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This Heat: Out of Cold Storage Box Set (6 CDs) (This Is/Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $79.95 Out of Stock |
This Heat: This Heat (1st album) (This Is/Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock |
Various Artists: Recommended Records Sampler [2 CDs] (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.00 Out of Stock Originally released in 1982, this is a collection of specially commissioned and (at the time) newly recorded pieces by the most interesting groups and individuals then in the ReR catalogue. |
ZGA: Sub Luna Morrior (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock |
ZGA: The End of an Epoch (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
ZGA: Zgamoniums (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani: Cardinal (Impressus Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The quartet of Cosottini, Melano, Pisani, Miano (EAQuartet Electroacoustic) in compositions referring to the 4 cardinal map points using graphic scores, games, open readings, &c. |
Dixon Orchestra, Bill: 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Legendary trumpeter, composer and educator Bill Dixon in a 17 piece orchestra playing original compositions live at the 12th Vision Festival in New York City. |
Cooper, Lindsay: Oh Moscow (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Hollmer, Lars Looping Home Orchestra: Live 1992-1993 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Frith, Fred: Propaganda (Recommended Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The long-awaited, missing 2nd side of "Technology of Tears" recorded at Noise NY by Kramer, this album was written for theatre in 1987 using a host of avian and mammalian voices, snippets of unidentified musical material and electroacoustic noise-sculpting, for a dark and amazing album. |
Artaud Beats, The: Logos (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock After performing at Jean-Herve Peron's 2010 Avant Garde Festival, Yumi Hara (keys, violin & voice), Geoff Leigh (winds & electronics), John Greaves (bass & piano) and Chris Cutler (drums & percussion) present their first studio album mixing open-minded composed and improvised music. |
Vertical Squirrels (Fischlin, Heble, Melville, Warren): Time of the Sign (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An incredibly informed instant-composing ensemble drawing on free jazz and post rock sensibilities with nods to Indian ragas, jazz-inflected minimalism, Zappa-esque bouts of sonic anarchy, and German rock music from the 1970s, captured live at Toronto, Guelph and Hamilton, Canada in 2012. |
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 1: Beginnings (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. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 10: Vevey 1976 [DVD] (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. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 2: 1974-5 (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. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 3: Hamburg (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. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 7: Later and Post-Virgin (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. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 8: Bremen (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. |
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. |
Vertical Squirrels: Hold True (Accroche-toi) (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The Vertical Squirrels trio plays collective improvisations that draws on groove elements of funk and rock with Rob Wallace's sensitive drumming and Fischlin's adventurous ECM-tinted guitar work. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
Wisseltangcamatta, The: Movements (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways. |
Honkies, The: How Do We Prevent The Advance Of The Desert? (Music a la Coque -- Italy ) Price: $9.95 Out of Stock From 1987-93 this bizarre UK band took Rock-In-Opposition attitudes on tour in the UK & Europe, presenting their strangely informed approach to improvised rock with a punk attitude, fueled by dual saxes from Kathy Hulme & Caroline Kraabel, trumpeter Andy Diagram, and drummer Re Harrison, as heard on this reissue of their wonderfully weird 2nd album. |
Cosa Brava w/ Fred Frith: Ragged Atlas (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Fred Frith's West Coast Cosa Brava with Carla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parkins, and Matthias Bossi playing all Frith compositions driven by his love of the (improvised) rock format. |
Henry Cow: Vol. 4 & 5: Trondheim (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Perhaps the most exceptional of the "road' albums from the Henry Cow Box Set, this 1976 Trondheim concert found the band missing bassist John Greaves and singer Dagmar Krauss, so instead of their set list they shut off the lights and gave the audience pure improvisation using EA and concrete approaches, heard in spectacular detail in Bob Drake' remaster. |
Eclectic Maybe Band: The Blind Night Watchers' Mysterious Landscapes (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Univers Zero bassist Guy Seger brought this eclectic group of improvisers into the studio to develop the music on this genre-defying album, informed by a sextet of musicians who have performed and recorded with projects and artists including Vanishing Pictures, X-Legged Sally, Wrong Object, Tony Levin, Tony Bianco, Paul Schutze, Trevor Watts, Zeena Parkins, Jim O'Rourke, &c. |
Blegvad, Peter : Bandbox [6 CD BOX SET] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $79.95 In Stock Starting with Blegvad's "Downtime" LP, this box traces the evolution of the Peter Blegvad Trio into a quintet with Karen Mantler and Bob Drake, released in a solid box with a double CD of alternate versions, unreleased material and live performances, plus a 72 page book of photographs, memorabilia, drawings, documents and recollections; the ultimate reissue! |
ZNR: Traite De Mecanique Populaire (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock French composer and producer Hector Zazou's 2nd and last release with a "most exquisite and eccentric of groups, who hardly touched the world of working bands, and whose existence was tenuous, flickering, mythological - and yet who managed, stealthily, to find its way in time to legendary status by leaving an indelible trace in recorded form of their verifiable existence." |
Stop Motion Orchestra: Lightworks (Megaphone / Knock 'Em Dead -- USA ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Fitting squarely in the Rock In Opposition mold, Stop Motion Orchestra is an Austin, Texas-based instrumental chamber rock band orchestrated with sax, violin, guitar, synth-bass, drums, here in their second album bringing a bright and melodic force that reminds of Hamster Theatre, Debile Menthol or L'Ensemble Raye; sophisticated, charming and knowledgeable music. |
Drake, Bob: L'isola Dei Lupi (ReR Megacorp -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and song-writer Bob Drake's 10th album, an unusual and quirky journey through rock, RIO, and prog references, exploring the "The island of the Lupi" through a strange set of songs, a showcase for Drake's immense skills and enigmatic curiosity in 16 miniatures of descriptive passages, brilliant playing and exceptional production. |
This Heat: Repeat (Recommended Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock |
Momes, The: Spiralling [VINYL LP + 7"] (Mental Experience -- Spain ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock An essential reissue of the only album from this Rock in Opposition supergroup, with two members of Henry Cow & The Work--bassist Mick Hobbs and Tim Hodgkinson playing "Hawaiian laptop noisy guitar" and keyboards--and Andy Wake from Unrest Work & Play, in a great set of songs with a literate and post-punk viciousness and unusual approaches to rhythm and sound. |
Leigh, Geoff / Makoto Kawabata / Aogu Tanimoto: Live At Delsol Cafe (Acid Mothers Temple -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto meets Henry Cow wind player, percussionist and sound artist Geoff Leigh, with Aogu Tanimoto on violin & synth, as they are captured live at Delsol Cafe, in Yahata, Japan, performing a spiritually psychedelic five-part improvisation merging acoustic and electronic instruments in unorthodox and fascinating ways. |
Kawabata, Makoto / Geoff Leigh: Spatial Roots (Acid Mothers Temple -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock A live recording of the first encounter between Henry Cow/Radar Favourites/Ex-Wise Heads reed, wind and electronic artist Geoff Leigh and Acid Mother Temple guitarist and solo artist Kawabata Makoto, performing at Urbanguild, in Kyoto, Japan, in 2014 for a set of electronic, psychedelic improvisation of great detail using a vast arsenal of experimental approaches. |
Edelin, Michel Quintet w/ John Greaves: Echoes Of Henry Cow (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Including musicians involved with the Canterbury scene (Sophia Domancich), Magma (Simon Goubert) and Henry Cow's own John Greaves narrating, French flutist Michel Edelin's Quintet takes on the music of Rock in Opposition legendary band Henry Cow, ten inventive "echoes" of their music as it has transformed performers and listeners over time; exceptional. |
Hayward, Charles : (Begin Anywhere) (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 In Stock This Heat and Camberwell Now drummer, songwriter, vocalist, experimenter and sociological observer Charles Hayward steps away from his drums for an intimate album of song, performing on piano with minimal accompaniment as he presents new songs and new versions of songs including pieces from Camberwell Now; powerfully fragile, insightful, fascinating. |
Eclectic Maybe Band: Reflections In A Moebius Ring Mirror (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The second album of this Guy Segers (Univers Zero) project in an eclectic ensemble of improvisers, rock musicians and experimenters, a genre-defying project of primarily instrumental work with interventions of song, merging acoustic & electric instruments with electronics, live improvisation with studio manipulation, to find new forms of mesmerizing music. |
Frith, Fred / Hardy Fox: A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven And Earth (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Fred Frith's solo career started on the West Coast Ralph Records label, home of The Residents; Frith met Residents front man Hardy Fox in passing in 1991, making recordings on a Pacific beach using Fox's Walkman, which they brought to a multi-track studio to record the basis for an ultimately unreleased album, now revived decades later as Fox rediscovered this fascinating material. |
Hodgkinson, Tim: Under The Void (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Three dynamic works for contemporary classical composition from Henry Cow founder Tim Hodgkinson, composed and assembled using a variety of techniques including live performance, in ensembles that include Hyperion Ensemble, Chris Cutler on percussion, Angharad Davies on violin, Mark Sanders on percussion and Yoni Silver on bass clarinet; extraordinary! |
ZNR: The ZNRarchive Box [4 CDs] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $45.95 In Stock ZNR, the French trio of Hector Zazou, Joseph Racaille, and Patrick Portella, in a deluxe box set combining both of the official ZNR releases, "Barricades III" and "Traite de Mechanique Populaire" along with 2 CDs of additional released and unreleased material and a book of memories, histories, reflections, photographs, documents, interviews and other memorabilia. |
Henry Cow: The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow [17 CDs, 1 DVD, 250pg Book] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $89.95 Out of Stock The ultimate Henry Cow collection bringing together all of the 40th anniversary releases of this influential and innovative band, with all the remastered studio CDs, live CDs, Bonus CD, DVDs and booklets from each prior box, plus an additional 60 page booklet of band commentaries, pictures and other documents prepared specifically for this release, all in a sturdy & handsome box. |
Drake, Bob: The Gardens of Beastley Manor (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Bob Drake takes his listeners on a 22 piece instrumental journey through a "Beastley" garden of confident melodic foundation anBob Drake takes his listeners on a 22 piece instrumental journey through a "Beastley" garden of confident melodic foundation and experimental forays, captured by day and night, a tour de force of conception and execution. |
Hayward, Charles : Crossfade Estate (Klanggalerie -- E.U. ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Recorded in 2005 with an ensemble of like-minded instrumentalists and then edited and collaged for the next year and a half, this was a project of Charles Hayward during his time at The Albany in Deptford, London, using their digital recording suite to create a large work using a variety of strategies and developed in a dramatic story form, issued here for the 1st time. |
News From Babel: Letters Home [VINYL] (ReR Vinyl -- Italy ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock Originally issued on vinly LP in 1986 and at last reissued on vinyl, this incredible band emerged post-Henry Cow, initiated by alumni Chris Cutler (drums) and Lindsay Cooper (reeds), plus bassist Bill Gilonis, Zeena Parkins on harp, and four outstanding vocalists taking on Chris Cutler's insightful texts: Phil Minton, Dagmar Krause, Sally Potter, and Robert Wyatt. |
Frith, Fred: Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986-96)(2CDs) (Angelica -- Italy ) Price: $29.95 In Stock RESTOCKED: Fred Frith's 1999 box set, presenting a large, flexible ensemble project using marked photographs and rules as scores while Frith directs and conducts as well as performing; permanent members are Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins, otherwise the balance of the 44 strong ensemble changes; recordings here are taken from 5 concerts, including the first in 1992 at AngelicA. |
Flying Luttenbachers, The: Negative Infinity [VINYL] (ugEXPLODE / GOD Records -- USA ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Adhering to the tenets of "Dissonance, Speed, Aggression, Weirdness, and Singularity", Weasel Walter leads his Flying Luttenbachers in their 15th album of no wave, punk jazz & brutal prog, Weasel switching to guitar and yielding the drum chair to Sam Ospovat, as the band rips through ridiculously complex twists and turns, even taking on Albert Ayler's strange '66/'67 musical suites. |
Frith, Fred Trio: Road [2 CDs] (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock Taking his Bay Area trio with bassist Jason Hoopes and drummer Jordan Glenn on the "Road", guitarist and improviser Fred Frith first presents the trio itself in a wonderfully diverse extended set at the Week-End Fest in Koln, Germany; then invites trumpeter Susana Santos Silva at Old Cabell Hall in University of Virginia; and then saxophonist Lotte Anker at Altes Kino in Ebersberg, Germany. |
Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora / Parkins): Free Dirt (Live) [2 CDs] (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Price: $22.95 In Stock One of the most intense and unusual of the 80s Downtown NY groups merging rock and improvisation with strong attitudes and incredible musical concepts, these live recordings, including songs never before released, are taken from American and European concerts by the trio of guitarist Fred Frith, cellist Tom Cora, and either electric harpist Zeena Parkins or reedist Dave Newhouse. |
Studio Dan / Fred Frith: Rocket Science #1 #5 #8 [CD-EP] (ROS -- Germany ) Price: $9.95 Out of Stock Originally commissioned by Music Traditions Inc. for the Paul Dresher Ensemble and premiered at Z Space in San Francisco in 2012, this adaptation of three numbered works by composer, improviser & multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith was part of Studio Dan's homage to Frank Zappa, written using strong rhythmic structuresÊand melodies associated with Frith's voice as a composer. |
Eclectic Maybe Band: Again Alors? (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Led by Univers Zero bassist and composer Guy Seger, the third album from Eclectic Maybe Band combines elements of rock, jazz, electronic and abstract landscapes, performed by an ensemble of chamber rock players including Discus label leader Martin Archer, varying groupings within the band focusing on each section in a mix of composed and improvised approaches. |
Non Credo: Happy Wretched Family (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Superb, simply superb, but also disorienting and disquieting: that's Happy Wretched Family, Non Credo's second album, seven years after Reluctant Hosts. The avant-pop format found on the first LP has evolved into twisted shards of pop ... |
Work, The: The Worst of Everywhere [2 CDs] (Ultragash -- Japan ) Price: $16.80 In Stock Originally released by Woof Records in 1982 on cassette, this double CD reissues an essential lo-fi document from The Work (Bill Gilonis, Mick Hobbs, Tim Hodgkinson and Rick Wilson) in live performances from gigs and rehearsals assembled in cut-up form, adding new pieces and expanding on others, joined at times by Catherine Jauniaux, Bob Ostertag, Chris Cutler, &c. |
Flying Luttenbachers, The: Negative Infinity (ugEXPLODE -- USA ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Adhering to the tenets of "Dissonance, Speed, Aggression, Weirdness, and Singularity", Weasel Walter leads his Flying Luttenbachers in their 15th album of no wave, punk jazz & brutal prog, Weasel switching to guitar and yielding the drum chair to Sam Ospovat, as the band rips through ridiculously complex twists and turns, even taking on Albert Ayler's strange '66/'67 musical suites. |
Ex, The: All Corpses [7" VINYL] (Superior Viaduct -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The Ex's first single from the Netherland unique and socially charged band The Ex of Terrie Ex on guitar, G.W. Sok on voice, Ome Geurt on drums and Bas on bass, starting a legacy of intelligent and pointed rock, improvised and experimental music that continues 40 years later, reissued as a 2020 Record Store Day release on colored 7" vinyl. |
Camberwell Now: All's Well (Recommended Records -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
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. |
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: Stockholm (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The 1st new Henry Cow release in 30 years, live concerts from '76-77 Swedish radio shows, remixed and remastered - 16 tracks including recordings with Georgie Born. |
Simonis, Lukas: Stots (self-released -- The Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Cutler, Chris: It Makes Sense To Me [2 CDs] (ReR Megacorp -- UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock An excellent 50 year overview of the work of drummer & composer Chris Cutler, best known for his work with Henry Cow and his label ReR Megacorp, but also heard here in groupings including Art Bears, Cassiber, News From Babel, Aqsak Mabou, Duck and Cover, Peter Blegvad, Rene Lussier, The Work, Pere Ubu, The (ec) Nudes, Domestic Stories, Cutler/Frith, Cutler/Parkins, &c. |
Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire (ReR Megacorp -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In 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. |
Koenjihyakkei: Nivraym Revisted (Skin Graft Records -- Japan/USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Originally released in 2001 on the Magaibutsu label, the 3rd studio album from Japan's Koenjihyakkei led by drummer/vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya energetically blends progressive rock, chamber rock, fusion and composed forms, here revisited for the 2nd time with the 2009 expanded reissue remixed again with new additions, plus three bonus tracks from a 2020 concert. |
Koenjihyakkei: Nivraym Revisted [VINYL COLORED 2 LPs] (Skin Graft Records -- Japan/USA ) Price: $43.95 In Stock Originally released in 2001 on the Magaibutsu label, the 3rd studio album from Japan's Koenjihyakkei led by drummer/vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya energetically blends progressive rock, chamber rock, fusion and composed forms, here revisited for the 2nd time with the 2009 expanded reissue remixed again with new additions, plus three bonus tracks from a 2020 concert. |
Pere Ubu: Trouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red -- E.U. ) Price: $18.95 In Stock The 19th Pere Ubu album brings members from the history and offshoots of the band that initiated in Cleveland with vocalist David Thomas, melded with members Keith Moline and Andy Diagram from Pale Boys, legendary drummer Chris Cutler (Wooden Birds & Pere Ubu), clarinetist & guitarist Alex Ward and bassist Michel Templem, for 17 wide-ranging songs, often eccentric, but always uniquely Ubu. |
Officer!: Bandagen (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $18.95 In Stock After The Work and his involvement with This Heat, guitarist Mick Hobbs formed Officer!, a shape-shifting RIO band that presented Hobb's unique, amusing and incisive songs, releasing three proper albums and, in 1989, a cassette on the Swiss label No Records that is here reissued, half of the album written for a stage play called Bandagen by Grazia Pergoletti. |
Officer!: Bandagen [Used Item] (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $13.00 In Stock After The Work and his involvement with This Heat, guitarist Mick Hobbs formed Officer!, a shape-shifting RIO band that presented Hobb's unique, amusing and incisive songs, releasing three proper albums and, in 1989, a cassette on the Swiss label No Records that is here reissued, half of the album written for a stage play called Bandagen by Grazia Pergoletti. |
Afrit Nebula (Edwards / Edwards / Harris): Triality (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A mix of Afro-Cuban, Middle Eastern, jazz and rock traditions fuel the rich rhythmic and spiritual music of the trio of Elaine Edwards (The Moors) on saxophone and flute, Ken Edwards on bass and voice, and Jamie Harris on percussion and voice, referencing the powerful Arabian mythical demon "Afrit" and the insterstellar clouds of dust that make up a nebula. |
Alonso, Edith: Collapse (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Madrid multi-instrumentalist and cross media artist Edith Alonso in an album of prepared solo electric bass improvisations, a four part work of muscular and shadowy sound, dark vibrations with crepitating edges making a sinister and cathartic dungeon of sound. |
Angeli, Paolo: Tibi (Hybrid Disc - CD + Video) (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock The DVD movie and CD soundtrack of 10 years of Nanni Angeli's photo documentation of the strange story of Paolo Angelis exotic, extended giant Sardinian guitar. |
Arrive: Shelton / Adasiewicz / Roebke / Daisy: There Was (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Arrive, formed in 2001, is Aram Shelton's Chicago band with vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tim Daisy, a remarkable album of structured free playing. |
Brainhack Musicbox (Bobrytsky / Lisovsky / Boldenko): Brownarium (Brainhack Musicbox -- Ukraine ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Each track named after a mythical Scottish character, the Ukrainian trio of Stanislav Bobrytsky on modular synth, Pavlo Lisovsky on tenor saxophone and Anton Boldenko on viola create a music merging free jazz principles with modular synthetic drone, creating an orchestral sound that still elucidates the detail of their uniquely orchestrated, rich sonic explorations. |
Camarasa, Xavier / Jean-Marc Foussat: Dans les Courbes (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Matching two distinct keyboards--Xavier Camarasa's piano with Jean-Marc Foussat's synthi AKS--two improvisers present two extended works roughly translating to "The Immensity of The Instincts" and "There, or all is water ...", contrasting between melodic and otherworldly sounds, a complex tapestry that guides and excites the listener in an unusual convergence. |
Casserley, Lawrence / Jeffrey Morgan: Exoplanets (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Two enounters between UK electroacoustic composer and performer Lawrence Casserly on his Signal Processing Instrument and American free jazz alto saxophonist Jefrrey Morgan, recording both in the studio in Cologne, Germany in 2016, and in concert at The Loft; a rich, subtle, and detailed astronomical encounter blending stellar electronics and responsive extended playing. |
Cusack, Peter: Sounds From Dangerous Places (2 CD's + 90 Page Hardback Book) (ReR -- Great Britain ) Price: $32.50 Out of Stock Two CDs and a 90 page hardback book with photos, info and interviews from audio documenter and experimenter Peter Cusak, recording in Chernobyl, The Caspian Oilfields, and various dangerous locations in the UK. |
Drake, Bob : Legendary Lore Of The Holy Wells Of England (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A unique exposition of an 1893 text by Robert Charles Hope exploring the legends of England's "holy wells", the water of which was purported to have healing properties, adapted to atmospheric songs by Drake and performed on a 1940 Hammond model BC organ and a Challen upright piano; delicate and descriptive songs that detail the legends and the hope they inspired. |
Dulin, Tucker / Ben Owen: Cat Guarding Geese (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An electroacoustic composition of environment & sound punctuated with subtle percussion and electronic interventions, developed from field recordings, performances on Roosevelt Island, and studio recordings in Brooklyn by the duo of Tucker Dulin on bells, bowl, can, cymbal, lentils, mallet & whistle and Ben Owen on paper mic, speaker boxes, op amps & cassette. |
Electro-Phonic Art Trio (Casserley / Wachsmann / Taylor): Through The Rings Of Saturn (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Lawrence Casserley on percussion & processing, Philipp Wachsmann on violin, and Trevor Taylor on percussion & electronics, use the rings of Saturn as their guide in 2 recordings from Iklectick Arts Lab in London, and 3 recordings in the studio, using the mass of the moons around the rings as the durations of each track; subdued yet deeply spacious, superb interaction. |
Fabbriciani, Roberto / Robin Hayward: nella basilica (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Luigi Nono associate Roberto Fabbriciani on hyperbass flute improvising with Berlin-based tuba player Robin Hayward at the Basilica di San Domenico in the Tuscan hilltown of Arezzo. |
Falzone, J.P.A. / Morgan Evans-Weiler: Chordioid [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock 2 CDs of works for violin, piano & vibraphone, composed and performed by two young American composers and members of the ensemble Ordinary Affects, who have recorded music by the Jurg Frey, Magnus Granberg, Michael Pisaro, Eva Maria Houben, &c.; the 1st disc presents the Feldman-esque work of JPA Falzone, while the 2nd contains an exquisite new work by Morgan Evans-Weiler. |
Farmer, Patrick : Wild Horses Think Of Nothing Else The Sea - Tape Readings [2 CASSETTES + TEXT] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock During 2012 Patrick Farmer walked half of the Welsh Coast, writing a series of observations, which on this release are read in environmental settings by Antoine Beuger, Jeph Jerman, Bruno Guastalla, Sally Ann McIntyre, Holly Pester, Daniela Cascella, & Michael Pisaro-Liu. |
Fauna (Simon Rose / Paul Stapleton): Fauna (pfmentum -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock British saxophonist Simon Rose uses extended and evocative techniques in this exceptional set of duos with Paul Stapleton, who plays a Bonsai Sound Sculpture, an assemblage of unusual electronic and acoustic components allowing a wide range of expression. |
Frith, Fred: Big Picture (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Two cycles of compositions from Fred Frith: "The Big Picture - For Saxophone Quartet and Two Improvising Soloists" and his legendary 90s copositions: "Freedom in Fragments". |
Frith, Fred: Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Works for dance constructed by guitarist/composer Fred Frith as accompaniment to Amanda Miller's choreography for Nederland Dans Theater in 2011, revisited and revised by Frith into these beautiful pieces, with help from William Wynant, Lotte Anker, Karla Kihlstedt Arditti, &c. |
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Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora / Parkins): Free Dirt (Live) [2 CDs]
Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire
Work, The: The Worst of Everywhere [2 CDs]
Arrive: Shelton / Adasiewicz / Roebke / Daisy: There Was
Cutler, Chris: It Makes Sense To Me [2 CDs]
Lussier / D'Orion / Kuster / Tetreault : Printemps 2021
Mind Games (Niescier / Maroney / Ilgenfritz / Drury): Ephemera Obscura
Lindvall, Johan: Solo / Ensemble [2 CDs]
Eclectic Maybe Band: The Blind Night Watchers' Mysterious Landscapes
Cutler, Chris: Compositions And Collaborations 1972-2022: In A Box [10 CD / DVD / BOOKLET BOX SET]
Vertical Squirrels (Fischlin, Heble, Melville, Warren): Time of the Sign
Schwerdt, Oliver: Storming Bauhaus [2 CDs]
Hayward, Charles : Crossfade Estate
Falzone, J.P.A. / Morgan Evans-Weiler: Chordioid [2 CDs]
Eclectic Maybe Band: Reflections In A Moebius Ring Mirror
Eclectic Maybe Band: Bars Without Measures
Cassiber: The Cassiber Box redux [6 CDs, 1 DVD and Book]
Eclectic Maybe Band: Again Alors?
Koenjihyakkei: Nivraym Revisted
Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy