Like One Long Dream
A powerful collision of musical personalities -- American saxophonist (and Dutch resident) John Dikeman invited avantgarde trumpeter Jaimie Branch, bassist Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements) and drummer Aleksandar Skorić to form a new band project. This quartet presents its own definition of contemporary improvised jazz; with no distinct leader and with tight and supportive interplay, they demonstrate the independent musical voice of each own. Album cover by Jaimie Branch. Personnel: John…
Awon Ona (2CD)
* Double CD in 6 panel ecopack * Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free jazz improvisers. Amongst many others he has worked with trumpeter Don Cherry, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxop…
Mind Maintenance (LP)
Meditative moods from the Chicago duo of bassist Josh Abrams and percussionist Chad Taylor. With Taylor on mbira and Abrams on guimbri, instruments from diverse African states, finding a new pairing that moves past world music and jazz into something new, to do with dance, meditation, listening and convergence. Natural Information Society's Abrams has been using the guimbri, a lute-style bass, for years, but it's rarely sounded better than it does here, alongside Taylor's resonant mbira. Taylor …
Unquenchable Fire
Joe McPhee's Unquenchable Fire, a work inspired by Rachel Pollack's award-winning novel of the same title, was commissioned by The Deep Listening Institute for the Deep Listening Band and premiered at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. The Deep Listening Band explores the sensual combination of musical sound combined with natural sound, as well as the sounds of daily life and one's own thoughts. One never knows what Pauline Oliveros will do next, but whatever it is, she is sure to go beyond boundaries…
The Live One
XI Records is very pleased to announce the release of Tom Chiu’s new double-CD The Live One, a diverse and thoroughly engrossing album that showcases the multiple facets of Chiu’s visions. Chiu is a polymath who is as comfortable with lyricism and the beauty of tonality as he is with process-based works and challenging conventions of composition. Chiu specializes in creating spatial experiences and altered states of mind with his music, with a singular, questing path. He is a gifted improviser a…
Fahon
**Edition of 80** New live recordings, oriented with only two instruments, viola and frame drums. The album was recorded during a period of many live sessions between 2019 and 2020 with just a Rode nt4 stereo microphone and one of the very first Sony mz md. The sessions were amplified. Frédéric Charlot - Viola. Olivier Charlot - Frame drums.
A More Attractive Way
** Edition of 500 + 20 pages booklet ** A More Attractive Way is a comprehensive study of live performances made by IST between 1996 and 2000. This set begins at the very outset of the group's career and features their debut concert at Club Orange in London and charts its way through further gigs in London, Billericay, Norwich and Cambridge. “A completely different intensity, but an intensity nonetheless,” Jo Fell reflects in notes accompanying A More Attractive Way. Her husband Simon, to whose …
Twice
** Six-panel digipak, photos by Yan Jun/Zhu Wenbo, design by Yuko Zama ** Erstwhile Records presents Twice by Yan Jun and Zhu Wenbo. Yan Jun: recorded in Beijing, Feb 2021. Zhu Wenbo: recorded in Qingdao and Beijing, Sept 2020 - Feb 2021. Photos/image scans by Yan Jun/Zhu Wenbo. Design by Yuko Zama. Produced by Jon Abbey.
Days Falling
** Edition of 100. Heavy weight 180 gram vinyl. Hand-painted covers on thick gray cardboard ** Editions presents Days Falling by Jason Kahn. Recorded April 9, 2020 in Zürich at Kunstraum Walcheturm. Recording, mixing, mastering, liner notes and LP artwork Jason Kahn. Many thanks to Patrick Huber for allowing me to record in Kunstraum Walcheturm. These pieces were recorded during one evening on April 9, 2020 in Zürich, my home for the last twenty-one years. I rode my bike through the rainy night …
See Creatures Too
** A brand new Double cassette featuring one tape of studio recordings and one tape of live recordings! First pressing of 250 with artwork by Jaime Zuverza. ** Brand new sprawling double cassette document from Lisa Cameron & Sandy Ewen! "Sea Creatures Too" features one tape of newly recording studio tracks and a second tape of live tracks recorded on their Texas tour of 2019 (to celebrate the initial release of "See Creatures"). Almost 2 full hours of evocative soundscapes that expand upon their…
Live Performance, 2018
Trás os Montes Records presents Live Performance, 2018 by by Gabriel Ferrandini, Maria Reis and André Cepeda. Recorded at the Blues Photography Studio, Lisbon, November, 2018. Voice - Maria Reis, percussion - Gabriel Ferrandini, Smoke Machine, Slide projection and Photography - André Cepeda, Recorded and Mixed by Miguel Abreu, Master by Tó Pinheiro da Silva.
Souvenirs
** 2021 Stock ** A typical modern drum set consists of a bass drum, a snare drum, hi-hats, a few toms, and a couple of cymbals. When played as a drum set, the characteristics of each sound combine to create what many people recognize as a single instrument. Yet each of the pieces within that instrument has particular qualities that are often different from each other, especially between drums and cymbals. From a player's standpoint, shifting focus from the sonic options available with a drum set…
Air Skin Digger
** 2021 Stock ** The Barnacles (aka Matteo Uggeri) artistic path continues with “Air Skin Digger”, after the debut in 2017 “One Single Sound” on Boring Machines/Non Piangere Dischi, and right along with the release in collaboration with Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. on Artoffact “Sidereal Decomposition Activity.” Each Barnacles album is made by Matteo Uggeri following specific self-imposed rules.
These 4 long compositions were made using only 4 sound sources per each, all cannibalized from other works d…
Romantic Suite
** 2021 Stock ** Partly improvisations by Luciano Margorani (electric guitar, noises), Federico Zenoni (drums and objects), recorded together in Italy, then sent to Dave Newhouse (saxes, clarinets, and keyboards) in the USA for his input, this 2nd release by the trio is an expansion of the debut (under their full names, and then titled ‘Beauty Is In The Distance‘ – 2016) which only had one long composition. This new one has three pieces that have an even more florid array of aromas, catching sha…
Habituons Nous à la Pluie
Alma De Nieto presents Habituons Nous à la Pluie by Thomas Barriére. All music composed and played by Thomas Barrière. Mastering: Anthony Laguerre at Shadyn Studio Artwork: Bertrand Monboisset.
Live Concerts 1990 - 2006
Alma De Nieto presents Live Concerts 1990 - 2006 by Ruggero Tajé, Italian electronic composer, drummer and guitarist, and Ahmed Ben Dhiab,Tunisian painter, poet, author, composer, art teacher and singer born in Tunis. Live performance featuring: Nabil Khalidi: oud (Marocco), Raul Barboza: accordeon (Argentina), Carlo Rizzo: percussion (France), Michel Doneda: saxophone (France).
A Dangerous Method
Alma De Nieto presents A Dangerous Method by Extrema Ratio. .xlaidox. : Voice, Effects, Alessandro Cartolari: Baritone Sax, Voice, Valdjau Kathportha: Electronics, Diego Rosso: Drums. Recorded by Dano Battochio: 30th November & 1st December 2019 at Mediaducks Studio Perosa Canavese (TO). Mixed By Dano Battochio: June 2020 Deepest Sea Torino. Mastered by James Plotkin: October 2020, Bethlehem,PA, USA.
"A Dangerous Method is a fascinating album that yields more with each listen. At times it feels …
Wound Response
Another piece of the puzzle to his 4-part ‘Pedlar’ boxset, this one was thrown down in 2011 at Newcastle’s legendary Morden Tower, a C.13th, grade-listed turret on the West Walls of the city’s ancient defences against curious Mackems and Durham scunners, that was also previously and notably site of seminal recordings by The New Blockaders, a.o. In that vein, Davies gets raw to the bone in ‘Wound Response’, using Lap harp fed thru transducer, read by contact microphone, and pushed to seething lim…
Half Dead Half Alive - Live In Nickelsdorf
Joke Lanz was born in Basel, Switzerland and is a well-know noise musician, performance artist and turntablist. He is also founding member and singer in the art rock group Sudden Infant, a meber of the legendary Schimpfluch group (alongside Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Phillips, Marc Zeier and Daniel Löwenbrück) and performs in many duos and and other forms in the improvisation scene. He also writes music for theatre and film, radio, installations and objects. Ute Wassermann is a German vocalist, composer…
Quoi qu'il en Soit
Bisou presents the book La Chute de l'Ange, a 48 pages book with colour photographs of Ghédalia Tazartès' "Cabinet de curiosités". The photos were taken by Ghédalia himself. Foreword by Dominique Abensour. Includes a CD of the only live performance of the trio Ghédalia Tazartès, Jérôme Lorichon and Quentin Rollet: La Chute de l'Ange, recorded live at Eglise St-Merry, Paris, 2019. Livesound by F/Lor.Ghédalia Tazartès: voice, tibetan bowl, bellsJérôme Lorichon: Buchla synth, effects, trumpetQuenti…