★Porter Records
Cracked Refraction
Cracked Refraction ties its complex knots with infectious vigor and a predilection for playfulness. Wrack’s melodies are slithering and serpentine, and the music is built of smaller segments assembled in what can seem a slapdash manner, with all sort…
Home Is The Sun
Invisible Things is the duo of guitarist Mark Shippy (U.S. Maple) and drummer Jim Sykes (Parts & Labor). Well beyond the stereotypical thoughts of a guitar, drum improv/jam session, the drumming is based the study of Sri Lankan percussion and applie…
Whispers From The Archive
CD edition: Outstanding work from bassist/percussionist Juma Sultan – a wealth of wonderful tracks from the loft jazz years of the 70s! Sultan's a player who doesn't always get his due on record – especially during this formative generation. Most…
The Gowanus Session
“The Gowanus Session”, a new trio recording by Thollem McDonas (piano), William Parker (acoustic bass), Nels Cline (electric guitar), that explores the density and subtlety of tones with reverberating layers of sounds. Thollem McDonas approaches the …
Thing
This powerful 1972 performance by Arni Cheatham's group provides a unique glimpse of the jazz scene in Boston. The group borrowed the most innovative characteristics of jazz and rock, but never sounded derivative. This is early seventies "jazz fus…
Complete Rec. V2
Fantastic kosmigroov band from the 70s based out of Philadelphia. Catalyst made 4 albums (this second volume collects the last two "Unity" and "A Tear And A Smile"). Instrumentation consisted of keys, sax/flute/obe, bass, and d…
Complete Rec. V1
Fantastic kosmigroov band from the 70s based out of Philadelphia. Catalyst made 4 albums (this volume collects the first two "Catalyst" and "Unity"). Instrumentation consisted of keys, sax/flute/obe, bass, and drums. If you ar…
The Jewelled Antler Library
Ultra limited, 1 copy available left..."With 13 groups, 59 tracks and over 4 hours of music and sounds, the Jewelled Antler Library box-set brings together experimental music from the U.S., Finland and New Zealand that ranges from psychedelic, abstra…
Collected Works
"Collected Works" is the first compilation of music belonging to the solo works of Valerio Cosi. It gathers the best recordings from the years between 2005 and 2008. Many of these recordings were originally released in limited (sometimes ultra lim…