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Red Trio + Nate Wooley-Stem Nate Wooley trumpet / Rodrigo Pinheiro piano / Hernani Faustino double bass / Gabriel Ferrandini drums and percussion. "The history of improvised music is full of successful and even magical first encounters, but more common are the occasions... Clean Feed CF 249 $17.00
Grosskopf, Harald - Oceanheart "Tired of the rock format and excited by the freedoms promised by electronic music, Harald Grosskopf quit Wallenstein, a conventional rock band, in the mid-'70s to turn his attention to electronica. Grosskopf thus became the first drummer to specialize... 05-BB 157CD $18.00
Monder, Ben/Bill McHenry - Bloom Everyone knows how much I think highly of guitarist Ben Monder and Bill McHenry is a fine, rising saxist who is on many recent albums I own. Together they make a great, heavily textural album. "On the stunning duo release Bloom, guitarist... 17-Sunnyside 01672812472 $15.00
Hayes, Tubby - Symphony: The Lost Session 1972 "January 30th 2105 marks the anniversary of what would have been Tubby Hayes' 80th birthday. Undoubtedly THE ultimate British jazz legend, Hayes' untimely death, aged 38, in 1973 ended what had been a truly remarkable 23 year career, and, although long... 21-ACMCD4383 $16.00
Takase, Aki / Lauren Newton - Spring In Bangkok CD Aki Takase, Piano / Lauren Newton, Voice "Aki Takase and Lauren Newton correspond to and contradict one another with sounds, tones, vocalizations, words. They converse in fantasy languages, plunge into areas of deep emotion and fly off into the.. 34-Intakt 110 $19.00
Emerald Web - Stargate Tapes 1979-1982 (Mega Blowout Sale) "Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos, Connie Demby and Deuter, whilst splitting label release schedules with Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel and Wendy Carlos, the unique Florida-raised soul mate duo known as Emerald Web released their privately pressed debut LP at an axis where post-prog rock met proto-new age and ambient electronic music. At the turn of the 1980s, Bob Stohl and Kat Epple embarked on a ten-year spiritual journey playing at planetariums and laser shows above... 05-BMS 052 $8.00
Nits - New Flat The group's 3rd album, from 1980. This is pre the arrival of R.J. Stips, so that immediately dilutes some of the appeal for many folks reading this. Having said that, this is still very good, very smart & clever pop music of its era. Conditionally... 15-MOC 13109 $13.00
Leandre, Joelle / Jerome Boudellon - Evidence “Bass and flute represent significant tonal contrasts and here, flutist Jerome Bourdellon and world-renowned bassist, composer and improviser Joelle LEandre divulge innumerable perspectives and quite a bit of food for thought on these duets. However, Bourdellon employs bass clarinet and bass flute on two tracks, as no other instruments are nestled into the mid-sections of the program and the artists follow similar modalities to complement and support each other. Each piece presents a different ... RPR 1010 $13.00
Red Masque - Fossileyes Fourth album for this band. They manage to sound rough-hewn in an attractive way, while executing some pretty interesting/complex musical maneuvers in a way similar to The Work, although they don't sound like them. I found parts of this reminiscent of... ADHOC 25 $15.00
Enid - Live At Loughborough Town Hall “British group THE ENID were formed around the founder/keyboardist Robert John GODFREY (BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST) and his fellow founder members, guitarists Stephen STEWART and Francis LICKERISH in 1973. Almost like a combination of classical and rock, the band combined vast orchestral movements, exclusively classical instrumentation, rigorous construction completely well-written and romantic rock music led by composer Robert John GODFREY. For the most part the albums have some orchestrated sound, all... 21-SJPCD610 $12.00
Rosa, Barba / Chad Taylor - In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility CD “Artist and musician Rosa Barba paired up with drummer Chad Taylor for their first duo record, In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility. Documenting a September 2019 performance and installation at New York's Park Avenue Armory, part of an invitation by pianist Jason Moran, the CD's two mesmerizing tracks clock in at over 30-minutes each. Patiently built as collaborative soundscapes, they feature Barba's unorthodox conjoining of cello and film projector in which she uses the celluloid as an... CvsD 083 $14.00
Emerald Web - Whispered Visions vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "The previously cassette-only album Whispered Visions (1980) by Emerald Web, finally committed to vinyl 30 years since its original release. These tracks are taken from the second ever (and rarest) release by this early synthesizer duo consisting of... 05-FKR 073LP $28.00
Windo, Pam and Gary - Avant Gardeners CD Last time ever on this release from the wonderful, now gone, Reel Recordings label. "Pam and Gary Windo were coupled in spirit with a private passion for the musical road less traveled. During their marriage, Gary taught Pam how to approach the... Reel Recordings 001 $18.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Gold "In the comprehensive canon of Schnitzler releases, the music on the Gold album stands out a mile in every respect. Judged on the sound alone, there is little to suggest that the material was recorded as long ago as the 1976 to 1978 period. There is... 05-BB 150CD $18.00
Parker, William - Meditation / Resurrection 2 x CDs "Meditation / Resurrection is a double-album presenting a bounty of beautiful new William Parker compositions performed by two of his flagship ensembles, the Quartet -&- In Order To Survive. It was recorded & mixed live during a one-day studio session in late 2016. With the tone of the pieces & performances reflecting our current moment, this is Parker & the groups' follow-up to 2013's epic Wood Flute Songs box (2013). At the core of both groups is Parker's foundational bass together with rhythm twin... 28-AUMF104.2 $20.00
Parkins, Andrea - Two Rooms From The Memory Palace CD “Two Rooms from the Memory Palace re-imagines and captures the live, visceral impact of Andrea Parkins’ immersive eight-channel fixed-media composition “by the same name. The work highlights Parkins’ ongoing exploration of poetic interrelationships between site and time, and gestural trace and acoustical space, “Two Rooms” was initially developed as a spatial audio work, designed for diffusion through adjacent acoustical spaces that sonically respond in real-time interaction, thus enabling shifting and... 39-CD-IS-1037 $14.00
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) 2017 release from one of the most popular instrumental post-rock bands out there! "Every Country's Sun takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds – towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume – and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock, and transcendental euphoria. Produced by psych-rock luminary Dave Fridmann, it's a structural soundscape built from stark foundations up; from a gentle... 37-TRR291 LP $27.00
Nits - Tent The group's 2nd album, from 1979. This is pre the arrival of R.J. Stips, so that immediately dilutes some of the appeal for many folks reading this. Having said that, this is still very good, very smart & clever pop music of its era. Conditionally... 15-MOC 13108 $13.00
Wolf Eyes - Difficult Messages vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “A selection of private press 45s featuring Nate Young, John Olson, Alex Moskos, Gretchen Gonzales, Aaron Dilloway & Raven Chacon. These collaborations between the core Wolf Eyes crew and friends was originally self-released as a series of super-limited 7” hand painted box sets, but now the core ‘hits’ have been compiled by Disciples for wider consumption. The results are surprisingly diverse, from Short Hands’ avant-garde rock’n’roll through to the delay-drunk drum machine of Time Designers, and... 39-LP-DISC-14 $26.00
White Willow - Sacrament CD “Sacrament is the classic third album from Norwegian prog legends White Willow, originally released in 2000. For this album, the band spent a long, long time working on the songs and arrangements, coming up with inventive, dynamic and beautiful arrangements for each song. After lengthy rehearsals at the Norwegian Institute for Scene and Studio, the band entered a new studio, called Lydkjøkkenet. The studio wasrun by the friendly and very talented engineer Øystein Vesaas, whose patience and mild... 39-CD-KAR-233 $17.00
Free Jazz Workshop - Inter Frequences vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "The first ever vinyl reissue of Free Jazz Workshop's Inter Fréquences, originally released in 1973. The Free Jazz Workshop came into being in 1967 but their first album, Inter Fréquences, only appeared in 1973. Unfortunately there is no recorded trace of the group including the first drummer Pierre Guyon before he was replaced by Christian Rollet in 1970. One of the slogans doing the rounds at the time sets the tone: "Aesthetic liberation is but a prelude to the liberation of humanity." The trajectory... 05-FFL 031LP $27.00
Coleman, Ornette - Looking For Ornette 2 x DVDs “DVD 1 : LOOKING FOR ORNETTE - a film by jacques goldstein, 2016, 61', stereo. Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a spectre, a spectre that haunts Jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer whom we owe the invention of Free Jazz to? If his seminal body of work is now - rightfully so - fully recognized, the man remained deliberately mysterious and enigmatic. The director makes attempts to approach him. He visits and interviews musicians who owe him a lot. A portrait of Ornette takes... 21-MVD1651D $15.00
Roos, Randy - Mistral (limited edition/mini-lp sleeve) A very little known, but very high quality fusion album from 1978 from the one-time guitarist of Boston's 'beloved-but-never-quite-famous ' artsy rock outfit Orchestra Luna. This is totally different and will especially appeal to guitar head fusion fans.. 19-Modulus 5002 $27.00
RPWL - A New Dawn Blu-ray "Includes two-hour-long stereo and surround mixes of the concert, each with audio tracks in both English as well as German. For the English version the lines from the German-language live show were dubbed by the narrator and the actors. In both formats the following extras can be selected independently from the main movie: a fifteen-minute "Making of" of the concert movie, the recording of the encore of the Freising show "Unchain The Earth" as well as a hitherto unreleased video clip of the splendid... 28-GARM46BR $17.00
White Willow - Sacrament vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Sacrament is the classic third album from Norwegian prog legends White Willow, originally released in 2000. For this album, the band spent a long, long time working on the songs and arrangements, coming up with inventive, dynamic and beautiful arrangements for each song. After lengthy rehearsals at the Norwegian Institute for Scene and Studio, the band entered a new studio, called Lydkjøkkenet. The studio wasrun by the friendly and very talented engineer Øystein Vesaas, whose patience and mild... 39-LP-KAR-233 $27.00
Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise Blu-ray Unavailable for years and now available once again, now in a longer version. "Years ahead of his time, composer, keyboard player, bandleader, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern American musical genres (jazz, soul, gospel, blues, swing) with the sounds of Africa and the Caribbean. He also combined his music with dance, poetry, colorful costumes and backdrops, and pure theatricality... 21-MVD7502BR $17.00
Arnold, Horacee - Tales of the Exonerated Flea This very good jazz/rock album was rescued from obscurity about 5-7 years ago and reissued. We carried it and it was a great seller until the label reissuing it folded and it became an expensive collector's item. Now it's reissued once more and it's... Wounded Bird 2869 $12.00
H-Alpha - Red Sphere H-Alpha is a NYC/downtown all-star trio of Briggan Krauss-baritone and alto sax, Ikue Mori-laptop, Jim Black-drums and percussion. All three of these musicians have numerous interesting/great/teriffic projects under their own names or in association SKIRL009 $14.00
Latin From The North - Latin From The North Take the Plaza Jazz Trio (Steve Waterman, George Haslam and Robin Jones) - a quirky, stripped down to the bones Latin jazz ensemble, fresh from working in Cuba with members of Irakere and the Buena Vista Social Club. Add Stekpanna (Mads Kjlby Olesen, S... SLAM317 $15.00
Behrman, David - My Dear Siegfried 2 x CDs David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions. Sam Behrman and Siegfried Sassoon met in 1920, when Behrman, then ... XI129 $12.00
Macri, Nick / Mono No Aware - Amache vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) This title is released in a tiny physical edition of 100 copies! Nick Macri - electric and acoustic basses, electronics, percussion “...combines jagged amplified bass and textural percussion into a boiling haze...gritty electronics with recorded vocalizations as he generates feedback and noise from his amp… melodic yet open-ended. Subtle processing gives certain passages a shimmering nature, with repetitive echoes and pulses touching on minimalism...At only 34 minutes... Rune 3364 $22.00
Mezzacappa, Lisa - avantNOIR Aaron Bennett tenor saxophone John Finkbeiner electric guitar William Winant vibraphone, percussion, Foley Lisa Mezzacappa acoustic bass, samples Tim Perkis electronics Jordan Glenn drums "San Francisco Bay Area bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa draws inspiration from a wide range of sources in her music, from film to visual art to science. Her newest release, avantNOIR, is a suite of compositions for jazz sextet based on noir crime fiction—classic works by Dashiell Hamme CF 401 $15.00
IO Earth - Sanctuary CD Dave Cureton - guitars, bass, keyboards, vocals, percussion Linda Odinsen - vocals Adam Gough - keyboards, guitar, orchestration, percussion Luke Shingler - saxophone, flute Christian Nokes - bass Tim Wilson - drums & percussion “This consistently first-rate Birmingham UK prog band is back again with a new 2023 release called Sanctuary, featuring drop-dead beautiful cover art, as well as a return to the roost for lead vocalist in Linda Odinsen, who was featured on the... 23-IO Earth 0630456677527 $17.00
Ultraphauna - No No No No 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Timba Harris – violin Dorothy Wave – voice, keyboards Toby Driver ¬– bass Joel C. Murray – drums “ULTRAPHAUNA is a newborn band of art-rock veterans whose wide-eyed, wriggling form is born of the music of Timba Harris (violin, trumpet) and Dorothy Wave (vocals, synths). Toby Driver (bass) and Joel Murray (drums) crushed their studio performances in New York and Liverpool respectively, helping bring to life their debut album, No No No No. As you can imagine from the histor Dur et Doux 065 LP $44.00
Ex - 27 Passports CD Arnold de Boer - Vocals, guitar, claps Terrie Hessels - Guitar Katherina Bornefeld - Drums, vocals Andy Moor - Guitar, baritone guitar The latest by this Dutch art/punk aggregation who are always, ALWAYS worth hearing - I saw them about 8 months ago with this lineup with the addition of Ken Vandermark, which was great, and this latest one is another proud chapter to their enormous discography. “The Ex released their previous regular studio album as a four-piece... 28-EX147.2 $17.00
Ultraphauna - No No No No CD Timba Harris – violin Dorothy Wave – voice, keyboards Toby Driver ¬– bass Joel C. Murray – drums “ULTRAPHAUNA is a newborn band of art-rock veterans whose wide-eyed, wriggling form is born of the music of Timba Harris (violin, trumpet) and Dorothy Wave (vocals, synths). Toby Driver (bass) and Joel Murray (drums) crushed their studio performances in New York and Liverpool respectively, helping bring to life their debut album, No No No No. As you can imagine from the histor Dur et Doux 065 $16.00
DeJohnette, Jack - New Directions CD Jack DeJohnette Drums, Piano John Abercrombie Guitar, Mandolin Lester Bowie Trumpet Eddie Gomez Bass “New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. “My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters”. He’d worked with Eddie Gomez in the Bill Evans Trio, played extensively with John Abercrombie in the Gateway trio and a new alliance with Art Ensemble trumpeter. 28-ECM 1128 $13.00
Ex - 27 Passports vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Arnold de Boer - Vocals, guitar, claps Terrie Hessels - Guitar Katherina Bornefeld - Drums, vocals Andy Moor - Guitar, baritone guitar The latest by this Dutch art/punk aggregation who are always, ALWAYS worth hearing - I saw them about 8 months ago with this lineup with the addition of Ken Vandermark, which was great, and this latest one is another proud chapter to their enormous discography. “The Ex released their previous regular studio album as a four-piece... 28-EX 147 LP $21.00
Albatros - Garden Of Eden vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Peter Breitbarth-guitar Thomas Büscher-drums Achim Hubricht-bass Harald Hubricht-keyboards Christian Köppen-piano Hansi Köppen-vocals Jürgen Polzin-percussion "Albatros from Hagen on the northern edge of the Sauerland, named after the song by Fleetwood Mac, played polished art rock in the vein of the early Genesis or the early Wallenstein. Actually they were so good that their one and only record, "Garden of Eden", is a real treat for the ears. It is so imaginative a 18-GOD LP 043 $30.00
Cadentia Nova Danica - August 1966 Jazzhus Montmartre Pretty amazing, 50-year old archival find in pretty amazingly good sound. This is John Tchicai and Finn von Eyben's group together after the last version of the New York Art Quartet broke up. Hugo Steinmetz (trumpet) Kim Menzer (trombone) John Tchicai, Karsten Vogel (alto saxophones) Steffen Andersen, Finn von Eyben (basses) Bo Thrige Andersen (drums) Giorgio Musoni (percussion) "Saxophonist John Tchicai returned home to Denmark in 1966 after four years in 34-SVL 1018441 $16.00
Kramer, Gregory - Veils of Transformation 1972-1980 CD "Greg is one of the pioneers of electronic music and these pieces are unique opportunities to discover how intricate and dynamic early synthesizers are."-Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith “Veils Of Transformation 1972-1980 is a collection of the earliest works of Gregory Kramer, one of the 20th century masters of textural electronic music. Liner notes from Gregory Kramer and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, who first brought this fascinating work to the attention of Important Records. Kramer developed a musical... 05-IMPREC 493CD $17.00
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble/Philip Kelan Cohran - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble One of the lesser known but great Chicago jazzers performs with the very excellent and hipster-loved Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, which is comprised mainly of his children! "Approaching his eighty fifth birthday, legendary jazz musicianPhil Cohran.. 05-HJR 065 $17.00
5uus - Hunger's Teeth CD "Magnificent" - Boston Rock "...will easily contend for the best release of new music this year." - Gibraltar "...one of the most unique and startling albums in a long time - original, vibrant and cutting edge." - Expose Drummer/composer Dave Kerman revived the 5uu's in the mid 90's with long time keyboardist Sanjay Kumar and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Bob Drake of Thinking Plague. As the review says below, it strongly hints at a parallel universe combination of Ye 21-RER5UU1 $12.00
Halvorson, Mary - Dragon's Head CD This record has gotten a lot of critical acclaim and it deserves it, as the group and Mary have a unique guitar-trio sound. My only caveat about the press is that everyone talks about how 'out' this is and maybe I'm just getting old and obscure, but it... 28-FRHO401007.2 $17.00
Moore, Thurston - Flow Critical Lucidity CD Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar) Deb Googe (bass) Jon Leidecker (electronics) James Sedwards (piano, organ, guitar, glockenspiel) Jem Doulton (percussion) Laetitia Sadier (backing vocals on "Sans Limites") “Thurston returns with his ninth and best solo album Flow Critical Lucidity released via Daydream Library Series. Some of the songs were written and arranged in Europe and the United Kingdom and include lyrical references to their environments and inspired by nature, lucid 05-DLS 016CD $15.00
Curlew - A Beautiful Western Saddle/The Hardwood/Live in Washington, D.C. CD + DVD For about five years in the mid 80s/early 90s, not enough people seemed to realize that the best live band in the USA was Curlew. Their heyday featured the classic line-up of leader George Cartwright (saxes), Tom Cora (cello) (who also played with... Rune 303-304 $17.00
Miller, Allison / Boom Tic Boom - Glitter Wolf Allison Miller: drums, compositions Jenny Scheinman: violin Kirk Knuffke-cornet Ben Goldberg-clarinet Todd Sickafoose-bass Myra Melford-piano I’ve been lucky enough to see Allison and her ensembles several times over the years and I am a big fan of her drumming and her composing. And what a great band of players this is! “Over the past ten years, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom has established itself as one of the most consistently inventive and hardest working band 28-RYPO1900.2 $13.00
Nurse With Wound - Spiral Insana (expanded) 2 x CDs + book (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Still stands as one of the clear highlights of Stephen Stapleton's singularly daunting and mountainous discography. . . . Many of the varied interludes are noisy, fragmented, and somewhat abrasive, but there is always a playful sense of mischief lurking in the shadows, ready to blunder into the steadily darkening fever dream at any second. . . . a brilliantly skewed and excellent album that has not faded with age one bit."-Anthony D'Amico, Brainwashed... 05-ROTOR 050BK $40.00
Brötzmann / Graves / Parker - Historic Music Past Tense Future 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Historic Music Past Tense Future, the first ever album to feature the meeting of Peter Brötzmann, Milford Graves, and William Parker. Three of the towering figures in the history of free jazz forge an incredibly vital free music born from lifetimes of uncompromising, ceaseless artistry. 2002-03-29, in the front room of CBGBs, fourteen years after their last performance together, three of the defining musicians in Free Jazz history convened for a third and final time. Peter Brötzmann had once... 05-BEA 001LP $42.00
Reich, Steve / Philip Glass - Information, Transmission, Modulation And Noise vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) The recordings of Four Organs and Music In Similar Motion are NOT the versions on the Shandar albums! “Information, Transmission, Modulation And Noise is a set of recordings featuring works by Steve Reich and Philip Glass. During an interview recorded at the KPFA radio station, Steve Reich and Jon Gibson introduced an east coast performance of Steve Reich's masterpiece, Four Organs, as well as an exciting recording of Ghanian drumming which the artist recorded in Ghana. They also introduced.. 05-Fox 006 LP $20.00