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Beaks Plinth: Organo Saturado (Gigante Sound -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Beaks Plinth (Jared Blum) takes on a stack of organ-based records slowed to a dragging 16 2/3 and 81/3 rpms of all genres; Easy, Church, Jazz, Ice Skating music and more. |
Playbackers (Silbert / Foam / Young): Playbackers Record [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Recording to 4 track cassette, this unusual and experimental Boston-area trio of active sound artists--Stella Silbert, Arkm Foam and Neil 'Cloaca' Young--improvise over abstract territory using turntables, a no-input mixer, objects, an open reel tape machine, contact mics, and cassette players, emerging with equally tongue-in-cheek and serious aural interactions. |
d'Orion, Erick / Martin Tetreault: Vigiles (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Part of a 2022 creative residency at the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-Labre, in Beauce at the invitation of the organization EXEcentrer, this duo recording captures the September concert of two magnificent Montreal sound artists: Érick d'Orion performing on electronics & synthesizers, and Martin Tétreault on turntables, vinyl records & synthesizer. |
mou, lips!: Peanuts and Shells Geometria [Used Item] (List -- France ) Price: $6.35 In Stock
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Szemzo, Tibor / Gordian Knot Company : Invisible Story [Used Item] (Leo Records -- UK ) Price: $8.10 In Stock "The Invisible Story" was produced over a four year period, and completed just last ear: This work deals with the ideas of Bela Hamvas (1897-1968), a Hungarian literary figure whose fate was literally sealed by his country's history. In... |
Bica, Carlos (Erdmann / DJ Illvibe / Barradas): Playing with Beethoven (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Commissioned by Cineteatro Louletano to respond creatively to the musical legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven, double bassist Carlos Bica developed ten compositions that draw on Beethoven's original works, performing them with saxophonist Daniel Erdmann, accordionist João Barradas and DJ Illvibe on turntables, a truly unique take on some of the renowned composer's most famous works. |
Davis, Kris: Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard [2 CDs] (Pyroclastic Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Two nights at the famed Village Vanguard from pianist Kris Davis' quintet with Terri Lyne Carrington on drums, Val Jeanty on turntables & electronics, Julian Lage on electric guitar and Trevor Dunn on basses; a thoroughly modern electric jazz group performing Davis originals, with references to Eric Dolphy, Conlon Nancarrow, Olivier Messiaen, Paul Bley, Sun Ra and Karlheinz Stockhausen. |
Hirose, Junji / Otomo Yoshihide: DUO-1 (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Three decades after their 1989 album on the Tanga-Tanga label, Silanganan Ingay, turntablist Otomo Yoshihide reunites with improviser Junji Hirose, who more typically performs on saxophone, but in this duo uses his self-made sound instruments created by combining a variety of devices and everyday objects, recording these three "Scenes" live at Pool, in Tokyo. |
Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere, Louis / Eric Normand / Louis-Vincent Hamel: Brulez les Meubles (Tour de Bras -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Seeking to extend the guitar trio into new and unique territory, the Quebec trio of Eric Normand on electric bass, Louis Beaudoin-de-la-Sablonniere on electric guitar, and Louis-Vincent Hamel on drums, reference performers like Jim Hall, Sonny Sharrock, John Abercrombie, & Bill Frisell while focusing on harmolodic force and unusual melodic lines. |
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. |
Chenard, Sylvie / Alexandre Dubuc / Cathy Heyden / Remi Leclerc: Allochtone (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Montreal/Actuelle players Sylvie Chenard on guitar and voice, Alexander Dubuc on bass, Cathy Heyden on sax, and Miriodor's Remi Leclerc on drums, with all providing electronics, in an encompassing ea-improv journey that balances acoustics with sonic environments and wonderfully controlled chaos. |
Cusack, Peter: Sounds From Dangerous Places (2 CD's + 90 Page Hardback Book) (ReR -- Great Britain ) Price: $32.50 Out of Stock Two CDs and a 90 page hardback book with photos, info and interviews from audio documenter and experimenter Peter Cusak, recording in Chernobyl, The Caspian Oilfields, and various dangerous locations in the UK. |
DEK Trio (Ken Vandermark / Elisabeth Harnik / Didi Kern): Burning Below Zero (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock One of Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark's regular trios while in Austria, DEK is named for the letters of the 1st name of Vandermark, drummer Didi Kern and pianist Elisabeth Harnik, drawing inspiration from free improv, free rock, & cross-media projects of each member. |
Dorf, The / Phill Niblock: Baobab / Echoes [2 CDs] (XI Records -- Germany ) Price: $25.95 Out of Stock Phill Niblock's "Baobob", a rich drone work on a massive scale, is realized by the German sound collective The Dorf (German for The Village) augmented as a 35-member orchestra, released in a 2-CD set alongside "Echoes", a compositions from Jan Klare in three parts recorded the same evening with the same large edition of The Dorf ensemble. |
Dorgon: For Jason Viseltear (Jumbo -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Jason Viseltear, based in NYC, makes violins, violas, and cellos for both contemporary and period / baroque performance. Inexplicably, Mr. Dorgon dedicated this work to him, a piece of sound and noise, perhaps constructed using string instruments; perhaps not. |
Drumm, Kevin / Jason Lescalleet: The Abyss (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock Sound and noise artists Kevin Drumm and Jason Lescalleet collaborate on this 2 CD set, a diverse set of sound pieces from slowly building drones to unsettling environments, with tapes punctuating the hallucinatory aspects of their rich and impressive aural tapestries. |
Ericson, Sture / Pat Thomas / Raymond Strid: Bagman Live at Cafe Oto (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock The first trio collaboration between London pianist and innovator Pat Thomas and Swedish improvisers, Sture Ericson on saxophones, and Raymond Strid on drums, performing live at Cafe OTO in London in 2019 for four improvised soundscapes about the fictional character "Bagman", using extended and prodigious technique with both disruptive and melodic intentions. |
Falaise, Bernard : Lezardes et zebrures (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock A wonderfully inventive and enjoyable solo guitar album from Montreal guitarist Bernard Falaise, a member of Miriodor, Klaxon Gueule, les Projectionnistes, Diesel and other groups, here mostly focused on acoustic guitar with open turning fed into effects pedals, alongside pieces for electric guitar, glockenspiel and melodica; magnifique! |
Free Pantone Trio: A Blink Of An Eye To The Nature Of Things (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Free Pantone trio is a Portuguese musical group recently created in Lisbon by bassist Rui Sousa, pianist Manuel Guimaraes and drummer Joao Valinho, using a trans-idiomatic and experimental approach they seek to exploit diverse musical genres and sub-genres from jazz and contemporary music using improvisation and real-time composition as their uniting principle. |
Freedman, Lori & Scott Thomson: Plumb (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A recording of wide-ranging, freely improvised solos and duets by Montreal clarinetist and bass clarinetist Lori Freedman & Toronto trombonist Scott Thomson. |
Frith, Fred: Still Urban (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock A commissioned work by Stanser Musik-Tage created during Frith's residency at the Benediktinerinnen-kloster Maria-Richenbach and premiered at the Festival on April 22, 2004. |
Fuchs / Lindsay / Smith / Baghdassarians / Baltschun: The Happymakers (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock
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Grossman, Richard: Where The Sky Ended (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Pianist Richard Grossman in a trio with double bassist Ken Filiano and percussionist Alex Cline, playing freely improvised jazz in a live setting. |
Hetu, Joane: La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments D'humus [Used Item] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $12.00 In Stock An amazing journey in sound and voice from saxophonist/vocalist Joane Hetu with five singers/narrators/musicians/noise-makers and layered field recordings, a remarkable and sophisticated work about sex, loss, death, art, & politics. |
Hubsch, Carl Ludwig / Christoph Schiller: Giles U. (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The unlikely combination of tuba and spinet from Carl Ludwig Hubsch and Christoph Schiller (Millefleurs) taking each instrument beyond their traditional sound through extended technique and style. |
Kindermusik: Improvised Music by Babies (Amorfon -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock 10 babies under 1.5 years old are gathered from several countries to improvise on zither, piano, steel pan, toy turntable or computer-controlled pacifier with unlikely results. |
Labrosse / Lauzier / Tanguay: Paletuvier (rouge) (&Records -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Paletuvier, or "mangrove", is part of a color series where Labrosse, Lauzier and Tanguay use close-miked acoustic instruments to create an ecosystem of sound in subtle and rich interplay. |
Lacy, Steve Quintet: Last Tour (2004) (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock The Steve Lacy Quintet's final tour with vocalist Irene Aebi, trombonist George Lewis, bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel and drummer John Betsch, performing live in Boston for an impressive set punctuated with words from Burroughs, Waldman, Kaufman, Creeley & Schelling. |
Leonardi, Stefano / Antonio Bertoni: Viandes [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Using unusual techniques and a collection of instruments that include the standard Western instruments of cello and flute, along with guembri, sulittu, dilli kaval, bass xun, launeddas (mancosedda, tumbu), plus the application of objects against strings, the Italian duo of Antonio Bertoni & Stefano Leonardi engage in seven remarkable and assertive improvised duos. |
Lussier, Rene : Quintette (Circum-Disc -- France ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Canadian guitarist Rene Lussier formed this quintette in 2016, with Julie Houle on tuba & euphonium, Luzio Altobelli on accordion, and drummers Marton Maderspach & Robbie Kuster, to play the intricate and lyrical pieces he developed, where up to five parts are overlaid at any given time, though the listener only hears the wonderful interplay and exultation of the resulting music. |
Mystical Weapons (Sean Lennon / Greg Saunier): Crotesque [VINYL] (Northern Spy -- USA ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Sean Lennon & Greg Saunier (Mystical Weapons) are joined by multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Shahzad Ismaily for this one-sided, 19.50 minute art LP with an original illustration by Sean Lennon screen-printed on the B side. |
Neumann, Calle / Ketil Gutvik / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love: New Dance (PNL -- Norway ) Price: $15.95 In Stock After the 2019 retrospective box-set of the late 90s, legendary band The Quintet, and after the sad passing of bassist Bjornar Andresen, saxophonist Carl Magnus Neumann, guitarist Ketil Gutvik and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love decided to form a new quartet, adding bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, commencing their organization with this outstanding 2020 live concert in Oslo. |
Noetinger, Jerome / Anthony Pateras / Synergy Percussion : Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $13.75 Out of Stock Anthony Pateras was commissioned to compose this work by Synergy Percussion for their 40th birthday in 2014, performed with a six piece ensemble including electronic artist Jerome Noetinger, using the same instrumentation as Xenakis' "Pleiades" of more than 100 orchestral percussion instruments, including Xenakis' 17-pitch microtonal metallophones. |
Ongon: In Dispersione [VINYL] (Loup editions -- Italy ) Price: $20.95 In Stock Antonio Bertoni's solo Ongon project, trying to remove the mistreatment that the Moroccan Gnawa Music suffers due to the heavy western productions, as he performs on the trance-inducing bass instrument guimbri, his hypnotic and exotic music set into a rich weaving of electronics, samples and concrete synthesis built ad hoc by Bertoni himself; reference Natural Information Society. |
Plimley, Paul Trio: Safe-Crackers (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Vancouver pianist Paul Plimley and his comrades, bassist Lisle Ellis and drummer Scott Amendola, have issued a tough little gem of a recording in Safe-Crackers. Plimley's pianism ranges in voice from fierce avant-garde improvisation to... |
Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "As Frogworth says in one review: 'Two giants of Australian avant-garde music getting together here, dedicating their record to Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, whose house in Paddington, Sydney is used for residencies/sabbatic... |
Rowe, Keith / Sachiko M: M-contact [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $21.95 Out of Stock The first meeting of guitarist/electronic artist Rowe with Sachiko M on sine wave and contact mic, recorded during the AMPLIFY 2008 festival in Tokyo. |
Schiano, Mario (Schiano / Guy / Lovens / Parker / Tramontana): Social Security (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "Recorded live at the Victoriaville Festival in 1996, this disc features the Italian saxophone and improvisation master surrounded by a band from heaven -- or hell, depending on your view of modern free jazz -- ensuring his own "social s... |
Skumsnes Moe, Guro / Philippe Petit: Guro Skumsnes Moe & Philippe Petit (Public Eyesore -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Bringing together two noise improvisers and experimenters, Guro Skumsnes Moe from Sult and MoE performing on octabass & electric bass, and Philippe Petit (who has albums on Aural Terrains, Monotype and Bolt) performing on synthesizer and turntables, both also providing vocal utterance, for two thick journeys of twisted, diverse and often deep sonics bridged by an abstract interlude. |
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! |
Testa, Carl : Sway Prototypes - Volume 3 (Sway -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The third volume of NY bassist, composer, and electronic/computer musician Carl Testa's amazing Sway project, giving an interactive electronic processor its own voice interfacing with any size ensemble, here with two new works--one for quintet among a set of Chicago improvisers, the other in Portland, Maine with a sextet--each uniquely voiced and excitingly unpredictable. |
Ughi, Federico: Songs For Four Cities (Skycap Records -- Germany ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A collection of compositions from drummer/composer Federico Ughi dedicated to the four cities where he's lived: Rome, London, Montreal and New York, performed in a quartet with Darius Jones (sax), Eri Yamamoto (piano) and Ed Schuller (bass). |
Variable Geometry Orchestra: Quasar (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A 46-member orchestra of electroacoustic improvisers performing live at St. George's Church in Lisbon in 2015, for an extended and dynamic tapestry of sound conducted by leader Ernesto Rodrigues, with an impressive list of artists familiar to those following the CS label. |
Various Artists: Inventionen '98 - 50 Jahre Musique Concrete (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Price: $28.95 In Stock An excellent compilation of modern Musique Concrete featuring compositions by Chin, Kosk, Cee, Donato, Minard, Mitterer, Dhomont, Karlsson, and Wishart. |
Zorn, John: Film Works XXIII: El General (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Zorn's 23rd Filmworks presents Eleven cues recorded for a striking documentary focusing on the life of controversial Mexican dictator Plutarco Elias Calles. |
Zorn, John: Forro Zinho Ñ Forro In The Dark Plays Zorn (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Forro is a NY East Village rock ensemble that reinterprets forro--traditional Brazilian folk music--using modern Downtown language, here taking on the compositions of John Zorn in rhythmically rich melodic approaches that's equal parts tribute and collaboration. |
Zorn, John: Les Maudits (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock An outrageous interpretation of Alfred Jarry's fictional character Ubu performed with with the International Contemporary Ensemble and core Downtown New York performers Ikue Mori, Ches Smith and Zorn himself, using Zorn's quick cut approach to composition; presented along with a work inspired by French poet Charles Baudelaire and an elegy to painter Paul Gauguin. |
Zorn, John: The Alchemist (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Zorn's sixth quartet is inspired by the hermetic Angelic actions of John Dee and is replete with the procedures of distillation, calcination, crystallization, sublimation, purification, rotation as well numerology, prayers, canons, contrapuntal complexity, &c. |
Mancini Project, The: Views of Mancini (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Simon H. Fell, Steve Noble, Pat Thomas and Han Bennink performing the works of Mancini scored for a jazz piano trio, plus 'sound manipulation artist' and prerecorded tapes. |
Emaille / dieb13 / Koch: Abe (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An impressive set of recordings from the electroacoustic improvising trio of Camille Émaille on percussion, dieb13 on turntables and Hans Koch on soprano sax, clarinet & bass clarinet, recording live in Switzerland at Le Singe and at Poestremeis for eleven intricate exchanges of mystery and suspense using remarkable technique and patient attention to each player's contribution. |
Silbert, Stella / Nat Baldwin: 01.30.22 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Cantankerously informed and paced like a perfect tumble, the duo improvisations of Massachusetts collaborator Stella Silber on turntables and Nat Baldwin on upright bass augment their work through turntable preparations and static, Baldwin performing all over his instrument, as the duo surprise and maintain interest through accessible abrasiveness. |
Guionnet / La Casa / Samartzis / Warburton: Parking (Collection Paris) (Swarming -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two improvisations by saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet & violinist Dan Warburton recorded in Paris & Melbourne parking garages 14 years apart, registering the behavior and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound within these unique spaces, edited by Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis as a 4-channel master by synchronizing two sets of independent stereo recordings. |
Olsson, Henrik / Aviva Endean: Split Series Vol. 2 (FRIM Records -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Part of the split series from Swedish label FRIM (Association For Free Improvised Music), this album presents the two solo concerts from an evening at Rönnells Antikvariat during the 2022 Sound of Stockholm festival, first from drummer Henrik Olsson performing on turntables & objects; then from Aviva Endean on clarinets, electronics, voice & plastic pipes. |
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Davis, Kris: Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard [2 CDs]
Ericson, Sture / Pat Thomas / Raymond Strid: Bagman Live at Cafe Oto
Grossman, Richard: Where The Sky Ended
Sanna, Claudio: Compositori Sardi Contemporanei [2 CDs]
Schiano, Mario (Schiano / Guy / Lovens / Parker / Tramontana): Social Security
Tetreault, Martin : Plus de Snipettes!!
Lussier / D'Orion / Kuster / Tetreault : Printemps 2021
Chulki, Hong / Will Guthrie: Mosquitoes and Crabs
Variable Geometry Orchestra: Quasar
Stangl, Burkhard / Dieb13: Jardin Des Bruits
Bica, Carlos / Daniel Erdmann / Dj Illvibe: I Am The Escaped One
Xenofox: Rupp / Lanz / Fischerlehner: Alarm
Testa, Carl : Sway Prototypes - Volume 3
Stackenas, David: Bricks
Plimley, Paul Trio: Safe-Crackers
Olive, Tim / Martin Tetreault: Faune
Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy
Marclay, Christian / Elliott Sharp: 97 IS 97
Scarcity Of Tanks: Vulgar Defender
Blonk, Jaap : Songs of Little Sleep