John Butcher / Ute Wassermann / Martin Blume :
Leaflight: Close Calls (FMR)

In a live Cologne performance the trio of Butcher (reeds), Wassermann (voice & bird-calls) and Blume (drums/percussion) transform ambient impulse and acoustic detail into a series of "close-call" ensemble gestures, where bird-like vocal fragments, saxophone multiphonics and micro-percussion co-here in porous space, yielding an improvised chamber of attentiveness, ecological flux and sonic shadow play. ... Click to View

Paul Dunmall:
A Bad Day At The Office for Charles Ives (FMR)

Uncovering long-shelved recordings from 2006 and 2010, Paul Dunmall reveals a rare side of his artistry at piano and organ, freely improvising with harmonic collisions, lyrical fragments, and bold dynamics that echo the adventurous spirit of Charles Ives, whose humor, vision, and audacity serve as both inspiration and dedication for these spontaneous performances. ... Click to View

Bucher - Countryman:
Phra-se-ol-o-gy (FMR)

Captured live in the Manila studio, the duo of Swiss drummer/percussionist Christian Bucher and alto saxophonist Rick Countryman engage in improvisation built on the idea of musical phrasing as syntax, where saxophone lines, punctuated drums and responsive space converge into a series of sound-sentences in which tone, pause and gesture become elements in a live lexicon of form. ... Click to View

Udo Schindler / Katharina Weber:
Sichtungen & Lichtungen (FMR)

In an incisive Munich set, multi-reedist Udo Schindler and pianist Katharina Weber transform breath, wood and wire into tensile, reductionist improvisations that pivot from hushed, inside-piano timbres to bristling polyphony, their acute listening and timbral agility forging a vivid, moment-to-moment architecture of detail, momentum and quietly luminous intensity. ... Click to View

Udo Schindler / Paul Rogers:
Ephemeral Essences (FMR)

A striking Munich concert from Udo Schindler and Paul Rogers, where reeds, brass and seven-string double bass trace Burnside-inspired titles into supple, slow-burning forms, their precise timbral interplay and dynamic restraint yielding an improvised chamber drama of quiet intensity, eruptive weight, and finely poised, moment-to-moment architecture. ... Click to View

Oakland Reductionist Orchestra:
West And East Baying (Queen Bee Records)

Bringing together a remarkable ensemble of Bay Area experimentalists rooted in the Mills College lineage, this debut by the Oakland Reductionist Orchestra merges live and studio explorations of reductionist improvisation, transforming acoustic sound into richly textured, electronically inflected sonic environments of deep focus and collective restraint. ... Click to View

Impro-Viziok 2.2.:
Anna (The Music Of Szilard Mezei) (FMR)

Recasting theatre music composed by Szilárd Mezei along with a Hungarian folk song arranged by Mezei in an intimate live improvisation from a duo of violin/voice and viola, drawing out folk-tinged motifs and open forms into tensile dialogues, balancing chantlike lines and earthy drones with quicksilver bow work to reveal a spare, luminous chamber language that breathes beyond the stage. ... Click to View

Tim Richards Trio (w/ Alex Keen / Daniel Howard):
Four Aces (FMR)

The fourth piano trio release from veteran UK pianist and composer Tim Richards, joined by bassist Alex Keen and drummer Daniel Howard, drawing on the deep traditions of McCoy Tyner and Thelonious Monk while embracing calypso, Brazilian rhythm and soul-jazz colour, the trio's years of residency shaping fluid interplay, melodic clarity and an unforced balance between swing, lyricism and joyful invention. ... Click to View

Marcello Magliocchi / Adrian Northover / Domenico Saccente :
Over The Edge (FMR)

Live from Padua, Magliocchi (drums/percussion), Northover (soprano sax) and Saccente (prepared accordion) forge an improvisational terrain of lean material and sharp focus, their sparse instrumentation allowing micro-gestures, discreet textures and sudden tonal shifts to articulate an open-ended search for sound, essence and interaction in the spirit of discovery. ... Click to View

Bryan Eubanks:
Songbook [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Sacred Realism)

A compelling solo work from Bryan Eubanks, recorded in Berlin in early 2021, where soprano saxophone and electronics trace fragile forms and fleeting memories, shifting from intimate acoustic subtleties to fierce circuit-bent resonances in a poetic exploration of sound, presence, and the quiet suspension of time. ... Click to View

Patricia Brennan :
Of The Near And Far (Pyroclastic Records)

A stellar ensemble of strings, piano, guitar, drums and electronics performs Patricia Brennan's constellation-derived compositions, weaving data-mapped harmonies, celestial mythology and improvisation into vivid chamber-jazz textures that balance luminous exploration with introspective depth as each instrument expands its sonic role in the music's cosmic design. ... Click to View

Bucher / Tan / Countryman:
Nonlinear Expressions (FMR)

Recorded in Quezon City, Philippines during Typhoon Crising, the long-running trio of Christian Bucher (drums), Simon Tan (double bass), and Rick Countryman (alto saxophone) capture urgent and agile free improvisation between canceled gigs and storm delays, their 13 years of collaboration driving vibrant exchanges that balance volatility with poised, spontaneous form. ... Click to View

James McKain / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter:
... Seeing the Way The Mole Tunnels... (Balance Point Acoustics / International School of Evidence)

Energetic trio interplay from saxophonist James McKain with Damon Smith and Weasel Walter, recorded in Collinsville, Illinois, where taut lines, volatile textures, and razor-cut dynamics sketch "free jazz by way of the European tradition," six concise pieces whose titles nod to Thomas Bernhard and whose restless momentum — anchored by springy bass and splintered drums — turns spontaneity into vividly shaped form. ... Click to View

Simon Rose / Nicola Hein :
Moon (Confront)

A 2020 Berlin recording uniting British baritone saxophonist Simon Rose and German guitarist/electronic musician Nicola L. Hein in a richly textural duo of sustained microtonal guitar, gravelly saxophone rumbles, layered drones, and shifting intensities, balancing intense and sometimes corrosive abstraction with earthy, lyrical interplay. ... Click to View

Anouck Genthon / Lionel Marchetti:
Suite Blanche [2 CDs] (UnRec)

Exploring the fusion of acoustic presence and electronic projection, violinist Anouck Genthon and electronic musician Lionel Marchetti shape a two-disc journey where the violin's resonance folds into shifting synthetic textures, spatial loudspeaker design guiding evolving sound-forms that radiate like a focused beacon through immersive, exploratory improvisation. ... Click to View

Bertrand Gauguet / Jean-Luc Petit:
Radiesthesie (UnRec)

Leveraging the resonance of a Romanesque chapel, the duo of reedists Bertrand Gauguet and Jean-Luc Petit bring together alto and baritone saxophones with contrabass clarinet and sopranino in five improvisations whose instrument pairings shift from track to track, the changing light and hour colouring breath, multiphonics and resonance into patient spectral dialogues of evolving harmonics. ... Click to View

Bertrand Gauguet / Didier Lasserre:
Mehr (Akousis Records)

Intertwining alto saxophone and percussion in an intimate recording made at BAFF Studio in Montreuil, Bertrand Gauguet and Didier Lasserre craft four spacious improvisations rooted in attentive silence, where breath, multiphonics, resonant impacts and subtle frictions converge into quiet tensions and delicate textures that reveal a profoundly sensitive musical conversation. ... Click to View

Kasper Toeplitz T.:
Erosions Programmees [CD + BOOKLET] (Akousis Records)

An epic collaboration between saxophone and real-time electronics recorded at La Muse en Circuit in France, where Bertrand Gauguet's breath, multiphonics, and shifting overtones are continuously transformed by Kasper T. Toeplitz into evolving timbral landscapes that erode instrumental identity and build an expansive, immersive sound-mass through slow, majestic transformation. ... Click to View

Le UN (Agnel / Battus / Chiesa / Doneda / Gauget / Marchetti / Petit):
Le Havre [VINYL + CD] (UnRec)

A 26-member, non-hierarchical improvising ensemble recorded live over three days in Le Volcan in April 2021, where individual instrumental voices — from saxophone and guitar to rotating surfaces and electronics — merge into a shifting mass of acoustic and electric event, preserving each performer's singular identity even as the group spins into turbulent collective invention. ... Click to View

Taborn / Cline / Gilmore:
Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic Records)

A formidable first meeting between keyboardist Craig Taborn, guitarist Nels Cline, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, where three singular voices of modern creative music converge in assertive, Downtown-NY-steeped, genre-defying interplay — originals, reimagined works, and spontaneous improvisations blooming into a vibrant, exploratory dialogue of texture, rhythm, and imagination. ... Click to View

Eri Yamamoto / Matthew Shipp:
Horizon (Mahakala Music)

A deeply personal collaboration between pianists Eri Yamamoto and Matthew Shipp, recorded live in the studio with Yamamoto in the left channel and Shipp in the right, as Yamamoto marks thirty years in New York with a set of original compositions for this occasion, their distinctive voices intertwining in an elegant, searching, and harmonically rich conversation of friendship, individuality, and creative life. ... Click to View

Maria Valencia / Matt Moran / Brandon Lopez :
Tarabita Espiral (Relative Pitch)

Recorded live at IBeam in Brooklyn, the trio of María Valencia (alto saxophone, Bb clarinet), Matt Moran (vibraphone), and Brandon Lopez (bass, percussion) weave a richly textured improvisation of lyric tension and resonant space, where breath, metal, and wood converge in shifting layers of sound, balancing volatility with quiet reflection in an atmosphere of deep, intuitive dialogue. ... Click to View

Zeena Parkins / Cecilia Lopez:
Redshifts (Relative Pitch)

Harnessing Zeena Parkins's electric and acoustic harps and ebow-piano alongside Cecilia Lopez's custom-built RED speaker-wire instrument and electronics, this live Brooklyn set fashions a singular sonic architecture where plucked strings, feedback networks and sustained fields fold into one expansive, sculptural conversation of improvisation and invention. ... Click to View

Berlinde Deman:
Plank 9 (Relative Pitch)

Exploring the resonant depths of the serpent, a low-pitched lip-reed aerophone, and her own voice through effects and extended techniques, Belgian musician Berlinde Deman crafts an intimate and deeply personal sound world where breath, tone, and distortion intertwine, her slow and deliberate process unfolding like a meditative journey toward balance, discovery, and quiet transformation. ... Click to View

Sofia Borges / Ada Rave:
The Unseen Pact (Relative Pitch)

Recorded in their first meeting, percussionist Sofia Borges and saxophonist Ada Rave forge a vivid, intuitive dialogue of fire and reflection, blending spontaneous storytelling with fierce lyricism and dynamic restraint; their improvisations unfold like ritual acts of empathy and resistance, where every strike, breath, and silence reveals an unspoken pact between sound and spirit. ... Click to View

Jean-Luc Guionnet :
L'Epaisseur de l'air Live (Potlatch)

Recorded live at Les Instants Chavirés in Montreuil, France, across two sessions in 2023 and 2024, alto saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet's second solo release on Potlatch captures his intensely physical exploration of breath, resonance, and spatial acoustics, rendering sound as an emotional and architectural phenomenon where perception, geometry, and air intertwine in a vivid study of "the thickness of the air." ... Click to View

Michael Pisaro-Liu :
Within (2) / Appearance (2) [2 CDs] (Confront)

This double-CD set finds Michael Pisaro and Michael Francis Duch probing the attentive meeting of electric guitar and double bass in extended, quietly rigorous works that privilege the fine gradations of sound, duration and silence, offering a minimal but richly textured listening experience rooted in subtle transformation rather than overt spectacle. ... Click to View

Jason Kahn:
All Across The Universe (Editions)

Drawn from field recordings made in Tainan, Taiwan and recomposed in Zurich, this album by Jason Kahn transforms ambient hums, distant voices and architectural resonances into a contemplative sonic map where place becomes material, silence pulses with hidden motion and listening itself is foregrounded as gesture, inviting deep immersion rather than narrative resolution. ... Click to View

Jason Kahn:
When Your Way Gets Dark (Editions)

Recorded live in Tainan, Taiwan, the ever-inventive Jason Kahn strips his sound to acoustic guitar, harmonium, and voice, weaving fragile melodies and raw textures into an intimate, exploratory performance that bridges his electroacoustic sensibility with an unvarnished eccentric vocal presence of remarkable immediacy and tension, at times invoking a Basho-like spirit. ... Click to View

Pierre Favre / Sergio Armaroli / Andrea Centazzo / Francesca Gemmo:
The Art Of Sound(s) (first visit) (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

A contemplative meeting of Pierre Favre, Sergio Armaroli, Andrea Centazzo, and Francesca Gemmo, exploring percussion, vibraphone, and piano in spacious improvised forms that privilege resonance over rhythm, weaving subtle dynamics and reflective timbres into an existential soundscape where silence, decay, and shimmering overtones converge in quietly radical dialogue. ... Click to View