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Blumer, Fridolin: Camping; Cafe Bar (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of 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". |
Baker, Duck : Outside (1977-83) (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker was influenced by Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, recording these solo original improvisations plus 2 Ornette Coleman pieces from '77-'83 in London, Torino & Calgary, plus 2 duos with guitar madman Eugene Chadbourne. |
Pavone, Jessica : Silent Spills (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Using viola, effects, and on one track, voice, New York improviser and Anthony Braxton ensemble member Jessica Pavone presents a uniquely voiced solo album, approaching the instrument through simple means that become increasingly twisted and unforseen as they advance. |
Sikora, Catherine : Jersey (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Irish-born New York based tenor saxophonist Catherine Sikora, know for her work with Eric Mingus, Hans-earl Park and Nick Didkovsky, in her first solo album, a strong release of passionate and informed free improv, 13 pieces revealing a unique and adept approach to the horn. |
Dick, Robert: Our Cells Know (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Using multiphonics, percussive effects, circular breathing and other extended approaches to the contrabass flute, composer/performer/improviser Robert Dick releases a mesmerizing album of improvisations, breaking new terrain by letting the largest of flutes lead his muse. |
Amalgamated / Odd Person : Anthropodermic Ixii [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, all hand-painted & numbered; this release presents the collaborative long-form improvisation noise project Amalgamated backed with Odd Person, the ongoing project of Bicephalic label leader August Traeger. |
Dog Hallucination / Ichtyor Tides : Vergier Begets [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A is Dog Hallucination (D. Petri) for manipulated guitars, textural element, and organized sound; Side B is Ichtyor Tides (Nikola Akileus) for synthetic ambience, glitches, hazy drones, & field recordings. |
Boghossian, Herve : F.E.R. (for Eliane Radigue) (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock French composer Herve Boghossian pays hommage to electronic composer Eliane Radigue while asserting his own approach to continuous electronic sound in textures and pulsations, using a laptop recording feedback, plus harmonicas, drums, brooms, tuner and voice. |
Kahn, Jason: For Voice (Confront -- Great Britain ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Two concert improvisations for unamplified voice recorded in Canberra, Australia at the 2015 SoundOut Festival and in Tokyo, Japan at the Kid Ailack Art Hall in 2014, using extended vocal techniques and leveraging the room acoustics and social space between Kahn and the audience. |
Baron, Marc : Un Salon Au Fond D'un Lac (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Beautifully paced and enigmatically interesting compositions from Marc Baron, using only analog processes in three compositions for reel to reel tape, blending field recordings, cut-up, noise, found sound, pre-recorded and degraded tapes in unusual and absorbing ways. |
Nilssen-Love, Paal: News From the Junkyard [VINYL] (PNL -- Norway ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock Assembling a wide range of percussive instruments accumulated through world travels, from Korean gongs to scrap metal sheets from Ethiopia, Paal Nilssen-Love presents an intense and wide-ranging solo percussion tour-de-force, recorded in Oslo by frequent collaborator Lasse Marhaug. |
Alonso, Edith: Collapse (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Madrid multi-instrumentalist and cross media artist Edith Alonso in an album of prepared solo electric bass improvisations, a four part work of muscular and shadowy sound, dark vibrations with crepitating edges making a sinister and cathartic dungeon of sound. |
Costa, Carlos: Door of No Return (Aural Terrains -- Greece/UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Double-bassist Carlo Costa, originally from the Canary Islands and who has worked with Tim Berne, Tomas Fujiwara, Ingar Zach, Wade Matthews, &c. in a solo album of solid and unusual bass technique including plucking, bowing and scraping, in his 9-part series of "Doors". |
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. |
Oberg, Uwe: Twice, At Least (Leo Records -- UK ) Price: $15.45 Out of Stock Live recordings from 2012 & 2015 by German pianist Uwe Oberg performing a mix of original compositions and work by Monk, Bley, Lacy, & A. Peacock, balancing melodic and exploratory playing with passionate conviction backed by masterly skills and impeccable pacing. |
Merkel, Clemens : Maderna . Beuger . von Schweinitz . Stiegler (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Violinist Clemens Merkel interprets compositions by Wolfgang von Schweinitz's "Sonata for Violine Solo"; Antonie Beuger's "Unwritten Page"; Bruno Madema's "Piece Pour Ivry"; and Thomas Stiegler's cycle "Kammerkomplex" ("quasi una fantasia", "gran partita" and "sonata facile"). |
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". |
Chrysakis, Thanos: ΜΑΓΜΑ / MAGMA (Monochrome Vision -- Russia ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An extended electroacoustic piece recorded in 2011 and named as an apt description of the bubbling, dense and intense flow of sound Chrysakis generates using electronic devices, acoustic sounds and field recordings, an absorbing work of audio flux and percolation. |
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. |
Gerbal, Antonin : Sound Of Drums (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Price: $14.95 In Stock An absorbing album of solo drum work from French drummer/percussionist Antonin Gerbal, recording in the studio and demonstrating his profound sonic and technical approaches to the drums, isolated from projects like Peeping Tom, Bertrand Denzler/ONCEIM or Zoor. |
Trilla, Vasco : The Rainbow Serpent (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Barcelona drummer and percussionist Vasco Trilla, know for his work with Planeta Imaginario, Filthy Habits Ensemble, Cows On Trees, &c. in a solo album that takes the listener through a myriad of tones and emotions along a varied and tonally hybrid journey of prepared drums, assorted percussion |
Rogers, Derek : Silence is Being Substituted (Glistening Examples -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Derek Rogers sculpted these six compositions from live performances, organizing them using strings and synthesizers, and employing digital processing and granular synthesis with concert and field recordings, creating richly complex works that evolve with beautiful pacing. |
Drake, Bob : Arx Pilosa (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.45 Out of Stock Another twisted, complex and irresistible album from multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Bob Drake, practically presenting a history of the rock genre in 20 short pieces that twist and turn in inventive, humorous, peculiar, mesmerizing, and masterly songs. |
Lambkin, Graham: Community [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Using electronics, field recordings and spoken word, Graham Lambkin explores "Community" in abstract and literal ways, reflecting on society and describing aspects of community through spoken word and sound, a thought-provoking and complex work of organized sound. |
Pisaro, Michael / Reinier van Houdt: The Earth And The Sky [3 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock erstwhile records releases their first CD on their ErstClass imprint, issuing and collecting historically important work, here with composer Michael Pisaro-Liu's piano works from 1994-2016, 11 compositions performed by Netherlands pianist Reinier van Houdt. |
Weston, Veryan: Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Legendary pianist Veryan Weston set out across England in 2014 in search of tracker-action organs, which he tested for suitability for a planned trio album, where possible recording himself on the instrument, as heard in these seven recordings of unusual and impressive improvisations. |
Chadbourne, Eugene : There'll Be No Tears Tonight (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A much-needed reissue of Eugene Chadbourne's ground-breaking free country improv album recorded in NYC with a great Downtown NY lineup including Tom Cora, John Zorn, Scott Manring, and David Licht, performing twisted takes on classics by Paycheck, Haggard, Miller, &c. |
Riley, Howard : Constant Change 1976-2016 [5 CDs] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $49.95 In Stock Pianist Howard Riley in a 5 CD box of absolutely impressive solo piano never before released on CD, including festival recordings in Paris & Debrecen, a 1987 cassette-only release, and three new albums from 2014, 15 & 16 titled as "Longer Story" "One", "Two" & "Three"; esssential! |
Zorn, John: The Classic Guide To Strategy Vol. 4 (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Downtown NY saxophonist John Zorn started his "Classic Guide to Strategy" in 1983, slowly releasing volumes up to this 4th, showing the depth of his conceptual underpinnings and superb playing style, technique, and truly unique approach to the saxophone. |
Rowe, Keith : The Room Extended [4 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $36.95 Out of Stock A massive and rewarding work of organized sound extending ea-improviser, AMM guitarist Keith Rowe's work "The Room" into a massive 4 CD set of compositions, layering work familiar from his recent improvisations with classical compositions, field recordings, &c. &c. |
Lindvall, Johan: Solo / Ensemble [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Swedish composer and pianist Johan Lindvall in a series of 27 works performed solo or in an ensemble with Vilde Sandve Alnaes (violin), Kristine Tjogersen(clarinet), Jan Martin Gismervik(percussion), Henrik Munkeby Norstebo(trombone), Ina Sagstuen(voice), & Fredrik Rasten(guitar). |
Schiller, Christoph : Spinet, 2016 (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Christoph Schiller performs on the spinet, often improvising with electronics and objects; here he uses the spinet alone in patiently developing compositions that emphasize the individual tones and harmonics of the instrument played on the keys and inside the instrument. |
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. |
Kepl, Irene: SololoS (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Heard in our catalog on albums from Improvising Beings and Another Timbre, here we have a stunning solo album of improvised violin from Viennese violinist Irene Kepl, showing a great range of style and technique while keeping the music playful and interesting, invoking a quote from Trisha Brown: "Dancing on the edge is the only place to be." |
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog. |
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). |
Nabatov, Simon: Monk 'N' More (Leo Records -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Pianist Simon Nabatov plays the music of Thelonious Monk in a live concert from 1995, alternating those recordings with a 2013 concert of solo electroacoustic work, an unusual approach that focuses the melodic aspects of Monk while highlighting his eccentricity and intrepidity. |
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. |
Machinda, Yoshio: Tender Blues (Amorfon -- Japan ) Price: $9.00 In Stock Japanese Steelpan player Yoshio Machida's 11th solo album, performed on the metal slit drum, made from a small gas tank tuned to the C scale over 2 octaves, which he takes into warm territories of rich overtones and melodic invention influenced by Kora, Gamelan, Kulintang and Myanmar musics. |
Gauguet, Bertrand: Shiro (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock French alto saxophonist Bertrand Gauguet uses acoustic techniques and microtonal approaches to the reed instrument, presenting 4 tracks of acoustic-only playing, and 4 with amplifiers and guitar feedback, creating cogitative sonic environments of remarkable patience and pure and intersection tonal and timbral harmonics; remarkable work. |
Fujii, Satoko : Invisible Hand [2 CDs] (Cortez Sound -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 Out of 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. |
Wooley, Nate: The Complete Syllables Music [4 CD Box Set] (Pleasure of the Text Records -- USA ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock Composer, improviser, and trumpet player Nate Wooley continues to cement his place as an American iconoclast by releasing the complete recordings of his revolutionary solo [Syllables] compositions as a deluxe 4 CD set consisting of two reissues of out-of-print early works: 8 [Syllables] (2013) and 9 [Syllables] (2014) as well as the premiere recording of his 150 minute epic For Kenneth Gaburo. |
Cundy, Chris: The Disruptive Forest (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A combination of cyclical themes, made-up folk dances, and invented improvisations from UK reedist Chris Cundy, performing on bass clarinet at the Cheltenham Synagogue for 10 compositions developed specifically for this Confront recording as playful pieces intended as popular music for solo bass clarinet. |
Fell, Simon H. : Le Bruit de la Musique (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 Out of 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. |
Shiroishi, Patrick : Ima (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock US West Coast multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi performs an unorthodox set at 2575 Mission in Los Angeles, California, using alto saxophone, bells, electric toothbrush, ipod, pie tin, spoons, tape player, and voice to create a yearning work expressing the frustration of longing and estrangement. |
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. |
Pateras, Anthony: Blood Stretched Out (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A dramatic work for solo piano, exploring sound phenomena in fast repetitions that generate whirlpools of overtones, "Blood Stretched Out" is the primary track on composer & pianist Anthony Pateras' first solo album in 10 years, paired with "Chronochromatics", recorded live at The Loft in Cologne as part of the Plush Music Festival in 2013. |
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! |
Backer, Andreas: Voice Improvisations (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Norwegian / Swedish vocalist Andreas Backer in an album of impressive solo voice improvisations, applying stunning vocal techniques to generally non-articulate pieces, using his voice in astonishing, frightening, funny and simply bizarre ways over a diverse set of compositions, mostly acoustic, except on "Voicetronics"; weird and wonderful. |
de Alvear, Maria / Antoine Beuger: Besando El Tiempo [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Antoine Beuger performs composer Maria De Alvear's 1995 contemplative work "Besando El Tiempo" (Kissing The Time) written using an automatic script and originally composed for the flautist Caren Levine; after hearing Beuger's interpretation she requested that he record it, the result this rendition that takes the composition on an introspective journey. |
Majkowski, Mike : Days and Other Days [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Following double bassist Mike Majkowski's Astral Spirts cassette "Neighbouring Objects", this vinyl release is Majkowski's 7th solo album, here using analog synthesizer, percussion, piano, vibraphone, samples, and field recordings to create an amazing sonic universe through sound, tone, timbre, deep cogitation and mutant interjections. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 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. |
Wisseltangcamatta, The: Movements (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways. |
Dimitriadis, Yorgos : Kopfkino (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock An extended improvisation (the title meaning "film in your head") from Berlin drummer Yorgos Dimitriadis, a founding member of GRIX, GLUE and FABRIC trio, here in his first solo release, driving a small drum kit played conventionally and a hand-held microphone into remarkable sonic territory, in both meditative and rapidly rhythmic sections. |
Machinefabriek: Assemblage (Zoharum -- Poland ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A great collection of short film soundtracks and pieces that appeared on compilation albums and out-of-print CDRs, including the "Nerf" EP, the tracks for the book "Things That A Mutant Needs To Know" by Reinaldo Laddaga, and 3 soundtracks of which two are for a short movie and one for a video installation, alongside tracks from other compilations. |
Rives, Stephane: Fibres (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock "Fibres" brings together seven circular-breathing soprano sax solos, grouped by Rives into 3 categories including high-pitched tones, breathy emissions and unpitched respiratory flows. |
Drake, Bob: Antiquities [6-CD BOX SET] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $44.95 Out of Stock Collecting multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Bob Drake's albums Little Black Train, The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors, XIII Songs and a Thing, The Shunned Country, and Bob's Drive-In in a solid box set, with a bonus CD, a specially curated collection of outtakes and oddities from this amazing avant-rocker, a member of Thinking Plague, 5uu's, Hail and The Science Group. |
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 |
Martins, Luis Jose: Tentos - Invencoes E Encantamentos (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Luis Jose Martins uses classical guitar, prepared guitar, electronics, and percussion in a solo album of incredible detail and lyrical, beautiful playing of original compositions that blend his playing with modern techniques and electronics into melodic masterpieces, performed in the natural resonance of the church of the convent of S. Bento in Avis. |
Mazurek, Rob: Rome (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Rob Mazurek solo works are brilliant displays of honest, lyrical and emotional playing, here recording in Rome for Radio Roma, bringing the cornet to the foreground, starting with a piece only on the horn, then adding electronics, piano, and prepared piano for a set of ethereal and spiritual improvisations that are not bound by any specific genre. |
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. |
Bolleter, Ross: Secret Sandhills and Satellites: Pieces for ruined pianos and pianos on the edge of ruin (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Ross Bolleter improvises on pianos that have been "abandoned to all weathers and has become a decaying box of unpredictable dongs, clicks and dedoomps" around Australia between 2001 and 2005. |
Hemingway, Gerry: Kernelings [CD + DVD] (Auricle -- USA ) Price: $23.95 Out of 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: $15.95 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: $15.95 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. |
Thomas, Pat: The Elephant Clock of Al Jazari [VINYL] (Otoroku -- UK ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Inspired by the automatic water clock invented by Iraq inventor, engineer, and father of robotics, Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari built in the 12th century, pianist Pat Thomas recorded these four exceptional improvisations of powerful solo piano with an unusual and inventive twist live at London's Cafe Oto in 2015. |
Ned Rothenberg (Shakuchi): Rothenberg: Ryu Nashi/No School - New Music For Shakuchi (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock New York multi-reed and wind player Ned Rothenberg performing on the shakuhachi in orignal compositions performed with viola and spoken word in beautiful and nuanced performances. |
Rutherford, Paul: In Backward Times (1979-2007) (Emanem -- UK ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Four very different previously unissued concert settings featuring trombonist Paul Rutherford: 2 festival solos - one from 1979 with electronics and one from 2004 without; a 1988 duo with Paul Rogers a few months before their ROGUES CD; and a 2007 trio with Veryan Weston and Marcio Mattos, which turned out to be Rutherford's last public appearance. |
Wright, Jack: As If Anything Can Be The Same (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Acclaimed free improvising saxophonist Jack Wright is joined by his son Ben on double bass for these exceptional duos that balance space and color through extended techniques and an impecable sense of timing. |
Bang, Billy: Distinction Without a Difference (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The late American violinist Billy Bang's first album, originally issued on Hat Hut Records, is reissued with an additional track, plus 4 previously unissued solo tracks recorded in Tilberg, Netherland in 1978, demonstrating this great artist's broad range of innovative techniques, mixing free-form and melodic passages in extended and joyful improvisations. |
Reichel, Hans: Bonobo (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Second LP in the catalog of German guitarist and instrument inventor Hans Reichel (1949-2011), a program of microtonal string investigations that is still beguiling and fresh four decades later, originally released on FMP in 1976, with a great album cover from Reichel demonstrating how he created his neck-to-neck guitar; absolutely impressive and essential. |
Reichel, Hans: Wichlinghauser Blues (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The debut LP by legendary German guitar improvisor and instrument inventor Hans Reichel, an incredible display of brilliant playing, both technically and by approach, playing on acoustic and unfiltered electric guitars, originally issued on FMP in 1973, here re-mastered from the original tapes and retaining the original design; highly recommended. |
Nitsch, Hermann: Orgelkonzert Jesuitenkirche 20.11.2013 (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $12.23 Out of Stock Austrian avant-garde musician and multimedia artist Hermann Nitsch performed these powerful and mesmerizing solo organ drone works during the 2013 "Shut up and listen" festival in in the Jesuit church of Vienna, releasing the 4 recordings with an 8-page booklet of art and an essay from Nitsch himself, with mastering by Martin Siewert. |
Binder, Claudia: Piano Solo II (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 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. |
Dresser, Mark : Modicana [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Double Bassist Mark Dresser, a mainstay of the Downtown NY scene as an improviser and composer, and also prominent on the US West Coast and as an international touring artist, releases a powerful album of distinctive solo playing, both technically and melodically, with 2 tracks caught live at the Umea Jazz Festival and others recorded at the University of California, San Diego. |
Moimeme, Abdul : Exosphere (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 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... |
Smith, Wadada Leo: Solo - Reflections And Meditations On Monk (Tum -- Finland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock An intimate album of solo trumpet from Wadada Leo Smith, performing compositions by Thelonious Monk, Smith professing in an essay in the accompanying booklet that he was motivated to become a composer by Monk above other contemporaries for his ideas of composition and bands; his admiration and love of Monk's work is clear in this beautifully lyrical album. |
Farhadian, Thea: Tectonic Shifts (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 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: $15.95 In Stock ... |
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Feldman, Morton (Philip Thomas): Piano [5 CD BOX SET]
Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017
Taylor, Cecil: Respiration
Alcorn, Susan: Soledad
Parker, Evan: NYC 1978
Roberts, Matana : Always
Mitchell, Matt plays Tim Berne: Forage
Lee, Okkyung: Na-Reul (Black Cross Solo Sessions 3)
Parker, Evan ElectroAcoustic Septet: Seven
Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies
Mendoza, Ava: New Spells
Frey, Jurg: Circles and Landscapes - works for solo piano played by Philip Thomas
McPhee, Joe : Alone Together: The Solo Ensemble Recordings 1974 & 1979
Chicago Underground Quartet: Good Days
Fujii, Satoko: Piano Music
Risser, Eve: Apres Un Reve
Silva, Susana Santos : All The Rivers | Live At Panteao Nacional