Piano, bass & drums improvised/composed trios from 3 musicians who are probably best known for their links with the work of Cecil Taylor.

Piano, bass & drums improvised/composed trios from 3 musicians who are probably best known for their links with the work of Cecil Taylor. [Victo]

Live duets from the festival between the Sonic Youth guitar explorer & noted downtown improvising drummer Hooker. About half the release adds saxist Gianni Gebbia & Jim O'Rourke on keyboards & electronics. [Victo]

Made up of trombonist/violinist Roelofs, guitarist Johannes Krmer & saxophonist Dirk Marwedel, this is sometimes intense, proudly electric, non-idiomatic free improvisation. [Victo]

Ignore the passing of time as a measure of anything real. Twenty-five years and counting is a milestone, but really only means they've had more opportunities and experiences -- commissions, recordings, performances, musical and personal challenges -- a...

Recorded live at the 20th FIMAV festival on 5/17/03. "It was extraordinarily involving music, in part because it was a performance in which there appeared to be significant risk - in which its sometimes delicately attenuated textures seemed poised to b...

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

"John Sinclair first emerged out of his small-town Michigan background to forge a legendary course through the 1960s as a cultural activist, manager of the MC5, and Chairman of the White Panther Party. An early victim of the War on Drugs who faced 20...

Michael Snow (synthétiseur CAT, radio à ondes courtes, piano), Alan Licht (guitare électrique, électroniques), Aki Onda (cassettes, électroniques).

"The Snow/Licht/Onda concert was proof that the most unconventional of instruments can be used...

Pianist Aki Takase and trombonist Konrad Bauer in the studio in Berlin in January, 2002. "News From Berlin is good news indeed. It suggest a broadening of perspectives, but also a focused devotion to artistic values arrived at through long consideratio...

"This tandem’s fusion seemed strange on paper, but true pleasure came out of their meeting, one of the best surprises at FIMAV this year."-David Cantin, Le Devoir

"A real springboard to imagination, those two DJs with very different backgrounds (one is affiliated to avant-garde and noise music, the other comes from Hip-Hop’s left wing) offered a dialogue ranking among FIMAV’s striking meetings. Marking the adventurous approach with known references, Tétreault and Koala truly gave it all."...

A nice collection, this has 3 by Davey Williams & LaDonna Smith, 2 Hans Reichel solos, & 1 each by Paul Plimley/Lisle Ellis, New Winds, J.D. Parran/Ned Rothenberg, Rothenberg solo, & Nicols/Cooper/Schweizer. [Victo]

Elliott Sharp : guitare électrique, électroniques
Colin Stetson : saxophones basse, ténor et alto
Billy Martin : batterie, percussion
Payton Macdonald : marimba, vibraphone et gyil (xylophone africain)
Enregistré au 39e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 20 mai 2023.

“The quartet sounded like they had been working together for many years. Everyone got to solo and stretch out at some point and all four members shined at different times. This was a..