Catalytic Sound is a music based co-operative designed to help create economic sustainability for its artists through patron support.
Put simply, one half of all album purchases and subscription fees will always go directly to the musicians of the collective.
Catalytic Sound
creative music cooperative
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Ab Baars, Joost Buis & Berlinde Deman
Cecil’s Dance
Released 2023
The trio plays compositions by Ab Baars - whimsical, lyrical, crazy and unruly - as well as spontaneous open improvisations. The result is a slightly askew kind of chamber jazz, revelling in the free and spontaneous, while avoiding the heavy-handed and predictable. Instead, it might resemble a humo[...]
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Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark
Japan 2019
Released 2024
PNL Records and Audiographic Records are thrilled to announce the release of the seven CD boxset, Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark: Japan 2019. This co-production includes live recordings by this long-standing duo from their 16-date concert tour of Japan, as well as new collaborations with le[...]
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Wadada Leo Smith & Joe Morris
Earth’s Frequencies
Released 2024
Time to start the new year. Legendary trumpeter and jazz great, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship winner, NEA Jazz Masters recipient, Wadada Leo Smith and one of the greatest authorities on improvised music, educator, our friend, guitarist, and double bassist Joe Morri[...]
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Catalytic Sound Festival 2023 – Chicago
Designed and screen printed in Chicago by Dan Grzeca
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Plasmic: Agnes Heginger / Elisabeth Harnik / Uli Winter / Fredi Pröll
Live At Porgy & Bess
Released 2022
"To all intents and purposes this line-up resembles a jazz piano trio accompanying a lead vocalist but this project has helped to turn our world upside down. These musicians are all equally interactive with each other. As a collective, they work extremely well together, listening, searching and ref[...]
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Sebastiaan Janssen, Hubert Kostkiewicz, Ken Vandermark & Marta Warelis
Koniec
Released 2024
Audiographic Records issues Koniec, a first time collaboration between musicians based in Wrocław, Amsterdam, and Chicago. Compositions by Ken Vandermark, performed alongside Hubert Kostkiewicz, Marta Warelis, and Sebastiaan Janssen. The music resides somewhere between post-punk, Miles Davis' Agha[...]
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Dave Rempis, Pandelis Karayorgis, Jakob Heinemann & Bill Harris
Truss
Released 2024
For the start of this new era of Karayorgis’ relationship to Chicago, Rempis assembled a quartet featuring a pair of younger musicians who by all accounts are among the best improvisers and instrumentalists of their generation on the Chicago scene – Jakob Heinemann on bass, and Bill Harris on d[...]
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NRG Ensemble
Hold That Thought
Released 2024
From a night of music in Holland that's become legendary among NRG Ensemble enthusiasts, Hold That Thought presents a blazing concert of the quintet's unique sound. With Mars Williams and Ken Vandermark on reeds, Kent Kessler and Brian Sandstrom on basses (the latter doubling on trumpet and electri[...]
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Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love
Chicken Shit Bingo
Released 2024
Peter Brötzmann collaborated with many artists in his career, regularly adding new compatriots into the fold, and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love became one of his staunchest allies after the percussionist joined the Chicago Tentet in 2004. They worked in various contexts, including this inexh[...]
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Ana Kravanja & Elisabeth Harnik
Vrtinci Minljivosti / Vortices of Impermanence
Released 2023
"Since last year, Slovenian violinist/violist/vocalist Ana Kravanja and pianist Elisabeth Harnik, based in Graz, Austria, have been playing together as a duo. Vrtinci Minljivosti (Vortices of Impermanence), recorded in October 2022 in Slovenia, is their debut album; although it documents their col[...]
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Steve Swell & Elisabeth Harnik
Welcome To The Troposphere
Released 2023
Three years ago, the eminent pianist Elisabeth Harnik and the great trombone master Steve Swell released for the first time their joint album Tonotopic Organisation, which is highly regarded by both critics and fans of both musicians. Three years have passed and the duo is now launching the second [...]
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Edition Redux
Better A Rook Than a Pawn
Released 2023
Audiographic Records presents the first album by Ken Vandermark’s newest ensemble, Edition Redux, which adds to the MacArthur Prize winner's internationally and critically acclaimed series of bands he has composed for: The Vandermark 5, FME, The Territory Band, The Resonance Ensemble, E[...]
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Christof Kurzmann & Leonel Kaplan
Pandemic Conversations [CAA-039]
Released 2022
Proceeds raised from sales of this recording will go toward a cause recommended by Christof and Leonel, in this case, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), founded in 1991 by concerned humanitarians in the USA, provides free medical care to thousands of injured and ill children yearly who la[...]
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