ANTHONY BRAXTON — 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (2017) 3CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 features the first studio recordings of Braxton’s Echo Echo Mirror House Music—the latest conceptual innovation in Braxton’s five-decade career. With his Ghost Trance Music, Braxton created a framework for his musicians to freely explore his entire compositional output in each concert; with his Diamond Curtain Wall music, he brought his own interactive electronics into his improvisational palette. Now with Echo Echo Mirror House Music, Anthony Braxton brings these ideas to the next level. In this ensemble of longtime collaborators, all the musicians wield iPods in addition to their instruments, while navigating scores that combine cartography and evocative graphic notation, creating a musical tapestry combining live performance and sampled sound from Braxton’s extensive recorded discography.
Impeccably recorded at Firehouse 12’s state-of-the-art studio, the music is available in two formats: a traditional three-CD box set and a 5.1 Surround Sound audiophile Blu-ray disc. “As a culture, we are slowly moving away from target linear experiences that are framed as stationary constructs that don’t change on repeated listening, to a new world that constantly serves up fresh opportunities and interactive discourse,” Braxton says. “American people have made it clear that the new times will call for dynamic inter-action experiences.” https://firehouse12records.com
Tracklist :
1-1    Composition No. 372    57:54
2-1    Composition No. 373    59:26
3-1    Composition No. 377    58:14
Credits :
Artwork [All Images By] – Anthony Braxton
Bass, Bass Clarinet, Electronics [iPod] – Carl Testa
Composed By [All Compositions By] – Anthony Braxton
Cornet, Flugelhorn, Brass [Trumpbone], Electronics [iPod] – Taylor Ho Bynum
Guitar, Electronics [iPod] – Mary Halvorson
Percussion, Vibraphone [Vibes], Electronics [iPod] – Aaron Siegel
Producer [Produced By] – Anthony Braxton
Sopranino Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Electronics [iPod] – Anthony Braxton
Tuba, Electronics [iPod] – Jay Rozen
Viola, Violin, Electronics [iPod] – Jessica Pavone

ANTHONY BRAXTON - GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 1 - Set 1 & 2 (2012) 2CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 1 - Set 1
1    Composition No. 254    1:00:49
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 1
Flute – Nicole Mitchell
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone
GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 1 - Set 2
1    Composition No.322    1:04:48
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 2
Flute – Nicole Mitchell
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone
Violin – Caley Monahan-Ward

ANTHONY BRAXTON - GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 2 - Set 1 & 2 (2012) 2CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume ol. 2 Set 1
1    Composition No.255    1:04:02
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 1
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone, Stephanie Griffin
GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume Vol. 2 Set 2
1    Composition No.255    1:04:02
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 1
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Soprano Saxophone – Kyle Brenders
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone

ANTHONY BRAXTON - GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 3 - Set 1 & 2 (2012) 2CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 3 - Set 1
1    Composition No.259    52:53
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone
GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 3 - Set 2
1    Composition No. 346    1:01:12
Bass – Carl Testa
Bassoon – Katie Young
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 2
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds – Matt Bauder
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone

ANTHONY BRAXTON - GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume 4 - Set 1 & 2 (2012) 2CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume Vol. 4 Set 1
1    Composition No.266    1:04:05
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 1
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds – Matthew Welch
Reeds, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone
GTM (Iridium) 2007 Volume Vol. 4 Set 2
1    Composition No.348    59:12
Alto Saxophone – Eric Paul
Bass – Carl Testa
Cornet – Taylor Ho Bynum
Ensemble – Anthony Braxton Septet + 2
Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Reeds – Anthony Braxton
Tenor Saxophone – Andre Marguetti
Tuba – Jay Rozen
Viola – Jessica Pavone

ANTHONY BRAXTON - 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (2007) 9CD BOX-SET | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
CD1-1    Composition No. 350 Part 1    12:57
CD1-2    Composition No. 350 Part 2    15:30
CD1-3    Composition No. 350 Part 3    17:14
CD1-4    Composition No. 350 Part 4    9:48
CD1-5    Composition No. 350 Part 5    14:38
CD2-1    Composition No. 351 Part 1    11:25
CD2-2    Composition No. 351 Part 2    17:15
CD2-3    Composition No. 351 Part 3    17:45
CD2-4    Composition No. 351 Part 4    22:56
CD3-1    Composition No. 352 Part 1    17:17
CD3-2    Composition No. 352 Part 2    12:17
CD3-3    Composition No. 352 Part 3    22:38
CD3-4    Composition No. 352 Part 4    15:23
CD4-1    Composition No. 353 Part 1    13:54
CD4-2    Composition No. 353 Part 2    14:25
CD4-3    Composition No. 353 Part 3    14:26
CD4-4    Composition No. 353 Part 4    21:11
CD5-1    Composition No. 354 Part 1    11:10
CD5-2    Composition No. 354 Part 2    18:56
CD5-3    Composition No. 354 Part 3    14:47
CD5-4    Composition No. 354 Part 4    17:55
CD6-1    Composition No. 355 Part 1    11:51
CD6-2    Composition No. 355 Part 2    17:57
CD6-3    Composition No. 355 Part 3    16:47
CD6-4    Composition No. 355 Part 4    17:15
CD7-1    Composition No. 356 Part 1    17:43
CD7-2    Composition No. 356 Part 2    18:24
CD7-3    Composition No. 356 Part 3    23:45
CD8-1    Composition No. 357 Part 1    16:57
CD8-2    Composition No. 357 Part 2    16:43
CD8-3    Composition No. 357 Part 3    12:15
CD8-4    Composition No. 357 Part 4    17:15
CD9-1    Composition No. 358 Part 1    14:13
CD9-2    Composition No. 358 Part 2    21:07
CD9-3    Composition No. 358 Part 3    26:26
Credits :
Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Piccolo Flute, Voice – Nicole Mitchell
Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone – Steve Lehman
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – James Fei
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Clarinet, Clarinet [Eb Contralto] – Anthony Braxton
Bass, Bass Clarinet – Carl Testa
Bassoon – Sara Schoenbeck
Cornet, Flugelhorn, Trombone, Bass Trumpet, Piccolo Flute, Percussion [Shells] – Taylor Ho Bynum
Electric Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Euphonium, Toy [Toys], Other [Mutes] – Jay Rozen
Percussion, Vibraphone – Aaron Siegel
Soprano Saxophone, Saxophone [C-melody], Clarinet – Andrew Raffo Dewar
Trombone, Flugelhorn, Cymbal [Cymbals] – Reut Regev
Viola, Violin – Jessica Pavone

ANTHONY BRAXTON - 12+1tet (Victoriaville) 2007 (2007) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Composition No. 361    1:10:43
Credits :
Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone – Steve Lehman
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – James Fei
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Contrabass Clarinet, Illustration [Drawing] – Anthony Braxton
Bassoon, Suona – Sara Schoenbeck
Cornet, Bugle, Brass [Trompbone], Bass Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Performer [Coques], Performer [Sourdines (Mutes)] – Taylor Ho Bynum
Double Bass, Electric Bass, Bass Clarinet – Carl Testa
Electric Guitar – Mary Halvorson
Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Piccolo Flute, Voice – Nicole Mitchell
Percussion, Vibraphone – Aaron Siegel
Saxophone [C], Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Andrew Raffo Dewar
Trombone, Bugle [Coulisse], Cymbal, Performer [Sourdines] – Reut Regev
Tuba, Euphonium, Performer [Sourdines] – Jay Rozen
Violin, Electric Bass – Jessica Pavone

ANTHONY BRAXTON — Quartet (GTM) 2006 (2008) 4CD BOX-SET | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The first Anthony Braxton album to appear on the Important Records label was issued in 2008 as Quartet (GTM) 2006, although the recordings were actually made on May 26 and 27, 2005. The set contains four extended collective workouts designated as Compositions 338, 340, 341, and 346. They were presented at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with pianist Max Heath, bassist Carl Testa, and percussionist Aaron Siegel during the interim between Braxton's participation in a three-day jazz festival at Victoriaville, Canada and his summer-long European tour. The significance of the letters GTM is as follows. Beginning in 1995, Braxton expanded his already unusually vast and complex musical universe by initiating what would evolve into a decade-long series of multi-level improvisatory collaborations which he called Ghost Trance Music. The "first species" of this special type of "continuous state music" was patterned after indigenous North American drumming and inspired by the Ghost Dance Rituals of the Plains Tribes as practiced during the late 19th century. It was also informed by the Indonesian shadow puppet theater tradition. Like the rituals for which it was named, Ghost Trance Music materialized initially as an intuitive system for ancestor reverence and collective memory. Specifically, Braxton sought to honor and invoke a veritable composite Ghost of the Old Masters, i.e. musical heroes who contributed to the diverse braid of traditions which have manifested since the 1890s. He also took steps to provide for potential inclusion of literally everything he had conceived, composed, or created since he began putting music together sequentially in the late '60s. Braxton's collage technique, which first came to full fruition with his Quartet during the '80s, coexists in Ghost Trance Music with elemental language music coordinates which date back to his earliest compositions. As the series evolved, Ghost Trance Music became increasingly non-linear while what Braxton calls the Ritual Function became more important than ever. Contained only by duration, these works (which are more like sets of coordinates than composed entities) really have no beginning and no end. Taylor Ho Bynum, a key participant in the Ghost Trance series, has described a "balance between structure and freedom, composition and improvisation, ensemble and individual." By 2005, the Ghost Trance Musics had entered what Braxton called the "Accelerator Class" or "Accelerator Whip" mode. That terminology clearly applies to what was conjured and captured on this collection. 2006 marked the end of the Ghost Trance Musics as a series of creative rituals conducted under that name. The next phases of Braxton's development would involve the Diamond Curtain Wall (augmented by SuperCollider computer audio programming); Falling River Musics and Echo Echo Mirror House Music. arwulf arwulf  
Tracklist :
1-1    Composition No. 338    1:02:49
2-1    Composition No. 340    46:54
3-1    Composition No. 341    57:49
4-1    Composition No. 346    55:49
Credits :
Bass – Carl Testa
Percussion – Aaron Siegel
Piano – Max Heath
Written-By, Reeds, Liner Notes – Anthony Braxton

ANTHONY BRAXTON - Trillium E (2011) 4CD | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Trillium E is the first-ever studio recording of a Braxton opera, and documents a surreal and witty installment in Braxton’s ongoing Trillium cycle. Available as a four-disc box set in both physical and digital forms, it includes a 72-page booklet with libretto, photos, and critical essays. Each of Trillium E’s four acts features a different episode: a genie in a bottle, the invention of human cloning, interplanetary space travel, and the exploration of a jungle pyramid. The performers on Trillium E have been heard with major opera companies (New York City Opera, Florentine Opera, Lyric Opera of San Diego); top avant-garde performance groups (Philip Glass Ensemble, Wooster Group, Darmstadt Institute); grassroots arts collectives (HERE Theater, Anti-Social Music); and collaborations with legendary jazz and improvised music figures.

ABOUT THE TRILLIUM CYCLE

Trillium E forms part of a cycle of interconnected operas that will ultimately comprise thirty-six one-act works, to be presented in various combinations. Prior to Trillium E (which has not been staged), three of Braxton’s operas have been performed: Trillium A (one act), Trillium M (two acts), and Trillium R (four acts). Both Trillium M and Trillium R resulted in live CDs, with Trillium R released by the previous incarnation of Braxton’s label, “Braxton House.” Since 2000, Braxton has completed Trillium E and Trillium J, both four acts, and is currently at work composing Trillium X. Two acts from Trillium J were performed in October 2011 at Roulette during the Tri-Centric Festival. Each act is split into two tracks for the listener’s convenience, but they are intended to be heard continuously, without interruption. Trillium E forms part of a cycle of interconnected operas that will ultimately comprise thirty-six one-act works, to be presented in various combinations. Prior to Trillium E (which has not been staged), three of Braxton’s operas have been performed: Trillium A (one act), Trillium M (two acts), and Trillium R (four acts). Both Trillium M and Trillium R resulted in live CDs, with Trillium R released by the previous incarnation of Braxton’s label, “Braxton House.” Since 2000, Braxton has completed Trillium E and Trillium J, both four acts, and is currently at work composing Trillium X. Two acts from Trillium J were performed in October 2011 at Roulette during the Tri-Centric Festival. Each act is split into two tracks for the listener’s convenience, but they are intended to be heard continuously, without interruption. Trillium E forms part of a cycle of interconnected operas that will ultimately comprise thirty-six one-act works, to be presented in various combinations. Prior to Trillium E (which has not been staged), three of Braxton’s operas have been performed: Trillium A (one act), Trillium M (two acts), and Trillium R (four acts). Both Trillium M and Trillium R resulted in live CDs, with Trillium R released by the previous incarnation of Braxton’s label, “Braxton House.” Since 2000, Braxton has completed Trillium E and Trillium J, both four acts, and is currently at work composing Trillium X. Two acts from Trillium J were performed in October 2011 at Roulette during the Tri-Centric Festival. Each act is split into two tracks for the listener’s convenience, but they are intended to be heard continuously, without interruption.  https://newbraxton

Trillium E: Wallingford's Polarity Gambit - Composition No. 237   
Act 1    49:15
1-1    Act 1 (Part.1)    25:20
1-2    Act 2 (Part.2)    23:53
Act 2    43:13
2-1    Act 2 (Part.1)    20:51
2-2    Act 2 (Part.2)    22:20
Act 3    48:33
3-1    Act 3 (Part.1)    26:34
3-2    Act 3 (Part.2)    21:57
Act 4    40:18
4-1    Act 4 (Part.1)    21:48
4-2    Act 4 (Part.2)    18:29
All Credits

ANTHONY BRAXTON - Echo Echo Mirror House (2013) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Composition No 347 +    1:02:37
Credits :
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Electronics [iPod], Directed By, Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Contrabass, Bass Clarinet, Electronics [iPod] – Carl Testa
Cornet, Bugle, Brass [Trompbone], Electronics [iPod] – Taylor Ho Bynum
Electric Guitar, Electronics [iPod] – Mary Halvorson
Ensemble – Septet
Percussion, Vibraphone, Electronics [iPod] – Aaron Siegel
Tuba, Electronics [iPod] – Jay Rozen
Viola, Violin, Electronics [iPod] – Jessica Pavone