Upcoming releases
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays
Impulse! Records is proud to announce the release of “The John Coltrane Quartet Plays,” an evocative and boundary-pushing album from one of jazz’s most celebrated ensembles. Recorded in 1965, just months after the landmark “A Love Supreme,” this album captures John Coltrane and his legendary quartet—McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), and Elvin Jones (drums)—at a time of creative transformation and exhilarating intensity.
Featuring four powerful tracks that stretch the limits of post-bop…
Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings
Concord is proud to unveil Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings, a definitive retrospective shining a spotlight on a transformative year in jazz legend Miles Davis’ career. This collection celebrates the birth of Davis’ First Great Quintet and the creative momentum leading to some of his most groundbreaking work.
1955 marked a new era for Miles Davis. That year, he assembled a soon-to-be-storied group — John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe J…
The Soothsayer
Blue Note Records proudly presents the reissue of Wayne Shorter’s legendary album, The Soothsayer—a vital chapter in the evolution of modern jazz and a showcase of Shorter’s compositional brilliance. Though recorded on March 4, 1965, at the iconic Van Gelder Studio, this remarkable session was not released until 1979, transforming it into one of jazz’s most revered hidden gems.
Upon its eventual release, critics hailed The Soothsayer as “hard-driving and as edgy as the time at which it was made,…
The Procrastinator
Blue Note Records is proud to spotlight one of jazz trumpet legend Lee Morgan’s most exhilarating works, "The Procrastinator." Originally recorded in 1967 but first released posthumously in 1978, "The Procrastinator" captures Morgan at the height of his creative powers, leading an all-star sextet that reads like a who’s who of modern jazz: Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Billy Higgins (drums).
Crafted during Morgan’s …
Iron Winter - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
De la Catessen Records proudly presents the original soundtrack for Iron
Winter by Port Adelaide based composer Luke Altmann in a hand-numbered vinyl edition of 250 copies.
Ako's Dream
One of the wonderfully creative 70s sets from Japanese stringman Isao Suzuki – an artist who also plays bass, but who works here on jazz cello – for a very unusual approach! The set has Suzuki's work on the light strings matched in a combo with lead guitar from Kazumi Watanabe – who's nicely restrained here, and falls in with Isao's strings at a level that's quite different than his own material of the time. Watanabe's lead is augmented by further rhythm guitar work by Kazumasa Akiyama, and the …
2nd Album
Following the wave of critical acclaim for his debut, the prodigious Japanese saxophonist Kosuke Mine cemented his place in the modern jazz world with the release of his 2nd Album, recorded in Tokyo in late 1970 and originally issued on the revered Three Blind Mice label. Now, this pivotal work is available again, celebrating a new generation of jazz lovers and collectors.
Rising to the forefront of the Japanese jazz scene, Kosuke Mine assembled an all-star quintet featuring trombonist Takashi I…
Now!!
Now! by Masaru Imada was the second album released by the fledgling Three Blind Mice label and the pianist's first leader album for the label. All four tunes are Imada's original compositions. The two slow numbers – "Nostalgia" and "The Shadow of the Castle" show his lyrical, "quiet but emotional," qualities. "Alter" is an adventurous tune whose focus is on free improvisation while "Gehi Dorian" is a modal composition as the title suggests.
Ginparis Session
For the better part of the 50s and 60s, Masayuki Takayanagi was among Japan's best-respected jazz guitarists. But it wasn't until his experiments with tabletop guitar led him down the seductive path of sonic experimentation that he became the stuff of legend. “Ginparis” (literally translated as Silver Paris) was known as the chanson cafe in Tokyo, Ginza, and the performances often centred around chansons but eventually became the session venue for young jazz musicians. They left their mark on a…
B side
Shadows fold into colour. Memory dissolves into noise. You brush up against the walls of the mind. Touch is soft as breath. On ‘B-Side’, Areliz Ramos follows her work’s current into its more “fantastic and elusive… and even romantic” side; a place where fantasy loosens the bolts of reality and memory, and emotion is alluringly refracted into musical collages and loose-strung compositions. Across the album, voices drift in and out of an intimate space, while pensive guitar lines stumble and bloom…
EX! Zine Edition 3 (Magazine + DL)
EX! Zine proudly announces the launch of its highly anticipated Edition 3, a beacon for avant-garde creativity that continues to spotlight trailblazing voices in experimental audio, visual, and written art. This new edition cements EX! Zine's position as a vital, independent publication championing the work of global experimental artists. Edition 3 features a diverse collection of contributors, including Andrew Backhouse, Camila Piana, Chantelle Gray, Chrystal Cherniwchan, Corina Retzlaff, Crunc…
Stillleben (Book+DL)
This season marks the captivating release of "Stillleben": a groundbreaking project that masterfully unites a lavishly illustrated art book with a brand-new digital album, forging an immersive experience that celebrates the timeless allure of still life through both visual and sonic storytelling. Complementing the visual splendor is the exclusive digital album, "Stillleben," an official 2025 release by Trond & Eiko. Spanning 29 minutes, the album channels the contemplative and vibrant spirit of …
A Year In Minutes
A Year In Minutes is an artistic diary / audio calendar that contains a sound recording, a geographical location, and a photograph, artwork, or essay for each day of the year. Meant as a psychogeography—the study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind or behaviour, Aidan Baker invites you to reflect with him on the year 2024. Berlin-based Canadian multidisciplinary artist Aidan Baker (a.k.a. Nadja, Hypnodrone Ensemble, Tavare, etc.) presents a new monumental work in the form of…
The Disintegration Loops
Since the turn of this century, perhaps no other modern composition has had a more resonant healing effect than The Disintegration Loops. Composer William Basinski’s deteriorating analog tape loops evolved from melodic symphonies to melancholic silence over a span of time that uncannily turned passing minutes into pensive lifetimes. In her foreword for the new box set reissue of The Disintegration Loops, the pioneering multimedia storyteller, Laurie Anderson, describes the impact of this transfo…
The Oracle
Composer, clarinetist, singer and spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene just a few years ago. In very short time, the potency, prowess, spirit and charisma of her cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in Chicago's avant-garde. On any given night you can find Angel adding aura to ensembles led by Ben LaMar Gay, or Damon Locks, or Jaimie Branch, or Matthew Lux, or e…
Undertow
*70 copies limited edition* Eventless Plot, the renowned experimental duo from Thessaloniki, proudly announce the release of their latest cassette, Undertow. Known for their genre-defying sound and meticulous sonic craftsmanship, Eventless Plot continue their tradition of pushing the boundaries of contemporary music with this immersive new work. Undertow is a two-part suite (Part A, featuring Marco Paltrinieri, and Part B), unfolding through a spacious interplay of analog textures, modular synth…
The Formless Irregular (Book)
The most comprehensive visual archive of one of experimental music's most enigmatic figures arrives in a monumental 560-page catalogue raisonné, revealing five decades of visionary artwork by the mastermind behind Nurse With Wound
Duvet
In the winter of 2023, Ingri Høyland and Ida Urd retreated to a Danish sommerhus, or summer house—the tiny, tidy shacks that are a central feature of the national culture, where for generations, Danes have whiled away the warm months with their families. Picture the scene: an abiding quiet all around. Gardens carpeted by snow; beach grass silvery against the silvery sky; a tendril of smoke rising from the chimney. Not another soul in earshot. This sanctuary was the origin for Høyland and Urd’s D…
Nothing Left to Dissolve
A local to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nick has been involved in the electronic music scene since the mid-90s. Known mostly for live hardware techno sets, Nick spent years making broken beats as Vasculator, spaced-out techno as 1/2 of Untethered, and gutter-dipped "dub" as 1/2 of Gnarled Horse Throat.
In 2022, a virus of some sort made percussive transients and loud sounds difficult to tolerate. This resulted in a shift to deeper listening music not aimed at the dancefloor. A trip to Asia served a…
Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople
Land Back! An unadulterated opening statement intoned by Saul Williams three times, as he joins Carlos Niño & Friends in sound ceremony underneath oak and black walnut trees in Coldwater Canyon Park, Los Angeles, on December 18, 2024. The performance, which was organized by Noah Klein of Living Earth on the grounds of longstanding conservationist organization TreePeople, was the first of its kind for longtime friends and collaborators Williams and Niño. The two have been in contact since 1997 an…