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Frith, Fred / Annie Lewandowski: Long As In Short, Walk As In Run [Used Item]

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32886
Catalog Code: GG385
Country: Germany
 
Price: $12.95



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Extended and captivating improvisations using complex and extended techniques from the duo of prepared pianist Annie Lewandowski (London Improvisers Orchestra, Powerdove, Xiu Xiu) and guitarist Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, &c &c) in a thoroughly modern improvised conversation, here reissued with 11 minutes of previously unreleased material.


Skein (Kaufmann / Gratkowski / de Joode): Spectra & Affrays

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32862
Catalog Code: GG422
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Describing their improvisation as a chemical reaction of positive and negative ions, the central trio of the ensemble Skein--Achim Kaufmann (piano), Frank Gratkowski (winds) and Wilbert de Joode (bass)--are heard in this incredible 2018 concert at Konfrontationen Festival as a septet with Tony Buck (drums), Richard Barrett (electronics), Liz Allbee (trumpet) and Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar).


Various Artists: Elliott Sharp Presents I Never Metaguitar 6 [Used Item]

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32643
Catalog Code: GG404
Country: Germany
 
Price: $12.95



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Elliott Sharp's impressive series "Never Metaguitar" with releases on Clean Feed and Klanggalerie continues in this 6th volume of 18 remarkable and diverse approaches to the stringed instrument, effected and not, with contributors including Dougie Bowne, Wendy Eisenberg, Charles K. Noyes, AndrŽ Cholmondele, Toto Alvarez, Zona Zanjeros, David Torn, &c. &c.


Verhoeven, Martina Quintet (w/ Serries / Webster / Almeida): Driven: Live At Roadburn 2022

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32559
Catalog Code: GG417
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Netherlands pianist Martina Verhoeven's quintet with Goncalo Almeida on double bass, Onno Govaert on drums, Dirk Serries on guitar and Colin Webster on saxophone is captured live in their debut performance at the Roadburn Festival 2022 Paradox in Tilburg for an extended 2-part improvisation of both dense and thrilling interaction and deep introspection, a spectacular and informed set.


McPhee, Joe / John Edwards: Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (for James Baldwin And John Coltrane)

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32558
Catalog Code: GG416
Country: Austria
 
Price: $18.95



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The incredible first meeting between legendary saxophonist Joe McPhee and double bassist John Edwards is this performance at the 2019 Artacts festival in Austria, a powerfully reflective free jazz concert with McPhee speaking & preaching about the loss of giants John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and James Baldwin, as they stand upon their shoulders through free music.


Various Artists: Elliott Sharp Presents I Never Metaguitar 6

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32347
Catalog Code: GG404
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Elliott Sharp's impressive series "Never Metaguitar" with releases on Clean Feed and Klanggalerie continues in this 6th volume of 18 remarkable and diverse approaches to the stringed instrument, effected and not, with contributors including Dougie Bowne, Wendy Eisenberg, Charles K. Noyes, AndrŽ Cholmondele, Toto Alvarez, Zona Zanjeros, David Torn, &c. &c.


Frith, Fred / Annie Lewandowski: Long As In Short, Walk As In Run

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32113
Catalog Code: GG385
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Extended and captivating improvisations using complex and extended techniques from the duo of prepared pianist Annie Lewandowski (London Improvisers Orchestra, Powerdove, Xiu Xiu) and guitarist Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, &c &c) in a thoroughly modern improvised conversation, here reissued with 11 minutes of previously unreleased material.


Bootstrappers (Elliott Sharp / Melvin Gibbs / Don McKenzie): Xenolith

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 32037
Catalog Code: gg390
Country: Austria
 
Price: $14.95



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The first new Bootstrappers album since 1992, joining band leader Elliott Sharp for this 3rd album are longtime collaborators Melvin Gibbs on electric bass and Don McKenzie on drums, for seven assertive rock-based improvisations fueled by electronics, free jazz, no wave and electroacoustic sound, manifesting a hardboiled NY ethic of focused grooves and free playing.


Various (The Residents / MX-80 / Chrome / Tuxedomoon): Subterranean Modern

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31805
Catalog Code: GG400
Country: Austria
 
Price: $13.95



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Reissued as the inexplicable avant rock band The Residents celebrate their 50th year, this compilation album from 1979 includes tracks from San Fransisco peer bands Chrome (Damon Edge/Helios Creed), Art rockers from Indiana, MX-80 Sound, SF electronic new wave band Tuxedomoon, and four tracks from The Resident's themselves, two with Fred Frith on guitar.


Semantics (Elliott Sharp / Ned Rothenberg / Samm Bennett): Bone Of Contention

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31804
Catalog Code: GG398
Country: Austria
 
Price: $14.95



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Including three previously unreleased live tracks, one of Downtown NY's supergroups of drummer Samm Bennett, reed & wind player Ned Rothenberg and guitar & bass player Elliott Sharp's 2nd album is reissued, bringing this collection of seemingly endless possibility in improvisation back to the foreground, sounding as modern today as it did in the percolating creativity of 1987.


Lanz, Joke / Dieb13 : Musical Education [Used Item]

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31744
Catalog Code: GG375
Country: Germany
 
Price: $11.95



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A startling and energetically exciting collision of cleverly eclectic sound sources when Swiss turntablist and sound artist Joke Lanz met Austrian improviser and turntablist Dieb13 (Dieter Kovacic) for this amazing 2020 concert at GrillX in Vienna, using three turntables to create an incredible collage of sounds from the humorous to the awe inspiring.


Harnik, Elisabeth / Didi Kern / Jaap Blonk: Steamology

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31720
Catalog Code: GG380
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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Joyfully assertive and somewhat twisted, the first of three improvisations on this live album at Wels Unlimited 2020 is the duo of Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik and drummer Didi Kern, starting at high speed then shifting to unusual approaches in a quirky dialog, made quirkier with Jaap Blonk adding wonderfully nonsensical vocalizations on the last two pieces.


Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora / Parkins): Free Dirt (Live) [2 CDs]

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31377
Catalog Code: GG389
Country: Germany
 
Price: $22.95



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One of the most intense and unusual of the 80s Downtown NY groups merging rock and improvisation with strong attitudes and incredible musical concepts, these live recordings, including songs never before released, are taken from American and European concerts by the trio of guitarist Fred Frith, cellist Tom Cora, and either electric harpist Zeena Parkins or reedist Dave Newhouse.


Lanz, Joke / Dieb13 : Musical Education

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31248
Catalog Code: GG375
Country: Germany
 
Price: $14.95



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A startling and energetically exciting collision of cleverly eclectic sound sources when Swiss turntablist and sound artist Joke Lanz met Austrian improviser and turntablist Dieb13 (Dieter Kovacic) for this amazing 2020 concert at GrillX in Vienna, using three turntables to create an incredible collage of sounds from the humorous to the awe inspiring.


Gratkowski, Frank / Elisabeth Harnik: Bullungga

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 31000
Catalog Code: GG386
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Recordings from two European jazz festivals in 2020--Klangspuren festival in Austria and Moers Festival in Germany--from the duo of pianist Elisabeth Harnik and multi-wind & reedist Frank Gratkowski performing on alto & soprano saxophones, clarinet & bass flute, both of whom bring classical training to their spirited, diverse and far-ranging improvisations.


Schmoliner, Ingrid / Hamid Drake: Awon Ona [2 CDs]

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 30697
Catalog Code: GG376
Country: Germany
 
Price: $22.95



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An outstanding pair of concerts from Austrian pianist & vocalist Igrid Schmoliner and Chicago drummer & percussionist Hamid Drake, Schmoliner coming from a compositional/avant background, Drake merging jazz and world approaches to his playing, together creating something wonderfully informed and exciting, making their complex interplay radiantly lucid to their audience.


Cora, Tom / David Moss: Cargo Cult Revival

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 30295
Catalog Code: GG351
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Essential performers on the 80s Downtown NY scene, cellist Tom Cora and percussionist & vocalist David Moss released this album in 1983 on Fred Frith's Rift label, ten active and often absurd duo improvisation of informed interaction, intertwining strings, drums, odd rhythmic sources and strange vocal utterances, yielding to both serious improv and whimsical notions.


Various Artists: Sharp, Elliott Presents I Never Metaguitar 5: Solo Guitars For The 21st Century

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29925
Catalog Code: GG349
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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Elliott Sharp's fifth compilation bringing a diverse and global view on modern solo guitar work continues the series on a new record label and with the same exceptional ear for superb musicians, here including Anthony Pirog, David Watson, Liberty Ellman, Matteo Liberatore, Mike Baggetta, Chris Vine, Craig Green, Jerome Harris, Philip L'Epee, Will Bernard, &c.


Centazzo, Andrea / Elisabeth Harnik: Duophonic Landscape

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29746
Catalog Code: GG346
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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Recorded in a winery in Gorizia, Italy, in 2019, Austrian based pianist and composer Elisabeth Harnik, who works in both composed and improvised music, joined with Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and Ictus label leader Andrea Centazzo to perform this series of creative and authoritative "Duophonic Landscapes".


Coxhill, Lol / Fred Frith: French Gigs

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29745
Catalog Code: GG353
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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A uniquely eccentric free improv album by Fred Frith on electric guitar and Lol Coxhill on soprano sax, originally released in 1983 on the French AAA label, the album assembles recordings from the "Musiques de Traverses" Festival 1981, 1978 concerts in Sainte Croix, in Poitiers, and at M.J.C. Aliénor D'Aquitaine in Limoges, plus additional material from 1999 in Munchen & London.


Gartmayer, Susanna / Christoph Kurzmann: Smaller Sad

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29667
Catalog Code: GG348
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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The first meeting between the Austrian duo of bass clarinetist Susanna Gartmayer and Christof Kurzmann, here using ppool software, voice and rubber band, creating 4 elusive and immersive works that float somewhere in the void between experimental electronics, improvisation and song, creating diaphanous tension and mysterious environments; spellbinding.


Amado, Rodrigo / Dirk Serries: Jazzblazzt

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29610
Catalog Code: GG333
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Portugese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado met Belgian electric & acoustic guitarist Dirk Serries for this live performance at Jazzblazzt in The Netherlands in 2018 for two extended conversations, the first set finding Serries on electric and the 2nd on acoustic, as the two push and pull each other, intertwining or finding complement in their discourse.


Semantics (Elliott Sharp / Ned Rothenberg / Samm Bennett): Semantics

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29528
Catalog Code: GG306
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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An excellent example of the 80s Downtown NY approach to improvisation from the trio of wind player Ned Rothenberg on alto & tenor saxophones, bass clarinet & flute, Elliott Sharp on guitar, bass & violin, and Samm Bennett on drums, percussion & electronic drums, all in the height and excitement of the new music being developed and performed in NYC in the 1980s; awe-inspiring!


Minton, Phil / Dieb13: With, Without

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29527
Catalog Code: GG342
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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Combining concerts from a number of festivals and venues between 2009 & 2017, this album presents the best of the collaboration between London free improvising vocalist Phil Minton and Austrian turntablist and experimenter Dieb13, each of them masterfully unleashed in overwhelmingly creative, outlandish, sometimes frightening/sometimes uproarious, truly unique music.


Namtchylak, Sainkho / Ned Rothenberg / Dieb13: Antiphonen

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29526
Catalog Code: GG339
Country: Germany
 
Price: $17.95



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The first meeting for the trio of Tuvan free improvising vocalist & throat singer Sainkho Namtchylak, saxophonist Ned Rothenberg and turntablist Dieb13, captured in performance at Music Unlimited 33, at Alter Schlachthof Wels, Austria in 2019 for 2 improvisations — the 40 minute "Shave and a Haircut" and the 11 minute "Two Bits" — in incredibly creative and formidable music.


Hayward, Charles : Crossfade Estate

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 29525
Catalog Code: GG340
Country: E.U.
 
Price: $17.95



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Recorded in 2005 with an ensemble of like-minded instrumentalists and then edited and collaged for the next year and a half, this was a project of Charles Hayward during his time at The Albany in Deptford, London, using their digital recording suite to create a large work using a variety of strategies and developed in a dramatic story form, issued here for the 1st time.


Frith, Fred : Woodwork / Live At Ateliers Claus

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 27595
Catalog Code: GG308
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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Fred Frith's solo performances are amongst some of his most fascinating, and this live album at Ateliers Claus in Brussels, 2018 does not disappoint, Frith using every inch of his guitar and an arsenal of objects, in tandem with his masterful creative intent, to present an extended and fascinating journey in sound, remarkable in its breadth and bold inventive power.


Hayward, Charles : (Begin Anywhere)

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 27405
Catalog Code: GG301
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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This Heat and Camberwell Now drummer, songwriter, vocalist, experimenter and sociological observer Charles Hayward steps away from his drums for an intimate album of song, performing on piano with minimal accompaniment as he presents new songs and new versions of songs including pieces from Camberwell Now; powerfully fragile, insightful, fascinating.


Frith, Fred / Hardy Fox: A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven And Earth

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 25474
Catalog Code: GG264
Country: Austria
 
Price: $17.95



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Fred Frith's solo career started on the West Coast Ralph Records label, home of The Residents; Frith met Residents front man Hardy Fox in passing in 1991, making recordings on a Pacific beach using Fox's Walkman, which they brought to a multi-track studio to record the basis for an ultimately unreleased album, now revived decades later as Fox rediscovered this fascinating material.


Cora, Tom: Live At The Western Front

Label: Klanggalerie
Product Code: 25274
Catalog Code: GG 263CD
Country: Austria
 
Price: $19.95



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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.








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