LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO DUETS WITH MARILYN CRISPELL — Sibanye (We Are One) (2008) FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

Sibanye/We Are One is the title of an album recorded at An die Musik Live in Baltimore, Maryland on June 30, 2007. Released the following year on the Intakt label, it was warmly received and has been critically acclaimed ever since. For their first-ever collaborative engagement, the Marilyn Crispell/Louis Moholo-Moholo duo chose a 100-percent improvisational approach, rooted within each individual's life-long commitment to the art and discipline of shared creative exploration. Moholo, a South African drummer who first gained international fame for his work with Johnny Dyani and Dudu Pukwana, was perfectly suited for interaction with Crispell, a Philadelphia-born pianist who is admired and respected as one of the most astute and highly evolved creative musicians of her generation. Precedents for the sounds that resulted from her historic meeting with Moholo may be found among her duets with Gerry Hemingway and her periodic pairings with Anthony Braxton. Anyone who has witnessed her live one-on-one interaction with another artist will recall how she maintains friendly and highly focused eye contact. Photographic evidence suggests this tendency as one explanation for the subtlety and sensitivity that characterized her mutually respectful communion with Louis Moholo-Moholo on that summer day in Baltimore. arwulf arwulf
Tracklist :
1    Improvise, Don't Compromise    12:40
2    Moment Of Truth    7:08
3    Journey    11:49
4    Soze (Never)    6:28
5    Phendula (Reply)    7:07
6    Reflect    7:21
7    Sibanye (We Are One)    6:18
Credits :
Drums – Louis Moholo-Moholo
Piano – Marilyn Crispell

AKI TAKASE | SILKE EBERHARD — Ornette Coleman Anthology (2006) 2CD | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
Credits :
Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Silke Eberhard
Piano – Aki Takase

ALEXANDER von SCHLIPPENBACH — Slow Pieces for Aki (2020) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Haru No Yuki (Frühling Im Schnee)    2:49
2    Improvisation I    2:15
3    Torso    4:28
4    Improvisation II    1:46
5    Improvisation III    1:27
6    Tell You    2:36
7    Improvisation IV    2:18
8    Cleo    4:40
9    Improvisation V    3:01
10    Naniga Nandemo    2:46
11    Improvisation V    1:59
12    A-Blues    1:49
13    Blues B    2:31
14    Improvisation VII    1:14
15    I Told You    3:34
16    Improvisation VIII    1:26
17    Improvisation IX    2:21
18    Dydo    2:11
19    Improvisation X    1:13
20    Frage Nicht    2:41
21    Zycado    2:42
Credits :
Piano, Composed By – Alexander von Schlippenbach
Calligraphy – Aki Takase

BARRY GUY | EVAN PARKER - Birds and Blades (2003) 2CD | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

In 2002, the rage for free expression was readily apparent in this pair of gigs between bassist Barry Guy and saxophonist Evan Parker. Made of up two discs, this set represents two days' work by the duo. The first is a studio date under Guy's mantle, on which the pair engage in seven wildly different improvisations. As Guy's sense of situation and tension is one of the very best in the world, he opens up a road for Parker tonally and dynamically. Using his fingers, a bow, his palms, and anything else at his disposal, Guy charges into a kind of tonal inquiry that requires force. Parker, on soprano, takes the rough stuff and runs with it. On the latter disc, the duo plays live and the four improvs here are left by Parker, who plays both tenor and soprano. These pieces are a bit more speculative in origin, but quickly get to the place where the fire meets the sky. This is an exhilarating pair that, together, practices a kind of poetry of the infinite in their explorations. Far from difficult to listen to; if anything, this is so compelling one will want to repeat it.
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Studio    
1-1    Alar    3:52
1-2    Swordplay    10:27
1-3    Cut And Thrust    6:41
1-4    Froissement    11:33
1-5    Coulé    5:44
1-6    Barrage    5:37
1-7    Birds And Blades    14:25
Live    
2-1    Angulation    19:03
2-2    Circling    18:23
2-3    Point In Line    14:06
2-4    Lunge    15:47
Credits :
Double Bass, Composed By – Barry Guy
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Composed By – Evan Parker

SYLVIE COURVOISIER | MARK FELDMAN | IKUE MORI | EVAN PARKER - Miller's Tale (2016) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Death Of A Salesman    7:57
2    A View From The Bridge    6:30
3    The American Dream    13:30
4    Up From Paradise    8:03
5    Riding On A Smile And A Shoeshine    6:13
6    Playing For Time    4:47
7    The Reason Why    5:01
8    Nothing's Planted    3:41
9    A Fountain Pen    3:46
Credits :
Electronics – Ikue Mori (pistas: 1 to 5, 8, 9)
Music By – Evan Parker, Ikue Morie*, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier
Piano – Sylvie Courvoisier (pistas: 1 to 4, 6, 9)
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Evan Parker (pistas: 1 to 4, 6 to 8)
Violin – Mark Feldman (pistas: 1 to 5, 7)

EVAN PARKER | MATTHEW WRIGHT | TRANCE MAP - Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf (2019) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 1    7:08
2    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 2    6:40
3    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 3    7:51
4    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 4    6:27
5    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 5    11:32
6    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 6    3:48
7    Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf. Part 7    15:29
Credits :
Double Bass, Electronics – Adam Linson
Electronics – Ashley Wales
Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax] – Evan Parker
Turntables [Turntable], Electronics – John Coxon
Turntables [Turntable], Sampler [Live Sampling] – Matthew Wright

BARRY GUY | ANTHONY BRAXTON & THE LONDON JAZZ COMPOSER'S ORCHESTRA — Zurich Concerts (1988-1995) 2CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

This double-CD outing of Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers' Orchestra features two compositions, one by Guy, which takes up disc one -- he also conducts and plays bass on it. The other disc is taken up with four works by Anthony Braxton with sundry others from his book augmenting them, as is his wont. Braxton directs but does not play on his own pieces. First up is the nearly 40-minute work by Guy, beginning with Steve Wick's tuba calling out a melodic frame for the rest of the band -- which includes but is not limited to Evan Parker, Trevor Watts, Phil Wachsman, Barre Phillips, Dave Holland, Paul Lytton, Tony Oxley, Radu Malfatti, Jon Corbett, and Paul Dunmall. There are 19 players in all. What is most notable about Guy's "Polyhymnia" is its insistence on the ostinato and elongation of tonal sequences that often move far beyond the duration of modes and intervals. These tonal sequences can be comprised of any number of instruments at a given time, and are charted only to follow the director's feeling for dynamic and duration. Their dramatalurgical and linguistic individuations are free for the manipulation by the given player. There are certainly crescendos over this long stretch, but more importantly there are silences that equate one instrument with another tonally -- especially microtonally -- rather than pit them against each other. Give a listen to the way the basses engage the tuba and the violin in intricate patterns of exchange and elucidation and you'll get the heart of the entire piece. And it has considerable heart. On Braxton's works, dynamic and drama are the order of the day. As is usual with a large group, he begins very quietly, establishing the tonal color palette at his disposal, and for the edification of the audience. He moves through the band in sections, directing them to utterance in small, parsed phrases before opening up the entire orchestra to a wellspring of sonic inquiry. The questioning happens on the level of linguistic possibility: How much can a group of instruments speak in unified freedom to one another without falling off into the abyss of ego and riffing? For nearly an hour, Braxton examines inside and outside the context of group interplay, how micro and polytonal universes examine and explain one another in the context of a musician's attack and phrasing as well as his improvisational ideas. In this sense, this is among Braxton's most fascinating larger-ensemble works, and will hopefully be one of his most enduring. Indeed, the attendees at these Zurich concerts were treated to the most intimate and prophetic of expressions in these two evenings. They were also given evidence of the very ground on which free improvisation and new composition stand linked to one another.
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Tracklist :
1-1    Polyhymnia 37:30
Composed By, Directed By [Director] – Barry Guy
2-1    Compositions 135 (+41,63,96), 136 (+96), 108B (+86,96),135 (+96) 56:47
Composed By, Directed By [Director] – Anthony Braxton
Credits :
Bass – Barre Phillips (pistas: 1-1), Barry Guy, Dave Holland (pistas: 2-1)
Cornet – Marc Charig
Drums – Paul Lytton, Tony Oxley (pistas: 2-1)
Piano – Howard Riley
Reeds – Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Peter McPhail, Simon Picard, Trevor Watts
Trombone – Alan Tomlinson, Paul Rutherford, Radu Malfatti
Trumpet – Henry Lowther, Jon Corbett
Tuba – Steve Wick
Violin, Electronics – Phil Wachsmann

ANDREW CYRILLE | ANTHONY BRAXTON - Duo Palindrom 2002, Vol. 1 (2004) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

For many years, both greats of modern jazz - the saxophone player Anthony Braxton and the drummer Andrew Cyrille - have been pursuing their own musical developments. In the autumn of 2002 their wish to make a joint CD recording was fulfilled.
What came of the meeting are fifteen internal dialogues: new compositions, spontaneous improvisations, as well as interpretations of well-known pieces from Cyrille and Braxton. Both CDs are an artistic manifesto of two jazz innovators, a document of African-American music, borne of mutual respect, equality and esteem.
The legendary duo of saxophone and percussion, which Anthony Braxton began with Max Roach, finds a fascinating continuation in the duo Anthony Braxton-Andrew Cyrille. https://anthonybraxton.bandcamp.com
Tracklist :
1    Duo Palindrome 2002    4:34
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
2    The Loop    5:39
Composed By –  Anthony Braxton
3    Interlacing    4:35
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
4    Celestial Gravity    2:48
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
5    Quickened Spirits    4:50
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
6    Effluence    4:24
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
7    Composition No. 310    11:46
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
8    Ascendancy    11:36
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton
Credits :    
Drums, Mastered By, Mixed By – Andrew Cyrille
Producer – Intakt Records
Reeds, Mastered By, Mixed By – Anthony Braxton

ANDREW CYRILLE | ANTHONY BRAXTON - Duo Palindrom 2002, Vol. 2 (2004) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

For many years, both greats of modern jazz - the saxophone player Anthony Braxton and the drummer Andrew Cyrille - have been pursuing their own musical developments. In the autumn of 2002 their wish to make a joint CD recording was fulfilled.
What came of the meeting are fifteen internal dialogues: new compositions, spontaneous improvisations, as well as interpretations of well-known pieces from Cyrille and Braxton. Both CDs are an artistic manifesto of two jazz innovators, a document of African-American music, borne of mutual respect, equality and esteem.
The legendary duo of saxophone and percussion, which Anthony Braxton began with Max Roach, finds a fascinating continuation in the duo Anthony Braxton-Andrew Cyrille. https://anthonybraxton.bandcamp.com
Tracklist :
1    Water, Water, Water    5:28
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille
2    Dreams Alive ... Concretize    4:28
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille / Anthony Braxton
3    Excerpt From The Navigator    4:55
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille
4    Sound Relations    9:13
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille / Anthony Braxton
5    Composition No 311    10:15
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
6    Dr. Licks    7:30
Composed By – Andrew Cyrille
7    A Musical Sense Of Life    6:50
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Credits :    
Drums, Mixed By, Mastered By – Andrew Cyrille
Producer – Intakt Records
Reeds, Mixed By, Mastered By – Anthony Braxton

ANTHONY BRAXTON - Solo Willisau (2007) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    No. 328 c 9:11
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
2    No. 344 b 11:49
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
3    No. 328 a 8:54
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
4    All The Things You Are 8:23
Composed By – Jerome Kern
5    No. 119 m 8:17
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
6    No. 106 p 10:44
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
7    No. 328 d 8:46
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
8    No. 191 j 8:33
Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Credits :
Alto Saxophone – Anthony Braxton

DAVID MOSS DENSE BAND — Texture Time (1993) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

David Moss is crazy, but I love him. There are many intellectual statements that can be made to create an apologia for this music of his, but none is necessary. Thankfully there is precious little of that. Moss is that rare avant-gardist: He has no need to be militant, nor does he need to justify what he does as somehow relevant. Basically, he doesn't give a sh*t what anybody thinks and that's good because his brand of vanguard exploration even makes some avant fans squeamish. Here's the deal: Moss claims that the Dense Band was created after he asked Fred Frith to produce a record that would frame his music in terms of songs. There have been countless avant heavies through its ranks, but this edition, in 1994, included John King on guitar, Anthony Coleman on keyboards, Jean Chaine on bass, and Moss playing drums, electronics, and, of course, "singing." To call these 15 selections "songs" in the Western, verse/refrain/verse/bridge/refrain sense would be absurd, as this is, in some sense, absurdist music. But make no mistake, these pieces are indeed songs. They feature repetitive sounds and textures, are turned around by a certain sense of rhythm and timing, and are colored in such a way that some of them are actually -- not "almost" as he states in his liner notes -- danceable. The obvious fractured funk of "A Dot, a Line" is most reminiscent, but even the more expansive and fractionally abstract pieces such as "Outrigger," "Double Broke Back Blues," "What Happens With Thunder," "Botticelli Niblets," and "Society of Niches" have their own ambience and structure that is recognizable and even memorable. There is an unaccredited and hilariously weird cover of the old Tom Jones standard "Delilah," and the most beautiful piece on the record, "Invisible Cities," uses fragments from the Italian writer Italo Calvino to carve a structure from the structure of sound vibration itself.  
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Tracklist :
1 A Dot, A Line 3:06
 David Moss
2 Society Of Niches 4:10
 David Moss
3 Outrigger 1:32
 David Moss
4 Invisible Cities 4:47
 David Moss
5 Those Were The Days 2:00
Eugene Raskin
6 Botticelli Niblets 2:56
 David Moss
7 Collision Course 2:02
 David Moss
8 Texture Time 3:18
 David Moss
9 Illusion Of The Groove 2:53
 David Moss
10 Delilah 3:17
 David Moss
11 What Happens With Thunder 4:10
 David Moss
12 Kandinsky Decisions 7:39
 Anthony Coleman /  John King
13 Double Broke Back Blues  2:32
 John King
Vocals – Moss, King
14 Understanding Gravity 4:00
 David Moss
15 Collision, Of Course! 2:50
 David Moss
Credits
Bass – Jean Chaine (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 15)
Drums, Voice, Vocals, Electronics – David Moss
Guitar – John King (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 15)
Keyboards, Keyboards [Sampling] – Anthony Coleman