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"The last time Fennesz released an album on Austrian label Mego it was 2001 and the name of that release was Endless Summer. Now, in 2014, Editions Mego is extremely proud to release the conceptual follow-up to that landmark of abstract pop. Bécs...

"Despite decades of activity and having crossed paths in various collaborations, this release presents the first-ever duo recording from two of the most highly regarded citizens of planet experimental electronic. Individually, Jim O'Rourke and Christian Fennesz have been responsible for numerous legendary works that merge the traditional avant-garde with contemporary sensibilities. On It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry these giants of experimental electronic practice come together for an immensely...

"Christian Fennesz, David Daniell and Tony Buck (The Necks) are three of the most recognized and respected players in experimental music from around the globe. In 2009 the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN brought the three together and encouraged...

Their 4th & still pumping out firey fusion. [Bonton]

Mané Fernandes guitar, electric bass, additional percussion, voice
Luca Curcio double bass, additional mandolin
Simon Albertsen drums
José Soares alto saxophone
José Diogo Martins synthesizer and piano
João Barradas synth accordeon (on “Makuma” and “Pentagram Ceremony Squiggle”)
Flavia Huarachi additional flute

"The young guitarist from Porto, Portugal, makes his decisive career statement as a composer with this album. Every move he did before, trade-marking a jumping...


Bebo Ferra - guitar
Paolino Dalla Porta - doublebass
Fabrizio Sferra - drums
Gianluca Petrella - trombone
"King Crimson is the most protean group of all contemporary music. For fifty years, Robert Fripp's mind has been churning out amazing ideas, inventing new sounds, revolutionizing stage ensembles, and gathering drummers. His compositions climb wild lyrical peaks to then dive into powerful bouts of metallic dissonances, ebbing into a magmatic sound wave which is in continuous evolution

Gabriel Ferrandini drums and percussion
Hernâni Faustino double bass
Pedro Sousa tenor saxophone

"The Portuguese (but born in California 1986, from a Mozambican natural and a Brazilian of Italian heritage) drummer Gabriel Ferrandini is usually found in freely improvised music contexts (those, for instance, of Red Trio and Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio in the celebrated Lisbon scene and with an impressive international collaboration history: Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Axel Dörner, Evan P

"Approximately one year on from the release of his debut album, U Ciuccio, Massimo Ferrante is back with another collection of pieces culled from the folk heritage of Southern Italy. With his trusty twelve-string and his inimitable voice, a voice that ...

Voices and sounds from Southern Italy runs the subtitle of the debut album, from Massimo Ferrante, an artist who, after a tough apprenticeship, has begun to win widespread popular and critical acclaim. The fruit of an assiduous quest for a sound striki...

This collects two albums in full on one CD.
This is one of those amazing things that could have ONLY happened in the late 60s or early 70s. Ferrer was a popular French pop vocalist during the 60s and 70s and Metronomie, originally released in 1972..

It's a pretty great thing to see this French musique concrete composer get his first US release at the age of 69! This includes two lengthy works; Cellule 75 ''an explosive, dynamic work for piano, percussion & tape'' & the excellent tape piece Place D...

"Presented here for the first time, Éphémère I & II' (for tape, or to be played with various instruments) are two previously unpublished masterpieces which represent for several reasons a very specific moment in the creative life and catalogue of Luc...

“This underground acid folk mega rarity was originally a private pressing for the tiny Nicro label. The album has since been reissued but the original pressing remains as one of the most valuable folk albums out there. It's not hard to guess that the sound quality of this record is very lo-fi but in my opinion it's a good thing in this album's case.
Songs such as "Flowers", "Sad Eyed Lady", "Piscean Ride" and "Angel" for example are really nice psych folk tracks. The album includes 14 songs and...

Simultaneously with Roxy Music, Mr Roxy Music released a number of solo albums.
For my money, some of them were pretty decent (if you are a big fan of Bryan) and some of them were quite good.

“Live archive release from the former Roxy Music frontman. The release is a recording from his first ever solo tour and seminal performance now available for the first time. This 1974 concert at London's Royal Albert Hall saw the setlist built from Ferry's first two solo albums, 1973's These Foolish...

Isak Hedtjärn clarinet / Lisa Ullén piano / Elsa Bergman double bass / Erik Carlsson drums.
"The rich Scandinavian scene keeps revealing all its multiplicity and inventiveness. Now it happens with the first opus by the quartet Festen, assembled by Isak Hedtjarn, Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Erik Carlsson. The last track of the album is titled “it never gets better than this”, and it’s right: to go beyond what you’ll find here would be difficult, but considering the quality and the capacity for...



Larry Ochs tenor and sopranino saxophones
Nate Wooley trumpet
Ken Filiano bass and effects
Pascal Niggenkemper bass and effects
Harris Eisenstadt drums

“Larry Ochs quintet with trumpeter Nate Wooley, bassists Ken Filiano and Pascal Niggenkemper and drummer Harris Eisenstadt started with an intriguing ambition: to create soundscapes (landscapes with sound, or what the acousmatic French composers call “cinema pour l’oreille” – cinema for the ear in English) with the language

“Celebrating the 15th anniversary, the Swiss Rockin 'Teenage Combo will present itself with a live double album from the last two tours in 2017 through Germany and Switzerland. From over 40 hours of raw material, a harmonious mix has been created between Alltime Zappa favorites, self-interpretations and unknown works from the work of the Big Z. It's a dirty job, but one has to do it eventually. Or seven and a half. FiDO (2003-?), Seven-eyed men and their lady-like mixer - embark on a 15-year tour on...

"It is difficult to imagine, given his reputation as one of the most important jazz trombonists of the past thirty or forty years, that nobody has recorded a tribute album of the tunes of the great German jazz trombonist, Albert Mangelsdorff. That is..

"You might be surprised to learn of the link between Wynton Marsalis and Anthony Braxton. It, or more accurately “he,” is trombonist Joe Fiedler, a leading practitioner of the multiphonic techniques pioneered by Albert Mangelsdorff and Paul Rutherford. Fi

Ken Field - saxes, flutes
Alieno deBootes - keyboards, creative mix
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Alessandro Monti - occasional electric bass on “A new cosmo”
Matteo Bertolini - soundscapes on “Izar” and “A new cosmo”
Domenico Meggiato - some electric bass on “Krunsch”
Franco Moruzzi - extra drums on “Krunsch”

Sometimes unusual circumstances create perfect conditions for long-considered but never materialized collaborations. This distanced virtu

"Alvin Fielder is a drummer because at age 12 he heard a Max Roach recording and liked it. His family wanted him to study Pharmacy, his father’s profession, and although he became a Pharmacist, music helped shift his destiny. In 1963 he was one of the fou

“When the first line-up of Rare Bird folded in early 1971, keyboard player Graham Field formed a new outfit with bass player, vocalist and guitarist Alan Barry and King Crimson drummer Andy McCulloch. Although the band failed to emulate the commercial success of Field’s previous group, the self-titled album they recorded and released in 1971 was a magnificent example of British Progressive Rock.
Following the album’s release, the band’s line-up changed with the departure of Barry and the arrival of...

"Here is a new item from the variable ensemble of a self-made man who was a spotter for drug dealers and a thief of hubcaps in his teens, but somehow managed to graduate with degrees in economics and journalism and who has gone on to become one of the mos

"The pioneer of Latin-Jewish fusion Irving Fields turns 92 this year and he is playing better than ever. Reworking Jewish classics into the Latin mold with the aid of Tzadik regulars Greg Cohen and Roberto Rodriguez, Irving has created a beautiful...

Irving Fields/Roberto Rodriguez-Oy Vey....Ole!!! $13.00 "A classic meeting of two giants of the Jewish/Latin connection. Famed piano stylist, originator of Bagels and Bongoes, Irving Fields has been a legend on the Catskills circuit since the 1950’s. ...

Marilyn Crispell, piano / Hamid Drake, drums / Scott Fields, guitar / Hans Sturm, double bass.

"This 1996 Scott Fields Ensemble session marked a time of transition for all four musicians. The leader had resumed performing a few years earlier...

“Bitter Love Songs” is the first of Scott Fields’ recordings whose goal is extended blowing in the free-jazz tradition. All but one of the tracks on this CD follow the classic free-jazz model that masters such as Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy...

"Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is Scott Fields first “proper” solo CD. Although Drawings, from 2008, was also solo, it was more of an electric sound collage (for a multi-media installation at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein) than a pure musical excursion. Either way, BiWDiF is certainly Fields’ first acoustic solo CD. The compositions are based on nine Charles Bukowski poems. As with most of his music, here Fields mixes composed material and improvisation.

Fields’ performs on a flat-top....

Scott Fields (nylon-string guitar and percussion), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet and percussion), Matt Turner (cello and percusssion)

"I wrote christangelfox for specific musicians playing, at times, particular instruments, in this case small...

Hamid Drake, drums/Hans Sturm, bass/Jason Roebke, bass/Jeff Parker, guitar/Michael Zerang, drums/Scott Fields, guitar.

"The music on Dénouement — which was recorded 10 years ago and pressed on Scott Fields’ obscure Geode label — is quite...

"Fugu was recorded in 1995, not long after Fields returned to music after what he says were “15 years of trying to find something I liked to do better.” (Fields was barely 21 when he quit music and, he now says, “it’s not as though I was a big deal...

Scott Fields, conductor / Christina Fuchs, soprano saxophone, clarinet / Frank Gratkowski, alto saxophone / Michael Heupel, flute, bass flute / Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba / Thomas Lehn, analog electronics / Axel Lindner, violin / Tom Lorenz, vibraphone...

“Sand is a Fields composition for 20 instrumentalists, three singers, and conductor. It combines three areas in which he has often worked: modularity, manipulation of text, and integration of composition and improvisation. Like Fields’ previous modular works, Sand is constructed of units whose interrelationships vary from weak to strong. In performance a conductor spontaneously selects, combines, sequences, and layers modules. Sand also includes improvisational elements within structures and “organic...

"Wrestling with the notion of balancing both formal construction and creative spontaneity has allowed Scott Fields (b. 1952) to compose a powerful body of work with ties to extramusical concerns from the realms of literature, philosophy, and science. Seven Deserts (2019), rather than operating from a fixed narrative structure with predetermined events, lays out the ground rules for a manifestation that is absolutely identical in every performance in its operations and sonic vocabulary, but with each...

Scott Fields, electric guitar / Matthias Schubert, tenor saxophone.

"In the Minaret Minuets system there are two separate but equal branches: the electric guitar and the tenor saxophone. Composer slash instrumentalists — those roles smear...

"Praised by NPR’s Fresh Air as “a jazz power trio for the new century,” Fieldwork makes its most powerful and fiercely imagined statement to date with Door, their third album for Pi Recordings. An important marker in this New York collective’s ongoing ev

"Hailed as one of today’s truly original and groundbreaking ensembles by publications as diverse as The Wire, Mojo, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Village Voice, Fieldwork sets forth a dynamic, high-impact group sound that’s unlike anything you’ve e

"Your Life Flashes is a powerful response to European accusations of stagnation in America’s creative music; it is emotional, challenging, experimental, edgy, hard-hitting, and intense. The music comes in cascades and torrents, demanding the listener’s un

Anton Fier is well-known in rock circles as the drummer for the Feelies, the original Lounge Lizards and mastermind of the Golden Palominos, but these two CDs, both long out-of-print may well be his best work [Dreamspeed is the only withdrawn release o...

Matt Stevens - guitar and noises
Steve Cleaton – guitar and other noises
Kev Feazey – bass
Stuart Marshall - drums

“Live USA 17 exemplifies The Fierce And The Dead’s performance at the legendary RoSFest in Gettysburg, PA in 2017 which won over many fans from the USA. The album includes some of the best-loved tracks from 'If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving to Morecambe' and 'Spooky Action', and previewed 2018’s breakthrough album, 'The Euphoric'.”

From 1968, the one and only album by the group who are the 3rd point on the triangle of great, early experimental/ psychedelic rock (along with Silver Apples & The United States of America). This is an official release and includes the most bonus tracks of any of the various reissues of this title and is the definitive CD edition of this clanky classic!!

"Cauldron was Fifty Foot Hose's first and most famous recorded work, released on Limelight Records in 1968. Founded by Cork Marcheschi...

Jason Scott, tenor saxophone, clarinet, alto saxophone / J.C. Kuhl, tenor saxophone, clarinet / John Lilley, tenor saxophone / Steven Bernstein, trumpet, slide trumpet / Bob Miller, trumpet / Reggie Pace, trombone / Bryan Hooten, trombone / Matt White...

J.C. Kuhl, tenor sax/Adrian Sandi, clarinet/Bob Miller, trumpet/Brian Jones, percussion/Bryan Hooten, trombone, Cameron Ralston, bass/Matt White, guitar/Pinson Chanselle, percussion/Reggie Pace, trombone.

"Matthew White's Fight the Big Bull...


Ken Filiano, bass, EFX, compositions / Michael Attias, baritone and alto saxophones / Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophones / Michael T.A. Thompson, drums.

"Having recorded with the best on the east and west coasts of the USA...

Ken Filiano, bass/Steve Adams, reeds.

"The other side of this, of course, is exactly the music proposed by Filiano and Adams, not any other, but listened in another way, actively, not as a scenario for reading a magazine, having a conversation...

Laurent Filipe, trumpet & flugelhorn/Rodrigo Goncalves, piano/Nelson Cascais, double bass/Alexandre Fazao, drums/Mario Delgado, guitars.

"I believe the perception we have of our own creative work is one where we are left with the feeling that...