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Paul Baylis | Jon Howard | Stuart McCallum
New release from Manchester-based collaboration featuring the talents of Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orchestra), Paul Baylis (Carmen) & Jon Howard (J. J. Howard). These artists present over an hour of free-flowing, melodic music free from the constraints of traditional composition.
Henry Kuntz | IINFIINIITY
“The process of multi-track creation has been an ongoing musical exploration and experiment, the results of which have consistently surprised and delighted me. I hope you enjoy listening.” — Henry Kuntz
Norbert Blei | Jim Spector | The Quiet Time: Door County in Winter
The Quiet Time: Door County in Winter. Readings from Norb Blei’s DOOR STEPS (The Days, The Seasons) Original music for guitar by Jim Spector.
Gerald Locklin (poems) & Beth Wilson (stories) | Modest Aspirations | Lummox Press
“The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English acknowledges that Gerald Locklin is ‘a central figure in the vitality of Los Angeles writing.’ That sentence may actually understate his importance.” — Gerald Haslam
Jealousy Party | Live
Disturbed and unsociable electronics, squirts of songs, saxs, laptop and CD’s in flames and histrionic vocal manipulations…
… With a punk attitude!
Udo Schindler + Gunter Pretzel | 3. Salon für Klang + Kunst
Third in the series “Salon für Klang und Kunst”. One track. 25 Minutes. Live.
Recorded & mixed by Udo Schindler.
arch.musik S002/D & metropolis records
Sureau | The Leuven Concert
The SUREAU trio is playing free spontaneous improvisations based on mutual listening, musical invention and sound exploration. Double bass, voice and percussion.
Mirio Cosottini, Andrea Melani, Tonino Miano & Alessio Pisani | Cardinal
“Very beautiful and very, very sophisticated”. — Andrea Ferraris – Sands Zine, November 2009.
Five Rooms | No Room For Doubt
Gianni Mimmo, Angelo Contini, John Russell, Jean Michel van Schouwburg, Andrea Serrapiglio, Paolo Falascone
Todd Moore | The Riddle Of The Wooden Gun | Lummox Press
“Literary outlaw and maverick poet, Todd Moore is a leader of the new romantic, a visionary wordslinger cut from the same bloody cloth as Cormac McCarthy.” — S.A. Griffin
Cristiano Calcagnile and Monica Demuru | Blastula | Scarnoduo
A compelling, dialogic force, crossing intimate and universal depths, with a huge re-combinatory possibility. Words are sounds coming from ancestral tales and future lines. Sounds are words going to inner places, touching outer limits. A great story that really deserves to be told again and again.
Frantz Loriot and Tonino Miano | Ulysses
“A gaze into the timeless concept of journey and self discovery. An idyllic and haunting musical voyage where Loriot and Miano make use of all the tools at their disposal to read in between the lines of Homer’s creation.”
RD Armstrong | Fire and Rain | Selected Poems 1993 – 2007 | Volume Two
“To not recommend the work of RD Armstrong to new readers would be sinful and sad, because here is a poet with a voice that will challenge even the most hard-ass critics of poetry.” — B. L. Kennedy
RD Armstrong | Fire and Rain | Selected Poems 1993 – 2007 | Volume One
“For Armstrong the Blues are not played, but lived – his poems are the observations of a life lived raw. He hides no sin, expects no redemption and asks no forgiveness…” — Bill Gainer – poet, editor and publisher
Edoardo Marraffa and Tonino Miano | Edus Tonus
“A bold duo with a pungent, forward-pushing sound, where familiar lines are blurred into a tumultuous outpouring of dynamic, and often humorous gestures.”
Anthony Braxton Quartet | Standards (Brussels) 2006
Anthony Braxton’s periodical incursions in standards repertory are always a new way to think classical structures.
Henry Kuntz and Don Marvel | One One & One
“I hope this record will serve to introduce Don’s genius to the many who I know will want to hear how he works. I am grateful to him for helping to bring all of my music full-circle and into complete contemporaneity.” — Henry Kuntz
Mirio Cosottini & Tonino Miano | The Curvature of Pace
“The notes splatter like fat rain drops on hot pavement [...] Miano and Cosottini stand out”. — D. Dupont, Cadence Magazine
Jessica Jones Quartet | Word
Lou Grassi, Tony Jones, Jessica Jones, Dayna Stephens | featuring Candace Jones
Connie Crothers and Bill Payne | Conversations
“Rather than a high-energy blowout, these collaborations leave space, are generally thoughtful and feature close communication between the two musicians, whether they are echoing each others thoughts or offering a pair of contrasting voices.” — Scott Yanow, L.A. Jazz Scene
Gianni Mimmo, Xabier Iriondo | Your Very Eyes
Performance recorded early on a sunny dawn, June the 24th, 2007, in an ancient 10th century cave-church in a magic stone town named Matera, South of Italy.
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Jean Demey, John Russell | The Mercelis Concert (Brussels 2006)
A radically genuine kind of expression. Unpedigreed music that can turn our mood for the better in the space of a few minutes. — Massimo Ricci
Schindler + Richter | Kleine Klassiker
Udo Schindler | Bb-clarinet, soprano, tenor saxophone, | Dr. Stephan Richter | guitars.
This is house (construction) music. Frank Lloyd said “architecture is frozen music”.
Gianni Mimmo, Lorenzo Dal Ri | Bespoken
Finally on CD this magical collaboration started on winter 2002 and still alive and well! Elegant sound concept and electro-acoustical statement, BESPOKEN…
Connie Crothers Quartet | Music Is A Place
They may have started as members of the Lennie Tristano school of jazz, but the members of this highly evolved and polished quartet, as much a collective as the band of pianist Crothers, has ventured far beyond the tenets of Tristano.
Dori Levine, Ed Littman | click
“Click is a testament to approaching music with a sense of humor and fearlessness, and duo has achieved some fine results.” — Joe Knipes, Jazz Improv Magazine
Connie Crothers Quintet | Live Outpost Performance Space Albuquerque, New Mexico
“From piece to piece the music moves smoothly from accurate melodies to intense interaction then soft and mysterious textures that allow poet Mark Weber’s poetry to come through.” — Francis Lo Kee , All About Jazz / New York
Jared Smith | Seven Minutes Before The Bombs Drop
Readings by Jared Smith, with original music composed and performed by David Michael Jackson and Andy Derryberry.
Illàchime Quartet | I’m Normal, My Heart Still Works
Gathered sounds and noises from the surroundings as well as scattered fragments of acoustic memories, which form the texture for the interventions of the musicians along rough and terse lines, often improvised. Final target: to intrigue and to seduce the audience by means of an unconventional, highly kinematic sonic experience.
Todd Moore and J.A. Deane | Dillinger
6 Years in the making this blows any other “spoken word” CD out of the water. With a 44 magnum.
Ace Yamashita | Dhamma
Yamashita gives a solo guitar performance where he mixes his sensitive style of Western playing with aural images of the Orient. it is a totally improvised session that finds him in a reflective, introspective mood.
Linda Satin | The Way I Am
It is possible for music to be both beautiful and challenging as evidenced by the vocalizing of Satin, who performs in a series of duets with pianist Crothers or guitarist Fite. – Frank Rubolino, Cadence February 2000.
Harry Schulz | Havin’ a Ball
“Havin’ A Ball” was recorded with guitarist Andy Fite, bassist Rich Califano and drummer Roger Mancuso. It includes some original tunes co-written with Andy Fite.
Andy Fite and Red Mitchell | Everybody Got Happy
“Mark this tribute to the joys of spontaneous creation down as one of the most accurately titled recordings ever. Recommended.” – David Dupont, Cadence
Dick Twardzik | 1954 Improvisations
“A rare and significant find indeed. These performances are treasures. The eight minutes of I’ll Remember April is, of itself, worth the price of the CD.” — Coda
Connie Crothers – Richard Tabnik | Duo Dimension
“Tabnik and Crothers obviously share close ties in this music which is both individualistic and a direct descendant of the late pianist/teacher Lennie tristano. Substantial and refreshing.” — Lois Moody
