Jazz /
Untitled
* Deluxe reissue, with obi strip + 4 page booklet, 180g vinyl* In November 1976, Jef Gilson’s phone rang. What a surprise! It was Serge Rahoerson, one of the musicians he had met in Madagascar at the end of the 60s and who had played on his first alb…
Le Musichien
The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by an “old hand” of French free jazz, François Tusques. Free Jazz, was also the name of the recording made by the pianist and other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanne…
L'inter Communal
The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by an “old hand” of French free jazz, François Tusques. Free Jazz, was also the name of the recording made by the pianist and other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanne…
Terremoto
Tip! To abandon animals for music – and avant-garde jazz at that –, could seeming shocking to some people. However, it is exactly what Manuel Villarroel did, as he was a vet for three years before leaving his native Chili for Europe and a career in m…
Quetzalcoatl
Tip! Before coming to Europe, in 1970, pianist Manuel Villarroel was a vet in his native Chili. A few years later, as leader of the Machi Oul Big Band, he returned to the animal kingdom. A very specific kind of animal, for sure, the Quetzalcoatl, als…
Rustiques
A study of contrasts as French improvising synth player Jean-Marc Foussat joins with legendary saxophonist & bass clarinetist Sylvain Guerineau, whose work in both jazz tradition and free playing finds him a lyrical and expressive player, bringing fl…
Ecstatic Jazz (Crypte Des Franciscains Béziers 12 Février 1982)
"A newly discovered, enthusiastically received 1982 concert from three avatars of French Free Jazz captures the triumphs and the trajectories of improvised music at the time. Veterans, even at that time, saxophonist Daunik Lazro, now 78, and known fo…
Libres (Festival de Massy 26 Octobre 1975)
"Armonicord. In 1977 an album was released under the name of Armonicord, of which I have just found a copy through a mutual friend: Esprits de Sel. Having heard of the album's release at that time, the memory of the presence of harpsichordist Odile B…
Enfin La Mer
1978 live recording of French quintet consisting of Jouk Minor on beritone sax and contrabass clarinet, Josef Traindl on trombone, Jean Querlier on alto sax, Christian Lété on drums and Dominique Regef on hurdy-gurdy
Cosmogonie
French jazz library LP with female voices and drum breaks, originally released in 1972 on Mondiophone. Stunning composition and wonderfully recorded, this dark, aggressive jazz orchestral vibes, flitting perfectly between the abstract and the structu…
Our Meanings And Our Feelings
Killer! Reissue, originally released in 1969. An iconic French free jazz record recorded at Pathé Marconi Studios. On June 27th, 1969, Michel Portal pushed the door of the Pathé Marconi studios. With him were drummers Jacques Thollot and Aldo Romano,…
Evil Season
The bass, that metronome that marks the time for musicians of every style, of every era, that secluded, silent, but essential character for a band. Without the bass, the music would be deflated, the heart notes would leave a wasteland of rowdy high f…
Scream For Peace - Biennale de Paris 1969
Between May 1968 and the end of 1969, Paris became the Mecca of new jazz. Many American musicians, struggling to make a living from their activity in the USA, went to live in Paris. Thus: Don Cherry, Sunny Murray, Marion Brown, Anthony Braxton, Alan …
Shape
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Shape by Alexandra Grimal (tenor & soprano saxophones ), Antonin Rayon (Hammond & Clavinet) & Emmanuel Scarpa (drums) .
Recorded on June 30th 2008 at the Sunset, Paris. Digipak.
Existences
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Existences by Trio Passeurs (Véronique Magdelenat alto and soprano sax, Bernard Santacruz doublebass & Christian Rollet drums).
Recorded live 15th november 2008 at l'AJMI - La Manutention in Avignon (France)
Septentrion
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Septentrion by Arnaud Sacase (saxophone alto), Jobic Le Masson (piano), Benjamin Duboc (contrabass) & Antoine Paganotti (drums). Recorded on 15 et 16 december 2003 at Gaël Mevel's à Abbeville-la-Rivière (France)
Alors !!!
*2022 stock* Tip! Michel Portal, a brilliant clarinetist, saxophonist and performer from the world of contemporary classical music, became one of the most important actors of the new European improvised music in the early 1960s.While pursuing a paral…
Noir
"Noir" is the first studio album of the bleakly imaginative trio Marteau Rouge (French for "Red Hammer"), consisting of Makoto Sato on drums, Jean-Marc Foussat on VSC 11 and vocals and the talented guitar player Jean-Francois Pauvros (former collabor…
Watch Devil Go / Untitled (2LP in bundle)
This special bundle includes the latest two Souffle Continu reissues from the Palm catalogue, namely the following:- Jacques Thollot "Watch Devil Go" (LP, 1975)- Jean-Charles Capon / Philippe Maté / Lawrence 'Butch' Morris / Serge Rahoerson "Untitled…
Ville Sauvage (2CD)
This project was inspired by « La pensée sauvage » de Claude Levi-Strauss. « On the 29th of September, a concert took place at the Manufacture Atlantique in Bordeaux with a piece I designed for the ensemble « UN » with Benjamin Bondonneau’s artistic …