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Circuit: Electro Acoustic Ensemble: Epiphany (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The first in a series of recordings from the shifting Circuit ea-improv ensemble, here with Trevor Taylor, Paul Dunmall, Jonathan Implett and Nick Stephens. |
Circuit: Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Kitaoka (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The 3rd CD in a series by the ea-improv group Circuit (Pat Thomas, Trevor Taylor, &c). music influenced by the japanese artist and illusionist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. |
Dunmall, Paul: Deep [DVD] (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 In Stock PAL format DVD that documents the history of one of free improvisation's greatest saxophonists, Paul Dunmall, with music clips, interviews, &c. |
Eduardo, Ze Unit: A Jazzar - Live in Capuchos (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $7.50 In Stock Portugal bassist Ze Eduardo's trio in a set of compositions that includes jazz versions of animated televisions series, including a great cover of The Simpson's theme. |
Fossils: A Common Confusion (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Another slab of basement strangeness from this Hamilton, Ontario-based trio/duo that pivots around sound artist David Payne; a baffling work of sound and noise. |
Furuya, Nobuyasu Trio: Bendowa (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $7.50 In Stock Sax, bass clarinet and flutist Nobuyasu Furuya is a free player migrated from Japan to Lisbon, Portugal, here in a trio with bassist Hernani Faustino and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini. |
Gjerstad / Edwards / Sanders: Bergen (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Finnish free jazz master Frode Gjerstad in a trio with drummer Mark Sanders and bassist John Edwards performing live at the 2008 NattJazz Festival in Norway. |
Haynes, Justin: Birder (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Birder started as a piece for solo tenor banjo to study of the music of Charlie Parker (Bird), an exhaustive work with Christine Duncan's trombone and theremin at the end. |
Mahall / Dorner / Roder / Jennessen: Die Enttauschung - 5 (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! |
Pedromonkeyfinger: Eye Day Rabbit (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock "Surreal slabs of processed sound float by each other in brilliant high fidelity, from the man behind much of the documentation of Bug Incision's live activites..." |
Pinton / Kullhammar / Zetterberg / Nordeson: Chant (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $7.50 In Stock An amazing jazz quartet with saxophonist Alberto Pinton and Jonas Kullhammar (Moserobie Music), music inspired by the 50s & 60s Blue Note style with a 21st century edge. |
Red Square: Thirty Three (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock This pioneering British group recorded these track in the 1970s, pushing free improvisation and experimental music, in their day performing alongside Henry Cow, Red Brass and Lol Coxhill. |
Saint Dirt Elementary School: Ice Cream Man Dreams (Barnyard -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Guitarist and composer Myk Freedman's little big band, a salon orchestra that's both entertaining and remarkably sophisticated, a playground of styles and ideas. |
Thomas / Minton / Tucker / Turner: Scatter (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The unusual Scatter group formed in the early 90s to perform live improvisation with a rich dynamic range, expressive depth, quicksilver reactions and a sly sense of humour. |
Trio Nang Naak (Edwards / Somervell / Sanders): Trio NaNG NAak (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock The trio of guitarist Barry Edwards, who has performed with Paul Dunmall; bassist Collin Somervell; and drummer Mark Sanders (Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, &c. &c.) |
Weightless (Butcher / Edwards / Spera / Braida): A Brush with Dignity (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Music inspired and fascinated by Italian cultural history, art, poetry, &c., from the collective quartet of John Butcher, John Edwards, Fabrizio Spera and Alberto Braida. |
Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani: Cardinal (Impressus Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The quartet of Cosottini, Melano, Pisani, Miano (EAQuartet Electroacoustic) in compositions referring to the 4 cardinal map points using graphic scores, games, open readings, &c. |
McLean, Colin & Andy Moor: Everything But the Beginning (Unsounds -- The Netherlands ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The 1st release from Andy Moor & Colin McLean since they disbanded Dog Faced Hermans 13 years ago, 3 years of live improvisations from Amsterdam's OT 301's Music Dance 301 sessions. |
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. |
Rumback, Charles: Two Kinds of Art Thieves (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $7.50 In Stock Drummer Charles Rumback in a quartet with Greg Ward & Joshua Sclar on sax, bringing together jazz tradition with the aesthetics of the eclectic Chicago scene. |
Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani: Cardinal [Used Item] (Impressus Records -- USA ) Price: $7.20 In Stock The quartet of Cosottini, Melano, Pisani, Miano (EAQuartet Electroacoustic) in compositions referring to the 4 cardinal map points using graphic scores, games, open readings, &c. |
Resende, Julio: Assim Falava Jazz at ustra (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $10.00 In Stock Pianist Julio Resende's International Quartet with Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat, Norway's Ole Morten Vagan on bass, &c., modern jazz plus one Pink Floyd cover(!). |
Morris / Fell / Ward: The Necessary And The Possible (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock This incredible trio, recorded at the 25th Victo Actuelle Festival, play complex music using shared ideas about articulation, timbre, and methods of interaction. |
Crocker, Jay: Joachim on Eggshells (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Jay Crockers follows the allure of salvage from six years of recordings, taking sketches and mini-improvs and organizing them into a large and unusual sonic journey. |
Moondoc, Jemeel: The Zoopkeeper's House (Trio/Quartet/Quintet) (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A series of exceptional compositions by saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc plus one by Alice Coltrane, performed in a variety of group settings, from duos to quintet, with sidemen Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Steve Swell, Hilliard Greene, and Newman Taylor Baker. |
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. |
Bergman / Pastor: Live At Tortona (Mutable -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The duo of pianist Borah Bergman and violinist Stefano Pastor performing live at the Fuori Tema Festival in Tortona, Italy in 2007, fascinating parallel dialogs. |
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. |