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Anandan, Ganesh / Hans Reichel: Self Made (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The acclaimed daxophonist Hans Reichel meets shruti stick and metallophone inventor Ganesh Anandan for these expressive and unconventional dialogs. |
Phosphor (Beins / Dorner / Hayward / Krebs): Phosphor II (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Electro-acoustic improv from the Phosphor grouping, an amazing set of musicians who began working together in 2001 and have developed a complex and incredible form of interplay. |
Dark Blue World: The Perilous Beauty of Madness (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock DarkBlueWorld is Elizabeth Fischer's essential rock vehicle for collaborations with noted Canadian musicians, including Tony Wilson, Peggy Lee, Amy Denio, Jesse Zubot, &c &c. |
Furt: Sense (psi -- Great Britain ) Price: $18.95 In Stock The duo of Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer in 12 studio tracks of semi-composed electronics, and a live improvised tribute to Karlheinz Stockhausen. |
Gonzalez, Dennis: Songs Of Early Autumn (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Trumpeter Gonzalez' quartet with Joe Morris on bass, Timo Shanko and Luther Gray in an album of Gonzalez compositions & group improvisations celebrating the New Egland fall. |
Houle, Viviane: Treize (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Out free improvising vocalist Viviane Houle's debut solo release in duos with a veritable who's-who of Vancouver's finest improvisers including Peggy Lee, Jesse Zubot, &c. &c. |
Kassap / Tchamitchian / Lopez / Lavant: Ascension, Tombeau of John Coltrane (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock The trio of clarinetist Sylvain Kassap, bassist Claude Tchamitchian and drummer Ramon Lopez with Denis Lavant interpreting Franck Medioni's jazz poem to John Coltrane. |
Leandre, Joelle / Lewis, George : Transatlantic Visions (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock The live recording of basist Leandre and trombonist Geroge Lewis at the Vision Festival XIII concert, awarded "Best Performance of the Year" by All About Jazz NY. |
Lerner, Marilyn: Arms Spread Wide (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock New York pianist Marilyn Lerner in a trio with Ken Filiano and Lou Grassi, instant compositions with great structure, virtuosity and melodic content. |
Malfatti, Radu / Klaus Filip: imaoto (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The improvising duo of trombonist Radu Malfatti and electronics/sinewave artist Klaus Filip in two extended and beautiful works that investigate the edges of ultraminimalism. |
Mengis, Manuel Gruppe 6: Dulcet Crush (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Trumpeter Manuel Mengis 3rd Hat release, 8 original compositions of sophisticated and enjoyable modern jazz from a sextet with dual sax and guitar leads. |
Murayama, Seijiro / Soundworm: Space & Place (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Percussionist Murayama and Soundworm (Hiromits Shoji) in a work following a score that switches between clusters of live microphones as Murayama improvises to the resulting sound. |
Ochs, Larry Quintet: Stone Shift (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Larry Ochs Sax & Drum Core with Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura and the dual drummers of Scott Amendola and Donald Robinson performing live at Teatro Fondamente Nuovo in Italy. |
Rodrigues / Davidson / Rodrigues / Faustino: Fower (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Three tracks of acoustic improv from an understated string quartet that uses extended techniques and the whole of their instruments to make unusual and rewarding music. |
Rowe, Keith / Toshimaru Nakamura: ErstLive 008 (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The fourth set from Keith Rowe's duos at Erstwhile's AMPLIFY 2008 festival in Tokyo, a duo with long-time partner Toshimaru Nakamura, intense ea-improv from two masters. |
Threadgill, Henry Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume I (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Henry Threadgill's Zooid with Liberty Ellman, Jose Davila, Stomu Takeishi and Elliot Kavee in all new Threadgill compositions, important and influential modern jazz! |
Wilson, Tony Sextet: The People Look Like Flowers at Last (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Tony Wilson Sextet's was formed almost 20 years ago to perform his original compositions and arrangements, here performing Benjamin Britten's Lachrymae and 4 original works. |
Zorn, John: Femina (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock A beautifully packaged work performed by Sylvie Courvoisier, Iku Mori, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Choi, Carol Emanuel & Shayna Dunkelman in Zorn's tribute to women in the Arts. |
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. |
Vlor: Six-Winged (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock The long-distance collaborative Vlor project constructs rock and sound work from a wide array of rock influcences leveraging their dichotomy to creative a cohesive brooding music. |
Murayama, Seijiro / Eric La Casa: Paris: Public Spaces (Ftarri/Swarming -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Twelve recordings constructed from 2012 field recordings of public locations in Paris by Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama, including subway stations, parks, open gardens, tunnels and fountains; a fascinating portrait of communal sound in this great city. |
Brady, Tim / Bradyworks, Quatuor Molinari: My 20th Century (CD + DVD) [DVD] (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Tim Brady with Bradyworks and Quatuor Molinari in a CD/DVD release of four synchronized musical, video & theater works, ambitious and fascinating compositional pieces. |
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. |
Labbe, Pierre: Manivelle (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Saxophonist Pierre's Labbe's 1st release in 6 years, performing original compositions in a quartet with guitarist Bernard Falaise, drummer Isaiah Ceccarelli & bassist Clinton Ryder. |
Schick, Ignaz / Martin Tetreault: Live * 33 * 45 * 78 (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Montreal/Actuelle turntablist Martin Tetreault and Berlin turntablist Ignaz Shcick in two sets of recordings from two encounters in Belgium and Switzerland, 2006. |
Teller, Jorgen: Delete Nature (Ninth World -- Germany ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Solos for triggered guitar from midi and effects guitarist Jorgen Teller, 15 complex and conceptual works that balance clean and noisy guitar work in perplexing ways. |
Narthex (Baron / Blairon): Formnction (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Saxophonist Marc Baron & bassist Loic Blairon recorded 6 improvisations and then recomposed and organized them into these two 30 minute works, one acoustic and one digital. |
Lost Kisses: My Life is Sad & Funny [DVD] (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 In Stock Brian John Mitchell's Lost Kisses started in 2002, a stickman comic about a self-centered jackass trying to forge a heart of gold, transferred to DVD with a making of. |
de Leon, Mario Diaz: Enter Houses Of (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock NY composer Mario Diaz de Leon, who is influenced by Scelsi, Ligeti, Dumitrescu & Radulescu, focuses on acoustic & electronic hybrids that often fuse both elements into unified meta-instruments. |
Wiens, Rainer: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock A series of solos and duets between Kalimba player Rainer Wiens and an impressive set of improvisers including Jean Derome, Malcolm Goldstein, Frank Lozano, &c. |
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. |
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. |