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Schwerdt, Oliver / Barry Guy / Baby Sommer: Fucking Ballads (Euphorium -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock An enthusiastic and energetically powerful trio meeting between three masters--Oliver Schwerdt on grand piano & percussion, Barry Guy on double bass and Baby Sommer on drums & percussion--performing live in 2021 at naTo, in Leipzig for two extended improvisations of remarkable communication, incredible virtuosity, but most importantly, incredible and compelling creative drive! |
Remote Viewers, The: Inside The Blizzard / Trivia (Remote Viewers -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock UK Composer David Pett's Remote Viewers present two large works: "Inside the Blizzard" in five parts of configurations from solo to quintet; and "Trivia", a quintet work in eight parts; solid, compelling work of forceful confidence from members Adrian Northover, Sue Lynch, Caroline Krabbel & Petts on sax, John Edwards on bass, Hutch Demouilpied on trumpet and Rosa Theodora on piano. |
Duplant, Bruno / Rutger Zuydervelt: Edge Of Oblivion (Machinefabriek -- Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock The third collaboration between sound and electronic artists Bruno Duplant and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) is a darkly heavy and dramatic work of subtle motion that slowly unfolds and shifts through vast sonic environments, fueled by acousmatic sources that take the listener to the edge of darkness and then pulls them back in warm waves or rich ambiance. |
Butcher, John + 13: Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Commissioned for the 2021 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, John Butcher's fantastic work for 14 improvisers of unique approach employs what Butcher refers to as "psychological orchestration"--imagining how each performer might respond to particular ideas & their sonic company--the score, which includes photographic imagery, directing specific solos, duos & small groupings. |
Hanes, Simon: Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Drawing on a far-ranging set of influences--jazz, rock, contemporary, surf & exotica--California-born improvising guitarist Simon Hanes (of Trigger, who covered Zorn's Bagatelles) now resides in NYC, appropriately releasing an album of eclectic, generally upbeat, sometimes quirky, typically melodic instrumentals performed with an octet ensemble of incredible musicianship. |
Lennon, Sean Ono: Asterisms [VINYL] (Tzadik -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock The chameleonic styles of Sean Ono Lennon are in full force on this instrumental record, merging rock, jazz, experimental and cinematic styles in captivating ways, performed with the spectacular ensemble of Devon Hoff (bass), Yuka Honda (electronics), Johnny Mathar (drums), João Nogueira (Wurlitzer), Ches Smith (drums), Michael Leonhart (trumpet) & Mauro Refosco (percussion). |
Phantom Orchard (Ikue Mori / Zeena Parkins): Hit Parade of Tears (Tzadik -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Distilling their ensemble to its original duo configuration, New York improvisers Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori reflect on the stories of Japanese author Izumi Suzuki through ten mysteriously eclectic and beautifully developed compositions of harp (acoustic and electric), electronics, percussion, harmonium, ondes martenot, and much more; wonderful, imaginative and evocative work. |
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, A Higher Consciousness Of Sound And Spirit (Spiritmuse Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Celebrating 50 years, percussionist Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble as the trio of El'Zabar, Corey Wilkes (trumpet) and Alex Harding (bar. sax), joined on tracks by James Sanders (violin) and Ishmael Ali (cello), reinterpret classics including "Great Black Music", "Ornette" and Aretha Franklin's "Compared to What", along with Miles' "All Blues" and McCoy Tyner's "Passion Dance". |
Braxton, Anthony: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (New Braxton House -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $108.00 In Stock Documenting six live performances with Anthony Braxton's Lorraine Trio featuring trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, accordionist/vocalist Adam Matlock, and Anthony Braxton, plus four studio recordings featuring Braxton, saxophonist James Fei, and bassists Zach Rowden and Carl Testa, in a solid box set of 10 CDs in five gatefold wallets with a 28 page booklet of notes by Anthony Braxton. |
Paccione, Paul: Distant Musics (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Influenced by the New York School of composers (Cage, Feldman, &c.), composer Paul Paccione revisits and revises five of his compositions written 40 years prior, performed by a 10-piece configuration of London's Apartment House; beautifully contemplative pieces linked together through common threads, the momentum of individual moments absorbed by the presence of the larger work. |
Rempis / Karayorgis / Heinemann / Harris: Truss (Driff Records & Aerophonics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Three label leaders come together for this extraordinary 2023 concert at Elastic Arts in Chicago--Aerophonic's Dave Rempis on alto, tenor & baritone saxophones; Driff Records' Pandelis Karayorgis on piano; Amalgam Records' Bill Harris on drums--along with bassist Jakob Heinmann, this exceptional free jazz performance cementing the bond between Boston and Chicago with a hope for more! |
Banabila, Michel: The Unreal Realm (Tapu Records -- Netherlands ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock A collection of works from Netherlands composer Michel Banabila, including a piece developed with saxophonist Dave Liebman and previously released only digitally; a work with Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek); a work with Pierre Bastien; and excerpts from scores for Yin Yue's choreography in two works: "Somewhere" for New York Live Arts and "Timeless Tide" for BalletMet. |
Futterman, Joel: Perspicacity (Soul City Sounds -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Five extended improvised piano solos from Joel Futterman recording in his home base of Virginia Beach, each an incredible journey in free playing that quotes and comments on the history of jazz piano, living up to the album's title through insight, perceptiveness, wit and intuition, Futterman's technique and mastery expressing narratives of amazing confidence and solid direction. |
JAKAL (Fred Lonberg-Holm / Keefe Jackson / Julian Kirshner): Peroration (Amalgam -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Formerly known as J@K@L, this Chicago trio has explored hard hitting improvisation since 2014, the band name an amalgamation of the performer's names--Keefe Jackson on tenor & sopranino saxophone & tube, Julian Kirshner on drums and Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, tenor guitar and electronics--in a dynamic and exciting 2022 concert at Elastic Arts, in Chicago. |
Chorale Joker / Ensemble SuperMusique: Demantibule•es (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Merging members of Ensemble SuperMusique with a subset of the ensemble Chorale Joker, Joane Hétu presents four premieres that explore our experiences during the pandemic, SuperMusique focused on electronics and synthetic instruments and offset by a wind quintet, the music and vocal interactions often explosive, reflecting on our mental states during an overwhelming cultural malady. |
Migone, Christof / Alexandre St-Onge: undoundone (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Since 1997 the duo of Montreal sonic experimenters Christof Migone and Alexandre St-Onge, both members of Klaxon Gueule, have performed under the name "Undo", here declaring themselves "undone", presenting nine tracks of of live & studio recordings from 1997-2013 of often bizarre yet ever innovative cracked electronics, acoustics, voice, and inexplicable sound; weird and wonderful! |
Hetu, Joane / Ensemble SuperMusique: Monnomest (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A fascinating work dedicated to improvising cellist Remy Belanger de Beauport written by Montreal composer Joane Hétu and performed by the large Ensemble SuperMusique with Jean Derome, Lori Freedman, Scott Thomson, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger, Pierre Tanguay, &c., commissioned and performed for the Ensemble's 40th anniversary and expanded for this studio edition. |
Fowler, Chad / Shanyse Strickland / Sana Nagano / Melanie Dyer / Ken Filiano / Anders Griffen: Birdsong (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Highlighting the parallel to changes in birdsong in urban areas because of anthropogenic ambient noise, this diverse ensemble demonstrates the evolution of improv approaches through unique origins and backgrounds; with Chad Fowler (stritch, flute), Shanyse Strickland (French Horn), Sana Nagano (violin), Melanie Dyer (viola), Ken Filiano (bass) and Anders Griffen (drums). |
Evans, Peter Being & Becoming (Evans / Ross / Jozwiak / Ode): Ars Memoria [VINYL 180gm + DOWNLOAD] (More Is More -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock The second album from New York trumpeter Peter Evan's band Being and Becoming stretches out his concepts in five extended works that dovetails superb contemporary jazz — integrating extended techniques and solid vibraphone work — with beautifully rich and explorative passages, masterfully performed with Joel Ross (vibes), Nick Jozwiak (bass) and Michael Shekwoaga (drums). |
Evans, Peter Being & Becoming (Evans / Ross / Jozwiak / Ode): Ars Memoria (More Is More -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The second album from New York trumpeter Peter Evan's band Being and Becoming stretches out his concepts in five extended works that dovetails superb contemporary jazz — integrating extended techniques and solid vibraphone work — with beautifully rich and explorative passages, masterfully performed with Joel Ross (vibes), Nick Jozwiak (bass) and Michael Shekwoaga (drums). |
Void Patrol (Sharp / Stetson / Martin / MacDonald): Live @ Victo (Victo -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A wild and adventurous concert and one of the highlights of the 39th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville from the electric improvising quartet of Elliott Sharp on electric guitar & electronics, Colin Stetson on bass, alto & tenor saxophones, Billy Martin on drums & percussion and Payton Macdonald on marimba, vibraphone & African xylophone. |
Johansson, Sven-Ake / Alexander Von Schlippenbach: uber Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel [VINYL 2 LPs & PAL DVD] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $89.95 In Stock Documenting the 1994 avant music drama composed by pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and accordionist Sven-Ake Johansson, uber Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel (on the cause and effect of the disagreements over the building of the Tower of Babel) through a double LP, DVD, libretto and 16-page booklet in a solid box set. |
Leandre, Joelle / Pascal Contet: Miniatures (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock A collaboration that goes back 30 years, French improvising bassist Joëlle Léandre and avant accordionist Pascal Contet in their fifth album together, turning from their more typically extended conversations to a series of 10 "Miniatures", shorter and diverse dialogs recorded live in 2022 at the beautiful Arsenal Concert Hall in Metz, France. |
Friedl / Siewert: Lichtung (KARLRECORDS -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Zeitkratzer director and pianist Reinhold Friedl meets with Martin Siewert (Radian, Fake the Facts, Dry Thrust) for three improvised explorations on piano, guitar and electronics, through the course of powerful transitions building from deep introspection into prickly, bellicose interaction, yielding to a brooding finale of subtle electronics and punctuation; profound. |
Lokkegaard, Niels Lyhne / Quatuor Bozzini: Colliding Bubbles (Important Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Copenhagen composer Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard's long form work refers to units of compositional structure in systems of instruments, each a "bubble" that interacts and collides creating fluctuations, ruptures and tension release in an hypnotic sonic tapestry, performed by Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini on violins, viola, cellos and harmonica; mesmerizing. |
Koglmann, Franz: Near Blue - A Taste of Melancholy (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Presented in two versions--a stereo mix and a binaural mix for headphones--flugelhorn improviser and composer Franz Koglmann leads his septet of exceptional players through 10 original Koglmann compositions, sophisticated works that show influences from Ellington to Franz Joseph Haydn or Johann Strauss, in pieces influenced by or tipping the hat to modern artists, musicians and writers. |
Mingus, Charles: Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Three sides of Charles Mingus in this remastered reissue set: the 1961 Candid album Mingus Presents Mingus with the classic quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond; then the Mercury release Pre-Bird from the same year, in ensembles performing the music of or influenced by Duke Ellington, along with the ambitious and brilliant through-composed work, "Half Mast Inhibition". |
Gregorio / Smith / Bryerton: The Cold Arrow (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The second trio release from clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio, double bassist Damon Smith and Jerome Bryerton on gongs, selected metal & cymbals (but no drums), in a sophisticated album of eight collective improvisations numbered as "The Planar Effect" and two Gregorio compositions, an absolutely impressive set that obscures the line between "spontaneous" and "composition". |
Ensemble SuperMusique : Musiques Emeraude (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An overview of Montreal's Ensemble Supermusique celebrating their 40th anniversary, drawing on works from founders Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, and Danielle Palardy Roger and their projects including Wondeur Brass, Les Poules, Justine, &c., realized by 40 instrumentalists in 8 groups of 3 to 8 players; masterful sophistication with a sense of humor and wonder — exceptionnelle! |
Ughi, Federico (w / Leo Genovese / Brandon Lopez): Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 [VINYL] (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $20.70 In Stock The first album under 577 label leader and drummer Federico Ughi's name in five years brings together the incredible bass skills of Brandon Lopez and expansive Argentinean keyboard sonics of Leo Genovese, the first of two planned volumes recorded in the studio for a boundary-less album of acoustic and electric improv influenced by the music and philosophy of Sun Ra. |
Ughi, Federico (w / Leo Genovese / Brandon Lopez): Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock The first album under 577 label leader and drummer Federico Ughi's name in five years brings together the incredible bass skills of Brandon Lopez and expansive Argentinean keyboard sonics of Leo Genovese, the first of two planned volumes recorded in the studio for a boundary-less album of acoustic and electric improv influenced by the music and philosophy of Sun Ra. |
Derome, Jean: La Chaleur De La Pensee (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Concepts of community, dialog, sharing and transmission, or "recontre", are the linking ideas between these four works commissioned of Montreal composer and wind player Jean Derome, developed for four Quebec ensembles, these pieces combine contemporary and improvisational forms, the scores shaped by constraints from the combinatorial mathematics of Marin Mersenne. |
Brotzmann, Peter / Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo [VINYL] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $35.05 In Stock Often performing together as a duo after their initial 2004 Chicago Tentet encounter, drummer/percussionist Paal Nilssen and multi-reedist Peter Brötzmann typically released albums of live performances, this 2015 studio date in Antwerp unique in their catalog, an exemplary set of recordings, particularly with Brötzmann on a new contra-alto clarinet and Paal adding gongs to their improvisations. |
Brotzmann, Peter / Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock Often performing together as a duo after their initial 2004 Chicago Tentet encounter, drummer/percussionist Paal Nilssen and multi-reedist Peter Brötzmann typically released albums of live performances, this 2015 studio date in Antwerp unique in their catalog, an exemplary set of recordings, particularly with Brötzmann on a new contra-alto clarinet and Paal adding gongs to their improvisations. |
Williams, Mars presents (w/ Berman / Lonberg-Holm / Baker / Kessler / Sandstrom / Hunt): An Ayler Xmas: The Music of Albert Ayler & Songs of Christmas (Soul What Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Chicago saxophonist Mars Williams directs his Albert Ayler tribute band, Witches and Devils, to merge Ayler-esque compositions with Christmas songs, performed by Josh Berman (cornet) Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Jim Baker (keys, viola), Kent Kessler (bass), Brian Sandstrom (bass, guitar, trumpet); an unexpected and welcome present for your free jazz festivities! |
Boneshaker (Williams / Nilssen-Love / Kessler): Fake Music (Soul What Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Masterful, fervent free jazz from trans-Atlantic trio of Mars Williams on saxophones, Kent Kessler on bass, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, captured live at Elastic Arts, in Chicago in 2017 for three impressive collective improvisations of intense energy, articulate and extended expression, and ecstatic improvisation in an exceptional and cohesive concert. |
Perelman, Ivo / Mark Helias / Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Meeting at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, the NY trio of Ivo Perelman on tenor saxophone, Mark Helias on bass and Tom Rainey on drums record seven collective free improvisations of great depth and expression, unhurried playing that concentrates on the group dialog, yielding space for exceptional soloing supported by perceptive interaction; masterful! |
Dunmall, Paul / Paul Rogers / Marc Sanders: Wildlife (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A wildly explorative and masterful studio encounter for three of the UK's most well-known and well-recorded improvisers--Paul Dunmall on tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet & flute; Paul Rogers on 7-string double bass; and Mark Sanders on drums--in four collective improvisations that run the gamut from explosive to introspective conversation; ferocious! |
Scratching Fork (Malinowski / Rychlicki / Zadruzynski): Scratching Fork II (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The 2nd album from the Polish guitar trio of Marek Malinowski on guitar, Robert Rychlicki-Gasowski on double bass & bass guitar, and Wojciech Zadruaynski on drums, performing Malinowski's embraceable mix of lyrically inclined modern jazz compositions with an explorative side, balancing structure with free space for sprightly spontaneity, a beautiful followup. |
Smith, Wadada Leo / Joe Morris: Earth's Frequencies (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Delicately forceful, the live concert at Real Art Ways, in Hartford, Connecticut as part of the ImprovisatioNOW concert series, is a perfect encounter between two legendary New York improvisers--trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Joe Morris--capturing five dialogs of impressive technique and creative expression, including references to Monk and Ma Rainey. |
Hood, Susanna Trio: unPacked (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock In the footsteps of the band for which she's the vocalist — Scott Thomason's The Rent paying homage to the music of Steve Lacy — Montreal vocalist and movement performer Susan Hood steps out on her own to merge the words of German poet Judith Malina, who influenced Lacy and Irene Aebi's "Cycle of Jazz Art Songs", with Steve Lacy's exuberant music, for a captivating and sincere pairing. |
Ensemble SuperMusique: Le fil d'Ariane (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Featuring works premiered at the ESM concert "Zigzague and Colore" in November 2022 in Montreal at Escape Orange - Edifice Wilder - Espace Danse, this exceptional concert of Montreal's premiere improvising Ensemble SuperMusique presents the works of three female composers--Elizabeth Millar, Laura Kavanaugh, and Danielle Palardy Roger--through a variety of graphic scores. |
Elliott Sharp: SysOrk: Occam's Machete (zOaR Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Assembling a world-class ensemble of 24 string players drawing from the Quartets JACK, Sirius, Flux, and Bergamot, here performing as SysOrk, Elliott Sharp's large-scale algorithmic composition provides simple instructions to the participants, creating a seething sonic tapestry of shifting, swirling tones and acoustic drones, exceptionally immersive and detailed. |
PNY Quintet (Swell / Brown / Edelin / Giron / Betsch): Over The Wall (RogueArt -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock While NY trombonist Steve Swell and alto saxophonist Rob Brown were in Paris, flutist Michel Edelin, who has recorded and performed with Swell over more than a decade, organized this session with Paris-based American ex-pats, drummer John Betsch and bassist Peter Giron, recording three Swell compositions, two by Brown, one from Edelin and four collective improvisations; magnifique! |
NRG Ensemble (directed by Mars Williams): Hold That Thought (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The 1st of three archival albums from saxophonist Mars Williams' vaults, this 1996 concert in Utrecht with the NRG Ensemble--the band that Williams' carried forward after Hal Russell's passing in 1992--in an unrestrained concert of original material from Williams and fellow saxophonist Ken Vandermark, with Kent Kessler on bass, Steve Hunt on drums, and Brian Sandstrom on bass, guitar & trumpet. |
Williams, Mars / Hamid Drake: I Know You Are But What Am I? (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The second of three archival albums from late saxophonist Mars Williams' vaults, this 1996 recording is a rare duet with Chicago drummer Hamid Drake, and is also one of the first concerts of the Empty Bottle Jazz and Improvised Music series, a diverse set of four improvisations marked by energetic enthusiasm, doubling of reeds, and wild playing from both. |
Friends & Neighbors (Roligheten / Johansson / Gronberg / Strom / Ostvang): Circles (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An exuberant album of modern jazz from the Norwegian quintet of Andre Roligheten on tenor saxophone, Thomas Johansson on trumpet, Oscar Gronberg on piano, Jon Rune Strom on double bass and Tollef Ostvang on drums & percussion, their 6th full album of lyrically rich, energetic free jazz taking the 60's & 70s New Thing movement into new modern directions; excellent! |
Doronzo, Giuseppe / Andy Moor / Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Having worked together in other collaborations, this was the first meeting as a trio by Giuseppe Doronzo on baritone sax & Iranian bagpipe, Andy Moor on electric guitar and Frank Rosaly on drums, performing live at BIMHUIS in Amsterdam for a contemplatively charged set of unorthodox instrumental approaches using contemporary improv attitudes through structured and collective playing. |
Cambien, Jonas: Maca Conu (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Commissioned by Norway's Motvind festival, Belgian-born, Oslo-based composer & keyboardist Jonas Cambien takes a sly approach to his compositions, incorporating contemporary & experimental forms with solid free jazz playing, performed with drummer Andreas Wildhagen, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, saxophonist Signe Emmeluth and guest trombonist Guro Kvale (Scheen Jazzorkester). |
Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks - Music by Thomas Johansson (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Merging jazz organizations, Norwegian trumpeter & composer Thomas Johansson brings together the third stream large band Scheen Jazzorkester with the electric jazz band Cortex (Kristoffer Alberts (baritone & tenor saxophone), Ola Høyer (double bass) and Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (drums)), for a rousing, exciting and diverse live concert at Hamar Teater in Norway. |
Guionnet / La Casa / Samartzis / Warburton: Parking (Collection Paris) (Swarming -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Two improvisations by saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet & violinist Dan Warburton recorded in Paris & Melbourne parking garages 14 years apart, registering the behavior and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound within these unique spaces, edited by Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis as a 4-channel master by synchronizing two sets of independent stereo recordings. |
Rodrigues / Lonberg-Holm / Hencleeday / Oliveira: Uncommon Statement (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Two unique string players--Lisbon's Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Chicago's Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello--with pianist Andre Hencleeday and percussionist Jose Oliveira, in an exhilarating concert of dynamic free improvisation captured live in 2023 at Lisboa Incomum in Lisbon, presented as two "Statements", an apt description of their confident and declarative interplay. |
Rodrigues / Parrinha / Flak / Levine: Quadruple Quadrature Questions (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock While theremin & synth specialist Andrew Levine was on a 2023 tour of Portugal he met with a core trio of Creative Sources improvisers--Ernesto Rodrigues on viola & Crackle Box, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet & objects, Flak on electric guitar & effects--meeting in Flak's countryside studio for one detailed, extensive improvisation and 6 short works of differing sonic characters and colour. |
Smith, Ches: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A stunning album that effortlessly blends styles from jazz, electronics, minimalism and contemporary forms, rendered by an eclectic group of primarily NY artists including Nate Wooley, Jennifer Choi, James Brandin Lews, Oscar Noriega, Anna Webber, Shahzad Ismaily and Smith himself, in an exhilarating and well-balanced set of Smith compositions that inform and groove spectacularly! |
Laubrock, Ingrid (w/ Jon Irabagon / Zeena Parkins / Tom Rainey): Monochromes (Intakt -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Saxophonist & composer Ingrid Laubrock's quartet with Jon Irabagon on sopranino sax, Zeena Parkins on electric harp and Tom Rainey on drums, in a work of conventional and graphic notation with text instructions, accompanied by fixed media tape pieces (monochromes), from Nate Wooley, Adam Matlock, Tom Rainey, and by JD Allen, David Breskin & Ingrid Laubrock manipulating Harry Bertoia sculptures. |
Frith, Fred: Guitar Solos/Fifty [VINYL 2 LPs] (Week-End Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $53.05 In Stock While still a member of Henry Cow, guitarist Fred Frith released his first solo album simply titled Guitar Solos in 1974, a remarkable album of expression through preparations, treatments and effects; 50 years later Frith expands on that album with new compositions using a similar setup as the original, paired in this 2-LP release with the remastered original album. |
Surplus 1980: Illusion of Consistency [VINYL + CD + DOWNLOAD] (Surplus Industries -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Composed using an "exquisite corpse" method during the pandemic, where each player provided a partially complete track with instructions to expand their concept, enlisting an incredible set of musicians across the US & Europe, directed by Moe! Staiano, including Jesse Quattro, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, GW Sok, Amy X Neuburg, Darren Johnston, &c &c. |
Cassiber: The Cassiber Box redux [6 CDs, 1 DVD and Book] (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $58.45 In Stock Reissuing the 2013 box set of the 1980s UK/Euro improvising rock band Cassiber, including their 4 remastered studio albums + 2 additional CDs, a 2 hour DVD, and a 32-page color book, revealing an amazing band merging experimental rock, fringe jazz, punk, pop, plunderphonics, improvisation, & musique concrete with an energetic and complex form of studio composition - superb! |
Cahen, Robert: La nef des fous [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock Electroacoustic composer Robert Cahen studied at ORTF and CNSM in Paris under Pierre Shaeffer, turning to video work in the 1970s and applying musique concrete concepts to moving image, these compositions recorded at the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 show his mastery over sound and his expressive ability to morph transitions through rich sonic detail. |
Denyer, Frank / Octandre Ensemble: Screens (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock An exceptional collection of works by composer Frank Denyer written between 1973 and 2021, especially the monumental 5-part "Five Views of the Path", performed by the UK Octandre Ensemble led by composer Christian Mason and conductor Jon Hargreaves, which focuses on modern composers with an emphasis on works of timbre and ritual, Denyer's work being an ideal match. |
Fully Celebrated Orchestra (Hobbs / Bynum / Ayers / Gray / Shanko): Sob Story (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Picking up from their last album in 2005, Lapis Exilis, alto saxophonist Jim Hobb's Fully Celebrated Orchestra joyfully returns with a new set of lyrical Hobb's compositions, Timo Shanko still creating a solid bass foundation and Luther Gray taking Django Carranza's place, extending the band with AYCH member Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet and Ian Ayers on guitar. |
Reid / Edwards / Coudoux: Reid / Edwards / Coudoux (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Three innovative cellists at the intersection of improvisation, contemporary compositional and experimental forms — Tomeka Reid from Chicago, Isidora Edwards from Chile and based in London, and Elisabeth Coudoux from Germany — meet in Wiesbaden to record these four multi-layered improvisations merging their unique perspectives with great concentrative expression. |
[ism] (Pat Thomas / Joel Grip / Aontonin Gerbal): Maua (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock Recordings from the Berlin club Au Topsi Pohl where the [ism] piano trio of Pat Thomas on piano, Joel Grip on double bass and Antonin Gerbal on drums played 4-nights in a row, May 18-21, 2022, Thomas performing on a Bösendorfer grand piano, creating an omnipresent and precise sound that drove the band to great heights of interactive, warmly diverse playing. |
Mazurek, Rob Exploding Star Orchestra / Small Unit: Spectral Fiction (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Compressing his Exploding Star Orchestra to a sextet, Chicago trumpeter Rob Mazurek presents two expansive works of ecstatic, exploratory electric and groove-oriented jazz, performed with Damon Locks (voice, electronics), Tomeka Reid (cello), Angelica Sanchez (Wurlitzer electric piano), Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (double bass) and Chad Taylor (drums). |
Kaze (Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura / Christian Pruvost / Peter Orins): Unwritten (Circum-Libra / Libra -- Japan/France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock The Kaze quartet of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, pianist Satoko Fujii, trumpeter & flugelhorn player Christian Pruvost and drummer Peter Orins, continues its avant-embracing and uniquely voiced project with this live performance at Lille, France, an episodic and spontaneously diverse set of three collective improvisations of intuitive, adventurous interaction. |
Gallio, Christoph / Dominic Lash / Mark Sanders : Live At Cafe Oto London (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Joining with two of London's finest free improvisers, Swiss saxophonist Christoph Gallio of DAY & TAXI fame and performing on alto, soprano & c-melody saxophones, meets drummer Mark Sanders and double bassist Dominic Lash at London's Cafe OTO for a remarkable concert of free collective playing in two large works: "Wildlife" in three parts, and "Homelife" in two parts. |
Futterman, Joel / Michael Wimberly: Innerpause (Creation Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The result of two formidably versatile improvisers--pianist Joel Futterman and drummer/percussionist Michael Wimberly--meeting in Futterman's home city of Virginia Beach for a session of collective, spontaneous improvisation, is this magnificent two-part work released as the unedited live first takes, an epic journey through masterful technique and compelling expression. |
Fujii, Satoko Tokyo Trio (Fujii / Sugawa / Takemura): Jet Black (Libra -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock A trio of leaders in their own right performing pianist Satoko Fujii's demanding compositions, bassist Takashi Sugawa and drummer Ittetsu Takemura rise to the challenge in a set of six exciting works that push and pull this remarkable piano trio in unexpected directions, responding to the twists and turns of Fujii's intense and intricate directions; superlative! |
Turner, Roger / Otomo Yoshihide: The Last Train (Fataka -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.11 In Stock UK free improvising drummer Roger Turner meets Japanese guitarist Otomo Yoshihide at the Hara Museum, Tokyo in the winter of 2013 for a performance that balances introspective improvisation with assertive and authoritative playing for a captivating and dynamic album. |
Parker, Evan / Seymour Wright: Tie the Stone to the Wheel (Fataka -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A meeting between two accomplished saxophonists recorded live at Kernel Brewery, in London in 2014, and at The Studio in Derby, with Seymour Wright on alto saxophone and Evan Parker on both alto and soprano, criss-crossing and combining in exuberant and astonishing ways. |
Gentile, Kate (w/ Mitchell / Casss / Viner): Find Letter X [3 CDs] (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $23.35 In Stock Three CDs in a beautifully constructed fold-out cross with liner notes and recording data from NY drummer Kate Gentile, in a set of 41 studio recordings with her working band of Matt Mitchell on piano & keys, Kim Cass on acoustic & electric bass and Jeremy Viner on reeds, each disc exploring a distinct yet connected approach to her fascinating compositions and group interaction. |
Fujiwara, Tomas: Pith [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock Drawing on the same trio heard on his RogueArt release, 7 Poets Trio, Boston-born Brooklyn-based composer and drummer Fujiwara presents a set of six sophisticated works along with one collective improvisation, utilizing the unique orchestration of vibraphonist Patricia Brennan and cellist Tomeka Reid to create a diverse set of highly rewarding recordings. |
Edwards / Sanders / Tilbury: A Field Perpetually At The Edge Of Disorder (Fataka -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Three superb London improvisers, two from the new generation of free improv--bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders--in a trio with legendary pianist John Tilbury in a two part work of tension and release, performed live at Cafe Oto in 2013. |
Butcher, John / Thomas Lehn / Matthew Shipp: Tangle (Fataka -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock After "Exta", where saxophonist John Butcher and electronics artist Thomas Lehn met with pianist John Tilbury, the duo now meet with New York pianist Matthew Shipp for a distinct improvisational entanglement of Butcher's dense streams, Lehn's rich sound floor, and Shipp's thick repetitions. |
Butcher, John / Thomas Lehn / John Tilbury: Lights (Fataka -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Recorded for the release concert of their 2013 album Exta, the trio of John Butcher on saxophones, Thomas Lehn on analog synthesizer and John Tilbury on piano captured this extraordinary live concert at Cafe Oto in London, only the second time the group had performed together, recording in two extended sets but segmented into four exceptional and dramatic improvisations. |
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $4.50 In Stock Recorded and mixed on analog tape, MOPDtK combines historical jazz lineage and the 21st century perspective of MOPDtK's members (Jon Irabagon; Ron Stabinsky; Moppa Elliott; Kevin Shea), with each piece dedicated to an individual who influenced their compositional process. |
Butcher, John / Magda Mayas / Tony Buck : Glints [VINYL] (NI-VU-NI-CONNU -- Luxembourg ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $31.45 In Stock The 5th of NI-VU-NI-CONNU's 5-LP John Butcher series and part of a 2 night residency at ausland in Berlin coinciding with his 65th birthday, tenor & soprano saxophonist John Butcher is joined by the long-running duo Spill of pianist Magda Mayas and drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) for two extended works of evolving, absorbing introspection and eruption. |
Gush (Gustafsson / Sandell / Strid): Afro Blue (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock Recorded in 1998 but sounding absolutely modern, exuberant and often explosively inspired, this live recording at Jazzclub Fasching in Stockholm brings the then 10-year collaboration of drummer Raymond Strid, pianist Sten Sandel and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson to ecstatic heights, bridging free jazz forms and rendering Coltranes "Afro Blues" with intense passion. |
Gustafsson, Mats: Hidros 9 Mirrors (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock Forming his NU Ensemble in 1997 to merge free-jazz, improv, noise and contemporary forms, Mats Gustafsson presented Hidros One for 9 improvisers, tape & conductor that same year, progressing over 25 years to this 9th conduction of the Hidros concept in his largest ensemble yet: 25 musicians in two 9-piece ensembles plus soloists, captured live at the 2022 Avant Art Festival in Warsaw, Poland. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Ensemble E: EE Opus One (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock Merging contemporary and traditional instruments, including the spilapipa (a fipple flute), hardanger fiddle, the Bilgoraj suka (a vertical fiddle), alongside prepared piano, organ, trumpet, tuba, baritone sax & voice, Mats Gustafsson's ensemble merges folk, experimental forms, improv & free jazz in a conduction shaped by the participants; absolutely unique & fascinating. |
Armaroli, Sergio / Evan Parker: Dialog (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Recording remotely in a call-and-response, vibraphonist Sergio Armaroli and saxophonist Evan Parker resolved an issue of recording in the same physical space by interleaving recordings of solo improvisations recorded in response to each other's sequential recordings, Armaroli with the 6-part "Two Rooms One Vibraphone" and Parker with the 5-part "Interludes". |
Brice, Olie / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders: Immense Blue (West Hill Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock From the fertile London free improv scene comes this substantial concert recorded at the Vortex Jazz Club in 2022 by the trio of Olie Brice on double bass, Rachel Musson on tenor saxophone and Mark Sanders on drums, three highly compatible players from two generations of improvisers in three extended improvisations of energetic free jazz balanced by contemplative exploration. |
Adam Hopkins: Crickets + Grounded [VINYL 180g] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock 5th anniversary LP reissue of bassist Adam Hopkins' 2018 album, a great example of the Downtown / Brooklyn scene, using jazz as a jumping-off point to merge free playing, fusion, and rock into an enthusiastic and technically brilliant album of original compositions performed with the sextet of Anna Webber, Ed Rosenberg, & Josh Sinton on sax, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar, and Devin Gray on drums. |
ErikM / vrrrbitch : L'Horizon des Evenements (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Like aberrant robots chattering, French sound artist ErikM and Czech multi-instrumentalist Petr Vrba aka vrrrbitch developed these compositions to function like vocal conversations of extreme discourse, set over effected synthetics, disruptions, dark rhythmic pulses and inexplicable sonic digressions, in seven powerfully compulsive quasi-conversations. |
Fishkin, Daniel : Dark Listening [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Taking the viola da gamba and the daxophone into uncharted (dark) territories, composer Daniel Fishkin (who studied with daxophone inventor Hans Racheil) presents four works leveraging interference & frequency patterns, performed with an exceptional set of specialists on each instrument, and Fishkin's own 20-foot long instrument, The Lady's Harp, creating long, sustained tones. |
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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
Coltrane, John Quartet: Newport, New York, Alabama, 1963, Revisited
Sun Ra Arkestra: Nothing is ... Completed & Revisited
Coleman, Ornette: New York Is Now & Love Call, Revisited
Ayler, Albert Quintet 1966: Berlin, Lorrach, Paris & Stockholm. Revisited [2 CDs]
Parker, Charlie : Selections From The DIAL Recordings
Shepp, Archie: Blase And Yasmina Revisited
Parker, Charlie : Selections From The SAVOY Recordings
Coltrane, John Quartet: Song Of Praise, Live New York 1965 Revisited
Taylor, Cecil (w/ Lyons / Dixon / Grimes / Silva / Cyrille): With (Exit) To Student Studies, Revisit