As part of our Spring Cleaning Sales, we're offering a selection of more than 150 Compact Discs at our cost + 10% ! The albums are drawn from our catalog of improvised, composed, experimental and rock forms, including some very popular titles. A number of these are our last copies and will be closed out of our catalog or go into special order status when the sale is complete. So have a good look at this sale, which, ends Sunday, April 7th!
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Duplant, Bruno: Deux Songes (Les Jours Sont Faits Pour Expliquer Les Nuits) (Meenna -- Japan ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Two beautifully subtle works for an ensemble of strings and electric piano from French composer Bruno Duplant, realized by the Boston-based Ordinary Affects ensemble or Jordan Dykstra, Morgan Evans-Weiler, JPA Falzone, Luke Martin and Ashley Frith, the first a quintet and the second a string quartet, creating illusory affects of motion and space through abstraction. |
Rosaly, Frank (w/ Blonk / Boye / Farha / Pfiffner / Bishop / Broste / McBride / Diaz / Fernandez / Guerra / Rodriguez): Todos de Pie! (Kontrans -- Netherlands ) Sale Price: $17.95 In Stock Examining the music of Puerto Rico through a very personal relationship, drummer Frank Rosaly assembled a group of percussionists along with trombonists Jeb Bishop & Nick Broste, bassist Nate McBride, pianist Ben Boye wind player Cameron Pfiffner, and Dutch avant-free vocalist Jaap Blonk, all using electronics and voice as they push the boundary of genre and concept. |
Formanek, Michael Very Practical Trio (w/ Tim Berne / Mary Halvorson): Even Better (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Sale Price: $17.95 In Stock New York bassist Michael Formanek's trio with Tim Berne on alto saxophone and Mary Halvorson on guitar, embraces free music with strong melodic intent through Formanek's solid compositions, providing interesting structures in time and texture through sublimely complex and sinuous pieces that lead to rewarding resolutions of profoundly authoritative improvisation. |
Mwamba, Corey : Nth (Discus -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock A sophisticated and lyrical album of modern jazz led by UK vibraphonist Corey Mwamba, also on glockenspiel & beak flute, in a quartet with Laura Cole on piano, Andy Champion on double bass, and Johnny Hunter on drums & small percussion, with all pieces "devised and scored" by Mwamba alongside one collective improvisation; powerfully refined modern jazz. |
Orchestra Entropy: Rituals (Discus -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock An extended work for 10 improvisers using a composite composition of graphic scores, open notations, and two trio sub-pieces titled "skelf" (electric guitar, double bass and drums) and "antiphon" (violin, viola and double bass), all directed by UK saxophonist Matt London in an ensemble with reeds, winds, brass, strings, electric guitar, and Mark Sanders on drums. |
Myers, David Lee: Prototype Of The Veil (pulsewidth -- USA ) Sale Price: $9.95 In Stock David Lee Myers began creating feedback music in 1989, originally under the name Arcane Device, developing unique approaches to harnessing feedback between audio devices in ways their manufactures did not intend; since 2014 he has used a set of new devices that allow intense control and beauty through vibrational interactions, as heard in this, his 18th solo album of feedback music. |
Estamos Trio (McDonas / Escobar / Tamez): Dire Warning (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Highlighting issues between the US & Mexican borders, Thollem McDonas' Estamos Trio presents their 2nd album, here with Carmina Escobar (vocals, electronics, guitarron), Milo Tamez (percussion, found objects, electronics) and Thollem (keyboard, vocals, clay pot) in a work commissioned by and recorded at the 2018 "Casa Tomada" (House Taken Over) in Santa Fe for SITE. |
Riquelme, Matias / Fernando Ulzion: La Trahison Des Mots (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 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. |
Ratchet Orchestra: Coco Swirl (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Active since the early 90's, the superb Montreal super-group Ratchet Orchestra under the direction of Nicolas Caloia with 19 performers presents 10 works including the title track, with soloists including Jean Rene, Lori Freedman, Jean Derome, Ellwood Epps, Sam Shalabi, Craig Petersen, Yves Charuest, Joshua Zubot, Scott Thomson, Isaiah Ceccarelli, &c. |
Dopolarians (William Parker / Kidd Jordan / Alvin Fielder / Chad Fowler / Christopher Parker / Kelley Hurt): Garden Party (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Sale Price: $12.95 In Stock Legendary players, drummer Alvin Fielder, bassist William Parker, and saxophonist Kidd Jordan joined younger generation players pianist Christopher Parker, vocalist Kelley Hurt, and saxophonist Chad Fowler in New Orleans to record this exceptional album of modern jazz compositions primarily from Fowler, plus a collective improvisation and a narrative from Hurt. |
Cabado, Tomas / Christoph Schiller: Unconscious Collections (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Swiss prepared spinet player Christoph Schiller and Argentine guitarist-composer Tomás Cabado, whose work is found on the Wandelweiser label, met in Schiller's studio in Basel to perform compositions from both and to improvise, recording this wonderfully relaxed but compelling music that exists in the fertile grey area between composition and improvisation. |
Dalibert, Melaine: Anastassis Philippakopoulos: Piano Works (elsewhere -- USA ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Wandelweiser member and composer Anastassis Philippakopoulos has twelve of her compositions for solo piano performed and realized by French composer/pianist Melaine Dalibert, each built around slow moving melodic progressions that resonate through patient performance, each fragment and note ringing beautifully, mysteriously, and dramatically. |
Gluck, Bob (Wolper / Azmeh / Filiano / Tabbal): Early Morning Star (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock NY pianist & composer Bob Gluck's band with Gluck on piano, Andrea Wolper on voice, Kinan Azmeh on clarinet, Ken Filiano on bass, and Tani Tabbal on drums, blends passionate songs of social justice with captivating improvisational interplay, balancing a love of beautiful melody and sonic innovation, powerful rhythms, and exhilarating interactions between players. |
Dinner Party, The (Adrian Northover / Pierpaolo Martino / Vladimir Miller): Wednesday Afternoon (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Comprised of Anglo-Russian pianist Vladimir Miller (Moscow Composers Orchestra), Italian double-bassist Pierpaolo Martino (Mondegreen, Howl and Machine3) and British saxophonist Adrian Northover (The Remote Viewers, London Improvisers Orchestra), this collective improv trio brings a lyrical and melodic approach to their performances of graceful and cultivated conversation. |
Artefact Agency (Jeans / Luebber / Susnjar): Artefact I, II And III (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock The collaborative Australian electric jazz trio of Simon Jeans on guitar, Johannes Luebber on keyboards, and Daniel Susnjar on drums, who create semi-composed sonic structures that are used for collective improvisation and also live film scores and contemporary dance works, present 3 "Artefacts" using multiple structures of passionate and melodically inspired playing. |
Rempis / Rosaly Duo: Codes / Myths [2 CDs] (Aerophonic -- USA ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Chicago percussionist Frank Rosaly relocated to Amsterdam in 2016, but his 20+ year collaboration & friendship with Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis continues, as evidenced in this live performance at Elastic Arts in 2018 during Rosaly's visit back to the Windy City, rewarding listeners with 2 CDs experiencing the two reacquaint through beautifully paced, adventurous dialog. |
Tonus (Serries / Verhoeven / Webster): Segment Tones (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Sale Price: $12.95 In Stock Exploring long tones and harmonic interactions of consonance & dissonance through a slowly rotating and patiently evolving series of tones with each of the players in the Tonus trio doubling on wind instruments, as performed by Dirk Serries on soprano melodica & accordion, Martina Verhoeven on concertina & cello, and Colin Webster on clarinet & alto saxophone. |
Charles, Xavier / Bertrand Gauguet: Spectre (Akousis Records -- France ) Sale Price: $14.95 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. |
Gouvea / Northover / Mattos: Cajula (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Representing some of the London scene's most innovative and creative improvisers, with years of work together as a trio and as M.A.M.--saxophonist Andrian Northover (Remote Viewers), cellist Marcio Mattos (Stellari String Quartet, Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra) and vocalist Marilza Gouvea--are heard here in 2 studio recordings and 3 live recordings at Iklectic. |
Dunmall, Paul: Awakening Expectations (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Two unique and adventurous takes on collective free improvisation led by Paul Dunmall and recorded in the studio, using the group that appears on his first Paul Dunmall Presents series in January 2020: Dunmall on tenor sax, John O'Gallagher on alto sax, Percy Pursglove on trumpet, Elliott Sansom on piano, Chris Mapp on electric bass and Miles Levin on drums. |
Lyytinen, Pauli / Maciej Garbowski / Krzysztof Gradziuk: Swords [2 CDs] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock A warm and relaxed saxophone trio album led by Finnish tenor saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen (Raoul Bjorkenheim's eCsTaSy), Polish double bassist Maciej Garbowski and drummer Krzysztof Gradziuk (RGG), the three focused on deeply expressive interaction and lyrical finesse, while performing live at Institute of Music Performance, in Katowice, Poland, in 2019. |
Clucas, Dan / Jeb Bishop / Damon Smith / Matt Crane: Universal or Directional (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Three quartet improvisations and six duo combinations between Dan Clucas on cornet, Jeb Bishop on trombone, Damon Smith on double bass, and Matt Crane on drums, recording in the studio in Rhode Island, 2018, the various permutations of each player elucidating the full group interactions through focused and captivating investigations of instrumental combinations. |
Eventless Plot (Vasilis Liolios / Yiannis Tsirikoglou / Arias Gatas): Parallel Worlds (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock With 20 years of performance history, the "Eventless Plot" trio of Thessaloniki, Greece — Vasilis Liolios (Psaltery, percussion, electronics), Yiannis Tsirikoglou (electronics) and Arias Gatas (piano, percussion, electronics) — present three chamber works, performed with other other Greek instrumentalists; extraordinary works of embracing creativity and depth. |
Brochard, Eric / Fabrice Favriou: Derviche (Ayler -- France ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Improvised and heavy forms of experimental rock from the French duo of piccolo bassist Eric Brochard and drummer Fabrice Favriou, their music dramatic, ritualistic and urgent as they reference Maya Deren and mythological experience, their music hypnotically mesmerizing and sonically rich, slowly whirling dervishes in five varying sequences that growl and transfix. |
Lubelski, Samara : Partial Infinite Sequence (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Performing solo on violin with surrounding effects that emphasize the dramatic tension in her extended sequences, Samara Lubelski presents two substantial journeys into the infinite, swirling in delays and reverb as her bow transitions from rapid up and down to long drawing and sustaining, pulling a variety of sounds that elate her listeners in spirals and eddies. |
Wick, Jacob / Brad Henkel: Lovely Bag You Have (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Two like-minded experimenters and improvisers meet in Berlin to extract a fascinating mixture of both unusual and traditional tones & textures on their trumpets, energetically disassembling their instruments in aberrant ways to create clicks, clacks, airy hisses and other inexplicable sounds, revealing a dialog of solid ideas that captivate and surprise their listeners. |
Bruckmann / Djll / Heule / Nishi-Smith: Brittle Feebling (Humbler -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock The title gives a sense of the unusual acoustic improvisation this West Coast collective perform, along with their description "prickles and bleats, an abrasive delicacy; fricative rasp and withheld breath seethe together in a discomfiting cuddle" — from Kyle Bruckmann on oboe & English horn, Tom Djll on trumpet, Jacob Felix Heule on floor tom, and Kanoko Nishi-Smith on koto. |
Maguire, Phil / Tim Olive: Invoer (845 Audio -- Japan ) Sale Price: $10.95 In Stock Stymied by Covid-19, the planned May 2020 tour of sound artists Tim Olive and Phil Maguire was cancelled, motivating each to create four 10-minute solo pieces which were then overlayed to create four "distant duo" pieces, merging Olive's textured home-made electronics and Maguire's reductive approach to audio simplicity and spare sonic environments. |
Dadge, Chris / Tim Olive: Nice You! (845 Audio -- Japan ) Sale Price: $10.95 In Stock After a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter and Bug Incision lAfter a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter & Bug Incision label leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers.abel leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers. |
Powerdove: Bitter Banquet (fo'c'sle -- USA ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Keyboardist Annie Lewandowski (London Improvisers Orchestra, Fred Frith, Samech) composed this song cycle about ancient Greek figures in collaboration with David Yearsley, Theresa Wong and Russell Greenberg, poetic pieces contrasting traditional use of instruments with subtle experimental approaches in a unique and fascinating set of compositional strategies. |
Tippett, Keith: The Monk Watches The Eagle (Discus -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 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. |
Step In (Carlo Morena / Joe Fonda / Felix Lecaros Herrera): Voila La Tendresse (Not Two -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Pianist Carlo Morena leads this lyrical and energetic piano trio with bassist Joe Fonda and drummer FŽlix Lecaros Herrera, performing 6 Morena compositions and one piece by Emil Boyd, recording at the Firehouse 12 studio in Connecticut for the 3rd album under the Step In name, and the first with drummer Herrera; upbeat but never cloying, a very compelling album. |
Verlaak, Maya: All English Music is Greensleeves (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Five fascinating works by the Belgian composer Maya Verlaak, realized by Apartment House and soloists Sarah Saviet & Mark Knoop, experimental compositions including a work of personal reflection based on "Alouette"; a conceptual game piece; a composition layering pre-recorded segments of "Greensleaves"; and two interactive acoustic & computer pieces. |
Armstrong, Newton: Plus Minus Ensemble; Severine Ballon: The Way To Go Out (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Three minimal works for small ensemble incorporating electronics by Australian-born, UK-resident composer Newton Armstrong: 2 performed by the London-based Plus-Minus Ensemble directed by Mark Knoop as an acoustic quartet configuration and one as an electroacoustic quartet; and a solo work for multiple cello layers and resonance performed by Séverine Ballon. |
Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman: I Am Village (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock After 3 consecutive nights performing in trio & quartet formats at Balete at Kamias, in Quezon City, Philippines, the duo of drummer Sabu Toyozum and alto saxophonist Rick Countryman performed the final set as a duo, their many collaborations evident in the freedom and flexibility each provides to the other, delivering an exemplary example of a free jazz sax & drum duo. |
Schindler, Udo / Jaap Blonk: Lakefront Discussions (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Extremely well paired in their unusual approaches to their instruments both acoustic and electronic, this live recording between Udo Schindler on reed & brass instruments and Jaap Blonk improvising with his voice and using computer electronics, results in eight diverting and inspired recording of extreme creative approaches and impressive technical skill. |
Arcturus (Jean Nichel Van Schouwburg / Lawrence Cassserely / Yoko Miura: Sverdrup Balance On Tour (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $12.95 In Stock A collection of live recordings from Sverdrup Balance, the trio of Lawrence Casserley on signal processing instrument, Yoko Miura on piano & Melodeon, and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg on voice, recorded during their 2019 autumn tour in U.K., Belgium and North Italy, a skewed but generally optimistic group of ea- and voice improvisers with a wealth of creative inspirations. |
Schindler, Udo / Damon Smith / Karina Erhard: The Munich Sound Studies Vol 1 (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Performing at the Gottfried Duren/arToxin at Galerie ar Toxin in 2019, the trio of Udo Schindler on clarinet, bass clarinet & alto horn, Damon Smith on double bass, and Karina Erhard on C flute & alto flute present a sophisticated set of free improvisations with a chamber improv feeling, using tremendous technique and intent listening through six fascinating dialogs. |
Malinowski, Marek Trio: Scratching Fork (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Working together since 2015, the Polish guitar trio of Marek Malinowski on guitar, Robert Rychlicki-Gasowski on double bass & bass guitar, and Wojciech Zadruaynski on drums, present Marek Malinowski's embraceable mix of lyrically inclined modern jazz compositions with an explorative side, balancing structure with free space for sprightly spontaneity; a trio to keep track of. |
Gregorio, Guillermo / Damon Smith / Jerome Bryerton: Room of the the Present (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Two performances of Chicago reedist and composer Guillermo Gregorio's graphic score "Moholy 2", inspired by the artwork of László Moholy-Nagy, recorded in two conductions at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago in 2007 & 2008 by the trio of Gregorio on clarinets & alto sax, Damon Smith on double bass, and Jerome Bryerton on percussion, cymbals and drums. |
Hall, Rob / Chick Lyall: Upward Fall (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 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. |
Dunmall, Paul / Percy Pursglove / Olie Brice / Jeff Williams: Palindromes (West Hill Records -- UK ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Capturing their 2nd gig together, double bassist Olie Brice and trumpeter Percy Pursglove invited two prominent improvisers who had never played together before — drummer Jeff Williams and tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall — to join them for a 2020 concert at Cafe Oto in London, presented into two palindromic-ally named and profound improvisations: "Tattarratta" 1 & 2. |
Derome, Jean: Solo Souffles (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Sale Price: $13.95 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. |
Regev, Reut / Igal Foni: Two Much Never Enough (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock The husband and wife duo of New York free improvisers, Reut Regev on trombone and Igal Foni on drums, both bringing electronics to their session, in surprisingly their debut duo release after two decades of musical collaboration and shared life, their assurance and intimacy evident in the relaxed spontaneity and sheer musicality they bring to their dialogs. |
Onda, Aki / Nao Nishihara: Kouya-e-to (Ftarri -- Japan ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock NYC performer Aki Onda and Yokohama sound artist Nao Nishihara began collaborating in 2015 while Nishihara was residing in NY on an Asian Cultural Council grant, returning in 2016 for this live performance exploring the architecture and acoustics of ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater, installing handmade instruments and analog equipment within a visually arranged set-up. |
Johansen, Per Oddvar / Seijiro Murayama: Dented Time (Ftarri -- Japan ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Bringing together two masterful percussionists -- Norwegian drummer Per Oddvar Johansen and Paris-based Japanese drummer Seijiro Murayama -- for a distinctive drum duo, each musician using a minimal set that combines a snare drum with small objects and cymbals, for an album of six improvisations and two composed pieces, all showing restraint in rhythmic interaction. |
Davies, Rhodri: An Air Swept Clean of All Distance (Amgen Records -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock First release on the Alt.Vinyl label in 2014, this album finds harpist Rhodri Davies performing on the same instrument as his prior album Wound Response, but here with no amplification, preparations or distortion, improvising through "tumbling phrases, arpeggios and articulate rhythms", in a compelling album of assertive and joyful playing. |
Gonzalez, Dennis Ataraxia Trio+2 (w / Phelps / Lakpriya + Derek Rogers / Jess Garland): Nights Enter (Ayler Records -- France ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Unlike anything in trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez's discography, this album was developed from Moog recordings by Derek Rogers, whose shifting tonalities and colors led Gonzalez to a Jon Hassel-influenced approach, adding a rhythmic basis of tabla and djembe from Jagath Lakpriya and sitar-inspired harp from Jess Garland, underpinned by the rich bass work of Drew Phelps. |
Ball, Hugo (Jaap Blonk / Bart van der Putten / Pieter Meurs / Damon Smith): Six sound Poems 1989 & 2013 [2 CDs] (Balance Point Acoustics / kontrans -- USA ) Sale Price: $21.95 In Stock Dedicated to Dada legend Hugo Ball, founder of the Cabaret Voltaire, through modern interpretations of six sound poems written by Ball in 1916, performed at BIMHUIS in 1989 by the trio of Jaap Blonk (voice), Bart van der Putten (saxophone) and Pieter Meurs (double bass); and in 2013 at radio station KUHF by the duo of Jaap Blonk and Damon Smith on double bass. |
Marcus, Michael: Stone Jump (Not Two -- Poland ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Michael Marcus composed these lyrical jazz works to create a message about "New York City realities", recorded in two studio sessions with Marcus on soprano & tenor sax, octavin, A clarinet & tarogato, along with Denton Darien on piano, John Austria on Fender Rhodes, Tyler Mitchell on bass, Warren Smith on drums & percussion, and Lawrence Feldman on alto flute. |
Mayas', Magda Filamental (w / Davies / Caddy / Theriot / Davies / Parkins / Thieke / Abdelnour): Confluence (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Composed by pianist Magda Mayas for an octet of superb avant improvisers including Rhodri Davies, Zeena Parkins, Michael Thieke, Angharad Davies, &c. and performed live at the 2019 Music Unlimited 33, in Wels, Austria, this extended work uses a graphic score to interpret 12 photographs taken over an hour observing the merging waters of the Rhone and the Arve rivers. |
Katarsis4 (Bizys / Janonis / Pancerovas / Jusinskas): Live At The Underground Water Reservoir (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Using the natural resonance of the Liepkalnis underground water reservoir in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Katarsis4 saxophone quartet of Arminas Bizys, Algirdas Janonis, Danielius Pancerovas and Kazimieras Jusinskas merge free improvisation, both melodic and through extended tetechniques, with composed forms and folk music, capturing this extended work of beguiling and powerful music. |
Weeks, James : Summer (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Five chamber works from UK composer James Week performed by Explore Ensemble, developing works extending the poetic idea of a piece as an imaginary or remembered space by exploring combinations of instruments such as the mixed instrumental duos, the use of slow-moving or static background harmonics, and intimate instrumental idioms based on long, breath-length sounds. |
Leith, Oliver: Me Hollywood (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Five chamber works written by composer UK Oliver Leith, the debut CD release from the creative music group Explore Ensemble including a piece they commissioned--Me Hollywood--, the compositions spanning four years of work and reflecting a sort of portrait of the composer as he experiments with unusual arrangements, sampling sounds, and new instruments. |
Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann: Eidolon (845 Audio -- Japan ) Sale Price: $10.95 In Stock During his 2018-19 Canadian tours, Tim Olive joined Vancouver residents Joda ClŽment and Mathieu Ruhlmann for two trio performances, after which they went into the studio to record these four detailed improvisations using synthesizer, harmonium, glockenspiel, field recordings, feedback, magnetic pickups, preamps, octave generators, ukelin, cymbal, tapes, and objects. |
Kostyrko, Sergey / Tim Olive: Rasputitsa (845 Audio -- Japan ) Sale Price: $10.95 In Stock Selected from several hours of real-time interaction and presented as recorded with minimal editing, this album presents the first-time meeting of Kobe, Japan sound artist Tim Olive with St. Petersburg, Russian synthesist and electronic musician Sergey Kostyrko, recording in the studio together, the title aptly referencing the season of spring when roads are laid bare. |
Wilkinson, Alan / Dirk Serries: One In The Eye [2 CDs] (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Sale Price: $19.95 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. |
Dulin, Tucker / Ben Owen: Cat Guarding Geese (erstwhile -- USA ) Sale 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. |
Philippakopoulos, Anastassis / Jurg Frey: Wind And Light (elsewhere -- USA ) Sale Price: $14.95 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. |
Attias, Michael / Simon Nabatov: Brooklyn Mischiefs (Leo Records -- UK ) Sale Price: $16.95 In Stock On their first concert as a duo in 2014, alto saxophonist Michael Attias and pianist Simon Nabatov recorded these five creatively lyrical improvisations at iBeam in Brooklyn, Nabatov on the keys and inside the piano and both using tremendous technique in a mix of perky and introspective free expression, including an extended work that melds into Herbie Nichol's "Spinning Song". |
Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey: Zip (Leo Records -- UK ) Sale Price: $16.95 In Stock Naming each track for the teeth of a different type of zip-fastener (curved, triangular, saggitate, &c) Swiss double bassists Daniel Studer and Peter K. Frey improvise a fascinating set of interlocking and intersecting abstractions, recorded live at at Kronen Galerie, in Zurich as the two celebrated their 20th anniversary as a duo through a series of 10 half-hour concerts. |
Chansons du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand / Elliott Sharp): Aube (zOaR Records -- USA ) Sale Price: $11.95 In Stock A collection of original songs and interpretations inspired by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, from vocalist Hélène Breschand, also performing on harp, electronics & field recordings, in a duo with Elliott Sharp, who creates grooves and instrumental environments on guitar, synth, bass, drum programming & electronics, each song beautifully fractured and rich in detail. |
Sharp's, Elliott Terraplane: Century (zOaR Records -- USA ) Sale Price: $11.95 In Stock An unflinching look at life in post-Reconstruction America, commemorating the anniversary of Nancy Cunard's 1934 collection of African-American writings, poems, and song lyrics titled Negro: An Anthology, from Elliott Sharp's Terraplane, with vocalists Tracie Morris, Eric Mingus, Mikel Banks, and instrumentalist including Sharp, Dave Hofstra, recordings from Hubert Sumlin, &c. |
Ulher, Birgit / Damon Smith / Chris Cogburn: The Eternity-Cult (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock A building and extended set of fully free improvisation using unusual techniques, from the trio of Birgit Ulher on trumpet, radio, speaker & objects, Damon Smith on double bass and Chris Cogburn on percussion & electronics, Ulher using the trumpet as a sound source as much as a conventional instrument, as the trio builds from near silence to intensely controlled interaction. |
Ronn, Christian / Bob Bellerue : Intoku Inversions (Anarchy Moon Recordings/Nishe -- USA ) Sale Price: $11.95 In Stock Beautiful long-form drones and harmonic interactions develop and are then shaken up with sonic deformations and collisions, returning to beautiful environments and then reversed once again, from the duo of sonic explorers Bob Bellerue and Christian Ronn, recording in Copenhagen using organs, electronics, winds, and feedback to create these wonderfully alien domains. |
Mezei, Szilard Tubass Quintet: Rested Turquoise (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Four double basses and a tuba, recorded in an arc to elucidate the sound of each instrumentalist, in Serbian improviser and composer Szilárd Mezei's deep-rooted Tubass Quintet, Mezei taking one of the double bass roles in place of his typical viola & violin work, as his compositions bring the deep instruments into both foundational and melodic territory. |
Consorts: Distinctions (Spoonhunt -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Composer Dominic Lash's Consort ensemble explores the possibilities of combining sustained-tone music, guided & free improvisation, and the relationship between acoustic and amplified sound, heard in this evolving, extended concert at Café Oto on Lash's 40th birthday, in a unique mix of acoustic & electronic instruments that even includes an amplified kitchen sink! |
Fujii, Satoko ma-do: Heat Wave (Not Two -- Poland ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Satako Fujii's 2008 release introducing her then new ma-do quartet of Satoko Fujii on piano, Natsuki Tamura on trumpet, Akira Horikoshi on drums, and late bassist Norikatsu Koreyasu, the band name signifying "window" and "the silence between notes", in an album of superb, lively, eclectic and absolutely exciting improvisation from 9 original Fujii compositions. |
Pitsiokis, Chris Quartet ( w/ Smiley / Fraser / Nazary): One Eye with a Microscope Attached (Eleatic Records -- USA ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Taking an angular approach to modern jazz that reminds of Steve Coleman/Five Elements, New York alto saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos provides the compositions for the six improvisations on this live album recorded at Seizure's Palace, in Brooklyn in a quartet with Andrew Smiley on electric guitar, Henry Fraser on electric bass and Jason Nazary on drums. |
Keeffe, Charlotte: Right Here, Right Now (Discus -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Collecting facets of London trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe's diverse settings and interests, including three live recordings with her own quartet, three recordings with London Improvisers Orchestra including a conduction for a piece dedicated to Steve Beresford, a duo with guitarist Diego Sampieri, and two solo recordings, one interacting with live electronics. |
Archer / Keeffe / Pyne: Hi Res Heart (Discus -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Inspired by the 70's Leo Smith Trio and the AACM tradition, during pandemic lockdowns UK multi-reedist & wind player Martin Archer, Charlotte Keeffe on trumpet & electronics and Martin Pyne on drums, percussion, vibraphone & toy piano, developed these 12 pieces where each member recorded four ideas independently, the other two arranging and recording their own parts in response. |
Dunmall, Paul / Jonathan Impett / Andrew Ball / Paul Rogers / Phillip Gibbs: Undistracted (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock A 2004 quintet recording from Victoria Rooms in Bristol with the core of long-time collaborators Paul Dunmall on tenor sax, Paul Rogers on bass and Philip Gibbs, performing with two improvisers also well known for their work in compositional forms--Jonathan Impett on trumpet and Andrew Ball on piano--bringing unique perspectives to their far-ranging, advanced improvisation. |
Dunmall, Paul / Simon Thoumire / John Edwards / Phillip Gibbs: Brothers In Music (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock 2021 reissue of this 2004 release on the DUNS label bringing together a uniquely voiced quartet with Paul Dunmall on tenor & soprano saxophones, virtuoso concertina player Simon Thoumire, John Edwards on double bass and Philip Gibbs on guitar, with both Dunmall & Thoumire performing on bagpipes on two tracks; a welcome reissue to a distinctive and thought-provoking album. |
Schindler / Stemkowoski: Related Unigue Items (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Recorded at the 2019 Salon fur Klang+Kunst, in Krailing/Munich, this consummate and creative meeting of multi-reed & brass improviser Udo Schindler and double bassist Thomas Stempkowski was performed as a dedication to bassist Simon H. Fell who passed from cancer in 2020; sadly Stempkowski also died during the production of this album, making this both a farewell and a memorial. |
This Is It! (Fujii / Itani / Tamura): Mosaic (Libra -- Japan ) Sale Price: $16.95 In Stock Circumventing pandemic lockdowns, the trio of husband & wife, pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, recorded this album at their home in Kobe, Japan using an internet connection to perform in real time with drummer/percussionist Takashi Itani in Tokyo, their joyful and sophisticated improvisation a testament to close listening and magnificent communication. |
Iddon, Martin: Sapindales (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Four clarinet-based works in trio, duo and solo from UK composer and musicologist Martin Iddon, performed by Heather Roche on bass and contrabass clarinets, Juliet Fraser on voice for "Muses", Anton Lukoszevieze on cello and James Opstad on double bass; music with intricate, interweaving lines, the title piece a mesmerising work for multi-tracked clarinets and field recordings. |
Gadt, Anna / Zbigniew Chojnacki / Krzysztof Gradziuk: Renaissance Gesualdo [2 CDs] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $19.95 In Stock An epic journey in free vocal improvised music from the trio of vocalist Anna Gadt with Zbigniew Chojnacki on accordion & live electronics and Krzysztof Gradziuk on drums, performing live in the studio in Nieport, Poland, with arrangements, deconstructions and original music by Anna Gadt, along with the theme from "Monumentum pro Gesualdo" by Igor Stravinski. |
Ming Bau Set (feat Gerry Hemingway / Vera Baumann / Florestan Berset): Yakut's Gallop (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Meeting regularly since 2018, these three Luzern, Switzerland improvisers have developed a shared language of collective creative improv, the best known of the three being drummer & percussionist Gerry Hemingway working with two younger generation musicians, acoustic & electric guitarist Florestan Berset and vocalist Vera Baumann, here in their first wonderfully paced album. |
Studio Dan / Anthony Coleman: ...Im Gebirg (ROS -- Germany ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock In 2019, the Ensemble Studio Dan commissioned Downtown New York composer and pianist Anthony Coleman for a new work, fluctuating in fascinating ways between contemporary music and jazz forms, premiered at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival and also presented in Vienna at the Jeunesse Special 2019, live at Porgy and Bess, from which this album was superbly recorded. |
NU Band, The (Whitecage / Heberer / Fonda / Grassi): In Memory of Mark Whitecage (Live at the BopShop) (Not Two -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A tribute to NY reedist & wind player Mark Whitecage, who passed away in March 2021, in a concert at Rochester's BopShop in 2018 by the band he is probably best known for: Nu Band, with trumpeter Thomas Heberer taking Roy Campbell's original seat, plus Lou Grassi on drums and Joe Fonda on bass, a great concert blending modern creative jazz with passionate playing and a bit of hard bop. |
Thollem: Obstacle Illusion (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Taken from concerts during Thollem's 3-month European tour, at Centro d'Arte dell'Università di Padova; AngelicA at Teatro San Leonardo in Bologna; and Rassegna di Nuova Musica 39, performing on acoustic pianos or a Korg Wavestate, showing his technically impressive, creative drive over a diverse set of approaches to solo piano improvisation. |
Ensemble SuperMusique: Sonne l'image (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock The collective ensemble Supermusique featuring key performers from Montréal's musique actuelle scene, including Jean Derome, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Joane Hetu, Danielle Palardy, &c. perform "Sounding the Image", three animated scores composed through the creation of moving images and rendered live in a remarkable concert at Amphiteatre de Gesu, in Montreal in 2019. |
Quartetski (Ceccarelli / Falaise / Lauzier / Martel): Cage (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Quartetski--the Montereal quartet of Isaiah Ceccarelli on percussion & synthesizer, Bernard Falaise on electric guitar, Philippe Lauzier on bass clarinet & synthesizer and Pierre on Yves Martel on electric bass, perform John Cage's 1992 Numbers work "Four6" and "One7", a variation on "Four6", an incredible and insightful interpretation of this fascinating work. |
Futterman, Joel / Chad Fowler: Timeless Moments (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock The first duo collaboration between pianist Joel Futterman and saxophonist Chad Fowler, performing on stritch--a straight alto saxophone--in a nine-part studio journey drawing on a history of jazz styles, from blues to free, in lyrical and actively introspective dialogs, building to an intense conclusion of rapidly cathartic interaction and a final, pensive release. |
Vicente, Luis / Seppe Gebruers / Onno Govaert: Room With No Name (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock A set of dramatic improvisations of incredible technical skill and creative drive from the working trio of Luis Vicente on trumpet, Seppe Gebruers on unprepared piano and Onno Govaert on drums, unedited improvisations presented as played, "composed by an interaction between the musicians and instruments, a nameless room, audience, microphones and you." |
Salamon, Samo / New Freequestra: Free Distance, Vol. 2: Poems are Opening [2 CDs] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Sale Price: $19.95 Out of Stock With titles for the album and all compositions from a poem by US poet E.E. Cummings, guitarist Samo Salamon developed these structured improvisations during the pandemic, inviting a set of masterful improvisers including Martin Küchen, Luis Vicente, Vasco Trilla, Emanuele Parrini, &c. &c. to contribute to these magnificent long distance collective improvisations. |
Stein, Jason / Damon Smith / Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Live recordings from the trio of Chicago improvisers Jason Stein on bass clarinet and Adam Shead on drums & percussion in a trio with double bassist Damon Smith, 3 tracks recorded in the studio at Chicago's Elastic Arts and then 2 live performances captured at The Hungry Brain that same night, an album of rich proportion through the deep strings, dark drums and deep reeds. |
Riley, Howard / Keith Tippett: Journal Four (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Having collaborated as a duo first at Goldsmiths College in 1981, UK pianists Howard Riley and Keith Tippett met for this spectacular 2016 concert as part of The Steinway Spirio Two-Piano Festival in Soho, London, each bringing decades of experience as lyrical and inventive players, together complementing each other in merging disparate forms from Joplin to Debussy to Mujician. |
Flying Luttenbachers, The (Walter / Dahl / Battistoni / Nelson / Ospovat): Terror Iridescence (ugEXPLODE -- USA ) Sale Price: $12.95 In Stock Perhaps the darkest and most experimental album from the Flying Luttenbachers, the 4th from the NYC-based version of Weasel Walter on guitars & drums+bagpipe chanter & electronics, Tim Dahl on bass, Katie Battistoni on guitar, Matt Nelson on sax & live electronics and Sam Ospovat on drums, in two extended, terrific collective improvisations. |
International Nothing, The (Fagaschinski / Thieke): Just None of Those Things (Ftarri -- Japan ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Using harmonic intersections and extraneous sonic emanations from two clarinets, the duo of Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke (also of The Magic I.D.) continue their long-standing International Nothing project of composed works through patient interactions of powerfully focused technique, here in their fifth album presenting a 42-minute work of delicate, dark beauty. |
Myers, David Lee: Xenography (pulsewidth -- USA ) Sale Price: $12.95 In Stock Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned, an apt description of the rich dialects sculpted from feedback sources and expertly routed through circular circuits of sound processors by New York sound artist David Lee Myers, AKA Arcane Device, captured and layered into these astounding electronic compositions. |
Quatuor Bozzini: Michael Oesterle: Quatuors (Collection QB -- Canada ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock German-born Canadian composer living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec Michael Oesterle has a long relationship with the Quatuor Bozzini beginning with their first commission 25 years ago, here in four works including a tribute to English mathematician Alan Turing, the large-scale "String Quartet No. 4", and a piece inspired by Quebec poet Nicole Brossard's book Mecanique jongleuse. |
Pavone, Jessica: ...of Late (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Borrowing from traditional music notation, Jessica Pavone's compositions for her string ensemble with Aimée Niemann and Abby Swidler alternates between metered and time-based scores allowing the performers freedom to move between long tone sounds and clusters at the performer's chosen rate, responding to each other while creating a "collaboratively sewn musical fabric". |
Dunmall, Paul / James Owson / Taymotusz Joziwiak: This Time In Beautiful Space (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Performing on tenor, alto and C-melody saxophones plus alto flute, Paul Dunmall's trio brings together drummer Taymotusz Joziwiak (heard on One Became Many, Unmasked and Awoto) and younger generation bassist James Owswon, for an album of expressive and lyrical free jazz, a well-paced example of tempered collective interplay highlighting all three musicians. |
Countryman, Rick / Christian Bucher: Once (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock From the same 2017 session that was released as the album Estuary, this concert in the Philippines between American expatriate saxophonist Rick Countryman and visiting Swiss drummer Christian Bucher expands on the free playing of these two empathetic improvisers, presenting a mix of textural, conceptual, melodic and rhythmic interplay steeped in their personal histories. |
Schindler, Udo / Michel Wintsch: Le Demon de l'analogie (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock "The Demon of Analogy", reedist Udo Schindler on clarinets & saxophone and Michel Withsch performing on a Pleyel piano, take inspiration from the concepts of French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallamé (1842-1989), who considered his texts as instruments of harmonic complexity and ambiguity, interpreted in eight improvisations recorded live at Krailing, in Munchen, Germany in 2016. |
Zenicola, Felipe / Jose Lencastre / Joao Valinho: MAGMA (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Determined and ardent playing like the powerful creep of lava flow as the Brazilian & Portuguese trio of Felipe Zenicola (Chinese Cookie Poets, Paal Nilssen-Love) on bass, Jose Lencastre (Lencastre Nau Quartet) on saxophones and João Valinho (Creative Sources) on drums evolve their tumultuously articulate journey through a molten world of smoldering free jazz. |
Banks / Ison / Canha / Taylor : Luminos 2 (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock The 2nd release from the UK collective quartet of Jose Canha on double bass, Trevor Taylor on drums, percussion, Dan Banks on piano and Josh Ison on saxophone, exploring the intersection between freely improvised music and free-jazz, drawing out energetic and subtle moments in lyrical interactions through energetic and focused momentum with a full range of character. |
Stiebler, Ernstalbrecht / Tilman Kanitz: The Pankow-Park Sessions, Vol.1 (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Six potent duo improvisations for cello and piano by composer & pianist Ernstalbrecht Stiebler and fellow-Berlin resident Tilman Kanitz, who have been developing their dialog together for several years in studio, focusing much of their momentum on pitch and harmony, their work all the more remarkable for Stiebler only having begun improvising in his mid-80s. |
Chang, Johnny / Keir GoGwilt / Celeste Oram: Hope Lies Fallow (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Six pieces developed by violinists Johnny Chang and Keir GoGwilt, with vocalist Celeste Oram joining on three, starting with early music works by Hildegard van Bingen and Orlando de Lassus in a hybrid of musical archaeology informed by modern concepts of repetition, variations of timbre, improvisation, &c, as they seek hidden sound worlds in older notation. |
Clark, Katelyn / Isaiah Ceccarelli: Landmarks (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Eight powerful and often cinematic pieces for organ and percussion, jointly composed and performed by long-time collaborators, Montreal composers and improvisers Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli, these 8 compositions developed around improvisations on the historic instruments continuo & portative organs, with percussion including a 40" bass drum, bell plates, and almglocken. |
Bootstrappers (Elliott Sharp / Melvin Gibbs / Don McKenzie): Xenolith (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock The first new Bootstrappers album since 1992, joining band leader Elliott Sharp for this 3rd album are longtime collaborators Melvin Gibbs on electric bass and Don McKenzie on drums, for seven assertive rock-based improvisations fueled by electronics, free jazz, no wave and electroacoustic sound, manifesting a hardboiled NY ethic of focused grooves and free playing. |
Tolimieri, Quentin: Monochromes [3 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Sale Price: $28.95 In Stock Berlin-based composer & pianist Quentin Tolimieri's goal for the 15 compositions of "Monochrome" was to hear the acoustic piano differently, removing traditional structures of European harmony, each piece focused on a single or "monochromatic" theme that unfolds over an extended period of time, whether languorous or intensely active, each piece unique and self-contained. |
Grimal, Alexandra: Refuge (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock Recorded using the natural resonance from the base of a stone double spiral staircase in the Castle of Chambord, France, improvising soprano saxophonist Alexandra Grimal explores her own personal language and the affect the ambience brings to her adept playing, through beautifully melodic lines, long arpeggiations, or short bursts of penetrating utterance. |
Harris, Bill: Blinking Glue (Amalgam -- USA ) Sale Price: $9.95 In Stock An extension of his prior solo record, ONOMAT, Chicago drummer & percussionist Bill Harris also uses a prepared floor tom and feedback in this unedited 25 minute live performance at Music Garage in Illinois, notated for six track section as he explores unique rhythmic concepts augmented with encompassing environmental sonics and unusual disruptive elements. |
Robinson / Whitecage / Filiano / Grassi: Live @ VisionFest20 (Not Two -- Poland ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Dedicated to the memory of reed & wind players Perry Robinson and Mark Whitecage, both of whom have passed since they took part in this tremendous 2015 live recording recorded at the 20th VisionFest in NYC, in a quartet with bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Lou Grassi for three collective free improvisations, particularly the extended first piece dedicated to late trumpeter Roy Campbell. |
Parkinson, Tim / Apartment House: An Album (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Collecting five chamber works from prolific London-based composer Tim Parkinson, written between 1998 and 2017 and performed by the Apartment House ensemble: one piece for solo violin performed by Mira Benjamin, two duos for violin & piano (by Benjamin & Siwan Rhys), a quintet for winds and strings and a septet, both featuring flute and bass clarinet. |
Lash, Dominic / Pat Thomas: New Oxford Brevity (Spoonhunt -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock After twenty years of collaboration including bands BleySchool, The Locals and Valid Tractor, this is surprisingly the first duo recording between British improvisers, pianist Pat Thomas and Dominic Lash, the latter more typically on double bass but here on electric guitar, and Thomas on the grand piano at St. Anne's College in Oxford, as the two improvise six fascinating dialogs. |
Maroney, Denman / Scott Walton / Denis Fournier : O Kosmos Meta (RogueArt -- France ) Sale Price: $16.95 In Stock A truly inventive collective trio of free improvisers from Denman Maroney on hyperpiano (a conventional piano played with one hand on the keys and other inside the piano), West Coast double bassist Scott Walton and French drummer Denis Fournier, performing within the piano trio format and then turning it on its side with unexpected approaches to their conversations. |
Street Tentacle (Chan / Wang / Bryerton): Preserves (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Sale Price: $12.95 In Stock Assertively probing like a squid raging out of the sea, Street Tentacle is the trio of Chicago tenor saxophonist Jeff Chan, guitarist Da Wei Wang also on electronics, and drummer Jerome Bryerton on drums, cymbals, gongs, bowed metal & assorted percussion, in five assertive improvisations of an everything including the kitchen sink style; daunting and domineering! |
Neumann / Smith / Graham / Rosenthal / Fujiwara / Ewen : Quartet:Quartet:Trio [2 CDs] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock A double album of electroacoustic improv sessions from Sommerville, MA, centered around electronic artist Andrew Neumann on the Buchla Music Easel--a complex additive analogue synth--heard in quartet and trio sessions with Forbes Graham (trumpet), Sandy Ewen (guitar & objects), Junko Fujiwara (cello), Damon Smith (double bass) and Eric Rosenthal (drums & percussion). |
Amado, Rodrigo: Refraction Solo (Trost Records -- Austria ) Sale Price: $18.95 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. |
Dunmall, Paul / Phillip Gibbs / Andrew Ball / Neil Metcalfe / Hilary Jeffery: Newsagents (FMR -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Reissuing the limited 2003 release on saxophonist Paul Dunmall's DUNS label, this wonderfully sophisticated concert at Victoria Rooms in Bristols featured collaborators and jazz luminaries Philip Gibbs on guitar, Neil Metcalfe on flute, Andrew Ball on piano & celesta and Hilary Jeffrey on trombone, a quintet of tempered intensity and incredibly expressive power. |
Davies, Rhodri: For Simon H. Fell (Amgen Records -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Influenced by bassist Simon H. Fell since first hearing him in 1994 in a quartet with Peter Brotzmann, harpist Rhodri Davies approached Fell to work together, enjoying 20 years of collaborations in many group settings; in 2020 Simon H. Fell became seriously ill and passed in June of that year, this extended improvisation being Rhodri Davies' heartfelt tribute to the great improviser. |
Johnson, Evan: L' Art De Toucher (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 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! |
Harrison, Bryn: A Coiled Form (Another Timbre -- UK ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock A remarkable, intense and startlingly virtuosic solo performance from Berlin violinist Sarah Saviet in a long-form extension of an originally 15-minute work commissioned by Saviet of UK composer Bryn Harrison, developed together to allow the score to be variable in length through performer choices to re-sequence the events and repetition of the composition. |
Davies, Rhodri: Over Shadows (Amgen Records -- UK ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock An extended solo titled for author Redell Olsen's book secure portable space (Reality Street), performed on Lever harp and EBows by UK electroacoustic improviser Rhodri Davies, recorded at Old School, Bracon Ash, in Norfolk in 2004 by Graham Halliwell and edited by Benedict Drew and John Wall, creating a richly evolving work of haunting plateaus and valleys. |
Malfon, Don: Mutable (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Sale Price: $12.95 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. |
Growlers Choir: LIVE au FIMAV (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock A unique concert even by the standards of Victoriaville from The Growlers, a vocal ensemble who interpret heavy metal, known for their epic work "Hate.Machine" and "The Dayking" with participation from poet Fortner Anderson, performed here along with a comprovisation backed by an electronic track originated from electric guitar recordings. |
Spence, Alister / Tony Buck: Mythographer (Alister Spence Music -- Australia ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock Stepping away from the Australian trio The Necks, drummer/percussionist Tony Buck meets pianist Alister Spence in the studio for seven distinct dialogs of "submerged rhythm, oblique extended forms, entwined interplay, and sound for its own sake", Spence at times using preparations on his strings, as both listen and respond deeply through a congenial approach to playing. |
Cartier, Pierre: Chansons de la Belle Esperance (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock Inspired by jazz standards, bassist and composer Pierre Cartier combines the voice of Quebec's poets with new jazz to tackle the theme of love. |
Dust Dive, The : Asleep or Awake Walk (Own Records -- Belgium ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock |
Koglmann, Franz: O Moon My Pin-Up (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Sale Price: $18.95 In Stock |
Lacy, Steve: at the New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002 (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Sale Price: $19.95 In Stock |
Martel, Frank / L'Ouest Celeste: Ye - Yi - You - Ya (Monsieur Fauteux -- Canada ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock |
MusicWorks: #96 Fall 2006 with CD (Musicworks -- Canada ) Sale Price: $15.95 In Stock |
Skist: Ellipsis (Polarity -- Japan ) Sale Price: $14.95 In Stock |
Tamura, Natsuki / Satoko Fujii : How Many? (Libra -- Japan ) Sale Price: $16.95 In Stock |
Various Artists: Kraakgeluiden: Document 1 (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Sale Price: $13.95 In Stock A series of improvised performances with the central idea of acoustic and electronic artists experimenting with the electronic medium in a live setting with musicians with whom they have never played with before. |
Various Artists: Meta Magic Music: Some Quiet Stars (Meta Records -- Germany ) Sale Price: $7.95 In Stock |
Various Artists (Zorn / Johansson / Johnson / de Vroe / Schleirmacher): Enfants Terribles (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Sale Price: $18.95 In Stock |
Vasallo, Nick: The Burning (Ars Nova Classics -- USA ) Sale Price: $7.95 In Stock The 1st release on the Ars Nova Classics label presents 'Eclecticism' composer Nick Vasallo in genreÐblurring avant and electro-acoustic works performed by several ensembles. |
W.O.O. presents Mambo Mantis: Transphonic Dimensions (Konnex -- Germany ) Sale Price: $17.95 In Stock New York saxophonist Bonnie Kane/W.O.O. (Whole Other Orbit) in a quartet with Blaise Siwula, Ray Sage and Will Redmond. |
Wolpe, Stefan: Enactments (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Sale Price: $18.95 In Stock |
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Morris, Joe: Shock Axis
Fujii, Satoko / Ramon Lopez: Confluence
This Is It! (Fujii / Itani / Tamura): Mosaic
Chicago Reed Quartet (Mazzarella / Rempis / Williams / Vandermark): Western Automatic
Brighton, Ian: Marsh Gas [REISSUE]
Riley, Howard / Keith Tippett: Journal Four
Dunmall / Siegel / Pursglove / Sanders: As One Does
Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman: Concerto A Tre
Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman: I Am Village
Dunmall, Paul / James Owson / Taymotusz Joziwiak: This Time In Beautiful Space
Fujii, Satoko / Natsuki Tamura: Kisaragi
Formanek, Michael Very Practical Trio (w/ Tim Berne / Mary Halvorson): Even Better
O'Gallagher, John / Liam Noble / Drew Gress / Jim Bashford: Meridians
Dunmall, Paul / Phillip Gibbs / Andrew Ball / Neil Metcalfe / Hilary Jeffery: Newsagents
Stein, Jason / Damon Smith / Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces
Robinson / Whitecage / Filiano / Grassi: Live @ VisionFest20
Countryman, Rick / Christian Bucher: Once
Dunmall, Paul / Jonathan Impett / Andrew Ball / Paul Rogers / Phillip Gibbs: Undistracted
Attias, Michael / Simon Nabatov: Brooklyn Mischiefs
Dunmall, Paul / Simon Thoumire / John Edwards / Phillip Gibbs: Brothers In Music