Papotier
After months of silence, Pancrace returns with Papotier - a mesmerizing acoustic ritual where a baroque organ becomes a speaking entity. Recorded in a 14th-century church, the album conjures a world where sacred airs and absurd gestures merge, collap…
Delightfully Deceitful
"A note, a sound, an air, you can write them down and then leave them to be read or played; but you can also write nothing, just sit down, play your note, watch it flow and expand, add another to it and then another, and on and on. There may also be …
Composition No. 62: Compilation IV (Quasi-Concerto For Clarinet(s), Improvisers, Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra & Electronics)
2005 release ** "As a composer, Fell applies serialism with an enthusiasm and relish which hasn't been heard since the advent of minimalism, when it was declared a dead dog. In Fell's work this dead dog proceeds to gnaw at accepted practice and compo…
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Corbett vs. Dempsey is delighted to announce the release of the self-titled debut CD by the international quartet The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.
The highly democratic foursome works in the productive netherworld between genres, where genres g…
Carnival Squatters
At the beginning of 2024 I found myself on a trip up to North-West with my fellows Virginia and David (of Jooklo fame) in their legendary green Scudo van. I was ready for whatever adventure and trying to up-lift my friends from an uncomfortable situa…
An Asura In Spring
*200 copies limited edition* Musician Ken Ikeda lived in New York and London for many years. Since his return from London in 2020, he has been based in Tokyo. Renowned British improviser, drummer and percussionist Roger Turner has been active on the …
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 Sep…
Last Breath’s City Looks Kind Heart
*200 copies limited edition* Michael Thieke is a clarinetist and composer living in Berlin. Known for his delicate, deft playing style, he is involved in many projects on the improvised/experimental music scene. Thieke is also known for his work in t…
Erasures
*250 copies limited edition* Quentin Tolimieri is a Berlin-based pianist, composer and improvisational musician. He earned a bachelor’s degree in composition and piano from California Institute of the Arts in the U.S. and a master’s degree in composi…
Red Queen Theory
*200 copies limited edition* Seijiro Murayama is a drummer/percussionist, improviser and composer who has lived in Paris for many years. He continues to carry out tours throughout Europe, and nearly every year he returns to Japan for a time and holds…
Light Industry International Co.
*200 copies limited edition* Tom Soloveitzik is a sound artist, composer, improviser and sax player from Tel Aviv, Israel. From 2022 to 2024, he lived in Tokyo and performed with many Tokyo-based musicians. From late March to early April 2024, Solove…
Pips And Stains
Electronic impulses, Trombone Sounds, Accents and Blasts of Air. Cutting and Roaring Melodies
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 / d…
Farri Gathering
*2025 stock. 250 copies limited edition* Tam Thi Pham (born in 1990) is a Vietnamese musician based in Hamburg, Germany. She plays the dan bau, a traditional Vietnamese one-string instrument, which she incorporates into improvisation and composing. O…
Have you read that manga? - Not yet.
250 copies limited edition Percussionist Ryotaro Miyasaka gave concerts in the performance space of Ftarri, Tokyo, on three consecutive days in June 2024. One of these was a duo concert with Takako Minekawa. Unlike in the usual concerts at Ftarri, th…
Autotunes
Autoreverse brings together Arnaud Rivière (prepared turntable - we should say damaged or destroyed), a kingpin of the French noise underground as a programmer at Instants Chavirés and Sonic Protest, team player with Otomo Yoshihide, Erik M, and a hu…
Desert Crawl
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* High Desert free-improv trio, K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith, and Justin Rhody), provide an ultra-full-length album of studio sessions, private jams, and live expanded cinema recordings. A fittingly intens…
Music for Harry Smith
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Free-improv quintet recorded live in accompaniment to the early films of Harry Smith at No Name Cinema (an event organized in partnership with the Harry Smith Archives in celebration of Smith's centennial). Al…