Avant-Garde, "New Music", Now Playing>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

@sberger Thanks for calling my attention to Corbett vs Dempsey label! Some good looking items (Cecil, A. Von Schlippenbach, couple of McPhees … ) in the store …

 

Excellent! One of the best labels out there. Not a dud released, IMO.

 

LENIRAPH (Album 2021), by Luciano Margorani (acoustic / improvised music, one-track full-length, released November 13, 2021, Milan, Italy)

 

Beauty in the Beast - Wendy Carlos

 

Other Side, by Ars de Er (experimental rock, full-length, released August 15, 2021, Minsk, Belarus)



Favourite track: Visions

 

Some fine playing here.

Avant-doom-metal from Belarus with ominous mellotron... I am diggin' it!

 

Folwark, by Młyn (experimental rock / nu-jazz, full-length, physical CD available, released November 14, 2021 Wrocław, Poland)



Favourite track: Tajfun

 

Pipe organ!!

 

I just wrapped up a rewatch of Perfect Lives this week, really wishing more Robert Ashley stuff ended up filmed.

 

This is one of the new releases on Another Timbre - I've been playing them in order of the at number - this is at182 and a very good one it is too. When it began I thought I'd heard it before - the website reminded me that it was played at the Wigmore Hall in January 2021 without an audience - it was streamed.

Morton Feldman
‘Piano and String Quartet’ (1985)

Mark Knoop (piano)
Mira Benjamin & Gordon Mackay (violins)
Bridget Carey (viola)
Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

 

Cerc, by Artús (rock-in-opposition, full-length, physical CD & 2LP set available, released March 27, 2020, Pau, France)



Favourite track: Albedo

 

Toufoulcan, by Chafouin (rock-in-opposition, full-length, physical CD available, releases September 15, 2021, Caen, France)



Favourite track: Les fous

 

This and Phew's 'New Decade' are neck and neck for album of the year IMHO. Both addictively re-playable.

 

Have not heard Phew, but agree 100% on the Lee.

 

Mallet Fantastique, by Tom Collier (avant-jazz, full-length, physical CD available, released November 9, 2021, Seattle, Washington)



Favourite track: Cross Bars

 

Just out on vinyl(and cd, too) and it's outstanding!

 

Excellent - doomy and menacing!

 

WALTER ZUBER ARMSTRONG | ALPHA & OMEGA | WORLD ARTISTS | 1973 | FIRST CANADIAN STEREO PRESSING WA_1001 LP




Impressive Free and Spiritual Jazz LP that hasn't piqued interest of the "general population" yet, though it has all the ingredients to become one of those famous LPs nobody noticed at first and then shelled out hundreds of dollars to get a halfway decent copy. It is my first LP by Armstrong and what he does on it, especially on Side 1, is very impressive. There is a clip on YT you will find below the post, representing the more accessible Side 2 of this LP. What's irritating is that this pressing is supposed to be from the US (Discogs), but the label and cover clearly state having been manufactured in Canada. The same is true for the supposedly later pressing with alternative cover. Anyway, I always liked the cover shown here much more, no matter if first or second version - and I am very glad I could get a copy.

 

DHARMA QUINTET | MR. ROBINSON | SOCIETE FRANÇAISE DE PRODUCTIONS PHONOGRAPHIQUES | 1970 | FIRST FRENCH STEREO PRESSING SFP 53.006




French Free Jazz combo consisting of members that were all over the place by end of the sixities and beginning of the seventies (Full Moon Ensemble, diverse BYG/Actuel albums). Recently reissued by Souffle Continu Records on vinyl with additional liner notes and photos.

 

fi-bo-nä-chēz, by The Fibonaccis (avant-pop, online reissue, 7-track EP, released June 4, 2021, Los Angeles, California)



Favourite track: The Genius

 

Stout Night, by Ale Gòtic (avant-jazz, full-length, released November 14, 2021, Moscow, Russia)



Favourite track: Suburban Train

 

Phosphenes, by Jessica Moss
(November 19, 2021)

 

Icons+, by Eli Keszler (electronic music, full-length, vinyl LP available, released November 17, 2021, New York, New York)



Favourite track: Sunrise