ALL Avant Garde: Free Improvisation albums

3OLOGY: 3ology
An angular and fresh approach to improvisation and groove. This trio featuring saxophone, bass, and drums gives a full-sounding, surprising, and entertaining listen.
69: On-off
it sounds great man .
A THOUSAND TINY FINGERS: Blue Cues
Spoken Word set to music of various improvisational styles.
ALBERT AYLER: Bells/prophecy
One of the pioneer stylists of the avant garde / free jazz tenor saxophone. This cd combines “bells,” recorded may 1st, 1965 at town hall and “prophecy,” recorded june 14th, 1964, at the cellar café in new york city.
ALBERT AYLER, DON CHERRY,: New York Eye and Ear Control
This CD is the soundtrack to the 1964 Michael Snow film “Walking Woman." This is real “Fire Music” painting a unique picture complimenting the film content.
ALBEY BALGOCHIAN'S RHYTHMISM: All My Relations
Avant-garde funk bass style that takes you on a journey through many genres of music without sounding eclectic. All compositions are free improvisations based on Albey's musical narratives.
ALEX HEBERT: Labyrinth
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
ALEX HEBERT: Flower Arrangement
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
ALEX HEBERT: The Skeleton Keys
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
ALIEN SCRIBE: Future
A totally Spontaneous Improvisational Composer who reaches far into uncharted territory. Totally free-form and without limitations of any kind.
ANARCHESTRA: Plenum
Collectively improvised music on experimental instruments
ANARCHESTRA: Void If Detached
Collective improvisation on experimental instruments
ANDRES ARGIL/ALEJANDRO SAQUI: Vecindario Global
Excellent examples of freeform composition.  Winner of the 2nd place as Best Experimental Album at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards 2006
ANDREW GLEIBMAN: Music for Intellectuals
Classical-contemporary atonal compositions with elements of impressionism and expressionism. Philosophical, ironic, tragic, calm, very emotional, excited, observational, playful.
ANDREW GLEIBMAN: Atonal Meditations
Classic-contemporary style, free improvisation-based compositions for piano, vibraphone, voice and orchestra. Highly emotional, philosophical, with elements of Avant Garde, impressionism and expressionism. Influenced by meditations and esoterica.
ANDREW ROBSON AND PAUL CUTLAN: Simpatico
Two of Australia's finest improvisers are given free reign on this highly original recording. Paul and Andrew have spent more than a decade working together in various groups (including the internationally acclaimed Mara Ensemble).
ANDY HAAS & DON FIORINO: Death Don't Have No Mercy
Improvisations and unique interpretations of The Star Spangled Banner (extraordinary rendition), The Marines' Hymn, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Death Don't Have No Mercy, and Que Sera Sera. "soundscapes of disturbing beauty" All About Jazz New York
ANDY STEIN: Strings Of Consciousness
Guitars, percussion and imagination - peaceful, hectic, passionate, eclectic - all live, no overdubs - it does what it does and goes where it goes - listen and let go with this creative and talented guitarist and his friends.
ANGELO OLIVIERI: Inediti
45 young people plays freely extemporary music
ANNA HOMLER STEUART LIEBIG DUO: Kelpland Serenades
Strange folk songs from different planets. Or perhaps, sonic postcards from the edge.
ANTHONY SANTOR/ ARI DIACONIS PROJECT: Beyond Human Aid
A journey through your very own thoughts and feelings. Grooves, Flows, Blows up, Calms you into a Rage. Two Altos, two Drummers, Trumpet, Guitar and Upright Bass.
ATHEN: Free Roaming Butterfly Hurricanes
I only hope that these little pieces of colored sound will touch your heart, soul, and imagination. Athen
BARRY ROMBERG'S RANDOM ACCESS LARGE ENSEMBLE: Existential Detective
Modern improv based large ensemble jazz
BETTY WEEN: Bitter
Avant-pop
BIK BENT BRAAM: Extremen
Improvising avant garde bigband from the Netherlands. Compelling themes alternate with wild, screaming improvistions.
BOB BASSARA, CLAYTON BAILEY, JON RASKIN: Kaolithic Music, Sounds from the Pre Credulous Age
3 jaw harp players recorded in a 538 gallon vase that was used to establish a time-continuum link to the Kaolithic Age. A intimate, vibrate acoustic space ideal for creative music from one of the original instruments created by humans.
BOGDO ULA: From Distance to You
The guitar and drums duo combines free improvisation with energetic rock. Angular rhythms, mystical soundscapes, powerful guitar tones, modal scales and ethnic flavours create high tensions and strong moods.
BONEFISH SAM & HIS ORCHESTRA: Live at Neurolux May 2, 2007 (Mini-CD EP)
An experimental, electronic, organic, noisy, but listenable slumber party, interspersed with occasional pillow fights. And the Atari is always on. 21-minute EP-length.
BRANNAN LANE: Beats Grooves & Drum Solos
Brannan Lane performs grooves in various genres (see list below) including short drum solos. Great for all drummers (beginners or advance) or if your looking for some up tempo grooves to make your day.
BRIGGAN KRAUSS: Good Kitty
Debut recording by this New York avant jazz saxophonist, featuring Chris Speed on clarinet/tenor saxophone and Michael Sarin on drums.
BRIGGAN KRAUSS: 300
"300" is the critically acclaimed second recording by this New York based saxophonist, featuring Wayne Horvitz on keyboards and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
CARLA KIHLSTEDT AND SATOKO FUJII: Minamo
New music for violin and piano blurring the boundaries between composition and improvisation.
CHOJI MOJI: Discount Idols [Remastered]
Irreverent, irrelevant, Iridescent Chronicle of the Prolific Piano and Vocal improvisations of Highly Artistic and slightly Autistic High School Musical Prodigies in the bygone error of 2000.
CHRISSY DOWD: Good Chrissy/Bad Chrissy
Wild, sexy, sensual aphrodisiac to be played while you and your lover connect and discover Tantra. Mysterious hypnotic sounds blended with revealing lyrics freely expressed.
CLIVE BELL, ROBERTO FILOSETA, SYLVIA HALLETT: Acoustic Dream
A chiascura of free improvisation, both hypnotic yet engaging created by three exceptionally talented musicians.
COLLIN THOMAS: for the painters...
An album of experimental improvisation and composition dedicated to the great painters of the twentieth century, both legendary and contemporary.
COLTER FRAZIER/ROB WALLACE DUO: Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace Duo
A fresh and creative freely improvising sax/drum duo.
COMPANY 125: Bug Bug
A twelve course musical feast, peppered with infectious lyrics and multiple genres. All original and addictive. An absolute delight for the ear.
CONNIE CROTHERS, BILL PAYNE: Conversations
Audio becomes transportation, feeling reigns supreme---Richard Tabnik
COYOTE PECKER: beerituality
funky drunk punk electro-americana freestyle for seekers
CRAIG MORRISON: Parkview
Fluid, avant garde modern guitar melodies
CURIA: S/t
Forged in the fertile grounds of the Lisbon music underground, each member an established musician in their own right, what each brings to the new project is a commitment to sonic exploration that builds on their individual histories.
DAN CLUCAS: EXILE
Compositional modern jazz with an urgency. At times loud and punky/noisy, at others abstract and soft like a pillow.
DAN KOZAK: Tao & Grace
Improvisational, non-traditional jazz solos (saxophones, flute, clarinets, piccolo, krumhorn) with percussion, recorded in the ambiance of Grace Cathedral.
DANIEL CARTER & MATT LAVELLE: Tubman Atnimara Presents: Live at Tower Records 08/12/06
Daniel Carter & Matt Lavelle: the jazz legend of today meets the jazz legend of tomorrow. Beautiful, meditative music. This "conversation" between two friends is exactly what jazz duo playing is all about. A must have.
DAVE CALABRESE: Psychedelic Pumpkin Carving
Carve your most "out of this world" Jack-O-Lantern or scare trick-or-treaters into dropping their loot while your speakers cry out with this most unusual collection of monsters, goblins and ghouls.
DAVE REMPIS QUARTET: Out of Season
A sound-oriented approach to creating longform free improvisations.
DAVID HARRIS AND NU QUARTET: Slide Of Hand
High powered, electric trombone, playing cutting-edge original jazz, merging avant-garde with funk ,rock and free improvisation.
DEBRA MATHIS: Phantoms Dance
Impressionistic, dreamy solo improvisational piano.
DEE ALEXANDER: Evolution Ensemble
Ethereal, eclectic and transcendental yet funky.
DEMO-MOE.: at el bohio
loud, freely improvised, punk/thrash/jazz
DI TERRA TRIO: Di Terra
An innovative piano/bass/drums trio, well organized born from several meetings, with an intense interplay and a beautiful and interesting atmosphere
DICK, BACZKOWSKI, PADMANABHA: Doh Tala
world free improv
DON CHERRY: Live at Cafe Montmartre, 1966 Volume Two
Volume two of the Don Cherry Café Monmartre performance continues with more superb music recorded during this time. If you enjoy volume one, I guarantee you will enjoy volume two just as much.
E.J. & LSJ: Mill Street Jazz Lab I
Features jazzy, experimental melodies, African drumming rhythms, and the full breath of the Gemeinhardt flute.
E.J. GOLD: Mysteries of the Meteorite
This freeform jazz, solo sax release reveals the nine rituals of the Mysteries of the Meteorite with each track providing the sound for performing each ritual.
EARTH PEOPLE: BANG! from New York City
A high voltage 2004 live recording of Earth People with collective free interplay that never lets up. Recommended.
EARTHBOUND: Unity
Energy, power, irreverence, risk taking, out of this world, non preconceived, collective result of pianist Alexandros Hahalis's orchestra with saxophonist Alex Foster, drummer Victor Jones, bassist Andy McKee and percussionist Steve Thornton
ED LITTMAN: Splatt
Jumps from raucous, go-for-the-throat thrash jams to delicate, dark-hued esoterica; sometimes touching both bases within the same piece.
EDOARDO MARRAFFA-TONINO MIANO: Edus Tonus
“A bold duo with a pungent, forward-pushing sound, where familiar lines are blurred into a tumultuous outpouring of dynamic, and often humorous gestures.”
EGG YOLK JUBILEE: Brunch With Rocco Fancypants
New Orleans brass, rock, funk, blues, avant garde. Zappa, Beefheart, Spike Jones, etc. Quirky humour with a whole lot of musical attitude.
EKEM: Ekem3
Proposing an improvised, alternative and experimental music, inspired by jazz, electronic, rock and contemporaneous forms. Our music can be descriptive, abstract, lyric, rythmic, intense or minimalist, depending on the world we feel like sharing.
ELISA MARZORATI - ENRICO CONIGLIO: dyanMU
Freely inspired by the piano Preludes of Claude Debussy.Dense moods are continously juxtaposed with solo piano pieces, leaving a lot of free creative space to the listener.
ELLIOTT LEVIN/SCOTT R. LOONEY/DAMON SMITH/WEASEL WALTER: Summer Rise/Summer Set . . . Summaries
Limited to 100 copies . . . raging, detailed free jazz from these four heavies. Comes in handscreened white cardboard gatefold sleeve and features awesomely powerful and clear multitrack recording of an intense, wild live in studio set from 2006. For fans
EQUAL TIME: Regeneration X
Equal Time specializes in spontaneously improvised composition which, contrary to popular wisdom, can groove like hell.
ERIK HINDS: Khonsay
The music of H'arpeggionist Erik Hinds performed by GA Guitar and SS Puft Quartets; from tranquil acoustic peregrinations to absolute full-on electricity, this album is a must for fans of either ensemble.
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH: Wires and Wooden Boxes
Their 2nd studio release recorded in NY 2001 of improvised duets for acoustic & electric guitars, & piano. jagged Bailey-esque, percussive, free jazz inspired & meditative post-Feldman piano. "Recommended." --François Couture, All Music Guide
ERRICO DE FABRITIIS: Bus Ned Revolution
A new free improvisation from 18 young artists
ESA PIETILÄ: Direct
Strong freejazz expression and group communication from internationally aclaimed artists, ranging from straightforward energetic free playing to soundscapes, not forgetting the use of different pulses, colours and duo combinations within the group.
FANTASTIC MERLINS: Live
Intensely cinematic and entirely unique, the rare beauty of The Fantastic Merlins begins with the group's unusual blend of cello, saxophone, bass, and drums.
FERNANDES/FJELLESTAD/HACO/RIIS: Haco Hans Jakob Marcos
Improvisations on acoustic (voice, percussion) and electronic (syhtn, ;aptop, sampler, toys) instruments.
FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!: Self Rule
An aggressive and ecstatic improv/noise band from Portland, Oregon. They play passionate music that runs the spectrum from quiet and introspective to loud, abrasive and chaotic.
FRANCOIS QUILLET: M. A. D.
Piano solos
FRED FRITH, JOELLE LEANDRE & JONATHAN SEGEL: Tempted to Smile
Free improvisation.
GARRISON FEWELL AND ERIC HOFBAUER: The Lady of Khartoum
Aural conversations that transcend the common conventions of typical fret-board picking, spanning genres from mainstream to experimental. These improvised dialogues combine jazz and cross-cultural sounds.
GEAROID BRINN: Amh
Free improvisation, solo unamplified solid body electric and fretless electric guitar. How the electric guitar sounds when its at home.
GEORGE CREMASCHI, BILL HORVITZ, GARTH POWELL, JON RASKIN: Shards From a Future Utopia
Quartet improvisations that are unexpected, zany, telepathic, noisy, beautiful, exhilarating, electric; each piece is a gem, wildly exploring sonic space and texture, held together with the masters’ touch by four excellent musician/composers.
GEORGIAN CONTEMPORARY UNIT: The View You Never Get
Centered around Hungarian master 16-string guitarist Sandor Szabo, the Georgian Contemporary Unit is group concentration and joyful abandon...a deep blend of contemporary classical, Hungarian folk, free jazz, and meditative trance.
GHOSTHORSE: ksa
Indigenous (a/k/a Native American) fusion of spirit and music
GIANFRANCO TEDESCHI: Il Fuoco Di Ned
Sophisticated free improvisation played by 17 free musicians
GIANNI GEBBIA/DAMON SMITH/WEASEL WALTER: Lichens
A meeting between an Italian saxophone virtuoso and a hardcore West Coast rhythm section, resulting in a satisfyingly-varied approach to free improvisation.
GUIDO SANTONI: Cinque Atti del Tramonto di Un Giorno
The black and white keys become invisible under his hands while releasing a tapestry or torrents of impressionistic fragments, endless ineffable harmonies the unlimited beauty that Guido Santoni expresses with passion.
GUPPY TYKE: public enema #2
Lush soundscapes featuring lead guitar by Sean Luciw; many players and many instrumental colours - sitars, didjeridoos, dobros, marimbas, saxes, flutes, fretless bass, harmonicas, bicycle spokes, electronic loopage, dogs barking.
HARMONY ROCKETS: Paralyzed Mind Of The Archangel Void
a celestial sojourn into the furthest reaches of sound, a complete immersion into space noise and melodic chaos.
HAROLD RUBIN: One Voice
Modern experimental improvised music solo clarinet
HARVEST SOUND: Tranquility
Peaceful instrumental tracks with soothing and prayerful vocal melodies. This CD is saturated with the absolute rest that comes only in the undisturbed presence of our Lord.
HORUS8: Emotionally Unavailable
Lou Reed meets the ghost of Jim Morrison.
I-C-E (THE IMPROVISING CLARINET ENSEMBLE): I-C-E Bound
A quintet of London based improvisers, all playing instruments belonging to the clarinet family. I-C-E Bound is their first CD and features: Sandy Kindness, on Bass & Contra-alto Clarinets Noel Taylor, on Alto
ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Mort Aux Vaches
A provocative blend of improv and ambient. Two tracks at approximately 25 and 30 minutes respectively; both are entirely improvised.
IMPRESSION: Le Bénéfice du Doute
Contemporary jazz, influenced by rock, free music and improvisation.
INSTEAD OF: Live on Sonarchy
A primarily contingent and spontaneous field of sounds – hopefully music – bringing together players from very diverse backgrounds and experiences, with an aspiration to dwell on sound itself as it unfolds in a fragile balance
IRON & THE ALBATROSS: Iron & the Albatross
circus music, silent movie sountrack reels, chamber jazz
ISAMBARD KHROUSTALIOV / MAURIZIO RAVALICO: Five Loose Plans
This recording is a document of the first meeting between Maurizio Ravalico and Isambard Khroustaliov; an exploration into the sonic potential of metric freed percussion and real-time electronics in the context of free improvisation.
JACOB LINDSAY/AVA MENDOZA/DAMON SMITH/WEASEL WALTER: Jus
Focused, detailed improvisations that are spacious and forward-moving at the same time performed on the entire range of the clarinet family, electric guitar and 7-string stand-up bass (both with preparations) and percussion.
JACOB SACKS : EIVIND OPSVIK : MAT MANERI : PAUL MOTIAN: Two Miles A Day
Explorations in improvising with pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Eivind Opsvik, drummer Paul Motian, and violist Mat Maneri - the quartet improvises upon music that runs the gamut from swinging jazz to abstract sound pieces to folk type melodies.
JAIR-ROHM PARKER WELLS: Exquisite Noise
Dark ambient, spacey and ominous
JAMAL WINDFALL: Switch Up - EP
Hip Hop, Instrumental
JASON KAO HWANG: Jason Kao Hwang/ EDGE
A sharp line shifting between cultures and genres, where vibrations are transformed and identities imagined. EDGE charted at #14 for CMJ and #4 on Canada's EARSHOT radio charts.
JASON KAO HWANG, SANG WON PARK: Local Lingo
Using violin, kayagum, ajaeng, and voice, these works center around avant garde improvisation and curiosity for sound and silence.
JASON PAGE: The Theme is Trapezoid
Atonal and aleatory for out of tune piano.
JASON ROEBKE: Rapid Croche
Roebke's bassist-as-leader approach and eclectic compositions, which can feature anything from textural free improvisation to ballad forms to underlying grooves, allow the group to take the familiar saxophone trio instrumentation to new and exciting place
JIMMY BENNINGTON: Our Dialogue, Live at the Tugboat, Vol. V
Thoughtful, modern jazz and improvisation, captured in an intimate nightclub setting with drummer Jimmy Bennington and various special guest artists.
JIMMY BENNINGTON/JULIAN PRIESTER: Portraits and Silhouettes
A rare duet setting that features drummer Jimmy Bennington and legendary trombonist Julian Priester in a rare series of improvisations that include Duke Ellington's 'Mood Indigo', original compostions, and explorations in pure sound.
JIRI NEUMANN: Guitar in Da Bar - Live
Acoustic rock with flamenco,funk,blues and lots of improvisation elements.
JOANNE CRANDALL: The Songs of Trees
Noted professional jazz musician and composer Joanne Crandall has transcended the usual "New Age" venue in creating this provocative new album of piano improvisations; exploring with intelligence, respect, and great musicality the world of pure sound.
JOE CARVALHO: Gentle Tunes for Trying Times
Instrumental Acoustic Guitar tunes composed and performed by Joe Carvalho using a wide variety of styles from Jazz, folk, classical, country and blues.
JOEL FUTTERMAN & IKE LEVIN: Enigma
NAMED ONE OF THE TOP CDS FOR 2006 BY CADENCE MAGAZINE. Avant garde jazz-based improvised music. All compositions were created spontaneously in the moment.
JOEL FUTTERMAN, ALVIN FIELDER, IKE LEVIN TRIO: Resolving Doors
Recently named one of the top CDs of 2005 by Cadence Magazine. Debut album by three of the most uncompromising, adventurous, and inventive musicians pioneering new directions in the art of spontaneously composed and improvised music.
JOEL FUTTERMAN/ALVIN FIELDER/IKE LEVIN TRIO: Live At The Blue Monk
This recording captures the kinetic energy of a rare live club date performance by three of the foremost innovators on the avant garde jazz scene today. Hard driving, free blowing, and captivating music that always swings as it is created in the now.
JOEL FUTTERMAN/ALVIN FIELDER/IKE LEVIN TRIO: Traveling Through Now
Gripping soundscapes, instantly created melodies, and near telepathic interplay performed by three internationally acclaimed veteran innovators who once again show that free jazz can and should always swing.
JOELLE LEANDRE: Live in Israel
Improvised music
JOHN R CARLSON: recollections EP
As the EP and song titles suggest, this release explores the realm of memory and the wistful melancholy of moments gone but still cherished, without descending into bland cliché.
JOHN R CARLSON: in november EP
Moving from almost classical clarity to minimal density, John's debut release documents journeys into the sub-consciousness of the player and his search for truth and authenticity in the moment of creation.
JON ENGLISH, JIM KERWIN, GEORGE MARSH, JON RASKIN: Edges
Improvisations that sound like compositions & compositions that sound like improvisations that swings it's own special way.
JON RASKIN: Jon Raskin Quartet
a combination of compositions and improvisations. The compositions are from a series of works for improvisers where the material for the scores came from plant material gathered from walks in my neighborhood and graphic elements.
JON RASKIN & MYLES BOISEN: Music + One
22 Improvised solos that from Bay Area artists that from koto to trombone, harp to electronics. They make great listening and you are encouraged to improvised along with them. Put in on random and test your skills.
JORRIT DIJKSTRA: 30 micro-stems
electro-acoustic improvisation
JORRIT DIJKSTRA + JOHN HOLLENBECK: Sequence
electro-acoustic improvisation
JULIAN F. THAYER: Zakú
"A path charged with colorful peaks and hypnotic textures." - Pheeron akLaff, Jazz Drummer
KALI. Z. FASTEAU & KIDD JORDAN: Live At The Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland
In Kali's creative world jazz, her musical imagination and intensity on 9 instruments are beautifully matched with the profound emotional range and dynamism of New Orleans tenor legend, Kidd Jordan.
KARL E. H. SEIGFRIED: Criminal Mastermind
Critically-acclaimed solo album from the Chicago bassist.
KATHLEEN FOWLE: THE JOURNEY HOME
*Rest *Solitude *A sanctuary
KIDD JORDAN/JOEL FUTTERMAN/ALVIN FIELDER TRIO: LIve at the Tampere Jazz Happening 2000
Jazz based improvisational music performed live by three legendary master musical innovators. These three musicians have individually and collectively reshaped the genre of free jazz. Named by Cadence Magazine as one of the top releases of 2004.
KILLER SIZED WHALE: A12345&B12345 (2CD Set)
Unique free jazz, you will never forget. Experimental, rockish, funkish and some, dabbling into cool jazz. Totally free improvisational music from NY, but the saxophonist from Japan.
KILLICK: bull****
Extemporaneous guitaristic experiments of the balmy stasis when peace supplants war; harp guitar solo, uncut.
KILLICK: The Amplifucker
Appalachian Trance Metal ruminations on post-electricity creativity with the H'arpeggione, a.k.a. Devil Cello.
KIP RICHARDSON: After The Fog
A blend of classical and new age piano
KLANGKAMERATANE: Klangkameratane
Free improvised music which ends up sounding like grunge
KLAUS JANEK: Caspar
Klaus Janek is a master of contemporary classical and free jazz expression. His solo 5-string doublebass album Caspar is a milestone recording in recent European artistry.
KRIBOPHORIC: Visceral
Spontaneous avant garde creative music art.
KRISPEN HARTUNG: Fragments
Live electro-acoustic, free improvisational and avant-garde performances that exhibit a tasteful balance between the sound of the acoustic guitar and electronic processing via the notebook computer and various tone altering effects
KRISPEN HARTUNG & TED KILLIAN: Mojo At the Dojo
Adroitly improvised live music - textures that are often seismic and dark, but also delicate and subtle with bright flashes - that conjures a fair share of the psychological drama (if not the physical) of an old Kurosawa samurai movie duel.
LA PIEUVRE: 1999-2005
Improvisation big orchestra conducted by Olivier Benoit
LASSILA-NIKULA-TAPIO-RINNEKANGAS-TUOVINEN: Sketches of Art in Artists
Improvised music by group FRIO, intuitively born from the inspiration of paintings/painters and in an original way moving between contemporary art music, modern jazz and folkmusic.
LEONARDO MILANI: Il Giardino Di Ned
Avant garde extemporary music coming out of Rome.
LEX SAMU AND MADISON RAST: Alpaca Dance
Free jazz featuring the flugelhorn and double bass. Recorded NYC 2007.
LONESOME MONSTERS: Highlights of a Low Life
Poetry and Improvised Jazz unique because of the union achieved between words and music, rendering even more vividly the anguish, the pathos, the black humour, the violence, the everyday heartbreak and relationships. Osborn's poetry communicates directly
LORD BUCKLEY: The Tales Of Lord Buckley Box Set Crown Prince Richards Collection
The Original "Drama King" Hipster Rapper; "Wild Truth" ,the"Professor of Hipology",and the "Hip Classics" all this is H.R.H. Lord Buckley.
LOTI: Time and Money in 10 Infinite Worlds
From the fires of hell to the awakened nature of life itself in 10 tracks.
LUCA MITI: A Cena Con Ned
A really instrumental free improvisation played by 25 young musicians.
LUNCH WITH BEARDO: Surrealistic Picnic
Psychedelic noise freakout space ambient experimental drones
M.D.S.: College Dropouts
Disparate rock like Beck's "Stereopathetic Soulmanure," Sublime's "Robbin' the Hood" and Captain Beefheart's "Troutmask Replica"
MARIO MATTIA: Improvisations
Solo piano improvisations, extemporaneously performed and recorded with absolutely no preconceived ideas.
MARY ANNE DRISCOLL: PASSAGE volume 1
Jazz standards, original vocals and free improvisation that bridge the traditional tones of jazz with avant garde expression
MARY HALVORSON AND WEASEL WALTER: Opulence
Intense, fast-moving duets by two young master improvisers. Meeting at a nexus between free jazz, noise rock and free improvisation with a dash of humor and ridiculous chops and structural brainpower, Opulence is a truly decadent dish of modern music.
MASHARI TRIO: Mashari Trio
A musical conversation of open expression and free will. A dialogue speaking slowly along harmonic lines before the melodies and poetry evolve into a improvisational engagement and onto a life of their own.
MASSIMO MAGEE: To Those For Whom No Time Exists
Solo, multi-instrument/sound source free improvisation.
MATHIEU FISET: The Whispering
A mind-blowing trip featuring electro rock, ambient soundscapes and extreme psychedelic madness.
MATHIEU FISET: Chocolate Overdrive
A single 31 Minutes long collage of improvised keyboards madness.
MATT BAUMANN: Drifter
Simple open melodies and impressions of echoes, waves, desert, sky, and desolation performed on solo saxophone. Completely unique solo saxophone music.
MATT BAUMANN: Deserter
Simple open melodies, improvisations, and impressions of rain, wind, sky, and desolation. Unique solo saxophone music.
MATT LAVELLE & BARRY CHABALA: I Like to Play
Probing, conversational improvisation that mixes equal amounts of melodic invention with atonal free play and more than a touch of swing.
MATTHEW SHIPP & GUILLERMO E. BROWN: telephone popcorn
A battle between acoustic piano and cold electronics crushing with digital drumset.
MAURO ORSELLI: Sulle Tracce Di Ned
A really vocal and instrumental free improvisation played by 12 young musicians.
MIGRAINE: 142 - Ivan ii - Static
Migraine performs improvised music while adhering to a strict set of rules mixing free form jazz and avant-garde modern jams. Each recording is one uninterrupted improvisation. Recorded live in Pensacola, Florida.
MIKA POHJOLA & YUSUKE YAMAMOTO: Sound of Village - The Complete Recordings in Helsinki and New York
The complete recordings by the successful freely improvising duo, offered for the first time. "Certainly one of the year's finest offerings. Highly recommended" -All About Jazz. The CD can be found at www.cdbaby.com/cd/pohjola5
MIKE KHOURY AND PIOTR MICHALOWSKI: Reason Sound/Sound Reason
Free improvisation duets involving violin and soprano saxophone/bass clarinet.
MIKKO INNANEN & MIKA KALLIO: Scratch
Experimental jazz from Finland
MILTON KERR: Tower of Isolation
If you like fusion, fusion-metal, as well as imaginative music, give this a listen.
MINUVASH: Rumi Love Songs
You immortal fire of love, Rise up and sing the sun. Minuvash's incomparable style of composing and her velvet voice singing the magnificient Rumi, who shines in the hearts of millions for already 800 years, in original Pahlavi language.
MIRIO COSOTTINI-TONINO MIANO: The Curvature of Pace
"Very exploratory and rewarding musical experience" - IMPROVIJAZZATION, # 81, 2008. “The notes splatter like fat rain drops on hot pavement. .Miano and Cosottini stand out.” - Cadence, 2008.
MISTERRUDE: It's for You
Comedy cd-- prank phone calls-- telephone comedy--weirdos
MOTHGUTS: Mothguts
Aggressive Free Jazz Grindcore from NJ
MOTHGUTS: Mothguts II
Aggressive freejazz grindcore from New Jersey
MYSTIC RITUAL: Soundtrack For An Imaginary Film
Perfect music for a nightclub filled with a cast of peculiar characters - experimental, organic, cool. A strange potion that blurs the lines between rock, jazz, world beat, and avant-garde. Recorded live to two-track in a crumbling NJ warehouse.
NICOLA CIPANI: The Ill-tempered Piano
24 improvisations for broken and untuned pianos found in New York City
NOAH HOWARD: the eye of the improviser
avant garde jazz 2 cd pack of noah howard historical recordings
NOGGIN: Big Band
A Large-ensemble collective improvisation. High-tension playing accelerates gradually, and eventually electronics sprinkles over acoustic noise and all hell breaks loose.
NOTE NO BOUNDS: Horizon Arriving
Bold adventurous a capella vocals performed by a group of 6 singers with some electronic manipulation.
OSCAR EDELSTEIN & RAÚL BARBOZA: Dos Improntus
Dynamic piano and accordion duet.
OTHIN SPAKE: The Ankh
Alternative free improv between jazz-punk-rock-emo. It's a live recording from two concerts in Belgium. with dEUS and black enigma Mauro Pawlowski, Jozef Dumoulin and Teun Verbruggen.
PAAP: Code And Hinge
Avant garde jazz, quiet sounds, free improvisation and a few strange songs
PANDELIS KARAYORGIS / MAT MANERI: In Time
Avant garde jazz with atonal and highly-charged improvisation.
PAOLO ANGELI / HAMID DRAKE: Uotha
a soulful meeting between free improvisation and traditional folkore
PAUL KWO: Rebirth
Freestyle solo piano improv music with heavy classical, pop and world influences. Fusion music of eclectic styles. Live performance, reactionary improvisatory work to virtual sculptures.
PETE VEL: Moonburn
Home brewed electric guitar driven instrumental compositions in the style of jazz/rock
PETER BROTZMANN & SHOJI HANO: Funny Rat/s 3
A duo performance of globally famous Peter Brotzmann and Shoji Hano. This is all studio recording at Heart Lord Studio(Hiroshima,JAPAN) on May 8,2008. Thrilling collaboration of superhuman feat .
PETITE ART ORCHESTRA: Exit-Sortie
EXIT-SORTIE is a free improvisational CD.Not just free ramblings it has a cohearent melodic and rythmic influence.
PHIL NYOKAI JAMES: Dreaming Of Waking Up
Meditative solo music for shakuhachi, the traditional japanese shakuhachi flute.
PHIL PERDUE: Hands
Intimate piano moods for massage composed spontaneously in thirty minute segments to enhance relaxation
PIOTR MICHALOWSKI, JAMES ILGENFRITZ, MIKE KHOURY, SARAH WEAVER: Babardah
Free improvisation blending saxophones/bass clarinet with trombone, violin, and bass.
PIOTR MICHALOWSKI, LENNI BUKOWSKI, MIKE KHOURY: Close Embrace Of The Earth
Free improvisation between contra-bass, contra-alto, alto & bass clarinets, alto & baritone saxophones, violin, and others. Free jazz, contemporary/experimental classical and avant garde leanings.
PLAY STATION 6: #1
European free-improvisation. ".Detached from the American model and absolutely not jazz-like. No throbbing Free Jazz with take-it-away-solo’s but a well thought through succession of musical ideas." (Herman te Loo, Jazzflits, 02/2007) "The six players mix
PLUNGE: Refreshingly Addictive
The third release from this Swedish improv trio, this time recorded live.
POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE: First Ones
Recently named one of the top CDs of 2005 by Downtown Music Gallery, NYC. Positive Knowlege integrates the poetic spoken word and improvised vocals with free jazz and polyrhythyms. The result is a tapestry of music that draws from a deep reservoir of m
POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE: Invisible Wisdom
Positive Knowledge is the Oakland, CA based free jazz and spoke word ensemble.
PRIMAL VELVET: Necessary Vibrations
Soul, Jazz and Funk=Free Form Fusion
RAHSIED ALI & HAYES GREENFIELD: Duo + One
Iconic master jazz drummer, Rashied Ali, and adventurous spirited saxophonist, Hayes Greenfield, co-lead a trio with bassist Don Pate and take listeners on a jubilant jazz journey through mainstream, straight ahead, bebop and free jazz.
RANDOM TOUCH: A True Conductor Wears a Man
Beauty, tension and darkness, delivered via the subconscious.
RANDOM TOUCH: A Box and a Word
Genre defying, cinematic, hypnotic and otherwordly, the improvisatory music of this group utilizes beauty, tension and darkness to cast its spell.
RANDOM TOUCH: Duologue
This music has an exquisite starkness to it, managing to seem both distant, as if piped from some galaxy wheeling at the fringes of the universe, and yet intimately human as a heartbeat at the same time.
RANDY THURMAN: Inner Journey
One-take free-form improvisational acoustic jazz guitar. A brilliant display of virtuosity in subtle dissonance.
RE:AGENT: Zulu
Tim Young, Branden Harper, and Jon Ossman join forces in this free-form trio setting called: re:agent
RICK MICHEL: Dean and Friends
If you like impersonations you'll love this album From Rodney Dangerfield, Sammy Davis Jr., Neil Diamond to Bob Hope. Big Band Music and Comedy this your ticket.
ROB PRICE & DAVID GROLLMAN: Get Lost
Creepy and atmospheric free improvisation
ROB PRICE, REUBEN RADDING & MATT MORAN: Submarine Pictures
Atmospheric chamber skronk.
ROBERT SPALDING NEWCOMB: Undiscovered
Live concert of amplified sitar and nylon string electric guitar improvisations - avant garde, free improv, experimental, spontaneous composition.
RODNEY OAKES: Bone of Contention
avant garde instrumentals.
ROMAN LEYKAM: Veiled
instrumental solo album by e-guitarist Roman Leykam. Even the background sounds and percussion are created simultaneously by his midi guitar. No dubbing, no editing of the tracks. Amazing creative strange soundscapes, no fast food.
RON THOMAS: Elysium
The influence of Stockhausen and Cage is unmistakable. This is modern improvisation in the hands of masters.
RUBYANA: Midnight Jam
Free spirit jazz
RUDIS/CUSTODIO/DIAZ-INFANTE: CRR Live
This exorcism of soundscapes is an eclectic mix of instruments and their uses. Darbuka, voice, extended guitar techniques, synths and live DJing. Textures and tones from abrasive noise, hallucinogenic contemplation, ambient relief, and hardcore collage.
S P R I N G: S P R I N G
groanings and utterings.
SABRINA SIEGEL: Grace/Precarious
The debut Pax release from Sabrina Siegel, "Grace/Precarious" is her fifth CD of solo improvised music. An exploration through electric guitar, voice, and cello. An extremely raw, visceral, and unique expression.
SCOTT FRASER BRUCE FRIEDMAN: Landscape With Figure
Improvised music for electric guitar and trumpet. Guitar creates sonic textures while trumpet plays in a relaxed melodic style.
SEA OF SONG TRIO: Blue Boat
jazz guitar trio sweetly atonal
SH'MANTRA: Beside the Sub_bunker
improvisational experimental mood rock. This album is the sequel to "sub_floating".
SHAKING RAY LEVIS: Boss Witch
Free Improvisation, "inventive and charming" Ole' Timey Avant-Garde!
SOLIDAD DECOSTA: My Own Private Revolution
Brecht meets Ornette in this collection of free piano improvisations.
SONIC LIBERATION FRONT: Water and Stone
A unique mix of post-Ayler free improvisation and the Afro Cuban roots music of Santeria with added elements form the world of ambient chill and trip hop.
SPRING: Eternal
Groanings and utterings.
SPRING: Throe
Groanings and utterings.
SPRING: Transcendent
groanings and utterings
SQUID CHOIR ORKESTRA: Fractured Infinity
Electronic free jazz
SS PUFT: Seems Sometimes People Undergo Full Transformation
Thick with energy and letting the music fly to further levels of spontaneous creation. Join this live set for a full-on front row seat to the rockinest group outside rock.
SS PUFT QUARTET WITH DAVE REMPIS: Live at Earthshaking Music
free jazz and free classical - from Athens Georgia's finest featuring fifth member Dave Rempis of Vandermark 5.
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Sound Textures
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Uber Brass
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
STANLEY SCHUMACHER AND THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE: Don't Abandon Your Baby
Improvised Contemporary Art Music
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH: Saraswati Steps Up To Bat
Saraswati steps up to bat features solo improvisations on acoustic violin and viola.
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH: Ludi Fecundus
Ludi Fecundus features solo improvisations on electric violin by Stephen Nachmanovitch.
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH AND TIMOTHY SUMMERS: Electric and Acoustic Improvisations Vol. 1
Stephen Nachmanovitch and Timothy Summers explore the art of collaborative improvisation, mutual listening and instant composition - on violin, viola, mezzo violin and electric violin.
STEVE DRESSLER: Detour On The Rocks
Rock On with lead and rhythm Riffs that Rock. Steve Dressler's rhythm track "Horses" was recorded onto by an incredible unknown lead rock guitarist http://designprints4u.com/jam2.mp3 An amazing recordiing.
STEVEN EDWARD LITTLE: Jazzed Edge
Playful, edgy, intense, light - a blend of free-flowing nu jazz. Music in the jazz idiom composed and performed entirely on the KAOSSILATOR.
SUBLINGUAL ENSEMBLE: As the Cicada Breathes
Atmospheric free improvisation
SUICIDE DJS: Animation (...)
Alternative / Comedy
SUNNY MURRAY: Sunny Murray
This is a classic album of “Fire Music” by drummer Sunny Murray recorded in 1966 with Jacques Coursil-trumpet, Jack Graham-alto sax and Byard Lancaster-alto saxes, and Alan Silva-bass. The music is energizing, colorfully dark, and a must for collectors.
TANAKA: Lithp
Free improvised music from Israel
TED BOSSIS: Overnight
Piano solo's and the spiritual sponge happily dwelling overnight ~()~
TEKKE: Tekke
Progressive acoustic jazz feauturing Drew Gress, David Kane, Michael Smith and Glenn Cashman.
TEL AVIV 2006: Tel Aviv White Night Festival
Creative improvising music; a 12 hour marathon in Tel Aviv
TFC: Rhizomatics
Story-telling tunes, mood-setting improv, instrumental alchemy from the ground up.
THANOS CHRYSAKIS, DARIO BERNAL VILLEGAS, OLI MAYNE: Palimpsesto
free-improvisation, real-time composition.
THE 16 DEADLY IMPROVS: The Revenge of The 16 Deadly Improvs
Experiments. Projects. New Sounds. New methods. New ideas explored. Pushing the envelope and sometimes breaking it. 74 minutes of music.
THE BOTTESINI PROJECT: Bottesini
Free improvisation that displays an uncanny ability to create the impression of composed, rehearsed music, featuring Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers), DJ Olive (Sonic Youth, MMW), and Ron Miles (Bill Frisell).
THE CHRISTOPHER ADLER TRIO: Transcontinental
Live free improvised performance blending late-Coltrane-inspired high energy free jazz with serene minimalist levitations. Each track is journey of musical and spiritual fusion, and totally free and in the moment.
THE EXPLORATION PROJECT-JORGE CABALLERO, JON MARGULIES, SCOTT RIFKIN, MATT POSNER: Live in NYC on May 12, 2007
Avant garde, experimental, abstract classical and intellectual music which uses classical guitar, electric guitar, synth machines and poetry.
THE JAMES MARSHALL HUMAN ARTS ENSEMBLE: Autonomous Oblast
Big band free jazz
THE JOEL FUTTERMAN/IKE LEVIN DUO: The Present Gift
Diverse and engaging improvisational music that takes the listener on a multitude of adventures in listening.
THE JOEL FUTTERMAN/IKE LEVIN TRIO FEATURING KASH KILLION: LifeLine
Cutting edge improvisation music that spans traditional genres of music.
THE JOEL FUTTERMAN/IKE LEVIN TRIO WITH KASH KILLION: Live at the Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco
Cutting edge extended collectively improvised music. A celebration of the art of listening, anticipating, adapting, and synergizing. Named by Cadence Magazine as one of the top releases reviewed in 2004.
THE MELLOW PALACE: Cat Purr Soundscape Trance
Atmospheric chill-out music centered around the looped and manipulated recording of a cat we recorded. Bells, synth, water and random improvised noises were recorded spontaneously to tape.
THE SABIR MATEEN QUARTET: other places other spaces
A fiery reedman in a strong quartet in the spirit of the most bluesy and soufull hystorical free jazz but they still have something to say new.
THE SUPPLICANTS: 1st Encounter
As an art form, musical improvisation is often the most inspiring, exasperating, overwhelmingly emotional interchange between performer and spectator. It takes generous talent, and serious guts for a musician to take the stage without a script.
THE SURF MESSENGERS: excerpts from a 24hr performance
Live sounds from this UK-based experimental beat combo, combining real-time sampling on everything from dictaphone to guitar pedals, with quirky instrumentation, sound musicianship, and a dark sense of humour- a wonderful journey thru a low-tech paradise
THOMAS REUBEN GROUP: In Tongues
Experimental, free jazz and avant garde free improvisation, including electric guitar, drums, double bass, tenor saxophone and flute. The quartet leaves the familiar behind in this attempt to go beyond idiom.
THOMAS REUBEN GROUP: Levitation
On this New York-based avant jazz quartet's second CD "Levitation," the group explores and experiments with the outer fringes of jazz through improvisation and dynamic interaction.
TOBIAS DELIUS, WILBERT DE JOODE & DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF: The Flying Deer
Free improvisation
TONY & LEWIS: M.M.O.G.
Contempary Christian Music
TRES GONE: Outertainment vol 2
Contemporary Rock encompassing jazz, modern, Rock, and electronic music
TRINE: politics
Trine is a contemporary Avante Garde trio exploring high level sonic collective improvisation. Chant and drone influences are expressed in the compositions revealing a very deep connection with spirit and emotion.
TRIO BRAAMDEJOODEVATCHER: Change This Song
Freedom and adventure are essential values for these musicians. Their music can go any which way, depending on decisions made on the spot.
TV POW: TV Pow presents michael hartman todd a. carter brent gutzeit as TV Pow
avant gard convention shattering Chicago electro acoustic free improv trio
TWO NEEDLES AND SIX WIRES: Two Needles and Six Wires
The urban noise that was picked up from trash - The dark, weird discord pierced a disturbed beat. --------------- ゴミ屑から拾い上げられた都会のノイズ - 荒れ狂ったビートに突き刺さる、ダークで不気味な不協和音。
VA VA CHINA: Archipelago
Contemporary free improvisation that de-emphasizes jazz and encourages coherent musical motifs and incorporates new musical styles such as drum n' bass or ambient music.
VAJUWAJU: Vajuwaju
Free Jazz & Jazz Rock, Low Tech & High Spirit, Improvisation Band.
VAN VEENENDAAL, KNEER, SUN: Predictable Point of Impact
Powerful jazz piano trio. "Main feature is a non hierarchical approach, free of any cliché. Predictable Point of Impact is a powerful statement of a matured collaboration." -Jazzflits, Herman te Loo
VAN VEENENDAAL/ PUGLISI: Duets for Prepared Unprepared and Toy Pianos
Free duo improvisations. "the session, recorded in the legendary bimhuis in Amsterdam is far away from the usual challange between piano experts, anxious to show their never-ending instrumental virtuosity."
WEASEL WALTER: Early Recordings: 1988-1991
If Captain Beefheart, James Chance, Sunny Murray and Iannis Xenakis were sixteen year old kids in Rockford, Illinois during the late '80s, this is the music they'd make.
WEASEL WALTER: Firestorm
almost 80 minutes of smoldering, burning, raging free jazz featuring a cast of legendary east coast musicians including Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen.
WILD MAN FISCHER: Lost and Found Pep
Wild Man Fischer's angst-ridden "tortured soul" shines through all his unique material. Frank Zappa discovered Larry in the late 1960's. That tells you all you need to know to begin your own Wild Man listening adventure.
WILLIAM HOOKER + SABIR MATEEN: Dharma
Recorded in performance in February 2004, this recording documents a rare duo appearance by two of New York's most powerful improvisers, William Hooker (drums), and Sabir Mateen (reeds, flute).
XBXRX: Sounds
Henry Rollins called xbxrx "the last punk band on earth", but "sounds" documents an even wilder side of this intense unit: this album was totally improvised in the studio and it features a wide variety of sonic approaches.
YETI RAIN: Nest of Storms
The haunting sounds conjured up by Kopecky’s basses and Ebner’s sax and wind synth are by turns meditative and violent, the perfect soundtrack for a beautifully disturbing dream.
ZARR MANCO II: Strange day's
Happy music with peace, love, happiness, and tranquility.
ZEPUBICLE: Scientists Levitate Small Animals
Punky, arty, doomy, folky, trancey aural postcards of distinction.