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![]() Forebrace (Ward / Sassi / Horro / Doulton): Steeped (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Blending jazz and rock forms with frenetic excitement and masterful control, multi-reedist Forebrace quartet with Roberto Sassi (electric guitar), Santiago Horro (electric bass) and Jem Doulton (drums) run the gamut on exultantly virtuosic improvisation, here recording live at Cafe Oto. |
![]() Harrison, Bryn : Receiving the Approaching Memory (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bryn Harrison's highly acclaimed, labyrinthine composition for violin & piano from 2014, expertly realised by violinist Aisha Orazbayeva and pianist Mark Knoop, for whom this 5-part work of beautiful repetitions reflecting tapestries of sound was written. |
![]() Smith, Linda Catlin : Dirt Road (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith's extended composition for violin and percussion in 15 parts, performed by percussionist Simon Limbrick and violinist Mira Benjamin, a unique orchestration that reveals a journey of steady pace, tension and beauty. |
![]() Dunmall, Paul / Phillip Gibbs: Electrosonics (FMR -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock An album of improvised electronics from frequent collaborators Paul Dunmall on a Yamaha WX11 electronic wind instrument, and Philip Gibbs performing on electric guitar, in 9-parts exploring the unusual tonalities in both expansive and highly technical approaches. |
![]() Remote Viewers, The: No Voice From The Hall (Remote Viewers -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 15th album from the UK based, saxophone heavy Remote Viewers led by David Petts, bridging compositions and improvisation with a rock sensibility, in a sextet that includes improv heavies Mark Sanders on drums and John Edwards on bass. |
![]() Silver / Sanders / Wheatley: NAX/XUS (Confront -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performing together since 2014, the free improvising trio of Yoni Silver on bass clarinet, Mark Sanders on drums, and Tom Wheatley on double bass are captured live at the Hundred Years Gallery in London, in 2015 for a dark and spacious journey in two large improvisations. |
![]() Archer, Martin : Story Tellers (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Martin Archer introduces a new sextet based on Chicago's AACM approach to free improvisation, in a 2-CD set of 6 large works divided into 5 or 6 chapters each, presenting character themes, rhythm ideas, composed duets, and improvised instructions; superb! |
![]() Sunshine! Quartet (Archer / Mwamba / Bennett / Fairclough): Sunshine! Quartet (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A small group setting where each performer brings a composition to the session, with Discus family members Martin Archer on saxophones, Corey Mwamba on vibraphone, Seth Bennet on double bass, and Peter Fariclough on drums, for jazz that balances melodic and formidable free improvisation. |
![]() Archer / Clark / Grew / Hunter: Felicity's Ultimatum (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd release in a new series of small groups drawn from members of the Discus Music family, where the group meets, writes, rehearses and records in one single session, here developing ten compositions from all four players edited into a continuous sequence of structure and improvisation, embracing melody, texture and pure abstraction. |
Tin (Dominic Lash / Axel Dorner / Roger Turner): Uncanny Valley (Confront -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A new trio at the time, TIN is trumpeter Axel Dorner, bassist Dominic Lash, and drummer/percussionist Roger Turner, captured live in three locations during their 2015 UK tour, presenting masterful avant improvisations of sound-oriented work using an immense technical vocabulary to creative inventive and captivating dialog. |
![]() Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: 03 (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The improvising rock group Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, led by Martin Archer, Chris Bywater, and Steve Dinsdale, in their 3rd album of innovative improvisation, haunting hypnotic grooves and blasts of sheer exuberance, with the band augmented by strings and trombone to give them a larger and more intense sound. |
![]() BEFOREHAND (Lazaridou / Wastell): Live at Hundred Years Gallery (Confront -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The duo of Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga on zither and Mark Wastell on his electronics set including bowls and shruti box, formed for the release concert for Angharad Davies' "Six Studies" in 2014, recording this excellent improvised dialog of rich and unusual sound. |
![]() Forge, Mathias / Olivier Toulemonde: pie 'n' mash (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Virtuosic French-based trombonist Mathias Forge and Brussels-based electroacoustic composer-turned improviser Olivier Toulemonde recording live in Sheffield, 2010. |
![]() Fauna (Simon Rose / Paul Stapleton): Fauna (pfmentum -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock British saxophonist Simon Rose uses extended and evocative techniques in this exceptional set of duos with Paul Stapleton, who plays a Bonsai Sound Sculpture, an assemblage of unusual electronic and acoustic components allowing a wide range of expression. |
![]() Rova: Bingo (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Rova Saxophone Quartet performing compositions by Lindsay Cooper, Fred Frith, Barry Guy, and Larry Ochs, live in the studio in 1996. |
![]() Suzuki, Akio / David Toop: Breath - Taking (Confront -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Minimal improvisation using a meditative set of instruments including stone flute, small stones, and a "silent toy", from David Toop recording with Akio Suzuki on a rare trip to the UK. |
![]() Lokomotiv : Carlos Barretto: Labirintos (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Lokomotive's "Labyrinths" with bassist Baretto at the top of his game in playing and scoring this driving and unorthodox set of pieces, performed with two of Portugal's most in-demand players. |
Ist (Davies / Fell / Wastell): Consequences (of Time and Place) (Confront -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock ist (The Improvising String Trio) of Rhodri Davies (harp), Simon H. Fell (bass) and Mark Wastell (violincello) performing at The Natural Music Club in London, 1997, using unorthodox techniques in indeterminate systems and free improvisation for fascinating results. |
![]() LEK: Giant World Knowlege Bliss Control (Fuzzworld Record -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Bourne / Davis / Kane: The Money Notes (Foghorn Records -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A series of miniatures from the trio of pianist Bourne, drummer Davis and bassist Kane, intensely focused works ranging from lovely to slightly disturbed while never failing to impress. |
![]() Butcher, John / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: Last Dream Of The Morning (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A studio album between three UK master improvisers -- John Butcher on sax, John Edwards on double bass, and Mark Sanders on drums -- the trio pushing the envelope in technique and dialog in nearly telepathic playing that transports the listener into their environment, as the music builds and releases in effortless ways that are stunning and exulant; highly recommended. |
![]() Van Hove, Fred / Roger Turner: The Corner (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pioneering improvising pianist Fred Van Hove at UK's Cafe OTO for the first time, captured in a duo with UK drummer/percussionist Roger Turner, their first recording together, for a night of exceptional improvised interplay, sophisticated and complex playing that is constantly buoyant and charming, an enthralling conversation between two veteran players. |
![]() Deep Tide Quartet (Archer / Macari / Cole / Shaw): See One, Do One, Teach One (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Originally a studio project, The UK Deep Tide Trio of Martin Archer on sax, Kim Macari on trumpet, Laura Cole on piano and Walt Shaw on percussion & live electronics evolved into a performing organization based on the strength of their open-ended approach to free jazz and improvisation, heard here balancing melody and structure in well-paced and thoughtful improv. |
![]() Wolff, Christian / Eddie Prevost: Uncertain Outcomes [2 CDs] (Matchless -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $22.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two concerts of experimental improvisation from two giants of conceptual improvisation and composition, recorded at IKLECTIK in London in 2015 and at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire in 2016; with superb pacing and brilliant execution, these dialogs between keyboard and percussive instruments explore unique sound worlds with depth, inquisitiveness, and a sense of wonder. |
![]() Crux Trio (Hanslip / Somervell / Gauden): BELieVE (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A wonderfully balanced example of melodic free improvisation from the UK trio of Mark Hanslip on tenor saxophone, Colin Somervell on bass, and Ed Gauden on drums, frequent collaborators with an interest in both lyrical and free/collective improvisation, with an approach that uses technique and conceptual approaches in accessible and embraceable ways. |
![]() Frith, Fred / Hans Koch: You Are Here (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.05 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two commanding players from the UK & European improv scene who have consistently pushed the envelope in free improvisation--electric & prepared guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist/bass clarinetist Hans Koch--present an album of assertive interactions, merging alien environments with amazing technical playing and inexplicable approaches to sound - superb! |
![]() Leandre / Minton: Leandre / Minton (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Phil Minton started as a trumpeter and became one of free improv's most outside vocalists; Joelle Leandre is a double bassist who also performs free vocal improv; this is their first recorded collaboration, and it's an unusual and wonderful album of heavy tone improvisation, plucked and bowed, and a masterfully odd free association of vocalisation. |
![]() MacDonald, Raymond / Graeme Wilson: Cast of Thousands (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock ... |
![]() Chrysakis, Thanos / Kurt Liedwart / Nuno Torres / Ernesto Rodrigues : Skiagraphia (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three label leaders come together for an album of free electroacoustic improvisation--Thanos Chrysakis (Aural Terrains); Kurt Liedwart (Mikroton); Ernesto Rodrigues (Creative Sources), with Nuno Torres on sax--for an extended dialog built of exotic and microscopic sound, string aberrations, and reed abnormalities; exceptional. |
![]() Noble, Steve / Yoni Silver: Home (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock The two-headed snake on the cover of this album aptly describes the sublimely sinuous and dark interplay between London free jazz drummer Steve Noble and bass clarinetist Yoni Silver, their 4-part improvisation taking on sinister elements of exceptional cymbal techniques, unusual drum tones, and extended lower register tones and high harmonics; excellent. |
![]() Remote Viewers, The : Last Man In Europe (Remote Viewers -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The saxophone-heavy UK improvising band Remote Viewers returns to a trio format, with founders David Petts on tenor sax and Adrian Northover on soprano sax, plus John Edwards on double bass, as the stripped-down band employs signature harmonic territory and compositional approaches, making this a distinctively concentrated and welcome Remote Viewers album. |
![]() Parker, Evan / Sainkho Namtchylak: Mars Song (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Intense meeting of saxophone legend Parker and the remarkable Tuvan improvising vocalist Namtchylak performing live at Music Gallery in Toronto, 1996. |
![]() Edwards, John / Olie Brice: At Iklectik (Confront -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Double double bass from the duo of John Edwards and Olie Brice performing live at Iklectik Arts Lab, in London in 2017, a return of sorts as Brice's first live improv gig was opening for the Sunny Murray Trio with Edwards and Bevan; here the two combine, in contrast and confluence as they demonstrate massive technique and concentrative conversation. |
![]() Butcher, John / Eddie Prevost : Interworks (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.05 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Chrysakis, Thanos: Equinox (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock A remarkable album of electronic composition from sound experimenter and improviser Thanos Chrysakis, ten stunning compositions that explore a diverse set of tones across a broad spectrum of rich deep timbre and beautiful high frequency ringing, bell-tones at times taking the focus, at others providing a rotating basis for ethereal experiments; sophisticated and engaging! |
![]() Frey, Jurg / Magnus Granberg: Early to Late (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock New ensemble pieces by Jurg Frey and Magnus Granberg played by Ensemble Grizzana, commissioned by Another Timbre with the request that both start from the same two fragments of early music, one by Johannes Ockeghem, the other by William Byrd, each composer producing fascinatingly different pieces that both contain echoes of the source material. |
![]() Nauseef, Mark: All In All In all (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Influenced by rock, jazz, Javanese and Balinese gamelan, NY drummer Mark Nauseef's career has embraced an inclusive blending of styles, heard in this fantastic new album embracing compositional and ea styles, recorded with previous collaborators including Tony Oxley, Bill Laswell, Walter Quintus, along with Sylvie Courvoisier, Pat Thomas, Miroslav Tadic, & Arthur Jarvinen. |
![]() Eriksen, Espen Trio w/ Andy Sheppard: Perfectly Unhappy (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Espen Eriksen's Trio with bassist Lars Tormod Jenset and drummer Andreas Bye in their third album of melodic and inventive creative jazz, here with 8 new lyrical pieces informed by their extensive touring, and charged by the addition of legendary UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard, for whom Eriksen wrote a set of tunes tailored to his playing. |
![]() Archer, Martin & Engine Room Favourites: Safety Signal From A Target Town (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Saxophonist Martin Archer composed the five works on this, the 3rd release for Engine Room Favorites, his AACM-influenced big band with a tremendous orchestration of horns with drums, vibes, piano and bass, here with their most complex yet melodic and rich release yet, including melodic elements of folk music, powerful rhythms from prog-oriented rock, and free improv and jazz. |
![]() Dunmall, Paul / Philip Gibbs / Neil Metcalfe / Ashley John Long : Seascapes (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Long-time collaborators, saxophonist Paul Dunmall and guitar Philip Gibbs are joined by Neil Metcalfe on flute and Ashley-John Long on bass for a concert at the Victoria Rooms, in Bristol, England in 2017, six collective improvisation of spectacular technique and inventive playing, often at very fast tempos, but always resolving to an inner calm and beauty. |
![]() Ikeda / Prevost: The Whole Moon Rests in a Dewdrop on the Grass (Matchless -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performing live at Cafe OTO in London, 2018, Japanese sound artist and composer Ken Ikeda comes together with percussionist and Matchless label-leader Eddie Prevost for a concert of resonant, rich improvisation, Ikeda's electronics complementing Prevost's bowed cymbals as the duo builds to a diverse offering of powerful yet controlled sonic uproar; stunning. |
![]() Moore / Edwards / Prevost: Darkened, yet shone (Matchless -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Combining free improvisation, free jazz, rock, and electronic/EA-improv, the trio of Eddie Prevost (drums), NO Moore (guitarist), and bassist John Edwards are caught live at IKLECTIK in London, 2017, for a concert that changes pace from vigorous riffs to unconventional introspection, with masterful playing and profound technique, an exceptional performance. |
![]() Butcher, John / Eddie Prevost: Visionary Fantasies (Matchless -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock A series of inspired solo and duo performances from AMM founder, percussionist Eddie Prevost and free improvising saxophonist John Butcher, captured live at London's Iklectik in 2018, splitting the album between solo and duo work as the two morph their instruments into incredible sonic devices, with intense concentration and dialog nothing short of fantastic. |
![]() Wachsmann / Taylor / Mattos / Brighton: Strings (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three strings, percussion and electronics from the quartet of Phillip Wachsmann on violin, electronics, Trevor Taylor on percussion, electronics, Marcio Mattos on bass, cello, electronics, and Ian Brighton on electric guitar, which grew out of the 2016 return of guitarist Ian Brighton and his String Thing, released on FMR as "Reunion: Live From Cafe Oto". |
![]() Brighton, Ian: Marsh Gas [REISSUE] (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Reissuing the 1977 album from UK guitarist Ian Brighton, written as an instrumental story for children, apparently very sophisticated children, in a mix of composed and freely improvised passages, using non-idiomatic approaches with unusual and extended techniques, open atmospheric passages and strange transitions, a peculiar and wonderful album of imaginative playing. |
![]() Dunmall / Siegel / Pursglove / Sanders: As One Does (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two saxophones take the front line in Paul Dunmall's 2018 studio album, the leader on tenor saxophone with fellow tenor player Julian Siegel, also on bass clarinet, while Mark Sanders drums and Percy Pursglove handles bass and also trumpet, as the band falls into a hard bop mode, weaving lines together over wonderfully turbulent and soulful grooves; outstanding. |
![]() Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (feat. Marilyn Crispell / Evan Parker): Parallel Moments Unbroken [2CDS] (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Scottland's large improvising ensemble of around 20 musicians, merging backgrounds in free improvisation, jazz, classical, folk, pop, experimental musics and performance art, in a 2-CD release of a piece commissioned by the BBC and featuring pianist Marilyn Crispell and saxophist Evan Parker, written using graphic scores, through composition, photographs and artwork. |
![]() Valid Tractor (Pat Thomas / Dominic Lash / Lawrence Casserley): On The Validity Of Tractors (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Each track on this album is named for a tractor brand (Eicher, Kubota, &c.) and the liner notes are directions regarding a tractor's maintenance, as the ea-trio of UK improvisers Pat Thomas on piano & electronics, Dominic Lash on double bass, and Lawrence Casserley on a signal processing instrument provide 10 inventive improvisations that validate a sound working condition. |
![]() Caines, Ron / Martin Archer Axis: Les Oiseaux de Matisse (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Saxophonist Ron Caines, who led the innovative band East of Eden in the late 60s, joins a septet including Martin Archer on reeds & electronics, Laura Cole on keys, Gus Garside on bass, Johnny Hunter on drums, Graham Clark on violin & guitar, and Herve Perez on live sound processing & shakuhachi as they merge improv with real time processing and studio collage. |
![]() Cole, Laura: Enough [2 CDs] (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Laura Cole's first solo album presents 2 CDs; the first a collection of arrangements of pieces given to Cole for the album from friends and colleagues, including Robert Mitchell, Alex Wilson, Nikki Iles, Jason Yarde and Corey Mwamba; the 2nd disc, "As Warm As The Sun" is a collection of compositions and improvisations by Cole herself. |
![]() Das Rad (Archer / Robinson / Dinsdale): Das Rad (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Influenced by progressive rock, kosmiche, and fusion forms, the UK trio Das Rad of Nick Robinson on guitars & electronics, Martin Archer on sax, reeds, winds, keys and electronics, Steve Dinsdale on drums and percussion, and Julie Archer on voice, bringing 70s sounds to modern sensibilities and superb creative playing, a great achievement. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Four (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Declaring Terry Riley, Magma, Krautrock, and Sun Ra as influences, this is the fourth album from wind and keyboard player Martin Archer's Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, an augmented six-piece UK ensemble whose rock affinities also embrace improvisation and minimalism, a heady mix of virtuosic playing with melodic intention and extremely detailed tapestries of sound; dreamy and elegiac. |
![]() Branche / Chrysakis / Soloveitzik / O'Sullivan / Vidal / Wigens: Magnetic River (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electroacoustic improvisation with unusual techniques from the sextet of saxophonist Sebastian Branche, laptop electronicist Thanos Chrysakis, saxophonist Tom Soloeitzik, guitarist James O'Sullivan, saxophonist Artut Vidal and clarinetist Jery Wigens. |
![]() Gauden's, Ed Crux+1: Control (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Birmingham drummer Ed Gauden's Crux trio with bassist Colin Somervell and saxophonist Mark Hanslip add keyboardist Steve Tromans in their 3rd album for FMR after their self-titled and "Believe" releases, originally developed from the sax and drum duo of Gauden & Hanslip; here in an extended studio improvisation of considerate exploration and lyrical intention. |
![]() Tomlinson, Alan Trio: Inside Out (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A live performance at IKLECTIK in London in 2018 from trombonist Alan Tomlinson's inventive trio with Phillip Marks on drums & percussion and Dave Tucker on electric guitar, with special guest John Edwards joining on bass violin for the title track, in a superb display of free jazz led by an essential member of the London free jazz scene since the 70s. |
![]() O'Gallagher, John / Liam Noble / Drew Gress / Jim Bashford: Meridians (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY Drummer Jim Bashford brought together the quartet of John O'Gallagher on alto saxophone, Drew Gress on bass, and Liam Noble on piano, writing these lyrical free jazz compositions that they brought on a tour of the UK, recording this album in the studio in Birmingham while touring, the band on fire as they work through Bashford's martial art's-influenced pieces. |
![]() Kraabel, Caroline : Last1 And Last2 (Emanem -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.05 ![]() ![]() In Stock LAST is part of a series by Caroline Kraabel (LIO, Remote Viewers) mixing live improvisation with pre-recorded material provided by Robert Wyatt for this purpose, performed live at Cafe OTO in two versions: first where the 15-piece ensemble has not yet heard the Wyatt interventions, and second where they were familiar with and use his voice to structure what they play. |
![]() Evans, Peter / Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy : Free Radicals At DOM (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Radical masters of free jazz--Spanish pianist Agusti Fernandez and British bassist Barry Guy--meet young(er) radical trumpeter Peter Evans at the Moscow Cultural Center DOM for this 2017 concert of free improvisation, a fiery and informed concert of two sets, each in three parts, and an encore, showing technical mastery, inventive interaction, and sheer excitement in performance. |
![]() Remote Viewers Trio, The (Petts / Northover / Edwards): Notes Lost In A Field (Remote Viewers -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A working subset of the UK saxophone-heavy band crossing composition with improvisation, The Remote Viewers led by David Petts, here as a trio with Adrian Northover on alto sax, Petts on tenor sax, and John Edwards on acoustic bass, present 15 new compositions, 10 penned by Petts and 5 collective improvisations, a mix of ferocious timbre and exciting interaction. |
![]() Pukwana, Dudu / Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink: Yi Yole (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded at the ICP Jubileum festival in Uithoorn, Holland, in 1978, this concert brings together the core of the Instant Composers Pool--pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink--with legendary South African alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana (Blue Notes), Bennink also playing trombone, clarinet, and viola, in a lyrical and unpredictable set filled with humor and astounding playing. |
![]() Circuit (Seagroat / Chatzigiannis / Taylor / Hutchinson / Medley / Wachsmann): Cell (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock UK percussionist and electronic artist Trevor Taylor's Circuit project in an extended electroacoustic version with Jon Seagroat on reeds & electronics, Tim Chatzigiannis on computer & electronics, Mathew Hutchinson on piano, Paul Medley on reeds, and Philipp Wachsmann on violin & electronics, in carefully controlled and sublimely detailed improvisation. |
![]() Dunmall / Gibbs / Taylor / John Long: Landscapes (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The counterpart to the Dunmall session "Seascapes" recorded at the same Victoria Rooms at the University of Bristol's music department, this quartet sees Dunmall on soprano sax and flute joined by three string players--Benedict Taylor on viola, Ashley John Long on bass, and guitarist Phil Gibbs--for six detailed collective improvisations leaning toward chamber jazz. |
![]() Weeks, James: Windfell (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $10.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Violinist Mira Benjamin requested British composer James Weeks write a long-duration piece for her, Weeks evoking the image of a violin alone in a remote hill played only by the wind, using an evolving palette of timbral and harmonic material resolving with long sequences of Just Intonation three-part chords, Benjamin also whistling and singing softly. |
![]() Bishop, Jeb / Alex Ward / Weasel Walter: Flayed (ugEXPLODE -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock An assertive album of free improv bringing together players from New York (drummer Weasel Walters), London (clarinetist & electric guitarist Alex Ward), and Chicago (trombonist Jeb Bishop), their previous shared projects and cross-genre intentions in rock, hardcore jazz and other experimental forms leading to this wonderfully quirky and masterful album of excoriating free jazz. |
![]() McPhee, Joe / John Edwards / Klaus Kugel: A Night In Alchemia (Not Two -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The working trio of New York trumpeter & saxophonist Joe McPhee, London double bassist John Edwards, and German drummer Klaus Kugel, actively touring through Europe since 2017, are heard live at Alchemia in Krakow, Poland in 2018, for four monumental examples of free improvisation in superlative playing with intense rhythmic interaction and deeply expressive soloing. |
![]() Parker / Trzaska / Edwards / Sanders: City Fall [2 CDs] (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $21.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Part of Evan Parker's 70th birthday in 2014, this album captures the super-charged quartet of Evan Parker on tenor saxophone, Mikolaj Trzaska on alto sax, bass clarinet, John Edwards on double bass, and Mark Sanders on drums, in two sets for two extended improvisations of both power playing and powerful communication, along with one shorter final statement. |
![]() Kaucic, Zlatko Quintet: Morning Patches (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using the natural resonance of the St. Martin's Church, in Smartno, Slovenia, percussionist Zlatko Kaucic leads the quintet of Michael Moore on alto sax & clarinet, Marco Colonna on clarinet & bass clarinet, Albert Cirera on tenor sax, and Silvia Bolognesi on Double Bass, in ten conversations from cinematic conversation to commandingly interactive. |
![]() Wachsmann, Philipp / Trevor Taylor / Paul Medley / Matthew Hutchinson : Old Dreams New Horizons (FMR -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Quartet, trio and duo sessions between Paul Medley on alto saxophone & bass clarinet, Trevor Taylor on percussion & electronics, Matthew Hutchinson on piano, and Philipp Wachsmann on violin & electronics; improv and ea-improv that uses space and patient pacing, merging approaches from Circuit Electro-Acoustic Ensemble with an overall acoustic chamber feel--beautiful. |
![]() Speak Easy (Wassermann / Minton / Lehn / Blume): @ Konfrontationen (Confront -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Since 2009 the UK & European ea-improvising quartet Speak Easy with two remarkable vocalists, Phil Minton and Ute Wasserman (also on birdcall whistles), Thomas Lehn on analog synthesizer and Martin Blume on drums & percussion, have startled and amazed listeners, as heard here in this extended performance at the 2016 Festival Konfrontationen in Nickelsdorf. |
![]() Prevost / Solberg / Pettersen / Moore / Brice / Hardie-Bick: Plumes of Ash in Moonlight [2 CDs] (Split Rock Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bringing together two innovative improvising percussionists--Eddie Prevost of AMM fame, and Stale Liavik Solberg (VCDC, John Butcher)--for a studio album of wide-ranging and sometimes hair-raising electroacoustic improvisation, recorded live and unedited with Olie Brice on double bass, Tony Hardie-Bick on piano & tapes, Ed Pettersen on lap steel, and NO Moore on guitar. |
![]() Caines, Ron / Martin Archer AXIS: Dream Feathers (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The "AXIS" of UK saxophonist Ron Caines and multi-reedist Martin Archer, also on organ and electronics, in a subtle septet with outstanding players including Laura Cole on piano and Johnny Hunter on drums, in a set of dream-like and lyrically beautiful improvisations, merging electronics and horns over a powerfully solid rhythm section that create warm textural cycles. |
![]() Vergara, Benjamin / Fred Frith: Fanfarrisimo [VINYL] (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recording in Chile at the University Austral in 2018, trumpeter Benjamin Vergara and guitarist Fred Frith take us on two extended journeys through free electroacoustic improvisation, Frith's providing diverse and intense sonic environments over which Vergara's virtuosic and intuitive approach to the trumpet soars; impressive, creative, cathartic. |
![]() Ward, Alex : Frames (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Originally a clarinetist, UK improviser Alex Ward began exploring the guitar in rock settings, first bringing the instrument to his improv work around the year 2000 with N.E.W. (w/ Steve Noble & John Edwards); this is his 1st solo guitar album, showing a wide range of styles that embrace improv, rock and compositional styles, a remarkable display of skill and creative drive. |
![]() Virtual Company (Fell / Wastell / Bailey / Gaines): Virtual Company (Confront -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock IST, configured as the duo of double bassist Simon H. Fell and cellist/percussionist Mark Wastell, performing a virtual quartet at London's Cafe OTO, using using pre-recorded fragments of solo work from late guitarist Derek Bailey and tap dancer Will Gaines, combined with sections of silence of unforeseeable length, and then combined with the live musicians; amazing. |
![]() Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
![]() AMM (Prevost / Rowe / Tilbury): Fine (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Parker, Evan / RGG: Live@Alchemia (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock As part of the Polish website Jazzarium.pl's 5th anniversary celebration, UK tenor saxophonist Evan Parker joined the Polish RGG free-improvising piano trio of Lukasz Ojdana on piano, Maciej Garbowski on bass, and Krzysztof Gradziuk on drums, for this four-part sophisticated collective improvisation recorded at the legendary Alchemia club in Krakow. |
![]() AMM (Prevost / Rowe / Tilbury): Generative Themes (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Butcher, John / Thomas Lehn / Matthew Shipp: The Clawed Stone (RogueArt -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Matthew Shipp (piano), John Butcher (saxophones) and Thomas Lehn (electronics) in a studio album recorded in France in 2017, a uniquely voiced collective trio of transformative improvisation, Lehn's additions and modifications blending perfectly with Shipp's solid foundations and Butcher's advanced technical expression, for an engrossing and expressive set of recordings. |
![]() Kowald, Peter Quintet: Peter Kowald Quintet (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock First ever CD reissue of the only band under bassist Peter Kowald's own name, remastered; originally released by FMP in 1972, this is exemplary European Free Jazz from one of the orignal innovators in a quartet with Peter Kowald on tuba, bass, & alphorn, Gunter Christmann and Paul Rutherford on trombones, Peter van der Locht on alto saxophone, and Paul Lovens on drums. |
![]() Chemical Expansion League, The (Bohman / Lynch / Northover / Mengersen): Grappling with the Orange Porpoise (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Some of the London free improv scene's finest players, including members of Remote Viewers, Custodians Of The Realm, London Improvisers Orchestra, The Runcible Quintet, &c, met with visiting Berlin double bassist Ulf Mengersen to record this fascinating collective improvisation, using objects, preparations, and a WASP synthesizer for wonderfully unusual results. |
![]() Moore / Prevost / Yarde: Nous (Matchless -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock A concert by drummer Eddie PrŽvost, electric guitarist N.O. Moore, and saxophonist Jason Yarde on alto & soprano recorded at the Vortex Jazz Club, in London, Moore deploying effects and Yarde using electronics to create subtexts of sounds, especially on the extended 25 minute "Impossible Meaning" where unusual structures meld with the acoustic free playing. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Five (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 5th album from the UK collective improvising progressive rock band of reedist Martin Archer, drummer Steve Dinsdale, bassists Lorin Halsall & Terry Todd, percussionist Walt Shaw, keyboardist Andy Peake, violinist Yvonna Magda and string player & vocalist Jad Todd, merging acoustic and electronic instruments in rich and often dreamlike forms that flow with spirited refinement. |
![]() Sealed Knot, The (Beins / Davies / Wastell): Twenty (Confront -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock After twenty years playing together, the Sealed Knot trio of Burkhard Beins on amplified percussion, Rhodri Davies on amplified lap harp, and Mark Wastell on dual 32 past tam tams, gongs & nepalese singing bowls, performed live at Cafe OTO to record this beautifully captured, contemplative concert of tone, texture and ringing sound, like a 20-year dream reflected. |
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Harriott, Joe Quintet: Free Form & Abstract Revisited [2 CDs]
Butcher, John / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: Last Dream Of The Morning
Van Hove, Fred / Roger Turner: The Corner
Guy, Barry / Eddie Prevost / Evan Parker / Keith Rowe: Supersession [REMASTERED, REPACKAGED, ADDITIO
Parker, Evan & Sylvie Courvoisier: Either Or And
Stoffner, Florian / John Butcher / Chris Corsano: Braids
AMM: Spanish Fighters
EUPHORIUM_freakestra (feat Wadada Leo Smith / Barre Phillips): Free Acoustic Supergroup (Chicago New
Moondoc, Jemeel: The Zoopkeeper's House (Trio/Quartet/Quintet)
Butcher, John / Eddie Prevost: Visionary Fantasies
Dunmall, Paul / Keith Tippett / Philip Gibbs / Pete Fairclough: Onosante
Parker, Evan: NYC 1978
Tippett, Keith / Julie Tippetts / Philip Gibbs / Paul Dunmall: Mahogany Rain
Schlippenbach / Parker / Edwards / Prevost: 3 Nights at Cafe Oto
Butcher, John / Thomas Lehn / Matthew Shipp: The Clawed Stone
McPhee, Joe / Evan Parker: Sweet Nothings (For Milford Graves)
Yarde / Wright / Wilkinson / Smith / Lynch / Chat: A Company of Others
Guy, Barry and Friends: Krakow 2018 [5 CD BOX SET]
Phillips / Butcher / Solberg: We met - and then
Wolff, Christian / Eddie Prevost: Uncertain Outcomes [2 CDs]