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je'raf: Throw Neck (Amalgam -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Reminding of Downtown NY bands in the vein of No Safety or Curlew, this Chicago/NY 7-piece blurs rock, jazz and funk forms with intelligent and often satirical lyrics, upbeat and joyful music that defies categorization through groove-based songs that playfully critique while keeping it all danceable and fun, in a wonderfully talented and enjoyable album. |
Flying Luttenbachers, The: Negative Infinity [VINYL] (ugEXPLODE / GOD Records -- USA ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Adhering to the tenets of "Dissonance, Speed, Aggression, Weirdness, and Singularity", Weasel Walter leads his Flying Luttenbachers in their 15th album of no wave, punk jazz & brutal prog, Weasel switching to guitar and yielding the drum chair to Sam Ospovat, as the band rips through ridiculously complex twists and turns, even taking on Albert Ayler's strange '66/'67 musical suites. |
Mako Sica (feat Tatsu Aoki / Thymme Jones / Jacob Fawcett) : Garland of Heads [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock With virtually the same lineup as their Feeding Tube album Ourania, the Chicago-based duo of Mako Sica--Brent Fuscaldo (electric bass, voice, harmonica & percussion) and Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (electric trumpet, electric guitar & mandolin)--again join with Tatsu Aoki on bass & shamisen and Thymme Jones on keyboards, trumpet, balloon & voice, subbing drummer Jacob Fawcett. |
Crazy Doberman: "Everyone Is Rolling Down A Hill" ... [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock The Indiana collective Crazy Doberman in a 15-performer configuration including core members Tim Gick and Drew Davis, merging jazz and indescribable approaches to free improvisation with a mix of acoustic & electronic instruments, building their pieces from mysteriously cantankerous rumination to ecstatic grooves and much in-between. |
Zucker, Gabriel & The Delegation: Leftover Beats from the Edge of Time [2 CDs] (ESP-Disk -- USA ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Without bowing to genre restrictions, Gabriel Zucker's indie jazz orchestra The Delegation combines free jazz, chamber forms, avant song structures and experimental layering & transitions, as his large work in four sections of three movements each, explores time and the competing impulses of a backwards-looking nostalgia and a forwards-looking futurist belief in progress; innovative & stunning! |
Moon-Liters / Millennium Development Goals (D. Liedel): Nerve Agent! (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Essentially written by Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist D. Liedel, who handles most of the parts on this unusual blend of rock, electronics, jazz, pop punk and a number of unlikely genres, presenting strange songs that take sharp turns into twisted realms, neatly layering each piece into a heady brew that's hard to pin down, but a great deal of fun trying. |
Veloso, Moreno: Every Single Night (Black Cross Solo Sessions 4) (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Brazilian singer Moreno Veloso recorded these songs from a songbook developed from his favorite artists, inspired while singing his children to sleep during pandemic, selecting lyrical songs that he performs accompanying himself on acoustic nylon-string guitar, recording the album in a corner of his living room, giving the album a beautiful intimacy and sincerity. |
Crazy Doberman: Illusory Expansion [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $16.96 In Stock With core members Drew Davis, Tim Gick, and John Olsen (Wolf Eyes), the wonderfully eclectic ensemble on each Crazy Doberman album shifts as they introduce musicians who can express the experimental improv structures required for each project, blurring genres and using whatever tools necessary to move from abstract to high intensity motion; a sublimely eccentric big band. |
Mendoza, Ava: New Spells (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A joint release between Astral Spirts and Relative Pitch, guitarist Ava Mendoza conjures five assertive and rugged "spells" performed on solo electric guitar, passionate works of raw technical skill and bold power as she improvises over two songs composed by herself, alongside pieces written for her from Devin Hoff, Trevor Dunn and John Dikeman. |
Mendoza, Ava: New Spells [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock A joint release between Astral Spirts and Relative Pitch, guitarist Ava Mendoza conjures five assertive and rugged "spells" performed on solo electric guitar, passionate works of raw technical skill and bold power as she improvises over two songs composed by herself, alongside pieces written for her from Devin Hoff, Trevor Dunn and John Dikeman. |
Krokofant w/ Stale Storlokken / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Fifth (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock As on their prior album Q, the Nordic Krokofant free improvising jazz/rock trio of Axel Skalstad on drums & vibes, Tom Hasslan on guitar and Jorgen Mathisen on saxophone are joined by bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (The Thing) and Stale Storlokken (Elephant9, Supersilent), cementing their lineup as they forge adventurous and spectacular playing on this Fifth album. |
Sex Magick Wizards: Your Bliss My Joy (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The sophomore release from this Norwegian instrumental rock band, with all members of the quartet coming from an improvisation/jazz background that fuels their diverse interests in the rock format, from blistering runs, dark blues grooves and even a nod to Swedish folk jazz; a dynamic album of great technical playing but more importantly, a strong commitment to rock. |
Attitude! (Tang / Ishito / Wu): Pause & Effect [VINYL] (ESP-Disk -- USA ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock Combining free jazz and post-punk rock forms with pointed commentary about issues of race, gender, the pandemic, and political autonomy, through provocative vocal works expressing modern angst, from three Asian-American female performers living in NYC: tenor saxophonist Ayumi Ishito, drummer Wen-Ting Wu, and activist and Tiananmen Square survivor Rose Tang on voice, guitar & piano. |
Huvudbry: Det ar ingen ordning pa allting [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Drummer Hampus Ohman-Frolund (Apuh!) leads the Huvudbry septet of structured rock forms, with an intriguing orchestration of trumpet, lap steel, double bass, guitars, keyboard and voice, using intervals of unusual sonic experimentation and field recordings to create a unique album that bassist Mats Dimming refers to as "A mix of Captain Beefheart, Yann Tiersen & Swedish House Mafia". |
Huvudbry : Piggelin-rundan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Essentially a solo album from composer and improviser based in NYC Hampus Öhman-Frölund, this extended work uses a zither as its basis, augmented by a MicroKorg and the voice of Huvudbry bandmate Avery Leigh Draut, using no set tempo and framed and inspired around a picture of the woods near where Öhman-Frölund grew up; really lovely and inspired work. |
Center For Whatever: Boogie Spiderland [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The first collaboration between Brooklyn-based experimental improvising drummer Hampus Ohman-Frolund (Apuh!) and guitarist John Lindaman (True Love Always), blurring rock forms and experimental electronics into a hybrid space rock that takes unexpected twists and turns, with the goal to produce compelling psychedelic inspired sound; headphones recommended! |
Center For Whatever: Ensorcelled [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock An intensely experimental journey in sound through guitars, electronics and percussion from the Brooklyn-based duo of John Lindaman and Hampus Ohman, a diverse set of pieces improvised using sound sculpting, noise and melodic elements, creating a great balance between darkness and light amidst solid conceptual and technical approaches to their instruments. |
Yoshida, Tatsuya / Dairo Suga: Root (Doubtmusic -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Driven by a passionate intensity, this first meeting of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojinn, Koenji Hyakkei, &c) and pianist Dario Suga at 7th Floor in Shibuya, Japan begins at high speed, the sheer technical brilliance of both players dazzling, their unbridled energy eventually yielding to passages of introspection that recur to fervor and fraternity; exceptional! |
Borbetomagus / Shaking Ray Levis: Coelacanth [10" VINYL] (Agaric -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock 1991 collaboration between Shaking Ray Levis and Borbetomagus in an exquisite mix of over-amplified and otherwise bewilderingly fierce free improv. |
Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora / Parkins): Free Dirt (Live) [2 CDs] (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock One of the most intense and unusual of the 80s Downtown NY groups merging rock and improvisation with strong attitudes and incredible musical concepts, these live recordings, including songs never before released, are taken from American and European concerts by the trio of guitarist Fred Frith, cellist Tom Cora, and either electric harpist Zeena Parkins or reedist Dave Newhouse. |
Eliogabal: Mo (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Sharing members of the band F.A.T., the Lille, France on based quintet Eliogabal of Mael Bougeard & Sakina Abdou on saxophones, Paul Menard on guitar, Thomas Coquelet on bass and Pierre Pasquis on drums, declares themselves a free jazz rock progressif, performing complex and assertive music that takes time for contemplative musing among strong lyrical riffs, twists and turns. |
Hippie Diktat: Black Peplum (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Primal instrumental rock with an aggressive bent from the French trio of Antoine Viard on baritone saxophone, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar, their large sound built on the persistent use of raw and primitive rhythms, and a monumental textures made out of amplified baritone saxophone and electric baritone guitar. |
Musicworks: #141 WINTER 2021/2022 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The Winter 2021/22 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine explores the creative ideas of artists engaged in beautiful, daring musical acts of innovation, celebration, and resistance--Alanna Stuard, Yves Charuest, Roxanne Nesbitt, New Age Doom & Lee Scratch Perry--plus Beny Esguerra, Jessica McMann, Juro Kim Feliz, Backward Music; and recorded & live reviews, features, &c. &c. |
Gross, Jean-Philippe / Golden Oriole: Optical Cadillac / Golden Oriole [VINYL 10-inch] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A split 10" vinyl album of two very different works: first French sound artist Jean-Philippe Gross in a sonic assault of garish rhythmic electronic persistence and noise; then the Golden Oriole instrumental rock duo of Kristoffer Riis on guitar and Thore Warland on drums in a compelling work of grooving structure with diverse percussive interaction. |
Isildurs Bane / Peter Hammill: In Disequilibrium (Ataraxia -- E.U. ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The second collaboration between the Swedish chamber rock band Isildurs Bane led by keyboardist and composer Mats Johansson and lyricist, vocalist and guitarist Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator) presents two new multi-part suites with lyrics by Hammill--"In Disequilibrium" and "Gently (Step by Step)"--detailed, astute and powerful works of sophisticated progressive rock. |
Carnalisme (Gargaud / Grente / Ziemniak): De Profundis (nunc. -- France ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Formed by double bassist Patrice Grente and drummer Etienne Ziemniak in 2010, the French band Carnalisme, meaning "This fuzzy, troubled and slippery place, which everyone owns and no one can spot", produce a raucous blend of hard rock and free improvisation, here in their 4th release and joined by guitarist Guillaume Gargaud for a profoundly blistering album. |
Kaiser, Henry / Rome Yamilov: The Lenoir Investigation (Little Village -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The Little Village Foundation run by keyboardist Jim Pugh assembled this band through Indian blues harmonica player & singer Aki Kumar, who brought drummer June Core and guitarist Rome Yamilov, deciding to make the release a "crazy guitar album" by adding Henry Kaiser; along with vocalist Lisa Leuschnet they hit the mark in an exuberantly diverse set of blues performing the music of J.B. Lenoir. |
Das Rad (Archer / Robinson / Dinsdale): Laik Tors (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The third album from the Sheffield-based trio Das Rad of Nick Robinson on guitars, keys & electronics, Martin Archer on woodwinds, keys & electronics, Steve Dinsdale on drums & keyboards, influenced by progressive rock, kosmiche, and fusion forms, here evolving and refining their melodic approach to genre-crossing styles merging composition and improvisation. |
Eclectic Maybe Band: Again Alors? (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Led by Univers Zero bassist and composer Guy Seger, the third album from Eclectic Maybe Band combines elements of rock, jazz, electronic and abstract landscapes, performed by an ensemble of chamber rock players including Discus label leader Martin Archer, varying groupings within the band focusing on each section in a mix of composed and improvised approaches. |
Kihlstedt / Bossi / Ismaily: Causing A Tiger (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The trio of violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt, bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Matthias Bossi explore the language of memory and dreams through songs, improvisation, and field recordings. |
Non Credo: Happy Wretched Family (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Superb, simply superb, but also disorienting and disquieting: that's Happy Wretched Family, Non Credo's second album, seven years after Reluctant Hosts. The avant-pop format found on the first LP has evolved into twisted shards of pop ... |
Slawterhaus (Rose / Hollinger / Bauer / Diesner): Live (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock . Live recording from 1988. "The avant rock/improv quartet Slawterhaus was invited to the 1990 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. The first 50 minutes of Live come from their performance, the last ten from a con... |
Duchesne, Andre: Le Temps Des Bombes (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $9.00 In Stock |
Albatre: Nagual [VINYL] (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $22.95 In Stock Hailing from Rotterdam's rich underground scene, the trio of Hugo Costa on alto sax, Goncalo Aleida on bass, and Philipp Ernsting on drums, with all 3 doubling on electronics, in a dramatic and energetic album blending free jazz, improv, metal, and punk music. |
Ex, The: All Corpses [7" VINYL] (Superior Viaduct -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The Ex's first single from the Netherland unique and socially charged band The Ex of Terrie Ex on guitar, G.W. Sok on voice, Ome Geurt on drums and Bas on bass, starting a legacy of intelligent and pointed rock, improvised and experimental music that continues 40 years later, reissued as a 2020 Record Store Day release on colored 7" vinyl. |
Gryke Pyje: Collision And Coalescence [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $23.95 In Stock Composers and performers Jani Hirvonen and Johannes Schebler create a complex universe in sound & melody, a veritable forest of sound referencing global and spiritual environments, using warm instrumental sources, field recordings, world percussion and extended use of the studio in a satisfying series of journeys with a mysteriously transcendental and devotional feeling. |
Hawkins, Chester: Natural Causes - Original Music For Pale Trees, A Film By Tim Ashby [VINYL] (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Washington, DC based electronic experimenter Chester Hawkins (Blue Sausage Infant) was commissioned by director Tim Ashby to compose this work for the soundtrack to his feature-length film "Pale Trees", Hawkin's music illustrating the film's gradient of psychological colors from darkness, rage, and vengeance through a mix of kosmische drone in a Tangerine Dream vein. |
Judge Schreber's Avian Choir: Bleed [VINYL] (Cort -- USA ) Price: $17.96 In Stock Saxophonist and composer Crowmeat Bob's ensemble, Judge Schreber's Avian Choir, is a project name he's used to present his large ensemble pieces involving composition, improvisation, and conduction, here in a conducted collaboration with 15 bowed string players, a heavy metal rhythm section and Bob's own overdubs on reeds and guitar. |
RG Rough / Makoto Kawabata: RG Rough / Makoto Kawabata [VINYL RSD] (Bam Balam Records -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A Record Store Day 2020 LP of the collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto and French/British multi-instrumentalis RG Rough, using guitar drones, electronics, concrete sounds and percussion to create a sonic junble, occasionally soothed by a near-lullaby, only to be subsumed by a cascade of strings or fades into a repetitive minimal piano figure. |
Roman Radkovic Collective: Televize [VINYL] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Price: $21.95 In Stock A Slovokian experimental group with rock roots and a somewhat DaDa approach to unusual song forms using perplexing repetitions and interventions, led by guitarist and vocalist Roman Radkovič with Josef Novák on keyboard, Jiří Šíla on accordion, Zdeněk Řihošek on harmonica & double bass Zdeněk Caha on drums & voice, and Miloš Šandera on percussion. |
Svendsen, Christian Meaas : Avin [VINYL LP] (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $20.66 In Stock Known more for his double bass work, Christian Meaas Svendsen releases a stunningly beautiful album of unusually orchestrated pop songs with an 8-piece band of Nordic improvisers and performers, a dramatic album of tension and release which, despite lyrics in Norwegian, draws all listeners in through inventive and innovative musical structures. |
Derviche (Borchard / Favriou): Murs Absurdes (Ayler Records -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The 2nd Derviche album on Ayler Records from the French electric bass and drum improvising duo of Eric Brochard and Fabrice Favriou, in five sequences of assertive and masterful instrumental improvising rock, ecstatically heavy material of thick detail and ominous overtone, intended to be played as a continuous suite and clearly intended for maximum amplitude! |
Vandermark's, Ken Marker: McPhee Marker [VINYL EP] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock A 12-inch 45rpm EP from Chicago Ken Vandermark's band Marker with guest Joe McPhee on tenor saxophone, performing the Parliament Funkadelic track "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" and DNA's "Egomaniac's Kiss", with Vandermark on tenor & baritone saxophones plus guitarists Andrew Clinkman & Steve Marquette, keyboardist Macie Stewart and drummer Phil Sudderberg. |
Astroturf Noise (Harmet / Nagano / Swanson / Martin / Bernstein): Astroturf Noise (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Astroturf Noise is Sam Day Harmet on mandolin, Sana Nagano on violin, Zach Swanson on bass, Billy Martin on percussion, and Sarah Bernstein on violin, living at the intersection of American folk & roots music and free improvisation, using effects and sonic additions in an unusual mix that the quintet makes completely natural and all their own. |
B.E.P.: Hamburger Midnight (Inkanish -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Coultrain: Phantasmagoria (Positive Elevations -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock West Coast songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Coultrain, aka Aaron Michael Frison or Seymour Liberty, in an collection of songs based around a sequence of images reminiscent of a dream, capturing the hazy state of mind that drove the process behind this album, as well as its dreamy effect; soulful and introspective, an album of poetic observation and reflection. |
Ecstasy Mule: Sings Songs of Love & Redemption [3" CD] (Batterrie -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Upper Manhattan's ecstatic blues- and Bailey-influenced acousto-electric improvising band in a 3" release of exultant, exotic and unusual music. |
Feel No Other: Feel No Other (Silber -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Electric Bird Noise artist Brian Lea McKenzie extends his concepts in a new duo with vocalist Claudia Gregory (Exhaust the Fox, Claudia Versus the Queen of Hearts), with a new band name and a compelling set of epic electro-rock songs. |
Grandmothers, The : Eating the Astoria (Obvious Music -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Ich B!n Nintendo (Winther / Nergaard / Johansen): Lykke (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The Ich Bin Nintendo trio of Christian Skar Winther (guitar & voice), Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (bass) and Joakim Heibo Johansen (drums) take their improvised noise music into the post-punk world with demanding and energetic music that voices it's power and exultation. |
Jerkagram / Martin Escalante : Parkour (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Ater a concert in Los Angeles with Martin Escalante on the same bill, the twin brothers, guitarist Derek Gaines and drummer Brent Gaines, asked the extreme saxophonist to join them in the creation of a new, cathartic form of improvisation, filled with angst and dramatic release, ending with an extended journey in sound and squawk; a gripping album of gritty improv. |
Kabako, Solo Dja: Solo (Hopscotch Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Blind guitarist and singer Solo Dja Kabako is an important figure in Burkina Faso in West Africa, whose talent took him from begging on the streets as a kid to being a treasured artist in his country, here in an album recorded in his home in Ougadougou by saxophonist Assif Tsahar after a festival where they met; a record of warm, sincere music and song. |
Konrad Strumpfel & The Set: refrescoscopio [CASSETTE] (Music a la Coque -- France ) Price: $5.95 In Stock An unissued album from Bavarian experimenter & songwriter Konrad Strumpfel and "The Set", the Czech duo of Herbert Lukundra & Josif Afkak, who added their contributions to Strumpfel's work which had been sent to them by post, the strengthening of the "Iron Curtain" between the USSR & Europe in the late 80s then prohibiting the release of their collaboration. |
La Baracande : La Baracande (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $12.95 In Stock The third album from the French/Belgium La Baracande, with vocalist/violinist Basile Bremaud leading a quartet of violin, guitar, lap steel, pedal board, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, and drone, singing long form ballads of epic tales of life and love that they describe as speaking with a voice to the living and our ghosts. |
Metal Chaos Ensemble: Syncretic Discipline (Evil Clown -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock PEK and Yuri Zbitnov lead the Metal Chaos Ensemble, here in a septet rendering of this Boston-area free improvising group that embraces an impressive arsenal of percussive, electronic and acoustic instruments, using unique strategies to yield densely active and eerily surreal music, an incredible excursion through experimental improvisation. |
Moodring: Scared of Ferrett (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock Moodring is centered around Rollerball's Monte Allen & Mae Starr, mixing rock with sound & noise, tinted with a free post-jazz flavor in deep doom filled grooves and ghostly vocals. |
Musicworks: #123 Fall 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Features: The Expanding Universe of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; The Retro Aesthetic of Le Revelateur; JOYFULTALK (Drip Audio); Muuixx; Hard Rubber Orchestra; Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville; Allison Cameron and Contact; plus live and recorded reviews. |
Musicworks: #138 Winter 2020/2021 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The final issue of 2020 is is dedicated to the art of conversation in music and about music during the age of pandemic; with Debby Friday on the cover, plus articles about Victoria-based composer Anna Höstman, Tehran-born Araz Salek, Tkarón:to-based saxophonist and composer Olivia Shortt, with a CD including tracks from those artists, plus reviews, articles, &c. |
Naked Wolf (Ex / Gibson / Jaeger / Provan / Szafirowski): Ahum (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bridging improv and rock, this quintet including Luc Ex on guitar uses instrumental and vocal forms to draw on a wealth of styles with references to free improv, post-punk and RIO styles, beautifully pacing the album from energetic improv to slowly unfolding atmospheres. |
Plan Kruutntoone / Reinier van Houdt : Pas Maar Op, Want Deze Tas Is Van Zorro (En Zorro Houdt Van Mij) (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Plan Kruutntoone joins forces with avant-garde pianist Reinier van Houdt for a conceptual narrative blurring improvised music, compositional and rock forms, with a narrative based around Zorro and Rosa, geography (and Spielberg) and Brodski, or in their terms: composed and deranged music and lyrics (and other words) on guitars, basses, drums and a piano. |
Plan Kruutntoone / Reinier van Houdt : Pas Maar Op, Want Deze Tas Is Van Zorro (En Zorro Houdt Van Mij)[VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Plan Kruutntoone joins forces with avant-garde pianist Reinier van Houdt for a conceptual narrative blurring improvised music, compositional and rock forms, with a narrative based around Zorro and Rosa, geography (and Spielberg) and Brodski, or in their terms: composed and deranged music and lyrics (and other words) on guitars, basses, drums and a piano. |
Regler: Regel #4 (HNW) (Rapid Moment / At War With False Noise / Decimation Sociale / Pilgrim Talk -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Anders Bryngelsson and Mattin make up Regler, a project of varying genres performed on rock instruments, following sets of rules to create conceptual sound works; Regler #4 deals with harsh noise walls, generating a 30 minute piece of thick, savage sound. |
Remora: Scars Bring Hope (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Silber Records label owner Brian John Mitchell's Remora persona, assisted by Brian Lee McKenzie (Electric Bird Noise) in post-apocalyptic folk songs, drones, and electronic music. |
Steidle, Oli & The Killing Popes (Steidle / Mobus / Nicholls / Downes / Donkin): Ego Pills (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Rapid fire playing and a wicked humor fuels drummer Olie Steidle's album with guitarist Frank Mobus, keyboardists Kit Downes and Dan Nicholls, and bassist Phil Donkin, mashing together electro-jazz, art rock, hardcore and club music into upbeat and twisted music, building up to a narrative "Speed Junky on Funny Human Darts"; insanely embraceable and stunning. |
Svendsen, Christian Meaas : Avin (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Known more for his double bass work, Christian Meaas Svendsen releases a stunningly beautiful album of unusually orchestrated pop songs with an 8-piece band of Nordic improvisers and performers, a dramatic album of tension and release which, despite lyrics in Norwegian, draws all listeners in through inventive and innovative musical structures. |
Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar Four (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The fourth in the Elliot Sharp curated "Meta Guitar" series brings a wealth of diverse styles and approaches to the guitar, from Knox Chandler, Tashi Dorji, Monika Roscher, Rhys Chatham, Kalle Kalima, Ryan Choi, Marco Oppedisano, Bern Nix, Markus Reuter, Hahn Rowe, Pete Matthiessen, Robert Poss, Ron Anderson, Morgan Craft, Roberto Zorzi, and Erdem Helvacioglu. |
Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Two (Orbit577 -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The second of a five-volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from David Stackenas, Jessica Ackerley, Jorge Espinal, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Sebastian Sequoiah.Grayson, Sam Shalabi, Shinobu Nemoto and Nyctalllz. |
Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Five (Orbit577 -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The final of five volumes from this series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from Harvey Valdes, Antonio Guillen, Boris Belica, Sandy Ewen, Denis Sorokin, Arvind Ganga, Pengboon Don, Josue Amador, Todd Clouser, and Mohammed Ashraf. |
Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Four (Orbit577 -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The fourth of a five volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from Janet Feder, Martin Vishnick, Ikbal Lubys, Edward J. Gibbs, Joshua Weitzel, Guram Machavari, Eric Wong, Garth Erasmus, and Bill Horist. |
Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume One (Orbit577 -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The first of a five-volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from L. Hein, Davaajargal Tsaschikher, Alan Courtis, Marco Cappelli, Elliott Sharp, Hery Ujjaya, Killick Hinds, Gilbert Isbin, and Nick Vander. |
Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Three (Orbit577 -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The third of a five volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from Sergio Sorrentino, Christian Vasseur, CharbelHaber, Misha Marks, Henry Kaiser, Nick Ashwood, Emil Palme & Taus Bregnhøj-Olesen, Sharif Sehnaoui, Colin Robinson, Martin Huba |
Weber, Allen: Hot Shock (NO LABEL -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Grooves with Energy, or Sandunga Jazz Fusion as guitarist and leader Allen Weber describes his mix of jazz rock fusion infused with Latin, Carribeo, Funk, Blues, R & B and Rock. |
Charming Hostess: The Ginzburg Geography (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $12.89 Out of Stock An examination of the lives and work of anti-fascist political activists Natalia and Leone Ginzburg during World War II, researched and developed by late vocalist and composer Jewlia Eisenberg, this album completed by her longtime collaborator Marika Hughes and performed with musicians including Nils Frykdahl, Darren Johnston, Dan Cantrell, &c. |
Takeda, Risa : The Sorcerer's Castle (Cbzm Records -- Japan ) Price: $12.00 In Stock An epic story in symphonic rock style from pianist, drummer and composer Risa Takeda, telling the fantastic tale of a dramatic confrontation between an Emperor and a Sorcerer, through eleven compositions of a contemporary classical and theatrical nature, using modern synthetic sources in active and complex orchestration as the plot advances. |
Atsushi / Tatsuya / Makoto: Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour 2022 (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Recordings from the 2022 Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour from the trio of Tsuyama Atsushi on bass, guitar & piano, Yoshida Tatsuya on drums, synth and vocals, and Kawabata Makoto on guitar, bass and vocals, selecting the best tracks from the tour into a collection of 15 psychedelic, progressive, experimental and uncategorizable rock forms! |
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. |
Yoshida, Tatsuya / Risa Takeda: SUPERHELIX [CD + DOWNLOAD VIDEOS] (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Fifteen rock instrumentals between drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and pianist & keyboardist Risa Takeda, generally high-speed, technically superb and melodically infused pieces of imaginative creativity with a quirky sense of humor, augmented with Yoshida's vocalizing and effect processing from both; includes a download sheet for 15 high-def movies, one for each track on the album. |
Bootstrappers (Elliott Sharp / Melvin Gibbs / Don McKenzie): Xenolith (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The first new Bootstrappers album since 1992, joining band leader Elliott Sharp for this 3rd album are longtime collaborators Melvin Gibbs on electric bass and Don McKenzie on drums, for seven assertive rock-based improvisations fueled by electronics, free jazz, no wave and electroacoustic sound, manifesting a hardboiled NY ethic of focused grooves and free playing. |
Action & Tension & Space: Tellus [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $35.95 In Stock With one foot in fusion-oriented improv and the other in psychedelic/prog rock, the 4th album from the Norwegian quartet of Per Steinar Lie on lapsteel & electric guitar, Oystein Braut on guitar, organ & Mellotron, Julius Lind on double bass and Orjan Haaland on drums are joined by keyboard wiz Sigbjorn Apeland and percussionist Stale Liavik Solberg. |
Mollestad, Hedvig : Tempest Revisited (Rune Grammofon -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock For her 2nd solo record aside from her rock trio, guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen expands her orchestration to an octet, adding jazz-rock elements while balancing scorching playing with lyrical and open passages, as she pays tribute to Arne Nordheim's 1979 composition for Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and for her own experiences of furious weather in her home town of Ålesund. |
Flaten, Ingebrigt Haker: (Exit) Knarr (Odin -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Celebrating his 50 years, Norwegian bassist and composer Ingebrigt Haker Flaten assembles a band of diverse background and superb musical skill to tell his story as a tribute to the people, music and places that have shaped him, a work commissioned by Vossajazz and presented as six destinations including Trondheim, Chicago, Mexico City, &c.; a profound and amazing journey in music. |
Hippie Diktat: Gran Sasso [VINYL] (nunc. -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock The 3rd album from the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar, drawing parallels to Sunn O))) and the raw power of Peter Brötzmann, here in a four-part work of primal rhythms and powerful textures, applying the use of space and timing around repetition to create a bedrock of brawny sound. |
Roue Libre (Lanau / Comte / Biardeau): Titanomakhia [CD EP] (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock This assertive French rock trio's first EP takes on provocative subjects with urgency and an acerbic humor through dark and driving grooves and tight interaction, from the trio of Theo Lanau on drums, Richard Comte on guitar, bass, & voice and Quentin Biardeau on saxophone & keyboards, from studio treated live recordings at Astrolab, in Orleans, France. |
Hippie Diktat: Black Peplum [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Using raw and primal rhythms, deep textures from amplified baritone saxophone and trance approaches to rock instrumental music balancing Steve Reich and Sunn O))), the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar has toured Europe since 2011, here in recordings at l'Ecluse, in Reims from 2013. |
Hippie Diktat: Fire On (Self Released -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Six raw instrumentals bridging free jazz and free rock forms, clearly influenced by both Brötzmann and Sunn O))) (as referenced in the track "SunnA)))") from the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on amplified baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar, recording at l'Ecluse, in Reims in 2013 for six ruggedly inspired tracks. |
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Taylor, Mike: Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited
Ayler, Albert: Summertime To Spiritual Unity, Revisited
Bley, Paul Trios: Play Annette Peacock, Revisited
World Heritage, The (Yamamoto Seiichi / Katsui Yuji / Kido Natsuki / Nasuno Mitsuru / Yoshida Tatsuy
Marteau Rouge / Keiji Haino: Concert 2009
Mingus, Charles: At Antibes 1960, Revisited
Tatsuya, Yoshida / Cho Sokkyo / Tzboguchi Masayasu: TYU
Korekyojinn Acoustic: Kaleidoscope
Mendoza, Ava: New Spells
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Kaiser, Henry / Rome Yamilov: The Lenoir Investigation
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kawabata Makoto: Reverse Fault
Atsushi / Tatsuya / Makoto: Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour 2022
PYN (Pittard / Yoshida / Nasuno): L'elan Createur
XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbot): Pah'
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere
Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere: 02
Archer, Martin & Engine Room Favourites: Safety Signal From A Target Town
TtD (Nasuno Mitsuru / Tatsuya Yoshida): Teneleven the Duo
Lubelski, Samara / Bill Nace: S/T