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Palo Alto - Difference and Repetition: A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze “Palo Alto's tenth album was born from two ambitions: to pay tribute to Soft Machine's Third (1970) on form (four sides/four titles) and to philosopher Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition is the title of his thesis) on the contents. The four long pieces of this double concept album were developed over two years and each has a different style and climate. Bold and kaleidoscopic, Difference and Repetition perfectly synthesizes the musical and literary obsessions of Palo Alto. Difference and... 05-SR 484CD $17.00
Suzuki, Damo / Network featuring Elysian Quartet - Floating Element "Live archive release. From the innovative vocalist of legendary Krautrock group, Can, comes this incredible live album recorded in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 2007. This amazing performance combines Damo's inimitable, improvisational vocalizations with a modern classical string quartet to create music that defies categorization and is utterly riveting. Damo was born in Japan but spent the late ‘60s wandering around Europe and ending up in Germany. When Malcolm Mooney left.. 28-PRLE308.2 $14.00
Burger, Robert - The Grid CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “Composer and multi-instrumentalist Rob Burger has traveled down many paths during his lengthy, productive career, from being a driving force behind the chamber jazz-folk group Tin Hat Trio to performing on albums by Iron & Wine, Tracy Chapman, Norah Jones, John Zorn, and countless others. As a solo artist, he's released an album as part of Tzadik Records' Radical Jewish Culture series, and another for the same label comprising a selection of his music for film scores. The Grid (released by Western... 23-WV 183 $7.00
Black Top Presents Hamid Drake / Elaine Mitchener / William Parker / Orphy Robinson / Pat Thomas - Some Good News 2 x CDs “Double-CD documenting the magic meeting of one of the all-time great rhythm sections in jazz: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker, with London's brilliant Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas) and Elaine Mitchener. Across two sets the quintet are infectiously energetic and inspired, striding from synchronized heavy groove to star bright solos, whilst incorporating dub effects, guembri, and sumptuous blues piano playing. Formed by Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas but always... 05-ROKU 025CD $20.00
Virtual Company - Virtual Company "An in concert, Virtual Company performance from IST (on this occasion the duo of Simon H. Fell and Mark Wastell due to the snow-bound absence of Rhodri Davies) together with pre-recorded fragments of Derek Bailey and Will Gaines. IST's Virtual Company calls on "the powers of improvisation" (D. Bailey) to interface with the two musicians of IST with dozens of musical fragments drawn from both Bailey and Gaines performing solo. These are combined with sections of silence of unforeseeable length, and... 05-CORE 012CD $16.00
Last Dream Of The Morning - Crucial Anatomy John Butcher - tenor and soprano saxophones John Edwards - double bass Mark Sanders – percussion "With players of this calibre -- all working at the very pinnacle of European improv -- it hardly matters: the level of rapport and collective virtuosity is astonishing." --Jazzwise “Last Dream Of The Morning is the new band from three UK masters of contemporary improvised music -- they released a trio CD under this title in 2017 (Relative Pitch), now choosing it for their band name. 05-TROST 196CD $18.00
North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon CD "The band/group(led by Craig Fortnam) have been described as 'unique english chamber music' which, at best, only describes the tools of their trade, you'll hear chamber strings, choral music, english folkiness, romantic poetry, experimental organs... THM 001 $16.00
Mitchell, Joni - Live At The Nippon Budokan Tokyo CD (Mega Blowout Sale) “Throughout the 70s, Joni Mitchell established herself as one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, with albums such as Blue, Court And Spark and The Hissing Of Summer Lawns pushing the boundaries of what was expected of the “singer-songwriter”. Moving to a new label, Geffen, at the start of the 80s, and embarking on yet more wide-ranging excursions that took in the burgeoning synth-pop sound, Mitchell staged the Refuge tour of 1983, in support of her then latest album, Wild Things Run... 23-FMGZ 107CD $7.00
Les Rallizes Denudes / Taj Mahal Travellers - OZ Days Live 1973 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Japanese experimental group Les Rallizes Denudes are the ultimate rock 'n' roll enigma. Sometimes referred to as Hadaka no Rallizes or even as Hadaka no Rarizu, each appellation a variant of the name "Fucked Up and Naked", which equates to being high on hard drugs, they are seen as noise-rock pioneers, yet sifting fact from fiction isn't easy with their oddball tale. Emerging from the radical hippie communes of Kyoto during the late 1960s, the band was formed in November 1967 by university student... 05-FOX 018LP $21.00
Yama & the Karma Dusters - Up From the Sewers "Super political, rocking, anti-establishment communal band (c. 1970) put together as a result of the Kent State Massacre. As the Euphoria Blimpworks Band, fronted by Howard Berkman from morose garage punksters the Knaves, they played demonstrations... 18-Lion 636 $17.00
Forebrace - Steeped “Steeped is the second album release from Forebrace, the welcome follow-up to Bad Folds. For those who delighted in that album, the good news is that the quartet's line-up remains unchanged, and the balance between composed and improvised music is as before, with composed pieces credited to Forebrace's leader and clarinetist, Alex Ward, alternating with improvisations credited to the whole group. The big difference between Steeped and its predecessor is that this album was recorded live in concert... RPR 1052 $13.00
Orme - Florian vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) After their 3 more commercially oriented releases, Orme took a breather, & came back with a surprise; they reinvented themselves as a basically acoustic quartet (vocals, violins, cellos, acoustic guitar, piano, percussion/drums) and came back with this excellent album. I know some synth-crazy prog-heads don't share my opinion, but I love the low-key demeanor of this album, & this is one of my favorite of their works. "One of the features that make certain rock truly 'progressive' is the... 27-VMLP 194 $28.00
Formanek, Peter / Michael Formanek - Dyads Peter Formanek - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet Michael Formanek - Double Bass I happily saw the tour mentioned below in 11/19 and can attest to its vitality! “Michael and Peter Formanek started making music and improvising together before Peter started school. Regular visits to their home from friends and colleagues like Tim Berne, Jim Black, Marty Ehrlich and many others only served to normalize this as being an essential part of human interaction. During much of their time living. OOYH 008 $10.00
Acid Seven - Miyako Ochi / Minami Masato / Taj Mahal Travellers / Les Rallizes Denudes - Oz Days Live 2 x CDs (Mega Blowout Sale) "Without a doubt, this is one of the holy grails of the Japanese early seventies lysergic psych scene, together with Speed Glue & Shinki, Sato Masahiko & Soundbreakers and People/Ceremony. Privately released in a tiny edition on the Oz Records label way back in 1973, the original artifact was and is till this day the only legitimate recording on vinyl to feature the Rallizes and Acid Seven, in addition to a side each from Minami Masato and the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers. New double-CD ... 18-OZ 01-02 $13.00
Hamster Theatre - Carnival Detournment This is the never-before released 'original Bob Drake master', which the band didn't use the first time. Is it hugely different? I didn't think so, although the band (and Bob!) do, so we are mentioning it... RUNE146 $15.00
Last Knight - Talking To The Moon 3 x CDs with booklet (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) This is a modern, symphonic rock album with a loose concept and a ton of players! Jose Manuel Medina (Mandalaband): Keyboards, Piano, Drums & Orchestrations David Rohl (Mandalaband): Main Vocals, Piano & Orchestrations Marc Atkinson (Riversea, Mandalaband, Nine Stones Close): Main Vocals Lisa Fury (Karnataka): Main Vocals Julia Malyasova: Main Vocals Yann Zhenchak (Azazello): Main Vocals Esther Yuste: Main Vocals Ashley Mulford: (Riversea, Mandalaband, Sad Café).. 23-LK 01-03 $34.00
Cadenta Nova Danica - Mc Gub Gub / Ode to Skt John / Pladepip 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 revelatory album positions John Tchicai's large ensemble, Cadentia Nova Danica (CND), in the broad context of international new music activity. All previous releases by the group presented them as a free jazz unit. There were only three -- their self-titled release on Polydor (1968); Afrodisiaca (MPS, 1969); and Live at Jazzhus Montmartre (Storyville), recorded in 1967 but not released until 2016. They are all on jazz labels, so the bias is perhaps understandable. CND was a great free jazz group... 05-2FFCND177 $29.00
Ward, Alex - Where We Were ALEX WARD: clarinet (tracks 1, 2 & 4) and electric guitar (tracks 2, 3 & 4) CHARLOTTE KEEFFE: trumpet and flugelhorn OTTO WILLBERG: double bass ANDREW LISLE: drums “Item 4 is Alex Ward's latest ensemble to feature his compositions for improvisers. His previous work in this field with ensembles such as Predicate, Forebrace and the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet has been described as "deft and utterly mesmeric" (Philip Clark, The Guardian review of Alex Ward Quintet "Glass Shelves And ... RPR 1106 $13.00
Taylor, Cecil - Corona CD Cecil Taylor, piano Sunny Murray, drums and the voices of Dominic Duval, Tristan Honsinger, Jeff Hoyer, Chris Jonas, Jackson Krall, Elliott Levin, Chris Matthay, Harri Sjördström “A grand reunion of sorts in Berlin on the first day of November, 1996. Under the auspices of Free Music Production, Cecil Taylor, the great pianist and one of the premier musical minds of the 20th century, joined forces with his early comrade, drummer Sunny Murray, for a set of improvised duets. Murray... CvsD 077 $14.00
Needlepoint - Aimless Mary vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Note: SLIGHTLY dinged corners. That's life in vinyl-land. This is the third album by this very excellent, very interesting, songs-with-vocals format, electric jazz/rock band, which means they come out somewhere between Caravan or Wigwam in the song department and Tony Williams Lifetime/Mahavishnu Orchestra/Elephant9 in the jazz/rock department! The bassist is from Elephant9 and the drummer is from the Rune Grammofon bands Humcrush and Food. I thought that this was basically really... BJK LP 104 $26.00
Fefer, Avram - Testament Avram Fefer alto and tenor saxophones Marc Ribot guitar Eric Revis bass Chad Taylor drums “Testament, is the kind of project that excites and entices even on paper. First there’s Fefer, the saxophonist and composer who has been an important contributor to the adventurous New York scene for the past quarter-century, and whose collaborators have included Bobby Few, Archie Shepp, the Last Poets, Sunny Murray, Tony Allen, Reggie Washington, Roy Campbell and many others. Joining CF 537 $15.00
Swifan Eolh & The Mudra Choir - The Key "Some artists just live to push the envelope like they’re working at the post office - and where would we be without them? For when it comes to invention, it is the eclectic and the eccentric that tend to cook some of the most delectable of stews in the pools of creativity; ones which the more adventurous of us shall happily devour. We certainly cannot speak of juicing the fruits of the creative trees without dropping a reference to Progressive Rock – for Prog. tends to be the Yggdrasil of musical... Apollon ARP 019 $15.00
Virelles, David - Igbo Alakorin (The Singer's Grove) Vol. I & II Igbó Alákọrin (a phrase in Yoruba which can be loosely translated as The Singer’s Grove) is the realization of pianist David Virelles’s long-held dream to document the under-sung musicians of his birthplace, Santiago de Cuba. Virelles, who was named the #1 Rising Jazz Pianist in the 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll, is one of the most in-demand pianists on the contemporary jazz scene, recording with the likes of Henry Threadgill, Chris Potter, and Tomasz Stanko. He also has four prior releases under his own... 28-PIRC78.2 $16.00
North Sea Radio Orchestra - North Sea Radio Orchestra CD "North Sea Radio Orchestra (generally abbreviated to NSRO) is an English contemporary music ensemble and cross-disciplinary chamber orchestra (plus chorus). The NSRO was set up mainly as a vehicle for the compositions of its musical director... Oof 006 $16.00
75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band - Live At Tubby’s 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) 75 Dollar Bill is the wonderful band (ranging in size from the core duo to much larger lineups) of percussionist Rick Brown, formerly of V-Effect, Curlew, Fish & Rose, etc and guitarist Che Chen. It's a really great; it's different from but absolutely in the same kind of league and sound as Horse Lords, taking aspects of the Theatre Of Eternal Music idea into rock territory! This live recording has the largest version of the band yet and it’s pretty glorious.... 28-GPFT103.1 $30.00
Various Artists - Senza Decoro: Liebe & Anarchia in Switzerland 1980-1990 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) A new compilation explores the far reaches of the post-punk, experimental and electronic landscape in Switzerland in the period 1980-1990. 39-CD-STRUT-230LP $35.00
King Crimson - The Elements Tour Box 2019 : 2 x CDs (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Two CD set containing six previously unreleased tracks. The Elements tour box was originally devised specifically as a one-off edition for the 2014 King Crimson tour but has since become an in-demand series with subsequent editions in 2015, 16, 17 and 18 becoming firm sellers. As with previous releases in the series, the full variety of King Crimson's music can be represented over two CDs with extracts from rehearsals, new live recordings, elements from studio recordings, full tracks, alternate.... 28-DGMI7906.2 $24.00