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Catalytic Sound

creative music cooperative

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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Catalytic Sound Festival 2023

December 1-2 & 8-10
https://festival.catalyticsound.com/

Album: Four Experiments by Nate Wooley

Nate Wooley

Four Experiments

Released 2023

Four Experiments stemmed from a pandemic fascination with an early book of poetry by Stephen Spender and a desire to explore new ways of viewing my relationship to instrumental, compositional, and improvisatory technique. Each piece here was written to be played by any number of players with any le[...]
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Album: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone

Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Released 2007

"This is an ingenious and beguiling CD. It opens with the familiar strains of Roberta Flack singing Ewan McColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, soon joined by Kai Fagaschinski's clarinet and Christof Kurzmann producing an appropriately churchy organ-like sound, improvising along with the tr[...]
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New AdditionsAlbum: Prosperity by Christof Kurzmann & Mats Gustafsson

Christof Kurzmann & Mats Gustafsson

Prosperity

Released 2022

"Prosperity is the sophomore album of the Falling duo - Swedish reeds and live electronics player Mats Gustafsson and Viennese ppooll software magician Christof Kurzmann, following Falling and 5 Other Failings (Trost, 2016). The new album was recorded at the NEXT Festival in Bratisla[...]
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Album: Concert in Iwaki by Evan Parker Electroacoustic Quartet

Evan Parker Electroacoustic Quartet

Concert in Iwaki

Released 2021

"The music comprises three extended tracks totalling seventy minutes. It bears all the hallmarks of the larger ensemble's music, but with less going on, particularly in terms of treatments of the music. There is clearly good understanding and interaction between the four players, with Parker leadin[...]
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New ReleasesAlbum: Summons by Heart Of The Ghost

Heart Of The Ghost

Summons

Released 2023

"Fire music of the highest order. Heart of the Ghost’s Summons kicks off with a cry of wild abandon: “Wooooo!” And then we’re off, with Jarrett Gilgore (alto and soprano sax), Luke Stewart (upright bass) and Ian McColm (drums and percussion) converging in a flurry of densely packed sound, e[...]
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Album: Especially For You by Harri Sjöström,Erhard Hirt, Philipp Wachsmann & Paul Lytton

Harri Sjöström,Erhard Hirt, Philipp Wachsmann & Paul Lytton

Especially For You

Released 2023

This CD contains live recordings of a concert on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Einstein Kultur in Munich, founded by the city of Munich, Department of Arts and Culture. Recorded live on October, 15th, 2022 at MUG, München [...]
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Album: I’m So Awake / Sleepless I Feel by The Magic I.D.

The Magic I.D.

I’m So Awake / Sleepless I Feel

Released 2011

The Magic I.D. is a Berlin-based quartet exploring the juncture of song forms with abstract music. The band, consisting of Margareth Kammerer (vocals & guitars), Christof Kurzmann (vocals, g3 & lloopp), Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke (both clarinet), formed in summer 2005 after previou[...]
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New AdditionsAlbum: Graceful Collision by BI BA BOOM

BI BA BOOM

Graceful Collision

Released 2022

"The material was recorded at the Chamber of Comerce in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn and features contributions from Chris Pitsiokos on alto sax and electronics, Luke Stewart on electric bass, double bass and electronics and Jason Nazary on drums and electronics." [...]
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Album: Orchester 33 ⅓ by Orchester 33 ⅓

Orchester 33 ⅓

Orchester 33 ⅓

Released 2016

"Recorded live at 'Music Unlimited' Festival in Wels (Austria) November 1996. Contains an additional movie about the orchestra directed by Peter Hormanseder (1998) on extra DVD. Plus previously unreleased bonustracks recorded 1998 (Graz) & 2001 (Vienna). Packaged in special bound old [...]
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Album: Falling and 5 Other Failings by Mats Gustafsson & Christof Kurzmann

Mats Gustafsson & Christof Kurzmann

Falling and 5 Other Failings

Released 2016

"Failing and 5 other failings may be the most intimate and maybe even the most provocative musical statement that Swedish sax titan Mats Gustafsson and Austrian electronics player Christof Kurzmann have recorded so far. Ken Vandermark, who wrote the illuminating liner notes, suggeste[...]
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New ReleasesAlbum: Missa Amissa by Malcolm Goldstein & Fred Lonberg-Holm

Malcolm Goldstein & Fred Lonberg-Holm

Missa Amissa

Released 2023

"It is with great honor, then, that we present a document of a 2003 live improvised duo set with Fred Lonberg-Holm recorded at 3030 in Chicago. With ample room-tone, sounds of people shuffling into place, atmospheric sounds from the occasional interior/exterior crossover, Lonberg-Holm’s cello and[...]
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New AdditionsAlbum: Unprotected Sleep by Christine Abdelnour & Andy Moor

Christine Abdelnour & Andy Moor

Unprotected Sleep

Released 2022

Christine Abdnelnour and Andy Moor have explored the notion of hypnagogia or ‘unprotected sleep’ to drive their process for this improvised album, delving in their own experience and memories. Unprotected sleep is commonly defined as an altered state of consciousness that occurs beyond the prop[...]
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Album: Do You Remember by The Remembrance Quintet featuring Daniel Carter

The Remembrance Quintet featuring Daniel Carter

Do You Remember

Released 2023

Washington, DC-based Masters-Messengers Daniel Carter, Chris Williams, Jamal Moore, Luke Stewart, and Tcheser Holmes dig deep into humanity's ancestral stream, modulating their musical and life experiences into something new yet old and futuristic at the same time. If [...]
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Album: House In The Valley by Luis Vicente 4tet

Luis Vicente 4tet

House In The Valley

Released 2023

This international quartet first stepped on a stage in July 2021, on a tour of seven cities in Portugal supported by the GDA Foundation.Their support gave Portuguese trumpeter LUIS VICENTE the opportunity to put together a stellar band of JOHN DIKEMAN, a renowned North American saxophonist based in[...]
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Album: On The Blink by Farida Amadou, Dave Rempis & Jonas Cambien

Farida Amadou, Dave Rempis & Jonas Cambien

On The Blink

Released 2023

This brand new transatlantic collaboration unites three renowned improvisers in a stellar first time matchup. Electric bassist Farida Amadou’s stratospheric rise over the last several years has been shaking the roofbeams of the European improvised music scene. She’s participated in high flying [...]
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New AdditionsAlbum: Why Do You Mourn by The End

The End

Why Do You Mourn

Released 2023

"That’s “Whose Face“, a track that - with its theme, its force and its power - is most reminiscent of The Thing and Fire! but which quickly evolves into a folk-rock monster. “Inside my head / a common room / a common place / a common tune,“ Jernberg sings - repeating it again and again. T[...]
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New ReleasesAlbum: Current 23 by Fred Lonberg-Holm & Tim Daisy

Fred Lonberg-Holm & Tim Daisy

Current 23

Released 2023

Current 23 documents such a journey for Tim Daisy and Fred Lonberg-Holm, who have been making music together for over 20 years. Each has a hazy memory of becoming aware of the other in the late 90s or early 2000s in Chicago, which was a fertile time in that city’s creative music history. They wor[...]
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New ReleasesAlbum: Rune Kitchen by Jaap Blonk, Damon Smith & Ra Kalam Bob Moses

Jaap Blonk, Damon Smith & Ra Kalam Bob Moses

Rune Kitchen

Released 2023

"American double bass improviser Damon Smith (who also runs the Balance Point Acoustics label) has established long-term collaborative relationships with two veteran masters of free improvisation – Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk, with whom he interpreted the poems of the founder of the Dada moveme[...]
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Album: Music For Safe Piece by Andy Moor

Andy Moor

Music For Safe Piece

Released 2021

Music for Safe Piece is the result of an artistic experiment that lasted for four years, where Andy Moor was creating a live soundscape for a performance of a unique nature. Choreographer Valentina Campora has created a series of semi-private events where she and Moor, new parents of a baby boy, we[...]
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New AdditionsAlbum: Belladonna by Chris Corsano, Scott Young & Ryley Walker

Chris Corsano, Scott Young & Ryley Walker

Belladonna

Released 2022

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