David Toop - Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom
An interdisciplinary and sweeping overview,, Toop introduces the philosophy and practice of free improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historica..(read more)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic / 9781628927696
Author: David Toop
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, '70s, History, Improvisation, Music Theory.
Keith Johnstone - Impro : Improvisation And The Theatre
Landmark work from 1981- revelatory guide unlocking techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic / ISBN: 9781350069039
Author: Keith Johnstone
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Improvisation, Story-telling, Theatre.
Scratch Pet Land - solo soli IIIII
This was the debut in 1999 of the brothers Laurent and Nicolas Baudoux, coinciding with a rising popularity of bleepy scratchy electro-avant-pop at the time, mo..(read more)
Label: Sonig / sonig 14 LP
Artist: Scratch Pet Land
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Pop, Improvisation, Noise, Vinyl.
Les Harry's - GGOTS
This is such a unique project, I’ve witnessed them on stage!! A collective of people with mental conditions we tend to place in the autistic range. They m..(read more)
Label: Sonic Protest / 001
Artist: Les Harry's
Medium: LP + CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Eccentrics, Improvisation, Pop, Songwriters.
Pierre Bastien - Blue As An Orange
Better late than never. Album from 2015 on the sympathetic Morphine label, run by Rabih Beaini. “Blue As An Orange is the recorded result of the ‘Si..(read more)
Label: Morphine / DOSER 028LP
Artist: Pierre Bastien
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Instrument Builders, Mechanical Music, Pop.
Limpe Fuchs - Gestrüpp
Limpe Fuchs (born in Munich in 1941) is best known as half of the husband and wife fusion duo Anima. She has also worked extensively alone as a soloist over the..(read more)
Label: Play Loud! / pl-61
Artist: Limpe Fuchs
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Vinyl.
Danielle Liebeskind - Little Acts of Rebellion
This is a dutch avant-rock trio formed around singer/poet/visual artist Daniëlle Papenborg. She is accompanied by drummer/percussionist Donné Brok (of Donné ..(read more)
Label: DEAR / DEAR 001
Artist: Danielle Liebeskind
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Improvisation, Vinyl.
ARM - Driving By Accident
ARM was a Norwegian trio of electronic improvisers, Alexander Rishaug, Are Mokkelbost and Arne Borgan, preaching glitchology. Their signature sound was that of ..(read more)
Label: Melekktronik / MELK LP 007
Artist: ARM
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Improvisation, Norway, Vinyl.
Pascal Nichols and Rogier Smal - Drums Only
It’s a fact. Drumming, drumming, drumming. Two sides of solos by two amazing drummers: Pascal Nichols from Manchester and Rogier Smal from Amsterdam. No d..(read more)
Label: Toztizok Zoundz
Artist: Pascal Nichols and Rogier Smal
Medium: Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Percussion, Tapes.
