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Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins 1953 To 1957 (Revisited)
Though they may not have recorded together until 1953, when Rollins was 23 years old, Sonny was introduced to Monk while a senior in high school, already part of a cadre of young neighborhood jazz neophytes. Monk became a mentor to them, offering home-based instruction on the new possibilities restructuring bop harmonies and rhythms, or as Rollins later put it, “the geometry of musical time and space.” - Art Lange
Floater & Syndrome - The Upright Piano Sessions, Revisited
"It was once said of Paul Bley that he was the only pianist who could make a concert grand sound like an
upright. While that is not literally true, or only partly so, it makes a point that strikes home on these often
strange, offbeat, otherworldly tracks. It is a quality preserved by Michael Brändli’s typically sensitive sonic
Paul Bley-upright piano
Steve Swallow-double bass
Pete LaRoca-drums
restoration, which increases the probability of rapture. Enjoy." – Chris May
Dissenting Voices with Elisabeth Flunger, Dominic Lash, Kathryn Williams
Elisabeth Flunger - bass drum Dominic Lash - double bass Kathryn Williams - bass flute "Recording the Dissenting Voices confirmed the extent of their divergence from The Future That Never Was. Music always has something to do with the sonic architecture of instruments, but it is also about the fantasy with which musicians like Dominic, Elisabeth and Kathryn choose to play." - Christopher Fox
A mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided
When does new hope arise from the ruins of yesterday, and when does hope for the future fall apart into ruins? When does that moment come? Can we catch it, tune into it, hear it? Adam Badí Donoval is no stranger to these stark and abandoned landscapes. Some of them were already captured on his debut album Sometimes Life Is Hard And So We Should Help Each Other (2022, The Trilogy Tapes). His approach hasn’t changed — he remains a master of sculpting frozen time, of capturing those moments when th…
Quilted lament
Under the right conditions, half-remembered dreams can meld seamlessly into hazy present moments. Time spent alone can be an emotional blank canvas, and an opportunity to deconstruct sense and feeling; a patchwork of snippets both rooted in memory and abstracted from reality. The title of ‘quilted lament’ perfectly captures the way Gretchen Korsmo and claire rousay’s overlapping missions come together to do just this. Worn polaroid melodies and snatched everyday noises seem overheard through win…
LSD046
LSD046 is a compilation released on the renowned Light Sounds Dark label, known for its mysterious and evocative approach to experimental music. This single-disc album delivers around 40 minutes of captivating soundscapes, focusing on gothic, archaic atmospheres and indescribable late-night moods—from the shadowy edges of electronic music to haunting drone, alien-like chatter, and unsettling anti-gravity textures. The album eschews traditional track listings, instead inviting the listener into a…
I Can Hear The Grass Grow
Ecstatic presents I Can Hear The Grass Grow, the transportive new album from Mancunian duo Celestial. Expanding on the bucolic dreamstates of their previous work, this latest release unfurls like dawn mist over dewy fields, steeped in fragile fingerpicking guitar aching with hushed intimacy.
Where Listen to the Sky traced the heavens, I Can Hear The Grass Grow sinks into the earth—its organic, fungal textures blossoming in layers of acoustic and electric guitar, droning harmoniums, and shimmerin…
Volume I (LP)
Tip! The Doubling Riders were born in the middle of the ’80s from the ashes of the great experimental / minimal wave project A.T.R.O.X. around the trio of Francesco Paladino, Pier Luigi Andreoni, and Riccardo Sinigaglia (Professor of Electronic composition at Milan’s Conservatory) . Starting from an electronic music approach and working freely with ethno, folk and wave elements, the sound of the Doubling Riders was extremely original and hard to classify.
Mostly quiet meditative stuff, with folk…
Inom Dig, Inom Mig
500 copies. Folk unit originated in the Swedish underground Enhet för Fri Musik - featuring members of Sewer Election, Ättestupa, Neutral, Makthaverskan, and Blod - continually re-invent what music is about through free improvisation and lengthy folk meanderings. Embedded in the ever exciting Swedish underground scene, Enhet För Fri Musik continue the quest for innovation numerous legendary Swedish bands started during the '70s - such as, Pärson Sound, Trad Gras Och Stenar, and Arbete Och Fritid…
Poems: Written, Drawn, Selected And Read By Jimmie Durham
** Limited Edition in Gatefold cover with 12-page LP-size booklet ** Poems: Written, Drawn, Selected and Read by Jimmie Durham is the first vinyl record published in the LP series of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) founded by Marius Babias and Sergio Edelsztein (Ediciones Inauditas). The recording took place in Berlin in April 2021. Jimmie Durham reads from his books Columbus Day (1983), Poems That Do Not Go Together (2012), and Particle / Word Theory (2020), as well as other, unpublishe…
Tutti Frutti
The Belgian electroacoustic pioneer unveils a career-spanning collection that chronicles her unwavering commitment to the "hidden and discreet, but poetic, paths of acousmatics" across analog and digital eras
Errant Ear, Tutti Frutti (2CD Bundle)
Two masterful explorations of electroacoustic practice that showcase the profound possibilities of the medium - from Ferrari's intimate sonic memoir to Vande Gorne's four-decade spanning artistic statement. Essential listening for anyone interested in the cutting edge of contemporary experimental music.
Brunhild Ferrari - Errant Ear
A stunning new long-form electroacoustic work by the German composer Brunhild Ferrari. Drawing upon sound sources recorded between the 1970s and 2024, with sonic con…
Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy
Mondays at Enfield Tennis Academy, x2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist & composer Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet is at last here. Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in LA’s Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, & alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depthful & exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts fro…
Joshua / Same Day Walking
Though packaged together, Joshua and Same Day Walking chart distinct worlds. Recorded in northern California and produced by Robby Moncrieff (Dirty Projectors, Zach Hill), Joshua is woolier and warmer, evoking haze, humidity, and overgrown Spanish moss. Meanwhile, Same Day Walking — recorded in Iceland and produced by Moncrieff alongside two-time GRAMMY-winning composer / sound designer Sam Slater (Joker, Chernobyl) — is, appropriate for its icier climes, windswept and beholden to the vast empti…
Raga Lalit / Raga Bairagi Bhairav
2024 Stock. Ravi Shankar's son, Brij Narayan, learned to play the sarod, an Indian plucked guitar with a softer sound than its sister, the sitar. He trained with both his father and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
The eerie Lalit and the peaceful Bairagi Bhairav are played here in the early morning. Lalit is given a 25-minute alap that is played slowly and without accompaniment, and the great Zakir Hussain plays the two pieces for 25 minutes. The shorter Bairagi Bhairav is a treat, full of memorable, beau…
Rag Jaijaivanti, Rag Kedar, Rag Gorakh Kalyan
*2024 stock* 3 raga from one of finest sarod's master.
Sluimer
**Limited to 240 hand-numbered copies** "Fantoom is a quartet that feature Dirk Serries, his wife, autodidact double bass player Martina Verhoeven (who is also a gifted photographer), drummer René Aquarius, and sax player Otto Kokke, both from the Dutch group Dead Neanderthals, with whom Serries played in their Endless Voids project on the 2014 edition of the Incubate festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. The quartet debut album, is a free-improvisation affair that was recorded in studio in Decembe…
Ragas Kannada, Kalyanavasanta, Natakuranji, Ranjani, Des
2024 Stock. The most famous exponent of Hindustani flute music is off course the great Hariprasad Chaurasia playing the bansuri (the bamboo flute) and to a lesser extent Ronu Majumdar. In the West, North Indian music has always overshadowed South Indian (Carnatic) music, which is a pity as the latter is as profound and beautiful as the former. North Indian music has changed through the Middle Ages by the Arabian, Turkic and Persian influences the Mogol Invaders brought with them. It had become m…
Rāga Hemavati
2024 Stock. Global violin icon Dr. L. Subramaniam, is the world’s leading authority of South Indian classical music and violin, having performed for more than 65 years now. Constantly propelled from Singapore to Paris, from Delhi to Los Angeles, he has conquered every audience with the elegance and virtuosity of his style. He performed his first concert when he was 6 years old and received the best violinist prize from the President of India H.E. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan for winning the All-India R…
Rag Jhinjoti, Rag Pilu - Sitar And Sarod Jugalbandi
2024 Stock. Builds slowly from the statement of the melody to intense sections of stunning brilliance