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Rupture & Dissipation
Recorded live in Sokolowsko, Sanatorium Dzwięku Festival 2016. Composition: Kasper T. Toeplitz. Played by: Ensemble Phoenix Basel.
Sombras
New recoerd form Uivo Zebra & Horns. Jorge Nuno - electric guitar. Hernâni Faustino - electric bass João Sousa - drums and percussion. Luís Vicente - trumpet. José Lencastre - alto saxophone. Paulo Galão - tenor saxophone. Pedro Arelo - baritone saxo…
MID_EVIL
Improvisations recorded on the MID_EVIL album do not aspire to reconstruct the past. However, its ghost hauntingly looms over the whole project referring - if only by bone scraping sounds transmuting into the noise of prepared gramophone records - to…
Exhale- Volume 2
Tip! *200 copies limited edition*Erwan Keravec - bagpipes,Mats Gustafsson - piano mate and slide saxophoneRecorded September 13 and 14, 2017 by Martin Siewert, ViennaMastered by Martin Siewert, ViennaCover design/illustration: Lasse MarhaugPhotos by…
Bass To Bass
Bocian Records presents Bass to Bass by Nina De Heney & Slawek Janicki. Recorded at Mózg Studio, on November 29th 2019. Sound Recording: Janusz Czado, Maciej Maciejewski. Sound Mixing and mastering: Michał Kupicz. Cover Artwork: Peter Jacquemyn. Desi…
Umwelt
Bocian Records presents Umwelt by Lucio Capece (Gema): on bass clarinet, slide saxophone, cardboard tubes, analog synthesiser and filter, and Ben Vida (Bird Show/ASCAP): on Synthesis, sampling and digital arranging. Recorded in Brussels, Berlin, New …
Polyptyque
Bocian Records presents Polyptyque by Nimitta. Performed by Massimo Pinca - Double bass, and Christophe Berthet - Soprano saxophone. Recorded in July 2017 at Studio de Agostini, Geneva by Marie Delorme. Mastering: Christian Gugenbuhl. Design: Renaud …
The Sea is Rough
The Sea Is Rough is only a single (released as a 12’’ EP, played in 45 rpm) that features 2 pieces, recorded by the Russian power-pree jazz outfit Brom (Бром) with Japanese legendary trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, known for his collaborations with innova…
Intuitive Mathematics
“Intuitive Mathematics” is illustrative improvisation registered with the use of percussion instruments amplified by piezoelectric sensors and an instrument I constructed myself called the Soundboard. I mounted metal springs, screws and tongues onto …
Pedestal’s Complement
Pedestal's Complement is a recording of a concert from the Ambient Festival in Gorlice, which took place in July 2019. "All our performances are pure improvisation from scratch. I use the piano and the guitar, on which I play the e-bow bow. A lot of …
Mineral
The Red Trio: Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), Hernani Faustino (bass) and Gabriel Ferrandini (percussion), plus two guests; Gerard Lebik (tenor saxophone), and Piotr b (trumpet). Sweeping from turbulent to intimate with with a fluid sort of dialogue that c…
Melodnie
Jerzy Mazzoll is a key figure of polish music over last twenty years. He is a bass clarinet virtuoso that goes deep into the tradition of Polish improvisers and contemporary music composers of the mid-twentieth century. He played in many bands such a…
No End
**300 copies** "I guess it’s pretty difficult to look beyond the profile of a certain label if you think of new releases coming from it. With Bocian records who releases improvisational stuff or modern composition, sometimes more or less obscure dron…
Endless: Music for Performers
**300 copies** Since 2016, Wojciech Puś has been developing Endless, a sensual architecture of images, light, and sound that serves as a base structure for a poetic essay, a dream about identities in process. The music result is a fascinating electro…
Uivo Zebra
When improvisers turn to electricity and imposing volume levels, the results are sometimes as intense as they are tedious, because they forget that it can quickly become a stodgy, lumbering mess that bleeds out way too soon. Not so here, as the music…
Zwölf
12 short live solo guitar, like a portrait of the Austrian musician at a time of his course, oscillating between minimalism, American primitive, improvisation or noise. Guitar’s lover will be pleased.Some tracks with field recordings from Steve Bates…
String Quartets
String Quartet 1, 2 et 3 composed by Reinhold Friedl (Zeitkratzer) and performed by Quatuor Diotima.Reinhold Friedl’s string quartets do not pretend to be string quartets, they are anti-Goethe. There is no sophisticated conversation of four elder gen…
Duft
On their 3rd LP for Poland’s Bocian Records, the Zeitkratzer Ensemble directed by Reinhold Friedl yield two knife-edge pieces recorded live at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, September 30th, 2015. A-side is a performance of Gilles Sivilotto’s H…
Walser
**260 copies** Walser, the new album by Robert Piotrowicz, is a reiteration of the artist’s composition for the namesake film by Zbigniew Libera where a fictitious Concheli tribe enacts its ritual gestures through music and performance. Rather than f…
Les voix de l'invisible
For the first time, the music of French electro-acoustic lynchpin, Jérôme Noetinger is played by an instrumental group, Ensemble Phoenix Basel with uniquely dynamic, rugged results for Poland’s Bocian Records. In June 2012, Ensemble Phoenix Basel com…