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What Comes After
2024 stock. What Comes After introduced a new alliance with American bassist Barre Phillips whose freely creative arco playing is often the second lead voice (two of the compositions are also Barre’s). The unorthodox line-up includes contributions from powerhouse bass guitarist Sveinung Hovensjø, an important collaborator throughout the 70s (in the Odyssey band and other ensembles), and from classical oboist Erik Niord Larsen. Rypdal, Phillips and Christensen periodically played completely impro…
Conference of the Birds
*2023 stock* It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle’s great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland’s first album as a full-fledged leader. An album of driving, progressive jazz it is also of historical significance as the only occasion when Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton, two of the music’s most strikingly original saxophonists, recorded together. Inside Dave’s compositions th…
Words Unspoken
The album title – Words Unspoken – alludes to the instant musical understanding found by the members of this nimble quartet assembled by great British reedman John Surman. „My idea was to put together some musical ideas that would offer a collective sense of purpose but still be open enough to allow each of us to suggest other ways of developing the material together. Everything fell into place immediately. But I soon realized it wasn‘t so much the musical ideas that made it work, it was the mus…
After the Last Sky
Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks “Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?” Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass subtly address the metaphysical question and its broad resonances in a troubled time. While drawing upon the traditional modes of Arab music, Brahem has consistently sought to engage with the wider world, too, and found inspiration in many sources from…
Angel Song
“Destined to go down in history as a jazz classic” was the verdict with which The Guardian greeted this album on its release in 1997, saying, “Wheeler’s compositions and four of the world’s greatest improvisers make for a tranquil set that rewards with every listening. This is beautiful, golden music.” Angel Song is among the apexes of the label’s catalogue, uniting four master-improvisers – each with a unique artistic identity – in an intimate, drummer-less quartet session. Kenny Wheeler is the…
Arbos
*2024 stock. Deluxe packaging* "This CD features some great performances by Pärt specialists of a variety of shorter works. The clamorous Arbos for brass makes a startling opening for those who expect abstracted reverence; the lament, An den Wassern, has a startling ending that builds in intensity and volume only to break off mid-phrase. The static Pari Intervallo for organ leads into De Profundis, with its sense of slow but unstoppable movement (every note the same length, every measure the sa…
Computer Music Concerto
1988 release ** Excellent documentation of Italian computer music of the 1980's.
Mauro Bagella - Poco prima della notte (1988) realized at the Studio per la Ricerca Elletroacustica Musicale (STREAM) in Rome.Nicola Sani - Tendenze (1987) realized and recorded at the C.P.R.F. of RAI in Rome on 9-12 February, 1987.Serena Tamburini - Per cieli e piani (1986) realized in 1986 at the S.I.M. (Societa Informatica Musicale) in Rome.Giorgio Nottoli - Grid (1985) realized at the S.I.M. in Rome.Francesco Ga…
Punti di ascolto 2005
2005 release ** Documentation of Italian electro-acoustic/computer music of the 2000's.
1. Massimo Carlentini (1966) riversi Mondi diversi (2003)for violin and electronics (11’09”)Diego Conti violinProduction: Edison Studio - Rome
2. Marco Marinoni (1974) WAHN (2005)for piano and electronics (7’24”)Marco Marinoni pianoProduction: composer’s studio.Live electronics project by Davide Tiso
3. Massimo Mariani (1960) Six-o-four (2003)for 8 channel tape and prerecorded voice (stereo version) (9'39")Li…
The Recordings (13 CD Box)
Restocked, reduced price * 13-CD limited edition box set with 300 page booklet * The Recordings, a box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series discs to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer’s 80th birthday. With Dolmen Music in 1981 Meredith became the first singer to be the front person on an ECM recording. Included here are the albums Dolmen Music, Turtle Dreams, Do You Be, Book of Days, Facing North, ATLAS, Volcano Songs, mercy, impermanence, Songs of Ascen…
At The Deer Head Inn
Big Tip! ** One-time pressing, strictly limited edition ** After more than three decades of whispered reverence among jazz cognoscenti, the complete story of Keith Jarrett's transformative return to his musical birthplace can finally be told. At The Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings, a sumptuous 4LP box set to be released in August 2025, captures every note from what may be the most emotionally resonant performance in the pianist's extraordinary catalog. On September 16, 1992, something ext…
Sonatas For Viola / Piano And Viola Alone
*2025 stock* Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy — the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey — with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times captured the special qualities of this group, pointing to the trio’s flair for playing “with a lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity… while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is their ability to c…
Voices Of The Dead
2006 release ** Limited to 250 handnumbered copies with a booklet containing an article about EVP and is packed in a special cardboard sleeve. "Dedicated to the electronic voice phenomenon (EVP). Voices Of The Dead" is based on audio and video recordings made during Noises Of Russia concert on 17.05.2005 in "DOM" cultural center, Moscow. The short version of the film was shown as part of Masha Godovannaya's program "Tired Snow III" at the festivals "Autumn #2" (14.10.2005, Modern Art Center, St.…
2partiMOLLItremolanti
2003 release ** In textured card envelope. 2partiMOLLItremolanti is a duo with Xabier Iriondo (guitars, tapes, live electronics) and Marco Tagliola (Pc, tapes). This project was born with the idea to compose and elaborate different kind of music source (concrete music, rock, electronics, italian melodies) inside a performance/composition. 2partiMOLLItremolanti like receivers of every sounds which encircle and stimulate us, like vehicle of interpretation of the present sounds in our daily life.
Hymn book of the anciency
2010? release (VERY RARE!) ** Faruq Z. Bey - poetry, voice, alto sax, tenor sax; Mike Carey - reeds; Skeeter Shelton - reeds; Len Bukowski - contra-alto clarinet; Mike Khoury - violin; Mike Gilmore - vibes, percussion; Mike Johnston - bass, gongs, percussion; Nick Ashton - drums, percussion.
What to do with the poetry audio album? There are many of these out there over many decades by poets both famous and not so much. In fact, many of these are recorded by poets onto their laptops and then sold…
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2011 release ** Edition of 15 hand-numbered copies in paste-on cardboard sleeve. Zorbiter was born in 2007, between feticism and drones ideas , electronic empirical experiments and protothypes and future post magnetic war experiences.
Studi preparatori per la fine del mondo
2010 release ** ZeitLet is a variable organism with multiple line ups, ranging from small ensembles to the full ten element electric chamber group. The band started as a mixed ensemble with a composer/electronic musician, an electric guitarist and a bass player meeting a flute player, a violinist and a cello player in February 2005. between 2006 and 2007 the project grew bigger, and more articulated. The presence of musicians coming from different backgrounds meant starting a dialogue between t…
Sound As Language (CDr)
2008 release ** Plastic Boner Band (PBB) began making meditative harsh noise in Chicago (USA) in 2006.
Denmark's Intuitive Music Conference 1997
1998 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "This disk documents the music made at the opening of DIMC '97 by a dozen delegates, most of whom had never played together before. Assuming there was no conductor (none is credited) and no pre-arranged sequence of events, the result is pretty astonishing.
Twelve strangers improvising together is a recipe for disaster; what usually happens is this. The music begins tentatively, unstructured, with no-one wishing to tread on toes. Slowly, pressure builds up as eg…
Habitat Dislocata
2015 release (RARE) ** 8-page catalogue and CD in 150 copies, hand-numbered and signed by the artist. Habitat Dislocata is an installation in which the sound elements that compose it are diffused throughout the space through different speakers, the number and characteristics of which are chosen according to the location. Habitat Dislocata is a sonic dimension in which a portion can be activated by the audience, who, in addition to listening while seated, is invited to explore the environment. T…
Jetway Confidential
2012 release ** Cardboard sleeve. "On Sonic Liberation Liberation Front's fourth album for High Two, Jetway Confidential, the band mightily wields their highly honed brand of Lukumi (Afro-Cuban) meets "post-avant-garde-and-everything-else" mojo. Featuring 23 musicians working under the leadership of drummer/percussionist Kevin Diehl, SLF has expanded its sound and concept even further here. Coming on the heels of 2011's well-received document, Sonic Liberation Front Meets Sunny Murray, this new …