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Origin’s hesitation
Expectations exploded, intentions fleetingly revealed, faith justified. A new album from Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha is always going to be a major event. And to make the release of Origin's Hesitation even more significant, it is the first new album fr…
Live
Keiji Haino's rock trio debuted to the world of recordings with a double live LP set (PSF 3/4 -- long deleted) and then followed it up with this one -- another double live set (completely different material). Mind boggling guitar/bass/drums extensio…
Freedom Of The City 2001 - Small Groups
Highlights from small group recordings from the 2001 Freedom of the City festival featuring artists such as Steve Beresford (electronics), John Butcher (saxes), Lol Coxhill (sax), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Phil Minton, and more in various arrangeme…
The ins and outs
This is a studio recording, and thus somewhat different in approach and tone to the group's continuous live sets; an example can be heard on a compilation from the 2003 Freedom of the City festival. Here the emphasis is more on developing specific id…
Prints - Snapshots, Postcards, Messages And Miniatures 1987-2001
The short story: Prints is Fred Frith's first album of songs in 20 years. The long story: it is actually a collection of compilation tracks and unreleased studio sessions recorded between 1987 and 2001. No matter if you already own a few of these,…
Abu Tarek
Franz Hautzinger: trumpet. Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet. All music improvised, no cuts no overdubbing. Recorded on august 26 2003 at Khalifesh studio lebanon by Raymond Khalifeh. Mix by Mazen Kerbaj and Raymond Khalifeh.
Slow blind avalanche
Snow blind avalanche is a completely different album than A Rock In The Snow also being released on Important though the two records were made during the same sessions. This vinyl only release is limited to 1000 copies with the first 200 on snow-whit…
A Rock In The Snow
Together Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty have re-written the concept of modern free-jazz with their post-hardcore punk style approach of euphoric togetherness. Ferocious, spontaneous, explosive and aggressively lyrical, they've established their grou…
A cavall entre dos cavalls
Ferran Fages, electric guitar. Self-tought musician, started playing guitar in the rock scene, but in 1998 stoped for re-thinking the instrument and the music made with it. In 2002 starts from zero, a process where music allows harmony to circulate w…
Imponderable evidence
Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Eddie Prévost and Evan Parker recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, London, on November 10th, 2003. The album includes five tracks performed by Evan Parker - tenor saxophone and Eddie Prévo…
Collective calls (urban) (two microphones)
The first published recordings of the duo of saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lytton, recorded in London, 1927. Evan Parker, soprano and tenor saxophones, home made instruments, cassette recorder; Paul Lytton, percussion, live electronics, so…
From saxophone & trombone
Originally issued on LP in 1980, From Saxophone & Trombone ought to offer fans of trombonist George Lewis and saxophonist Evan Parker quite a bit to get revved up about. No frills or hidden agendas to be found throughout these five improvisation base…
Hook, drift & shuffle
Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), George Lewis (trombone, electronics), Barry Guy (double bass, electronics), Paul Lytton (percussion, electronics). A 1983 Brussels concert featuring three improvisations by this electro-acoustic quartet. Reis…
