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Chrysakis, Thanos / Wade Matthews / Javier Pedreira: Garnet Skein (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock The trio of Thanos Chrysakis on synth, radio, gongs & laptop; Wade Matthews on synth & field recordings; and Javier Pedreira on guitar, in studio recordings of edgy electroacoustic improvisation using a wide sound palette of indescribable sources. |
Cloud Becomes Your Hand: Rocks Or Cakes (Northern Spy -- USA ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Drawing on personnel from the Downtown NY scene, both improv and rock, including CACAW, Sunshine Soldier, and VaVatican, Cloud Becomes Your Hand plays exuberant and complex music that focuses as much on instrumental as vocal music while surprising and delighting. |
Cymerman, Jeremiah / Christopher Hoffmann / Brian Chase: Pale Horse (5049 Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Two works for clarinet (Jeremiah Cymerman), cello (Christopher Hoffmann) and drums (Brian Chase), building dark intertwining structures that create the illusion of electronics out of acoustics sources in a phantasmal and encompassing audio journey. |
Davidson, Scott with Shipp / Shorter / Bisio / Dickey: Dreamland (NO LABEL -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Percussionist Scott Davidson, whose music is informed by jazz, classical Indian and Middle Eastern music, teamed up with pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist Michael Bisio, drummer Whit Dickey and reedist Lloyd Shorter for this album of world encompassing and rhythmic jazz. |
MusicWorks: #118 Spring 2014 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Spring 2014 issue of Canada's best new music magazine, with articles on Margaret Noble, Nate Wooley, Victor Gama, plus articles, reviews, and a 13 track CD with tracks including Noble, Wooley, Gama, &c. |
Mystical Weapons (Sean Lennon / Greg Saunier): Crotesque [VINYL] (Northern Spy -- USA ) Price: $14.45 In Stock Sean Lennon & Greg Saunier (Mystical Weapons) are joined by multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Shahzad Ismaily for this one-sided, 19.50 minute art LP with an original illustration by Sean Lennon screen-printed on the B side. |
Tsahar, Assif / Tatsuya Nakatani: I Got It Bad (Hopscotch Records -- USA ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The third collaboration from the duo of Israeli saxophonist Assif Tsahar and Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, an amazing journey in tone and rhythm from two kindred spirits through 20 short, inventive, and stunning improvisations. |
Watts / Weston / Sanders / Edwards: Hear Now: A Film by Mark French [DVD] (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Mark French filmed two concerts in Lewes and at the Hasting Jazz Club of the quartet of saxophonist Trevor Watts, pianist Veryan Weston, drummer Mark Sanders, and bassist John Edwards, plust Trevor Watts' Moire Music Drum Orchestra. |
Zorn, John: The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2 - St. Paul's Chapel (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The second volume documenting John Zorn's astonishing solo organ improvisations recorded in 2013 on the Aeloian Skinner organ at St. Paul's Chapel in New York City. |
Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani: Cardinal (Impressus Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of 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. |
Scarcity Of Tanks: Vulgar Defender (Total Life Society Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New York/Ohio skronkers Scarcity of Tanks with Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus plus Kid Millions in a hard free rock free improv blast. |
Quartetski Does Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Quartetski Does Stravinsky with drummer Isaiah Ceccarelli, guitarist Bernard Falaise, reedist Phillipe Lauzier, viole de gamaba player Pierre-Yves Martel and violinist Joshua Zubot reinterpret Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in honor of its 100th anniversary. |
Scarcity Of Tanks: Fear Is Not Conscience (Total Life Society Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock New York/Ohio skronkers Scarcity of Tanks with Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus plus Kid Millions in a hard free rock free improv blast. |
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: $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. |
Roger, Danielle Palardy: Le Caillou 1998-2013 (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Written in 1998, Danielle Palardy Roger's game piece composition was performed at the first Ensemble SuperMusique concert, here in 7 versions recorded at various locations in bands including Joelle Leandre, Joane Hetu, Guido Del Fabbro, Jean Derome, &c. &c. |
Davis, Matt / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell: Confront Collectors Series (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Re-issue of one of the earliest Confront releases, the trio of trumpeter Matt Davis, violinist Phil Durrant and cellist Mark Wastell performing subtle and sophisticated free improvisation at St. Michael's and All Angels church, Chiswick, London in 2000. |
Hemingway, Gerry: Kernelings [CD + DVD] (Auricle -- USA ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Drummer Gerry Hemingway in a CD & DVD release, 15 audio tracks and accompanying video and interview, dividing the program into "mist, dust, light, and sex", highlighting aspects of this prominent percussionist that expand our understanding of his prodigious abilities. |
Lepage, Robert Marcel: Canard Branchu (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A rich work for clarinets, bass and drums orchestrated for six musicians including Actuelle core players Lori Freedman, Pierre Tanguay, and Lepage himself, through 14 works that may have something to do with a swamp. |
Davis, Kris: Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The debut solo CD from in-demand pianist Kris Davis (Paradoxical Frog, Novela, Good Citizen, Anti-House), an absorbing and innovative album of original numbers and standards played inside and out of the piano. |
Digital Primitives: Lipsomuch & Soul Searchin' [2 CDs] (Hopscotch Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The trio of saxophonist Assif Tsahar, drummer Chad Taylor and multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore in the 3rd Digital Primitives release, rhythmic and soulful improvisation with an inventive New York attitude. |
Roger, Danielle Palardy: Le Caillou 1998-2013 [Used Item] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.50 In Stock Written in 1998, Danielle Palardy Roger's game piece composition was performed at the first Ensemble SuperMusique concert, here in 7 versions recorded at various locations in bands including Joelle Leandre, Joane Hetu, Guido Del Fabbro, Jean Derome, &c. &c. |
Roger, Danielle Palardy: Le Caillou 1998-2013 [Used Item] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Written in 1998, Danielle Palardy Roger's game piece composition was performed at the first Ensemble SuperMusique concert, here in 7 versions recorded at various locations in bands including Joelle Leandre, Joane Hetu, Guido Del Fabbro, Jean Derome, &c. &c. |
Lepage, Robert Marcel: Le lait maternel (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A superb instrumental exploration of the American musical language - jazz, folk, gospel, rock, bluegrass, orchestral, electronic, minimalism and post-modernism, with improvised parts played by Jean Derome, Jacques Seguin, Guillaume Bourque and Yanik Cloutier. |