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Blanketship & The Dollson Family Singers: Music with a Message (Gigante Sound -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock "Spirtual AM radio classics" and unusual plunder song structures from the "Dollson Family" (Jaren Blum aka Blanketship), colliding pop, prog, gospel, electronics and much more. |
Blanketship: Teen Sounds (Gigante Sound -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Jared Blum, aka Blanketship, in an eclectic album of strange audio collage, constructed songs with absurd twists in a Negativland or Plunderphonics mold. |
Blanketship: The Sound of Fun Surrounds You / Klangwunder (Gigante Sound -- USA ) Price: $5.00 In Stock Two EPs in one CD, 1st Blanketship's wonderful plunderphonic collage "The Sound of Fun...", and then a 35 minute work for People Like Us' WFMU radio show that ran in May 2008. |
Blue Sausage Infant: Scalpels for the Animal God (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock The live sound of Blue Sausage Infant, ranging from brutalist noise to textured drones, pounding neo-tribalism, krautrock-flavored psychedelia, or cut-ups of cultural artifacts. |
Borful Tang: On the Back of a Dying Beast Volume One (Gigante Sound -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Borful Tang, the outer inter-dimensional exile, in a 2 CD set of live collaged field recordings, instrument recordings and dusty vinyl found-sound. |
CHANGES TO blind + Blue Sausage Infant: (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Blue Sausage Infant and CHANGES TO blind met in 1992 for these improvised studio recordings, and to perform CTb's sonic tour of a house live at Troy, NY's Last Exit. |
Goldberg, Ben: Speech Communication (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Clarinetist Ben Goldberg returns to his roots with this first new CD from his legendary band New Klezmer Trio (Greg Cohen, Kenny Wollesen) in almost ten years. |
Gonzalez, Dennis Yells At Eels (feat. Rodrigo Amado): The Great Bydgoszcz Concert (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Drummer Gonzalez and his sons traveled to Warsaw to meet saxophonist Rodrigo Amado for this incredible live concert of original compositions plus Ornette's "Happy House". |
Lexer, Sebastian: Dazwischen (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Dazwischen means in-between, and these works by pianist, electronic artist and AMM associate Sebastian Lexer bridge the electronic, compositional, and free improv worlds with subtlety. |
Martin / Turcotte / Haynes: Get Together Weather (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Vancouver's The Trio - drummer Jean Martin, guitarist Justin Haynes, trumpeter Kevin Turcotte - plays the music of...Dr. Seuss (The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T) and Rogers (Oklahoma). |
Nuts (Duboc / Siddik / Oki / Lasserre / Sato): Symphony for Old and New Dimensions (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Bassist Duboc's two part symphony with dual drummers and dual trumpeters is a journey that aims at the creative free improvisation of groups like the Art Ensemble, AACM, BAG, &c. |
Zorn, John: Music Romance Vol. 1: Music For Children (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Remastered for its 10th anniversary, "Music for Children" takes the listener through Zorn's Torture Garden, Masada exotica, classical work, plus a new piece performed by Lou Reed! |
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. |
EMJO (European Jazz Movement Orchestra): EMJO Live in Coimbra (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A fresh, enthusiastic and very pertinent vision of the big band model from this large orchestra with a diverse and uniquely European spirit, but globally identifiable as excellent jazz. |
ElSaffar, Amir Two Rivers Ensemble: Crisis (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock NY trumpeter Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble, exploring the juncture between jazz and music of the Middle East through sophisticated and lyrically stunning music, here focusing on revolution, civil war, and sectarian violence; a culture's struggle for survival. |
Empty Cage Quartet: Stratostrophic (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock West Coast jazz musicians Mears, Tiner, Kikuchi and Johnson in a fiery set of original compositions from shuffle swing to free jazz blowouts, liner notes by Leo Smith. |
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. |
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa : Anatomy of Inner Place (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $11.70 In Stock Organized sound compositions using recordings from Monteiro's home environment, compositing acoustic sound without adding electronic effects processing. |
Abbott, Paul / Leo Dumont: loiter volcano (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Powerful debut release for three young musicians emerging onto the European electroacoustic improv scene, one of whom, Kanngiesser, has recently performed with AMM. |
Chant / Davies / Drew / Edwards: Decentred (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Improvisations and realisations of indeterminate scores by Michael Pisaro and John Cage from this trio originally brought together by a reading of Cardew's "Treatise". |
Coleman / Kasyansky / Wright: control and its opposites (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock A durational piece featuring saxophonist Seymour Wright, electronic artist Grundik Kasyansky (Grundik + Slava) & trumpeter Jamie Coleman, members of Eddie Prevost's improv workshop. |
Forge / Julian / Papapostolou: meshes (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Two improvisations-one live, one without audience-by an Anglo-French trio of new voices from trombonist Forge, electronics artists Julian and cellist Papapostolou. |
Milton, Matt / Leo Dumont: Scrub (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock A half-hour concert of understated and engaging performance of astonishing detail and subtlety from violinist Milton and percussionist Dumont. |
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra: Helsinki 1971 (Transparency -- USA ) Price: $39.95 Out of Stock New sealed copy. Live recordings of Sun Ra's large Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra performing live in Helsinki, 1971, plus a DVD of a 1971 interview with The Finnish Broadcasting Co. |