John Chantler / Steve Noble / Seymour Wright – Front And Above
CD – 1703 Skivbolaget In the last few years there seems to be a return to some free form and improvisation styles. The reasons are not clear, but the themes played in between the expressive freedom and...
View ArticleChristian Kobi – Atta!
CD – Monotype Records Under the Monotype Records brand (it is exactly their ninety third release) Christian Kobi collects for the occasion three compositions on tenor sax, one on soprano sax and for...
View ArticleStreifenjunko – Like Driving
CD – Sofa The saxophonist Espen Reinertsen and the trumpeter Eivind Lønning have played together since 2005 under the moniker Streifenjunko. Apart from their studio works and their work with the...
View ArticleXavier Charles, Jacques Di Donato – ILEX
CD – Protagoniste The clarinetists Xavier Charles and Jacques Di Donato had already worked together in the nineties, releasing also an album, “Du Slavon Glagol”, published in 1996 by Khôkhôt. Now they...
View Article11min – Snow
Vinyl – Weather The name of the duo doesn’t refer to the track’s duration. 11 is the moniker of Jiyeon Kim, a sound artist and pianist collaborating here with the drummer Sangyong Min, another talented...
View ArticlePalo Alto – Difference and Repetition / A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze
CD – Sub Rosa Compared to the previous decade, the eighties were a period of political and philosophical retreat. However, during this period, many experimental trends were still in play, especially...
View ArticlePrins & Simonis – Mothers Of Exit
CD – z6records Gert-Jan Prins and Lukas Simonis are two experienced and well-known improvisational musicians. For their first collaboration they created some harsh and dissonant productions, run...
View ArticleRandi Pontoppidan & Thomas Buckner – Voicescapes
CD – Chant Records When two improvisational singers have the opportunity to meld techniques and approaches to performance, they are able to recreate their own art, triggering a new language of musical...
View ArticleOtomax – Ways To Prepare Pets For War
vinyl + magazine – MOAB A result of an accurate selection of tracks from different recordings of concerts and rehearsals, Ways To Prepare Pets For War by Otomax follows a specific rule: all the...
View ArticleAndy Guhl – Flatwise Huddle – Performing And Expanding Cracked Everyday...
2LP – Edizioni Periferia Andy Guhl’s career as an improvisational musician went from strength to strength in the 1970s but it wasn’t until 1983 that the Swiss experimenter and architect stopped using...
View ArticleBellenger | Eisl | Wurzwallner | Zachariadis – One Hundred Thousand Copies Sold
LP – Moozak The Austrian electronic experimenter Nikos Zachariadis and the French free form turntablist Alexandre Bellenger combined musical skills for this work. The first six tracks on the A side...
View ArticleThe Quiet Club – The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes
cassette + folding card box and 4 photo cards – farpoint recordings | K7 The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes is a release from Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy, an Irish sound art and improvisation duo formed...
View ArticleMarc Baron | Jean-Philippe Gross – Black, Pink and Yellow noises
CD – Eich The large number of twenty tracks compose “Black, Pink and Yellow noises”, an album made in partnership by the French artists Marc Baron and Jean-Philippe Gross. The first is an alto...
View ArticleLangham Research Centre and John Butcher – Six Hands at an Open Door
CD – Persistence of Sound The Langham Research Center is a collective dedicated to analogue electronic music experimentation, innovation and performance and, following in the tradition of concrete...
View ArticleMarginal Consort マージナル・コンソート – 06 06 16 (St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin)
3CD Boxset + Booklet – 901 Editions Imagine an apparently chaotic set with four improvisation musicians and tables piled high with mixers, effectors, steel containers, stringed instruments, and...
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