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Kubo, Tomomi / Camila Nebbia : Polycephaly [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Amongst the most unique of early electronic music instruments, the Ondes Martenot is heard in six duo recordings performed at the Barcelona studio of Spanish Ondiste, Tomomi Kubo, in conversation with tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia, both using loop pedals and Nebbia adding her voice at times, creating otherworldly and unconventional interactions of free improv. |
Chang, Leo / Lucie Vitkova: Religion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Unusually orchestrated, spacious and exotic free improvisation from New York-based musicians Lucie Vítková, originally from Czech Republic and performing on accordion, hichiriki (a Japanese double reed flute), synth & harmonica, and Korean-born improviser Leo Chang performing on VOCALNORI (Amplified Gongs via Voice) and Piri (a Korean double reed instrument). |
de Asis, Clara / Ryoko Akama: Sisbiosis (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Engrossing interactions of electronic sound, abstract percussion, static, metallic ringing and other ephemeral sonic assertions, from French-based Spanish sound artist Clara de Asís and UK-based Japanese-Korean installation & sound artist Ryoko Akama: three tracks of live electroacoustic improvisation, and three compositions extracted from those sessions. |
Freedman, Lori / Scott Thomson: Amber (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Collaborators in Montreal projects including Ensemble Supermusique and Ratchet Orchestra, bass clarinetist Lori Freedman (Queen Mab Trio) and trombonist Scott Thomson (Monicker) have also worked as a duo for more than 15 years, starting with the Barnyard Record album Plumb, their long history allowing flexibility in unusual dialog and utterance that captivates naturally. |
Mattrey, Joanna / Gabby Fluke-Mogul: Oracle (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Performing on viola, violin and a stroh (a string instrument mechanically amplified by a metal resonator and horn attached to its body) the NY duo of Joanna Mattrey and Gabby Fluke-Mogul present eight dialogs of ominous and prophetic divination, titles including "The Vision", "The Potion" or "The Omen", as they weave and tear at their strings in startling and impressive ways. |
Sakata, Akira / Takeo Moriyama: Mitochondria [VINYL 2 LPs] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $38.95 In Stock An absolutely intense sax & drum duo recorded in Chiba Prefecture, Japan at Kashiwa Church in 1986 between free improvising saxophonist Akira Sakata and drummer Takeo Moriyama, two influential performers whose work began in the Yosuke Yamashita Trio in the early 70's, here in concentrated form for 18 improvisations, including a burning version of Albert Ayler's "Ghosts". |
Mcphee, Joe & Chris Corsano: Scraps and Shadows [VINYL] (Roaratorio -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The second release from the duo of Joe McPhee and Chris Corsano, seven pieces from ballads to combustible free playing in an album dedicated to Fred Anderson, Paul Flaherty, Han Bennink, Kidd Jordan, &c. |
Taylor, Cecil / Tony Oxley: Birdland / Neuburg 2011 (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Performing in the intimacy of the Birdland Jazz Club in 2011, New York innovative pianist Cecil Taylor met with London free jazz legendary percussionist and long-time associate in The Feel Trio, Tony Oxley, Taylor's rapid often percussive approach to the keys pairing with Oxley's percussive work, and both invoking lyrical beauty from the other. |
Morris, Joe / Jeremy Brown: Magnitude (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock While in Calgary as a Killam Visiting Scholar, guitarist Joe Morris worked with multi-wind player and professor Jeremy Brown, whose solo work impressed Morris so much that they began performing regularly as a duo, deciding to rehearse and record this remarkable series of improvised duos that Morris describes as unique to his catalog, something conversationally precise and organic. |
Shipp, Matthew / Mark Helias: The New Syntax (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Bringing decades of experience from far-reaching careers as leaders and in collaboration with some of the most luminary improvisers in creative jazz, this first meeting between bassist Mark Helias and pianist Matthew Shipp evokes nine inspired dialogs from two consequentially compatible jazz musicians, beautifully captured in the warmth of the Park West Studios in Brooklyn. |
Deane, J.A. / Jason Kao Hwang: Uncharted Faith (Tone Science Music -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The final collaboration of innovative electronic artist J.A. Deane, working remotely with violinist Jason Kao Hwang who sent Deane improvised solo acoustic violin recordings that Deane edited into 57 gestures, mapping them to a keyboard and creating six tracks of morphed electronics which Hwang improvised over with an electric violin to complete this unique and fascinating album. |
Zorn, John: The Hermetic Organ Vol. 10 - Bozar, Brussels [CD + DVD] (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock A combination CD and DVD of John Zorn's improvisation on the powerful organ at Henri LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels in a dramatic musical reading of the epic Faust legend, performed with classical soprano vocalist Barbara Hannigan, who improvises with Zorn for the first time, the film allowing listeners to view Zorn's unusual keyboard techniques in close proximity. |
Reid, Tomeka / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Eight Pieces for Two Cellos [VINYL] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $21.95 In Stock Two Chicago improvising cellists--Tomeka Reid & Fred Lonberg-Holm--explore the repertoire for cello music in jazz, presenting works by Fred Katz ("Pluck It"), Sam Jones ("In Walked Ray"), Ron Carter ("Rally") and Harry Babsin ("Monti-Cello"), adding 3 new, original works by Fred Lonberg-Holm and a piece by Tomeka Reid paying homage to bassist Charles Mingus & violinist Billy Bang. |
Bishop / Karayorgis / Smith: Duals [3 CDs] (Driff Records -- USA ) Price: $24.95 In Stock Three albums of three duos between three frequent Boston collaborators and improvisers -- Jeb Bishop on trombone, Pandelis Karayorgis on piano and Damon Smith on double bass -- each CD respectively a combination of trombone & bass, piano & bass and piano & trombone, each recorded during the last year of Jeb Bishop's residency in Boston between 2016-2022. |
Berne, Tim / Matt Mitchell: One More, Please (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Leveraging more than a decade of collaboration, New York saxophonist Tim Berne and pianist Matt Mitchell present an intimate live concert in Montreal at Club Soda, performing mostly Berne compositions and one by Julius Hemphill ("Number 2") in a thoughtful and innately lyrical set of seemingly telepathic dialogs interpreting Berne's intricate and innovative works. |
Draksler, Kaja / Susana Santos Silva: Grow (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock A series of spontaneous converstations captured live at the 2021 Copenhagen Jazz Festival at KoncertKirken, the second duo album between trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and pianist Kaja Draksler, using extraordinary and extended techniques to create lovely rolling textures or spacious sonic environments, passing between moods and approaches in natural and captivating ways. |
Houle, Francois / Joe Sorbara: Hush (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock With masterful technique and remarkable creative drive, the Canadian duo of clarinetist François Houle and Joe Sorbara explore unorthodox sound worlds through microtones, pad percussives, circular breathing to stretch phrasing, Houle taking apart his instrument to affect tone and pitch, and Sorbara using idiosyncratic percussive instruments including "back porch piano guts". |
Johnson, Evan: L' Art De Toucher (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Five works from US composer often based in Amsterdam, Evan Johnson, in solo, duo and trio settings including a triptych titled "L'art de toucher" in three configurations, demonstrating his unique approach to writing using disparate musical influences from modern to Baroque, mated to anarchic experimentalism and a Wandelweiser sensibility; fascinating! |
Banabila, Michel: Wah-Wah Whispers (Bureau B -- Germany ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Dutch composer Michel Banabila amalgamates genres, using acoustic and electronics elements to serve his work, here in 8 recent pieces that blend electronica, world forms and soundscape in sophisticated ways, with vocal samples from all n4tural and Yuko Parris, guitar from Cok Van Vuuren, and a collaborative composition with Machinefabriek/Rutger Zuydervelt. |
Centazzo, Andrea / Elisabeth Harnik: Duophonic Landscape (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Recorded in a winery in Gorizia, Italy, in 2019, Austrian based pianist and composer Elisabeth Harnik, who works in both composed and improvised music, joined with Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and Ictus label leader Andrea Centazzo to perform this series of creative and authoritative "Duophonic Landscapes". |
Chadbourne, Eugene / Duck Baker / Randy Hutton : The Guitar Trio In Calgary 1977 (Emanem -- UK ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A concert recording from 1977 in Calgary, CA captured during Eugene Chadbourne's time in Canada prior to his move to NYC, from the guitar trio of Duck Baker, Randy Hutton & Eugene Chadbourne, performing on acoustic guitars, using a variety of approaches to improvising in trio, duo and solo configurations, with original work, an Ornette Coleman mashup, and a piece by Charlie Haden. |
Draper, Dave / Ntshuks Bonga: Snow in November (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Using alto & soprano sax, guitar, live sampling, looping and synths, Ntshuks Bonga and Dave Draper use traditional approaches to instrumental dialog, amplified and modified by the reintroduction of live interactive sound. |
Dymny Trilla: Cave Canem (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Intricate and exciting improvisation from Barcelona improvisers Michal Dymny on electric guitar and Vasca Trilla on drums, with saxophonist Paulina Owczarek as a special guest; "cave canem" translates to "beware of dog", an apt description of their cutting interactions. |
Erosonic: Mystery Theatre (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock |
Flunger, Elisabeth / Tomas Tello: Labor (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Electricity and metal trash object meet in a banging and sparking session of minimal improvisation from percussionist Elisabeth Flunger and electronic artist Tomas Tello. |
Frostlake: Ice & Bone (Discus -- UK ) Price: $10.00 In Stock The second album from multi-instrumentalist Frostlake (Jan Todd, also of Orchestra of The Upper Atmosphere), hallucinatory songs of layered vocals accompanied by the creative bass of Terry Todd, for rich atmospheres with warm instrumentation augmented by field recordings; absorbing music that draws its listeners into their beautiful, psychedelic dream states. |
Gartmayer, Susanna / Christoph Kurzmann: Smaller Sad (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock The first meeting between the Austrian duo of bass clarinetist Susanna Gartmayer and Christof Kurzmann, here using ppool software, voice and rubber band, creating 4 elusive and immersive works that float somewhere in the void between experimental electronics, improvisation and song, creating diaphanous tension and mysterious environments; spellbinding. |
Giving Shapes, The (Robyn Jacob & Elisa Thorn): Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Nine song pieces for piano, harp, and vocal by The Giving Shapes, a Vancouver-based collaborative project between harpist/vocalist Elisa Thorn and pianist/vocalist Robyn Jacob, lovely pieces that weave their two voices with two compatibly yet uniquely timbred strings, merging contemporary popular forms with modern compositional music. |
Gronvold, Daniel / Havard Volden: (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Volden and Gronvold are two Oslo-based improvising acoustic tabletop guitarists whose work focuses on textures and timing creating large and impressionistic soundscapes. |
Hansen, Mike & Tomasz Krakowiak: Relay (Spool -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Influenced by experimental and electroacoustic practices, Hansen & Krakowiak attack and disseminate turntables and percussion through improvisations built on layers of sound and interpolated instrumentation. |
Inclusion Principle (Perez / Archer): The Leaf Factory Fallback (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The duo of Herve Perez (Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, AXIS) and Discus label leader Martin Archer, both saxophonists and sound artists using a collection of software instruments, organs, computer instruments and field recordings in a live-in-the-studio recording of remarkable electroacoustic performance, blurring free jazz and abstract sound in fascinating ways. |
Jackson, Keefe / Jason Adasiewicz: Rows And Rows (Delmark -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock An inventive and lyrical set of duos between Chicago tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist Keefe Jackson and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, nine concise pieces that blend free improvisation with compositions seamlessly in a really delightful duo. |
Jackson, Keefe / Jason Adasiewicz: Rows And Rows [VINYL] (Delmark -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An inventive and lyrical set of duos between Chicago tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist Keefe Jackson and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, nine concise pieces that blend free improvisation with compositions seamlessly in a really delightful duo. |
Johannesen / Furu: The Eco Logic (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Guitarist Kim Johannesen and clarinetist Svein Magus Furu in a set of works with interacting tonalities that rely almost completely on texture, tones, scraping, &c.. |
Kolkowski, Aleks & Ute Wassermann: Squall Line (psi -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A quirky and fascinating duo of unusual instrumentation from Ute Wasserman's voice & whistles, and Aleks Kokowski on stroh instrumements (viola, violin), noseflute, bird calls, musical saw, &c.. |
La Casa, Eric / Taku Unami: Parazoan Mapping (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Using "recordings" and "devices", this is the first release from the long-standing collaboration of Eric La Casa and Taku Umani, 15 untitled tracks of curious and subtly discursive sound work recorded in a diverse set of locations. |
Lambkin, Graham / Taku Unami: The Whistler [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Sound artists Graham Lambkin and Taku Unami create two large works using material which they recorded together, and then which independently assembled into a single CD each, with "Whistler Vanishes in Wind" composed by Taku Unami, and "Small Mistakes in Nature" by Graham Lambkin, both fascinating collages that alternately distract and absorb the listener. |
Larsen, Stian / Jorn Erik Ahlsen: Kook (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Kook is the duo of Norweigan guitarists Stian Larsen and Erik Ahlsen creating a series of improvised soundscapes using their guitars and live electronics; absorbing music of unusual tone, texture, and direction. |
Maguire, Phil / James L. Malone: Working Title (Confront -- UK ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Phil Maguire (Verz label) exchanges abstract electronics from a variety of lo-fi devices with glitch and aberrant guitarist James L. Malone, a London improviser who has worked with Eddie Prevost, Phil Durrant, Steve Beresford and Adam Bohman, as the two trade strange sonic disruptions, avoiding pandemonium, instead using noise in pointed discourse. |
Malfatti, Radu / Taku Unami: (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Performed as part of the AMPLIFY 2011 festival at The Stone in NYC, the duo of trombonist Radu Malfatti and electronic/visual artist Taku Unami presented this long, minimal and dramatic soundwork in a pitch-black room lit only by Unami's visuals. |
Minton, Phil / Dieb13: With, Without (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Combining concerts from a number of festivals and venues between 2009 & 2017, this album presents the best of the collaboration between London free improvising vocalist Phil Minton and Austrian turntablist and experimenter Dieb13, each of them masterfully unleashed in overwhelmingly creative, outlandish, sometimes frightening/sometimes uproarious, truly unique music. |
Morris, Joe / Agusti Fernandez: Ambrosia (Riti Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A state-of-the-art duo recording from two remarkable improvisers bridging New York and Spain - guitarist Joe Morris and pianist Agusti Fernandez - performing "Ambrosia" in 6 parts. |
Mouri, Katsura / Tim Olive: Various Histories (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock The first release from the duo of Katsura Mouri and Tim Olive was recorded near Kyoto on a sweltering summer day in 2010, heard in these gritty and rich ea-improv pieces from Tim Olive on pickups and metals, and Mouri on turntables. |
Naka, Takuji / Tim Olive: The New Attractive (EM Records -- Japan ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock The magnetic heads on Takuji Naka's cassette decks and Tim Olive's magnetic pickups explain The New "Attractive" aspect of the title, as this duo use pliable metals, analog electronics and a battered spring reverb unit to create a unique journey in sound. |
Noble, Steve / Daniel Thompson: Sunday Afternoon (Live At The Hundred Years Gallery) (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A recording of two London based improvisers of different generations communing in the resonant surroundings of the 100 Years Gallery, with drummer Noble creating glittering bell and gong like tones over which guitar Thompson hangs fractured harmonics and strange bending chords. |
Oceans of Silver & Blood: Oceans of Silver & Blood (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The debut release of the duo of Joachim Nordwall on modular synth and Mark Wastell on tam tam performing two tonal drones that blends rich cymbal sonics entwined with dark, slowly evolving synthetics. |
Olive / Owen (Tim Olive / Ben Owen): 63-66 (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock Recording in Brooklyn in 2014, this collaboration between Olive and Ben Owen presents four tracks of electronic improvisation using shortwave radio, oscillators, paper, contact microphones and magnetic pickups, creating a mysterious and well-paced album of sound experimentation. |
Palier, Agnes / Toulemonde, Olivier: Rocca (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Parkins, Zeena / Jeff Kolar: Scale [VINYL] (Two Rooms Records -- USA ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Commissioned by choreographer Jennifer Monson, the collaboration of Downtown NY electric harpist and sound artist Zeena Parkins and Chicago sound artist Jeff Kolar explore the intersection of acoustic phenonema against electronic, synthetic & radio sounds, inspired by the timing of natural phenomena like ocean currents and daylight emergence; fascinating. |
Pozzer, Federico : Breaths (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $11.50 Out of Stock Three works from Italian composer and pianist Federico Pozzer in his "breathing" series, compositions where the musicians follow the concept of inhaling, exhaling, and pausing, set against certain fixed actions or interactions as they devise their own musical actions, the goal to overcome both the players' freedom in decision-making and strictness in the score. |
Pride, Mike / Jonatha Moritz: The Invitation [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Editions -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock The long collaboration between saxophonist Mike Pride and drummer/percussionist Jonathan Moritz is concentrated in these superb studio recording, bring great clarity to the far-ranging and detailed interactions both bring to their improvisations through unusual technique, an expansive arsenal of percussive devices, and wonderfully inventive attitudes. |
Rempis / Daisy Duo, The: Second Spring (Aerophonic -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Since 1997 drummer Tim Daisy and saxophonist Dave Rempis have worked together as part of the vital Chicago improvising scene, heard here in these superb duo sessions of great technical, musical, and inventive skills. |
Robinson, Perry / Andrea Centazzo: The Journey (Ictus -- Italy ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock In the spring of 2015 multi-reedist and wind player Perry Robinson travelled to Southern California for a series of concerts, recording this duo with Italian percussionist living on the US West Coast Andrea Centazzo, a free and open session with Robison on clarinet, micro ocarina & bird calls, and Centazzo also using a MalletKat & sampling. |
Ry-om (Ikeshiro / Shelton): III (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Ry-om is a london-based duo creating improvised experimental electronic music, noise and acoustic soundscapes using laptops, guitars, feedback loops, synths, instrumental samples and vocals. |
Sangtae, Jin / Tim Olive: naar/voor (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock Recording in Kobe, Japan in 2014, the duo of Jin Sangtae, organizer of Seoul's long-running dotolim concert series and who gainfully employs cast-off computer hard drives as sound sources, and Tim Olive, who uses electro-magnetic pickups to give voice to consumer/post-consumer objects, for three tracks of recycled and unorthodox sound. |
Schick, Ignaz / Dawid Szczesny: The View Underneath (Non Visual Objects (NVO) -- Austria ) Price: $20.95 Out of Stock Turntablist/sine wave artist Ignaz Schnick with laptop artist Dawid Szczesny in a series of minimalist recordings created around live performances in Wroclaw and Germany. |
Schiller, Christoph / Morgan Evans-Weiler: Spinet & Violin (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock An extended improvisation between spinet player Christoph Schiller and Boston-based composer/violinist Morgan Evans-Weiler, recorded in Schiller's workshop in Basel during Evans-Weiler's tour of Europe, a slowly moving exploration of pitch, timbre and texture executed with intensive concentration and utterly impressive control. |
Schliemann, Wolfgang / Vorveld, Michael: alle neune: rheinländer partie (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Schlippenbach, Alexander Von & Eddie Prevost: Blackheath (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Pianist von Schlippenbach and drummer Eddie Prevost on an album of two solo works each, and then together for a piece inspired by Thelonius Monk. |
Seeded Plain: Bryan Day & Jay Kremer: entry codes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Seeded Plain is the duo of Bryan Day and Jay Kreimer, who create homemade instruments and use them to create far-ranging improvisations with a unique set of timbres and percussive elements. |
Smart, Shirley / James Arben: Entanglement: 9 Improvised Dialogues (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock UK sax and wind player James Arben and cellist Shirley Smart explore the possibilities of chamber-oriented free improvisation through a series of dialogues of harmonic, rhythmic and timbral tension and resolution, created from bold experimental playing techniques and melodic discourse that draws on influences from jazz to Middle Eastern, folk and contemporary music. |
Solal, Claudia / Benoit Delbecq: Hope Town (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock French vocalist Claudia Solal provides the lyrics--sung-spoken narratives, prose and poetic forms--performed with pianist Benoit Delbecq, who uses internal preparations and a variety of creative approaches to keys, both intricate and melodic, setting the fascinating and insightful stories that Solal spiels; a wonderful union of instrument and word. |
Spontaneous Music Orchestra: For You To Share (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Concert and studio recordings of peace music organised by John Stevens for himself and Trevor Watts with numerous workshop musicians and audience people on saxophones, percussion and voices mostly contributing a flexible drone. |
Taus (Klaus Filip & Tim Blechmann): Pinna (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An improvisation for two laptop computers performed by Tim Blechmann and Klaus Filip, recorded live in Vienna at "neue musik in st ruprecht", 2010, contrasting minimal tones with massive bass rumble and frothing frequencies. |
Tilbury, John / Eddie Prevost: Discrete Moments (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock |
Turkoz, Saadet / Elliott Sharp : Kumuska (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Distilling their larger group work on albums "Kumuska" and "Marmara Sea" to the duo of creative New York bass clarinetist & guitarist Elliott Sharp, and Bosporus vocalist Saadet Turkoz, whose free improvisation is influenced by European, Indian, Asian, jazz & blues forms, in an album of 9 songs about the familiar focused through a world view. |
Twins of El Dorado: [portend the end] (Prom Night Records -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Twins of El Dorado is NY trumpeter Joe Moffett (Ad Faunum, Inzinzac) in a duo with jazz vocalist Kristin Slipp (Art Bears Songbook) performing original work and a text setting by composer Wes Matthews. |
Urpeth, Peter / Maggie Nicols: Other Worlds (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Originally developed for the soundtrack to Sean Martin and Louise Milnes 2011 documentary, "A Boat Retold", vocalist Maggie Nichols and pianist Peter Urpeth revisited the material for album release, creating this wonderful pair of extemporaneous, otherworldly narratives. |
Chaton, Anne James & Andy Moor: Le Journaliste (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Part of a series of 100 portraits in sound iniated by Anne James Chaton, a journey into the texts and columns of newspapaper and radio broadcasts of a single journalist. |
Curran, Alvin / Jon Rose: Cafe Grand Abyss (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Two masterful, virtuosic and inquiring musicians--Alvin Curran on piano, sampler & shofar, and Jon Rose on violins, 6-string drain pipe and singing saw--in an incredible album of improvisation that seems to know no boundary, farcically claiming to be revisiting their earliest experiences in cocktail club bands, but instead shredding the concept with breakneck speed and surprise; wow! |
Davies, Rhodri / John Butcher: Routing Lynn (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Chris Watson recorded John Butcher on acoustic & amplified sax and Rhodri Davies on acoustic & electric harp in Routing Lynn in Northumberland, then joined them live at a festival in Gateshead where the duo played alongside Watson's reworked recordings. |
Gjerstad, Frode / Luis Conte: Mirrors Edges (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Two reed players, Frode Gjerstad from Norway and Luis Conte from Buenos Aires, in studio recordings of improvised interactions using unusual and extended techniques through eleven short and incisive tracks. |
Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Seijiro Murayama: Window Dressing (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Four recordings of subtle improvisation for saxophone & percussion, recorded for Radio Nationale Slovene in Ljubljana, and in the library of Jean-Paul Manganaro, Paris. |
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. |
McLean, Colin & Andy Moor: Everything But the Beginning (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The 1st release from Andy Moor & Colin McLean since they disbanded Dog Faced Hermans 13 years ago, 3 years of live improvisations from Amsterdam's OT 301's Music Dance 301 sessions. |
Oberg, Uwe / Silke Eberhardt: Turns (Leo Records -- UK ) Price: $15.45 Out of Stock Playful, joyful and absolutely commanding performances from the duo of German pianist Uwe Oberg and Silke Eberhard on alto sax and clarinet, performing both live and in the studio on original compositions and pieces by Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, and Annette Peacock. |
Ochs-Robinson Duo: A Civil Right (ESP-Disk -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Coming out of the tradition of saxophone and drum duos, Bay Area compatriots since 1991 in The Glenn Spearman Double Trio and Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core, saxophonist Larry Ochs and drummer Don Robinson, present their second album of creative original improvised music, employing energetic and intelligent approaches to jazz freedom that pay homage to those who came before them. |
Wolff, Christian / String Noise: A Complete Anthology of Solo and Duo Violin Pieces (Black Truffle -- Australia ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Following their album of compositions by Alvin Lucier, the New York violin duo String Noise of Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris present a series of solo and duo compositions by American avant composer Christian Wolff, a peer of Brown, Cage, and Feldman from the New York School, works composed across the span of his career through a wealth of concepts and motives. |
Bailey, Derek / Charlie Morrow & Friends: New York 1982 [VINYL] (Recital -- USA ) Price: $29.95 In Stock Recorded in 1982 during a series of extraordinary free improv concerts by guitarist Derek Bailey and trumpeter Charlie Marrow, performing in configurations from solo to full septet with performers from NY's "New Wilderness" collective: percussionist Glen Velez, saxophonist & sound poet Steve McCaffery, trumpeter Carol E. Tuynman, saxophonist Patricia Burgess and trumpeter Michael Snow. |
Illusion Of Safety & Z'ev : Illusion Of Safety & Z'ev [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tribe Tapes -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock After the collaboration of Illusion of Safety and Z'EV which culminated in a performance at Enemy in Chicago in 2007, Z'EV approached IOS member Daniel Burke to collaborate on an album, providing Burke with a number of short acoustic recordings which Burke developed into these compositions merging his own field recordings, sampling, electro-acoustics, and Eurorack modular synth. |
Brotzmann, Peter / Han Bennink: Schwarzwaldfahrt [CD + BOOK] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $46.95 In Stock Expanding on their 1977 FMP album of open-air improvisations by Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink, recording in the Black Forest of Baden-Wurttemberg using wind instruments & percussion, the ambiance of birds and planes, water, drums from logs, &c.; an idiosyncratic and wonderful album of free possibilities, now paired with a book of photos from their excursion. |
Gut, Gudrun / Nathan Wooley / Chris Corsano: The Painter [VINYL] (JUBG -- Germany ) Price: $34.95 In Stock The soundtrack to the German film The Painter by director Oliver Hirschbiegel in collaboration with Oliver Hirschbiegel, the first side a diverse set of compositions from electronic musician Gudrun Gut, a one-time member of Einstürzende Neubauten; the second side a set of assertive acoustic improvisations from trumpeter Nate Wooley, alone or in duo with drummer Chris Corsano. |
Millar, E / Christof Kurzmann: Rare Entertainment (Mystery & Wonder -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The first meeting of Austrian improviser Christof Kurzmann (The Magic I.D., Schee) and Montreal sound artist Elizabeth Millar (Sound of the Mountain, Ensemble Supermusique) in two tremendous multi-part performances live at the 2019 Suoni Per il Popolo Festival in Montreal, works of mysteriously vibratory backdrop, insinuating narrative voice and unsettling sonic interaction. |
Dagg, Henry / Evan Parker: Then Through Now (False Walls -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Dublin sound inventor Henry Dagg joins soprano saxophonist Evan Parker for a live concert in Canterbury: fourteen vignettes of electro-acoustic interaction using Dagg's "Stage Cage"--valve test-oscillators, ring modulators, frequency shifter, chromatic zither, and a variable tape delay system--to both generate sound and to transform Parker's improvisations in incredible ways. |
McPhee, Joe / John Edwards: Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (for James Baldwin And John Coltrane) (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $18.95 In Stock The incredible first meeting between legendary saxophonist Joe McPhee and double bassist John Edwards is this performance at the 2019 Artacts festival in Austria, a powerfully reflective free jazz concert with McPhee speaking & preaching about the loss of giants John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and James Baldwin, as they stand upon their shoulders through free music. |
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