Music from United States
Paul Chambers Quintet
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on May 19, 1957, Paul Chambers Quintet captures bassist Paul Chambers leading an exceptional ensemble at the height of the hard-bop era. Released by Blue Note in 1958, the album brings t…
On Patrol
For over 25 years, David Madson (aka Odd Nosdam) has been stationed away from the light of the mainstream, diligently working the nightshift. Every so often, we awake to find another of his bleary and beautiful missives slung into the waking world – …
Delicatessen / The Bodega
East Side Supply is the meeting of two producers and multi-instrumentalists, Chris Lujan from the Bay Area (Life of Grime) and Alexander Korostinsky from Reno (Whatitdo Archive Group). Both work on tape with analogue gear, and the two songs of this d…
Zo
Reissue of Zo, the first duo album by Matthew Shipp and William Parker, recorded in 1993, with an epic Summertime, on ESP-Disk'.
Candylion
First vinyl edition of Candylion, Harold Budd and Clive Wright's second album together, with harp, strings and drums, on Darla.
Dede-K-Tion
The closing chapter of Fred Warmsley's Ded trilogy: ten tracks between ambient, drone and noise, with Ryuichi Sakamoto as guest producer. Hand-numbered edition of 500 on 180 gram vinyl, co-released with Ojas Music.
Evergreen
First duo album by trombonist Kalia Vandever and DARKSIDE guitarist Dave Harrington, recorded in three rainy days in Los Angeles: brass and guitar between drum machines, samples and quieter, intimate pieces.
One Foot on the Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown
CP Unit in real time: Chris Pitsiokos, Sam Lisabeth, Henry Fraser and Jason Nazary between harmolodic funk, noise rock and musique concrète, recorded in Brooklyn in 2018.
Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years
Second CP Unit album on Clean Feed: Chris Pitsiokos with Sam Lisabeth and two rhythm sections, between Ornette Coleman's harmolodics, noise and Stockhausen.
Before the Heat Death
The first CP Unit album: Chris Pitsiokos with Brandon Seabrook, Tim Dahl and Weasel Walter, jazz forms filled with noise and rock, recorded in Brooklyn in 2016.
Art of the Alto
Second solo alto saxophone album for Relative Pitch, eight pieces named after rocks, recorded in January 2022.
Speak in Tongues
Solo alto saxophone: six pieces dedicated to Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and John Zorn.
Starmaker Machine
Double CD by the Berlin CP Unit (Chris Pitsiokos, Marta Warelis, Dan Peter Sundland, Luca Marini): studio takes from October 2025 and a concert from April 2026.
Doing Something, Doing Nothing
Slow, static forms for alto saxophone, accordion, synthesizer, bass and drums: the Chris Pitsiokos Ensemble between late-1960s Miles Davis and Morton Feldman.
Superimpositions
Accordion and alto saxophone: ten short pieces in moment form by Tizia Zimmermann and Chris Pitsiokos, recorded in Berlin and Zürich in 2024.
Irrational Rhythms and Shifting Poles
Saxophone and laptop: the first record of Chris Pitsiokos’s project on four-channel audio, rhythms from irrational numbers and shifting polarity. Each copy with original artwork.
Carny Cant
A one-man studio album: Chris Pitsiokos on saxophones, harmonica, bass, electronic drums, voice and electronics, with Rick Eye and Jason Nazary on some tracks.
Riding Photon Time
CP Unit's first live album, recorded at the Moers Festival and at Unlimited in Wels in 2018: Chris Pitsiokos with Sam Lisabeth, Henry Fraser and Jason Nazary.
On the Impossibility of Change
Live quartet of Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshihide, Chris Pitsiokos and Tatsuya Nakamura, recorded at Goodman in Tokyo on September 1, 2024.
Magnetoception
2CD version. A new edition of Joshua Abrams’ 2015 2xLP magnum opus Magnetoception is at last here. Out-of-print on vinyl for a decade+, Magnetoception is the 3rd album, & 1st double album, in the saga of Natural Information Society. In a Berwyn, Illi…