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![]() Anandan, Ganesh / Gzowski, John : Shruti Project (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using an electric 12-string shruti stick, a Harry Partch guitar & percussion Anandan & Gzowski create amazing microtonal environments with growling vocal interventions. |
![]() ElSaffar, Amir : Two Rivers (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY based Iraqi-American trumpeter ElSaffar in an emotionally charged work that invokes ancient Iraqi musical traditions and frames them in a modern jazz setting. |
![]() Falaise, Bernard : Clic (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Falaise (Klaxon Gueule, Les Projectionnistes) in pieces that reference Aksak Maboul, Braxton, Beefheart, Donatoni, Les Granules, Nancarrow, Stravinsky, & Wyatt. |
![]() Lehman, Steve Quintet : On Meaning (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY alto saxophonist Lehman's 2nd Pi releases combines groove-oriented musical content with highly contrapuntal, asymmetrical, and non-repetitive structural devices. |
![]() Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani: Cardinal (Impressus Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The quartet of Cosottini, Melano, Pisani, Miano (EAQuartet Electroacoustic) in compositions referring to the 4 cardinal map points using graphic scores, games, open readings, &c. |
![]() Borbetomagus / Hijokaidan: Both Noises End Burning (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two monster proponents of noise esthetics, representing two continents whose cultures have often been described as incompatible, meet in the celebration of noise. |
![]() Braxton, Anthony : Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Braxton's Diamond Curtain Wall Trio with Mary Halvorson and Taylor Ho Bynum live using laptop and interactive electronics at the 24th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. |
![]() Labrosse, Diane: Petit traite de Sagesse pratique (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A collection of miniature songs with mocking, satirical lyrics that reform out-of-date proverbs into modern pearls of wisdom, paired with improvisation and written composition. |
![]() Labrosse, Diane : Musique Pour Objets en Voie de Disparition (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock "Blindfolded" manipulations by Labrosse of recordings from an amazing set of Montreal improvisers to create eight flashbacks to a bygone daily sonic life. |
![]() Wellman, Linsey / Mike Essoudry : Mike Essoudry + Linsey Wellman (Malasartes -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock 1st release for the duo of wind player Linsey Wellman and percussionist Mike Essoudry embracing stasis and movement, meditation and exuberance, delicacy and amplitude. |
![]() Tetreault, Martin / Kid Koala: Phon-O-Victo (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Actuelle turntablist Martin Tetrault meets with radical hip-hop DJ Kid Koala at the 22nd Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in energetic duos filled with humor and instrumental acrobatics. |
![]() Derome, Jean et les Dangereux Zhoms: To Continue (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock 4th Dangereux Zhoms 4th release, mixing scored music, improv, polyphony, polyrhythms, irregular meters, rich harmonies and polymodalism with humor and imagination. |
![]() Falaise, Bernard : Clic [Used Item] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.46 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Falaise (Klaxon Gueule, Les Projectionnistes) in pieces that reference Aksak Maboul, Braxton, Beefheart, Donatoni, Les Granules, Nancarrow, Stravinsky, & Wyatt. |
![]() Bopp, Christiane: Noyau de Lune (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A tour-de-force of solo improvisation from French trombonist Christiane Bopp, flawlessly captured by sound engineer Jean Marc Foussat, as Bopp transforms her instrument through technical skill, lyrical ability, and unusual technique, creating virtual duets, furtive expression, and thundering emotion, an absolutely impressive example of modern trombone language. |
![]() Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock On the 30th anniversary of the Victo Festival Anthony Braxton took to the stage for a magnificent solo performance on the alto sax, performing 8 spontaneous compositions and an 8+ minute version of "Body and Soul", seamlessly crossing lyrical and complex approaches to the horn using his unique intervallic, trimbral and diagrammatic language, a stunning and embraceable accomplishment. |
![]() Derome, Jean And The Dangereux Zhoms + 7: Plates-Formes Et Traquenards (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Jean Derome's extended Dangereux Zhomes opened the 25th Victo Festival in 2008, adding Joane Hetu, Lori Freedman, Bernard Falaise, &c. for an incredible and expressive orchestra. |
![]() FEN (Otomo Yoshihide / Ryu Hankil / Yan Jun / Yuen Chee Wai): No One's Island (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock FEN (Far East Network) is comprised of improvisers from Singapore (Yuen Chee Wai), Japan (Otomo Yoshihide), China (Yan Jun), and Korea (Ryu Hankil), using electroacoustic instrumentation to create a unique merging of cultural and personal aesthetic, in their 1st album recorded in NYC using electronic feedback, computer noises and guitar; intriguing and unconventional. |
![]() Gonzalez, Dennis Ataraxia Trio+2 (w / Phelps / Lakpriya + Derek Rogers / Jess Garland): Nights Enter (Ayler Records -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unlike anything in trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez's discography, this album was developed from Moog recordings by Derek Rogers, whose shifting tonalities and colors led Gonzalez to a Jon Hassel-influenced approach, adding a rhythmic basis of tabla and djembe from Jagath Lakpriya and sitar-inspired harp from Jess Garland, underpinned by the rich bass work of Drew Phelps. |
![]() Lehman, Steve Octet: Mise En Abime (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY saxophonist Steve Lehman builds on his work with spectral harmony, expanding the harmonic palette with live electronics & a custom-built vibraphone, in an octet with Jonathan Finlayson, Mark Shim, Tim Albright, Chris Dingman, Jose Davila, Drew Gress & Tyshawn Sorey. |
![]() Lussier, Rene / Robert Marcel Lepage / Quatuor Bozzini: Chants et danses ...with strings (Vol. III) (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Taking two of Montreal's most vital musicians, guitarist Rene Lussier and clarinetist Robert Lepage, and joining them with the far-ranging string quartet Le Quatuor Bozzini for a stunning album that merges chamber music, noise music, and improvisation without leaving behind melody, intention and direction; magnificent! |
![]() Martel, Pierre-Yves: Continuum (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A solo work from Pierre-Yves Martel performing two works for the viola da gamba, bringing this fretted renaissance-era ancestor to the violin into the 21st century through two slowly evolving and sonically fascinating pieces. |
![]() Research (Dvorak / Weston / Brown / Serle): Laws of Motion (FMR -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first album from 1982 by drummer Geoff Serle's band Research, combining free improvisation with rock forms, electric and acoustic, or as he described it: "an electro-funk industrial jazz unit", configured as the quartet of trumpeter Jim Dvorak, a member of Mujician & Brotherhood of Breath, bassist Dan Brown from The Fixx, and legendary pianist Veryan Weston. |
![]() Roberts, Matana : Always (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two passionate studio improvisations from saxophonist Matana Roberts, who lovingly dedicates the album to "those bard(s) of summer...the ideas herein of which I gleaned/interrogated/investigated/celebrated with you..."; subtle, rich, and inspiring. |
![]() Tandaapushi: Borromean Rings (JVTLANDT -- Norway ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second album from this Norwegian electric improvising power trio, using dark rhythmic grooves over which guitar, electric piano, amplified objects, no-input mixing board, and pianet emerge, creating hypnotic states that lead to exultant moments through sinuous melody, building and releasing intensity while maintaining a consistent gauzy undertone. |
![]() Tetreault, Martin : Plus de Snipettes!! (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A fun, odd and eccentric album constructed from extracts of hours of tape reels and audio cassettes by Montreal turntablist Martin Tetrault, a mix of plunderphonic sources, unusual turntable technique, and experimental audio collage drawn from an insanely diverse set of sources, in this sequel to his 1992 "Snipettes!" cassette, here with 31 new fascinating miniatures. |
![]() Welcome To Silkeborg (Varela / Trinite): Alba [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock A live recording without an audience and the start of the Welcome To Silkeborg project between Lisbon improvisers Tiago Varela (Equinox Quartet, Isotope Ensemble) on melodicas & voice, and Monsieur Trinité (Equinox Quartet, IKB, Potlatch, Variable Geometry Orchestra) on percussive objects, their first encounter finding the two in a relaxed dialog of creative conversation. |
![]() Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson: Live / Studio [Used Item] (Bead -- UK ) Price: $10.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock The improvising string duo of stalwart London improvisers, Daniel Thompson on acoustic guitar and Phil Durrant on the octave mandola, are heard in two settings of texturally rich, intricate interactions, first at Cafe OTO in 2022 for an extended improvisation, then at Cable Street Studios two months later for six succint, impressively diverse dialogs. |