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Frith, Fred: Impur II (ReR/ Fred Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The 2nd part of a composition commissioned by L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne as a 2 year residency and performed by a large group conducted by Frith. |
Granberg, Magnus: Night Will Fade and Fall Apart [2 CDs] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $19.95 In Stock The 6 piece Tya Ensemble of string, piano, percussion and vibraphone performs Swedish composer Magnus Granberg's beautifully delicate and dusky work, conceived from historic and recent song structures and written so that individual parts also may be performed as solo pieces, as heard in an extended ensemble version and four solo and one duo configuration. |
Haino, Keiji / Sumac: Even for just the briefest moment Keep charging this "expiation" Plug in to making it slightly better (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock The second collaboration between the American avant-metal rock trio Sumac of guitarist Aaron Turner, drummer Nick Yacyshyn and bassist Brian Cook with Japanese legendary guitarist and vocalist Keiji Haino finds the quartet settling down from their first blast of an album, here slowly building their heavy feedback-drenched, ponderous and epic music. |
Henry Cow: Box 2: The Road: Volumes 6-10 with DVD (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $84.95 In Stock Henry Cow's early years on the road, live recordings masterfully restored by Bob Drake, including the only known video of Henry Cow in Switzerland - amazing and essential! |
Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire (ReR Megacorp -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Expanding on the history of Henry Cow in new recordings discovered after the 19-CD Cow Redux box, including: a well-recorded concert at the the first Glastonbury Fayre in 1972, the earliest recordings of the quartet of Martin Ditcham, Fred Frith, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson; a 1978 grouping with Phil Minton; unrecorded compositions from 1977 in Bilbao; and a 1976 Chaumont Concert. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 9: Late (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Part of the Henry Cow boxset, now available for individual purchase, compiled from live recordings, radio transcription, or early recordings, remastered and presented to give a complete look at the history of Henry Cow. |
Lindvall, Johan: Solo / Ensemble [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Swedish composer and pianist Johan Lindvall in a series of 27 works performed solo or in an ensemble with Vilde Sandve Alnaes (violin), Kristine Tjogersen(clarinet), Jan Martin Gismervik(percussion), Henrik Munkeby Norstebo(trombone), Ina Sagstuen(voice), & Fredrik Rasten(guitar). |
Masked Pickle (Scemama / Malmendier / Weil): 7 (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A fully free, quirky and marvelous set of virtually indescribable improvisation from the trio of French vocalist Clara Weill (known from her work with Fred Frith), Olivia Scemama on bass and Tom Malmendier on drums, three active international collaborators with powerful technical skills and a strange sense of humor willing to take their music where ever it oddly leads. |
Schwerdt, Oliver: Storming Bauhaus [2 CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Eschewing his many monikers (Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff) pianist Oliver Schwerdt steps away from EUPHORIUM_freakestra, uses his given name, and takes the stage of the Bauhaus building in Dessau where such legends as Fred van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach have played, to record these four exemplary and extended, kinetic & free solo piano improvisations. |
Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora): Learn to Talk [VINYL] (ReR Vinyl -- Italy ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Reissuing the first of two albums from the NY collaboration of guitarist Fred Frith and cellist Tom Cora, both providing vocals, percussion, violin, & bass, in a classic example of Downtown NY genre-merging of improvisation and rock with a vicious edge, in smart songs and even smarter instrumental sections, an insanely inventive and intelligent album as vital now as it was then. |
Skumsnes Moe, Guro / Philippe Petit: Guro Skumsnes Moe & Philippe Petit (Public Eyesore -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Bringing together two noise improvisers and experimenters, Guro Skumsnes Moe from Sult and MoE performing on octabass & electric bass, and Philippe Petit (who has albums on Aural Terrains, Monotype and Bolt) performing on synthesizer and turntables, both also providing vocal utterance, for two thick journeys of twisted, diverse and often deep sonics bridged by an abstract interlude. |
SSL (Gorfinkel, Dale / Robbie Avenaim): Sonic Systems Laboratory (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Two unusual approaches to the vibraphone in a duo--Dale Gorfinkel using the tremolo mechanism, additional motors, bows and creative percussive techniques; and Robbie Avenaim using homemade electronic sticks and vibrating objects to create rhythms and textures. |
Third Coast Ensemble: Wrecks (RogueArt -- Austria ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Merging France's Nautilis Ensemble with musicians from Chicago created this large improvising orchestra, here in a new suite composed by Rob Mazurek and dedicated to Great Lake Michigan and the devestation of thousands of shipwrecks over many centuries, using historical data, first hand accounts of shipwrecks off both shores, magical realism and steampunk aesthetics. |
Mollestad, Hedvig Weejuns: Weejuns (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A new trio from Norwegian improvising rock guitarist Hedvig Mollestad with Supersilent/Elephant9's Ståle Storløkken A new trio from Norwegian improvising rock guitarist Hedvig Mollestad with Supersilent/Elephant9's Ståle Storløkken on bass and drummer Ole Mofjel, in a well-balanced album that brings to mind Crimson, ECM fusion or Mahavishnu/Miles, through a six live performances throughout Norway of burning interaction around introspective sonic environments.and drummer Ole Mofjel, in a well-balanced album that brings to mind Crimson, ECM fusion or Mahavishnu/Miles, through a six live performances throughout Norway of burning interaction around introspective sonic environments. |
Blegvad, Peter : Go Figure (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Peter Blegvad expands his trio with Henry Cow alumni, drummer Chris Cutler and bassist John Greaves, this time with Karen Mantler on keys and chordal instruments, and Bob Drake on guitar, voice and percussion, reworking songs from his solo career and work with Slapp Happy, alongside new numbers of classic Blegvad wordplay, wit, depth and humor; like the label, Recommended! |
Eclectic Maybe Band: Bars Without Measures (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Creating structured works from real time improvisations, Guy Seger's (Univers Zero) large ensemble of absolutely impressive players breaks down to smaller grouping to record the layers of each piece, which Seger then uses as raw material for each finished piece, as elements of rock, jazz, composed, and experimental forms merge into accomplished and engaging compositions. |
Cassiber: The Cassiber Box redux [6 CDs, 1 DVD and Book] (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $64.95 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! |
Surplus 1980: Illusion of Consistency [VINYL + CD + DOWNLOAD] (Surplus Industries -- USA ) Price: $19.95 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. |
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Ayler, Albert: Summertime To Spiritual Unity, Revisited
Bley, Paul Trios: Play Annette Peacock, Revisited
World Heritage, The (Yamamoto Seiichi / Katsui Yuji / Kido Natsuki / Nasuno Mitsuru / Yoshida Tatsuy
Tatsuya, Yoshida / Cho Sokkyo / Tzboguchi Masayasu: TYU
Korekyojinn Acoustic: Kaleidoscope
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: 03
Atsushi / Tatsuya / Makoto: Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour 2022
PYN (Pittard / Yoshida / Nasuno): L'elan Createur
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere
Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere: 02
TtD (Nasuno Mitsuru / Tatsuya Yoshida): Teneleven the Duo
Archer, Martin & Engine Room Favourites: Safety Signal From A Target Town
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Four
Millevoi, Nick: Disertion
Hawkins, Chester: Magnetisk Nord
Das Rad (Archer / Robinson / Dinsdale): Das Rad
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Work, The: The Worst of Everywhere [2 CDs]
Arrive: Shelton / Adasiewicz / Roebke / Daisy: There Was
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