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McGregor, Chris - Up to Earth CD Half-correct pirated versions of test-pressings of this album have circulated among collectors of Brit-jazz for literally 4 decades(!) - I had a cassette of one such 'test pressing' for over 20 years (on the other side was the unreleased session that we eventually released as "Way Back When" by John Surman!) - but this is the first time that the entire album has ever been heard - and from the original master tapes! Includes short but very insightful commentary from the album's producer, Joe Boyd. This... 39-FLED3069 $16.00
McGregor, Chris - Our Prayer CD Half-correct, pirated versions of test-pressings of this album have circulated among collectors of Brit-jazz for literally 4 decades(!) - I had a cassette of one-such 'test pressing' for over 20 years (on the other side was the unreleased session that... 39-CD-FLED-3070 $16.00
Branch, Jaimie - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) CD “In July of 2022, just one month before Jaimie Branch’s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem (IARC) studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and... 39-CD-IARC-0066 $16.00
Gumbert, Ulrich/Günter Baby Sommer - La Paloma Ulrich Gumpert: piano / Günter Baby Sommer: drums, percussion. "Ulrich Gumpert and Günter Baby Sommer with their second duo-release on Intakt Records: "La Paloma" strikes a wide arco: blues, boogie-woogie, hard bop, arrangements of German folk... 34-Intakt 198 $19.00
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
Carvalhais, Hugo - Particula Dominique Pifarély, violin / Emile Parisien, soprano sax / Gabriel Pinto, piano / Hugo Carvalhais, double bass / Mário Costa, drums. "After the success obtained by his debut CD, “Nebulosa”, a couple of years ago, expectations were high... Clean Feed CF 253 $17.00
Moondog - The Viking Of Sixth Avenue 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) Eagerly, hugely anticipated - at least by me - new release of some of the earliest, rarest material by Moondog. Moondog was a mostly self-taught blind composer who was a fixture on streetcorners in Manhatthan from the 1940's through the early 1970's... 05-HJR 018LP $27.00
Tagaq, Tanya - Anuraaqtuq Tanya Tagaq : voix Jean Martin : batterie, ordinateur, trumophone Jesse Zubot : violon, alto Recorded at the 26th FIMAV festival on May 23, 2010. "Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq redefined the idiom with passion-filled. Victo 121 $15.00
Various Artists - Jazz On A Summer’s Day (Mega Blowout Sale) The soundtrack to one of the greatest jazz feature films ever made. Filmed over the four days of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. This CD reissue features 16 inspired and very musically diverse performances, especially for a ‘jazz festival’ programmed in 1958, which makes it all the more of a wonderful time capsule 60 years later! And Anita! And her hat! 1. Train and the River - The Jimmy Giuffre Trio 2. Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk 3. Loose Walk - Sonny Stitt 4. Sweet Georgia Brown... 23-SNAP 191 $7.00
Fresu, Paolo - Mistico Mediterraneo "Sketches of Corsica: the radiant lyric trumpet of Paolo Fresu glides across the massed voices of A Filetta, the singers who are both trailblazers and keepers of tradition in the realm of Corsican polyphony. The ancient and the experimental blend... 28-ECM 2203 $18.00
Frith, Fred / Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble CD Fred Frith - guitar, composition Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles: Berten D'Hollander – flute Charles Michiels – clarinet Adrien Lambinet – trombone Hughes Kolp – guitar Pierre Quiriny – percussion Claire Bourdet et Laurent Houque – violins Karel Coninx – viola Jean-Paul Zanutel – cello Jean-Paul Dessy - conductor "From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what 05-SR 536CD $17.00
Frith, Fred / Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Fred Frith - guitar, composition Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles Berten D'Hollander – flute Charles Michiels – clarinet Adrien Lambinet – trombone Hughes Kolp – guitar Pierre Quiriny – percussion Claire Bourdet et Laurent Houque – violins Karel Coninx – viola Jean-Paul Zanutel – cello Jean-Paul Dessy - conductor "Something about this Landscape was commissioned by Ars Musica in 2018. I composed the piece during a residency at Lou Harrison's straw-bale ho 05-SR 536LP $29.00
Douglas, Dezron - Atalaya vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Dezron Douglas – basses George Burton – piano and rhodes Joe Dyson Jr. – drums Emilio Modeste – saxophones Melvis Santa – vocals and percussion on “Wheeping Birch” “Followers of contemporary jazz might recognize Dezron for his bass work behind Pharoah Sanders, Louis Hayes, or Ravi Coltrane. Others might know him as the newest full-time member of the Trey Anastasio Band. Steady International Anthem listeners might remember him from the New York side of Makaya McCraven's... 39-LP-IARC-0058 $26.00
Douglas, Dezron - Atalaya CD Dezron Douglas – basses George Burton – piano and rhodes Joe Dyson Jr. – drums Emilio Modeste – saxophones Melvis Santa – vocals and percussion on “Wheeping Birch” “Followers of contemporary jazz might recognize Dezron for his bass work behind Pharoah Sanders, Louis Hayes, or Ravi Coltrane. Others might know him as the newest full-time member of the Trey Anastasio Band. Steady International Anthem listeners might remember him from the New York side of Makaya McCraven's... 39-CD-IARC-0058 $16.00
Osborne, Mike - Starting Fires: Live at the 100 Club 1970 CD Mike Osborne - alto sax Alan Skidmore - tenor sax Harry Miller - double bass Louis Moholo - drums From Mike Osborne’s personal archives, this was mastered by Mike King for release on his Real Recordings, but he didn’t live to see it happen. But now it has happened! A sensational, previously unheard session by legendary British free jazz saxophonist Mike Osborne, recorded in February 1970 at London's famous 100 Club. “...wild and free and very, very beautiful.” - ★★★ 26-BPJSTCD 015 $17.00
Black Artist Group - For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, December 1972 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Oliver Lake – sax Baikida Carroll - trumpet Floyd LeFlore - trumpet Joseph Bowie - trombone Charles 'Bobo' Shaw – drums BAG are one of the missing links (unless you own their insanely rare album from 50 years ago) of African-American creative / improvisational music and it’s great to finally hear them! “The release of BAG's first album since 1973, "For Peace and Liberty" was recorded in Paris in Dec. 1972 when the musicians had recently arrived from St Louis. BAG 05-WWSCD 091LP $39.00
Bisbâyé - Le Sens de la Fin / The Sense of an Ending CD (Mega Blowout Sale) Jean-Pierre Larouche : Guitar Nathanaël Labrèche : Guitar Julien Daoust : Drums Hugo Veilleux : Drums Vincent Savary : Bass "...a hyper-caffeinated...all-out assault with...interlocking polyrhythms, frequent time changes, and dense riffing....Thumbs way up." – Avant Music News... Rune 474 $3.00
Abbs, Tom - The Animated Adventures of Knox CD + DVD "A two-disc set featuring a DVD movie and its CD soundtrack. A combination of avant-jazz and avant-cinema produced, directed and edited by New York-based multi-instrumentalist/filmmaker Tom Abbs and based on his narrative and video graphic score... 482-1039 $17.00
Minimum Vital - Air Caravan Thierry Payssan – keyboards Jean-Luc Payssan – guitars, vocal Eric Rebeyrol – bass Charly Berna – drums This very long lived, mostly instrumental French band are still led by the Payssan brothers and are enjoying 35 years of activity with this new release. As a little birdie said to me, “Quick thing. When you put the minimum vital on your site, say somehow that the first vocal cut is NOT representative of the rest of the really, really strong disc”, and as always, one should.. 01-FGBG 5018 $15.00
Xao Seffcheque-Ja - Nein - Vielleicht Kommt Sehr Gut: A Selection Of Electronic Beats 1980-82 "Austrian national Xaõ Seffcheque was at the right place at the right time: Düsseldorf at the end of the '70s was not only the nucleus of German punk, but it also enjoyed a fruitful symbiosis with the parallel development of a synthesizer-supported side-line. However, in historical retrospective, forty years after the punk big-bang and 35 years after the electronic substitute-revolution in Germany, there is the question: What impact did Palais Schaumburg, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Liaisons... 05-BB 256CD $18.00
Chadbourne, Eugene/Warren Smith - Odd Time Eugene Chadbourne (12-string banjo, banjo, vocals), Warren Smith (drums, tympani, marimba, percussion, vibes) "Eugene Chadbourne is like a banjo-slinging 21st-century incarnation of Mark Twain. He underlines the absurdity of the war on drugs... Engine 043 $10.00
Schweizer, Irene / Joey Baron - Live! Irène Schweizer: Piano Joey Baron: Drums "A meeting of two jazz giants: In 2015, Joey Baron, one of the most sought after drummers on the New York scene met the First Lady of European jazz, Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer, in concert in Zürich. During his long career Baron has played with bands such as Naked City and Masada and worked with musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot. Schweizer had already performed and recorded with the best drummers on the... 34-Intakt 293 $19.00
Cooper, Mike - Life & Death in Paradise + Milan Live Acoustic 2018 : 2 x CDs “Mike Cooper wrote his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain, an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether. A chance encounter and a last-ditch record deal convinced him to make one last album, which he recorded in 1974 at Pathway Studios in London, with "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World," featuring the inventive South African jazz rhythm section of... 28-PDIB70.2 $18.00
Various Artists - African Pearls: Sénégal: Echo Musical 2 x CDs "A 2CD collection of music from '70s Senegal. More than any other country in West Africa, Senegal has been strongly influenced by Cuban music coming to Dakar through Cuban sailors. Widely broadcast, the Afro-Cuban repertoire stands at the bottom of... 05-Syllart 6147482 $22.00
Moondog - Round The World Of Sound: Dedalus & Muzzix Play Moondog Madrigals This is a collection of some of Moondog's 'rounds', which were most notably recorded on his final Columbia Masterworks album "Moondog 2", as performed by a large ensemble of fine players! Didier Aschour, guitar and artistic director; Christian Pruvost, trumpet and co-director; Stéphane Garin, percussion, glockenspiel; Peter Orins, drums; Vincent Bouchot and Nathalie Duong, voice; Sakina Abdou, alto & baritone saxophones, recorder, spinet; Julien Favreuille, sopranino & tenor saxophones, flute... 05-NW 80774CD $17.00
Circulasione Totale Orchestra - Bandwidth 3 x CDs "This international improvising ensemble has been going since 1984 with various members, but a couple of years ago leader and legendary Norwegian sax and clarinet player Frode Gjerstad handpicked a new band of musicians that has meant something special... 05--RUNEGRAMMOFONRCD2089 $33.00
Various Artists - Sicily Jass: The World's First Man In Jazz CD + DVD Since I have a personal interest in early jazz, this was a great, great watch and listen personally. This is in English, with subtitles in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, Japanese. "A journey inside the Sicilian chromosome of jazz, forgotten by the official history; the incredible story of a Sicilian who became the world's first man in jazz. Sicily Jass: The World's First Man In Jazz is a film directed by Michele Cinque, about the life, the music, and times of Nick La Rocca, a son of... 05-GF 2799CD $23.00
Various Artists - World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55 “This is the fifth release in Honest Jon's series of albums exploring vintage recordings held in the EMI Hayes Archive. This album uncovers the dizzy beginnings of the golden age of African music zinging with the social and political ferment of the independence movement and anti-colonialism, after the Second World War and the daredevil origins of Congolese rumba -- the entire continent's most popular music in the '60s and '70s. The new music grew in concert with a burgeoning night life especially in.. 05-HJR 040CD $18.00
Lillinger, Christian/Grund - First Reason Christian Lillinger (d), Joachim Kühn (p), Jonas Westergaard (b), Robert Landfermann (b), Tobias Delius (reeds), Wanja Slavin (reeds) "Yes, this is organic music, with the low frequencies of two basses forging the ground (and that explains the. CLEANFEEDCF142 $17.00
Rev, Martin - Martin Rev vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Martin Rev's eponymous debut solo record was released in 1980, not long after the second Suicide LP appeared. It is one of the most seminal albums to have emerged in the early years of electronic music? The tension between his hypnotic drum machine salvoes and Alan Vega's irrepressibly expressive voice on stage or in the studio created an electrifying mix, and yet these six supremely minimal compositions were no less impactful without Vega's voice. There is an enchanting simplicity to the beautiful... 05-BB 440 LP $31.00
Various Artists - 156 Strings Curated by guitarist Henry Kaiser, 156 Strings is his personal selection of acoustic guitarists "who sound like themselves and have something special to say." The 19 guitarists here are both well known & unknown: Duck Baker, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Rao... RUNE163 $15.00
Castro & the Young Elders, Nick - Come Into Our House "It seems appropriate that California folkie Nick Castro has invitingly titled his new record Come Into Our House, since it's clear from the opening notes that he wants his listeners to feel comfortable. For his third album, Castro has again returned t... SAAH042 $12.00
Leandre, Joelle / Pascal Contet - Freeway CD Joélle Leandre, bass/Pascal Contet, accordion. "This pair of great French musicians had a previous duo recording in 1994, but it's now difficult to find. It was such a marvellous encounter that a second session has been greatly anticipated. .. CF 080 $15.00
Heldon - Interface 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 brilliant moment occurs right at the end of Heldon's sixth album, Interface. The album's final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a roaring tornado of fiercely mutating drum patterns, effervescent synth work, and guitar licks that wail into the atmosphere like an abandoned astronaut. Then, after nearly 19 minutes of highly futuristic avant-garde space rock, this ultramodern music fades out and is replaced by a concluding few seconds of traditional blues-rock guitar. "We were... 05-BB 330LP $25.00
Lard Free - III/Spirale Malax vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Third & final of the original three Lard Free albums. Lard Free, led by Gilbert Artman, were a legendary, early progressive/avant/electronic instrumental group. Along with Heldon this is as close as the French came to "krautrock". This is probably my personal favorite of all of them, & I like all of them a lot! A classic! "Chaotic heavy sound like as early German Rock. The original LP was released on Cobra in 1977. Featuring: Gilbert Artman (orgue, piano, arp synthetiseur, vibraphone, drums... 18-RPC 050 $30.00
Charles, Xavier/Diane Labrosse/Kristoff K. Roll/Martin Tetreault - Tout Le Monde En Place Pour Un Set Americain This was one of the more extraordinary sets up at Victo last year, since it was as visually stimulating as it was sound-wise. This brilliant quintet of electro-acoustic French and French-Canadian improvisers performed on an elevated circular stage in ... VICTO090 $15.00
Mouvements - Mouvements "The first ever reissue of Mouvements, originally released in 1973. An impossible to find artifact from the Swiss underground avant-garde scene of Geneva, originally released as a private boxset limited to 150 copies in 1973, only sold at art galleries. A unique, instrumental mix of free-jazz, classical, psych-rock, folk, improv, kraut, funk, and musique-concrete with tape effects. In the late 60s, musician/guitar player Christian Oestreicher, "a savage in the era of twist and free jazz", met artist and... 18-MENT 021CD $18.00
Perrey & Kingsley - Vanguard Visionaries (special) These two were pioneers in terms of introducing electronic music to a wider audience in the mid 60s, using early electronic instruments and synthesis in commercials and etc. Their music is extremely dated now, but also extremely charmingly so... 02-VANGUARD73165 $5.00
Various Artists - Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word Hipsters claiming progressive as their own! "Whoever came up with the over-pretentious, collective term 'Progressive Rock' couldn't have been less forward thinking. Prog rock in its truest form was not a 'restrictive' genre -- it was a movement that u... 05-DELAY6803 $17.00
Peloquin Sauvageau - Laisse-Nous Vous Embresser O? Vous Avez Mal "Reissue of the classic 1972 Quebec masterpiece. Includes 'Monsieur L'Indien' and 'Mama Vagina'. When it was originally released, this record was 30 years ahead of its time. Launched in 1972, Laissez-nous vous embrasser ou a fait mal is one of the most... 05-MUCHOGUSTO004 $16.00
Deux Maisons - For Sale Luís Vicente trumpet / Théo Ceccaldi violin, viola / Valentin Ceccaldi cello / Marco Franco drums. "The avant-jazz/improvised music scene is very much alive in Europe. One superlative example is this new quartet project reuniting two French and.. CF 320 $15.00
Mongrain, Erik - Fates Erik Mongrain is a tapping guitarist who has gotten a lot of attention for his very good, Michael Hedges-influenced sound. He's had huge amounts of views on YouTube which you can see here... 21-MVD4585 $16.00
Deutsche Wertarbeit - Deutsche Wertarbeit 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) Six cosmiche/Berlin-style synthesizer pieces by syntheisist Dorothea Raukes, with 1981-type digital touches. Overall, this is a very, very solid electronic music album. "There are times when the name of a musical project is in perfect harmony... 05-BB 047LP $24.00
Demierre, Jacques - Breaking Stone "Jacques Demierre is a Swiss composer, improviser, pianist and installation artist who has written music for orchestra, soloists, choirs, balloons, dancers, chamber ensembles, museum installations and more. Blending Swiss traditions and sensibilities... TZ 9001 $13.00
Seffer, Yochk'o - Chromophonie DVD Note: This video is a documentary and is all in French. Even so, there are a lot of amazing musical excerpts and for the already commited Yochk'o fan, this is a no brainer purchase. Yochk'o Seffer always created varied and interesting works... 01-Musea 9028 $18.00
Various Artists - Veterans of the French Underground Meet La Jeune-Garde AKA "The young hipsters meet the original hipsters." Here are veteran (nearly all French) musicians from the post 1968 movement, all of whom are still active alongside their relatively young 'heirs', gathered together for 13 exclusive collaborations... 01-Gazul 8859 $16.00
Ranta, Michael - Transits Volume 1 : 2 x CDs “American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta is a legendary figure who has worked with some of the most significant names of 20th century music but despite this and impressive body of work of his own, he has remained an obscure figure. Important Records presents Transits Volume 1 the first in a series of releases by composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies documenting never-before-heard chamber works mostly composed in the 1970s while Ranta was living in Taiwan. Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds &... 05-IMPREC 535CD $17.00
Guilbeault, Normand - Hommage A Mingus - Live At Upstairs 2008 “Tears came to my eyes when I started reading Normand Guilbeault’s transcriptions of tunes like What Love and The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. I guess a pilgrim reaching Mecca for the first time must be experiencing similar feelings, or an art lover... AM185 $17.00
Koepper, Jeffrey - Momentium (special) Jeffrey sent me this CD out of the blue; I'd never heard of him, even though he's a homeboy from Baltimore. This is an album of electronic space-music and it's a good one. He's definitely influenced by the classics, but he also has a more modern sound ... AIRSPACE002 $9.00
Heldon - Interface “A brilliant moment occurs right at the end of Heldon's sixth album, Interface. The album's final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a roaring tornado of fiercely mutating drum patterns, effervescent synth work, and guitar licks that wail into the atmosphere like an abandoned astronaut. Then, after nearly 19 minutes of highly futuristic avant-garde space rock, this ultramodern music fades out and is replaced by a concluding few seconds of traditional blues-rock guitar. "We were... 05-BB 330CD $18.00