“In Plato's vision of the universe, the Hyperuranion is a realm of ideal forms where the soul waits before entering the body, inspiring humanity's search for truth and beauty on Earth. On their seventh release and third for London-based RareNoise Records, the exploratory trio Chat Noir conjures their own Hyperuranion, a transcendent space beyond genre where electronica, rock, jazz, and ambient music meld into a rapturous hybrid.
For this latest manifestation of their ever-evolving sound, Chat Noir's..

Rhys Chatham is one of the originators of what later became known as the 'downtown' scene and he has been an original thinker and has been involved with interesting music for 40 years!

"Rhys Chatham returns with his first solo album since 2013, the enchanting Pythagorean Dream. Having studied under Terry Riley and La Monte Young (with whom he later went on to work), Chatham fused the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones....

Chau Coco! is another Argentinian band by our friend Martin Rur, who is also in the excellent Karenautas.

This is their first album and in this band, there's more singing (good singing!) and the over-all feel/sound reminds me of Picchio dal...

Remy Chaudagne-bass, compositions, Andy Shppard-soprano & tenor sax, Peter Erskine-drums. "On this album everything is tight and clear. The dialogue between the three musicians is sometimes held back, sometimes heavy but always aims for a colour which..

"For their next release, in an attempt to capture their harsher live sound, the band turned to internationally-renowned engineer Steve Albini. This successful pairing yielded "Dumb Ask" and ultimately resulted in a multi-album contract with England's NEAT Records in mid-1990."

This is #19 from Cheer-Accident and, like everything from the last decade from them, is another knock-it-out-of-the-ballpark winner!
Interestingly, even though it was recorded fairly recently and there is currently a fantastic quartet version of the band, only Thymme and Jeff of the current band are on here - with a lot of guests - and the entire album was written by Jeff! Why? Because they are CHEER-ACCIDENT and they don't answer to you, me or anyone else.
Hugely personally recommended!...

“Most bands still churning in their fourth decade of existence don't see the kind of creative surge CHEER- ACCIDENT has nursed since 2017.” - POPMATTERS

“Once a band reaches that four-decade mark in their existence, particularly a band such as CHEER-ACCIDENT, who have travailed so much aesthetic ground during this time, you just know that they have a veritable...

"In a masterful multi-media mish-mosh of formats, SkiN GRAFT presents a complete Gumballhead The Cat comic book accompanied by a full length CD soundtrack of audio intrigue and jaw dropping dynamic group interplay from Chicago's progressive rock masters CHEER-ACCIDENT. Packaged in a 7 1/2” x 7 1/2” sleeve for easy storage alongside vinyl singles, periodicals or in-store display cases."

Cory Bengtsen - baritone saxophone, electronics
D Bayne - piano
Jeff Libersher – electric guitar
Mike Hagedorn - tenor and soprano trombones
Ross Feller - soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones
Thymme Jones - piano

“Chicago-based experimental rock band Cheer Accident has recorded an intriguing improv album based on field recordings made in Hong Kong!”

“Based on a series of recordings made in August 2015 on walks through various neighbourhoods and locations ar

The enigmatic Cheer-Accident formed in 1981, when the members were in High School, but it wasn't until 1988 when they released their first album, Sever Roots, Tree Dies. These guys do things the hard way; they are not content to give their audience what their audience thinks they want. Hence, they can be anything from a utterly fantastic to a utterly frustrating listen, depending on what you were hoping that the record you are listening would be, based on the last album by them you heard. They are also...

This was the final album they made with their good friend, engineer and bandmate, Phil Bonnet, before he died suddenly and very unexpectedly of a brain aneurism. It's been unavailable for years and years and now it returns in remastered form.
Note to folks not used to Cheer-Accident; despite the nicely said stuff below, I think you will have a very hard time drawing a line between this very agressive album and Hatfield and the North. YMMV.

“Salad Days” is a feel good masterpiece of...

Until this reissue, this 1999, CDR-only release was by far their rarest artifact. But not any more. Nuh uh. Better look for something else to covet now!

"Recorded just prior to “Salad Days”, and originally self-released by the band in a very limited edition, the 52 minute song “Trading Balloons” anticipated the direction the band would take in years to come - exploring a dizzying blend of musical styles: from Zeppelin-esque bombast to folk-tinged Americana to Stravinsky-flavored progressive rock...

“Third in the series. We’ve established a pattern here. (Every three years…) [editor’s note: Then they signed to the Cuneiform conglomerate and completely destroyed their freedom to do so – ha ha ha!]
This one is very much the sister Old Man to the 2005 release. Sister Old Man? Does that even make sense?
Much tunefulness here as euphoria and melancholia seem to be battling it out.”

Based on the personnel [Alex Perkolup, Mike Hagedorn, Jeff Libersher, Thymme Jones] and the sound of.

"The Series! Documents of aural episodes (voyeuristic glimpses into the psyche of Cheer-Accident) made at home and on the road."

"Also known as CHEER-ACCIDENT ‘81-’84, as that is when all of these recordings took place. Yes, those were the formative years… In other words: We were in (and/or just out of) high school when we made this stuff, so give us a break!"

"Cheer-Accident began in 1981 as a creative communal pastime for a group of high-schoolers and, finally (after 23 years), here is the document which proves it: eccentric, eclectic, and engaging, this cd provides an exclusive glimpse at the roots of one of America's...

A native of Taiwan, Chien-Yin Chen is a marvelous young composer who spent ten years in Germany studying with Gyorgi Ligeti, and is now living in New York. Her work is remarkably inventive, honest and meticulously crafted. Purr, her debut CD features f...

A very short but excellent release composed by Guigou, performed by this precursor to his Rumors Of The City project, & is musically similar. Another stupendous work from Guigou. [In Poly Sons]

“The new album by ‘Cosmic Nomad’ David Ornette Cherry following his father’s tradition, the legendary jazz innovator Don Cherry. This a mosaic of healing soundscapes blending spiritual jazz, leftfield electronica, Eastern & native, indigenous sounds into musical parallels that transport the listener through doorways of ancient pathways to futurist crossroads.
This is a phenomenal, unique album with Cherry working with upcoming musicians from across the globe into creating genre-defying funky...

Never-before released! With Don Cherry (trumpet), Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone), Bo Stief (bass), Karl Berger (vibraphone), Aldo Romano (drums). The opening set at the Café Montmartre is presented here.

Recorded live in 1966 with Gato Barbieri, Karl Berger, Aldo Romano, Bo Stief. I believe that this material has never been released before. Also included in this set is a new ESP DVD-audio sampler, featuring selections of almost every ESP artist. Over 12 hours of music!

"Don Cherry, more than any other artist in the jazz of his era, pioneered the music’s internationalist nature that has now come to be commonly accepted as an integral part of its character. The individuality of Cherry’s...

“An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in its simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is....

“In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936-1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943-2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki's aphorism "the stage is home and home is a stage." By 1972, they had given name to a concept that united Don's music, Moki's art, and their family life in rural Tagårp, Sweden into one holistic entity: Organic Music Theatre. Captured...

“In 1968, Don Cherry had already established himself as one of the leading voices of the avant-garde. Having pioneered free jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's classic quartet, and with a high-profile collaboration with John Coltrane under his belt, the globetrotting jazz trumpeter settled in Sweden with his partner Moki and her daughter Neneh. There, he assembled a group of Swedish musicians and led a series of weekly workshops at the ABF, or Workers' Educational Association, from February to April of...

Don Cherry: Trumpet
John Tchicai: Alto Saxophone, Voice
Irène Schweizer: Piano
Léon Francioli: Bass
Pierre Favre: Drums
"The music of this concert is adventurous, taking the liberty of breaking all the rules of style through playing without getting totally out of hand", writes Christian Rentsch in the liner notes. In short: This CD is a stroke of luck.
For decades, the live recording of the Musical Monsters from 30 August 1980 lay carefully packed away in the archives of the...

Piero Chianura : piano, keyboards,synths and structuring
Federico Zenoni : drums
Luca Formentini : landscape guitars
Stefano Castagna : monotron, e bass, and re-structuring