WOODBURY, BRIAN: Rhapsodies and Filigrees

The fourth and final volume of Brian’s epic songwriting project, unique in its breadth and ambition. On this volume Brian stretches into complexities of various kinds, knots and – as the title suggests - filigrees which (like Van Dyke Parks) reward repeated listenin... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO: Rade

The long awaited new release from the never less than extraordinary Paulo Angeli. Technically this is just Paulo and his prepared and electrified Sardinian guitar with various pedals and processors played, unbelievably, in real time without loops or overdubs; but ex... more »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Anthems and Antithets (4 CD Set)

4-Volume Magnum Opus – with 80+ songs of Levity, Balladry, Ideology & Rhapsody Over the next year Brian will be releasing a linked set of CDs in 4 Volumes, two years in the making, each in a very different register - a songwriting masterclass if he can pull it o... more »

BLOUIN, HUGO: Charbonneau ou les valeurs a bonne place - volume 2

A fascinating record by the Quebecois composer and contrabassist Hugo Blouin based on musical transcriptions of testimonies from the Charbonneau Commission, which investigated organized crime in the construction industry and the awarding of public contracts. It bear... more »

FAUST: 1971 – 73 LIMITED EDITION VINYL BOX Seven LPs and two 7’ singles with a glossy booklet in a v

Probably a last chance because it’s already sold out elsewhere; ours just took a long time to arrive - but we only have a few. Hence the price; it’s a thing for collectors already. In the box: The two original Polydor releases Faust (white cover, black vinyl) and ... more »

LUSSIER, RENE: Le Tresor de la Langue (3 CD set)

Tresor de la Langue has to be one of one of the truly great projects of the last half-century and is therefore a very hard act to follow. But on this quietly revolutionary record Rene has found his way to a music that can fairly be described as new; new enough to ma... more »

SKELETON CREW: Free Dirt (live double CD)

Skeleton Crew was formed in 1982 by Tom Cora and Fred Frith. The plan was to see how far things could be stretched technically and compositionally in a rock kind of way, but with just two people playing everything at once – a bit like the Incredible String Band in ... more »

MITCHELL, ROBERT & SMART, SHIRLEY: Zeitgeist (2)

Robert is a pianist, Shirley a cellist, both extremely good at what they do and this is an excellent programme, nicely judged like a good concert - of the right length (2 – 6 minute pieces, concentrated but without anxiety or ennui and LP length) of consistently hig... more »

ROBINSON, NICK: Lost Garden

It works. This is a CD of electric guitar(s), mostly alone - with effects, but not quite falling into any of the boxes. It’s not simply noise or abstract improvisation and it’s not nicely arranged tunes, but falls into being some species of long form composition, co... more »

UCHIHASHI KASUHISA: Singing Daxophone

Daxophones, invented by Hans Reichel, are intricately carved tongues of various woods, clamped to a stand, amplified and played  mostly with a bow. There are over a hundred of them and they all sound very different from each another. Which tells you nothing muc... more »

OXLEY, TONY: Unreleased '74-2016

100 points to Discus for releasing this important document. Tony Oxley – part of the first British wave of free improvisers and co-founder of Incus Records – was a pioneer in the use of amplification applied to percussion, which in his case included a range of addit... more »

TIPPETT, KEITH & BOURNE, MATTHEW: Aeolian (double CD)

A set of studio recordings and a concert recording from 2019 by two great improvisers that cycle through most of the things a piano can do, inside and out. Highly attuned to sound but not to the complete exclusion of melodic and harmonic  material, it’s a conve... more »

MARTIN ARCHER TRIO: See You Soon or See You Sometime

Just a great listen; a very well recorded example of a trio of fine players, well integrated with high sensitivity, on solid but subtle ground. Music that slips between composition and improvisation, it’s stylistically a little ambiguous, but has it’s roots in the m... more »

SUN RA - Nothing Is - completed and revisited

One of the great mid ‘60s albums, originally released on ESP in much edited form. This version, includes much material (almost twice as much) and is amazingly well mastered: clear, strong and with great separation; it sounds like a good studio recoding but isn’t. Th... more »

HARRIOTT, JOE: Freeform and Abstract Revisited (dbl)

For anyone interested in the way things change, these two key recordings, one from 1960, the other 1961, stand on a unique musical spot. The Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott moved to London in 1951 and was an important player on the British bebop scene; but things ... more »

RILEY, TERRY: Organum for Stefano

A concert in celebration of the bassist Stefan Scodanibbio for organ and voice recorded in the Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna on the occasion of the 23rd Angelica Festival, in 2013, incorporating the ragas Malkauns and Bageshri. Meditative, intuitive, ... more »

THE JOHN TILBURY PERSONAL ARCHIVE RECORDINGS

THE JOHN TILBURY PERSONAL ARCHIVE RECORDINGS. A key in C20 interpreter in the history of C20 music makes his archive available online, with recordings, many of which have never been released before, of key works by Samuel Beckett, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Cornel... more »

CHENEVIER, GIGOU: Etron Fou Leloublan (book, signed edition)

348 pp paperback. 50pp photographs. Drumming maestro Gigou Chenevier tells the story of the band in a series of very readable anecdotes and recollections that paints a useful and entertaining picture of the active groups, the mood and some of the characters in play ... more »

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: Newport, New York, Alabama, 1963

First appearance of these two well recorded concerts from 1963 half with the classic quartet half with Roy Haynes in place of Elvin Jones.... more »

TONE DOGS: Ankety Low Day (vinyl)

New Shrink wrapped original c/z pressing. Great record by Amy Denio, Fred Challenor and Matt Cameron with guests including. Fred Frith, and Hans Reichel. ... more »

DAVID THOMAS and the Pedestrians: Winter Comes Home (vinyl)

Nimbus pressing, hand –silkscreened cover (design by Mary Thomas), with Lindsay Cooper and Chris Cutler. Never reissued in any format because master mislaid. ... more »

BROKEN MUSIC (Book)

Primary Information reprint of the legendary 1989 sound art catalogue with comprehensive discography, an invaluable resource originally published by Ursula Block. 280pp image and text plus flexi-disc of the Arditti Quartet playing Milan Knizak’s Broken Music. New, s... more »