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Second duo LP by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause: two sidelong pieces grown from a live work played in darkness, singing bowls, gongs and double bass dr…
Second album by the Finnish free jazz quartet Fågelbörs: sax, trumpet, bass and drums in an Aylerian spiral of chaos and joy, with marching band reveries and sl…
The final collaboration between Eliane Radigue and Important Records is this LP edition of Triptych. Eliane insisted that her music be released on vinyl only if…
What happens over the lifecycle of a commodity? Where do its components come from? How are they extracted, processed and put together? Where does it travel? How…
Tip! Spartiti Spariti is a composition in which diverse practices and experiences converge and overlap: the processing of ‘concrete’ sounds, magnetic-tape colla…
Ludwigsburg, 1 and 2 July 1975. Hannibal Marvin Peterson's first record for MPS, with Diedre Murray's cello, Michael Cochrane's piano, Stafford James and Thabo …
Berlin Philharmonie, 3 November 1976. Hannibal with George Adams on tenor, Diedre Murray on cello, Michael Cochrane, Steve Neil and Allen Nelson. His own 23rd P…
Villingen, 1965. Nathan Davis, the Kansas City tenor who had shared a Paris band with Eric Dolphy, records his second SABA album with a fellow Kansas Citian, Ca…
Nathan Davis's first record as a leader, cut at the SABA studio in Villingen on 31 January 1965 with a twenty-year-old Woody Shaw on trumpet, Larry Young on pia…
Studio Tempo, Montreal, 19 July 1996. Kenny Wheeler and Paul Bley, two Canadians who left for New York forty years earlier, in duo for the first time on record.…
Los Angeles, 1969. The first record of the John Carter - Bobby Bradford Quartet, the West Coast free jazz band Ornette Coleman had brought together in 1965, wit…
A New Black Poet: Gil Scott-Heron's first record, 1970, a book of poems read in front of an audience with three percussionists, Eddie Knowles, Charlie Saunders …
RCA Studios, 19 and 20 April 1971. Gil Scott-Heron's first studio album, with Brian Jackson on piano, Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Bernard Purdie and Burt Jones, pr…
Lonnie Liston Smith's first album under his own name, 1973, straight out of the Pharoah Sanders band and the Thembi sessions where the title track was born on a…
Martinique, December 1984. Jaco Pastorius and Rashied Ali, Coltrane's last drummer, on stage together at the end of a workshop, taped for French radio. Bass and…
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, 28 April 2003. The Billy Bang Quintet with Frank Lowe on tenor, Andrew Bemkey on piano, Todd Nich…
On Cooked, Oren Ambarchi folds his all‑star studio jam aesthetic into something gloriously unhinged. Two side‑long epics twist piano ripples, synthetic “voices,…
Second duo LP by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause: two sidelong pieces grown from a live work played in darkness, singing bowls, gongs and double bass dr…
First ever reissue of Coil's 1984 debut on L.A.Y.L.A.H.: seventeen minutes of gongs, bowed metal and slow decay, subtitled Ritual music for the accumulation of …
On Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979, Cecil Taylor leads a newly reconfigured Unit through a rare Western American performance of volatile grace and imm…