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Berthiaume, Antoine / MaryClare Brzytwa: Bebe Donkey (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Antoine Berthiaume (guitar, effects) and MaryClare Brzytwa (flute, laptop, electronics) in twelve pieces of intriguing improvisation. |
Coleman, Steve: Invisible Paths: First Scattering (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock |
Falaise, Bernard: Do (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Bernard Falaise's debut solo album in 15 peieces for guitar ensembles played by one guitarist with the help of overdubbing and digital processing. |
Kowald, Peter / Petit-Jouvet, Laurence: Off The Road (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $39.95 Out of Stock |
Mahall / Dorner / Roder / Jennessen: Die Enttauschung (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock This Berlin based quartet play a collective jazz of uncommon strategy and amazing prowess on 17 tracks of economical and brilliant playing - recommended! |
Parker, William Double Quartet: Alphaville Suite: Music Inspired by the Jean Luc Godard film (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock |
Philadelphia Company, The: #1: The First Meeting (Roeba -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock A plater, a teacher & a drummer walk into a rehersal room... parts 1-5 |
Swell's, Steve Fire Into Music : Swimming In A Galaxy Of Goodwill And Sorrow (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock |
Takase, Aki / Eberhard, Silke: Ornette Coleman Anthology [2 CDs] (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $25.95 Out of Stock |
Various Artists: White Night Festival, Tel-Aviv 2006 (Kadima -- Israel ) Price: $13.95 In Stock |
Berthiaume, Antoine / Elliott Sharp: BASE (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two guitarists from New York's Downtown and Montreal's Actuelle scenes in 11 guitar improvisations, experimental sounds constructed and deconstructed. |
Berthiaume, Antoine: Small Tease (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Guitarist Berthiaume steps away from composition and jazz to record an album of intricate instrumental guitar songs with folk influences, playing solo and in small ensembles. |
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. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
Horkeskart: Live in Solitutde (Amorfon -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 In Stock "HORKESKART" acted as a conceptual & unique choir group from 2000 to 2006, based in Belgrade. |
Petit, Philippe : Ear Me In (Bolt -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Composer Petit in an opus dealing with the dynamic of resonance and its incidences: a microphonic exploration of a single sound body made to resonate by means of different types of percussion, building a dramatic story from sampled and processed percussive elements. |
Letarte, Genevieve : Ames soules (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Vocalist Genevieve Letarte in a release with Normand Guilbeault, Pierre Tanguay, Ivanhoe Jolicoeur, Claude Fradette, Guillaume Dostaler, Ivanhoe Jolicoeur and Guido Del Fabbro. |
Ishida, Naoki: Tone Redust [Used Item] (Quasi Pop -- Great Britain ) Price: $8.10 In Stock |
Coleman, Steve and Five Elements: The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Steve Coleman and Five Elements with Tim Albright, Tyshawn Sorey, Jen Shyu, &c., in an album incorporating the saxophonist's lifetime of researchg into cycles found in nature and astronomy. |
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! |
Grid Mesh (Thewes / Schubert / Willers / Kellers): Four (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Though listing four tracks, this is an indexed continuous concert from the German Grid Mesh quartet of Christof Thewes on trombone, Frank Paul Schubert on alto & soprano saxophones, Andreas Willers on electric guitar and Willi Kellers on drums & percussion, performing at Spielraum Schiffweiler-Heiligenwald in Germany in 2020 for a wildly buidling concert of free collective force. |
Houle, Francois Trio: Schizosphere (Red Toucan -- Canada ) Price: $9.95 In Stock An early album from Vancouver clarinetist Francois Houle with frequent collaborators Tony Wilson (guitar) and Dylan van der Schyff (drums & percussion), performing original compositions and a unique version of Duke Ellington's "Frustration." |
Kowald, Peter / Kent Kessler / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Flats Fixed (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Three bassists converged on WNUR Studios, in Evanston, Illinois in 1998 to record these tracks, finally released after 16 years: 5 freely improvised trio sessions, 6 miniatures suggested by Kowald and performed by the trio, and 6 duos between Kowald and Lonberg-Holm. |
Les Rhinoceros: Les Rhinoc Ros III (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Compellingly lyrical music with a klezmer influence from this Washington, DC trio, blending rock, world music, math rock, klezmer, reggae, noise, ambient and jazz into wonderful groove-based works, here in their 3rd album after 5 years, with a host of guests. |
Maguire, Phil / Tim Olive: Invoer (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Stymied by Covid-19, the planned May 2020 tour of sound artists Tim Olive and Phil Maguire was cancelled, motivating each to create four 10-minute solo pieces which were then overlayed to create four "distant duo" pieces, merging Olive's textured home-made electronics and Maguire's reductive approach to audio simplicity and spare sonic environments. |
Parker, William / Raining on the Moon: Great Spirit (Aum Fidelity -- USA / Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock 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). |
Phicus / Martin Kuchen: Sumpflegende (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The Catalan free improvising trio Phicus of Alex Reviriego on double bass, Ferran Fages on electric guitar, and Vasco Trilla on drums, continue their pursuit of 4th partners, here joined by Swedish saxophonist Martin Kuchen on tenor & alto saxophones for a studio album of collective improvisation with elements of ea/lowercase playing balanced with dynamic language. |
Swell, Steve: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Improviser (Swell Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A diverse and engrossing solo album from NY-based, global travelling trombonist Steve Swell, showing vast creative and technical skills through unusual techniques that balance with inventive and lyrical approaches to the horn, a tour-de-force of modern playing. |
Takase, Aki / Christian Weber / Michael Griener: Auge (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Bringing an innate lyricism to free improvisation in the piano trio format, albeit a thoroughly modern take on that format where all performers are equal and active participants, from Aki Takase on piano, Christian Weber on bass, and Michael Griener on drums, performing five Takase originals, one from Griener & Takase, and 8 collective works. |
Various Artists: Victoriaville Matiere Sonore (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Francisco Lopez initiated this project in 2006 with the Pogus CD "Montreal Sound Matter", now expanded into an acousmatic group of linked tracks from a group of impressive sound artists. |
Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson: Live / Studio [Used Item] (Bead -- UK ) Price: $10.00 In Stock The improvising string duo of stalwart London improvisers, Daniel Thompson on acoustic guitar and Phil Durrant on the octave mandola, are heard in two settings of texturally rich, intricate interactions, first at Cafe OTO in 2022 for an extended improvisation, then at Cable Street Studios two months later for six succint, impressively diverse dialogs. |