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Ratkje, Maja S. K. : Crepuscular Hour [CD+DVD] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $20.95 Out of Stock An epic, hypnotic work for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians, and church organ, to be performed in a cathedral or similar location with musicians surrounding the audience, here from a live performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. |
Kuhne, Almut / Gebhard Ullmann / Achim Kaufmann: Marbrakeys (Leo Records -- UK ) Price: $15.45 Out of Stock The Berlin-based trio of free improvising vocalist Almut Kuhne, pianist Achim Kaufmann and reedist Gebhard Ullmann for ten originals, on-the-edge, informed improvisation of great skill and melodic invention, taking their music into uncharted and unconventional territory. |
Machinefabriek (w/ Anne Bakker / Edita Karkoschka): Crumble (Self Released -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A beautifully dramatic album from the trio of electronic artist Rutger Zydervelt (Machinefabriek), violinist Anne Bakker, and vocalist Edita Karkoschka, a sculpted work full of dramatic turns, immersive drones, glitchy electronics and intimate gestures. |
Trophies (Bosetti / Nagai / Ches Smith): A Color Photo of the Horse (D.S al Coda -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Alessandro Bosetti provides voice and electronics on words & text from a variety of writers, as performed in a trio with drummer Ches Smith and fretless guitarist Kenta Nagai; fascinating and perplexing expression. |
Lehman, Steve (feat. HPrizm / Gaston Bandimic / Maciek Lasserre): Selebeyone (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock NY saxophonist Steve Lehman merges his sophisticated jazz roots with the experimental hip-hop community, including French saxophonist Maciek Lasserre, vocalists HPrizm & Gaston Bandimic alongside bassist Drew Gress, drummer Damion Reid, and pianist Carlos Homs. |
Zaffiri, Enore: La Voce Ed Il Sintetizzatore (Rossbin -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 In Stock |
Porta Chiusa: Because Life Should Be So Wonderful (I) (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A beguiling and atmospheric work of overtones, harmonics, tonal and microtonal progressions from a trio of clarinetists (Hans Koch, Michael Thieke, and Paed Conca) with Japanese vocalist Maki Hachiya, an immaculately paced and exotic work of sound. |
Risser, Eve / White Desert Orchestra: Les Deux Versants Se Regardent (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Pianist and composer Eve Risser wrote this work after a mystical experience in Bryce Canyon, Utah, adding a choir to her 10-piece orchestra, balancing big band and chamber orchestra through instrumentation and approach, creating a complex and fulfilling journey in sound. |
Picnic (Honsinger / Kondo / Bergen / Jacques Avenel / Vatcher / Vigni): Picnic (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock ICP Orchestra cellist/composer Tristan Honsinger wrote these sophisticated works combining free improv with mischievous songs in a band with Toshinori Kondo on trumpet, Sean Bergen on sax, Jean Jacques Avenel on bass, Michael Vatcher on drums and Tiziana Simona Vigni on voice. |
Juxtavoices: Warning: May Contain Notes (Discus -- UK ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Juxtavoices is an anti-choir of 30 voices whose repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of classic modernist poems and found texts, here in a CD/DVD release with a reinterpretation of early an Cabaret Voltaire recordings and a terrifying ascent into hell. |
Capurso, Maria Luisa / Jean-Marc Foussat: En Respirant (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A live recording at POP in Berlin between synth and electronics player Jean-Marc Foussat and vocalist and electronicist Maria Luisa Capurso, subverting the voice through electronics and effects to create wildly encompassing sound environments that contrast Foussat's synthetics with the organic quality of the human voice; rich, hallucinatory, wonderful. |
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog. |
Brousseloux, Augustin / Jean-Marc Foussat / Quentin Rollet : Qui A Vu Ce Mystere... (Improvising Beings -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two large works of improvisation using electric guitar, synth and alto saxophone from the trio of Augustin Brousseloux, Jean-Marc Foussat, and Quentin Rollet, complex and evolving works with a psychedelic edge, blending experimental, rock and jazz into something truly unique. |
Kowald, Peter / Daunik Lazro / Annick Nozati: Instants Chavires (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Recordings from 2000 at Instants Chavires in Montreuil, France from the free improvising trio of Peter Kowald on double bass, Daunik Lazro on alto & baritone sax, and Annick Nozati on voice, in a uniquely informed dialog representing the only time this masterful trio performed. |
Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere: 02 (Discus -- UK ) Price: $16.95 In Stock An absolutely impressive album blending advanced/progressive rock forms with improvisation, starting from collective improvisation and layering in the studio to create a sophisticated psychedelic music, the second album from this ensemble that is headed by Martin Archer (reeds & keys), Chris Bywater (keys & synth), and Steve Dinsdale (drums & percussion). |
Draksler, Kaja Octet (w/ Baars / Nielsdoottir / Polence / Rave / Dumitriu / Heyndels / Govaert): Gledalec [2 CDs] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $22.95 In Stock Draksler's interest in poetry drives this 2-CD release, with a chamber octet of improvisers and orchestra players, with 2 vocalists, two reedists (inc. Ab Baars), violin, piano, double bass, drums & orchestral percussion, performing Draksler's compositions for the words of Pablo Neruda and Andriana Minou. |
Spunk: Still Eating Ginger Bread For Breakfast (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Norway's unconventional improvising quartet SPUNK with Maja S. K. Ratkje, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Lene Grenager and Kristin Andersen are heard live at Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, Norway in 2015, capturing these two sets of uniquely unexpected and jaw-dropping recordings from a band on the cutting edge of avant improvisation. |
Backer, Andreas: Voice Improvisations (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Norwegian / Swedish vocalist Andreas Backer in an album of impressive solo voice improvisations, applying stunning vocal techniques to generally non-articulate pieces, using his voice in astonishing, frightening, funny and simply bizarre ways over a diverse set of compositions, mostly acoustic, except on "Voicetronics"; weird and wonderful. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
Wisseltangcamatta, The: Movements (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways. |
Duthoit, Isabelle / Franz Hautzinger: Lily (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock French free vocalist Isabelle Duthoit met world traveling improviser and Zeitkratzer trumpeter Franz Hautzinger in New York City to record these highly unusual duos, using extreme techniques and inexplicable intent to create 9 uniquely aberrant accompaniments to your most subtle and strange dreams; reference Phil Minton, Axel Dorner, Freddie Kruger. |
Lambs Gamble: Farewell Body Bags [VINYL] (Discombobulate -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Bizarre, disruptive, aberrant sound from twisted experts in the field Lambs Gamble, comprised of George Cremaschi on bass & electronics, Fritz Welch on drums, percussion and voice, and Eric Boros (Vialka) on electronics and voice, recording in Switzerland for a fantastic album of intelligent abnormality. |
Bica, Carlos & Azul: Things About (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Double bassist and composer Carlos Bica's Azul with guitarist Frank Mobus and drummer Jim Black in their 5th album, bringing jazz and elements of rock together into a lyrical and alluring set of recordings. |
Derome, Jean / Joane Hetu: Shaman - Nous percons les oreilles (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two saxophones, two voices; two gargoyles, two satyrs; two forces of nature that agitate, whistle, squeak, scrape, blow, and bite, transforming music into a secular incantation and a banquet of sound. |
Kalashnikov: Bang Bang [2 CDs] (Veal -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Double CD of bleak and sinister metal-oriented improv from the duo of Jamie Saft on keys and bass and Mike Pride on drums and hostile and freakish vocals. |
Les Poules: Hetu, Labrosse, Roger: Phenix (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock 24 miniature works from the fantastic and intense improvising trio of Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger, inspired by the eternal revival of the legendary Phoenix. |
Novak, Ryan: Balloon Proportions (RY/NO Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Multi-instrumentalist improviser Novak, who has worked with Tim Daisy and Tatsuya Nakatani, in an eclectic and complex solo release of colliding genres. |
Nyberg, Lina: Palaver (Moserobie Music -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 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". |
Quatuor Bozzini: Michel Gonneville: Hozhro (Collection QB -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Michel Gonneville's dreamlike, shamanistic journey, "Hozhro", in a brilliantly executed reading by Montreal's Quatuori Bozzini with vocalist Marianne Lamber & saxophonist Mathieu Gualin. |
Savoldelli, Boris: Biocosmopolitan (MoonJune -- USA ) Price: $12.95 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. |
Shibolet / Josephson / Baker / Looney / Smith: untitled (1959) (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Kadima collective saxophonist Ariel Shibolet and 4 California Bay Area players in impressive and intense improvisation that make for an unusual and open-minded discourse. |
Shiurba, John: Triplicate (Spool -- Canada ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Composer John Shiurba with an impressive West Coast octet including vocalists Lara Bruckmann & Morgan Guberman, trumpeter Tom Djll, drummer Gino Robair, and bassist Matthew Sperry, &c. conducting them through five twisted compositions. |
Davies, Rhodri / David Sylvian / Mark Wastell: There Is No Love (Confront -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Confront initiates their new Core Series with the text piece "There Is No Love" with David Sylvian on voice, vocal treatments and electronics, Rhodri Davies on harp, vibraphone and radio, and Mark Wastel on tam tam and percussion, a sophisticated spoken word piece of shadowy atmosphere and innuendo, leveraging approaches from experimental, improvised and composed music. |
Denley, Jim: Through Fire, Crevice and The Hidden Valley (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Recorded live in an Australian National Park on a 15-day walk, saxophonist Jim Denley performs solo on the alto saxophone in response to and in conversation with the environment around him using the natural acoustics of this rugged and awe-inspiring region. |
Matthews, Wade / Ingar, Zach: Mørke-lys (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Nyberg, Joacim : Fylkingen, March 27, 2014 (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Guitarist Joacim Nyberg, also performing on double bass, bell and recorder, in a live performance in Stockholm, Sweden at Fylkingen in 2014, using "Wood, steel, air. Hands, fingers, heart" in an open-ended and ardent exposition of his interpretation of jazz. |
Cappozzo, Jean-Luc & Geraldine Keller: Air Prints (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The duo of Jean-Luc Cappozzo on trumpet, horns and objects, and Geraldine Keller on voice flute & objects in an album of tones and tongues, an unusual set of adventurous free improvisation. |
Ceccarelli, Isaiah: Breviaire d'Epuisements (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Percussionist Isaiah Ceccarelli's work for percussion, two voices, two bass clarinets and viola da gamba, woven from the delicate fabric of the tension between darkness and light. |
Chaton, Anne-James / Andy Moor: Transfer (Unsounds -- Netherlands ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A collection of guitar, electronic and voice pieces from Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor, originally released as a series of four seven inch singles here combined into a single CD with 3 bonus tracks. |
Ensemble SuperMusique: Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A supergroup of the AM collective with Derome, Hetu, Labrosse, Roger, Tanguay and Tetrault, in adventurous and far-reaching improvisation that have to be heard to be believed! |
eRikm & Natacha Muslera: Cartouche (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An experimental sound and voice duet featuring eRikm and Natacha Muslera: extreme, convulsive and immersive sounds that alternately surprises and seduces in brutal and beautiful ways. |
Genetti / Smith / Lonberg-Holm: Sense of Hearing (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock 8 duos recorded in the studio between bassist Damon Smith and free vocalist Carol Genetti, and 4 trio tracks adding Fred Lonberg-Holm on violoncello and performing live at Chicago's Empty Bottle. |
Leandre, Joelle & Lauren Newton: Conversations live in Ljubljana (Not Two -- Poland ) Price: $20.95 Out of Stock French bassist Joelle Leandre and US vocalist Lauren Newton recorded these duos live at Club Gromka in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2010; absorbing and unusual interactions between two significant improvisers. |
Schiller, Christoph / Millefleurs: Millefleurs (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The millefleurs vocal ensemble brings 12 vocalists together in varying groups for minimal and unique vocalisation over a taxonomy of floral genres and species. |
Wiss / Unternahrer: sopstock (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Swiss voice artist Isa Wiss with Marc Unternahrer on tuba in a surreal set of alphabetized improvisations in a Minton-esque mode with Unternahrer taking the tuba into untold territory. |
Pisaro, Michael: Sometimes (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The MaDam Electroacoustic Improvisation Collective based in Spain performs the first in Pisaro's 34 piece Harmony Series, which attempts to create the conditions for a harmonic situation without giving any actual notes, just numbers, durations of tones, and pauses; this work is based on "swell piece (for alison knowles)" (1967) by James Tenney. |
Corringham, Viv / Lawrence Casserley: Anemoi (FMR -- UK ) Price: $10.80 In Stock Lawrence Casserley is a pioneer of real time electroacoustic music, since the 60s working with other artists and developing his Signal Processing Instrument, using physical gestures to process and morph sounds; here he works with British vocalist and Deep Listening teacher Viv Corringham in an other-worldly collaboration of voice and electonics. |
Jones, A.F.: Rearward Through Forgottenness (Laminal Recordings -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A compendium of compositions and improvisations from 2009-13 by undersea acoustician and audio engineer A.F. Jones, who uses stringed instruments and analog devices, hand-crafted and found, in works that emphasize structural components such as timbre, tone, or attack over form. |
Leandre / Minton: Leandre / Minton (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Phil Minton started as a trumpeter and became one of free improv's most outside vocalists; Joelle Leandre is a double bassist who also performs free vocal improv; this is their first recorded collaboration, and it's an unusual and wonderful album of heavy tone improvisation, plucked and bowed, and a masterfully odd free association of vocalisation. |
Giesriegl & Schindler: So{u}ndages (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Both Giesriegl and Gratkowski are responsible for the sound in the gearbox. It deals with an extreme range of vocalisms, which are often composed of elements of spoken language, which are part of the sound ensemble. He draws from an al... |
Sorrentino, Sergio / Sylvano Bussotti: Sylvano Bussotti Complete Music For Solo Guitar (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock ... |
Corringham, Vov / Stephen Flinn / Miguel Frasconi: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock
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Good, Kevin : Listen (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Kevin Good organized this composition from four field recordings collected near Avon, CT, isolating sounds that he found interesting and then attempting to recreate them on other instruments, finally adding the human voice sparsely utilized throughout the piece, all to promote the idea of listeners actively paying attention to the sounds of their environment. |
Un Coup de Des (Barriere / Sainz): Volcan Evaporado (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Two women in a duo of voice and amplified objects, Lali Barrier using a variety of devices that are clearly micro-amplifed and mixed in performance, as Marta Sainz intones vocal sounds, never speaking but creating innuendo and drama at a cautious pace, allowing Barrier's objects to interact, creating an unusual sonic environment of unpredictable and interesting discourse. |
Redox: Orbitals (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The trio of Kaja Farszky on marimba & percussion, Annette Giesriegl on voice and electronics, and Katharina Klement on piano for a gripping album of free/ea improvisation, splitting the release in 3 parts from a live concert in 2015 at Sonnenhang House Concerts Series in Kumberg/Austria, and 3 parts recorded at Croatian Radio in Zagreb in 2016. |
Muira, Yoko / Jean Michel Van Schouwburg: On The Shore Of Dreams (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The peforming duo of Tokyo pianist Yoko Miura on conventional piano, toy piano and melodica, and free improvising vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg are recorded in the studio for 14 succinct and unusual improvisations, Fou Records leader Jean-Marc Foussat recording the affair and providing electronics on one track; wonderfully weird and informed. |
Christmann / Schipper / Frangenheim: Core (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A free improvisation session with Gunter Christmann on cello and trombone, Alexander Fragenheim on double bass, and extended free vocalist Elke Schipper. |
Hot Four: Backer / Stackenas / Williamson / Solberg: Eye of the Moose (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The quartet of Andreas Backer on voice, David Stackenas on guitars, Joe Williamson on bass, and Stale Liavik Solberg on drums & percussion, for open-minded, improvised chamber music focusing on interaction, textures, dynamic variations and timbre. |
Adachi / Buck / Frangenheim / Gratkowski: Goldsbleed (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Creative Sources core artist double bassist Alexander Frangenheim met Zeitkratzer multi-reedist Frank Gratkowski, The Necks drummer Tony Buck, and free improvising vocalist Adachi Tomomi, in one of a series of concerts at the loft Studio Boerne 45 in Berlin in 2015; this, their first meeting, yielded an impressive flow of creative and far-ranging collective dialog. |
Hawkins, Alexander / Elaine Mitchener Quartet (w / Neil Charles / Stephen Davis) : UpRoot (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Oxford-based keyboardist and composer Alexander Hawkins balances free improv and lyrical jazz forms in a quartet with bassist Neil Charles, drummer Stephen Davis, and vocalist Elaine Mitchener, with both Hawkins compositions and pieces from Archie Shepp, Jeanne Lee, and Patty Waters, a beautiful balance that appeals to modern listeners steeped in the history. |
Nuts (Duboc / Siddik / Oki / Lasserre / Sato): Symphony for Old and New Dimensions (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Bassist Duboc's two part symphony with dual drummers and dual trumpeters is a journey that aims at the creative free improvisation of groups like the Art Ensemble, AACM, BAG, &c. |
Refusenik (Arturas Bumsteinas): Musikaliszer Pinkos (Bolt -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A collection of more than two hundred Hebrew religious chants compiled and published by cantor Abraham Berenstein in 1927 in Vilna, Poland (today Vilnius, Lithuania), re-composed by Arturas Bumsteinas using fragments of melodies found found in the Berenstein's book, with electronics recorded on the old Russian analogue synthezier Polyvox then mixed in EMS. |
Zywizna: Roginski, Raphael with Genowefa Lenarcik: plays Zaswiec Niesiacku and other Kurpian songs (Bolt -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Guitarist Raphael Roginski reinterprets the music of the Kurpi region of Poland, performed with vocalist Genowefa Lenarcik who was born in 1940 in the village of Krobia, part of the Kurpi region, and is the daughter of folk singing legend Stanislaw Brzozowy; together they bring out the rich heritage of this region, expanded by the natural sounds of the forests of Northeaster Poland. |
Afrit Nebula (Edwards / Edwards / Harris): Triality (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A mix of Afro-Cuban, Middle Eastern, jazz and rock traditions fuel the rich rhythmic and spiritual music of the trio of Elaine Edwards (The Moors) on saxophone and flute, Ken Edwards on bass and voice, and Jamie Harris on percussion and voice, referencing the powerful Arabian mythical demon "Afrit" and the insterstellar clouds of dust that make up a nebula. |
Winter, Michael : Approximating Omega (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Composer Michael Winter uses the "maximally complex, incomputable number" known as Chaitin's Constant, plus text adapted from Gregory Chaitin's 1994 book "The Limits Of Mathematics", samples from 36 creative musicians, the voice of Muirgen Eleonore Gourgues, plus cello from Judith Hamann and piano from Winters, to create this curious and compelling narrative work. |
Houben, Eva-Maria: Voice With Piano (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Three compositions for voice and piano from German composer Eva-Maria Houben, also performing on piano with soprano vocalist Irene Kurka--"Adagio" in three pieces; "Lyri"; and "Lieder Fur Die Insel (Songs for the Island)--with texts from poet Felix Timmermans (adagio) and Hilde Domin (lyrik); beautiful, stark, haunting music that presents at its own pace. |
Houben, Eva-Maria : Voice With Harp (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Five works for harp and voice from composer Eva-Maria Houben and soprano Tatiana Kuzina, opening with a lovely "Aeolian Harp", and including two works from her "Voice and Piano" album recorded for harp--"Adagio" in 3 movements, and "Songs for the Island" in 5 movements--alongside "Hatid" and "Two Songs with Piano" in two movements. |
Palmer, Juliet: Rivers (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Composer and vocalists Juliet Palmer leads an ensemble of vocalists through works that use layering of voices using lyrics from Emily Dickinson, Nicholas Power, Julie Salverson, Anna Cahtterton, and Christine Duncan, a fascinating mixture of haunting acappella interaction, solo voice, and one work with electronic backing and one over an ultrasound. |
Cappozzo / Perraud: Suspension (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Drummer Cappozzo and trumpeter Perraud met at Tours "La Chapelle at St. Anne" in 2009 to record this strong album of extended improvisation merging conventional and extended techniques. |
Serpa, Sara (w / Laubrock / Fiedlander): Close Up (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Lisbon, Portugal native, singer and composer Sara Serpa in a trio with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and cellist Erik Friedlander, recording live at Pete's House, in Brooklyn, for an album of unusual and creative vocals inspired by experimentation and changing identities, bringing a unique approach to improvised voice, here in the company of accomplished players. |
Steenberge, Laura : Harmonica Fables (Nueni -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A truly unique album of solo harmonica and voice from Bay Area performer and composer Laura Steenberge, whose studies in folk music, psycholinguistics, acoustics and medieval Byzantine chant brings a sense of the ancient to modern experimentalism, transforming the instrument in a variety of illusive ways that are both enigmatic and entirely embraceable. |
Jun, Yan / Jason Kahn: None Of Us (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Five recordings from the duo of Jason Kahn and Yan Jun, recording ostensibly on voice, though all recordings from their rehearsals and live performances were muted, deleted, or suffered technical issues, so what remains are the extraneous sound of the rooms and concert spaces, alone or layered, the final piece layering incidental sounds from 5 concerts. |
Caloia, Nicolas : Les Bonnes Histoires (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bridging contemporary and improvised music, Montreal double bassist Nicolas Caloia wrote these pieces for textured and impossible rhythms; blending pieces by Nancarrow and Grand Master Flash; and manipulating poems by Genevieve Letarte; with supporting improv from Jean Derome & Lori Freedman. |
Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman: Mobile For Shakespeare (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock A series of musical "mobiles" from European composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, sonic transformations of the visual experiences of Alexander Calder's dynamic sculptures. |
Nozen (Nisenson / Tanguay / Falaise / Mailloux): Live au Upstairs (Malasartes -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Nozen is a crossroads of contemporary jazz, musique actuelle and the musical traditions of Jewish Eastern Europe, contrasting styles giving birth to a deep and spontaneous music. |
SKIF++ (Carey / van Heumen / Koolwijk): .next (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock This laptop trio create a dense and scurrying sound world of a surprising freeform nature that avoids cliches by combining sound-generation tools for ever-shifting results. |
Vulture Club, The: Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse (Utech Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Metamorphic: The Two Fridas (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Having met at Middlesex University in 2001, this sophisticated London-based contemporary jazz/folk sextet formed in 2011, recently adding vocalist Kerry Andrew (Juice), as pianist Laura Cole composes music and text based on her personal experiences; pieces include two collective improvs and 2 reworkings of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman". |
Lana Trio w/ Sofia Jernberg: Lana Trio w/ Sofia Jernberg (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The Norwegian experimental collective improvising group of Henrik Munkeby Norstebo on trombone, Kjetil Jerve on piano, and Andreas Wildhagen on drums & percussion are the core trio here, presenting their third release by adding free improvising vocalist Sofia Jernberg, bringing a sense of unpredictability to a finely controlled chaos of technical mastery. |
Reid, Tomeka / Kyoko Kitamura / Taylor Ho Bynum / Joe Morris: Geometry of Caves (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bringing New York and Chicago performers together, the quartet of cellist Tomeka Reid, guitarist Joe Morris, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and free vocalist Kyoko Kitamura present an album of expressive and creative collective improvisation, bridging chamber forms and free jazz with a captivatingly eccentric appeal from Kitamura's wordless vocalese. |
Adachi, Tomomi / Jaap Blonk: Asemic Dialogues (Kontrans -- Netherlands ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Performing together since 2004 between Tokyo and Amsterdam, Dutch vocal improviser, innovator and electronicist Jaap Blonk meets Japanese vocal improviser and fellow electronics artist Tomomi Adachi at Lettretage in Berlin in 2017, recording this, the 5th in Kontrans' Electronic Improvisation, for two extended and energetic dialogs of unique creative interplay. |
Blonk, Jaap : Irrelevant Comments (Kontrans -- Netherlands ) Price: $17.95 In Stock As he delves further into electronics, Netherlands vocal improviser and experimental artists Jaap Blonk finds an ever-increasing array of approaches to modify his voice and set it into alien and astounding environments, here in 16 tracks of musique concrete, sound poetry, pulse based electronics, soundscapes, and inexplicable hybrids of the same. |
Jovicevic, Jasna Sextet: Flow Vertical (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.94 Out of Stock Hungarian composer, improviser and multi-reedist Jasna Jovicevic in an album researching sound vibrations and their direct impact on our body, energy, and creativity, performed with her contemporary chamber jazz sextet of bassoon, percussion, viola, violin and violincello, lyrical and joyful music "divided according to psychic centers in the human body". |
Parker, William: Voices Fall From The Sky [3 CD BOX SET] (Aum Fidelity -- USA ) Price: $27.95 Out of Stock William Parker developed these works presented in three complementary albums titled "Voices Fall From The Sky", "Songs", and "Essence", bringing together new compositions with long unavailable or new versions of previous pieces, performed in various configurations from solo to large ensemble, the songs reflecting freedom, compassion, anti-oppression, anti-violence, a love of nature, spirit and creation; essential elements in Parker's optimistic oeuvre. |
Lee, Okkyung: Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel.Flower.Bird) (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Cellist Okkyung Lee explores her Korean roots in an amazing long-form composition combining electronics, improvisation, composed melodies and noise with Korean traditional music, performed with the superb ensemble of John Edwards (bass), Ches Smith (drums), John Butcher (sax), Jae Hyo Chang (Korean percussion), Song Hee Kwon (Pansori singing), and Lasse Marhaug (electronics). |
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Reid, Tomeka / Kyoko Kitamura / Tyler Ho Bynum / Joe Morris: Geometry Of Distance
Reid, Tomeka / Kyoko Kitamura / Taylor Ho Bynum / Joe Morris: Geometry of Caves
Bynum, Taylor Ho / John Hebert / Gerald Cleaver: Book of Three: Continuum
Fujii, Satoko / Ramon Lopez: Confluence
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