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Sauter, Dietrich, Miller
CD re-issue of Borbetomagus' 3rd album originally released in 1982. This recording, compiled from concerts in 1981 and 1979, explores the range of sound that this trio could generate. It is best played at high volume, for this is the only way that …
Sauter, Dietrich, Miller, Doherty
Expanded reissue of the debut Borbetomagus album from 1980 with the trio of Sauter, Dietrich and Miller further bolstered by Brian Doherty on electronics. These early recordings have a beautifully corrosive classical avant garde/Industrial edge that …
Love's dream
Reissue of this 1974 Emanem LP, with bonus tracks. Hard-swinging Free Jazz recorded in a club in Paris, featuring original tunes by the vastly under-rated Bradford (cornet) with Trevor Watts (alto sax), Kent Carter (bass) & John Stevens (drums). Reis…
Etwa
Early alto & soprano saxophone solo Recorded in 2004 inside two french chapels. "There are no tricks here, first and foremost ; Bertrand Gauguet has simply developed a weird array of techniques for his alto and soprano, which he exploits via close-mi…
Short in the U.K.
Steve Beresford, keyboards, small trumpet; Dennis Palmer, synthesizers, voice; Bob Stagner, drums, percussion; Roger Turner, drums, percussion. The pencil - a history (09.04), Trees without dogs (00.33), Our world as we know it (05.24), Name without …
Shadow company
Anthony Braxton invited Milo Fine to travel half way across the USA so they could make some music together for the very first time. The result was the extended free improvisation (with gaps) which is heard complete on this CD. Braxton used four saxop…
Alphea
Alphea was formed in Hamburg 1991. The duo has performed in jazz clubs, art galleries and on jazz and contemporary music festivals, playing music structured exclusively by their own concepts.Hannes Wienert (alto and soprano saxophones, trumpet) studi…
Lidingö
Lidingö, a summit between innenklavier specialist Andrea Neumann and percussionist Burkhard Beins, is altogether knottier and gnarlier. Part of the important Berlin scene, the two play together in Phosphor as well as with Sven-Åke Johansson. Beins is…
The Inexhaustible Document
Recorded live in London's beautiful Union Chapel in 1987. The organic control of sound on this is spectacular - pretty much a must for serious listeners worldwide.. Free imrovisation in the hands of Amm valorises the unknown, combining unpredictabiit…
AMMMusic
A testament to the interaction between the experimental avant-garde and the countercultural underground, the album was originally released on Elektra, recorded by Jac Holzman (the label's founder, responsible for signing The Doors, Love, and The Stoo…
Aso
Ami Yoshida and Christof Kurzmann are both well-respected artists within the international community, each performing in a wide range of contexts from abstract to pure pop. Both are best known for their long-running duos, Yoshida for Cosmos (with Sac…
Spiritual voice
'Amazing improvisation joining jazz tones with electronic sounds, embellished with Tamaru's production'.
Broomriding
Alexander von Schlippenbach: piano. Rudi Mahall: bass clarinet. Tristan Honsinger: cello. Paul Lovens: percussions. recorded in Berlin, september 2002.
Placés dans l’air
Carried like a feather by the wind, crushed by the pressure unmistakably present, this soprano saxophone trio, sculptors of air columns, explorers of fullness, tamers of emptyness, plunges us in the complex relationship of three poets of the breath. …
Breath on the floor
Alessandro Bosetti, soprano saxophone; Michel Doneda, soprano saxophone. Recorded in Castelmaurou on the floor of Adre L vocobs studio, nd. Cover drawing (reproduced above) by Alessandro Bosetti; design by Marcus Liebig.
Zona
Since the work of Anthony Braxton, Sonny Rollins, Steve Lacy or Evan Parker, solo saxophone recordings are no longer a 'problem'. And especially recordings of solo soprano saxophone ö Parker and Lacy (and Lol Coxhill) have more than just rehabilitate…
Urueña
'Sillón is proud to present what has to be Italy's best kept secret on the improvised music scene. Based in Madrid, Spain, Alessandra Rombolá works in the field of contemporary music and improvisation. Her stunning debut-cd, Urueña, shows her great m…
Holy ghost
Dalla Revenant il fantastico box di Albert Ayler che rappresenta uno degli eventi discografici più importanti degli ultimi anni. Difficile riunire ben nove cd inediti di tale qualità di un’artista fondamentale per il jazz contemporaneo come questo mu…
Trap street
ALAN TOMLINSON alto & tenor trombones. STEVE BERESFORD electronics & objects. ROGER TURNER drum set & percussion. Digital studio recording made in London by Mike Dailey - 2002 July 24.Excerpts from sleeve notes: “Is this a record? As the first full-l…
Critical Mass
A sequence of piano (and prepared piano) and saxophone (tenor & baritone) free improvisations recorded in Barcelona -- 8 duets and 2 solos. Recorded 7/30/04.