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![]() Alcorn, Susan: Soledad (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pedal Steel guitar innovator Susan Alcorn in a mostly solo release, beautifully performing 4 lush compositions by Astor Piazzolla, with bassist Michael Formanek joining for the Alcorn-penned "Suite for AHL". |
![]() Ariel: Origami (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Piano prodigy Ariel, performing complex jazz compositions at the age of 9 (!) with infuences from Matthew Shipp, John Hicks, Kirk Lightsey, Uri Caine, Aaron Goldberg, &c. |
![]() Brady, Tim: Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Making extensive use of sampling and computer electronics, composer and guitarist Tim Brady combines a major work for 20 guitars on his debut record for Ambiances Magnetiques. |
![]() Chrysakis, Thanos: ΕΚΝΗΨΙΣ (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Aural Terrains label leader and electronic composer Thanos Chrysakis in a work in three movements based on a blending of electronics and acoustic instruments. |
![]() Cipani, Nicola: The Ill-Tempered Piano (Long Song Records -- Italy ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Twenty-four engrossing improvisations by Nicola Cipani that were made on broken and untuned pianos, keyboards, and even a clavichord that the artist found, from recordings over a two-year period across New York City. |
![]() Cordier, Eric: Osorezan (Selected Field Recording 1993 - 2006) (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock From an exploration of volcanoes in Japan to the ambience of a nap in France, composer Eric Cordier organizes field recordings made in his travels to create exotic and engaging audio environments that transport the listener. |
![]() Costa, Simao: ANO PRE CAU TION PER CU SSION ON SHORT CIRCUIT (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Portuguese composer and pianist Simao Costa in an album of solo prepared piano in the style of John Cage, using transducers, speaker & objects, paced like a Morton Feldman composition, balancing tones and percussive sound in exquisite compositions. |
![]() Cutler, Chris: Solo (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Dadge, Chris: Near and Distant Skies (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Drummer and percussionist Chris Dadge plays a personal set that was recorded live and includes a variety of percussive stylings varying from minimal ideas to junk-oriented textural play. |
![]() Drake, Bob: 13 Songs and a Thing (Recommended Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Drake, Bob: The Skull Mailbox (Crumbling Tones -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Duchesne, Andre: Reflexions (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A solo poetic album by Andre Duchesne on acoustic guitar playing 14 beautiful songs. |
![]() Ducret, Marc: Tower, Vol. 4 (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Marc Ducret's Tower series continues, skipping a beat as we jump from Vol 2. to Vol. 4, in this live solo acoustic guitar release from his 2012 Baltic tour, where he reassembles and builds bridges to offer a new vision of the Tower's cycle. |
![]() Edwards, Michael: For Rei As A Doe (for piano and computer) (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock UK Composer Michael Edwards wrote these quiet compositions using his "slippery chicken" software, originally written as a challenge to pianist Rei Nakamura, in contrast to his technical skills, instead requiring pensive accuracy over a steady line of quiet chords. |
![]() Falaise, Bernard: Do (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bernard Falaise's debut solo album in 15 peieces for guitar ensembles played by one guitarist with the help of overdubbing and digital processing. |
![]() Fujii, Satoko: Gen Himmel (Libra -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A hauntingly beautiful set of solo piano works from Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii, subtle work that belies her incredible techincal skill through beautifully paced and meditative music. |
![]() Grimal, Alexandra / Giovanni Di Domenico: Chergui [2 CDs] (Ayler -- France ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Saxophonist Alexandra Grimal recorded this double CD with pianist Giovanni Di Domenico a the Theatre Du Chatelet, in Paris, France, for adventurous dialog in a dynamic set of original Di Domenico compositions plus freely improvised work, both duo and solo. |
![]() Guionnet, Jean-Luc: Non-Organic Bias [2 CDs] (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Stepping away from the saxophone, composer/improviser Jean-Luc Guionnet presents two large compositions for the organ, each taking a single CD to explore the organ's border effects, resonances, natural saturations, all artefacts that sign the acoustic, analogic, digital, process. |
![]() Hetu, Joane: Seule dans les chants (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Joane Hetu in her first solo album for alto saxophone and voice that is poetic and intimate. |
![]() Jones, A.F.: Rearward Through Forgottenness (Laminal Recordings -- USA ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A compendium of compositions and improvisations from 2009-13 by undersea acoustician and audio engineer A.F. Jones, who uses stringed instruments and analog devices, hand-crafted and found, in works that emphasize structural components such as timbre, tone, or attack over form. |
![]() Joyfultalk: Muuixx (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Vancouver-based Jay Crocker, half of Bent Spoon with Chris Dadge, in an album of electronics using homebuilt instruments and treatments, rhythmically based music with effective melodies and a quirky, sometimes lo-fi, but always engaging approach. |
Kuchen, Martin : ...And Everything Inside Came Down As Dust (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During his residency in Vienna as part of Johannes Heuer's "Vor Anker", Kuchen recorded these curious solo works using saxophone and preparations, 6 pieces of understated intent using unconventional approaches rewarding the active listener. |
![]() Lerner, Marilyn: Luminance (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Marilyn Lerner in a compilation of improvisations created by setting up different microphones in various configurations to highlight different sound qualities of the piano. |
![]() Lytton, Paul: ?! (Pleasure of the Text Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first solo electronics and percussion album by radical and legendary British improvisor Paul Lytton since 1979, recorded in the studio in Germany, and using a wealth of homemade instruments, laptop, percussive devices, objects, and electro-mechanical devices. |
![]() Machinefabriek: Duotoon (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt) in an EP of a long sine save compositions that creates a minimally moving piece of consonance and dissonance using beautifully recorded tones. |
![]() Masecki, Marcin : Variations (Bolt -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer & pianist Marcin Masecki wrote this work, inspired by Frederic Rzewski and presenting variations on the Chilean song "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido" (The town united will never be defeated) and invited pianist Piotr Nowicki to perform it for this recording. |
![]() Mazurek, Rob: Mother Ode (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An emotional solo concert performed at Chicago's Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery, an ode to Mazurek's mother a few months after her passing, on cornet, flutes, bells, books, maracas, apples, and little electronics, in a touching and beautiful celebration of her life. |
![]() McPhee, Joe: Variations on a Blue Line / 'Round Midnight (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A much-needed reissue of McPhee's 1979 Hat Hut LP documenting his 1977 concert at Salle Ste Croix des Pelletiers, performing 3 original compositions and Monk's "Round Midnight" with incredible skill and inventiveness. |
![]() Metzger, Matthieu: SelfCooking (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A member of the French ONJ (Orchestre National de Jazz), saxophonist Metzger also works with a variety of real-time transformation music software; this is an excellent review of his compositions and his unique voice in modern improvisation. |
![]() Moore, Thurston : Sonic STREET Chicago (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A solo electric guitar soundtrack to James Nares' film "Street" performed by Thurston Moore, freely improvising in a dynamic and impressive performance recorded live at the Rubloff Auditorium at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. |
![]() Morris, Joe : Solos - Bimhuis (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Live recordings from guitarist Joe Morris, performing solo at Bimhuis in Amsterdam in two Octobers from 2013 to 2014, showing remarkable technical and creative skills while captivating his audience with accessible progressions and story-telling; masterful! |
![]() Murayama, Seijiro: Broken Iteration [2 CDs] (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A 2-CD release from Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama, performing solo on "objects" which combines clearly percussive objects and other electroacoustic items of obscure origin, creating active, rich and curious sonic environments that envelop the listener. |
![]() Nakatani, Tatsuya: Present Presence (Nakatani-Kobo -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani presents thirteen pieces that take the listener on an expedition in the modern use of percussion, beautifully paced with rich sound, unexpected harmonic properties, fascinating punctuation, a mesmerizing journey. |
![]() Newton, Jamie: Driving Nails Into Fog (3acreTract(s) -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Jamie Newton works with sound using guitar, keyboards, field recordings, processing, and Kyoto croquet, here in a contemplative set of works merging drone and thick noise with indistinct rhythms and layers of concrete sounds. |
![]() Newton, Jamie: Tone Wheel (3acreTract(s) -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Tonewheel organ meditations along with feedback and sound forms using processed guitar, keyboards and field recordings from sound artist Jamie Newton, 2 slowly evolving tonal works sandwiching three more turbulent pieces in a journey of drone, noise and reflection. |
![]() Niggenkemper, Pascal: Look With Thine Ears (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Ever-active bassist Pascal Niggenkemper in his first solo album of riveting and intriguing double bass work, from aggressive to contemplative and immersive improvisations using work using bass preparations to transform the instrument and make us rethink its potential. |
![]() Nyberg, Joacim : Fylkingen, March 27, 2014 (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Joacim Nyberg, also performing on double bass, bell and recorder, in a live performance in Stockholm, Sweden at Fylkingen in 2014, using "Wood, steel, air. Hands, fingers, heart" in an open-ended and ardent exposition of his interpretation of jazz. |
![]() Perry, Frank: Temple Of The Ancient Magical Presence (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer Frank Perry presents some new and some old unreleased recordings of solos, duos and trios featuring world famous musicians such as Evan Parker, David Toop, Paul Lytton, Paul Lovens, Jin Hi Kim and Trevor Taylor. |
![]() Raon, Eduardo: On the Drive For Impulsive Actions (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Portugese harpist Eduardo Raon uses harp, daxophone, electronics, voice & percussion to create dramatic music that applies his classical training to improvisational methods, using real-time electronic processing to create encompassing yet intricate and unusual sonic environments. |
![]() Riek, Lasse Marc: Harbour (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $11.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Compositions by Lasse-Marc Riek of the Gruenrekorder label, created from field recordings of sounds in harbors, recorded between 1999 & 2007 in Finland's Bjorkoby and Ostero harbors, and in Germany in Wismar and Hamburg harbors, rich evocations of the sea. |
![]() Robair, Gino: Solo Drums with Ebow (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Percussionist Robair placed an Ebow over a street-sweeper blade or a short length of guitar string, and then placed those on the head of a snare drum or floor tom, recording without effects to allow natural rhythms and harmonic modulation to come forth. |
![]() Roberts, Matana : Always (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two passionate studio improvisations from saxophonist Matana Roberts, who lovingly dedicates the album to "those bard(s) of summer...the ideas herein of which I gleaned/interrogated/investigated/celebrated with you..."; subtle, rich, and inspiring. |
![]() Sabatini, Mirko; MK Orchestrin: -28+Alieni (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Italian drummer Mirko Sabatini on a solo album that explores different aspects of his instrument's sound and mechanics through interesting improvisation. |
![]() Guionnet, Jean-Luc: LAC (Lake) (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Jean-Luc Guionnet creates a portrayal of Lake Annecy near his home as described through its geographical location, and heard in a series of snapshot field recording compositions that describe the environment, fauna, people and civilization that abound around it. |
![]() Martel, Pierre-Yves: Continuum (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A solo work from Pierre-Yves Martel performing two works for the viola da gamba, bringing this fretted renaissance-era ancestor to the violin into the 21st century through two slowly evolving and sonically fascinating pieces. |
![]() Robert, Jocelyn: The Maze (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Electroacoustic composer Jocelyn Robert creates a field recording audio map of locations he's traveled to, to which he applys audio techniques equivalent to a geographer's scaling, removing, enhancing, and adding to a map, in the process creating a journey and a story. |
![]() Ballou, Dave : Solo Trumpet (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Baltimore brass player and composer Dave Ballou, know for Either/Orchestra, Meridian Art Ensemble, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble, Satoko Fujii ensembles, &c, in an intimate, diverse, and informed solo album performed on Bb trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, and mutes. |
![]() di Scipio, Agostino : Horbare Okosysteme: Live elektronic compositions 1993-2005 (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Live electronic compositions from 1993-2005 by composer Agostino Di Scipio, using acoustic instruments and digital sound processing to create unusual and previously unheard sound worlds. |
![]() Smith, Wadada Leo: Red Chrysanthemums | Solos 1977 (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Unreleased for more than 39 years, these remarkably creative live solo performances on trumpet, flugelhorn, flute, steelophone, percussion and gongs from improvisor and composer Wadada Leo Smith were recorded in Los Angeles in 1977, during his visionary Kabell Records years. |
![]() Halvorson, Mary: Meltframe (Firehouse 12 Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY guitarist Mary Halvorson's solo album, worked out after a tour opening for King Buzzo, has her performing creative interpretations of works from modern composers like Roscoe Mitchell, Ornette Coleman, Oliver Nelson, & Tomas Fujiwara, back to Duke Ellington's "Solitude". |
![]() McPhee, Joe : Alone Together: The Solo Ensemble Recordings 1974 & 1979 (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock In 1979 Joe McPhee, working with CJR produced Craig Johnson, recorded this set of overdubbed recordings of himself performing on saxes, trumpet and flugelhorn over original compositions showcasing solo, duo, trio and quartet contexts, an album of virtual McPhee ensembles! |
![]() Blonk, Jaap : Songs of Little Sleep (Kontrans -- Netherlands ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Dutch vocalist and electronic artist Jaap Blonk takes on insomnia in 13 short works celebrating sleeplessness, including one piece for Dada sound poet Raoul Hausmann, and other "songs" using effective electronics and bizarre vocal utterances to accompany your own sleepless nights. |
![]() Johnson, Tom / Samuel Vriezen : The Chord Catalogue. Within Fourths/Within Fifths (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Samuel Vriezen performs Tom Johnson's work presenting what Johnson describes as a natural phenomenon within a musical scale: progressions in 1 to 5 voices of all possible combinations of notes with each voice being limited to 3 steps, a perfect 4th or a perfect 5th. |
![]() Johnson, Tom: Counting Keys (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock John McAlpine performs composer Tom Johnson's beautiful piano cycle "Counting Keys", using mathematical progressions to create the structure of its 5 movements; plus 8 parts from his "Organ and Silence for Piano"; and two other compositions using mathematical processes. |
![]() Blumer, Fridolin: Camping; Cafe Bar (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A solid solo outing from Zurich-based double bassist Friodlin, presenting his 4-part "Camping; Cafe Bar" work, blending the jazz idiom with discursive asides and unusual techniques, plus a lovely and appropriately titled work "But Beautiful". |
![]() Merce, Sergio: Be Nothing (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A beautifully ambient album of analogue synthesiser, microtonal saxophone and electronics by Argentinian saxophonist Sergio Merce, a single long track that pauses and resumes its rich tones and harmonies at a deliberate and measured pace, allowing each environment to ring. |
![]() Cage . Pisaro . Frey . Beuger: Accordion Music [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four works interpreted for accordion performed by Edwin Alexander Buchhol, including John Cage's "Cheap Imitation"; Michael Pisaro-Liu's "Here (2)"; Jurg Frey's "Sam Lazaro Bros." and Antoine Beuger's "die geschichte des sandkorns". |
![]() Werder, Manfred: 2003 [3 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pushing the envelope on minimalism, Manfred Werder's 3 scores for "2003" present just 6 tones, the instructions telling 3, 2 or 1 performers to play a pitch or sound for 3-7 seconds twice during the performance; realized by Erik Carlson, Stephanie Richards, and D. Edward Davis. |
![]() Machinefabriek : Sprank (Norwegianism -- Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Inspired by the glitch audio work of Korean-American improviser Bonnie Jones, Rutger Zydervelt (Machinefabriek) unscrews the base of pedal effects to circuit-bend and probe them for unexpected sounds, organized into this album of pure and deformed electronics. |
![]() Oliver, Cody: Rodent Landscapes (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recording on Calgary, CA guitarist Cody Oliver's old resonator guitar, this set of untitled solo recordings finds Oliver playing every inch of the guitar, using the body, pickups, strings and natural resonance as equal partners in exploring unusual territory. |
![]() Thomson, Scott: Heures Indues (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Co-founder of the Association of Improvising Musicians in Toronto (AIMToronto) and a member of The Rent, Scott Thomson presents a solo trombone release of explorative approaches to the instrument, masterful work from one of Canada's leading improvisers. |
![]() Hannesson, Mark: Angels (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Roger Admiral performs Canadian composer Mark Hannesson's "The Angel's Game", and "Memory Sustained", both minimal works for solo piano, the second using a set of instructions giving the performer advice and discretion over pacing and approach. |
![]() Owen, Ben : Birds And Water, 2&3 (For Cassette) [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Brooklyn-based Ben Owen recorded this work in 2010 at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, presenting the original work "Birds And Water" and two edits, which are mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. |
![]() Banabila, Michel: Sound Years [VINYL] (Tapu Records -- Netherlands ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A captivating compilation from electronic composer Michel Banabila recorded between 2005-2016, a combination of studio, live and theatre recordings remixed into two continuous tracks of sound, with collaborations including Oene Van Geel and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). |
![]() Mitchell, Matt plays Tim Berne: Forage (Screwgun -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Matt Mitchell, a member of saxophonist Tim Berne's Snakeoil, releases a solo album of Berne compositions, taking the reedist's typically frenetic material into unexpected territory, revealing dark beauty and intensely introspective aspects to Berne's music. |
![]() Fujii, Satoko : Invisible Hand [2 CDs] (Cortez Sound -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock After bringing her band Kaze to the Cortez club in Mito, Japan, the owner asked pianist Satoko Fujii back to perform a solo show, captured here across two CDs showing her extensive technical skills and passionate approach to playing, in a mix of new work and new takes on previously recorded compositions. |
Fell, Simon H. : Le Bruit de la Musique (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The French Le Bruit de la Musique festival is run by Le Quan Ninh and Martine Altenburger, who invited Simon H. Fell to perform a solo set on the doublebass, the result being this fantastic album that takes the largest of bass instruments through an astonishing array of approaches enhanced by the acoustics of the church of Toulx-Sainte-Croix. |
![]() La Casa, Eric : Paris Quotidien [CD+60 page booklet of photos & text] (Swarming -- France ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Eric La Casa documents his home environment in Paris through audio investigation and field recordings, creating 3 large works that reveal the properties, singularities, banalities and features of his audio environment in perspective to his status as a citizen of the city, presented in a gatefold CD package with a color 60-page booklet of photos and text. |
![]() Stackenas, David: Bricks (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An amazing solo CD of free improvisation from guitarit David Stackenaus, showing incredible technique and melodic intent, equally at ease when exploring tonality and melody or abstract noisy textures; compelling and impressive playing! |
![]() Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
![]() Houben, Eva Maria: Organ Sonatinas And Drones [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock American organist and composer Carson Cooman performs three sontatinas, each in three movements, and the 2014 work "drones", by German contemporary composer Eva Maria Houben, a member of the Wandelweiser group, all slowly evolving works of tone and subtle harmonics. |
![]() LEK: Giant World Knowlege Bliss Control (Fuzzworld Record -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Rua, Vitor and The Metaphysical Angels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars? [2CDs] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A central figure in the Portuguese creative music scene, from the pop group GNR to free improv in Telectu to contemporary composition, guitarist Vitor Rua presents a 2-CD album, one multi-tracking solo in complex and astonishing ways, and the 2nd playing the same scores with his group The Metaphysical Angels of top figures in the Portuguese avant jazz scene. |
![]() Hemingway, Gerry: Kernelings [CD + DVD] (Auricle -- USA ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Drummer Gerry Hemingway in a CD & DVD release, 15 audio tracks and accompanying video and interview, dividing the program into "mist, dust, light, and sex", highlighting aspects of this prominent percussionist that expand our understanding of his prodigious abilities. |
![]() Keune, Stefan: Sunday Sundaes (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Solo improvisation from Stefen Keune performing on sopranino and alto saxophones, intense playing that focuses on hard-blowing and extreme performance, wringing a singularly desperate yet astute language from the horn. |
![]() Parodi, Claudio: Heavy Nichel (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Solo improvisations on the Turkish Clarinet from Claudio Parodi, an Italian classically trained pianist who also works with self-built/self-modified electronics, non-western reeds, and selected percussions. |
![]() Silverman, Ken: Visionaries (SoundSeer -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performing on solo electric & acoustic guitars, oud, charango and synthesizer, NYC guitarist Ken Silverman dedicates this album to musicians such as T-Bone Walker, Hamza El Din, Jimmy Page, Robert Fripp, &c. |
![]() Binder, Claudia: Piano Solo II (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Claudia Binder presents 3 concepts for solo piano - the introspective "Room for a Sound" and it's dramatic inverse, "Sound for a Room"; "Polyphony" in 3 parts using piano preparation, one part playful, one part serious, one part peculiar; and an inexplicable "It Takes Two to Tango"--in performances revealing a curious mind and tremendous skill. |
![]() Moimeme, Abdul : Exosphere (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock "Exosphere is the follow up to Mekhaanu-La Foret des Mecanismes Sauvages(Insubordinations Netlabel, 2013) and like that album, Exosphere features Moimeme on his two home-made electric guitars, enhancers and assorted sound devices. The s... |
![]() Farhadian, Thea: Tectonic Shifts (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock "Farhadian is an American composer and performer with a base in San Francisco and one in Berlin. Her work often is about connecting solo violin and interactive electronics. Combining her classical background as violist (Berkeley Symphon... |
![]() Pauer, Elan : Yamaha / Speed (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock ... |
![]() Machinefabriek: Becoming [CD + DOWNLOAD] (Not On Label -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fourth dance piece by Dutch/Spanish choreographer Ivan Perez to feature an original soundtrack by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), performed live on stage in Korzo in The Hague, and at Vondelpark in Amsterdam, the composer and coreographer developing a movement and sound 'vocabulary' to create a performance that mixes structured and improvised music. |
![]() Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock On the 30th anniversary of the Victo Festival Anthony Braxton took to the stage for a magnificent solo performance on the alto sax, performing 8 spontaneous compositions and an 8+ minute version of "Body and Soul", seamlessly crossing lyrical and complex approaches to the horn using his unique intervallic, trimbral and diagrammatic language, a stunning and embraceable accomplishment. |
![]() Hassler, Hans: Wie Die Zeit Hinter Mir Her (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Swiss accordionist Hans Hassler stands above the (small) crowd of improvising accordionist in the breadth of his career, his ability to balance both lyrical, abstract, serious, and humorous aspects in his approach to the instrument, a true original in intent and ability to engage his listeners, in 15 original and diverse compositions recorded in 2017. |
![]() Emaille, Camille: Bekkos (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A student of Christian Dierstein and Fred Frith, French percussionist Camille Emaille, working in both modern compositional and improvised music and influenced by Middle Eastern and Persian approaches, presents an album of solo percussion work selected from eight improvisations recorded in Bromont, Canada, using a diverse and unusual set of percussive instruments. |
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Giuffre, Jimmy (w / Bley / Swallow): Free Fall Clarinet 1962, Revisited
Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann): Triadic Memories [2 CDs]
Rivers, Sam Trio: Archive Series. Volume 6 - Caldera
Braxton, Anthony: Solo Bern 1984 First Visit
Feldman, Morton (Philip Thomas): Piano [5 CD BOX SET]
Taylor, Cecil: Respiration
Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017
Alcorn, Susan: Soledad
Parker, Evan: NYC 1978
Butcher, John / Eddie Prevost: Visionary Fantasies
Various Artists (Guy / Leandre / Mazur / Nilssen-Love / Kaucic / Fernandez / Gustafsson / Vandermark
Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies
Armaroli, Sergio / Evan Parker: Dialog
Roberts, Matana : Always
Smith, Wadada Leo: Red Chrysanthemums | Solos 1977
Parker, Evan ElectroAcoustic Septet: Seven
Mitchell, Matt plays Tim Berne: Forage
Gallio, Christoph / Dominic Lash / Mark Sanders : Live At Cafe Oto London
Catchpole / Edwards / Prevost: Beyond the Barrier
Prevost, Eddie: Collider: Or, Whose Drum is it, Anyway?