Brooklyn-based composer, bassist, and writer Nick Dunston in his debut album, blending jazz, contemporary, chamber and avant forms, in a uniquely voiced quintet with Louna Dekker on Vargas on flutes & piccolo, Ledah Finck on violin & viola, Tal Yahalom on guitar, and Stephen Boegehold on drums, in a sophisticated album of concisely fascinating compositions.

"Bloodletting, recorded, March 22th, 2019 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, is a performance of a long form text score I wrote around late 2018. Unlike directive text scores that indicate through order or poetry what should be played (or ev...

"I met David when he was attending the School for Improvisational Music summer workshop. Instantly impressed with his versatility as a composer and improviser, I could see he was eager to relocate to New York and make his mark on the cr...

"I would like to thank the musicians Matt Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey for their brilliant sensory delivery of these compositions and for their warm personal support; and Dave Ballou who also played brilliantly and who rendered these dyna...

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"A swirling prismatic nexus of dark improvisational magic, where moments of pure clarity arrive amidst abased noise before all are consigned to the void."-Huvudbry Recordings

""Boogie Spiderland" is the first release from Center For Whatever. The duo consists of John Lindaman and Hampus Ohman-Frolund, two indie rockers lost in space and time. The goal is to boogie. This is the result. Listening in headphones...

"I was given an old zither by a friend. At that time I needed to explore other sounds than what I could conjure from my main instrument, the drums. The music I made during this period relates to time in a free-floating way. An old frien...

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"Sorry folks that were expecting a review of a new release by Tony Wakeford's neofolk outfit. That Sol Invictus this ain't. To quote from an interview by Joeri Bruyninckx in Psychedelic Baby Magazine: "Did you have a certain direc...

"I have been working on this project for over a year and it has truly been the most challenging thing I have done yet. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to collaborate with artists that I admire greatly, both in music and i...

"To observe his 70th year, Elliott Sharp presented concerts and recordings under the rubrik E#@70. The initial concert in this series took place at Roulette in Brooklyn on Mar. 4, 2021 featuring the world premiere of four new works crea...

"Chris Speed, a driving force of modern jazz for decades, presents Light Line, an impressive solo statement on the clarinet. The repertoire of this musical legacy includes his own pieces and short improvisations, as well as compositions...

"The charismatic saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis is the musician of the moment in the broad field of contemporary jazz. With Code of Being, James Brandon Lewis now presents his second album. The debut CD Molecular, which Le...

"Being the Up And Down", Silke Eberhard's new CD with her trio with Jan Roder on bass and Kay Lubke on drums was recorded both in the studio as well as at a live concert at the A-Trane in Berlin. This was the result of her winning the p...

"Broken Shadows brings together four luminaries of the American jazz scene: Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King. Broken Shadows has very strong connections, in twos. Saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed have been playi...

"Following the release of Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World: Volumes 1-10 (Centering Records) and his first book-length biography, Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (Duke University Press) earlie...

Box Set for Path of Seven Colors with bonus disc (2015). Comes in a hardshell box with a booklet for each CD including full color photos extensive liner notes, lyrics booklet, and track-by-track information. Photography by Mimi Chakarova.

"In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936-1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943-2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, ...

"Four directions out there, four contrasting interpretations of a prepared text and open score based on david Henri Thoreau's transcendental essay about walking (1851). readwalking, solitary thinging, in partial light *, step by step, a...

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"Glissando I" and "Glissando II" are two realizations of the same score. "Glissando I" was performed on a street corner in Ridgewood, New York, in june 2020. "Glissando II" was performed in Washington Square Park in November 2020. In Ju...

"Michael and Peter Formanek started making music and improvising together before Peter started school. Regular visits to their home from friends and colleagues like Tim Berne, Jim Black, Marty Ehrlich and many others only served to norm...

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voices what is music made of? of voices. and what is a voice? a sequence of sounds and silences, with its own consistency. perfectly self-contained: each voice voicing a world. and what is a world? a proportion: a specific distribution ...

"Variations of the initial score were incorporated within the choreographic performance "guest project" presented at the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki, October 2019.

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back ...

"They are sameiliar which means each one resembles the one before as well as the consecutive one as if they were the same. Perhaps they were all the same in a utopian past, or there was even only one of them - which must have been, then...

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"All arrangements, deconstructions and original music by Anna Gadt In the piece "Monumentum" was used the theme from "Monumentum pro Gesualdo" by Igor Stravinski"-Anna Gadt

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"Elisabeth Harnik, an Austrian based pianist and composer has created a multi-faceted body of work by blurring genre boundaries through various collaborations in the field of improvised music, interdisciplinary projects and contemporary...

"I recently became aware of the unique and distinctive instruments made by Tim Kaiser. I would classify these instruments as electro-acoustic rather than electronic since they amplify quiet acoustic sounds made on guitar strings, spring...

"With Dal Ngai the E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a at an age of three years is reborn as an ensemble with two godfathers of contemporary music. On the one hand it called Daddy and on the spot appears Gunter Baby Sommer, the grea...

"Gunter, Baby 'Sommer is not celebrating his 70th birthday alone. In addition to his fourth solo CD Dedications, he presents the duo CD Dry Swing / Tandem Spaces together with the piano player Oliver Schwerdt. With one of the most idios...

Translating to "Fork", Garfo is a modern Portuguese jazz quartet led by tenor saxophonist Bernardo Tinoco, with João Almeida on trumpet, João Fragoso on double bass and João Sousa on drums, all 4 contributing compositions to their lyrically sophisticated music, effortlessly using complex structure and time signatures to propel first-rate free improvisation.

These 2016 recording between Bryan Eubanks and Xavier Lopez demonstrate the analog networked sytem they developed, based on the harmonics of random feedback, using this information in real time to shape generative rhythms and other juxtapositions from soprano saxophone and percussion, in four recordings improvised live at Studio 8 bar in Berlin.

During his 2018-19 Canadian tours, Tim Olive joined Vancouver residents Joda ClŽment and Mathieu Ruhlmann for two trio performances, after which they went into the studio to record these four detailed improvisations using synthesizer, harmonium, glockenspiel, field recordings, feedback, magnetic pickups, preamps, octave generators, ukelin, cymbal, tapes, and objects.

Using unusual techniques and a collection of instruments that include the standard Western instruments of cello and flute, along with guembri, sulittu, dilli kaval, bass xun, launeddas (mancosedda, tumbu), plus the application of objects against strings, the Italian duo of Antonio Bertoni & Stefano Leonardi engage in seven remarkable and assertive improvised duos.

Argentinian sound artist Alexis Perepelycia explores his influences in an extended sonic work, drawing on his roots in the sounds of garage, punk, metal, industrial music into his work in academia, using abstract references of assertive and acousmatic sound with powerful electronic emphasis as he seeks his ghosts amidst references like Russolo, Stockhausen, &c.

Newly Distributed in 2021: Trillium E is the first-ever studio recording of an Anthony Braxton opera, a deluxe 4-disc set of this surreal and witty installment in Braxton's ongoing Trillium cycle, and includes a booklet with libretto, photos, and critical essays.