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How The Thing Sings
Yet another essential cracking new set of songs from bill orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique visceral acoustic style. the language that orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cut deeper and its myriad of twisted audio tha…
Improvisations January 1997
A double LP of acid-drenched improvisation, Improvisations January 1997 finds the GOL Orchestra and the now-defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating the outer limits of psychedelic sound and collective creation.
Puppet Island
Australian supergroup with Oren Ambarchi, Brendan Walls and Nicholas Kamvissis.
Grape Skin
Grape Skin is the focused outcome of a trio session between Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher, and Christoph Schiller in a Zurich space, 2011. Doneda’s soprano sax curves and stirs in threadlike whispers, multiphonics, and percussive pops; Kocher’s accordi…
Choices
The first meeting on disc between two of the finest and most innovative electroacoustic instrumentalists in Germany: Argentine-born, Berlin-based Lucio Capece (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations, mini megaphone) and Hamburg-based Birgit U…
Overdeveloped pigeons
2011 release ** Limited to 200 copies. "Alessandra Rombolá (flutes and objects) and Michel Doneda (soprano and sopranino saxophones, radio, objects) set off to discover rare birds whose breath provides the momentum: plaintive, expressive, even vocal …
Penumbrae
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Eddie Prévost - bowed percussion and Jennifer Allum - violin. This album is composed of two parts: Investigative Study recorded at The Welsh Chapel, Southwark Bridge, Road, London on 13th July 2010, and…
10
Since the very beginning 13 years ago Supersilent have always moved forward with the greatest integrity. No albums, or indeed concerts, sound the same, yet there´s always a strong signature present. So also with this album. Mostly recorded by Jan Eri…
Into the Night Sky
Into the Night Sky is the sixth album from avant guitarists Alan Licht and Loren Connors, the first after 2003's In France (FBWL). Since 1993 these New York City artists have evolved an instrumental dialogue merging shades of electric blues and min…
Live in Buffalo
Aka: the shape of (free) jazz to come. Bill Nace on electric guitar and Steve Baczowski on bass saxophone bless us with two sides of furious, raw improvised music. Their motto is easy to recognize from the beginning: total freedom, with instrument…
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 8
2010 release ** The latest installment on the Hijokaidan DVD live series, this is an early performance shot in 1981.
Mirrors
There is not a lot to say when a young talented percussionist meet one of the master of improvised music, also percussionist ; we can just sit and listen what happens. this is what exactly did the guys at cosabeat studio during "mirrors" recording …
Corgroc
Barcelona-based Ferran Fages is known both for his lyrical acoustic guitar playing (on solo discs such as Cançons a per un Lent Retard and Al Voltant d'un Para/'lel) and for hard-edged electronics (with groups such as Cremaster and Octante). His work…
4
This fourth Supersilent installment once again features the tantalising quartet lineup of Helge Sten (aka Deathprod), Ståle Storløkken (synthesizer), Arve Henriksen (trumpet), and Jarle Vespestad (drums). If you haven't encountered their work before,…
1-3
Debut triple CD by a Norwegian deathjazz improvising unit! The group features Helge Sten (audio virus), Ståle Storløkken (synthesizer), Arve Henriksen (trumpet), and Jarle Vespestad (drums)." Many hours of studio recordings, which have been trimmed d…
The Collected Poem For Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Ikef continues to mine the extraordinary musical territory of St. Louis's fervent '60s musical innovators with the reissue of the impossibly rare Collected Poem For Blind Lemon Jefferson. Originally released on the late, brilliant saxophonist Julius…
Instant Coffee!
Instant Coffee! is a playful, genre-defying romp through experimental pop, noise, and improvisation, with Instant Coffee channeling the DIY spirit of The Residents and the irreverence of Half Japanese.
The cat from Cat Hill
Named after the slow loris—an animal beloved by Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes for its shy, gradual movements—this London trio creates music that moves at a similarly unhurried pace. Farmer (natural objects, e-bow snare, tapes), Hughes (chorded zith…
Bandwidth
This international improvising ensemble has been going since 1984 with various members, but a couple of years ago leader and legendary Norwegian sax and clarinet player Frode Gjerstad handpicked a new band of musicians that has meant something specia…
New Monuments
Formed for the purpose of playing 2008's Instal Fest, this trio comprises C Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core), Ben Hall (of Graveyards) and Don Dietrich (of Borbetomagus), coming together for the common cause of relentless, ear-blasting improv. Sax-…