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Mário Costa composition, drums and electronics
Marc Ducret guitar
Benoît Delbecq piano, prepared piano, analog synthesizer and electronics

"In just a few years, Portuguese drummer Mário Costa became a serious case of success in the international jazz scene. We noticed him first playing in two key records to understand the rich reality of creative jazz in Portugal, “Nebulosa” and “Partícula”, as a member of the band lead by Hugo Carvalhais. In the second of these albums, the soprano...


Costello’s great second album; one of his finest!

“With his second album, Elvis Costello firmly established himself as one of rock's--not just punk/new wave's--premier singer-songwriters. Building on the promise of his '77 debut, My Aim Is True, Costello put together a backing touring trio, the Attractions (keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas), and their versatility helped Costello define himself as a punk-fuelled power-pop force. Sporting influences ranging...

NOTE: Sometimes great deals come with a caveat. These are cut-out copies that we pulled out of the lost warehouse. The cuts are quite large; they don't affect the discs, but the package is quite brutalized.

Elvis Costello released a bunch of...

This is a really good collaboration from hugely talented folks who you would not expect to work together, but, actually, if you think about it, make total sense to work together.

"Musicians separated by age, style, and demographic, Elvis Costello and the Roots are nevertheless natural collaborators bound by wide taste, insatiable appetite, and fathomless record collections. This is particularly true of Roots drummer/de facto bandleader ?uestlove, the musical omnivore who is the band's most...

Michel F Côté-drums, 9/11 pocket trumpet, arrangements, Bernard Falaise-electric guitar, Jesse Levine-electric organ, Alexandre St-Onge-bass....

Cote with Jean Derome, Normand Guilbeault & Martin Tetrault. "A quartet born of hair-covered brawn & primeval sinew. Casting our thinking about music back 100,000 years, perhaps to it's very birth, to those first true pioneering musical experimenters, ...

''M.F.C. brings a scientific & alcoholized approach, along with a battery of defective phonometers, to this CD of semi-jazz, neo-reggae, lo-fly selections.'' [Ambiances Magnetiques]

With Michel F Ct, we never know what to expect! This time, his new project is nothing less than a gunfight at the OK Corral, and no one knows who, between country or actuelle music, will walk away the winnerFlat fourgonnette (Mescal free style) (that ...

“Reuniting Cotton with his former guitarists Matt Murphy and Luther Tucker, pianist Pinetop Perkins, and Muddy Waters' ex-rhythm section (bassist Calvin Jones and drummer Willie Smith) looks like a great idea on paper, and it worked equally well in the flesh, when this set was cut live at Antone's Night Club in Austin, TX.”-AllMusic

“Although the titles are all familiar (most of them a little too much so), Cotton and his all-star cohorts (guitarists Jimmie Vaughan, Matt Murphy, Luther Tucker, Hubert Sumlin, and Wayne Bennett, with the omnipresent Perkins on keys) pull the whole thing off beautifully. Cotton's cover of Wolf's "Moanin' at Midnight" is remarkably eerie in its own right, and he romps through Muddy Waters' "Blow Wind Blow" and "Sugar Sweet" with joyous alacrity.”-AllMusic

Good lord. Antannae Jimmy Semens returns with a new album – his first ever solo album and his first recordings since Mu circa 1974!.

“After playing guitar, lap steel and vocals with the legendary Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, appearing on the ground-breaking album Trout Mask Replica (under the pseudonym Antennae Jimmy Semens), as well as playing on Strictly Personal and Mirror Man, Cotton withdrew from the commercial music business for nearly 50 years.
Using the island state...

Somewhere between The Fucking Champs and Canvas Solaris lie Coulier " Somewhere in between grindcore and cock rock, irony and sincerity, brute strength and smart-ass charm, lies Coulier. After a year and a half of line-up changes and a significant...

Somewhere between The Fucking Champs and Canvas Solaris lie Coulier " Somewhere in between grindcore and cock rock, irony and sincerity, brute strength and smart-ass charm, lies Coulier. After a year and a half of line-up changes and a significant...

Somewhere between The Fucking Champs and Canvas Solaris lie Coulier. "In Coulier's world, each night ends in king-sized beds with gold satin sheets. Their bodies are caressed by millions of tiny visco-elastic memory cells (originally developed by NASA...

Somewhere between The Fucking Champs and Canvas Solaris lie Coulier. "In Coulier's world, each night ends in king-sized beds with gold satin sheets. Their bodies are caressed by millions of tiny visco-elastic memory cells (originally developed by NASA...

This is 1970 and 1972 recordings.

"This CD rounds off the SWF produced Coupla Prog trilogy. With the new line-up, Coupla Prog recorded four outstanding tracks -- extreme professional and intelligent arrangements. The wide spectrum goes from...

John Mills (tenor & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, keyboards), Steve Swallow (bass), Chris Massey (drums), Robert Creeley (voice).

"Courage is drummer Chris Massey, sax / reed player John Mills and bassist Steve Swallow. The Way Out...

The first recording since 1969 from one of the legends of the New York experimental music scene who has collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Sunny Murray, Perry Robinson, Albert Ayler and many others. After two astounding albums incorporating serial tech...

Jacques Coursil, trumpet / Mark Whitecage, alto sax / Perry Robinson, clarinet / Jeff Baillard, keyboards and Fender Rhodes, / Bobby Few, piano / Alex Bernard & Alan Silva, double bass, Jose Zebina and Sunny Murray, drums...

"Anla Courtis continues to produce music and was even quite prolific during his time in Reynols. It goes without saying that Courtis learned a thing or two from his experience in Reynols; and there's a fundamental constant to all of his work...

Released by our friends at Le Triton, this features Vincent Courtois on cello & electronics plus additional musicians on piano, Fender Rhodes, vocals, clarinets (Louis Sclavis), trombone, contrabass and drums. The music is neither all improvised nor al...

A challenging effort by the French cellist that testifies to his growing interest in free improvisation. The date is comprised of unaccompanied solos and duets with three of the most active and creative French musicians. It opens with a couple of diffi...

Sylvie Courvoisier Piano
Mark Feldman Violin
Scott Colley Bass
Billy Mintz Drums

"'Birdies for Lulu" unveils a revamped Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman quartet, with the much sought-after bassist Scott Colley and drummer Billy.

Sylvie Courvoisier Piano
Ned Rothenberg Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Shakuhachi
Julian Sartorius Drums, Percussion

“It’s not the first time we can hear Sylvie Courvoisier and Ned Rothenberg playing together. Both of them were included in a trio with Mark Feldman also released by Clean Feed (“In Cahoots”, 2017). That listening made us hope for more. Here it is with another trio, this time with drummer Julian Sartorius as the third contributor. Without a leader, and enlisting

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
Nate Wooley: Trumpet
Christian Fennesz: Guitar, electronics
Drew Gress: Bass
Kenny Wollesen: Drums, vibraphone

“Chimaera is the newest ensemble of pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier. The virtuoso band brings together key musical personalities from the New York jazz scene in Wadada Leo Smith, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, and features Austrian artist Christian Fennesz, whose ambient textures can be...

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano, Composition
Kenny Wollesen: Drums & Wollesonic
Drew Gress: Bass

"With her high-quality trio with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, Sylvie Courvoisier presents her eleventh album on Intakt Records: Intakt CD 300. In both her playing and her composition she shows neoclassical influences mixed with European improvised music and the experimental nonconformismof the New York downtown scene.
The nine pieces on D'AGALA are dedicated to people who admired and...

"Sylvie Courvoisier steps out with her long awaited first recording for piano trio! One of the most creative pianists in the Downtown scene, and a long-time collaborator of Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori and many others, Sylvie combines a brilliant technique...

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano, Compositions
Drew Gress: Bass
Kenny Wollesen: Drums & Wollesonic

"Sylvie Courvoisier presents a new trio album at the height of her mastery and success. "Free Hoops" (Intakt CD 351) follows the widely celebrated trio album "D'Agala" (Intakt CD 300) which "The New York Times" counted as among the best records of the year.
With every concert and every album this glorious trio's modus operandi becomes more clear – Sylvie Courvoisier, Drew Gress and Kenny...

Sylvie Courvoisier, Piano, Composition / Mark Feldman, Violin / Vincent Courtois, Cello / Ikue Mori, Electronics / Gerald Cleaver, Drums

In April 2006, Courvoisier reconvened the quintet with Mark Feldman, Vincent Courtois, Ikue Mori, Gerald...

"Swiss born composer/ improviser Sylvie Courvoisier is one of the most creative and imaginative pianists in new music. A frequent collaborator of Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori and Fred Frith, she is a member of Mephista and the leader of her own quintet and...

Sylvie Courvoisier - piano

Cory Smythe - piano

“Sylvie Courvoisier is often viewed as a jazz pianist because her oeuvre is so fundamentally grounded in her profound skills as an improvisor. However, astute listeners realize quickly that she brings the touch and outlook of classical pianism to her work and indeed, the music of Messiaen, Bach, Ligeti and Stravinsky lie deep in her musical memory bank alongside Monk, Mengelberg, Bley and Taylor.
Sylvie spent ten years creating and...

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano / Jacques Demierre: Piano

"In this collection of pieces, selected from among the output of a recording session that lasted almost two whole days and represented a joint project, the playing reflects the complementary...

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano
Mark Feldman: Violin

“For almost 20 years, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman have been continuously redefining the dialogue between Western and American music, improvisation and composition, tradition and modernity. The most diverse playing attitudes and atmospherics network in the alert reactions of the two players – dance, world-weariness, liberating noise, shrill jumping cascades, the confession of simple beauty.
Their latest live release was described...

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano
Mark Feldman: Violin
Evan Parker: Soprano & Tenor Saxophone
Ikue Mori: Electronics

"Miller's Tale is the high point of the collaboration of the distinctive musicians Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldmann, Evan Parker and Ikue Mori. In September 2015, they recorded the fully improvised pieces for this album. The album's track sequencing of first four whole group pieces followed by five duo pieces offer multifaced aural impressions and a rich listening experience.

“Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson’s Crop Circles is an exercise in balance, while still maintaining a great sense of musical freedom. Brooklyn-based Halvorson plays guitar on the collaboration album alongside Switzerland-native and pianist, Courvoisier, also currently working in Brooklyn.
The two work democratically, shifting leads and complementing the other’s sound in a way that seems effortless. Throughout the work, neither artist overwhelms the space and there is an electric ‘push and pull...

Sylvie Courvoisier: piano / Mark Feldman: violin / Thomas Morgan: bass / Gerry Hemingway: drums.

Since the release of last year's TO FLY TO STEAL (their debut on Intakt), the members of the Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet forged..

"Since their move to Brooklyn, New York, in 1998, Sylvie Courvoisier has been at home in both worlds, Europe and America. In both her playing and her composition she shows neoclassical influences mixed with European improvised music and the...

Sylvie Courvoisier: piano / Mark Feldman: violin / Thomas Morgan: bass / Gerry Hemingway: drums

After the sucess of the quintet CD Lonelyville, Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman recorded To Fly to Steal with the rhythm team of Thomas...

“Guitarist Gerard Cousins's Escape features arrangements for solo guitar of Philip Glass's best known music. Appropriately, Cousins starts with a flowing account of 'Opening', the first track from Glass's iconic 1983 album Glassworks, designed to introduce the public to the composer's music. Cousins follows the mood with four tracks from Glass's piano pieces Metamorphosis, the second of which, 'Metamorphosis No.2', became the basis for the piece 'Escape!' from the Oscar-nominated score to The Hours....

François Couturier: piano
"François Couturier’s solo excursion “Un jour si blanc” is conceived by its maker as the second volume in a planned trilogy, and an extension of the earlier quartet disc “Nostalghia”, dedicated to filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

This release marks the very first time that this title has been reissued complete. Recorded between 1970-1971 and released as a double album on John Peel's Dandelion label, this album set the template for basically everything Lol did later; location-recorded solo works lead into group improvisations lead into strange songs from the 1920s resurrected for piano and voice, into a group of schoolchildren singing "I am the Walrus" into "A Series of Superbly Played Mellotron Codas", etc. etc. etc. Appearing...

"Soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill always sounds good regardless of what area he is playing in and who he is playing with. This collection just features his free improvising, but with a variety of partners. The late Hugh Davis was a master instrument...

“Lol Coxhill was an English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur. He played the soprano or sopranino saxophone. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a member of Canterbury scene bands Carol Grimes and Delivery and then Kevin Ayers and the Whole World. He became known for his solo playing and for work in duets with pianist Steve Miller and guitarist G. F. Fitzgerald. Coxhill collaborated with other musicians including Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and its...

My dear, late friend Scott had a big collection of 'spoken word' albums that he inherited from his father. There was a lot of weird stuff in there, but the weirdest were the two albums he had by these two guys. The description below sums it all up...

“The CD "Life Is Almost Wonderful" was only sold at concerts by the duo they played together back in 2002 in Belgium and Netherlands. If they had set out to be invisible, Coyne and Croker couldn't have planned it much better. But they were two artists not bothered about record company deals, distribution and other practical matters. Never mind, the main thing is this marvellous acoustic album.
Although "recorded by post" (Croker sent the basic guitar tracks and Kevin improvised the lyrics on top)...

“This Rockpalast recording from WDR studio L, Köln from January 4 1979 finds Coyne at the top of his game, performing to a captive audience midway through a sold out German tour and gives a splendid flavour of his idiosyncratic but particularly individual style with eighteen cuts like the venomous Right On Your Side, the acoustic punk-style approach of Amsterdam or the righteous anger of Having A Party.
Only three songs in, Coyne is sweating profusely yet giving it absolutely everything dressed in..

“The Kevin Coyne Band live in Bremen on August 18, 1975. The recording presents the third edition of the Coyne Band, among others with guitarist Andy Summers (The Police) and pianist Zoot Money (Animals, Eric Burdon, Mick Taylor, Humble Pie). Kevin Coyne at an early climax of his long and eventful career with now classic songs from his enormously extensive artistic legacy. Acclaimed by critics as a great blues and rock voice from England, Kevin Coyne was one of the singer-songwriters who sang dark themes...

"Mental Experience present a reissue of Cozmic Corridors self-titled album. Cozmic Corridors is an underground kraut-kosmische monster, recorded and produced circa 1972-73 in Cologne by Toby "The Mad Twiddler" Robinson for his Pyramid label. The album was apparently released as an ultra-limited handmade edition back in the early '70s, but no original copies have surfaced (editor's note: which tells you everything you need to know about whether or not this was ever really released back in the day...)....

“Crackology contains all new recordings of 13 songs that span the over 40 year career of the band, and the first time it has been available on CD.
Living In Reverse is 12 new genre-defying tunes from the group and a reissue of the 2018 CD.”