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Streiff, Co - Qattar Co Streiff: Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone Tommy Meier: Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet Christof Gantert: Trumpet Ben Jeger: Piano, Accordion Christian Weber: Bass Fredi Flükiger: Drums "After her successful duo album 34-Intakt 078 $19.00
Sommer, Günter ‘Baby’ / Raymond MacDonald-Sounds, Songs & Other Noises CD Günter Baby Sommer drums and percussion Raymond MacDonald alto and soprano saxophones “Gunter Baby Sommer, born in Dresden, is one of the pioneers of European Free Jazz. In a prolific career spanning over 50 years he has developed a unique approach to percussion and a captivating highly personalized style that has taken him around the world, collaborating widely and delighting audiences with charm and virtuosity. He has also developed and made his own exceptional instruments and has an CF 607 $15.00
Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 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) Legitimate vinyl reissue of this rare and legendary album. TMT was led by Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi (electric violin, harmonica, voice, etc.) with Kyo Koike (electric double bass), suntool, voice, etc.), Yukio Tsuchiya (bass-tuba, percussion), Beiji Nagai (trumpet, synthesizer Mini-Korg, timpani), Tokio Hasegaw (voice, percussion), Kinji Hayashi (electronic technique), Hirokeszu Sato (percussion, voice). Recorded live at Nippon Columbia Studio #1, Tokyo, August 19, 1974. Four side-long improvisations... 05-ZORN 052LP $40.00
Freedman, Lori / Scott Thompson - Amber CD Lori Freedman Bb & bass clarinets Scott Thomson trombone Scott Thomson and Lori Freedman first played together in Toronto in 2006 where they immediately identified shared musical affinities: dynamics of tone and timbre, heterodox lyricism, the internal propulsion and forward motion of openly improvised material, freedom of expression, and play. Their instant rapport led them to record Plumb (2007, Barnyard Records), the first recording in Thomson’s and a notable addition to Freedman’s... CF 606 $15.00
Moore, Thurston - Flow Critical Lucidity vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) 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 016FE-LP $32.00
Jack Ruby - Hit and Run 2 x CDs "Jack Ruby may be the most influential punk band from New York City that no one ever knew about."-Thurston Moore "Jack Ruby occupy a place right between early '70s street rock, post Roxy/Hawkwind synthesis and the future sound of punk and no... 05-CEC 002CD $25.00
Hiit - For Beauty Is Nothing But the Beginning of Terror CD Simone Quatrana piano Andrea Grossi doublebass Pedro Melo Alves drums and percussion "HIIT is a piano trio of contemporary improvised music, with compositional frames that feed focused real-time composition. You hear aesthetics reminiscent of the improvised and composed music of the 20th and 21st century. You hear hot blooded energy which is not afraid of lyric melody, abstract contemplation, and structured formal matrixes. Connecting the new Portugal and Italy music scenes, it is... CF 632 $15.00
Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light "Although we’d almost given up hope, there seems to be a parallel universe away from anaemic supermarket muzak, restless radio formats and short-lived trends after all. There still is music which allows its listeners enough space for unlimited... 17-SBMCD009 $16.00
Various Artists - Money Will Ruin Everything, the Second Edition 2 x CDs + hardbound book (DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, THIS PRICE IS FOR CUSTOMERS IN THE USA AND POSSESSIONS ONLY) "It's been a long, long time but finally it's here -- the second edition of Money Will Ruin Everything, Rune Grammofon's celebration of 5 more years of music. Originally planned as an update and slightly revised edition of the long deleted 2CD/book of... 05-RUNEGRAMMOFON2072BK $70.00
Lavelle, Matt / Reggie Sylvester - Retrograde Matt Lavelle (trumpet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet) Reggie Sylvester (drums) "New York avant-jazz veterans and longtime cohorts in the Bern Nix Quartet, perform in duo here on Retrograde, their debut on ESP-Disk'. Visiting destinations overlooked on John Coltrane's tour of the solar system, they craft their own space suite of earthier delights. This album was recorded live at Andrea Wolper's WhyNot Experiment? series. Matt and Reggie played two sets; the second set, with Bern Nix in the... 05-EspDisk 5010 $14.00
Bruce, Jack - Songs For A Tailor 2 x CDs + 2 x 5.1 / hi-res Blu-ray box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Jack is best known for being the principle songwriter and bassist and voice behind Cream. He's got a wonderful voice and is a fine composer and he continued to make great work to his dying days. This was the first release he had after Cream, and is a warm collection of songs with musicians like George Harrison, Dick Heckstall Smith, Art Themen, John Hiseman, John Marshall, Felix Pappalardi, Chris Spedding, Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther and others. “‘Songs For A Tailor’ was Jack Bruce’s first. 23-ECLEC42878 $78.00
Graves, Milford - Bäbi vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "By the early '70s, Milford Graves had more or less stopped gigging. Having learned his lesson the hard way in multiple-night runs like a legendary Slugs' residency with Albert Ayler, he knew that the level of energy that he put out during a performance would be difficult to sustain over the long haul. A concert was a kind of absolute ritual for him, after which he would be totally spent, emotionally and physically. Graves rarely left anything on the table. Any musical performance was an opportunity to... 28-SPRV196.1 $31.00
Sandell, Sten / Paal Nilssen-Love - Jacana "The best improvisers are the ones that seem to invent and uninvent their instruments right in front of your eyes and ears. Swedish pianist Sten Sandell and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love are two musical champions with a long experience of doing... 05-RCD 2159CD $18.00
Deyhim, Susan / Richard Horowitz - Desert Equations: Azax Attra (1986-2021) (expanded) CD “When it first appeared in 1986, the Desert Equations: Azax Attra album was greeted with enthusiasm, awe and disbelief: nobody had done anything quite like it before, and this dizzying, inspired blend of Persian tradition, New York avant-garde and electronic music remains incomparable, powerful and mesmerizing to this day. Combining the sublime voice of Iranian vocalist Deyhim and the electronic wizardry of US composer Horowitz, this haunting and futuristic album prompted writer Paul Bowles... 28-CRDC8.2 $14.00
Virginia Wing - Ecstatic Arrow "Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality. Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizards Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Desclouxs Press Colour, arriving at the... 39-CD-FIRE-490 $14.00
Srinivas, U. - Mandolin Magic: South Indian Classical Music (Mega Blowout Sale) This is an amazing release of Indian classical music at an even more amazing price, by a music who was known throughout his life as a genuine master of his instrument and of music in general. Additionally, he was known even to music fans who don't follow Indian music because of his extraordinary playing with John McLaughlin and Remember Shakti. Recommended to anyone reading this! "Among all the musicians from Southern India, U. Srinivas occupies a particularly significant position. This maestro... 8032 $4.00
FCT Trio Meets Carlo Atti - From Sun Ra To Donald Trump Carlo Atti tenor sax Simone Graziano piano Gabriele Evangelista bass Francesco Cusa drums "With the kind of humouristic approach characteristic of all things Italian, drummer Francesco Cusa turned the band he founded to play jazz standards into a project dealing, through his original compositions and orchestrations, with the search of the existing possibilities to «re- evoke an epoch and transpose it into the contemporary». And here are the first consequences, maintaining the... CF 449 $15.00
AkLaff, Pheeroan - House of Spirit: Mirth I've long known the great drummer Pheeroan AkLaaf for his work with Anthony Davis' mind-blowingly great Episteme group in the 80s, as well as many other ensembles and projects of 30 years ago and more recent ones as well, and now with Wadada Leo Smith... 05-US 036 $24.00
Coleman, Steve - The Mancy of Sound "The Mancy of Sound finds Steve Coleman at his creative peak, incorporating a lifetime of research into African Diasporic culture and cycles found in nature & astronomy into his musical methods. The current edition of his longtime band is perhaps his... 28-PIRC38.2 $16.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Gr�n 180 gram vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Originally released by Editions Block in 1980, the Green album contains recordings from the years 1976 to 1981. "Schnitzler's tracks in the 1970s were lengthy and shared a musical pattern which varied only minimally. Hence the green album has... 05-BB 195LP $28.00
Various Artsts - Option 1 : 2 x CDs “Since 2015, Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio has been the host of Option, a series of intimate concerts of improvised music. Featuring an uncommonly wide range of players representing virtually all haunts of free music, the series has fostered not only an important exchange of ideas in musical form, but it has also promoted literal conversation about the music, usually substituting a dialogue with the musician or musicians for the requisite second set. In 2018, the series was funded by... CvsD 059 $20.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Grün (expanded) Originally released by Editions Block in 1980, the Green album contains recordings from the years 1976 to 1981. "Schnitzler's tracks in the 1970s were lengthy and shared a musical pattern which varied only minimally. Hence the green album has... 05-BB 195CD $20.00
Clevis - Amalgamation CDEP (30 minutes) "The instrumental bass and drum duo, Clevis was born in Baltimore nearly 7 years ago, but for the past two they have been pounding their rhythms and pouring their melodies into Los Angeles clubs and bars. Unlike many bass and drum bands, which often... CLEVIS001 $9.00
Finn, James - Plaza Del Toros Dominic Duval, bass/James Finn, tenor sax/Warren Smith, drums. "James Finn not only plays brilliantly, but he also produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered this CD single-handedly. The album features bassist Dominic Duval, Downbeat Magazine... CLEANFEEDCF34 $17.00
Eduaro, Ze/Jack Walrath - Bad Guys Jack Walrath, trumpet/Jesus Santandreu, saxes/Marc Miralta, drums/Zé Eduardo, bass. "Back in the day, American jazz musicians toured Europe as “a single,” hooking up with local rhythm sections. In the years immediately following World War II... CLEANFEEDCF47 $17.00
Holshouser, Will - Palace Ghosts and Drunken Hymns Ron Horton, trumpet / Bernardo Sassetti, piano / Will Holshouser, accordion / David Phillips, bass. "For those who think jazz is not a church or a credo demanding preservation and controlled entries, it's a factor of curiosity the encounter... CLEANFEEDCF160 $17.00
Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop - Hamburg, Germany, 1973 CD + DVD Released for the very first time here is the Soft Machine's television broadcast, recorded for Germany's famous "NDR Jazz Workshop" on May 17, 1973. This performance was one of the earliest shows by the quartet of Roy Babbington (electric bass), Karl... Rune 305-306 $21.00
Burnett, Aaron - Correspondence CD Aaron Burnett-saxophone “Aaron Burnett is “a standout new voice on the saxophone. In a very short time, the young musician has already lent his personal and unhindered approach to a breadth of bandleaders including Esperanza Spalding, Wynton Marsalis, Anti-Pop Consortium‘s HPRIZM, and Weasel Walter. He also toured with three time Grammy winner, Esperanza Spalding in her 2012 world tour with Radio Music Society. Aaron has the also retained the true nature of jazz in his music and his playing.. RPR SS 010 $13.00
Hamase, Motohiko - Technodrone “The official reissue of Motohiko Hamase's astounding ambient house album Technodrome, originally released in 1993. Inspired by John Cage, Jon Hassel, Brian Eno, and the emergence of house and techno music, Technodrome is jazz bassist turned electronic experimentalist Motohiko Hamase's foray into what he calls ambient house or, as he explains, "using the gritty sensation inherent to the core of house music" to create an ambient record "aiming to express inverted images, optical illusions, and the sense... 05-WRWTFWW 035CD $17.00
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow - Desperate Straights (Mega Blowout Sale) “Slapp Happy meanwhile was planning its second record for Virgin. One night the trio showed up at the quartet's door and proposed that the two groups make the second Slapphappy LP together...Henry Cow jumped at the chance and Desperate Straights was the result. It's still a gem to my ears, and now at last it's possible to release it, properly re-mastered (by Bob Drake), its sound closer to the original tapes even than our earlier Nimbus vinyl pressing. Great songs, great arrangements, great performances... ReR HCSH1 $7.00
BLK JKS - Abantu / Before Humans CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South African underground. After an extended hiatus the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many others), return with a groundbreaking new album. Monster grooves meet guitar and brass driven afro-rock. Echoes of spiritual jazz, post-apocalyptic funk, renegade dub and kwaito. It's been too long since anyone was able to bring this much soul and heartblood to Progressive Rock, a medium that has been left cold and dry.. 23-GBCD 108 $7.00
Uneven Eleven - Live at Cafe Oto 2 x CDs Hard to imagine a more powerful or intriguing, improvising power trio than these 3: Charles Hayward on drums (This Heat and Massacre), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) and Guy Segers (Univers Zero). Let's hope that this 1st, live session... 05-SR 391CD $20.00
Takada, Midori - Through The Looking Glass vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Comes in a Stoughton "Tip-On" jacket with printed inner sleeves. "The highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient/minimal album Through The Looking Glass, originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. Considered a holy grail of Japanese music by many, Through The Looking Glass is Midori Takada's first solo endeavor, a captivating four-song suite capturing her deep quests into traditional African and Asian percussive language and exploring... 05-WRWTFWW 019LP $28.00
Oberg, Mats - Improvisational Two "The musical genius of Mats Öberg has delivered to us this masterpiece of work inspired by the late Cornelis Vreeswijk, with jazz-improvised songs. What sets this apart to me (with my untrained ears) is how Mats effortlessly flows over the ivories, not... CAPRICE21780 $18.00
Gan-ru, Ge - Lost Style "The three compositions on Lost Style are indicative of the extraordinary compositional voice of Ge Gan-ru, China's first avant-garde composer. Born in 1954, Ge's life journey follows the now familiar path trodden by the generation of Chinese artists... NEWALBION134 $12.00
Officer! - Paragraphs and Principles vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Coming out of left field this, is - to say the least – enigmatic; it’s also confident and full of detail, with some 30 musical contributors, constantly changing instrumentation and shifting musical styles, making it musically uncategoriseable. Loosely hung on the work of British composer, improviser and political activist, Cornelius Cardew, it mixes references and re-figurings of some of his work, as well as one straight rendition (Winter Potato No.3) using, apart from almost conventional song... 26-Jelo 21 $30.00
Thollem / Mazurek - Blind Curves and Box Canyons Rob Mazurek-cornet, voice, bells, modular synth, sampler Thollem Electric-modified electric paino, analog effects “Only briefly acquainted, McDonas and Mazurek show remarkable responsiveness to each other in these complex improvisations. The nineteen minute opener "Shouts" begins in a haze of electric piano and synth before Mazurek slips into a disembodied wordless chant adding to the otherworldliness of the piece. About fourteen minutes in, the cornet becomes identifiable, the piano's notes.. RPR 1054 $13.00
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Dawn of the Cycads: The Complete Ace of Hearts Recordings (1983-1987) 2 x CDs For the first time ever, all of the band's 3 recordings for Ace of Hearts (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Magnetic Flip and Beat of the Mesozoic) are reissued in their entirety and in the order in which they were originally heard when they were issued... Rune 274-275 $21.00
Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune For over 20 years, Cheer-Accident have been a creative, interesting force in rock music. They constantly strive to surprise their audience and themselves with constant reinvention. Fear Draws Misfortune is their 16th release and arguably their best and... Rune 276 $15.00
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow - Desperate Straights “Slapp Happy meanwhile was planning its second record for Virgin. One night the trio showed up at the quartet's door and proposed that the two groups make the second Slapphappy LP together...Henry Cow jumped at the chance and Desperate Straights was the result. It's still a gem to my ears, and now at last it's possible to release it, properly re-mastered (by Bob Drake), its sound closer to the original tapes even than our earlier Nimbus vinyl pressing. Great songs, great arrangements, great performances... RERSH1 $15.00
Various Artists - Sowas Von Egal 2: German Synth Wave Underground 1981-1984 “Two years have passed since Bureau B released the first Sowas Von Egal compilation. With the musical movement or genre known as NDW celebrating its 40th anniversary, what better time than now to launch an ambitious successor to the first sampler. The beating heart of this endeavor is once again invigorated by the synchronous passions of bespoke Hamburg label Bureau B and the label's Damaged Goods nights where they present rare, obscure synth and wave discs from the early 1980s. It was clear from.... 05-BB 356CD $18.00
Frith, Fred / Nuria Andorra - Dancing Like Dust CD “Núria Andorrà is a percussionist, improviser and composer. From the classical and contemporarily background but always drawing from other sources of inspiration. Núria proposes a universe where images, sound and the body come together to transmit the same emotions and create from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has performed with Agustín Fernández, Fred Frith, Lê Quan Nihn, Joëlle Léandre, Mats Gustafsson, Nate Wooley and Joe Morris. She has also worked with Carles Santos, Hector Parra, Matmos and... 21-GG 429 $19.00
Turnquist, Alexander - Flying Fantasy CD (Mega Blowout Sale) "By embedding both new age and noise-oriented electronic themes into his pastoral pieces, Turnquist unites disparate traditions and ideals, essentially employing sonic counterweights to construct 57 minutes that are as surprisingly dynamic as they are perfectly beautiful."-PITCHFORK (8.2) “As an accomplished 12-string guitarist/composer, Alexander Turnquist was naturally alarmed when the ulnar nerve in his left hand seized up in 2013, but after a surgical procedure he gratefully started the... 23-West 123 $6.00
Three Cane Whale - Palimpset vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (Mega Blowout Sale) Alex Vann – mandolin, bowed psaltery, bouzouki, zither , banjo, dulcimer Pete Judge – trumpet, cornet, dulcitone , harmonium, lyre, glockenspiel, tenor horn Paul Bradley – acoustic guitar, miniature harp “A multi-instrumental acoustic trio based in Bristol, UK, featuring members of Spiro, Get The Blessing and Scottish Dance Theatre. As intricate as a team of watchmakers, as spare as a mountain stream, the music encompasses both a cinematic sweep and an intimate delicacy, in which “the... PLG 045 $16.00
Byrd, Joseph - NYC 1960-1963 A collection of the early, experimental, John Cage/Morton Feldman influenced works by the man who is better known for having formed the early (and great) US experimental/psychedelic outfit United States of America. "The imaginative and... 05-NW 80738 $17.00
Guiot, Dominique - L'Univers De La Mer 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 official reissue of super-rare and fabled prog-rock/library/synth album L'Univers De La Mer by French composer Dominique Guiot. Written, composed and played by Dominique Guiot with his Mellotron, Minimoog, clavinet, organ, and guitar, L'Univers De La Mer draws its inspiration from deep sea exploration, oceanic creatures, and underwater kingdoms. The 12-track album navigates organically through diverse mutations of the prog-rock and synth kind, from scenic meditation pieces... 05-WRWTFWW 038LP $30.00
Cora, Tom / David Moss - Cargo Cult Revival CD “In 1983 Tom and David recorded the album "Cargo Cult Revival" together which was released on Fred Frith's label Rift Records. For this first ever CD re-issue, it was remastered by Martin Bowes. Tom Cora made his musical debut as drummer on a local US television programme. In the mid 1970s he played guitar for a Washington, D.C. jazz club house band. He took up the cello while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and studied with cellist Pablo Casals' student Luis Garcia-Renart and... 21-GG351 $19.00
Rodenkirchen, Norbert / Robbie Lee / James Ilgenfritz - Opalescence "Opalescence is the new album from the most unusual trio of Norbert Rodenkirchen, Robbie Lee, and James Ilgenfritz. The setting for the initial sessions: hushed microtones bouncing off reverberant marble walls while a blizzard raged outside. Their backgrounds: an unconventional mix of medieval music, modern composition, various folk traditions, and, of course, jazz. And the result: an unclassifiable amalgam of improvised forms, weaving together far-flung genres, gratifyingly challenging yet easy to... 39-CD-THR-012 $14.00
McGinnis, Mike - Angsudden Song Cycle vinyl lp + CD in (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Kyoko Kitamura (voice), Mike McGinnis (clarinet, bass clarinet), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Khabu Doug Young (cavaqui�o), Sean Moran (acoustic guitar), Jason Kao Hwang (viola), Dan Fabricatore (bass), Harris Eisenstadt (percussion, vibraphone)... 482-1086 $24.00
Czukay, Holger - Movies Czukay's second album continues his fascination with and expermentation of using recordings from radio, television, short-wave and more, and 'gluing' non-similar sources together and making something unique from them, but also something that 'works' musically. In the pre-sampling days of 1979, when this was first released, incorporating recordings off of the tv and radio into already existing songs was a fairly amazingly weird thing to be doing. For my tastes, this is his best realized solo album... 39-CD-GRON-201 $15.00