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Unnameable Glory
Plume Girl’s ‘Unnameable Glory’ merges Hindustani, ambient, and pop, dissolving boundaries between language, sound, and feeling. Somanath explores the luminous freedom found beyond definition and the joy of shared, wordless experience.
Resta chi va
Antonio Borghini and Banquet of Consequences continue on their path of jazz, freedom, and rigor, in which writing, improvisation, tradition, and chaos coexist in a vital and surprising mixture. Well-organized music that uses disorder to its enrichmen…
In Movimento
Tip! Two long pieces, a live performance and a rehearsal at home, make up this work by the Braida Locatelli duo, a new stage in their 30-year journey. Improvised music that often sounds composed. Improvised, decomposed, recomposed, composed? A true d…
Armageddon
Victoria One reissues "Armageddon" by The Maze, digitally restored for new audiences. Featuring original 1968 tracks plus rare bonus content, this release offers the definitive psychedelic legacy of late 60s San Francisco.
Occam Hepta I
Edition of 250 copies. Two pieces written by Éliane Radigue at the same period (2014-2018), one instrumental (recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris by Ensemble Dedalus) and the other for analog synthesizer (performed by Ryoko Akama).
In Eliane Radigu…
B-X0 NO-47A
A cornerstone of avant-garde jazz, B-X0 NO-47A captures Anthony Braxton at a pivotal moment in his career and in the history of the Association For The Advancement Of Creative Musicians (AACM). Recorded in Paris in 1969 and newly restored from the or…
Domino - Live At Radio Bremen Tv-studios 1963
On September 30, 1963, American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his quartet gave a small concert in the TV studios of Radio Bremen. The concert was broadcast on ARD in the spring of 1964 as part of the popular "Domino" s…
Other Worlds And Habitats
The Sorcerers' latest long player lands in perfect time for the summer, offering a further progression into their unique take on Ethio-inspired jazz.
Time Machine & Electric Silence
Formed in 1972 as a quintet, Dzyan recorded their self-titled debut album after only two months and released it on Aronda, a small Bad Homburg label owned by producer Günther Müller. The original line-up, which never performed live, broke up after a …
Gesprächsfetzen & In Sommerhausen
Alto saxophonist Marion Brown was an initially underrated hero of the jazz avant-garde. It was only after he moved from Atlanta to New York and joined John Coltrane that the public and the critics took notice of him.Dedicated to discovering the far-r…
The Straight Horn Of Steve Lacy
Some of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's most interesting recordings are his earliest ones. After spending periods of time playing with Dixieland groups and then with Cecil Taylor (which was quite a jump), Lacy made several recordings that displayed …
A Rainbow In Curved Air
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce a new remastered edition of the wonderful ambient and experimental work by composer Terry Riley, "A Rainbow in Curved Air”. One of the great modern musical works, Riley composed this influential piece utili…
Ghosted III
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin return with Ghosted III, their most immediate and adventurous collaboration yet. Recorded at Stockholm's Studio Rymden, this third excursion into spontaneous rhythm creation blends ambient neo-jazz,…
KBh 2023 til 2025
In the summer of 2024 I was browsing through some unmarked tapes in my studio, Where I found a cassette with a mysterious recording which I couldn’t figure out who had made. In the following month I played it for a dozen different people to see if th…
Femøren
A Friday evening last year I were hanging out as usual in the Afvikling headquarter probably reading about some stupid 80s action film. However that evening took an unexpected turn when this release suddenly landed in my inbox. Naja is a great friend…
Møl
Such a beautiful release from my friend Frederik. Acoustic instruments and a lot of silence. I hope he is going to do many more releases for the label.
Slomomall
Unplugged post rock from this new guitar group. I don’t know if awkwardness is usually a good thing in music but these recordings feels restrained and yeah, slightly awkward in a really charming and beautiful way. i’ve listened to the tape countless …
Taknemmeligheden om morgenen og længslen om aftenen
Celebrating one year of Afvikling.“Your true colors are beautiful like a rainbow”
Silentium
A breathtaking journey into Arvo Pärt’s sacred minimalism. This LP features rare and moving renditions—including a radically slowed performance of Silentium—that illuminate the composer’s most intimate, time-suspending work.
My room is an oyster
First cassette from my friend Jeff, hopefully many more to come.Side a is quite tense, side b is really sweetlovely tapeMy Room Is An Oyster
Side A
A series of dissociative solo guitar compositions inspired by overstimulation and political desperatio…