Introduced on her 2015 Clean Feed album Save Your Breath, Kris Davis' Infrasound octet is a monster band capable of delivering a gargantuan punch. Creative jazz pianist/composer Davis is joined here by drummer Jim Black, organist Gary Versace, and electric guitarist Nate Radley, and as if they weren't enough to rattle the windows, peerless clarinetists Ben Goldberg, Oscar Noriega, Joachim Badenhorst, and Andrew Bishop add the deep vibrations of their bass and contrabass instruments to the ensemble. Then, for added oomph, Davis enlisted rock veteran producer Ron Saint Germain (Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Living Colour) to engineer and mix the session. The album's opening moments display Davis' Infrasound conception at its most acute, as "Union Forever" (aka "Union" on the 2012 album of the same name by Paradoxical Frog) begins with a circular spiraling motif layered in counterpoint; after a brief retreat, the group's phrasing becomes more clipped and knotty, accentuated by Black's powerfully incisive drumwork in bold contrast to the rounded tones of the clarinets. As the electric instruments enter, "Union Forever" becomes downright Rock in Opposition-tinged avant-proggy, but the octet remains improvisational at heart, with dark chording beneath a moody Noriega clarinet feature as the music escalates in urgency, retreating and then ramping up into a dissonant and powerfully pounding finale with second soloist Versace abandoning all sense of restraint in his keyboard attack.
Massive pummeling chords and Badenhorst's deep roaring beast of a bass clarinet mark the conclusion of the 12-minute "Whirly Swirly" (rearranged from Davis' 2014 trio recording Waiting for You to Grow), emerging out of the tune's cavernous drifting center and an opening free vs. funk battle with Versace on bass keys, Radley increasingly unmoored, and Davis repeating an off-kilter riff like a needle stuck on Monk. "Jumping Over Your Shadow" and "Always Leave Them (Wanting More)," two of the four Davis compositions premiered here, begin in expansive spaces for timbral exploration -- including avant jazz's de rigueur bass clarinet multiphonics and reed pops in the former -- and proceed through all manner of rough and tumble into tightly focused conclusions. Black, Versace, and a deeply bluesed-up Goldberg form a choppy little trio on "Jumping" before piano, guitar, and clarinets appear, stunningly tight, in harmonically advanced angular accents to the groove; "Always Leave Them" pits Davis, Radley, and Black in skittering free jazz mode against long bass clarinet harmonies before the tune wraps as a dark processional not unlike Belgian avant-proggers Univers Zero in tone. Some listeners might hear even more avant-prog stylings in Versace's quirky, Miriodor-ish organ motif on "The Ghost of Your Previous Fuckup," but improvisation also reigns in the track's full-ensemble cacophony, Davis and Black's wildly energized duet, and Bishop's didgeridoo-like contrabass clarinet. In a somewhat curious but affecting move, Save Your Breath's 15-minute closing track shares the album's title but stands as an outlier of sorts, floating in deeply immersive ambience and gradually taking more explicit form as something quietly and mysteriously alluring. Dave Lynch
Tracklist :
1. Union Forever 9:24
2. Jumping Over Your Shadow 10:35
3. Always Leave Them (Wanting More) 10:00
4. Whirly Swirly 11:49
5. The Ghost Of Your Previous Fuckup 9:37
6. Save Your Breath 14:29
Credits :
Bass Clarinet – Ben Goldberg, Joachim Badenhorst, Oscar Noriega
Clarinet – Andrew Bishop, Ben Goldberg, Joachim Badenhorst, Oscar Noriega
Contra-Alto Clarinet – Ben Goldberg
Contrabass Clarinet – Andrew Bishop
Drums – Jim Black
Guitar – Nate Radley
Organ – Gary Versace
Piano, Composed By – Kris Davis
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KRIS DAVIS INFRASOUND — Save Your Breath (2015) FLAC (tracks), lossless
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PARKER / GUY / LYTTON + PETER EVANS - Scenes in the House of Music (2010) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
Tracklist :
1. Intro 1'13
2 Scene 1 12'11
3 Scene 2 13'12
4 Scene 3 12'21
5 Scene 4 13'48
6 Scene 5 13'33
Credits :
Composed By – Barry Guy, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Peter Evans
Double Bass – Barry Guy
Drums, Percussion – Paul Lytton
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Producer – Evan Parker
Trumpet – Peter Evans
EVAN PARKER | JOE MORRIS | NATE WOOLEY — Ninth Square (2015) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
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EVAN PARKER & KINETICS - Chiasm (2019) FLAC (tracks), lossless
Tracklist :
1 London Part I 18:16
2 Copenhagen Part I 4:35
3 Copenhagen Part II 7:53
4 London Part II 7:29
Credits :
Bass – Adam Pultz Melbye
Drums – Anders Vestergaard
Music By [All Music By] – Adam Pultz Melbye, Anders Vestergaard, Evan Parker, Jacob Anderskov
Piano – Jacob Anderskov
Tenor Saxophone – Evan Parker

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ALEXANDER HAWKINS ° EVAN PARKER — Leaps in Leicester (2016) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
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MAT MANERI | EVAN PARKER | LUCIAN BAN - Sounding Tears (2017) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
Tracklist :
1 Blue Light 1'50
Music By – Parker, Ban, Maneri
2 Da Da Da 7'19
Music By – Parker, Ban, Maneri
3 The Rule Of Twelves 3'46
Music By – Parker, Maneri
4 Blessed 7'47
Music By – M. Maneri
5 This! 5'13
Music By – Parker, Ban
6 Sounding 3'27
Music By – Parker, Ban, Maneri
7 Polaris 3'07
Music By – L.Ban
8 Scilence 8'22
Music By – Parker, Ban, Maneri
9 Paralex 7'12
Music By – Parker, Ban, Maneri
10 Hymn 3'53
Music By – L.Ban
Credits :
Piano – Lucian Ban
Saxophone [Saxophones] – Evan Parker
Viola – Mat Maneri

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ANTHONY BRAXTON | JOE FONDA - Duets 1995 (2007) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless
Tracklist :
1 All Of You 9:50
2 Rentlessness 10:29
3 Out Of The Cage 5:05
4 Something From The Past 5:30
5 Composition No. 168 + (147 + 63) 10:24
6 Composition No. 136 10:07
7 Composition No. 173 11:17
8 Autumn In New York 10:08
Credits :
Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Contrabass Clarinet, Clarinet, Flute – Anthony Braxton
Contrabass – Joe Fonda

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ANTHONY BRAXTON | JOE MORRIS - Four Duo Improvisations 2007 (2008) 4CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless
Tracklist :
1-1 Improvisation I 1:00:14
2-1 Improvisation II 58:57
3-1 Improvisation III 1:01:29
4-1 Improvisation IV 59:29
Credits :
Guitar, Music By [All Improvisations By] – Joe Morris
Sopranino Saxophone [Eb Sopranino Saxophone], Soprano Saxophone [Bb Soprano Saxophone], Alto Saxophone, Saxophone [C Melody Saxophone], Baritone Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Contrabass Saxophone, Music By [All Improvisations By], Producer – Anthony Braxton

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OUT OF FOCUS — Four Letter Monday Afternoon (1972-1992) RM | 2xCD | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless
Out of Focus' third album was their magnum opus, where all the stops are pulled out and the group, with the addition of a horn section ...
