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Lash, Dominic / Stale Liavik Solberg: Hey Kye (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock John Butcher mastered this live recording immaculately captured by Alex Ward at the Vortex in London in 2022 between two exceptional free improvisers, Dominic Lash on electric guitar and Ståle Liavik Solberg on drums & percussion, their three-part dialog sliding in and out of jazz, non-idiomatic and experimental modes in quick-witted and masterful exchanges. |
Bailey, Derek / Simon H. Fell: At Sound 323 [VINYL 180gm WHITE 2 LPs] (Confront -- UK ) Price: $34.95 In Stock The full performance of legendary improvising guitarist Derek Bailey's 2001 exhilarating duo with bassist Simon H. Fell at Sound 323, originally released as a mini-CD and voted record of the year in 2002 by The Wire, then released on CD and now as a deluxe 2 LP set on 180gm White Vinyl. |
Bazzicalupo, Andrew: The Ball I Threw Has Not Yet Reached The Ground (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Recording in the studio in Nice, France, guitarist Andrea Bazzicalupo's solo album is a collection of pieces, consisting exclusively of improvisations and instant creations, moving between sonic explorations, melodic textures, experimental material and spontaneous compositions, a well-paced collection of introspective and assertive explorations. |
Paquet X Landry: Planter du sel (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Alternating between classical and electric guitars, Pascal Landry and Francois Paquet use a non-traditional broadcast system where the signal from their electric guitars is sent through materials selected by the musicians, creating unique tones and timbres, and providing an interesting visual aspect to their dialogs, captured here in the studio in Beauport, Quebec in 2021. |
Gayle, Phillip: Mammoth Flower [Used Item] (Public Eyesore -- USA ) Price: $9.00 In Stock A psychedelic set of recordings based around the guitar work of Philip Gayle, improvised, recorded, and layered into diverse experiments in sound and performed on banjo, bass, cello, door, guitars, mandolin, percussion, piano, toy piano, voice, ukulele and waterphone, with guests including saxophonist Shogo Ohshima and vocalists Shizka Ueda, Omusubisan and Fuuchan. |
Seeded Plain (Kreimer / Day): Badminton, The Volleys [Used Item] (Public Eyesore -- USA ) Price: $9.00 In Stock With previous albums on Creative Sources, Bug Incision and Eh?, the duo of Jay Kreimer and Public Eyesore label-leader Bryan Day use invented instruments recorded these highly percussive, well-paced and well-recorded improvisations during Kreimer's Fulbright fellowship in India, in Baroda, Hyderabad and Bangalore, the main tracks named for their recording location. |
Wind Tide (Andrew Weathers / Gretchen Korsmo): Blue Breaking Brown [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock One "Small Dog" and one Big from the Texas experimental duo of Andrew Weathers on synth, lap steel, recorder & electronics, and Gretchen Korsmo on voice, keys & percussion, both members of the Full Spectrum Records collective, their confident collaboration morphing drones, sonic deformation, resonance, voice, bells and mysterious sources in two well-paced & passionate sonic journeys. |
Sikora, Catherine / Susan Alcorn: Filament (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The first meeting of tenor saxophonist Catherine Sikora and pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn was at the Zurcher Gallery in New York City in 2022, an inventive dialog of free improvisation split between three "Filaments", their interaction ranging from delicate dialog to asservite discourse in a wonderfully expressive concert of sincere affinity. |
Star City Survivor: Wilderness (Soul City Sounds -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The follow-up to their debut album, Orbital Decay, finds guitarist Phil Venable and drummer Tommy Jackson delving deeper into their free duo referencing free jazz, ambient, no wave, and other forms of experimental and avant-garde music, their often turbulent dialog inspired by a desire to find hope in the world despite a contemporary period of death and injustice. |
Frith, Fred: Guitar Solos/Fifty [VINYL 2 LPs] (Week-End Records -- Germany ) Price: $58.95 In Stock While still a member of Henry Cow, guitarist Fred Frith released his first solo album simply titled Guitar Solos in 1974, a remarkable album of expression through preparations, treatments and effects; 50 years later Frith expands on that album with new compositions using a similar setup as the original, paired in this 2-LP release with the remastered original album. |
Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson: Live / Studio (Bead -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The improvising string duo of stalwart London improvisers, Daniel Thompson on acoustic guitar and Phil Durrant on the octave mandola, are heard in two settings of texturally rich, intricate interactions, first at Cafe OTO in 2022 for an extended improvisation, then at Cable Street Studios two months later for six succint, impressively diverse dialogs. |
Taylor / Serries: Obsidian (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Their familiarity honed from work together in the Impetus Group and in Tonus, viola improviser Benedict Taylor and archtop guitarist Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) are heard in seven free improvisations recorded in 2023 at the Kapel Oude Klooster in Brecht, Belgium, their strings in plucked, bowed and curious consonance through unusual technique and expression. |
Guionnet / La Casa / Samartzis / Warburton: Parking (Collection Paris) (Swarming -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two improvisations by saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet & violinist Dan Warburton recorded in Paris & Melbourne parking garages 14 years apart, registering the behavior and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound within these unique spaces, edited by Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis as a 4-channel master by synchronizing two sets of independent stereo recordings. |
Smith, Wadada Leo / Joe Morris: Earth's Frequencies (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Delicately forceful, the live concert at Real Art Ways, in Hartford, Connecticut as part of the ImprovisatioNOW concert series, is a perfect encounter between two legendary New York improvisers--trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Joe Morris--capturing five dialogs of impressive technique and creative expression, including references to Monk and Ma Rainey. |
Sharp, Elliot: Arbor (zOaR Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A collection of arboreal pieces for solo acoustic guitar--wood transformed into a resonator with the help of metal oscillators and digital manipulation--performed in the studio by NY guitarist and improviser Elliott Sharp, developing the works around trees, "austere and intense", each piece unfolding like delicate branches of acoustic and ethereal framework. |
Elliott Sharp: The Collapsed Wave (zOaR Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock The NY duo of Elliott Sharp and Don McKenzie pay tribute to guitar-oriented instrumental rock as practiced by Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharrock, Miles Daves, &c, music that valued virtuosity and embraceability, with Sharp performing on Strats, Les Pauls, steel guitar, a Vietnamese ghita phim lom on Uchuu, mandola & mandocello and Telecaster. |
Friedl / Siewert: Lichtung (KARLRECORDS -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Zeitkratzer director and pianist Reinhold Friedl meets with Martin Siewert (Radian, Fake the Facts, Dry Thrust) for three improvised explorations on piano, guitar and electronics, through the course of powerful transitions building from deep introspection into prickly, bellicose interaction, yielding to a brooding finale of subtle electronics and punctuation; profound. |
Duchesne, Andre: Ch'val (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Montreal composer, guitarist and arranger Andre Duchesne developed the pieces on this solo album as a tribute to his sister Carole, "the one who dreamed of horses," who passed in 2010, his pieces incorporating elements of rock, improvisation and compositional forms, a sincere tribute developed by recording daily over a month as a virtual rock band of guitar, bass and drum programming. |
Nuno, Jorge: Labirinto (Phonogram Unit -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock After recovering from heart surgery, Portuguese guitarist Jorge Nuno (Ensemble MIOA, Isoptope, Voltaic Trio, &c) records this solo improv album to show his resilience, performed primarily on acoustic guitar in a balanced journey of assertive and introspective playing, accompanied by an insert of a text work by Rui Baião. |
Banabila, Michel / Stijn Huwels / Cok Van Vuuren : One Moment In Time [CASSETTE] (Tapu Records -- Netherlands ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Extending their initial collaboration "One Moment in Time", released during the pandemic and picked up by Apple Music's Pure Meditation playlist, the trio of Stijn Huwels on electric guitar & pedals, Cok van Vuuren on dobro & mando guitars, and Michel Banabila on keys, sampler, voice & granular fx, extend their catalog with "Across the Sky", a beautifully warm work of layered drones. |
Gregg, J. J. / David Van Auken: Lunar Prairie [CD w/ DOWNLOAD] (IntangibleCat -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock After meeting through mutual esteem of their individual SoundCloud presences, these Oregon string players met to develop their compellingly engaging work in rehearsal, David Van Auken's guitar arrangements the perfect canvas for the sitar melodies of J.J. Gregg; after touring together they went into the studio for this album's 8 tracks, plus two live recordings. |
Zek, Ame: First Bow [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Croatian guitarist and electroacoustic musician Ame Zek in an album of electroacoustic improvisation using prepared guitars, acoustic percussions, self made objects, contact microphones, analog modular synthesizer, amplified feedback speakers, magnetic field microphones and digital midi machines; an album of raw, raspy, dark and dissonant sound. |
Johansson, Karin / Finn Loxbo : Vent (Omlott -- Sweden ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Performing on prepared piano & accordion (Karin Johansson) and guitar & electronics (Fin Loxbo), this Swedish duo explore unhurried and varied soundscapes, their skill and discerning motion allowing individual sounds space for clear expression in virtual narratives, the album's tracks captured in a variety of locations including the resonance of an old water reservoir. |
Johansson, Karin / Finn Loxbo : Vent [VINYL] (Omlott -- Sweden ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Performing on prepared piano & accordion (Karin Johansson) and guitar & electronics (Fin Loxbo), this Swedish duo explore unhurried and varied soundscapes, their skill and discerning motion allowing individual sounds space for clear expression in virtual narratives, the album's tracks captured in a variety of locations including the resonance of an old water reservoir. |
Kaiser, Henry: The Lost Chord (Metalanguage -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Focused around a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter titled "A Lost Chord", West Coast guitarist Henry Kaiser invokes the spirit of Procter's words through a stunningly beautiful album of both contemplative and technically excellent work, his first solo album performed on the lower tuned baritone guitar, in 10 tracks inspired by Frith, Xenakis, Evan Parker, Ligeti, &c. |
Cooper, Mike / Duck Baker : Cumino In Mia Cucina (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Having been acquainted with each other for decades but never finding the opportunity to record, improvising American guitarist Duck Baker and British guitarist Mike Cooper finally found their chance in 2010 while both were in Rome, taking two acoustic nylon Spanish guitars into the studio to record these three extended, intertwining improvisations. |
Kahn, Jason: Days Falling [VINYL 2 LPs] (Editions -- Austria ) Price: $29.95 In Stock 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. |
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Bley, Paul Trios: Play Annette Peacock, Revisited
Alcorn, Susan: Soledad
Moondoc, Jemeel: The Zoopkeeper's House (Trio/Quartet/Quintet)
Alcorn, Susan Quintet: Pedernal
Morris, Joe / DoYeon Kim: Macrocosm
Chadbourne, Eugene / Henry Kaiser: Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets By Wadada Leo Smith
Fujii, Satoko / Otomo Yoshihide: Perpetual Motion
Ackerley, Jessica / Daniel Carter: Friendship: Lucid Shared Dreams and Time Travel
Ackley, Bruce / Fred Frith / Henry Kaiser / Aram Shelton: Unexpected Twins
Akchote / Halvorson / Frisell: Loving Highsmith [2 CDs]
Frith, Fred / Evan Parker: Hello, I Must Be Going
Mendoza, Ava: New Spells
Cohen, Greg: Golden State
Frith, Fred / Darren Johnston: Everybody's Somebody's Nobody
Ducret, Marc (w/ Martinez / Helary / Bopp / Ducret): Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim
Zorn, John: New Masada Quartet
Morris, Joe : Solos - Bimhuis
Kaiser, Henry / John Oswald / Paul Plimley: At One Time - Improvisations for Cecil Taylor
Kaiser, Henry / Rome Yamilov: The Lenoir Investigation
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kawabata Makoto: Reverse Fault