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Chapter Seven, Bengt Berger’s Swedish supergroup of three saxophones, two basses and two drummers, on its 1988 Jazz in Sweden album: West African and Indian accents, with tunes by Ornette Coleman and Offenbach.
Call Boys Inc. (LP)
1988 sole album of free improvisation, avant-garde jazz and experimental electronics by an Austrian quartet playing all kind of acoustic and electronic instruments and objects, on Moers.
Twilight Fields (LP)
Original German edition on ECM of the 1988 album of lovely music for flowerpots, dulcimer, zither, shakuhachi and ney.
Darkness And Light (LP)
Original German edition on ECM of the 1988 album of lovely multi-tracked music for traditional ethnic instruments from around the world (dilruba, kortholt, suling, ki un ki, sho, etc.). With insert.
Quand Le Son Devient Aigu, Jeter La Girafe À La Mer. (CD)
1996 first CD re-issue on Futura of the solo leftfield jazz masterpiece by the French drummer from 1971, one of the most beautiful and original albums on the innovative label. Essential.
L'Ou'L
André Duchesne's large ensemble live at the 1989 Victoriaville festival: three electric guitars, saxophones, cello, piano and drums, with Yannick Rieu and Claude Lamothe, in composed Montreal musique actuelle.
Confitures de Gagaku
Jean Derome's written music for a Montreal ensemble of flutes, clarinets and saxophones with bass, drums and percussion, recorded at Studio Victor in 1988. Composed jazz with a nod, in the title, to Japanese court music.
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.
Deep End Shallow
Deep End Shallow by keyboardist and composer Curt Sydnor, with Caroline Davis on saxophone, Greg Saunier on drums and Aaron Dugan on guitar, recorded in Brooklyn in 2016. CDr edition of 100.
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.
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.
Öppet Fyra
Caprice returns to the Öppet series, their curatorial collaboration with Mats Gustafsson and Roger Bergner, with Fyra, Öppet number four, dedicated to the Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog. Two never before released sessions made in 1970 in Germany: raging radical experiments, hard blown free jazz fire, and thrilling reconstructions of vocal based jazz.
A Luci Rosse (LP)
Rare 1981 album on New Trolls' Magma label with very diverse music (easy listening, cosmic, ragtime, etc.) mainly played on electric and electronic keybords with lots of great synthetic sounds, composed by I Signori Della Galassia's Luigi Mosello and Giuseppe Aleo with Luigi Barisone. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With original innersleeve.
Karl Lagerfeld Stirbt In Seinem Jogginganzug
*2026 stock* A sharp, theatrical and darkly playful new record about glamour, absurdity and the collapse of appearances. Katie Smokers Wedding Party unveil their striking new album, Karl Lagerfeld stirbt in seinem Jogginganzug—a provocative title for a record that turns fashion, fame and social performance into a vivid, unpredictable musical world. Blending wit with unease, elegance with chaos, the album explores the tension between public image and private reality. Its songs move through scenes…
Six Ordinary Songs
*2026 stock* Katie Smokers Wedding Party presents Six Ordinary Songs, a new album that turns the familiar into something unexpectedly vivid. Across six carefully shaped tracks, the record explores the emotional weight hidden inside ordinary moments—small encounters, private thoughts, passing memories, and the quiet spaces between one day and the next.
There is nothing ordinary about the way these songs linger. Six Ordinary Songs is intimate without being fragile, direct without being predictable…
Dual Unity (LP)
Original French edition on Freedom of the 1972 album featuring Han Bennink.
College Tour (LP)
Early 1980's Italian re-issue on Base Records of the 1969 album featuring Giuseppi Logan and Dave Burrell.
Black Narcissus
Three of downtown’s most dynamic performers join forces to form Mephista—one of the first all women supergroups (Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Ikue Mori). Separately these three have worked with some of the most important musicians in new music (Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Dave Douglas, etc.)—together they have created a whole new kind of music spanning the worlds of rock, classical, jazz and electronica. Sensitive…
Actionreaction 2
On Actionreaction 2, Pippo Lionni, Sergio Corbini and Stefano Franceschini turn the studio into a single, improvising organism, where spackle knives and rollers become percussion, free‑jazz piano and sax tangle with electronics, and each canvas is written twice – in sound and in paint.
Nineteen Seventy Seven
Brazilian avant-jazz vanguardists Grupo Um celebrate their 50th anniversary, sharing a second previously lost 1970s album from the vaults. Nineteen Seventy Seven (titled after the year it was recorded) is another rip-roaring instrumental fusion treasure from the band which spawned from within Hermeto Pascoal’s famed mid-1970s São Paulo collective.
Like their debut album Starting Point, Grupo Um’s Nineteen Seventy Seven was recorded when Brazil's military dictatorship was at its most repressive. …