The Bellowing Earwigs - The Perpendicular Giraffe Compartment
Great studio session by some great characters of free improvisation! I think Jean-Michel van Schouwburg especially shines on this album, what an amazing vocalis..(read more)
Label: FMR / 581-0520
Artist: The Bellowing Earwigs
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Saxophone, UK, Vocal Art.
John Butcher, Barre Phillips, Ståle Liavik Solberg - We Met – And Then
The good impro is friends with the repeat button. Their spontaneous compositional abilities are so well developed that they carry many rounds. Arild Anderson
Label: Relative Pitch / RPR1122
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Double Bass, Free Improvisation, Percussion, Saxophone.
Ken Vandermark & Terrie Ex - Scaffolding
This was the first duo album, recorded in 2017. Vandermark, the fantastic Chicago reed player, had been a guest with The Ex almost 100 times but the duo started..(read more)
Label: Terp / IS-30
Artist: Ken Vandermark & Terrie Ex
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Clarinet, Free Improvisation, Guitar, Saxophone.
David Toop - Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound
Brilliant new publication by the imprint of Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz. English musician and writer David Toop’s memoirs!
Publisher: Ecstatic Peace Library / 9781787601529
Author: David Toop
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Biography, Free Improvisation, UK.
Nu Creative Methods - Nu Creative Methods – Nu Jungle Dances
Legendary record from the French scene of the late 70s – playful, free improvisation – and a set that also merges more conventional instruments with a range..(read more)
Label: Souffle Continu / FFL042
Artist: Nu Creative Methods
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '70s, France, Free Improvisation, Vinyl.
Global Village - In Memoriam
Dedicated to Peter Kowald. Gunda Gottschalk – violin, viola, voice / Xu Feng Xia – guzeng, voice/ Peter Jacquemyn – double bass, voice.
Label: El Negocito / eNR069
Artist: Global Village
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: China, Double Bass, Free Improvisation.
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.
Han Bennink & Terrie Ex - Zeng!
Han Bennink just turned 65, when this album was made, but mind you: Already in his twenties he had been famous and accompanied touring American jazz stars..
Label: Terp / IS-13
Artist: Han Bennink & Terrie Ex
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Guitar, Percussion.
Stefan Szczelkun - Improvisation Rites: From John Cage’s Song Books to The Scratch Orchestra’s Nature Study Notes
“An improvisation rite is not a musical composition: it does not attempt to influence the music that will be played; at most it may establish a community ..(read more)
Publisher: Routine Art Co. / ISBN: 9781870736961
Author: Stefan Szczelkun
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Community Art, Free Improvisation, History, UK.
