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A showcase & source for free jazz/free improv & creative composition. Offering a catalog of vintage performance and contemporary New Music from the heart of the heartlands. Breaking the sound barrier to wake up your ears and blow up your imagination! |
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NEW CD RELEASES -- JUNE 2008
AUTONOMOUS OBLAST -- The Human Arts Ensemble KOKOPILAU -- Michael Castro & J D Parran ESFOMA -- Greg Mills ENDLESS ROOT -- Michael Castro & Joe Catalano DAVE STONE SOLO -- Dave Stone |
Pricing and Shipping Rates All CDs are $10.00 for the US & Canada. $12.00 anywhere else in the universe. Price includes shipping. Need an mp3 player? Winamp is free and easy to use - get it HERE. |
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Human Arts Ensemble
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FM25
Autonomous Oblast Invocation Oasis Remembrances of the Present |
Big band old school free-blown' free jazz from the James Marshall Human Arts Ensemble. Featuring rare performances by Maurice Malik King, James Marshall, Luther Thomas, Thurman Thomas, Jim Miller, Carl Arzinia Richards, Papa Glen Wright, and others. Recorded in 1975 & digitally remastered from the original studio tapes. [READ MORE] |
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Castro / Parran
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FM29
Kokopilau A Poet Who Died Young The Man Who Looked Into Coltrane's Horn The Creed of the Seed The Kokopilau Cycle |
A ceremony of the ancient future celebrating a 30 year collaboration between multi-instrumental Horn Master JD Parran & Warrior Poet Michael Castro that began with the St. Louis Black Artist Group & The Human Arts Ensemble in the 1970's. Retelling mythic tales of life death & rebirth with voice, tenor sax, indigenous hand crafted instruments and postmodern techniques. A spontaneous bop kabbalah. [READ MORE] |
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Greg Mills
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FM24
ESFOMA One for Ives Esfoma Raga Vishnu Chorale & Variations Piece for Two Pianos |
Improvised music for solo piano. Mills' 1984 classic digitally remastered from the original studio tapes.
"... drawing inspiration from such diverse sources as 'cool' jazz, a variety of non-Western musical cultures and the early- and mid-20th century avant-garde schools...Mills' playing radiates a high level of intensity...a rhythmic vitality that catches hold of the listener instantly and never lets go, a sense of timing that's utterly sure and secure, a virtuosity that sets the keyboard ablaze. He's an exciting pianist." --James Wierzbicki, St. Louis Globe-Democrat [READ MORE] |
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Castro / Catalano
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FM28
Endless Root Poetry Is Freedom Ring The Ants Them Deep Mirror Chump Change Heraclitis Got It Right |
Performance poetry with music. From a 1996 concert featuring multi-instrumentalist Joe Catalano and renowned writer/performer Michael Castro in a profoundly intimate & empathetic series of originals. [READ MORE] |
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Dave Stone
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FM23
Dave Stone Solo Balizentanenanen There Is A Little Man Inside Dundtor Abaab Aspasapapas Bezawedjeblebleb Ackakaplakakpla Nower What? Behind Ceiling, Walls and more... |
Jazz tenor-man par excellence' solo excursion for multi-reeds (tenor, soprano, & baritone sax; alto, soprano, & bass clarinet.) Stone's music is urgent and relentless. A cycle of highly organized spontaneous compositions deeply rooted in both jazz and free-music improvisational traditions. A thoroughly joyful noise! [READ MORE] |
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Previous Releases |
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Squid Choir Orkestra
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FM17
Fractured Infinity Ghost Machine Treasons Saucer Secrets Blind Science City On The Dark Side Of The Moon Levitation Happy Gargoyles |
Electric eclectic free jazz. Sax-assault space-scape electronic iterations. Post-nuclear sonic geographies from the Thunderdome on the Dark Side of the Moon. Power Electronics! Free-Fall Levitation! [READ MORE] |
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Free Jazz Posse
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FM18
Fanfares For The Noh Age Yer Fly's Wide Open... Midnight In The Garden Noh Trans Requiem Move 1 Passages Downstreet Serenade Move 2 Nothing Holding Up The Sky Coriolis Current Again |
A free jazz suite for wind ensemble and guitar portrays a lush sound-scape densely alive with dark voices and interwoven motifs, a haunting vision illuminated by humor, irony and immanent hope. A cycle of fast slow-songs celebrating a requiem and rebirth: midnight in the garden.... [READ MORE] |
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Stone / Zelenka / Mills
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Premonitions Cryptic Triptych Stations Unknowing Is Next Age News Suspended Sentence: Rainman's Outta Prism Vernacular New Earth Dreams |
Orchestral music for ensemble winds, piano and percussion. Prepared piano duets. Straight ahead trios for piano and saxophones. Twisted haiku for piano, synths, sax mouthpieces and trombone. Saxophone Chorus. Composed improvisations blur the boundaries between preconception and spontaneous execution. Music without firewalls. [READ MORE] |
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EXILES
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FM20
From The Edge Sonaire: Subterranean Forest Music Of The Ancient Future Scherzo Estellarisations From The Edge Into The Dark Currents Sonaire: The End Of Time Bhakti Mantra Perihelion Sonaire: Forbidden Planet Festival For The Destroyer Of Illusion |
Orchestral compositions for non-orchestral instrumentation and duet free-improvisations. This is the 'Best of Exiles' vol. 1, culled from their previous 7 releases and documenting a twelve year history of recording and public performance culminating in the 1990 Leo Records release, Stranded In Paradise. Hear the result of this extensive collaboration in an evolving vernacular unique even to the experimental realm of New Music. [READ MORE] |
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Greg Mills
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FM21
Blue Oktober Sonata for 2 Pianos: 1. Fanfares For The Uncommon Man 2. Etude Fantastique 3. BerSeusse 4. Enclaves Klavierstucke I Blue Oktober Formation II Klavierstucke II Secret Passages and more... |
Improvised music for piano: solo, duos, trio multi-tracks and percussion: Blue Oktober exists beyond style, genre or influence. Here are the seasons-between-seasons: a musical syntax uniquely self-referential in the most creative sense; a private personal language everyone knows. Dazzling keyboard technique in the service of daring passionate communicative improvisation. Intelligent and compositionally sophisticated. Tears It Up! Lays It Down! [READ MORE] |
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EXILES
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Stranded In Paradise Devotion Nocturne In Corpor And Es Sonaire: Subterranean Forest Outside The Gates part 1 Outside The Gates part 2 Temple Of Fire New World Raga Sonaire: Forbidden Planet |
Exiles' music features indigenous (nonwestern) and contemporary instrumentation, free jazz sensibilities and post-modern euro-classical influences:
"Amalgamating influences so diverse as to create new forms...new approaches to composition and a previously unimagined vocabulary of expression. Time suspends itself. The antidote to artifice." --Marc S. Tucker, Liner Notes [READ MORE] |
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