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Weston, Matt: Sparky 5 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The 5th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
Knott, Dave: Making Fire With Frogs [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (All The Wow & Twice The Flutter -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Sound artist and electroacoustic improviser Dave Knott (aka Vague Johnson) presenting compositions created from the sounds of frogs, toads, insects, periodic sounds of fire and snapping branches; "a microphone attached to a reed brings the listener to the water's edge of these swampy sounds"; an album to transform your dull room into a swampy wonderland. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Parrinha / Goncalves / Santos: Quelque chose prie la patience des nuages (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Translating loosely to "Something begs the patience of the clouds", the collaborative electroacoustic quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet, Luisa Goncalves on piano and Carlos Santos on electronics present two extended improvisations of tension, masterfully adept technical skill and intensively close listening. |
Lee, Okkyung / Jerome Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy: Two Duos [VINYL] (Otoroku -- UK ) Price: $28.95 Out of Stock Recorded during cellist Okkyung Lee's 2019 residency at OTO Cafe, this album presents two duos: the A side with Jerome Noetinger performing on tapes & electronics, processing Lee's cello live to create a virtual trio of incredible technical skill; the B side with a master of the historic keyboard Ondes Martenot, Nadia Ratsimandresy, in an uncommon dialog of strings and synthetics. |
Isotope Ensemble: Uranium (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Continuing their exploration of isotopes, here focusing on the unstable element Uranium, the Portuguese Isotope Ensemble led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues presents two stunningly detailed concert performances from the 2021 CSFest XV at O'Culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, with some of Europe's leading improvisers taking on U92 in both "Electroacoustic" and "Acoustic" properties. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Carla Santana / Emedio Buchinho / Bruno Parrinha: Distilling Silence (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An immersive album of understated but incredibly detailed free improvisation from the quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet, Emidio Buchinho on electric guitar and Carla Santana on electronics, performing live at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, in Amadora, Portugal for a four part concentration on silence through sound. |
Rodrigues, Guilherme / Dirk Serries: The Sage Flower (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Eleven detailed improvised conversations between Portuguese cellist living in Berlin Guilherme Rodrigues and Belgian guitarist Dirk Serries, employing powerful and unusual techniques on their instruments in dialogs that run the gamut from quiet or abstract interaction to rapid outbursts of challenging intercourse that mesh and diverge in unexpected ways. |
Suspensao : Fluxus (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The sixth release by Creative Sources' detailed electroacoustic improvising group Suspensão led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, with Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Nuno Torres on alto sax, Antonio Chaparreiro on electric guitar, Carlos Santos on computer and Jose Oliveira on percussion & inside piano, is this impressive performance at "Temporada Miso Music 2009" in Lisbon. |
Terrazas, Wilfrido / Mariana Carvalho / Abdul Moimeme : Livro das Grutas (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A uniquely configured electroacoustic trio recording live in the studio in Lisbon in 2018 between Mexican flutist and founding member of the improv collective Generación Espontánea, Wilfrido Terrazas, and Portuguese improvisers Mariana Carvalho on prepared piano and Abdul Moimeme using two electric guitars and objects, balancing introspective moments with periods of uninhibited excitement. |
Barnes / Jerman / Nordwall: The Oortcloud [It Wasn't Until Weeks Later] [VINYL] (STELLAGE -- Russia ) Price: $19.95 In Stock A performance in Gothenburg, Sweden as part of the contemporary acoustic and electronic society Geiger in their monthly public recording "Geiger Sessions", by sound artists Tim Barnes, Jeph Jerman, and Joachim Nordwall, in a concert of rich and highly textured noise, referencing the astronomical Öpik-Oort cloud described by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort. |
XT (Wright / Abbott): Deorlaf X [VINYL] (Otoroku -- UK ) Price: $25.95 In Stock An unusual sax and drum duo from saxophonist Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott, taking recordings from a dozen years of their work together and assembling, mixing and re-recording them into these two impressive works of "mutated multiphonics and triggered percussion" offset with periods of reflection; startling, unexpected, amusing, awe inspiring. |
Neumann / Smith / Graham / Rosenthal / Fujiwara / Ewen : Quartet:Quartet:Trio [2 CDs] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A double album of electroacoustic improv sessions from Sommerville, MA, centered around electronic artist Andrew Neumann on the Buchla Music Easel--a complex additive analogue synth--heard in quartet and trio sessions with Forbes Graham (trumpet), Sandy Ewen (guitar & objects), Junko Fujiwara (cello), Damon Smith (double bass) and Eric Rosenthal (drums & percussion). |
Sanna, Claudio: Compositori Sardi Contemporanei [2 CDs] (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock An astonishingly diverse album of solo piano works performed by pianist and composer Claudio Sanna, performing works from eight Sardinian composers including his own, weaving improvisation, acousmatic & musique concrete elements, turntablism, electronics, inside piano playing, chalk-board writing and more into lyrical and experimental pieces that flow together exquisitely. |
Liberatore, Matteo: Lacquer (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock A series of concise noise explorations from Italian-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist Matteo Liberatore, more typically heard in composed and improv/experimental forms including work with Elliott Sharp & Weasel Walter, here in an assertive album of guitar-driven analog synthesis & noise using unusual structures, alien utterances and intense twists and turns. |
Garcia, Miguel A. / Garazi Navas / Alex Reviriego / Vasco Trilla : Les Capelles (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock The first meeting of the quartet of electronic artist Miguel A. Garcia, accordionist Garazi Navas, double bassist Alex Reviriego and percussionist Vasco Trilla is this live performance at Convent de Sant Agusti, in Barcelona, using the natural resonance of the chapel to influence their introspective interactions of deep bass, evolving tones and mysterious percussive punctuations. |
Motl, Kyle / Carlos Dominguez : Field of Fried Umbrellas [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock An apt title for this collection of improvised works for double bass and feedback mixer between long-time collaborators Kyle Motl and Carlos Domínguez Reinhardt, both members of the band Not the Circus and having previously released the duo album Artabotrys Hexapetalus, this album recorded in 2020 at Rat's Mouth in Florida for five diverse and often abrasive interactions. |
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: $13.95 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. |
Rossetto, Vanessa: The Actress [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 In Stock An unusual narrative of field recordings, electronics and chamber instrumentation from composer Vanessa Rossetto, through two CDs weaving an abstracted and detailed story of recurring motifs, indescribably intertwined with spoken word, equestrian moments, environmental recordings, and melodic progressions of strings and harps; a momentous work of collaged composition. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Nu Ensemble: Hidros 8 Heal (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock A conduction of an absolutely impressive ensemble of free and ea- improvisers on a powerfully diverse journey, from Anna Högberg & Gustafsson on sax, Susana Santos Silva on trumpet, Per-Åke Holmlander on tuba, Hedvig Mollestad on guitar, Dieb13 on turntables, Christof Kurzmann on lloopp & voice, Massimo Pupillo on bass, Gert-Jan Prins on drums & electronics, and Ivar Loe Bjørnstad on drums. |
Gustafsson, Mats / Nu Ensemble: Hidros 8 Heal [VINYL] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $27.95 Out of Stock A conduction of an absolutely impressive ensemble of free and ea- improvisers on a powerfully diverse journey, from Anna Högberg & Gustafsson on sax, Susana Santos Silva on trumpet, Per-Åke Holmlander on tuba, Hedvig Mollestad on guitar, Dieb13 on turntables, Christof Kurzmann on lloopp & voice, Massimo Pupillo on bass, Gert-Jan Prins on drums & electronics, and Ivar Loe Bjørnstad on drums. |
Lehman, Steve / Selebeyone: Xaybu: The Unseen (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An urgent album of modern jazz, underground urban and electronic music, from the international collective of MCs HPrizm (NYC) & Gaston Bandimic (Dakar), saxophonists Steve Lehman (Los Angeles) & Maciek Lasserre (Paris) and drummer Damon Reid, exploring Islamic mysticism of al-Ghaib with the voices of Billy Higgins and Jackie McLean heard throughout the album. |
Zanussi, Per / Vestnorsk Jazzensemble: Li (and the infinite game) (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Powerful, modern jazz from a Norwegian ensemble of cross-genre improvisers, bringing an eclectic mix of jazz, electronic, African & orchestral expression into a series of works by double bassist Per Zanussi that explore the concept of "Li", a neo-Confucian term for fixed and dynamic patterns in nature, expressed through passionate ensemble work and exemplary soloing. |
Dimitriadis / Dorner / Freedman / Parkins / Williams: BeingFive (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Hand selected by Montreal clarinetist Lori Freedman and assembled during a 2022 residency in Berlin, the BeingFive quintet brought together ea-improvisers Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion), Axel Dorner (trumpet), Andrea Parkins (accordion & objects) and Christopher Williams (double bass) for a workshop approach to creating sonic environments of incredible depth and expressiveness. |
Pulverize the Sound (Evans, Peter / Tim Dahl / Mike Pride): Black (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Appropriately recorded at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn, the 3rd release from the NY trio Pulverize the Sound of Peter Evans on trumpet, Tim Dahl on electric bass and Mike Pride on drums & glockenspiel, expands on this 10 year working band's assertive approach to collective free improv, doing so with innovation, breathtaking technical skill and a wide range of mood and texture. |
Almeida, Goncalo: Improvisations on Amplified and Prepared Double Bass (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Performing on double bass, amp and a volume pedal, Gonçalo Almeida (LAMA, Albatre, The Attic) explores new sonic environments and possiblities for the large strings, using feedback that modifies based on the physical location between the amp and the resonator of the double bass, Almeida improvises with bowing strokes, pizzicato and unusual string preparations. |
Bergsten, Thomas: Ganjibiri (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Known for the psychedelic dance band Gunerius & Verdensveven or The Harvey Steel Show, Norwegian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bergsten assembles an ensemble that blurs the lines between long improvisation and psychedelic-spiritual jazz, from freak jams to ECM-like electric beauty, tinged with Captain Beefheart or Faust; difficult to describe, intensely creative. |
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. |
Silva, Susana Santos: All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Aside from her exceptional trumpet work in free improvisation settings, Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos, currently based in Stockholm, is also an electro-acoustic composer, these six compelling compositions merging field recordings--particularly birds, waters and yes, a phone--along with her trumpet playing and Irish flute, the album title a reference to John Cage's book Silence. |
Hautzinger, Franz / Eric Normand : Unbelievably Late (Tour de Bras / Inexhaustible Editions -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Having originally met in 2016 when Viennese trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and Quebec electric bassist Éric Normand formed Torche! with Michel F Cote, Philippe Lauzier and Xavier Charles, the two improvisers developed this collage during the pandemic from asynchronous recordings, creating six dramatic and explorative compositions of incredible and unusual technique. |
Odd Person: Myths of the Crystal Plateau [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Nonlocal Research -- Chile ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock A mesmerizing album of rich percussion and synthetic sound floors from Odd Person, aka August Treager (Bicephalic, Somnaphon), in seven trance-like compositions based around grooves that slowly evolve in character while accompanied by haunting asides of ghostly melodic figures, casting a decidedly world music flavor to original music that transcends location. |
Anderson, Fortner: Solitary Pleasures (&Records -- Canada ) Price: $11.50 In Stock The 35 poems found on Fortner Anderson's "Solitary Pleasures", performed with Michel F Cote, Sam Shalabi and Alexandre St-Onge, speak of the obsessions, phantasies and encounters of Anderson's life. |
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. |
Banabila, Michel: Wah-Wah Whispers [VINYL] (Bureau B -- Germany ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock A collection of compositions drawn from recent works by Michel Banabila, the composer performing alongside artists Rutger Zuydervelt, Yuko Parris, ok Van Vuuren and all n4tural, showcasing his flexibility in developing a variety of works that include cinematic sweeps, ambient/fourth world, sound and noise, and rhythm-based and synthetic. |
Belleli, Avi: Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder (Ad Hoc Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Blonk, Jaap : Polyphtong (Kontrans -- Netherlands ) Price: $15.00 Out of Stock An amazing album of vocal utterance and layered sound from Dutch improviser and experimenter Jaap Blonk, using spatial placement and movement extended by electronic means to focus on phonetic concepts, particularly the diphtong and approximant. |
Davies, Rhodri : Transversal Time (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Assigning different times systems--standard time, decimal and hex time--to different musicians, harpist Rhodri Davies develops an electroacoustic improvisational environment of unusual perception and sensation, performed live in Cardiff in 2018 with Ryoko Akama, Sara Hughes, Sofia Jernberg, Pia Palme, Andre Parkinson, Lucy Railton, Pat Thomas, & Dafne Vicente. |
de Leon, Mario Diaz: Enter Houses Of (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock NY composer Mario Diaz de Leon, who is influenced by Scelsi, Ligeti, Dumitrescu & Radulescu, focuses on acoustic & electronic hybrids that often fuse both elements into unified meta-instruments. |
Degrassi, Franco: rage (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Acousmatic work from electronic composer Degrassi: two serial pieces using algorithmic software, an elabration of recorded sounds, and an improvisation using real-time synthesizers. |
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. |
Duplant, Bruno : Chamber and Field Works 2015-2017 [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock A double CD of delicate music from the French composer Bruno Duplant, the first disc containing three chamber pieces exquisitely played by the Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble, the second disc a long piece for solo guitar, performed by Taku Sugimoto in a public park in Tokyo, incorporating an extraordinary variety of environmental sounds. |
Eastley, Max / Fergus Kelly / Mark Wastell: The Map Is Not The Territory (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The 8th release on Confront's Core series of factory-pressed CDs brings together improvisers Max Eastley, Fergus Kelly and Mark Wastell, employing electroacoustic devices, invented instruments, metal percussion, a piano frame and tam tam to create a rich and mysterious sound world, darkly hopeful emanations in a nighttime traversal across unknown lands. |
Emulsion: Blue Sky Objective (Lens Records -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock |
Fega, Roberto: Un Geco Nella Mia Casa (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Electronic improvisations from Formian reed & electronics artist Fega, a member of Taxonomy with Elio Martusciello, as well as IATO and IXEM, Pangolino Orchestra, &c. |
Fenaison: Plat (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Mixing backgrounds from impprov, electronics, composition, noise & contemporary performance, Fenaison explore texturally driven dynamic improvisations. |
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. |
Frith, Fred: Impur (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock |
Ganga, Arvind / Riccardo Marogna: Ballads From The Wrecked Ship (A New Wave of Jazz -- Belgium ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock A uniquely voiced duo album from Netherlands improvisers, electric guitarist Arvind Ganga and sax & bass clarinetist Riccardo Marogna also performing on electronics, taking their dialog into unusual territory while maintaining a clear thread on jazz-influenced modes, creating an exotic combination that often takes unexpected narrative turns; fascinating. |
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. |
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. |
Heumen, Robert van : Fury (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Dutch improviser van Heumen (N Collective, OfficeR, &c.) in a dynamic and shifting solo work of laptop electronics, noise textures, and text. |
I.P.Y. (Ikue Mori / Phew / YoshimiO): IPY (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $10.65 In Stock Bringing together three Japanese avant experimenters and improvisers — Ikue Mori (DNA, Downtown NY mainstay), YoshimiO (Boredoms, Saicobab and OOIOO) and Phew (Aunt Sally) — for a live performance at U.F.O. Club, in Tokyo in 2019, blurring the edges of experimentation, improvisation, and rock, an exciting and powerful first meeting for this trio. |
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. |
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.. |
Jones, JC: Myelination (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Bassist J.C. Jones brings together science & music, enabling an evocative window into the illness MS by making the vibrations of myelin protein audible, over which Jones, Yoni Silver, Harold Rubin, Airel Shibolet, &c. improvise. |
Kasyansky, Grundik: Light and Roundchair (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
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. |
Labbe, Pierre : parlures et parjures (Malasartes -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Montreal multi-wind instrumentalist Pierre Labbe (Les Projectionnistes, L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus, Papa Boa) leads an insanely talented and quirky quartet with guitarist Bernard Falaise, drummer Pierre Tanguay, and narrator/storyteller Michel Faubert, creating a captivating album that transcends language in it's superb pacing, development, and artistry. |
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. |
Lucas, Joao: Abstract Mechanics (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Pianist and accordionist Joao Lucas' music for Andresa Soares' choreography "It was a very abstract thing", structured acoustic improvisation with a slight electronic edge. |
Magic I.D., The : till my breath gives out (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Superb 1st erstwhile 'pop' release as only an erstwhile artist could define the term: abstract lower case and perceptive songs with dual clarinets creating harmonic interactions (Kai Fagaschinski & Michael Thieke, aka The International Nothing), guitar & voice from Margareth Kammerer and electronics & vocals from Christoph Kurzmann. |
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. |
Martin, Billy: Illy B Eats, Volume 3 (Amulet -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock |
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. |
Mitchell, Roscoe / Ostravaska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (Wide Hive -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock "Distant Radio Transmission" was originally recorded as an improvisation by Roscoe Mitchell, Craig Taborn, and Kikanju Baku in 2013, then transcribed by Stephen P. Harvey in 2016, extended for strings by John Ivers in 2017, and then fully orchestrated by Roscoe Mitchell himself in 2017; the album also includes "Noonah Trio", "Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet" and "8/8/88". |
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa : Anatomy of Inner Place (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $11.70 In Stock Organized sound compositions using recordings from Monteiro's home environment, compositing acoustic sound without adding electronic effects processing. |
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. |
Muntzing, Herman: DeConstruCt (10 Solo Pieces) (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
My Fun: Sonorine (The Land Of -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock |
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. |
Namtchylak, Sainkho / Ned Rothenberg / Dieb13: Antiphonen (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock The first meeting for the trio of Tuvan free improvising vocalist & throat singer Sainkho Namtchylak, saxophonist Ned Rothenberg and turntablist Dieb13, captured in performance at Music Unlimited 33, at Alter Schlachthof Wels, Austria in 2019 for 2 improvisations — the 40 minute "Shave and a Haircut" and the 11 minute "Two Bits" — in incredibly creative and formidable music. |
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. |
P-Project (Alexius / Hertenstein / Nies / Grammss / eDincise / SeDincise / Bondi): Gravities (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The electroacoustic improvising quartet of guitarist Peter Alexius, drummer Joe Herteinstein, Joker Nies on raw electronics, and Sebastian Grammss on spacebass, in 9 tracks that run the gamut from groove-based intensity to open dialog using unusual voices. |
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. |
PUNCK (Zanni / Adrianno): A Constant Migration (Between Reality and Fiction) (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Regenorchester XII: Relics (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Franz Hautzinger formed the orchestra in 1995 as an ensemble for experimental music, developing into an advanced improvising band that incorporates a shifting and diverse set of styles, heard here at Klangspuren Festival in 2019 with Hautzinger on trumpet, Christian Fennesz on guitar & laptop, Otomo Yoshihide on guitar & turntables, Luc Ex on bass, and Tony Buck on drums. |
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. |
Rowe, Keith / Nakamura, Toshi / Lehn, Thomas / Schmickler, Marcus: Erstwhile Live 002 (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock |
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. |
Scarassatti / Filho / Bomfim: Sonax (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Working in an AMM vein, Sonax uses a mixture of self-made instruments, sound sculpture and live electronics to create otherworldly improvisation environments. |
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. |
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