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BLK+LND / K&L for KL
Two of Phill Niblock's final compositions for low-pitched instruments, heard together as he intended: BLK+LND for acoustic bass and bass clarinet, K&L for KL for two bass clarinets, both built from recordings layered into slow microtonal mass. Comple…
Piano Solo
Fred Van Hove alone at the piano: Prosper, recorded live at Flöz in Berlin in 1981, and Die Letzte, recorded at Studio Casablanca in 1986, the two SAJ solo LPs on one CD.
Messer und...
Irène Schweizer, Rüdiger Carl and Louis Moholo: the LP Messer, live in Moers and in the FMP studio in 1975, followed by Tuned Boots, the twenty-minute trio piece recorded in Graz in 1977.
Eternal Rhythm: Conversations and Travelations with Don Cherry and Graeme Ewens (Book)
Eternal Rhythm: Conversations and Travelations with Don Cherry and Graeme Ewens is the book on Don Cherry we have been waiting for - not a biography written from the outside, but a portrait built from the inside, from hours of cassette-taped conversa…
After You Gone
Four double bassists, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre, William Parker and Tetsu Saitoh, live at Victoriaville on 23 May 2003 in memory of Peter Kowald: bowed and plucked basses and voices in a shared farewell.
Informel
2 × 180g vinyl LP, Flating jacket, Obi. Deluxe edition. Informel emerged from the rupture of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and stands as the point of origin for the present-day Sinsuke Fujieda Group. With regular performance activity brought to a ha…
Anechoic-Y
Two sixteen-minute pieces of anenoises and choictronics recorded by Maurizio Bianchi as M.B. in 2017 at the Emoptyc studio in Opera, with artwork built on photos of anechoic chambers. 30 copies on BeTon Raw.
Passing The Cup Of Sorrows
William Basinski's first new album in six years: a single 40-minute piece for solo piano and subtle electronics, inspired by a past-life regression practice and by Morton Feldman.
Aco Dei De Madrugada (One Morning I Waked Up Very Early)
Paris, 1969: Grachan Moncur III's second album for BYG, cut with a Brazilian rhythm section and bassist Beb Guerin. Samba sway meets American creative jazz, with Fernando Martins' wordless vocals on the title track.
Echo Echo Mirror House
Anthony Braxton's septet live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2011, performing Echo Echo Mirror House music, where each musician plays an iPod loaded with Braxton's recorded history alongside their instrument.
From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black
David Grubbs' commissioned music for Josiah McElheny's singing paintings, wall works with hand-blown glass discs that resonate sound: one 30-minute piece for lap steel, electric guitar and Serge synthesizer, built on microtonal slide.
Quiet Forest
"My encounter with the Hoh Rain Forest, located inside Olympic National Park across the water from Seattle, felt like seeing a whole new world for the first time in my life. Long green fronds draped along the branches, like a scene in which fairies c…
First Meditations on John Coltrane
LP version. This album is a tribute to the person and spirit of John Coltrane. It was produced by musicians who not only admire Coltrane but embody similar values.While it’s always a good time to honor Coltrane’s memory, this particular moment seems …
Ad Fontes
*300 copies limited edition* The first Af Ursin album in a decade, this release features extraordinary Belgian vocalist and performer Bénédicte Davin. Ad Fontes is a personal response to the fractured reality of our time. Created in the wake of visib…
Word Countdown Vol.2 (Book)
Lansdowne Books returns to World Countdown, the music newspaper that Charles Royal published in California every two weeks between August 1966 and July 1969. Original copies are very hard to find today. World Countdown - Volume 2 picks up where the f…
Chiasma
Heidelberg Jazztage, 6 June 1975. The Yosuke Yamashita Trio with Akira Sakata and Takeo Moriyama in its second European season, recorded by Carlos Albrecht for MPS. Piano and drums duets, a Moriyama drum solo, and the fourteen-minute Hachi. Forty min…
Several Years Later
People Skills - the long running project of Philadelphia's Jesse Dewlow - has spent close to two decades tuned to that lower, stranger frequency, and Several Years Later may be the fullest transmission he has yet let out of the room. Since the mid 20…
Mars Song
Evan Parker's soprano and tenor saxophones with the voice of Sainkho Namtchylak, live at the Music Gallery in Toronto on 15 May 1996. Circular-breathed lines against throat singing, overtones and wordless cries.
Richard Raux & Hamsa
Richard Raux's band after Magma, recorded at the Château d'Hérouville in 1974: spiritual jazz, progressive rock and Malagasy rhythms, with his brother Patrice on guitar. Restored and remastered for Souffle Continu's 100th release.