"John Tilbury and Bertrand Gauguet improvise a music of slowness, sometimes silent, sometimes tempestuous. Playing with the acoustic qualities of the place, are woven between the piano and the saxophone subtle games of harmonic textures...

"Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen and Ryan Sawyer in a new formation voicing string, breath and bell, harp, horn and drum speaking sparkling messages and hand-written letters of a Chain of New Hopes, back and forth, from the past and futu...

"After over two decades of musical collaboration and shared life, we are happy to finally present our first duo release. Recorded in intimate studio settings right before the pandemic, and then amended over the lockdown in our home stud...

"Michael Winter's extraordinary composition from 2015, a seven-part canon which starts off fast and gradually slows down over its 45 minute duration. Performed by Liminar, Mexico's leading ensemble for contemporary music. The cover imag...

"Second CD release by Adrian Democ following his highly regarded debut 'Ziadba'. Four beautiful chamber works, three performed by Apartment House, one by an ensemble from the Janacek School of Music in the Czech Republic. The title trac...

"A Jack Spicer quote-"Get those words out of your mouth and into your heart"-may be useful when consuming this provocatively bare duo performance, which compels the listener to abandon any presumptions about improvised music. Switching ...

A series of concise solo statements from Chicago tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, recorded on Washington Lagoon in 2020, showing both his technical skills and an ardent approach to the saxophone, playing clearly in the free jazz idiom with a ruminative approach that balances aggressive transitions with a penchant towards unusual melodic runs.

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Referring to "Study Time", Zeitstudie presents two works each for two instruments developed by sound artist Akio Suzuki and recorded in Germany in 1984: the ANALAPOS, an echo instrument used to project the performer's voice across a coil spring; and the "De Koolmees" glass harmonica, 5 glass tubes in a metal frame that are struck or rubbed to create unique sounds.

Unreleased material from Joe McPhee's archives, three live settings of the saxophonist and pocket trumpeter in upstate NY: a quartet with vibraphonist Ernie Bostic and the rhythm section of Tyrone Crabb and Bruce Thompson live at Vassar College; live in New Windsor with saxophonist Reggie Marks; and an outdoor concert at Poughkeepsie's Lincoln Centre.