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.
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Tomeka Reid
Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists
Released 2014
"Chicago-based cellist and composer Tomeka Reid, a mainstay on the Windy City scene and an important contemporary member of the A.A.C.M., was commissioned to create original music for the first documentary to chronicle the Imagists, Chicago's hometown post-surrealists who exhibited together st[...]
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Tomeka Reid & Fed Lonberg-Holm
Eight Pieces for Two Cellos
Released 2022
In 2013, cellists Tomeka Reid and Fred Lonberg-Holm turned their arrangerly and composerly attention to this terrain, assembling a selection of four originals (three by Lonberg-Holm, one by Reid) and four works by other composers.
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Kaze & Ikue Mori
Crustal Movement
Released 2023
Album is a visceral, richly textured hybrid of pre-recorded music files exchanged during pandemic and live performance.
“[Their music is] a well-judged amalgam of adventurous and empathetic ensemble playing, and striking individual flights” —John Sharpe, All About Jazz
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Ken Vandemark
Snapshots: Complete
Released 2023
Kilogram Records is excited to present Snapshots: Complete, a compendium of solo recordings by Ken Vandermark originally issued by the label as a series of 4 limited edition, 7-inch singles. These were released at 3-month intervals starting in March of 2021 and all sold out immediately. This is the[...]
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Nate Wooley
Christian Wolff: For Trumpet Player
Released 2023
This limited edition download and chapbook set features the second composition released from Nate Wooley's For/With commissioning series and festival. Written specifically for Wooley, Christian Wolff has constructed a gloriously knotty and Wolff-ian set of musical questions about pacing, silence, t[...]
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Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake
Eternal River
Released 2023
“On their first stand-alone record as a duo, Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake celebrate their 30+ year playing relationship with an electrifying live set of pieces, all featuring music composed by legendary free jazz musician Don Cherry. Restricting himself here to tenor saxophone, Vandermark has d[...]
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Dan Grzeca
Poster of the Catalytic Sound Festival 2023, Chicago
Released 2022
Designed and screen printed in Chicago by Dan Grzeca
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Mark Feldman / Dave Rempis / Tim Daisy
Sirocco
Released 2023
"On Sirocco, you hear Rempis teasing slow-wavering long tones against the horn, throwing sharp jabs of articulation back at Daisy’s kit, and bouncing impossibly quick counterpoint back at both of them across five octaves. With those maneuvers, Feldman capitalizes on his boulevard-wide technique t[...]
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Tortuga Alada
Cuadernos de viaje no 2
Released 2023
"La Tortuga Alada (The winged turtle) is an imaginary animal whose particular anatomy draws us to an ambiguous being that scurries restlessly and, at the same time, achieves weightlessness. In these two antipodes is the musical project created in 2017 by the Colombian saxophonist and clarinetist Ma[...]
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Perch Hen Brock & Rain
Elegiacal
Released 2023
Perch Hen Brock & Rain featuring Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey is an improvising quartet drawing on myriad experiences and backgrounds. Each member is conscious of their own weight and power to add to the communal conversation, understanding silence and restraint can be [...]
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Chris Corsano, David Maranha & Richard Youngs
Corsano, Maranha & Youngs
Released 2021
If you’re reading this and know the incredible careers of Chris Corsano (US), David Maranha (PT) and Richard Youngs (UK) you can already imagine what you’re getting into… or maybe not.
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TOG
Megamax
Released 2023
Tog - the trio of Steinar Heide Bø (drums & percussion), Vetle André Skåli (baritone guitar) and Brede Sørum (soprano & tenor saxophones, moog) - is an unstoppable engine, powered by rhythmic outbursts, crunching riffs, saxophone scurries and wails, the kind of playing that teases and h[...]
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TEIP TRIO
TEIP TRIO
Released 2020
"[...] their interactions are buffered with expanses of empty space - no matter how frantically the woodwind belches or the strings grind, balance is maintained. TEIP TRIO are not the first group to import heavy rock elements into free music, but no one else has found a way to lose the weight witho[...]
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Barry Guy / Mats Gustafsson / Raymond Strid
You Forget To Answer
Released 1996
"... Together their Maya date is a whirlwind of activity; sounds rattle and moan in a fog of urgent details. Their lightning-quick attacks provoke a firestorm of spontaneous devlopment and continual realignment. The excitement is palpable." —Art Lange
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