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Skrijelj / Rodrigues / Mira / Malmendier: lluvia (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A live performance at CreativeFest XIII at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon in 2019 from the quartet of Emilie Skrijelj on accordion, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Mira on cello, and Tom Malmendier on percussion, Lluvia referencing Rain as the quartet quietly builds and releases tension through subtle cues, persistent figures, tonal innuendo and shades. |
Suspensao: Rayon Blanc (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The fourth release from the Portuguese lowercase electroacoustic ensemble Suspensao, merging viola, cello, bass clarinet, alto sax, electric guitar, piano, double bass, percussion and electronics in intensely detailed, slow moving improvisation, revealing impressive tension and suspension of time in impeccably concentrative collective conversation. |
Suspensao: Sfumato (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A substantial live work from the 2019 CreativeFest XIII at O'Culto da Ajuda in Lisbon from the improvising ensemble Sfumato lead by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, fulfilling the title of the album in great tension and suspense as the 11 members improvise, generating waves of activity between concentrated and meditative moments, an incredible example of power and restraint. |
Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Rhythmically rich instrumental music crossing experimental, rock and compositional forms with an ear towards primitive and instinctual pulses, the French quartet of drummer & bass harpist Julein Chamla, percussionist Benjamin Flament, Simon Henocq on live electronics and guitarist Richard Comte explore innate pulses imbued with modern and urgent overtones. |
Gargaud, Guillaume / Patrice Grente: Intuition's Days (Open Systems Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock The first recording between French improvisers, guitarist Guillaume Gargaud and double bassist Patrice Grente, who began their work together in 2016 performing noise and minimalist music, increasing the frequency of their collaborations until a forced 1 year break, meeting again in 2021 to record this beautifully complementing set of all-acoustic duos. |
Harlow, Sage J : Variations Without A Theme (Drones Ongs) (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Australian sound poet and vocalist Sage J Harlow aka Sage Pbbbt, whose innovative vocal work takes inspiration from Tuvan and Mongolian overtone singing and Inuit throat singing, created this mysterious set of electroacoustic compositions on the unceeded lands of the Whadjuk People of the Noongar Nation, developing four works of spellbinding spectral ambience. |
Bruckmann / Djll / Heule / Nishi-Smith: Brittle Feebling (Humbler -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The title gives a sense of the unusual acoustic improvisation this West Coast collective perform, along with their description "prickles and bleats, an abrasive delicacy; fricative rasp and withheld breath seethe together in a discomfiting cuddle" — from Kyle Bruckmann on oboe & English horn, Tom Djll on trumpet, Jacob Felix Heule on floor tom, and Kanoko Nishi-Smith on koto. |
Gauguet, Bertrand / John Tilbury: Contre-Courbes [2 CDs] (Akousis Records -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Two concert recordings between alto saxophonist Bertrand Gauget and pianist John Tilbury, one at Eglise Saint Maximin, in Metz, France in 2016 and the other at Festival Paysages d'écoute at Les Quinconces, France in 2019, leveraging the natural resonance of both spaces as they perform with concentrative pacing using advanced techniques to create drama and intensity. |
Johansson, Sven-Ake / Doerner, Axel / Neumann, Andrea : Barcelona Series (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock |
Jun, Yan / Jean-Luc Guionnet / Matija Schellander / Seijiro Murayama: Blue Mistake, Red Mistake (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock While contrabass player Matija Schellander was performing a residency at the 2017 music Festival Artacts in Austria, this quartet formed with Paris saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet, percussionist Seijiro Murayama and Beijing-based vocalist Yan Jun, developing this work of quiet tension and sudden release, here from one of four performances, recorded live at Ljubljana in Slovenia. |
Ulher, Birgit / Franz Hautzinger: Kleine Trompetenmusik (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Translating to "Little Trumpet Music", the duo of trumpeters Birgit Uhler and Franz Hautzinger, Uhler also performing on radio & objects, use extreme techniques and approaches to their improvisations, focusing on extraneous sounds from their instruments in enigmatic and captivating ways, expansively defining reductionism in masterfully idiosyncratic ways. |
Rodrigues / da Rocha / Parrinha / Oliveira: Chiaroscuro (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Aptly described as chiaroscuro--a veritable play of light and shadow in quick-witted--through nearly microscopic and highly interactive acoustic improvisation from the quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Maria da Rocha on violin, Bruno Parrinha on clarinet & bass clarinet and Jose Oliveira on percussion, performing live at Galeria Monumental, in Lisbon in 2022. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Madeira: Cosmos (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Approaching the string trio of viola, cello and double bass through improvisation and exceptionally extended techniques, the Portuguese trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and Joao Madeira on double bass "scratch, stretch and strop timbers" as they express a unique universe of string interaction from raucous to reflective. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Parrinha: Sans Oublier Les Arbres (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock After the Lisbon String Trio for the Dada album, Bruno Parrinha on B-flat, alto and bass clarinets joins with the string pairing of violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues to record this impressionistic 3-part work, the title translating to "Without Forgetting The Trees", each movement expanding into darkly colored branches of remarkable control. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Parrinha / Goncalves / Santos: Quelque chose prie la patience des nuages (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Translating loosely to "Something begs the patience of the clouds", the collaborative electroacoustic quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet, Luisa Goncalves on piano and Carlos Santos on electronics present two extended improvisations of tension, masterfully adept technical skill and intensively close listening. |
Hautzinger, Franz / Mazen Kerbaj: Abu Tarek (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An album of extended and unusual techniques between German trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and Beirut trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, opening with only the errata of their instruments through breath and thump, slowly adding identifiable brass sounds contrasted with rich utterance and elusively electronic-sounding output, always maintaining a solid and fascinating dialog |
Davies, Angharad / Rie Nakajima / Alice Purton: Dethick (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Three free improvising women--Angharad Davies, Rie Nakajima, and Alice Purton--met in the church in the tiny hamlet of Dethick, near Matlock, Derbyshire, over the course of two days developing the ten pieces of this album using an impressive set of stringed and percussive instruments, objects, and mysterious sources to create these fascinating sonic evocations. |
Flunger, Elisabeth / Tomas Tello: Labor (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Electricity and metal trash object meet in a banging and sparking session of minimal improvisation from percussionist Elisabeth Flunger and electronic artist Tomas Tello. |
Johannesen / Furu: The Eco Logic (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Guitarist Kim Johannesen and clarinetist Svein Magus Furu in a set of works with interacting tonalities that rely almost completely on texture, tones, scraping, &c.. |
Kasyansky, Grundik: Light and Roundchair (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Magic I.D., The : till my breath gives out (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Superb 1st erstwhile 'pop' release as only an erstwhile artist could define the term: abstract lower case and perceptive songs with dual clarinets creating harmonic interactions (Kai Fagaschinski & Michael Thieke, aka The International Nothing), guitar & voice from Margareth Kammerer and electronics & vocals from Christoph Kurzmann. |
Malfatti, Radu / Taku Unami: (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Performed as part of the AMPLIFY 2011 festival at The Stone in NYC, the duo of trombonist Radu Malfatti and electronic/visual artist Taku Unami presented this long, minimal and dramatic soundwork in a pitch-black room lit only by Unami's visuals. |
PUNCK (Zanni / Adrianno): A Constant Migration (Between Reality and Fiction) (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Schick, Ignaz / Dawid Szczesny: The View Underneath (Non Visual Objects (NVO) -- Austria ) Price: $20.95 Out of Stock Turntablist/sine wave artist Ignaz Schnick with laptop artist Dawid Szczesny in a series of minimalist recordings created around live performances in Wroclaw and Germany. |
Schiller, Christoph: Variations (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Christoph Schiller's first solo work for spinet, amplified objects and piano, using a simple but brilliant structure which combines improvised pieces in a unique chain-like pattern of repetition and development. |
Smolders, Jos : Gaussian Transient (Megaphone) (Non Visual Objects (NVO) -- Austria ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock Jos Smolders is an abstract soundsculptor using a vast array of electroacoustic technique to create diverse sonic constructions and amazing aural environments. |
Verga, Giampaolo: Fadensonnen (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock "Fadensonnen" presents 7 minimal electronic pieces for electronics, violin and voice, nuanced and subtle pieces that use timbre and spatial properties to great effect. |
Granberg, Magnus / Skogen: Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock First performed in November 2019 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and then at the Splitter Orchester festival in Berlin, this studio recording of Magnus Granberg's delicately complex and exquisitely dream-like composition features his Skogen ensemble, including Granberg, Rhodri Davies, Toshimaru Nakamura, Erik Carlsson, Petter Wastberg, &c. |
Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Seijiro Murayama: Window Dressing (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Four recordings of subtle improvisation for saxophone & percussion, recorded for Radio Nationale Slovene in Ljubljana, and in the library of Jean-Paul Manganaro, Paris. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Carla Santana / Emedio Buchinho / Bruno Parrinha: Distilling Silence (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An immersive album of understated but incredibly detailed free improvisation from the quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet, Emidio Buchinho on electric guitar and Carla Santana on electronics, performing live at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, in Amadora, Portugal for a four part concentration on silence through sound. |
Chabala / Jones / Martin / Mukarji / Nakamura: Unbalanced In (Unbalanced Out) (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Six musicians from around the world (Chabala / Jones / Martin / Mukarji / Nakamura) created this 50-minute track over the course of a year by collaborating and file-sharing online. |
Coleman / Kasyansky / Wright: control and its opposites (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock A durational piece featuring saxophonist Seymour Wright, electronic artist Grundik Kasyansky (Grundik + Slava) & trumpeter Jamie Coleman, members of Eddie Prevost's improv workshop. |
Forge / Julian / Papapostolou: meshes (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $12.95 Out of Stock Two improvisations-one live, one without audience-by an Anglo-French trio of new voices from trombonist Forge, electronics artists Julian and cellist Papapostolou. |
Lexer, Sebastian & Seymour Wright: blasen (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Two powerful electro-acoustic improvisations by two of the most exciting voices from the current London improv scene. |
Milton, Matt / Leo Dumont: Scrub (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock A half-hour concert of understated and engaging performance of astonishing detail and subtlety from violinist Milton and percussionist Dumont. |
Pettersen, Ed: Vigeland (Split Rock Records -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Inspired by a trip to the Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum in Oslo, guitarist Ed Pettersen recorded this, his first solo guitar album, as a set of ambient/electronic recordings of long sustain and unexpected angles; seven tracks recorded live in the studio in London, and one recording in the Vigeland Mausoleum itself, using the resonance and 18-second decay of that space. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Bruno Parrinha / Guilherme Rodrigues : Signes Emergents (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The trio of violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues and clarinetist Bruno Parrinha on alto & bass clarinets are captured live at Lisboa Incomum, during the 2022 Festival DME, performing two sophisticated chamber improv works, their titles translating to "The aging skies - it's all illusion" and "Pass The Bridges If It's Windy - The Flame Of The Solemnity". |
Suspensao: Spur (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The seventh album from Creative Sources' detailed electroacoustic improvising group Suspensão led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, recording at SMUP in Parede, Portugal in 2022 with Joana Sa on soprano sax, Nuno Torres on alto sax, Luisa Goncalves on piano, Joao Madeira on double bass, Carlos Santos on synthesizer and Jose Oliveira on percussion. |
Rodrigues / Mira / Almeida / Silva / Parrinha / Lencastre / Goncalves / Oliveira: Spiegel III (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The third Spiegel, or mirror, takes the Portuguese acoustic octet led by violist Ernesto Rodrigue through an extended improvisation and its reflection, captured live at the 2021 CSFest XV, at O'Culto da Ajuda, by performing and recording their performance in a first pass, and then playing over the first improvisation, layering and extending their work. |
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Madeira: Cosmos [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition. "Although the primacy of small string ensembles for superior musical expression has been confirmed since at least the 18th Century, th... |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Miguel Almeida / Andre Lanca / Bernardo Alvares / Felice Furioso: Un Seul Regard Le Chant Petri De Beaute Un Mot Vert [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Acoustic and sublime minimal acoustic improvisation with an emphasis on strings from the Portuguese quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Almeida on acoustic guitar, Andre Lanca on electric guitar, Bernardo Alvares on double bass, and Felice Furioso on percussion, performing live during the Small Format Materials Festival at Galeria Monumental, in Lisbon. |
Stangl, Burkhard / Kai Fagaschinski: Musik-Ein Portrat in Seh (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Occupying a unique area between composition & folk music, classical & jazz/improv, tension & serenity, these duos also include recordings from Klaus Filip and dieb13. |
IKB Ensemble: Anthropometrie Sans Titre [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Sealed copy. A large Lisboa ensemble presenting a collective improvisation titled after a painting by Yves Klein, with performers including Ernesto Rodrigues (baritone violin), Miguel Mira (bass), Nuno Torres (sax), Carlos Santos (electronics), Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), &c. &c. |
Ruhl, Joris: Feuilles (Umlaut Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Clarinetist Xavier Charles, accordionist Jonas Kocher and percussionist Toma Gouband join French improviser Joris Ruhl for this extended improvisation of multiphonics, textures and timbres, evolving from subtle harmonics into vast waves of sound, pausing to punctuate with pointillist interaction, then expanding into dramatic waves of sound before carefully fading away; sublime. |
Avenel, Jean-Jacques / Siegfried Kessler / Daunik Lazro : Ecstatic Jazz (Crypte Des Franciscains Beziers 12 Fevrier 1982) (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Referencing the collective NY Loft scene of the 1980's, the trio of Jean-Jacques Avenel on bass, Siegfried Kessler on piano, keys & ring modulator and Daunik Lazro on alto sax & tuba sax, are heard in a Béziers Jazz Action concert recorded in the crypt of a Franciscan theater, in two suites of collective improvisation, the 2nd adding unusual electronics from Kessler. |
Boubaker / Rodrigues / Moimem: Le Beau Deviant (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Deviant beauty from the trio of Heddy Boubaker (sax), Ernesto Rodrigues (viola) and Abdul Moimeme (prepared electric guitar), dark and sinister improv using extended techniques and a quietly turbulent approach. |
Forsgren, Joakim / Andreas Hiroui Larsson featuring David Lackner: Vending Machine (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Sound and visual installation artists Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson use a multiplicity of approaches, both rhythmic and abstract, and a vast set of instruments (flutes, bass, drum machines, saxophone, maracas, sythesizer, &c) and objects (kitchenware, nails in a box, aluminum foil, &c) to create a universe of quirky and embraceable song-like structures. |
Gardner, Drew: The Return [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock A previously unreleased archival recording of drummer Drew Gardner's 1995 Bay Area quintet with a stellar set of free jazz collaborators--John Tchicai on tenor & soprano saxophones, Marco Eneidi on alto saxophone, Roberto De Haven on alto saxophone and Vytas Nagisetty on bass, beautifully recorded in the studio in Oakland, CA by Myles Boisen; exceptional! |
International Nothing, The: In Doubt We Trust (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $16.95 In Stock The duo project of Berlin-based clarinetists Kai Fagaschinski and Michal Thieke, (Magic I.D., Christof Kurzmann, Splitter Ochester) in their 5th album of timbre-rich, harmonically fascinating and slowly evolving reed interactions, returning to their core duo after their previous quartet album, here presenting a large rich and beautifully weaving work. |
Johansson, Sven-Ake / Alexander Von Schlippenbach : Schraubenlieder [VINYL] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $22.95 In Stock Drummer Sven-Ake Johansson is also a poet, writer and visual artist; here he joined forced with Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1988 to record these songs, never previously released, sung in German and English, for a set of 9 fascinating narrations that engage the listener independent of language, as von Schlippenbach improvises with prodigious technique. |
Kasten-Krause, Tristan / Jessica Pavone: Images of One [Used Item] (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Promo copy with line thru bar code. |
Kurka, Irene : Chants (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Soprano vocalist Irene Kurka performs two works works by Antoine Beuger, and one each by Christopher Fox, Eva-Maria Houben, and Thomas Stiegler, accompanied by Antoine Beuger on flute for his composition "Chants de Passage"; 5 beautiful, unhurried works that bring the delicate beauty of each compositions, and of Kurka's refined voice, to a resonant foreground. |
Miguel, Sei: The Original Drum (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Four unique compositions from Portuguese trumpeter Sei Miguel, whose work embraces jazz history while incorporating his own music systems, here each piece varying the size of each grouping with one constant, his frequent sideman, alto trombonist Fala Mariam; plus luminaries including Rodrigo Amado, Ernesto Rodridgues, Helena Espvall, Nuno Torres, Rafel Toral, Paulo Curado, &c. |
NAO (Vaz / Silva / Marques): Arcana (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock With sections of dark grooves, wild free improv, seething electronics, and even moments of "Set the Controls..." surrealism, the trio of Alexandre Vaz on keys, guitar & saxophone, Joao Silva on synths & drum machine, and Vasco Marques on bass & synth, take their listeners on an unexpected and wide-ranging journey of uneasy and informed, rich exploration. |
Olive, Tim: Spot of the Foul (total mass retain) (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock The second-ever solo release from Tim Olive and his first since 2008, in a distinctive set of compositions that layer and superimpose multiple, darkly intense recordings of improvisations made with magnetic pickups, metal plates, springs, wire, tuning forks, electromagnets, bow, breath, dental floss, envelope generator, fuzz, spring reverb, and preamplifier. |
Pulverize the Sound (Evans, Peter / Tim Dahl / Mike Pride): Black (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Appropriately recorded at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn, the 3rd release from the NY trio Pulverize the Sound of Peter Evans on trumpet, Tim Dahl on electric bass and Mike Pride on drums & glockenspiel, expands on this 10 year working band's assertive approach to collective free improv, doing so with innovation, breathtaking technical skill and a wide range of mood and texture. |
Rodrigues / Malfatti / Guerreiro: Late Summer [2 CDs] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $21.95 Out of Stock A soft blending of Ernesto Rodrigues' viola, Radu Malfatti's trombone, and Ricardo Guerreiro's fragile sine waves and computerized hums over two patiently restrained, extended works of rich subtlety and gesture. |
Rowe, Keith / Graham Lambkin: Making A (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Keith Rowe first met Graham Lambkin at erstwhile's 2007 Amplify 2011 festival in NYC, playing again in 2013, and recording this album at Lambkin's house that same year, creating something unusual and unique from each player's perspective. |
Sabat, Marc : Harmony (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock The fifth CD in the Canadian Composers Series is also the debut appearance on Another Timbre by the Jack Quartet, performing works by composer Marc Sabat--two string quartets and a violin/cello duo--all combining an exploration of the soundworld of Just Intonation with a strong underlying lyricism. |
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... |
Sclavis / Taborn / Rainey: Eldorado Trio (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Reedist Louis Sclavis' new cooperative trio with keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Tom Rainey in a mix of studio and live recordings from Casa da Musica, Porto. |
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). |
VocColours & Andrei Razin: Ganglia (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Four voices--Norbert Zajac, Brigitte Kupper, Gala Hummel, Iouri Grankin--sing and speak over the piano work of Russian improviser Andrei Razin in a moody and often startling album that set tonal environments or disorient the listener through constrasting layers of vocalization, as Razin darts among them or sets an atmosphere of lingering tones; often curious, frequently stunning. |
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. |
Yes Deer: Get Your Glitter Jacket [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The Norwegian & Danish freejazz-noise-rock trio Yes Deer of Anders Vestergaard on drums, Karl Bjora on guitar and Signe Dahlgreen on sax, in their second album of high energy, cacophonous and brutally joyful (they say "enthusiastic despair") collective improvisation. |
DDK Trio (Jacques Demierre / Axel Dorner / Jonas Kocher): A Right to Silence [3 CDs] (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $32.95 In Stock The trio of pianist Jacques Demierre, trumpeter Axel Dorner and accordionist Jonas Kocher recorded these live improvisations at Theatre Le Colombier in Les Cabannes, France, each performer then assembling a complete album selecting from the fourteen recordings, unique to each performer's aesthetic selection, sequencing and length, creating three distinct yet deeply attached albums. |
Suspensao: Teufelmuzik (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Portugal's suspenseful reductionist improvising ensemble, blending acoustic and electronic instruments in delicately detailed motion, heard in this live recording at SMUP in Parede from Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Nuno Torres (sax), Bruno Parrinha (bass clarinet), Luisa Goncalves (piano), Flak (electric gutiar), Joao Madeira (bass), Carlos Santos (analog synth) and Jose Oliveira (percussion). |
Lucier, Alvin: Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II [VINYL] (Black Truffle -- Australia ) Price: $33.95 In Stock The Swiss-based Ever Present Orchestra, dedicated to the presentation of later works by composer Alvin Lucier written for this orchestra and centered on pieces for the electric guitar, in two works of differing characteristics: "Arrigoni Bridge" for 3 lap steel electric guitars + violin, sax & cello; and "Flips" for two guitars, bass and glockenspiel. |
Various Artists: The Architecture of the Incidental (GD Stereo -- USA ) Price: $9.95 Out of Stock An excellent anthology of improvising electroacoustic artists using aleatory processes, inc. Gen Ken Montgomery, If Bwana, Francisco Lopez, Geoff Dugan, John Hudak, &c |
Belorukov, Ilia / Ernesto Rodrigues / Nuno Torres: Tak Prosto [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Two recordings from the lowercase acoustic improvising trio of Portuguese players Ernesto Rodriduges on viola and Nuno Torres on alto saxophone and objects with Saint Petersburg alto saxophonist Ilia Belorukov, recording at Belorukov's Spina! label's studio, and again live at Vertikal' Gallery in Saint Petersburg in 2016. |
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. |
Dorner / Rodrigues / Kim / Flinn: Chess Music (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A profoundly patient extended improvisation referencing the pensive and strategic decisions made in a game of chess, creating a dynamic interplay of sounds through unconvential technique in this live recording at Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin from the quartet of trumpeter Axel Dorner, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, tenor saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim and percussionist Stephen Flinn. |
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Dirk Serries / Joao Madeira / Jose Oliveira : Dripping (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock One of the core Creative Sources trios of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola & crackle box, João Madeira on double bass and Jose Oliveira on percussion, is extended to a quartet with Netherland's New Wave of Jazz/Vidna Obmama archtop guitarist Dirk Serries, presenting the 9-part "Dripping" series of free chamber-oriented lowercase improvisation. |
Turba, Ruben / Minami Saeki: The Gift (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock "for two musicians, or more each musician should think about the other (or one of the others, if you are more tan two) and choose five sounds. these sounds - mainly simple, mainly short - should be chosen having the other musician ... |
Granberg, Magnus (w/ Miki Maruta / Ko Ishikawa / Toshimaru Nakamura): Come Down To Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth -- Revised Version For Sho, Koto, Prepared Piano And Electronic (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 In Stock "November 9, 2019 was first day of Ftarri Festival 2019 Week One, held at Sonorium, Tokyo. The closing group that day was a quartet headed by Magnus Granberg (who had come to Japan for the first time). The other members were Toshimaru N... |
Ruhl, Joris: Feuilles [Used Item] (Umlaut Records -- France ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Clarinetist Xavier Charles, accordionist Jonas Kocher and percussionist Toma Gouband join French improviser Joris Ruhl for this extended improvisation of multiphonics, textures and timbres, evolving from subtle harmonics into vast waves of sound, pausing to punctuate with pointillist interaction, then expanding into dramatic waves of sound before carefully fading away; sublime. |
Duplant, Bruno / Rutger Zuydervelt: Edge Of Oblivion (Machinefabriek -- Netherlands ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The third collaboration between sound and electronic artists Bruno Duplant and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) is a darkly heavy and dramatic work of subtle motion that slowly unfolds and shifts through vast sonic environments, fueled by acousmatic sources that take the listener to the edge of darkness and then pulls them back in warm waves or rich ambiance. |
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Ichiyanagi, Toshi with Eye Music: Sapporo
Fujii, Satoko New York Orchestra: Shiki
Pulverize the Sound (Evans, Peter / Tim Dahl / Mike Pride): Black
Avenel, Jean-Jacques / Siegfried Kessler / Daunik Lazro : Ecstatic Jazz (Crypte Des Franciscains Bez
Duthoit, Isabelle / Franz Hautzinger: Lily
Sealed Knot, The (Beins / Davies / Wastell): Twenty
Pettersen, Ed: Vigeland
Wolff, Christian / Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble: Stones
Schiano, Mario (Schiano / Guy / Lovens / Parker / Tramontana): Social Security
International Nothing, The: In Doubt We Trust
Granberg, Magnus (w/ Miki Maruta / Ko Ishikawa / Toshimaru Nakamura): Come Down to Earth Where Sorro
International Nothing, The (Fagaschinski / Thieke): Less Action, Less Excitement, Less Everything
Frey, Jurg / Radu Malfatti: II
Bondi, Cyril : Euhesma, 2017
International Nothing, The (Fagaschinski / Thieke): Just None of Those Things
NAO (Vaz / Silva / Marques): Arcana
Rodrigues / Dorner / Torres / Fragenheim: Nor
Capece, Lucio / Werner Dafeldecker: Iteration
Jerman / Salis / Sanna: KIO GE
Oker (Larsen / Myhr / Rasten / Gismervik): Susurrus