• Sergio Armaroli Quintet (w/ Sharp/Piccolo/Edwards/Sanders)
• Bruno Chevillon
• Expanse
• Leap Of Faith
• James Lewis Brandon Quartet (Lewis/Ortiz/Jones/Taylor)
• Joanna Mattrey/Camila Nebbia/Camilo Ángeles/Violeta Garcia
• Finola Merivale/Catherine Sikora
• Nite Bjuti (w/ Nicole Mitchell)
• OM (Leimgruber/Doran/Burri/Hemingway/Buck)
• Evan Parker/John Zorn
• Florian Stoffner
• Tres Hongos (Wick/Riordan/Rosaly)
• Turbulence
• Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units
• Gebhard Ullmann/Uwe Oberg/Joe Fonda/Dieter Ulrich
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Armaroli, Sergio Quintet (w/ Sharp / Piccolo / Edwards / Sanders): Follow A Very Heavy Person, First Visit
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Inspired by John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's experimental radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, vibraphonist Sergio Armaroli joins Elliott Sharp on guitar and soprano saxophone, Steve Piccolo on speech and electronics, bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders in an episodic "audio graphic novel" of vivid verbal cues, shifting textures and freely improvised ensemble scenes.
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Chevillon, Bruno: Etats Des Lieux
(Songs)
French double bassist Bruno Chevillon presents only his second solo album in four decades, using bowed resonance, grainy harmonics, percussive attacks, low pizzicato and carefully measured silence to engage the long natural reverberation of a Paris church, treating its stone surfaces, ambient sounds and returning echoes as active partners in a rigorous and deeply expressive acoustic improvisation.
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Expanse: Sweep
(Evil Clown)
Working in Expanse's quieter, chamber-scaled sound world, David Peck, John Fugarino, Eric Dahlman and Michael Knoblach move among reeds, brass, voices, electronics, keyboards and an expansive array of percussion, creating a spacious improvisation of shifting textures, delicate metallic detail, restrained electronics and sudden bursts of color.
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Leap Of Faith : Initial Positions
(Evil Clown)
Drawn from two Masters of Sonic Revolution performances, this chamber-scaled Leap of Faith quartet brings David Peck's reeds and double reeds, Glynis Lomon's cello, aquasonic and voice, John Fugarino's brass, and Michael Caglianone's reeds and flute into compact, rapidly shifting improvisations shaped by timbral contrast, close ensemble listening and a more focused acoustic palette than the group's expansive studio sessions.
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Lewis, James Brandon Quartet (Lewis / Ortiz / Jones / Taylor): Omni
(Intakt)
Advancing James Brandon Lewis' "Molecular Systematic Music" into what he describes as a kind of twelve-tone gospel, this sixth quartet album joins his commanding tenor saxophone and compositions with Aruan Ortiz's incisive piano, Brad Jones' grounded bass and Chad Taylor's responsive drumming in spiritually charged music shaped by rigorous structure, lyrical force and deeply interactive ensemble dialogue.
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Mattrey, Joanna / Camila Nebbia / Camilo Ángeles / Violeta Garcia: Heavy Handed
(Relative Pitch)
An international quartet of Joanna Mattrey on viola, Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone, Camilo Angeles on flute and effects, and Violeta Garcia on cello and effects, developing seven volatile collective improvisations where breath, bowed resonance, abrasive attacks and subtle electronics move between fragile chamber textures, urgent counterpoint and dense, rhythmically charged eruptions.
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Merivale, Finola / Catherine Sikora : Abhaile
(Relative Pitch)
Composer Finola Merivale surrounds Catherine Sikora's layered tenor saxophone, breath tones and multiphonics with electronics and field recordings gathered in County Cork, New York and other changing environments, creating three immersive electroacoustic works that move from stark detail to surging masses of sound while exploring landscape, displacement, memory and the unsettled meaning of home.
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Nite Bjuti (w/ Nicole Mitchell): Minwi
(Intakt)
Uniting Candice Hoyes' poetic vocals and electronics, Mimi Jones' bass, voice and pedals, and Val Jeanty's drums and electronic sound design, with guest flutist Nicole Mitchell and trumpeter Milena Casado, Nite Bjuti creates an Afrofuturist blend of Caribbean rhythms, improvised jazz, spoken imagery and layered electronics centered on diaspora, resilience, collective care and the continuing creation of home.
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OM (Leimgruber / Doran / Burri / Hemingway / Buck): Sudpol
(Intakt)
Continuing OM's fusion of rock energy and free improvisation after the death of founding drummer Fredy Studer, soprano saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran and bassist Bobby Burri are joined by percussionists Gerry Hemingway and Tony Buck for a live set of dense electroacoustic interplay, surging rhythmic force and open-ended collective invention, carrying the group's "ElectroAcoustiCore" language into a new era.
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Parker, Evan / John Zorn: Those Landings
(Tzadik)
Longtime friends and saxophone innovators Evan Parker on soprano and John Zorn on alto meet for their first dedicated studio collaboration, layering circular-breathed lines, multiphonics, whispers, cries and volatile gestures into five spacious works that treat the reeds as sources of breath, texture and atmosphere, balancing intimate beauty with finely controlled turbulence.
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Stoffner, Florian: Bijou
(Relative Pitch)
Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffner presents six concentrated solo improvisations that extend the textural precision of his work with John Butcher and Chris Corsano, using clipped notes, metallic resonance, muted attacks, harmonics and carefully measured silence to transform the electric guitar into an intimate field of fractured melody, tactile detail and spontaneous formal invention.
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Tres Hongos (Wick / Riordan / Rosaly): More Chips
(Relative Pitch)
Reuniting fourteen years after their first album, trumpeter Jacob Wick, pianist Marc Riordan and drummer Frank Rosaly revive Tres Hongos for eight live improvisations of fractured piano gestures, searching brass lines and continually reorganized percussion, moving through spacious suspensions, playful melodic exchanges and dense eruptions with the sharp reflexes and volatile rapport of a long-established trio.
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Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units: In The Path Of Typhoons [2CDs]
(Evil Clown)
Using David Peck's expanding system of color-coded Frame Notation, this fifth Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units performance gathers 19 musicians from the Evil Clown, western Massachusetts and Vermont improvising communities into a large-scale work of voices, reeds, brass, strings, keyboards, electronics and percussion, balancing preplanned entrances and ensemble events with organically unfolding collective invention.
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Turbulence: Adjacent Flow Rising
(Evil Clown)
Reduced by winter weather from a planned ten-piece orchestra to a sextet, this Turbulence session brings David Peck, Cliff White, John Fugarino, Eric Dahlman, Scott Samenfeld and Michael Knoblach into a broad-palette improvisation of reeds, brass, electric upright bass, electronics, percussion and invented objects, with Joel Simches' real-time processing shaping a long sequence of shifting sonorities.
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Ullmann, Gebhard / Uwe Oberg / Joe Fonda / Dieter Ulrich: New Conference Call
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Reconfiguring the long-running Conference Call quartet with pianist Uwe Oberg alongside tenor saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer/bugler Dieter Ulrich, this first New Conference Call release moves through intricate compositions, spacious collective improvisation and volatile free-jazz exchanges, including tributes to Joe Maneri, Ornette Coleman and Jim Pepper.
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