"Solo Guitar 2 was recorded by Bill Nace in 2008, in a good-sounding room in Bennington, Vermont. This year the record, originally released as a now (nearly) extinct cassette, is reissued without it's mysterious and (maybe?) long-lost s...

"Allen Lowe says: "To me, free improvisation is another form of narrative, just as linear in terms of the consciousness of moving from one place to another, as any kind of storytelling. Yes, anyone can do it, you might say (and this is ...

"This record is divided into two sections. The first part is the title track and takes up most of side one. Ali's Smile was first published in 1971 and was privately released as a one-sided LP, in an edition of 99 copies. It came in a p...

"Double-CD documenting the magic meeting of one of the all-time great rhythm sections in jazz: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker, with London's brilliant Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas) and Elaine Mitchener....

A beautifully balanced encounter between Baltimore pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and Bay Area reedist Phillip Greenlief, performing on tenor saxophone & B-flat clarinet, improvising four "colors" as the two span the spectrum from rapid interaction of weaving and pointillistic playing into deeply introspective and ruminating discourse, each the perfect complement for the other.

"Tom Cora made his musical debut as drummer on a local US television programme. In the mid 1970s he played guitar for a Washington, D.C. jazz club house band. He took up the cello while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and...

"The first volume in an ongoing collaboration between composers Kenneth Kirschner and Joseph Branciforte, From the Machine explores the application of software-based compositional techniques - including algorithmic processes, generative...

"The debut recording from Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann (ECM) and electronic musician and producer Joseph Branciforte. Vocal loops of hushed beauty framed by artificially-synthesized tones, deep subharmonic oscillations, and ...

"Just a few months after the Eisenach based f r e a k e s t r a had shown their electrified groovy improvisations on a little tour performing at venues in Weimar, Leipzig, Dresden, Krakow, Gottingen etc. Oliver Schwerdt came up with an ...

"The first double album of a vast cast of an early version of the legendary E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a was recorded primarily in march 2001 and never officially released before the twentieth birthday of the ever renewable e...

"The E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a in it's early days already formulating an album presenting different musical styles one piece after another. For shure the focus seems to lie on an improvisatory approch to dealing with conte...

Each member of jane in ether is a formidable musician in her own right. The cream of the the berlin improv scene whose extended techniques of their respective instruments are, it's no exaggeration to say, ground breaking. I bore witness...

"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...

"The EUPHORIUM_freakestra live in December 2005. On one exciting stage in Leipzig, the creative centre of eastern Germany. At least a home game for the ever transforming ensemble. This time you can experience creative improvised music o...

"There are view vocal actors which can improvise semantically. Friedrich Kettlitz the co-founder of the E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a proved to be a master of that genre in the year 2011. With his close friend and extravagant ...

"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...

"TECTONICS is a solo program performed on saxophones, guitars, a laptop running MAX/MSP as well as various DSP applications, plus a variety of external hardware DSP devices. Sharp's work with electronics dates back to the late 60's and...

"Theatrically gripping and sonically sophisticated, this modern opera by composer Elliott Sharp and librettist/narrator Jack Womack reflects the events surrounding a 1981 killing in New York's East Village. That flashpoint was the genes...

"Produced by Elliott Sharp, STATE OF THE UNION 2.001 was a massive and beautifully packaged 3-CD set of 171 one-minute pieces by leading lights of the international avant-garde, both famous and unknown, and was the fourth installment in...

"RADIOLARIA is an algorithmic composition for E#'s Orchestra Carbon modeled on biological paradigms of growth and reproduction. The score combines musical notation with written instructions that guide the performers' interactions in ord...

"Stuck in Paris traffic in the pouring rain on the way to a gig in Pigalle, inspiration struck (though who the victim was remained uncertain). As they took a breath in the cold night air waiting to begin a Stromraum concert, dawn broke ...

"The newest duo projects of the Austrian trombonist Werner Puntigam - a) with Swiss guitarrist Beat Keller, b) with German drummer Georg Wilbertz - are performing freely improvised noisy chamber music. Their big goal is to explore maver...

"Carl Stone and Elliott Sharp have shared concert stages and delicious meals for decades in Japan, Europe, and North America. Circumstances conspired to have their latest concert in Tokyo in 2019 to be recorded and now presented here. E...

"Kick It Six is a guitar album. While this might not be surprising given that Terraplane is Elliott Sharp's contemporary blues band, what might be unexpected is the range of guitar sounds that may be heard here, all in the service of de...

"Aware of the history of the group later became a quintet Oliver Schwerdt decided twice to form the original triadic constellation before having a bigger set with the additional basses. That Short Night of 2013 catches the warm-up which...

"Despite the heading ensemble name this album presents for only half of the total disc time music of the N e w O l d L u t e n Q u i n t e t. During the quintet set of the year 2012 a technical problem happened while recording. Oliver S...

"As you supposably know Oliver Schwerdt coming along within an ensemble is nothing less than a linear player. At least the multiplicity of his chordal structuring finds an equivalent in Christian Lillinger's rhythmical figuration. But o...

"In common parlance the term Infinity Suite refers to a luxury hotel apartment comprised of several adjoining rooms. But my usage of the term here invokes the notion of infinite realities as resonating through dream and memory. An inter...

"The Flower of Paradise is a welcome addition to Shead's growing catalogue in which it is now abundantly clear that he thrives in a duo setting. This is in part due to his natural willingness to listen and breathe with another musician,...

"Kadima Distance recordings #5"...

"For the fourth reference in his Kadima Distance Recordings collection, which lists recordings made remotely by musicians regularly exchanging their digital files, the lap-style guitarist JC Jones, inexhaustible agitator of the said Kadi...

"And here again is JC Jones, the very image of resilience, stubbornly riveted to this window to the world that music represents for him and persisting in ordering real or virtual sessions in the company of real-life artists or instrumen...

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"Trumpeter Dorner and percussionist Turner are both perfectly at home in a full blooded, free jazz situation but in all three of these lengthy improvisations, with da Boff playing electric organs and little instruments, they settle into...

"Krawall! jumped out from the effort to re-enact the success of the quintet happened in 2013. Despite the same cast, the same the venue, the same instruments, the same recording and the same sound mixing ingenieur the repetition for sur...

"Now Oliver Schwerdt, long-term leader of the miraculous E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a formerly coming up with such illustrious pseudonyms as Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff introduces himself on behalf of his ci...

"Now Oliver Schwerdt, long-term leader of the miraculous E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a formerly coming up with such illustrious pseudonyms as Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff introduces himself on behalf of his ci...

"Right after meeting the bassless trio (Radau!) followed up by the quintet empowered by the pair of double bass players (Rabatz!) Oliver Schwerdt had suggested to perform a second set with the addition of two wind players. Needless to s...

"Finally meeting in december of the year 2015 Old Luten's definitely last great quintet starts with a perfected balance of tension and relaxation. Into the liveliness of the muffled beat coming from the drums touched by felt headed mall...

"With Grande Casino EUPHORIUM again invents a paradisian meeting. It celebrates the premier encounter of two vintage grandmasters of European Free Jazz. Sharing same old international stages since almost fifty years their first interpla...

"After finishing my contribution to the late work of Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky by organizing some trios and the three great quartets called Tumult! Karwall! Rabatz! (2013-15) I was thinking of formulating a new chapter of my adventurous va...

"Once again EUPHORIUM sets another paradisian debut of musical collaboration: On October 7th 2017 Peter Brotzmann and Christian Lillinger are performing for the first time together. Biturbo!, Capt'n documents their first audible touch. ...

"Vivary documents an improvisational performance by Kimmel.Ali.Harris, an improvising trio consisting of Jeff Kimmel (clarinet, electronics), Ishmael Ali (cello, guitar, electronics), and Bill Harris (drums, electronics), recorded durin...

"It goes without saying that, at the time of this writing, the country into which I was born is suffering. Like a set of stacking dolls, our current trauma houses other trauma, which houses yet more trauma, and on and on. It is not mere...

"Never is only two years old but has been long in the making. Ben Bennett and Jack Wright met over fifteen years ago and have been playing and touring the past ten years, more now since Ben moved to Philly a few years ago. Zach and Jack...

"Danceable woke conspiracy theory noise hip-hop metal jazz funk monologue-core. Je'raf is a Chicago/New York based band that formed in 2017. They combine hip hop, funk, and free jazz elements into tightly arranged songs that leave room ...

"The Chicago-based trio Four Letter Words comes full circle on its second album. Pianist Matt Piet, tenor saxophonist Jake Wark and drummer Bill Harris first convened to play a night of trios at the venue Constellation, but then pursued...

"Improvised solo saxophone performance isn't the kind of thing you'd expect a 26-year-old newcomer to the scene to jump into with both feet. But Gerrit Hatcher makes a convincing case that he's ready on his new cassette, Good Weight (Am...

"The inception of Four Letter Words as a collective, improvising trio was borne out of time spent by all three members as burgeoning artists in the vibrant Chicago jazz and improvised music scene. The weekly free improvisation workshop ...

"In Ritmos de Agua, longtime friends and jazz musicians Leo Genovese, Mariano Otero and Sergio Verdinelli explore the power and potentiality of water. Contextualizing their aesthetic inspirations within the historical and the metaphoric...

"French soprano saxophonist Michel Doneda is recognized as a leading avant-garde, experimental, and free jazz improviser. He has been performing with legendary Japanese bassist Tetsu Saitoh for 30 years. On this recording they are joine...

"Following the massive critical success of the first record "From The Roots To The Sky" the J. and F. Band is back with a new amazing effort, shining with new soul elements and impressive bluesy guitar work, thanks to the contribution o...

"The J.and F. Band, already hailed by some as "the blues version of the Sun Ra Arkestra", returns with the third incredible chapter of its musical history, "Me and The Devil" and thus closes an ideal trilogy where it has increasingl...

"A few years ago I started researching ideas of how this music will remain as social music. I didn't realize that soon the world would be radically changing at an unprecedented pace in the very near future. I discovered the phrase "Soci...

"Greek composer Anastassis Philippakopoulos has been a member of the Wandelweiser composers collective since 2003. He pursues his own compositional style to create a new kind of tonal music, deeply associated with his individuality and ...

"Four Pianos (1979-80): It is recognized today that these tutelary pieces for four pianos are among the most powerful in contemporary music, their impact is almost unparalleled. After the historical version recorded forty years ago, thi...

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.

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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.

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"Text score is from Walter Benjamin's 'Einbahnstrasses, Halteplatz fur nicht mehr als 3 Droschken', 1928 and reads: "vor ubergrosser ermudung hatte ich im erhellten zimmer mich in kleidern aufs bett geworfen und war sogleich, fur einige...

"Trio founded in 2014, Un Poco Loco keeps (re)visiting its personal history of jazz, a history maybe a bit crazy but mainly very liberated. After the eponym Un Poco Loco and Feelin's Pretty, dedicated to the West Side Story of Leonard B...

"French musician Bruno Duplant is one of the most talked-about artists on the experimental music scene today. In recent years he's presented many outstanding composed pieces and released a succession of excellent recordings on labels ar...

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.