"Electronic composer Klaus Schulze together with Lisa Gerrard, acclaimed artist and the voice of Dead Can Dance, performed a series of concerts in 2009. This 1st volume, recorded live in Warsaw, Poland on Sept. 17 2009, is the first to be released....

“Dieter Schütz, born in Flensburg (Germany) in 1955, was a highly talented multi-instrumentalist who, unfortunately, died at the age of only 36. Shortly before his death, he founded the pop rock trio Deja Vue together with his partner Ulla Witt and his friend Adelbert von Deyen, of which the album "Nightflight" was released in 2004 only at the instigation of Adelbert von Deyen. When Dieter Schütz died suddenly on September 25, 1991, he left behind no less than 500 songs and instrumentals composed and...

“Aufbruch, the title of the debut collaboration between electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm and guitarist Markus Reuter, translates as "departure" or "emergence." Either definition offers an evocative interpretation of the powerfully immersive soundworld they've conjured together, but even more suggestive is the ambiguity between the two meanings. For the music of Aufbruch feels like both an awe-inspiring journey of discovery and a welling up from the murkiest depths of the subconscious....

J. Peter Schwalm: piano, drums, electronics and programming
Arve Henriksen: trumpets, percussion and voices

“J. Peter Schwalm (born 1970, Frankfurt am Main) is a German composer and music producer, active in the fields of electronic music, ambient, radio drama, film, theatre and ballet. He is best known for his work with musician Brian Eno. He lives and works in Frankfurt.
Neuzeit, which German electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm views through his new duo outing with the...

HANS KOCH, BASSCLARINET + SOPRANOSAXOPHONE / URS LEIMGRUBER, TENOR- + SOPRANOSAXOPHONE / OMRI ZIEGELE, ALTOSAXOPHONE + VOICE

Three experienced saxophonists, three musicians – whom over the years have contributed to the European jazz history...

Irène Schweizer, Piano

"With a impeccable white grand piano and a packed house, the stage was set for a concert hot enough to warm the cold February air. No disappointments, of course. Schweizer played two sets, dense with consideration and...

Irène Schweizer, Piano Solo

"The pianist Irène Schweizer, one of the most important exponents of contemporary Jazz, at the same time rebel and innovator of the highest order, gave a solo recital in the Great Hall of the Tonhalle, which is world-famous for its acoustics. She...

Irène Schweizer, Piano / Maggie Nicols, Voice / Joëlle Léadre, Bass

"Music is designed to work long-term. In this case, the responsibility for the music is revealed in a carefully considered and convincing choice, made from the wealth of the...

Irène Schweizer, Piano / Günter Sommer, Drums

"Is it too early to start thinking about records of the year? The hell it is, as Duke used to say (no, not him, the other one). Superficially there's no-thing here that can't be found elsewhere...

Irène Schweizer: Piano
Joey Baron: Drums
"A meeting of two jazz giants: In 2015, Joey Baron, one of the most sought after drummers on the New York scene met the First Lady of European jazz, Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer, in concert in Zürich. During his long career Baron has played with bands such as Naked City and Masada and worked with musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot.
Schweizer had already performed and recorded with the best drummers on the...

Irène Schweizer: Piano / Omri Ziegele: Saxophone, Voice

"Irène Schweizer and Omri Ziegele are a pair as perfectly opposite as Monk and Johnny Griffin: she is a mercurial, superior architect at the piano, with a presence one can only admire...

Irène Schweizer: Piano / Pierre Favre: Drums

" The concert of Irène Schweizer (piano) and Pierre Favre (drums) on the festival stage in Ulrichsberg 2003 was a magical event: «In Ulrichsberg, there was a rare energy,» Favre said after the...

Irène Schweizer: Piano / Louis Moholo: Drums

Irène Schweizer, Piano / Maggie Nicols, Voice / Joëlle Léandre, Bass

Chris Cutler-drums, low-grade electronics
Amy Denio-vocals
Bob Drake-bass, vocals, guitar, drums, percussion
Fred Frith-guitars
Claudio Puntin-bass clarinet
Stevan Tickmayer-keyboards, electronics.

Compositions by Stevan & lyrics by Chris.
This is the latest 'art song' work from Chris and assorted musicians & is in the tradition of News From Babel, Art Bears, etc.

Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer-keyboards & sampler
Bob Drake-bass, occasional guitar & organ
Chris Cutler-drums & electrified kit
Mike Johnson-guitars

Muchly awaited and anticipated 'instrumental complex rock deluxe' album. Mike Johnson is a great guitarist, and one of the aspects of his greatness is the fact that he doesn't show off, but only uses his talents as needed to put whatever he plays on in the best light. Well, the best light here includes some hellacious playing from him and fro

"This is an exciting new release from the wildly creative French clarinettist Louis Sclavis, a major figure in European jazz widely recognised as a masterful jazz composer and arranger. Sclavis's work often alludes to more than mere music, and on Lost...

Louis Sclavis, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet / Craig Taborn, piano and fender rhodes / Tom Rainey, drums

"This new cooperative trio with Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey brings a very unusual instrument combination in a very organic way pointing..

"This is the third full-length release from New York's free-spirited power trio, Scorch Trio: Raoul Björkenheim (electric guitar), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass and electronics), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums and percussion). As with their...

Riccardo Sinigaglia: Piano, Keyboards, Synths, Flutes
Davide Zolli – Drums, Percussions

“The name of a sound project rarely suggests its precise identity. But in this case, for the new experimental creature by Riccardo Sinigaglia and Davide Zolli, the analogy is very clear and evocative. Therefore, “Scosse Elettriche” is a set of catalysts that release and condense the multi-colored nature of fantastic energies. The association exploits not only the encounter between two different...

“Raymond Scott is best known as the composer of famous tunes that pop up throughout Warner Bros cartoons. In the late ‘Thirties, his celebrated Raymond Scott Quintette was a huge commercial success, a singular ensemble playing a unique and unmistakable style of jazz, full of whimsy and bravura. By the late ‘Forties, he had become an electronic music pioneer, both as an instrument inventor and composer. His music is everywhere these days, not just cartoons. For example, Lizzo’s recent hit “Tempo” samples...

"The Deep Spaces, the most recent in my series of bowed piano compositions, is a fantasy song-cycle celebrating the power and grandeur evoked by poets and composers over two millennia - of one of the world's most dazzling and enchanting locales:...

SCUO is a guitar/drums duo of Scott Burton (guitar) and Scott Clark (drums), both from Richmond, VA. Scott is the leader of the amazingly great Richmond band Glows In The Dark, whose album we carry. This is obviously much more stripped down and compact...