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Amico, Agnese: Alalie (zOaR Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Recorded live using the natural resonance of an apse in Giudecca, Venice, Sicilian-Norwegian contemporary & improvising violinist Agnese Amico performs on the Hardanger Fiddle, the traditional instrument of Norway that provides resonating strings under four violin strings, for 10 works inspired by historic popular songs while expressing a sensation of alalie. |
Chansons du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand / Elliott Sharp): L'Apres-Midi d'un Bot (zOaR Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A collection of original songs recorded in NY & Paris from vocalist Hélène Breschand, also performing on acoustic and electric harp, in a duo with Elliott Sharp, who creates grooves and instrumental environments on guitar, analog synth, bass, toy piano and drum programming; unusually structured and richly detailed, from idiosyncratic to sensuous. |
Doortri: PFAS OFF (zOaR Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Referencing their influences as The Pop Group, This Heat, Naked City, and Eric Dolphy, this collective trio from Vicenza, Italy features Tiziano Pellizzari on reeds & electronics, Geoffrey Copplestone on noise & vocals and Giampaolo Mattiello on percussion, in an insightful and sometimes socially charged, sometimes simply quirky mix of free jazz, noise and narrative vocals. |
Tabata / Yamaji / Yoshida: Missing Heads (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A live performance in Koenji, Tokyo at the club Jirokichi in 2022 from the prog-oriented instrumental improvising power rock trio of Mitsuru Tabata on guitar, Kazuhide Yamaji on guitar and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums, Tabata & Yoshida providing vocal emphasis through the nine brisk and highly interactive tracks of great energy, psychedelic overtone and impressive technical skill. |
Yoshida, Tatsuya x Kentaro Nakao: T.h.e.d.i.e.i.s.c.a.s.t (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Captured during their 2023 tour, the super-energetic, instrumental Japanese avant-rock duo of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei, &c) and bassist Kentaro Nakao (Number Girl, &c) selected the best of their rugged and bewilderingly skillfull improvisations from three concerts at Bordland in Sendai, at Crates in Morioka and at Sublime in Aomori. |
Yoshida, Tatsuya x Owada Chihiro: Dotsukiuta (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Quick-witted and intensely detailed improvisations between Japanese drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and pianist Chihiro Owada (Karasutou!), who also performs on pianica, with both free vocalizing, in eleven recordings captured at live performances between 2021 and 2013 in Ogikubo, Maebashi and Youtsuya, Japan, plus a bonus studio composition combining unused sources. |
Yoshida, Tatsuya x Satoshi Mishoiba: Moonlight Sonata (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A live performance at Koenji Jirokichi that draws on the works of Sergei Prokofiev, Bela Bartok, Manuel de Falla and Ludwig van Beethoven, from drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei) and pianist Satoshi Mishiba (Kinniku Shoujotai, Tokusatsu), part of Yoshida's "Piano 10th Game" series, as the two layer and spectacularly interweave melodies and tight percussive work. |
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. |
Smiley, Andrew / Kate Gentile: Flagrances (Obliquity -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Two New York Improvisers recording at The Pink Forest studio in Brooklyn present 18 succinct, upbeat and distinctive improvisations on drums and electric guitar, from drummer Kate Gentile (Matt Mitchell, Secret People, Gabriel Zucker & The Delegation, Dave Douglas) and guitarist Andrew Smiley (Little Women, Bloor, Chris Pitsiokis Quartet). |
Kimura, Izumi / Gerry Hemingway: Kairos (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock After their trio album Illuminated Silence with bassist Barry Guy, Japanese-born, Irish-based pianist Izumi Kimura and US drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway living in Switzerland distill their improvisations into these deeply personal, highly concentrative and masterful dialogs, in five spontaneous compositions, one work from each performer, and a traditional work. |
Swell / Tokar / Kugel: For The People Of The Open Heart (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A meeting in Dortmund, Germany between the working trio of three masterful improvisers--New York trombonist Steve Swell, also on flute; Ukrainian double bassist Mark Tokar; and German drummer Klaus Kugel--recording 6 collective, spontaneous improvisations and Swell's "Child's Play", extending the concepts of the bass, drum and trombone trio. |
Guy, Barry Blue Shroud Band: All This This Here (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The title and text drawn from Samuel Beckett's last poem and meditation on language, "what is the word" and also his "Brief Dream", plus a poem from Barra O Seaghdha and two 18th century Edo Haikus, Barry Guy's exquisite work about life in transit through eight movements is performed with a stellar ensemble including Agusti Fernandez, Maya Homburg, Lucas Niggli, Percuy Pursgolve, &c. |
Zorn, John / Bill Laswell: Memoria (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A heartfelt tribute to three significant jazz innovators associated with the 1960's free jazz scene--Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, and Milford Graves--in one improvisation each from the long-running collaboration of alto saxophonist John Zorn and bassist Bill Laswell, contrasting Laswell's fx-expanded bass underpinnings with Zorn's emphatic and expressive playing. |
Zorn, John (Julian Lage / Gyan Riley): Quatrain (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Based on the influential 1929 novel by Welsh writer Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica, about the disturbing ordeal of four children captured by pirates on the sea, realized through John Zorn's compositions for two guitarist--Julian Lage and Gyan Riley--and expressed through a spectrum of tranquil and portentous passages of virtuosic playing. |
Nagano, Sana / Leonor Falcon: Peach and Tomato (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Using members of the violin family augmented with effects, NY violinist Sana Nagano and violist Leonor Falcon pay homage to Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins and Bela Bartok's Etudes 1 & 2, reinterpreted for modern contemporary approaches, alongside new compositions from both Nagano & Falcon that show their virtuosic talents and playful attitude to performance. |
Yarde / Wright / Wilkinson / Smith / Lynch / Chat: A Company of Others (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock To celebrate drummer/percussionist Eddie Prévost's 80th birthday, Café Oto hosted four concerts once a week in June, 2022, each a differing configuration from Prévost's history; this first concert brings together Prévost with four horn players, NO Moore on guitar and Marcio Matttons on double bass, for varying duos, trios and full ensemble performances. |
Butcher / Charbin / Kanngiesser / Prevost: The Art Of Noticing (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock "To celebrate drummer/percussionist Eddie Prévost's 80th birthday, Café Oto hosted four concerts once a week in June, 2022, each a differing configuration from Prévost's history; this 2nd concert brings together Prévost, Marjolaine Charbin (piano), Ute Kanngiesser (cello) and John Butcher (sax), the same group that recorded the contemporary album Sounds of Assembly on the Meena label. |
AMM (Rowe / Prevost + Tilbury): Last Calls (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock To celebrate drummer/percussionist Eddie Prévost's 80th birthday, Café Oto hosted four concerts once a week in June, 2022, each a differing configuration from Prévost's history; this final concert reconvened for an extended improvisation between Prévost & guitarist Keith Rowe, with a "Postscript" from pianist John Tilbury recorded at his home in January, 2023. |
Widdershins (Coleman / Ederer / Malone / Mills / Gold / Hill / Kordik): Widdershins (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $16.95 In Stock To celebrate drummer/percussionist Eddie Prévost's 80th birthday, Café Oto hosted four concerts once a week in June, 2022, each a differing configuration from Prévost's history; this third concert presents combinations of improvisers from Prévost's weekly workshop series through diverse groupings from trio to septet. |
Gargaud, Guillaume: Koenji (Right Brain Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The first release on his new imprint, Right Brain Records, French guitarist Guillaume Gargaud improvises on acoustic guitar on the seven part Kōenji, a district in Japan known for its temple and falconry, here envisioned through creatively dexterous and inventive passages, recorded live in Le Havre, France in the spring of 2023. |
Roll, Kristoff K.: Des Travailleurs de la Nuit, a L'amie des Objets (Metamkine -- France ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock |
Sharp / Lopez / Kaiser / Amendola: Minus X - A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis (Erototox -- USA ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A tribute to the music of composer Iannis Xenakis through 12 new works referencing and reconstructing the original works of Xenakis, the title of each piece an anagram that reflects the elements of its source, realized by Elliott Sharp on bass, guitars & synth, Brandon Lopez on bass guitars and mandocello, Henry Kaiser on guitars and Scott Amendola on drums & percussion. |
Rodrigues / Madeira / Faustino: No Strings Attached (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A deep string trio of two double basses and violin/viola from double bassists Joao Madeira and Hernani Faustino, whose duo albums on the FMR label are under the group name dB Duet, with Creative Sources label leader Ernesto Rodrigues, recording in the studio in Lisbon for 8 succint improvisations and an expanded live version at Cossoul during the 2023 Creative Sources Cycle. |
BERG (Keller / Rodrigues / Okuda / Rodrigues): Mesozoic (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Berlin studio recordings from the free improvising quartet of Beat Keller on feedbacker electric guitar, Ernesto Rodrigues on violin, Rieko Okuda on piano and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello; four string players invoking the reptilian Mesozoic age through unusual approaches to their instruments, extending the palette of each while creating unexpected percussive elements. |
Suspensao (Rodrigues / Torres / Parrinha / Goncalves / Flak / Madeira / Santos / Oliveira): Impromptu (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The Suspensao octet are heard in this live performance at SMUP, in Parede, Portugal in 2023, blending primarily acoustic instruments with electric guitar and analog synth, using a reductionist approach to highly concentrative and suspenseful free improvisation, their long-running collective history allowing an impressive level of articulation and control through the integration of diverse voices. |
Dykstra, Jordan: Stressings (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Exploring diverse landscapes and moments of extreme behavior changes through a single acoustic viola, composed and performed by Jordan Dykstra, in four pieces that vary his approach to the instrument through overlapping tones, drones, extended techniques and rolling cycles, performed in California at the California Institute of the Arts and at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. |
Dykstra, Jordan: A Known Unknown [CDr w/ Score Booklet] (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A fascinating conceptual work on CD and printed score that attempts to sonically represent celestial events through guided improvisations, providing the performers an abstract of the main musical ideas and options on how to execute them, exploring microtonal sounds, harmonic interactions and sound as moments within physical boundaries, here in a studio realization in Zurich. |
Dykstra, Jordan / Brian McOmber: Blow the Man Down (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock A powerful set of succint compositions, themes and sea shanties for the soundtrack for Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole's film Blow the Man Down , scored through the collaboration of composers Jordan Dykstra, who also performs on viola, piano, prepared piano, vibraphone & percussion, and Brian Mcomber, who also performs on keyboards and percussion. |
Dykstra, Jordan: Globes (Original Soundtrack Album) (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock The original score composed by Brooklyn violist and multi-instrumental Jordan Dykstra for the documentary movie Globes directed by Nina de Vroome, exploring the relationship between bees and humans through their history and affect on the global economy and our cultures, realized in a diverse set of contemporary musical forms from orchestral to electronica. |
Pisaro-Liu, Michael / Julia Holter: Tombstones: Live in Brooklyn (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Six songs from Michael Pisaro's "Tombstones" project--experimental songs developed from recontextualized fragments of popular songs--heard in this 2012 Brooklyn recording directed by guitarist Jason Brogan, with Julia Holter (voice), Tucker Dulin (trombone), Andrew Lafkas (bass), Katie Porter (clarinet), Sam Sfirri (piano and melodica), and Ron Wiltrout (keyboard & percussion). |
Dykstra, Jordan: 14 Horse Bells (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Recorded in Brooklyn by Jordan Dykstra performing on viola, electronics, percussion & programming, this is the second release in his subharmonic series "Seeing the Forest in a Tree", exploring one conceptual idea with four radically different realizations through arrangements contrasting the acoustic sources of viola & bells with prepared speakers and sine-tones. |
Evans-Weiler, Morgan: Correspondences (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock The third release in Editions Verde's series "Seeing the Forest in a Tree" are three iterations of interpretations realized by Joseph Clayton Mills, Fraufraulein, and the duo Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer, who were invited to interact with Morgan Evans-Weiler's score intended to be interpreted as both sound and sculpture, presented in three unique sets of recordings. |
Blake, Ran: Horace is Blue: A Silver Noir (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock |
Cage, John: Music Of Changes (1951) (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock "Music of Changes" was composed by John Cage using the hexagrams of the I Ching and has no sense of structure, continuity, rhythm, or speed; change itself is the only consistent aspect of the work. |
Cage, John: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (El Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock |
Cardew, Cornelius: Treatise (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock |
Clusone 3 (Moore / Reijseger / Bennink): Rara Avis (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock |
Clusone 3: Soft Lights And Sweet Music (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Michael Moore, Ernst Reijseger and Han Bennink's excellent Clusone 3 trio in a reissue of their 1993 album playing mostly Irving Berlin compositions. |
Feldman, Morton : For John Cage (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Morton Feldman was a friend, flatmate and student of John Cage's innovative approaches to composition; he wrote this 3 part work for violin and piano in 1982 as a 70th birthday present for Cage, here performed by violinist Josje Fosie Ter Haar and pianist John Snijders. |
Feldman, Morton (Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt): Atlantis (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock A much-needed reissue of this 2000 CD of three orchestral works from late composer Morton Feldman--"String Quartet and Orchestra" (1973), "Oboe and Orchestra" (1976), and "Atlantis" (1959)--demonstrating the evolution of his incredible control in working with tone, mood and instrumental combinations, from his earliest large-scale work to later mature works. |
Feldman, Morton: Violin & String Quartet [2CD] (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock |
Ferrari, Luc: Piano & Percussion Works (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Works for piano, percussion, and one including magnetic bands, from Luc Ferrari, composed between 1956-1988, here performed by pianist Satoko Inoue and percussionist Toshiyuki Matsukua. |
Hauser, Fritz : Laboratorio - Solo Percussion (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Swiss drummer & percussionist Fritz Hauser's solo album creates a fictional percussion center that he uses as as springboard to compose solo works for spaces within the [non-existent] environment, depicted in both spacious and active sound work, generating open-air locations with bird sounds and cymbals and areas of quick-paced activity; absolutely impressive. |
Lacy, Steve : Cliches (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock |
Lake, Oliver Trio: Zaki (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Oliver Lake's 1970's trio live at the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1979 playing all Lake compositions. |
Maneri / Morris / Maneri: Out Right Now (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock |
Melford Trio, Myra: Alive In The House of Saints (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock |
Melford, Myra Extended Ensemble: Even the Sounds Shine (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock |
ROVA (Raskin / Ochs / Voigt / Ackley): Saxophone Diplomacy (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A much needed reissue of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet's historic 1983 tour of Russia, Latvia and Romania, as Jon Raskin on alto, baritone & soprano sax plus clarinet, Andrew Voigt on alto, sopranino & soprano sax + flute, Bruce Ackley on soprano sax & clarinet, and Larry Ochts on tenor & sopranino sax tear apart six incredible multi-reed improvisations; incredible! |
Stockhausen, Karlheinz : Mantra (performed by Mark Knoop, Roderick Chadwick and Newton Armstrong) (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Stockhausen's late 60s composition "Mantra" was a return to his intricately systematised approach to musical construction, expanding the possibilities and potentialities of the serial principle to allow for more melodic and embraceable compositions. |
Tenney, James: Forms 1-4 - In Memoriam Edgar Varese, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman [2 CDs] (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock |
Jimenez, Kenneth / Michael Attias / Francisco Mela: Caribu (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Formed at Michael Attias's Washington Heights, Manhattan apartment by three improv compatriots, the trio of Kenneth Jiminez on bass, Michael Attias on saxophones and Francisco Mela on drums & voice incorporate free and experimental jazz forms with heartfelt tradition, in five collective improvisations captured in the studio, plus Paul Motian's "From Time to Time". |
Melnicove, Joe (feat. George Ganzone / Ben Street / Billy Hart): You Is You (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Jazz flutist and composer Joe Melnicove, Israeli-born and living in NYC, is joined by his mentor George Garzone on tenor & soprano saxophones, Ben Street on bass and Billy Hart on drums, with Jerry Bergonzi joining on piano for one piece, as the band performs a set of lyrical and upbeat Melnicove original compositions along with one from Garzone and one from Liana Catalano-Garzone. |
Butcher, John / Dominic Lash / Emil Karlsen: Here and How (Bead -- UK ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Impeccably recorded in the studio, the long-running and varied collaborations of saxophonist John Butcher, double bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Emil Karlsen come together for the first time as a trio, recording eight succinct improvisations of remarkable technique and nearly telepathic dialog, allowing space for each player to display their masterful skill. |
Dixon, Bill w/ Archie Shepp, 7-Tette and Orchestra: Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Reissuing three essential album from trumpeter Bill Dixon's work in the 60's, first his 1962 album with saxophonist Archie Shepp in configurations of trio & quartet; then Dixon's septet album from 1964 in two compositions; and his orchestra album from 1967, showing the evolution of the trumpeter's work, approach to soloing, and his unique sense of orchestration. |
Evans, Bill Trio: At The Village Vanguard 1961, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Reissuing and remastering two seminal albums on the Riverside label from pianist and composer Bill Evan's trio with double bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian — Sunday At The Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby — yielding jazz standards and helping define the modern jazz trio through impressive technical underpinnings and lyrical sophistication. |
Dunmall, Paul Quartet : World Without (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 Out of Stock Seeking to organize a group of musicians driven by an underlying pulse and a central energy, going beyond the abstract improvisations he has been familiar with for years, saxophonist Paul Dunmall assembled Steven Saunders on guitar, Dave Kane on bass and Miles Levin on drums, achieving these impressive improvisations, captured in the studio in Birmingham. |
Subterrene: The Same Rivers (Poverty Electronics -- USA ) Price: $9.95 Out of Stock Subterrene, aka Grant Stewart, continues his prolific sonic journey through six discrete sound works, deep river immersions of slowly evolving and dovetailing drones of rich, resonant synthetics employing great control and concentration, invoking rich harmonics that shift and subsume in aqueous clouds, each track succinctly exploring new terrains. |
Sanders, Mark / Chris Mapp / Andrew Woodhead: CollapseUncollapse: Time in Images (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Starting as an electric jazz album, the UK trio of Mark Sanders on drums & percussion, Chris Mapp on bass & electronics and Andrew Woodhead on keys & electronics slip into moody and experimental ea-improv territory, fluctuating between acoustic and electronic material of masterful virtuosity, presenting two unconventional solo sections for drummer Sanders along the way. |
Axioms: Meaning And Truth (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Cecil Taylor trio associates, the working duo of poet Jane SpokenWord and bassist Albey onBass, joins the collaborative Boston duo of David Peck on reeds & percussion and Gylnis Lomon on cello and aquasonic, the "Axioms" focusing on statements or propositions that bridge the distance between poetic discussion of truths and abstract musical structures. |
Axioms: Abstract Intensions (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Arranged around the core of bassist Albey onBass and poet Jane SpokenWord, who were a part of Cecil Taylor's final trio, this spoken word, drummer-less ensemble from the Boston-based Axiom collective is a live quartet performance with David Peck on reeds, winds, percussion & electronics, and Glynic Lomon on cello and aquasonic, in an extended, eclectic and electric discourse. |
Expanse: Chromatic Spectrum (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The Boston-based Expanse, inspired by the concepts of space and restraint, configured as a trio in a livestreamed session where Evil Clown stalwart David Peck on clarinets, saxophones, fog horns & percussion is joined by Eric Woods on analog synth & percussion, and Michael Knoblach, who focuses on exotic percussion instruments, for a unique journey in electroacoustic improv. |
Expanse: Swathe (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock After receiving interest in joining the Evil Clown collective from Count Robot and DNA Girl (Deb Angelosanto), and in parallel from guitarist Tim Mungenast, collective director David Peck scheduled a session for this 7th Expanse album, adding drummer Michael Knoblach to complete this quintet configuration of the band's electric-oriented approach to space and restraint. |
Leap Of Faith: Cosmic String Loop (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The core duet from the Leap of Faith Orchestra of David Peck (PEK) on clarinets, saxophones, double reeds & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, are joined by Tom Swafford on violin and Kit Demos on double bass, all performing on the vast collection of percussive instruments in the Evil Clown arsenal, performing transformations across highly varied sonorities. |
Leap Of Faith: Coherent Alternatives (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, double reeds & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, here joined by John Fugarino performing on trumpet, slide valve trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone and leveraging the vast Evil Clown arsenal of percussion devices. |
Leap Of Faith: The Symbolic Method (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The 2nd live performance from the Evil Clown headquarters post-pandemic, in a trio edition of Leap of Faith comprised of David Peck on reeds & winds, Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice and Steve Niemitz on drums, plus an extended encore with 3 strings, reeds, trumpet and drums adding Nate McBride, Eric Rosenthal, Vance Provey and Albey onBass. |
Leap Of Faith: The Energy Of Now (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Reuniting drummer Sydney Smart with Leap of Faith, the core duet from the Leap of Faith Orchestra of cellist Glynis Lomon and reed, wind & percussionist David Peck, in a sextet configuration of theÊBoston collective band with Ellwood Epps on trumpet, Eric Zinman on keyboards, Joel Simches performing real-time signal processing, and Smart on a variety of exotic drums and gongs. |
Leap Of Faith: Transmutations (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Leap of Faith (David Peck on reeds, winds & percussion and Glynis Lomo on cello & aquasonic) are joined by saxophonist Bonnie Kane, former Cecil Taylor bassist Albey onBass, John Loggia on drums, Joel Simches performing real time processing, and in his debut with the Boston collective, Chris Alford on guitar & signal processing, in a dynamic jazz-oriented extended set. |
Leap Of Faith: Time And Symmetry Entwined (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock "Newbie Chris Alford makes his second Evil Clown appearance on this session. He lives in New Orleans, but his wife is originally from the Boston area. They were in town for about a month and Albey onBass reached out asking if he could j... |
Leap Of Faith: Action As Thought, Thought As Action (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock "I met Glynis originally when we both played in the Masashi Harada Sextet... A few months after I arrived in Boston to attend Berklee, I saw Masashi perform with Joe and Matt Maneri and introduced myself afterwards, and the Sextet start... |
Leap Of Faith: Taxonomic Dilemma (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Looking to configure The Leap of Faith ensemble with a 3-horn front line, Boston wind & reed player and Evil Clown label leader David Peck recruited John Fugarino to perform on trumpet, slide trumpet & trombone, and surprisingly, Japanese pianist Keiichi Hashimoto, who also performs on trumpet, cornet & flugelhorn, with cellist Gylnis Lomon filling out the band for this dynamic, extended set. |
Leap Of Faith: Degrees Of Freedom (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock "Just before the pandemic, Leap of Faith did a performance as a trio with drummer Steve Niemitz at Bonnie Kane's Friday night experience in western Mass. On the bill with us was a stunning solo violin performance by Tom Swafford. As I a... |
Leap Of Faith Chinese Orchestra: Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A unique and fascinating edition of the Leap of Faith Orchestra, bringing special guests Jimmy Zhao, Yazhi Gao, Jiaxin Winky Wan, Ziya Gao, and Jiangcheng Guan performing on Chinese instruments to join with the core duo of David Peck on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, along with percussionist/drummer Michael Knoblach. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Nexus 6 (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock One of Evil Clown's most prolific groupings, Metal Chaos Ensemble was formed in 2015 by David Peck and Yuri Zbitnov as a working project to explore chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments, here in a live performance with real time signal processing by Joel Simches, performed with saxophonist Michael Caglianone, bassist Mike Gruen, analog synthesist Eric Woods and percussionist Steve Niemitz. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: The Korova Milkbar (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock "Over time, MCE has morphed into the most rock-oriented of the Evil Clown Ensembles with a regular sextet line-up and a few subs... Sometimes the band varies a bit, but this time we have all six regulars in attendance. This is the third... |
Perturbations: Deviations Of A System (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Leveraging the real time signal processing of Evil Clown house engineer Joel Simches, this project from the Boston free improving collective centers around reedist & multi-instrumentalist David Peck and Simches, who provides the "perturbations" of each player through his processing, making him the 4th in this quartet with bassist Albey onBass and reedist Michael Caglianone. |
Simulacrum: Reincarnations (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A quartet of collective improvisors focused on the merging of percussion and electronics from the Boston project Simulacrum in an extended transmigration, here with Bob Moores on guitar and synths, former Cecil Taylor bassist Albey onBass, keyboardist Eric Zinman also performing on drum kit, and David Peck on reeds, winds, electronics and percussive devices. |
Simulacrum: Homunculus (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock An offshoot of the Boston collective Evil Clown band, Metal Chaos Ensemble, orchestrated for additional electronics and without a drummer, featuring the three core members from MCE--David Peck on reeds, winds and percussion, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar & electronics--expanded with Albey onBass on bass and moog, Eric Zinman on synth, and Michael Caglianone on reeds. |
Simulcrum: Meditations on Reality (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Simulacrum is an offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble featuring 3 the core members David Peck on reeds & winds, an arsenal of percussive devices & narration, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar, & electronics, joined on this set by Michael Caglione on saxophones, plate gong & spring & chime rod boxes, and Joel Simches providing perturbations. |
Turbulence Orchestra: Wind Shear (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A special edition of the Turbulence wind ensemble, part of the Leap of Faith Orchestra, in a live to 2-track recording with live processing, extending the core group of wind & brass players David Peck, Michael Caglianone, Dennis Livingston, Bob Moores and Duane Reeds with trumpeter John Fugarino and drummer percussionist, who brought flute & sax player Bonnie Kane of WOO fame. |
Turbulence Orchestra: Dynamos (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Turbulence projects are orchestrated for multiple horn players drawn from the Leap of Faith Orchestra, here using David Peck's Broad Palate concept to introduce multiple sonorities, in an octet of four trumpeters (Ellwood Epps, Bob Moores, Vance Provey and John Fugarino), one lower brass (Duane Reed) and three reeds (Peck, Michael Caglianone and Jared Holaday). |
Turbulence Orchestra: Find The Loophole (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The extended horn section from the Boston collective Leap of Faith Orchestra is heard in this ensemble session with reeds and winds from David Peck and Michael Caglianone, and brass from Eric Dahlman, Bob Moores and John Fugarino on trumpets and Duane Reed on double bell euphonium, plus Jared Seabrook on drums and all members performing on the Evil Clown extended percussion arsenal. |
Dorner, Axel / Allemano, Lina: Aphelia (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bringing together two exceptional trumpeters approaching their instruments in innovative ways--Berlin trumpeter Axel Dorner and Toronto trumpeter Lina Alleman--in duos and virtual ensembles, each of the eight improvisations titled for lesser-known, smaller celestial bodies, the album title referring to the furthest distance an object achieves while orbiting the sun. |
Jessen, Kyle: Primitive (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock An album of cathartic release in five solo saxophone improvisations from Omaha, Nebraska reedist Kyle Jessen, aggressive and angst-filled expositions that reflect anger and isolation, but also powerful statements of technical skill and personal expression, from the brutal "Death Trap" to the more introspective explorations of "Poltergeist"; exactingly purgative. |
Nebbia, Camila: Una Ofrenda A La Ausencia (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Working in her native Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Berlin, tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia (Habitable Records) presents sixteen succint, diverse and authoritative solo recordings captured in the studio in Bueno Aires, a mix of assertive harmonic statements and lyrical, often introspective works, at times narrating over her playing or adding effects. |
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Brown, Marion: Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee (remastered)
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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]
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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