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“An absolute gem of an album that is of great historical importance.... Both elemental and sophisticated, this is an invaluable document of an ephemeral outfit – that made a nonetheless invaluable contribution to the cannon of small group jazz, be it mainstream or avant-garde, or the space in between.” – Kevin Le Gendre/Jazzwise, October, 2010. This release is truly a remarkable archival find! Formed in the summer of 1964, although the New York Art Quartet existed for...

From start to finish, this highly interactive trio grooves with crackling intensity and a rare degree of group think. . . Bill Milkowski On keyboards is Pat Daugherty, who does not merely play the electric piano, but takes you on a sonic tour of the so...

Last chance to pick this up, as Fallout have gone bust. Last copies and available at a bargain price!

"Curt Newbury was a flying instructor, a licensed hypnotist and a gifted singer-songwriter. This unfairly-neglected collection -- the only...

Second release by Harris Newman is again an album of finger-style Americana guitar music, thoroughly embedded with the Takoma Records 1960's vibe. The pieces are a mixture of solo guitar and guitar with percussion and drums by Bruce Cawdron (drummer of...

Colin Newman was a founding member of Wire and this was his first solo album, originally released in 1980.
It has a lot of influences from Wire and it is comparable in a lot of ways to 154, so this is completely recommended if you like the sound of the artiest of the original punk bands.
This has been new expanded to include B-sides, demos and supporting material, all on a second disc!

Colin Newman was a founding member of Wire and this was his second solo album, originally released in 1981.
Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish is a completely solo album, with all instruments played by Newman. Basically all instrumental, it reminds me a lot of Eno circa "Another Green World"; not that it sounds just like it, but there are a lot of cool little experimental things and sounds going on amongst all the good melodies. One of my absolute favorites of the very early 1980's and one...

Released in a self-defeating micro-edition of 265 copies, this is something we NEVER expected to be able to restock. An amazing, entrancing disc of post-Takoma style guitar with modern touches, this was one of my top 10 albums of 2006. We have 3 copies...

There are many, many players operating in the 'new American primitive guitar school' and there are many fine ones, but for me, one of the real standout players is this guy. He captures a feeling of Americana that probably never really *did* exist, but was what I think that the originators of the style (John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc) were aiming for. He also isn't afraid to use modern ideas and production values with his music, which also gives him a singular sound on his albums. I keep singing his...

This is an album of finger-style Americana guitar music, thoroughly embedded with the Takoma Records 1960's vibe. The pieces are a mixture of solo guitar and guitar with percussion and drums by Bruce Cawdron (drummer of Godspeed! of all things). Harris...

“Dark and majestic, News from Babel remains ahead of their time.”-Michael Draine

“The second record by this group (Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins and Chris Cutler) with invitees Robert Wyatt, Sally Potter, Phil Minton and Dagmar Krause who sing, and Bill Gilonis (of The Work) who plays occasional guitar and bass, and who also produced the recording.
These are extended songs, unusually orchestrated and arranged and not much like anything else recorded before or since. Re-mastered and...

“Dark and majestic, News from Babel remains ahead of their time.”-Michael Draine

“News from Babel was the song project inaugurated by Chris Cutler with fellow ex Henry Cow composer Lindsay Cooper. The pieces for this first LP were written for a band that also included Zeena Parkins (harp - her first recording with the instrument) and the incomparable Dagmar Krause (another ex-band member) singing.
Using the studio as an instrument and experimenting with unusual instrumentation and techniques.

“Acclaimed Australia-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, conductor, arranger, and frequent collaborator of bands such as The National and Clogs, Padma Newsome releases his new album, The Vanity of trees, through New Amsterdam Records.
Padma Newsome was born in Alice Springs, Australia in 1961. He trained as a concert violist in Sydney, touring throughout Australia, China and the Pacific. In the mid 1980's, he left classical performance to spend six years on an ashram in New South Wales...

“James Newton has forged an eclectic career as a jazz flautist, conductor and composer. Here, he demonstrates his skills as a creator of sacred music with hints of jazz and roots in the modernist aesthetics.”-Gramophone Magazine

“This recording is contemporary classical music written by a composer whose lineage is of the rare group of classical and jazz composers who have influenced each other - Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, and György...

Until their first release on LoLo (this is their second), Next Order were a previouly unknown to me Japanese fusion band that features two guitarists, bass and drums. One of the guitarists tends to play with a cleaner tone and one has a more dirty sound..

The latest (2012) release from this Argentinian prog quartet who had their greatest exposure in the US when they played at NEARFest. This is symphonic rock with especially notable performances from the keyboardist (who also sings), who favors a organ...

Anthony Béard: guitar, scream
François Mignot: guitar
Nicolas Bernollin: drums
Benoit Lecomte: bass

Amazing and powerful instrumental avant rock from this quartet. Maybe you could say that this sits somewhere between Don Cab and Happy Family?
François is the guitarist on the last Present album, so you know he’s a monster, but they ALL are.

Anthony Béard: guitar, scream
François Mignot: guitar
Nicolas Bernollin: drums
Benoit Lecomte: bass

Amazing and powerful instrumental avant rock from this quartet. Maybe you could say that this sits somewhere between Don Cab and Happy Family?
François is the guitarist on the last Present album, so you know he’s a monster, but they ALL are.

Ni are yet another of the seemingly endless stream of wild, somewhat crazy and yet obviously well disciplined and well rehearsed aggressive, avant-progressive rock bands that seem to be emerging with great frequency out of France.

The group are a quartet of dual guitars, bass, drums and vocals. They play a complex, polyrhythmic jazzcore/mathrock/post-punk/progressive sound and they slay. You like Poil, Jack Dupon, etc? You will like this.

"I can't even fathom the effort and training this.

Another vivacious all girl band from Kansai, an area in Southern Japan that has been the home of some of the most exciting new rock bands of the past several decades (Boredoms, Afrirampo, OOIOO, Omoide Hatoba). Featuring the distinctive singer from Lim...

"Ni Hao!'s long awaited second release features more delightful music from this powerful rock unit out of Kansai. Now a duo, the music continues the direction of the first release with virtuosic short pieces filled with stop and start precision...

Niagra released 3 albums (two on United Artists) in Germany in the heady early Krautrock days. The first album is a all percussion album (that's all percussion, not all drum solos). The second album adds other musicians/instruments as does the third...

"Ghosts And Others is a singular work in the Phill Niblock canon. It's singular not just in its material content, but also in its methodology and approach. It represents a highly focused exercise in editing, location recording and acoustic observation. In many ways, this work reflects a kind of acoustic mirroring of his practices as a film maker. It makes itself available to the world and in doing so reveals a particular perspective that says as much about its creator as it does about its subjects. Like...

Adjacent tones beat violently against one another while clouds of harmonics hover above the wavering drone. The listener hears pitches not being played by the instruments. "Phill Niblock's music has no precendents, invite's no comparisons, & doesn't ev...

“Phill Niblock's Music For Cello collects three pieces from the '70s and early '80s, performed by cellist David Gibson. This CD includes a 16-page unpublished interview with Niblock. Since the late sixties Phill Niblock has been composing long-form acoustic drones with a focus on the rhythms and overtones that rise from closely tuned instruments. His highly original and influential music is an exploration of timbre, microtonality, stability, duration and psychoacoustic phenomenon.”

Four pieces for multiple tracks of alto, bass & concert flute. ''Phill Niblock's music has no precedents, invites no comparisons, & doesn't even suggest any metaphors to me. It is simply itself & must be heard to be believed.''-Village Voice. '' [Exp...

“A reissue of Phill Niblock's G2,44+/X2, originally released in 2002. Matte laminate embossed sleeve; includes insert card and 24-page book with liner notes from Bill Meyer, interview, and photos. Design by Traianos Pakioufakis.
In 2001, Phill Niblock wrote, 'You should play the music very loud. If the neighbors don't complain, it's probably not loud enough.' In 2019, Niblock can no longer host his annual six hour-long solstice concert at the Experimental lntermedia loft; not only did the neighbors...

"Five Bridges is a delectable representation of early 70s progressive rock. It's make-up contains all of the elements needed to complete a solid prog album: a heavy intermingling of synthesizer and electric guitar, strong punctuation of both bass and drums, a central concept, and the fusing of rock and classical music, which in this case employs the Sinfonia of London. The eight tracks, centered around Newcastle's urban structure and life in a blue collar society, are as colorful as they are intricate...

“Fresh from a British tour with Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd in mid-December 1967, the Nice paid a short visit to Scandinavia and performed this session for broadcast on Sveriges Radio in Gothenburg.
It captures the quartet at their early peak, playing a blend of covers and tracks from their newly recorded (and not yet released) debut LP, including a mind-blowing rendition of their signature piece, Rondo.
Preserved in superb fidelity, with remarkable contributions from guitarist Davy O'List and...

Cheap but very reasonable collection of tracks by The Nice, the band that launched Keith Emerson into the world, and which features gobs of his great Hammond work (he really was one of the greats on the organ). If you want to hear a good slection of th...

"Featuring Joseph Daley on tuba, Vincent Chancey on French horn, James Zollar on trumpet, Curtis Fowlkes on trombone and Reggie Nicholson on drums, vibes and compositions. This is downtown drum wiz & ace composer, Reggie Nicholson's fourth disc for the Abstract label and each one has presented a different concept. For his latest endeavor, Reggie has organized a fine all-star brass quartet. Each of these men has a long resume of collaborations: Joe Daley (Sam Rivers & Jayne Cortez ), Vincent Chancey...

The third album by Nico and a classic of its cold, undefinable type, and possibly her single most defining work! It's just Nico on voice and harmonium and John Cale on pianos and strings and other instruments at just the right times.

“"This 1970 Reprise Records album finds Nico reunited with her Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale as producer, main instrumentalist and harmony vocalist. Co-produced by Joe Boyd (legendary producer of Nick Drake, Sandy Denny and Incredible String Band)...

Nico solo on Top Gear, 1971 in excellent sound. A scary woman and her harmonium and her scary songs!

Nico's fourth and final great studio album, remastered and hugely expanded. Great arrangements and performances by John Cale, who brought along Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera to perform as well. This has tons of great, previously unavailable, solo BBC...

The second album by Nico and a classic of its cold, undefinable type, especially considering it was released in 1968! John Cale's arrangements rule too. Very nicely remastered from the original tapes and it even includes two bonus, never before heard tracks!

"The Marble Index is one of the most uncompromising albums ever to be filed under rock; the first to abandon conventional structures and instrumentation, it was really the product of two European sensibilities - Nico's and John Cale's, the...


Angelika Niescier: Saxophone
Christopher Tordini: Bass
Tyshawn Sorey: Drums

"This magnificent concert took place at the Berlin Jazzfest 2017, where Angelika Niescier was awarded the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize (German Jazz Prize). This concert by the Angelika Niescier NYC Trio with Chris Tordini on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums – who was Jazzfest Berlin’s 2017 Artist in Residence, and gave several performances in Berlin – proved to be a remarkable stroke of luck for the festival, since...

Angelika Niescier: Alto Saxophone
Tomeka Reid: Cello
Savannah Harris: Drums

“Always seeking new musical adventures, alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier (after winning the prestigious Albert Mangelsdorff Prize, she was recently awarded the WDR Jazz Prize 2023) is one of the most distinguished voices on the European jazz scene. Continuously, she has established close ties with some of the most significant and distinctive figures of the American jazz scene. Together with renowned cellist...

Angelika Niescier: Alto Saxophone
Christopher Tordini: Bass
Gerald Cleaver: Drums
Jonathan Finlayson: Trumpet

“During the current decade Cologne-based saxophonist Angelika Niescier has made her connection to New York's elite improvisational jazz community readily clear. Her trio CD The Berlin Concert, was voted one of the most important releases of 2018 by Downbeat.
This stunning new recording suggests that only the Atlantic Ocean separates her from the agile collaborators...

Angelika Niesicer: Alto Saxophone
Alexander Hawkins: Piano

“When Alexander Hawkins played at the Jazzfest Berlin in a duo with the American trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, he met the saxophonist Angelika Niescier. Niescier was playing at the festival with her New York Trio with bassist Christopher Tordini and drummer Tyshawn Sorey ("The Berlin Concert", Intakt CD 305). Niescier has also been honored in Berlin with the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize, Germany's most prestigious jazz award.
Hawkins..

Angelika Niescier: Saxophone
Ralph Alessi: Trumpet
Florian Weber: Piano
Christopher Tordini: Bass
Tyshawn Sorey: Drums

"With their new album, alto player and bandleader Angelica Niescier and pianist and composer Florian Weber both from Cologne, Germany place themselves at the centre of the New York jazz scene.

Their quintet NYC FIVE is completed by three jazz musicians in great demand in the 'Big Apple': trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassplayer Christopher Tordini and drumme

Pascal Niggenkemper double bass.

"And here it is, finally, the much expected solo recording of double bassist Pascal Niggenkemper titled 'look with thine ears'. Everything we heard from him leading groups such as vision7, Upcoming Hurricane...

Joris Rühl clarinets, amplification / Joachim Badenhorst clarinets, amplification / Eve Risser prepared piano / Philip Zoubek prepared piano / Julián Elvira pronomos & subcontrabass flute / Pascal Niggenkemper double bass, composition.
"Quoted by the New York City Jazz Record as ”one of the most adventurous bassists on the scene” double bassist Pascal Niggenkemper takes us with his new album „Talking Trash‟ into wondrous musical territories as reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean..

Christian Lillinger, drums / Els Vandeweyer, vibraphone / Emilie Lesbros, voice / Eve Risser, piano / Frank Gratkowski, bass clarinet / Frantz Loriot, viola / Pascal Niggenkemper, bass

"One of the beautiful opportunities of today's extremely..

Matthias Loibner: Hurdy-Gurdy, Electronics
Lucas Niggli: Drums, Percussion

“Hurdy-gurdy meets percussion. Matthias Loibner, the undisputed innovator of this strikingly exotic, medieval instrument and Lucas Niggli, who has been at the forefront of European Jazz for many years team up. Touching and intoxicating, fed by a huge repertoire between classical music, electronics, tradition and imagination, these two exceptional artists paint sounds into the now. In every colour, every note of their...

Lucas Niggli: Drums, Percussion

"Alchemia Garden: the album’s wonderful title, creates an enchanting, ambiguous effect. Lucas Niggli relates the organic, biological and growing, which develops on its own and is cultivated and maintained in the form of the garden, to the metamorphosis of material, the scientific search for something unknown which historically has been seen to generate something new.
During his thirty years of playing live Lucas Niggli recorded with many musicians like...

Joana Maria Aderi: Voice / Electronics
Dominik Blum: Hammond Organ
Silke Strahl: Tenor Saxophone
Marc Unternährer: Tuba
Marina Tantanozi: Flute / Electronics
Christian Weber: Double Bass
Helena Winkelman: Violin
Peter Conradin Zumthor: Drums, Celesta
Tizia Zimmermann: Accordion
Lucas Niggli: Drums, Melodica, Composition

“With the Sound Of Serendipity Tentet, Lucas Niggli, who has been at the forefront of Swiss-European jazz for many years, brings togethe

Nils Wogram trombone, melodica, voice
Philipp Schaufelberger guitar
Lucas Niggli drums, percussion
Beat Hofstetter soprano- and tenorsax
Sascha Armbruster alto-, soprano- and tenorsax
Andrea Formenti tenor- and sopranosax...

Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion, Compositions
Nils Wogram Trombone
Claudio Puntin Clarinets
Philipp Schaufelberger Guitar
Peter Herbert Bass

"The music on this album, their second, relates more to the subtle and sophisticated..

Nils Wogram, Trombone
Philipp Schaufelberger, Guitar
Lucas Niggli, Drums

"The drummer and band leader Lucas Niggli, with his trio ZOOM and quintet Big ZOOM, provided the big surprises at many festivals last year: the band's concerts

Rolando Lamussene · Djembe · Mbira · Voice · Percussion
Kesivan Naidoo · Drums · Cymbals · Gongs · Percussion
Peter Conradin Zumthor · Drums · Cymbals · Gongs · Percussion
Lucas Niggli · Drums · Cymbals · Gongs · Percussion...