Music from United States

SML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their debut album 'Small Medium Large' began as a collection of long form improvisations re…

** 2024 Repress ** Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he…

*2024 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "On his new album 'If You Can't Wander The Waffle, Wonder I Drizzle', Joshua Burkett takes hushed conversation and quietens them further. Listening to it is like reading under a blanket by candlelight. Yet an …

In the 1970s, Tucker Zimmerman made some low-key acoustic guitar records in England. He was raised in California, and sang like it. And between those two circumstances, Zimmerman happens to have sat in with a whole lotta famous people; The Spiders Fr…

*60 copies limited edition* Reissue of Josephine Foster's 'Joey Will Come If You Invite Her' 45 from 2005.

*50 copies limited edition,* James Bernard's Ambient Études For Bass Guitar & Pedalboard is a collection of ambient sketches and improvisations recorded over the last year, using 3 different bass guitars, and captured in different locations. Each pie…

Second album of minimal musique concrète from this Ohio duo. Robert Turman is a sound artist from the United States who is most recognized for his pioneering and experimental work in the fields of contemporary minimalism and ambient music. John Wiese…

2015 Disfathom-era multi-track recording with Mike Du Bose on vocals.

On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese trio line-up.

Tip! *2024 stock* If Anthony Braxton were to be judged on the basis of his oeuvre alone, he would stand completely apart from any modern composer, bar none. He has an enormous body of work, written for every conceivable permutation and combination of…

*2024 stock* Cecil Taylor's masterwork is captured on this Japanese CD (reissue of the eponymous album released  on LP in 1973) that dates back to his zenith of performance, when he was pushing the envelope of improvisational music to unprecedented h…

This is Texas-born tenor sax giant Billy Harper captured on tour in Europe in 1979. Mr Harper's gorgeous tone drives a highly energetic quintet featuring a young Fred Hersch on piano, Everett Hollins on trumpet, Louie "Mbiki" Spears on bass and Horac…

Billy Harper is one of the great tenor saxophonists in the post-Coltrane mold. Originally from Houston, TX and with a degree from the venerable University of North Texas College of Music, Harper emerged on the New York City jazz scene in the late 196…

*Limited edition* 40 Years ago Hunting Lodge was nearing the peak of its fertile 'tribal' period. In celebration of this anniversary we are releasing a book-style 3LP set including Nomad Souls, 'Tribal Warning Shot' (expanded) and The Harvest (live/e…

*2024 stock* Chico Freeman wrote all the originals and arranged it for the septet. The music is an excellent documentation of what was going on in Chicago during the avant-garde period. The tunes and performances make challenging and rewarding listen…

*2024 stock* One of the major statements in the history of Jazz and African American liberation movements. Originally released in 1960 on Candid Records, Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite consists of five original compositions and performances staging an…

*2024 stock* A solo performance by Cecil Taylor at the peak of his powers at a jazz festival in Austria in 1976. The insane keyboard rampaging that he performed with devilish concentration is only possible with the genius Taylor, who has reached a he…

*2024 stock* "This 1969 avant-garde collaboration between trumpeter Don Cherry and electronics pioneer Jon Appleton was originally released on legendary jazz producer Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label. Consisting of four compositions with the titles…

Comes in a heavy gatedold sleeve and with printed innersleeves. Peter Brotzmann reflected: "The idea of expressing my love of and admiration for Albert Ayler - both man and music - in a musical statement is not new. We both tried to do similar or alm…

180g Vinyl LP! Remastered & Pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from Original Analog Tapes! This important historic jazz record pairs guitar virtuoso Wes Montgomery with Miles Davis' rhythm section - featu…