New Arrivals

Bobby Hutcherson's Medina, recorded on August 11, 1969 at Van Gelder Studio with Harold Land, Stanley Cowell, Reggie Johnson and Joe Chambers, unissued until Blue Note released it in 1980 in the LT series (LT-1086).

Andrew Hill's Judgment!, a quartet session recorded on January 8, 1964 at Van Gelder Studio with Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones, produced by Alfred Lion and first released by Blue Note in 1964.

Andrew Hill's Compulsion!!!!!, recorded on October 8, 1965 at Van Gelder Studio with Freddie Hubbard, John Gilmore, Cecil McBee, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers, Renaud Simmons and Nadi Qamar, first released by Blue Note in 1967.

Larry Young's last Blue Note session, five originals recorded at Van Gelder Studio on 7 February 1969 with Lee Morgan, Herbert Morgan and Eddie Gladden, first released in 1980 (LT-1038). Tone Poet reissue, 2026.

Larry Young's first Blue Note album as leader, recorded at Van Gelder Studio on 12 November 1964 with Sam Rivers, Grant Green and Elvin Jones, first released in 1965. Blue Note Classic Vinyl reissue, 2020.

Japanese UHQCD reissue (UCCQ-9640, 2024) of McCoy Tyner's 1969 Blue Note album, a hornless quartet with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits recorded at Van Gelder Studio on 17 May 1968.

Tyrone Washington's only Blue Note album as leader, six originals recorded at Van Gelder Studio on 29 December 1967 with Woody Shaw, James Spaulding, Kenny Barron, Reggie Workman and Joe Chambers. Tone Poet reissue, 2026.

Sietse van Erve's first album under his own name after 25 years as Orphax: a single still, drone-based piece for electronics and organ with flute, bass clarinet and double bass, played by members of Ensemble MAZE.

Debut of the open improvisation collective founded by Philipp Hager, with Andrew Bernstein of Horse Lords: four pieces of free jazz, polyrhythmic drums, droning bass and synths, cut in one day.

Former hardcore punks from Palembang who swapped amps for mandolin, accordion and Malay drums: pantun-inspired songs from 2009-2013, including unreleased material, sung by muezzin David Hersya.

Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge and Australian singer Hugo Race (Bad Seeds, Dirtmusic): violins, electronics and a dark voice in retro-baroque songs, first released on Sub Rosa in 2017.

Jimi Tenor's new solo album for Bureau B, built on 1960s and 70s drum machines treated by Gunther Buskies: synths, flute, sax and voice, between Suicide-like minimalism and cosmic drift.

The English composer's second album: choral writing, honkytonk piano, flutes, bells and electronics in minimalist patterns and anagram titles, a reflective, mystical record.

Robert Lester Folsom's private-press album of 1976, a cult of Georgia home-recorded folk, remastered for its fiftieth anniversary together with the original reel-to-reel demos.

Four compositions by the Stockholm artist built from modular synthesizers, microphones and self-regulating systems: feedback held at a fragile threshold between order and instability.

Allan Nilles of the Berliner Philharmoniker on viola and Tom Schneider on sampler, recorded in the Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonie: every sound starts from or returns to a single viola.

First CD edition of the 1977 Sensations' Fix album first issued on the small US label All Ears: Franco Falsini's guitar and analogue synths over repetitive rhythms, newly remastered in Japan with five unreleased recordings.

Marc Ribot's first all-instrumental album since Live at the Village Vanguard: a quartet with Chad Taylor and the saxophones of James Brandon Lewis, Brian Settles and Briggan Krauss, between free jazz and No Wave. On Pi Recordings.

200 copies. Light blue vinyl. Including an original insert that functions as Obi, with liner notes by Bradford Bailey and James Rushford.Fortunale is a string quartet by Marco Baldini, composed between 2024 and 2025 and recorded by Quartetto Maurice with Manuel Volpe at Okum Studio in Rivoli, near Turin, in October 2025. It began as a duo for violin and viola and found its final form as a quartet.The title is an archaic Italian word for an event brought about by chance, long used for a violent s…

Electronic Sound issue 145 puts David Bowie on the cover for the 50th anniversary of Low, with a feature by musicologist Leah Kardos, bundled with an exclusive double CD of new commissions, originals and covers inspired by the album's electronic instrumentals.

Matthew Shipp on piano and William Parker on bass in only their fourth duo album, the fruit of a four-decade friendship that began in the David S. Ware Quartet. Recorded in Brooklyn in June 2025, CD on Tao Forms.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore's score for Threshold, the documentary on cross-country ski champion Jessie Diggins: sixteen cues with an open palette of harp, voice and more, after their duo album Tragic Magic.

The final concert of Swans' Big Sound era, recorded in Berlin on 28 November 2025: over two and a half hours of mostly unrecorded material by the line-up Michael Gira reconvened in 2010, with a DVD of the whole show. On Young God.

William Parker as composer and lyricist: songs sung by Andrea Wolper with an inter-generational band, a title suite with tap dancer Melissa Almaguer, pieces for Chantal Akerman and Joseph Jarman. CD limited to 500 copies on Centering.

Debut of Trio Imagination, the group that grew out of Trio 3: David Virelles on piano with the legendary rhythm section of Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio. On Pi Recordings.

James Brandon Lewis's third Red Lily album turns to Antonín Dvořák: original pieces that vary, echo or answer the Czech composer, with Kirk Knuffke, Melanie Dyer, Tomeka Reid, Joshua Abrams and Chad Taylor. On Tao Forms.

Devra Hoff alone with her acoustic double basses, sometimes layered: original pieces and arrangements of traditional songs, a meditative companion to her Anne Briggs album, with Tara Jane O'Neil and Julia Holter on two tracks. Edition of 500 CDs.

A solo piano journey through spontaneity, intimacy and the unexpected. On Undress & Fly, pianist and improviser Josep-Maria Balanyà invites the listener into a world where sound takes shape in the moment. Across nine solo pieces, he moves fluidly between agile, energetic playing and passages of striking delicacy, letting intuition guide the music toward unexpected destinations. Balanyà treats the piano as both instrument and terrain for discovery. In “Relaxed Discussion” and “Jump And Fly Away,”…

A visceral encounter of electric guitar, saxophones, bass clarinet and drums—where free improvisation cuts close to the nerve. On Ecorchure, Jérémy Baysse, Jean-Luc Petit and Fabrice Favriou create music that is raw, restless and alive to the moment. The trio’s second album brings electric guitar, sopranino and tenor saxophones, contrabass clarinet and drums into an uncompromising dialogue—one that moves from uneasy quiet to bursts of abrasive intensity. Across seven pieces, the musicians build …

"Vasco Trilla continues to be prolific through these turbulent times, including a recent release with Swedish improvisors on Creative Sources, Up North, after electroacoustic trio Behenii II  following as well trumpet trio Choreography Of Fractures (reviewed in October...) on Sluchaj. The latter was a continuation of various Polish collaborations for Trilla, including now In the no time — released on Canadian label Tour de bras, recorded November 2023 — with Pawel Doskocz (electric guitar) & Zof…

This recording documents a first encounter. For his 60th birthday, Stefan invited two musicians he had previously met only online. We stepped into the same room, the same air, the same sound. By the end of the night, the trio had already begun. Thanks to Barbara and Norbert at BLOCK7, Bernd and all the birthday guests who supported this concert.

"Suspensão (Suspension in Portuguese ) is one of the many free improvised ensembles that prolific violist Ernesto Rodrigues leads. A Question Asked by the Empty Horizon is the thirteenth album of this ensemble that has been operating since 2016 with a rotating line-up of local musicians coming from different backgrounds, with different instrumentation.  The current version of Suspensão features a nonet with violinist Inês Ferreira, double bass player Hernâni Faustino, trumpeter João Silva, melod…

"With a total of three members, Imprints of Experiences captures the largest unit of the releases reviewed here, and its sound is correspondingly (and comparatively) full. Schindler deploys a range of instruments, some heard before (clarinets, cornet, saxophone) and one (b-flat tubax) unique to this recording. Harald Kimmig meanwhile contributes an energetic violin and Eric Zwang Eriksson, an array of prattling percussion. Playing live over two nights in Munich in 2024, the trio offers quite a …

"Recorded live in Lisbon, violist Ernesto Rodrigues joins vocalist Maria Radich and violinist Maria do Mar in a free improv trio where close-range string interplay and crackle box electronics create high-register tension, while voice moves within the texture through whispers and cries, shaping an intimate, spatially focused performance balancing density, restraint, and evolving interaction." - Squidco

"Framed as a shifting, dreamlike improvisation, this electroacoustic quartet led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, with cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, Carlos Santos on electronics, and percussionist Monsieur Trinité, unfolds a fluid free improv session that dissolves into evolving textures, balancing tension, restraint, and collective interplay within an immersive sonic landscape." - Squidco

Violinist Carlos Zíngaro, violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues come together on 'Pataphysique, a new album of free improvisation that places close listening and adventurous sound-making at its heart. Across six pieces—“I” through “VI”—the trio explores the expressive range of its string instruments, shaping an open-ended musical conversation in real time. Rather than follow a fixed path, the music unfolds through shifts in texture, gesture and intensity, inviting listeners i…

"A Berlin-recorded trio of violin, viola, and cello with voice, where Gerhard Uebele, Ernesto Rodrigues, and Guilherme Rodrigues shape twelve concise movements of hushed, textural free improv, blending extended string techniques and subtle vocalizations into a fragile, reductionist sound world of intimate interplay, suspended time, and finely detailed sonic nuance." - Squidco

Released by Creative Sources Recordings, Livingry captures a vivid live encounter between Lawrence Casserley, Dominic Lash, Massimo Magee and Phillip Marks. Recorded at London’s Hundred Years Gallery on 4 October 2025, the album brings together Casserley’s Signal Processing Instrument, Lash’s double bass and electric guitar, Magee’s alto saxophone and clarinet, and Marks’s percussion in a set of six freely improvised pieces.  Across just over an hour, the quartet shapes music that feels alive to…

"Fragments of the Unseen suggests a completely different kind of free improvisation. It is the second album of the chamber, acoustic, free improvising quartet of violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, their frequent collaborator, Korean, Berlin-based tenor sax player Jung-Jae Kim, and German guitarist Andreas Willers, following the live recording of Points of Dichotomy (Creative Sources, 2025). But the studio recording of Fragments of the Unseen was captured seven months before …

In Energy Center, Ed Hazell tells the essential story of Studio Rivbea, the Lower Manhattan loft where Sam Rivers and Bea Rivers made radical music possible on its own terms. Drawing on new research, photographs, posters and an unrivalled sessionography, the book restores 24 Bond Street as a home, school, rehearsal room and self-determined cultural engine.