"Listening, eight years after it was created, to this primary chapter in the recorded legacy of Myra Melford's first trio evokes a rush of feelings. There are warm memories of in-person encounters with Melford, Lindsey Hor ner and Reggie...

"At the core of both groups is Parker's foundational bass together with rhythm twin, drummer Hamid Drake. Their partnership-two decades deep now-is one of the great rhythm sections in recorded history. Alto saxophonist Rob Brown is like...

"Live in New York, 2010 presents a tremendous one-night engagement by saxophone colossus David S. Ware and his latter day Trio in an intimate club setting - at Blue Note on October 4, 2010. This double-album features the complete night o...

"More than a decade since their first (and last) trio album, Dim Bulb (2005), 'Buffalo Steve,' Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty are back on the attack. The three recorded as part of a larger ensemble on the Open Mouth LP, Wrong Number (2014)...

"The first vinyl reissue of Keiji Haino's stunning debut album Watashi Dake?, originally released in 1981. This first ever edition released outside of Japan features the artist's originally intended metallic gold and silver jacke...

"The Honkies were active between 1987 and 1993 touring the UK and Europe with their honking brass, wonky beats, and homemade costumes. This line up was the core of the band and was later joined in 1990 by John Edwards on Double Bass.

"Glitter In My Tears marks the 20th anniversary of Janek Schaefer's career as a recording artist, having now released 30 albums. His music is best comprehended through examining his time as an architect, and how that forged his in...

"Noah is a very skilled and mature improviser. He knows who he is. His confidence allows him to stay open to new ideas and to keep searching. Given the chance to work all the time, I think he would take the saxophone to many more new pl...

"Originally produced in a very limited edition for European fans only. Made available in the U.S. following acclaim for Bob's latest album "Arx Pilosa." US edition includes Bob's solo CDs Little Black Train, The Skull Mailbox and Other ...

Pages from Cornelius Cardew's Treatise are randomly selected. Each musician interpreted their page(s) from the score alone, unable to hear what the other participants were playing. The tracks were then assembled with start and stop time...

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"In this recording entitled Karoujite (a japanese word meaning "scarcely"), Cristian Alvear and Seijiro Murayama are deeply involved in a minimalist and repetitive mode of playing. Each of them focuses on continuously playing the same c...

"The world of Ran Blake beckons once again in these performances and, once again, we cannot resist being drawn into that world. We dodge through its shadows and its bright, glaring expanses, alert to the caverns and crevices from which t...

"The third release by the improvising rock group Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, a 7 piece outfit referencing the music of Terry Riley, prog and Krautrock explorations with a contemporary electronic edge. This third double CD showcas...

"White Moon,Black Moon is the debut album for frostlake, female songstress and instrumentalist. Here is a collection of songs with an eerie strangeness and English ethereal quality, with haunting melodies, layered vocals and unusual sou...

Sick Boss is a collaborative ensemble crossing genres in contemporary music, including creative improvisation, rock, folk, and modern jazz, with a cast of Vancouver all-stars -- Cole Schmidt on guitar, Jeremy Page on reeds, Tyson Naylor on keys & accordion, James Meger on bass, and Dan Gaucher on drums -- plus guests including Tony Wilson & Peggy Lee.

"Dogs Do Dream is a suite of compositions and texts by composer/guitarist Ron Samworth inspired by the dream life of dogs. Scientific research indicates that many animals, including Dogs, Do Dream. We can only imagine the nature of thes...

"Peregrine Falls is the explosive musical conduit for Vancouver musicians Gordon Grdina and Kenton Loewen. Having collaborated for almost two decades in such bands as The Crackling, The Gordon Grdina Trio, Dan Mangan and Blacksmith, Har...

"A double CD (over 150 minutes of music), the debut release by this orchestra co-led by Martin Archer and Chris Bywater - who used to form a duo called Transient v Resident. Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere is impressive squared - nay,...

"Montreal-based composer Chris Strickland searches not for minimalism, but to minimize: technique, narrative, emotion. All recorded live either at CKUT or Espace Project, both located in Montreal, the compositions on Excruciating Circum...

"On the long-awaited Exaptations, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring presents two highly textural, side-long pieces. On "Field Lines", originally composed for Yvonne NG Peck Wan's dance piece, Magnetic Fields, a certain fragmented, un...

"Events in five parts can be heard as one piece in five parts. It opens with floten, for solo flute . Tracks 2, 4 and 5 are combining floten (1998), stein reiben (2008) for stone harp and hauchen (2016) for trumpet (three solo pieces fr...

"This piece was, as the title indicates, the first of the 34 pieces that would eventually become the harmony series. In this and all the other pieces in the series, i attempted to create the conditions for a harmonic situation without g...

Dedicated to Charles Ives.

"We combine the aspect of construction with safety and durability, while the ephemeral is somewhat uncertain, impermanent and not easy to grasp. Thus, construction and ephemerality seem to be opposites, but in a piece of music both can ...

"'besando el tiempo' is a piece that was composed in 1995 in the space of four days. It was written in an automatic script that Maria de Alvear uses for many of her pieces. The work was originally composed for the flautist Caren Levine, ...

The Korekyojin trio of Tatsuya Yoshida on percussion, Kido Natsuki on guitar and Mitsuru Nasuno on fretless bass, plus violinist Miyamoto Rei on several tracks, take their intricate and exuberant rock into acoustic territory with this impressive album, which includes acoustic takes on "Arabesque", "Careless Heart", "Four Holes in the Sky", &c.

"This version of "aussen raum" Ð a realisation of Stefan ThutÕs text-based score Ð uses recordings and non-recordings of an oft-ridiculed water feature built atop and supposedly symbolising the redirected and culverted River Frome benea...

A combination of cyclical themes, made-up folk dances, and invented improvisations from UK reedist Chris Cundy, performing on bass clarinet at the Cheltenham Synagogue for 10 compositions developed specifically for this Confront recording as playful pieces intended as popular music for solo bass clarinet.

"The Magi hate our thoughts in a fierce tone. They like to remain focused on an object of meditation. These objects are the most intimate, the thickest, the most magical in the world. The first, not the principal, are twelve, namely; The pr...

Intricate interplay in modern jazz from guitarist Miles Okazaki in a quartet with fellow New Yorkers Craig Taborn on piano, Anthony Tidd on bass, and Sean Rickman on drums--Tidd and Rickman his compatriots in Steve Coleman and Five Elements--performing Okazaki's playfully complex and innovative compositions that drive some serious grooves.

Experimental sound artists Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes continue the exploration heard in their erstwhile and Confront releases, here in two new tracks recorded in Arizona and Louisville as they prepared for their 2016 performance at the No Idea Festival in Austin, TX.

With connections from both the free jazz and improvising rock scene, including Borbetomagus, Many Arms, Caribou, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Zevious, &c, the trio of Colin Fisher (saxophone, guitar), Johnny DeBlase (electric bass) and Kid Millions (drums) debut their Monas project of intense, electronically spiked, free form improvisation.

Clarinetist Tom Jackson and pianist Keith Tippett have worked together since 2001, with bassist Ashley-John Long joining them in improvisation in 2009, adding violist Benedict Taylor that same year in London, here meeting in the studio for 4 subtle and expansive recordings.