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Atwain
*250 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based guitarist/composer Taku Sugimoto and cellist/composer Stefan Thut, who lives in Solothurn, Switzerland, have a long association, performing together when Sugimoto visits Switzerland and when Thut comes to Japan. Their duo CD "Taku Sugimoto / Stefan Thut," which was released on the Ftarri label in 2018, was highly praised. The new duo CD by Sugimoto and Thut, "atwain," documents their performance of a single 39-minute work on the riverside in Solothurn in …
Night Seen from a Gap in the Night
*400 copies limited edition* An exhibition of paintings by artist sasakure. was held at Ftarri, Tokyo, from September 3rd to 30th, 2023. During that period, three concerts with live painting by sasakure. were held at Ftarri. The first concert, on September 9, was a duo performance by sasakure. and pianist Fumi Endo. (A painting by sasakure. graces the cover of Endo's solo album "Cold Light in Warm Blue," released on the Hitorri label in 2023.)
This duo CD includes two pieces from that September …
La Montagne Change Le Paysage
*200 copies limited edition* British harpist and composer Rhodri Davies (born in 1971) is one of the leading musicians on the international improvised/experimental music scene today. Among his numerous CD releases are several from Ftarri labels, including two duo albums on Ftarri with John Butcher: "Carliol"(2010) and "Routing Lynn" (2014). Pierre Gerard (born in 1966) is a Belgian improviser and composer. Gerard plays a variety of instruments (guitar, piano, cello, electronics and more), select…
Roughly Random
*200 copies limited edition* Akira Sakata is a treasure of Japan’s free jazz/improvised music world. Rie Nakajima is a London-based sound artist with an international career in Europe and beyond. Sakata and Nakajima have performed together in Japan and other countries since the mid-2010s. When Nakajima came to Japan for a time in 2023, the two appeared at Ftarri, Tokyo, on December 4, performing two duo sets. Sakata, on alto sax and clarinet, forgoes ferocious sound-making and plays with calm el…
Time Between
*200 copies limited edition* Sax player Katsura Yamauchi (born in 1954) is based in Oita, Japan. He began performing in earnest in the early 2000s, and since then has toured in Japan, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Taiwan and continued to expand his distinctive musical activities. Jason Kahn (percussion, voice, electronics, guitar) was born in New York in 1960 and lives in Zurich. He has performed throughout the world and been a prominent figure on the improvised/experimental music sc…
Moth Wings Beating Air Incised
*300 copies limited edition*
Sponge mites swarm a black map / Overrun then cut by mayflies / Void / switch /part to Moth wings beating air incised / a graver / lined and block / partial to upper frequencies / Scordatura / its flowers / Vespertine / delirious A night shade / falling into / cardiac arrhythmia / Sharp stop / intaglio Stabbed by silence / The ink was invisible / Dust sprinkled by a pollinator heard as low ground hum / Bare scented wave / faint as rumour Bird beak incision / Hole pun…
Balcony Inside
Paris-based musician Seijiro Murayama (percussion, voice) and French alto sax and organ player Jean-Luc Guionnet have performed together on a regular basis for many years and released numerous recording of their collaborations. Their duo CDs "Mishima, Day & Night" (2015) and "Idiophonic" (2018) were released on the Ftarri label, and the CD "Blue Mistake, Red Mistake" (with Yan Jun, Guionnet, Matija Schellander and Murayama) came out on on Ftarri’s sister label Meenna in 2020.
"Balcony Inside"’s …
Salon De Sachiko
2007 release ** "Since the late '90s Sachiko M has been stirring up the improvised music scenes in Japan and the west--and gaining an enthusiastic following--with her unique sound, consisting entirely of sine waves. This is Sachiko M's first solo album since "Bar Sachiko" (Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-517), released three and a half years ago. "Bar Sachiko" was a work made up exclusively of sustained sine wave tones. In contrast, "Salon de Sachiko" is comprised throughout of short, very thin…
Orphée Aux Enfers
*2024 stock* Orphée Aux Enfers is a comic operetta and satirical treatment of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus by French composer Jacques Offenbach. The classic story of Orpheus concerns a renowned musician who is so distraught over the death of his wife, Eurydice, that he attempts to rescue her from the Underworld, the place of the dead. It’s a myth of enduring love between Orpheus and Eurydice that has inspired artists, writers and composers such as Günter Schlienz.
Sterne Über Der Stadt
Günter Schlienz is a Stuttgart-based ambient artist whose work uses modular synthesizers, tape machines and field recordings to create emotive and captivating ambient textures. Günter has released albums on diverse labels around the world - Sacred Phrases, SicSic, Goldtimers, Constellation Tatsu, Preservation - amongst others. "Sterne über der Stadt" was first released in 2017 in a handmade four-panel cardboard envelope CDr limited edition of 50 copies on Pantheophania. Inspired by a picture cap…
The Fires of Ork
Pete Namlook and Geir Jenssen (Biosphere) were remarkably productive during the 90s and continued their prolific careers beyond that era. Their collaborative debut album, "Fires Of Ork," (officially unveiled on September 20, 1993) is now finally available on vinyl for the first time!All buyers who purchase a copy today on Bandcamp Friday (5th Apr 2024) will automatically take part in a raffle where you will have the chance to win a test pressing of Fires of Ork and several goodies.Also, all buye…
Escape - The Futurescape
*350 copies limited edition* This journey begins with ominous drones. Long sustained signals. An eerie mewing that sounds like kittens lost in space. These sequences spin backwards and forwards set against a buzz of low frequency oscillations. Morphing first into flocks of swooping birds, before transforming into something more melodic. Symphonic. Tangerine Dream first mapped this void on Zeit. A Sci-Fi movie sample announces a slow, rolling rhythm. Its pulse eventually augmented by broken beats…
Cellular Songs
Cellular Songs is the first Meredith Monk release with ECM since the extensive box-set Meredith Monk: The Recordings in 2022 and the first recording of new music since 2016's On Behalf of Nature. It is also the second part of an interdisciplinary trilogy of performance works by Meredith Monk that began with On Behalf of Nature, a meditation on the precarious state of our global ecology. Cellular Songs turns attention to the very fabric of life itself, and evokes such biological processes as laye…
Axiom
2015 release. A reissue of arguably the rarest LP of European free jazz, Axiom, recorded in 1963 for the Swedish label Sonet. Test pressings were released to the musicians, but they were not approved and the label never printed more than the two first copies. Tom Prehn's music, which is exclusively known from a 1967 release that was reissued on the Unheard Music Series, is not only impossibly uncommon, it is also exceptionally wonderful, featuring an extended tenor saxophone solo by Frits Krogh …
What Happened There?
An electrifying 1st-time meeting between guitarist Keiji Haino and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, captured live at Tokyo's Shinjuku Pit Inn, where the duo shape an unpredictable set that veers from reflective stillness to wildly passionate outbursts, their extended techniques and visceral vocals — sometimes urgent, sometimes outrageous — fueling an exhilarating and uncompromising sonic adventure.
WBAI Concert, New York, Sept. 12th 1964
This CD highlights an exceptional document, a performance recorded by radio station WBAI in New York on September 12th, 1964. This event superbly represents the type of repertoire that Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik cultivated and proposed in the U.S., in the years following their meeting, in their memorable "duo" exhibitions. The program of the concert presented several true war-horses of their exhibitions like "26'1.1499 for a String Player" by John Cage, "Duet II" by Toshi Ichiyana…
TV cello
Of the famous "TV Cello," conceived by Nam June Paik for Charlotte Moorman as a "living sculpture," this CD offers an in-situ recording released on one of the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, on the 11th, 12th and 14th of September in 1982. This version contains, respectively, the "TV Cello Duets" with Paul Garrin and the "Concerto for TV Cello and Videotapes," largely improvised, "including a tape collage by Ornette Coleman prepare…
The Great God Pan
The third chapter of this extraordinary trilogy by the world's most extreme musical explorers—John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris.
Tribute To Obabi (Ogun) / E Pluribus Unum
Edited exclusively for Dynamite Cuts, this 1972 African rhythm takes you to a time of human percussion, and energy, of another time. The entrancing, hypnotic saxophone and extraordinary vocals fill your ears like liquid gold. Sensational.
The Last Poets are a group of poets and musicians, rising from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement. Jalaludin M. Nuriddin, an Army paratrooper who chose to go to jail instead of fight in the Vietnam War, founded the group in prison after conve…
2nd Album
Following the wave of critical acclaim for his debut, the prodigious Japanese saxophonist Kosuke Mine cemented his place in the modern jazz world with the release of his 2nd Album, recorded in Tokyo in late 1970 and originally issued on the revered Three Blind Mice label. Now, this pivotal work is available again, celebrating a new generation of jazz lovers and collectors.
Rising to the forefront of the Japanese jazz scene, Kosuke Mine assembled an all-star quintet featuring trombonist Takashi I…