Andreas Schaerer: voice, electronics
Lucas Niggli: drums, percussion


"Just vocals and drums – that’s the line-up of the dream team of Andreas Schaerer and Lucas Niggli. Outstanding virtuosity and enormous creativity combined with the

An absolutely stunning instrumental album from Basya Schechter, the beautiful vocalist and guiding force of the popular group Pharaoh's Daughter. Collaborating with Alan Kushan, a virtuoso on the santur, they combine influences from both Jewish and Ara...

"High-flying Norwegian trumpeter and composer Thomas Johansson, much-lauded for his spellbinding work with, among others, Friends & Neighbors and Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra, brings together two of his other formidable ensembles – premier third-stream troupe Scheen Jazzorkester and avant-garde party-starters, Cortex – for a scintillating showcase of big-band bravura.
Recorded live in the winter of 2022 at Norway’s old Hamar Teater hall, the five dynamic cuts on Frameworks have their origins...

“When most people think of autobiography, they probably think of printed matter, such as a memoir. But jazz albums can also be a documentary of an artist’s existence. For example, there’s The Tides of Life, the third release from bassist/composer Holger Scheidt (and his first on the Enja label). Scheidt’s six lengthy tracks (which range from six to over nine minutes long) depict six distinct moods which individuals typically experience. These moods, Scheidt states, are “completely subjective,” and he...

Jenny Scheinman, a frequent collaborator of guitarist Bill Frisell, is one of the most sought-after violinists on the scene today. Her second CD for Tzadik, created especially for the Oracles series, features her brilliant quartet augmented by the beau...

"The first solo album by Jan Schelhaas, whose playing and writing has graced both Caravan and Camel over the years. Noted for his compositions Captured and Hymn to Her for Camel, Schelhaas at last records an album of his own music. Featuring guest appearances from Doug Boyle and Jimmy Hastings, Dark Ships follows in the tradition of the Canterbury sound, albeit with more ambient influences. Jan has delivered a well crafted album which is certain to appeal to fans of Caravan, Camel and followers of the...

“Ghosts Of Eden finds Jan Schelhaas, of Caravan and Camel fame, in a melancholy mood...with lyrics that suggest someone looking back over their life and, at the risk of morbidity, looking to make peace with their past.
Musically, Schelhaas’ keys take the front seat and the overall sound isn’t a far cry from Caravan tracks like Better By Far, just with notably less guitar...
The whole experience is elegiac, with slow unhurried tempos and Schelhaas’ very soft...vocals that typically sit low in the.

The target of the new Lowlands label Musique Belgique Archive is to dig up forgotten treasures from the Belgian musical history. The first idea is to re-release the old vinyl from the 70's on CD. At that time, the major labels only released these album...

Another long-lost gem (in a possibly infinite series!) on Atavistic's UMS. Originally waxed in 1974, and released in a microscopic private pressing on the LST label, Inside-Outside Reflections showcases Mr. Scherf on a variety of reeds & piano; Jacek B...

"The fact that this album appeared at all in 1983 owes less to Günter Schickert and more to Steven and Alan Freeman, who sought him out for their Krautrock encyclopedia The Crack in the Cosmic Egg. On learning that Schickert had heaps of recordings...

I am personally thrilled to see this return to print; it was available on CD over a decade ago, but has been out of print since then. It is a minor German/Krautrock classic from 1979, which was fairly late in the game. Günter Schickert's first album...

“Schindler is playing a brass instrument (trumpet or trombone) when this disc begins which works well with Mr. Blonk’s unique voice. Blonk returns Schindler's squealing and mawing trumpet lute with impossible tongue beats, farting or hissing tongue and hilarious announcements, including ducklike sounds. To capricious humor he tells jokes without words, he tries to make intelligible with comic sounds and with xenophonic singing. To do this, he computerized dirty tones and chirping Klingklang to continue...

"Monk's Casino is not an encyclopedic project, but an arrangement of the complete works of Thelonious Monk for live performance in one evening. At Monk's Casino, things often happen fast and sometimes get quite turbulent, too. Still, everything is....

"Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Paul Lovens get on the stage which has been restored true to the original, in order to present us with this cubistic, democratic design in the form of music: collective improvisation. No beginning. No end...

Alexander von Schlippenbach : Piano

"The pianist, two days in the studio, alone at the piano. A retreat in Zurich. Focus is on the now, the recording is running. Preparation time for the new compositions: about a year. Getting attuned to the music: a lifetime. Alexander von Schlippenbach, Slow Pieces For Aki, the emphasis being on the word "slow," not on rediscovering slowness but discovering slowness anew - dedicated to his wife Aki Takase.
With slow pieces, short pieces, compositions in...

Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano

"The pianist alone in the studio. That is the counterpole to von Schlippenbach's work with the Globe Unity Orchestra; at the same time, it is also an orchestral challenge in the form of the keyboard, hammers...

Silvan Schmid trumpet
Tapiwa Svosve alto saxophone
Silvan Jeger cello
Lucas Wirz tuba
Vincent Glanzmann drums

"As a trumpet player with many years of experience I am still interested in the music of younger collegues. In the Summer 2016, by pure coincidence I metand heard Silvan Schmid play and I was both impressed and touched by his veryspecial playing. I was pleased to hear a trumpet player who playes “different”.Silvan does not sound “out of a School”. In his early years

“The second album by the American Gamelan composer and instrument builder, Daniel Schmidt, following In My Arms, Many Flowers, his majestic debut on Recital. Abies Firma lies next chronologically, collecting works from 1976 to 1991, considered the second phase of his compositional form. "We were like children playing with new toys," Daniel recalls of the early days of American Gamelan music. "Though, as we moved into the 1980s, I moved away from Javanese traditional formalism completely, no longer using...

This is extracts from Irmin Schmidt's Fantasy Opera Gormenghast and as a long-time Can fan, I gotta say that this did not hit any spots for me at all...

"A phantasmagorical soundworld of electronics, symphony orchestra and pounding beats which..

"Aptly titled Masters of Confusion is the first recorded fruit of the collaboration between Irmin Schmidt, founder member of the legendary German avant garde rock group Can, and Kumo, the artist name of drum programmer, sound engineer and producer Jono...

“London-based producer Ulrich Schnauss and Danish guitarist and producer Jonas Munk have both unfolded their unique visions of electronic music over the past two decades, and they have been collaborating since the mid-2000s. Eight Fragments Of An Illusion is their first album in over four years, their third overall. The latest effort is ambient and introspective in nature, but with a kinetic, polyrhythmic energy pushing it forward. There's a floating quality to Ulrich's synthesizer washes and Munk's...

Electronic duo Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters (of the band Engineers) return with a second collaborative album titled Tomorrow Is Another Day, released by Bureau B. This second project offers a sublime exploration into their signature expressionistic landscapes while exploring the potential of a collaborative model in which Schnauss' keyboards and Peters' guitar work together in juxtaposition. Ulrich Schnauss, born in the industrial port town of Kiel in northern Germany in 1977, emerged in Berlin's...

"Another dose of whirring rhythms and dark drones courtesy of Stefan Schneider and Sven Kacirek. This time around they have introduced the beguiling tones of Swedish singer Sofia Jernberg on three pieces. The Düsseldorf/Hamburg duo Schneider Kacirek released their debut album Shadows Documents some three years ago. A coarse energy ran through Shadows Documents, drawing on the pair's various excursions to Kenya as producers. Shadows Documents was a somnambulistic interpretation of Kenyan music using drums...

Pierre Borel saxophone
Antonio Borghini bass
Christian Lillinger drums

"The trio Schnell uses the bebop tradition as the starting point (the «archetype» or the «memory basket», as they put it) to investigate speed, stasis and trance. It’s not simply a mechanical process, giving more velocity to the lines played by Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, the same way a 33 rpm record would sound if put to 78 rpm, but to transform the bebop language by pushing the musicians to their limits and...

Manuel Troller - guitar & effects
Andi Schnellmann - electric bass & effects
David Meier - drums

"Schnellertollermeier have developed an approach to music where distinctions between conventionally marked terrains -- heavy metal, post-rock, prog, electric jazz, new music, improvisation, noise, modern composition, etc. -- meet in one place...and vanish. In their place is a music that is aggressive (at times brutal), wildly ambitious, and indefinable by common....