"'A double bassist, Joao Madeira , and a cellist, Miguel Mira, each perform solo for over 16 minutes, and together they play a duo for 38 minutes, including an encore of over four minutes. This is all released by Joao's excellent label, 4Da...

Alto saxophonist and flutist Chad Fowler joins pianist Eri Yamamoto for an intimate duo session balancing composed material with spontaneous song forms, moving between grief, memory, tenderness and celebration through deeply lyrical improvisation, including Fowler's elegiac "Ash" and the standard "Polkadots and Moonbeams," recorded by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios.

David Moss leads a remarkable cross-section of New York's 1980s Downtown scene with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Arto Lindsay, Christian Marclay and Jules Moss, merging percussion, theatrical vocals, electronics, turntables and improvisation with tightly constructed rhythmic forms in a volatile collision of experimental rock, noise, free improvisation and infectious groove, newly remastered for its 40th anniversary.

David Moss revisits a key document of New York's early-1980s Downtown scene, joining Arto Lindsay, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Phil Minton and others in nineteen concise, rapidly shifting studies that fuse percussion, reeds, guitars, turntables, electronics, manipulated voice, groove and free improvisation into a restless collage of experimental composition and performance.

Meeting in the studio in Germany, Fred Frith's electric guitar & effects combine with Johannes Tonio Kreusch's classical & prepared guitars and brother Cornelius Claudio Kreusch's piano & keyboards in an expansive trio improvisation balancing drones, atmospheric textures and volatile interaction, moving fluidly between meditative restraint, abstract sound exploration and explosive free improv.

Meeting in the studio in Germany, Fred Frith's electric guitar & effects combine with Johannes Tonio Kreusch's classical & prepared guitars and brother Cornelius Claudio Kreusch's piano & keyboards in an expansive trio improvisation balancing drones, atmospheric textures and volatile interaction, moving fluidly between meditative restraint, abstract sound exploration and explosive free improv.

"The ONJ's album With Carla, led by Sylvaine Helary, features 12 vibrant Carla Bley covers arranged by Remi Sciuto to celebrate her avant-garde spirit.

With Carla marks the beginning of flutist Sylvaine Helary's tenure as Arti...

In their first meeting, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Pat Thomas deliver a fiercely dynamic live improvisation at Cafe OTO, moving through dense clusters, inside-piano resonance, metallic percussion, brushes, string slides and sudden silences with remarkable precision, building a volatile dialogue that shifts between thunderous rhythmic density, delicate texture and sharply focused spontaneous interplay.

"Positive Elevation, the imprint dedicated to electronic experimentation and avant soul, proudly presents MY FACE IS DANCING, the debut release by a unique family collective led by Federico Ughi.

More than an album, MY FACE IS...

Using microphone, tractor, shovel and tape, Henry and Ken's Dead Mallard project turns rural machinery and found objects into raw electroacoustic noise on a winter 2026 recording from Pennsylvania, extending the absurdist farm-equipment experimentation of their self-titled debut through mechanical drone, object percussion, environmental resonance and tape manipulation.

"Borges, Okuda and Van Huffel have long shared other constellations, but this is the first time the three lock into orbit as a trio.

Peter van Huffel (saxophone, electronics), Rieko Okuda (piano, electronics), and Sofia Borges...

"this album continues to provoke...: (...) 'Featuring electric guitarist Ricardo Guerra Pires and alto saxophonist Jose Bruno Parrinha - who can be heard on Luis Lopes's *Abyss Mirrors* and on numerous Creative Sources releases - (...) ...

"This recording brings together the forty known compositions for Saxophone Quartet by Julius Hemphill (1939-1995). These works were composed between 1978 and 1989 for performances with the World Saxophone Quartet. These compositions are...