Another beautiful piece of vinyl has recently been released, this time by Cafe OTO, initiating their own label, OTO roku: ...the worse the better by Peter Brötzmann, John Edwards and Steve Noble, it's also available as a download.
Also just released from Emanem/psi are: Daylight by John Butcher/Mark Sanders; Haste by Veryan Weston/Ingrid Laubrock/Hannah Marshall; the long-awaited (by me anyway!!) Foxes fox Live at the Vortex; and Toma Gouband's Courants des vents. Martin Davidson also remastered the new 2CD release on John Jack's Cadillac label, the Mike Osborne Trio (with Harry Miller and Tony Levin): The Birmingham Jazz concert.
The brand new Joëlle Léandre disc, just out on Leo is the MMM Quartet (with Frith, Curran and Leimgruber) Live at the Metz Arsenal. Just out on Umlaut is Sven-Åke Johansson's 'all star' small group, Die harke und der spaten, and The New Songs (David Stackenäs/Eve Risser/Sofia Jernberg/Kim Myhr) with A nest at the junction of paths. And three recent Paul Dunmall CDs, two on FMR - Tribute to Tony Levin with Phil Gibbs/Paul Rogers, and Realisation Trio with Salt dolly - the other on Kilogram: The lamp by Asunder Trio (Dunmall/Hasse Poulsen/Mark Sanders).
New on Red Toucan is Shoe by Jan Klare's 1000; on Long Song Records there's Parallel worlds by Alan Silva/Burton Greene; on Potlatch newly out is Lucio Capece's Zero plus zero; on abzu, Piotr Michalowski/Jaime Rodríguez Matos/Christopher M. Skebo with Dyads; and on NURNICHTNUR Arte-facts by Florian Wittenburg.
What was new on EFIP 1 March 2012
A number of musician addition/changes this time, the first for quite a while (apart from updating discographies). The addition is Nick Stephens who played for a long time with John Stevens and who also runs the Loose Torque label. In adding Nick's discography there's one or two rare-ish John Stevens Away discs and also the new CD on Leo - Kongens gade - by Jon Corbett's Dangerous Musics: in trio with Nick Stephens and Louis Moholo-Moholo. And Louis also appears, of course, on the brand new Blue Notes Ogun release, Before the wind changes, recorded in Belgium in 1979. The second change is a major update of Georg Graewe's biography, coming after the recent release (see last update) of Grubenklang.reloaded. And, finally, it's good to see that Paul Hession's own web site is back up and running so I've added a link from Paul's page on my site, together with the brand new Hession/Wilkinson/Fell CD, Two falls & a submission.
Substantial new releases from NoBusiness Records: Joe McPhee/Michael Zerang with Creole gardens: a New Orleans suite on LP and CD; Pascal Niggenkemper with Upcoming hurricane on LP and CD; Julius Hemphill/Peter Kowald Live at Kassiopeia on 2LP and 2CD; Lazro/Pauvros/Turner with Curare on LP and CD; Nobuyasu Furuya Quintet with The major (LP only); Ran Blake/David "Knife" Fabris with Vilnius Noir (LP only); the self-titled Hasler/Paeffgen/Berger (CD only); and Mockuno NuClear with Drop it (CD only).
Michael Moore has recently released 6 new CDs on his Ramboy imprint: Rotterdam by the Michael Moore Quintet; Amsterdam and Easter Sunday by the Michael Moore Quartet; the complete Available Jelly Baarle Nassau concert from 2007 on two CDs - Set 1 and Set 2; and Holshauser, Bennink & Moore Live in NYC. Intakt have 5 new discs: Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers Orchestra with the DVD Harmos: live at Schaffhause; the Co Streiff/Russ Johson Quartet In circles; the new duo CD from Ulrich Gumpert and Günter Baby Sommer, La Paloma; Camino Cielo Echo from the Tom Rainey Trio; and Irene Schweizer's To whom it may concern: piano solo Tonhalle Zürich. Over the last couple of months, Martin Davidson has brought out four new discs: on Emanem, Kay Grant/Alex Ward with Fast talk; and two Steve Lacy discs: The sun and Avignon and after volume 1; and on psi, The bleeding edge from Evan Parker/Okkyung Lee/Peter Evans. Evan Parker is also part of a trio with Wes Neal and Joe Sorbara At somewhere there on Barnyard Records from Canada.
Four brand-new CDs on Another Timbre: a large group, Skogen with Ist gefallen in den schnee; Annette Krebs/Anthea Caddy/Magda Mayas with Thread; Taus (Tim Blechmann/Klaus Filip) with Pinna; and Osvaldo Coluccino's Atto. The latest two CDs on Al Maslakh are Spill (Magda Mayas/Tony Buck) with Stockholm syndrome; and "A" Trio (Mazen Kerbaj/Sharif Sehnaoui/Raed Yassin) with Music to our ears and from Amirani, Likeidos by the EAOrchestra; and Again: The Shoreditch Trio live in Bruxelles (Gianni Mimmo/Hannah Marshall/Nicola Guazzaloca). The four new CDs on Mikroton are Heddy Boubaker/Mathias Pontevia/Nusch Werchowska with A floating world; Rhodri Davies/Mark Wastell Live in Melbourne; Stodgy by eRikm/Norbert Möslang; and El infierno musical (Christof Kurzmann/Ken Vandermark/Eva Reiter/Clayton Thomas/Martin Brandlmayr).
Ken Vandermark appears to be popping up everywhere. He's also on one of the three excellent new Kilogram CDs - as part of the Reed Trio's Last train to the first station, the other two being Inner Ear's Breathing steam; and the clarinet quartet, Ircha with Watching Edvard - as well as part of Sonore with Peter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson live from Cafe Oto/London on Trost. Joëlle Léandre is one of the bassists acting as duo partner for Vinny Golia in The ethnic project on Kadima (VG on ethnic reeds); and her Stone Quartet is Live at the Vision Festival on Ayler. The other Ayler release is Dennis Gonzalez Yells at Eels with Alvin Fielder: Resurrection and life. Three new Umlaut discs have been added: Donkey Monkey's Hanakana; Je Suis!'s Mistluren; and r.mutt's #03. The new Evil Rabbit disc is A cool tree by Lysander Le Coultre/Albert van Veenendaal.
Finally, if you haven't heard, an ICP box is in the works, bringing together all the music ever issued on ICP's 50 releases. Further information at http://www.icporchestra.com/icpbox/.
What was new on EFIP 1 January 2012
A little old news now, but very sad to hear that Hans Reichel died on 22 November 2011.
On the release front, it's particularly exciting to welcome back Georg Graewe's Random Acoustics label with a new web site (get the link from the labels index) and a Book/DVD release, grubenklang. reloaded. The book is a 120-page A4-landscape paperback of photographs, writings, interviews, comments and data and includes a DVD with approximately 70 minutes of video and 4 hours of audio from a wide range of musicians and groups. Full details on the linked page.
A major update on Creative Sources records with: Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø Solo; Martine Altenburger/Frédéric Blondy/Bertrand Gauget Vers l'ile paresseuse; Boris Hauf/Steven Hess/Keefe Jackson/Juun Proxemics; David Chiesa/Jean Sébastien Mariage Oort; Hans Koch/Thomas Rohrer/Antonio Panda Gianfratti Aicó; Ernesto Rodrigues/Guilherme Rodrigues/Gil Gonçalves/Nuno Torres/Abdul Moiméme/Armando Pereira/Carlos Santos/José Oliveira Suspensâo; Erik Carlsson The bird and the giant; Abdul Moimême/Ricardo Guerreiro Knettanu; Matthias Muche/Philip Zoubek/Achim Tang Excerpts from anything; Steve Beresford/Stephen Flinn/Dave Tucker Ink room; Heddy Boubaker/Ernesto Rodrigues/Abdul Moiméme Le beau déviant; Alon Nechushtan Dark forces; Marjolaine Charbin/Frans Van Isacker Kryscraft; Olaf Rupp/Joe Williamson/Tony Buck Wierd weapons 2; and Joe Williamson Hoard.
Mbari Música from Portugal have recently released the wonderful solo piano disc El laberint de la memòria by Agustí Fernández. MET-X from Brussels have released a new disc with Trevor Watts: 11 songs by Mishalle/Watts/Drame/Foliba/Marockin' Brass. And on Leipzig's Euphorium Records, there's Friedrichsschwerdt with Gay - Wir saunawirt.
What was new on EFIP 1 November 2011
Well, October has been really interesting, largely because of the Just Not Cricket! festival in Berlin. Billed as Three days of British improvised music, 6-8 October, it featured ensembles composed from Tom Arthurs, Steve Beresford, Tony Bevan, Matthew Bourne, Gail Brand, Lol Coxhill, Rhodri Davies, John Edwards, Shabaka Hutchings, Dominic Lash, Phil Minton, Eddie Prévost, Orphy Robinson, Mark Sanders, Alex Ward and Trevor Watts. Absolutely great! Just Not Cricket! was curated by Antoine Prum in collaboration with Tony Bevan and Helma Schleif and the concerts marked the beginning of a documentary film on the history, past and present, of the British free improvised music scene. More details can be found on their web site.
On the recordings front it is wonderful to see nato records back with a brand-new web site of their own (for the first time) and brand-new releases as well as some CD issues of old favourites. The new CDs are The rock on the hill by Lol Coxhill/Barre Phillips/JT Bates; and Snodland by Steve Beresford/Matt Wilson. Also new, but issued as part of the 3CD box Erik Satie et autre messieurs Airs de jeux is Tony Hymas' Correspondances Erik Satie Claude Debussy; the other two CD re-issues in the box being Sept tableaux phoniques Erik Satie (with Beresford, Coe, Coxhill, Wachsmann among others) and Ulrich Gumpert's Trois sarabandes et six gnossiennes. The other nato CD-reissues are Lol Coxhill's Instant replay and Jöelle Léandre's Les douze sons, both with a very varied list of improvising contributors, and Deadly weapons by Steve Beresford/David Toop/John Zorn/Tonie Marshall. Also from France, Ayler Records have just issued a clutch of new releases: Benjamin Duboc's 3CD Primare cantus; Marc Ducret's Tower vol. 2; the Szilárd Mezei Wind Quartet with Inne; and Daunik Lazro's Some other zongs. And new from the French/Swedith label Umlaut is a 3CD box of improvisations and tunes, including those from Swedish folk music, by Raymond Strid and Roland Keijser: Yellow bell. Jöelle Léandre's latest CD is a duo with György Szabados: Live at Magyarkanizsa.
As with the last update, there's a strong Berlin-based component to this one too, either from musicians at Just Not Cricket! or those based in Berlin. So, I've updated Steve Beresford's page after some period of dormancy; there's a CDR of Phil Minton and Roger Turner Live at Hull Art Lab from Poot; a new Trevor Watts multi-tracked CD on Jazzwerkstatt, The deep blue; Triatone (Mark Sanders/Ricardo Tejero/Pablo Pérez) with Airam airun; and a Foghorn Records upate that covers two Sunny Murray/Tony Bevan/John Edwards discs - Boom boom cat and I stepped onto a bee - and A big hand by Tony Bevan/Paul Obermayer/Phil Marks/Dominic Lash. The new absinthRecords release is a DVD by Diego Chamy, The intelligent dancer. The latest release on SÅJ Records is a duo by Rüdiger Carl and Sven-Åke Johansson - d'accord - and I've also added Ballistik I-IX by the Free Quartet as well as bringing the catalogue of SÅJ Records up-to-date. Another related addition is Danish border by Sven-Åke Johansson and Peter Ablinger on blumlein records. And an important addition to the literature of free improvisation (and other music) is the recently-published echtzeitmusik berlin.
The latest Incus CD is the first official version of Derek Bailey's Concert in Milwaukee, previously issued as a limited edition privately-issued cassette. The new version was produced by Steve Beresford and has notes by George E Lewis. Derek Bailey also appears (apart from Jöelle Léandre's Les douze sons, above) on Goldsmiths, a live recording from 1972 by Iskra 1903 on Emanem. Other Emanam/psi releases are Gratuitous abuse by Barrel (Alison Blunt/Ivor Kallin/Hannah Marshall) and Together in zero space from Grutronic and Evan Parker. Evan Parker is also part of a quartet with Mark Nauseef, Ikue Mori and Bill Laswell on Tzadik's Near nadir, and appears with the Turkish group konstruKt Live at Akbank Jazz Festival. The same label, Re:konstruKt, has also released Dolunay on which konstruKt play with Peter Brötzmann. And Peter Brötzmann is also on the just-issued Sketches and ballads by Full Blast & friends on Trost.
There is a Turkish link also through one of the latest Dutch releases on Evil Rabbit Records, where Mark Lotz and the group Islak Köpek were engaged in Istanbul improv sessions May 4th. Other new Dutch CDs include: Modern primitive by Klare/Platz/Kneer/Elgart (Evil Rabbit); Cut a caper from the Ig Henneman Sextet on Wig; and On the move by Michael Braam's Hybrid 10tet (BBB). And, talking of Dutch connections, Han Bennink is in duo with Aki Takase on Intakt's 2 for 2 while other new Intakt CDs are the Jürg Wickihalder European Quartet Jump!; and Daniel Erdmann/Samuel Rohrer's How to catch a cloud. The Danish label Ninth World Music has just brought out three new CDs Volume's Tungt vand; Cockpit Music's This doesn't look like our town; and Long as in short, walk as in run from Annie Lewandowski/Fred Frith, and there's one that somehow slipped through the net Flower head by The WIld Man's Band (Peter Brötzmann/Peter Ole Jørgensen/Peter Friis Nielsen/Fred Lonberg-Holm).
And thank you once again to Rocco Stilo for keeping me informed of those label addresses that I've neglected over the years and letting me know the new web sites: many changed for this update.
What was new on EFIP 1 September 2011
A substantial, very wide ranging and generally excellent set of new releases this time, covering most of the musicians on the site and very difficult to know where to begin. But particular mention must be given to Soldier of the road, the DVD about Peter Brötzmann that I mentioned in May this year. Finances were forthcoming and the resultant DVD is now available. Produced and directed by Bernard Josse, with interviews and photographs by Gérard Rouy it's virtually an autobiography with interviews of Peter Brötzmann in addition to Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Fred Van Hove and others.
My wife and I visited our daughter in Berlin in July and had - unplanned but very felicitous - a very musical few days. Caught two excellent gigs, one at b-flat with Claudia Binder, Michael Thieke and Michael Greiner (Michael G is on, for example, hatOLOGY's (Steve) Lacy Pool and in duo with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky on Intakt's The salmon), the other at an intriguing performance space in Kreuzberg with Vorabend: Tobias Delius/Uli Kempendorff/Antonio Borghini/Christian Lillinger. Also met up with Sven-Åke Johansson, got an update of his recent activities and his recent releases. On his SÅJ label there is, on CD, Cool Quartett vol. II, the second Hudson Riv disc A foggy day and, on LP (wonderfully recorded and great playing), La vase/Slikke in duo with Christine Sehnaoui. And there's Kippenberger hören with Oliver Augst, Rüdiger Carl and Sven-Åke Johansson performing live with the text and recordings of Martin Kippenberger. Umlaut records have recently released a 4CD box of Sven-Åke Johansson in duo with Per Henrik Wallin (Joe Williamson on the most recent disc): 1974-2004 and SÅJ has also done the artwork for the recent Peeping Tom disc on Umlaut, Boperation, as well as their previous outing File under: bebop. Michael Renkel has sent me a copy of his duo with SÅJ on Kning Disk, Kalte Welle 102: dreizehn fragmente, and the new absinthRecords disc, Le goût de néant by Craig Hilton/Tomas Phillips.
The latest disc on John Butcher's Weight of Wax label sees the long-delayed release of a London session recorded in 2000 by Derek Bailey, John Butcher and Gino Robair: Scrutables. Six new discs from Martin Davidson in July/August: Trevor Watts/Veryan Weston with 5 more dialogues, Charlotte Hug's solo Slipway to galaxies, and Pascal Marzan/John Russell's Translations on Emanem; and Tony Marsh's Quartet improvisations, Misha Mengelberg and Evan Parker's duo It won't be called broken chair, and Squall line by Aleks Kolkowski and Ute Wassermann on psi. Agustí Fernández turns up in duo with Joe Morris on Ambrosia on Riti. Brand new on Ogun is From granite to wind by the new Keith Tippett Octet; Clean Feed has released Positions & descriptions, Simon H. Fell's large-scale composition premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2007. And the latest piece of heavyweight vinyl from Dancing Wayang is Anicca, a duo from Phil Minton and Okkyung Lee.
A substantial update from NoBusiness Records with one CD (double) - Billy Bang's Survival Ensemble with Black man's blues/New York collage - and several LPs: William Hooker/Thomas Chapin's Crossing points; Thomas Heberer's 2LP Klippe/One; Sei Miguel/Pedro Gomes' Turbina anthem; the Tarfala Trio's 2LP + 1x7" Syzygy; Red Trio + John Butcher with Empire; and Billy Bang's Survival Ensemble Black man's blues. The two new CDs from Red Toucan are In just by DuH (Frank Gratkowski, Szilard Mezei, Albert Markos and Martin Blume) and Polylemma from Joe Hertenstein/Thomas Heberer/Joachim Badenhorst/Pascal Niggenkemper (cross-ref with Thomas Heberer's NoBusiness LP above). Recent Intakt CDs include: Affinities from Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway; Trio 3 + Geri Allen Celebrating Mary Lou Williams; and Ingrid Laubrock Sleepthief with The madness of crowds.
Recent releases featuring Han Bennink include A B D in a trio with Ray Anderson and Christy Doran, a recent compilation on hatOLOGY of two earlier hat ART CDs, and two CDs on Paul Van Kemenade's Kemo label, Close enough with an extremely varied personnel from track to track and the thoroughly entertaining (not that the other isn't!) Who is in charge? from the quintet of Ray Anderson/Han Bennink/Frank Möbus/Ernst Glerum/Paul Van Kemenade. Paul Hession's page has been updated and two recent CDs added: Aligment by The Thin Red Line, and Do easy by the group Home of the Brave. And recent-ish CDs on Gino Robair's Rastascan label include Jon Raskin's Quartet; Gino Robair's "opera in real time" I, Norton; and Smonta Tutto (Giancarlo Locatelli/Alberto Braida/Gino Robair) with Piovono bici.
A major update for Joëlle Léandre this month with the appearance of Solo a book of interviews covering her life and work, finally in an English edition courtesy of Kadima Collective and with two discs, one DVD and one CD. Also, there is her excellent 2CD set recently released on Leo: Live at the Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon with two long pieces, one by her Tentet, the other by a trio completed by John Tilbury and Kevin Norton, and her new duo with Phillip Greenlief, That overt desire of object, on the new Relative Pitch Records.
The latest Incus release is Old sights, new sounds from the duo of Lol Coxhill and Alex Ward. And the very latest Rasterscan CD is a new recording from the duo of John Butcher and Gino Robair: Apophenia. I've added two more CDs featuring Veryan Weston: the sextet Sol6 on Red Note; and in duo with Jon Rose, Tunings & tunes on Heyermears Discorbie. And the latest batch of Intakt CDs are: Fred Frith's Clearing customs; Stephan Crump and Steve Lehman's Kaleidoscope and collage; What is there what is not from Biondini/Godard/Niggli; Hôtel du Nord from the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet; and Elliott Sharp's 3CD The age of Carbon. Also new on Leo, in addition to the Joëlle release, above, are Shift (Martin Blume/Frank Gratkowski/Thomas Lehn/Phillip Zoubek/Dieter Manderscheid) with Songs from Aipotu; and Zlatko Kaucic's Emigrants.
The four latest discs from Another Timbre are: Sophie Agnel/Bertrand Gauget/Andrea Neumann with Spiral inputs; Tiziana Bertoncini/Thomas Lehn with Horsky Park; Choices from Lucio Capece/Birgit Ulher; and Michel Doneda/Jonas Kocher/Christoph Schiller with ///grape skin. New on Olof Bright is Peashot by Sven-Åke Johansson/Annette Krebs and on Creative Sources there's Knettanu from Abdul Moimême/Ricardo Guerreiro. The Polish label Monotype has recently issued three new CDs - Mark Wastell/Lasse Marhaug's Kiss of acid; Alessandro Bosetti's Royals; Lionel Marchetti's 2CD Une saison - but, in addition, is also distributing Bolt Records with interesting recent releases around the theme of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio - PRES revisited: Józef Patkowski in memorium (featuring Phil Durrant, Eddie Prévost and John Tilbury; Bohdan Mazurek: Sentinel hypothesis; and Zeitkratzer plays PRES - in addition to a full recording of Cornelius Cardew's The great learning.
Finally, there's a new version of Richard Shapiro's Cecil Taylor Sessionography. Apologies to Richard as this should have gone in on the previous update, but I forgot!
What was new on EFIP 1 May 2011
A wonderful array of new music from Emanem/psi which includes my favourite CD of the year so far - Veryan Weston's Different tesselations - alongside the excellent Life amid the artefacts by Otherways and Free Space; a re-issue (though withdrawn shortly after this update and so no longer available) of Steve Lacy's School days with a couple of Thelonious Monk Quintet tracks; Agustí Fernández and Joan Saura with Vents; DJ Sniff plays Evan Parker (with a sneaky reproduction of a famous LP cover) on ep; Trance map by Evan Parker and Matthew Wright; Lio Leo Leon by the London Improvisers Orchestra; and Figures and grounds by the Adam Linson Systems Quartet. Martin Davidson has also digitally remastered the original recording that has just been released on Ogun for the first time: Spiritual knowledge and grace by Louis Moholo-Moholo, Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Dyani and the Rev. Frank Wright. Another strong link with these discs is the new CD on Heyermears Discorbie: Mouth wind, a duo between Lawrence Casserley and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg.
Three new Peter Brötzmann discs: Brötzmann/Drake on BRÖ; Hairy Bones at Fresnes; and Roma by Brötzmann/Massimo/Nilssen-Love. And Soldier of the road, a film on Peter Brötzmann by Bernard Josse in collaboration with Gérard Rouy has recently been completed and previewed in Paris on 30 April. It is hoped to produce a DVD version and this is currently being worked on though finances could significantly delay production. For further information, please contact Gérard Rouy at gerard.rouy@nordnet.fr.
A new Simon Rose CD - solo baritone saxophone - has just been released on Not Two (excellent brief Badland tour in the UK in early April): Schmetterling and Simon H Fell (part of Badland of course) is part of a trio with Alex Ward and Joe Morris on Victo's The necessary and the possible. The new Erstwhile release is an intriguing 3CD set of duos from Radu Malfatti and Keith Rowe in a speciallly-produced fold-out cover: Φ. A previously unheard John Surman session has recently been unearthed and released as a combined CD/DVD package by Cuneiform: Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop April '69. The new release on Amirani is Live at Bauchhund Berlin 2010 by the soprano saxophone duo of Gianni Mimmo and Harri Sjöström. And two new FMR releases feature Paul Dunmall and Paul Rogers: the Deep Joy Trio (with Tony Levin) Live in Austria; and, with Neil Metcalfe and Philip Gibbs, Sun inside.
The new Ayler Records CD is Tower vol. 1 by Marc Ducret; there are two recent Dutch releases by young improvising musicians: The Ambush Party; and Ka Da Ver by Premier Roeles. Finally, two recent CDs on Kadima: Live at the Total Music Meeting by Ariel Shibolet; and Deep Tones For Peace by Mark Dresser/Irina-Kalina Goudeva/JC Jones/Barre Phillips/Bert Turetzky
What was new on EFIP 1 March 2011
Very sad to hear of Tony Levin's death on 3 February; an obituary appeared in The Guardian last week.
The major news is the new FMP box set. out in mid-January. Im Rückblick - In Retrospect contains 12CDs of new, re-issued and previously unreleasted music, none of which has been on CD before, together with a 220-page LP-sized book documenting the history of FMP in words and pictures. The CDs, which are due to be released individually, are: Globe Unity Orchestra + guests: Baden-Baden '75; Steve Lacy Solo & Quintet: In Berlin; Schweizer/Carl/Moholo: Messer und...; Schlippenbach Quartet: At Quartier Latin; Peter Brötzmann solo: Wolke in hosen; Malfatti/Wittwer: Und? ...plus; Fred Van Hove: Piano solo; Peter Brötzmann Die Like A Dog: Close up; Manfred Schulze Bläser Quintett: Choral-Konzert; Manuela+ [Carl/Reichel/Zingaro/Kim]: Live in Berlin; Peter Kowald: Was da ist (live); and, finally, Tristan Honsinger/Olaf Rupp: Stretto. To bring things fully up-to-date this update also includes all the recent FMP single releases: Alexander von Schlippenbach: Piano solo '77; Cecil Taylor: The dance project; Olaf Rupp: Whiteout; Peter Kowald: Open secrets; Keune/Schneider/Krämer: No comment; Olaf Rupp/Marino Pliakas/Michael Wertmüller: Too much is not enough; and Christmann/Gustafsson/Lovens: TR!O.
One new label has been added, Mikroton Recordings, from Moscow, with all its current releases: Günter Müller: Cym_bowl; Alan Courtis/Jaime Genovart/Christof Kurzmann/Pablo Reche: Palmar zähler; Jason Kahn/Asher: Planes; the self-titled Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Tilbury/Wishart; the 2CD compilation Klingt.org: 10 jahre bessere farben; Jason Kahn/Günter Müller/Christian Wolfarth: Limmat; and Clare Cooper/Chris Abrahams/Christof Kurzmann/Tobias Delius/Clayton Thomas/Werner Dafeldecker/Tony Buck: Hammeriver. Recent CDs from Monotype Records include: Bertrand Gauget/Franz Hautzinger/Thomas Lehn: Close up; Günter Müller's double CD Buenos Aires tapes; Cremaster: Noranta graus a l'esquerra; Franz Hautzinger/Masahiko Okura/Tetuzi Akiyama: Rebuses; Michel Doneda/Olivier Toulemonde/Nicolas Desmarchelier: Le terrier; and Olga Magieres/Tetsuo Furudate: Introduction of "Blue of noon".
The four latest CDs from Another Timbre are: John Cage's percussion piece Four4, performed by Simon Allen/Chris Burn/Lee Patterson/Mark Wastell; Chris Cogburn/Bonnie Jones/Bhob Rainey: Arena ladridos; Michael Pisaro: Fields have ears, performed by Philiip Thomas and others; and Looper [Nikos Veliotis/Martin Küchen/Ingar Zach]: Dying sun. The second CD from the new French PiedNu label is Audrey Chen: The gratitude of sentiment; and the latest CD from Potlatch is Bertrand Denzler's Tenor.
The latest Joëlle Léandre CD is a trio with Nicole Mitchell/Dylan Van Der Schyff on Rogueart: Before after; PanRec has just released two more music DVDs, the first being a record of the three-day Unlimited 23 festival with, among many others, Ikue Mori, Martin Blume, Sylvie Courvoisier, Chris Cutler, dieb13, Fred Frith, Thomas Lehn, Phil Minton and The Ex; the second Simon Nabatov Plays Herbie Nichols. On ESP there is Identical sunsets by Paul Dunmall/Chris Corsano; on Red Toucan Ardent grass by Frank Gratkowski/Jacob Anderskov; on Silkheart Kaiso stories by Other Dimensions in Music/Fay Victor; and the four new Ayler Records CDs are: Mark O'Leary/Peter Friis-Nielsen/Stefan Passborg: Støj; Laurence Cook/Eric Zinman: Double action; François Carrier Trio+1: Entrance 3; and Flow Trio: Set theory: live at The Stone.
Also quite a large number of edits across the site to try to improve accuracy and remove misleading information (in the bibliography and list of distributors, in particular)
What was new on EFIP 1 January 2011
Following on from an excellent concert (primarily of compositions) by John Tilbury, Michael Duch and Rhodri Davies at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November - and not forgetting Joëlle Léandre's superb John Cage evening - there's a substantial update to Rhodri Davies' discography this month: Cornelius Cardew Works 1960-70 by the Tilbury/Duch/Davies Trio on +3db records; Copper fields by Cranc on absurd/Organized Music from Thessaloniki; Wunderkammern in trio with Lee Patterson and David Toop on Another timbre; Lodi by IST on Confront; SLW with Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, and Toshimaru Nakamura on Organized Music from Thessaloniki; and Bricolage by Muta on Al Maslakh; the other new release on Al Maslakh is Old and new acoustics by Sharif Sehnaoui. Related are two recent CDs featuring bass player Michael Duch: the solo Edges on +3db records; and Rød & blå by en en en on ØRA fonogram.
The very latest Intakt and Maya releases are: For a little dancin' by Oliver Lake/Christian Weber/Dieter Ulrich; Polisation from Lucas Niggli Big Zoom; Das buch der albträme by Urs Widmer/Michael Riessler; 7 by Der Rote Bereich; Le voyage by the Pierre Favre Ensemble; Camerata Kilkenny with Bach's The musical offering; Attikos by Savina Yannatou/Barry Guy; and the 2CD Morning glory from Agusti Fernandez/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez. These last three musicians also appear on Valencia by the Ramón López freedom NOW Sextet on Xàbia Jazz.
The latest Emanem/psi CDs are: Paul Hubweber/Philip Zoubek with Archiduc concert: Dansaert variations; Charlotte Hug/Fred Lonberg-Holm with Fine extensions; and Cry, want by the big band of Hans Koller with Bill Frisell, and Evan Parker on two tracks. The Free Elephant label has recently released two new CDs: André Goudbeek/Christine Wodrascka/Peter Jacquemyn/Lê Quan Ninh with AGiiiiR; and Carl Ludwig Hübsch's solo, Die sache an sich.
There have been two great vinyl releases in the last few weeks: Needs! a solo by Mats Gustafsson on Dancing Wayang (who have now been added to the Independent labels page) and Crumbling brain by Full Blast + friends on Okkadisk. Also on Okkadisk are Artifact: live in St. Johann by iTi; and Wire and brass by The Engines. And while on formats other than CD, there is Sunny's time now, a film by Antoine Prum available as a 2DVD set.
On Ayler Records there is the Zed Trio with Lost transitions and Luis Lopes Humanization 4tet with Electricity; on Erstwhile there is Graham Lambkin/Jason Lescalleet Air supply and Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto with 2 seconds/b minor/wave; on FMR there are three new Paul Dunmall CDs: Boundless by Paul Dunmall/Barry Edwards/Philip Gibbs/Mark Sanders; Live in Oxford by Atmospheres without oxygen 4; and MANU by Paul Dunmall/Philip Gibbs/Miles Levin; Paul Dunmall is also featured as main soloist on Ed Bennett's Dzama stories; on SLAM there is Mark Anderson/Paul Dunmall/Philip Gibbs/Tony Hymas with 21st Century V-bop; The path by the Outward Bound Trio; and Charles Hayward/Han-earl Park/Ian Smith + Lol Coxhill with Mathilde 253; on LJ Records there is Coast by Ove Johansson; Excursions by Susanna Lindeborg; and Thoughtful world by the Lindeborg/Johansson Duo; on Henceforth there is Shed by Toca Loca; and Binibon by Elliott Sharp; on Euphorium the very latest CD is White power blues by the New Old Luten Trio; and on Discus there is The leaf factory fallback by Inclusion Principle.
What was new on EFIP 1 November 2010
Quite a lot of really good stuff this time, kicking off with two real gems from Emanem: the first CD issue of Teatime (Incus 15) by Garry Todd/Dave Solomon/John Russell/Nigel Coombes/Steve Beresford; and the truly wonderful duo of Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner: Success with your dog. And then there's unreleased recordings from Derek Bailey on the latest Incus CD, More 74; and John Russell and Roger Turner in trio with Michel Doneda on The cigar that talks from new French label PiedNu. Also of particular note is the new Triple Point Records which has released the lavish gatefold double-vinyl album by Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley from just two years ago, November 2008: Ailanthus/Altissima. This is included in a revised version of Richard Shapiro's Cecil Taylor Sessionography.
The latest Ogun release is the duo of Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple in Spirit - Live at the Purcell Room from the 2008 London Jazz Festival; and what used to be Ogun's sister label, Cadillac, recently issued the great Night time is the right time: 60s Soho sounds by Dudu Pukwana/Bob Stuckey/Phil Lee/John Marshall/Terry Smith/Martin Hart. I've also now included a list of Cadillac CDs with full details of several of them - see their catalogue - just two being mentioned here: Bobby Wellins Quartet's Don't worry 'bout me, and Stan Tracey's Solo: Trio, produced by Evan Parker.
Evan Parker appears on two very recent Clean Feed CDs: in the Parker/Guy/Lytton trio alongside Peter Evans - Scenes in the House of Music - and in duo with Urs Leimgruber - Twine - who has his own solo CD out on Leo which pays homage in its title to Evan: Chicago solo.
Further additions to Peter Brötzmann's discography with recent items from Corbett vs. Dempsey: Mayday by the Peter Brötzmann Trio (Peter Kowald and Pierre Courbois); a duo with Harry Miller from 1980 - Brötzmann & Miller; and Wood & water, the catalogue from the February 2010 exhibition of Peter's paintings and drawings in Chicago. There is also a trio with Adam Melbye and Håkon Berre from 2007 on Barefoot Records: A tale of three cities.
New on Evil Rabbit is Minimal damage by Albert van Veenendaal; on Wig Ab Baars' latest solo, Time to do my lions, and on X-OR, Luc Houtkamp/POW Ensemble with Continuum; Luc Houtkamp's discography has now been updated. Intakt have released two Pierre Favre duos - with Samuel Blaser, Vol à voile and with Philipp Schaufelberger, Albatross - in addition to Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House and The master and the rain by Tommy Meier Root Down. On No Business Records there are, on CD and LP: The Nu Band Live in Paris; Dominic Duval/Jimmy Halperin/Brian Willson playing the Music of John Coltrane; Jöelle Léandre/India Cooke with Journey; and (CD only) Liudas Mockunas/Ryoji Hojito with Vacation music; on the same label, vinyl only, there is: a re-issue of Amalgam's Prayer for peace, dedicated to Jeff Clyne; Chew your food by Kirk Knuffe/Kenny Wollesen/Lisle Ellis; and Harris Eisenstadt's Woodblock prints.
In a relatively small update, I'm really pleased to be able to provide the (only) official English translation of a recent interview with Louis Moholo-Moholo that appeared in French in the May 2010 issue of Improjazz. Many thanks to Gary May for facilitating this.
Four very new CDs from another timbre, all "Duos with brass": Roberto Fabbriciani and Robin Hayward's Nella basilica; Angharad Davies and Axel Dörner's A.D.; Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Christoph Schiller's Giles U.; and Mathias Forge and Olivier Toulemonde's Pie 'n' mash
And, a wide range of new releases, stylistically and geographically, mostly single CDs, from the following labels: absinth: a duo from Axel Dörner and Diego Chamy: Super; Amirani: Flatime from ElectroAcousticSilence; Cuneiform: Old stuff from the New York Art Quartet [John Tchicai/Roswell Rudd/Finn von Eyben/Louis Moholo]; DUNS Limited Edition: a duo of Paul Dunmall and guitarist Han-earl Park: Boolean transforms; Herbal International: LAlienation from the duo Ercklentz/Neumann; Heyermears Discorbie/ReQords/Ronda: the self-titled Paw Music; Hi 4 Head Records: Fracture by Scurvy; Marge: Nightwork by Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton; Mutable Music: J.D. Parran's solo Window spirits; and Jerome Cooper's solo: A magical approach; Pingo: Chicken feet from Sean Bergin's New Mob; and Rare Music: Paul Rogers' solo bass, An invitation.
What was new on EFIP 6 July 2010
Apologies for the delay in uploading this update but I was on holiday for the last week of June and the first days of July and it's taken a couple of full days to finalise the work and get all the new releases added.
I'm sure everyone's been in the position of focusing on the music of one person to the exclusion of most others and this happened to me for a period during May/June, that person being Han Bennink. This was possibly stimulated by an excellent trio concert at Pizza Express in London on 26 May with Pat Thomas and John Coxon but there's also been a flurry of Han/ICP recordings recently: the Tobias Delius 4 Tet with Luftlucht; the simply-titled ICP Orchestra; the, vinyl only, !ICP! 50; and Let's go on TERP with Han, Brodie West and Terrie Ex (also vinyl only). Then there's the Han Bennink Trio on ILK with Parken; and the inclusion of the Dutch-language biography of Han by Eric van den Berg: De wereld als trommel, particularly notable for it's complimentary CD with previously unavailable music.
Other recent Dutch releases are, on Dick Lucas' DATA label: Joost Buis & Astronotes with Zoomin; Elastic Jargon's very beautiful Slang; and the original Elastic Jargon CD, now about a year old. On BBB there's Quartet, collaborations by Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher with Paul Dunmall, Mats Gustafsson, Taylor Ho Bynum, François Houle, Michael Moore and Peter van Bergen.
Emanem/psi have just released the 3CD Summer works 2009 by the Rivière Composers' Pool; Pat Thomas/Raymond Strid/Clayton Thomas with Wazifa; Evan Parker and Sten Sandell's duo (tenor/church organ) Psalms; solo John Russell with Hyste; and Tony Marsh, four short solos together with duos with Veryan Weston on church organ on Stops. Evan Parker also appears as one-third of the Schlippenbach Trio on their latest CD on Intakt, Bauhaus Dessau, with other new Intakt releases being: Cosa Brava's Ragged atlas; a new recording from OM - Willisau; Steve Lacy's poignant last concert recording - November; Michael Jaeger Kerouac's Outdoors.
Pat Thomas, who appears on one of the recent psi releases above, also has out Monads, an electronics-based session from 1989 recently released on ReelEstate, and also Plays the music of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk on FMR. There are four recent or new John Butcher CDs: Under the roof, a duo with Claudia Ulla Binder just out on nuscope; Invisible ear, re-issue on Weight of Wax of the close-miked, feedback, multi-tracked recordings previously released on Fringes; a duo with Rhodri Davies on ftarri: Carliol; and as a member of AMM on Matchless' Sounding music.
No Business Records continues its healthy release schedule with three double LPs: Howard Riley's Solo in Vilnius, slightly reduced in duration from the double CD version already released; William Hooker's Earth's orbit; and Commitment with Live in Germany 1983. A 2CD recording of Commitment (Will Connell, Jr./Jason Kao Hwang/Zen Matsuura/William Parker) has also been released which, in addition to the German concert includes their first LP from 1981: The complete recordings 1981/1983. Two recent releases each from Ayler and SLAM: on Ayler, there's Foltz/Turner/Carrothers with To the moon; and Dennis Gonzalez Yells at Eels featuring Louis Moholo-Moholo with Cape of storms; on SLAM, there's the Szilárd Mezei Octet with Tönk; and Dialogues by Sebastiano Meloni/Nicola Cossu/Roberto Dani.
The latest release from Ogun is a CD issue of Mark Charig's Pipedream with Keith Tippett and Ann Winter; and Keith Tippett also appears in duo with Stan Tracey on Supernova from 1977 on Resteamed. Peter Brötzmann is in a trio with Johannes Bauer and Mikolaj Trzaksa on Goosetalks from Kilogram Records in Poland. Red Toucan has released Seek it not with your eyes, a 2009 session from Alexey Lapin/Melvyn Poore/Matthias Schubert/Roger Turner and Roger Turner is (of course) on the very latest Konk Pack CD - The black hills - just out on GROB. The latest DUNS Limited Edition is Mumuksuta from Philip Gibbs/Paul Dunmall/Tony Hymas/Paul Rogers/Neil Metcalfe/Tony Levin, and Paul Dunmall is also in trio with Tony Bianco and Dave Kane with Ritual beyond on FMR. Sylvia Hallett and Mike Adcock have released Reduced on The Orchestra Pit Recording Company; Hal Rammel has two recent 'invented instrument' recordings on Penumbra - Midwest disquiet on the amplified palette; and Song of the interocyter - and Henceforth Records has released the electric guitar quartet, Dither.
What was new on EFIP 1 May 2010
Four excellent releases from psi/Emanem just out: Evan Parker's Whitstable solo; Creak above 33 from Nate Wooley/Paul Lytton; Aki Takase's A week went by and more of Ross Bolleter's ruined pianos in Night kitchen. Evan also turns up on the latest Red Toucan CD, Relevance, in trio with Dave Liebman and Tony Bianco.
Four new releases on the Italian Amirani label: Blastula (Christiano Calcagnile and Monica Demuru) with Scarnoduo; Gianni Lenoci/Gianni Mimmo's Reciprocal uncles; Hannah Marshall/Nicola Guazzaloca/Gianni Mimmo/Leila Adu's recording of The Shoreditch concert; and Lol Coxhill/Enzo Rocco in live duo on Fine tuning. Two new releases each on SLAM - Asynchronous by Fred Van Hove/Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Paul Lytton; and Freedom by Stefano Pastor/George Haslam/Claudio Lugo/Giorgio Dini - and Euphorium: Live scenes 2006, a DVD; and the Euphorium_freakestra with their Free electric supergroup.
The latest Erstwhile CD is Motubachii by Annette Krebs/Taku Unami; the latest Potlatch CD is Ichnites from Pascal Battus/Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour; and there are three additions to Sebi Tramontana's discography: a very limited edition duo with Frank Gratkowski, Instant songs; Night people, a group with Terri Kapsalis/John Corbett/Kent Kessler/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Guillermo Gregorio; and Giancarlo Schiaffini's Phantabrass Play George and Ira Gershwin. Sargasso has been added to the Independent labels page together with their Jonathan Harvey CD Other presences which includes a remix by Lawrence Casserley.