Dancing with Dragonflies
Confront Recordings announces the release of Dancing with Dragonflies, a compelling new collaboration between double bassist Alan Niblock and percussionist Mark Wastell.
A Cold Night in Rome
On A Cold Night in Rome, Gregorio Bardini turns a 2007 Cold Spring event into a ritual of noise, flute, voice and historical residue. Ezra Pound’s metallic ghost, bagpipes, violin, distorted guitar and ethnic percussion converge in a live document that feels both industrial and archaic - a harsh, deeply human soundscape outside category.
Nouvelles Ethnologiques de l’Obscur Museum
On Nouvelles Ethnologiques de l’Obscur Museum, NEO Museum forge a fierce, finely cut collision of free jazz, radical rock and European avant-garde composition. Born in mid-80s Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, the trio turns saxophone, guitar and drums into a compact laboratory of fractured forms, bristling improvisation and volatile collective invention.
Anuraaqtuq
Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq live at Victoriaville in May 2010 with Jean Martin on drums and computer and Jesse Zubot on violin: throat singing, cries and breath stretched into an hour of raw, physical improvisation.
Élektrik Toboggan
René Lussier and Martin Tétreault meet Otomo Yoshihide at Victoriaville on 19 May 2008: two electric guitars, three turntables and a spy microphone in the trio's first performance together.
Phon-O-Victo
Montreal turntablists Martin Tétreault and Kid Koala, live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2005, vinyl only: old self-help and demonstration records, scratches and loops, from the noise side and the hip-hop side of the instrument.
L'Oasis
Eugene Chadbourne and René Lussier, live in Paris and at Victoriaville in May 2002: acoustic and electric guitars, banjo and voice in a twisted hoedown of free improvisation, bluegrass and country blues.
Not
Michel Doneda on soprano saxophone, eRikm on samplers and scratches, Jean-Marc Montera on guitar and electronics, recorded in Metz and Lons-le-Saunier in May 1999. Liner notes by Thurston Moore.
Accomplices
CCMC in its trio line-up of Michael Snow, John Oswald and Paul Dutton: piano and synthesizer, alto saxophone and sound poetry, recorded live in Toronto, Jonquière and Victoriaville in 1996 and 1997.
What Is the Difference Between Stripping & Playing the Violin?
Miya Masaoka's orchestra, recorded live in San Francisco in 1995 and 1997 with George Lewis, Vijay Iyer, Trevor Dunn and others: strings, Asian winds, shamisen, electronics and turntables under her whole-body conduction.
Patrizio
Eugene Chadbourne and Paul Lovens on tour in May 1996, recorded in New York, in Michigan and in an Italian restaurant in Traverse City: guitar and banjo against drums, cymbals and saw, a suite for the waiters of the world.
Piece for Jetsun Dolma
Thurston Moore on guitar with drummers Tom Surgal and William Winant, live at Victoriaville on 17 May 1996: a single album-length improvisation of feedback and percussion, named after a Tibetan Buddhist deity.
Abstract Repressionism: 1990-99
Elliott Sharp writing for strings: Orchestra Carbon's violins, viola, cellos and double bass with electronic percussion, recorded in New York in 1992. Dense, restless pieces between contemporary chamber music and noise.
Ursa's Door
Zeena Parkins' 1992 album recorded in New York: electric harp, keyboards and tape with Ikue Mori on drums, Chris Cochrane on guitar, David Shea, and her sisters Margaret and Sara on cello, violin and voice.
Oh Moscow
Lindsay Cooper's song cycle on texts by Sally Potter, about the divided Europe of the Cold War, live at Victoriaville in October 1989 with Phil Minton, Hugh Hopper, Marilyn Mazur, Alfred Harth and Elvira Plenar.
Nous Autres
Fred Frith and René Lussier's duo, recorded at the 1986 Victoriaville festival and finished at Studio Victor: guitars, bass, violin, voices and tape in short, playful pieces. The CD adds four tracks recorded in New York in 1992.
Quiet Days in Cliché
Uncorking the well of wit, whimsy and cool, refined fury that’s fueled his path around this world, Mayo Thompson pours out a new round: a first ever album of solo guitar music, not to mention a first solo album in almost forever, Quiet Days in Cliché.
With The Red Krayola, Mayo made three albums of pop music in the late 1960s, taking the idea of rock ‘n roll songs farther into the hoped-for realms of possibility than 98% of their psychedelic brethren before or since. Following the demise of the …
Eat the Rich
Eat The Rich is an eclectic intersection of two serial collaborators: Giffoni (No Fun Fest / No Fun Productions) continues to explore new dimensions in sound, primarily using modular / synths (with recent full lengths on Ideologic Organ and Room40), paired here with the instinctually abstract percussion of Corsano (known from working with everyone from Bill Orcutt to Richard Bishop to Bjork but with literally 100's of appearances under his belt since the turn of the century). Produced by David S…
77 Individuals
Collective improvisations by 77 people of all ages, from seasoned musicians to first-time performers, with the Bon Odori song Eejanaika Ondo. Produced by Otomo Yoshihide.
Existence
Guitar solos by Shin'ichi Isohata and six duets with Otomo Yoshihide, electric and acoustic, 24 tracks recorded in Osaka in early 2013. Jigen Production.