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.

Published on the occasion of Birgit Ulher's exhibition Split Friction at Errant Sound in Berlin from November 24-26, 2023, an interdisciplinary project spanning the intersection between exhibition, video, performance, concert and sound installation, documented in this 96 page full-color book with images from the installation, graphic scores, and essays in English & German.

Eccentric and engrossing electroacoustic improvisation between Jason Kahn on electronics and Ulrich Krieger using his "acoustic electronic" reed setup, performing on tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet, and the 15th century double reed crumhorn, processed through his amplification system to create exotic textures and expressions; a truly unique set of dialogs.

Formed from an unexpected shift in personnel, this agile quartet channels a tightly honed horn section, layered electronics, and Joel Simches' real-time signal processing into a richly textured free improv set, where fluid interplay and rapid adaptation drive an evolving, high-density sonic environment shaped by both precision and spontaneity.

Emerging from a shifting lineup, this iteration of the ensemble trades its usual rock-driven intensity for a more restrained, electroacoustic chamber feel, as layered horns, dense metallic percussion, and evolving electronics intertwine with spoken narration, shaping a fluid free improv performance that navigates a wide spectrum of textures and timbral transformations.

Blending a core duet with an expanded ensemble, this richly orchestrated free improv performance weaves three-horn front lines with contrasting string approaches, dense percussion, and a vast electroacoustic palette, unfolding as a continuous transformation of texture and form where acoustic interplay and subtle signal processing shape an immersive, multidimensional sonic environment.

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.

A first-meeting trio of Teresa Hackel on recorders and voice, Stefan Strasser on piano and synth, and Mia Zabelka on violin, voice and electronics, recorded live in Cologne for Strasser's 60th birthday, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, strings, keys, electronics and vocal resonance merge into a patient, tactile field of discovery, response, and newly formed collective language.

Recorded live in Krailing near Munich in December 2024, German multi-reedist Udo Schindler and pianist Uwe Oberg engage in a dynamic duo of free improv, moving from hushed chamber-like exchanges to dense, animated dialogues as Schindler's clarinets and alto flute weave intricate lines through Oberg's resonant piano textures in a richly interactive exploration of timbre, space, and spontaneous form.

Recorded live in Munich in December 2024, this trio performance brings together Udo Schindler, bassist Paul Rogers, and sound-builder Ardhi Engl in an expansive LowTone Studies session where shifting instrumental roles, theatrical interplay, and esoteric timbral variety generate a richly dynamic music rooted in transition, texture, and collective exploration.

German reedist Udo Schindler (tenor saxophone, clarinet, piccolo flute, cornet) joins guitarist and electronics performer Andreas Willers for an exploratory duo session of free improvisation, blending extended reed techniques with prepared and processed electric guitar, the pair shaping evolving textures, subtle gestures, and dense timbral exchanges through attentive listening and spontaneous interaction.

Portuguese improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues and son Guilherme Rodrigues juxtapose a live Berlin performance with field recordings from Pico Island in a quietly probing duo set where viola, cello, crackle box, and environmental sound blend in austere, texture-driven improvisations that move between subtle acoustic detail and atmospheric ambiguity.

Recorded in Berlin in 2022, this quartet of violin, flute/bass clarinet, alto saxophone, percussion, and cello unfolds a restrained improvisation focused on fragile textures, breath-driven tones, and microtonal tension, as shifting timbres and sparse gestures accumulate into a patient, weathered soundscape shaped by decay, resonance, and collective listening.

Emerging from Ernesto Rodrigues' post-Cage investigations, this quintet with Jung-Jae Kim, Guilherme Rodrigues, Eric Bauer, and Stephen Flinn shapes sparse, deeply relational music where strings, winds, electronics, and percussion hover in spectral balance, forming a quiet "ghost dance" of held tones and subtle motion that blurs interior and exterior spaces while sculpting time through restraint and resonance.

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.

The fifth in bassist, guitarist and Kadima label-leader JC Jones "Distance Series", works assembled through virtual sessions with associated artists, Jones performing on Spanish guitar which he plays as a lap guitar, on Nucleous creating a set of five unusual vocal works with internationally reknown vocalists Meira Asher, Esti Kenan-Ofri, Anat Pick and Josef Sprinzak.

After riding through his city of Zurich to the Kunstraum Walcheturm studio in 2020, Jason Kahn was struck by the quiet aspects of the usually busy city, now quelled by pandemic; entering the studio feeling the desolation and strange sense of peacefulness in the midst of so much tragedy and suffering, he recorded these "songs" of passionate free vocal improvisations and acoustic guitar.

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.

Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition.

"Sekstet is comprised of musicians with backgrounds ranging from a host of anomalies of contemporary music, jazz, noise and improv.

"I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent...

Leap of Faith's core duo of David Peck on reeds, electronics, strings, percussion, and invented instruments with Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic, voice, and percussion expands to an eight-piece Evil Clown Orchestra with brass, reeds, guitar, bass, drums, electronics, and real-time processing, creating a high-energy improvisation of horn frenzy, dense counterpoint, shifting sonorities, and collective transformation.

"Jeux de mains, a striking new album from acclaimed double bassist Joelle Leandre and inventive composer-performer Remy Belanger de Beauport, arrives as a vivid exploration of spontaneous musical conversation. Recorded with immediacy an...

"While the night weeps For its forgotten stars A thousand suns shine before us We follow them; they blind us It is sweet"-Virginie Reid

"With Dans-sons as we are, Audrey Lauro, Christian Pruvost and Peter Orins deliver an album shaped by subtle shifts, restrained tensions and slow transformations of sound matter. A music of listening as much as gesture, where each inter...

Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

Formed from the evolving duo of electric guitarist Pawel Doskocz and drummer Vasco Trilla and expanded in 2023 with flutist Zofia Ilnicka, Hajstra creates a responsive trio language of free improvisation, drones, ambient collage, extended instrumental technique, and richly shifting soundscapes, where each gesture is transformed into fluid, abstract narrative.

"Blending the lyricism of chamber music, the raw sounds of punk or metal, post-rock clarity, and the abstraction of electroacoustic music, Dion�e offers a unique, cinematic musical journey. With "Mille-feuilles"", the trio — featuring...

Changing approaches to his music with new quartet of Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Alan Silva on double bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums, pianist Cecil Taylor's incredible 1966 concert in Paris presented four extended compositions, here remastered and reissued with a track from a compilation LP--"With (Exit)"--extending his quartet with Bill Dixon on trumpet and Henry Grimes on double bass.

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.

Bringing Michael Marcus' reeds and tarogato into a quartet with pianist Rod Williams, bassist Ricky Rodriguez, and drummer Allan Mednard, this ESP-Disk release extends Marcus' post-bop and avant-jazz language through compositions shaped by funky Monk-like angles, tight rhythmic interplay, lyrical woodwind clarity, and the seasoned drive of players versed in blues, free jazz, and modern creative music.

A limited artist-released solo guitar recording from Henry Kaiser on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harp guitar, and seven guitars laid across a table, presenting concise to medium-length explorations of resonance, distortion, extended-string sonority, tabletop texture, and improvisational invention from one of creative music's most idiosyncratic and restless guitarists.

Joining Dave Rempis on saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums with bassist Luke Stewart, this live Ballister performance from Roulette expands the trio's ferocious long-running rapport into a dense, high-velocity quartet, Stewart locking with Nilssen-Love in elastic propulsion as cello and saxophone surge through explosive, telepathic collective improvisation.

Longtime collaborators Aaron Russell and Sandy Ewen reunite on guitar and electronics for four works recorded between 2019 and 2025, merging abstract guitar approaches through synthesized drones, processed sound, feedback, and warm hypnotic fields, their distinct palettes unfolding in deftly paced textures that balance intimacy, resonance, and exploratory electronic abrasion.

Drawing on drone, ambient sound, and free improvisation, guitarist/electronics player Nils Wohlrabe joins Karin Johansson on piano, prepared piano, and toy piano, with Hasse Westling on double bass, shaping electronically processed ocean waves, resonant strings, and acoustic depth into an unpredictable, atmospheric soundscape of pulsing motion, shifting timbre, and expansive, wave-like momentum.

Bringing together Greg Kelley's extended-technique trumpet with Yoona Kim's non-traditional approach to the ajaeng, this Boston duo explores breath, bow, friction, resonance, and near-silence through taut improvisations where fragile tones, coarse strings, microscopic air bursts, and sudden ruptures forge a focused, unpredictable shared language.

An intense Argentine free-improvising trio of Luciana Bass on guitar, Ezekiel Jaime on electric bass, and Federico Isasti on drums, shaping spontaneous forms from brittle textures, distorted low-end resonance, scattered rhythmic detail, and explosive collective energy, moving between sparse tension and combustible interaction in a fearless session of attentive, unstable, and deeply physical sound.

A fierce studio document from the Japanese free-improvising trio of Makoto Kawashima on alto saxophone, Louis Inage on bass, and Naoto Yamagishi on drums and percussion, moving through charged silences, abrasive eruptions, fractured melody, dark bass resonance, and scattered percussive force in a raw, intuitive exchange rooted in underground intensity and collective risk.

A fierce, spontaneous duo of Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone and Chris Corsano on drums, recorded in Berlin in 2025, merging Nebbia's searching lines, breath-driven textures and unstable lyricism with Corsano's explosive, highly detailed percussion language, moving between delicate abrasion, surging intensity, fragmented melody and raw improvised exchange.

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.

Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

Led by Franz Koglmann's cool-toned trumpet and flugelhorn with Michael Mautner's motifs and electronics, Vienna FLAMMeS joins Lukas Schiske, Andreas Donhauser, Silvia Deixler, Max Buhlmann, and Josef Ka in a post-jazz sound world of fractured grooves, Canterbury echoes, reed color, guitar abrasion, spoken elements, and egalitarian improvisation shaped by Viennese modernism and collective risk.

A restored edition of Tony Williams Lifetime's incendiary 1969 trio debut with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young on organ, documenting one of jazz-rock fusion's earliest and most audacious statements, where Williams' radical rhythmic designs, Young's dense harmonic force, and McLaughlin's searing electric vocabulary collide in urgent, psychedelic, genre-defying improvisation.

A solo work from Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence, performing on piano with preparations and percussion across 16 wholly improvised pieces that expand the instrument beyond the keyboard, using accidents, texture, resonance and spatial detail as compositional forces in a deeply personal exploration of sound, perception and the piano's boundless acoustic possibilities.

A tactile 12-part acoustic-object improvisation from Jeph Jerman and Ted Byrnes, using kalimba, snares, bells, broken cymbal, cans, concrete floor, pinecones, bowls, pot lids, water, hands and other found or homemade materials to build a restless sound world of rustle, scrape, metallic resonance, loose pulse and strange-beat movement, extending Jerman's found-sound practice through Byrnes' free percussion language.

A long-overdue first sole-leader album from drummer Charles Downs, formerly Rashid Bakr, bringing his deep history with Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, Other Dimensions in Music, and the New York avant-garde into a collective quartet with Hery Paz on saxophone, Jamie Saft on piano, and Joe Morris on bass for five improvisations of fire, lyricism, angular reflection, and seasoned rapport.

Returning to a stripped-down free-blowing setting, Paul Dunmall leads a responsive group with Corey Mwamba on vibraphone, Steven Saunders on electric guitar, Dave Kane on double bass, Miles Levin on drums and Xhosa Cole guesting on flute and piccolo, creating five incisive yet finely detailed improvisations of saxophone fire, resonant texture, electric abrasion and collective momentum.

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.

The first duo recording from tenor saxophonists Tom Challenger and Evan Parker, captured at Arco Barco in Ramsgate and later resequenced into six sections, reveals two deeply attuned improvisers using shared instrumental language to question control, memory, silence and exchange, expanding the sound of two tenors into a shifting field of breath, resonance, overlap and acoustic invention.

The sixth entry in Ivo Perelman's expanding Duologues series, and the sixth album in Squidco's digital label Squid Note Records, pairs his searching tenor saxophone with Damon Smith's commanding double bass, a freely improvised exchange of raw physical immediacy and deep listening, where intertwining lines, extended techniques and spontaneous form turn dialogue itself into the core of the music.

An electroacoustic quartet of Phil Durrant on amplified objects and electronics, Jason Kahn on voice, Mark Wastell on percussion, and Caius Williams on double bass, recorded in London in 2025, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, resonance, friction, signal, and acoustic weight interact through restrained intensity, microscopic detail, and unstable collective form.

Austere and intensely focused, this Chilean duo of Benjamin Vergara on trumpet and Eden Carrasco on alto saxophone draws on more than 20 years of collaboration in experimental music, noise, minimalism, free jazz and site-specific performance, shaping four improvisations where breath, timbre, camouflaged melody, droning blues and submerged cool-jazz gestures blur into textured acoustic abstraction

Cornetist Josh Berman's trio with Jason Roebke on bass and Chris Corsano on drums brings Chicago's jazz lineage into sharp contemporary focus, balancing compact composition and expansive interaction through playful, adventurous music that draws on early jazz, AACM-rooted invention, melodic swing, textural abstraction, and volatile rhythmic exchange.

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.

Turbulence closes Evil Clown's prolific 2025 with a broad-palate horn-driven improvisation led by David Peck with key members John Fugarino, Michael Caglianone, Michael Knoblach, Kelsey Gallagher, and Joel Simches, transforming reeds, brass, electronics, synths, found percussion, bells, gongs, toys, and extended objects into a tightly interactive long-form work of shifting sonorities and large-unit invention.

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.

Emerging from a first-time meeting at the 2023 Catalytic Sound Festival in Chicago, pianist Erez Dessel convenes Ben Hall, Fred Jackson Jr., Mai Sugimoto and poet Marvin Tate for a volatile, story-driven set where probing vocals, twin woodwinds, driving drums and insistent piano collide in sharp-edged, quick-turn improvisations that balance chaos, lyricism and collective intensity in a gripping live debut.

Vocalist and composer Anna Gadt joins the Warsaw Cello Quartet in a carefully balanced encounter between composed structure and improvisational expression, where layered cellos and an extended vocal presence explore contrast and convergence through restraint, silence, and a continuously shifting dialogue between sound and abstraction, captured live at Hashtag Lab, in Warszawa.

Recorded solo at Bruschini's Bru Note Studio in NYC (Jan-Feb 2008), this intimate set invites the listener into a "raw state" process of real-time composition, where construction/deconstruction cycles steer the guitar from groove and grit into textural free improv, revealing fresh techniques as motifs mutate, collapse, and re-form.

Cellist Khabat Abas and violist Ivor Kallin engage in a taut, exploratory duo dialogue built from extended techniques, fractured vocalizations, and deliberate use of space, where cantankerous textures, unconventional pacing, and carefully placed silences shape a curiously absorbing improvisation that balances raw intensity with focused restraint.

Captured live in the studio in 1996, this powerful quartet brings Daniel Carter on saxophones, flute and trumpet together with Sabir Mateen on saxophones, flute and clarinet, William Parker on bass and Lou Grassi on drums and percussion for three expansive collective improvisations, balancing raw free jazz fire, lyrical exchanges and deep intuition.

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.

Drawing from Evil Clown's ever-evolving Turbulence ensemble, this septet session led by PEK assembles a dense horn front line with an expansive rhythm section, navigating a broad palette of textures through constant instrument shifts, where reeds, brass, electronics, and an array of percussion converge in a richly varied and continuously transforming program of ensemble-driven free improv.

An active trio session at EMPAC from Jonas Braasch on soprano saxophone, Pauline Oliveros on V-accordion, and Doug Van Nort on GREIS electronics engage in a free improv dialog where acoustic, physically modeled, and electronic sound sources continuously merge and diverge, Van Nort's real-time processing reshaping the ensemble's output as Oliveros bends timbral models and Braasch explores extended techniques.

Blending the raw energy of New York's loft jazz lineage with a transatlantic avant-garde sensibility, drummer Sam Ospovat leads a fiery ensemble through polyrhythmic intensity and expansive improvisation, where searing guitars, layered horns, and driving rhythms converge in a volatile and immersive session that channels historical influence into a bold, unfiltered contemporary expression.

After six albums reimagining Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright turn their transformative [Ahmed] project toward Thelonious Monk, atomising his compositions across two CDs into volatile, time-bending forms where piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone fracture and reassemble melody, rhythm and space through free jazz intensity, pulse and radical collective invention.

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.

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.

A site-responsive duo recording from trumpeter Matthew Langford and saxophonist Andrew Weathers, using an emptied pool's reflective acoustics to shape a restrained and textural free improv of breath, resonance, and ambient detail, where sustained tones and environmental sound merge into a focused exploration of space, duration, and the physical limits of performance.

Captured in 1968 in Zurich and long shelved before its recent discovery, this early trio session brings Pierre Favre, Irene Schweizer, and George Mraz together in a concise, fiery set of attentive free jazz, balancing Ornette Coleman's title piece with Schweizer's compositions, where dynamic interplay and acute listening reveal a nascent yet fully engaged collective voice.

Bassist and composer Michael Formanek leads a trans-Atlantic septet with John O'Gallagher, Chet Doxas, Joao Almeida, Mary Halvorson, Alexander Hawkins on Hammond B3 and Tomas Fujiwara, unfolding a bold contemporary jazz architecture where braided horns, off-axis guitar, organ-driven momentum and elastic rhythms move between dense collective force and sharply focused small-group interplay.

The debut solo album from Iranian, Belgium-based clarinetist and improviser Ghazal Faghihi, a cycle of thirteen fully improvised pieces using clarinets, objects, Shruti box and electro-acoustic and interactive electronics to extend the instrument into fragile sound worlds of breath, resonance, texture and silence, moving through uncertainty in a shadowed space between order and chaos.

Swedish clarinetist Christer Bothén joins Quagmire — Nina de Heney on double bass, Karin Johansson on prepared piano, piano and zither, and Henrik Wartel on drums — in a darkly textured free improv session of sculptural interplay, where deep clarinet lines, rumbling bass, metallic percussion and fragmented piano gestures form a shifting landscape of fragile intensity and balanced collective sound.

NYC saxophonist Michael Foster joins Swiss bassist Christian Weber and Berlin drummer Michael Griener for a visceral trio session of free improv charged with noir tension, drawing on American crime novelist David Goodis-inspired titles as the group moves through fractured momentum, suspenseful restraint and explosive exchanges shaped by deep rhythmic instinct and structural awareness.

Marta Warelis leads her first sextet as composer and bandleader in a live Bimhuis performance with Ben LaMar Gay, Ab Baars, Karen Ng, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Frank Rosaly, shaping an energetic, interplay-driven music of multilayered reeds, trumpet electronics, piano, synth, bass and percussion into a joyous exploration of multiphonics, beat frequencies and Warelis' expanding compositional language.

Uniting Federico Reuben's laptop improvisation and live coding with Mark Hanslip's tenor saxophone, Dominic Lash's double bass and Paul Hession's drums, this first meeting of the quartet creates a vivid field of possibility, balancing glitching electronic textures, elegant reed detail, inventive bass work and nuanced rhythmic motion in exploratory free improv.

Italian violinist and viola d'amore explorer Marco Fusi meets Canadian bass guitarist and electronics performer Pierre Alexandre Tremblay in a first free improvisation recorded at Huddersfield, where bowed resonance, baroque memory, electric bass vibration and electronic transformation merge into a tactile electroacoustic dialogue of gesture, space, memory and shifting emotional tension.

A Norwegian quintet led by Håvard Wiik, bringing together Eivind Lønning, Espen Reinertsen, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Hans Hulbækmo in a dynamic set that balances composed structures with free improv, blending post-bop lyricism, intricate ensemble interplay, and spacious, timbre-focused passages into a fluid and contemporary jazz expression.

Returning to Chicago with a fierce solo recital for contrabass saxophone, Jon Irabagon explores the instrument's cavernous depth, reverberant resonance, and agile extremities through unaccompanied improvisations and lesser-known works by Julius Hemphill and Anthony Braxton, revealing both the deep blues gravity and structural ingenuity of their music.

Leading his new quartet Elephant, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill presents a forward-looking jazz session of original compositions that shift fluidly between rhythmic drive and abstraction, where contrasting textures, layered structures, and expressive interplay animate a dynamic ensemble sound shaped by subtle electronic elements and a contemporary, cross-genre sensibility.

Merging solo performances from the US and Italy with fiery duets alongside drummer Hamid Drake at Antwerp's Summer Bummer Festival, guitarist/vocalist Ava Mendoza delivers eight live tracks of charged blues, rock, free improv and psychedelic intensity, her bold electric sound moving from raw riffs and declarative vocals to spiralling abstraction and ego-free guitar heroics.

Joel Futterman and William Parker continue a collaboration of more than forty years in an hour of spontaneous composition, the pianist's heavy, high-energy approach meeting Parker's deeply grounded bass in two extended movements and a brief coda that balance ecstatic force, romantic beauty, collective listening and a rapturous sense of spiritual, improvised communion.

Bridging generations of creative music, pianist Milton Michaeli, double bassist Asaf Shchori, and drummer Hamid Drake form a vividly responsive trio, blending original compositions and improvisation into music shaped by jazz and Latin traditions, deep grooves, bowed textures, lyrical bass movement, spiritual rhythm, and inspirations from Sun Ra and Ras Michael.

Uniting veteran bassist Joe Fonda with German saxophonist Silke Eberhard and Austrian drummer Emil Gross, this collective trio balances lyrical structure, agile free improv, and Dolphy-informed melodic abstraction through elegant and highly responsive interplay, where tightly focused compositions unfold into fluid spontaneous exchanges driven by rhythmic precision, adventurous harmonies, and a vibrant live energy.

Four adventurous Polish vocalists — Anna Gadt, Natalia Kordiak, Marta Grzywacz, and Gosia Zagajewska — join forces with drummer Jim Black for a striking program of collective free improv, where extended vocal techniques, abstract textures, rhythmic interplay, and spontaneous theatrical expression unfold in highly responsive exchanges, balancing primal energy with nuanced sonic exploration.

Captured live at London's The Vortex in 2025, violinist Mandhira de Saram, pianist Steve Beresford, and bassist John Edwards engage in detailed free improv that unfolds with the coherence and clarity of spontaneous composition, balancing chamber-like restraint, abstract textural interplay, lyrical precision, and sharply responsive exchanges in intuitively structured collective dialog.