''Mori has developed a personal and innovative technique of playing samplers triggered by adapted drum machines. Hex Kitchen, which includes the soundtrack to Abigail Child's 8 Million Way to Die, features both Mori solos and performances with an all s...

''Eleven new earsplitting, brain-twisting electronic compositions by downtown legend Ikue Mori, one of the most respected composers in the contemporary electronica community. Labyrinth, her second CD of solo music for Tzadik, is a multi-faceted collect...

"Universally acclaimed as a pioneer in live laptop electronics, Ikue’s signature style is still uniquely her own and has influenced two generations of laptop performers. Her new band project Obelisk is a super-band featuring three of the most acclaimed and original players in the Downtown scene—Okkyung Lee, Jim Black and Sylvie Courvoisier. Ikue’s startling compositions blend gorgeous melodies with hypnotic rhythms and evocative soundscapes. Strange and beautiful music from a legendary master of laptop...

"Tracing The Magic is Ikue Mori’s most varied and fabulous CD to date and it is an absolute masterpiece! Seven pieces, each inspired by (and dedicated to) women artists whose powerful vision and creativity drove them to continue creating well into their ’80s and ’90s: Joan Jonas, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Judit Reigl, Leonora Carrington, and Jakucho Sekuchi. The ensemble lineups feature some of the most exciting musicians working today and include friends new and old. Moody, lyrical, textural, and...

"Tzadik is proud to present this historic meeting of four major figures in the new music pantheon, each a master improviser and groundbreaking instrumentalist in their own right. Their work together is symbiotic, telepathic—the music powerful and...

Plain and simple, Takeo Moriyama is one bad ass mofo of a drummer. A staple of the Japanese "J-Jazz" scene, he's released many killer albums over the years. BBE has reissued his rarest album East Plants in cooperation with Moriyama and the original label VAP.
The music is a mix of modal and post-bop jazz. Moriyama hits the skins so hard you would think his kit will explode. He's like Japan's answer to Elvin Jones. If you have any interest in modal jazz or overlooked Japanese jazz musicians...

"An inventive progressive fusion band, with a notable debt to Kraan, Aera and nods to Munju, Missus Beastly and Secret Oyster."-The Crack In The Cosmic Egg

"Morpheus from the Warburg and Kassel area played instrumental jazz-rock, also called fusion. They released their only LP ”Rabenteuer”, which is meanwhile very expensive, in 1976.
They re-united again later, and in 2002 they performed at the well-known Herzberg festival, almost with the original line-up. Their very relaxed CD, ”For a...

Joe Morris, guitar / Mat Maneri, viola / Chris Lightcap, bass / Gerald Cleaver drums.

“Balance” may be the return of an old Joe Morris project and band, but the always innovative guitarist embraces it as a new adventure. And sure it is: Morris...

"The great improvising guitarist, Joe Morris, returns with Luther Gray on drums and adds the masterful string section of Katt Hernandez on violin and Junko Fujiwara Simons on cello for his follow up to 2009's Colorfield. Drawing inspiration from the

“From the opener, "Hurricane Point," you're reminded of the Betty Davis quote from the 1950s movie All About Eve, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Morris' guitar shreds notes against the wall of rumbling bass and crush of battered drums. This opening salvo signals a take-no-prisoners session, or what Myles Boisen of Splatter Trio used to call, "club clearing music."
As intense as it is, the inner workings retain the undiluted Joe Morris guitar sound. His unique "language"...

"'I call what I play Free Music because I want to be free to render my work in any way I feel necessary to express my feelings and ideas. Today on Earth is quartet music that emphasizes the groove; some folk-like melodies mixed in with some other things..

"A gorgeous modern jazz album with vintage microphone glow; four fully inviting long-form collective improvisations. Wildlife is the debut recording of a new group concept from jazz master nonpareil Joe Morris. Within this trio anything is possible....

Joe Morris: guitar
Mary Halvorson: guitar

Joe was one of the first of the new American ‘out jazz’ musicians who I followed in their emergence in the late 80s/early 90s, after I’d given up on contemporary jazz due to too many young men in suits and ties with no dirt under their nails....
Joe didn’t do that and his wonderful hot ‘n’ sweaty power trio showed another way.
Joe was also one of Mary’s teachers before she left her native Boston and she (correctly) acknowledges how much she..

"A state-of-the-art duo recording from two masters of improvised music. Joe Morris (guitar) and Agustí Fernández (piano) create new musical vistas using rich melodic invention, resulting in completely unique and unprecedented sounds that challenge the...

"Guitarist Joe Morris, bassist John Voigt, and trombonist Tom Plesk, all long time associates of the late, legendary, Boston-based multi-instrumentalist, biochemist, and composer Lowell Skinner Davidson here perform their interpretations of his graphic...

Joe Morris, acoustic guitar / Nate Wooley, trumpet.

"After previous partnerships with Anthony Braxton and Barre Phillips in the Clean Feed catalogue, here we find the guitarrist in another duet, this time with Nate Wooley. We could expect such..

PROMO "Recorded at the 25th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville on May 28, 2008."

“With the brilliant 'Tupelo Honey' due for release the following month, Van Morrison performed this remarkable set in San Francisco on September 5th 1971 for broadcast on KSAN-FM. Featuring a crack band, it finds him playing a variety of gems, including material from 'Astral Weeks', 'Moondance' and 'His Band & The Street Choir' as well as classic covers. A stunning overview of his solo career to date, this remastered concert is presented here in a six panel digipak together with 8 page booklet containing...

"One of the foremost Quebec prog bands of their day, Morse Code's discography has sold over 100,000 copies and earned them fans around the world. These highly anticipated reissues were green-lighted by EMI Music Canada, remastered from the original...

"One of the foremost Quebec prog bands of their day, Morse Code's discography has sold over 100,000 copies and earned them fans around the world. These highly anticipated reissues were green-lighted by EMI Music Canada, remastered from the original...

"You can sum up the artistically and spiritually eclectic drummer, composer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist Rakalam Bob Moses in three words: He was there. He was there in the early sixties as a teenaged sideman to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and as a...

David Moss: Voice, Drums, Guitar