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February 18, 2022

"Music has such powers in triggering memory,
Collective memory and private memory."
—Christian Marclay

Creative Artists

• A Pride of Lions
(McPhee/Lazro/Abrams/Seguron/Taylor)
• Derek Bailey/Andrea Centazzo
• Michael Bisio/Matthew Shipp
• Center For Whatever
• Day & Taxi (Gallio/Jegger/Hemingway)
• EUPHORIUM_freakestra
• Eventless Plot
• Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda
• Anna Gadt/Zbigniew Chojnacki/Krzysztof Gradziuk
• Cat Hope
• Carlo Inderhees
• Steve Lacy/Andrea Centazzo/Kent Carter
• David Leon
• Christian Marclay/Elliott Sharp
• Jorgina Milla/Barry Guy
• Musicworks
• Angelika Niesicer/Alexander Hawkins
• Emmanuelle Waeckere
• Anthony Williams
(w/ Shorter/Rivers/Hancock/Hutcherson/Carter/Davis/Peacock)

Essential Labels

Edition Wandelweiser Records
Euphorium
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Huvudbry Recordings
Ictus
Intakt

Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Musicworks
Out Of Your Head Records
Percaso
RogueArt
zOaR Records

Jazz & Improvisation

A Pride of Lions (McPhee / Lazro / Abrams / Seguron / Taylor): No Questions - No Answers
(RogueArt)

The 3rd meeting of the transatlantic quintet of Joe McPhee on alto & soprano saxophones and pocket trumpet, Daunik Lazro on tenor & baritone saxophones, Joshua Abrams on double bass & guembri, Guillaume Seguron on double bass and Chad Taylor on drums & mbira is heard in this exceptional 2018 concert at the International Jazzfestival Saalfelden in Salzburg, Austria.

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Bailey, Derek / Andrea Centazzo: Drops [VINYL]
(Ictus)

Originally released in 1977 during an extremely creative period for both UK free improvising guitarist Derek Bailey and Italian percussionist Andrea Centazzo, this 3rd album on the Ictus label finds both players defining each of these extraordinary improvisations through instrumental timbres, dynamics and metronome speeds chosen to suit each piece.

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Bisio, Michael / Matthew Shipp: Flow Of Everything
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

The third duo album focusing on the relationship between the bass and piano interplay of New York improvisers Michael Bisio and Matthew Shipp, whose long relationship as collaborators, particularly in the Matthew Shipp Trio and Quartet, afford them a nearly telepathic compatibility in their work together, heard in nine detailed recordings of superb dialog.

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Day & Taxi (Gallio / Jegger / Hemingway): Run, The Darkness Will Come!
(Percaso)

Originally formed in 1988 as a quartet with the primary composer and instigator saxophonist Chistoph Gallio, the current configuration of this Swiss modern jazz group is the trio of Gallio, double bassist Silvan Jeger and drummer Gerry Hemingway, incorporating a wide array of styles that are reminiscent of Steve Lacy's work while being uniquely DAY & TAXI.

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EUPHORIUM_freakestra: Dal Ngai
(Euphorium)

An early EUPHORIUM_freakestra performance recording at naTo, in Leipzig, Germany, in 2002 and 2003, in an 11-piece electroacoustic band that includes electric guitar, a full brass and horn front end, synth, electric bass, drummers including Gunter Baby Sommer and a percussionist, in a great blend of funky electronics and powerful free improvisation.

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Fujii, Satoko / Joe Fonda: Thread Of Light
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

The enduring and innately lyrical collaboration of Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and NY bassist Joe Fonda, first heard in 2016 with Duet, through 2019's Four with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, continues despite the constraints of a pandemic in these 10 improvisations recorded separately in Kobe and at Fonda's home, with Fonda also performing on cello & flute.

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Gadt, Anna / Zbigniew Chojnacki / Krzysztof Gradziuk: Renaissance Gesualdo [2 CDs]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

An epic journey in free vocal improvised music from the trio of vocalist Anna Gadt with Zbigniew Chojnacki on accordion & live electronics and Krzysztof Gradziuk on drums, performing live in the studio in Nieport, Poland, with arrangements, deconstructions and original music by Anna Gadt, along with the theme from "Monumentum pro Gesualdo" by Igor Stravinski.

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Lacy, Steve / Andrea Centazzo / Kent Carter: Trio Live [VINYL]
(Ictus)

Recorded a few days after the Ictus duo album Clangs of percussionist and label leader Andrea Centazzo and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, this 1977 release presents the joyfully sophisticated 1976 concert in Udine, Italy of the percussionist & saxophonist joined in a trio with double bassist Kent Carter, performing 5 improvisations including the 3-part "Tao" series.

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Leon, David: Aire De Agua
(Out Of Your Head Records)

An upbeat and energetic album of modern creative jazz compositions from Cuban-American saxophonist, woodwind player, and composer/improviser David Leon, leading his Aire De Agua with Sonya Belaya on piano, Florian Herzog on bass and Stephen Boegehold on drums, performing Leon's intricate compositions that elucidate each player's voice and great skill.

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Marclay, Christian / Elliott Sharp: 97 IS 97
(zOaR Records)

Essential members of the Downtown NY scene since 1981, the collaborations of turntablist Christian Marclay and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp, here on 8 string guitarbass, bass clarinet & electronics, is distilled in this extremely creative electroacoustic/concrete duo, recorded live in convert at the Knitting Factory in December, 1997.

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Milla, Jorgina / Barry Guy: String Fables
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

One of Listen! Foundation's 2022 piano/bass duo series, German-based pianist Jordina Milla meets UK bassist Barry Guy for an album of uniquely discerning improvisation, Milla using inside preparations and gracefully energetic playing informed by her background in classical piano, complementing Guy's intensely melodic abstractions and technically advanced techniques; fascinating.

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Niesicer, Angelika / Alexander Hawkins : Soul In Plain Sight
(Intakt)

After a series of performances in Europe in 2020, the duo of German saxophonist Angelika Niescier (Angelika Niescier sublim) and British pianist Alexander Hawkins recorded this passionately charged and intimate duo at the Loft in Koln, Germany, finding the two in a high-speed dance of weaving notes and ardent expression, a brilliant set from two virtuoso players.

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Williams, Anthony (w/ Shorter / Rivers / Hancock / Hutcherson / Carter / Davis / Peacock): Life Time & Spring, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Remastering & reissuing drummer Anthony Williams first two albums: Life Time was recorded for Blue Note shortly after joining the Miles Davis Quintet, employing two bassists--Richard Davis and Gary Peacock--along with mentor Sam Rivers and Davis alumni Herbie Hancock & Ron Carter; Spring reflects the new freedom of 60s jazz in a quintet with both Wayne Shorter & Sam Rivers.

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Experimental/Electronic

Center For Whatever: Ensorcelled [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Huvudbry Recordings)

An intensely experimental journey in sound through guitars, electronics and percussion from the Brooklyn-based duo of John Lindaman and Hampus Ohman, a diverse set of pieces improvised using sound sculpting, noise and melodic elements, creating a great balance between darkness and light amidst solid conceptual and technical approaches to their instruments.

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Compositional

Eventless Plot: Anisixia
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Variations of a score incorporated within a choreographic performance presented at the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki in 2019 from the Greek experimental band Eventless Plot, the core trio of Vasilis Liolios (psaltery & bow), Yiannis Tsirikoglou (electronics) and Aris Giatas (analog synth) extended with Chris Cundy (bass clarinet), Nefeli Sani (piano) and Eva Matsigou (flute).

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Hope, Cat: Decibel
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

A diverse set of works from Australian composer Cat Hope, employing acoustic instrumentation--strings, keys, flutes, reeds & percussion--along with electronics and field recordings, in chamber configurations from duos to quintets, performed by the Western Australia Decibel new music ensemble for which Hope is both director and a performer.

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Inderhees, Carlo : 8 Stimmen1
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

A series of eight "voices" for piano, extended minimal works slowly unfolding in the performance of composer Carlo Inderhees' "8 stimmen" composition for solo piano, expressed by Guy Vandromme as the piece answers the questions "what is music made of?" with the word "voices: a sequence of sounds and silences, with its own consistency".

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Waeckere, Emmanuelle : A Direction Out There, Readwalking (With) Thoreau [2 CDS]
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Four unique interpretations of David Henri Thoreau's essay "Walking", "a transcendental essay that analyzes the relationship between man and nature, trying to find a balance between society and our raw animal nature." (Wikipedia), performed by Antoine Beuger, Marianne Schuppe, Stefan Thut, Sylvia Alexandra Schimag and Marie-Cecile Reber.

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Books & Magazines

Musicworks: #141 WINTER 2021/2022 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)

The Winter 2021/22 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine explores the creative ideas of artists engaged in beautiful, daring musical acts of innovation, celebration, and resistance--Alanna Stuard, Yves Charuest, Roxanne Nesbitt, New Age Doom & Lee Scratch Perry--plus Beny Esguerra, Jessica McMann, Juro Kim Feliz, Backward Music; and recorded & live reviews, features, &c. &c.

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