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Bayer, Marcel-li : Niketrchrin (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock ... |
Bi-Ki?: Quelque Chose Au Milieu (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock The alto sax duet of Jean-Baptiste Rubin and Sakina Abdou sculpt sound material that draws on the acoustic resources of the space within which they play, captured here in various locations in Northern France by the keen ear of saxophonist/conceptualist Jean-Luc Guionnet. |
Branche, Sebastien: Lignes de Fuite [CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Sebastien Branche (Insub Meta Orchestra, Miguel A. Garcia) uses the tenor saxophone as a sound source, meticulously applying extended techniques, circular breathing and the resonance of the saxophone itself during improvisation, using Supercollider software in a two-way collaboration where the instrument also transforms the sounds provided by the computer. |
Carter, Daniel / Patrick Holmes / Matthew Putman: Whoadie (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock "Whoadie" is New Orleans slang for close friends, and the NY trio of saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter and flute player Daniel Carter, clarinetist Patrick Holmes, and pianist Matthew Putname are three close compatriots, which includes Telepathic Band, and apt description of their chamber-oriented free improv in an album inspired by an out of tune piano. |
Chrysakis, Thanos / Chris Cundy: A Certain Slant Of Light (Aural Terrains -- UK / EU ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock A 5-part electroacoustic improvisation from the UK duo of electronic and sound artist Thanos Chyrsakis and reedist Chris Cundy, the former using laptop computer, synthesizers, and copicat tape echo to create mesmerizing sheens of sound that circle and complement Cundy's bass clarinet, who also performs on megaphone, voice changer, zither, & objects; entrancing and captivating. |
Doneda, Michel: Monstre (PRINT w/ DOWNLOAD) (Tour de Bras -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Performing on soprano and sopranino saxophones, French saxophonist Michel Doneda is heard in concert at Tiasci in Paris for three "Monstre" solo improvisations of quietly emphatic playing using extended techniques and unusual phrasing, released as a limited 250g paper card hand-printed by Normad with an accompanying download code, 1 of 2 art cards initiating an 8-card series. |
Double-Basse (Petit / Duboc): This is Not Art (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock French free improvisers Benjamin Duboc (double bass) and Jean-Luc Petit (contrabass & clarinet) in a moody album of bass tones, deep harmonics and rich timbral interaction with beautiful pacing that rises in confrontation and then descends back to artful darkness. |
Garside, Gus / Herve Perez: The Unexpected Visitor (Orbit577 -- Italy ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Saxophonist Herve Perez and double bassist Gus Garside spent much of the pandemic lockdown recording these intimate duos, interpretations of a 13th Century Poem, "The Guest House" by Rumi, recording in their respective homes using software designed for real-time audio collaboration, as they developed this introspective set of dialogs with strong lyrical affinity between the two. |
Hatcher, Gerrit: Knowledge About The Future (Kettle Hole Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Chicago-based tenor saxophonist, improviser, and composer Gerrit Hatcher (Devouring the Guilt, duos with Anton Hatwich, duos with Julian Kirshner) in a solo album of seven succinct statements, diverse expressions from scrabbling determination to pensive reflection, all informed by masterful skills that add nuance and intrigue to each track. |
Jafrate, Keith / Herve Perez: Tete-a-Tete (Noumenon -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock Recorded live in the studio in Sheffield in a single take, this first time meeting of the UK alto saxophone duo of Keith Jafrate and Herve Perez improvise freely, distinguishable by the stereo channel they reside in, as they display great technical skill and a unique sense of humor on tracks titled like "Something Funky in the Sauce" or "And a Hair in the Pudding". |
Junk & The Beast (Petr Vrba / Veronika Mayer): Trailer (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Petr Vrba and Veronika Mayer use non-idiomatic improvisation to research the combination of textural materials, crossing them with vibrations of objects on the speakers, pure sound waves, feedbacks, tones coming from trumpet, accordion, electronics, and laptop, culminating in the creation of a muscular frenetic soup of tense energy fields. |
Krennerich / Schubert / Osswald / Fischer: Degrees Above (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Four German saxophonists are heard in three sophisticated and extremely creative chamber-oriented improvisations recorded at Kulturzentrum Hufeisen: Andreas Krennerich on soprano, sopranino & baritone saxophones; Frank Paul Schubert on alto & soprano saxophones; Hartmut Osswald on tenor sax & bass clarinet; and Nils Fischer on baritone sax & contrabass clarinet. |
Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand : Not the music : Les temps fluos [PRINT w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock An album of quiet improvisation focused on timbre, rhythm and pensive pacing from the duo of bass clarinetist Philippe Lauzier and bassist Éric Normand, also using objects to create mysterious tones and acoustic sonics, released as a limited 300g paper card hand-printed by Normad with an accompanying download code, 1 of 2 art cards initiating an 8-card series. |
Leap of Faith: Nucleosynthesis (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock A core trio setting for Boston's framework improvising Leap of Faith with David Peck (PEK) on clarinets, saxophone and assorted winds, Yuri Zbitnoff on drums & percussion, and Glynis Lomon on cellos and percussion, along with "2 gongs, a ton of Tibetan bowls and bells, various orchestral castanets, various seed pod and other wood rattles, and other small things". |
Leap Of Faith: Phenomena (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Two founding member of Leap of Faith, multi-reedist and multi-instrumentalist PEK and cellist and percussionist Glynis Lomon. present two improvisations themed on waves and particle transformations, using microphone techniques to enhance Lomon's bowing, in a set deploying aquasonic, daxophones, gongs, Englephone, contrabassoon, tromboon, and much more. |
Leap Of Faith: The Observed Present (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock The debut of this reconfigured Boston-area trio drawn from the Leap of Faith lineup, starting with the core duo of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, with guest Eric Woods on synth and percussion, the trio using heavy percussion and electronics gear in a unique journey of extended freeform improvisation. |
Leap Of Faith: Trajectories (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock With new drummer/percussionist Steve Niemitz, the Leap of Faith trio of PEK on clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, musette, tarota, bass tromboon & sheng, Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, and Niemitz on percussion recorded this session at Bonnie Kane's monthly Thursday Night Experiment in Western Massachusetts. |
Massaro, Francesco: Maniera Nera (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Translating to "Black Manner", saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Francesco Massaro, a member of the Italian band Bestiario, presents a dark and troubling album of intense and power solo saxophone and acousmatic accompaniment, which he refers to as "fixed media", each of the 8 pieces referencing musicians including Lenoci, La Volpe, &c.; enigmatic and superb. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Beyond the Holy Mountain (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock With a core of Leap of Faith members (David Peck, Glynis Lomon & Yuri Zbitnov) along with trumpet, bass, computer & electronics, Moog, and analog synth, this rendering of Boston's far-ranging collective, using David Peck's framework compositions and arsenal of instruments, takes their listeners through controlled cosmic chaos with recitation and electronic companionship; wild! |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Luminiferous Aether (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Metal Chaos Ensemble, formed in 2015 as a working project to explore rhythms on metallic instruments guided by rules-based chaotic systems of a very large number of small components, in a quintet studio recording using three dedicated drummers, reeds, electronics, and accompanying "tape" mixes, resulting in epic, inspired and wonderfully unpredictable improvisation. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Null Hypothesis (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Null Hypothesis is a return to the birth of Metal Chaos Ensemble 5 years previously with Null Theory, the duo of David Peck (PEK) on reeds, winds, percussion and other unique percussive elements, and Yuri Zbitnoff on drums, chimes, and other percussion - no spoken words accompaniment tracks, or overdubs, simply Zbitnoff and PEK and a room full of percussion, horns and electronics tearing it up live to YouTube for 70 minutes; epic. |
Mirror Unit, The (Wissel / O'Dwyer): Wind Makes Weather (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Sharing common ground in improvisational language and extended techniques but approaching these materials in diverse and disparate ways, alto saxophonists Tim O'Dwyer and Georg Wissel, both using preparations on their sax and distinguished in separate stereo channels, present a singular concert of reed interactions live at the Peter Kowald Ort in Wuppertal, Germany |
Normand, Eric: Demission Definitive Du Patron (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Two large compositions by Montreal bassist Éric Normand, the first in a quintet with Camille Brisson, Antoine Simard, Marc-Antoine Mackin and Sébastien Maltais, using electronics, objects and motors; the second an acoustic work performed by the Quasar saxophone quartet of Marie-Chantale Leclerc, Mathieu Leclerc, André Leroux & Jean-Marc Bouchard. |
Parzen-Johnson, Jonah: I Try To Remember Where I Come (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Chicago born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson performs live at The Bunker on baritone saxophone, accompanying himself on analog synthesizer, using arpeggiated and repeating structures over which he improvises lyrical work using extended techniques including circular breathing, multiphonics, and overtones to great effect. |
PEK Solo: Closed & Open Universes [2 CDS] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock Evil Clown mastermind David Peck (PEK) in a double album of solo work, 1st pure solo, then in a long work accompanied by his own prepared mixes, using clarinets, saxophones, English horn, goat horn, tarota, bamboo, Chistmas & alto flutes, slide whistles, sheng, Melodica, Akai Wind controller, moog subsequent, gongs, brontosaurus & tank bells, Englephone, and delay. |
PEK Solo: Coefficient of Unity (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock A great example of the state of David Peck (PEK)'s approach to improvisation & arsenal of instruments, in an epic solo work merging acoustic and electronic sources with an unhurried path in a coherent long-form improvisation using reeds, sheng, fog horn, game calls, gongs, chimes, crotales, daxophone, [d]ronin, mpa 019, therimin, aquasonic, loops, & signal processing. |
PEK Solo: Precedents [2 CDs] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock Two discs of solo work from Boston-area reedist, composer and Evil Clown collective leader David Peck (PEK), the first CD with 3 tracks, each focusing on a unique instrument from David Peck's large arsenal, in this case the bass tromboon, a C flute and a contrabass clarinet; the second a large improvisation using a mix from the first recordings along with live signal processing. |
Pek Solo: Pursuing the Ideal Limit of Inquiry (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock The fourth PEK Solo effort of 2020 finds Boston-area reedist David Peck in a virtual duo with himself, using a digital delay in a call and response on a single instrument - the tenor saxophone - his primary horn for a large part of his early history, demonstrating his current improvisational thinking & language on his most familiar instrument. |
PEK Solo: Schematic Abstractions for the Clarinet Family (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock PROMO COPY WITH CUT CORNER |
PEK Solo: Schism (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Approaching his solo work with new compositional strategies, multi-reedist and percussionist David Peck uses time and texture as the principal organizational elements in 9 pre-mixed recordings over which PEK was allowed more flexibility and freedom in instrumental choice during performance, using a vast collection of instruments in dramatic improvisations. |
PEK Solo: The Strange Theory of Light & Matter (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Four times David Peck, as the Boston reedist and multi-instrumentalist leverages concepts from his graphic scores for the Leap of Faith Orchestra designed to limit the excesses of large ensemble in improvisation, following his score of symbols and written instructions through four recorded iterations, listening to and reacting to the previous layers in a virtual quartet of PEKs. |
PEK Solo / An Orchestra Of PEKS: Some Truths Are Known [3 CDS] (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock David Peck, aka PEK, took advantage of the down time from his typically busy performance schedule with the Boston-area collective of bands centered around Leap of Faith to record a number of solo performances, using a variety of reed and wind instruments and the arsenal of unusual percussive instruments at his disposal, recording the 3 full CDs of new material presented in this set. |
Prual, Matthieu: Inside Walks (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A unique approach to solo reeds and winds from French multi-reedist Matthieu Prual, also on flute and ORLA Keyboard, maintaining lyrical and comprehensible approaches with strong technical skills in captivating and succinct statements, truly excellent work. |
Raia, Antonio : Asylum (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Naples tenor saxophonist Antonio Raia's album of solo saxophone improvisations employs a mix of traditional and unusual techniques in 12 concise pieces that fragment "scraps" of melody into a diverse ruminating streams, recorded at the city's Filangeri Asylum by sound artist Renato Fiorito, using ten microphones to capture the unique qualities of the space. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Bruno Parrinha / Nuno Torres / Paulo Galao: 3 Phases (II) Grey (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock "3 Phases", or different aspects of the approach that violist Ernesto Rodrigues applies to improvisation, in three different groupings over three different days, all live at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal in 2018, here in an acoustic sax trio with strings, with Bruno Parrinha on soprano, Nuno Torres on alto, Paulo Galao on tenor sax. |
Ruhl, Joris: Toile, Etoiles (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Four improvisations in a series titled "Etoile" [star] and one composition using graphic notation titled "Toile" [canvas], from French clarinetist Joris Rhule, working with multiphonics and extended harmonic technique to extoll unusual sonorities from the single reed instrument, from fragile to forceful, fascinating examples of extreme sonic exploration. |
Sinton, Josh: Krasa (Irabbagast -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock New York reedist Josh Sinton takes the contrabass clarinet on a wild ride, performing live with no overdubs, using clip-on mics, a mixing board, a sans amp box, a volume pedal, and a bass amp, as he explores sonic possibilities and unexpected directions for this big reed instrument in his quest to redefine the old Slavic word for beauty or splendor: krasa. |
Sjostrom, Harri / Guilherme Rodrigues: The Treasures Are (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Bringing together a wealth of experience in contemporary improvised music, Berlin-based cellist Guilherme Rodrigues and soprano and sopranino saxophonist Harri Sjostrom developed these 12 pieces, combining and contrasting their instruments, at times seeming to complete each other's phrases, in a remarkably sophisticated and virtuosic "Treasure". |
Sub-Unit #1: Potential & Kinetic Energies (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock This "Sub-unit" from Boston's improvising Leap of Faith Orchestra presetns a duo between Eric Zinman on piano, percussion and synth and David Peck on an array of saxophones, clarinets, bassoon and other reeds, plus small percussion, Theremin and accordion, in a unique and active duo with both players suggesting a larger ensemble through diverse strategeis and instrumentation. |
Turbulence: Flow Across Scales (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock A larger than previous Boston collective's Turbulence ensemble with 6 of the regular horn players from Leap of Faith Orchestra, performing multi-reedist and instrumentalist PEK's extended framework, with drummer percussionist Yui Zbitnoff; the ensembe breaks down to three duos and guest saxophonist Bob O'Brien, captured live at Outpost 186, in Cambridge, MA in August 2018. |
Turbulence: Son Of Cosmocentric (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Turbulence Cosmocentric Edition, the extended horn section for the Leap of Faith Orchestra with the core of PEK on winds & percussion, Yuri Zbitnoff on drums & percussion, plus guest Michael Caglianone on saxophones, sheng, game calls and percussion, in an extended piece that holds reflections of Sun Ra's work through powerful rhythms and diverse and unusual instrumental passages. |
Turbulence: The Conception Of Sense (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Turbulence, the wind instrument and sometimes percussion branch of the Leap of Faith Orchestra is represented by leader and composer David Peck (PEK) on winds, reeds and percussion, and Yuri Zbitnoff on drums and percussion, with saxophonist Michael Caglianone joining and also performing on bells, as they perform an extended framework composition from PEK. |
Turbulence: Tumult (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock The extended horn section for the Leap of Faith Orchestra is heard here as a quintet with PEK (reeds), Jim Warshsauer (reeds), Bob Moores (trumpet), Eric Dahlman (trumpet) and Duane Reed (baritone horn), all using an a vast collection of percussive instruments, game calls and other devices, to create a journey of tone, color, interactive playing and rhythmic intervention. |
Turbulence: Upheaval (Evil Clown -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Turbulence is a smaller grouping of the Boston-based Evil Clown collective, typically with a majority of horns, here as the quintet of PEK (reeds & winds), Ellwood Epps (trumpet), Bob Moores (trumpets), Jim Warshauer (sax and winds), and Michael Caglianone (saxophones), a fully acoustic group of wind instruments and brass, taking a chamber approach to distinctive improvisation. |
Vazquez, Pablo / Hernan Sama: El Nombre Del Ritual (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Thirteen emphatic "rituals" from the Argentinian duo of saxophonist Hernan Sama, recording in the studio as they employ an array of techniques including extended bowing and plucking approaches, saxophone smears, growls, vocal utterances, odd reed techniques, &c, to engage their listener's ears as they unfold dialog that merges jazz forms and fully free improvisation. |
Koketsu, Masayo: Fukiya (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An extended monologue on the alto saxophone from Tokyo-based Masayo Koketsu (Carrier/Koketsu/Fuwa/Itani), driven by an innate sense of timing to introduce assertive utterances, growls, throttling and intense interaction offset with long pauses, digressive asides and reflective moments, a remarkable album of modern free jazz in the Japanese tradition. |
Houle, Francois / Marco von Orelli: Make That Flight (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Canadian improvising clarinetist François Houle and Swiss trumpeter Marco von Orelli are heard live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, in Basel, Switzerland, 2020 for eleven dialogs reminiscent of the work of John Carter and Bobby Bradford, though uniquely in their own modern language of chamber-oriented jazz through original compositions from both artists. |
Aella (Henriette / Breiner / Goldman): Aella (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock "This 'Aella' release is one of three in a series curated by myself and released by 577 Records. The other two records are of my trio and of Alan Bjorklund's Amygdala. This trio displays the amazing potential of improvised music. Whenev... |
Magee, Massimo: Toneflower (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 In Stock A solo sax album of patterns and intersections from London writer, artist & musician Massimo Magee, influenced by a wealth of sources from Braxton to Stockhausen, each of the five parts of "Toneflower" affected through mic placement as Magee builds to wild expressiveness, transforming round tones into stratospheric pitches, using circular breathing for extended expressiveness; stunning! |
Ughi, Federico (w/ Buckley / Musson / MF Morris): The Space Within (Slam Productions -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Drummer Federico Ughi is heard in three duo configurations of three improvisations each with British improvisers Steve Buckley on alto saxophone and bass clarinet; Rachel Musson on tenor saxophone; and Matthew F. Morris on baritone saxophone, recording in the studio in London, 1998. |
Schindler, Udo / Michel Wintsch: Le Demon de l'analogie (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock "The Demon of Analogy", reedist Udo Schindler on clarinets & saxophone and Michel Withsch performing on a Pleyel piano, take inspiration from the concepts of French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallamé (1842-1989), who considered his texts as instruments of harmonic complexity and ambiguity, interpreted in eight improvisations recorded live at Krailing, in Munchen, Germany in 2016. |
Schindler, Udo / Peter Jacquemyn: Fragile Eruptions (FMR -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Live recordings of two sessions of fully free and uniquely creative duo improvisations by Udo Schinlder on clarinets, saxophone and brass, and Peter Jacquemyn on double bass & voice, recorded on November 29th, 2019 at the 98th Salon für Klang+Kunst Kralling/Munich by Udo Schindler (part one) & on the next day at Galerie arToxin by Gottfried Düren (part two). |
Chrysakis, Thanos / Jason Alder: Milieu Interieur (Aural Terrains -- UK / EU ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock Employing multiphonics, circular breathing and unusual sonic phenomena of immense control over the lowest of clarinets--the bass clarinet and contra bass clarinet--UK-based multi-reedist Jason Alder performs the two-part "Milieu Interiuer" composition by Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis, along with three other Chrysakis compositions for solo and layered clarinets. |
Comte, Richard / Julien Pontvianne: Sunken Music (nunc. -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The long-standing duet of guitarist Richard Comte and tenor saxophonist Julen Pontvianne (Onze Hours Onze) is a conversation of introspective and resonant repetition around silence, tonal decay, slow call and response and submerged themes, here symbolically immersed as they explore four sunken islands from around the world: Vordonis; Lohachara; Semionovski and Elugelab. |
Villard, Fabrice / Pierre-Stephane Meuge: Musique Logique (nunc. -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock 25 pieces for solo saxophone in a tribute to and following the logical number games of minimalist composer Tom Johnson, composed by clarinetist and ensemble Dedalus member Farbrice Villard under the inspiration of Johnson's collection Rational Melodies, and performed by the extraordinary French clarinetist Pierre-Stephane Meuge (Counterpoise). |
Grimal, Alexandra: Refuge (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Recorded using the natural resonance from the base of a stone double spiral staircase in the Castle of Chambord, France, improvising soprano saxophonist Alexandra Grimal explores her own personal language and the affect the ambience brings to her adept playing, through beautifully melodic lines, long arpeggiations, or short bursts of penetrating utterance. |
Carter, Daniel / Jim Clouse: Playing Retention (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Known first as one of New York's finest audio engineers running Park West Studios, Jim Clouse is also a drummer and saxophonist, this his first recorded foray into free jazz partnering with legendary multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter on sax, trumpet, piano & drums, for seven diverse and extremely well informed improvisations as each follows their natural inclinations. |
Fowler, Chad / Christopher Parker: Park Hill Saudade (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $6.30 In Stock An intimate sax and piano duo from two improvisers with a 30-year friendship--Chad Fowler and Christopher Parker--both living in the same block of Park Hill, Staten Island, forming a close musical bond that is heard in their confident exchanges, both playing together and in providing space for each to express themselves; a lovely album of warm and informed conversations. |
Futterman, Joel / Chad Fowler: Timeless Moments (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The first duo collaboration between pianist Joel Futterman and saxophonist Chad Fowler, performing on stritch--a straight alto saxophone--in a nine-part studio journey drawing on a history of jazz styles, from blues to free, in lyrical and actively introspective dialogs, building to an intense conclusion of rapidly cathartic interaction and a final, pensive release. |
Perelman, Ivo / Tim Berne / James Carter / Tony Malaby: (D)IVO (Mahakala Music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Led by Ivo Perelman on tenor saxophone, (D)ivo brings four of New York City's finest improvising saxophonists together for an outrageous quartet session, with Tony Malaby on soprano saxophone, Tim Berne on alto saxophone and James Carter on baritone saxophone, their unique styles and masterful skills creating a thrilling and intricate weaving of profound reed expression. |
Olencki, Weston: Old Time Music [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock Multi-instrumentalist & experimental composer Weston Olencki in three historically-driven sound works, recording with saxophonist Anna Webber as they explore the tenor sax in jazz and recording studio technology; the banjo with bluegrass and the mechanized modernism of the Carolinas; and a pump organ with Sacred Harp hymnody and the aging marble industries of Vermont. |
Capece, Lucio / Katie Porter: Phase To Phase (Ftarri -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Rich harmonics and interstitial interactions between two bass clarinets, as Utah-based Katie Porter and Berlin-based Lucio Capece exchanged recordings to develop two compositions, the first focusing on expression in the context of freedom in time, the 2nd using strict time to explore the effects of overlapping-phasing; reference The International Nothing. |
McPhee, Joe / Evan Parker: Sweet Nothings (For Milford Graves) (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A confluence of masterful playing through two soprano & two tenor saxophones plus one pocket cornet, as Evan Parker and Joe McPhee perform live in 2003 at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, weaving lines with intricately relaxed confidence and coming together for beautiful moments of lyrical connection. |
Motl, Kyle / Patrick Shiroishi: Apparitions [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock The second album on Notice Recordings for West Coast free improvising saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi is a duo with San Diego-based double bassist Kyle Motl, in an exceptionally well-balanced example of powerful expression from both players, free blowing and turbulent exchanges offset by experimental introspective passages in four extended and excellent improvisations. |
Pisaro-Liu, Michael : Two Scrolls From Western Australia (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Composer Michael Pisaro-Liu asked guitarist Jameson Feakes and saxophonist Josten Myburgh to each select a location in Western Australia and make a set of field recordings at different times of day, providing the basis for a musical scroll akin to Chinese scroll paintings, each musician then a poetic character placed into the virtual landscape of their recordings. |
Eichenberger, Markus / Christoph Gallio: Unison Polyphony (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock A seeming contradiction in terms, the unison voices and divergent polyphony that emerges best describes the subtle interactions between these two Swiss reed players--Markus Eichenberger on clarinet and Christoph Gallio (Day & Taxi) on soprano and C-Melody saxophones--their "harmony of coherence" strategies guiding their melodic interlacing and fragmentation. |
Kuchen, Martin Kuchen / Michaela Antalova: Thunder Before Lightning [VINYL] [Used Item] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $20.70 In Stock dinged sleeve |
Quatuor Umlaut (Karl Naegelen / Morton Feldman): Calques (Umlaut Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Founded by violinists Amaryllis Billet and Anna Jalving, with Fanny Paccoud on viola and Sarah Ledoux on cello, Quatuor Umlaut presents their first recordings, joined by clarinetist Joris Ruhl for two pieces: "Calques" by composer Karl Naegelen using effects of transparency and fusion of tones; and Morton Feldman's highly textured "Clarinet and String Quartet". |
Foster, Michael: The Industrious Tongue (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock It's not just the tongue that drives these compellingly irascible and unexpected sounds from the saxophone, augmented at times by samples and oscillators, as NY saxophonist Michael Foster applies technique beyond extended to a tenor and soprano saxophone, in two multi-part works of solo utterance: "Libidinal Fragments" in seven parts, and "Celluloid Nightmares" in two. |
Magill, Rob: Blues Etudes (Kettle Hole Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A series of reed and wind improvisations, including two pieces with electronics, from Southern California composer and improviser Rob Magill, each of the 9 tracks on this album focusing on a different instrument: alto saxophone, soprano saxpohone, clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, bass recorder, sheng and tenor saxophone, plus a multi-instrumental "misc". |
Lila Bazooka (Sophie Bernado / Celine Grangey): Arashiyama (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.62 In Stock The French duo of bassoonist Sophie Bernado and sound artist Céline Grangey expand on the rich timbre of Bernado's bassoon, starting solo in beautiful etude improvisations only to have Grangey's sound designs expand around her playing, developing rich environments through electronics, field recording & voice, a beautiful intersection of experimental, composed and improvised music. |
Mahall, Rudi / Michael Griener: Jazzpreis [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 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 ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.40 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 ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.09 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. |
Cameron, Allison / Apartment House: Somatic Refrain (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A diverse set of compositions from Canadian composer Allison Cameron showing the breadth of her interests across experimental and compositional forms, including a solo multiphonic work for bass clarinet; a guitar trio with the Allison Cameron band of Cameron, Eric Chenaux & Stephen Parkinson; and Apartment House performing quintet and sextet compositions. |
Jones, Darius: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] [Used Item] (Northern Spy -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.30 In Stock Drawing on compositions from black artists who have created something uniquely their own--Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Georgia Anne Muldrow--alto saxophonist Darius Jones pulls from the depths of emotion and vulnerability in five solo tracks recorded in Portland, deeply felt blues reflecting the black experience in America and the pain of isolation. |
Busolini, Cyprien / Bertrand Gauguet: Miroir (Akousis Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.09 In Stock An album of intensive listening through concentrated improvisation from the long-running collaboration of French improvisers, Cyprien Busolini on viola and Bertrand Gauguet on alto saxophone, both using unfaltering techniques as they metamorphose their instruments from delicate silence to forceful tones, oscillating and vacillating across two extended improvisations. |
Boiron, Baptiste / Bruno Chevillon / Frederic Gastard: La [2 CDs] (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $21.55 In Stock During a residency in 2020 at the Domaine de Kerguehennec in Brittany, saxophonist and composer Baptiste Boiron developed this repertoire for the trio Lá of Boiron on soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, Bruno Chevillon on double bass, and Frederic Gastard on bass saxophone, Boiron's compositions applying a wealth of creative approaches merging contemporary and improvised playing. |
Bruckmann, Kyle: Triptych (Tautological) (Carrier Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Performing on oboe, English horn and live electronics, West Coast double-reedist Kyle Bruckmann presents three extended solo works of deep electroacoustic binding, each dedicated to a writer, artist or musician: "A Spurious Autobiography for John Barth (2015)"; "An Extruded Introversion for Blixa Bargeld (2016)"; and "A Fuzzy Monolith for James Turrell (2015)". |
Charles, Xavier / Bertrand Gauguet: Spectre (Akousis Records -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Using the interference points of closely pitched sound, long-time collaborators Xavier Charles and Bertrand Gauguet use acoustic and amplified clarinets and saxophones to create frequency landscapes that change slowly, ringing with harmonics while finding unison and conflict in their tones, creating meditative aural environments of great beauty and reflection. |
Countryman, Rick: The First Bird (ChapChap Records -- Philippines ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Taking his inspiration from the concepts and work of German fractal image & video artist Joerg Wand, US-born and Philippines-based alto saxophonist Rick Countryman presents his first unaccompanied saxophone album, as he flows, winds and weaves his saxophone along rich peninsular curves to illustrate Wand's vision through fluid and sustained playing. |
Derome, Jean: Solo Souffles (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The remarkably creative flutist & saxophonist Jean Derome often incorporates unusual instruments into his improvisations and compositions, including bird calls, harps, kalimbas, sirens, flower plastic wrappings, bells, &c &c.... on this album Derome focuses on those unique instruments and noise makers through 23 surprising pieces illustrating his incredible collection. |
Emmeluth, Signe: Hi Hello I'm Signe (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock A single piece recorded live for Ingebrit Haker Flaten's 2020 Sonic Transmissions Festival finds the Danish saxophonist in an extended improvisation of varying moods, applying a diverse set of methods and technical approaches to the horn, from quiet meditate work to full-throated exuberance, in a remarkably personal journey of confident exposition. |
Eskelin, Ellery: Solo Live At Snugs (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Ellery Eskelin performing solo on tenor saxophone at 61 Local in Brooklyn, NY, four original compositions, personal and distinctive improvisation like listening to tales from a well seasoned and adept traveler. |
Flaherty, Paul : Focused & Bewildered (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock An expressive and truly unique tour de Force on the tenor and alto saxophones by American free jazz legend Paul Flaherty, recording in the studio for 10 improvisations showing strength, melodic beauty, powerful technique, unusual and idiosyncratic approaches to soloing, and above all, a distinctive and individual voice on the horn. |
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