Double Bass
All records with double bass · Solo double bass only
Horses in the Sky
The 2005 album of the Montreal ensemble, back for its 21st anniversary: six songs of protest and love for strings, guitars, piano and group voices, recorded at Hotel2Tango with Howard Bilerman.
Flores Blancas
First recordings of eight chamber and ensemble works (1992-2016) by Argentine composer Mariano Etkin, including Flores blancas and the Estudios para lágrimas, played by Ensemble Aventure, recorded in Cologne in 2019 and 2020. Co-production with Deuts…
Hans Werner Henze Edition: Orchestra
Hans Werner Henze's orchestral works and concertos on four CDs, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen with Anssi Karttunen, and Daniele Roccato with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese;…
Deep Siesta
Amen Feizabadi's chamber opera Deep Siesta, on a libretto by Dilek Mayatürk about two artificial beings, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Zafraan Ensemble conducted by Yalda Zamani, plus AI voices and electronics. A Deutschlandfunk Kultur coprod…
Vida
Portrait album of Misha Cvijović: nine works from full orchestra to minimoog and tape, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Enno Poppe, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Sebastian Berweck and the Trio Splitsignals Berlin.
Continuous Deformation
Portrait CD of Yongbom Lee: five works for ensembles, sampler and electronics, played by Ensemble Modern, IEMA Ensemble and ensemble recherche, Broken Frames Syndicate and the cellist Kyubin Hwang, recorded in Frankfurt (2023) and Cologne (2024).
A Sun of One's Own
Portrait CD of the Iranian composer Elnaz Seyedi: five works for duo, trio and ensemble, played by the Zöllner-Roche Duo, Alice Belugou and David Eggert, Trio Aventure, Ensemble Musikfabrik and the Kommas Ensemble, plus two online videos.
Farzia Fallah
Portrait CD of the Iranian-born composer Farzia Fallah: five works from solo violin to nonet, played by Benedikt Bindewald, the guitar duo Henrik Dewes and Tobias Klich, Sonar Quartett, Ensemble DEHIO and Ensemble Aventure.
Was Da Ist (Live)
Peter Kowald solo on double bass and voice, live at Podewil in Berlin in November 2000 and edited by Kowald himself in June 2002: a concert version of his solo album Was da ist, in seven parts.
Close Up
Peter Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog Quartet with Toshinori Kondo, William Parker and Hamid Drake, live at the Total Music Meeting in Berlin in November 1994: two long pieces, Close Up (Man) and Close Up (Woman).
In Berlin
Steve Lacy in Berlin: the 1975 solo soprano recordings of the Stabs LP, plus the 1977 quintet with Steve Potts, Irène Aebi, Kent Carter and Oliver Johnson playing Esteem and Follies at the Workshop Freie Musik.
Baden-Baden '75
The Globe Unity Orchestra at ten years old, recorded in Baden-Baden in November 1975 with Braxton, Rava, Wheeler, Brötzmann, Parker, Mangelsdorff and Lovens: five pieces from inside the orchestra, nearly all unreleased until this CD.
More Peace + Carsten Meinert / C.M. MusicTrain (2LP Bundle)
Two new archival LPs from Formalibera, Alga Marghen's free jazz imprint, both drawn from the same circle of Copenhagen musicians around 1970, gathered here as a pair.
On one LP, More Peace: Tordenskjolds Soldater (Jesper Nehammer on tenor saxophone, …
More Peace
Live at Copenhagen's Café Montmartre in April 1970, Tordenskjolds Soldater (Jesper Nehammer, Ole Matthiessen, Henrik Hove, Jon Finsen) stretch out the four Matthiessen pieces from their Spectator album Peace, restored from the original tapes.
Guild For Human Music
Masahiko Togashi's 1976 Denon Jazz album: six 'Expressions' for a percussion-led ensemble with Sabu Toyozumi, Tatsuji Yokoyama, Masahiko Satoh and three woodwind players, recorded in Tokyo with early PCM digital technology. LP reissue.
A Whole System Of
Matthew Shipp on piano and William Parker on bass in only their fourth duo album, the fruit of a four-decade friendship that began in the David S. Ware Quartet. Recorded in Brooklyn in June 2025, limited LP on Tao Forms.
Hurry Red Telephone
Marc Ribot's first all-instrumental album since Live at the Village Vanguard: a quartet with Chad Taylor and the saxophones of James Brandon Lewis, Brian Settles and Briggan Krauss, between free jazz and No Wave. On Pi Recordings.
Mirage
Seven unreleased BBC radio performances from 1969, the last year of the Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet with Michael Garrick, Dave Green and Trevor Tomkins, saved on the drummer's own tapes and issued on CD with notes by Richard Morton Jack.
Minnets Långa Kedjor
First recorded work by Swedish drone composer Mats Erlandsson and double bassist Gus Loxbo, friends for 25 years: free improvisation, electroacoustic drone and doom, reshaped in the studio through digital processing and tape work.