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A previously unreleased concert recording from 1986 of a group of leading out jazz artists (Billy Bang, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille, &c.). Part of the magic of jazz in New York City is groups of musicians coming together for brief engagements and then moving off into other groups and configurations, leaving fond memories but little recorded evidence of their existence. The Group was a very talented amalgam of musicians, veterans of the free jazz and loft scenes: Ahmed Abdullah on trumpet and fl…
Melodic Art-Tet
Killer! Limited edition of 400 records. Recorded on 15th October, 1974 at WKCR, from the quintet of Charles Brackeen (flute & sax), Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet), William Parker (bass), Roger Blank (drums) and Tony Waters (percussion), beautifully recorded and essential free improvisation. "The dominant influences at this time were John Coltrane and Albert Ayler (both of whom had passed away relatively recently); and Ornette Coleman (who had not yet gone Harmolodic). Although some musicians had sough…
Intuitus
Vladimir Tarasov - drums, percussion, cimbalom and hunting horn, Eugenijus Kanevicius – bass and electronics, and Liudas Mockunas - soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet. Recorded at Vladimir Tarasov home studio in Vilnius, June 2014. Limited edition of 400 copies.
The Delaware river
400 copies. Cornetist Bobby Bradford and saxophonist Frode Gjerstad have been performing together since they were first introduced in 1986 by drummer John Stevens . Bradford and Gjerstad’s associations date back almost 30 years to their pivotal posts in Detail, Stevens’ short-lived quartet with bassist Johnny Dyani. A bond forged, they reconvened in a variety of contexts over the intervening years. Their most recent collaboration took the form of a quartet with bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and…
A Jones In Time Saves Nine
Edition of 300 copies. Brand new album for the trio comprised of Larry Ochs (tenor and sopranino saxophones), Mark Dresser (bass) and Vladimir Tarasov (drums and percussion)
Oostum
Edition of 300. A really great setting for drummer Gerry Hemmingway – an album that has him improvising live with trombonist Samuel Blaser – a fantastic musician who's one of the freshest trombone talents we've heard in years! In previous comments, we've liked Blaser to a modern day heir to the genius of 60s trombonists like Roswell Rudd and Grachan Moncur – and those words definitely hold true here, as Blaser delivers a wondrous balance between new sounds and tuneful moments, fresh ideas …
Oh My, Those Boys!
Edition of 300. Brilliant work from these two very inventive bassists – the legendary Barre Phillips, working on acoustic bass – and Motoharu Yoshizawa, playing an unusual homemade electric vertical 5-string bass! The combination of instruments is beautiful – and with one electric, and one acoustic, you can really separate the voice of each player – even though both Phillips and Yoshizawa resonate strongly together, and really have a complimentary sense of improvisation – a beautiful combination…
Banka
Edition of 300 copies. Japanese free/jazz sax legend, Kaoru Abe, dies at the age of only 29 in 1978, living a fast and crazy life and dieing of a drug overdose. His entire music career was only 10 years, from 1968 to 1978. In that short period, he was well recorded with around 30 releases, ten of which are solo sax efforts, duos with guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa and drummer Sabu Toyozumi. Mr. Abe also toured and recorded with Milford Graves, Derek Bailey and Toshinor…
The Major
Nobuyasu Furuya, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet. Rodrigo Pinheiro, piano. Eduardo Lála, trombone. Hernâni Faustino, contrabass. Gabriel Ferrandini, drums, percussions. Recorded and mixed on 14 and 22 November, 2010 at Namusche Lisbon by Joaquim Monte. All tracks were composed and conducted by Nobuyasu Furuya.
Absolute Horizon
Not enough is heard from Brooklyn-born bassist Adam Lane. He boasts an impressive track record, illuminated by a series of outstanding recordings, mainly on the CIMP label, but culminating in the acclaimed Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed, 2010). Nothing has surfaced under his own name since, so any new disc grabs attention. That's not to say he has been idle, notching up notable appearances on drummer William Hooker's excellent Bliss Suite (Not Two, 2010) which also featured rising star saxophonist …
Lift Every Voice and Sing
**500 copies, strictly no repress** Smalltown Supersound are going hard on the free jazz this year - so much so that they've set up new sub-label Actions For Free Jazz to accommodate the load. This was the slogan for Smalltown Superjazzz and was borrowed at the time from Don Cherry and Krystzof Penderecki’s The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra track Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra from the 1971 album Actions. The inspiration for the label is BYG Actuel, Incus, Freedom and ESP-Disk. AFJ's latest fora…
Passed Me By
*2022 re-press* Andy Stott's radical 2011 bonecrusher returns on its first new pressing for almost a decade, still screwing the dance and heads like nothing else with its lo-sprung suspended takes on boogie dub and claggiest rhythmic thumpers.
The sludgy, slow-motion slug of ‘Passed Me By’ marked a pivotal point when Stott swam against the grain of prevailing currents of the post-dubstep era’s turn toward garage-techno and UKF-inspired percussive house. Working loosely adjacent to a then emergen…
L'Escalier des aveugles – Recueil de nouvelles
Bilingual edition (English / French) 27 x 35 cm (spiral bound), 101 pages (ill.) Facsimile scores and documents about the radiophonic work created by Luc Ferrari in 1991. This publication around "L'escalier des aveugles" features never released before contents; including notes from the editor, full transcription of the dialogues (Spanish/French/English), historical documentation about the project, sound map, facsimile manuscript from the composer & afterword.Through these 101 pages, you will ha…
Presque Rien n°1 – Le lever du jour au bord de la mer – 1967-70
** Bilingual edition (English / French) 27 x 35 cm (spiral bound), 37 pages (ill.) ** Historical pictures, texts, indications about project, list of recorded sounds, full edit plan & manuscript facsimile of the piece achieved by the composer at Deutsche Grammophon studios in 1970 in Hannover, from the recordings dated July 1967 in Vela Luka, Croatia. "Following the total disappearance of abstract sounds, this piece could be considered a sonic photographic slide, the outcome of a whole evolution…
Presque Rien n°2 – Ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple
** Bilingual edition (English / French) 24 x 32 cm (spiral bound), 40 pages (ill.) ** Facsimile scores and documents about the work recorded by Luc Ferrari during summer 1977 and premiered in 1979 during Festival d'Automne at Centre Pompidou, Paris. "Ten years ago, 'Presque Rien n°1' bore the subtitle 'Sunrise at the Seaside'. This piece of magnetic tape was in fact a sort of report on this daily event. Thinking about Presque Rien later on, I wondered what it was about. Looking for almost nothi…
Dedans-Dehors
** Bilingual edition (English / French) 35 x 27 cm (spiral bound), 21 pages (ill.) ** Facsimile scores and documents about the creation premiered on 28 February 1977 at the Palais des Arts, Paris, by Bernard Parmegiani. "After having used different compositional writing styles (letting the notion of sounds' 'nature' appear through sounds originating from all different types of things, especially in 'De Natura Sonorum'), there still remained the ever-abundant world of the noises that result from…
Enfer
** Bilingual edition (English / French) 35 x 27 cm (spiral bound), 29 pages (ill.) ** Edited from the Bernard Parmegiani's archives, historical documentation about the project & genesis of the work inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante, premiered on 5 February 1973 at Théâtre Récamier, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris."To cross Acheron is to feel, within one's depths and by the slow movement of existence's recoil, a sense of mounting anguish 'that draws nearer and pulls back further every…
Pardon me for barging in like this
Limited edition of 600 copies including 16 page book This boxed vinyl set is a treasure trove of rare and out of print noise from the vaults of the legendary early 80’s M.Squared label in Sydney Australia. M-Squared has been probably the best-known independent-label in the late 70’s early 80’s also famous for their incredible rare and sought after Vinyl-Releases of Makers of Dead Travel Fast, Systematics, Scattered Order or SPK. The heavy Box features previously unreleased tracks from Scattered…
Magnetophonics-Australian Underground Music 1978-1984
Outstanding!!! Massive and comprehensive overview of Australian underground music originally released as tapes/cassettes or vinyl between the late '70s and early to mid '80s. The first two LPs, called Edge City Broadcasts are Andrew Lonsdale's (Browning Mummery) selection of rare and essential tracks representing the great variety and diversity of sounds inside the Australian underground music scene of the period. LP3 is dedicated to one side each of label recordings from the Lymph Product…