★Bocian Records
Low Noon
Frank Heer about idea of triple LP At Low Noon set up by founder of Chuchchepati Orchestra, double bass player and improviser Patrick Kessler: ‘Patric Kessler is not afraid to stare death into the eyes. Twelve times in June 2020, he challenged people to a duel, although dueling has been outlawed in Switzerland since 1937.But no fear! Patrick Kessler, challenged his opponents, who arrived by train and were armed with an instrument, solely musically.When the train arrived at 12:12 noon each day, P…
Rupture & Dissipation
Recorded live in Sokolowsko, Sanatorium Dzwięku Festival 2016. Composition: Kasper T. Toeplitz. Played by: Ensemble Phoenix Basel.
Sombras
New recoerd form Uivo Zebra & Horns. Jorge Nuno - electric guitar. Hernâni Faustino - electric bass João Sousa - drums and percussion. Luís Vicente - trumpet. José Lencastre - alto saxophone. Paulo Galão - tenor saxophone. Pedro Arelo - baritone saxophone .
MID_EVIL
Improvisations recorded on the MID_EVIL album do not aspire to reconstruct the past. However, its ghost hauntingly looms over the whole project referring - if only by bone scraping sounds transmuting into the noise of prepared gramophone records - to sonic archaeology and the phantasms concerning the era of phonographic breakthrough. This material touches on issues concerning continuity in history and tradition, recording sounds and tones, as well as musical structures and practices.These are al…
Moon
Tip! Bocian Records presents Moon by saxophonist/clarinetist Frank Gratkowski and pianist Reinhold Friedl. Recorded and mixed by Nik Hummer. Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Stone Music
In 2019, or just a little while before, with plans to release Andrzej Karałow's first duo album with analogue and modular synthesiser player Jerzy Przezdziecki's, we not only made plans for further collaboration, but also talked about our inspirations. It turned out that I had not caught such an understanding with any other artists for a long time, and although for Przeździecki the inspiration was early industrial and for pianist Karałow minimal music and the sonoristic tradition of classical mu…
Exhale- Volume 2
Tip! *200 copies limited edition*Erwan Keravec - bagpipes,Mats Gustafsson - piano mate and slide saxophoneRecorded September 13 and 14, 2017 by Martin Siewert, ViennaMastered by Martin Siewert, ViennaCover design/illustration: Lasse MarhaugPhotos by Mike KeysendalThanks to: "Stark Reality"Hans Falb and HeidiTitles inspired from Ted Huges "Crow" (Faber & Faber 1970)
Pseudacusis
Music composed & mixed by Anthony Pateras. Tape part recorded and assembled at Gold Tony Love’s Audio Hell, Castlemaine, Australia. Perfromance recorded by Tomasz Kubiak live on 27th September 2019 at the 17th Sacrum Profanum Festival in Małopolska Garden of Arts, Kraków, Poland. Festival curated by Krzysztof Pietraszewski. Pseudacusis was commissioned by the Musica Sanae project by In Situ Foundation (Sanatorium of Sound Festival in Sokołowsko) in collaboration with Michał Libera, Phonurgia (La…
Omen
I associate Christer Bothén with a Maestro. I look upon him as a Maestro. A true MAESTRO. Of music. Of Life. A Maestro needs pupils. And pupils need a Maestro. To be given perspectives on Music and Life. It works both ways. It is a sharing of ideas and previous experiences. In order to make music NOW and onwards. In order to live. This is old school. And this is the way it works. And HAS to work. The true mechanics of artistic work and a creative way of living. We learn from other people. From t…
Four Sure
Bocian Records presents Four Sure a live performance by Roscoe Mitchell, Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki and Qba Janicki. Recorded at the Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz (TPB) as part of the 11th Mózg Festival (on 24.10.2015). Sound recording - Janusz Czado. Sound mixing and mastering - Michał Kupicz. Cover artwork and design - Jarosław Pawlicki.
Bass To Bass
Bocian Records presents Bass to Bass by Nina De Heney & Slawek Janicki. Recorded at Mózg Studio, on November 29th 2019. Sound Recording: Janusz Czado, Maciej Maciejewski. Sound Mixing and mastering: Michał Kupicz. Cover Artwork: Peter Jacquemyn. Design: ZbyZiel. Executive Producer: Mózg Foundation, Bydgoszcz Poland 2020. Co-Producer & Distributor: Bocian Records. Realized thanks to the financial support of the City of Bydgoszcz.
Umwelt
Bocian Records presents Umwelt by Lucio Capece (Gema): on bass clarinet, slide saxophone, cardboard tubes, analog synthesiser and filter, and Ben Vida (Bird Show/ASCAP): on Synthesis, sampling and digital arranging. Recorded in Brussels, Berlin, New York, 2016-2020. Mastering: Joe Talia. Graphic design: Ania Witkowska / Fontanna.
Polyptyque
Bocian Records presents Polyptyque by Nimitta. Performed by Massimo Pinca - Double bass, and Christophe Berthet - Soprano saxophone. Recorded in July 2017 at Studio de Agostini, Geneva by Marie Delorme. Mastering: Christian Gugenbuhl. Design: Renaud Goudal. Mixing by Marie Delorme. Cover art: Philippe Reymondin. All Compositions by Massimo Pinca and Christophe Berthet.
The Sea is Rough
The Sea Is Rough is only a single (released as a 12’’ EP, played in 45 rpm) that features 2 pieces, recorded by the Russian power-pree jazz outfit Brom (Бром) with Japanese legendary trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, known for his collaborations with innovative improvisers around the globe like Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, Henry Kaiser, Bill Laswell and Paal Nilssen-Love. This promising meeting of Brom and Kondo was recorded at Orange Studio, Moscow in March 2019. The first version of the title-piece…
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Zeitkratzer keeps on being good for a surprise and finally goes jazz! Looking at the line-up of the "modern composition supergroup" (The Wire) it seems astonishing that it took so long: Saxophonists Frank Gratkowski and Hayden Chisholm both won independently the German radio SWR Jazz award, the French horn virtuoso Hild Sofie Tafjord grew up with jazz, as her father and uncle are members of Norwegian jazz group Brazz Brothers, Hilary Jeffery toured with numerous jazz musicians, as did drummer Ma…
Intuitive Mathematics
“Intuitive Mathematics” is illustrative improvisation registered with the use of percussion instruments amplified by piezoelectric sensors and an instrument I constructed myself called the Soundboard. I mounted metal springs, screws and tongues onto a pine board. Highly enhanced piezo amplification brings all sounds closer to the audience’s ears and allows them to hear rich harmonies of the percussion set as well as “non-musical” elements such as friction, shrieking or vibrations that occur insi…
Pedestal’s Complement
Pedestal's Complement is a recording of a concert from the Ambient Festival in Gorlice, which took place in July 2019. "All our performances are pure improvisation from scratch. I use the piano and the guitar, on which I play the e-bow bow. A lot of the sounds come from inside the piano, which is prepared. Jurek supports the Eurorack and Buchla modular system" - Andrzej Karałow.
Nights Are Numbered
"Nights Are Numbered" LP forms a world of apparent apocalyptic ambience of sounds which are produced mainly with conventional instruments such as double bass, grand piano or accordion, however, located outside their classical use, but also with some contrasting, organic and archetypal objects such as bones or dried plants, amplified in studio conditions. This specific accord of dissonances coming from various sources shifts the listener into the realm of sonoric experiment [...] The rich, meticu…
Mineral
The Red Trio: Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), Hernani Faustino (bass) and Gabriel Ferrandini (percussion), plus two guests; Gerard Lebik (tenor saxophone), and Piotr b (trumpet). Sweeping from turbulent to intimate with with a fluid sort of dialogue that could only come from players well versed in the art of improvisation.
Patterns
Soprano saxophone player Sascha Armbruster, oboe player Kelsey Maiorano, clarinetist Toshiko Sakakibara, trumpeter Jens Bracher, trombonist Stephen Menotti and tuba player Janne Jakobsen gather together and record the compositions written by Norbert Moslang. “Patterns” is a new record on “Bocian” label – this album is a mix of academic avant-garde, experimental music, free improvisation and avant-garde jazz. The musicians join together different kinds of motions, expressions, styles and passions…