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Babin's, Tommy Benzene: Your Body Is Your Prison (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bassist Babin's Benzene band mixes free improvisation with rock overtones, tight changes giving way to excellent solos from all members of this exceptional quartet. |
Fujii, Satoko Orchestra Tokyo: Zakopane (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Pianist-composer Satoko Fujii's Orchestra Tokyo formed in 1999 to perform her compositions, music that spans a wide range of styles and moods, complemented by a great set of soloists. |
Gato Libre (Tamura / Fujii / Tsumura / Koreyasu): Shiro (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura & bassist Norikatsu Koreyasu's Gato Libre with Satoko Fujii on accordion and guitarist Kazuhiko Tsumara, in their 4th release, beautifully melodic improvisation. |
Inhabitants: A Vacant Lot (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The 3rd full length from Canada's Inhabitants expands the sonic experiments of this quartet's intuitive group improvisations, mixing rich feedback with alluring lyricism. |
Lewis, Downing & Martin: On a Short Path from Memory to Forgotten (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock This exquisite improvising trio in a passionate and lyrical sequence of group improvisations, introducing one of Toronto's extraordinary creative music ensembles. |
MusicWorks: #106 Spring 2010 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The great Canadian magazine of improv and compositional music, with articles on Yannis Kyriakides, Charles Stankievech, Anna Friz, loK8Tr, plus a 12 track CD including those artists. |
NoMoreShapes: Creesus Crisis (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock This Calgary based trio with Jay Crocker on guitar & electronics, J.C. Jones on trombone and Eric Hamelin on drums & percussion, mix free bop with small sound electronic improv. |
Pedromonkeyfinger: Eye Day Rabbit (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock "Surreal slabs of processed sound float by each other in brilliant high fidelity, from the man behind much of the documentation of Bug Incision's live activites..." |
Paul, Leah: Trenza (Skirl -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Flutist Leah Paul presents two engaging compositions in multiple movements, performed with a chamber ensemble of Chris Speed (reeds), Rob Jost (french horn), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Peter Sachon (cello), Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), Ben Kono (oboe) and Michel Gentile (flute). |
Paccione, Paul: Our Beauties Are Not Ours - Works for Voices and Instruments (New World Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Paul Paccione's compositions balance a love of "abstract" sound combinations with a vivid sense of lyricism, here in 6 works from 1993 to 2007. |
Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
First Meeting (Tamura / Fujii / Churko / Yamamoto): Cut The Rope (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Trumpeter Tamura in an album of improvisational fragmentation, textural and timbral explorations, and rapid-fire juxtapositions that create kaleidoscopic sound collages. |
Gorzycki / Szczesny / Nowinski: Trio Poems (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The latest project from Rafal Gorzycki, leader of "Ecstasy Project" & "Sing Sing Penelope", here with music composed for poems and inspired by modern electronic, jazz and chamber music. |
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. |