“The Unlonely Raindancer is undoubtedly a beginning, it is also an enigma. More than its means. The seminal first solo album by Keith Tippett released by Universal Productions in 1980 is a live recording from the previous year’s short tour of the Netherlands. The audience applause was edited out, leaving the listener with the intensity of one lone musician literally improvising into composition.
The word ‘unlonely’ could be described as uneven grammatically, but given nuance by juxtaposing the....

Keith Tippett - piano
Matthew Bourne - piano

"These inspired duets sound so unforced and unconstrained that they blow fresh life into that well-worn image. From the outset, two quite distinct pianists establish common ground, where they interweave and spring surprises. It's wonderfully fertile ground too. Strings of scintillating moments bound seamlessly into musical mesh, now mysteriously chromatic, now alluringly melodic, fractiously dissonant, propulsive or ethereal. Tippett's speaking...

"Perhaps this is the work of a lifetime spent in front of a microphone. Perhaps it is merely another stopping place on the journey, or a report from the outlands and there will be more. But whatever it is, Shadow Puppeteer is the final step into the open for Julie Tippetts. After 30 years in the business and over 25 with her husband and collaborator, Keith, she has stepped out into the open completely naked (solo -- all instruments and voices were hers) and created a dream work for the ages. Shadow...

"Most of the music for this collection was written and recorded by myself between mid 2007 – mid 2008. Julie matched texts to the music and recorded the vocal parts at my studio in the final part of 2008. I tried to write music for this CD which I...

Frode Gjerstad – saxes, clarinets, alto flute
Kevin Norton – drums, percussion
David Watson – guitars, Scottish small pipes

“This is the 3rd studio offering from the trio of Frode Gjerstad (saxophones, clarinets, flutes), Kevin Norton (percussion, vibes) and David Watson (guitar and Scottish small pipes), collectively known as TiPPLE.
Comprised of 15 concise explorations, this recording is self-consciously less reed-centric and more "experimental" sounding than their previous...

The Tiptons are a great sax quartet who feature two very strong talents co-leading the project: Amy Denio and Jessica Lurie. Great saxophone music that obviously is rooted in jazz and goes way way beyond those roots; they say " A mix of ska, punk, funk...

Violinist Tirill Mohn was formerly a member of White Willow and played on their debut album. Since that time, she has been working on her own music and this is her debut solo album. Performing here on voice (with a very appealing, light, ethereal vocal...

Trevor Dunn: Bass
Sally Gates: Guitar
Kenny Grohowski: Drums
Matt Hollenberg: Bass VI

Somewhere between brutal prog (Orthrealm, Upsilon Acrux) and technical metal lives this fairly great instrumental band! Recommended!

“... we can now add TITAN TO TACHYONS to the list of modern purveyors of this stylistic niche, such as Behold… The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, and Ground Patrol. […] TITAN TO TACHYONS balance their dazzling musical abilities with equally impressive songwriting..

I know drummer Per Tjernberg from his (great) work with Archemedes Badkar, and from his unbelievably great last album as a leader, Inside Information. Honestly, I don't think that this hits the heights of that one, but it's a good record filled with...

"Tobruk was formed by some North American guys living in Brazil, and this wonderful album got released in 1972 on the Cash Box label (sometimes you can see the album named as if Cash Box were its title). It's a pretty good psychedelic album with an...

Myles Boisen: guitar
Krystyna Bobrowski: bowl kelp
David Caldwell: tenor saxophone
Brian Christopherson: drums
Jeremy Keller: guitar
Gino Robair: sampler, tapes, theremin, space voice mask
David Tohir: backbone
Kirk Udvardi: alto saxophone
Scott Vance: rasta bass

“This is an album of electro-acoustic improvisation. The featured instrument is the backbone (which is short for feedback trombone), an invention of my friend Scott Vance & myself..

"I have always loved Charles Tolliver's playing. His tone has been & is always so beautiful. It has always amazed me how he is not better known than he is. Andrew Hill, Jackie McClean, Stanley Cowell are just a few of the many people he has recorded with over the years. If you want to hear a great trumpet player who also writes great tunes (not to mention his big band & his arranging), you would be remiss not to give him a listen. He comes roaring back in small group format on this recording. Do not be...

Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus is an experimental vocal group based in Tokyo. Drawing upon influences as diverse as the Fluxus movement, hardcore punk, contemporary classical, TV commercials, cartoon music, Conceptual Art and more, Adachis complex composit...

"An avant/modern jazz trio that thrive in, and out of conventional structure, the Oakland based Ton Trio II features Aram Shelton on alto saxophone; Scott Brown, bass; Alex Vittum, drums.

Drawing from Shelton’s bright and even folk-like...

Dan Berglund-bass (E.S.T., Rymden)

Martin Hederos-keys/violin (The Soundtyrack of Our Lives, Hederosgruppen)
Johan Lindström-guitar/pedal steel (Rebecka Törnqvist, Elvis Costello)
Andreas Werliin-drums (Fire!, Wildbirds & Peacedrums)

“The four-time Grammy award-winning (Swedish Grammy) group Tonbruket will release their sixth studio album Light Wood, Dark Strings.
For a band as diverse as Tonbruket, whose diligent exploration of the outback of jazz and constant expansion of

"I have had an idea if I apply the neural network to create my sound work for long time. When I had a performance at Centre Pompidou with Peter Rehberg and other friends I tried to talk about the idea with a French guy from IRCAM. But, he couldn't understand my idea, which by using neural network the sound I create would never have any repetitions. That was 2002 and I had to wait until 2015 when I had a grant from New York State Council on the Arts through ISSUE Project Room, then its director Lawrence...

“Massimo Toniutti is an Italian sound designer and experimental musician. He is the brother of Giancarlo Toniutti who is best known for his dark ambient masterpiece La Mutazione which was originally released on the Broken Flag label in the UK and later re-issued by Klanggalerie. Massimo started working with sound when he was a teenager, collecting and playing recordings of all kinds. In th 1980s he released four cassettes on his own label, all heavily influenced by the experimental musis scene of that...

An early classic of synthesis and electronics. A bit dated, as all of these types of records are, but still a landmark, as after two albums as "TONTO", Cecil and Margouleff both went to work with Stevie Wonder, adding their talents to his incredible...

“Hip To The Jag, Kavus Torabi's debut solo album, is a blissfully skewed swan dive into the swirling cosmic kaleidoscope of the poet's soul. From spectral, intricate and fragile compositions to psychedelic, joyous and open drone-scapes, it is brave, beautiful and beguiling throughout.
Kavus Torabi's songs dwell on mortality, love and loss. He uses disquieting themes as a way of establishing a context for transcendent bliss.
Over the last two decades, as one of Britain's most inventive songwriters.

Hugo Antunes double bass
João Pais Filipe drums and percussion
Ricardo Webbens modular and network synthesizer (R)
Rafael Toral modular feedback circuit, modified MS2 (feedback) and MT10 (bending) amplifiers (L).

"After the conclusion of the 13-year-long Space Program series, Space Quartet marks a new horizon in Rafael Toral’s ongoing music explorations. Referring both to a record and a band configuration, Space Quartet embodies a maturing moment for the Portuguese musician. As one

"After a two-decade interlude, Jim O'Rourke's Moikai returns with Spectral Evolution, a major new work by Rafael Toral. Making his name in the mid-1990s with influential guitar drone platters like Sound Mind Sound Body and Wave Field, Toral has never been one to rest on his laurels repeating his past glories. Since 2017, Toral's work has been entering a new phase, often still centered around the arsenal of self-built instruments developed in the Space Program, but with a renewed interest in the long tones..