"With groups like Sex Mob, Millennial Territory Orchestra and Diaspora Soul, Steven Bernstein is energizing the downtown scene with a passionate and indefatigable creativity. His brilliance continues with Diaspora Suite, the fourth installment in his...

"A mainstay of the Radical Jewish series since their first release in 2000, Jaroslaw Bester is one of the most consistently creative and imaginative musicians in the New Jewish Renaissance. Here he approaches the classic compositions of Cracow-born...

A beautiful modern exploration of Sephardic melodies, creatively arranged by the masterminds of the popular rock group Elysian Fields.... [Tzadik]

"Per Bloland studied at Stanford with Brian Ferneyhough and Mark Applebaum, has worked at IRCAM and Oberlin, and currently teaches at Miami University. His innovative sound world brilliantly blends custom built electronics with instrumental textures...

Dougie Bowne: Guitar, Electronics, Drums
Matt Nelson: Bass, Prepared Bass

“Dougie Bowne is a producer, drummer, electric guitarist, and composer of remarkable versatility. An early member of the New York Downtown scene, he has worked with John Cale, Iggy Pop, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, The Lounge Lizards, Cassandra Wilson, Jack Bruce, Marianne Faithful, Cibo Matto, and many, many others.
Here he uses all of his formidable talents to create a bass, drum/guitar duo...

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 ...

"Paul Brody is a talented composer/performer based in Berlin. Touring Europe for several years to enthusiastic audiences, his band Sadawi has developed into a razor sharp ensemble, one of the very best to mix jazz with traditional Jewish music...

''The mastermind behind the powerful band Larval, and a veteran of the early Rhys Chatham orchestras, Bill Brovold's complex compositions smash the borders of rock and classical music. Highly structured and meticulously crafted, these quirky sound sculptures jump from mood to mood -- from Zappa to Henry Cow, the Zen Vikings to Glenn Branca. Brovold has created a powerful new instrumental rock that tells a story.'

Chris Brown is a San Francisco based composer who stands firmly in the tradition of West Coast innovators like Terry Riley and James Tenney. Rogue Wave, his first CD in almost a decade, is one of his best a startling retrospective spanning over twenty ...

Say what you want, this half man/half android, who was raised by chickens, can really kick on the jams on the guitar. This includes the lovely ballad She Sells Sea Shells By The Slaughterhouse. "Buckethead is one of the most amazing and original guitar...

Excellent album by 1/3rd of the original Tin Hat Trio which features great musicians and great compositions.

Robert Burger has worked with Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Iron & Wine, and was a founding member of chamber...

''Rubberband trumpet, double axe cello, hammerbridge violin, golfclub sitar/tabla, & a not-so-conventional snowshovel are just a few of the crazy instruments you will hear in thisremarkable debut recording by one of music's most ingenious & eccentric p...

Note the Ahvak and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum personnel involved in this one! "Following up on the enormous success of her Trilectic release from 2000, Jewlia Eisenberg has again fashioned a remarkable program of a cappella vocal and instrumental music ...

“"The Ginzburg Geography" is an examination of the lives and work of Natalia and Leone Ginzburg during World War II. As with her other Charming Hostess endeavors, Jewlia Eisenberg plunged deeply into re- search and created songs inspired by their life, love and writings as well as including songs of protest and cultural significance from the time. Jewlia laid down vocals and oversaw the recording of the majority of band tracks but was not able to finish.
Since her passing, her longtime collaborator...

Studying koto since the age of three, Mori Chieko is one of the worlds most versatile koto virtuosos. She has spent long periods in Italy, London and the United States, collaborated with Michael Galasso, and created music for dance, film and theater, i...

"Born in London, raised in the UK and currently composer-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony, Anna Clyne is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music that blends ambient soundscapes with sonic gestures that morph and collide in ever changing...

"In 1985, when the whole world was seized by fear of AIDS, THEM premiered in New York. THEM was not literally about AIDS, but at the time it was impossible to see it separately from it. Created by director/choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis...

''The hero of last year's Self Indulgent Music collection is back by popular demand, accompanied by his quirky band of kooks and renegades: Museum of Dannys is a compendium of Cohen's best work from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, and features his now-legend...

'' Essential listening for anyone who has ever suffered thepains of alienation and rejections -- or wants to!'' [Tzadik]

"One of the greatest, and perhaps the very first composer in Jazz history, Jelly Roll Morton was a charismatic and influential figure that helped define Jazz music in its critical early years. Combining ragtime, Latin inflections and more, his music is...

"The End of Summer is a collection of Anthony Coleman’s most recent chamber compositions and features his fabulous new ensemble Survivors Breakfast. Born and raised in NYC, Anthony has been a central figure in the Downtown scene since the late ’70s...

''One of the most original groups in modern Japan, Compostela blends folk musics of Eastern Europe with the tradition of Japanese chindon (street musicians who play at grand openings of supermarkets and pachinko parlors, dressed as geishas and samurai)...

The first recording since 1969 from one of the legends of the New York experimental music scene who has collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Sunny Murray, Perry Robinson, Albert Ayler and many others. After two astounding albums incorporating serial tech...

"Swiss born composer/ improviser Sylvie Courvoisier is one of the most creative and imaginative pianists in new music. A frequent collaborator of Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori and Fred Frith, she is a member of Mephista and the leader of her own quintet and...

...one of Europes most original and exciting avant-Klezmer ensembles...this brilliant quartet blends the spontaneity of improvisation, the precision of classical music and the soul of the Jewish tradition. Ever-surprising new music by this thrilling b...