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A World View
Trevor Watts: a legendary man, an exceptional saxophonist, a forerunner of everything that is really valuable in European improvised music, turned 80 last year. As a still active and extremely creative musician (his latest productions can be found primarily in the Listen Foundation! catalog), his long creative journey took many artistic challenges. So before you reach for the music contained in this box set, here is a brief historical outline. Around the mid-1960s, after sharing their musical ex…
N-Est
Great Italian trio feat. Marco Colonna this time not only on clarinet but also bass clarinet, alto saxophone and flute and marvelous rhythm section Dario Miranda on bass and Fabrizio Spera on drums on his debut
Morning Patches
There’s a question once posed by John Cage that seems to invite an expanding variety of answers, something about what’s more musical, a truck driving by a factory or a truck driving by a music school. Percussionist Zlatko Kaučič’s quintet adds another environment to the mix, a church, and has musicians standing in for other elements: bassist Silvia Bolognesi and three reed players: Michael Moore on alto saxophone and clarinet; Michael Colonna on clarinet and bass clarinet; and Albert Cirera on …
Gottingen
Do you remember the legendary CD Legba Crossing released on FMP? Of course, you do! Each Cecil Taylor's music fan does it! Two years later Ove Volquartz assembled almost the same line-up and brought Cecil Taylor to Gottingen to work with the legendary artist longer and more intense. Here you have the whole monumental concert they gave on September 15th! What is the difference? Fundamental as always in the case of such great visionaries like Cecil was! Here, additionally, Mr. Taylor performs not …
All Right!
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** Craftman Records presents All Right! by Isao Suzuki Quartet. Recorded November 18 and 19, 1974. Bass – Osamu Kawakami, Drums – Shinji Mori, Electric Bass – Akira Okazawa, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe, Electric Piano, Cello, Bass, Organ [Hammond], Drums, Vocals, Vibraphone [Vibraharp] – Isao Suzuki.
Q
Craftman Records presents Q by Hideto Kanai. Recorded at Aoi Studio, Tokyo on May 9 & 17, 1971. Artwork – Ben Nishizawa, Bass – Hideto Kanai, Engineer – Yoshihiko Kannari, Engineer [Assistant] – Kenji Kurota, Mastered By – Tohru Kotetsu, Producer – Takeshi "Tee" Fujii, Producer [Associate] – Kazumitsu Saga, Yoshiaki Uozu.
Unicorn
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** ** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** Unicorn was bassist Teruo Nakamura's first date as a leader. Recorded and issued in Japan on the legendary Three Blind Mice imprint in 1973, Nakamura had been working in New York since 1964. Bass – Teruo Nakamura (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3), Bass [Electric] – Teruo Nakamura (tracks: A1, B1), Congas – Alvern Bunn (tracks: A1, B2, B3), Drums – Alphonse Mouzon (tracks: A2, A3, B1), Lenny White (tracks: A1, B2, B3), Elect…
Entenka
** Edition of 100 ** Tsss Tapes presents Entenka by Tim Olive: magnetic pickups, electronics and Kayu Nakada: circuit boards. Recorded August 13th, 2020, Kobe. Mastered by Francesco Covarino.
Agua Viva
* Edition of 100 * Tsss Tapes presents Agua Viva, a new Daphne X cassette release. The album is composed of experiments and interactions performed with water on various materials: polyester, metal, skins. Sounds have been captured with Blazej's LOM's (mikro)Uši binaural microphones.
Recorded in Montseny, 2019 and released on September 4, 2020. Mastered by Francesco Covarino.
Overlapped Memories
**100 copies** Field recordings from different times and places, a walk through the woods or an exotic place far away from home. Studio-made sounds using instruments, tape loops, reel to reel Revox recorder and digital editing. Otherwise insignificant everyday life sounds. Everything mixed together in a diaristic manner, like seamless notebook sketches. Dominique Vaccaro: field recordings, tape manipulation, stereo looperRecorded between July and September 2018Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Mot
**100 copies** In this album the percussionists Salis and Sanna collaborate with the sound artist and electroacoustic composer Andrea Borghi.
Borghi's work is based on targeted and multidisciplinary research processes and includes sculptural objects, installations, obsolete media and electronics.
In the trio execution, abstraction is not pushed too far and melodic elements are allowed. Electronic components and the percussive sounds are subtly integrated.
Andrea Borghi: prepared turntable, elec…
Tre Notti D'Amore
A superb album expressing the grooviest and jazziest side of Piero Piccioni. From Pop-Jazz to Exotica, with a truly percussive rhythm section spiced by charming flute phrases (played by Gino Marinacci) and baritone sax passages (played by Gato Barbieri). A must-have for any serious soundtrack jazz lover. Four Flies launches its new jazz series dedicated to top Italian soundtracks from the 1960’s with this extraordinary work by Piero Piccioni: 3 Notti D'Amore (3 Nights of Love). Originally releas…
Italia: Ultimo Atto?
In 1977, in the midst of a period of political turmoil and social unrest that went down in Italian history as “years of lead”, screenwriter and director Massimo Pirri made a film no one else had the courage to make: Italia: ultimo atto? (Could It Happen Here?). Here, Pirri explores the controversial (and, in the 70s, very current) topic of left-wing armed struggle. He does so through a storyline that is almost prophetic: in the film, a mysterious ultra-leftwing armed group plans and executes the…
Eternal Anguish / Come Back! Rhythm
At last available on 7” two of the more danceable tracks of the whole Black Emanuelle musical canon, written by the celebrated dream team Nico Fidenco (composer) and Giacomo Dell’Orso (arranger and conductor) for legendary cult director Joe D’Amato. Sensually haunting synths, hypnotic drums, and mellow and persuasive bass lines. A unique disco sound that will have DJs around the world rejoice! Funky Emanuelle for your pleasure!
Nord 1st Album
First ever official reissue after 36 years! Remastered and expanded edition, it remains one of the holy grails of DIY electronics from Japan. Hazy and drugged, this entrancing 1981 recording by the infamous Nord is a must-have for anyone who is into claustrophobic and destroyed ambient of the most disturbing, affecting kind. "Nord, consisting of Satoshi Katayama and Hiroshi Oikawa, were one of the leading groups in the Japanese underground music scene of the 1980s. The group's two members now pe…
Concert 1975
Yasumi No Kuni, long-running Japanese folk group, originally formed in 1969 by the members of Jacks & Teruyuki Takahashi, recorded live just after Fy Fan second album.
New Songs Of The Humpback Whale
Packaged in a deluxe, heavy duty 6 panel digipak and insert containing an essay from David Rothenberg and Michael Deal designed whale song visualizations. What record album was so important that ten million copies of it needed to be pressed at once? You guessed it. Songs of the Humpback Whale. In 1979 National Geographic Magazine inserted a flexible "sound page" inside the back cover of all of its editions in twenty-five languages, and that is supposedly how many they printed. No human pop star …
Avant-Dernieres Pensees: Selected Piano Works
Avant-Dernières Pensées collects together several of Erik Satie's best known compositions, including the famously poised Trois Gymnopédies, all six haunting Gnossiennes, and Je te Veux. Also included are more experimental pieces such as Descriptions Automatiques and Sports et Divertissements, an extraordinary collection of 21 miniatures from 1914 with illustrations by Charles Martin.
The album also finds space for Satie's single-act, neo-Dada lyric comedy Le Piège de Médusa, comprising 'seven ti…
Quei Disperati Che Puzzano Di Sudore E Di Morte (Original Soundtrack)
Los Desperados was released in 1967, and all that was issued from the soundtrack was two tracks on a 45 rpm single, one track being a vocal by john Balfour and also a short orchestral track on the B side of the record. Balfour has a distinct sounding voice, nearly as unique as that of fellow vocalist Raoul. Versions of the song are repeated throughout the soundtrack and make an appearance on 5 occasions during its duration. The score by Gianni Ferrio, is not a typical example of Italian western …
The Pre-Tenses
** 50 copies. The cassette comes with two laserprinted and xeroxed inserts** Recorded 1995 & 1996 at home in Portland Oregon USA. Surrealistic sounds by Smegma veterans Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia. Recorded in 1995 and edited by Ju Suk in 2021. A collage of otherworldly music.
'I'm not sure how we got some of the sounds going'