“The Third Ascension is the first release from avant guard composer Glenn Branca since his death in 2018. The Glenn Branca Ensemble will commemorate the release with the first posthumous live NYC performance of his guitar music at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on what would have been his 71st birthday on October 6th, 2019. This is a return to the 4-guitar, bass and drums format of his legendary 1981 release The Ascension as well as 2010's The Ascension: The Sequel. The recording is a live performance by The...

“In July of 2022, just one month before Jaimie Branch’s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem (IARC) studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and...

Jaimie Branch: trumpet, synths, electronics
Isaiah Collier: soprano & tenor saxophones, percussion
Gilles Coronado: electric guitar
Tim Daisy: drums

“All the music that ever was and ever will be is here now. It exists in a cloud just above our heads and when we play, we pluck it out of the ether for a lil’ while before sending back it up.”-Jaimie Branch

Note: Even though this is a legitimate release from a 'real' record label, and is professionally packaged, etc. this is a CDR.

"This extremely magnificent album,recorded January 30, 1965,in Copenhagen,will let you listen to Abdullah's african...

This is absolutely one of the great deals in our extensive offerings; don’t blink and miss it!

New, fifth release and back on track after their disappointing last one. Really good!
BB&F are a unique German trio who combine certain aspects of progressive/postrock bands like Tortoise, Jaga Jazzist with the rhythmic aspects of Nik Bartsch's Ronin, a Steve Reich/Philip Glass/Michael Nyman maximum minimalist sweep and 'die mensch machine' esthetic of Kraftwerk and lots of techno influence as well...

“German neo-classical techno trio Brandt Brauer Frick is back with Multi Faith Prayer Room their fifth album and probably their most ambitious to date. Recorded over the past two years, it includes collaborations with Mykki Blanco, Azekel, Marina Herlop, Kom_I, Sophie Hunger, and Duane Harden. Their new album is a great example of their modern and hybrid approach to electronic music.
The band still combines acoustic drumming and drums machines, syncopated layered bass and hectic Steve Reich-inspired..

“Daniel Brandt, co-founder of acclaimed German ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, releases his first solo album.
What started off as a more simplistic idea soon evolved into something a lot more complex as the London and Berlin based music producer travelled across the world, experimenting with various other artists and different instruments. From his father’s cabin based in the German countryside with access to nothing but cymbals, to being surrounded by guitars in Joshua Tree, his unexpected journey...

“In 1975, the New York City alto saxophonist Alan Braufman released his debut album, Valley of Search on the India Navigation label. Braufman went on to record and tour with everyone from Carla Bley to The Psychedelic Furs, and didn't release another album under his name until 2020's The Fire Still Burns, which received rave reviews from The WIRE, Downbeat, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and NPR.
2024's Infinite Love Infinite Tears is a surprisingly catchy program of free jazz, richly detailed and...

First-ever legitimate reissue!

“The Dortmund group's first album, recorded in 1972 at the Windrose studios in Hamburg after their name change from Faces to Chris Braun Band. Comparable in style to Frumpy, not only because of the female singer. Blues influences are audible.
If you didn't know any better, you might think of an English or US group. A touch of Janis Joplin can also be heard, if you want. All the songs were written by singer Chris Braun.”

“Fairly period-typical German...

The Anthony Braxton Sextet treated a receptive and enthusiastic audience with an interpretation of Composition 345. With the possible exception of trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum and, obviously, Braxton himself who insufflate more of their own personality, t...

"This concert offers a striking opportunity to hear the ensemble in full force. The 70-minute piece builds an inner logic of staggering detail, while never loosing the propulsive flow. The shifting layers and counter-structures mount with scorching...

Anthony Braxton, alto, soprano, and sopranino saxophones, clarinet, and Eb contralto clarinet
Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet, flugelhorn, trumpbone, piccolo and bass trumpets, mutes, and shell
Andrew Raffo Dewar, soprano and c-melody saxophones, and...

Two large scale works written especially for this performance, & featuring the amazing line-up of Evan Parker, Bobby Naughton, Joelle Leandre, Gerry Hemmingway, Paul Smoker, & George Lewis. [Victo]

“... a titanic performance that moved from machine-gun bursts to airy harmonics, whether welded to his own structures or lightly tethered to the chord changes of ancient American songs.”-Stuart Broomer, MusicWork, Issue 128

“In Victoriaville, Braxton unveiled a vast but measured and mature volley of musical content, clearly of the jazz variety in the specific and symbolic sense. He was right at home.”-Josef Woodard, DownBeat, August 2017

This is by Anthony's current trio with Taylor Ho Bynum on trumpet and cornet and Mary Halvorson on electric guitar.

"Diamond Curtain Wall is relatively new. Here is an intimate opportunity to hear Braxton feature his recent foray into the world..

"This historic edition — Clean Feed’s one hundredth release — is a four-disc set that features two extraordinary musicians who before this session had never played together: multi-reedist Anthony Braxton and guitarist Joe Morris. “Four Improvisations (Duo

“Composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the seminal figures of the music of the second half of the 20th century and of the beginning of the 21st. Expressing himself through an enormous variety of mediums, Braxton has opened with his work new conceptual and technical paths in the trans-African and trans-European musical traditions, finding a highly original synthesis between jazz-based improvisation and the complexity of classical-contemporary music. Angelica Festival...

"This is a reissue of the long disappeared CD on Konnex recorded by multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton with one of his most notable pupils, Joe Fonda. "Duets 1995" is a remarkable item of the duo series from this frontline figure of avant-garde jazz. I

Surprising album that at first sounds like it was done completely on the computer, but than you realize that it isn't. A unique work.

"For more than a decade, Tyondai Braxton has fine-tuned his unique approach as 'quite literally' a solo

Kitty Brazelton has been a mover and shaker in the downtown scene for well over a decade; a singer, bandleader and composer of striking originality. Here she performs two extended suites of twisted, powerful chamber rock blending a ...

This is the 2nd of Breant's two solo albums. I'm certain that many of you will fondly remember this keyboard-dominated album that came out on Egg in France in the late 1970's, and was released here by Visa/Passport. In addition to his solo works, Brean...

JAMIE BREIWICK – trumpet/percussion
LENARD SIMPSON – alto saxophone/percussion
CHRIS WELLER – tenor saxophone/percussion
TIM IPSEN – acoustic/electric bass/koto
DEVIN DROBKA – drums/percussion

“The Sonic Brotherhood of Breiwick, Simpson, Weller, Ipsen and Drobka have returned with their second offering, Awake: Volume 2, not only doing justice to Cherry’s legacy, but like Don, illuminating the soul within with their healing, enticing sonic brew.”-John Kruth

Patrick Brennan alto saxophone
Brian Groder trumpet and fluegelhorn
Rod Williams piano
Hilliard Greene contrabass
Michael TA Thompson trap drums

“s0nic 0penings expands upon compositional “what-ifs” and the plasticities of rhythm section dynamics. In this instance, tilting curvaceous interrelates fourteen possible extensions of its core material’s potential to develop in multiple directions simultaneously.
As with Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor.

"Brethren of the Free Spirit are guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem. Named after a cult of 13th-century Northern European religious heretics this duo play with an appropriately zealous intensity. Brethren of the...