SPRING & NEAP (35:33)
Michigo Yagi, 17-string koto/Yumiko Tanaka, futozao shamisen; Yoshiko Fujio, hosozao shamisen/Zeena Parkins, troubador harp; Makoto Nomura, piano/Tamiki Sawa, violin/Mio Abe, violin; Hiromichi Sakamoto, cello/Masaaki Kikuchi...

"This is the second CD in a series presenting the complete string quartets of composer/performer/producer/instrument builder Elliott Sharp, one of the busiest and most consistently inventive figures in the downtown scene. Elliott has forged a unique...

Violin: David Soldier; Viola: Judith Insell; Bass Clarinet: Evan Spritzer, Tim Smith; Accordeon: Ted Reichman; Piano: Zeena Parkins; electric bass: Marc Sloan; Drums & percussion: Joseph Trump, Jim Pugliese; electronic & acoustic percussion: Rea...

Elliott Sharp: 8-String Guitarbass, Soprano Sax, Electronics, Samples & Textures
Zeena Parkins: Electric Harp
Bobby Previte: Drums

"Aready teeming, activity on the sun increases further culminating with the peak, an elevated state in which sunspots and flares proliferate with profound effects throughout the solar system: fever dreams, ecstatic dances, restless movements both of populations and thought, soul transfers. On this occasion forces coalesced in the Austrian Tirol with drummer..

Elliott Sharp: Guitar / Melvin Gibbs: Bass / Lucas Niggli: Drums

"During the two-weeks festival by Intakt Records at John Zorn's club The Stone in New York's East Village, Sharp-Gibbs-Niggli performed for the first time. Three musicians with...

"Listening closely to the duo of Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields one can hear a compact history of modern composition and improvisation. Although the duo has a sound all its own, under the surface you can sense traces of “New Music,” minimalism, free jazz,

"Recorded live at the 2007 Donaueschingen Music Days, this CD captures the pairing of composers E# and Lang sharing an ensemble including vocalists Latasha Natasha Diggs and Mixmaster Todd, turntablist Philip Jeck, drummer Fredy Studer, reedman Hans...

Sharp + an ''orchestral'' Carbon line-up; 3 violins, viola, 3 cellos, bass, percussion, & Elliott's double neck guitar/bass. [Victo]

Improvisations on double neck guitar/bass, dobro, Hawaiian guitar, electronic percussion, electric & acoustic harps & tapes. [Victo]

Promo

Woody Shaw - trumpet. flugelhorn
Steve Turre - trombone
Mulgrew Miller - piano
Stafford James - bass
Tony Reedus - drums

Recorded January 13, 1982 at Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Germany; Recorded by NDR Hamburg.
"It is a positive sensation and pure joy to be reminded of an extraordinary and very special musician by this current release -- as Woody Shaw disappeared from the personal jazz-universe of way too many people after his early and tragic death in May 1989...

Latest by sampling artist Shea is this collection of works that is not strictly performed on sampler, as he adds piano & synths to his arsenal, and he works mostly in duo or trio with David Douglas-trumpet & Jim Pugliese-percussion. [Sub Rosa]

In the 1990s David Shea was a regular on the downtown scene working with Anthony Coleman, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Shelly Hirsch and many others. Since 1998 he has been living and working in Brussels collaborating with some of Belgiums finest classica...

Sub Rosa live session, London May 1996. Features Robin Rimbaud of Scanner and Robert Hampson of Main. Limited Edition.

"The Aram Shelton Quartet plays creative jazz music inspired by the likes of Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In this quartet, Shelton is joined by Chicagoans Keefe Jackson on tenor saxophone, Anton...

This is playable on any CD player, but if you pop it into a SACD player, you get all the extra sound quality that SACD's are known for. And it's a *stereo/multi-channel SACD*, which means if you are set up for 5.1 sound, you'll get that! Shepik is a...

“As the '60s drew to a close in a hail of blood and lead, jazz gradually began to close its doors. What had blossomed in the '50s and '60s as young men struggled to raise a music out of the whorehouses of New Orleans and into the concert halls turned into something less and more than it had been.
Musicians like Archie Shepp no longer looked to the future or to what they might borrow from classical forms. Instead, they looked back to the cotton fields, the slave market, and the slum to find their...

"Amazing live recordings (dated July 18 and 20 1970) captured in France at the Antibes-Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival. Archie Shepp & The Full Moon Ensemble (including Allen Shorter, Clifford Thornton, Joseph DeJean, Beb Guerin and Claude Delcloo) playing long and intense tracks."

Yes, this is another one of those ‘out of copyright in Europe’ assortments, but this has the advantage of featuring 8 complete albums, some of which are quite hard to find on CD. You get:

1. The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
2. Rufus [Tchcai / Shepp]
3. New York Contemporary Five vol. 1
4. New York Contemporary Five vol. 2
5. Consequences [NY Contemporary 5]
6. Four For Trane
7. Fire Music
8. On This Night

All 8 of these are generally great, but the...

This is an interesting, unique take on 'minimal / systems' music by a composer I wasn't previously aware of. Good stuff!

"Multi-instrumentalist and composer David John Sheppard presents his first bona fide solo album, Vertical Land. The writer and orchestrator behind the acclaimed State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound, Snow Palms, and Leaf recording artists Phelan/Sheppard, Sheppard began the tracks percussively by inserting pencils into guitars to make false bridges, then hammering the...

Promo copy in cardboard sleeve. Feat Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde, Slash and more so yeah...

"Tanzlinde is the debut album of the neo-psych band Sherpa from Abruzzo, Italy. The band got inspired by their mountains up to eastern cultures and ancient singings, and the result is a debut album which is psychedelic in the meaning of bursting the borders of music genres. You hear influences of psychedelia and Krautrock, in the direction of Popol Vuh and Robert Wyatt, but also eastern culture's traditional music. There are hints of Indie or even some slightly pop music influences. „Tanzlinde" means a...

"Calling Yasuaki Shimizu a talented musician is like calling Michael Jordan a kind of OK basketball player. Whether working with art luminaries like Nam June Paik, music icons like Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Ryuichi Sakamoto, or corporate behemoths like Honda, Shimizu is the type of versatile collaborator who elevates all of the projects he touches into something far more than ‘just’ sound.
The Music for Commercials album – reissued for the first time since its original release by Crammed in 1987 – is...

Before the advent of the Japanese school of progressive rock music during the Eighties, represented by Gerard, Outer Limits and Pageant, among others, a certain number of local bands of great interest were already active. Amongst them, the name of Shin...