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Protocol
*Dead stock copies coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage* Studio recordings of this amazing trio. Henry Kaiser and Toshinori Kondo would like to dedicate this album to the spirit and memory of Aquirax Aida, 1946-197…
Percussion Interchanges
* Dead stock copies coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * Incredible recordings of the trio of Andrea Centazzo in collaboration with David Moss and Alex Cline.
Live
*Dead stock copies coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage* Legendary international ensemble Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra recorded live in 1980.
Fragmentos
* Dead stock copies coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * Stunning radical impro session three Italian heavy weighs of the genre, recorded in 1975. Percussion, Drums, Synthesizer, Sistema Ictus 75 by Andrea Centaz…
Kent Carter Solo With Claude Bernard
* Dead stock copy coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage *Amazing live recording of multi instrumentalist Kent Carter. Paired in a few tracks with Claude Bernard on alto sax and Michala Marcus on flute.
Moot
Dead stock copy coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage Studio recordings of this incredible trio of Italians Andrea Centazzo and Giancarlo Schiaffini together with British sax legend Lol Coxhill.
U.S.A. Concerts
* Dead stock copy coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * The Italian imprint, Ictus, was founded in 1976 by percussionist and composer, Andrea Centazzo, and his wife Carla Lugli.  Running for just under a decade, u…
The Bay
* Dead stock copy coming  from the artist's archive. Possible wear due to the long storage * On the same trip to the United States that produced  “U.S.A. Concerts” and “Environment for Sextet”, Andrea Centazzo also connected with the San Francisco-ba…
A Story Like Fire
For their first release, Uroboro play nakedly romantic, passionate music which can also travel strange and disturbing territories. Keith Jafrate's compositions are designed to be completed through improvisation, so in a way they are never finished. B…
Rustiques
A study of contrasts as French improvising synth player Jean-Marc Foussat joins with legendary saxophonist & bass clarinetist Sylvain Guerineau, whose work in both jazz tradition and free playing finds him a lyrical and expressive player, bringing fl…
Ecstatic Jazz (Crypte Des Franciscains Béziers 12 Février 1982)
"A newly discovered, enthusiastically received 1982 concert from three avatars of French Free Jazz captures the triumphs and the trajectories of improvised music at the time. Veterans, even at that time, saxophonist Daunik Lazro, now 78, and known fo…
Libres (Festival de Massy 26 Octobre 1975)
"Armonicord. In 1977 an album was released under the name of Armonicord, of which I have just found a copy through a mutual friend: Esprits de Sel. Having heard of the album's release at that time, the memory of the presence of harpsichordist Odile B…
The Time Is Now!
Phil Ranelin's first record as a leader is worlds away from his later 1976 offering, Vibes From the Tribe. The Time Is Now is a vanguard jazz record, full of the spirit, determination, and innovation inspired by John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Tayl…
The Warriors
*2023 stock* Long awaited, never before published live chronicles of legendary Kondo / Chadbourne / Centazzo 1979 Italian tour. The document of the time, the music, and one of the direction of the improvised art form in late 70s. "We showed up at the…
Cjant
*2023 stock* Released originally as double LP: Cjant - First Concert For Small Orchestra Based Upon Friulian Folk Songs, is Centazzo's first orchestral composition combining a string section along with the original Mitteleuropa (Free Jazz) Orchestra.…
Moon In Winter
*2023 stock* "In February 2010 my good friend, pianist Nobu Stowe, invited me for some concerts in the Baltimore area. Since in the same period I was scheduled to perform in duo with John Zorn in New York, I gladly accepted. What thrilled me was the …
Escape From 2012
*2023 stock* "On February 20th 2010 I had the privilege to start my musical collaboration with Don Preston, performing live a concert of improvised music at the South Pasadena Conservatory of Music. A very versatile keyboardist who deserves much grea…
Departed Angels
*2023 stock* Percussion improvisations and compositions from the early years. Using an array of 300 percussion instruments and the first models of electronic analog percussion Centazzo created a sonic landscape where the interaction of skin, metal an…
Drops
*2023 stock* In the history of free improvised music, there has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom’s power and potential than the English guitarist Derek Bailey. Fiercely principled, between his emergence during the 1960s and his death i…
Trio Live
*2023 stock* Originally issued in 1977 as the 5th entry in the Ictus catalog, Trio Live was recorded in 1976, only a handful of days after Steve Lacy and Andrea Centazzo’s Clangs was laid to tape, presumably capturing another moment on the same two-w…