November 2014 |
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![]() Arrias / Munthe: Torso And Legs (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Free improvisation in the SME/Derek Bailey lineage from the duo of Stockholm-based John Arrias on sax and clarinet and Gothenburg-based Christian Munthe on acoustic guitar, using extended techniques with accessible language in unhurried and intertwining improvisations. |
![]() Brotzmann / Edwards / Noble: Soulfood Available (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock For their 3rd album together, the trio of saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble are caught live at the 2013 Ljubljana Jazz Festival for three blistering works of free improvisation. |
![]() De Beren Gieren plus Susana Santos Silva: The Detour Fish (Live in Ljubljana) (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $11.16 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performing live at the 2014 Ljubljana Jazz Festival, this piano jazz trio led by Fulco Ottervanger with Lieven Van Pee on bass and Simon Segers on drums performed with special guest Susana Silva for a lyrical set of creative free improv borrowing from a variety of styles. |
![]() Dunmall, Paul Sextet: Life in Four Parts (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded for his 60th birthday celebrations, this all star recording includes Mike Fletcher (sax, bagpipes), Percy Pursglove (trumpet), Mike Hurley (piano/organ), Chris Mapp (bass) and Mark Sanders (drums) plus special quests Simon hall (bass trombone) and Bethan Jones (bass drum). |
![]() Frey, Jurg / Radu Malfatti: II (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two works, one each from trombonist Radu Malfatti and clarinetist Jurg Frey, also credited with "instruments", field recordings and couterpoints; electroacoustic reductionist work of beautiful character that unfolds slowly and rewards attentive listeners in morphing sound. |
![]() Friends and Neighbors: Hymn For A Hungry Nation (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Taking their band name from an Ornette Coleman album, this European quintet presents new compositions in the style of Ornette, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and John Carter, ecstatic free jazz with a hard bop foundation, extended with modern technique and experience. |
![]() Grunen (Kaufmann / Landfermann / Lillinger): Pith and Twing (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second release from Germany's Grunen Trio of Achim Kaufmann on piano, Robert Landfermann on double bass and Christian Lillinger on drums, a superb and forward-thinking piano trio using prodigious talent in eccentric ways, resolving to lyrical and rewarding improvisation. |
![]() Jones, A.F.: Rearward Through Forgottenness (Laminal Recordings -- USA ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A compendium of compositions and improvisations from 2009-13 by undersea acoustician and audio engineer A.F. Jones, who uses stringed instruments and analog devices, hand-crafted and found, in works that emphasize structural components such as timbre, tone, or attack over form. |
![]() Lopes, Luis Lisbon Berlin Trio: The Line (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $11.16 ![]() ![]() In Stock Portugese electric guitarist Luis Lopes with his Berlin Trio of Robert Landfermann on double bass and Christin Lillinger that balances dark tonal work with kicking free improvisation, somewhere between ea-improv and free jazz, a mysterious and absorbing release. |
![]() Malaby's, Tony TubaCello: Scorpion Eater (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY saxophonist Tony Malaby's latest album was recorded with his most consistent collaborators--tubist Dan Peck, cellist Christopher Hoffman, and drummer/percussionist John Hollenbeck--in an album of energetic improv with a unique timbral configuration. |
![]() Musicworks: #120 Fall 2014 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Fall 2014 issue with a 12 track various artist CD from Canada's premiere new music magazine. On the cover: Kris Davis; articles on Wolf Edwards; Video Game Music; Ross Bolleter; plus Coppice; Lido Pimienta; The Muted Noise; live and recorded reviews; &c. &c. |
![]() Perera, Nilan & Bent Spoon Duo: S/T (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Vancouver based Bent Spoon Duo of Scott Munro on viola, trombone, electronics & zither and Chris Dadge on percussion meets Toronto's Nilan Perera on electric guitar, performing at Weeds Cafe in Calgary, for a rich interactive release of free improvisation. |
![]() Sorey, Tyshawn Trio: Alloy (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Drummer Tyshawn Sorey's trio with bassist Christopher Tordine and pianist Cory Smythe in an album dedicated to Butch Morris and to his mother; intelligent and pensively restrained through-composed jazz influenced by modern composition as much as the history of the jazz trio. |
![]() 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. |
![]() Martel, Pierre-Yves: Continuum (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A solo work from Pierre-Yves Martel performing two works for the viola da gamba, bringing this fretted renaissance-era ancestor to the violin into the 21st century through two slowly evolving and sonically fascinating pieces. |
![]() Sands, The: Beast To Bone (Self Released -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Singer/songwriter Julie McGeer leads a band of some of Western Canada's foremost players from the jazz and indie scene including Peggy Lee, JP Carter, Paul Rigby, Cole Schmidt, Darren Parris & Barry Mirochnik in an embraceable album combining jazz, indie pop and folk roots. |
![]() Surruralist(e)s, The/Le: Sortablue (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The duo of Arthur Bull on guitars & harmoia and Eric Normand on electric bass and tenor banjo, and both on voice, taking on American rural songs--delta blues, cajun music, and Quebecois laments, &c--with a modern eye and a good sense of humor. |
![]() Blonk, Jaap / Damon Smith: Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut- Und Klanggedichte 1916 (Six Sound Poems, 1916) [CASSETTE] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $0.00 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Three free improvisations for voice & double bass + improvisations on Hugo Ball's Six Sound Poems from the duo of free improvising vocalist Jaap Blonk and double bassist Damon Smith. |
![]() Midnighties: With Monty (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Vancouver duo of Cody Oliver and Chris Dadge is joined by multi-instrumentalist Scott Munro (Bend Spoon Duo) for a mix of acoustic and electronic improvisation to create unusual and interesting sonic environments and improvised discourse. |
![]() Munro, Scott : Monty (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Ever-active Calgary guitarist Scott Munro (Bent Spoon Duo) in his debut solo album of freely improvised guitar performed on a baritone guitar, treated and untreated, captured live at Weeds Cafe in 2010 & 2011. |
![]() Blonk, Jaap / Damon Smith: Hugo Ball: Sechs Laut- Und Klanggedichte 1916 (Six Sound Poems, 1916) [CASSETTE] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three free improvisations for voice & double bass + improvisations on Hugo Ball's Six Sound Poems from the duo of free improvising vocalist Jaap Blonk and double bassist Damon Smith. |
![]() Fox, Chistopher: Works For Piano, Philip Thomas piano (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four large and distinctive works by composer Christopher Fox performed by pianist Philip Thomas, who also writes the liner notes about the works, revealing and explaining the compositional elements, piano preparations, and physical requirements placed on the performer. |
![]() Stockhausen / Beethoven (Pi-hsien Chen): Klavierstucke / Sonaten (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Alternating between Stockhausen and Beethoven, pianist Pi-Hsien Chen performs solo works including "Klavierstuck", "Sonata A-Dur Op. 101" and "Sonata C-moll Op. 111", contrasting and comparing the innovations of both composers. |
![]() Guionnet, Jean-Luc & Eric La Casa: Home: Handover [4 CD SET] (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa in a work for the Uninstal Festival interviewing inhabitants of Glasgow in their home spaces, the results organized into compositions blending spoken word, music, improvisation and field recordings; each CD unveils the process of the composition. |
![]() Fox, Chistopher: Works For Piano, Philip Thomas piano [Used Item] (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $14.50 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four large and distinctive works by composer Christopher Fox performed by pianist Philip Thomas, who also writes the liner notes about the works, revealing and explaining the compositional elements, piano preparations, and physical requirements placed on the performer. |
![]() 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. |
![]() Guionnet / La Casa / Samartzis / Warburton: Parking (Collection Paris) (Swarming -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two improvisations by saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet & violinist Dan Warburton recorded in Paris & Melbourne parking garages 14 years apart, registering the behavior and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound within these unique spaces, edited by Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis as a 4-channel master by synchronizing two sets of independent stereo recordings. |