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Weston, Matt: Searchlight Swings b/w Is That Helicopter Over Our House? [7-inch' VINYL] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $5.36 In Stock Percussionist and electronics artist Matt Weston (Arthur Brooks Ensemble V, Arc Pair) in a 7" release showcasing his playing skills over his own notation systems employing additional dimensions of pre-and post-gestural strategies, using written standard notation and visual cues based on multiple and simultaneous, graphic scores. |
Weston, Matt: Sparky 1 [CASSETTE] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Matt Weston (Arthur Brooks Ensemble V, Arc Pair) initiates a series of limited cassette releases with this solo album, seven works of percussion using traditional and idiosyncratic percussive sources with a pensive pace and somewhat irascible attitude, each piece fully notated and executed live in the studio, using a similar aesthetic to link each work. |
Weston, Matt: Sparky 3 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (4 Men With Beards -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The 3rd installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD] (Tubapede -- USA ) Price: $6.00 In Stock Delicate abrasions and corruption of their instruments from the NY duo of Erica Dicker (Till by Turning) on violin and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2), 9 works of improvised soundscape and avant-raw chamber music through prepared strings, tapes, looped feedback, resonant metals, modified snares and liberally bowed surfaces, richly constrained and luxuriously blood-curdling. |
Kazuto, Shimizu / Yoshida Tatsuya: Whatchamacallits [CD + DOWNLOAD MOVIE LINK] (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock A live recording at Koenji Jirokichi in 2022 between Magaibtusu leader Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojinn, Koenji Hyakkei, PYN, &c) and pianist Kazuto Shimizu (Arepos, Chakra, Hikashu, Killing Time, Lars Hollmer's Global Home Project, &c), both on vocals as they unfold a playful and technically incredible set of "Doodads", "Watchamacallits" and other wonderful curiosities. |
Venable, Phil / Paul Swest Duo: Kaolin (Soul City Sounds -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Phil Venable, the Chapel Hill, North Carolina bass player known for his work in the free jazz outfit Tragic Assembly, pairs up with Tragic Assembly drummer Charles Chace for an excursion into the outer limits of improvisation, the album title a reference to a medicinal clay and a riff off of the Charles Mingus song "Moanin". |
Clearfield, Rob / Quin Kirchner: Concentric Orbits [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $16.95 In Stock An active and creatively absorbing duo between Chicago drummer Quin Kirchner and French-based pianist Rob Clearfield, recorded spontaneously during the sessions of The Shadows and The Light, with one extended improvisation per side, alternating between percolating rhythms of quick witted exchanges to gorgeous lyrical moments of hanging piano figures. |
Virelles, David: Nuna (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Cuban/NY pianist David Virelles in his first solo album, 14 original compositions and 2 from Cuban composers, blending modern jazz with Cuban, African and European influences, a tour-de-force of clear and balanced, irrepresible rhythms and elegant ballads, an inspired album opening on marimbula and expanded with percussion from Julio Barreto on three tracks. |
Axioms: Discourse (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Featuring the poetry and words of Cecil Taylor-associated poets Albey OnBass and Jane SpokenWord, the Boston collective improvising band Axiom of David Peck on reeds, winds and percussion, Steve Niemtiz on drums & percussion and Glynis Lomon on cello & aquasonic + OnBass & SpokenWord, focus on "Discourse", wakefullness and freedom in an age of social unrest. |
Leap Of Faith: Coherence Disturbed (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock A new quartet lineup for the Boston-based Evil Clown Collective group Leap of Faith, expanding the core duet of David Peck (PEK) on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice with multi-reedists Melanie Howell and Todd Brunel, all four employing their extensive arsenal of percussive instruments. |
Leap Of Faith: Revealing The Essence (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The first Leap of Faith set in a quartet lineup expanding the core of David Peck on reeds, winds & percussion and Glynis Lomon on cello & aquasonic with trumpeter Vance Provey and percussionist Michael Knoblach, in an introspective livestreamed set that balances the strings of Lomon against two horns while bringing out a wealth of unusual percussive interactions. |
Turbulence: Roughness Of Surfaces (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Using David Peck's "Broad Palate" concept to introduce frequent variation in sonorities through changing instrumental combinations, this live performance of Turbulence, the extended horn section of the Boston collective Leap of Faith Orchestra, presents the largest assemblage of performers for the group yet, and introduces the 17-string bass to the Evil Clown arsenal. |
Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Rhythmically rich instrumental music crossing experimental, rock and compositional forms with an ear towards primitive and instinctual pulses, the French quartet of drummer & bass harpist Julein Chamla, percussionist Benjamin Flament, Simon Henocq on live electronics and guitarist Richard Comte explore innate pulses imbued with modern and urgent overtones. |
Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot [VINYL] (nunc. -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Rhythmically rich instrumental music crossing experimental, rock and compositional forms with an ear towards primitive and instinctual pulses, the French quartet of drummer & bass harpist Julein Chamla, percussionist Benjamin Flament, Simon Henocq on live electronics and guitarist Richard Comte explore innate pulses imbued with modern and urgent overtones. |
Clark, Katelyn / Isaiah Ceccarelli: Landmarks (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Eight powerful and often cinematic pieces for organ and percussion, jointly composed and performed by long-time collaborators, Montreal composers and improvisers Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli, these 8 compositions developed around improvisations on the historic instruments continuo & portative organs, with percussion including a 40" bass drum, bell plates, and almglocken. |
Harris, Bill: Blinking Glue (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock An extension of his prior solo record, ONOMAT, Chicago drummer & percussionist Bill Harris also uses a prepared floor tom and feedback in this unedited 25 minute live performance at Music Garage in Illinois, notated for six track section as he explores unique rhythmic concepts augmented with encompassing environmental sonics and unusual disruptive elements. |
Harris, Bill: ONOMAT (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock A diverse and confident set of solo drums improvisations, acoustic or in tandem with metal and wooden objects, microphone amplification, drum feedback manipulation and close-microphone use on a detuned floor tom, in the first solo release from Chicago drummer and Amalgam label leader Bill Harris recording live at the Music Garage, in Chicago. |
Smith, Wadada Leo: The Emerald Duets [5 CD BOX SET] (Tum -- Finland ) Price: $79.95 In Stock Part of his 80th Anniversary celebration and subtitled "The Art Of The Trumpeter And Drummers", this 5-CD box set brings legendary improviser Wadada Leo Smith together with four long-time collaborators and masterful drummers--Andrew Cyrille, Jack DeJohnette, Pheeroan akLaff and Han Bennink--with Smith performing on both piano and trumpet. |
Weston, Matt: Sparky 4 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The 4th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
Prevost, Eddie: Collider: Or, Whose Drum is it, Anyway? (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock A series of impressive improvised solo drum performances by AMM/Matchless leader Eddie Prévost performed at Network Theatre in London, 2012, three pieces with each demonstrating a different characteristic of his remarkably creative and technically virtuosic playing, first with drum sticks, then with "Hands, brush, hands", and finally "Sticking it too". |
Uruk (Duthoit / Hautzinger / Drake / Zerang): Ame: Live at Artacts (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Two long-standing duos--Isabelle Duthoit on clarinet & voice and Franz Hautzinger on quarter tone trumpet plus Chicago percussionists Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang, both on percussion and frame drum--joined together in 2020 for a European tour, recording this wildly informed homage to the Mesopotamia city Uruk live at Artacts in Alte Gerberei, St. Johann, Austria. |
Uruk (Duthoit / Hautzinger / Drake / Zerang): Ame: Live at Artacts [VINYL] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $27.95 In Stock Two long-standing duos--Isabelle Duthoit on clarinet & voice and Franz Hautzinger on quarter tone trumpet plus Chicago percussionists Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang, both on percussion and frame drum--joined together in 2020 for a European tour, recording this wildly informed homage to the Mesopotamia city Uruk live at Artacts in Alte Gerberei, St. Johann, Austria. |
Houben, Eva-Maria : 4 For Four (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A work for percussion in thirty-four succinct movements from German composer Eva-Maria Houben and performed by the Frantic Percussion Ensemble of Markus Behn, David Gutfleisch, Simon Gutfleisch, Gunnar Kötke and Jonathan Szegedi, each section using broad and patient spacing to highlight a fascinating mix of traditional and unusual percussive devices. |
Kuchen, Martin Kuchen / Michaela Antalova: Thunder Before Lightning [VINYL] [Used Item] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $23.00 In Stock dinged sleeve |
Blaser, Samuel / Pierre Favre: Same Place, Another Time. [VINYL] (Blaser Music -- Germany ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Only the second vinyl LP of Swiss trumpeter Samuel Blaser's career and released on drummer Pierre Favre's 85th birthday, this is their second duo album, well reflecting the extensive collaboration and touring these improvisers from two generations of free jazz have made, bringing nuance, virtuosity and humor together through original free improv and two notable standards. |
Kuchen / Fernandez / Kaucic: The Steps That Resonate (Not Two -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Uniquely orchestrated with all three members bringing a trove of objects & percussion, the trio of Martin Küchen on saxophones, Agustí Fernández on piano and Zlatko Kaučič on drums are heard in this two-part live concert at BUMF festival in Smartno, Slovenia, for a superb example of intent listening and use of space around confident, stunningly creative & virtuosic playing. |
Ibarra, Susie / Tashi Dorji: Master of Time [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Commissioned for the Tang Museum's "The Second Buddha: Master of Time", the duo of percussionist Susie Ibarra and guitarist Tashi Dorji envision the legendary figure Padmasambhava, who brought Buddhism to Tibet, through two extended improvisations of close communication and tight interaction, including gamelan-like percussion and unusually tuned guitar abstractions. |
Mahall, Rudi / Michael Griener: Jazzpreis [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Bringing together two acclaimed German improvisers who met in Nuremberg in 1982 as teens--reedist Rudi Mahall and drummer/vibraphonist Michael Griener, "bumbling" around to learn free jazz together, heard now 40 years later as authoritative players recording as a duo in 2020 & 21 in Kotzlin and Berlin for eight energetically creative and buoyantly upbeat dialogs. |
Mela, Francisco / Zoh Amba: Causa y Efecto Vol. 1 (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock The first volume of powerful free playing and intimate conversation bringing together two New York-based improvisers, Cuban native drummer/percussionist Francisco Mela and Tennessee native reed & wind player Zoh Amba, both sharing a mountain region upbringing that brings a uniquely reflective quality to their playing, fortified by the exploratory NY improv scene. |
Mela, Francisco / Zoh Amba: Causa y Efecto Vol. 1 [VINYL] (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $18.99 In Stock The first volume of powerful free playing and intimate conversation bringing together two New York-based improvisers, Cuban native drummer/percussionist Francisco Mela and Tennessee native reed & wind player Zoh Amba, both sharing a mountain region upbringing that brings a uniquely reflective quality to their playing, fortified by the exploratory NY improv scene. |
Waldman, Devin Brahja / Hamid Drake: Mediumistic Methodology [CASSETTE] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Evoking the spirit of a seance experienced by alto saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman, the duo of Waldman and drummer Hamid Drake are captured live at Elastic Arts, in Chicago, beginning as a mysteriously delicate concert of intricately introspective playing and spiritual reflection, building to a free jazz drum & sax duo of powerful and enthusiastic release. |
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kawabata Makoto: Reverse Fault (Acid Mothers Temple -- Japan ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Recording at percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani's studio Nakatani-Kobo in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and at Acid Mother's Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto's studio in Asuka, Nara, Japan, the duo continue their collaborations honed through live touring and various improv configurations, generating incredible seismic sonics through unusual use of their instruments. |
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kris Tiner: Dagny (Nakatani-Kobo -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An extended improvisation in two parts at Dagny's Coffe Company in Bakersfield, CA: first a solo performance by Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in a sweeping sonic manifestation of bowed gongs, cymbals, bass drums and objects, which then continues as a duo with trumpeter Kris Tiner for an exhilaratingly peak of adept brass excitement ending in a pensive reflection. |
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kyle Motl: Quicksand (Nakatani-Kobo -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Innovative Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani met with bassist Kyle Motl (Peter Kuhn Trio) at Nakatani Kobo Studio, in New Mexico to record these two extended improvisations, the 1st creating an aural environment through ringing metal and bowed contrabass, the 2nd a set of agitated and disruptive interactions through incredible technical skill and expressive dialog. |
Wolfarth, Christian: 39 / Part I - III (Hiddenbell Records -- Switzerland ) Price: $13.95 In Stock 39 tracks make up this compelling 3-part solo percussion work from Swiss improviser and composer Christian Wolfarth, using a game approach where some sequences are determined by the roll of a dice for note values, rest and tempo, Wolfarth performing on dead wood, a drum or 39 pine cones, augmented with recordings of stones, water, footsteps, church bells, &c. |
Wolfarth, Christian: Wolfarth (For4Ears -- Switzerland ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock |
Lingens, Hannes: Nachthund [VINYL + CD] (Umlaut Records -- France ) Price: $21.95 In Stock Three recordings from percussionist Hans Lingens in his 2nd solo album on Umlaut, working at the intersection between improvised and composed forms of experimental music: "Nacht", a montage of prerecorded layers of mostly rolls and brush sounds; and two recordings in one take using close miking as he performs on a single cymbal with mallets ("Hund") and a bass bow ("Manatee"). |
AMM (Tilbury / Prevost): Industria (Matchless -- UK ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock The title Indústria was chosen by Eddie Prevost in tribute to the history behind the Museu Industrial de Bala do Tejo, in Portugal where this concert took place by the legendary free improvisation band AMM, represented here as the duo of percussionist Eddie Prévost and pianist John Tilbury, performing as part of the 2015 OUT.FEST - Festival Internacional de Musica Exploratoria do Barreiro. |
Clement, Joda / Tim Olive / Mathieu Ruhlmann: Eidolon (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock 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. |
Corcoran, Kevin / Jacob Felix Heule: Erosion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock An improvisational investigation into two bass drums over two extended recordings from West Coast experimental improvisers Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule, as they apply an arsenal of unusual techniques and engage every inch of the drums with a diverse set of objects, evoking strange sounds, pattering rhythmic echoes, metallic cries and deep rumbling effects. |
Cunningham, Alex / Claire Rousay: Specifically The Water (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock A wide range of approach and style in the debut duo recording from Alex Cunningham (violin) and Claire Rousay (percussion), a free affair of expressive and well-matched interaction, from effusively sophisticated rapport to pointillist dexterity and drive, from moments of intense introspection to cantankerous conversation, a fascinating and unpredictable dialog. |
de Asis, Clara / Mara Winter: Repetition Of The Same Dream (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock During pandemic lockdowns, flutist Mara Winter and experimentalist Clara de Asís explored locations of natural resonance to capture this mix of composition and improvisation, delicate and detailed recordings of diverse intent, using harmonically rich tones and textures that resonate in mysterious and haunting ways of beautiful dream-like secrets and reveries. |
Futari (Satoko Fujii / Taiko Saito): Beyond (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Futari (meaning "two people") is the stunningly beautiful debut album of pianist Satoko Fujii and vibraphonist Taiko Saito, recorded in 2019 after a concert tour in Japan, the confluence of these similar instruments and the performer's technical mastery blending in introspective and active modes, adding rich sonic dimensions through preparations and extraordinary technique. |
Leap of Faith: Principles of an Open Future (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An embraceable & explorative example of the core duo of the Boston-area free improvising ensemble Leap of Faith (the foundation of the Leap of Faith Orchestra) of David Peck on reeds and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, both employing the enormous Evil Clown arsenal of percussive and sonic devices, in two large works recorded at their headquarter studio. |
Leith, Oliver / George Barton / Siwan Rhys : Good Day Good Day Bad Day Bad Day (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock UK composer Oliver Leith presents a work in 8 movements for piano, keys and percussion performed by Siwan Rhys (keys) and George Barton, an invocation of everyday life through a personal and often idiosyncratic orchestration reflective of personal ritual & habits; our good and our irrational, often contradictory impetus, portrayed through quirky and embraceable episodes. |
Murayama, Seijiro: Mi-Tai (Ftarri / Hitorri -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Eight improvised performances on percussion from Paris-based drummer/percussionist Seijiro Murayama recorded in 2019 using acoustic sources from snare drums, mallets, brushes, voice, steel tables, gong and voice, captured in four locations around France and in Mishima City, Japan, each exploring new compositional methods and ways to improvise within them. |
Onda, Aki / Nao Nishihara: Kouya-e-to (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 In Stock NYC performer Aki Onda and Yokohama sound artist Nao Nishihara began collaborating in 2015 while Nishihara was residing in NY on an Asian Cultural Council grant, returning in 2016 for this live performance exploring the architecture and acoustics of ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater, installing handmade instruments and analog equipment within a visually arranged set-up. |
Pateras / Baxter / Brown: Live At L'Usine (Cave12 -- Switzerland ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Using prepared piano (Anthony Pateras), prepared guitar (David Michael Brown) and drums (Sean Baxter) this live concert of two improvisations was captured at l'Usine in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006, an exploratory conversation of dynamic structures and sound that implicitly references modern compositional approaches to keyboard, strings and percussion. |
Pederneschi, Alberto: Microcosmo (FMR -- UK ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using prepared drums drums, objects, voice, and Kalimba, Italian drummer Alberto Pederneschi presents eight solo works recorded in the studio, an unhurried but authoritative set of pieces that merge composed and improvised sections, drawing and evoking a narrative sense in coherent arrangements and intimate story telling. |
Regev, Reut / Igal Foni: Two Much Never Enough (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The husband and wife duo of New York free improvisers, Reut Regev on trombone and Igal Foni on drums, both bringing electronics to their session, in surprisingly their debut duo release after two decades of musical collaboration and shared life, their assurance and intimacy evident in the relaxed spontaneity and sheer musicality they bring to their dialogs. |
Schindler / Schimanski: Ging Lenz Den Zwanzigsten Durchs Gebirg Order Nicht (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Recorded at the 79th Salon fur Klang+Kunst, in Krailling, Munich, the pairing of multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler performing on alto saxophone, brass & synthesizer and Patrick Schimanski performing on percussion, live electronics & voice was inspired by the novella fragment Lenz written by Georg Büchner in 1836 based on Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. |
Skist: Ellipsis (Polarity -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock |
Toyozumi / Countryman / Tan: Chasing the Sun (ChapChap Records -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two live sets at Tago Jazz Cafe in the Philippines in 2018 from the trio of master percussionist Sabu Toyozumi on drums, American ex-pat Rick Countryman on alto saxophone, and Simon Tan on acoustic bass, this their 3rd album of solid free improvisation of extended and masterful discourse, unusual percussive devices, and powerful rhythmic foundation. |
Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman: Misaki Castle Tower (ChapChap Records -- Philippines ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The fourth and final night of a series of concerts after three nights of trios and quartets, this live recording captures the duo of legendary Japanese drummer Sabu Toyozumi and American alto saxophonist living in the Philippines Rick Countryman, freely improvising four impresseive and creative conversations of both intricate and reflective dialog. |
Trilla, Vasco: Unmoved Mover (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A dramatic set of improvisations performed on timpani and gongs from Spanish percussionist Vasco Trilla, from the quietest of moments to massively profound and encompassing events, Trilla's timing evoking both meditative passages and moments of power, in a rich and spiritual album that impresses by both technical ability and by the sense of story he reveals. |
Wolfarth, Christian / Jason Kahn: Percussion / Voice (Confront -- UK ) Price: $11.95 In Stock An absorbing album of percussion and voice from the working duo of Christian Wolfarth on drums and percussion, and Jason Kahn on voice, for two extended improvisations of cathartic vocal expression and assertive rhythmic and reflective percussive accompaniment, balancing eccentric and mesmerizing sound in gripping and compelling ways. |
Cleaver, Gerald / Devin Gray: 27 Licks (Rataplan Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 Out of Stock Drummer Gerald Cleaver's significance in NY free jazz can't be understated, and his influence and work with younger generation drummer Devin Gray as a teacher, friend and associate has shaped Gray's work, as heard here in this monumental encounter between the two drummers, a duet that started many years before, playing in the streets of NYC, and now properly captured in the studio. |
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Donald Miller / Rob Cambre / Emmalee Sutton : Moisant Stock Yards (Nakatani-Kobo -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A recurring trio in New Orleans between touring percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and guitarists Rob Cambre (Malevitus, Rough Seven, The Death Posture) and Donald Miller (Borbetomagus) performing at Mudland Public Theatre in 2018 for two extended, gritty and ringing exchanges. |
Arnal, Jeff / Curt Cloninger: Drum Major Instinct (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Finding common ground through independent work in Asheville, NC, drummer Jeff Arnal and modular synth experimenter Curt Cloninger started exchanging musical ideas, developing their concept to add powerful rhythmic elements into patterned energetic synthetics, building a language to improvise together and rework their material into these rich and exciting compositions. |
Takahashi, Yuji / Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Better known for his work in avant compositional forms, both his own and as an interpreter of Xenakis and Toru Takemitsu, pianist Yuji Takahashi joined Japanese free jazz legendary percussionist Sabu Toyozumi in 1998 for this fully improvised live concert at C・S・Aka Renga, in Yamaguchi City, Japan, released in a collaboration with the Chap Chap label. |
Meehan, Sean: Magazine (Sacred Realism -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Working only with a cowbell from a charity shop in NYC, percussionist Sean Meehan, whose performances often take place in locations of unique resonant properties, discovered the Fort Jay powder magazine at Governor's Island--a compartment once used to store ammunition and explosives--using its sonic properties to capture these two recordings reflecting the original purpose of that space. |
Weston, Matt: Sparky 5 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The 5th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores. |
Takahashi, Yuji / Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Better known for his work in avant compositional forms, both his own and as an interpreter of Xenakis and Toru Takemitsu, pianist Yuji Takahashi joined Japanese free jazz legendary percussionist Sabu Toyozumi in 1998 for this fully improvised live concert at C・S・Aka Renga, in Yamaguchi City, Japan, released in a collaboration with the Chap Chap label. |
de Asis, Clara / Ryoko Akama: Sisbiosis (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Engrossing interactions of electronic sound, abstract percussion, static, metallic ringing and other ephemeral sonic assertions, from French-based Spanish sound artist Clara de Asís and UK-based Japanese-Korean installation & sound artist Ryoko Akama: three tracks of live electroacoustic improvisation, and three compositions extracted from those sessions. |
Brennan, Patricia (w/ Herrera / Cass / Gilmore): More Touch (Pyroclastic Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Three drummer/percussionists and bass make up vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan's sophomore album, reimagining the percussion quartet through jazz, new music and latin influences including Mexican folkloric roots, working with deceptively relaxed, highly interactive grooves that turn angular melodies into warmly irresistible music. |
One Small Step (Janne Eraker / Vegar Vardal / Roger Arntzen): Gol Variations (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A truly unique improvisational setting between three Norwegian artists--inspired tap dancer JanneEraker, fiddle player and vocalist Vegar Vardal and double bassist Roger Arntzen--finding an exuberant excitement through the percussion of body movement, strange and slippery vocalizations and two emphatic strings; virtually indescribable and absolutely enthralling. |
Taylor, Cecil / Tony Oxley: Birdland / Neuburg 2011 (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Performing in the intimacy of the Birdland Jazz Club in 2011, New York innovative pianist Cecil Taylor met with London free jazz legendary percussionist and long-time associate in The Feel Trio, Tony Oxley, Taylor's rapid often percussive approach to the keys pairing with Oxley's percussive work, and both invoking lyrical beauty from the other. |
Houle, Francois / Joe Sorbara: Hush (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock With masterful technique and remarkable creative drive, the Canadian duo of clarinetist François Houle and Joe Sorbara explore unorthodox sound worlds through microtones, pad percussives, circular breathing to stretch phrasing, Houle taking apart his instrument to affect tone and pitch, and Sorbara using idiosyncratic percussive instruments including "back porch piano guts". |
Johnson, Evan: L' Art De Toucher (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Five works from US composer often based in Amsterdam, Evan Johnson, in solo, duo and trio settings including a triptych titled "L'art de toucher" in three configurations, demonstrating his unique approach to writing using disparate musical influences from modern to Baroque, mated to anarchic experimentalism and a Wandelweiser sensibility; fascinating! |
Odd Person: Myths of the Crystal Plateau [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Nonlocal Research -- Chile ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock A mesmerizing album of rich percussion and synthetic sound floors from Odd Person, aka August Treager (Bicephalic, Somnaphon), in seven trance-like compositions based around grooves that slowly evolve in character while accompanied by haunting asides of ghostly melodic figures, casting a decidedly world music flavor to original music that transcends location. |
Centazzo, Andrea / Elisabeth Harnik: Duophonic Landscape (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Recorded in a winery in Gorizia, Italy, in 2019, Austrian based pianist and composer Elisabeth Harnik, who works in both composed and improvised music, joined with Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and Ictus label leader Andrea Centazzo to perform this series of creative and authoritative "Duophonic Landscapes". |
Denyer, Frank: Music for Shakuhachi (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Unprecedented music for Shakuhachi by Frank Denyer (releases on Tzadik, Mode) with Yoshikazu Iwamoto on shakuhachi and Paul Hiley joining Denyer on percussion. |
Dymny Trilla: Cave Canem (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Intricate and exciting improvisation from Barcelona improvisers Michal Dymny on electric guitar and Vasca Trilla on drums, with saxophonist Paulina Owczarek as a special guest; "cave canem" translates to "beware of dog", an apt description of their cutting interactions. |
King / Moss / Yoshihide : All At Once At Any Time (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Martin, Billy: Illy B Eats, Volume 3 (Amulet -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock |
Noble, Steve / Daniel Thompson: Sunday Afternoon (Live At The Hundred Years Gallery) (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A recording of two London based improvisers of different generations communing in the resonant surroundings of the 100 Years Gallery, with drummer Noble creating glittering bell and gong like tones over which guitar Thompson hangs fractured harmonics and strange bending chords. |
Rei, Sofia / JC Maillard: The Book Beri'ah Vol 1: Keter (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock With three percussionists--JC Maillard, Franco Pinna, and Thierry Aprino--Maillard also playing bass & stringed instruments, plus vocalist and frequent Zorn collaborator Sofia Rei, Zorn's series "The Book Beri'ah" presenting the final 92 compositions in his Masada series initiates with this compellingly beautiful and propulsive album of song. |
Robinson, Perry / Andrea Centazzo: The Journey (Ictus -- Italy ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock In the spring of 2015 multi-reedist and wind player Perry Robinson travelled to Southern California for a series of concerts, recording this duo with Italian percussionist living on the US West Coast Andrea Centazzo, a free and open session with Robison on clarinet, micro ocarina & bird calls, and Centazzo also using a MalletKat & sampling. |
Schliemann, Wolfgang / Vorveld, Michael: alle neune: rheinländer partie (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Shea, David: The Thousand Buddha Caves (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock Composer, keyboardist and conceptualist David Shea continues his musical journeys through the world's ancient trading routes that began with his albums Hsi-Yu Chi, The Tower of Mirrors, Satyricon and Rituals, here in ten encompassing compositions exploring the trading route from ancient Xian to Rome, through music, stories, history and Buddhist influences. |
Spontaneous Music Orchestra: For You To Share (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Concert and studio recordings of peace music organised by John Stevens for himself and Trevor Watts with numerous workshop musicians and audience people on saxophones, percussion and voices mostly contributing a flexible drone. |
Walter, Weasel : Curses (ugEXPLODE -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Drummer/percussionist and electronic artist Weasel Walter's solo album presents 99 tracks that represent 4 large movements of "detailed abstract madness", titled "Curse Against Humanity", "Casting Destruction", "Ode To The Death Of Enemies", and "Cursed in Eternity", each a vicious and intensely captivating set of elusive movement in accord and discord; fascinating. |
Wiens, Rainer: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A series of solos and duets between Kalimba player Rainer Wiens and an impressive set of improvisers including Jean Derome, Malcolm Goldstein, Frank Lozano, &c. |
Wolfarth, Christian: Spuren [VINYL] (Hiddenbell Records -- Switzerland ) Price: $20.95 In Stock The two parts of "Spuren" from Swiss percussionist Christian Wolfarth cover each side in an album of concentrative timbre and strategy, evoking continuous sounds that are diverted into unexpected avenues, drawing the listener into trance-like states with rich resonance, tone, and malleable rhythms, then surprising with unforseen audio twists. |
Dunmall, Paul / Jon Irabagon / Mark Sanders / Jim Bashford: The Rain Sessions (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Dedicated to Cecil Taylor and taking advantage of NY saxophonist Irabagon's UK visit, this album presents four drum duets "time two", as two tenor saxophonists--Paul Dunmall and Jon Irabagon--meet two lyrical drummers--Mark Sanders and Jim Bashford--following Dunmall long-standing interest in drum and sax duets, the results this ebullient and remarkable album. |
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