Ryan Packard / Ben LaMar Gay): The End and The Beginning [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock After a 4-week residency in 2018 at The Burlington in Chicago, the quartet of Paul Giallorenzo (keys & electronics), Charlie Kirchen (bass), Ryan Packard (drums, electronics) and Ben LaMar Gay (cornet & electronics) workshopped their exploratory approach to free electric improv for 6 months before recording this mesmerizing version live at Chicago's Hungry Brain. |
van Houdt, Reinier : Drift Nowhere Past / The Adventure Of Sleep [2 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Interested in compositional work involving sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise & environment, Dutch composer Reinier van Houdt shares six works developed for erstwhile record's festival AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine, each piece focused on a specific day of the month; and a complementary set of four compositions about everyday recurring situations. |
Comte, Richard / Julien Pontvianne: Sunken Music (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The long-standing duet of guitarist Richard Comte and tenor saxophonist Julen Pontvianne (Onze Hours Onze) is a conversation of introspective and resonant repetition around silence, tonal decay, slow call and response and submerged themes, here symbolically immersed as they explore four sunken islands from around the world: Vordonis; Lohachara; Semionovski and Elugelab. |
Comte, Richard / Sebastien Lespinasse: Traverser Noir (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Translating to "Cross Black", French guitarist Richard Comte provides a set of four diverse soundtracks, from deep turbulent darkness and sonic decay to crisply ringing guitar resonance, over which sound poet Sébastien Lespinasse intones with solemn import his dark words of imagery and observation. |
Comte, Richard: Derive de la base et du sommet (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Translating to "Base and vertex drift", French guitarist Richard Comte (Hippie Diktat, Vegan Dallas) present four darkly ominous solo works on electric guitar through slowly shifting chords and deep reverberation, punctuated with ringing tones and light moments that peer through sonic clouds, his ambience a backdrop to alternations of lucidity and submersion. |
Comte, Richard: Innermap (Coax -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Addressing the perception and representation of physical space through 9 solo guitar works of sonic textures and treatments imbued with rich solo playing, each track named by coordinates of remembered towns and cities, creating a succession of interconnected sonic landscapes of drones, resonance and clear tones as a metaphor for an internal, mental, cartography. |
Comte, Richard: Innermap [VINYL] (Coax -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Addressing the perception and representation of physical space through 9 solo guitar works of sonic textures and treatments imbued with rich solo playing, each track named by coordinates of remembered towns and cities, creating a succession of interconnected sonic landscapes of drones, resonance and clear tones as a metaphor for an internal, mental, cartography. |
Hippie Diktat: Black Peplum [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Using raw and primal rhythms, deep textures from amplified baritone saxophone and trance approaches to rock instrumental music balancing Steve Reich and Sunn O))), the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar has toured Europe since 2011, here in recordings at l'Ecluse, in Reims from 2013. |
Hippie Diktat: Fire On (Self Released -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Six raw instrumentals bridging free jazz and free rock forms, clearly influenced by both Brötzmann and Sunn O))) (as referenced in the track "SunnA)))") from the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on amplified baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar, recording at l'Ecluse, in Reims in 2013 for six ruggedly inspired tracks. |
Hippie Diktat: Gran Sasso (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Stripping down their performance matter to its most minimal expression, their work developed since 2011 as they've toured the European alternative scene, the Hippie Diktat trio of Richard Comte on electric baritone guitar, Julien Chamla on drums and Antoine Viard on amplified baritone saxophone work an energetic and heavy set of Steve Reich-ian grooves. |
Silva, Alan / Itaru Oki / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato: Celebration (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Recorded live in Paris in 2019 as a celebration of improvising keyboardist Alan Silva's 80th birthday, and released with a dedication to the memory of trumpeter Itaru Oki, the quartet completed with guitarist Richard Comte and drummer Makoto Sato, in a 3-part improvisation that is sadly the final recording for Oki, standing as a great example of his voice. |
Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Rhythmically rich instrumental music crossing experimental, rock and compositional forms with an ear towards primitive and instinctual pulses, the French quartet of drummer & bass harpist Julein Chamla, percussionist Benjamin Flament, Simon Henocq on live electronics and guitarist Richard Comte explore innate pulses imbued with modern and urgent overtones. |
Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot [VINYL] (nunc. -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Rhythmically rich instrumental music crossing experimental, rock and compositional forms with an ear towards primitive and instinctual pulses, the French quartet of drummer & bass harpist Julein Chamla, percussionist Benjamin Flament, Simon Henocq on live electronics and guitarist Richard Comte explore innate pulses imbued with modern and urgent overtones. |
Villard, Fabrice / Pierre-Stephane Meuge: Musique Logique (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock 25 pieces for solo saxophone in a tribute to and following the logical number games of minimalist composer Tom Johnson, composed by clarinetist and ensemble Dedalus member Farbrice Villard under the inspiration of Johnson's collection Rational Melodies, and performed by the extraordinary French clarinetist Pierre-Stephane Meuge (Counterpoise). |
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