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Blouin, Hugo / Claude Bourque / Paul Gregoire: L' Ossuaire [2 CDs]

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 22595
Catalog Code: TDB-173cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $17.95



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Recordings of an installation piece built in Iles-de-la-Madeleine in the summer of 2013, a large sculpture made of resonant metal pipes with propane torches and whale bones, used as a huge musical instrument allowing three people to play simultaneously from different sides.


Normand, Eric: Mattempa

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 22594
Catalog Code: TD890118cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Based on Canadian physician & author Jacques Ferron's book "Gaspe Mattempa", bassist Eric Normad leads a quintet into a mythological audio world with Raphael Arsenault (violin), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet), Alexandre Robichaud (trumpet) & Antoine Letourneau-Berger (percussion).


Usurper: You Can Do It

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 22562
Catalog Code: bim-74
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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An extremely unusual album of sonic interactions from the long-running peformance duo of Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff, aka Usurper, recorded during a residency in Helsinki in May 2010, an eccentric display of vocal and aberrant apparatus with a unique inner logic.


Thomson, Scott: Heures Indues

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 22561
Catalog Code: bim-73
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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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.


Oliver, Cody: Rodent Landscapes

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 22560
Catalog Code: bim-72
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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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.


Farmer / Munthe: Angle Of Repose

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 22559
Catalog Code: bim-71
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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Texture heavy sonic free improvisation from the duo of Swedish free improviser Christian Munthe on acoustic guitar and Patrick Farmer on "acoustic turntable", each masking the sounds of their instruments in uncommon ways, pacing their interactions with subtlety and intention.


Musicworks: #125 Summer 2016 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Label: Musicworks
Product Code: 22339
Catalog Code: #125
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Canada's premier new music magazine in their 125th issue, articles include Ayo Leilani; Ocean Bug and Bird Songs; Gabriel Dharmoo; crys cole; Thin Edge New Music Collective; plus a CD with tracks from Witch Prophet; Gabriel Dharmoo; Tim Brady; crys cole; Marc Saba; &c. &c.


GGRIL (Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation Liberee): Geste

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 22024
Catalog Code: 90015
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Eric Normand's Quebec based 12-piece GGRIL (Grand Groupe Regional d'Improvisation) in an album of 5 improvisations and a piece by percussionist Danielle P. Roger; wonderfully creative music with eclectic instrumentation that's simultaneously challenging and fun.


Musicworks: #124 Spring 2016 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Label: Musicworks
Product Code: 21986
Catalog Code: #124
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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The Spring 2016 issue of Canada's best creative music magazine covering composed, improvised and experimental music. Articles include: Juan Camilo Vasquez' Caliope (canto de las abejas); First-Place Winner, Musicworks' 2015 Electronic M...


Eguiluz, Geraldine / Stephane Diamantakiou: Paso Doble

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 21955
Catalog Code: TDB9013cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $12.95



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Since 2012 the free improvising duo of vocalist Geraldine Eguiluz and double bassist Stephane Diamantakiou have worked together, taking themes from the jazz songbook as a starting point for free form improvisations of a fragile and unpredictable nature.


Davis, Anthony / Paul Plimley / Al Neil / John Kameel Farah: Past Piano Present | Live at Western Front 1985 - 2015 [VINYL LP with DOWNLOAD]

Label: Western Front New Music
Product Code: 21876
Catalog Code: 004
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Four innovative and creative pianists performing solo at the Western Front between 1985 and 2015--Anthony Davis, Paul Plimley, Al Neil, John Kameel Farah--compiled on this extraordinary LP, the 2nd essential archive from one of Canada's most important performance spaces.


Quasar (quatuor de saxophones): Du souffle

Label: Collection QB
Product Code: 21681
Catalog Code: CQB 1617
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Montreal saxophone quartet Quasar (Jean-Marc Bouchard, Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair, & Andre Leroux) in their 3rd incredible album of contemporary saxophone compositions, presenting 14 rich and varied compositions, including commissioned and premier works.


Martin, Simon (w/ Quasar, Bozzini Quartet, Trio de guitares contemporain): Hommage a Leduc, Borduas et Riopelle

Label: Collection QB
Product Code: 21680
Catalog Code: CQB 1616
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Composer Simon Martin pays hommage to Quebec painters Ozias Leduc, Paul-Emile Borduas, and Jean-Paul Riopelle in contemplative works for each artist, performed by the ensembles Quatuor Bozzini, Quasar quatuor de saxophons, and Trio de guitares contemporain.


Disguises, The (Thomson / Caloia / Charuest / Hood / Tanguay): Songs 7 Dances from The Muted Note

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 21678
Catalog Code: AM_227
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Eleven songs by Montreal trombonist Scott Thomson, settings of poems by P.K. Page (1916-2010), one of Canada's distinguished literary figures, in a band with Pierre Tanguay on drums, Yves Charuest on sax, Nicolas Caloia on double bass, and Susanna Hood on vocals.


Ensemble SuperMusique: Les accords intuitifs

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 21677
Catalog Code: AM_222
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Montreal's most creative large ensemble, led by Joane Hetu & Daniell Palardy Roger, in their 5th release presenting works composed between 1976-2015 featuring twenty musicians playing in different combinations, showing the creative breadth and skills of this amazing band.


Oberg / Schubert / De Joode / Sanders: Rope

Label: Red Toucan
Product Code: 21626
Catalog Code: RT 9351
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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Soprano saxophonist Frank Paul Schubert and pianist Uwe Oberg have played together since 2009; for ROPE they are joined by UK drummer Mark Sanders and Amsterdam bassist Wilbert de Joode for a diverse and astounding live set performed at Just Music Fest in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2015.


Musicworks: #123 Fall 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Label: Musicworks
Product Code: 21476
Catalog Code: #123
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Features: The Expanding Universe of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; The Retro Aesthetic of Le Revelateur; JOYFULTALK (Drip Audio); Muuixx; Hard Rubber Orchestra; Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville; Allison Cameron and Contact; plus live and recorded reviews.


Steerage: Entropy Is What The State Makes Of It

Label: Caduc
Product Code: 21472
Catalog Code: CA011
Country: Canada
 
Price: $12.95



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An album of tones and tonal environments from Barry Chabala and A.F. Jones, using guitars and effects to create slowly moving tones punctuated with unusual utterances of unknown origin; rich and curiously non-specific sound that lives in the back- and foreground.


Frith, Fred / Michel Doneda:

Label: Vand'Oeuvre
Product Code: 21399
Catalog Code: 1440
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Since 2007 NEXMAP has produced "Binary Cities", a performance series bringing together artists from different cities; in 2009 they brought guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist Michel Doneda together in San Francisco for the first time for an incredible night of improvisation.


Parker, William / Raining on the Moon: Great Spirit

Label: Aum Fidelity
Product Code: 21374
Catalog Code: AUM 098CD
Country: USA / Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Recorded alongside "Corn Meal Dance", these 2007 recordings complete the picture of bassist William Parker's intensely creative session that day, adding 6 songs plus 1 live track from 2012, with Rob Brown (sax); Eri Yamamoto (piano); Lewis Barnes (trumpet); and Leena Conquest (voice).


Funf (Babin, Cornell, Crispo, Jacques...): La Regle [Used Item]

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 21185
Catalog Code: AM 217
Country: Canada
 
Price: $8.95



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Sporadic sonic exchanges exploring guidelines, graphic scores, or completely improvised, with an expansive instrumentorium from the sextet of Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H Crispo, Anne-Francoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, and Erin Sexton.


Rose, Simon / Stefan Schultze: The Ten Thousand Things

Label: Red Toucan
Product Code: 21167
Catalog Code: RT 9350
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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Free improvising saxophonist Simon Rose, on baritone and alto sax, meets composer/arranger Stefan Schultze on prepared piano for 11 exploratory works based around Schultze's "modules"--bits and pieces attached inside the piano--creating unusual platforms for free improvisation.


Wilson, Tony 6tet: A Day's Life

Label: Drip Audio
Product Code: 21015
Catalog Code: DA01107
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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The first recording of Tony Wilson's music inspired by the plight and lives of the homeless and drug addictied in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, in a band with P Carter on trumpet, Jesse Zubot on violin, Peggy Lee on cello, Russell Sholberg on bass and Skye Brooks on drums.


Joyfultalk: Muuixx

Label: Drip Audio
Product Code: 21014
Catalog Code: DAO1120
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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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.


Musicworks: #122 Summer 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Label: Musicworks
Product Code: 20983
Catalog Code: #122
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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On the cover, Allison Camerson. Inside: Dave Burrell's Unsung Songbook; Peter Ablinger's Art of Time; Sabrina Schroeder's Stircrazer; plus reviews of recordings and events, label profiles, essays, &c. &c.


Frith, Fred / Evan Parker: Hello, I Must Be Going

Label: Les Disques Victo
Product Code: 20874
Catalog Code: VICCD128
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Two masters who rarely play together--guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist Evan Parker--performing together as a duo at the 30th Musique Actuelle Festival in Victoriaville, Canada for an amazing exchange of ideas and intensely subtle dialog.


Land of Marigold (Joshua Zubot & Ellwood Epps): Creosote

Label: Barnyard
Product Code: 20825
Catalog Code: BR0342
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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The Montreal duo of trumpeter Ellwood Epps and Josh Zubot on violin and low octave violin for 9 upbeat, technically superb and intricate instant improvisations, what they refer to as "foot-tapping for ghosts, seeing the northern lights from underwater".


Musicworks: #121 Spring 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Label: Musicworks
Product Code: 20497
Catalog Code: 121
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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On the cover, Jean Derome. Inside: Walter Smetak; Barbara Hannigan; Ian Tung; Cris Derksen; Alex Zhang Hungtai; plus reviews of recordings and events, a label profile, essays, &c. &c.


Sainct Laurens (Pierre-Yves Martel / Philippe Lauzier): Volume 2 [VINYL]

Label: Etrons
Product Code: 20366
Catalog Code: ETRC019
Country: Canada
 
Price: $18.95



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Using circular breathing and continuous sound, the Montreal duo of clarinetist and saxophonist Philippe Lauzier and Pierre-Yves Martel on viola da gamba, objects & feedback is a concentrative album of understated but definitive sound that develops with a profound level of precision and control, using suspense, tension, release and confidence in each other's unusual dialog.


De Villiers Jr., Jerry: The Turning Point Archives

Label: Timeless Momentum
Product Code: 20309
Catalog Code: TM20141
Country: Canada
 
Price: $12.95



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A retrospective album from Canadian fusion guitarist and composer Jerry De Villiers Jr, active in the Montreal jazz scene in the 1990s and known for the theme song to the Emmy Award winning show Arthur sung by Ziggy Marley, here with 7 studio and 7 live tracks.


Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand: Not the Music / do

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 20297
Catalog Code: TBD90022cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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The Canadian duo of reedist Philippe Lauzier and bassist Eric Normand freely improvise in sound environments that are both introspective and precarious, using subtle and aberrant approaches to playing that evoke unusual aspects of their instruments in oddly refined dialog.


Earnear: earNear

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 20296
Catalog Code: TDB0912cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Intricate interactions in free improv from the Portugese trio of violist Joao Camoes, cellist Miguel Mira (Open Field String Trio, Nuovo Camerata), and pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro (Red Trio), focused on the balance between contrasting counterpoint, polyrhythms and fluid soundscapes.


Derome, Jean: Chamber Music 1992-2012

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 20284
Catalog Code: AM_219
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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25 chamber works composed by Montreal composer, multi-instrumentalist and improviser Jean Derome, presenting pieces from the wealth of projects he's involved in, including Dangereux Zhoms, Ensemble de flutes Alize, duos with Lori Freedmam, Quasar, quatuor de saxophones, &c.


Funf (Babin, Cornell, Crispo, Jacques...): La Regle

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 20268
Catalog Code: AM_217
Country: Canada
 
Price: $14.95



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Sporadic sonic exchanges exploring guidelines, graphic scores, or completely improvised, with an expansive instrumentorium from the sextet of Magali Babin, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Martine H Crispo, Anne-Francoise Jacques, Emilie Mouchous, and Erin Sexton.


Evidence: Cartier, Derome, Tanguay, Thelonius Monk: Monk Work

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 20267
Catalog Code: AM_218
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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After 14 years this Montreal trio dedicated to the works of Thelonius Monk, comprised of Jean Derome on alto and baritone sax, Pierre Cartier on electric bass, and Pierre Tanguay on drums, returns with 11 exuberant recordings including "Brilliant Corners", "Pannonica", &c.


Klaxon Gueule (Cote, Falaise, St-Onge): Pour en finir

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 20266
Catalog Code: AM_220
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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Montreal's electroacoustic trio of Michel F Cote (percussion), Bernard Falaise (guitars) and Alexandre St-Onge (bass), in their 6th release, 12 succinct tracks of sophisticated improv merging unorthodox approaches for peculiarly satisfying compositions.


Vertical Squirrels (Fischlin, Heble, Melville, Warren): Time of the Sign

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques
Product Code: 20265
Catalog Code: AM_221
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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An incredibly informed instant-composing ensemble drawing on free jazz and post rock sensibilities with nods to Indian ragas, jazz-inflected minimalism, Zappa-esque bouts of sonic anarchy, and German rock music from the 1970s, captured live at Toronto, Guelph and Hamilton, Canada in 2012.


Dadge, Chris : Bin 15 [3-inch CDR]

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 20195
Catalog Code: Bin 15/bimm-8
Country: Canada
 
Price: $8.95



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Percussionist Chris Dadge recorded these two drones using amplified cymbals, violin, and snare drum inside a replica of a Saskatchewan-prairies-style grain silo erected by artist Mark Lowe at the 2011 Calgary Folk Festival.


Subtle Lip Can: Reflective Drime

Label: Drip Audio
Product Code: 20016
Catalog Code: DA01030
Country: Canada
 
Price: $13.95



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The 2nd release from the Montreal free improvising trio Joshua Zubot (violin), Bernard Falaise (guitar) and Isaiah Ceccarelli (drums/percussion) is a magnificent example of open-minded improvisation using unusual and sparkling approaches to sound and discourse.


Martel, Pierre-Yves: Continuum

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 20004
Catalog Code: TDB9011cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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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.


Sands, The: Beast To Bone

Label: Self Released
Product Code: 19989
Catalog Code: None
Country: Canada
 
Price: $12.95



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Singer/songwriter Julie McGeer leads a band of some of Western Canada's foremost players from the jazz and indie scene including Peggy Lee, JP Carter, Paul Rigby, Cole Schmidt, Darren Parris & Barry Mirochnik in an embraceable album combining jazz, indie pop and folk roots.


Surruralist(e)s, The/Le: Sortablue

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 19956
Catalog Code: None
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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The duo of Arthur Bull on guitars & harmoia and Eric Normand on electric bass and tenor banjo, and both on voice, taking on American rural songs--delta blues, cajun music, and Quebecois laments, &c--with a modern eye and a good sense of humor.


Rubedo 'ro: Rubedo 'ro

Label: Malasartes
Product Code: 19840
Catalog Code: mam 019
Country: Canada
 
Price: $12.95



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Six years of songs and compositions reflecting the life and travels of the Montreal quintet of Geraldine Eguiluz (voice, guitar, compositions), Marie-Lys Trudel (violin & viola); Julie Babaz (cello), Sheila Hannigan (cello) and Stephane Diamantakiou (bass).


Musicworks: #120 Fall 2014 [MAGAZINE + CD]

Label: Musicworks
Product Code: 19808
Catalog Code: #120
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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Fall 2014 issue with a 12 track various artist CD from Canada's premiere new music magazine. On the cover: Kris Davis; articles on Wolf Edwards; Video Game Music; Ross Bolleter; plus Coppice; Lido Pimienta; The Muted Noise; live and recorded reviews; &c. &c.


Munro, Scott : Monty

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 19777
Catalog Code: bim-67
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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Ever-active Calgary guitarist Scott Munro (Bent Spoon Duo) in his debut solo album of freely improvised guitar performed on a baritone guitar, treated and untreated, captured live at Weeds Cafe in 2010 & 2011.


Midnighties: With Monty

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 19776
Catalog Code: bim-68
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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The Vancouver duo of Cody Oliver and Chris Dadge is joined by multi-instrumentalist Scott Munro (Bend Spoon Duo) for a mix of acoustic and electronic improvisation to create unusual and interesting sonic environments and improvised discourse.


Arrias / Munthe: Torso And Legs

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 19775
Catalog Code: bim-69
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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Free improvisation in the SME/Derek Bailey lineage from the duo of Stockholm-based John Arrias on sax and clarinet and Gothenburg-based Christian Munthe on acoustic guitar, using extended techniques with accessible language in unhurried and intertwining improvisations.


Perera, Nilan & Bent Spoon Duo: S/T

Label: Bug Incision Records
Product Code: 19774
Catalog Code: bim-70
Country: Canada
 
Price: $11.95



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The Vancouver based Bent Spoon Duo of Scott Munro on viola, trombone, electronics & zither and Chris Dadge on percussion meets Toronto's Nilan Perera on electric guitar, performing at Weeds Cafe in Calgary, for a rich interactive release of free improvisation.


Parker, Evan ElectroAcoustic Septet: Seven

Label: Les Disques Victo
Product Code: 19755
Catalog Code: VICCD127
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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UK multi-reed master Evan Parker brings an all-star electroacoustic septet to the 2014 Victoriaville Festival for the massive and wonderfully detailed two part composition "Seven", performed with Peter Evans, Okkyung Lee, George Lewis, Ikue Mori, Sam Pluta, and Ned Rothenberg.


Prevost, Helene: A La Plage

Label: Tour de Bras
Product Code: 19723
Catalog Code: TDB0009cd
Country: Canada
 
Price: $15.95



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A mix of sound art and improvisation from Quebec/Actuelle musician Helene Prevost, 10 minimal "Plages", or luminous surfaces, created with Eric Normand, Stephae Claude, and Mario Gauthier.









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