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"Phoenix Records reissues Brast Burn's Debon -- a classic of Japanese Kraut obscurity originally released in 1975 on Voice Records, now digitally-remastered. Brast Burn are often linked with Karuna Khayal, with many aficionados concluding that they...

Alan Braufman - Alto saxophone, flute
Cooper-Moore - Piano, ashimba, recitation
William Parker - Bass
John Clark - French horn
Jim Schapperoew - Drums
Ralph Williams - Percussion

This recently unearthed recording captures Alan Braufman with his five-piece band in an early 1975 live radio session soon after recording his debut album Valley of Search for the India Navigation label.
This was the first meeting for William Parker and Cooper-Moore, whose musical...

The Anthony Braxton Sextet treated a receptive and enthusiastic audience with an interpretation of Composition 345. With the possible exception of trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum and, obviously, Braxton himself who insufflate more of their own personality, t...

This is a rousing live recording of his great quartet of Marilyn Crispell-piano, Mark Dresser-bass, & Gerry Hemingway-drums. [Victo]

"This concert offers a striking opportunity to hear the ensemble in full force. The 70-minute piece builds an inner logic of staggering detail, while never loosing the propulsive flow. The shifting layers and counter-structures mount with scorching...

Anthony Braxton, alto, soprano, and sopranino saxophones, clarinet, and Eb contralto clarinet
Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet, flugelhorn, trumpbone, piccolo and bass trumpets, mutes, and shell
Andrew Raffo Dewar, soprano and c-melody saxophones, and...

Anthony Braxton, alto, soprano, and sopranino saxophones, clarinet, and Eb contralto clarinet
Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet, flugelhorn, trumpbone, piccolo and bass trumpets, mutes, and shell
Andrew Raffo Dewar, soprano and c-melody saxophones, and...

Brazilian-only release!
"Anthony Braxton is accompanied by the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and features a mix of interactive electronic elements, radical forms and little regular counterpoints.
The double album contains the whole two performances they performed at Jazz na Fábrica Festival, São Paulo, Brasil, in 2014. Excellent recording. It brings a nice booklet as well. Limited brazilian edition."

Taylor Ho Bynum : cornet, bugle, trompbone, iPod
Mary Halvorson : guitare électrique, iPod
Jessica Pavone : alto, violon, iPod
Jay Rozen : tuba, iPod
Aaron Siegel : percussion, vibraphone, iPod
Carl Testa : contrebasse...

Two large scale works written especially for this performance, & featuring the amazing line-up of Evan Parker, Bobby Naughton, Joelle Leandre, Gerry Hemmingway, Paul Smoker, & George Lewis. [Victo]

Anthony Braxton alto saxophone, clarinet & contrabass clarinet, flute and sopranino
Marilyn Crispell piano
Mark Dresser double bass
Gerry Hemingway drums & marimba

"American composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton is one of the foremost musicians in the genre of free jazz. Since the 1960s he has released more than 100 albums. He plays all of the saxophones as well as the clarinet, flute, alto flute, and piano. In 2013 he was named a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts.

“... a titanic performance that moved from machine-gun bursts to airy harmonics, whether welded to his own structures or lightly tethered to the chord changes of ancient American songs.”-Stuart Broomer, MusicWork, Issue 128

“In Victoriaville, Braxton unveiled a vast but measured and mature volley of musical content, clearly of the jazz variety in the specific and symbolic sense. He was right at home.”-Josef Woodard, DownBeat, August 2017

Anthony Braxton ,Alto Saxophone
Anthony Braxton’s musical cosmos has no limits, is colorful and moves tumultuously. In the world of jazz, he made his debut with the solo double-LP, For Alto. The first unaccompanied saxophone solo jazz record was a...

This is by Anthony's current trio with Taylor Ho Bynum on trumpet and cornet and Mary Halvorson on electric guitar.

"Diamond Curtain Wall is relatively new. Here is an intimate opportunity to hear Braxton feature his recent foray into the world..

"From the 2005 Victoriaville Festival, Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith, two graying lions of free improvisation, innovation, and rugged determination to follow their own individual paths, come together for just under an hour -- and in five different enc...

Anthony Braxton: sopranino, soprano and alto saxophones, electronics
Miya Masaoka: 21 string koto

"What becomes quickly apparent when the music ends is that the parts of the brain wired for multi-tasking and instant contextualization have been swamped by Masaoka and Braxton’s palette, their bold strokes and the vaulting arcs they form.-Bill Shoemaker, excerpt of the liner notes.
Recorded on August 25th 2013 by Jon Rosenberg at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, USA.

Anthony Braxton: sopranino, soprano, and alto saxophones; contrabass clarinet / Ben Opie: alto and tenor saxophones; B flat and contrabass clarinets

"Recorded May 29, 2008 at the studios of Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, Ben Opie led a.

"This is a reissue of the long disappeared CD on Konnex recorded by multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton with one of his most notable pupils, Joe Fonda. "Duets 1995" is a remarkable item of the duo series from this frontline figure of avant-garde jazz. I

"Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves and William Parker are quite literally three of the most important virtuoso instrumentalists in new music, each a vivid conceptualist as well an influential composer/performer. This intense improvisational outing...

Surprising album that at first sounds like it was done completely on the computer, but than you realize that it isn't. A unique work.

"For more than a decade, Tyondai Braxton has fine-tuned his unique approach as 'quite literally' a solo

“Tyondai Braxton releases Telekinesis-an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir and electronics.
Featuring the Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker, and chamber choir The Crossing conducted by Donald Nally, Telekinesis is the first studio recording of the work.
The world premiere took place on April 18, 2018, at Queen Elizabeth Hall with the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers, followed by a...

Kitty Brazelton has been a mover and shaker in the downtown scene for well over a decade; a singer, bandleader and composer of striking originality. Here she performs two extended suites of twisted, powerful chamber rock blending a ...

Beautiful, flowing, lively music from a chamber-oriented quintet of guitar, piano, flute, violin & cello. Very ‘Latin’ and extremely good. “Brazú Quintê was born from the idea of guitarist Fabio Leal (Grupo Mente Clara) to integrate the electric guitar into a more acoustic setting, using as partners instruments piano, cello, flute and violin. Their music is very charming and mixes jazz, classical music and Brazilian popular & folk music and it would not be unfair to compare them to Julverne or Aranis...

This is the 2nd of Breant's two solo albums. I'm certain that many of you will fondly remember this keyboard-dominated album that came out on Egg in France in the late 1970's, and was released here by Visa/Passport. In addition to his solo works, Brean...

"In the early 70s, well before joining keyboard/percussion duo Dionne-Brégent, keyboardist Michel-Georges Bregent fronted the group Brégent with his brother Jacques on vocals. Following the dissolution of Dionne-Brégent, Brégent reformed to produce a...

JAMIE BREIWICK – trumpet/percussion
LENARD SIMPSON – alto saxophone/percussion
CHRIS WELLER – tenor saxophone/percussion
TIM IPSEN – acoustic/electric bass/koto
DEVIN DROBKA – drums/percussion

“The Sonic Brotherhood of Breiwick, Simpson, Weller, Ipsen and Drobka have returned with their second offering, Awake: Volume 2, not only doing justice to Cherry’s legacy, but like Don, illuminating the soul within with their healing, enticing sonic brew.”-John Kruth

Marcus Gilmore drums
Mauricio Herrera percussion
Kim Cass bass
Patricia Brennan vibraphone with electronics, marimba

“Vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan “has been widely feted as one of the instrument’s newer leaders.” observed The New York City Jazz Record.”

“The jazz world can get stuck in a battle between the head and the heart, but rarely do you find an improviser like Patricia Brennan, the Veracruz, Mexico-born vibraphonist, marimba..

Patrick Brennan alto saxophone
Brian Groder trumpet and fluegelhorn
Rod Williams piano
Hilliard Greene contrabass
Michael TA Thompson trap drums

“s0nic 0penings expands upon compositional “what-ifs” and the plasticities of rhythm section dynamics. In this instance, tilting curvaceous interrelates fourteen possible extensions of its core material’s potential to develop in multiple directions simultaneously.
As with Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor.

A very interesting pairing of the under-appreciated experimental French electric guitarist Jean-Franois, who has played with Arto Lindsay, Rhys Chatham, LaMonte Young, Lee Ranaldo & Keiji Haino, among others, with Helene, a harpist who specializes in c...

"Brethren of the Free Spirit are guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem. Named after a cult of 13th-century Northern European religious heretics this duo play with an appropriately zealous intensity. Brethren of the...


"Christian is one of the most lyrical and soulful alto players to have emerged from the UK in recent years. Loved for his melodic playing and pure tone, he has risen to prominence on the British jazz scene. He is now a regular at London's prestigious...

A group that combines avant-progressive with symphonic rock with classical music performed on 'real' instruments. The lineup is flute, clarinet, 2 saxes, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, drums, mallet percussion...

A very original and psychedelic (in the best sense of the word) album, from Argentina. This is their second album and has been released on Universal, so someone besides me hears the quality of this group. This is a beautifully orchestrated...

A very original and psychedelic (in the best sense of the word) album, from 2005 in Argentina. This is a beautifully orchestrated, psychedelic/psychedelic pop album, obviously influenced by the best music of the original circa 1967 era. Insanely...

Ben LaMar Gay - cornet, vocal, electronics, percussion
Sam Pluta - live electronics
Sophie Agnel - piano
Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass

“The Bridge has been building itself since 2013, inspired by a simple observation: if it is now well known that jazz and improvised music, in France and in Europe, have found their flight, their specificity and their independence, some North American stages, particularly in Chicago and the Midwest, continue to develop at their own rhythm(s)...

Jean-Luc Cappozzo - trumpet, flugelhorn
Douglas R. Ewart - woodwinds, sound objects
Joëlle Léandre - double bass
Bernard Santacruz - double bass
Michael Zerang - drums, percussions

“Sublimed erotism in five phases of five consciousnesses communicating for the love of the slippery furthest / Ceaselessly knowing neither what to assure themselves nor that which infiltrates these hasteless consciousnesses / Nor languor too likely to languish and thus ease the vibrant tension of

Anne Briggs is a too little known UK folk singer, with a marvelous voice, who recorded a couple of albums and then decided she couldn't stand 'the scene' and walked away from music and her career. This previously unreleased album is her final work. "Re...

I really liked this one; it has the typical spacey/modern Strange-Attractors sound, but it uses vocals very prominently as well, which is an unexpected touch. "Bright have studiously erected majestic pillars of sound since their inception in Boston, MA...

Linus Kåse - piano, synths, sax, vocals
Per Hallman - organ, mellotron, synths, vocals
Kristofer Eng Radjabi - bass, taurus, theremin, vocals
Johan Öijen - guitars
Erik Hammarström - drums

“The sound is unashamedly rooted in 1970s giants like Yes and Genesis, and they remind me a lot of the better moments of Spock’s Beard. The music is filled with lush synths and organ, and the guitar has a noticeably modern style of distortion to it. While the songs are often in progressive...

Reissue of a fun, early 80's psych/wah wah guitar classic that was originally only released on cassette (we carried it in that form!) in the early 80's. "The buzz around Baltimore's George Brigman first began in the mid '70s when an 18 year-old George ...

First release on a new label and it's a winner! Beautiful cover by illustrator William Block. The music, created by Jacob Wick-trumpet, Evan Smith-tenor, Adam Dotson-euphonium, Jason Nazary-drums and band leader Aryeh Kobrinsky-bass perform high energy...

BRISE-GLACE is the "cut-up" band formed by Jim O'Rourke, Darin Gray, Thymme Jones & Dylan Posa. In the tradition of CAN, THIS HEAT and FAUST, BRISE-GLACE is as much about deconstructing the functions of rock music, as it is operating as a rock band. Also featured are Henry Kaiser, Christoph Heeman (HNAS) and David Grubbs.

"The most intriguing rock music of the 90's"-The WIRE

“Four BBC sessions recorded at the Maida Vale studios between October 1996 and August 2003. 15 tracks.”

“Originally released as 3” tour only CDs in 2003 and 2005, the albums have been compiled and remastered. 21 instrumental tracks available on a single LP or CD.”

“Mother Is The Milky Way was originally released as a tour only CD in 2009. The album has been remastered. 11 tracks available on a single LP or CD.”

It's good working in an office with a bunch of younger people, because I hear a lot of stuff that is extremely interesting and I wouldn't hear otherwise. Broadcast are an electronica band and this is their latest album, which is actually a collection...



Quiet and ethereal folk + electronics + orchestral (presumably all electronic) by this new generation folkie. Quite intriguing and lovely.

“A touring and studio musician who has been a longtime member of Sharon Van Etten's band among her other indie folk-minded collaborations, Heather Woods Broderick stepped out on her own in 2009 with the acoustic album From the Ground. She went on to expand her sound with atmospheric electronics on 2015's Glider and continues to fortify textures on her third...