Flute
All records with flute · Solo flute only
Written in the Universe
Flutist Nicole Mitchell and percussionist Joe Westerlund, a former mentee of Milford Graves, improvise in a rural studio near Chapel Hill: looped flutes, mbiras, metallophones and live electronics, with no overdubs.
Tejiendo Nubes Contra la Muerte
Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña reads from Cloud Net over spontaneous music by pianist Ricardo Gallo and the Colombian trio Hombre de Barro, recorded in 2022 near Bogotá. A plea for water, life and ancestral knowledge.
Softenings for 7 Flutes
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard's Softenings for 7 Flutes, four movements named after the Greek winds, written for and played by the Icelandic flute septet viibra. World premiere recording, limited LP of 200 copies.
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; volume 2 of Wergo's Henze Edition.
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 coproduction.
Crunch
Portrait CD of Eloain Lovis Hübner: crunch modes 1.0 and 3.0, [untitled] and Trauma und Zwischenraum 1-3, played by Schallfeld Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, AuditivVokal Dresden, airborne extended, the Arditti Quartet and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz.
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).
Impulsive Lieder
Portrait CD of Benjamin Scheuer: Impulsive Lieder, Sprachmaschine, Vier Attrappen, Regal and Lachtherapie, performed by Andreas Fischer and ensemble, Vanessa Porter, Schola Heidelberg under Walter Nußbaum, ensemble risonanze erranti and Nikolai Rosenberg.
Gasser
Portrait CD of Jonah Haven: six chamber and ensemble works, played by Wolftone, Ensemble Proton Bern under Gregor Mayrhofer, ensemble recherche, Trio Catch and Duo XAMP.
Traces in the Sand
Stephan Micus' 27th solo album for ECM, dedicated to the sea: a dozen instruments from Borneo, Japan, India, Armenia, Africa and beyond, from hang and kalimbas to shakuhachi, duduk, sapeh and sho.
Messer und...
Irène Schweizer, Rüdiger Carl and Louis Moholo: the LP Messer, live in Moers and in the FMP studio in 1975, followed by Tuned Boots, the twenty-minute trio piece recorded in Graz in 1977.
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.
Squall Line
Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay's Humboldt County duo returns to Discrepant with seven ritual pieces of voices, violins, flutes, synths, drums, bells and field recordings: end-time visions for the unquiet spirit.
Manifold Of Partially Actualized Realities
The producer of Sunn O))) and co-composer of the Mandy score makes his own 'science fiction music' from a Philip K. Dick lecture, with Jim Jarmusch, Cyro Baptista and Charmaine Lee.
Lames de Fond
Four works from 2012 to 2021 by Martin Bédard, two of them co-written with the flutist Marie-Hélène Breault, from the honey metaphor of Honey to a recomposed flute warm-up and Replica, built from her old recordings.
Anima Pepsi + The Days Pass Quickly (2LP Bundle)
The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.
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.
The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity
Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's work for flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen sets his Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes inside electronic process: an electroacoustic piece that sounds like an ensemble reaching across centuries.
Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson marks John Coltrane's centennial on Impulse! with a 21-piece collective (Brandee Younger, Shabaka Hutchings, Flying Lotus, Jeff Parker, Azar Lawrence), recasting Naima, Giant Steps and A Love Supreme as cosmic, spiritual music.
Heavy Handed
Joanna Mattrey on viola, Camila Nebbia on tenor sax, Camilo Ángeles on flute and Violeta García on cello, recorded live at Jazzwerkstatt Bern in 2024: strings, winds and breath in a shifting collective language.