Documenting the expansive collective practice of the French improvising ensemble Le UN across three CDs recorded between 2021 and 2022, this large-scale set brings together 25 performers working in shifting formations through free improv unconstrained by score or direction, exploring acoustics, public spaces, environmental interaction, and richly textural electro-acoustic interplay.

Bassist Pascal Niggenkemper leads Ensemble Tuvalu in an immersive CD+DVD work inspired by the climate-threatened Pacific island nation, uniting brass, reeds, accordions, strings, voices, and resonant sound installations in a genre-crossing meditation on ecology, displacement, and community, with the audience surrounded by the ensemble in performance and the DVD capturing a live concert realization.

Gathering seven horn players, bass, percussion, electronics, with real-time signal processing, David Peck's Turbulence Orchestra delivers a large-ensemble free improv performance balancing dense brass and reed eruptions with richly varied percussion, electronics, and found-sound textures, evolving through steadily transforming sonorities and broad-spectrum collective interplay.

Bringing together poetry, theater, and expansive orchestral jazz, composer and pianist Mike Westbrook leads a remarkable 16-piece ensemble through a sweeping work for jazz orchestra where the vocal artistry of Phil Minton and Kate Westbrook intertwines with richly textured brass, reeds, and improvisation to evoke procession, memory, mortality, and the transformative power of collective expression.

Drawing musicians from across the Northeast, the 30-member Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units — directed by PEK — convenes for a sprawling 2-disc session of conducted large-ensemble free improv, first presenting six compact sub-unit improvisations before merging into a sweeping hour-long orchestral performance of shifting instrumentations, graphic cues, and evolving textures.

Neurodivergent Orchestra's tenth exploration of Evil Clown's absurdist concept expands its improvised spoken interplay into a four-part exchange, setting disaster-movie and pop-culture mayhem amid a sprawling arsenal of reeds, brass, electronics, percussion, strings, synths, toys, real-time processing, and invented textures for an unusually theatrical form of pure improvisation.

Collecting fourteen "Five Minute Shorties" from as many Evil Clown albums recorded between July and December 2025, this seventh volume offers a compact sampler of the label's broad-palette improvisation, presenting twenty musicians across nine modular ensembles in concise works of reeds, brass, strings, electronics, bass, percussion, and emergent form.

Presenting four recent works by James M. Creed performed by Standard Issue, To Your Ear Collective and Outline Ensemble, this debut on Another Timbre explores sparse notation, instrumental doubling, fragile homophony and gently shimmering ensemble textures, as overlapping groups of young UK experimental musicians sustain music of quiet uncertainty, collective attention and delicate, slowly forming resonance.

Composer Sylvia Lim's quietly individualistic chamber works explore fragility, decay and timbral richness across solo, duo, trio and small ensemble settings, using prepared cello, resonant piano, clarinets, percussion and guitars to let intimate gestures, unstable sounds and microscopic details slowly unfold into hushed, tactile sound worlds.

Klaus Lang's chamber works for Apartment House trace a patient, inwardly focused music of sustained tones, structural clarity and lyrical restraint, drawing from Pre-Raphaelite poetry, Basho's autumnal imagery and Keats' epitaph as clarinets, strings, piano and electric organ reveal slowly shifting architectures where beauty, stillness and sound become forms of quiet protest.

Expanding Matthias Muche's BONECRUSHER into a 12-trombone ensemble with Etienne Nillesen on extended snare drum, this powerful ezz-thetics release explores the trombone as a massive yet highly detailed acoustic organism, moving between composition and improvisation through crackling chords, microtonal pressure, resonant overtones, dense brass clouds and fiercely sculpted collective sound.

Gathering 45 small-group recordings from 1924-1928, this restored 2-CD reference traces Bix Beiderbecke's singular cornet and piano artistry alongside Frankie Trumbauer, Miff Mole, Don Murray, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti and others, revealing a poised, lyrical and formally lucid voice whose economy, harmonic curiosity and graceful invention helped shape early jazz beyond its dance-band conventions.

A family-centered +DOG+ vinyl release led by Steve Davis with Lob Instagon, Edward Giles, Mackenzie Kourie, Chuck Foster, Bobby Almon and Jack Szymczak, shaping eleven compact pieces of experimental noise, drone, abrasion and collage into a reflective sequence where harsh electronics meet themes of memory, witness, animals, forgiveness, hope, and everyday love.

Basya Schechter's Pharaoh's Daughter transforms the Biblical Song of Songs into an expansive multilingual cycle of sacred love and earthly desire, sung in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic, Spanish and French, with oud, guitar, ney, qanun, saz, trumpet, violin, bass, keyboards, percussion and layered voices shaping an 18-year project of devotion, sensuality and pan-Mediterranean resonance.

Lob Instagon gathers poems, sound art, loops and live Instagon recordings into a headphone-minded collage of spoken word, outsider blues, experimental jazz fragments and noise texture, with Lob's compositions and performances joined by Dan Shinder, Rooster Sanchez, Lattney Brian Jones, Mingus Murado and Ruben Riera in a rough-edged, playful document of Thee Instagon Foundation's ongoing creative magick.

Basya Schechter's Pharaoh's Daughter transforms the Biblical Song of Songs into an expansive multilingual cycle of sacred love and earthly desire, sung in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic, Spanish and French, with oud, guitar, ney, qanun, saz, trumpet, violin, bass, keyboards, percussion and layered voices shaping an 18-year project of devotion, sensuality and pan-Mediterranean resonance.

A legendary 1940 live document of Duke Ellington's Blanton-Webster orchestra, captured in Fargo by Jack Towers and Richard Burris, with Ellington on piano, Johnny Hodges and Otto Hardwick on alto saxophones, Ben Webster on tenor, Harry Carney on baritone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance and Wallace Jones in the brass, Jimmy Blanton on bass, Sonny Greer on drums, and Ivie Anderson and Herb Jeffries on vocals.

A tender, dreamlike collaboration between Stefano Pilia on guitars and Oliver Mann on vocals, expanded with Mick Turner's guitar, Zona MC's vocals and lyrics, and brass from Christopher Grace on trumpet, Freya Hombergen on horn and Jackson Bankovic on trombone, shaping nine intimate pieces where electro-acoustic texture, art-song fragility and experimental folk merge in a quiet meditation on friendship, memory and distance.

Bringing together Swiss-German trio DDK — Jacques Demierre on piano, Axel Dorner on trumpet, and Jonas Kocher on accordion — with Quebec's large improvising ensemble Le GGRIL, this expansive collaboration uses the ensemble as living material for a collective work of juxtaposition, superposition, sonic individuality, and shared compositional energy across a broad electroacoustic terrain.

Quebec trio Dionee creates an expansive, cinematic sound from Clarisse Beriault's oboe, acoustic bass and effects, Eric Normand's electric bass, beatbox and oscillators, and Robin Servant's diatonic accordion and synthesizers, layering chamber lyricism, heavy pulses, post-rock clarity and fragmented electroacoustic textures across two extended works of orchestral scope.

A rediscovered 2014 live recording captures Satoko Fujii leading a specially assembled Bielefeld orchestra of professionals and young regional musicians through her monumental Shiki and works by Andreas Kaling, Natsuki Tamura, Luise Volkmann, and Fujii, blending conduction, written structure, collective improvisation, electronics, dual drums, and volatile large-ensemble energy.

The first volume in an ongoing collaboration between composers Kenneth Kirschner and Joseph Branciforte, this work explores the application of software-based compositional techniques — including algorithmic processes, generative systems, and indeterminacy — performed in a superb ensemble including members of Flux Quartet and International Contemporary Ensemble.

The Norwegian big band Trondheim Jazz Orchestra joins together with the Swedish-origin trio The MaXx (Oscar Gronberg-keyboards, Petter Kraft-guitar & saxophone, Tomas Jarmy-drums) to develop and perform this monumental work of modern electric jazz, an abstract rock opera written specifically to leverage the power of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

Gathering seven horn players, bass, percussion, electronics, with real-time signal processing, David Peck's Turbulence Orchestra delivers a large-ensemble free improv performance balancing dense brass and reed eruptions with richly varied percussion, electronics, and found-sound textures, evolving through steadily transforming sonorities and broad-spectrum collective interplay.

Bringing together poetry, theater, and expansive orchestral jazz, composer and pianist Mike Westbrook leads a remarkable 16-piece ensemble through a sweeping work for jazz orchestra where the vocal artistry of Phil Minton and Kate Westbrook intertwines with richly textured brass, reeds, and improvisation to evoke procession, memory, mortality, and the transformative power of collective expression.

Lob Instagon gathers poems, sound art, loops and live Instagon recordings into a headphone-minded collage of spoken word, outsider blues, experimental jazz fragments and noise texture, with Lob's compositions and performances joined by Dan Shinder, Rooster Sanchez, Lattney Brian Jones, Mingus Murado and Ruben Riera in a rough-edged, playful document of Thee Instagon Foundation's ongoing creative magick.

Expanse Percussion Edition assembles 10 improvisers for a long-form work balancing reeds, brass, fretless bass, electronics, drum sets, membrane percussion, and an immense array of auxiliary instruments, using rapid doubling and constant instrumental changes to create organic transformations through shifting densities, layered rhythms, broad contrasts, and continuously evolving electroacoustic sonorities.

Composer Alexandre David brings together Quatuor Bozzini, Plaisirs du clavecin, Orchestre de l'Agora, conductor Nicolas Ellis, and Innu poet and vocalist Natasha Kanape Fontaine in 3 works that balance concentrated string writing, voice & text, and vivid orchestral color, reflecting David's fascination with sonority, collaborative creation, and the transformation of personal musical memories.

Blending spoken word, modern classical strings, and harsh modular synths, Belgian/Dutch ensemble Sopa Boba crafts a striking electronic-orchestral oratorio based on Moldavian writer Nicoleta Esinencu's That Moment, unraveling a dark, satirical narrative of capitalist excess through seven gripping movements that merge caustic irony with haunting sonic textures.