The Squid's Ear Magazine
Objects and Home-made Instruments


 
GULFH of Berlin (Ullmann / Gschlossol / Fink / Leipnitz / Haves): GULFH of Berlin
GULFH of Berlin (Ullmann / Gschlossol / Fink / Leipnitz / Haves):
GULFH of Berlin

(ESP-Disk -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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The core quartet of Gulfh of Berlin — Gebhard Ullmann on tenor saxophone & bass clarinet, Gerhard Gschlossl on trombone & sousaphone, Johannes Fink on double bass & cello and Jan Leipnitz on drums & objects — are heard in the studio with guest Michael Haves providing live sound processing, expanding the sound of Gulfh's innovative sound-sculpting avant jazz

Granberg, Magnus and Skogen: How Lonely Sits the City?
Granberg, Magnus and Skogen:
How Lonely Sits the City?

(Another Timbre -- UK )


Price: $11.50    




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Composer and pianist Magnus Granberg developed this delicately introspective work as a collaboration between his Skogen ensemble and cellist Leo Svensson Sander & harpist Stina Hellberg Agback, concerning the development of art in times of crisis, using Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin de temps" (Quartet for the End of Time) as a basis, and brought into focus by actual pandemic.

Naegelen, Karl / Toma Gouband / Sylvain Darrifourcq: Cartographie de rythmes - Vitesse Approchante
Naegelen, Karl / Toma Gouband / Sylvain Darrifourcq:
Cartographie de rythmes - Vitesse Approchante

(Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany )


Price: $14.95    




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Five varied and fascinating percussion duos under the title "Rhythm Mapping - Approximating Velocity" from French composer Karl Naegelen and performed by the duo of Sylvain Darrifourcq and Toma Gouband, both using traditional drums and percussion along with objects and vegetal lithophones (a collection of plants and stones); an innovative, upbeat and compelling album.

L'Ocell / Ferran Fages: El Declivi [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
L'Ocell / Ferran Fages:
El Declivi [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Tripticks Tapes -- USA )


Price: $7.95    




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The third release from the Barcelona-based experimental improvising duo L'Ocell of Chilean acoustic guitarist Fernando Carraso and Spanish double bassist Àlex Reviriego-double bass, here joined by guitarist Ferran Fages (a member of Phicus and Radium with Reviriego), for a set of mysteriously dark improvisations recorded live at Sant Roma de Mianigues church.

Doneda, Michel / Erik M / Jean-Marc Montera: Not
Doneda, Michel / Erik M / Jean-Marc Montera:
Not

(Les Disques Victo -- Canada )


Price: $15.95    




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Live recordings in France, 1999 from the trio of saxophonist Michel Doneda, turntablist Erik M, and guitarist/electronic/object player Jean-Marc Montera, a frenetic concert of sonic mayhem.

Mayas, Magda / Tina Douglas: Objects Of Interest [CD + BOOK]
Mayas, Magda / Tina Douglas:
Objects Of Interest [CD + BOOK]

(Room40 -- Australia )


Price: $26.95    




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Following the visual scores of multi-disciplinary artist Tina Douglas, pianist Magda Mayas uses objects and preparations on piano, clavinet & rhodes keyboards to expand on Douglas' sculptural and tactile scores, exposing the fragility or imperfections in each, allowing one melody, chord or noise to become the focus of Maya's aural rendering and interpretations.

OORT: Meridian
OORT:
Meridian

(Tour de Bras -- Canada )


Price: $15.95    




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Each track of the Meridian, or Eastern desert land's traditional noon-time middle of the day, represents various stages, chronologically understood, of the day of an ανθρωπός (human), represented through deep double bass, drums, objects and electronics from Turin, Italy improvisers Michele Anelli and Nicholas Remondino.

Big Bold Back Bone (Marco von Orelli / Sheldon Suter / Luis Lopes: In Search Of The Emerging Species
Big Bold Back Bone (Marco von Orelli / Sheldon Suter / Luis Lopes:
In Search Of The Emerging Species

(Shhpuma -- Portugal )


Price: $13.95    




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Swiss musicians, trumpeter Marco Von Orelli and drummer Sheldon Suter and their Portuguese partners, guitarist Luis Lopes and electronics artist Travassos, in an album of unconventional collective improvisation using extended techniques in a large work of evolving, subtle interactions, magnifying sound and gesture in an engrossing sonic environment.

Chrysakis, Thanos / Chris Cundy: A Certain Slant Of Light
Chrysakis, Thanos / Chris Cundy:
A Certain Slant Of Light

(Aural Terrains -- UK / EU )


Price: $17.95    




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A 5-part electroacoustic improvisation from the UK duo of electronic and sound artist Thanos Chyrsakis and reedist Chris Cundy, the former using laptop computer, synthesizers, and copicat tape echo to create mesmerizing sheens of sound that circle and complement Cundy's bass clarinet, who also performs on megaphone, voice changer, zither, & objects; entrancing and captivating.

Denzler / Rodrigues / Moimeme: Immobility and Movement
Denzler / Rodrigues / Moimeme:
Immobility and Movement

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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An exquisite and mysterious album of free improvisation merging acoustic and subtle electroacoustic elements, from the trio of Bertrand Denzler on tenor saxophone, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Abdul Moimeme on electric guitar & objects, recording in the studio for this extensive work in four parts that transitions between moments of transfixing sound and cautious motion.

Godet, Jean-Brice (Godet / Niggenkemper / Darrifourcq): Lignes de Cretes
Godet, Jean-Brice (Godet / Niggenkemper / Darrifourcq):
Lignes de Cretes

(Clean Feed -- Portugal )


Price: $13.95    




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French clarinetist Jean-Brice Godet leads the trio of bassist Pascal Niggenkemper and drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq in a live album of abstract free improvisation using tools like radios, dictaphones, object, and zithers, creating powerfully unique sound worlds.

Hughes, Sarah: I Love This City And Its Outlying Lands [SINGLE SIDED CASSETTE]
Hughes, Sarah:
I Love This City And Its Outlying Lands [SINGLE SIDED CASSETTE]

(Mappa -- Slovokia )


Price: $9.95    




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A contemplative solo work of subtle nuance and laden atmospheres, slowly drifting through a virtual landscape of dampened details, from London composer and improviser Sarah Hughes, performing on zither, piano, Hammond organ, sine tones, white noise, electric harpsichord, and objects, using an eBow to draw sustained tones over which delicate progressions advance.

Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand : Not the music : Les temps fluos [PRINT  w/ DOWNLOAD]
Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand :
Not the music : Les temps fluos [PRINT w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Tour de Bras -- France )


Price: $15.95    




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An album of quiet improvisation focused on timbre, rhythm and pensive pacing from the duo of bass clarinetist Philippe Lauzier and bassist Éric Normand, also using objects to create mysterious tones and acoustic sonics, released as a limited 300g paper card hand-printed by Normad with an accompanying download code, 1 of 2 art cards initiating an 8-card series.

Liedwart, Kurt / Andrey Popovskiy / Martin Taxt: Hjem
Liedwart, Kurt / Andrey Popovskiy / Martin Taxt:
Hjem

(Mikroton Recordings -- Russia )


Price: $13.95    




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A live concert at Dom Cultural Center in Moscow, Russia in 2015 from Norwegian tuba player Martin Taxt, Saint Petersburg violinist and object player Andrey Popovskiy, and ppool performer Kurt Liedwart focusing on sinewaves and noise, in an extended lowercase improvisation exploring harmonic and microtonal sounds.

Mitzlaff, Ulrich: Transparent - fluorescent sound fibres
Mitzlaff, Ulrich:
Transparent - fluorescent sound fibres

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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German cellist and pianist living in Lisbon, Ulrich Mitzlaff recorded these two solo works titled "transparent — fluorescent sound fibers" #1 & #2 in 2015 and 2020, each voiced for extended and unusual instrumental technique in an interaction with percussive objects, the first from 2015 performing on cello, the second from 2020 performed on piano.

Nanimo  (Area / Torres / Sarramian / Gris): Hapax
Nanimo (Area / Torres / Sarramian / Gris):
Hapax

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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Normand, Eric: Demission Definitive Du Patron
Normand, Eric:
Demission Definitive Du Patron

(Tour de Bras -- Canada )


Price: $15.95    




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Two large compositions by Montreal bassist Éric Normand, the first in a quintet with Camille Brisson, Antoine Simard, Marc-Antoine Mackin and Sébastien Maltais, using electronics, objects and motors; the second an acoustic work performed by the Quasar saxophone quartet of Marie-Chantale Leclerc, Mathieu Leclerc, André Leroux & Jean-Marc Bouchard.

Rodiguez, Manolo : Trampantojos
Rodiguez, Manolo :
Trampantojos

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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Portuguese guitarist Manolo Rodriguez chose these 9 pieces from about 8 hours of improvised music, recorded on a Gibson acoustic guitar with piezo microphones on various parts of the guitar, passed through effects and finally controlled by a mixer, intended as a tribute to "the sense of sight as an intermediary of thought, and to artists who, with their eyes, have changed the world."

Rodrigues, Ernesto / Andre Hencleeday / Guilherme Rodrigues / Carlos Santos: Plane, Line Segments, R
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Andre Hencleeday / Guilherme Rodrigues / Carlos Santos:
Plane, Line Segments, Rays And Some Dissipations

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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1. Plane, Line Segments, Rays And Some Dissipations 49:49

Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Adam Pultz Melbye / kriton b.: The Distant Sound Within
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Adam Pultz Melbye / kriton b.:
The Distant Sound Within

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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Three strings--cello from Guilherme Rodrigues, double bass from Adam Pultz Melbye, and viola from Ernesto Rodrigues--plus harmonium and objects from Kriton Beyer, in a live performance at Kuhlspot Social Club in Berlin, each of the 9 movements a concentrative work named with a three-letter onomatopoeia, as the players draw sound from a mysterious dark distance.

Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Karine Decorne / Simon Proffitt: Way Of Walking
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Karine Decorne / Simon Proffitt:
Way Of Walking

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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A lowercase meeting of strings, objects, microphones and computer between core Creative Sources members Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and Karne Decorne (objects) and Simon Proffitt (microphones & computer), investigating microsound in four unhurried conversations that include moments of odd interjections, tones, and timbre.

Rosenthal, Dean: Stones/Water/Time/Breath
Rosenthal, Dean:
Stones/Water/Time/Breath

(Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria )


Price: $12.95    




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American composer Dean Rosenthal's influential performance piece written in 2012 and performed more than 40 times throughout the world, a site-specific piece for any outside body of water with any number of performers, using stones to create percussive sounds in the water, here in five live performances from Newfoundland to New York to Wilbraham, MA (the composer's hometown).

Scarassatti, Marco: Casa Acustica (Fragments From An Improvisation Diary)
Scarassatti, Marco:
Casa Acustica (Fragments From An Improvisation Diary)

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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"Like what happened in Rios Encausurados (Seminal Records, 2015), in the compositions / improvisations of Marco Scarassatti, the recorded sounds of the sound landscape are again of special relevance. In this case, are the own recordings...

Scrambled Harmonies: Stella Art
Scrambled Harmonies:
Stella Art

(Self Released -- Netherlands )


Price: $7.95    




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The free improvising Amsterdam quintet of Andrius Dereviancenko (tenor saxophone), Henk Zwerver (guitar), Nico Chientaroli (piano and keyboards), Raoul van der Weide (bass, objects and squat box) and Onno Govaert (Tilburg, drums) are heard in this live recording at Zaal100 in 2020 for a quirky and first rate free jazz album of wry humor and impressive skill.

Servant, Robin: Du Souffle Et De L'Espace
Servant, Robin:
Du Souffle Et De L'Espace

(Tour de Bras -- Canada )


Price: $15.95    




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Using a diatonic accordion and electronics, Robin Servant from Rimouski, Canada explores the acoustics of the places he visits by making them vibrate with his accordion and electronics, presenting 3 recordings from concerts in PiedNu in Le Havre, France, the Old Theater of St-Fabien, in Quebec, Canada, and at the Beaulieu Culturel du Temiscouata, in Quebec.

Sontag Shogun: Tale
Sontag Shogun:
Tale

(Palaver Press -- USA )


Price: $11.95    




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Brooklyn's Sontag Shogun (Ian Temple-piano; Jesse Perlstein-electronics; Jeremy Young-tapes & electronics) in their debut album, compiling three years of composing and directed textural improvisations, presented in 9 rich musical works.

Van Iniitu, Sylvain / Thomas Coquelet / Quentin Conrate: Maneries Ramonandi Fournellos
Van Iniitu, Sylvain / Thomas Coquelet / Quentin Conrate:
Maneries Ramonandi Fournellos

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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1 Maneries Ramonandi Fournellos 33:16

Variable Geometry Orchestra: Mare Tranquillitatis
Variable Geometry Orchestra:
Mare Tranquillitatis

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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A dynamic and exciting concert captured during the 2018 CreativeFest XII of a conduction by Ernesto Rodrigues leading an ensemble of 28 free improvisors performing on a mix of traditional acoustic & modern electronic instruments, plus a toy piano, with powerful wind & string sections, as Rodrigues directs the musicians into both passionate and peaceful sections.

Zek, Ame: First Bow
Zek, Ame:
First Bow

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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Croatian guitarist and electroacoustic musician Ame Zek in an album of electroacoustic improvisation using prepared guitars, acoustic percussions, self made objects, contact microphones, analog modular synthesizer, amplified feedback speakers, magnetic field microphones and digital midi machines; an album of raw, raspy, dark and dissonant sound.

Irarrazabal, Amanda / Miriam Den Boer Salmon: Fauces
Irarrazabal, Amanda / Miriam Den Boer Salmon:
Fauces

(577 Records -- USA )


Price: $16.00    




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Using double bass, violin and objects to affect their instruments, Amsterdam violinist Miriam Den Boer Salmón and Chilean double bassist Amanda Irarrazabal present ten succinct sonic landscapes through fully free improvisation, their interactions building and scraping, intersecting and interacting in fascinating and frightening ways.

Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD]
Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan:
Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD]

(Tubapede -- USA )


Price: $6.00    




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Delicate abrasions and corruption of their instruments from the NY duo of Erica Dicker (Till by Turning) on violin and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2), 9 works of improvised soundscape and avant-raw chamber music through prepared strings, tapes, looped feedback, resonant metals, modified snares and liberally bowed surfaces, richly constrained and luxuriously blood-curdling.

Suzuki, Akio: Zeitstudie [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
Suzuki, Akio:
Zeitstudie [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Room40 -- Australia )


Price: $32.95    




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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.

not the wind not the flag: Tintinabulum
not the wind not the flag:
Tintinabulum

(Barnyard -- Canada )


Price: $13.95    




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A beautifully building release of guitar and percussion, one long track that adds intensity from lovely minimalism to Fripp-ian chords and driving drum work.

Niblock, Phill [CLEAR VINYL]: MMXX-12: Browned
Niblock, Phill [CLEAR VINYL]:
MMXX-12: Browned

(Matiere Memoire -- Belgium )


Price: $26.95    




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Recording in Cologne, Germany, the quartet of Arne Deforce on cello, Deborah Walker on cello, Erik Drescher on flute, and Dafne Vicent Sandoval on bassoon realize NY composer Phill Niblock's work of acoustic drone, using long sustained notes to create a seething combination of harmonic interactions with an ominous tone, ending somewhat abruptly to reveal its layers.

Turbulence: Roughness Of Surfaces
Turbulence:
Roughness Of Surfaces

(Evil Clown -- USA )


Price: $11.95    




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Using David Peck's "Broad Palate" concept to introduce frequent variation in sonorities through changing instrumental combinations, this live performance of Turbulence, the extended horn section of the Boston collective Leap of Faith Orchestra, presents the largest assemblage of performers for the group yet, and introduces the 17-string bass to the Evil Clown arsenal.

O'Rourke, Jim / Mats Gustafsson: Xylophonen Virtuosen
O'Rourke, Jim / Mats Gustafsson:
Xylophonen Virtuosen

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $17.95    




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Dedicated to Derek Bailey, these long out of print, subtle and delicate duo recordings captured in Chicago between Mats Gustafsson on tenor sax, fluteophone, flute & "junk" and Jim O'Rourke on guitar, accordeon and also on "junk", were originally released in 1999 on the Incus label, here remastered, in some cases remixed, and adding previously unreleased material.

O'Rourke, Jim / Mats Gustafsson: Xylophonen Virtuosen [VINYL 2 LPs]
O'Rourke, Jim / Mats Gustafsson:
Xylophonen Virtuosen [VINYL 2 LPs]

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $29.91    




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Dedicated to Derek Bailey, these long out of print, subtle and delicate duo recordings captured in Chicago between Mats Gustafsson on tenor sax, fluteophone, flute & "junk" and Jim O'Rourke on guitar, accordeon and also on "junk", were originally released in 1999 on the Incus label, here remastered, in some cases remixed, and adding previously unreleased material.

Clotet, Amidea: Trasluz
Clotet, Amidea:
Trasluz

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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Sorollets i catxarros—noises and rattles—from Barcelona electric guitarist and free improviser Amidea Clotet, who explores unusual possibilites from the instrument through textural approaches and amplification, evoking unusual soundscapes of inexplicable sound from the body, hardware and strings of the guitar, in seven unusual and fascinating expositions.

Kuchen / Fernandez / Kaucic: The Steps That Resonate
Kuchen / Fernandez / Kaucic:
The Steps That Resonate

(Not Two -- Poland )


Price: $15.95    




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Uniquely orchestrated with all three members bringing a trove of objects & percussion, the trio of Martin Küchen on saxophones, Agustí Fernández on piano and Zlatko Kaučič on drums are heard in this two-part live concert at BUMF festival in Smartno, Slovenia, for a superb example of intent listening and use of space around confident, stunningly creative & virtuosic playing.

Battus / Gauguet / La Casa: Chantier 4
Battus / Gauguet / La Casa:
Chantier 4

(Swarming -- France )


Price: $14.95    




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Using the building site of the Paris Philharmonie as their source location and inspiration, the trio of Pascal Battus using found objects, Bertrand Gauget on saxophone, and Eric La Casa on microphones, improvise and record the background sounds, machines, and environmental influences, using those recordings to create these three fascinating compositions.

Cabado, Tomas / Christoph Schiller: Unconscious Collections
Cabado, Tomas / Christoph Schiller:
Unconscious Collections

(Another Timbre -- UK )


Price: $15.95    




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Swiss prepared spinet player Christoph Schiller and Argentine guitarist-composer Tomás Cabado, whose work is found on the Wandelweiser label, met in Schiller's studio in Basel to perform compositions from both and to improvise, recording this wonderfully relaxed but compelling music that exists in the fertile grey area between composition and improvisation.

Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann: Eidolon
Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann:
Eidolon

(845 Audio -- Japan )


Price: $10.95    




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During his 2018-19 Canadian tours, Tim Olive joined Vancouver residents Joda ClŽment and Mathieu Ruhlmann for two trio performances, after which they went into the studio to record these four detailed improvisations using synthesizer, harmonium, glockenspiel, field recordings, feedback, magnetic pickups, preamps, octave generators, ukelin, cymbal, tapes, and objects.

Cong, Zhao : Rotating, Rotating
Cong, Zhao :
Rotating, Rotating

(Hitorri -- Japan )


Price: $14.95    




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Three solo tracks by Zhao Cong, who develops suspenseful sonic environments over which she inventively and patiently adds daily objects, sounds from her mixer, condenser microphone, her voice, a cardpaper tube, no input feedback, contact microphones, and a home ballroom light, each piece evolving with a unique disposition towards certain associative sounds; fascinating.

Corcoran, Kevin / Jacob Felix Heule: Erosion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
Corcoran, Kevin / Jacob Felix Heule:
Erosion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Notice Recordings -- USA )


Price: $8.95    




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An improvisational investigation into two bass drums over two extended recordings from West Coast experimental improvisers Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule, as they apply an arsenal of unusual techniques and engage every inch of the drums with a diverse set of objects, evoking strange sounds, pattering rhythmic echoes, metallic cries and deep rumbling effects.

Croaks, The (Kuchen / Turner / Rogers): One Of The Best Bears!
Croaks, The (Kuchen / Turner / Rogers):
One Of The Best Bears!

(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland )


Price: $15.95    




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An album of controlled cacophony and slippery improvisation from the trio of Martin Klapper on amplified objects, toys & small electronics, Martin Kuchen on sopranino & soprano saxophones, snare drum resonator & metal objects, and Roger Turner on drums, small cymbals, metal and plastic, recording in Stokholm as they apparently try to build a shooting bear.

Dulin, Tucker / Ben Owen: Cat Guarding Geese
Dulin, Tucker / Ben Owen:
Cat Guarding Geese

(erstwhile -- USA )


Price: $14.95    




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An electroacoustic composition of environment & sound punctuated with subtle percussion and electronic interventions, developed from field recordings, performances on Roosevelt Island, and studio recordings in Brooklyn by the duo of Tucker Dulin on bells, bowl, can, cymbal, lentils, mallet & whistle and Ben Owen on paper mic, speaker boxes, op amps & cassette.

Estamos Trio (McDonas / Escobar / Tamez): Dire Warning
Estamos Trio (McDonas / Escobar / Tamez):
Dire Warning

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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Highlighting issues between the US & Mexican borders, Thollem McDonas' Estamos Trio presents their 2nd album, here with Carmina Escobar (vocals, electronics, guitarron), Milo Tamez (percussion, found objects, electronics) and Thollem (keyboard, vocals, clay pot) in a work commissioned by and recorded at the 2018 "Casa Tomada" (House Taken Over) in Santa Fe for SITE.

Frasch, Heather / Ryoko Akama: Linking
Frasch, Heather / Ryoko Akama:
Linking

(Ftarri / Meenna -- Japan )


Price: $9.50    




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US sound artists Heather Frasch and UK Ryoko Akama, who together run the mumei journal exploring the relationship between text and sound, in works commissioned by Bruno Duplant based on written texts, each interpreted, recorded and edited by the other using objects, field recordings, electronics, cello & voice, with one piece from Frasch and two versions from Akama.

Hetu, Joane: La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments D'humus
Hetu, Joane:
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments D'humus

(Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada )


Price: $14.95    




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An amazing journey in sound and voice from saxophonist/vocalist Joane Hetu with five singers/narrators/musicians/noise-makers and layered field recordings, a remarkable and sophisticated work about sex, loss, death, art, & politics.

Hetu, Joane: Recits de Neige
Hetu, Joane:
Recits de Neige

(Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada )


Price: $14.95    




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Pieces in 4 movements - Snow; Never Cold; Gusts; Landscapes - performed by Ensemble SuperMusique: Joane Hetu, Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Pierre Tanguay, Scott Thomson & Alexandre St-Onge.

Hirose, Junji: SSI-7
Hirose, Junji:
SSI-7

(Hitorri -- Japan )


Price: $14.95    




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Known mostly as a saxophonist on the Japanese improvised music scene, Junji Hirose has also released a series of albums using self-made analog noise instruments, here using a device where balls and small objects are placed on a large, shallow, round metal plate and moved by a compressor, here in four tracks with different objects and one with no objects at all.

Katarsis4 (Bizys / Janonis / Pancerovas / Jusinskas): Katarsis4
Katarsis4 (Bizys / Janonis / Pancerovas / Jusinskas):
Katarsis4

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $14.95    




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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.

Monteiro, Alfredo Costa : Um Em Um
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa :
Um Em Um

(Monotype -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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An unusual release from the accordion, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, placed microphones in a way to enhance the harmonics and all the particularities of every sound, layering slowly moving tones and their harmonic interaction, allowing unexpected details to emerge.

Nous Percons Les Oreilles (Derome / Hetu): Un ideal
Nous Percons Les Oreilles (Derome / Hetu):
Un ideal

(Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada )


Price: $13.95    




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Joane Hetu and Jean Derome formed Nous percons les oreilles 20 years ago, merging their expansive musical interests in idiosyncratic improvisation and orchestration using saxophones & wind instruments, objects, voice, melodica, and piano, here in their 4th astonishing album.

Olive, Tim: Spot of the Foul (total mass retain)
Olive, Tim:
Spot of the Foul (total mass retain)

(845 Audio -- Japan )


Price: $10.95    




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The second-ever solo release from Tim Olive and his first since 2008, in a distinctive set of compositions that layer and superimpose multiple, darkly intense recordings of improvisations made with magnetic pickups, metal plates, springs, wire, tuning forks, electromagnets, bow, breath, dental floss, envelope generator, fuzz, spring reverb, and preamplifier.

Pederneschi, Alberto: Microcosmo
Pederneschi, Alberto:
Microcosmo

(FMR -- UK )


Price: $12.95    




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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.

Souchal / Nick / Lazro / Cappozzo: Neigen
Souchal / Nick / Lazro / Cappozzo:
Neigen

(Ayler -- France )


Price: $11.00    




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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.

Ulher, Birgit / Damon Smith / Chris Cogburn: The Eternity-Cult
Ulher, Birgit / Damon Smith / Chris Cogburn:
The Eternity-Cult

(Balance Point Acoustics -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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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.

Various Artists: 20 Jahre Inventionen VI
Various Artists:
20 Jahre Inventionen VI

(Edition Rz -- Germany )


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New Pricing April 2019: Recordings from the Berlin Inventionen Festivals for New Music 2005 and 2006 featuring compositions by Edgar Barroso ("ODD"); Mario Verandi ("Comme un jeu des images"); Paul Wilson ("Trhough the Rain"); Ricardo Climent ("Wallwoodpeckers"); Vladimir Djambazov ("The Secret Life of a Snare Drum"); and Ludger Brummer ("Glasharle").

Various Artists: Kraakgeluiden: Document 1
Various Artists:
Kraakgeluiden: Document 1

(Unsounds -- The Netherlands )


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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.

Nakajima, Rie / Takahiro Kawaguchi: Utsuho [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
Nakajima, Rie / Takahiro Kawaguchi:
Utsuho [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

(Tsss Tapes -- Italy )


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Rapid and lucid activity of mechanical and organic activity, a mad mechanism under the control of master machinists perking the ears in inexplicable ways, from the collaboration of Japanese sound artists Rie Nakajima and Takahiro Kawaguchi, their uncredited sources seemingly a mix of motors, bells, squeaky toys, material flurries, whistles, &c. &c.; playfully fascinating.

Terrazas, Wilfrido / Mariana Carvalho / Abdul Moimeme : Livro das Grutas
Terrazas, Wilfrido / Mariana Carvalho / Abdul Moimeme :
Livro das Grutas

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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A uniquely configured electroacoustic trio recording live in the studio in Lisbon in 2018 between Mexican flutist and founding member of the improv collective Generación Espontánea, Wilfrido Terrazas, and Portuguese improvisers Mariana Carvalho on prepared piano and Abdul Moimeme using two electric guitars and objects, balancing introspective moments with periods of uninhibited excitement.

One Small Step (Janne Eraker / Vegar Vardal / Roger Arntzen): Gol Variations
One Small Step (Janne Eraker / Vegar Vardal / Roger Arntzen):
Gol Variations

(Clean Feed -- Portugal )


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A truly unique improvisational setting between three Norwegian artists--inspired tap dancer JanneEraker, fiddle player and vocalist Vegar Vardal and double bassist Roger Arntzen--finding an exuberant excitement through the percussion of body movement, strange and slippery vocalizations and two emphatic strings; virtually indescribable and absolutely enthralling.

Davies, Angharad / Rie Nakajima / Alice Purton: Dethick
Davies, Angharad / Rie Nakajima / Alice Purton:
Dethick

(Another Timbre -- UK )


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Three free improvising women--Angharad Davies, Rie Nakajima, and Alice Purton--met in the church in the tiny hamlet of Dethick, near Matlock, Derbyshire, over the course of two days developing the ten pieces of this album using an impressive set of stringed and percussive instruments, objects, and mysterious sources to create these fascinating sonic evocations.

Fenaison: Plat
Fenaison:
Plat

(Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada )


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Mixing backgrounds from impprov, electronics, composition, noise & contemporary performance, Fenaison explore texturally driven dynamic improvisations.

Flunger, Elisabeth / Tomas Tello: Labor
Flunger, Elisabeth / Tomas Tello:
Labor

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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Electricity and metal trash object meet in a banging and sparking session of minimal improvisation from percussionist Elisabeth Flunger and electronic artist Tomas Tello.

Freedman, Lori: 3
Freedman, Lori:
3

(Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada )


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Clarinetist Lori Freedman brought together 3 distinct trios over the course of 3 consecutive nights with a total of 6 other Montreal musicians for live encounters of improvisation.

Ganga, Arvind / Riccardo Marogna: Ballads From The Wrecked Ship
Ganga, Arvind / Riccardo Marogna:
Ballads From The Wrecked Ship

(A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium )


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A uniquely voiced duo album from Netherlands improvisers, electric guitarist Arvind Ganga and sax & bass clarinetist Riccardo Marogna also performing on electronics, taking their dialog into unusual territory while maintaining a clear thread on jazz-influenced modes, creating an exotic combination that often takes unexpected narrative turns; fascinating.

Homler, Anna / Geert Waegeman / Pavel Fajt / Koen Van Roy : Corne De Vache
Homler, Anna / Geert Waegeman / Pavel Fajt / Koen Van Roy :
Corne De Vache

(Les Disques Victo -- Canada )


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Muntzing, Herman: DeConstruCt (10 Solo Pieces)
Muntzing, Herman:
DeConstruCt (10 Solo Pieces)

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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Ossatura: Verso
Ossatura:
Verso

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


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Rammel, Hal: The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures [BOOK + 2 CDS]
Rammel, Hal:
The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures [BOOK + 2 CDS]

(Penumbra -- USA )


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A book and 2 CDs celebrating the 25th anniversary of this unusual and fascinating musical instrument designed and built by Hal Rammel, an artist's palette outfitted with a contact mic and vertically-mounted rods, played with a variety of uniquely designed bows and mallets.

Schick, Ignaz  / Dawid Szczesny: The View Underneath
Schick, Ignaz / Dawid Szczesny:
The View Underneath

(Non Visual Objects (NVO) -- Austria )


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Turntablist/sine wave artist Ignaz Schnick with laptop artist Dawid Szczesny in a series of minimalist recordings created around live performances in Wroclaw and Germany.

Schiller, Christoph: Variations
Schiller, Christoph:
Variations

(Another Timbre -- UK )


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Christoph Schiller's first solo work for spinet, amplified objects and piano, using a simple but brilliant structure which combines improvised pieces in a unique chain-like pattern of repetition and development.

Schliemann, Wolfgang / Vorveld, Michael: alle neune: rheinländer partie
Schliemann, Wolfgang / Vorveld, Michael:
alle neune: rheinländer partie

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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Cornford / Rodgers: Turned Moment, weighting
Cornford / Rodgers:
Turned Moment, weighting

(Another Timbre -- UK )


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Sound artist Stephen Cornford performs realtime feedback treatment of pianist Samuel Rodgers, creating tense and spacious sound works, intensifying Rodgers' sparse keyboard work.

Octante (Barberan / Monteiro / Fages / Garcia): lunula
Octante (Barberan / Monteiro / Fages / Garcia):
lunula

(Another Timbre -- UK )


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Four Barcelona musicians on the cutting edge of contemporary electroacoustic improvisation in their second release, recording at ca l'escuder in 2008.

Playbackers (Silbert / Foam / Young): Playbackers Record [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
Playbackers (Silbert / Foam / Young):
Playbackers Record [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Tripticks Tapes -- USA )


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Recording to 4 track cassette, this unusual and experimental Boston-area trio of active sound artists--Stella Silbert, Arkm Foam and Neil 'Cloaca' Young--improvise over abstract territory using turntables, a no-input mixer, objects, an open reel tape machine, contact mics, and cassette players, emerging with equally tongue-in-cheek and serious aural interactions.

Lindorff-Ellery, Evan: Swollen Air [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
Lindorff-Ellery, Evan:
Swollen Air [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]

(Tripticks Tapes -- USA )


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Kingston, NY sound artist and media artist Evan Lindorff-Ellery recorded these two experimental improvisations in the summer of 2021 in a small cabin in West Saugerties, NY using electric guitar, contact mic, amp, recordings and various objects, while also repurposing recordings made while in Maine by running them through his electric guitar.

Reineke, Markus / Jukka-Pekka Kervinen: Einhegung
Reineke, Markus / Jukka-Pekka Kervinen:
Einhegung

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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Eight free improvisations from the German duo of Markus Reineke on contrabass, bass recorder, objects & electronics, and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen on electric guitar, violin, virtual bass clarinet & electronics, creating an unusual language that merges electronics with acoustic instrumentation in quirky yet natural ways, each track named impressionistically.

Kravanja, Ana / Elisabeth Harnik: Vrtinci Minljivosti = Vortices Of Impermanence
Kravanja, Ana / Elisabeth Harnik:
Vrtinci Minljivosti = Vortices Of Impermanence

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


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The working duo of Slovenian violinist Ana Kravanja and Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik present nine dialogs of freely improvised playing that draws on contemporary composition, using their primary instruments along with preparations, objects, frame drums, voice and ringing stones, a mood of tense mystery and wonder pervading their excellent and unusual discourse.

Euphotic (Bryan Day / Tom Djll / Cheryl E. Leonard): Isopleths
Euphotic (Bryan Day / Tom Djll / Cheryl E. Leonard):
Isopleths

(Public Eyesore -- USA )


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A fascinating trio of West Coast sonic explorers exploring the isopleth, the zone of seawater that receives enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur, from improvising trumpeter Tom Djll employing electronics with his horn, Bryan Day on invented instruments, and Cheryl Leonard using natural objects including driftwood, feathers, marsh reeds, penguin bones, &c.

Lauzier, Philippe / Carlo Costa: Interspace
Lauzier, Philippe / Carlo Costa:
Interspace

(Tour de Bras / Inexhaustible Editions -- Canada )


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After performing together in Canada beginning in 2019, bass clarinetist & electronic artist Philippe Lauzier and NY percussionist Carl Costa remained in contact during the pandemic by exchanging compositional concepts, the 4-part "Sincronica Vaga" and "Soft Routine" the results, the former based on dovetailing motives, the latter on harmonic counterpoint interaction.

Glass Triangle (Zeena Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer): Blue and Sun-lights
Glass Triangle (Zeena Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer):
Blue and Sun-lights

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


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Recorded after a three-day series of concerts at New York City's venue The Stone, the trio of Zeena Parkins on electric harp & objects, Mette Rasmussen on saxophone, objects & voice and Ryan Sawyer on drums & objects brought their dynamic and far-ranging approach to collective free improv into Brooklyn's Figure 8 studio to capture these 10 extraordinary recordings.

Normal (Fred Frith / Sudhu Tewari): Moving Parts
Normal (Fred Frith / Sudhu Tewari):
Moving Parts

(fo'c'sle -- USA )


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A perfectly complementary pair of improvisers from the ever-inventive guitarist Fred Frith and instrument inventor Sudhu Tewari, Frith performing on home-made instruments as well-- string instruments he's developed since the 80s described as "planks of wood with strings"--as the two draw unexpected sonic environments and propulsive rhythmic passages through eight compelling dialogs.



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