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Payne, David: Nirvana Unplugged (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock David Payne (Fossils, Slut Mouth, Middle James Co.) solo offers a wasted take on the acoustic guitar, which is mangled, scraped, rubbed, fingered, bent, and subjected to a variety of preparations. |
Pisaro, Michael : Melody, Silence (For Solo Guitar) (Potlatch -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A collection of materials for solo guitarist, written by Michael Pisaro-Liu and here performed by Christian Alvear, presenting the performer with up to 12 fragments which can be played in any order and which allow for various transformations, cuts, extensions and silences. |
Riggs, Christopher: I Feel So Strong, I Feel I Could Punch a Hole in a Fucking Wall (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Chris Riggs (Traum/Trauma, Holy Cheever Church, &c.) featuring assemblages of highly abstracted guitar improvisations and silence. |
Skyline: Noiseotica (Harsh House -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.00 In Stock |
Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar - Solo Guitars for the XXI Century (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An encompassing modern guitar compilation curated by Elliott Sharp with pieces from Henry Kaiser, Nels Cline, Scott Fields, Mary Halvorson, Janet Feder, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mick Barr &c. &c.! |
Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar Three (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The 3rd issue from Elliott Sharp's compiled series of guitar work in the 21st century, demonstrating new sounds, processes, techniques, melodies, riffs and gestures from a who's-who of modern improvising guitarists, a must-have release for all guitar fans and players. |
Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani: Cardinal (Impressus Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The quartet of Cosottini, Melano, Pisani, Miano (EAQuartet Electroacoustic) in compositions referring to the 4 cardinal map points using graphic scores, games, open readings, &c. |
Deluxx: The Tidy Boy (Spirit of Orr -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock One part Sonic Youth, one part early Residents, Deluxx is the anomalous output of NY/Boston transplant Mark Peretta, a one-man band of crazy riffs and warped song-spieling. |
Deluxx: The Tidy Boy [VINYL] (Spirit of Orr -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock One part Sonic Youth, one part early Residents, Deluxx is the anomalous output of NY/Boston transplant Mark Peretta, a one-man band of crazy riffs and warped song-spieling. |
McLean, Colin & Andy Moor: Everything But the Beginning (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The 1st release from Andy Moor & Colin McLean since they disbanded Dog Faced Hermans 13 years ago, 3 years of live improvisations from Amsterdam's OT 301's Music Dance 301 sessions. |
Moor, Andy : Marker (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The Ex's guitarist Andy Moor plays solo on 16 tracks of overdubbed and multi-tracked guitar that was recorded between 2003 and 2006. |
Pisaro / Chabala: Black, White, Red, Green, Blue (Voyelles) [2 CDs COLOR EDITION] (Winds Measure Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $35.95 In Stock Limited color edition of guitarist Barry Chabala's interpretation of composer Pisaro's piece, instructing the performer on structure and pitch but allowing the precise timing and sound to the player; plus a reworking of Chabala's recording taking advantage of cassette hiss and sine tones. |
Pisaro / Chabala: Black, White, Red, Green, Blue (Voyelles) [2 CDs] (Winds Measure Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Guitarist Barry Chabala's interpretation of composer Pisaro's piece, instructing the performer on structure and pitch but allowing the precise timing and sound to the player; plus a reworking of Chabala's recording taking advantage of cassette hiss and sine tones. |
Vlor: A Fire Is Meant for Burning (Silber Media -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.85 In Stock Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff. |
Ward, Jason: Euphoric Nightmares (Ten Speed Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $6.71 In Stock Guitarist Jason Ward takes the listener on a journey in sound through dark looping structures and hypnotic approach. |
Frith, Fred / Darren Johnston: Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Bay Area trumpeter Darren Johnston meets improvising guitar legend Fred Frith for an incredibly well-paced series of duos, remarkable improv that uses space, skill, extended techniques and unexpected approaches to both instruments in vivid and beautiful discourse. |
Berthiaume, Antoine: Small Tease (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Guitarist Berthiaume steps away from composition and jazz to record an album of intricate instrumental guitar songs with folk influences, playing solo and in small ensembles. |
Frith, Fred Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Fred Frith's leads a quartet of electric guitars (Rene Lussier, Nick Didkovsky, Mark Stewart) through 10 different journeys that explores the dynamic potential of this unique group composition. |
Keller, Beat / Reza Khota Play Christian Wolff : 11 Microexercises (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Christian Wolff initiated his "Microexercises" series when the Miniaturist Ensemble asked for a piece with no more than 100 notes in it; he went on to create 21 more pieces, 13 of which are performed here by the South African duo of Beat Keller & Reza Khota on electric guitar. |
Youngs, Richard : plays Parallel Winter (Bolt -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock UK guitarist and vocalist Richard Youngs, also on zither, suggested performing his large song work "Parallel Winter" on the first day of his Warszawa tour of Poland, a piece that changes in length based on location and environment, here in an extended and contemplative version. |
Baker, Duck : Outside (1977-83) (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker was influenced by Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, recording these solo original improvisations plus 2 Ornette Coleman pieces from '77-'83 in London, Torino & Calgary, plus 2 duos with guitar madman Eugene Chadbourne. |
Dog Hallucination / Ichtyor Tides : Vergier Begets [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $7.15 In Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A is Dog Hallucination (D. Petri) for manipulated guitars, textural element, and organized sound; Side B is Ichtyor Tides (Nikola Akileus) for synthetic ambience, glitches, hazy drones, & field recordings. |
Candlesnuffer: Wakool (Room40 -- Australia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures from David Brown playing banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin. |
Moon, The : Good And Evil (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock The studio debut of drummer Federico Ughi and electric guitarist Adam Caine's project The Moon, a touring band crossing jazz based free improvisation with rock elements in free-flowing and driving music highlight the technical and melodic skills of both players. |
Farmer / Munthe: Angle Of Repose (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Texture heavy sonic free improvisation from the duo of Swedish free improviser Christian Munthe on acoustic guitar and Patrick Farmer on "acoustic turntable", each masking the sounds of their instruments in uncommon ways, pacing their interactions with subtlety and intention. |
Oliver, Cody: Rodent Landscapes (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Recording on Calgary, CA guitarist Cody Oliver's old resonator guitar, this set of untitled solo recordings finds Oliver playing every inch of the guitar, using the body, pickups, strings and natural resonance as equal partners in exploring unusual territory. |
Yes Deer: Get Your Glitter Jacket [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The Norwegian & Danish freejazz-noise-rock trio Yes Deer of Anders Vestergaard on drums, Karl Bjora on guitar and Signe Dahlgreen on sax, in their second album of high energy, cacophonous and brutally joyful (they say "enthusiastic despair") collective improvisation. |
Stackenas, David: Bricks (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An amazing solo CD of free improvisation from guitarit David Stackenaus, showing incredible technique and melodic intent, equally at ease when exploring tonality and melody or abstract noisy textures; compelling and impressive playing! |
Guney, Cem: A Hint Of An Emotion (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock The duo of Beat Keller and Philipp Bowee on electric guitars perform 6 subtle compositions from Turkish-born sound artists and composer Cem Guney's, including 'a bas relief of a talisman' dedicated to Charles Ives and 'soft kill incubator' dedicated to Sylvia Alexandra Schimag. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
Lopes, Luis / Fred Lonberg-Holm: The Pinneaple Circumstance (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Portuguese electric guitarist Luis Lopes met Chicago free improvising cellist and electronic artist Fred Lonberg-Holm in the studio in Lisbon to record these five improvisations, both using innovative approaches to effect processing to expand their sound into unusual sonic environments, balancing beauty and abrasive sound. |
Brady, Tim: Unison Rituals (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Five original chamber works for saxophone and ensemble by composer and saxophonist Tim Brady for his second release on Ambiances Magnetiques. |
Bunda Love: mit Saft [DVD] (Funhole Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Live concert DVD from Bunda Love (id & Mike) with Jamie Saft, filmed at Strange Maine in Portland, Maine; sheer communications in wierdness of doom metal meeting schizoid noise. |
Teller, Jorgen: Delete Nature (Ninth World -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Solos for triggered guitar from midi and effects guitarist Jorgen Teller, 15 complex and conceptual works that balance clean and noisy guitar work in perplexing ways. |
Forge, Mathias / Olivier Toulemonde: pie 'n' mash (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Virtuosic French-based trombonist Mathias Forge and Brussels-based electroacoustic composer-turned improviser Olivier Toulemonde recording live in Sheffield, 2010. |
Martins, Luis Jose: Tentos - Invencoes E Encantamentos (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Luis Jose Martins uses classical guitar, prepared guitar, electronics, and percussion in a solo album of incredible detail and lyrical, beautiful playing of original compositions that blend his playing with modern techniques and electronics into melodic masterpieces, performed in the natural resonance of the church of the convent of S. Bento in Avis. |
Rua, Vitor and The Metaphysical Angels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars? [2CDs] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A central figure in the Portuguese creative music scene, from the pop group GNR to free improv in Telectu to contemporary composition, guitarist Vitor Rua presents a 2-CD album, one multi-tracking solo in complex and astonishing ways, and the 2nd playing the same scores with his group The Metaphysical Angels of top figures in the Portuguese avant jazz scene. |
Asencio, Jon / Sylvie Chenard: Ocean a vendre / for sale (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Guitarist and singer Sylvie Chenard in duet with musician/performance artist Jon Asencio, joyfully exploring the energies of resistance and anarchy, in shades of science-fiction and totalitarian reality. |
Chambel, Pedro: Bruit (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock |
Chaton, Anne-James / Andy Moor: Transfer (Unsounds -- Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A collection of guitar, electronic and voice pieces from Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor, originally released as a series of four seven inch singles here combined into a single CD with 3 bonus tracks. |
Silverman, Ken: Visionaries (SoundSeer -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Performing on solo electric & acoustic guitars, oud, charango and synthesizer, NYC guitarist Ken Silverman dedicates this album to musicians such as T-Bone Walker, Hamza El Din, Jimmy Page, Robert Fripp, &c. |
Vulture Club, The: Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse (Utech Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock |
Donarier, Matthieu / Santiago Quintans: Sun Dome (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Using a diverse set of strategies in free improvisation, from abstract textures, sonic and microtonal exploration to solid counterpoint, French saxophonist Matthieu Donarier and Spanish electric guitarist residing in France Santiago Quintans delight in the variety and dynamic approach to their album, in 14 tracks that surprise and captivate their listeners. |
Moimeme, Abdul : Exosphere (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock "Exosphere is the follow up to Mekhaanu-La Foret des Mecanismes Sauvages(Insubordinations Netlabel, 2013) and like that album, Exosphere features Moimeme on his two home-made electric guitars, enhancers and assorted sound devices. The s... |
Chadbourne, Eugene : The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session [2017 REISSUE] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Reissuing free improvising guitarist Eugene Chadbourne's 1977, San Francisco recording of compositions by the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman, plus a few standards and originals, captured on an ailing quarter-track tape deck, but saved for the force of his playing, here restored, corrected, and remastered. |
Nuts (Duboc / Siddik / Oki / Lasserre / Sato): Symphony for Old and New Dimensions (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Bassist Duboc's two part symphony with dual drummers and dual trumpeters is a journey that aims at the creative free improvisation of groups like the Art Ensemble, AACM, BAG, &c. |
Loxbo, Finn / Erik Blennow Calalv : Snow Country (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A duo between Swedish guitarist Finn Loxbo (Fire! Orchestra) and bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calalv, in a low-key, moody and tranquil album of improvisations with titles implying their unhurried approach to their dialog--"Clouds", "Moving, Dancing", and "Ryoanji"-- making a beautiful album of nearly ambient but decidedly determined music. |
Kaiser, Henry / Ed Pettersen: We Call All Times Soon (Split Rock Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock A series of acoustic guitar duos between Henry Kaiser playing on an 18-string harp guitar, and Ed Pettersen, playing an 8-string Weissenborn guitar, freely improvised and with a psychedelic/cosmic impulse as the two draw on elements of Americana and roots-based folk music in four extended recordings, the camaraderie and mutual intent evident in this fascinating album. |
Baker / Glover: Love, Approximately (Bad Architect Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Bridging folk traditions with modern aesthetics, the duo of Evan Baker on guitar and Austin Glover on violin, both contributing songs, sing about everyday events, music, and life, the songs having a bluesy and even early Kinks feel at times, made unique through a cappella moments and languid instrumental sections. |
Stoffner, Florian / Albert Cirera: I'm A Resonant Aircraft (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Swiss electric guitarist Florian Stoffner (Manuel Mengis Grupp) and Spanish/Portuguese saxophonist Albert Cirera (Agusti Fernandez Liquid Trio) present the 8 part "IRMA" in concise free improvisations, restrained but alert and quick-witted dialogs that explore their instruments with alternate approaches to each in articulate ways. |
Caloia, Nicolas : Les Bonnes Histoires (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Bridging contemporary and improvised music, Montreal double bassist Nicolas Caloia wrote these pieces for textured and impossible rhythms; blending pieces by Nancarrow and Grand Master Flash; and manipulating poems by Genevieve Letarte; with supporting improv from Jean Derome & Lori Freedman. |
Nozen (Nisenson / Tanguay / Falaise / Mailloux): Live au Upstairs (Malasartes -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Nozen is a crossroads of contemporary jazz, musique actuelle and the musical traditions of Jewish Eastern Europe, contrasting styles giving birth to a deep and spontaneous music. |
XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbot): Pah' (Pleasure of the Text Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock The duo of Paul Abbot on drum kits, percussion & computer, and Seymour Wright on alto saxophone and feedback, in a massive edge-of-your seat live recording from London's Cafe Oto in 2015, a mix of brutal and beautiful playing with unexpected and surprising twists. |
Hawkins, Chester: Magnetisk Nord (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock Chester Hawkins' curiosity for Denmark resulted in his renting an apartment in central Kobenhavn, bringing along his electronically modified lapsteel guitar, wind and reed instruments, tabletop noise-boxes, mobile synthesizer apps and a shortwave radio, which he joined with field recordings from the capital region, creating this magnificent loveletter to Denmark. |
Lubelski, Samara / Bill Nace: S/T (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Issuing on CD the duo album of violinist Samara Lubelski and guitarist Bill Nace, originally released on Nace's Open Mouth label early in 2018, presenting a series of psychedelic textural works, Lubelski creating vibrant and reiterating structures that Nace uses as a foundation for swells and expressive emanations; hypnotic and mesmerizing. |
Chesterfield (Burkhard Stangl / Angelica Castello): Consuelo (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Expanding on Burkhard Stangl colo concert at the 2014 Reheat festival at Kleylehof based on Consuelo Velazquez's song "Besame Mucho", the duo of Stang and Angelica Castello recomposed it, mixing new pieces with old plus home recordings, accidental recordings, live performances, &c, creating a Chesterfield diary of songs, of noise, of longing and of dreaming. |
Lindvall, Johan: Giraffe (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Fourteen pieces for solo guitar from Norwegian composer Johan Lindvall, sparse yet warmly spaced pieces that focus on the individual notes or simple chords in intimate ways, meditative yet warmly evocative; two sections are presented in multiple movements, with "five songs for voice and guitar", Rasten singing words written by Marianne Moore; lovely and refined. |
Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere, Louis / Eric Normand / Louis-Vincent Hamel: Brulez les Meubles (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Seeking to extend the guitar trio into new and unique territory, the Quebec trio of Eric Normand on electric bass, Louis Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere on electric guitar, and Louis-Vincent Hamel on drums, reference performers like Jim Hall, Sonny Sharrock, John Abercrombie, & Bill Frisell while focusing on harmolodic force and unusual melodic lines. |
Kwang, Goh Lee / Christian Meaas Svendsen: Gibberish, Balderdash and Drivel (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Three "nonsensical" musical conversations between Malaysian experimental musician and Herbal International label founder Goh Lee Kwang, and Norwegian bass player and Nakama label leader Christian Meeas Svendsen; a first encounter between two different mindsets, nationalities and generations, packaged with a pencil to let you draw your own cover. |
Volden, Havard / Carlo Costa: In the Wake (Neither/Nor Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Italian-born New York-based percussionist Carlo Costa meets Norwegian guitarist Havard Volden (Moon Relay, Muddersten) for an album of water-themed free improvisations, beautifully developing with thoughtful playing using rich chord patterns and unusual sonic inventiveness in percussive objects to create a set of rich and languorous surges and pools of sound. |
Kaiser, Henry / John Oswald: Improvised (Vancouver) (Incus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Three concerts at Vancouver's Western Front, two from 1978 and one from 1996, from the duo of West Coast free improvising guitarist Henry Kaiser and Vancouver saxophonist John Oswald, early yet mature examples of the profoundly great music each artist has gone on to create using astounding and extreme techniques. |
Rose, Simon / Nicola L. Hein: Shug Monkey (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A "shug monkey" is a cryptid, a creature that may or may not exist, supposed to have features of a dog and a monkey, an odd but apt reference for the unusual improvisations by Berlin-based saxophonist Simon Rose and guitarist Nicola L. Hein, one of 8 tracks named for unusual creatures and mythological beings, each described in sound through extended techniques and powerful playing. |
Morris, Joe / DoYeon Kim: Macrocosm (Glacial Erratic -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Performing on the Korean gayageum (also known as kayagum), Do Yeon Kim joins Joe Morris performing on guitar for five incredible string improvisations using a diversity of approaches from both players, including pointillistic improv, rich rivers of chords, languid moments of beauty, and moments where it's difficult to discern who is playing what. |
Brotzmann, Peter / Heather Leigh: Sparrow Nights (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Reedist Peter Brotzmann and guitarist Heather Lee has been one of Brotzmann's most current active collaborations, performing together for several years, here recorded beautifully in the studio for a 6-track LP and 10-track CD of sympathetic, emotional and articulate dialog from two musicians with an innate sense of timing and give and take borne from mutual experience. |
Insect-ions (Pascal Landry / Mick Barr): out.over.forever (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Acoustic guitar intermeshes with electric guitar as Canadian guitarist Pascal Landry and New York guitarist Mick Barr, both of whom play in heavy rock and free improvisation settings, meet in Queens, NY to record this intense album of free playing using a diverse set of approaches, intertwining their strings in an insectile swarm of notes and timbres. |
Fages, Ferran : Un lloc entre dos records (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Submerging the listener into the immediacy of pure perception through the economy of materials and atemporality, Catalan guitarist Ferran Fages presents the 3rd piece of his trilogy for guitar and sinteones, referencing Feldman, Lucier and Szlavnics as he specifies tunings for the guitar accompanied by pure resonating sinetones used as memory vehicles or shadows. |
Fages, Ferran : Detuning Series For Guitar (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock The 2nd part of a trilogy for guitar and sinetones composed between 2015-18, alongside "What Might Occur (Rereadings of Triadic Memories by Morton Feldman for guitar and sinewaves)" (2015-17) and "Un Lloc Entre Dos Records" (2017); this work, originally written in 2016, and revised in 2018, is heard in a recording at GMEA, France, with guitarist Benjamin Maumus. |
Dias, Jose : After Silence, Vol.1 (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Portuguese guitarist Jose Dias steps away from his quartet and trio, and from the many scores for theatre, contemporary dance and animation film that he's composed, to focus on his solo electric guitar work, in this album that applies subtle affects and a warm, ethereal ambiance to expressive and passionate pieces, each conveying a sense of narrative and purpose. |
Hobson's Choice: Of The Waves (Barnyard -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Canada's songwriting Hobson's Choice has developed into a tightly knit ensemble embracing elements of jazz, chamber, and singer-songwriter traditions, with sound-worlds ranging from midnight deep-woods marimba ballads to sunny cicada-sung anthems. |
Williams, Darren: Reed (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Calgary's saxophonist Darren Williams, who has worked with Mats Gustafsson, Cody Oliver, Eugene Chadbourne, and Han Bennink, in a solo album of remarkable power using extended techniques in composed and improvised pieces that push Williams into astounding territory. |
Sanson, Gil / Lance Austin Olsen: Works on Paper [2 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock Two meticulous works in two parts each using layered collage of acoustic instruments, objects, electronics, field recordings, voices, fragments of past compositions and early classical music samples, with A.F. Jones providing voice narration, from Venezuelan composer/artist Gil Sanson and Canadian-based composer/painter Lance Austin Olsen: "Pra Min" and "Meditations". |
Rowland's Evil Jazz Trio (Galewicz / Sandstad Dalen / Nordberg Funderud): Death Machine (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The Norwegian guitar trio led by Roland Galewicz on drums, Henrik Sandstad Dalen on double bass, and Havard Nordberg Funderud on guitar, free improvisers with a dark intent captured live at Kafe Haerverk, in Oslo in 2018 as they perform Galewicz's rhythm-heavy three part "Death Machine Suite", Funderud's spacious "Nice Things" and Dalen's searing "Holmenkollekspressen". |
Hein, Nicola L. : The Oxymothastic Objectar (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Using an electric guitar, preparations, and objects as a tool of reflection, Nicola L. Hein presents an album of philosophical bent, about the question of skepticism in music, or a skeptical form of improvisation, through tumultuous playing of impressive technique caught live at Spectrum in NYC, as each track title presents observations or questions that Hein seeks to resolve. |
Duerinckx, Jean-Jacques / Anatole Damien : Dry / Wet (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A duo of Brussels audio explorers, Jean-Jacques Duerinckx on sopranino saxophone and Anatole Damien on tabletop guitar and electronics, contrasting acoustic "dry" and highly effected "wet" sounds, the two develop sonic environments that build and release using unusual reed techniques and mutated string scrabbling in a strangely compelling set of dialogs. |
Ackley, Bruce / Fred Frith / Henry Kaiser / Aram Shelton: Unexpected Twins (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Born out of Eugene Chadbourne's Twins band concepts from the 70s, which included over time saxophonist Bruce Ackley, and guitarists Henry Kaiser, and Fred Frith; fast forward to 2018 as Ackley & Frith return to the concept with Henry Kaiser and saxophonist Aram Shelton to revisit the original approach through pieces by those artists plus Steve Lacy, Eugene Chadbourne, and John Zorn. |
Chadbourne, Eugene / Henry Kaiser: Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets By Wadada Leo Smith (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Long-time collaborators, guitarists Henry Kaiser and Eugene Chadbourne perform the compositions of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, starting with their recording from 1977 of his "Wind Crystals", then improvising over 5 other Smith compositions, ending the album with an updated, 2017 version of "Wind Crystals"; an excellent refresh and retrospective from two incredible improvisers. |
Lopes, Luis : Love Song: Post Ruins (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock With only an electric guitar, Luis Lopes (Humanization 4tet) Love Song presents the mostly composed work "Post-Ruins", recorded live at Teatro Maria Matos, in Lisboa, using notes, intervals and chords chosen with the intention of transmitting the perception of an eternalized moment occupying the space like a sculpture, full of emotions, infinite in itself. |
My Cat Is An Alien: Robert Opalio/Maurizio Opalio [VINYL] [Used Item] (Important Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.44 In Stock A split LP with each side featuring a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed space guitar improvising band My Cat Is An Alien. |
Hannesson, Mark (Denis Sorokin): Music For Guitar [2 CDS] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Three compositions for solo guitar from Canadian composer Mark Hannesson performed in Saint-Petersburg by Russian guitarist Denis Sorokin and recorded by saxophonist and sound artist Ilia Belorukov; "Each Thing" and "If I Appear Comfortable" using space and a subtle development in extended works; "Triste" using progressions of distorted tones and decay. |
Killick: Stay-At-Home Monk [VINYL] (H(i)nds(i)ght -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Varying the instrument and proportions of acoustic or electric presentation straddling the foreground/background dynamic for each track, Appalachian Trance Metal guitarist Killick presents his first vinyl LP to extend his vast CD discography; a worthy and curious album of solo guitar, acoustic and electroacoustic work that belongs in any guitar enthusiast's collection. |
Oddly Imploded (Gregoretti / Argenziano): They Just Sit About (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Italian sonic explorer Francesco Gregoretti uses his drumkit like a lead instrument, amplifying and modifying its sound through effects, as he pursues his varied "Imploded" bands (Strongly Imploded, Grizzly Imploded) fueled by the mathematics of Chaos Theory, here with guitarist Maurizio Argenziano in an album of dense sound, from near-minimal to highly interactive. |
Dunston, Nick: Atlantic Extraction (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Brooklyn-based composer, bassist, and writer Nick Dunston in his debut album, blending jazz, contemporary, chamber and avant forms, in a uniquely voiced quintet with Louna Dekker on Vargas on flutes & piccolo, Ledah Finck on violin & viola, Tal Yahalom on guitar, and Stephen Boegehold on drums, in a sophisticated album of concisely fascinating compositions. |
Kalman, Egil / Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Swedish bass player Egil Kalman, here on modular syntheizer, joins Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten for a lovely album of drifting electronics and beautifully entwining acoustic guitar, unhurriedly developing environments of warm, slowly evolving chord structures that show influences from players like Catherine Lamb or the Wandelweiser collective. |
Stine, Tim Quartet: Knots (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock After his debut on Astral Spirits, Chicago-based guitarist Tim Stine assembled this quartet with Nick Mazzarella on saxophone, Matt Ulery on bass, and Quin Kirchner on drums, all skilled as bandleaders themselves, to realize Stine's avant compositions, precise harmonically and rhthmically interesting works with a Threadgill feel in surprising shifts of direction. |
Cooper, Mike / Mark Wastell: Sound Mirrors (Confront -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Lapsteel guitarist and electronic artist Mike Cooper and percussionist Mark Wastell, employing a paiste 32" tam tam and a shruti box, pay homage to the large acoustic sound mirrors used in Britain from 1916 to 1930 as an early form or radar, each of their detailed improvisation referencing one of the locations on the British south and northeast coasts. |
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