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En (Pal Toth) / Quentin Rollet / Zsolt Sores: Paw Music (Hermes Discorbie -- Hungary ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock The Paw Music trio bring together electronics and free improvisation in powerful electroacoustic spaces of transformative sound that embraces and resists chaotic variability. |
Ensemble SuperMusique: Y'a du bruit dans ma cabane (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A supergroup of the AM collective with Derome, Hetu, Labrosse, Roger, Tanguay and Tetrault, in adventurous and far-reaching improvisation that have to be heard to be believed! |
eRikm & Natacha Muslera: Cartouche (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An experimental sound and voice duet featuring eRikm and Natacha Muslera: extreme, convulsive and immersive sounds that alternately surprises and seduces in brutal and beautiful ways. |
Evans, Charles with Liebman / Marino / Stabinsky: Subliminal Leaps (More Is More -- USA ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock A composition written for collaboration between Charles Evans and David Liebman, an unusual pairing of soprano and baritone saxophones, in a quartet with pianist Ron Stabinsky and bassist Tony Marino. |
Fega, Roberto: Daily Visions (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A surreal and sophisticated work with a 9 piece electroacoustic ensemble composed by sampling and computer artist Roberto Fega, with audio interludes and vocal aberrations, plus text by Jennifer Scappettone. |
Flinn, Stephen: Architect of Adversity (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Arizona based percussionist Flinn, who has worked with Tim Perkis, Noah Phillips, in a solo work for drums, percussion and voice. |
Fuchs / Lindsay / Smith / Baghdassarians / Baltschun: The Happymakers (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock
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Fujii, Satoko: Indication (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Pianist Satoko Fujii in eight solo compositions and a traditional Japanese folk song, recorded in New York City, 1996 and remastered in 2004. |
Genetti / Smith / Lonberg-Holm: Sense of Hearing (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock 8 duos recorded in the studio between bassist Damon Smith and free vocalist Carol Genetti, and 4 trio tracks adding Fred Lonberg-Holm on violoncello and performing live at Chicago's Empty Bottle. |
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. |
Invenio Ergo (Prevost / Lambert / Wright): Sum [2 CDs] (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $34.95 Out of Stock Eddie Prevost's weekly workshops in London have produced two remarkable associates, saxophonist Seymour Wright and guitarist Ross Lambert, here in a trio on this 2CD release. |
Jones with Friends, JC: Duos II (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Live recordings of JC Jones in duo settings, 14 different collaborations including Ned Rothenberg, Victoria Hanna, Harold Rubin, Josef Sprinzak, Nori Jacoby, &c. |
Kahn, Jason / Tim Olive: Two Sunrise (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock The first meetings of Jason Kahn (analog electronic) and Tim Olive (one-string magnetic pickup device) recording in a studio session in Kyoto, 2012 for four eventful and intricately structured works with a distinct developmental momentum. |
Kesten, Christian & Mark Trayle / Annette Krebs : Berlin series No. 2 (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The Second in a series of split discs highlighting the experimental music scene in Berlin, presenting a solo work by Annette Krebs, and a powerful duo for voice and electronics by Christian Kesten and Mark Trayle." |
Keune, Stefan: Sunday Sundaes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Solo improvisation from Stefen Keune performing on sopranino and alto saxophones, intense playing that focuses on hard-blowing and extreme performance, wringing a singularly desperate yet astute language from the horn. |
Koh / Fujii / Reichman: Yamabuki (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The trio of Japanese art-folk singer Koh Yamabuki with pianist Satoko Fujii and accordionist Ted Recihment in emotional, inventive and delicately beautiful music. |
Lauzier / Martel: Sainct Laurens (&Records -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sparse but detailed improvisational journeys from the long-running duo of saxophonist Philippe Lauzier and bassist/electronic artist Pierre-Yves Martel. |
Leandre, Joelle & Lauren Newton: Conversations live in Ljubljana (Not Two -- Poland ) Price: $20.95 Out of Stock French bassist Joelle Leandre and US vocalist Lauren Newton recorded these duos live at Club Gromka in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2010; absorbing and unusual interactions between two significant improvisers. |
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. |
Maclean, Steve: GPS (Recommended Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Steve MacLean's 5-piece ensemble perform complex, composed polyrhythmic pieces interspersed with atmospheric improvisations for guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and various objects. |
Marcus, Michael: For Yes! (Not Two -- Poland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock NY multi-reedist Michael Marcus (Cosmosamatics), here on clarinet, in a large ensemble including Lenwood Turner on trumpet & John Austria on Rhodes piano, performing original and intricate compositions. |
McGovern, Neil / Paul Dunmall: Intervention (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Classical saxophonist Neil McGovern joins improvising legend Paul Dunmall to perform music based on Dunmall's book "60 Studies for Saxophone", with Matt London lending a 3rd voice for one track. |
Narthex (Baron / Blairon): Formnction (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Saxophonist Marc Baron & bassist Loic Blairon recorded 6 improvisations and then recomposed and organized them into these two 30 minute works, one acoustic and one digital. |
O'Leary, Mark : 4 Urban Landscapes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock In "Urban Landscapes" Irish guitarist and electroacoustic artist Mark O'Leary captures and documents environmental audio associated with Urban Cork City. |
Olive, Tim / Alfredo Costa Monteiro: 33 Bays (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Captured during a Japan tour by the duo of Tim Olive (one-string electric guitar) and Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electro-acoustic devices), this live studio recording showcases the duo's attunement and dramatic sense of structure. |
Orfield, Sue Band: Bonk (self-released -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Tiptons saxophonist Sue Orfield's Band performs original music that spans many genres from blues rock and funk to jazz and bluegrass with a little ethnic vibe thrown in. |
Parodi, Claudio: Heavy Nichel (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Solo improvisations on the Turkish Clarinet from Claudio Parodi, an Italian classically trained pianist who also works with self-built/self-modified electronics, non-western reeds, and selected percussions. |
Partial (Noe Cuellar and Joseph Clayton Mills): LL (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Three strange and wonderful sound pieces from the Chicago-based duo of Noe Cuellar and Joseph Clayton Mills, commissioned to make music from objects found in the basement of a local thrift store, evoking a sense of the lives embedded in those objects. |
Pinkdraft (Torees / Jacinto / Travassos / Morao): Pinkdraft 2010 (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A polyphonic approach to noise using open improv and graphic scores from this Portugese quartet performing on sax, cello, percussion, amplified objects, circuit bending and analog electronics. |
Pisaro, Michael: Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds (Gravity Wave -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Michael Pisaro-Liu & Greg Stuart collaborate on a work scored for bowed crotales and sine tones in 4 large pieces, a challenging work that provide hallucinatory overtones that shift with the listener's perspective. |
Prevost / Allum / Kanngiesser / Kasyansky / Lazaridou / Yoshikawa: Workshop Concert at Cafe Oto (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost has presented weekly Workshop Concerts since 1999, here recording live at London's Cafe Oto in May, 2012 with a sextet of acoustic and electronic performers on violin, cello, theremin, zither, electronics, and percussion. |
Pride, Mike: Birthing Days (Aum Fidelity -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock NY drummer Mike Pride's modern jazz work inspired by the birth of his first child, reflecting the fullness Pride finds in his life as a parent, with Jon Irabagon (sax), Alexis Marcelo (piano), Peter Bienec (bass), Jonathan Moritz (sax) and Jason Stein (bass clarinet). |
St-Jean (Babin / Falaise / Labbe / Leclerc): Projectionnistes, Les: Copie zero (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Claude St-Jean's band, Les Projectionnistes (Tommy Babin, Bernard Falaise, Pierre Labbe, Remi Leclerc), plays an ecletic mix of songs ranging from alternative jazz, rock, and improv. |
Quatuor Bozzini - Jean Derome, Joane Hetu: Le mensonge et l'identite (Collection QB -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The Bozzini Quartet commissioned this work from the duo Derome/Hetu, which tackles the subject of making differences cohabit, calling for the musicians to move & improvise in response to a soundtrack in 4 languages. |
Rodrigues / Guerreiro / Wolfarth: All About Mimi (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The intense lowercase trio of Creative Source label leader Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, percussionist Christian Wolfarth on cymbals, and Ricardo Guerreiro on interactive computer performing the 6 part "All About Mimi" in the studio. |
Rodrigues / Laurain / Rodrigues / Guerreiro: Alba (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock "Alba" (Portugese for "white") presents 4 improvisations by Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Louis Laurain on trumpet, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Ricardo Guerreiro on computer, slowly building subliminal works of subtle dialog using extended techniques and white noise. |
Roger, Danielle Palardy: Pinta, Nina & Maria (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock 3 live recordings from 3 ensembles - GGRIL, Ensemble SuperMusique and ECM+ - exploring relationsips between early music and contemporary creative music; with Jean Derome, Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Bernard Falaise, &c. &c. |
Schiller, Christoph / Millefleurs: Millefleurs (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The millefleurs vocal ensemble brings 12 vocalists together in varying groups for minimal and unique vocalisation over a taxonomy of floral genres and species. |
Silverman, Ken: Visionaries (SoundSeer -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Performing on solo electric & acoustic guitars, oud, charango and synthesizer, NYC guitarist Ken Silverman dedicates this album to musicians such as T-Bone Walker, Hamza El Din, Jimmy Page, Robert Fripp, &c. |
SKIF++ (Carey / van Heumen / Koolwijk): .next (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock This laptop trio create a dense and scurrying sound world of a surprising freeform nature that avoids cliches by combining sound-generation tools for ever-shifting results. |
Talibam! & Sam Kulik: Discover AtlantASS [CD & Graphic Book] (Belly Kids -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.95 In Stock NY's Talibam! team up with artist graphic artist Sam Kulik to tell the absurd and fantastic story of a young teen named Franklin who gets abducted by a revolutionary jazz fish into the undersea world of Atlantis. |
Templeton, Gavin: Asterperious Special (Nine Winds -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A sophisticated modern jazz album from alto saxophonist Gavie Templeton, music based on his grandfather's experience as an Air Corps navigator in WWII, performed in a quartet with pianist Gary Fukushima, bassist Darek Oles, and drummer Joe Labarbera. |
Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay: Wow! (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sax and flute player/Ambiances Magnetique label leader Jean Derome's excellent jazz trio with bassist Normand Guilbeault and drummer Pierre Tanguay, in their 4th release, with three Derome originals and 4 standards including a Dolphy number. |
TSIGOTI: Read Between The Lines...Think Outside Them (Post Consumer -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The TSIGOTI quarter brings together Italians Jacopo Andreini on guitar, Andrea Caprara on drums, and Piero Spitilli on bass with California pianist Thollem McDonas for critical avant punk with a technically brilliant flair. |
Various Artists: District of Noise Vol. 5 (Sonic Circuits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The fifth installment of the District of Noise series featuring a diverse set of experimental noise and electronic artists from the Washington DC area released as part of the 2012 Sonic Circuits Festival. |
Various Artists: Sculpted Sound (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Performances and discussion about a series of twenty metal sculptures created by Derek Shiel to be performed on as a set of percussion instruments or to be exhibited as sculpture. |
Various Artists: To Live And Shave In L.A. - The Grief That Shrieked To Multiply [3 CDs + Download] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $26.95 In Stock TLASILA was an experimental music collective founded in 1990 by composer Tom Smith; this 3 CD + download releases finds a massive cast of artists restructuring the improvisations from the "Noon and Eternity" album into a massive 240 minute work. |
Vasallo, Nick: The Burning (Ars Nova Classics -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The 1st release on the Ars Nova Classics label presents 'Eclecticism' composer Nick Vasallo in genreÐblurring avant and electro-acoustic works performed by several ensembles. |
Volcano The Bear: Egg and Two Books (Vivo Records -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 In Stock |
Vulture Club, The: Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse (Utech Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Wiss / Unternahrer: sopstock (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Swiss voice artist Isa Wiss with Marc Unternahrer on tuba in a surreal set of alphabetized improvisations in a Minton-esque mode with Unternahrer taking the tuba into untold territory. |
Zinman, Eric & Laurence Cook: Double Action (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Part of Ayler's Guerilla Series, percussionist Laurence Cook and keyboardist Eric Zinman in an album of textural duos developed over a year while working with the Yamaha CP300 stage keyboard. |
Belorukov, Ilia / Ernesto Rodrigues / Nuno Torres: Tak Prosto (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Two recordings from the lowercase acoustic improvising trio of Portuguese players Ernesto Rodriduges on viola and Nuno Torres on alto saxophone and objects with Saint Petersburg alto saxophonist Ilia Belorukov, recording at Belorukov's Spina! label's studio, and again live at Vertikal' Gallery in Saint Petersburg in 2016. |
Casserley, Lawrence / Jeffrey Morgan: Exoplanets (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Two enounters between UK electroacoustic composer and performer Lawrence Casserly on his Signal Processing Instrument and American free jazz alto saxophonist Jefrrey Morgan, recording both in the studio in Cologne, Germany in 2016, and in concert at The Loft; a rich, subtle, and detailed astronomical encounter blending stellar electronics and responsive extended playing. |
Warble & MDuo : Ama (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Two improvising duos that share one person and joined as a trio -- Berlin musician Miako Klein on recorders -- Warble being Klein and NY/Berlin trumpeter Brad Henkel, the two exploring their instruments through close amplification; Mduo is Klein & NY/Berlin percussionist Michael Weilacher using extended techniques and strange actions. |
Beins, Burkhard / Lucio Capece / Martin Kuchen / Paul Vogel: Fracture Mechanics (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock "Fracture Mechanics" is the scientific study of cracks in any material, an apt title from these European experimental innovators--Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Martin Kuchen, and Paul Vogel--pulling back the curtain on process and creating an impressive album crossing acoustic and electronic improv, organized sound, and inexplicable interaction; recommended. |
Filosofer : Landet Er Gitt Oss (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An hallucinogenic and commanding blending of improvisation, song, spoken word, and tonal/timbral music from double bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen's Filosofer, creating beautiful sonic environments out of which voice and message emerge and submerge, buoyed by a string quartet (two violins and two double basses), computers, turntables, synths and samplers. |
Tanaka, Ayumi / Johan Lindvall / Christian Wallumrod: 3 Pianos (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock This trio joins 3 disparate approaches to composition and improvisation--Japanese improviser Ayumi Tanaka, Oslo composer Johan Lindvall, and ECM artist Christian Wallumrod-developing the engaging material on this album by focusing on elements like tuning, register, intervals and dynamics, for an absorbing album of compatible and concentrative playing. |
Corringham, Viv / Lawrence Casserley: Anemoi (FMR -- UK ) Price: $10.80 In Stock Lawrence Casserley is a pioneer of real time electroacoustic music, since the 60s working with other artists and developing his Signal Processing Instrument, using physical gestures to process and morph sounds; here he works with British vocalist and Deep Listening teacher Viv Corringham in an other-worldly collaboration of voice and electonics. |
Kamins / Smith / Fielder / Hertenstein: After Effects (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A great example of traditional free improvisation spanning generations from the quartet of Danny Kamins on baritone saxophone, Damon Smith on double bass, and two drummer/percussionists--Alvin Fielder and Joe Hertenstein--for 10 tracks of swinging free music recorded in the studio in Texas, 2016, jazz with a lyrical intention and powerful rhythmic underpinnings. |
Kontakte Trio (Trevor Taylor / Ian Brighton / Steve Beresford): Kontakte Trio (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock An important and well-matched trio of electroacoustic improvisers, and a welcome addition to guitarist Ian Brighton's return to active music life, with Steve Beresford on piano, prepared piano and electronics, and Trevor Taylor (Circuit) on percussion and electronics, six unhurried improvisations of intricate interplay and interchange themed on physics. |
Lencastre, Jose Nau Quartet (Lencastre / Pinheiro / Faustino / Lencastre): Fragments of Always (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Portuguese alto saxophonist Jose Lencastre's Nau [ship] Quartet with Joao Lencastre on drums and two thirds of Red Trio -- Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano and Hernani Faustino on bass -- in a lyrical album of collective free improvisation informed by masterful playing that's energetic but never bombastic, a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking album. |
Tipple (Frode Gjerstad / Kevin Norton / David Watson): Live at Elastic Arts (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Tipple, the trio of Frode Gjerstad on alto sax and clarinet, Kevin Norton on percussion, and David Watson on electric guitar, are captured live for an energetic and masterly concert at Elastic Arts, in Chicago, Illinois in 2015, four "Elastic" improvisations of intense interaction, from collective conversation to stunning solo statements; jaw dropping. |
The Nu Band: Live in Paris [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Nu Band with trumpeter Roy Campbell, saxophonist Mark Whitecage, bassist Joe Fonda, and Lou Grassi, in their 5th album after 10 years together, performing live in Paris. |
Butcher, John / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: Last Dream Of The Morning (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A studio album between three UK master improvisers -- John Butcher on sax, John Edwards on double bass, and Mark Sanders on drums -- the trio pushing the envelope in technique and dialog in nearly telepathic playing that transports the listener into their environment, as the music builds and releases in effortless ways that are stunning and exulant; highly recommended. |
Mayas, Magda / Jim Denley: Tempe Jetz (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A pairing of two innovative players, Berlin-based pianist Magda Mayas and Australian sound and wind artist Jim Denley, Mayas playing inside and out of the piano and Denley on alto sax and bass flute, both providing field recordings adding unexpected elements in a set of extremely balanced recordings that entrance the listener with unlikely and captivating settings. |
Van Hove, Fred / Roger Turner: The Corner (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Pioneering improvising pianist Fred Van Hove at UK's Cafe OTO for the first time, captured in a duo with UK drummer/percussionist Roger Turner, their first recording together, for a night of exceptional improvised interplay, sophisticated and complex playing that is constantly buoyant and charming, an enthralling conversation between two veteran players. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Ulrike Brand / Olaf Rupp : Traintracks, Roadsides, Wastelands, Debris (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Three string improvisers--Ulrike Brand on cello, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, and Olaf Rupp on electric guitar--approach their instruments from all angles excepting the most traditional ones, from scraping and granulating to creating resonant sonic environments, an apt reflection of a journeying musician, enhanced by text and images in the CD package. |
Siwula, Blaise / Jorge Nuno: Waterscapes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Waterscapes is the performing duo of New York saxophonist Blaise Siwula and guitarist Jorge Nuno, interwining distinct approaches to acoustic and electric improvisation, creating rich sound environments and rapid interaction that draws the listener in and then sweeps them off their feet with passionate, complex and informed dialog. |
Rummel, Simon Ensemble: IM MEER (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Price: $14.95 In Stock German composer and improviser Simon Rummel presents the 2nd release from his 11-piece Simon Rummel Ensemble, blending his interest in acoustic phenomena and improvisational harmonics in an extended work that shifts from beautiful tonal work to disruptive cacophony and back to melodic music, blending jazz and 20th century approaches; a great achievement. |
Bailey, Derek / Mick Beck / Paul Hession: Meanwhile, Back In Sheffield... (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Free improvising guitar legend Derek Bailey was invited to perform in his home town of Sheffield, England in 2004 with the trio of Mick Beck on tenor sax, bassoon, and whistles, and Paul Hession on drums, Bailey's first visit in many years, and a joyful occasion as the collective group explores a wide range of approaches to creating instant compositions. |
Vossas 4, Eckard (Vossas / Fields / Henkel / Nabatov): Conference Of Analogies (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A live concert of collective free improv recorded at Cologne's Loft from electronic artist Eckard Vossas leading his impressive quartet of Brad Henkel, Simon Nabatov and Scott Fields, Vossas performing on synth, electronics, Kyma Sound System, and Continuum Fingerboard, pianist Nabatov also on Crackle board, Henkel on trumpet, and Fields on electric guitar. |
Deep Tide Quartet (Archer / Macari / Cole / Shaw): See One, Do One, Teach One (Discus -- UK ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Originally a studio project, The UK Deep Tide Trio of Martin Archer on sax, Kim Macari on trumpet, Laura Cole on piano and Walt Shaw on percussion & live electronics evolved into a performing organization based on the strength of their open-ended approach to free jazz and improvisation, heard here balancing melody and structure in well-paced and thoughtful improv. |
Lacy, Steve: Free for a Minute (1966-72) [2 CDs] (Emanem -- UK ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Four sessions on a 2 CD set, all featuring Steve Lacy and Kent Carter: (1) DISPOSABILITY, the 1965 trio record with Aldo Romano of jazz standards, originals and free improv; (2) SORTIE, the 1966 free improv quartet + Enrico Rava album; (3) previously unissued 1967 'Free Fall' Film Cues in a quintet with Rava, Karl Berger, & Paul Motian; (4) two never issued '72 quintet pieces with Steve Potts, Irene Aebi on cello and Noel Mcghie. |
Rutherford, Paul: In Backward Times (1979-2007) (Emanem -- UK ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Four very different previously unissued concert settings featuring trombonist Paul Rutherford: 2 festival solos - one from 1979 with electronics and one from 2004 without; a 1988 duo with Paul Rogers a few months before their ROGUES CD; and a 2007 trio with Veryan Weston and Marcio Mattos, which turned out to be Rutherford's last public appearance. |
Schindler, Udo: Botenstoffe (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A series of duo recordings between saxophonist, clarinetist and cornet player Udo Schindler and pianists, all recorded at Schindler's Salon for Sound and Art at Krailing, Germany between 2013 and 2016, with Claudia Ulla Binder, Masako Ohta, Elisabeth Harnik, Katharnia Weber, and Lisa Ullen; song titles taken from SONDAGEN (Soundings) in memory of poet Thomas Kling. |
Leap of Faith Orchestra: Possible Universes (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Started in 1995 as an interdisciplinary unit of improvisational artists led by Boston area reedist/multi-instrumentalist David Peck and cellist Glynis Lomon, exploring multi-phonics, glissando, microtones, graphic & descriptive scores, and extended techniques, expanding the ensemble with like-minded musicians, here in this 2017 recording of full 24-piece orchestra. |
String Theory [Boston, USA]: Condensed Phases of Matter (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock String Theory was formed as the string section for Boston's Leap of Faith Orchestra, the core being David Peck on reeds, game calls, fog horn, sirens, &c, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic and voice, with Jane Wang (cello) and Mimi Rabson (violin), creating a wonderfully assertive and somewhat skewed approach to improvisation, captured live at Mobius in Cambridge, 2016. |
Mitchell, Nicole: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The second astounding album from Chicago Flutist Nicole Mitchell on the FPE label, continuing her project in the sphere of Sun Ra and Afrofuturists, merging fiction, fantasy and sound in an electro-chamber octet, encompassing contemporary classical, globally oriented fusion, gospel, avant-rock, spoken word, and funk-inspired groove research. |
Ochs, Larry / Sax and Drumming Core: Wild Red Yellow (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Rova leader Larry Ochs takes his Sax and Drumming Core to the next level with this charged album of mind-bending free improvisation with an hallucinatory edge, joined by Libra artists Satoko Fujii on piano & synth and Natsuki Tamura on trumpet, with Scott Amendola on drums, William Winant and Matthias Bossi on a wild set of percussive instruments. |
Shipp, Matthew : Magnetism(s) [2 CDs] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock The creative NY jazz trio led by pianist Matthew Shipp with Rob Brown on alto sax and flute and William Parker on bass re-release and re-master their 1999 Bleu Regards album "Magnetism", a 20-part suite of concise and informed dialogs; and add a live CD of the trio recording three larger "Magnetism" improvisations captured at the Stone, 2016. |
Mats Gustafsson / Craig Taborn: Ljubljana [VINYL] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock Celebrating the 400th release of Clean Feed Records, Swedish free jazz phenomenon, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson meets with NY jazz pianist Craig Taborn for an unlikely yet highly satisfying encounter that pushes each improviser into unfamiliar, edge-of-their seats, territory. |
Wolff, Christian / Eddie Prevost: Uncertain Outcomes [2 CDs] (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock Two concerts of experimental improvisation from two giants of conceptual improvisation and composition, recorded at IKLECTIK in London in 2015 and at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire in 2016; with superb pacing and brilliant execution, these dialogs between keyboard and percussive instruments explore unique sound worlds with depth, inquisitiveness, and a sense of wonder. |
Abecassis, Eryck / Francisco Meirino: La Gueule Du Loup (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Recording at the GRM Studios, the French duo of Eryck Abecassis and Francisco Meirino (phroq) use unpatched modular sythesizers that they program during performance, adding a level of risk and unpredictability to their detailed and rich sonic conversation, informed by decades of research and performance that both musicians bring to this intensely interesting album. |
Elks, The (Kai Fagaschinski / Liz Allbee / Billy Roisz / Marta Zapparoli): This Is Not The Ant (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An extremely balanced group of electroacoustic improvisers, Kai Fagaschinski on clarinet and Liz Allbee on trumpet make up the acoustic side, though sounding as electronic and other-worldly as Billy Roisz on e-bass and electronics and Marta Zapparoli on reel-to-reel tapes and tape machines, creating incredibly wide-ranging and psychedelic sonic environments. |
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Brown, Marion: Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee (remastered)
New York Contemporary Five: Consequences Revisited
Giuffre, Jimmy 3 (w / Bley / Swallow): Graz Live 1961
Coltrane, John Quartet: Impressions Graz 1962
Ayler, Albert Quartets: Spirits To Ghosts Revisited (remastered)
Ayler, Albert Trio: 1964 Prophecy Revisted
Coltrane, John Quartet: My Favorite Things Graz 1962
Ayler, Albert Quartet With Don Cherry: European Recordings Autumn 1964 (Revisited) [2 CDs]
Bley, Paul Trio: Touching & Blood, Revisited
Ayler, Albert: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited
Taylor, Cecil Mixed To Unit: Structures Revisited
Ayler, Albert: La Cave Live, Cleveland 1966 Revisited [2 CDs]
Coltrane, John Quartet: Newport, New York, Alabama, 1963, Revisited
Sun Ra Arkestra: Nothing is ... Completed & Revisited
Williams, Anthony (w/ Shorter / Rivers / Hancock / Hutcherson / Carter / Davis / Peacock): Life Time
Coleman, Ornette: New York Is Now & Love Call, Revisited
Ayler, Albert Quintet 1966: Berlin, Lorrach, Paris & Stockholm. Revisited [2 CDs]
Parker, Charlie : Selections From The DIAL Recordings
Shepp, Archie: Blase And Yasmina Revisited
Parker, Charlie : Selections From The SAVOY Recordings