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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Stirrup
Cut
Released 2016
"Rumback’s fluid, bouncing drums against Macri’s rich, anchoring bass—fashions an ideal stage for Lonberg-Holm, who drifts and wheels in an almost pastoral mode before virtually welding the notes down with the help of the effects pedal. While the next track, “Rodney’s Last Ride,” takes [...]
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A Man Can’t Ride On One
Released 2015
“Cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm puts his effects pedals through a workout to produce a sometimes lush, sometimes strident sound that celebrates churning melody… The group is propelled by bassist Nick Macri and drummer Charles Rumback, who embroider brisk rhythms with endless displacements and sidewa[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYAb 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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Picks Up The Thread
Released 2026
“…Lonberg-Holm takes the lead for the most part, providing tunefulness enriched with gritty textures…Nick Macri’s bass is the unsung hero of this mix, rubber-banding throughout the low registers in a complementary fashion… Charles Rumback’s contributions are those of a veteran… Picks [...]
VIEW MORE / BUYPaal 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[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYWadada 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[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYNate 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[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYTerrie Hessels & Han Bennink
Instants
Released 2023
”Han and Terrie share a giddy playfulness and the feeling of performing a crazy little dance next to a ravine. That old school drum kit and irreparable guitar are not just instruments, but tools to kick-start your imagination and they rattle, scrape, howl, screech, squeak and rumble incessantly. [...]
VIEW MORE / BUYMats Gustafsson
Hidros 9 Mirrors
Released 2020
Conducted work by Mats Gustafsson for two identical nine-piece chamber ensembles, four soloists, tape machine, turntable, and conductor. Soloists featured: Anders Nyqvist (trumpets, slide and piccolo); Colin Stetson (amplified bass saxophone); Hedvig Mollestad (guitar); Per-Åke Holmlander (tuba); [...]
VIEW MORE / BUYJeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman
Begin, Again
Released 2023
"Begin, Again" documents a set of new compositions realized by three veterans from the creative improvised music scene: trombonist Jeb Bishop, violinist Mark Feldman and percussionist Tim Daisy. Inspired by Jeb and Mark's recent relocation back to the windy city, Tim Daisy seized on the opportunity[...]
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Nisse Sandström Group
Released 2023
In collaboration with musician Mats Gustafsson and Roger Bergner of the Center for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, Caprice Records starts a new series of records in the autumn of 2023 – Öppet! Öppet focuses on creative and experimental music from Sweden, 1965-75. First out are recordin[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYHåvard Wiik & Tim Daisy
Slight Return
Released 2023
Slight Return documents two sets of inspired sound making between Berlin based pianist Håvard Wiik (Atomic, Element, Free Fall) and Chicago drummer Tim Daisy (Vox 4, Rempis Percussion Quartet.) Reconnecting a decade after their 2013 release "A Fine Day in Berlin" (relay 006) which included bassist[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYEdition 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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Exhale – Vol 2
Released 2023
”The debut record of LUFT – is a two volume album of exceptional explorations within the bagpipe and reed universe —— unknown music of poetic beauty and high energy cascades. Fast moving changes in texture and layers vs static repetitions and alternatives densities and melody treatments!
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EE Opus One
Released 2023
The initial idea behind Ensemble E was to combine traditions of Contemporary Music, deeper folkmusic, Improvised music, Free Jazz and other experimental music fields and traditions with the deeper music traditions. This is deeper research of traditional and non-traditional ways of expressing folk m[...]
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Gush 30 – Krakow 2018
Released 2023
3-CDs box-set documents Gush residency at Alchemia club in Krakow in November 2018 celebrating band's 30th aniversary.
Gush performs precisely as one might anticipate from a trio of seasoned musicians who have collaborated for three decades. Gustafsson's saxophone emulates the qualities of the h[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYMats Gustafsson & Andreas Røysum
Vindögæ
Released 2023
Reed players Mats Gustafsson and Andreas Røysum bonded over common understandings of the physical and political dimensions of music. Across generations and other accountant-like statistics (zzz...), they decided in 2021 to start playing together as a duo, and thus VINDÖGÆ was unleashed on the No[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYMargareth Kammerer
Why Is The Sea So Blue
Released 2013
In Why Is The Sea So Blue Margareth Kammerer continues to explore songs in experimental music contexts, elaborately interweaving lyrics into nine wistful soundscapes. Originally recorded in 2006, with the band consisting of Christof Kurzmann (voice, saxophone), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Burkhard Stan[...]
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Smash & Grab
Released 2023
When Ballister hit the stage at the Catalytic Sound Festival in Chicago in December 2022, no one in the band was quite sure what to expect. Although they’d done a two-week tour of the US in April of that year, their first reunion following an almost three-year break due to the pandemic, you never[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYLeonel Kaplan, Christof Kurzmann & Edén Carrasco
Casa Corp
Released 2012
Second release for the accomplished trio of Leonel Kaplan, Christof Kurzmann and Edén Carrasco on the follow of last years brilliant Una Casa/Observatorio.
Recorded in Buenos Aires, roughly a year after the two pieces that compose the first release, Casa Corp reveals both a continuity and a pro[...]
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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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VIEW MORE / BUYAlan Courtis, Jaime Genovart, Christof Kurzmann & Pablo Reche
Palmar Zähler
Released 2009
"It is now 5 years that I travel to Latin America. My home base in Buenos Aires; and from there to almost all the other countries. When I arrived there first, I did not know much about the music scene, especially about any scene committed to “New Music” or “Improvisation”, but with the time[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYMalcolm 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[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYChristof Kurzmann
Börsenkrach
Released 2009
Recorded at WORM Studios/Rotterdam 3-9/08/2009Comes in a plastic bag with insert.
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VIEW MORE / BUYWerner Dafeldecker / Christof Kurzmann / John Tilbury / Stevie Wishart
Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Tilbury / Wishart
Released 2009
Werner Dafeldecker and Christof Kurzmann are two distinguished and original voices of Austrian modern music.Dafeldecker, a bassist, is known as a founder of improv group Polwechsel, which has released this summer a long awaited album “Field” on Hat Hut featuring pianist John Tilbury, an integra[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYVarious Artists
Clap. An Anatomy of Applause
Released 2023
Clap. An Anatomy of Applause is a compilation of original works by a group of musicians and composers brought together by Andrea Stillacci and Unsounds. The project goal is to highlight the radically different forms and meanings that the sound of applause can take according to its context. The prin[...]
VIEW MORE / BUYJohn Butcher, Leonel Kaplan & Christof Kurzmann
Shortening Distance
Released 2013
A 2012 live concert, about a half hour's worth, from the 2012 Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon Festival, Butcher on saxophones and feedback, Kaplan on trumpet and Kurzmann manipulating ppooll software.
The set begins in an almost pastoral fashion, restrained and offhandedly lyrical, and remains withdrawn[...]
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Ice In A Hot World
Released 2023
"THERMAL (John Butcher / Andy Moor / Thomas Lehn) formed in 2001, three musicians from different musical backgrounds, evolving along their personal routes to meet in free improvisations. For twenty years they’ve been taking their subtle and explosive music throughout Europe. Unsounds released the[...]
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