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April 24, 2020

"Art makes you empathetic
And is a missing component that a lot of people are searching for."
—Gordon Grdina

Creative Artists

• Acid Mothers Temple featuring Geoff Leigh
• Baby Daddy
• Tim Berne / Nasheet Waits
• Tim Berne's Snakeoil
   (Ducret / Mitchell / Noriega / Smith)
• Tomas Cabado / Christoph Schiller
• J.P.A. Falzone / Morgan Evans-Weiler
• Gordon Grdina's The Marrow
   (w/ Helias / Roberts / Zubot / Honari)
• Emmanuel Holterbach / Blutwurst
• Kidd Jordan / Joel Futterman / Alvin Fielder
• Roscoe Mitchell / Ostravaska Banda
• Joe Morris
• Aruan Ortiz / Andrew Cyrille / Mauricio Herrera
• Tony Oxley
• Evan Parker / Paul Lytton
• John Stevens
• Steve Swell Quintet Soul Travelers
   w/ special guest Leena Conquest
• Ohad Talmor Newsreel Sextet
• Luiz Yudo Henrique

Essential Labels

910 Noise
Another Timbre
Confront
Glacial Erratic
Intakt
MVD

Relative Pitch
Rockschool
RogueArt
Silkheart
Songlines
Wide Hive

Jazz & Improvisation

Berne, Tim / Nasheet Waits: The Coanda Effect
(Relative Pitch)

A tour de force saxophone duo between two masterful New York players--alto saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Nasheet Waits--recording live at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn NY in 2019, in two impressive dialogs: "Tensile" for nearly 40 minutes of articulate expression and powerful rhythmic interaction; and the more introspective "5See" of impressive technique and intention.

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Berne's, Tim Snakeoil (Ducret / Mitchell / Noriega / Smith): The Fantastic Mrs. 10
(Intakt)

Starting in 2012 as a quartet with Oscar Noriega (reeds), Matt Mitchell (piano), and Ches Smith (drums/vibes), then expanded with guitar, saxophonist Tim Berne's Snakeoil now moves to the Swiss Intakt label, swapping guitarists for Marc Ducret, and releasing this fantastically intricate album of Berne compositions + 1 Hemphill piece, launching points for extraordinary soloing!

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Grdina's, Gordon The Marrow (w/ Helias / Roberts / Zubot / Honari): Safar-E-Daroon
(Songlines)

Oud player Gordon Grdina's Vancouver/NY project adapting Arabic and Persian forms to a modern jazz approach, in their 2nd release, a wonderfully rich and lyrical album infused with Middle Eastern melodies and rhythms, performed with his excellent The Marrow quintet Joshua Zubot on violin, Hank Roberts on cello, Mark Helias on bass, and Hamin Honari on tombak, daf & frame drum.

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Jordan, Kidd / Joel Futterman / Alvin Fielder: Spirits
(Silkheart)

The long-running trio of saxophonist Kidd Jordan, pianist Joel Futterman and drummer Alvin Fielder, established in 1994 and together until Fielder's passing in 2018, are heard in this incredible 1997 studio recording from New Orleans, 7 collective tracks that start as an invocation and then build in intensity & excitement with a strong spiritual connection; profound.

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Mitchell, Roscoe / Ostravaska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission
(Wide Hive)

"Distant Radio Transmission" was originally recorded as an improvisation by Roscoe Mitchell, Craig Taborn, and Kikanju Baku in 2013, then transcribed by Stephen P. Harvey in 2016, extended for strings by John Ivers in 2017, and then fully orchestrated by Roscoe Mitchell himself in 2017; the album also includes "Noonah Trio", "Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet" and "8/8/88".

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Mitchell, Roscoe / Ostravaska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission [VINYL]
(Wide Hive)

"Distant Radio Transmission" was originally recorded as an improvisation by Roscoe Mitchell, Craig Taborn, and Kikanju Baku in 2013, then transcribed by Stephen P. Harvey in 2016, extended for strings by John Ivers in 2017, and then fully orchestrated by Roscoe Mitchell himself in 2017; the album also includes "Noonah Trio", "Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet" and "8/8/88".

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Morris, Joe : Instantiation: Versioning
(Glacial Erratic)

The 2nd album in guitarist Joe Morris' "Instantiation" series, where each part is composed with specific notated and operational components such that it is impossible to perform any part the same way twice, performed with the quintet of Daniel Klingsberg on bass, Alex Quinn on trumpet, Michael Sabin on trombone, Raef Sengupta on saxophone.

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Ortiz, Aruan / Andrew Cyrille / Mauricio Herrera : Inside Rhythmic Falls
(Intakt)

Cuban pianist Aruán Ortiz reflects on his upbringing in Santiago de Cuba, evoking the cascades of daily sound and rhythm he heard there, through compositions performed with the trio of fellow Cuban Mauricio Herrera on percussion & marimbula, and drummer Andrew Cyrille, Emeline Michel and Marlene Ramirez-Cancio providing vocals on the powerful opening invocation.

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Oxley, Tony: Beaming
(Confront)

Known primarily as a free jazz drummer, Tony Oxley has also developed a framework of electronic sound generation and effects for live improvisation, this album conceived by Oxley and performed with drummer Stefan Holker from Oxley's Celebration Orchestra, demonstrating the great advancements in Oxley's ability to create refined sonic material of great detail and dynamic.

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Parker, Evan / Paul Lytton: Collective Calls (revisited) (jubilee)
(Intakt)

Reprising their 1972 duo album recorded in a loft in London and employing electronics, the duo of saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer John Lytton revisit that collaboration in this studio album recorded in Chicago, a purely acoustic encounter of remarkable dialog that shows the wealth of experience, skill, and camaraderie developed through the last 50 years.

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Swell, Steve Quintet Soul Travelers w/ special guest Leena Conquest: Astonishments
(RogueArt)

The follow-up to trombonist Steve Swell's Soul Travelers album with his quintet of saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, pianist Dave Burrell, bassist William Parker, and drummer Gerald Cleaver, performing Swell's compositions, four instrumental pieces and two textual songs originally commissioned for Tom Buckner's Interpretation Series, with voice from Leena Conquest.

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Talmor, Ohad Newsreel Sextet: Long Forms
(Intakt)

The core members of NY saxophonist Ohad Talmor's Newsreel Sextet are Jacob Sacks, Miles Okazaki (guitars) and Dan Weiss (drums) along with Matt Pavolka on acoustic bass and Shane Endsley on trumpet, performing Talmor's adventurous modern jazz compositions, merging jazz, North Indian traditional and contemporary compositional forms in lyrically embraceable ways.

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Experimental/Electronic

Baby Daddy: S/T [6'' Lathe VINYL]
(910 Noise)

As essential component of the NC 910 Noise Collective, Baby Daddy is the duo of sound artists Carl Kruger and Ryan L. Lewis IV (Obscura Films, Mr. Stonecipher) in a 6" lathe cut vinyl release presenting two succinct tracks: "Computers" merging controlled feedback and aberrant electronic progressions; and "Choices", using rich storms of diverse thick noise.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Acid Mothers Temple featuring Geoff Leigh: Reverse Of Rebirth Reprise
(MVD)

Joining the Acid Mothers Temple lineup of guitarist Kawabata Makoto, long time AMT member Higashi Hiroshi on synth, Jyonson Tsu on voice guitar and bouzouki, Satoshima Nani on drums, and Wolf on bass, is Henry Cow legend Geoff Leigh on flute, as they take a more laid back, acid folk approach to extended psych/kraut/prog track like "Dark Star Blues" or "La Novia".

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Acid Mothers Temple featuring Geoff Leigh: Reverse Of Rebirth Reprise [VINYL]
(MVD)

Joining the Acid Mothers Temple lineup of guitarist Kawabata Makoto, long time AMT member Higashi Hiroshi on synth, Jyonson Tsu on voice guitar and bouzouki, Satoshima Nani on drums, and Wolf on bass, is Henry Cow legend Geoff Leigh on flute, as they take a more laid back, acid folk approach to extended psych/kraut/prog track like "Dark Star Blues" or "La Novia".

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Compositional

Cabado, Tomas / Christoph Schiller: Unconscious Archives
(Another Timbre)

Swiss prepared spinet player Christoph Schiller and Argentine guitarist-composer Tomás Cabado, whose work is found on the Wandelweiser label, met in Schiller's studio in Basel to perform compositions from both and to improvise, recording this wonderfully relaxed but compelling music that exists in the fertile grey area between composition and improvisation.

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Falzone, J.P.A. / Morgan Evans-Weiler: Chordioid [2 CDs]
(Another Timbre)

2 CDs of works for violin, piano & vibraphone, composed and performed by two young American composers and members of the ensemble Ordinary Affects, who have recorded music by the Jurg Frey, Magnus Granberg, Michael Pisaro, Eva Maria Houben, &c.; the 1st disc presents the Feldman-esque work of JPA Falzone, while the 2nd contains an exquisite new work by Morgan Evans-Weiler.

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Holterbach, Emmanuel / Blutwurst: Ricercar nell'ombra
(Another Timbre)

French composer/musician Emmanuel Holterbach was invited to work with the Italian ensemble Blutwurst founded in 2011 by Marco Baldini (trumpet), Edoardo Ricci (reeds) and Daniela Fantechi (piano & accordion), creating this epic 45-minute work focused on tone and sound, in which dense clouds of sound swirl in varying shades from near silence to thunderous intensity.

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Yudo, Luiz Henrique : Chamber Works' played by Apartment House
(Another Timbre)

Apartment House play five chamber pieces by American outsider composer Luiz Henrique Yudo, most of whose works are transcriptions into sound of existing artworks, including three short pieces with dedication, the 5 part and quirky "Five Palindromes" and followed by an extraordinary long work based on the patterns in colour artworks, "The Donald Judd Harmonies".

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Books & Magazines

Stevens, John: Search and Reflect [BOOK]
(Rockschool)

A reprinting of drummer/percussionist John Steven's music workshop manual used in his London-based organisation Community Music with practical application for running music workshops based on improvisation, originally published in 1985, this edition was re-published by Rockschool in 2007, with additional forewords by Steve Beresford and Maggie Nicols.

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