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Gonçalo Almeida - Improvisations on Amplified and Prepared Double Bass
Album from 2022, in which Almeida questions the future of the double bass and of music in general, inventing a new sound. Pierre Bastien wrote a beautiful revie..(read more)
Label: Shhpuma / Cleanfeed / SHH075CD
Artist: Gonçalo Almeida
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Double Bass, Improvisation.
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John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg - So Beautiful, It Starts to Rain
35 minutes, three mesmerizing tracks, recorded August 2015 at Cafe Oto. John Butcher – soprano & tenor saxophones. Ståle Liavik Solberg – drums..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / cf390
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Percussion, Saxophone, UK.
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The Selva - Canícula Rosa
Portuguese trio, cello, double bass, drums, strangely seductive electro-acoustic mix of folk melodies, abstract textural workouts and post-rock organizing cells..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / cf518cd
Artist: The Selva
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Cello, Double Bass, Electro-Acoustic, Improvisation.
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Raphael Vanoli - Bibrax
A guitarist who defies conventions. Using subtle playing techniques from lightly touching to blowing on the strings of his instrument, the Amsterdam based impro..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / Shhpuma / SHH031
Artist: Raphael Vanoli
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Guitar, Sonic Experiments, Soundscapes.
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Baloni - Fremdenzimmer
The music of baloni offers something truly unique in the world of improvised music, and their album, Fremdenzimmer, shows the trio at their finest. Their explor..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / CF237CD
Artist: Baloni
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Traditional Jazz.
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Tom Rainey Trio - Pool School
The two friends who collaborate with Tom Rainey here are guitarist Mary Halvorson and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, each a major new voice on her instrument. Bot..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / CF185CD
Artist: Tom Rainey Trio
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Modern Jazz, Percussion.
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Red Trio + Nate Wooley - Stem
The encounter between American trumpeter Nate Wooley and the Portuguese Red Trio (Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernâni Faustino and Gabriel Ferrandini) was one of those b..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / CF249CD
Artist: Red Trio + Nate Wooley
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Modern Jazz.
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Lama - Oneiros
The particularly dynamic and inventive Portuguese jazz scene has a new front with the trio LAMA. Curiously enough, the project was born in Roterdam, where the d..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / CF240CD
Artist: Lama
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Modern Jazz.
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John Butcher and Paal Nilssen-Love - Concentric
We can’t say that these two musicians are traveling parallel ways. John Butcher’s experiments with feedback, amplification, microtonality and multitracking ..(read more)
Label: Cleanfeed / CF067CD
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Jazz, Improvisation.
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