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- evan parker / derek bailey / han bennink | the topography of the lungs (1970)
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evan parker / derek bailey / han bennink | the topography of the lungs (1970)
The Topography of the Lungs is one of the crucial early documents of European free improvisation. Recorded in July 1970, this lively, inventive trio record introduced a decade in which European free jazz would increasingly splinter from its American progenitors, … Continue reading
Posted in 1970, free improv
Tagged Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Incus Records
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max neuhaus / john cage | fontana mix-feed (1966)
Technically, this LP consists of four realizations of John Cage’s 1958 Fontana Mix, an indeterminate graphic score originally intended to be used for a tape piece, with or without additional instruments. To say that, though, is not really to capture … Continue reading
Posted in 1966, composition, musique concrète, noise
Tagged John Cage, Max Neuhaus, New York School
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fraufraulein | extinguishment (2015)
Anne Guthrie and Billy Gomberg have been playing together as Fraufraulein for years now, and have recorded a number of albums, but this is my first encounter with the duo. Guthrie is a French horn player, Gomberg plays bass guitar, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, eai
Tagged Anne Guthrie, Another Timbre, Billy Gomberg, Fraufraulein
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radu malfatti | one man and a fly (2015)
Radu Malfatti has covered a fair bit of ground over the years, from his early post-jazz/free improv playing to his ’90s reinvention as a Wandelweiser composer to his various collaborations with Mattin, Keith Rowe, and many others. One thing he’s … Continue reading
roscoe mitchell sextet | sound (1966)
Sound was, and is, a tremendously important recording. It was the first document of the then-young Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), among the first recorded appearances for most of these musicians, and a first step towards the … Continue reading
musica elettronica viva | friday (1969)
Musica Elettronica Viva was an odd and amorphous group whose vision of collective free improvisation, like that of their British peers AMM, presaged many of the developments of avant music in the ’70s and beyond. The group’s membership shifted constantly … Continue reading
anthony braxton | 3 compositions of new jazz (1968)
Anthony Braxton’s debut LP introduced an unconventional, often controversial new talent whose career – spanning decades and still going, without nearly enough attention, today – has been one of the most fascinating in jazz. At the time this was recorded, Braxton was … Continue reading
Posted in 1968, jazz
Tagged AACM, Anthony Braxton, Delmark Records, Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams
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