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Mette Rasmussen alto saxophone
Chris Corsano drums

"Mette Rasmussen’s and Chris Corsano’s partnership continues after five years of concerts, being “A View of the Moon (from the Sun)” its second album, after “All the Ghosts at Once”. All the attraction of the two musicians for the extreme keeps very much alive and it seems now not just a process but an entire program, signaled by the title of the first track, “Many People Were Scandalized – Some Still Are”. Extreme expression, extreme timbres.

“The Norway-based alto sax player Mette Rasmussen and American drummer have been performing as a duo continuously for the last two years. The duo's free-improvised music benefits from these gifted musicians accumulated experiences.
Corsano's resume stretches from free jazz legends as sax players Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty & Akira Sakata, noise masters as Bill Nace and C Spencer Yeh to avant-pop vocalist Bjork. He represents the hyperactive, ecstatic pole in this duo. Rasmussen, now part of Mats....

A RIO/chamber rock-styled band from Belarus. They are a 7 piece of Vitaly Appow-bassoon, Maxim Velvetov-guitars, Cyrill Christya-violin, Olga Podgaiskaja-keyboards, vocals, Anna Ovchinnikova-cello, Dmitry Maslovsky-bass and Nikolay Gumberg-drums...

Third and best release yet from this fine RIO-styled chamber-rock ensemble from Belarus who have really hit their stride here. They are a 7 piece of Vitaly Appow-bassoon, Maxim Velvetov-guitars, Cyrill Christya-violin, Olga Podgaiskaja-keyboards, vocals..

Composed, performed, mixed, and produced by Maja S. K. Ratkje, Sult is based upon Ratkje´s music created for the ballet Sult ("Hunger") by director Jo Strømgren for the Norwegian National Ballet. This is a departure from the records and live settings normally associated with Ratkje, as we find her placed behind a modified, wiggly and out-of-tune pump organ, singing songs and improvising. Metal tubes, PVC tubes and a wind machine were built into the organ; guitar strings, a bass string, a resin thread...

"Crepuscular Hour is an epic, hypnotic one-hour piece for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians, and church organ, to be performed in a cathedral or similar location with musicians surrounding the audience. The room fills with sound in an intense, but almost meditative hour, as the voices blend with the distortion, the noise sometimes takes over, and the organ eventually takes the music to a new level. The visual design of this concert is a play on the crepuscular rays -- rays of sunlight that...

"Maja Ratkje is a remarkable vocalist and composer based in Norway. Her work ranges from orchestral and chamber works to electronics, improvisation and creative combinations of all of the above. This special collection of Maja’s work showcases several...

Rattlemouth is an offshoot of the legendary Orthotonics. Features saxist/vocalist Danny Finney + a great & supple rhythm section. Mostly instrumental new music that isn't afraid to rock hard (while using unusual modes for the melodies & rapidly changin...

Rattlemouth is an offshoot of the legendary Orthotonics. This features saxist/vocalist Danny Finney & guitarist Rebby Sharp - both of the Orthos + a great & supple rhythm section. Mostly instrumental new music that isn't afraid to rock hard (while usin...

"New York Days features Italy's highly inventive jazz musicians Enrico Rava and protégé Stefano Bollani, together with three leading American jazzmen: master drummer Paul Motian, bassist Larry Grenadier, and, in his ECM debut, saxophonist Mark Turner....

"Enrico Rava is jazz royalty in his native Italy. In the more than four-decades since he gained his initial acclaim in the then burgeoning avant-garde scene as part of Argentinean saxophonist Gato Barbieri's band, he has not only mentored two...

Enrico Rava: trumpet
Gianluca Petrella: trombone
Giovanni Guidi: piano
Gabriele Evangelista: double-bass
Fabrizio Sferra: drums
with Giacomo Ancillotto: guitar

"Since his return to ECM with “Easy Living” in 2003, the gran

"This is a beautiful duo album by two of Italy's greatest jazz musicians. The repertoire showcases marvelous linear playing by two master improvisers making freely lyrical jazz together - inspired by jazz history, South American music, the Italian song...

Ada Rave: tenor sax + preparations, soprano and sopranino on track 6

Tenor saxophonist Ada Rave, born and raised in Argentina, decided to move to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2013. She had heard ‘the call’, followed her musical intuition and became part of the colorful community of Dutch creative improvised music.
Educated in the jazz tradition she started to look for a more personal language. A deep search. Not an easy path to go.
The destination is always changing. Each step

Ada Rave tenor sax / clarinet and flutes on 4
Nicola L. Hein prepared guitar
Wilbert De Joode contrabass

"The Argentinian contribution to the universality of jazz is measured by everything Leandro “Gato” Barbieri gave to the music, and the gauge was put very high by the late saxophonist. Every sax player who emerged, after him, from the Buenos Aires scene had that extra challenge, and that’s the case of Ada Rave, who choose Europe – she’s based in Amsterdam – instead of the United States..

Gabriele Marconcini: Vocals
Samuele Santanna: Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Fabrizio Trinci: Moog, Synth, Organ, Piano, Fender Rhodes and Backing Vocals
Marco Geri: Bass
Francesco Carnesecchi: Drums
The new (fourth) album by RAVEN SAD has personality, depth and a rare narrative strenght, evoking infinite spaces and deep breaths. Thanks to the “Gilmour style” that Samuele Santanna, mind and heart of the band, has made of him over the years with all the resulting emotional...

“Composer, electronic music innovator and Pere Ubu's synthesist Allen Ravenstine returns with this collection of two EPs.
Using a singular blend of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, each track on Nautilus, weaves it's own wayward travelogue amidst stray bits of audio verité and wafting musical fragrances-by turns tropical and foreboding.
Rue de Poisson Noir takes cues from it's fragmentary companion both in palette and approach, slithering between cinematic intrigue, off-brand jazz...

"Allen Ravenstine, erstwhile eminence grise of classic-era Pere Ubu, was one of the best-integrated and least predictable pioneers of analogue synthesis in rock until, in the late 1980’s, he quit both the public and the musical arena to pursue entirely different interests. But he never lost his interest in, or his feel for, analogue electronics. A few years ago, with Pere Ubu’s current synthesist, Robert Wheeler, he recorded ‘Farm Report and City Desk - in the context of a documentary about modular...

"Eccentricity in music is tricky in that it's difficult to embrace it in moderation. There's risk of having it come off as either overly (and gratingly) deliberate, or teetering over the precipice into full-blown novelty. Pere Ubu co-founder Allen Ravenstine's Waiting For The Bomb is one of these rare exceptions where peculiarity, nuance and genuine warmth align in such a way that it's perched right on that edge and all the more evocative because of it. One of the album's most striking and disorienting...

First album by a UK proto-progressive outfit that was released in the fall of 1970. Their second album, Time Is, is a minor classic and this isn't as good, but if you want more by them and you dig that 1970 exploratory vibe...

This London-based quintet's ambitious and highly entertaining debut touches on psychedelia, progressive rock, jazz and pop, with imaginative arrangements and superb musicianship. Issued on the tiny Evolution label in the autumn of 1970, it sank without trace, with original...

Vicki Ray: piano, prepared piano, stylophone, voice, Andes 25
Scot Ray: lap steel slide guitar, electronics, live-looping

“Generally speaking, there is nothing remarkable about the idea of a brother and sister playing together. Images of children involved in some privately invented game spring to mind. In the case of brother and sister Scot and Vicki Ray, included in the idea would have to be playing music together in their Great Falls, Montana, living room, Scot on brass instruments...

"Active Vapor Recovery combines extreme Jazz, avant funk, liquid Americana and skronk blues. Think - James Brown meets Sun Ra on a front porch somewhere in rural Montana. The Scot Ray Quintet features Scot's amazing multiphonic trombone, Nels Cline on...

Second album from this excellent finger-style guitarist seeped in the best of the primitive Americana stylists (Basho, Fahey, etc) but with her own unique and dark slant.

“Welsh musician Gwenifer Raymond's 2018 debut album, You Never Were Much of a Dancer, introduced a new voice on acoustic guitar, receiving 5 stars in The Guardian, big spreads in MOJO and UNCUT, and airplay on multiple BBC programs. This led to months of touring on the European festival circuit. Her latest, Strange Lights Over...

"... an intoxicating sauce of stark and tripped out ritual music... which conspires to keep listeners in a semi-permanent trance state" --Julian Cope (Head Heritage).

"... a heady brew of deep listening music that is almost medieval in mood and wholly reverential in technique" --Edwin Pouncey (Wire Magazine).

"Razen push the drone potential of medieval instruments like hurdy gurdy as well as shawm and recorders... into realms of total sensory overload" --David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue)....

"TransCollaboration is the five year project of David Cooper Orton (England) and James H. Sidlo (USA). David and James started this project out of mutual interests in looping, having "met" on The Looper's Delight mailing list. Looper's Delight is an...

"Guitarist and composer Dennis Rea presents a completely different but equally compelling facet of his musical personality with his most ambitious release to date, Views From Chicheng Precipice. A key presence on the Pacific Northwest creative music...

Siegfried Meier (guitar, flute)
Paul Döing (guitar)
Johannes Brackmann (bass)
Reinhold Stania (drums)
This is the sort of thing that Garden of Delights do so delightfully well; this is a previously unreleased album by a basically unknown outfit from 1975 who were a local, underground / experimental German outfit. But not only do you get the album, which was never released anyway, you get 20' of bonus live tracks. Yow.

"There is only one single laquer that exists of this (studio

Never-before released in physical form, this was released as a legitimate download a few years ago. It was supposed to be the group's third album, but even though it was completed, it remained unreleased and not even suspected to exist until 2010...

A trio of guitars/vocals, keyboards & drums. "If you like Yes circa "Going For The One" then this a must."

"Questions, questions, questions" ... are a conceptual must when it comes to Realtime Research, who are less about the idle presentation of results than about the character of the process that research itself is made up of.

The commonplace called "The journey is the reward" though couldn't be more distant with this very mixed septet. Being less of a band and more of the staff for an idea to become audible, Realtime Research are research within realtime rather than the search for it. A look...

“There are some jazz musicians long known by cognoscenti for a mere handful of recordings: Dupree Bolton, Earl Anderza, Hasaan Ibn-Ali, Alan Shorter, Dewey Johnson. Add saxophonist Mark Reboul to that list. Before the release of this album, his discography consisted of four tracks on three albums on which he was a sideman. On Higher Primates' Environmental Impressions (GM, 1987), he plays sax on two of the percussion-heavy album's five tracks: a fragmentary track, and a sixteen-and-a-half-minute...


“The group produces a jazz-inflected sound recalling at times Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, and related bands of the 70’s, as well as newer bands such as Squonk Opera. Moller’s vocals are the most pronounced ‘instrument’ and harken to those of Dagmar Krause and Elaine di Falco.”-Avant Music News

“They merge a consortium of unruffled, breezy jazz passages amid brusque unison breakouts and thorny tine signatures... This enterprising band is a precision machine.”-Glenn Astarita, All About...


“Red Bazar formed in 2007 as an instrumental trio featuring Andy Wilson on guitar, Paul Comerie on drums and Mick Wilson on bass and keyboards. The line-up released ‘Connections’ in 2008, which was their first release.
Connections is now presented as a ‘new old’ album, featuring the current line up of Andy Wilson guitars, Paul Comerie drums, Peter Jones (Camel/Tiger Moth Tales/Francis Dunnery Band) keyboards and Mick Wilson bass.”

Pete Jones - vocals & keyboards
Andy Wilson - guitars
Mick Wilson - bass
Paul Comerie - drums

“Featuring one of the UK's leading lights of progressive rock - Peter Jones (Camel, Tiger Moth Tales) who compliments the instrumental talent of the other musicians.
Three years after the bands last release, Red Bazar are finally able to release their new album, ‘Inverted Reality’. With Covid delaying the writing of new material, the band was desperate to get back into their Nottingham.

Eve Risser composition, piano, voice
Antonin-Tri Hoang alto sax, analog synth
Sakina Abdou tenor sax
Grégoire Tirtiaux baritone sax, qarqabas
Nils Ostendorf trumpet, analog synth
Mathias Müller trombone
Tatiana Paris electric guitar, voice
Ophélia Hié balafon, bara, voice
Mélissa Hié balafon, djembe, voice
Fanny Lasfargues electro-acoustic bass
Oumarou Bambara djembe, bara
Emmanuel Scarpa drums, voice

"Led by the French pianist Eve Risser, the Red Desert...

“With a command of countless genres and a vast list of credits, composer/guitarist Jason Schimmel is a musical polymath whose talents know no bounds. A long time member of Trey Spruance’s legendary ensemble Secret Chiefs 3, his brilliant guitar work embraces a wide variety of traditions and styles, from blues, jazz and surf rock to Balkan folk and heavy metal. Visions of the Void is his masterpiece, an intense program of eclectic music that jumps quickly and seamlessly from one style to another. Years...

“After the minor gap of eighteen years between albums, the Jaspers decided to take just a year to come back with the next one. Nick Harradence had only ever joined the band to help on the previous recording, and by now he had been replaced by Florin Werner on the drum seat. Sohelia came back to provide vocals on another song, and although there was no Pat D'Arcy, interestingly there was a guest appearance on guitar from Tony Heath, who just like Pat had been a member of the band for the 'Sting In The...

Even Helte Hermansen – Baritone guitar
Trond Frønes - Bass
Bernt André Moen – Rhodes
Torstein Lofthus – Drums and percussion

“Distilling order from a crushing whirlwind of chaos has been the stock in trade for Red Kite since the Norwegian jazz-rock supergroup joined forces in 2014. Apophenian Bliss, the much-anticipated follow-up to the quartet’s powerhouse 2019 self-titled debut references the tendency in the human brain to find patterns and connections even when none actually..

"Concocting a head-rush tempest of swirling psychedelia, heavy rock crunch, prog virtuosity and free-jazz experimentation, Norwegian jazz-rock power quartet Red Kite releases its highly anticipated self-titled debut via RareNoiseRecords. The exploratory and electrifying supergroup features members of some of Norway’s best-known prog outfits, including Elephant9, Shining, Bushman’s Revenge and Grand General.
Red Kite brings together guitarist Even Helte Hermansen, bassist Trond Frønes, keyboardist...

“For better or for worse, there have been many artists and bands over the years that will defy expectations when releasing their next musical project, Prince and Neil Young come to mind, creating confusion within their fan base. THE RED KRAYOLA were one of the first, starting with a forced respelling of their moniker after receiving legal threats from Binney-Smith, the manufacturer of Crayola crayons.
The first clue to their musical sea-change was the minimalist cover art of their new album 'God...

Fourth album for this band. They manage to sound rough-hewn in an attractive way, while executing some pretty interesting/complex musical maneuvers in a way similar to The Work, although they don't sound like them. I found parts of this reminiscent of...

“Limited four CD + 2 DVD set. Following the release of the album Drastic Plastic and tour, Bill Nelson disbanded Be Bop Deluxe.

Aware of the emergence of the New Wave artists and out of a desire to continually evolve, he announced the formation of Red Noise. Working with co-producer John Leckie, Bill recorded a new wave masterpiece, a record that would influence a new generation of musicians with it's intelligent and punchy material.
Sound On Sound and the subsequent live shows would divide.

Following on the enormous success of her Radical Jewish masterpiece Trilectic, composer, singer, bandleader and hellraiser Jewlia Eisenberg has created a rocking collection of songs about women, men, relationships, more women and romance. Performed by ...

Very good progressive band from Canada who are obviously indebted to the sound of the 1st few Marillion albums. Vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums all play well and there's some genuine sparks here. Four songs: two 'side long epics' and two shor...

"Ultra-rare recordings by '70s UK avant-rockers Red Square, the missing link between original free-noise practitioners like AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band, and Peter Brotzmann and post-no wavers à la The Blue Humans, Borbetomagus, Fushitsusha, and The Dead C. Named after the early Soviet Constructivists, Red Square is a pioneering free-improvising, avant-rock band. They bridged the worlds of psychedelic rock, noise, and avant-jazz, and many of the techniques and approaches to music that they helped to pioneer...

"The Red Trio is quite a unique case in the Portuguese jazz and improvised music scene. The free music played by Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano, prepared piano), Hernâni Faustino (double bass), and Gabriel Ferrandini (drums, percussion) have no attachment to...

Rodrigo Pinheiro piano | Hernani Faustino double bass | Gabriel Ferrandini drums and percussion | John Butcher tenor and soprano saxophone.
"Known for the way they manage the energy factor, going from extreme subtlety, almost near-silence, to aggressive noise making, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernâni Faustino and Gabriel Ferrandini, the members of Red Trio, brought sharp ears to their presentation with John Butcher as guest during last year’s Jazz em Agosto festival. “Summer Skyshift” is the recording of...

Nate Wooley trumpet / Rodrigo Pinheiro piano / Hernani Faustino double bass / Gabriel Ferrandini drums and percussion.

"The history of improvised music is full of successful and even magical first encounters, but more common are the occasions...