December 2008 |
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4Corners: Alive In Lisbon [DVD] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock 4 Corners with Ken Vandermark, Magnus Broo, Adam Land and Paal Nilssen-Love in a live DVD from a March 2007 gig in Portugal playing 5 extended tracks. (PAL format) |
Adams, Steve Trio: Surface Tension (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Multi-reed and wind player Steve Adams, a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet, in 2000 recordings from San Francisco with his trio of Ken Filiano and Scott Amendola. |
AMM w/ John Butcher: Trinity (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock New 2008 recordings from AMM - Eddie Prevost & John Tilbury with John Butcher - performing at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich, England. |
Butcher / Hemingway: Buffalo Pearl (Auricle -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Percussionist Hemingway with John Butcher on tenor and soprano sax performing live in 2005, demonstrating their extended language in a brilliant and eccentric dialog. |
Flatlands Collective, The: Maatjes (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Recorded after a tour in Netherlands, Germany & Belgium, Jorrit Djikstra's Flatlands Collective crosses Europe and Chicago with players Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Fred Lonberg-Holm, &c. |
Lantner, Steve Quartet: Given - Live In Munster (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Pianist Steve Lantner's Quartet with Joe Morris, Luther Gray and Allan Chanse performing live at the 21st International Jazzfestival Munster in Germany. |
O'Gallagher, John Trio: Dirty Hands (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New York alto saxophonist O'Gallagher's trio with Jeff Williams and Masa Kamaguchi recording during their tour through France and Portugal. |
Rowe, Keith / Taku Unami: ErstLive 006 (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A first meeting of guitar and electronics artist Keith Rowe with computer and string performer Taku Unami at the Amplify 2008: light festival in Tokyo. |
Rowe, Keith: ErstLive 007 (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Keith Rowe's solo set from the Amplify 2008 festival in Tokyo uses guitars and radio broadcasts; surprisingly this is Rowe's first ever solo set in Tokyo. |
Tom & Gerry (Thomas Lehn & Gerry Hemingway): Kinetics (Auricle -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Thomas Lehn & Gerry Hemingway's 3rd "Tom & Gerry" release presents tracks recorded in Europe from 2003-2006, incredible electro-acoustic improvisations. |
Wright, Seymour / Eddie Prevost: Gamut (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost on roto toms with alto saxophonist Seymour Wright in a 5 part series of G.A.M.U.T. free improvisations and interactions. |
Hotel Hotel: The Sad Sea (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Instrumental post rock inspired by a torturous ocean journey: the sounds of hurricanes funneled through violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals; nice squid cover! |
Northern Valentine: The Distance Brings Us Closer (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Minimalist ambient work from Robert & Amy Brown, who have been recording and performing since '97, creating heartfelt, soulful & affecting sound. |
Origami Artika: Trollebotn (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.30 In Stock The unplugged industrial orchestra presents a collection of songs & folklore from the half-mythical landscape Trollebotn, deep in the mountains of Telemark, Norway. |
Vlor: A Fire Is Meant for Burning (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff. |
Klezmerson: Amon: The Book Of Angels Volume 24 (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Tzadik's series reinterpreting John Zorn's Masada compositions releases the 24th "Book of Angels", performed by Klezmerson, a Mexico-based ensemble led by violist & composer Benjamin Shwartz, who founded the group in 2003 to integrate music from a Mexican standpoint. |
Klaxon Gueule: Cote, Falaise, St-Onge: Grain (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Michel F Cote, Bernard Falaise, Alexandre St-Onge, Christof Migone, and Sam Shalabi, all members of the excellent group Klaxon Gueule, in a minimalist release of improv. |
Bauer / Rose / Lehn: Futch (Jazzwerkstatt -- Germany ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The debut release of trombonist Johannes Bauer, Australian violinist Jon Rose and analog synth player Thomas Lehn, mutated improvisation for a Futched world. |
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 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. |
Wisseltangcamatta, The: Movements (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways. |
Kalashnikov: Bang Bang [2 CDs] (Veal -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Double CD of bleak and sinister metal-oriented improv from the duo of Jamie Saft on keys and bass and Mike Pride on drums and hostile and freakish vocals. |
Johnston, Darren: Edge Of The Forest (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bay area trumpeter and bandleader Johntson in a set of original compositions performed with Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Devin Hoff and Smith Dobson. |
Chadbourne / Blechdom: The Chaddom Blechbourne Experience (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Eugene Chadbourne and Kevin Blechdom (aka Kristin Erickson) performing songs from their 2007 Victo performance, warped banjo rock instrumentals and songs. |
Snow / Licht / Onda: Five A's, Two C's, One D, One E, Two H's, Three I's... (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock New Yorkers Snow, Licht and Onda in their 2007 Victoriaville performance, an improvised set using sound from sparse to dense with mutated field recordings, synth, radio, &c. |
Chaton, Anne James & Andy Moor: Le Journaliste (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Part of a series of 100 portraits in sound iniated by Anne James Chaton, a journey into the texts and columns of newspapaper and radio broadcasts of a single journalist. |
Leandre, Joelle: Live in Israel (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Double CD of bassist Joelle Leandre perforing Solo in Israel, then in duos, trios and a sextet with JC Jones, Assif Tsahar, Albert Beger, Ariel Shibolet, &c. |
Schlippenbach, Alexander Von & Eddie Prevost: Blackheath (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Pianist von Schlippenbach and drummer Eddie Prevost on an album of two solo works each, and then together for a piece inspired by Thelonius Monk. |
Clusone 3: Soft Lights And Sweet Music (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Michael Moore, Ernst Reijseger and Han Bennink's excellent Clusone 3 trio in a reissue of their 1993 album playing mostly Irving Berlin compositions. |