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Now Jazz Now 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-80 (Book)
277 pages. 196 x 268 mm. Open NOW JAZZ NOW and you're not just looking at a book - you're entering the minds of three lifelong obsessives. Byron Coley (music writer and critic), Mats Gustafsson (saxophonist, The Thing, Fire!), and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth founder, solo artist) have spent decades accumulating, discussing, debating, and above all listening to free jazz and free improvisation. This book is the result of that shared mania. What they've created isn't a conventional history or a ra…
Faust IV
Faust left Wümme's anarchic freedom for The Manor's professional constraints. Virgin wanted a hit. Faust IV was the answer: their most paradoxical album, accessible yet destabilizing, part studio work, part salvage. The sessions stretched, the budget vanished, the result endures—uneven, restless, compelling. Fifty years later: still mid-sentence, still profound, gloriously incomplete.
So Far
CD Digipack. Wümme, Lower Saxony. 1972. A converted schoolhouse. Inside: a tangle of cables, reel-to-reel machines, custom electronics soldered together by hands that refused manuals. This was not a professional recording studio. This was Faust's laboratory—and So Far was the experiment that proved you could rewire rock music's circuitry without killing the patient. Six months earlier, Faust had released their self-titled debut—a savage dismantling of what a rock album could be. Tape edits slice…
Uranian Void
Uranian Void by Jessika Kenney is a radiant synthesis of voice, mystic poetry, and Javanese gamelan textures. Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Kou Records, the album entwines Persian and Indonesian texts in a transcendent meditation on annihilation, devotion, and rebirth, revealing Kenney’s voice as both ritual conduit and cosmic instrument.
Tulpa
Tulpa by Charmaine Lee transforms voice, electronics, and feedback into a vivid organism of noise, song, and silence. Produced by Randall Dunn and released on her label Kou Records, the album bends improvised vocal gestures into sculptural form—an intimate encounter between body and circuitry that questions where identity begins and resonance ends.
Riparian
Riparian by Eyvind Kang is a two-part, 37-minute suite for viola and ensemble that meditates on the meeting point of water and land. Produced by Randall Dunn for Kou Records, the album explores blurred musical boundaries and organic flow, using Kang’s signature blend of experimental chamber forms and subtle, textural improvisation to evoke riparian landscapes.
Ratsnake
Ratsnake by Chloe Kim is a daring solo percussion suite that channels years of improvisational research into a visceral, highly personal language. Produced by Randall Dunn after Kim’s formative New York sojourn, the album fuses jazz-rooted control with exploratory vulnerability, establishing Kim as a bold new voice in solo drumset music.
Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten
Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten by Läuten der Seele (Christian Schoppik) unfolds as a haunting electroacoustic collage. Looping fragments from vintage “Heimatfilme,” field recordings, and diverse instruments evoke a surreal, dream-prone nostalgia. The album balances hypnotic repetition with spectral detail, drifting between tenderness and uncanny unease.
Einstein on the Beach
The concert version of Einstein on the Beach by Ictus, Suzanne Vega, and Collegium Vocale Gent distills Philip Glass’s pioneering minimalism into a mesmerizing sound ritual. Stripped of Robert Wilson’s grand staging, Vega’s measured narration weaves through the ensemble’s crystalline precision, revealing the raw musical architecture of this modernist epic.
Cadaverous Condition – Destroying the Night Sky
**Marbled Black Smoke Vinyl & Inlay, issued to 230 copies. Cover and Inlay artwork done by Steven Stapleton.** The Circle Music proudly presents: Cadaverous Condition – Destroying The Night Sky. Many years ago Death Metal band Cadaverous Condition invited a stellar line up of experimental artists to completely dismember, rearrange and reconstruct songs of their “To The Night Sky” album. The result being “Destroying The Night Sky”, one of the weirdest collaborative albums ever assembled. Extreme …
Skyways
Misha Panfilov Septet is an Estonian ensemble led by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Misha Panfilov. Known for their evocative blend of psychedelic jazz, electronic lounge, and ambient exotica, the septet features a rich palette of timbres and improvisational interplay, distinctively shaped by Panfilov's lap steel guitar and space-conscious compositions. The group includes Artur Leppik (alto/baritone sax, percussion), Sasha Petrov (tenor sax, percussion), Ilja Gussarov (flute, perc…
We Shall Share
*200 copies limited edition* The early Eighties in France and the UK: the Post-Punk, Dark and Cold Wave scenes broke onto the music world. Usher San in Dijon, France was starting his career with Coït Bergman, Metal Radiant and as Anthon Shield and DZ Lectric.... and then Norma Loy… and later Die Puppe, Black Egg and even Pagan Ring... He is one of the leading figures of what would become known as coldwave south of the English Channel. Martin Bowes and Julia Waller were starting on their musical …
Black Bamboo IV
*200 copies limited edition* Black Bamboo IV continues TeZ's series of electroacoustic and acousmatic performances, centered on the live transformation of acoustic sources and field recordings. Improvisations unfold through the interplay of hybrid DIY tools, traditional folk and ethnic instruments, environmental textures, and archival audio fragments. These elements are expanded and recombined through generative filters, delays, pitch shifters, and harmonizers—woven into evolving feedback loops …
American Requiem
*200 copies limited edition* The series of double albums by Gianluca Becuzzi for St.An.Da/Silentes, which began in 2020 with "In Between", continues. Like its predecessors, "American Requiem" combines drone guitar with sacred themes, creating compositions with a dark and captivating mood. This time, the theme of faith and death in the land of capitalist materialism par excellence, the United States, is placed at the centre of the work, with the use of a mix of traditional country-blues and avant…
Scomparire
Simon Balestrazzi's new solo effort calls for the ear to linger on things shrouded in fog, sounds meandering between vision and reality. Highlighted by the mysterious shots by Adriano Zanni you can now enter an awkward soundworld where nothing can be traced anymore. "Scomparire", to disappear, Vanishing. Pretending to vanish in a thick fog, never to be found again. The detachment from one’s identity. Leaving behind the constant paranoia of what is real and what is not. Leaving behind everything:…
Everything Collapse(D) - Piano Versions
This is an unreleased and “lost” new album by Deison and Mingle conceived in 2014 /15 right after the recording and the release of their debut collaboration-album "Everything Collapse[d]". After the passing of Andrea Gastaldello (“Mingle”) in 2021 and founding these forgotten tracks led us to think that this work should have been listened to understand the essence of the original album. Published by a co-production of three label who have released various works by the duo in the past (Loud!, Fin…
Slow Dances And Still Memories
Slow Dances and Still Memories is the convergence of two musicians from distinct generations, Andrea Bellucci & Giulio Aldinucci — a languid waltz of fragmented memories and fleeting emotions, tied to moments in life, whether they arise from a dancefloor or a remote rural setting, from the hum of the night or the stillness of silence. Electronics here functions much like time itself: they blurs, distorts, reshapes, and subtly deceives memory… A choreography of ancient voices that intertwine in t…
Shadow Cones
**Edition of 200** Vittore Baroni and Daniele Ciullini met in the early 1980s in the then flourishing circuit of fanzines and mail art, starting a series of collaborations in small self-produced artistic publications and in the sound field, as in the case of “The Cop Killers”, a tape part of the TRAX multimedia project. In 2018, at the time of the vinyl reissue of this audio cassette, the idea of giving a sequel to the dystopian-science fiction "industrial opera" was born, but without anything c…
There Will Be Fireworks
The London based singer and keyboard player Dominic Appleton, known since the early eighties for his musical activity in the post punk/dream pop band Breathless, and perhaps even more for his vocal contributions to the legendary This Mortal Coil project on 4AD, joins forces with the Milanese producer and sound artist Matteo Uggeri, active from 1993 behind several projects spanning from industrial to post-rock and ambient soundscapes, known for collaborating with artists such as Maurizio Bianchi,…
Chapters (Screen & Stage Dancefloor Jazz from Yugoslavia 1971-1984)
A new release from Fox & His Friends Records, Chapters (Screen & Stage Dancefloor Jazz from Yugoslavia 1971-1984) by Ozren Depolo brings to light a trove of previously unreleased music spanning more than a decade of his work in film, theater and television. This gatefold audiophile 180g LP, including a 12-page booklet with archival photos and detailed liner notes, offers for the first time a full album composed exclusively of Depolo's own authorship, drawn from master tapes held in private and i…