Recorded in Copenhagen studio and live settings, the trio of Anne Efternøler, Maria Laurette Friis, and Johanna Borchert craft an intimate free improv dialogue where voice, trumpet, flute, and prepared piano transform personal reflections on relationships and daily life into fluid, emotionally resonant textures, balancing vulnerability, abstraction, and a quietly life-affirming poetic interplay.

A powerful free improv statement from saxophonist Paul Dunmall and his quartet with Sophia Domancich, James Owston, and Miles Levin, blending composed themes — including a rendition of "Spiritual" by John Coltrane — with collective improvisation, as the ensemble's masterful interplay unfolds with fluid cohesion, balancing explosive energy and introspective nuance in a deeply expressive album.

A wide-ranging solo and collaborative release from Amy Denio, this eclectic set blends voice, accordion, clarinet, guitars, bass, percussion, electronics, and field recordings across composed, improvised, and live performances, weaving jazz, avant-garde, and global influences into a playful, genre-blurring sonic journey rich in texture, storytelling, and inventive ensemble interplay.

Centering the lyrical interplay of piano and violin, Marc Copland and Mark Feldman lead two rhythm sections with Drew Gress (bass), the late Anthony Pinciotti (drums) or Felix Henkelhausen (bass), and Jonas Burgwinkel (drums), through intimate, textural performances balancing standards and originals with subtle, exploratory improvisation.

Judith Wegmann and Marlies Debacker perform John Cage's 1989 Two2, a late work for two pianos whose thirty-six short lines unfold through independent tempi, shared pauses and resonant decay, allowing the duo's deep experience in composed and improvised music to shape a live performance of patient asymmetry, concentrated listening and quietly radical spaciousness.

UK saxophonist John Butcher presents a diverse collection of solo performances across tenor and soprano saxophone, ranging from expansive live improvisations to intimate studio explorations, feedback-driven textures, and multitracked works, with several pieces referencing artists including Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Eliane Radigue, Lester Young, and Joe McPhee.

Gathering key 1965-66 New York sessions, this 2-CD set traces alto saxophonist Marion Brown's emergence in the free jazz vanguard through Capricorn Moon, Why Not? and Burton Greene quartet recordings, with Alan Shorter, Bennie Maupin, Stanley Cowell, Henry Grimes, Sirone, Rashied Ali and others shaping music of lyrical urgency, open-form momentum and evolving collective freedom.

Uniting Albert Ayler's 1964 New York sessions for Spirits (Debut) and Spirits Rejoice (ESP, with Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Call Cobbs, Henry Grimes, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray, Normand Howard and Earle Henderson, this remastered edition captures Ayler's volatile balance of spiritual song, sculptural horn lines, churning bass motion, ecstatic fanfare and free jazz intensity.

A duo of breath and air, recorded in Bogotá in 2025, Colombian sound artist Ricardo Arias and vocalist Jaap Blonk explore microscopic improvisations using balloons, fragments, and extended voice, where fragile textures, elastic tones, and near-silence merge human and object into a tactile, minimal, subtly uncanny, and occasionally absurdist sonic dialogue.

An electrifying and richly textured electroacoustic quartet of NY improvisers — Patrick Brennan on alto saxophone, Cooper-Moore on diddley-bo, On Ka'a Davis on electric guitar, and Jason Kao Hwang on electric violin — weaving active improvisations where timbre, pitch, and rhythm share equal weight, as KnCurrent channels dynamic musical interaction into a polyglot, collective voice.

Drone-based electroacoustic improvisations led by Jonathan Segel on Halldorophone, guitar, and Buchla synth, joined by an expanded Chaos Butterfly ensemble in longform, time-dilating works where evolving feedback, percussion, winds, and electronics blur structure and narrative into immersive, densely active yet often beautifully delicate sonic landscapes.

In their first collaboration, saxophonist Larry Ochs joins bassist Joe Morris and drummer Charles Downs for a dynamic collective setssion live in the Park West Studios, where the trio's spontaneous chemistry fuels a powerful session of free improvisation, drawing on deep experience, fearless exploration, and ESP-Disk's legacy of boundary-pushing artistry.

Recording live in Palermo, Sicilia at Sala Perriera, Thollem McDonas' performance reflects a lifelong, genre-bending exploration of music, influenced by classical training, cultural diversity, and global experiences, blending classical, jazz, and punk into an omni-idiomatic dialogue; honoring the revolutionary spirit of the past while responding to the dynamics of our time.

Recorded live at Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zurich, Jason Kahn's voice presents four improvised pieces blending voice, modular synths, and electronics, creating immersive soundscapes that explore sound's spatial and psychological dimensions, released in a limited edition of 100 hand-painted CDs by Editions.

Polish wind player Dominik Strycharski combines traditional blockflutes (recorders), saxophones spanning sopranino to tenor, and electronic synthesizers to create nine original compositions of distinctive improvisation and captivating soundscapes, recorded at ZPSM im. S. Moniuszki in Bielsko-Biała, a music school named after the celebrated Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko.

William Parker's first spoken word album, and the continuing collaboration between Parker and composer, vocalist and sound designer Ellen Christi, who developed the underlying tracks, sung vocals and overall sound architecture for Parker's insightful, observational and revealing words and recitation, Parker also providing bass and flute that complement his life-affirming texts.

An exotic album of improvised music with a wide focus, founded in saxophonist David Leon's interest in Afrocuban folkloric music, expanded through DoYeon Kim's gayagum, a traditional 12-string Korean zither, and punctuated with the exploratory drumming, percussion and glockenspiel of Lesley Mok; assertively unpredictable and continuously intriguing improv.

Wearing the cloak of 60's pyschedelic organ trios modernized in approach and maturity, this is the 8th album from the Swedish improvising, prog-oriented rock band Elephant9, presenting six new compositions from keyboardist Stale Storlokken (Supersilent, Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns) performed with Nikolai Haengsle on electric bass and Torstein Lofthus on drums.

Eccentric and engrossing electroacoustic improvisation between Jason Kahn on electronics and Ulrich Krieger using his "acoustic electronic" reed setup, performing on tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet, and the 15th century double reed crumhorn, processed through his amplification system to create exotic textures and expressions; a truly unique set of dialogs.

Composed using an "exquisite corpse" method during the pandemic, where each player provided a partially complete track with instructions to expand their concept, enlisting an incredible set of musicians across the US & Europe, directed by Moe! Staiano, including Jesse Quattro, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, GW Sok, Amy X Neuburg, Darren Johnston, &c &c.

Formed from an unexpected shift in personnel, this agile quartet channels a tightly honed horn section, layered electronics, and Joel Simches' real-time signal processing into a richly textured free improv set, where fluid interplay and rapid adaptation drive an evolving, high-density sonic environment shaped by both precision and spontaneity.

Emerging from a shifting lineup, this iteration of the ensemble trades its usual rock-driven intensity for a more restrained, electroacoustic chamber feel, as layered horns, dense metallic percussion, and evolving electronics intertwine with spoken narration, shaping a fluid free improv performance that navigates a wide spectrum of textures and timbral transformations.

Blending a core duet with an expanded ensemble, this richly orchestrated free improv performance weaves three-horn front lines with contrasting string approaches, dense percussion, and a vast electroacoustic palette, unfolding as a continuous transformation of texture and form where acoustic interplay and subtle signal processing shape an immersive, multidimensional sonic environment.

Gathering seven horn players, bass, percussion, electronics, with real-time signal processing, David Peck's Turbulence Orchestra delivers a large-ensemble free improv performance balancing dense brass and reed eruptions with richly varied percussion, electronics, and found-sound textures, evolving through steadily transforming sonorities and broad-spectrum collective interplay.

A first-meeting trio of Teresa Hackel on recorders and voice, Stefan Strasser on piano and synth, and Mia Zabelka on violin, voice and electronics, recorded live in Cologne for Strasser's 60th birthday, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, strings, keys, electronics and vocal resonance merge into a patient, tactile field of discovery, response, and newly formed collective language.

Recorded live in Krailing near Munich in December 2024, German multi-reedist Udo Schindler and pianist Uwe Oberg engage in a dynamic duo of free improv, moving from hushed chamber-like exchanges to dense, animated dialogues as Schindler's clarinets and alto flute weave intricate lines through Oberg's resonant piano textures in a richly interactive exploration of timbre, space, and spontaneous form.

German reedist Udo Schindler (tenor saxophone, clarinet, piccolo flute, cornet) joins guitarist and electronics performer Andreas Willers for an exploratory duo session of free improvisation, blending extended reed techniques with prepared and processed electric guitar, the pair shaping evolving textures, subtle gestures, and dense timbral exchanges through attentive listening and spontaneous interaction.

Portuguese improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues and son Guilherme Rodrigues juxtapose a live Berlin performance with field recordings from Pico Island in a quietly probing duo set where viola, cello, crackle box, and environmental sound blend in austere, texture-driven improvisations that move between subtle acoustic detail and atmospheric ambiguity.

Recorded in Berlin in 2022, this quartet of violin, flute/bass clarinet, alto saxophone, percussion, and cello unfolds a restrained improvisation focused on fragile textures, breath-driven tones, and microtonal tension, as shifting timbres and sparse gestures accumulate into a patient, weathered soundscape shaped by decay, resonance, and collective listening.

Emerging from Ernesto Rodrigues' post-Cage investigations, this quintet with Jung-Jae Kim, Guilherme Rodrigues, Eric Bauer, and Stephen Flinn shapes sparse, deeply relational music where strings, winds, electronics, and percussion hover in spectral balance, forming a quiet "ghost dance" of held tones and subtle motion that blurs interior and exterior spaces while sculpting time through restraint and resonance.

Bringing together poetry, theater, and expansive orchestral jazz, composer and pianist Mike Westbrook leads a remarkable 16-piece ensemble through a sweeping work for jazz orchestra where the vocal artistry of Phil Minton and Kate Westbrook intertwines with richly textured brass, reeds, and improvisation to evoke procession, memory, mortality, and the transformative power of collective expression.

A 4-CD survey of Clifford Brown's essential 1953-1956 Blue Note and EmArcy recordings, tracing his masterful trumpet voice through early leader dates, string settings, vocal and ensemble sessions, and the classic Max Roach quintet with Harold Land, Sonny Rollins, Richie Powell and George Morrow, capturing a foundational hard bop figure at astonishing creative strength.

The fifth in bassist, guitarist and Kadima label-leader JC Jones "Distance Series", works assembled through virtual sessions with associated artists, Jones performing on Spanish guitar which he plays as a lap guitar, on Nucleous creating a set of five unusual vocal works with internationally reknown vocalists Meira Asher, Esti Kenan-Ofri, Anat Pick and Josef Sprinzak.

Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition.

"Sekstet is comprised of musicians with backgrounds ranging from a host of anomalies of contemporary music, jazz, noise and improv.

New Pricing April 2019: Recordings from the Berlin Inventionen Festivals for New Music 2005 and 2006 featuring compositions by Edgar Barroso ("ODD"); Mario Verandi ("Comme un jeu des images"); Paul Wilson ("Trhough the Rain"); Ricardo Climent ("Wallwoodpeckers"); Vladimir Djambazov ("The Secret Life of a Snare Drum"); and Ludger Brummer ("Glasharle").

Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

Changing approaches to his music with new quartet of Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Alan Silva on double bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums, pianist Cecil Taylor's incredible 1966 concert in Paris presented four extended compositions, here remastered and reissued with a track from a compilation LP--"With (Exit)"--extending his quartet with Bill Dixon on trumpet and Henry Grimes on double bass.

Basya Schechter's Pharaoh's Daughter transforms the Biblical Song of Songs into an expansive multilingual cycle of sacred love and earthly desire, sung in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic, Spanish and French, with oud, guitar, ney, qanun, saz, trumpet, violin, bass, keyboards, percussion and layered voices shaping an 18-year project of devotion, sensuality and pan-Mediterranean resonance.

Emerging from a first-time meeting at the 2023 Catalytic Sound Festival in Chicago, pianist Erez Dessel convenes Ben Hall, Fred Jackson Jr., Mai Sugimoto and poet Marvin Tate for a volatile, story-driven set where probing vocals, twin woodwinds, driving drums and insistent piano collide in sharp-edged, quick-turn improvisations that balance chaos, lyricism and collective intensity in a gripping live debut.

Vocalist and composer Anna Gadt joins the Warsaw Cello Quartet in a carefully balanced encounter between composed structure and improvisational expression, where layered cellos and an extended vocal presence explore contrast and convergence through restraint, silence, and a continuously shifting dialogue between sound and abstraction, captured live at Hashtag Lab, in Warszawa.

Bringing together clarinets, sopranino, baritone, and soprano saxophones with kyotaku (a Japanese bamboo flute) and resonant percussion, this trio shapes a highly attentive improvisation where breath, extended techniques, and shifting timbres unfold through close listening, moving fluidly between fragile textures, explosive gestures, and an organic, imaginary folklore that emerges from collective intuition.

Recorded solo at Bruschini's Bru Note Studio in NYC (Jan-Feb 2008), this intimate set invites the listener into a "raw state" process of real-time composition, where construction/deconstruction cycles steer the guitar from groove and grit into textural free improv, revealing fresh techniques as motifs mutate, collapse, and re-form.

Cellist Khabat Abas and violist Ivor Kallin engage in a taut, exploratory duo dialogue built from extended techniques, fractured vocalizations, and deliberate use of space, where cantankerous textures, unconventional pacing, and carefully placed silences shape a curiously absorbing improvisation that balances raw intensity with focused restraint.

Drawing musicians from across the Northeast, the 30-member Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units — directed by PEK — convenes for a sprawling 2-disc session of conducted large-ensemble free improv, first presenting six compact sub-unit improvisations before merging into a sweeping hour-long orchestral performance of shifting instrumentations, graphic cues, and evolving textures.

Drawing from Evil Clown's ever-evolving Turbulence ensemble, this septet session led by PEK assembles a dense horn front line with an expansive rhythm section, navigating a broad palette of textures through constant instrument shifts, where reeds, brass, electronics, and an array of percussion converge in a richly varied and continuously transforming program of ensemble-driven free improv.

An active trio session at EMPAC from Jonas Braasch on soprano saxophone, Pauline Oliveros on V-accordion, and Doug Van Nort on GREIS electronics engage in a free improv dialog where acoustic, physically modeled, and electronic sound sources continuously merge and diverge, Van Nort's real-time processing reshaping the ensemble's output as Oliveros bends timbral models and Braasch explores extended techniques.

Three distinct compositions from the collaborative work of sound artists Vanessa Rossetto and Lionel Marchetti, the first a wonderfully complex work of musique concrète and acousmatic sources guided by the composers' instincts; "The Tower" expands their concepts through the addition of 18 voices, while the final track features the violin of Anouck Genthon.

The Leap Of Faith Orchestra sextet — core duo David Peck and Glynis Lomon with brass regulars John Fugarino and Bob Moores, bassist Scott Samenfeld, drummer Jared Seabrook, and Joel Simches on real-time signal processing — navigates a sweeping long-form free improv marked by deep ensemble rapport, extensive instrumental doubling, and a vast array of acoustic and electronic timbres that continuously transform across a broad, vividly articulated sonic palette.

Turbulence — the horn-driven offshoot of the Leap Of Faith Orchestra led by PEK — convenes a trio of brass and reeds with John Fugarino and Bob Moores, powered by bassist Scott Samenfeld, drummer Jared Seabrook, for a dynamically shifting free improv that channels their Art Ensemble-inspired model into intricate counterpoint, dense textural layering, and expansive acoustic-electronic interplay.

Perturbations, pairing David Peck with engineer and electronic manipulator Joel Simches, presents its 10th set with a three-horn frontline of David Peck, Michael Caglianone, and John Fugarino, unfolding a spacious yet volatile free improv where frequent doubling across reeds, brass, percussion, and electronics meets Simches' real-time signal processing with textural disruption and transformation.

The 1st release on the Ars Nova Classics label presents 'Eclecticism' composer Nick Vasallo in genre�blurring avant and electro-acoustic works performed by several ensembles.

Seeded Plain is the duo of Bryan Day and Jay Kreimer, who create homemade instruments and use them to create far-ranging improvisations with a unique set of timbres and percussive elements.

The millefleurs vocal ensemble brings 12 vocalists together in varying groups for minimal and unique vocalisation over a taxonomy of floral genres and species.

Percussionist Danielle Palardy Roger's first major solo composition in 13 pieces which is performed by Claude Beaugrand, Jean Derome, André Duchesne, Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, and Martin Ouellet.

Solo improvisations on the Turkish Clarinet from Claudio Parodi, an Italian classically trained pianist who also works with self-built/self-modified electronics, non-western reeds, and selected percussions.

Saxophonist Marc Baron & bassist Loic Blairon recorded 6 improvisations and then recomposed and organized them into these two 30 minute works, one acoustic and one digital.

Summer 2011 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine and CD, with articles and tracks from Gregory Oh, Grimes, Doldrums, The Vegetable Orchestra, Terri Hron, Miguel Azguime, Rachel Wadham, &c.

Organized sound compositions using recordings from Monteiro's home environment, compositing acoustic sound without adding electronic effects processing.

Makrokosmos Quartet playing the Crumb piece from which their name derives, along with works by Stefano Gervasoni and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Pianist and accordionist Joao Lucas' music for Andresa Soares' choreography "It was a very abstract thing", structured acoustic improvisation with a slight electronic edge.

11 beautiful and technically interesting instant compositions improvised on piano by Nico Huijbregts.

A musical theatre in 3 acts using texts, songs, free improvisation and compositional textures, "an evocation of the fusion between opposite forces-tight and flexible, male and female".

Sporadic sonic exchanges exploring guidelines, graphic scores, or completely improvised, with an expansive instrumentorium from the sextet of Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H Crispo, Anne-Francoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, and Erin Sexton.

Fred Frith's 1982 live album of his solo concerts at various venues in Japan, 1981, performing on guitar, throat mike, violin and piano; long out of print and now remastered by Tom Dimuzio.

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.

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.

Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures from David Brown playing banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin.

John Wolf Brennan, Marco Jencarelli, and Tony Majdalani in a musical trip reflecting a spiritual journey through sound and unusual instrumentation, with an extensive and insightful 17 page booklet to guide the listener.

Twelve pieces for guitar performed by Tim Brady, including three updated versions of previous pieces, new compositions by Brady, and four pieces composed by other artists.

Guitarist and singer Sylvie Chenard in duet with musician/performance artist Jon Asencio, joyfully exploring the energies of resistance and anarchy, in shades of science-fiction and totalitarian reality.

Inspired by Gertrude Stein's experimental poem Yet Dish, Swiss saxophonist Christoph Gallio leads an ensemble with vocalist Sonia Loenne, bassist Vito Cadonau, and percussionist Flo Hufschmid in a nuanced exploration of language and sound, transforming Stein's rhythmic abstractions into vivid musical dialogues where wit, structure, and spontaneity intertwine with poetic precision.

A fierce live collision of Jaap Blonk's phonetic vocal and electronic inventions and Jasper Stadhouders' raw guitar improvisation, forging a surreal language of sputtered syllables, scraped strings, and disruptive humor, where meaning dissolves into texture and every gesture feels simultaneously unhinged and meticulously alive.

The duo Senso di Voce, with Esin Gunduz on voice and Paul J. Ferington on oboe, create an immersive chamber work of voice, oboe, and electronics whose movements balance the ancient and the contemporary, weaving resonances, silence, and philosophical imagery into a meditative and exploratory sound world that rewards repeated listening with new layers of detail and emotional depth.

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Named for the long history of collaboration over decades, the NY free jazz Telepathic Band of Daniel Carter on saxophones, clarinet & trumpet, Patrick Holmes on clarinet, Matthew Putman on piano, Rhodes, Hilliard Greene on bass and Federico Ughi on drums are heard live at the 2018 Forward Festival in Brooklyn, NY for four outstandingly informed improvisations.

A collage of styles and experimentation developed over several years by bassist and multi-instrumentalist Evan Strauss, using long-form graphically notated conceptual compositions based on bird calls along with thematic material from Ursula K. Le Guin, expanded with narration and poetry from Daniel Carter and titled from an excerpt by Virginia Woolf.

Working together in tours and recording since 2005, the NY trio of multi-reedist and wind player Daniel Carter, bassis William Parker and drummer/percussionist Federico Ughi are joined by saxophonist Watson Jennison also on flute, recorder and keyboards for this enlightened album of modern and transcendent jazz in a limited, remastered LP edition with bonus material.

Debut of this group named by NY multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, with Stelios Mihas on guitar, Federico Ughi on drums, and (mysterious) Irma Nejando on bass, presenting this studio album of free, well-matched and interactive collective improvisations of acoustic and electric instrumentation, each track dedicated to artists who inspired the members of the quartet.

Guitarist John Welsh presents a deeply personal solo performance captured live at Solar Myth in Philadelphia in October 2024, bridging free improvisation with the creative tradition of Great Black Music, including an interpretation of the standard "Just Friends" alongside spontaneous explorations shaped by his ties to the NYC improv scene.