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Bent Spoon Trio: Nine Year Itch (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Formed in 2002 as a quartet, then in 2005 as the trio of Chris Dadge (percussion, trumpet, bass), David Laing (bass & trombone), and Scott Munro (sax, melodica, &c), then as the duo of Dadge & Monro in 2008; 2016 found the trio together again in Calgary for the closing of the Emmedia performance space, their entire set of unique collective improv captured for this CD. |
Dadge, Chris / Jonathon Wilcke: Three Live Pieces (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $11.95 In Stock With a 15 year history of collaboration, Bug Incision label leader Chris Dadge joins with fellow Calgary free improviser Jonathon Wilcke on saxophone for an album of live performances in their home city, two performances from Parlour and one at Local 510, showing strong rapport in their duo of uniquely unconventional percussion and lyrically quirky sax. |
Morris, Joe / Chris Dadge / Jonathon Wilcke: Rural Optimism (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock During guitarist Joe Morris' stay as a visiting scholar at University of Calgary, Morris joined the Chris Dadge / Jonathon Wilkes duo, first on stage and then in the studio to record this first-rate album of collective improvisation, merging idiosyncratic percussive activity, abstract and lyrical sax declarations, and profound and pointillistic guitar work. |
Morris, Joe / Rob Oxoby: Dancing With Penguins (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Improvising guitarist/bassist, writer, and educator Joe Morris spent four months as visiting scholar at the University of Calgary, during which time he recorded with University of Calgary professor and double bassist Rob Oxoby, this freely improvised album with Morris on electric guitar, a great confluence of strings in 6 concentrated and adept dialogs. |
Musicworks: #131 Fall 2018 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The second issue in the 40th anniversary year of Canada's foremost magazine exploring new music in composed, improvised, experimental and other unusual musics, articles including Peggy Lee, Circuit Bending, composer Maria de Alvear, an article on the Bug Incision label, plus a 14-track CD with tracks to accompany the articles, plus album reviews, live reviews, &c. &c. |
Lee, Peggy : Echo Painting (Songlines -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Commissioned by Coastal Jazz and Blues and premiered at the 2016 Vancouver International Jazz Festival, cellist Peggy Lee's suite for ten players includes some of the most interesting improvisers on the Vancouver scene, the music multi-layered, texturally varied and melodically rich, with beautiful melodic passages, driving rhythm, and incendiary improv; outstanding! |
Kaiser, Henry / John Oswald: Improvised (Vancouver) (Incus -- UK ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Three concerts at Vancouver's Western Front, two from 1978 and one from 1996, from the duo of West Coast free improvising guitarist Henry Kaiser and Vancouver saxophonist John Oswald, early yet mature examples of the profoundly great music each artist has gone on to create using astounding and extreme techniques. |
Houle, Francois / Alexander Hawkins / Harris Eisenstadt: You Have Options (Songlines -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The Canadian trio of clarinetist Francois Houle, pianist Alexander Hawkins and drummer Harris Eisenstadt first met in 2014 for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, taking several years to get them together again for this beautifully lyrical and sophisticated album of chamber jazz, with compositions from all three plus pieces by Steve Lacy, Andrew Hill and Charles Ives. |
Shipp, Matthew / Mark Helias / Gordon Grdina: Skin and Bones (Not Two -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Recording two days after their concert in British Columbia, BC at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art's Skin And Bones Music Series, the trio of pianist Matthew Shipp, guitarist Gordon Grdina and bassist Mark Helias captured these collective improvisations at Afterlife Studios in Vancouver BC, titling their album after their well-received concert. |
Grdina, Gordon Quartet (w/ Noriega / Lossing / Takeishi): Cooper's Park (Songlines -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Vancouver composer, guitarist and Oud player Gordon Grdina leads his quartet of Satoshi Takeishi on drums, Russ Lossing on piano & clavinet, and Oscar Noriega on alto sax and bass clarinet, through five intricate, through-composed pieces of incredible interaction, with outstanding and consummate solos from introspective to ecstatic; eclectic and exemplary. |
Dunston, Nick: Atlantic Extraction (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Brooklyn-based composer, bassist, and writer Nick Dunston in his debut album, blending jazz, contemporary, chamber and avant forms, in a uniquely voiced quintet with Louna Dekker on Vargas on flutes & piccolo, Ledah Finck on violin & viola, Tal Yahalom on guitar, and Stephen Boegehold on drums, in a sophisticated album of concisely fascinating compositions. |
Cryingsnice (Eric Hamelin / Chris Dadge): All Greased Up For Nothin' (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Frequent collaborators, Canadian drummer and experimentalist Eric Hamelin joins Chris Dadge, who more typically performs as a drummer/percussionist, in a duo with Dadge on violin, as the two create wonderfully active environments of sound that follow conceptual paths embracing electroacoustic methodology through two pieces performed live in the studio. |
Lab Coast: Bookflames [3" CD] (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Early recordings from Lab Coast (Chris Dadge and David Laing) from an odd session of improvisation recorded to cassette and restored for the band's debut release. |
Leaney, Aaron & Chris Dadge: Continuity (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The Leaney-Dadge duo has been working together since 2006; this release is taken from a series of weekly sessions in Mount Pleasant, Calgary, using extended instrumentation including trumpet, percussion, zither, recorder, and piano. |
Midnighties: With Monty (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The Vancouver duo of Cody Oliver and Chris Dadge is joined by multi-instrumentalist Scott Munro (Bend Spoon Duo) for a mix of acoustic and electronic improvisation to create unusual and interesting sonic environments and improvised discourse. |
Grdina, Gordon / Mat Maneri / Christian Lillinger: Live at the Armoury (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The premiere encounter of the uniquely orchestrated trio of two legendary string improvisers--Gordon Grdina on guitar & oud, and Mat Maneri on viola--with drummer Christian Lillinger (New Old Luten, Punkt vs. Plastik, EUPHORIUM_freakestra) recording in the studio in Vancouver, BC for three impressive, innately lyrical, dexterous and magnificent conversations. |
Bent Spoon Duo, The: out there in the sea (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Bug Incision's Bent Spoon Duo, in a release as part of the Micro Editions Series, in a performance of Chris Dadge and Scott Munro live in Vancouver, Feb 2008. |
Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann: Eidolon (845 Audio -- Japan ) 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. |
Cora, Tom: Live At The Western Front (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Few musicians better represent the Downtown NY scene's early years than late cellist Tom Cora, a key player who performed and recorded with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Polly Bradfield, Samm Bennett, &c, &c, bridging and blurring the lines between jazz, improv, rock, and compositional music, heard here in an exuberant and masterful solo set live at Vancouver's The Western Front in 1986. |
Dadge, Chris / Rachael Wadham: 100 Silk Buttons from the Room Upstairs (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Chris Dadge & Rachael Wadham, who toured in 2007 in support of Peter Evans, play piano and percussion augmented with found objects, violin, percussion and junk. |
Eisenstadt, Harris (w/ Moore, Schoenbeck, Dresser): Golden State II (Songlines -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Live recordings at the 2014 Vancouver International Jazz Festival from drummer Harris Eisenstadt's excellent and lyrical Golden State chamber jazz ensemble, here as a quartet with Michael Moore on clarinet, Sara Schoenbeck on bassoon, and Mark Dresser on bass. |
Grdina's, Gordon The Marrow (w/ Helias / Roberts / Zubot / Honari): Safar-E-Daroon (Songlines -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Oud player Gordon Grdina's Vancouver/NY project adapting Arabic and Persian forms to a modern jazz approach, in their 2nd release, a wonderfully rich and lyrical album infused with Middle Eastern melodies and rhythms, performed with his excellent The Marrow quintet Joshua Zubot on violin, Hank Roberts on cello, Mark Helias on bass, and Hamin Honari on tombak, daf & frame drum. |
Hard Rubber Orchestra: Cruel Yet Fair (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $13.56 In Stock "The Hard Rubber Orchestra is a funkier incarnation of the NOW Orchestra. Led by trumpeter John Korsrud, it uses a similar pool of Vancouver musicians, although the instrumentation here focuses on brass and a rhythm section. Cruel Yet Fa... |
Houle, Francois : Au Coeur du Litige [2 CDs] (Spool -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Inspired by the ice storm that ravaged large parts of Quebec and Ontario, "Au Coeur du Litige" is a radiophonic work consisting at its core of a series of solo clarinet improvisations. |
Leandre, Joelle: No Comment (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two exemplary solo sets from the truly distinctive and commanding French double bassist and vocalist Joelle Leandres recorded at Vancouver Jazz Festival, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, in June 1995 and at The Ibleo Jazz Festival in Ragusa, Italy in October, 1994. |
Lee, Peggy Band: New Code (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The 4th release by The Peggy Lee Band and the 1st with the band expanded from a sextet to an octet, with 3 horns and 2 guitars blending beautifully for a warm, full sound. |
Martin, Haynes and Driver: Freedman at Western Front (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $10.80 In Stock "Crude Jazz" from the Toronto trio of Jean Haynes on ukulele, Jean Martinon suitcase, and Ryan Driver on street-sweeper bristle bass, lovely bare-bones jazz using makeshift instruments, captured live in Vancouver. |
Phillips, Barre: Thirty Years In Between [2 CDs] (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $21.95 Out of Stock The title to be taken literally, these two solo concerts recorded in Canada by French-based US bassist Barre Phillips, the first recorded at Vancouver Western Front in 1989, the 2nd from the 35th International Festival Music Festival of Victoriaville in 2019, both exemplary concerts showing his masterful skills and ability to captivate then and now. |
Schoenbeck, Sara: Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A document of bassoonist Sara Shoenbeck's collaborations recorded between 2019-2021 in recording studios across North America, showing the inspired curiosity she brings to improvisation through a diverse set of duos performed with Harris Eisenstadt, Nicole Mitchell, Nels Cline, Roscoe Mitchell, Matt Mitchell, Mark Dresser, Wayne Horvitz, Peggy Lee and Robin Holcomb. |
Udu Calls Trio feat. William Parker: The Vancouver Tapes (Long Song Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A live recording from 1999 in Vancouver, two extended improvisations from drummer Tiziano Tononi's UDU Calls Trio featuring William Parker on double bass; Tiziano Tononi on drums, congas, gong, bells & whistles; Daniele Cavallanti on saxophone, Ney flute and bells. |
Ullen, Lisa / Torsten Muller: Into The Staring Town (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Recording at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival in 2014, the duo of Swedish pianist Lisa Ullen and German double bassist Torsten Muller perform two extended improvisations focused on music and sound, using extended techniques and unusual approaches to their instruments in service to the spontaneous flow of ideas between them, never excessive, always captivating. |
Wilson, Tony: Horse's Dream (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Vancouver guitarist Tony Wilson in his 1st solo release recorded in an island cabin, showing his influences from Leadbelly, Fahey, Coltrane, and Ribot. |
Lee, Peggy Band: A Giviwayng Way (Songlines -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Rich in lyrical playing and creative freedom, Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee's 6th album expands on her goal to explore different strategies for improvisation within composition, featuring the unique voices of her ensemble including Brad Turner (trumpet), Jon Bentley (sax), Jeremy Berkman (trombone), Ron Samworth & Tony Wilson (guitars), Andre Lachance (bass) and Dylan van der Schyff (drums). |
Bennink / Evan Parker, Han: The Grass Is Greener (psi -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Dutch percussionist Han Bennink meets tenor saxophonist Evan Parker for their first duo release recorded in the studio in Gateway Studios, London, 2000. |
Kaiser, Henry / John Oswald / Paul Plimley: At One Time - Improvisations for Cecil Taylor (Metalanguage -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock In tribute to late free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, the West Coast/Vancouver trio of guitarist Henry Kaiser, alto saxophonist John Oswald and vibraphonist Paul Plimley explore the intention of Taylor's singular style in six anagrammatically titled improvisations, with Chicago violinist Tracy Silverman joining for the massive "Oceans Felons Salad", and Scott Amendola joing for "fir loom". |
Butterfield, Christopher: Souvenir (Reshirt -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Following his collaboration with Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini, British Columbia-based composer Christopher Butterfield draws on members of Aventa Ensemble and the Victoria Symphony to perform four works of "knotty contrapuntal figures and an ever-changing instrumental palette", mischievous works of interesting progression and percussive punctuation. |
Aeroplane Trio: Naranja Ha [CD & DVD] (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock CD & concert DVD of this well-conncected Vancouver acoustic jazz trio, who make delicate and combustible music while twisting and contorting their instruments in unusual ways. |
Lee Band, Peggy: Invitation (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The fifth album by composer and cellist Peggy Lee with her gifted band of Canadian musicians playing a range of creative arrangements varying from haunting melodies to energetic sonic voyages. |
Longhand (Tony Wilson / Peder Long) with special guests Jesse and Josh Zubot: Plays Long (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Vancouver mainstay, guitarist and composer Tony Wilson leads Longhnad, performing the energetically twising and turning, genre-spanning music of composer and saxophonist Peder Long, a mentor to Wilson while studying at Malaspina College, in a band with Vancouver collaborators Russell Sholberg (bass), Skey Brooks (drums), Jesse Zubot (violin) and Joshua Zubot (violin). |
Sick Boss (JP Carter/ Zubot / Lee / Schmidt / Meger / Gaucher): Businessless (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A wild improvising band from Vancouver in their 3rd release of episodic compositions based around instrumental rock forms, six "sick" and wide-ranging pieces that blend rock, jazz, chamber music and inventive forms in magnificent way, from JP Carter on trumpet, Joshua Zubot on violin, Peggy Lee on cello, Cole Schmidt on guitar, James Meger on bass, synths and Dan Gaucher on drums. |
Zubot, Josh Strings: Strings (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The debut of Vancouver & Montreal violinist Joshua Zubot's string ensemble with fellow violinists Jesse Zubot & Meredith Bates, cellist Peggy Lee and acoustic bassist James Meger, performing ten Zubot compositions informed by his involvement in diverse musical styles, each allowing room for improvisation as he takes the string ensemble into unique and unorthodox territory. |
Butterfield, Christopher: Souvenir [Used Item] (Reshirt -- Canada ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Following his collaboration with Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini, British Columbia-based composer Christopher Butterfield draws on members of Aventa Ensemble and the Victoria Symphony to perform four works of "knotty contrapuntal figures and an ever-changing instrumental palette", mischievous works of interesting progression and percussive punctuation. |
Armoush's, Emad Duos (w/ Houle, Zubot, Carter, Loewen, Hasselberg): Electritradition (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A series of intimate duets between Syrian-born, Vancouver-based oud, ney, flamenco guitar and singer Emad Armoush with aA series of intimate duets between Syrian-born, Vancouver-based Emad Armoush performing on oud, ney, flamenco guitar and song, with clarinetist Francois Houle, violinist Jesse Zubot, trumpeter JP Carter, drummer/percussionist Kenton Loewen and cellist Marina Hasselberg--Houle, Zubot and Carter also adding electronic layers--as Armoush reinvents Arabic tradition alongsie original compositions. Francois Houle, violinist Jesse Zubot, trumpeter JP Carter, drummer/percussionist Kenton Loewen and cellist Marina Hasselberg--Houle, Zubot and Carter also adding electronic layers--as Armoush reinvents Arabic tradition alongside original compositions. |
Longhand (Tony Wilson / Peder Long) with special guests Jesse and Josh Zubot: Plays Long [Used Item] (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $11.00 In Stock Vancouver mainstay, guitarist and composer Tony Wilson leads Longhnad, performing the energetically twising and turning, genre-spanning music of composer and saxophonist Peder Long, a mentor to Wilson while studying at Malaspina College, in a band with Vancouver collaborators Russell Sholberg (bass), Skey Brooks (drums), Jesse Zubot (violin) and Joshua Zubot (violin). |
Zubot, Josh Strings: Strings [Used Item] (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $10.00 In Stock The debut of Vancouver & Montreal violinist Joshua Zubot's string ensemble with fellow violinists Jesse Zubot & Meredith Bates, cellist Peggy Lee and acoustic bassist James Meger, performing ten Zubot compositions informed by his involvement in diverse musical styles, each allowing room for improvisation as he takes the string ensemble into unique and unorthodox territory. |
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Shipp, Matthew / Mark Helias / Gordon Grdina: Skin and Bones
Honsinger, Tristan / Nicolas Calioa / Joshua Zubot: In The Sea
Kaiser, Henry / John Oswald / Paul Plimley: At One Time - Improvisations for Cecil Taylor
Morris, Joe / Chris Dadge / Jonathon Wilcke: Rural Optimism
Schoenbeck, Sara: Sara Schoenbeck
Way Out Northwest (John Butcher / Tortsen Mueller / Dylan van der Shyff): The White Spot
Film In Music: Tell Tale
Peregrine Falls (Grdina / Loewen): Peregrine Falls
Samworth, Ron (Samworth / Adler / JP Carter / Naylor / Peggy Lee / James Meger): Dogs Do Dream
Fond of Tigers: Uninhabit
Lee, Peggy Band: A Giviwayng Way
Sick Boss (Schmidt / Meger / Peggy Lee / JP Carter / Naylor / Page): Sick Boss
Longhand (Tony Wilson / Peder Long) with special guests Jesse and Josh Zubot: Plays Long
Dunston, Nick: Atlantic Extraction
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline
Grdina, Gordon / Mat Maneri / Christian Lillinger: Live at the Armoury
Zubot, Josh Strings: Strings
Armoush's, Emad Duos (w/ Houle, Zubot, Carter, Loewen, Hasselberg): Electritradition
Dadge, Chris / Jonathon Wilcke: Three Live Pieces
Udu Calls Trio feat. William Parker: The Vancouver Tapes