Music from United States

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 together trumpeter Donald Byrd, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, pianist Tommy Flanagan, and drummer Elvin Jones.  Chambers is more than the foundation beneath the group: his resonant bass lines and confident solos give the session its unmistakable …

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 – albums whose assemblages of sampled grooves, atmospheres and voices are unified by a hallucinatory sense of melody, like disparate visions strung together through ribbons of sleep-talk. From his earliest days as a member of the seminal group cLOUDDEA…

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 debut 45 were written and recorded at Korostinsky's Archive Group Studios. The idea behind it is the delicatessen and bodega culture of New York's Upper East Side in the 1980s, heard through classic East Coast hip-hop and through the Italian library r…

Reissue of Zo, the first duo album by Matthew Shipp and William Parker, recorded in 1993, with an epic Summertime, on ESP-Disk'.

First vinyl edition of Candylion, Harold Budd and Clive Wright's second album together, with harp, strings and drums, on Darla.

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.

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.

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.

Second CP Unit album on Clean Feed: Chris Pitsiokos with Sam Lisabeth and two rhythm sections, between Ornette Coleman's harmolodics, noise and Stockhausen.

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.

Second solo alto saxophone album for Relative Pitch, eight pieces named after rocks, recorded in January 2022.

Solo alto saxophone: six pieces dedicated to Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and John Zorn.

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.

Slow, static forms for alto saxophone, accordion, synthesizer, bass and drums: the Chris Pitsiokos Ensemble between late-1960s Miles Davis and Morton Feldman.

Accordion and alto saxophone: ten short pieces in moment form by Tizia Zimmermann and Chris Pitsiokos, recorded in Berlin and Zürich in 2024.

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.

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.

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.

Live quartet of Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshihide, Chris Pitsiokos and Tatsuya Nakamura, recorded at Goodman in Tokyo on September 1, 2024.

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, Illinois attic, February 2013, Abrams, guitarists Emmett Kelly & Jeff Parker, & grand master drummer Hamid Drake gathered around vintage Neumanns & a woodstove to record the nucleus of Magnetoception live to 2-track. Beamed-in over the next year at Abram…