★Confront Recordings
Refraction
I first met Mark sometime in the early 90’s when we were both working in Chelmsford. He was running Soundworld Records above the musical instrument shop of the same name, I was over the other side of town in an insurance brokers. I’d played quite…
Goethe
"Across a dozen years, the duo of Jerman and Barnes has offered powerful, minimal music rooted in a shared dedication to the creative act of listening. Jerman is a veteran of the creative music scenes in Denver and Seattle, and in more recent years h…
Le Ring
This group is the result of crossed relationships. Denzler and Dörner know each other for 15 years, Denzler and Gerbal work together in several projects, Dörner and Gerbal are both members of Peeping Tom. As a trio, they played their first concert in…
Trembling Shade
Recorded live at Exploratorium, Berlin on 19 March 2015 by Johannes von Wrochem. Berlin is truly the spiritual home of The Sealed Knot - with the trio having played there numerous times since it's debut in the city at Ramschift Zitrone in 2002. In mo…
Now and Then
Ian Brighton is an improvising guitarist known mostly for his work between the 70s and the early 90s playing alongside Lol Coxhill, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor, Frank Perry, Radu Malfatti Veryan Weston and Larry Stabbins. He also …
Vapour
Schall und Rausch was formed by accident, a considered accident with some intentions. Johan Arrias was in Berlin the summer of 2014 and we took that opportunity to work together and thought about possible combinations. Axel was free and Kai was also …
10tet
Recorded live at Ftarri on 16th October 2013. Recorded & mastered by Taku Unami. ".... it was October 2013 ... Radu, Klaus and Nikos came to Japan. The last day of their tour, Ftarri was booked but it was uncertain what would be done there … so we de…
isotopic
Cremaster: Ferran Fages - feedback mixing board, electro-acoustic devices / Alfredo Costa Monteiro - objects on electric guitar, electro-acoustic devices & Sophie Agnel: piano. Recorded separately in Barcelona and Montreuil between 2009 and 2011. Fin…
Fjordgata
John Butcher, saxophones. Michael Duch, contrabass. Jazzfest Trondheim, Trondelag Senter for Samtidskunst, 9th May 2015. Recorded in concert by Jonas Krossli and mastered by Karl Klaseie. Thanks to Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk and Randi Martine Brockmann. 'I…
Bagpipes and blackberries
Adam Bohman : unamplified objects. Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg : voice.Recorded at Oxo Studio by Adrian Northover on 18th July 2014. Edited and mastered by Adrian Northover. A senses stimulating meeting, recorded in central London's former slaughter h…
F.E.R. (For Eliane Radigue)
The composition began at home studio in September 2013 and then in 2 weeks residency in September/October 2014 at the GMEM in Marseille with the technical support of Jérôme Decque, then recorded in October 2014 at GMEM concert room in real time & fin…
Tides
"I had sent Neil an electronic ‘backing track’ to improvise on, with the idea to keep my part intact as the spine of this new piece. But once I received Neil’s recording, things turned out differently. While toying around with his saxophone improvisa…
Quartet
The newly formed quartet is making its debut performance at the gallery. Alan Wilkinson (alto saxophone), Olie Brice double bass,Dominic Lash (double bass), Mark Wastell (cello). Mark Wastell Quartet is combining the unavoidable and reverential infl…
Social Insects II
Social Insects are the bass clarinet player Hans Koch and the electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt. They have collaborated on various musical projects for years and in 2011 founded the duo. Hans Koch is mainly known as a member of the Hardcore Cham…
Playing The Schoolhouse
Playing The Schoolhouse, a new CD EP length composition by David Sylvian recorded in March of this year in Norway. Based on an improvisation by Jan Bang and Sylvian it also features contributions from Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura. 'Confront…
Sunday afternoon (live at the Hundred Years Galley)
Live recording of Steve Noble, percussion with Daniel Thompson, acoustic guitar. Recorded in London in 2014. Repetitive accidents share space with manicured gestures and punctuation shocks to produce a pure abstract matter from the instrumental virtu…
Broken Light
Recently formed quartet composed of Mark Wastell, violoncello with Olie Brice and Dominic Lash, basses, and Alan Wilkinson, alto saxophone and bass clarinet. Improvisations of Huntington Ashram Monastery '(Alice Coltrane) and' Lonely Woman '(Ornette …
North and South
Alan Wilkinson, saxophone, clarinet, Kim Johannesen, electric guitar, Ola Hoyer, bass, Dag Erik Andersen Knedal, battery. Live at Café Oto, London in 2014. Power and emotion of a seasoned saxophonist against routine improvisation with young musicians…
For John Ayrton Paris
Recorded in Barcelona on 20 May 2013. Thaumatrope: a card with different pictures on either side, which, when the card is twirled rapidly, appear to blend into one. For John Ayrton Paris is the discographic debut of Taumatrop, a duo formed in the ye…
Live At I'klectik
"This was my first trip to series of improvised music curated by Sue Lynch at The Horse at Cafe I'Klectik in SE London. What a treat! The evening opened with a sensitive and controlled duo of Hutch Demouilpied (trumpet, flute), Keisuke Matsui (guitar…