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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...

Working out of Berlin, Paul Brody is pushing the boundaries of Jewish music with his remarkable band Sadawi. His second CD for Tzadik features five uptempo originals and creative arrangements of Tzadik classics by Frank London, the New Klezmer Trio, Na...

"Paul Brody is a talented composer/performer based in Berlin. Touring Europe for several years to enthusiastic audiences, his band Sadawi has developed into a razor sharp ensemble, one of the very best to mix jazz with traditional Jewish music...

Paul Brody is a remarkable trumpet player, composer and arranger based in Berlin. For his first Tzadik release he has brought together some of the best Klezmer players from the U.S. and Germany to create a Jewish music supergroup. The music combines ex...

"Peter Bursch's Broeselmaschine - Rise of a Krautrock-Legend! 32 years after the release of their last studio album (Graublau, 1985) the Krautrock veteran Broeselmaschine is back with a phenomenal new album. Diverified, soulful and skillful the formation around guitar guru Peter Bursch is presenting the new songs. In June 2014 the remarkable debut from 1971 was voted by the New York music blog Pigeons & Planes on rank 9 of the most important Krautrock albums. The new one, "Indian Camel", with female...

Tim Berne Alte Saxophone
Chris Speed Tenor Saxophone
Reid Anderson Bass
Dave King Drums

“Broken Shadows brings together four luminaries of the American jazz scene: Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King. Broken Shadows has very strong connections, in twos. Saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed have been playing together since 1992; Bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King – two thirds of the legendary band The Bad Plus – have been playing together for over 35 years..

Dmitry Lapshin - double bass
Anton Ponomarev – saxophone
Yaroslav Kurilo - drums.

"One of the most amazing mixes of musical elements I have heard in a long freakin´ time."-Mats Gustafsson

“A young, super-tight and intense power trio from Moscow, Brom genuinely push heavily, crossing over among improv, noise-rock and free jazz with Sunstroke.”

"Born out of a desire to use the rich medium of the string quartet as a vehicle for communication across a large cross section of history and geography, Brooklyn Rider is equally devoted to the interpretation of existing quartet literature and to the creation of new works. Following their critically acclaimed debut album, Passport (2008), Dominant Curve, a new self-produced recording from the group, marks their second release on In a Circle Records. Dominant Curve's eclectic sound world is deeply...

"This wildly eclectic CD reflects its members' omnivorous tastes: haunting Armenian laments, Osvaldo Golijov's arrangement of a lovely ballad by the Mexican art-rock band Cafe Tacuba, and the driving Gypsy-inflected improvisations of Colin Jacobsen's tour de force 'Brooklesca.' Brooklyn Rider is recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble."-National Public Radio

"Born out of a desire to use the rich medium of the string quartet as a vehicle for..

"Seven Steps represents Brooklyn Rider's newest installment of their transformational approach to the string quartet tradition including one of the greatest works in the string quartet repertoire, Beethoven's opus 131, the premiere recordings of a work by Slow Six frontman, Christopher Tignor and Brooklyn Rider's first-ever collaborative composition, "Seven Steps".
"Seven Steps" was born out of the question, "why shouldn't a string quartet also endeavor to create music collaboratively, rather than...

"Cross-over" [not classical / not jazz / not rock, but all 3] string quartet's latest. A fine ensemble performing the music of RIGHT NOW!

"Rooted in New York City's artistic firmament, this sonically diverse album features works by Battles veteran Tyondai Braxton, Brooklyn Rider's Colin Jacobsen, Bang On A Can's Evan Ziporyn, electro-acoustic composer Paula Matthusen and Kyle Sanna. Influences include Bach, Cage, Zorn, Xenakis, the Lounge Lizards, Minor White, the life force Qi, and the enigmatic..

Traditionally-styled shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) music. [New Albion]

“Understanding is a TWO CD SET of a previously unreleased recording of drummer Roy Brooks captured live by the Left Bank Jazz Society at The Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, MD on November 1, 1970. Featuring a stellar band with trumpeter Woody Shaw, saxophonist Carlos Garnett, pianist Harold Mabern and bassist Cecil McBee, ''Understanding'' was recorded 5 months after the classic live album ''The Free Slave'' (also recorded by the Left Bank Jazz Society).
This recording features a full performance by...


“Peter Bursch's Bröselmaschine - One of the most durable German bands and Krautrock legend "Bröselmaschine" surprised both critics and fans with their successful 2017 album "Indian Camel".
In 2018 MIG-Music released the highly acclaimed anthology boxset "It Was 50 Years Ago Today" (5CDs+2DVDs). In 2019 Krautrock veteran Bröselmaschine will release another surprising phenomenal new album, called "Elegy" - a musically multi-layered album with a high artistic tension from mental cinema ("Sofa Rock")...

"Bröselmaschine is one of the oldest bands from Germany and still alive!
The reactions to their latest studio album (2017) were awesome by critics and fans. All over the world, especially in USA and Japan, the debut album from 1971 is listed as one of the most important Krautrock albums of all time - beneath Amon Düül, Can and Tangerine Dream (e.g. the New York Blog 'Pigeon & Planes' rank 9 of 20).
On the occasion of their 50th anniversary MIG will release an anthology box set containing 5 CDs....

"Following the reissues of Brother Ah's three studio albums in 2016, Manufactured Recordings is proud to present Divine Music, a collection of three unreleased albums from this jazz visionary: The Sea (1978), Mediation (1981), and Searching (1985). Moving from rich spiritual jazz to more meditative ambience, Divine Music further explores Brother Ah's unique sound and musical vision. Released a 3xCD package, Divine Music includes an extensive interview with Brother Ah by Pitchfork and Resident Advisor contri

"The renowned French horn player known as Brother Ah (aka Robert Northern) is one of the most prolific and respected musicians in the history of jazz music, with a recorded output spanning more than 30 years. Born in 1934 and raised in the south Bronx, Brother Ah was playing jazz trumpet as early as fifteen years of age. Following a classical French horn education at Austria's Vienna State Academy, he emerged in the late '50s and established himself as a skilled and consistent session musician, playing with

"Cafe OTO's tenth Otoroku release sees a return to the group that kick-started the label -- the veteran German reedsman and free-jazz pioneer Peter Brötzmann with the long-running London bass/drums partnership of John Edwards and Steve Noble. After...

This is the second album by the Peter Brotzmann trio with John Edwards and Steve Noble, following “The Worse the Better” (they’re also together in a third one, “Mental Shake”, but with the addition of Jason Adasiewicz and his vibraphone). And just like...

Peter Brötzmann, tenor saxophone
Fred van Hove, piano
Han Bennink, drums, percussion
"Recorded at the height of their powers as the leading free jazz trio in Europe, 1971 includes some of the hottest and heaviest music ever made by Brötzmann, starting with an inflammatory, incandescent 26-minute live track recorded at the New Jazz Meeting auf Burg Altena. Only available on a nearly-impossible-to-find LP sampler issued at the time by the festival, this marks "Just for Altena"'s first...

"Reissue of Brotzmann's long out-of-print 1st record, one of the most auspicious debuts of free music & a trenchant tribute to the inventor of the saxophone. A roundhousxe punch of European free jazz, delivered in 1967 by original trio, feat. drummer...

“A long desire of extraordinaire saxophone player Peter Brötzmann was a studio recording of some of his favorite jazz tunes and his own music -- a grand bridge over the music important for his life and his musical career in the past and present. Trost invited him to Martin Siewert's studio in Vienna to do so in summer 2018. The result is intense, beautiful and touching.
Features compositions by Harry Barris/Gordon Clifford, Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II, Herbie Nichols, Dizzy Gillespie...

"In 2011, FIMAV celebrated Peter Brotzmann's 70th anniversary with two concerts that shook our 27th Festival like an earthquake. Such creativity! Such stamina! Brotzmann is truly an impressive artist and a model for the younger generations of musicians...

Peter Brötzmann: tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, tárogató; Fred Hopkins: double bass; Rashied Ali: drums.
Recorded by Holger Scheuermann and Jost Gebers, October 30 and 31, 1991, in Berlin. First released on FMP as FMP CD 53 in 1994.

"In perhaps the most understated performance of his entire career, German saxophone giant Peter Brötzmann played in a trio with American free jazz legends Fred Hopkins and Rashied Ali back in 1991 at the now mythical Total Music Meeting. . . . Brötzmann appears...

Peter Brötzmann : saxophone, tarogato, b-flat clarinet
Fred Lonberg-Holm : cello, electronics

“"Memories Of A Tunicate" is the third release and the first studio recording by Peter Brötzmann and Fred Lonberg-Holm. It was recorded in Manhattan at GSI Studios when Peter was in town for the 2019 Vision Festival. These seven pieces move between lyrical spaciousness and no holds bar flying sparks. This is a deep and focused session where they thoughtfully explore their history together."

A classic of the FMP scene / European free improvisation of the mid 70s, now enlivened with a beautiful book of photos!

“Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink: e-flat clarinet, b-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, birdcalls, viola, banjo, cymbals, wood, trees, sand, land, water, air.”

“Schwarzwaldfahrt is a magical document of a moment out of time, a moment when the saxophone player Peter Brötzmann and percussionist Han Bennink made a journey deep into the heart of...

"Sparrow Nights is the first studio album from the furious duo of pedal steel player Heather Leigh and saxophone legend Peter Brötzmann. Their collaboration has quickly gained a well-earned reputation for their cutting-edge music and frenetic but sensuous playing."

"Reedist Peter Brötzmann, a grand old master of European free jazz, has created a body of music that is considered among the most influential and pioneering of the 20th and early 21st centuries, from Machine Gun (1968) to Full Blast with Michael Wertmüller and Marino Pliakas.

Brötzmann's recording presented here, a 72-minute document made in collaboration with the Munich ICI Ensemble, consciously alternates between the intimacy of contemporary chamber music and virtuosic brilliance -- brought...

Peter Brotzmann-saxes
Juhani Aaltonen-tenor sax
Peter Kowald-bass
Edward Vesala-drums

“This official and Brötzmann-approved reissue also marks the world premier of another, completely previously released session from the same group!"

What happens when two of the legendary founders of European free improvisation/the FMP school meet two greats of the Finnish jazz and free music scene? Hot Lotta!
This free-jazz/free music obscurity originally released in 1973 and has been

"Recorded on one intense night at Tokyo's Shinjuku Pit Inn. A trio of three towering figures, German free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann, Japanese avant-garde wizard Keiji Haino, and wildly versatile American composer and musician Jim O'Rourke, recorded...

"With the very first tone this gigantic wave comes over you, seizes you and pulls you under water."-The Free Jazz Collective

"Originally released on vinyl in 2012. Café OTO is a concert venue operating in Dalston, East London, specializing in various strains of avant-music: free-jazz, song, electronics, etc. OTO have been professionally recording various shows on and off since the venue opened in 2008. The Worse the Better is a recording of the stunning first set performed by the trio of Peter...

"Catching Ghosts by revered, iconoclastic 81-year-old reedist Peter Brötzmann with Moroccan Gnaoua adept Majid Bekkas playing two-stringed, camelskin-backed guembre and Chicago-bred drummer Hamid Drake, proves that "free" spontaneous interactions deriving power from age-old traditions can transcend cultural lines. Improvising on incantations from Gnaoua liturgy, Brötzmann's horn cries as summons and statement; Drake's drums awaken inner impulses; Bekkas' strings, plucked and strummed, tie it all together...

"I remember at one period when Han Bennink couldn’t make the gigs – he was playing with Misha most of the time – Albert and I had a trio with Fred Van Hove and we used to play in a little bar in Cologne which was run by the son of Päffgen brewery, a...

"Peter & Peeter have once again joined spirits and forces, picking up where their trio with Peter Friis-Nielsen (c.f. Medicina) left off. This duo's only remote competition in the field understandably comes from Vandermark & Nilssen-Love's two-man...

"After the great 2012 record by Brötzmann/Noble/Edwards, The Worse the Better, Peter Brötzmann and Steve Noble started to play some gigs as a duo. It worked out really well -- wonderful pieces of music that had to be put on CD; an expert, you might...

Pretty much forgotten now, the EBB were one of the very first bands signed to EMI's psychedelic/progressive Harvest imprint, along with Pink Floyd! Largely forgotten now, but popular in their day, they were always performing at festivals and gatherings...

Pretty much forgotten now, the EBB were one of the very first bands signed to EMI's psychedelic/progressive Harvest imprint, along with Pink Floyd! Largely forgotten now, but popular in their day, they were always performing at festivals and gatherings...

Pretty much forgotten now, the EBB were one of the very first bands signed to EMI's psychedelic/progressive Harvest imprint, along with Pink Floyd! Largely forgotten now, but popular in their day, they were always performing at festivals and gatherings...

Pretty much forgotten now, the EBB were one of the very first bands signed to EMI's psychedelic/progressive Harvest imprint, along with Pink Floyd! Largely forgotten now, but popular in their day, they were always performing at festivals and gatherings and were renowned for their great live shows.
Their albums were great too, combining heavy blues rock ala Cream, Groundhogs, Taste, Skid Row with a generally more freaky and improvised/out/psych vibe. I hear elements of Captain Beefheart and Family...

"Soon after moving from quiet Warwick to London in 1968, the Edgar Broughton Band was signed by the former Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner to Blackhill Enterprises and EMI's Harvest label. Their first album "Wasa Wasa" had a heavily blues-influenced and psychedelic sound, hard-driven by Edgar Broughton's gritty vocal style, similar to that of Captain Beefheart and Howlin' Wolf. Their second album "Sing Brother Sing" was released in 1970, one year before their probably most significant album simply...

You know Bill as the leader of Larval. This is, apparently, a release of things recorded some years ago, as it was recorded in Detroit, and Bill left Detroit 15 years ago!
And many of the old Larval’s appear here as well.
Bill Brovold: Home-mades, Guitar, Lap Steel, Drums/Percussion, Bass, Piano, Casio Keys, Organ & Bells with Mark Ormerod, Kurt Zimmerman, Marko Smith, Bob Hecker, Gregg Courtney, Luis Resto, James Ilgenfritz III, Johnny Evans, Gustav Brovold & Lucas Macauley....