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*2025 stock. 30 copies limited edition* Renowned experimental guitarist and avant-garde musician Eugene Chadbourne presents Milanesa / Astral Traveling, a bold new release available now via the German label Frei zum Abriss Kollektiv. This two-track album showcases Chadbourne’s signature blend of free improvisation, wit, and boundary-pushing soundscapes, further cementing his status as a true pioneer of the underground music scene.
"If you think that the constellation of Nicholas Bussmann, Sven-Åke Johansson and Yan Jun is a sort of dream lineup, you are not far off the mark. The joint improvisations that you hear on tea time capture a sound that once came to Bussmann in a dream and that he made a reality with the help of his fellow musicians. The trio recorded the five pieces across two days at Johansson’s SÅJ studio with engineer Andrew Levine, working with Bussmann’s curious piano robot while Johansson was on percussion…
"The beauty and power of Meshes of the Evening doesn’t come from isolated passages or specific exchanges, no matter how exciting and satisfying they may be. What has riveted me each time I’ve listened to the music is how Davies and Beins occupy a single space together, totally aligned and in a zone that makes time irrelevant. It would be wrong to say they’re in a shared trance because music that’s so detailed and subject to constant transformation requires a heightened awareness. Yet Davies and …
Originating from a Lisbon residency, Joana Guerra and Yaw Tembe’s duo explores slow, tectonic musical landscapes on ‘Orogénese.’ Their blend of eclectic instruments and ethereal voices crafts mysterious, timeless soundscapes, revealing hidden sonic futures through organic collaboration.
Snakes & Thunder explores the coexistence of meanings and sound as motion, focusing on balance, connection, and similitude. The album reflects on proximity and rhythm, inviting wandering, myth-making, and embracing the strange.
Peachfuzz’s ‘Impeachment’ showcases innovative interplay among Lisbon’s João Pereira, João Almeida, and Norberto Lobo. Their music spans meditative drones to energetic bursts, blending acoustic and electronic elements with playful spontaneity.
In the ongoing battle between technical virtuosity and authentic expression, most guitar "shredders" have chosen the wrong side - trafficking in overwrought drama while remaining devoid of soul, viewing music as competitive sport rather than spiritual exploration. Enter Cyrus Pireh, whose latest Palilalia release Thank You, Guitar represents nothing less than a revolutionary approach to "transcendental shred electric guitar music" that upcycles the despised 32nd-note neck sprint into something g…
A moment of first encounters, Circuits is the sound of four musicians (Savvas Metaxas, Evi Nakou, Giannis Arapis, Dimitris Tigkas)navigating an unfamiliar terrain in real-time, their individual languages dissolving into a shared improvisational space. Subtle drones, resonant feedback and textural gestures underpin the ensemble’s interplay. Circuits is the sum of raw, expressive utterances—melodic remnants shifting from pulse to friction, from bow, to frets, through fingertips. A single-take impr…
*2025 stock* 1983. A distinct malaise afflicted the nation. The UK was about to re-elect Margaret Thatcher by a landslide, cruise missiles arrived at Greenham Common in Berkshire, six people were killed by the IRA outside Harrods, nuclear reactors suffered system failure in the USA, Russia, Argentina and Germany. The Face magazine showed an exhausted youth that everything was OK as long as you looked ‘right’. A curious revisionism had become prevalent. The Jam had become the Style Council and st…
Earth Ball’s ‘Actual Earth Music Vol. 1 & 2’ captures raw live energy and experimental collaboration, from Vancouver chaos with Wolf Eyes to a transformative, improvised London summit with Beresford and Corsano.
This album is the result of an invitation extended to João Pais Filipe to develop a composition for the film Teocalli by the Colectivo Los Ingrávidos. Its original composition was presented in February 2024 at Batalha Centro de Cinema, during a performance that accompanied the screening of the film as part of a broader programme dedicated to the collective’s work, curated in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Based in Porto, João Pais Filipe (b. 1980) is one of the mo…
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Angelo Bignamini, Italian sound artist, presents "Batelli a Vapore," inspired by Rimbaud's "Le Bateau ivre." Gentle noise, subtle melodies, and quiet voices evoke poetic journeys, ending with a serene guitar, closing the lyrical narrative.
Pat Thomas, Tony Orrell, and Dominic Lash, known as Bleyschool, here perform as Lifeline, swapping acoustic for electric instruments in a spontaneous blend of noise, dance, and rock—exploring new sounds while maintaining deep musical rapport.
With solid training as a classical musician, Sophie Agnel took a close interest in modern jazz before committing in the early Nineties to the shifting, deliciously uncertain ground of free improvisation, thanks to her fascination for the powers of expression displayed by a few great keyboard-heretics such as Keith Tippett, Fred Van Hove or Christine Wodrascka. She began reworking the prepared piano techniques imagined by John Cage and transformed her instrument into a sort of extended piano. Com…
Dominique Pifarély, Lina Andonovska, and Izumi Kimura—three versatile, internationally acclaimed musicians—unite in a unique trio project born from a residency.
The Lava Quartet—Berlin to Portugal—unites for free improvisation, blending creativity and extended techniques. Their debut album, "Ethereal Chant," showcases boundary-breaking, unpredictable soundscapes.
1992 release ** "A wonderful view of what is "American" in contemporary American music from an Italian producer's perspective, with a nice cover photo of Joey's Navajo Cafe and Dining Room framed by several pickup trucks parked outside. Including rhythmic-based music and sound-text rhythms from ordinary speech (Allen Ginsberg's works), some dreamy electronic music by Pauline Oliveros, and solo jazz by Steve Lacy, this is an interesting collection of new recordings and reissues of tracks from out…