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Believe, four Australian improvisers, Peter Farrar, Novak Manojlovic, Clayton Thomas and Laurence Pike, who also produced: free jazz momentum and creative sound making recorded in Sydney in 2023.

Francis Dhomont’s 51-minute acousmatic descent into schizophrenia, built on the writings of RD Laing and on the single note B natural, winner at Bourges in 1981 and first issued by the Ina-GRM in 1982.

Swiss saxophonist Gilles Torrent may have been initially smitten by the sounds of US jazz giants like Coltrane, Shepp and Sanders, but as he’s developed and matured he’s cast his creative net much wider.  After teaching himself the sax at 21 he spent the next 11 years studying the concepts and innovations of Coltrane before moving on to take the next logical step - exploring and soaking up the many styles music from around the world, and incorporating them into his Coltranesque vision of jazz. A…

* Edition of 300 copies. High thickness cardboard with opaque laminated cover. Comes with a four-page printed insert. The Contemporaray Jazz Quartet together with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray! This is THE sunken treasure. This is music I have only heard about. And yet, here it is. Unbelievable. Intact. Preserved. Beaming of energy and JOY! This is a sensational find. My favorite Danes exploding together with my favorite double bass player all time. Gary Peacock. The engine. The power engine. I …

String quartets by Kaija Saariaho (Nymphéa, with live electronics), John Cage and Bruno Maderna played by the Cikada String Quartet, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Church, Oslo, and released by ECM New Series in 2005.

Inchiesta Sul Mondo is a double experimental concept album, mainly electronic, on topical problems of the period in which it was released, the middle 1970’s. The two records have two different arguments: Stati d'animo and Diagnosei Ecologica. Maestro Luciani is a well-known artist in the library music scene. His very personal style is the result of musical studies from childhood that allowed him to achieve a diploma in composition, choral music, choral conducting, and more. The avant-garde and c…

First recordings of James Tenney's Poem, Monody, Seegersong #1 and #2 and the Ergodos series for computer music, with string, instrumental and percussion responses, played by the Barton Workshop and soloists.

When you’re a three-piece, every move must mean. There’s no place to escape, and no one to hide behind. This might be why Unmarry Me’s slim body of recordings so far – one seven inch, one shared single with Lung Leg and Lora Logic, and now this, a five-track EP, Lions in Autumn – reads so clearly; there isn’t a step out of place. It’s a DIY effort, certainly, anti-rockist in intent, a home-made sound-system jerry-rigged into being by three uncontrollable spirits. Unmarry Me is the unholy trinity…

On Today’s Special, Hanne Lippard and Renato Grieco turn speech into score and accompaniment into acoustic typography. Reduced, exacting compositions for voice, viola da gamba, piano and Wurlitzer shadow the rhythm and contour of language, transforming wordplay, online debris and intimate anecdotes into a dryly comic, strangely moving suite of musical rhetoric.

Two sunken treasures from the same Copenhagen underground, gathered here as a pair. On one LP, Predetermination: The Contemporary Jazz Quartet caught in 1964 alongside Sunny Murray and Gary Peacock - the rhythm section of Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity - on music that stayed hidden for sixty years. Free jazz before the norm was set, exploding out of Denmark years ahead of the rest of Scandinavia. On the other, Beautiful United Harmony Happening / The Education of an Amphibian: John Tchicai at hi…

When describing the "Last Shot at Heaven" cover art on the Skullflower Bandcamp page, Matthew Bower highlights the ambiguity of the striking photograph of a civilian casualty during the Yugoslavian schism. "Is it ecstatic[?]" he asks of the woman's expression. This, too, is a question one could reasonably ask of any Skullflower album. Bower and his many cohorts' body of work is full of lengthy compositions that evoke all manner of emotions. Statement records like "IIIrd Gatekeeper", released a y…

The long awaited reissue of this rare eastern and psychedelic jazz LP by the famous Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo, originally released in 1968. This extended edition comes with 2 bonus tracks: the radio versions of "Fire Dance" and "Ferris Wheel" released as 7" single in 1969. Comes with long, exclusively written liner notes by the famous researcher and biographer Douglas Payne. Remastered by Martin Bowes at Cage Studios (UK).

In Nov. 1987, a three-concert Ed Blackwell Festival was held in Atlanta. The festival served as a good excuse to reunite the members of Old And New Dreams (trumpeter Don Cherry, tenor-saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Blackwell), a quartet comprised of Ornette Coleman alumni. The unit interprets three rarely-performed Ornette Coleman compositions and a tune apiece by Blackwell and Redman. All of the musicians are in top form on this no-changes music, creating fresh and …

Drawn from two September 1964 sessions at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio with producer Bob Thiele, The Voice That Is! features vocalist Johnny Hartman in his third and final album for Impulse! following a celebrated collaboration with John Coltrane. The album blends two sessions arranged by Bob Hammer: one pairing Hartman with pianist Hank Jones, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Osie Johnson, and another for octet, with English horn, flute, marimba and Latin percussion flourishes throughout. The rep…

The 1968 debut album from Norwegian guitar legend Terje Rypdal stands as a significant entry in the late 1960s jazz landscape, exemplifying the transition from psychedelic rock to a more intricate, freeform blend of jazz elements. Collaborating with legendary musicians like Jan Garbarek, Rypdal's work on this album showcases his innovative talent. Recorded during three sessions in Oslo in 1968, Bleak House marks Rypdal’s departure from the psychedelic group The Dream as he ventured into new musi…

Gryphon's third album, from 1974: four long instrumental movements named after the moves of a chess game, joining crumhorn, bassoon and recorders to electric keyboards and rock drums. Toured in support of Yes.

The 1974 second solo album by Finnish bassist Pekka Pohjola of Wigwam: an instrumental suite of jazz-rock and progressive writing for bass, keyboards and a horn section, issued in the UK by Virgin as B The Magpie.

The 1978 debut album by the Belgian band Isopoda from Aalst: melodic symphonic progressive rock with twelve-string guitar, flute, piano and organ, recorded at Just Born Studio in Hekelgem and first issued on Twinkle.

A Bi Kyo Ran concert recorded at the Bourbon House in Osaka on 22 March 1983 by the trio of Kunio Suma, Masahide Shiratori and Masaaki Nagasawa: four long pieces including the suite Ran and the sixteen-minute Double.

Shingetsu's later studio record: songs the Japanese symphonic rock band wrote before splitting in 1981, recorded long after the fact and released by Belle Antique in 2016, with the 1979 demo of a key piece.

Gryphon's second album from 1974, built around the 19-minute title piece by Richard Harvey, which grew out of the band's music for Peter Hall's National Theatre staging of The Tempest. Early music meets prog.

Gryphon's fourth album from 1975, more song-based and electric, with Malcolm Bennett on bass and flute, a Beatles cover, Mellotron and Minimoog, and the 16-minute (Ein Klein) Heldenleben by Richard Harvey closing the record.

Gryphon's 2018 comeback, their first studio album in 41 years: Brian Gulland, Graeme Taylor and Dave Oberlé joined by Graham Preskett, Andy Findon and Rory McFarlane, with the crumhorns and the humour intact.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.   Since 2006, in the city of Caen in Normandy, the ]interstice[, rencontre des inclassables festival has explored a creative nexus of intersecting practices fro…

Few musicians, and few albums, embody such a joyful sense of freedom and vitality. Racco is where the artistry of Ryojiro Furusawa reaches its peak.

Ikue Mori and Craig Taborn, the duo Highsmith, return after ten years and open up into three trios with Bill Frisell, Tomeka Reid and John Zorn, plus a few quintet pieces.

Victor De Roo's single as Lazaar Vanderschrick, companion to his debut novel Heil, on Stroom.

Zuni (Benito Simoncini) in 1983: blues-soaked funk-rock guitar cues on side A, then bass, keyboards and percussion drift towards spacey, cosmic sketches. Eleven pieces named after flowers and shrubs.

In the ensuing half century, Slovenian artist Milan Grygar, who trained as a painter, has dedicated himself to the relationship between sound and image. He has replaced paint wherever possible with sonic elements, interrogated the duration of a line, drawn with sticks, and integrated windup toys that leave noisy traces in his “mechanical drawings.” Grygar incorporates the acoustic frequencies that emerge during art making, but he also writes visual scores that musicians can interpret. His art is…

Four decades after Prati Bagnati del Monte Analogo, Francesco Messina returns to his hundred-year-old Schimmel piano for seven pieces of hazy drone and ambient minimalism, written with no deadlines after playing that 1979 album live in Milan.

Noton is pleased to announce12 Conversations, a collaborative album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto to be released on 18 September 2026.

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.

Nat Birchall goes back to the source. Not Coltrane this time, but the record that led him to Coltrane in the first place. In 1973 a schoolboy in Lancashire ordered a triple LP from his local record shop after reading about it in Black Music magazine. It was Grounation, by Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - hand drums, chanting, poetry, and the tenor saxophone of Cedric 'Im' Brooks, soulful and untamed, heard years before Birchall ever put on a John Coltrane record. When he finall…

2026 repress of the Stroom compilation spanning thirty years of home recordings by the Belgian architect and Absent Music founder.

Recorded across a single sweltering Paris summer in June 1978, Adonia - the lone album credited to Ose - captures a rare alignment of intellect, imagination, and emerging technology. For decades it has lingered as one of the great half-secrets of French electronic music's most fertile decade, traded between collectors who understood exactly what they were holding. At just twenty-six, Hervé Picart was living three parallel lives: scholar of rhetoric and ancient languages, journalist for the Frenc…

It feels as if it were yesterday. In 2002, after returning to Frankfurt from a record-hunting trip to Johannesburg, I put one of my new South African discoveries on the turntable and jumped into the shower. Suddenly, the record player erupted into a terrible noise, as if someone were hammering the needle. I ran out, dripping wet, and discovered that the stylus had hit a deep cut carved into the vinyl. A Kenyan friend, Dan Ojwang, had sent me to a record shop opposite the Market Theatre in Newtow…

This bundle includes the following albums:Piero Umiliani "La ragazza dalla pelle di luna" (LP, 1972)Piero Umiliani "La ragazza fuoristrada" (LP, 1973)Piero Umiliani "Il corpo" (LP, 1974)Piero Umiliani "Psichedelica" (LP, 1968)The Braen's Machine "Underground" (LP, 1971) Few composers captured the eclectic beauty of Italy’s golden age of soundtracks like Piero Umiliani. A master of mood, texture, and subtext, Umiliani created a vast discography that blurred the lines between jazz, lounge, funk, p…

The tamburium is an instrument Hennix built: eighty-eight keys, each one triggering a recording of a precision-tuned four-string tambura. Documented in Berlin in 2017, it was her first solo release since 1976 and came out two months before she died.

Listed as one of the four most influential Jazz albums that happened to be released in 1959 (Dave Brubeck -Time Out & Charles Mingus -Ah Um among them), so much has been said and written about Miles Davis'Kind Of Blue, it's virtually impossible to summarize all the necessary info to the length of this page. We could simply list some facts (best sold Jazz album ever worldwide). We could try to explain why it's the best Jazz album ever made, but the music itself will do that to you. As Bill Evans …

With Jazz Raga, Gábor Szabó fused modal jazz, Indian raga, and 1960s psychedelic currents into a single visionary statement. Recorded in 1966 at Van Gelder Studio, it remains a landmark of cross‑cultural improvisation—sitar‑tinged grooves meeting the freedom and pulse of spiritual jazz.