"It's a miracle that some records ever get made. Right in the middle of Ceausescu's ultra-repressive dictatorship, composer Iancu Dumitrescu managed to arrange for his first LP, a compilation of radical new music by Dumitrescu and three...

"The Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and the Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez released an album titled Confluence as a duo in 2019. A year later, the married couple Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura enlisted the drummer for a tour across Japan. ...

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"Exceptionally virtuosic and sensitive, South African harpist Jacqueline Kerrod is perfectly at home across multiple genres. This is her first recording with American guitar maverick Joe Morris. These are sublimely adventurous improvisa...

Originally part of the Bagatelles 4-CD box set, this standalone release presents John Zorn's tightly constructed compositions interpreted by the Mary Halvorson Quartet, where Halvorson's microtonal guitar meets Miles Okazaki's rhythmic fluidity, propelled by bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tomas Fujiwara in an explosive and intricately woven set of high-energy, avant-garde jazz explorations.

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A stunning live performance from wild to instrospective from the 2019 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, where saxophonist Lotte Anker and two pianists — Jacob Anderskov and Kamil Piotrowicz — create a rare and extraordinary interplay of alto saxophone and dual grand pianos, blending frenetic intensity and dreamlike calm in an inspired and organically evolving dialogue of composed and improvised soundscapes.

"Jean-Jacques Birge has invited 20 musicians/composers to improvise during one day (duets and trios). It's about playing to meet and not the other way around as usual. The theme of each piece was randomly chosen just before playing."-GR...

"I must say that listening to him did me a lot of good. This disc, breaking down its pieces into a succession of songs often sung/declaimed/whispered with a stunning Dadaist humor, interspersed with various sound effects (struck instrum...

"For Establishment of an alternating sky: Created on November 9th, 1996 at the Cartier Foundation for the 10th anniversary of Les Inrockuptibles Excerpt from the collection The Sense of Combat by Michel Houellebecq at Editions Flammario...

"Last published album (1998) by Un Drame Musical Instantane with old and new pieces featuring a lot of guests around the concept of vinyle. Jean-Jacques Birge and Bernard Vitet invited Benoit Delbecq, Steve Arguelles, Philippe Descheppe...

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""... it's not about cleaning the music from the non-music or trying to destroy all disturbing noises, but to perceive the music as such, which exists in the midst of the noise of life. The more open the ear is to everything audible, th...