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Lindsay, Arto: Charivari (Black Cross Solo Sessions 7) (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Contrasting the explosively experimental side to his guitar work honed through the No Wave band DNA with glimmers of the lyrical approaches to his work heard in his acclaimed songwriting albums, Brazlian/Downtown New York legend Arto Lindsay shows his wide range of interests through thirteen succinct pieces of noise and thoughtful reflection. |
George (Hollenbeck / Webber / Nealand / Magic): Letters to George (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Derived from the name Georgios and its dual meaning of earth and work, drummer & composer John Hollenbeck (Claudia Quintet) developed these lyrical and sometimes pop-inspired compositions, along with arrangements of Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang" and Cyril Tawney's "Grey Funnel Line", performed with Anna Weber on sax & flute, Aurora Nealand on voice, keys & sax, and Chiquita Magic on keys & voice. |
Obomsawin, Mali (Harris / Elhajli / Burik / Campbell / Ho Bynum): Sweet Tooth (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Wabanaki bassist, composer and songwriter Mali Obomsawin presents a compositional suite that highlights the art and culture of her people, binding together blues, jazz, hymns and folk songs with an ensemble of exceptional NY improvisers: Savannah Harris (drums), Miriam Elhajli (guitars, voice), Allison Burik (reeds), Noah Campbell (sax) and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet & flugelhorn). |
Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay: Si tu partais (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The long-standing Montreal trio of saxophonist Jean Derome, here on alto & baritone sax, flute and voice, bassist Norman Guilbeault and drummer Pierre Tanguay, frequent collaborators through a vast set of creative improv/Actuelle projects, continue their research into the history of jazz with compositions including those from Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, &c. |
Yamamoto, Eri Trio ( w/ Ambrosio / Takeuchi): A Woman With A Purple Wig (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Confronted and assaulted by Asian bigotry in NYC shortly after the start of the pandemic, pianist Eri Yamamoto adopted a wig, mask and sunglasses to hide her ethnicity, about which she sings in the title track of her album, a mix of the sophisticated jazz instrumentals with bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi punctuated with songs of Yamamoto's pandemic experience. |
Drake, Bob : Legendary Lore Of The Holy Wells Of England (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 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. |
Pride, Mike: I Hate Work (Rarenoise Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock A warmly lyrical, mostly instrumental album of modern jazz that surprisingly takes it's title from legendary punk band MDC, and its songs from their 1982 debut album Millions of Dead Cops, led by NY drummer Mike Pride and performed with Jamie Saft (keys), Brad Jones (bass), Mick Bar (guitars) and on a few songs, vocalists JG Thirlwell (Foetus), Sam Mickens (The Dead Science) and Dave Dictor from MDC itself. |
Aldrig, Ljug: Stabbings / Juiced [7'' VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Ljug Aldrig, aka Roosen, a visual artist, guitarist and vocalist from Stockholm, is heard in a 2-song 7" + download release performing with Dennis Egberth on drums, Alexander Zethson on keys, Anton Toorell on bass, guitars and Isak Hedtjarn on saxophone. |
Douglas, Dave and Elan Mehler: If There Are Mountains (Greenleaf Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Originally released as an LP on the French Newvelle Records label co-founded by pianist Elan Mehler, here reissued with four additional recordings of beautifully lyrical jazz pivoting around Japanese haiku's, from the sextet led by Mehler and NY trumpeter Dave Douglas with vocalist Dominique Eade, reedist John Gunther, bassist Simon Willson, and drummer Dayeon Seok. |
George (Hollenbeck / Webber / Nealand / Magic): Letters to George [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock Derived from the name Georgios and its dual meaning of earth and work, drummer & composer John Hollenbeck (Claudia Quintet) developed these lyrical and sometimes pop-inspired compositions, along with arrangements of Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang" and Cyril Tawney's "Grey Funnel Line", performed with Anna Weber on sax & flute, Aurora Nealand on voice, keys & sax, and Chiquita Magic on keys & voice. |
Obomsawin, Mali (Harris / Elhajli / Burik / Campbell / Ho Bynum): Sweet Tooth [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock Wabanaki bassist, composer and songwriter Mali Obomsawin presents a compositional suite that highlights the art and culture of her people, binding together blues, jazz, hymns and folk songs with an ensemble of exceptional NY improvisers: Savannah Harris (drums), Miriam Elhajli (guitars, voice), Allison Burik (reeds), Noah Campbell (sax) and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet & flugelhorn). |
Motorpsycho: Ancient Astronauts [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock Four new tracks from the incredibly prolific Norwegian long form rock band Motorpsycho of Bent Saether on bass & vocals, Hans Magnus on guitar & vocals and the departing album for drummer Tomas Jarmyr, in a well-balanced release of songs and instrumental work including their longest piece to date, a theme from an imagined movie; sophisticated & intelligent modern rock. |
Pere Ubu: Trouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red -- E.U. ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 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. |
Pride, Mike: I Hate Work [ORANGE VINYL 2xLP] (Rarenoise Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A warmly lyrical, mostly instrumental album of modern jazz that surprisingly takes it's title from legendary punk band MDC, and its songs from their 1982 debut album Millions of Dead Cops, led by NY drummer Mike Pride and performed with Jamie Saft (keys), Brad Jones (bass), Mick Bar (guitars) and on a few songs, vocalists JG Thirlwell (Foetus), Sam Mickens (The Dead Science) and Dave Dictor from MDC itself. |
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Les Stances a Sophie [VINYL] (Play Loud! Productions -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock Recording in France in 1970, the Art Ensemble of Chicago (Malachi Favors on bass, Joseph Jarman on saxophone, Roscoe Mitchell on saxophone, Lester Bowie on trumpet) recorded the soundtrack to director Moshé Mizrahi's movie Les stances à Sophie, joined by vocalist Fontella Bass, releasing a classic and exciting album that stands as a great testament to the versatility of its players. |
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer - Tribute to Don Cherry (Spiritmuse Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A tribute to jazz trumpeter & composer Don Cherry--a spiritual world traveler and influential free jazz trumpeter--performed by Chicago's equally spiritual Ethnic Heritage Ensemble led by percussionist Kahil El'Zabar with Corey Wilkes, Alex Harding, Dwight Trible, and the son of Don Cherry, David Ornette Cherry; sadly also an unexpected tribute to David Ornette's sudden passing in 2022. |
Kosi: Stranger In Every Town [Used Item] (self-released -- USA ) Price: $6.00 In Stock NY/East Coast Jazz vocalist Kosi presents her 5th album, a rewarding album of original songs that depict her experiences touring as an independent singer-songwriter through jazz idioms influenced by blues and rock forms, her strong voice emotional and expressive while supported by a core sextet of New York musicians; lyrical, solid, passionate. |
Lumpeks (Laurain / Borel / Koziel / Beliah): Lumpeks [Used Item] (Bolt / Umlaut -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Price: $15.00 In Stock Bassist Sebastien Beliah leads this French-Polish quartet with Louis Laurain on cornet, Pierre Borel on alto saxophone, and Olga Koziel on voice & percussions, blending free jazz and traditional Polish music & songs with an experimental bent and the flourish of East European folk energy, a passionate mix that entertains and surprises the listener with unexpected twists & turns. |
Martel, Frank / L'Ouest Celeste: Ye - Yi - You - Ya [Used Item] (Monsieur Fauteux -- Canada ) Price: $13.50 In Stock |
Meyer, Richard: The Good Life! [Used Item] (Shanachie -- USA ) Price: $3.60 In Stock |
Nyberg, Lina: Palaver [Used Item] (Moserobie Music -- Sweden ) Price: $14.40 In Stock Vocalist Lina Nyberg in a quintet with David Stackenas (guitar), Cecilia Persson (piano), Josef Kallerdahl (bass) & Peter Danemo (drums), singing original works plus one by poet Coleman Barks, and Paul Simon's "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright". |
Roberts, Dean: Not Fire [Used Item] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $15.00 In Stock Berlin-based songwriter Dean Roberts' first album in 12 years is a collection of dark and melancholic songs, set in unusual formats based around guitar, electronics, strings, with subtle rhythmic elements, performed by Dean's Dark Moth Ensemble, with additional musicians that include Boris Hauf on piano and The Neck's keyboardist Chris Abrahams on harp. |
Savoldelli, Boris: Biocosmopolitan [Used Item] (MoonJune -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.53 In Stock Vocalist Savoldelli in an exquisitely-crafted album of overdubbed vocal work, with help from trumpeter Paolo Fresu and bassist Jimmy Haslip; elaborite harmonies, interlocking rhythms, exultant influences. |
Disguises, The (Thomson / Caloia / Charuest / Hood / Tanguay): Songs 7 Dances from The Muted Note [Used Item] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Eleven songs by Montreal trombonist Scott Thomson, settings of poems by P.K. Page (1916-2010), one of Canada's distinguished literary figures, in a band with Pierre Tanguay on drums, Yves Charuest on sax, Nicolas Caloia on double bass, and Susanna Hood on vocals. |
Itakura, Bun / Mishio Ogawa : Stardust [Used Item] (Ultragash -- Japan ) Price: $6.00 In Stock A flowing twilight electro-jazz cover of the standard "Stardust" from Japanese guitarist Bun Itakura and vocalist Mishio Ogawa, expanding the melody and Ogawa's phrasing with encompassing electronics and percussion from Takefumi Kobayashi; backed with an experimental "Mystery Making Factory" using paint brush, harmonic tone guitar, and mbira. |
Moon-Liters / Millennium Development Goals (D. Liedel): Nerve Agent! [Used Item] (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Essentially written by Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist D. Liedel, who handles most of the parts on this unusual blend of rock, electronics, jazz, pop punk and a number of unlikely genres, presenting strange songs that take sharp turns into twisted realms, neatly layering each piece into a heady brew that's hard to pin down, but a great deal of fun trying. |
University of Errors: Jet Propelled Photographs [Used Item] (Cuneiform -- USA ) Price: $7.20 In Stock Small promo drill in top right of jewel tray, otherwise like new. "University of Errors is led by guitarist, vocalist, and pataphysical icon Daevid Allen. Daevid was one of the founding members of The Soft Machine (and later the founder ... |
Venable, Phil: Bringing The Light [CD EP] (Soul City Sounds -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $6.25 In Stock A new Free Jazz album inspired by Pharoah Sanders' Karma, from the North Carolina ensemble led by upright bassist, guitarist and Soul City Sounds label-leader Phil Venable with Crowmeat Bob on saxophone, Ken Moshesh on percussion and Tommy Jackson on drums, plus a work for spoken word with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and a song inspired by BLM with vocalist Jennifer Evans. |
Hemingway, Gerry: Afterlife (Auricle -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock Taking what he describes as a road he's never been on, percussionist and improviser Gerry Hemingway turns in an astute album of original songs, Hemingway's voice expressive on work he explains was originally influenced by Dylan, Geeshie Wiley, Lou Reed or Monroe Brothers, the album developed over four years with a cast of collaborators including Ralph Alessi, Earl Howard, Michael Moore, &c. |
Hemingway, Gerry: Afterlife [VINYL] (Auricle -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $25.15 In Stock Taking what he describes as a road he's never been on, percussionist and improviser Gerry Hemingway turns in an astute album of original songs, Hemingway's voice expressive on work he explains was originally influenced by Dylan, Geeshie Wiley, Lou Reed or Monroe Brothers, the album developed over four years with a cast of collaborators including Ralph Alessi, Earl Howard, Michael Moore, &c. |
Paul, Ashley / Jeffrey Alexander: Between The Surface And Tomorrow [VINYL 7'' w/DOWNLOAD] (Astral Editions -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Once roommates in Rhode Island, guitarist Jeffrey Alexander of The Heavy Lidders, now living in Philadelphia, and guitarist/vocalist Ashley Paul, now living in London, come together again for a 3-song 7" release of idiosyncratic and informed free-form songs and instrumentals performed with a saxophone, clarinet, prepared guitar, prepared percussion, moog & electric piano. |
Das Rad: Veer (Discus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Adding bassist Jon Short to their lineup, the 4th album from Das Rad continues the band's genre-merging approach of rock & improv forms rooted in prog, kosmiche, and jazz rock, this post-pandemic album bringing the band back together for live interaction, their enthusiasm evident in their energetic intercourse, particularly in the extended suite "Expergefactor". |
Band de Poets, Le : Le Band de Poets (Monsieur Fauteux -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.25 In Stock |
Officer!: Bandagen (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 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. |
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer - Tribute to Don Cherry (DELUXE EDITION) [VINYL 2 LPs] (Spiritmuse Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $40.45 In Stock A tribute to jazz trumpeter & composer Don Cherry--a spiritual world traveler and influential free jazz trumpeter--performed by Chicago's equally spiritual Ethnic Heritage Ensemble led by percussionist Kahil El'Zabar with Corey Wilkes, Alex Harding, Dwight Trible, and the son of Don Cherry, David Ornette Cherry; sadly also an unexpected tribute to David Ornette's sudden passing in 2022. |
End, The (Jernberg / Moster / Gustafsson / Hana / Fjordheim): Why Do You Mourn (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock The third album from the genre-merging quintet The End of of Sofia Jernberg (vocals), Kjetil Moster (clarinet and tenor saxophone), Mats Gustafsson (flutes, baritone saxophone and electronics), Anders Hana (baritone and bass guitar) and Borge Fjordheim (drums), an experimental song-based project influenced by avant rock, jazz and soundscape in seven nuanced pieces. |
End, The (Jernberg / Moster / Gustafsson / Hana / Fjordheim): Why Do You Mourn [VINYL] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $31.45 In Stock The third album from the genre-merging quintet The End of of Sofia Jernberg (vocals), Kjetil Moster (clarinet and tenor saxophone), Mats Gustafsson (flutes, baritone saxophone and electronics), Anders Hana (baritone and bass guitar) and Borge Fjordheim (drums), an experimental song-based project influenced by avant rock, jazz and soundscape in seven nuanced pieces. |
Sharp, Elliott / Eric Mingus: Songs from a Rogue State (zOaR Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Extending their collaborations with this project that blurs rock, experimental and improvised forms in a very Downtown NY way, Elliott Sharp performing on guitars, analog synth & drums machines joins with Eric Mingus on bass and primary vocals, with Doug McKenzie providing drums samples and loops, for a set of insightful, incisive, extraordinary songs. |
Chansons du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand / Elliott Sharp): L'Apres-Midi d'un Bot (zOaR Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock A collection of original songs recorded in NY & Paris from vocalist Hélène Breschand, also performing on acoustic and electric harp, in a duo with Elliott Sharp, who creates grooves and instrumental environments on guitar, analog synth, bass, toy piano and drum programming; unusually structured and richly detailed, from idiosyncratic to sensuous. |
Pisaro-Liu, Michael / Julia Holter: Tombstones: Live in Brooklyn (Editions Verde -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Six songs from Michael Pisaro's "Tombstones" project--experimental songs developed from recontextualized fragments of popular songs--heard in this 2012 Brooklyn recording directed by guitarist Jason Brogan, with Julia Holter (voice), Tucker Dulin (trombone), Andrew Lafkas (bass), Katie Porter (clarinet), Sam Sfirri (piano and melodica), and Ron Wiltrout (keyboard & percussion). |
Wood, Dorian / Thor Harris (w/ Carla Bozulich / Jarboe / Patrick Shiroishi / Heather Trost): You Are Clearly In Perversion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Editions -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock A ritualistic narrative work from multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood and percussionist Thor Harris (Swans), with Carla Bozulich and Jarboe contributing their voices in an ensemble of contemporary and experimental arrangement, alongside guests David Coulter, Heather Trost, Jeremy Barnes, Michael Corwin, Ignacio Carvajal, Andrea Calderon, Elizabeth Warren and Patrick Shiroishi. |
Buechi / Hellmuller / Jerjen: Moon Trail [Used Item] (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $14.00 In Stock Swiss vocalist Sarah Buechi leads a new trio with Franz Hellmüller on guitar and Rafael Jerjen on bass, putting a uniquely expressive touch to a mix of original Buechi songs, standards including "I Thought About You" and "Moon River", and traditional song, the intimate and adept playing of Hellmüller and Jerjen enveloping the trio with a warm glow. |
Dykstra, Jordan / Brian McOmber: Blow the Man Down (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Editions Verde -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock A powerful set of succint compositions, themes and sea shanties for the soundtrack for Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole's film Blow the Man Down , scored through the collaboration of composers Jordan Dykstra, who also performs on viola, piano, prepared piano, vibraphone & percussion, and Brian Mcomber, who also performs on keyboards and percussion. |
Vehicule: Aubusson (Sublime Retreat -- Poland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.85 In Stock A diverse set of compositions spanning dreamlike aural landscapes, petite songs and assertive experiments of rich sound, in the fourth album from French sound artist Sylvain Milliot under the project name Véhicule, developed from improvised recordings that were then developed in the studio, each piece fitting together in a larger and aurally satisfying framework. |
Squid: O Monolith (Warp Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock The second full-length album from the UK genre-merging rock band Squid, in eight new songs of quirky imagistic and insightful lyrics and playing, surprising instrumental combinations and an experimental approach to layering sound, born from onstage improv experiments during their 2021 tour, recording this album at Peter Gabriel's studio at the end of that tour. |
Fields, Scott Ensemble: The Songs of Steve Dalachinsky (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Irish guitarist and composer Scott Fields has worked with the poems of late New York writer Steve Dalachinsky over the years, here bringing together an ensemble of improvisers, electronic and contemporary classical performers to set a suite of six poems by Dalachinsky sung by soprano Barbara Schachtner, with interludes between each weaving them into a larger and satisfying opus. |
Fields, Scott Ensemble: The Songs of Steve Dalachinsky [Used Item] (Ayler -- France ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Irish guitarist and composer Scott Fields has worked with the poems of late New York writer Steve Dalachinsky over the years, here bringing together an ensemble of improvisers, electronic and contemporary classical performers to set a suite of six poems by Dalachinsky sung by soprano Barbara Schachtner, with interludes between each weaving them into a larger and satisfying opus. |
Pere Ubu: Elitism For The People: 1975-1978 [4 CD BOOKBACK + DOWNLOAD] (Fire -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $43.15 In Stock Compiling two of the earliest and most essential albums from legendary Cleveland art rock band Pere Ubu--The Modern Dance and Dub Housing (1978), along with the 1995 compilation the Hearpen Singles and a 1977 live set in Manhattan, in a four-disc 'bookback' set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. |
Pere Ubu: Architecture For The People: 1979-1982 [4 CD BOOKBACK + DOWNLOAD] (Fire -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $43.15 In Stock Compiling three essential albums from legendary Cleveland art rock band Pere Ubu--New Picnic Time (1979), The Art Of Walking (1980), and Song Of The Bailing Man, along with an album of out-takes and oddities, Architectural Salvage (1981), presented in a handsome four-disc 'bookback' with notes and memorabilia approved by the band. |
Rummel, Simon Ensemble: Singinging (Umlaut Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Bringing together a vast range of jazz, song form, theater, and experimental approaches into a joyfully exciting journey of musical forms from German pianist and composer Simon Rummel, recorded with an versatile 11-piece ensemble at LOFT in Cologne, including Georg Wissel and Joris Ruhl on reeds, Matthias Muche and Carl Ludwig Hubsch on brass, and Michael Griener on drums. |
Akama, Ryoko: Songs For A Shed (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Six beautiful, fragile and mysterious works for piano in combinations with other orchestral arrangements and solo, including pitch-based compositions and a graphic work directed by photographs, performed by members of Apartment House in duos, quintets & sextets; works initially commissioned by Another Timbre and Philip Thomas and here performed on piano by Siwan Rhys. |
Arrive: Shelton / Adasiewicz / Roebke / Daisy: There Was (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 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. |
Ayler, Albert: Summertime To Spiritual Unity, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Remastering and reissuing two tracks--"Summertime" and "C.T"--from saxophonist Albert Ayler's 1964 Fontana album My Name Is Albert Ayler with basssist Nils-Henning Orsted Pedersen, drummer Ronnie Gardiner and pianist Nils Bronsted; and his classic and passionate 1965 ESP Disk release Spiritual Unity with double bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray. |
Blur, Rosco: Stable Chaos (Red Toucan -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Rosco Blur's groove-based jazz album with a great set of players including Paul Plimey (piano), Dylan van der Schyff (drums), spirited music with the occasional sung-spoken lyric, an album that harkens to the world of Roland Kirk with a modern edge. |
Brainhack Musicbox (Bobrytsky / Lisovsky / Boldenko): Brownarium (Brainhack Musicbox -- Ukraine ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 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. |
Chadbourne, Eugene / Henry Kaiser: Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets By Wadada Leo Smith (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Long-time collaborators, guitarists Henry Kaiser and Eugene Chadbourne perform the compositions of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, starting with their recording from 1977 of his "Wind Crystals", then improvising over 5 other Smith compositions, ending the album with an updated, 2017 version of "Wind Crystals"; an excellent refresh and retrospective from two incredible improvisers. |
Charles, Xavier / Michel F Cote / Franz Hautzinger / Philippe Lauzier / Eric Normand: Torche! (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock An exceptional free improvising quintet of Montreal & Quebec improvisers--bassist Eric Normand, drummer Michel F. Cote, and bass clarinetist Philippe Lauzier--with French clarinetist Xavier Charles and German trumpeter Franz Hautzinger, performing live during the 2016 Festival de Musique de Creation, creating fascinating commotion with incredible restraint. |
Der Verboten (Loriot / Chessex / Piromalli / Wolfarth): Der Verboten (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Originally called Treffpunkt, or "meeting point", the partnership of violist Frantz Loriot and pianist Cedric Piromalli has evolved as they added collaborators to their idiosyncratic approach to improv, here with guests Antoine Chessex on tenor sax and Christian Wolfarth on percussion and cymbals for an extended, upbeat and wonderfully creative performance. |
Duboc, Benjamin: Primare Cantus (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $39.55 In Stock A 3 CD set from bassist Benjamin Duboc: a solo disc of low register improv; plus 2 discs in duo and trio settings with Didier Lasserre, Sylvain Guerineau, Jean-Luc Petit, Pascal Battus, Sophie Agnel & Christian Pruvost. |
Durrant, Phil / Emil Karlsen: Grain (Noumenon -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A wonderfully assertive acoustic dialog between London improviser Phil Durrant on mandolin and octave mandolin, and Norwegian percussionist living in Leeds, UK, Emil Karlsen, the two focusing on a quick flow of ideas that ebb and flow naturally, each complementing the other in tightly defined interactions, creating a consistent sound of rapid texture and impetus. |
Fauna (Simon Rose / Paul Stapleton): Fauna (pfmentum -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 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. |
Granberg, Magnus: Night Will Fade and Fall Apart [2 CDs] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock The 6 piece Tya Ensemble of string, piano, percussion and vibraphone performs Swedish composer Magnus Granberg's beautifully delicate and dusky work, conceived from historic and recent song structures and written so that individual parts also may be performed as solo pieces, as heard in an extended ensemble version and four solo and one duo configuration. |
Guilbeault, Normand Ensemble: Live at Upstairs 2008. Hommage a Mingus (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The Normand Guilbeault Ensemble with Jean Derome, Matthieu Belanger, &c. continue to create incredible interpretations of the music of Charles Mingus. |
Hadow, George / Dirk Serries: Chapel (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A duo of free and spaciously building exchanges between Dutch drummer George Hadow (Zwerv, The Blue Lines Trio) and Belgian guitarist Dirk Serries (A New Wave of Jazz), in an extended dialog of great technical skills and creative use of their instruments, performing live at the 2021 JazzBlast event held in the chapel Groels Kapel in Bocholt, Belgium. |
Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire (ReR Megacorp -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 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. |
Hetu, Joane : Tryptique Musique d'hiver (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $32.35 In Stock A specially priced box set bringing together all three CDs from Joane Hetu of music about the winter: Musique d'hiver, Nouvelle musique d'hiver and Recits de neige. |
Kurka, Irene : Chants (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Soprano vocalist Irene Kurka performs two works works by Antoine Beuger, and one each by Christopher Fox, Eva-Maria Houben, and Thomas Stiegler, accompanied by Antoine Beuger on flute for his composition "Chants de Passage"; 5 beautiful, unhurried works that bring the delicate beauty of each compositions, and of Kurka's refined voice, to a resonant foreground. |
Leith, Oliver: Me Hollywood (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 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. |
Marteau Rouge / Keiji Haino: Concert 2009 (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An extraordinary and powerful concert at the 2009 Jazz in Luz Festival recorded at Marquee of Luz-Saint-Sauveur when Japanese improvising guitarist and vocalist Keiji Haino joined the electroacoustic improvising trio Marteau Rouge of Jean-Francois Pauvros on electric guitar, Makoto Sato on drums and Jean-Marc Foussat on analog synthesizer & voice. |
Meyer, Bedrnhard / John Hollenbeck: Grids (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Bringing together NY drummer/percussionist John Hollenbeck, also on prepared piano, with Berlin bassist Bernhard Meyer for an album that blends textural rock, electronic and jazz approaches in 9 elusively calm yet structurally turbulent pieces, using complex systems of cross rhythms against atmospheric immersion, occasionally disruptive but generally eccentrically controlled and exploratory. |
Mind Games (Niescier / Maroney / Ilgenfritz / Drury): Ephemera Obscura (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A unconventional yet lyrical album of creative jazz from the New York quartet of Angelika Niescier on alto sax, Denman Maroney on hyperpiano, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, and Andrew Drury on percussion, Maroney's piano preparations and Drury's objects complementing complex time signatures and intricate notated materials that yield lush, beautiful music. |
Rampersaud / Shaw / Neal / Martin / Krakawiac: Halcyon Science130410 (Barnyard -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Intelligent and inspired compositions by saxophonist Evan Shaw and trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud performed with Jean Martin (drums and laptop), Wes Neal (double bass), and Tomasz Krakowiak (percussion). |
Schwerdt, Oliver: Storming Bauhaus [2 CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Eschewing his many monikers (Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff) pianist Oliver Schwerdt steps away from EUPHORIUM_freakestra, uses his given name, and takes the stage of the Bauhaus building in Dessau where such legends as Fred van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach have played, to record these four exemplary and extended, kinetic & free solo piano improvisations. |
Shed Metal (Daniel Kernohan / Dan Lander): Equivalent Insecurity (Spool -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Verge Music founder Daniel Kernohan aka Dee Kay and radio host Dan Lander developed this album of electroacoustic interaction between 1987-1989 in a dilapidated row house on "the wrong side of the tracks" in Toronto, using "instruments, toys, stuff, sound" to create an amusing, sometimes startling, and insightful series of interactions; unpredictable and interesting. |
Skumsnes Moe, Guro / Philippe Petit: Guro Skumsnes Moe & Philippe Petit (Public Eyesore -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Bringing together two noise improvisers and experimenters, Guro Skumsnes Moe from Sult and MoE performing on octabass & electric bass, and Philippe Petit (who has albums on Aural Terrains, Monotype and Bolt) performing on synthesizer and turntables, both also providing vocal utterance, for two thick journeys of twisted, diverse and often deep sonics bridged by an abstract interlude. |
Blegvad, Peter : Go Figure (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Peter Blegvad expands his trio with Henry Cow alumni, drummer Chris Cutler and bassist John Greaves, this time with Karen Mantler on keys and chordal instruments, and Bob Drake on guitar, voice and percussion, reworking songs from his solo career and work with Slapp Happy, alongside new numbers of classic Blegvad wordplay, wit, depth and humor; like the label, Recommended! |
Obomsawin, Mali: Sweet Tooth [VINYL 180g] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $34.15 In Stock Wabanaki bassist, composer and songwriter Mali Obomsawin presents a compositional suite that highlights the art and culture of her people, binding together blues, jazz, hymns and folk songs with an ensemble of exceptional NY improvisers: Savannah Harris (drums), Miriam Elhajli (guitars, voice), Allison Burik (reeds), Noah Campbell (sax) and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet & flugelhorn). |
Obomsawin, Mali: Sweet Tooth [VINYL SILVER] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $20.65 In Stock Wabanaki bassist, composer and songwriter Mali Obomsawin presents a compositional suite that highlights the art and culture of her people, binding together blues, jazz, hymns and folk songs with an ensemble of exceptional NY improvisers: Savannah Harris (drums), Miriam Elhajli (guitars, voice), Allison Burik (reeds), Noah Campbell (sax) and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet & flugelhorn). |
Clark, Scott: Dawn & Dusk (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A stunningly beautiful suite from Richmond, VA drummer and composer Scott Clark, poetic songs rendered by Laura Ann Singh in a sextet with Bob Miller on trumpet, flugelhorn, J.C. Kuhl on bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, Michael McNeill on piano and Adam Hopkins on bass, in four sublimely passionately compositions presented in studio recording and live versions. |
Clark, Scott: Dawn & Dusk [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $19.75 In Stock A stunningly beautiful suite from Richmond, VA drummer and composer Scott Clark, poetic songs rendered by Laura Ann Singh in a sextet with Bob Miller on trumpet, flugelhorn, J.C. Kuhl on bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, Michael McNeill on piano and Adam Hopkins on bass, in four sublimely passionately compositions presented in studio recording and live versions. |
Brown, Marion: Gesprachsfetzen & In Sommerhausen (Moosicus -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Working with German jazz and "third stream" musician, vibraphonist & composer Gunter Hampel, New York alto saxophonist Marion Brown is heard in two live recordings from 1968 & 1969 in Munchen, Germany and Wurzburg, in quintet and sextet configurations with superb supporting musicians including Steve McCall (drums), Ambrose Jackson (trumpet), Daniel Laloux (bass) and Jeanne Lee (voice). |
Eclectic Maybe Band: Bars Without Measures (Discus -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Creating structured works from real time improvisations, Guy Seger's (Univers Zero) large ensemble of absolutely impressive players breaks down to smaller grouping to record the layers of each piece, which Seger then uses as raw material for each finished piece, as elements of rock, jazz, composed, and experimental forms merge into accomplished and engaging compositions. |
Blaser, Samuel: Routes (Enja Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Taking a turn into the Caribbean and the music of Don Drummond, trombonist Samuel Blaser assembled a new group with Alex Wilson on keys, Ira Coleman on bass, Dion Parson on drums, Michael Blake on tenor sax and Soweto Kinch on alto and vocals, with guest performances by Carroll Thompson, dubs by the late Lee 'Scratch' Perry, and a multi-bone section including Steve Turre & John Fedchock. |
Zankel, Bobby & Wonderful Sound 8: A Change Of Destiny (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Written in response to the excavation of slave quarters on the site of George Washington's President's House, Philadelphia saxophonist and former Cecil Taylor sideman Bobby Zankel presents a 6-section suite performed with Philly luminaries Jaleel Shaw (sax), Robin Eubanks (trombone), Diane Monroe (violin), Ruth Naomi Floyd (voice), Sumi Tonooka (piano), Lee Smith (bass) and Pheeroan AkLaff (drums). |
Lumpeks: Polonez (Umlaut Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Ethnic folk flavors of traditional Polish dance music and song merge with modern jazz in the Polish Lumpeks quartet, researching the history of their music and working with musicians of multiple generations as they update their antecedents through free improvisation, and augmenting their repertoire with exotic instrumentation including bird calls, cabasa, baraban, basy, and drone box. |
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Sun Ra Arkestra: Nothing is ... Completed & Revisited
Shepp, Archie: Blase And Yasmina Revisited
Taylor, Mike: Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited
Ayler, Albert: Summertime To Spiritual Unity, Revisited
McPhee, Joe : Black Is The Color: Live in Poughkeepsie and New Windsor, 1969-70 [2CDS]
Marteau Rouge / Keiji Haino: Concert 2009
Chadbourne, Eugene / Henry Kaiser: Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets By Wadada Leo Smith
Bynum, Taylor Ho / John Hebert / Gerald Cleaver: Book of Three: Continuum
Brown, Marion: Gesprachsfetzen & In Sommerhausen
Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora / Parkins): Free Dirt (Live) [2 CDs]
Kaiser, Henry / Rome Yamilov: The Lenoir Investigation
Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire
Mela, Francisco / Zoh Amba: Causa y Efecto Vol. 1
Tarbaby feat. Oliver Lake: Dance Of The Evil Toys
Parker, William: Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World (Volumes 1-10) [10 CD BOX SET]
Obomsawin, Mali (Harris / Elhajli / Burik / Campbell / Ho Bynum): Sweet Tooth
William Parker: Universal Tonality [2 CDs]
Akama, Ryoko: Songs For A Shed
M (feat. Ben Stapp / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Marco Colonna / Steve Swell): Broken Songs
London Experimental Ensemble: Child Ballads