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Nebbia, Camila (feat/ Marilyn Crispell / Lesley Mok): A Reflection Distorts Over Water [CD + DOWNLOA
Nebbia, Camila (feat/ Marilyn Crispell / Lesley Mok):
A Reflection Distorts Over Water [CD + DOWNLOAD]

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


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Recorded at Nevessa Studio in New York, Camila Nebbia joins Marilyn Crispell and Lesley Mok in a fiercely intuitive trio session blending open scores and full improvisation, where elastic group interplay, textural sensitivity, and eruptive momentum allow the music to breathe as a single organism while leaving space for sharply defined individual voices to emerge.

Parkins, Zeena: Lament For The Maker [CD + DOWNLOAD]
Parkins, Zeena:
Lament For The Maker [CD + DOWNLOAD]

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


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Marking the closing of Mills College and the end of Zeena Parkins' long association with its experimental community, this solo release presents three commissioned works alongside the ongoing acoustic piece berlin bedroom, unfolding a deeply reflective exploration of harp and electronics that honors artistic lineage, collective devotion, and the Bay Area's enduring spirit of experimental music-making.

Vanheerentals, Adia: Taking Place [CD + DOWNLOAD]
Vanheerentals, Adia:
Taking Place [CD + DOWNLOAD]

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


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Asked to rethink the solo sax format, Adia Vanheerentals transforms this release into a series of site-responsive improvisations, engaging the soprano sax in active dialogue with surrounding environments — echoing spaces, incidental sounds, and ambient noise — using extended techniques, breath & texture to shape concise statements where location is a partner in an open improvisational framework.

Tsahar, Assif: Ayn Le-Any
Tsahar, Assif:
Ayn Le-Any

(Hopscotch Records -- USA )


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Label founder and New York Downtown saxophonist in a solo album of free improvisations with Tsahar's particularly lyrical and honest approach to the horn.

Otherlands Trio (Crump / Jones / McPherson): Star Mountain
Otherlands Trio (Crump / Jones / McPherson):
Star Mountain

(Intakt -- Switzerland )


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Uniting bassist Stephan Crump, drummer Eric McPherson with alto saxophonist Darius Jones, this trio channels a deeply connected improvisational language built on evolving vamps, elastic grooves, and shared momentum, as Jones's emotionally direct alto moves freely through shifting forms shaped by trust, vulnerability, and a collective pursuit of intensity without hierarchy or hesitation.

Wooley, Nate: A Fine Rain Anoints The Canal Machinery
Wooley, Nate:
A Fine Rain Anoints The Canal Machinery

(Discreet Archive -- UK )


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In a subtly detailed journey, Nate Wooley layers field recordings, trumpet, piano, sine tones, whistling, and bodily sound into a stark, reflective work that probes the uneasy coexistence of nature, machinery, and human presence, shaping a quietly political soundscape in which environmental detail, isolation, and mechanical intrusion collide in fragile, contrapuntal tension.

Eventless Plot: Unlearning Noise
Eventless Plot:
Unlearning Noise

(Discreet Archive -- UK )


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Blending field recordings, percussion, tapes, and modular synthesis with Marina Katsarou's voice and text and Eva Matsigou's flute, Eventless Plot reshape urban sound into a finely detailed electroacoustic work that invites listeners to reconsider noise as a living, expressive presence, revealing the shifting textures, hidden meanings, and poetic potential embedded within the everyday sonic fabric of the city.

Dresser, Mark & Denman Maroney: Live in Concert
Dresser, Mark & Denman Maroney:
Live in Concert

(Kadima -- Israel )


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The duo of Denman Maroney on prepared piano and Mark Dresser on contrabass at the 2008 Vision Festival in NYC, and at the Storefront Theater, Chicago in 2001.

Dresser, Mark: Sonic Brotherhood: DTFP by Five - Israel 2009
Dresser, Mark:
Sonic Brotherhood: DTFP by Five - Israel 2009

(Kadima -- Israel )


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Kadima's and Dresser's beautiful Deep Tones for Peace project, bringing bass players together to perform live at remote locations, here in configurations from solo to a 5 bass ensemble.

Fennesz: Venice 20 (20th Anniversary Edition)
Fennesz:
Venice 20 (20th Anniversary Edition)

(Touch -- UK )


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20th anniversary reissue of Fennesz's 2004 release Venice, as a deluxe version remastered by Denis Blackham, with new and extra tracks not on the previous CD or vinyl versions, in a DVD-format with a booklet of texts by Fennesz, Denis Blackham, and Jon Wozencroft, photographs from the 2004 sessions, and David Sylvian's original handwritten lyrics for "Transit."

Golia / Phillips / Leandre / Turetzky / Mezzacappa: The Ethnic Project
Golia / Phillips / Leandre / Turetzky / Mezzacappa:
The Ethnic Project

(Kadima -- Israel )


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Multi-reedist Vinny Golia playing ethnic woodwinds including danso, kaval, moxeneo, marori bone flute, &c. in a series of duets with Barre Phillips, Joelle Leandre, Bert Turetzky, and Lisa Mezzacappa.

Kowald / Golia: Mythology
Kowald / Golia:
Mythology

(Kadima -- Israel )


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Studio recordings from the late innovative bassist Peter Kowald and multi-wind phenomenon Vinny Golia, with both performers changing instruments for each improvisation.

Leandre & Cappozzo: Live aux Instants Chaivres` Monreuil
Leandre & Cappozzo:
Live aux Instants Chaivres` Monreuil

(Kadima -- Israel )


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Bassist Joelle Leandre and Globe Unity Orchestra trumpeter Cappozzo performed these spontaneous and insightful dialogs live at Instants Chavires early in 2009.

Leandre, Joelle and Barre Phillips: A L'Improviste
Leandre, Joelle and Barre Phillips:
A L'Improviste

(Kadima -- Israel )


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Beautifully recorded and packaged duo of these two great bassists and improvisers performing live at Radio France for Anne Montaron's radio show.

Rothenberg / Jauniaux / Phillips: While You Were Out
Rothenberg / Jauniaux / Phillips:
While You Were Out

(Kadima -- Italy )


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A fantastic trio of multi-reed and shakuhachi player Ned Rothenberg, avant vocalist Catherine Jauniaux, and bassist Barre Phillips recorded live in France, 2008.

Sun Ra: Disco 3000
Sun Ra:
Disco 3000

(Art Yard -- Great Britain )


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Sun Ra's highly sought after 1978 small ensemble live recording from Milan, originally released on his Saturn label.

Fortrexx: Breathless
Fortrexx:
Breathless

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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Under the Fortrexx moniker, Squidco's own Phil Zampino, aka CHANGES TO blind, shapes field recordings, samples, and electronics into subliminal sonic environments that drift and mutate beneath conscious attention, forming enveloping sound tapestries that fill silence without intrusion and function fluidly at low or high volume for contemplation, altered states, or quiet immersion.

La Casa, Eric / Seijiro Murayama: Paris Public Spaces 2
La Casa, Eric / Seijiro Murayama:
Paris Public Spaces 2

(Swarming -- France )


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Recorded across various public spaces in Paris, this collaborative work extends the practice of Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama as they document subtle vocal interventions and field recordings that explore attentive listening, bodily presence, and sonic autonomy, positioning sound-making as a quiet, animist act of witness within complex urban environments.

Haeun, Joo: Just Gravity
Haeun, Joo:
Just Gravity

(577 Records -- USA )


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Balancing structure and spontaneity, pianist Haeun Joo presents an intimate and searching debut that moves between lyrical solo piano improvisations and sensitively interactive trio pieces with bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Steven Crammer, capturing music made fully in the moment with clarity, restraint, and a quietly compelling sense of forward motion.



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