June 2008 |
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![]() Dorgon: Shot in the Face (Jumbo -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Featuring an x-rated insert in a puff-up brown paper package, Mr. Dorgon attacks with two electronic works and a harmonica solo from a live show on KFJC in California. |
![]() Gato Libre: KURO (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii's Gato Libre in their fourth seductive album of jazz based on European folk melodies with some of the coolest accordion playing on the planet. |
![]() Junk Box (Tamura / Fujii / Hollenbeck): Cloudy Then Sunny (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Satoko Fujii's latest Junk Box with Natsuki Tamura and John Hollenbeck is an amazing jazz album of extended technique, instrumentation and expressive, dramatic ideas |
![]() Liebman, David: Colors - Solo Tenor Saxophone (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Mezei Ensemble, Szilard : Sivatag (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Extending his own ensemble into a 10 piece orchestra of impressive range and tonal colors, Szilard Mezei presents 3 compositions that bridge modern classical and improvisational music. |
![]() praed: The Muesli Man (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Paed and Raed make "praed", the very unusual electro-acoustic duo behind The Muesli Man, 40 tracks of electronics, bass, clarinets, & tapes (with japanese subtitles!) |
![]() Perry, Frank: Temple Of The Ancient Magical Presence (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer Frank Perry presents some new and some old unreleased recordings of solos, duos and trios featuring world famous musicians such as Evan Parker, David Toop, Paul Lytton, Paul Lovens, Jin Hi Kim and Trevor Taylor. |
![]() Mezei, Szilard / Albert Markos: Korom (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Free ranging and captivating improvisations between Hungarian violist Szilard Mezei and cellist Albert Markos, a remarkable duo of the string's potential. |
![]() Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
![]() Barretto, Jorge Lima: Zul Zelub (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Legendary performer, writer and political situationist Lima Barreto (Telectu) in an electroacoustic work based around the piano and using short wave radio and CD players. |
![]() Gato Libre: Forever (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 5th release from the Japanese quartet of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii, here on accordian, the late bassist Norikatsu Koreyasu, and guitarist Kazuhiko Tsumura, beautiful free form improvisation performed live in concert in 2011. |
![]() Junk & The Beast (Petr Vrba / Veronika Mayer): Trailer (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Petr Vrba and Veronika Mayer use non-idiomatic improvisation to research the combination of textural materials, crossing them with vibrations of objects on the speakers, pure sound waves, feedbacks, tones coming from trumpet, accordion, electronics, and laptop, culminating in the creation of a muscular frenetic soup of tense energy fields. |
![]() Karayorgis / McBride / Gray: The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project (Driff Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The long-running Boston trio of Pandelis Karayorgis on piano, Nate McBride on bass and Luther Gray on drums explore the music of Hasaan Ibn Ali through four compositions transcribed by Karayorgis from Hasaan's so-called "lost" Atlantic album Metaphysics, interleaved with six of the band's favorite tracks from Thelonious Monk and three tracks from Monk peer Elmo Hope. |
![]() Meyer, Sabina / Marco Dalpane : Cabaret Per Nulla (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Marco Dalpane and soprano Sabina Meyer create a virtual cabaret of songs using the music of Erik Satie and John Cage, interlacing pieces by each in a delicate set of songs that draw the two composers together through a surprising commonality, the lyrics provided from texts written by J. Peladan, C. Mendes, H. Pacory, J.P. Contamine de Latour, &c.; lovely. |
![]() Mezei, Szilard / Albert Markos Duo: KOD (FMR -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Improvised duos between Serbian violist Szilard Mezei and Hungarian cellist Albert Markos, for more than 15 years, with two previous albums recorded (Korom (Creative Sources, 2008), and "Der" (Bandcamp, 2016), this third album presents 5 interconnected works of subtle and impressive technique as the two string players trade approaches in a fascinating conversation. |
![]() Mori, Ikue / Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Extending their previous collaborations during the time of pandemic, NY electronic improviser Ikue Mori and Japanese improvisers Natsuki Tamura on trumpet and Satoko Fujii on piano developed this extraordinary ea-improv album via file exchange, starting with Fujii's piano improvisations to which Mori & Tamura added their layers, with Mori mixing the final, startling results. |
![]() 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. |
![]() Fujii Trio, Satoko : Trace A River (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Satoko Fujii's excellent trio with Mark Dresser on bass and Jim Black on drums: spiritous, technically impressive, melodically and conceptually adventurous music not to miss! |