"Ex Machina is a new collaboration between visionary saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman and the GRAMMY-nominated Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ). It is a dazzling new work for jazz orchestra that sets a new standard for innovation in th...

"Continuing is drummer Tyshawn Sorey's highly-anticipated follow-up to Mesmerism and The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism, his two critically-acclaimed 2022 release that feature this avowed avant-gardist's surprising forays into clas...

"Got famous working out the three brilliant quintets of the late East-German reed superstar Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky in 2013-2015, Oliver Schwerdt and Christian Lillinger succeeded in 2016 with the album Karacho! feat. Peter Brotzmann. No...

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A series of sound installations derived from a single recording made in the empty spaces in which they are later presented, with no people present during the recording including the composer, filtered to isolate and amplify certain of the room's resonant frequencies, creating a series of drones which are the only sound materials used; no musical instruments are involved.

"Chamber Music is a series of sound installations derived from a single recording made in the empty spaces in which they are later presented. No people are present during the recording (including myself), although some sound inevitably ...

"'Architecture Of Language 1979-1982' is a four disc CD bookback set with excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the ground-breaking 'New Picnic Time' described by o...

"'Elistism For The People 1975-1978' is a four-disc 'bookback' set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the seismic debut album 'Modern Dance', it's foll...

"Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of Black music. "Jones makes his point by showing, not just telling. His compos...

"Featuring four of the most accomplished musicians in the rich firmament of modern jazz, Incerto is one of Zorn's newest and most exciting projects-a chamber ensemble of striking virtuosity that is capable of covering the full range of ...

"The present CD brings a variety of different music: original compositions between jazz, ditties and microtonal post-romanticism; hits from the 60s, marginal classics of the jazz repertoire (among others with old Dutch lyrics), a tradit...

"Intense and stormy "vintage" electronic music - ethereal loops or organ or keyboard effects - synalgias of the unresolved - (AKS by Jean-Marc Foussat) goaded and torn by the extreme bites of the soprano saxophonist (Guy Frank Pellerin)...

"Armonicord. In 1977 an album was released under the name of Armonicord, of which I have just found a copy through a mutual friend: Esprits de Sel. Having heard of the album's release at that time, the memory of the presence of harpsich...

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"Recorded at home in November 2022 in the Loiret, this curious little regional river which gives its name to the department whose capital is Orleans, the city where Albert Ayler, then a young unknown U.S. militiaman, officiated, here is a b...

"Like a conversation where everyone would have started with a simple polite articulation to quickly revealing its impertinence, scrutinizing dive towards the roughness of the saxophone, while Didier Freboeuf constructs the strangeness o...

"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...

"Metal Chaos Ensemble was formed in early 2015 by PEK and Yuri Zbitnov as a working project to explore chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments. I had started to amass the Evil Clown Arsenal of percussion, electronic and wind instruments...

p of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets and flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to the early...

A quartet of collective improvisors focused on the merging of percussion and electronics from the Boston project Simulacrum in an extended transmigration, here with Bob Moores on guitar and synths, former Cecil Taylor bassist Albey onBass, keyboardist Eric Zinman also performing on drum kit, and David Peck on reeds, winds, electronics and percussive devices.

"Perturbations is the newest Evil Clown Ensemble. The core unit is PEK and Joel Simches... Joel is the Evil Clown house engineer who comes to sessions for various bands when the setup complexity is high and especially when there are bot...

"Over the years there have been recurring lineups for Leap of Faith where we do a series of performances with the same guests. There have also been recurring ensemble formations, for example, Glynis and me with drums and two additional ...

"Swathe leans even more to the electronic side than the most electronic trio set featuring Eric Woods on analog synths. Count Robot plays strictly electronic instruments made up of a table of knob-twiddling boxes. DNA girl plays a synth...

"Axioms is fundamentally different from the other Evil Clown Ensembles since it features Jane's poetry - Jane and Albey have performed many times together along with many notable players from the free improvisation scene. So, Axioms is ...

"Perhaps there gets to be a sense of what to expect then, but also a tangible sense of a broader style developing.... And then regarding further collaborations with Madeira, which continue to appear frequently, let me note also the new ...