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Gerard, Pierre: Pieces Of Apparatus (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.85 In Stock In the same character as a Wandelweiser/Jürg Frey work, guitarist Pierre Gérard offers up five minimalistic or reductionist improvisations, sparse works that follow the patterns of his mind and his improvisatory method, allowing his thoughts to linger and follow a music that is curiously compelling; an idiosyncratic companion to a quiet evening or afternoon. |
Gianfratti, Antonio Panda / Marco Scarassatti / Otomo Yoshihide / Paulo Hartmann: Psychogeography, an Improvisational Derive (Not Two -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Recorded at the 2017 Improfest (Festival Internacional de Improvisacao e Arte Sonora) in Sao Paulo, the quartet of Marco Scarassatti, Antonio Panda Gianfratti, Paulo Hartmann, & Otomo Yoshide bring viola de cocho, percussion, self-made instruments, turntable, guitar, and prepared chiquita to a superb concert of wide-ranging improvisations named by geographical location. |
Gisler, Fabin / John Schroder / Colin Vallon / Henrik Walsdorf: Backyard Poets (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock |
Gjerstad, Frode / Isach Skeidsvoll: Twenty Fingers (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A sparkling and energetic encounter between Norwegian saxophone legend Frode Gjerstad and fellow Norwegian and relative newcomer, pianist Isach Skeidsvoll of groups Bear Brother and Garrubo Band, the two spurring each other to intense levels of interaction, stepping back at times for introspective moments only to plunge forward in a wonderfully enthusiastic dialog. |
Gratkowski, Frank / Damon Smith / Jerome Bryerton: The Voice Imitator (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock German reeidst Frank Gratkowski in a trio with West Coast percussionist Jerome Bryerton and bassist Damon Smith, in an album of free music that blends the sensibilities of free improv with contemporary compositional music. |
Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Dan Warburton / Eric La Casa: Metro Pre saint-Gervais (Swarming -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A reissue of the 2002 Chloe label album, where Jean Luc Guionnet on alto saxophone, Dan Warburton on violin, and Eric La Casa on microphones use the ambiance of the Paris Pre Saint-Gervais metro station as the starting point for free improvisations, using their surrounding as inspiration while they record a most unusual album of urban sound and discourse. |
Jauniaux / Charles / Mariage : L'amour (Ayler Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Three consummate improvisers--Catherine Jauniaux on voice, Xavier Charles on clarinet and Jean-Sebastien Mariage on electric guitar--met at la Muse en Circuit in Alfortville, France after touring, recording this authoritative version of their profound and extended work, which uses lyrics excerpted from Marguerite Duras' 1971 cinematic novel L'amour. |
Jorgensmann / Del / Ramond / Kugel: At the Fields Edge (Not Two -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Taking its album title and the titles for three compositions from poems by Laura Winter, the German jazz quartet led by clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann with Christopher Dell on vibes, Christian Ramond on double bass and Klaus Kugel on drums present an advanced example of modern creative, chamber-oriented collective free jazz with a stunning level of communication. |
Jorgensmann, Theo: Fellowship (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock |
Jorgensmann, Theo / Koltermann, Eckard: Pagine Gialle (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock |
Jorgensmann, Theo / Oles Brothers: Alchemia (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Theo Jorgensmann's Trio recorded live at the Klub Alchemia in Cracow, Poland in 2006 playing a set of original compositions with 'ecstatic and elastic freedom.' |
Jun, Yan / Jean-Luc Guionnet / Matija Schellander / Seijiro Murayama: Blue Mistake, Red Mistake (Meenna -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock While contrabass player Matija Schellander was performing a residency at the 2017 music Festival Artacts in Austria, this quartet formed with Paris saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet, percussionist Seijiro Murayama and Beijing-based vocalist Yan Jun, developing this work of quiet tension and sudden release, here from one of four performances, recorded live at Ljubljana in Slovenia. |
Kahn, Jason : Voice and Sky [BOOK + CD] (Editions -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Sound experimenter and electroacoustic organizer Jason Kahn revisits previous works and expands on them with the book and CD release, with an essay on his approach towards public space interventions and text / sound installations, a track listing, photographs from the locations of his field recordings, and texts and prose poems to accompany the listener. |
Katarsis4 (Bizys / Janonis / Pancerovas / Jusinskas): Katarsis4 (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A diverse, unique and sometimes explosive saxophone quartet from Lithuania founded by Arminas Bizys, Kazimieras Jusinskas, Algirdas Janonis, and Danielius Pancerovas, using extended techniques, the saxophones themselves, and found objects as they articulately merge structurally free improvisation, academic approaches and motives from Lithuanian folk music. |
Katarsis4 (Bizys / Janonis / Pancerovas / Jusinskas): Live At The Underground Water Reservoir (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Using the natural resonance of the Liepkalnis underground water reservoir in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Katarsis4 saxophone quartet of Arminas Bizys, Algirdas Janonis, Danielius Pancerovas and Kazimieras Jusinskas merge free improvisation, both melodic and through extended tetechniques, with composed forms and folk music, capturing this extended work of beguiling and powerful music. |
Kennel, Hans / Mytha: How It All Started (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Improvised music using traditional Alpine horn music as its roots, as performed by a quartet of alphorns, büchels, and voice. |
Koglmann, Franz: O Moon My Pin-Up (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock |
La Casa, Eric / Jean-Luc Guionnet / Arnau Horta / Seijiro Murayama / Michaele-Andrea Schatt: Installations [CD + 24 page booklet] (Swarming -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A fascinating set of stereophonic electroacoustic compositions based on the recordings and mixes used for four sound installations in four galleries in France, impeccably captured and creatively edited: Eric La Casa & Jean-Luc Guionnet; Michaële-Andréa Schatt & Eric La Casa; Seijiro Murayama & Eric La Casa; and Arnau Horta & Eric La Casa. |
Lubelski, Samara : Partial Infinite Sequence (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Performing solo on violin with surrounding effects that emphasize the dramatic tension in her extended sequences, Samara Lubelski presents two substantial journeys into the infinite, swirling in delays and reverb as her bow transitions from rapid up and down to long drawing and sustaining, pulling a variety of sounds that elate her listeners in spirals and eddies. |
Lyytinen, Pauli / Maciej Garbowski / Krzysztof Gradziuk: Swords [2 CDs] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A warm and relaxed saxophone trio album led by Finnish tenor saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen (Raoul Bjorkenheim's eCsTaSy), Polish double bassist Maciej Garbowski and drummer Krzysztof Gradziuk (RGG), the three focused on deeply expressive interaction and lyrical finesse, while performing live at Institute of Music Performance, in Katowice, Poland, in 2019. |
Mahall, Rudi / Alexander von Schlippenbach: So Far (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and clarinetist Rudi Mahall have been exploring the music of jazz and free improvisation for decades in their own bands or together in Globe Unity Orchestra; here they are heard in their essential element as a duo, pushing their music in rapid runs and elegant and emotional moments with imposing technique and authoritative confidence. |
Maroney, Denman / Dominic Lash: All Strung Out (Kadima -- Israel ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Double bass and hyperpiano meet in a transatlantic collaboration between pianist Denman Maroney and bassist Dominc Lash, a combination of exhilarating technique and invention from two remarkable players. |
Mayas', Magda Filamental (w / Davies / Caddy / Theriot / Davies / Parkins / Thieke / Abdelnour): Confluence (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Composed by pianist Magda Mayas for an octet of superb avant improvisers including Rhodri Davies, Zeena Parkins, Michael Thieke, Angharad Davies, &c. and performed live at the 2019 Music Unlimited 33, in Wels, Austria, this extended work uses a graphic score to interpret 12 photographs taken over an hour observing the merging waters of the Rhone and the Arve rivers. |
MoE w/ Mette Rasmussen / Ikuro Takahashi: Painted (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock During their 2019 Japan Tour, the collaboration of the Norwegian experimental rock band MoE and alto sax virtuoso Mette Rasmussen extended their trio with legendary drummer Ikuru Takahashi to record this energetic, rough and tumble album exploring the boundaries between free improvisation, skronky rock, and other confrontational, conceptual crossover forms. |
Moore, Michael (w/ Wierbos / de Joode / Vatcher): Felix Quartet (Ramboy -- The Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Recorded at the historic Bimhuis during the Felix Meritis festival, this was the first meeting of the Felix Quartet featuring frequent collaborators Michael Moore on sax & clarinet and trombonist Wolter Wierbos, with Wilbert de Joode on bass and Michael Vatcher on drums & hammer dulcimer, performing Moore's superb compositions written for this event & for these players. |
Morris / Fernandez / Wooley: From The Discrete To The Particular (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An incredible trio of two New York improvisers - Joe Morris on guitar and trumpeter Nate Wooley - with European free improv legend pianist Augusti Fernandez, for 7 remarkable free improvisations of astounding skill. |
Munchen Neus (Schindler, Udo / Gunnar Geisse / Anton Kaun): superGau (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A single extended improvisation from the trio of Udo Schindler on reeds, brass & analogue synthesizer, Gunnar Geisse on laptopguitar & virtual instruments, and Anton Kaun on electronics, zeug & effects recorded live at Das Lihotzky/wagnis ART, in Munchen, Germany in 2017, a journey of odd intent, brilliant technique, eccentric attitude, and unorthodox dialog. |
Nagl, Max Ensemble: Quartier Du Faisan (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock |
Neumann, Calle / Ketil Gutvik / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love: New Dance (PNL -- Norway ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock After the 2019 retrospective box-set of the late 90s, legendary band The Quintet, and after the sad passing of bassist Bjornar Andresen, saxophonist Carl Magnus Neumann, guitarist Ketil Gutvik and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love decided to form a new quartet, adding bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, commencing their organization with this outstanding 2020 live concert in Oslo. |
Oxley, Tony: February Papers (Discus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Reissuing percussionist and electronic innovator Tony Oxley's 1977 Incus album, collecting works from Oxley's evolving approaches, including a quartet with bassist Barry Guy and violinists David Bourne & Philipp Wachsmann; a trio with Barry Guy and Ian Brighton on electric guitar; and solo pieces including a piece for Evan Parker emulating his sound through electronics. |
Pederneschi, Alberto: Microcosmo (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Using prepared drums drums, objects, voice, and Kalimba, Italian drummer Alberto Pederneschi presents eight solo works recorded in the studio, an unhurried but authoritative set of pieces that merge composed and improvised sections, drawing and evoking a narrative sense in coherent arrangements and intimate story telling. |
Philippakopoulos, Anastassis / Jurg Frey: Wind And Light (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Wandelweiser composer and pianist Anastassis Philippakopoulos presents four solo clarinet pieces performed by fellow Wandelweiser member, Swiss composer and clarinetist Jürg Frey, and three solo piano pieces performed by himself, in a beautiful album of delicately minimal and fragile music inspired by and reflecting the natural landscape of Greece. |
Postmarks (Boris Hauf / D Bayne / Martin Siewert): National Parks (Monotype -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The duo of saxophonist Boris Hauf and pianist D Bayne team up with guitarist Martin Siewert in this collection of tracks inspired by different U.S. national parks and their representation in iconic posters. |
Puntigam, Werner / Beat Keller / Georg Wilbertz: UND JA, AND YES (zOaR Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Freely improvised, noisy chamber music performed on guitar, trombone, conch shell, drums & percussion from the trio of Swiss guitarist Beat Keller, Austrian trombonist Werner Puntigam and German drummer Georg Wilbertz, bridging genres while keeping a sense of free jazz as an implied basis, with a sly sense of humor and wonder through marvelous technique and timing. |
Raulin, Francois Trio : Trois Plans Sur La Comete (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Pianist Francois Raulin's trio with soprano saxophonist Francois Corneloup and double bassist Bruno Cheviloon, also providing vocals recording in the studio in France, 2000. |
Riquelme, Matias / Fernando Ulzion: La Trahison Des Mots (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Using the natural resonance of the Apodaka church in Alava, Spain, the Bilbao-based experimental improvising duo of cellist Francia Matías Riquelme and saxophonist Fernando Ulzion on soprano and alto, present an introspective and informed set of works titled as iconic jazz compositions, an implication of the impressionist approach their expansive and thoughtful playing invokes. |
Sanna, Claudio : Ammentos (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Sardinian pianist Claudio Sanna, versed equally in the classical, jazz, and electroacoustic traditions, in his debut recording of 8 original compositions blending composition and improvisation, revealing an enthusiastic and curious approach to music. |
Schindler / Schimanski: Ging Lenz Den Zwanzigsten Durchs Gebirg Order Nicht (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Recorded at the 79th Salon fur Klang+Kunst, in Krailling, Munich, the pairing of multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler performing on alto saxophone, brass & synthesizer and Patrick Schimanski performing on percussion, live electronics & voice was inspired by the novella fragment Lenz written by Georg Büchner in 1836 based on Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. |
Schindler, Udo / Damon Smith / Karina Erhard: The Munich Sound Studies Vol 1 (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Performing at the Gottfried Duren/arToxin at Galerie ar Toxin in 2019, the trio of Udo Schindler on clarinet, bass clarinet & alto horn, Damon Smith on double bass, and Karina Erhard on C flute & alto flute present a sophisticated set of free improvisations with a chamber improv feeling, using tremendous technique and intent listening through six fascinating dialogs. |
Schindler, Udo / Jaap Blonk: Hillside Talks (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Performing in Krailling-Munich at Udo Schindler's Salon fur Klang+Kunst in 2018, Netherland free improvising, brilliantly mad vocalist Jaap Blonk joins the reed master for ten acoustic improvisations with Schindler on a variety of reeds and brass instruments, the dialog authoritatively informed, masterful, slightly deranged, and continuously captivating. |
Schubert / Schlippenbach / Blume: Forge (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock "Merge" aptly describes the nearly telepathic interplay between these three European Free Improv masters -- Alexander von Schlippenbach on piano, Frank Paul Schubert on alto & soprano saxophones, and Martin Blume on drums -- recorded live in 2019 at Ruhr Jazz Fest, in Bochum, Germany, for an expansive 47 minute improvisation and a brief "Forgin the Work" conclusion. |
Seen, The: For Sake Of Joy Of Study Of Oneself Together (Confront -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Inspired by a work by John Stevens from 1991, Mark Wastell developed this work merging narration and improvisation by transcribing the text from Steven's performance, preseanted here by an electroacoustic ensemble including Phil Durrant, Dominic Lash, Bertrand Denzler, Jennifer Allum &c, yielding an enveloping and fascinatingly mysterious piece presented in two versions. |
Sleeping in Vilna (Ladd / Robinson / Randall / Rothbrust): Why Waste Time (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock An all-improvised transnational collaboration recorded in the studio and live at Les Instants Chavires in France, between Mike Ladd (vocals/synthi), Carol Robinson (clarinets/voice), Dave Randall (guitar) and Dirk Rothbrust (drum/percussion). |
Souchal / Nick / Lazro / Cappozzo: Neigen (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.35 In Stock An album of explorative and restrained improvisation, primarily acoustic but also using object and an electro-acoustic octave violin, from the quartet of Nicolas Souchal on trumpet & flugelhorn, Michael Nick on violin & electro acoustic octave violin, Daunik Lazro on tenor & baritone saxophones, and Jean-Luc Cappozzo on trumpet, flugelhorn & objects. |
Tamura, Natsuki / Satoko Fujii / Ramon Lopez: Mantle (Not Two -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock While on a tour of Japan in 2019, Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez asked trumpeter Natsuki Tamura to join them, and to join in a challenge to write a new piece of music for the trio each day while on tour; this studio album selects the finest of those compositions, performed with nearly telepathic control in a mix of fire and lyrical beauty. |
Tonus (Serries / Verhoeven / Webster): Segment Tones (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Exploring long tones and harmonic interactions of consonance & dissonance through a slowly rotating and patiently evolving series of tones with each of the players in the Tonus trio doubling on wind instruments, as performed by Dirk Serries on soprano melodica & accordion, Martina Verhoeven on concertina & cello, and Colin Webster on clarinet & alto saxophone. |
Trilla, Vasco: Unmoved Mover (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A dramatic set of improvisations performed on timpani and gongs from Spanish percussionist Vasco Trilla, from the quietest of moments to massively profound and encompassing events, Trilla's timing evoking both meditative passages and moments of power, in a rich and spiritual album that impresses by both technical ability and by the sense of story he reveals. |
Ulher, Birgit / Damon Smith / Chris Cogburn: The Eternity-Cult (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A building and extended set of fully free improvisation using unusual techniques, from the trio of Birgit Ulher on trumpet, radio, speaker & objects, Damon Smith on double bass and Chris Cogburn on percussion & electronics, Ulher using the trumpet as a sound source as much as a conventional instrument, as the trio builds from near silence to intensely controlled interaction. |
Ulher, Birgit / Franz Hautzinger: Kleine Trompetenmusik (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Translating to "Little Trumpet Music", the duo of trumpeters Birgit Uhler and Franz Hautzinger, Uhler also performing on radio & objects, use extreme techniques and approaches to their improvisations, focusing on extraneous sounds from their instruments in enigmatic and captivating ways, expansively defining reductionism in masterfully idiosyncratic ways. |
Various Artists: Kraakgeluiden: Document 1 (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A series of improvised performances with the central idea of acoustic and electronic artists experimenting with the electronic medium in a live setting with musicians with whom they have never played with before. |
Various Artists: Magnetic Traces 2 (Swarming -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A survey of French and Australian Sound Art recorded in 2011 at Les Instants Chavires, Montreuil during Parisonic, with artists including Eric La Casa, Philip Samartzis, Marc Baron, Jean-Luc Guionnet, &c. &c. |
Von Wyl, Luzia Ensemble: Frost (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Swiss pianist/composer Luzia von Wyl and her Ensemble of jazz and classical performers presents von Wyl's compositions that borrow from modern and early jazz, chamber music and world sources, in works that draw on her experiences traveling and performing through the world. |
Westbrook / Rossini: Westbrook-Rossini (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Mike & Kate Westbrooks 1986 album of Gioacchino Rossini interpretations, with Lindsay Cooper on sopranino sax, huge works that impart improv and humor into magnificent compositions. |
Wilkinson, Alan / Dirk Serries: One In The Eye [2 CDs] (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock With an obvious pleasure at their pairing, both in the studio in Belgum in 2019 and at a live concert at A New Wave Of Jazz festival at the Hundred Years Gallery in London, 2020, acoustic guitartist Dirk Serries and multi-reedist Alan Wilkinson explore a range of styles and techniques through diverse melodic and abstract expression in pursuit of new forms of expression. |
Wintsch, Michel : Roof Fool (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Innovative and idiosyncratic Swiss pianist Michel Wintsch in a set of original compositions that combine ambient sound and intentionality, displaying great technical skills and a unique mind that embraces melody and the unexpected aspects of improvisation. |
Wolfarth, Christian / Jason Kahn: Percussion / Voice (Confront -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock An absorbing album of percussion and voice from the working duo of Christian Wolfarth on drums and percussion, and Jason Kahn on voice, for two extended improvisations of cathartic vocal expression and assertive rhythmic and reflective percussive accompaniment, balancing eccentric and mesmerizing sound in gripping and compelling ways. |
Blue Lines Trio (Scheen / van der Weide / Hadow): Chance and Change (Casco Records -- Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The free swinging Dutch piano trio of Michiel Scheen on piano, Raoul van der Weide on contrabass, cracklebox & objects and George Hadow on drums, in a set of buoyant and ebullient improvisations, a mix of composed and collective works that bring together tradition and freedom, melody and abstraction, while clearly enjoying their playful approach to creative jazz. |
Colonna, Marco / Alexander Hawkins: Dolphy Underlined (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A set of Eric Dolphy compositions and one Colonna composition in the style of Dolphy and a Dolphy-esque take on Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child", from pianist Alexander Hawkins and Marco Colonna on clarinet, bass clarinet & sopranino saxophones, recorded live in Rome in 2020 for a spirited and tender hommage to one of the great and most singular figures in jazz history. |
River People (Bucher / Countryman / Alegre / Hori): Sol Expression (ChapChap Records -- Philippines ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Evoking images of Indigenous Filipinos through free improvisation, with titles referencing the rivers, rains and environment that define them, the multi-national River People quartet of Christian Bucher on drums, Johnny Alegre on guitar, Tetsuro Hori on bass and Rick Countryman on alto saxophone are captured in the studio in Manila for seven superb collective conversations. |
Schlippenbach, Alexander von : Globe Unity (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Wild, nearly unprecedented and an exhilarating direction in European Free Improvisation heard in the 1st recordings from 1966 of pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity band, a 14-piece ensemble that included young saxophonists Peter Brötzmann, Gerd Dudek & Kris Wanders, bassist Peter Kowald, bass clarinetist Willem Breuker, trumpeter Manfred Schoof, &c. |
Schlippenbach, Alexander von : Globe Unity [VINYL] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock Wild, nearly unprecedented and an exhilarating direction in European Free Improvisation heard in the 1st recordings from 1966 of pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity band, a 14-piece ensemble that included young saxophonists Peter Brötzmann, Gerd Dudek & Kris Wanders, bassist Peter Kowald, bass clarinetist Willem Breuker, trumpeter Manfred Schoof, &c. |
Lipscomb, Jon: Conscious Without Function (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Swedish guitar improviser Jon Lipscomb (LOPLOP, Swedish Fix) takes his listeners on a rugged trip across the strings, using distortion, tremolo and rapid-fire technique as he mines territories between free improv, noise and rock, his nimble mind stopping to explore areas of interest then cascading into new, turbulent environments; frightfully powerful. |
Lih Kadim (Jaka Berger / Marko Jenic / Jure Borsic / Andre Bost Ruda / Jost Drasler / Vid Drasler): Sunday Sextet (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock With shared background in Slovik groups and ensembles including work with Szilárd Mezei and the Olfamoštvo ensemble, the Lih Kadim sextet of electroacoustic improvisers is heard in an exceptional 2021 concert of innovative and exploratory interaction, each recording taken from a successive night performing at the Cultural Centre, Bistrica Ob Sotli in Slovenia. |
MMM Trio (Mascolo / Mira / Maglioccho): Bridge In The Dark (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The MMM Trio of Carlo Mascolo on prepared trombone, Miguel Mira on cello and Marcello Magliocchi on drums & percussion recorded this album during a concert series in Puglia, Italy, placing each musician in a separate room with headphones, promoting the close listening and concentrated interaction each brings to their unusual approach to free improvisation. |
MUC Chamber Art Trio (Udo Schindler / Sebastian Grams / Gunnar Geisse): Resilient Perspectives (...A Real Fact) (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A fascinating chamber jazz trio performing in a 2021 live concert in the Galerie at arToxin, in Munich, Germany from the collective free improvising trio of Udo Schindler on alto & sopranino saxophones & bass clarinet, Sebastian Gramss on double bass and Gunnar Geisse on laptop guitar, subtitled RESILIENT PERSPECTIVES... a real fact? [LowToneStudies#9+] |
Schindler, Udo / Eric Zang Eriksson: Blow & Swirl (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Udo Schindler follows his duo album with drummer Eric Zwang-Eriksson @ Salon fur Klang+Kuns, Poetry?? Ein Wurfelwurf with this recording at BASIS_Sound_Space at MUCCA - Munich Center of Community Arts in Munich, Schindler on sopranino & tenor saxophones and the deep TUBAX, interacting with Eriksson's rapid-fire and uniquely voiced drum & percussion work. |
Wachsmann, Philipp / Matthew Hutchinson: Startle The Echoes (Bead -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Beginning their collaboration during the 1970s in the Chamberpot Ensemble, the duo of violinist Philipp Wachsmann and keyboard and electronic improviser Matthew Hutchinson are heard in live recording from three London Concerts in 2002 & 2003, Wachsmann's violin extended via live signal processing and transformations, extending their dialogs in expansive ways. |
Wachsmann, Philipp / Michael Bunce: Refractions In Air (Bead -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Philipp Wachsmann's acoustic violin is routed through his own electronics and then fed into the Live Electronic Sampling & Transformations (LiSa) systems of Michael Bunche, processed and re-performed using time-based transformations shaped by gestural input or as static samples, creating new and unexpected trajectories, sounds snd forms for Wachsmann's playing. |
Niggli, Lucas / Matthias Loibner: Still Storm (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock A series of sixteen succinctly expansive, dramatic and moody collective improvisations, evocative music of rich melodic and rhythmic foundation that coax inspired tempests from misty lands and seas, at the intersection of Austrian Hurdy Gurdy master Matthias Loibner and Zurich-based West Kamerun drummer Lucas Niggli; absolutely impressive and beguiling. |
Ydivide, Clemens Kuratle: Lumumba (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Ydivide is Swiss drummer Clemens Kuratle's multi-national quintet with Dee Byrne on alto saxophone, Elliot Galvin on piano & electronics, Chris Guilfoyle on guitar and Lukas Traxel on bass, a dynamic young band performing Kuratle's structured compositions allowing for energetic and enthusiastic soloing amidst collective group work and lyrically introspective moments. |
Action & Tension & Space: Tellus (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock With one foot in fusion-oriented improv and the other in psychedelic/prog rock, the 4th album from the Norwegian quartet of Per Steinar Lie on lapsteel & electric guitar, Oystein Braut on guitar, organ & Mellotron, Julius Lind on double bass and Orjan Haaland on drums are joined by keyboard wiz Sigbjorn Apeland and percussionist Stale Liavik Solberg. |
Tinoco, Bernardo / Tom Maciel: Nomad Nenufar (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Seeking to create an original repertoire for collective composition in a small group format, Portuguese wind improviser Bernardo Tinoco on alto & tenor saxophones, duduk & flute, and pianist Tom Maciel, also on synths and drum machine, sought to influence their playing with electronics and audio processing, on three tracks joined by drummer João Pereira. |
Sommer, Gunter Baby / Raymond MacDonald: Sounds, Songs & Other Noises (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Following their 2007 Clean Feed release Delphinius and Lyra the duo of Gunter Baby Sommer and Raymond MacDonald reach deeper into their collective creative conversation for sixteen succinct improvisations--confident, boisterous or introspective--including a 5-part series of "Miniatures", performed on alto & soprano saxophones, drums and an eclectic set of percussive devices. |
Risser, Eve / Red Desert Orchestra: Eurythmia (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The rhythmically rich Red Desert Orchestra assembled by pianist and composer Eve Risser is an ensemble made up of nine European musicians joined by African musicians and configured in several distinct ensembles, here as Eurythmia, collaborating with three Burkinabe musicians living in France for irresistible music at the intersection of jazz, West African and dance music. |
Pospieszalski, Marek Quartet (Pospieszalski / Stemeseder / Mucha / Andrzejewski): Durer's Mother (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Following saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski Octet album on Clean Feed interpreting Polish composers of the 20th Century, he continues his work in a quartet setting with original compositions inspired by 19th & 20th Century composers, including Schubert, Britten & Lachenmann, performed with Elias Stemeseder on piano, Max Mucha on double bass and Max Andrzejewski on drums. |
Oswald, Margaux: Dysphotic Zone (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Assertively dynamic solo piano improvisations captured live at the 2021 Monopiano Festival in Fylkingen, Stockholm from French-Filipina pianist Margaux Oswald, generating huge block chords over which she runs intricate and complex lines of clear and cohesive expression, pausing for delicate moments of space and introspection; wonderfully exuberant and well balanced. |
Ahanes (Kokkoli / Arapis / Aleklint / Zethson / Zetterberg / Agnas): Petrichor (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Stockholm pianist Alexander Zethson invited Greek saxophonist Nicky Kokkoli and guitarist Giannis Arapis to take part in his 13-piece Thanatosis festival ensemble VÖ; they then asked drummer Nils Agnas, bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg and trombonist Mats Äleklint to join them for this sublimely flowing sextet studio session, which includes works by Mingus and Coltrane. |
TOC (Orins / Cruz / Ternoy): Did It Again [4 CDs] (Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $22.45 In Stock TOC, the trio of Ternoy, Cruz & Orins respectively on keyboards, drums and electric guitar, celebrate fifteen years of free improvisation with this expansive 4-CD set of recordings from the 2021 Spontaneous Music Festival in Poland; Lumen in Budapest in 2021; the 2021 Festival la malterie in Lille, France; and reissuing their 2008 CD on the Circum-Disc label, Le Gorille. |
Charuest, Yves / Michel Ratte / Peter Kowald: Montreal, 1985 [VINYL] (Tour de Bras / Ramble -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock During a 1985 stay in Montreal, iconic German double bassist Peter Kowald asked alto saxophonist Yves Charuest to perform a series of duos with him, after which Charuest invited Michel Ratté to perform as a trio live at Le Bruit Court, recording in their studio these solid free jazz recordings that remained in storage for 37 years prior to this release! |
Attic, The (Amado / Almeida / Govaert): Love Ghosts (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The third release from the Portuguese trio of Rodrigo Amado on tenor saxophone, Gonçalo Almeida on double bass and Onno Govaert on drums in a studio album of assertively exploratory improvisation that builds from stark clarity to impressive hard blowing soloing and group interaction, an outstanding album of modern free jazz. |
Costa, Hugo / Raoul van der Weide / Onno Govaert : Land Over Water (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A collective trio in the free jazz idiom from Hugo Costa on alto saxophone, Raoul van der Weide on double bass & percussion objects and Onno Govaert on drums, recording in the studio in Rotterdam for two extended and two succinct improvisations, building their conversations from solo playing that gradually yields to group dialog of evolving intensity. |
Devenir-Ensemble : Resonances Manifestes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A comprovised music piece based on a sound score composed of field recordings from autonomous demonstrations that shook the streets of Montreal in recent years, the 10-piece Montreal ensemble of performers and sound artist interacting with the ambient recordings as they aim to understand how sound and music contribute to the formation of affective communities. |
Kaluza / Steyer / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Mengersen: Echoes In A Further Range (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock This string and reed quintet presents a fluid approach to chamber-oriented improv with dexterous melodic and harmonic motion, utilizing contemporary and jazz idioms as they create something masterfully unique; from Anna Kaluza on alto sax, Edith Steyer on alto sax & clarinet, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Ulf Mengersen on double bass. |
Lisbon String Trio & Bruno Parrinha: Dada (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Lisbon String Trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Mira on cello and Alvaro Rosso on double bass continue their series adding a fourth player to their unique form of string improvisation, here with reeidst Bruno Parrinha on alto clarinetist for an extended expedition into highly articulate playing as they explore the dada rejection of logic, reason, and aestheticism. |
Masing / Schwantke / Lin feat. Kakaduu: Music With Birds [2 CDs] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock An experiment in inter-species communication between the avian artist Kakaduu and the three instrumentalists Hui-Chun Lin (cello), Elo Masing (violin), Christoph Schwantke (8-string guitar), recorded during a private performance of two duets, which were developed from the practice of the three instrumentalists performing for Kakaduu over a period of two years. |
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