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Jones, Darius: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] [Used Item] (Northern Spy -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.30 In Stock Drawing on compositions from black artists who have created something uniquely their own--Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Georgia Anne Muldrow--alto saxophonist Darius Jones pulls from the depths of emotion and vulnerability in five solo tracks recorded in Portland, deeply felt blues reflecting the black experience in America and the pain of isolation. |
Busolini, Cyprien / Bertrand Gauguet: Miroir (Akousis Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.09 In Stock An album of intensive listening through concentrated improvisation from the long-running collaboration of French improvisers, Cyprien Busolini on viola and Bertrand Gauguet on alto saxophone, both using unfaltering techniques as they metamorphose their instruments from delicate silence to forceful tones, oscillating and vacillating across two extended improvisations. |
Boiron, Baptiste / Bruno Chevillon / Frederic Gastard: La [2 CDs] (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock During a residency in 2020 at the Domaine de Kerguehennec in Brittany, saxophonist and composer Baptiste Boiron developed this repertoire for the trio Lá of Boiron on soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, Bruno Chevillon on double bass, and Frederic Gastard on bass saxophone, Boiron's compositions applying a wealth of creative approaches merging contemporary and improvised playing. |
Bruckmann, Kyle: Triptych (Tautological) (Carrier Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Performing on oboe, English horn and live electronics, West Coast double-reedist Kyle Bruckmann presents three extended solo works of deep electroacoustic binding, each dedicated to a writer, artist or musician: "A Spurious Autobiography for John Barth (2015)"; "An Extruded Introversion for Blixa Bargeld (2016)"; and "A Fuzzy Monolith for James Turrell (2015)". |
Charles, Xavier / Bertrand Gauguet: Spectre (Akousis Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Using the interference points of closely pitched sound, long-time collaborators Xavier Charles and Bertrand Gauguet use acoustic and amplified clarinets and saxophones to create frequency landscapes that change slowly, ringing with harmonics while finding unison and conflict in their tones, creating meditative aural environments of great beauty and reflection. |
Countryman, Rick: The First Bird (ChapChap Records -- Philippines ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Taking his inspiration from the concepts and work of German fractal image & video artist Joerg Wand, US-born and Philippines-based alto saxophonist Rick Countryman presents his first unaccompanied saxophone album, as he flows, winds and weaves his saxophone along rich peninsular curves to illustrate Wand's vision through fluid and sustained playing. |
Derome, Jean: Solo Souffles (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The remarkably creative flutist & saxophonist Jean Derome often incorporates unusual instruments into his improvisations and compositions, including bird calls, harps, kalimbas, sirens, flower plastic wrappings, bells, &c &c.... on this album Derome focuses on those unique instruments and noise makers through 23 surprising pieces illustrating his incredible collection. |
Emmeluth, Signe: Hi Hello I'm Signe (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A single piece recorded live for Ingebrit Haker Flaten's 2020 Sonic Transmissions Festival finds the Danish saxophonist in an extended improvisation of varying moods, applying a diverse set of methods and technical approaches to the horn, from quiet meditate work to full-throated exuberance, in a remarkably personal journey of confident exposition. |
Eskelin, Ellery: Solo Live At Snugs (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Ellery Eskelin performing solo on tenor saxophone at 61 Local in Brooklyn, NY, four original compositions, personal and distinctive improvisation like listening to tales from a well seasoned and adept traveler. |
Flaherty, Paul : Focused & Bewildered (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An expressive and truly unique tour de Force on the tenor and alto saxophones by American free jazz legend Paul Flaherty, recording in the studio for 10 improvisations showing strength, melodic beauty, powerful technique, unusual and idiosyncratic approaches to soloing, and above all, a distinctive and individual voice on the horn. |
Freedman, Lori : Solor (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The counterpart to Montreal bass clarinetist Lori Freedman's album "Excess" of recordings from her 11-city North American solo tour "The Virtuosity of Excess", this CD "Solor" was developed after that tour allowing Freedman to focus on her past and current creative work, presenting 5 of her solo compositions, 3 of which were written for the album, plus two improvisations. |
Gjerstad, Frode / Isach Skeidsvoll: Twenty Fingers (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A sparkling and energetic encounter between Norwegian saxophone legend Frode Gjerstad and fellow Norwegian and relative newcomer, pianist Isach Skeidsvoll of groups Bear Brother and Garrubo Band, the two spurring each other to intense levels of interaction, stepping back at times for introspective moments only to plunge forward in a wonderfully enthusiastic dialog. |
Good, Zachary / Ben Roidl-Ward : arb (Carrier Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Focusing on the harmonic interaction, delicate nuances and harmonic functionality of closely related tones, Chicago instrumentalists Zachary Good on clarinet and Ben Roidl-Ward on bassoon recorded these six works of acoustical and phenomenological events using the interplay between coinciding clarinet and bassoon notes, creating illusory and haunting tonal works. |
Hall, Rob / Chick Lyall: Upward Fall (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A set of lyrical, thoughtful and sometimes whimsical works from the Scottish-based duo of Rob Hall & Chick Lyall (Green Room Trio), who have been developing their musical language since 2003, drawing from a wide range of genres from Baroque chamber music to free jazz and folk idioms, their lack of boundaries lending itself to a uniquely diverse and embraceable music. |
Hatcher, Gerrit: Good Weight [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Amalgam -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $7.15 In Stock Chicago tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, known for his duos with Anton Hatwich and with Julian Kirshner, the improvising trio Devouring the Guilt with Eli Namay & Bill Harris and a trio with Mars Williams & Lia Kohl, is heard here in three extended solo improvisations, with strong tone riffing on grooves, exuding warm melodies, and running demanding technical passages on his horn. |
Katarsis4 (Bizys / Janonis / Pancerovas / Jusinskas): Katarsis4 (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock 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. |
Lacy, Steve: at the New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002 (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock |
Lacy, Steve / Brion Gysin: Songs (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock |
Leap of Faith: Principles of an Open Future (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An embraceable & explorative example of the core duo of the Boston-area free improvising ensemble Leap of Faith (the foundation of the Leap of Faith Orchestra) of David Peck on reeds and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, both employing the enormous Evil Clown arsenal of percussive and sonic devices, in two large works recorded at their headquarter studio. |
Mahall, Rudi / Alexander von Schlippenbach: So Far (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach and clarinetist Rudi Mahall have been exploring the music of jazz and free improvisation for decades in their own bands or together in Globe Unity Orchestra; here they are heard in their essential element as a duo, pushing their music in rapid runs and elegant and emotional moments with imposing technique and authoritative confidence. |
Philippakopoulos, Anastassis / Jurg Frey: Wind And Light (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Wandelweiser composer and pianist Anastassis Philippakopoulos presents four solo clarinet pieces performed by fellow Wandelweiser member, Swiss composer and clarinetist Jürg Frey, and three solo piano pieces performed by himself, in a beautiful album of delicately minimal and fragile music inspired by and reflecting the natural landscape of Greece. |
Riquelme, Matias / Fernando Ulzion: La Trahison Des Mots (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Using the natural resonance of the Apodaka church in Alava, Spain, the Bilbao-based experimental improvising duo of cellist Francia Matías Riquelme and saxophonist Fernando Ulzion on soprano and alto, present an introspective and informed set of works titled as iconic jazz compositions, an implication of the impressionist approach their expansive and thoughtful playing invokes. |
Schindler / Schimanski: Ging Lenz Den Zwanzigsten Durchs Gebirg Order Nicht (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Recorded at the 79th Salon fur Klang+Kunst, in Krailling, Munich, the pairing of multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler performing on alto saxophone, brass & synthesizer and Patrick Schimanski performing on percussion, live electronics & voice was inspired by the novella fragment Lenz written by Georg Büchner in 1836 based on Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. |
Schindler, Udo / Jaap Blonk: Hillside Talks (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Performing in Krailling-Munich at Udo Schindler's Salon fur Klang+Kunst in 2018, Netherland free improvising, brilliantly mad vocalist Jaap Blonk joins the reed master for ten acoustic improvisations with Schindler on a variety of reeds and brass instruments, the dialog authoritatively informed, masterful, slightly deranged, and continuously captivating. |
Tippett, Keith: The Monk Watches The Eagle (Discus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock As though an elegy for the departed pianist and composer, Keith Tippett does not perform on this work, which was commissioned for the 2004 Norwich and Norfolk Festival, but conducts an ensemble that includes Julie Tippetts on voice, a saxophone octet that includes long-time collaborator Paul Dunmall, and the polyphonic choir of the BBC Singers; an exquisite and stirring work. |
Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman: Misaki Castle Tower (ChapChap Records -- Philippines ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The fourth and final night of a series of concerts after three nights of trios and quartets, this live recording captures the duo of legendary Japanese drummer Sabu Toyozumi and American alto saxophonist living in the Philippines Rick Countryman, freely improvising four impresseive and creative conversations of both intricate and reflective dialog. |
Wilkinson, Alan / Dirk Serries: One In The Eye [2 CDs] (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock With an obvious pleasure at their pairing, both in the studio in Belgum in 2019 and at a live concert at A New Wave Of Jazz festival at the Hundred Years Gallery in London, 2020, acoustic guitartist Dirk Serries and multi-reedist Alan Wilkinson explore a range of styles and techniques through diverse melodic and abstract expression in pursuit of new forms of expression. |
Pitsiokos, Chris: Art of the Alto (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Each of the eight tracks on NY saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos' 2nd solo release for Relative Pitch is named for a type of stone--"Obsidian", "Feldspar", "Anthracite", &c.--each a unique take on its mineral counterpart through incredible technique and concentration, taking the alto saxophone into extreme or reflective territory complementing the nature of each element. |
Shiraishi, Tamio: Moon (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Known for his resonant solo alto saxophone work, often recording with the New York City subways, this album presents ten unusual duos between Tamio Shiraishi and improvisers on piano, voice, cello, electronics, bass, guitar and sax, with Tim Dahl, Steve Baczkowski, Mico, Mike Sidnam, Austin Sley Julian, Nina Dante, Tara Fenamore, Leila Bordreuil, Chris Libutti, and Ami Yamasaki. |
Tippetts, Julie / Martin Archer: Illusion [2 CDs] (Discus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Their first album after a 6-year break, the collaboration of vocalist Julie Tippetts and multi-reedist & electronic artist Martin Archer is heard in two distinct presentations: a large and stunningly complex suite with an ensemble of acoustic and electronic artists; and a sequence of 13 separate and contrasting songs, performed by various small groups drawn from the JTMA Ensemble. |
Berndt, John: New Logic For Old Saxophones (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Using extended techniques, Baltimore-based saxophonist John Berndt--director of Multiphonic Choir ensemble, a member of the Red Room collective and curator of their experimental performance series, and creator of the "Relabi" style of arrhythmic pulse--presents 15 succinct improvisations pushing his reed instruments to their outer edges in astonishing ways. |
Takagi, Mototeru Quartet: Live At Little John, Yokohama 1999 [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $20.65 In Stock Three reed & wind players and a drummer, from Japanese saxophonist Mototeru Takagi's collective free improvising quartet with fellow saxophonist Susumu Kongo, Nao Takeuchi on tenor sax plus flute & bass clarinet, and drummer Shota Koyama, recorded live in 1999 at Little John in Yokohama, Japan for three well-paced conversations of weaving winds and rhythmic intervention. |
Boyce, David / Phillip Greenlief: Mystery School (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A confluence of reeds from Bay Area saxophonists David Boyce and Phillip Greenlief, both performing on and professing an open love letter to the tenor saxophone, the positioning of each clear through stereo placement as they improvise seven dialogs of intent listening and tremendous technique, from high speed intertwining to introspective contemplation. |
Countryman / Bucher / Yandsen: The Malaysia Live Fact Session (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Two 2022 live free jazz sessions from Malaysia, the first a saxophone duo between US ex-pat based in The Philippines, Rick Countryman on alto and Malaysian tenor saxophonist Yong Yandsen, appropriately recorded at The Saxophone Store in Kula Lumpur; then 5 trio improvisations recorded in concert at Live Fact in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia on the same tour. |
Guerineau, Sylvain / Fred Marty: Parodies (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A statesman of the French free improvisation scene, Sylvain Guerineau, who has performed with Sunny Murray, Joëlle Léandre and more recently as part of a trio with Didier Lasserre and Paul Rogers, joins with next-generation double bassist Fred Marty integrating advanced techniques into lyrical contexts, for five satisfying improvisations, the last a reference to Sonny Rollins. |
Schindler, Udo / Ardhi Engl: Basis_B(r)uchstucke (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Performing on clarinets and theremin, Udo Schindler follows up his series Salon für Klang+Kunst after 99 events with this new series at BASIS_Klangraum in Munich's historic BASIS Booksalon at MUCCA, in a concert with instrument maker Ardhi Engle performing on a diverse set of acoustic and electronic inventions for nine concise collective conversations. |
Kubo, Tomomi / Camila Nebbia : Polycephaly [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Amongst the most unique of early electronic music instruments, the Ondes Martenot is heard in six duo recordings performed at the Barcelona studio of Spanish Ondiste, Tomomi Kubo, in conversation with tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia, both using loop pedals and Nebbia adding her voice at times, creating otherworldly and unconventional interactions of free improv. |
Freedman, Lori / Scott Thomson: Amber (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Collaborators in Montreal projects including Ensemble Supermusique and Ratchet Orchestra, bass clarinetist Lori Freedman (Queen Mab Trio) and trombonist Scott Thomson (Monicker) have also worked as a duo for more than 15 years, starting with the Barnyard Record album Plumb, their long history allowing flexibility in unusual dialog and utterance that captivates naturally. |
Amado, Rodrigo: Refraction Solo (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock An intimate encounter with Portuguese tenor saxophone player Rodrigo Amado, performing three original compositions -- the extended "Sweet Freedom", "Singular Blow" and "Shadow Waltz" -- performed at the Church of The Holy Ghost (Igreja do Espirito Santo) in Caldas da Rainha, an often introspective and innately lyrical set that reaches emphatic moments while always speaking directly. |
Morris, Joe / Jeremy Brown: Magnitude (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock While in Calgary as a Killam Visiting Scholar, guitarist Joe Morris worked with multi-wind player and professor Jeremy Brown, whose solo work impressed Morris so much that they began performing regularly as a duo, deciding to rehearse and record this remarkable series of improvised duos that Morris describes as unique to his catalog, something conversationally precise and organic. |
Houle, Francois / Joe Sorbara: Hush (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock With masterful technique and remarkable creative drive, the Canadian duo of clarinetist François Houle and Joe Sorbara explore unorthodox sound worlds through microtones, pad percussives, circular breathing to stretch phrasing, Houle taking apart his instrument to affect tone and pitch, and Sorbara using idiosyncratic percussive instruments including "back porch piano guts". |
Frey, Jurg + Apartment House: Borderland Melodies (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Three chamber works in single and multiple movements by minimalist composer Jurg Frey, exploring time & duration, form & shape and a balance of material, performed by a core quartet from the UK ensemble Apartment House, orchestrated for clarinet and bass clarinet, violin and cello, the final work adding piano, viola and percussion in a septet reworking of a 2014 composition. |
Johnson, Evan: L' Art De Toucher (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Five works from US composer often based in Amsterdam, Evan Johnson, in solo, duo and trio settings including a triptych titled "L'art de toucher" in three configurations, demonstrating his unique approach to writing using disparate musical influences from modern to Baroque, mated to anarchic experimentalism and a Wandelweiser sensibility; fascinating! |
Robinson, Perry / Michael Marcus / Jay Rosen: The New York Clarinet Society - COCO (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Performing on the family of clarinets, reedists Michael Marcus and Perry Robinson recorded this album in 2016 in New Haven with drummer Jay Rosen, performing three Marcus and one Rosen composition, weaving their playing in a balanced triangle of sound, Rosen's diverse rhythmic approaches — mallets, drum kit, brush work — adding warmth and energy to a well-balanced album. |
Dijkstra, Jorrit: Never Odd Or Even (Driff Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock 15 wonderfully creative works from Boston-area saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra, also on lyricon, analog synth and effects pedals, creating a one-man-band of unconventional sonic textures layered live, over which he improvises in fun and profound ways. |
Rempis, Dave : Lattice (Aerophonic -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis approached the idea of his first solo album under the shadow of the greats before him, in 2017 choosing to journey across the country on a solo tour, performing 31 concerts of which these 6 recordings represent the best reflection of his unique solo vocabulary on the instrument and his enthusiasm for a wealth of musical styles. |
Spontaneous Music Orchestra: For You To Share (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Concert and studio recordings of peace music organised by John Stevens for himself and Trevor Watts with numerous workshop musicians and audience people on saxophones, percussion and voices mostly contributing a flexible drone. |
Contest of Pleasures, The (Butcher / Charles / Dorner): Alibi Days (Potlatch -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Recordings of improvisations from different rooms with unique resonant properties, manipulated and organized into 5 compositions mixing musique concrete and e-a improv. |
Dunmall, Paul / Jon Irabagon / Mark Sanders / Jim Bashford: The Rain Sessions (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Dedicated to Cecil Taylor and taking advantage of NY saxophonist Irabagon's UK visit, this album presents four drum duets "time two", as two tenor saxophonists--Paul Dunmall and Jon Irabagon--meet two lyrical drummers--Mark Sanders and Jim Bashford--following Dunmall long-standing interest in drum and sax duets, the results this ebullient and remarkable album. |
Brotzmann, Peter / Han Bennink: Schwarzwaldfahrt [CD + BOOK] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $42.25 In Stock Expanding on their 1977 FMP album of open-air improvisations by Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink, recording in the Black Forest of Baden-Wurttemberg using wind instruments & percussion, the ambiance of birds and planes, water, drums from logs, &c.; an idiosyncratic and wonderful album of free possibilities, now paired with a book of photos from their excursion. |
Millar, E / Christof Kurzmann: Rare Entertainment (Mystery & Wonder -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The first meeting of Austrian improviser Christof Kurzmann (The Magic I.D., Schee) and Montreal sound artist Elizabeth Millar (Sound of the Mountain, Ensemble Supermusique) in two tremendous multi-part performances live at the 2019 Suoni Per il Popolo Festival in Montreal, works of mysteriously vibratory backdrop, insinuating narrative voice and unsettling sonic interaction. |
Abdou, Sakina: Goodbye Ground (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock An incredibly well-rounded musician on sax and flute, performing in both improvised and contemporary settings including Dedalus Ensemble and work with Etron Foun drummer Guigou Chenevier, here Sakina Abdou presents a series of solo saxophone improvisations recorded at her home in Lille, France, drawing on all of her influences in eight informed performances. |
Malfon, Don: Mutable (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Using multiphonics, extended techniques and an intuitive sense of drama and narrative, Barcelona alto and baritone saxophonist Don Malfon takes his listeners on an 8-part journey of "Mutable" solo performances, using every inch of his horn (including inserting resonant objects), his body, tongue and breath to investigate the outer limits of his instruments. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Parrinha: Sans Oublier Les Arbres (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock After the Lisbon String Trio for the Dada album, Bruno Parrinha on B-flat, alto and bass clarinets joins with the string pairing of violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues to record this impressionistic 3-part work, the title translating to "Without Forgetting The Trees", each movement expanding into darkly colored branches of remarkable control. |
Denzler, Bertrand / Jason Kahn: Translations (Potlatch -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The seventh release on Potlatch for tenor saxophonist Bertrand Denzler and the first for electronic artist Jason Kahn, in an extended electroacoustic improvisation, Denzler performing his instrument in ways Adolphe Sax did not intend intersected by Kahn's bent and crackly emissions, each increasingly assertive through to a engrossing, exhalable end. |
Gustafsson, Mats: Naja (Black Cross Solo Sessions 5) (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock For three days in his own Discaholic Studios in Nickelsdorf, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson recorded the playing-card pieces of Peter Brötzmann--compositional prompts intended for a large group or for solo playing--performing on a cross-section of the saxophone family from sopranino to bass, and also one piece for saxophone mouthpiece, creating a set of stunning improvisations. |
Sarian, Michael / Matthew Putman: A Lifeboat (Part II) (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock The second of two volumes of studio improvisations between Brooklyn trumpeter & flugelhorn player Michael Sarian and keyboardist Matthew Putman, recorded in Sarin's home studio during the 2020 pandemic, allowing freedom in exploration as they sought out cadences, rhythms and melodies, this 2nd volume presenting the most interesting of their investigations. |
Gratkowski, Frank / Simon Nabatov: Tender Mercies (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Long-time collaborators, German reed & wind player Frank Gratkowski and pianist Simon Nabatov release their third collaboration as a duo, concentrating their playing from large bands including the Simon Nabatov Quartet to the essence of their personal and impressive dialog, here performing at the LOFT, in Cologne for the celebration of Nabatov's birthday. |
Pais, Afonso / Tomas Marques: The Inner Colours of Boglins Outline (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A relaxed and informed dialog between young generation Portuguese improvisers Tomás Marques on alto saxophone and Afonso Pais on guitar, demonstrating their experience from bands like L.U.M.E. and Joao Hasselberg / Pedro Branco, these five expressive and intuitively melodic improvisations were recorded by the artists in 2022 and are presented without edits. |
Skeidsvoll, Lauritz / Isach Skeidsvoll: Chanting Moon, Dancing Sun - Live at Molde International Jazz Festival (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Developing their language together since childhood, Norwegian brothers Lauritz Heitmann Skeidsvoll on saxophone and Isach Skeidsvoll on piano & melodica converse in a way that only two family members can, using their knowledge of each other's playing as a confident foundation for remarkable flights of technically challenging yet innately lyrical improvisations. |
Strzalek, Julia / Cornelia Nilsson: Scenery Somewhere (FRIM Records -- Sweden ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Recording in a former hospital funeral chapel in Sweden--Stockholm's Kapellet--the drum and sax duo of alto saxophonist Julia Strzalek and drummer Cornelia Nilsson focuses on melody and clear articulation in a dialog that finds their passion in calmly unfolding conversation, consistently illuminating their instrumental and instant-compositional mastery. |
Thomson, Scott (w/ Yves Charuest / Karen Ng / Jean Derome / John Oswald): Pal o'Alto (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock In a nod to alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, Montreal trombonist Scott Thomson brings together four exceptional Canadian alto saxophonists with whom he has worked and who motivate his improvisational drive, heard here in four duos: two with Toronto alto saxophonists John Oswald and Karen Ng, and two with Montreal alto saxophonists Jean Derome and Yves Charuest. |
Magee, Massimo: Live In the Metaverse (Orbit577 -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A virtual live performance from the UK at The OctoBar in this solo clarinet performance from multi-reedist Massimo Magee, starting with a short introduction titled "The Way In", leading to a 43 minute extended and accomplished improvisation dedicated to the playing of iconic reedists Evan Parker and John Coltrane, complemented by unexpected digital glitches and reverb. |
Duo User 52 (Udo Schindler / Etienne Rolin): Plastic Narratives (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Confidently forceful German free improvisation with an eccentric approach, from multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler on clarinets, cornet & tuba and artist & improviser Etienne Rolin on basset horn, Glissotar (a continuous wind instrument) & a Bansuri flute, as they improvise over Schindler's poem (jetzt/now) from his cycle frequenz schaukelt / frequency swings. |
Johnson, Max : When the Streets Were Quiet (New Focus Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Better known for his bass work with his own free jazz trio and quartet, or as a sideman for Simon Nabatov, Chris Pitsiokis, &c. this album reveals another facet to the musician, presenting a chamber music album of strings, reeds and piano, where his role as composer and conductor brings life to works with references to Messiaen & Kafka. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Joachim Nordwall: Their Power Reached Across Space And Time-To Defy Them Was Death-Or Worse (Thrill Jockey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Expanding on their decade-long collaboration with albums on Astral Spirits, Bocian and Confront (Ensemble Var), and both members of Fire! Orchestra, sound artist Joachim Nordwall on analog synth and tapes and reed & wind player Mats Gustafsson use extended approaches to their instruments through effects and close mic-ing to create powerful and hallucinatory sound worlds. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Joachim Nordwall: Their Power Reached Across Space And Time-To Defy Them Was Death-Or Worse [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (Thrill Jockey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $23.35 In Stock Black Vinyl - Expanding on their decade-long collaboration with albums on Astral Spirits, Bocian and Confront (Ensemble Var), and both members of Fire! Orchestra, sound artist Joachim Nordwall on analog synth and tapes and reed & wind player Mats Gustafsson use extended approaches to their instruments through effects and close mic-ing to create powerful and hallucinatory sound worlds. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Joachim Nordwall: Their Power Reached Across Space And Time-To Defy Them Was Death-Or Worse [JADE VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (Thrill Jockey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $24.25 In Stock Jade Vinyl - Expanding on their decade-long collaboration with albums on Astral Spirits, Bocian and Confront (Ensemble Var), and both members of Fire! Orchestra, sound artist Joachim Nordwall on analog synth and tapes and reed & wind player Mats Gustafsson use extended approaches to their instruments through effects and close mic-ing to create powerful and hallucinatory sound worlds. |
Bogacz, Santiago / Emiliano Aires: Retrato Anos Despues (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock With nine years of work together, the Uruguayan duo of guitarist Santiago Bogacz, aka Matador, and clarinetist Emiliano Aires have developed a near-telepathic dialog of sharp-edged interactions through technically rapid exchanges and plateaus of anxious reserve; exhilarating work heard here in 9 vehement and creatively urgent improvisations. |
Magee, Massimo: Networking (Orbit577 -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock With each solo intended for a specific recipient, London saxophonist Magee recorded a series of improvisations during the pandemic isolations, retaining two of the recordings as pure solo Magee, the others virtual duos with: Travis D. Johnson on synth, Tim Green on drums, Joshua Weitze on guitar, A.F. Jones for resampling, Thomas Milovac on bass, and Lance Austin Olsen on guitar. |
Guerineau, Sylvian / Jean Rougier: Pensees (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Both members of the Didier Lasserre Trio, French double bassist Jean Rougier and legendary French free free jazz multi-reedist Sylvain Guerineau performing on tenor sax & bass clarinet, distill their work into a duo formation for six innately lyrical free improvisations, a beautiful complement to Guerineau's 2022 duo album with double bassist Fred Marty, Parodies. |
Naegelen / Gaillard / Arnaud-Cremon / Maisonneuve: Cartographie de rythmes #2 - Cardiaque (Umlaut Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The second part of Umlaut's Cartographie de rythmes, a sound exploration guided by an imaginary map of rhythm, here investigating the relationship between text and music through mysteriously breathing clarinet lines & harmonics by Fabrice Arnaud-Cremon, and patient narration by Julien Gaillard, Karl Naegelen and Aurélie Maisonneuve. |
Lauzier, Philippe / Carlo Costa: Interspace (Tour de Bras / Inexhaustible Editions -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock 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. |
Remote Viewers, The: This Strange Place (Remote Viewers -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Continuing the sense of film noir and consummate conceptual compositions, Dave Pett's Remote Viewers ensemble of four saxophones--Adrian Northover, Sue Lynch, Caroline Kraabel & David Petts--and the powerful and often drum-like double bass of John Edwards, continue their journey in this strange place with 10 new solidly crepuscular and complex works. |
Hatcher, Gerrit: Solo Five (Kettle Hole Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock An intimate set of solo expressions from Chicago tenor saxophonist and Kettle Hole label-leader Gerrit Hatcher, seven improvisations recorded in the studio that bring together the soloist's interests in free jazz, lyrical playing and intricate technical passages on the sax, infused with a sense of whimsy alongside serious concentrative playing. |
Charles, Xavier / Eric Normand: Balises [VINYL] (Tour de Bras / Ramble -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $22.45 In Stock Seven forays into dark experimental electroacoustic improvisation from electric bassist and Tour de Bras label-leader Éric Normand and French clarinetist Xavier Charles, leveraging unlikely techniques on both instruments, eight dialogs both assertive and cautiously mysterious, employing harmonic overtones, remarkable reed techniques, and rich electronic foundations. |
Dietrichs (Camille Dietrich / Don Dietrich): Catch the Leaves (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Definitely of the Borbetomagus mold, the duo of tenor saxophonist Don Dietrich and cellist Camille Dietrich, his daughter who grew up under the influence of that band's relentlessly aggressive free jazz, here in a live performance at Tubby's in Kingston, New York for four burning improvisations that take apart a tree, leaving the audience to catch the fragments; terrifyingly intense! |
Parker, Evan: NYC 1978 (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock In 1978 after recording his acclaimed solo album Monoceros, saxophonist Evan Parker embarked on a solo tour of the US and Canada, in New York City performing at the legendary loft space Environ, his first-ever solo performance in NYC and a masterpiece of extended techniques, circular breathing and spectacular control on the soprano and tenor saxophones. |
Charles, Xavier / Eric Normand: Balises [VINYL - DAMAGED] [Used Item] (Tour de Bras / Ramble -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.60 In Stock Sleeve dinged from post |
Costa, Carlo / John McCowen: Pianissimo Etc [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock Powerfully rich sounds from two NY-based instrumentalists — John McCowen on contrabass clarinet & Carlo Costa on bass drum & percussion — in a three-part work of acoustic improvisations, McCowen sounding deceptively electronic through overtones and masterful harmonic technique, while Costa's bass drum provides deep foundations as he mysteriously layers percussive distractions; phenomenal! |
Dunmall, Paul: Meditations For Clarinets (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Known best for his extraordinary saxophone playing, UK reedist and wind player Paul Dunmall also is a first-rate clarinetist, one of the most challenging of the single reed instruments, heard here in four extended improvisations captured in the studio, performing with contemplative thoughtfulness and prodigious technique on four members of the clarinet family: C, A, Eb and Bb. |
Noble, Liam / Geoff Simkins: Lucky Teeth (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Referencing the unusual 1896 feat of catching a turnip dropped 270 feet from a bridge by a member of the troupe The Royal Zanettos, the duo of London pianist Liam Noble and Geoff Simkins perform the slightly less daring but equally fascinating feat of performing a lyrical jazz concert at The Vortex in Dalston in 2022, for a mix of originals, standards and traditional tunes. |
Schindler, Udo / Peter Jacquemyn / Georg Karger: Hybride Synergetics [LowToneStudies] (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Reedist Udo Schindler continues his exploration into the double bass and low-tone reed instruments, here on bass & contrabass clarinets contrasted only with his soprano saxophone, in a 2022 live recording from MUCCA_Kommandozentrate in Munich of the five-part improvisation "Hybride Synergetic" in a trio with double bassists Peter Jacquemyn and Georg Karger. |
Kuchen, Martin / Sophie Agnel: Detour Tunnels of Light (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Delicately caustic interactions of reeds, piano and percussion using the natural resonance of the Borlunda Church in Eslöv, Sweden, from the freely improvising duo of Martin Küchen and Sophie Agnel, Küchen adding electronics and Agnel performing inside and out of the piano while supplementing her palette with objects, both using space and patience as their allies. |
Burnett, Aaron: Correspondence [Used Item] (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $9.00 In Stock Promo copy with line thru bar code. |
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