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Schick, Ignaz / Martin Tetreault: Live * 33 * 45 * 78 (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Montreal/Actuelle turntablist Martin Tetreault and Berlin turntablist Ignaz Shcick in two sets of recordings from two encounters in Belgium and Switzerland, 2006. |
Shibolet / Josephson / Baker / Looney / Smith: untitled (1959) (Kadima -- Israel ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Kadima collective saxophonist Ariel Shibolet and 4 California Bay Area players in impressive and intense improvisation that make for an unusual and open-minded discourse. |
Shibolet, Ariel / Nori Jacoby: Scenes From An Ideal Marriage (Kadima -- Israel ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $6.25 In Stock Viola player Nori Jacoby and soprano saxophonist Ariel Shibolet performing live at Hateiva, Tele Aviv in 2010, part of Kadima's Cy Twombly live performance series. |
Shiurba, John: Triplicate (Spool -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Composer John Shiurba with an impressive West Coast octet including vocalists Lara Bruckmann & Morgan Guberman, trumpeter Tom Djll, drummer Gino Robair, and bassist Matthew Sperry, &c. conducting them through five twisted compositions. |
Staiano's, Moe! - MOE!KESTRA!: 2 Rooms Of Uranium Within 83 Markers: Conducted Improvisations, Vol.II (Edgetone Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Two live conducted improvisations percussion for large group recorded at the Oakland Box Theater, presenting the 6 part Piece No.11: Two Orchestras in Separate Rooms. |
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. |
Toral, Rafael / Davu Seru: Live in Minneapolis (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Rafael Toral's Space Program, post-free jazz electronic music, is made manifest in this duo between the electronicist and drummer Davu Seru, performing live in Minneapolis during Toral's 2011 tour of the US. |
Wellman, Linsey / Mike Essoudry : Mike Essoudry + Linsey Wellman (Malasartes -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock 1st release for the duo of wind player Linsey Wellman and percussionist Mike Essoudry embracing stasis and movement, meditation and exuberance, delicacy and amplitude. |
DK & The Perfectly Ordinary: CAR DEW TREAT US (Spool -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.85 In Stock A diverse set of artist interpret a random page from Cornelius Cardew's "Treatise", using the score alone with each artist unable to hear what the other participants were playing, which Spool label-leader Daniel Kernohan assembled into these 10 incredible audio tracks, each roughly 4:35 long, in a great interpretation of Cardew's (in)famous work. |
Ist (Davies / Fell / Wastell): Consequences (of Time and Place) (Confront -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock ist (The Improvising String Trio) of Rhodri Davies (harp), Simon H. Fell (bass) and Mark Wastell (violincello) performing at The Natural Music Club in London, 1997, using unorthodox techniques in indeterminate systems and free improvisation for fascinating results. |
d' Orion, Erick / Martin Tetreault : Avant (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Montreal Musique Actuelle turntablist Martin Tetreault and sound artist Erick d' Orion created this project as a tribute to the original explorers of electronic music and musique concrete -- GRM, Stockhausen, Henry, Oram, Schaeffer, &c. -- using historic sound recordings and new sources, presenting this incredible concert live at Au Mois in Quebec. |
Charuest, Yves / Agusti Fernandez / Nicolas Caloia / Peter Valsamis : Stir (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The Montreal free improvising trio Still of Nicolas Caloia on bass, Peter Valsamis on drums, and Yves Charuest on saxophone is joined in the studio by visiting Spanish pianist Agusti Fernandez for a superb set of detailed and energetic free jazz, 6 pieces titled "(un fold)" I - VI, making an album of first rate and exciting collective music. |
Lazro, Daunik / Jean-Luc Cappozzo / Didier Lasserre: Garden(s) (Ayler Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The trio of Daunik Lazro on baritone and tenor saxophone, Jean-Luc Cappozzo on trumpet & flugelhorn and Didier Lasserre on drums, alternate jazz standards from Duke Ellington (Sophisticated Lady; Hop Head), John Coltrane (Lonnie's Lament), Albert Ayler (Angels), with original compositions and the 3-part "Garden", all in the varied traditions of jazz. |
Grimal, Alexandra / Benjamin Duboc / Valentin Ceccaldi: Bambu (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock An unusual and captivating work from the trio of saxophonist Alexandra Grimal, double bassist Benjaim Duboc, and cellist Valentin Ceccaldi, leading their album with tracks from "Respirer l'ombre" by Giuseppe Penone "spontaneously used without permission but with great admiration," leading to powerful and unpredictable directions in free improvisation; excellent. |
Johnson, Max: In The West (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock New York bassist Max Johnson expands his piano trio of Kris Davis on piano and Mike Pride on drums with Susan Alcorn on pedal steel guitar, adding an eclectic Western flavor to overall on-point, anchored and driven modern jazz of a high order, balancing lyrical playing with moments of free collective playing, in a beautiful and extraordinary album. |
Kokotob (Taiko Saito / Niko Meinhold / Tobias Schirmer): Flying Heart (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Taiko Saito is a contemporary classical player well established in the field of improv, joined by long-time collaborator, pianist Niko Meinhold, and here expanded with Tobias Schirmer on clarinet and bass clarinet for an album that uses solid compositional foundations for lyrical and contemplative modern music. |
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. |
Mazurek, Rob: Rome (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Rob Mazurek solo works are brilliant displays of honest, lyrical and emotional playing, here recording in Rome for Radio Roma, bringing the cornet to the foreground, starting with a piece only on the horn, then adding electronics, piano, and prepared piano for a set of ethereal and spiritual improvisations that are not bound by any specific genre. |
Mind Games (Niescier / Maroney / Ilgenfritz / Drury): Ephemera Obscura (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A unconventional yet lyrical album of creative jazz from the New York quartet of Angelika Niescier on alto sax, Denman Maroney on hyperpiano, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, and Andrew Drury on percussion, Maroney's piano preparations and Drury's objects complementing complex time signatures and intricate notated materials that yield lush, beautiful music. |
Revis, Eric: Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Double Bassist Eric Revis expands his concepts in this outstanding album with fellow New Yorkers, pianist Kris Davis and drummer Chad Taylor, and Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark on tenor saxophone, with all four players providing compositions that push the limit on structure and form while opening up the players to superb soloing settings of great modern jazz. |
Roots Magic: Last Kind Words (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Deep Blues and Creative Jazz from the Italian septet Roots Magic, following up their "Hoodoo Magic" CD with another compelling album of instrumentals where the track list consists of personal renditions of Delta Blues classics (mostly Charlie Patton) played with an overtly exploratory attitude derived from the Free Jazz tradition. |
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. |
Auclair, Melanie: Decor sonore (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A series of 20 short tracks by cellist Melanie Auclair that combine music with ambient sound with players such as Lori Freedman, Antoine Berthiaume, Luc Sicard, etc. |
Barno, Niklas / Joel Grip / Didier Lasserre: Can't Stop Snusing (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The Snus trio of Niklas Barno (trumpet), Joel Grip (bass) and Didier Lasserre (drums) return for their second album, an addictive mix of free jazz and free improv, subtle to skronking music of great beauty and power. |
BOLT (Dijkstra / Fujiwara / Rosenthal / Hofbauer): Shuffle (Driff Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The Boston-based BOLT quartet of Jorrit Dijkstra (sax), Eric Hofbauer (guitar), Junko Fujiwara (cello), Eric Rosenthal (drums) chose the 19 pieces on this release from 36 improvised pieces, ranging from "energy-orgies of free jazz [to] sparse electronic soundscapes". |
Bourne / Davis / Kane: The Money Notes (Foghorn Records -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A series of miniatures from the trio of pianist Bourne, drummer Davis and bassist Kane, intensely focused works ranging from lovely to slightly disturbed while never failing to impress. |
Brady, Tim / Bradyworks: 24 Frames - Scatter [2 CDs] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Montreal creative guitarist Tim Brady and his Bradyworks (Lori Freedman, Karen Young, &c) performing 6 duos for electric guitar with other instruments, and 12 compositions for electric guitar (with and without effects pedals). |
Cappozzo, Jean-Luc & Geraldine Keller: Air Prints (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The duo of Jean-Luc Cappozzo on trumpet, horns and objects, and Geraldine Keller on voice flute & objects in an album of tones and tongues, an unusual set of adventurous free improvisation. |
Ceccarelli, Isaiah: Breviaire d'Epuisements (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Percussionist Isaiah Ceccarelli's work for percussion, two voices, two bass clarinets and viola da gamba, woven from the delicate fabric of the tension between darkness and light. |
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. |
Davis, Matt / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell: Confront Collectors Series (Confront -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Re-issue of one of the earliest Confront releases, the trio of trumpeter Matt Davis, violinist Phil Durrant and cellist Mark Wastell performing subtle and sophisticated free improvisation at St. Michael's and All Angels church, Chiswick, London in 2000. |
Ensemble SuperMusique: Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A supergroup of the AM collective with Derome, Hetu, Labrosse, Roger, Tanguay and Tetrault, in adventurous and far-reaching improvisation that have to be heard to be believed! |
eRikm & Natacha Muslera: Cartouche (Monotype -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An experimental sound and voice duet featuring eRikm and Natacha Muslera: extreme, convulsive and immersive sounds that alternately surprises and seduces in brutal and beautiful ways. |
Fuchs / Lindsay / Smith / Baghdassarians / Baltschun: The Happymakers (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock
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Genetti / Smith / Lonberg-Holm: Sense of Hearing (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock 8 duos recorded in the studio between bassist Damon Smith and free vocalist Carol Genetti, and 4 trio tracks adding Fred Lonberg-Holm on violoncello and performing live at Chicago's Empty Bottle. |
Jones with Friends, JC: Duos II (Kadima -- Israel ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Live recordings of JC Jones in duo settings, 14 different collaborations including Ned Rothenberg, Victoria Hanna, Harold Rubin, Josef Sprinzak, Nori Jacoby, &c. |
Kahn, Jason / Tim Olive: Two Sunrise (845 Audio -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.85 In Stock The first meetings of Jason Kahn (analog electronic) and Tim Olive (one-string magnetic pickup device) recording in a studio session in Kyoto, 2012 for four eventful and intricately structured works with a distinct developmental momentum. |
Keune, Stefan: Sunday Sundaes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Solo improvisation from Stefen Keune performing on sopranino and alto saxophones, intense playing that focuses on hard-blowing and extreme performance, wringing a singularly desperate yet astute language from the horn. |
Lauzier / Martel: Sainct Laurens (&Records -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Sparse but detailed improvisational journeys from the long-running duo of saxophonist Philippe Lauzier and bassist/electronic artist Pierre-Yves Martel. |
Lepage, Robert Marcel: Canard Branchu (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A rich work for clarinets, bass and drums orchestrated for six musicians including Actuelle core players Lori Freedman, Pierre Tanguay, and Lepage himself, through 14 works that may have something to do with a swamp. |
Marcus, Michael: For Yes! (Not Two -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock NY multi-reedist Michael Marcus (Cosmosamatics), here on clarinet, in a large ensemble including Lenwood Turner on trumpet & John Austria on Rhodes piano, performing original and intricate compositions. |
Narthex (Baron / Blairon): Formnction (Potlatch -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Saxophonist Marc Baron & bassist Loic Blairon recorded 6 improvisations and then recomposed and organized them into these two 30 minute works, one acoustic and one digital. |
Orfield, Sue Band: Bonk (self-released -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Tiptons saxophonist Sue Orfield's Band performs original music that spans many genres from blues rock and funk to jazz and bluegrass with a little ethnic vibe thrown in. |
Parodi, Claudio: Heavy Nichel (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Solo improvisations on the Turkish Clarinet from Claudio Parodi, an Italian classically trained pianist who also works with self-built/self-modified electronics, non-western reeds, and selected percussions. |
Pride, Mike: Birthing Days (Aum Fidelity -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock NY drummer Mike Pride's modern jazz work inspired by the birth of his first child, reflecting the fullness Pride finds in his life as a parent, with Jon Irabagon (sax), Alexis Marcelo (piano), Peter Bienec (bass), Jonathan Moritz (sax) and Jason Stein (bass clarinet). |
St-Jean (Babin / Falaise / Labbe / Leclerc): Projectionnistes, Les: Copie zero (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Claude St-Jean's band, Les Projectionnistes (Tommy Babin, Bernard Falaise, Pierre Labbe, Remi Leclerc), plays an ecletic mix of songs ranging from alternative jazz, rock, and improv. |
Roger, Danielle Palardy: Pinta, Nina & Maria (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock 3 live recordings from 3 ensembles - GGRIL, Ensemble SuperMusique and ECM+ - exploring relationsips between early music and contemporary creative music; with Jean Derome, Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Bernard Falaise, &c. &c. |
Schiller, Christoph / Millefleurs: Millefleurs (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The millefleurs vocal ensemble brings 12 vocalists together in varying groups for minimal and unique vocalisation over a taxonomy of floral genres and species. |
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. |
Talibam! & Sam Kulik: Discover AtlantASS [CD & Graphic Book] (Belly Kids -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock NY's Talibam! team up with artist graphic artist Sam Kulik to tell the absurd and fantastic story of a young teen named Franklin who gets abducted by a revolutionary jazz fish into the undersea world of Atlantis. |
Templeton, Gavin: Asterperious Special (Nine Winds -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A sophisticated modern jazz album from alto saxophonist Gavie Templeton, music based on his grandfather's experience as an Air Corps navigator in WWII, performed in a quartet with pianist Gary Fukushima, bassist Darek Oles, and drummer Joe Labarbera. |
Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay: Wow! (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Sax and flute player/Ambiances Magnetique label leader Jean Derome's excellent jazz trio with bassist Normand Guilbeault and drummer Pierre Tanguay, in their 4th release, with three Derome originals and 4 standards including a Dolphy number. |
Volcano The Bear: Egg and Two Books (Vivo Records -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock |
Wiss / Unternahrer: sopstock (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Swiss voice artist Isa Wiss with Marc Unternahrer on tuba in a surreal set of alphabetized improvisations in a Minton-esque mode with Unternahrer taking the tuba into untold territory. |
Zinman, Eric & Laurence Cook: Double Action (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Part of Ayler's Guerilla Series, percussionist Laurence Cook and keyboardist Eric Zinman in an album of textural duos developed over a year while working with the Yamaha CP300 stage keyboard. |
Warble & MDuo : Ama (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Two improvising duos that share one person and joined as a trio -- Berlin musician Miako Klein on recorders -- Warble being Klein and NY/Berlin trumpeter Brad Henkel, the two exploring their instruments through close amplification; Mduo is Klein & NY/Berlin percussionist Michael Weilacher using extended techniques and strange actions. |
Beins, Burkhard / Lucio Capece / Martin Kuchen / Paul Vogel: Fracture Mechanics (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock "Fracture Mechanics" is the scientific study of cracks in any material, an apt title from these European experimental innovators--Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Martin Kuchen, and Paul Vogel--pulling back the curtain on process and creating an impressive album crossing acoustic and electronic improv, organized sound, and inexplicable interaction; recommended. |
Filosofer : Landet Er Gitt Oss (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An hallucinogenic and commanding blending of improvisation, song, spoken word, and tonal/timbral music from double bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen's Filosofer, creating beautiful sonic environments out of which voice and message emerge and submerge, buoyed by a string quartet (two violins and two double basses), computers, turntables, synths and samplers. |
Corringham, Viv / Lawrence Casserley: Anemoi (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.72 In Stock Lawrence Casserley is a pioneer of real time electroacoustic music, since the 60s working with other artists and developing his Signal Processing Instrument, using physical gestures to process and morph sounds; here he works with British vocalist and Deep Listening teacher Viv Corringham in an other-worldly collaboration of voice and electonics. |
Lencastre, Jose Nau Quartet (Lencastre / Pinheiro / Faustino / Lencastre): Fragments of Always (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Portuguese alto saxophonist Jose Lencastre's Nau [ship] Quartet with Joao Lencastre on drums and two thirds of Red Trio -- Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano and Hernani Faustino on bass -- in a lyrical album of collective free improvisation informed by masterful playing that's energetic but never bombastic, a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking album. |
Butcher, John / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: Last Dream Of The Morning (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A studio album between three UK master improvisers -- John Butcher on sax, John Edwards on double bass, and Mark Sanders on drums -- the trio pushing the envelope in technique and dialog in nearly telepathic playing that transports the listener into their environment, as the music builds and releases in effortless ways that are stunning and exulant; highly recommended. |
Mayas, Magda / Jim Denley: Tempe Jetz (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A pairing of two innovative players, Berlin-based pianist Magda Mayas and Australian sound and wind artist Jim Denley, Mayas playing inside and out of the piano and Denley on alto sax and bass flute, both providing field recordings adding unexpected elements in a set of extremely balanced recordings that entrance the listener with unlikely and captivating settings. |
Van Hove, Fred / Roger Turner: The Corner (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Pioneering improvising pianist Fred Van Hove at UK's Cafe OTO for the first time, captured in a duo with UK drummer/percussionist Roger Turner, their first recording together, for a night of exceptional improvised interplay, sophisticated and complex playing that is constantly buoyant and charming, an enthralling conversation between two veteran players. |
Siwula, Blaise / Jorge Nuno: Waterscapes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Waterscapes is the performing duo of New York saxophonist Blaise Siwula and guitarist Jorge Nuno, interwining distinct approaches to acoustic and electric improvisation, creating rich sound environments and rapid interaction that draws the listener in and then sweeps them off their feet with passionate, complex and informed dialog. |
Rummel, Simon Ensemble: IM MEER (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock German composer and improviser Simon Rummel presents the 2nd release from his 11-piece Simon Rummel Ensemble, blending his interest in acoustic phenomena and improvisational harmonics in an extended work that shifts from beautiful tonal work to disruptive cacophony and back to melodic music, blending jazz and 20th century approaches; a great achievement. |
Deep Tide Quartet (Archer / Macari / Cole / Shaw): See One, Do One, Teach One (Discus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Originally a studio project, The UK Deep Tide Trio of Martin Archer on sax, Kim Macari on trumpet, Laura Cole on piano and Walt Shaw on percussion & live electronics evolved into a performing organization based on the strength of their open-ended approach to free jazz and improvisation, heard here balancing melody and structure in well-paced and thoughtful improv. |
Schindler, Udo: Botenstoffe (Confront -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A series of duo recordings between saxophonist, clarinetist and cornet player Udo Schindler and pianists, all recorded at Schindler's Salon for Sound and Art at Krailing, Germany between 2013 and 2016, with Claudia Ulla Binder, Masako Ohta, Elisabeth Harnik, Katharnia Weber, and Lisa Ullen; song titles taken from SONDAGEN (Soundings) in memory of poet Thomas Kling. |
String Theory [Boston, USA]: Condensed Phases of Matter (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock String Theory was formed as the string section for Boston's Leap of Faith Orchestra, the core being David Peck on reeds, game calls, fog horn, sirens, &c, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic and voice, with Jane Wang (cello) and Mimi Rabson (violin), creating a wonderfully assertive and somewhat skewed approach to improvisation, captured live at Mobius in Cambridge, 2016. |
Abecassis, Eryck / Francisco Meirino: La Gueule Du Loup (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Recording at the GRM Studios, the French duo of Eryck Abecassis and Francisco Meirino (phroq) use unpatched modular sythesizers that they program during performance, adding a level of risk and unpredictability to their detailed and rich sonic conversation, informed by decades of research and performance that both musicians bring to this intensely interesting album. |
Elks, The (Kai Fagaschinski / Liz Allbee / Billy Roisz / Marta Zapparoli): This Is Not The Ant (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An extremely balanced group of electroacoustic improvisers, Kai Fagaschinski on clarinet and Liz Allbee on trumpet make up the acoustic side, though sounding as electronic and other-worldly as Billy Roisz on e-bass and electronics and Marta Zapparoli on reel-to-reel tapes and tape machines, creating incredibly wide-ranging and psychedelic sonic environments. |
String Theory [PORTUGAL]: Gravity (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A sense of both lightness and weight drawn from Portuguese viola player's Ernesto Rodrigues' 18-piece String Theory, in a large and detailed improvisation using an incredible array of string sources, including viola, harp, violin, cello, viola da gamba, double bass, classical, acoustic and 12-string guitars, mandolin, zither, harpsichord, and piano. |
Carl, Rudiger Inc.: King Alcohol (New Version) [2 CDs] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock The debut album of Rudiger Carl is an assertive studio session of brilliant free jazz from 1972, with Carl on tenor saxophone, Gunter Christmann on trombone, and Detlef Schonenberg on drums, presenting a great example of early European Free Improv, remastered from the original tapes and issued on CD for the first time, with a 2nd CD of previously unreleased bonus tracks. |
Suzuki, Akio / John Butcher: Immediate Landscapes (Ftarri -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock At the same event in Scotland that John Butcher recorded his excellent "Resonant Spaces" album, he also joined forces with sound artist Akio Suzuki on a variety of objects and sound devices to record the first 5 tracks of this unusual album of very free improv, the last track by the duo recording at the 2015 Ftarri Festival at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo. |
Muller, Matthias / Matthias Muche : MM Squared Session (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Two German trombonists, Matthias and Matthias Muche, extend the trombone language through four open improvisations using advanced techniques and bizarre language, each appropriately titled for phonemes, as the two players explore the strangest and most interesting sides of their instruments to the benefit of the intrepid listener. |
Binder, Claudia: Piano Solo II (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Pianist Claudia Binder presents 3 concepts for solo piano - the introspective "Room for a Sound" and it's dramatic inverse, "Sound for a Room"; "Polyphony" in 3 parts using piano preparation, one part playful, one part serious, one part peculiar; and an inexplicable "It Takes Two to Tango"--in performances revealing a curious mind and tremendous skill. |
Gerszewski, Nikolaus: Ordinary Music Vol. 35: Textures (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock German composer working in Budapest Nikolaus Gerszewski does not consider the score for this piece a composition, but rather a basis for a process, which is executed live at Fabrica Braco de Prata with Gerszewski himself plus improvisers Ernesto & Guilherme Rodrigues, Pedro Roxo, Nuno Torres, Armando Pereira, Carlos Santos, Pedro Castello Lopes & Andre Mota. |
Crux Trio (Hanslip / Somervell / Gauden): BELieVE (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A wonderfully balanced example of melodic free improvisation from the UK trio of Mark Hanslip on tenor saxophone, Colin Somervell on bass, and Ed Gauden on drums, frequent collaborators with an interest in both lyrical and free/collective improvisation, with an approach that uses technique and conceptual approaches in accessible and embraceable ways. |
Wooley, Nate: Battle Pieces 2 (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Commissioned by Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation, trumpeter Nate Wooley developed a modular compositional structure of small melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, conceptual, textural, and timbral fragments, allowing Ingrid Laubrock (sax), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), and Matt Moran (Vibes) exceptional freedom in improvisation, here in their 2nd recording live at Koeln's Loft. |
Foussat, Jean-Marc / Jamal Moss / Jean-Francois Pauvros: plays Tristan Tzara : L'homme Approximatif [VINYL] (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock An album of spoken word and sound, Jean-Francois Pauvros reads from Tristan Tzara's "L'homme Approximatif" (The Approximate Man) over flutes from Chicago producer and flautist Jamal Moss, AKA Hieroglyphic Being, and Jean-Marc Foussat on synth and voice, a mysterious album of subtle insinuation with an intriguing underpinning of electroacoustic sound. |
Kilian, Benoit / Jean-Luc Petit : La Nuit Circonflexe (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A magnificent album of sound-oriented free improvisation from the French duo of Jean-Luc Petit on bass clarinet, alto saxophone and sopranino sax, and Benoit Kilian on the horizontal bass drum, a beast of an instrument that create massive tones over which Petit employs an incredible array of techniques and tones on his reeds, creating other-worldly sonic environments. |
Fujii, Satoko / Natsuki Tamura: Kisaragi (Libra -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock On their 5th album together, pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura push the limits on approach and technique with their instruments, creating otherworldly and captivating improvisations, both players deciding against using "normal instrumental sounds", instead using preparations and textural approaches to create truly unique music. |
Gato Libre (Fujii / Tamura / Kaneko): Neko (Libra -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's Gato Libre in its 5th album brings a beautiful light-through-the-leaves melodic melancholy to their unhurried pace, now the trio of Tamura, Satoko Fujii on accordion, and Yasuko Kaneko on trombone, as the cats on the cover stop to find allure in the late day while bringing profound and introspective music to our ears. |
Humcrush (Storlokken / Stronen): Enter Humcrush [VINYL] (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $20.65 In Stock After a six year break, the Humcrush duo of Stale Storlokken on keys and Thomas Stronen on drums & electronics return with this studio album of rhythmic angularities and experimental sound worlds, drawing on their experiences with bands including Supersilent, Food, Elephant9, Time is a blind guide, Meadow and Motorpsycho. |
Cortex: Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Cortex propels their persuasive, groove oriented approach to jazz with this swinging album that blends free jazz styles with great hard bop, in line with a band like The Thing, this Scandinavian group wants to make your body move without indulging in excess or pandering, instead following a muse that's solidly in the exuberant free jazz tradition. |
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Brown, Marion: Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee (remastered)
New York Contemporary Five: Consequences Revisited
Giuffre, Jimmy 3 (w / Bley / Swallow): Graz Live 1961
Coltrane, John Quartet: Impressions Graz 1962
Ayler, Albert Quartets: Spirits To Ghosts Revisited (remastered)
Ayler, Albert Trio: 1964 Prophecy Revisted
Coltrane, John Quartet: My Favorite Things Graz 1962
Ayler, Albert Quartet With Don Cherry: European Recordings Autumn 1964 (Revisited) [2 CDs]
Ayler, Albert: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited
Bley, Paul Trio: Touching & Blood, Revisited
Taylor, Cecil Mixed To Unit: Structures Revisited
Ayler, Albert: La Cave Live, Cleveland 1966 Revisited [2 CDs]
Coltrane, John Quartet: Newport, New York, Alabama, 1963, Revisited
Sun Ra Arkestra: Nothing is ... Completed & Revisited
Williams, Anthony (w/ Shorter / Rivers / Hancock / Hutcherson / Carter / Davis / Peacock): Life Time
Coleman, Ornette: New York Is Now & Love Call, Revisited
Ayler, Albert Quintet 1966: Berlin, Lorrach, Paris & Stockholm. Revisited [2 CDs]
Shepp, Archie: Blase And Yasmina Revisited
Parker, Charlie : Selections From The DIAL Recordings
Parker, Charlie : Selections From The SAVOY Recordings