Drums
All records with drums · Solo drums only
Nature's God
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.
Angles 4
Martin Küchen's trio Angles, with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Kjell Nordeson, joined by vibraphonist Mattias Ståhl of Angles 9: four Küchen compositions recorded in Stockholm in April 2024.
3 X 1
Third album by Glass Triangle, Zeena Parkins on electric harp, Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone and voice and Ryan Sawyer on drums: a studio session moving from delicate passages to dense, kinetic interplay.
Limbo
New compositions by Camila Nebbia for her sextet The Hanged One, with Julia Biłat on cello, Arne Braun on guitar and Andres Marino on electronics: intricate structures and open spaces with her tenor saxophone at the centre.
Puxe Means Pull
Drummer and percussionist Sofia Borges and saxophonist Yedo Gibson in a tense, searching duo recorded in Lisbon: objects, prepared sounds and tenor and soprano lines in improvisations built on texture, pressure and close listening.
Lapilli
The saxophone and drums duo Sbatax, Bertrand Denzler and Antonin Gerbal, joined by Jean-Philippe Gross on electroacoustic device: a ferocious live set from Instants Chavirés where free jazz drive meets loops, feedback and crackling interference.
Bagelfårs
Second album by the Finnish free jazz quartet Fågelbörs: sax, trumpet, bass and drums in an Aylerian spiral of chaos and joy, with marching band reveries and slow blues dissolves. Limited edition of 200 LPs on Monk's Hood.
Fall In A Hole
The Fall live in Auckland, August 1982, recorded by Chris Knox for Flying Nun: Marc Riley's last tour, two drummers, feedback-drenched rarities and Hex Enduction-era favourites. First vinyl reissue, with poster and notes by Roy Montgomery.
77 - Early Years - 79
The Fall's first four Step-Forward singles, 1977-79, plus Dice Man from Dragnet: Mark E. Smith's early art punk of atonal guitar, looping bass and combo organ, back on vinyl for the first time with liner notes by Stephen Malkmus.
Exposure
The 2022 Fourth Edition of Fripp's 1979 debut, mixed from the original multitracks by Steven Wilson, with the alternate vocal tracks on CD and hi-res and 5.1 versions on DVD.
Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
Three releases by the early 2000s King Crimson of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, collected on three discs.Level Five, issued in 2001 as a tour EP, presented live recordings of new pieces such as the title track, Virtuous Circle and Dangerous Curves, which the band was testing on stage before taking them into the studio. Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With, the 2002 EP, was the direct preview of The Power to Believe: short fragments, the haiku-like Mie Gakure and …
Music Is Our Friend: Live in Washington and Albany 2021
King Crimson's final US concert, Washington DC September 2021, with four tracks from Albany: a tour that crossed the pandemic and a band in ferocious form.
Earthbound
The 1972 official bootleg of the Islands line-up on tour in the USA, the last of the original King Crimson vinyl series, cut on 200g from masters approved by Robert Fripp.
The ConstruKction of Light
The ConstruKction of Light, released in 2000, was the first studio album by the four-piece King Crimson of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, the so-called Double Duo that emerged after the ProjeKcts had broken the Double Trio into smaller research units.Without Bill Bruford and Tony Levin, the band turned towards a harder, denser sound: Mastelotto's electronic percussion, Gunn's Warr guitar covering the bass register, and Fripp and Belew locking into the interlocking guit…
The Elements Tour Box 2021
The Elements tour boxes were King Crimson's companion to each tour from 2014 onwards: two discs sold at the shows and later through DGM, gathering studio fragments, rehearsals, alternate takes, demos and live recordings from across the band's whole history, sequenced as a journey rather than a chronology.The 2021 edition accompanied what turned out to be the final tours of the seven-piece line-up with Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy…
2014 NYC
The four September 2014 nights in New York on two CDs, original live mixes enhanced from the multitracks: the seven-piece Crimson with three drummers across the front.
God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners (LP)
The 2021 remaster of Fripp's 1980 album, one side of Frippertronics and one of Discotronics with David Byrne, Busta Jones and Paul Duskin, with almost half an hour of extra material.
The Early Quintet
Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present The Early Quintet, featuring trumpeter Manfred Schoof's highly influential mid-sixties sextet (and occasional septet), featuring pianist Alexander Schlippenbach, tenor saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Buschi Niebergall, and drummer Jaki Liebezeit. (One track adds drummer Sven-Åke Johansson.) In addition to the first CD release of the 1978 FMP record, this version includes a bonus piece, never before heard. Deep cuts from the formative moment of European f…
Anuraaqtuq
Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq live at Victoriaville in May 2010 with Jean Martin on drums and computer and Jesse Zubot on violin: throat singing, cries and breath stretched into an hour of raw, physical improvisation.
Un Moment de Bonheur
Jean Derome and Louis Sclavis share a quartet with Bruno Chevillon on double bass and Pierre Tanguay on drums, live at Victoriaville on 19 May 2001: flutes, clarinets and saxophone on compositions by both leaders.