Dustin Carlson - guitar, compositions
Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone
Eric Trudel - baritone saxophone
Danny Gouker - trumpet
Matt Mitchell - Prophet 6
Adam Hopkins - bass
Kate Gentile - drums

Great, very composerly ‘math jazz’ release; not as heavy as Starebaby, but certainly in the same sort of ball park.

“Dustin Carlson just surprises me with each new project, fucking genius new music composer/conceiver....brilliant guitarist with his own voice...

Laura Ann Singh – vocals

Bob Miller - trumpet, flugelhorn

J.C. Kuhl - bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Michael McNeill - piano

Adam Hopkins - bass

Scott Clark - drums, composition

“There is a Richmond sound much like there is a Chicago sound, and drummer Scott Clark has been at the center of it for the last 20 years and counting. Dawn & Dusk is his most refined and inventive to date, and this dark, slow moving (heavily influenced by Morton Feldman), drone-focused suite.

Marc Ducret - electric and acoustic 12 and 6 string guitars, fretless, soprano acoustic and electric, 4 and 6 string bass, prepared guitar, daxophone, percussion, daf, chains, suitcase, voice, handclaps
Fabrice Martinez - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, fluegelhorn, tuba
Sylvaine Hélary - alto flute

Chrstiane Bopp - trombone

Bruno Ducret - cello, voice, handclaps

“Marc Ducret, on his process for creating Palm Sweat:
The material Tim had been sending me was sometimes a piece

“Bloodletting, recorded, March 22th, 2019 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, is a performance of a long form text score I wrote around late 2018. Unlike directive text scores that indicate through order or poetry what should be played (or evoked), my score is a block of text, written to be memorized and then performed using the nonlinear randomness of memory.The purpose of this form of text-score was to mimic, through memory and temporal distance, the way the eye dances on a page, selecting what it does...

Tomas Fujiwara’s 7 Poets Trio:
Tomas Fujiwara - drums and compositions
Tomeka Reid - cello
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone

“The compositions for Tomas Fujiwara - Pith were written between April 2020 and January 2022. It was a time of minimal to no performing opportunities, which was a massive lifestyle change for Fujiwara, an active drummer on the international touring scene. Because of this there was no deadline for Pith (a first for Fujiwara), and while he knew he was writing...

Anna Webber - tenor saxophone/flute
Aurora Nealand - voice/alto saxophone/soprano saxophone/keyboards
Chiquita Magic - keyboards/voice/piano
John Hollenbeck - drums/piano/composition

“Hollenbeck formed GEORGE with three specific musicians in mind, all whom he admired and wanted to play with, but none of who knew each other well. The recording session for Letters to George took place in Montreal in January of 2022. It was the first time the quartet even set foot in the same room..

Adam Hopkins - bass, compositions
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone
Ed Rosenberg - tenor saxophone, bass saxophone (track 6)
Josh Sinton - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Jonathan Goldberger - guitar
Devin Gray - drums

“...But what is uncommon about this release is Hopkins’ blend of free jazz, fusion, and rock stylings.”-Avant Music News

“Adam Hopkins has been an active figure on the New York City scene since settling in Brooklyn in 2011, and has toured.

"Saxophonist/composer Travis Laplante has devoted his life to finding new sounds, heard everywhere from the avant-punk jazz of Little Women, to the ever-evolving saxophone quartet Battle Trance, to mind-bending solo performances, duos with Gerald Cleaver and Peter Evans, and a collaboration with new music ensemble Yarn/Wire, about which Hank Shteamer of Rolling Stone said "head-spinning flights of circular breathing share space with sparse, prayerful lyricism." He doesn’t sit still, and if you think...

Dave Ballou - trumpet
Herb Robertson - trumpet
Drew Gress - bass
Tom Rainey - drums

“To those familiar with the NYC downtown music scene of the 80s and 90s, trumpeters Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou need no introduction. Having collaborated with the likes of Tim Berne, John Zorn, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Dewey Redman, and countless others, both were at the center of what was one of the most formative eras for experimental and improvised music to date.
In performance.

Oblong (tracks 1-12):
Matt Mitchell - piano, compositions
Kate Gentile - drums, percussion

Aplomb (tracks 13-24):
Matt Mitchell - piano, compositions
Ches Smith - drums, gongs, percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tam-tam, timpani

“Oblong Aplomb is the much-anticipated follow up to Mitchell’s debut album Fiction (2013), the tour-de-force duo recording with longtime percussion counterpart Ches Smith. Oblong Aplomb not only takes the duo concepts initiated on Fict

Mali Obomsawin - bass, lead vocals, hand drum
Savannah Harris - drums, vocals

Miriam Elhajli - acoustic and electric guitars, lead vocals
Allison Burik - bass clarinet, alto saxophone, vocals
Noah Campbell - tenor, soprano, alto saxophones
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn

“A suite for Indigenous resistance, the new album from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic

Mario Pavone - bass, compositions
Dave Ballou - trumpet, arrangements
Matt Mitchell - piano
Tyshawn Sorey - drums

“Blue Vertical is to be the final recording by the legendary bassist and composer Mario Pavone, who passed on May 15 2021. Though in the final stages of a 17-year battle with cancer, Pavone pushed throughout April 2021 to make sure this music would be a part of his recorded legacy.
On March 25 and 26 2021 he gathered his Dialect Trio with Matt Mitchell and Tyshawn

Field of Action [2019-2022]
Charmaine Lee - voice/microphones/electronics
Eric Wubbels - piano/synth

contraposition [2016]
Weston Olencki - trombone
Eric Wubbels - prepared piano

“Field of Action / contraposition (OOYH 013) is a split LP, and the continuation of a series of duo pieces for piano and other instruments that Wubbels has been pursuing since 2006. Field of Action is a composition in collaboration with vocalist and noise artist Charmaine Lee that grew...