"Setting the Yiddish poetry of the revered Civil Rights advocate Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to music, Basya Schechter has created a rich new collection of Yiddish songs. Colorful arrangements featuring many of the downtown Jewish scene’s greatest...

One of the available self released titles by electronic artist/multi-instrumentalist Frohmader. [Nekropolis]

"Here’s some fantastic music with an agenda, or more exactly, an entire program of action. Since the days of the researches developed by the likes of Globe Unity Orchestra and Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath the challenge remains the same: how to make a big band improvise without the restraints usually applied when there’s the idea that a large ensemble needs a tight organization? In the mentioned cases the musicians involved were free improvisers wanting to establish some kind of order through...

I know violinist/composer Jenny's work from her very fine records on Avant and Tzadik. This is her first recording on the Cryptogramophone label and it features an amazing band: Ron Miles-cornet, Doug Wieselman-clarinets, Bill Frisell-guitars, Rachelle...

An impressive new recording by one of the most sought-after new violinists in the downtown scene. Born in California, Jenny moved to New York in 1998. Most recently heard in a variety of contexts with Bill Frisell, Jenny has also graced projects by Myr...

“Ghosts Of Eden finds Jan Schelhaas, of Caravan and Camel fame, in a melancholy mood...with lyrics that suggest someone looking back over their life and, at the risk of morbidity, looking to make peace with their past.
Musically, Schelhaas’ keys take the front seat and the overall sound isn’t a far cry from Caravan tracks like Better By Far, just with notably less guitar...
The whole experience is elegiac, with slow unhurried tempos and Schelhaas’ very soft...vocals that typically sit low in the.

Acoustic Guitar – Doug Boyle (tracks: 6)
Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Hastings (tracks: 1)
Backing Vocals – Pye Hastings (tracks: 3)
Clarinet – Jimmy Hastings (tracks: 5)
Flute – Jimmy Hastings (tracks: 2,3)
Keyboards, Vocals, Bass, Drum Programming – Jan Schelhaas
Lead Guitar – Andy Latimer (tracks: 8), Doug Boyle (tracks: 2-8)
Percussion – Mark Walker (tracks: 2,4)
Rhythm Guitar – Pye Hastings (tracks: 8) ...

''Evocative sound-scapes by an imaginative Swiss-born producer/composer who has worked with Caetano Veloso, Nana Vasconcelos, Laurie Anderson and choreographer Amanda Miller, and collaborated with Arto Lindsay as the Ambitious Lovers from 1984-91. Sche...

"The fact that this album appeared at all in 1983 owes less to Günter Schickert and more to Steven and Alan Freeman, who sought him out for their Krautrock encyclopedia The Crack in the Cosmic Egg. On learning that Schickert had heaps of recordings...

This is a really great, 1974, minor Krautrock classic that was originally self released and then re-released on Brain in 1976. Recommended!

"There are records that come from the soul. No matter how primitive may be the recording techniques the musician has access to, the soul gets its way to the heart and mind of the listener. Samtvogel is one of those records. Günter Schickert recorded that amazing piece of human greatness in 1974, using the media he had at the time, putting his brain at work...

"Swallowing air and farting it out, that's the main life skill of the weatherfish. But what's best about him is his evocative German name: Schlammpeitziger. When German electronic artist Jo Zimmermann launched his solo career in the early 1990s, he chose to be identified with this creature living in the flat muddy waters of the European and Asian plains. Unlike the fish, Schlammpeitziger's early reputation was built on his inventive use of cheap Casio synthesizers and the use of composite nouns to name...

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano
Evan Parker: Saxophones
Paul Lovens: Drums

"Features – characteristics, qualities, peculiarities. The title of this album was chosen with care. These recordings reveal both the fundamental nature and..

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano
Evan Parker: Saxophone
Paul Lovens: Drums
These recordings, from 16 October 2015 in Warsaw, make a great all-round representation of the trio as we are right now. The ‘free’ improvisations also develop material which has crystalised over the years. There was no plan agreed in advance. Nothing was discussed or decided. Everything improvised. The paraphrases of particular jazz themes, like embedded particles, should not be understood as quotations. They are a.

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano

"Schlippenbach’s ‘Tales’ have a stunning stentorian elegance. He leavens the starkness of the tone rows with chords and time values that create split-second splashes of harmonic color and shifting rhythmic...

Alex Von Schlippenbach-piano, Paul Dunmall tenor saxophone, Tony Bianco drums, Paul Rogers 7 string bass. Recorded 21st October 2004 at Steam Rooms, Poplar, London. A set of 2 powerful improvisations by 4 masters of the genre. Alex Von Schlippenbach, o...

Charlie Schmidt was a contemporary of his friend and mentor, the late John Fahey, and his own personal universe collided with the master of the acoustic steel string in a very interesting and bemusing manner. Schmidt befriended Fahey as a young man, af...

“First CD edition of 300; 24-page booklet holding program notes, scores, and photographs
Cloud Shadows is the third album by the American gamelan composer, Daniel Schmidt. The pieces in Cloud Shadows, which are quite varied and more current than the work represented on his first two albums In My Arms, Many Flowers and Abies Firma mostly came about each in their own way. For example, the cloud shadows on the mountains of central Nevada, unimaginably old, invited Daniel into their realm, resulting in...

“On 1987's 'Musk At Dusk' Schmidt tickles us with his own vocal on the jazz infused 'Villa Wunderbar'.
The songs from this album certainly influenced the early 90s ambient sounds that were released by the likes of Ultramarine and Banco De Gaia, such is the influence of Schmidt's tireless sweat and toil.”

"MSM Schmidt with Simon Phillips, Alex Machacek, Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey, Ric Fierabracci, Dean Brown and more.

The composer and keyboardist MSM Schmidt (Germany) wins for his newest recording "destination" internationally renowned jazz...

Electronic duo Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters (of the band Engineers) return with a second collaborative album titled Tomorrow Is Another Day, released by Bureau B. This second project offers a sublime exploration into their signature expressionistic landscapes while exploring the potential of a collaborative model in which Schnauss' keyboards and Peters' guitar work together in juxtaposition. Ulrich Schnauss, born in the industrial port town of Kiel in northern Germany in 1977, emerged in Berlin's...

"Another dose of whirring rhythms and dark drones courtesy of Stefan Schneider and Sven Kacirek. This time around they have introduced the beguiling tones of Swedish singer Sofia Jernberg on three pieces. The Düsseldorf/Hamburg duo Schneider Kacirek released their debut album Shadows Documents some three years ago. A coarse energy ran through Shadows Documents, drawing on the pair's various excursions to Kenya as producers. Shadows Documents was a somnambulistic interpretation of Kenyan music using drums...

Pierre Borel saxophone
Antonio Borghini bass
Christian Lillinger drums

"The trio Schnell uses the bebop tradition as the starting point (the «archetype» or the «memory basket», as they put it) to investigate speed, stasis and trance. It’s not simply a mechanical process, giving more velocity to the lines played by Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, the same way a 33 rpm record would sound if put to 78 rpm, but to transform the bebop language by pushing the musicians to their limits and...

Manuel Troller - guitar & effects
Andi Schnellmann - electric bass & effects
David Meier - drums

"Schnellertollermeier have developed an approach to music where distinctions between conventionally marked terrains -- heavy metal, post-rock, prog, electric jazz, new music, improvisation, noise, modern composition, etc. -- meet in one place...and vanish. In their place is a music that is aggressive (at times brutal), wildly ambitious, and indefinable by common....