★Out Of Your Head Records
Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne
Guitarist Marc Ducret reworks Tim Berne's compositions, recorded mostly at home in 2021 with horns, flute, cello and a wide range of guitars, basses, daxophone and percussion, favouring colour and texture over soloing.
Unclosing
Illegal Crowns, the quartet of Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Benoît Delbecq and Tomas Fujiwara, recorded at Firehouse 12 in June 2022, with three compositions each by Fujiwara, Halvorson and Delbecq.
Oblong Aplomb
Two duo albums by pianist Matt Mitchell: Oblong with Kate Gentile on drums and Aplomb with Ches Smith on drums, percussion, vibraphone and timpani, recorded in Brooklyn in summer 2022 and mixed by David Torn.
Letters to George
George is John Hollenbeck's quartet with Anna Webber, Aurora Nealand and Chiquita Magic: voices, saxophones, flute, keyboards and drums, recorded in Montreal in January 2022. 180g black vinyl, limited to 400 copies.
Sweet Tooth
Debut album by Abenaki bassist, singer and composer Mali Obomsawin, built on songs and stories of her family, with Savannah Harris, Miriam Elhajli, Allison Burik, Noah Campbell and Taylor Ho Bynum. First pressing on black vinyl.
Spider Season
Nick Dunston's trio with Kalia Vandever on trombone and DoYeon Kim on gayageum: open structures between song and soundscape for bass, trombone and Korean zither, with liner notes by Wendy Eisenberg.
Wild Tapestry
A composition by saxophonist Travis Laplante for a nine-piece ensemble, dedicated to the muse of Miles Davis and recorded live at the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Putney, Vermont, in July 2021.
Secret People
Debut of the trio Secret People: Nathaniel Morgan on alto saxophone, Dustin Carlson on guitar and Bass VI, Kate Gentile on drums and vibraphone, recorded in August 2019.
Field of Action / contraposition
Two duos with piano by composer Eric Wubbels: Field of Action, made with Charmaine Lee on voice, microphones and electronics, and contraposition for trombonist Weston Olencki and prepared piano.
Bloodletting
Wendy Eisenberg performs her own long-form text score, memorised and played from memory: one disc of solo guitar and one of solo banjo, recorded at Firehouse 12 in New Haven in March 2019.
Aire De Agua
Debut album by alto saxophonist David Leon with Sonya Belaya on piano, Florian Herzog on bass and Stephen Boegehold on drums, recorded in Brooklyn in February 2020, with liner notes by Kris Davis.
Blue Vertical
The final recording by bassist Mario Pavone, made in March 2021 two months before his death, with his Dialect Trio of Matt Mitchell and Tyshawn Sorey and Dave Ballou on trumpet and arrangements.
Asp Nimbus
Cellist Christopher Hoffman's quartet with Bryan Carrott on vibraphone, Rashaan Carter on bass and Craig Weinrib on drums, plus David Virelles on one track. Translucent red vinyl, limited to 200 copies.
Dyads
Father and son duo: Michael Formanek on double bass and Peter Formanek on tenor saxophone and clarinet, recorded in December 2019 after their first tour together, with pieces by each of them and by both.
This Darkness
Solo record by drummer and percussionist Scott Clark, also on harmonica, recorded live in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2019 and named after Rilke's poem Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower.
The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC
The complete first concert of the two-trumpet quartet of Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou with Drew Gress and Tom Rainey, recorded at The Stone NYC in June 2007: the first set reissued, the second issued for the first time.
Atlantic Extraction
First vinyl edition of Nick Dunston's 2019 debut Atlantic Extraction, on translucent yellow vinyl limited to 200 copies: a quintet of double bass, flutes, violin and viola, guitar and drums.
échos la nuit
Michaël Attias' first solo album, recorded in one session with no overdubs: alto saxophone played with the left hand and piano with the right, the saxophone setting the piano strings into sympathetic resonance.
Air Ceremony
Guitarist Dustin Carlson's septet with Nathaniel Morgan, Eric Trudel, Danny Gouker, Matt Mitchell on Prophet 6, Adam Hopkins and Kate Gentile, recorded in 2017 and mixed and mastered by David Torn.
Crickets
Fifth anniversary LP of Adam Hopkins' 2018 debut Crickets, the first Out Of Your Head release, on 180g black vinyl with redesigned TJ Huff artwork and the extra track Grounded, recorded remotely by the sextet in winter 2020-2021.