FRED FRITH AND ENSEMBLE MUSIQUES NOUVELLES — Something About This Landscape for Ensemble (2023) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Something About This Landscape For Ensemble    22:55
2    Dirty And Light    9:34
3    Dark Under Stars    9:51
Credits :
Cello – Jean-Paul Zanutel
Clarinet – Charles Michiels
Composed By, Guitar, Liner Notes – Fred Frith
Flute – Berten D'Hollander
Guitar – Hughes Kolp
Percussion – Pierre Quiriny
Trombone – Adrien Lambinet
Viola – Karel Coninx
Violin – Claire Bourdet, Laurent Houque
Conductor, Liner Notes – Jean-Paul Dessy

CECIL TAYLOR — Solo (1973-1986) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
Lono    
1    Choral Of Voice (Elesion)    7:21
2    Lono    9:25
3    Asapk In Ame    7:09
1st Layer Part Of Indent
4    Indent / 1/2 Of First Layer / 2nd 1/2 Of First Layer    7:17
Credits :
Piano, Producer, Composed By – Cecil Taylor

TENKO | IKUE MORI — Death Praxis : Mystery (1998) Serie New Japan | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

For over twenty years, Ikue Mori and Tenko have been on the forefront of new music, both in the U.S. and in Japan. These mavericks are veterans of countless classic bands from DNA to Dragon Blue, and have collaborated with just about every musician in the new music underground; Kim Gordon, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Derek Bailey, the Boredoms, Haino Keiji and Fred Frith to name just a few.
Their newest collaboration is a tribute to the world’s greatest writers of suspense stories. Mystery brings these two masters of musical suspense together with many special guests to create a new collection of sound compositions for voice and modern ensembles.
Also included as bonus tracks: their first duo recording from 1990, Death Praxis, unavailable for years. TZADIK
Tracklist :
1    Monkey Puzzle    3:45
2    Demon In My View    3:19
3    The Cat Who Wasn't There    2:03

4    Mrs. Pollifax And Hong Kong Buddha    3:44
5    Devices And Desires    3:34
6    Scold's Bridle    2:37
7    Payment In Blood    2:36
8    Deer Leap    3:04
9    I Is For Innocent    4:33
10    Blood Shot    1:45
11    Elegy For Soprano    2:54
12    Bum Steer    6:21
Death Praxis (Bonus Tracks)    
13    Magic    3:14
14    Bad Seed    2:34
15    Metal Dream    2:24
16    Economic Noise    2:54
17    Fortune Cookie    0:34
18    Rain    4:05
19    Glow Worm    7:10
20    Lullaby    2:25
21    When The Sun Shines I Can See Your Mind    2:11
22    I Know You    4:29
Credits :
Cello – Erik Friedlander
Executive-Producer – John Zorn
Organ – Anthony Coleman
Producer, Recorded By, Music By – Death Praxis
Sampler, Drum Machine [Drummachines], Design – Ikue Mori
Violin – Eyvind Kang
Vocals – Tenko

MYRA MELFORD | ZEENA PARKINS | MIYA MASAOKA — M Z M (2017) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Red Spider    3:28
2    Bug    4:45
3    Saturn    4:56
4    Eight-burst    6:37
5    Retina    3:33
6    Taurus    3:57
7    Southern Owl    5:44
8    Spiral    6:04
9    Ant    8:29
10    Rosette    6:11
Credits :
Harp [Electric] – Zeena Parkins
Koto [21 String], Design – Miya Masaoka
Piano [Acoustic Piano], Piano [Prepared Piano] – Myra Melford

WADADA LEO SMITH | AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS — Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (2024) FLAC (tracks), lossless

"Wherever two or three are gathered..." Kudos to Red Hook Records and producer Sun Chung for this release as well as the Qasim Naqvi "Two Centuries" trio album featuring Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Andrew Cyrille from 2022. This is prayer to Smith's love of nature, of communal space, a patient, soft-spoken dialogue between two masters. Both 82, just a few months apart in age, Smith and Myers, are longtime contributors to Chicago's AACM as well as the evolution of African-American improvisation. Myers' piano drops its notes like slowly turned meditation beads as Smith illuminates them with sparks that never jar, fireworks seen from a distance sufficient to mute the shock. I hear a slowly incanted Blues throughout, the mantra of wisdom collected over long years and shared, concurred between two spirits of import. Wish the album was twice as long, but, yet again, it is as beautiful as anything I've heard. Mark B
Tracklist :
1    Conservatory Gardens    9:02
Composed By – Wadada Leo Smith
2    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir     1:52
Composed By – Wadada Leo Smith
3    Central Park At Sunset    5:17
Composed By – Wadada Leo Smith
4    When Was    5:33
Composed By – Amina Claudine Myers
5    The Harlem Meer    3:07
Composed By – Wadada Leo Smith
6    Albert Ayler, A Meditation In Light    6:30
Composed By – Wadada Leo Smith
7    Imagine, A Mosaic For John Lennon    5:07
Composed By – Wadada Leo Smith
Credits :
Piano, Organ [Hammond B3] – Amina Claudine Myers
Trumpet – Wadada Leo Smith
Artwork [Cover Art] – Laura Arteaga Charlton