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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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Catalytic Sound Festival 2023 – Chicago
Designed and screen printed in Chicago by Dan Grzeca
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Joe McPhee with Ken Vandemark
Musings Of A Bahamian Son
Released 2024
Joe McPhee is one of the great multi-instrumentalists of contemporary improvised music. His instrumental battery has included saxophones, clarinets, valve trombone, pocket trumpet, sound-on-sound tape recorder, and space organ, but another arrow in his quiver is text. McPhee has been writing poems [...]
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Fred Lonberg-Holm
Not One To...
Released 2024
Limited Edition Cassette in Cardboard CaseArt by Fred Lonberg-HolmCopy of 100
Recorded on April 29th 2022 at Shirk Studios, Chicago by Nick BrostePrepared for release by Gordon Comstock
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Dave Rempis / Tashi Dorji Duo
Gnash
Released 2024
This overdue duo record by longtime colleagues Tashi Dorji (guitar) and Dave Rempis (saxophones) is a monument to the endless musical curiosity that links them. These two come at it from remarkably different backgrounds – Dorji combining his Bhutanese ethnicity with a love for metal, punk, Americ[...]
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Amalie Dahl's Dafnie
Røda Linjen EP
Released 2021
Amalie Dahl – alto and baritone saxophone, clarinetOscar Andreas Haug – trumpetJørgen Bjelkerud – tromboneNicolas Leirtrø - double bassVeslemøy Narvesen – drums, percussion and saw
All music by Amalie Dahl.Recorded by Kyrre Laastad in Øra Studio on 28th and 29th of June 2021.Mixed by[...]
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Amalie Dahl's Dafnie
Står op med solen
Released 2024
‘Står op med solen’ (Rising with the sun) is the second album by Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie. With this album, the band continues the exploration of their collective sound. We hear influences from both old school free jazz, and contemporary Scandinavian jazz like Fire! Orchestra and Christian Wallu[...]
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Amalie Dahl's Dafnie
Dafnie
Released 2022
The energetic somersault greeting us on the debut of Danish born Trondheim based saxophone player and band leader Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie is a heads up for this fresh breath of air that Dafnie represents. The quintet colour out Dahl’s strong, melodic compositions with playfulness and convincing we[...]
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Brooks
Brooks
Released 2024
This record was recorded in Olavshallen the 25th of may 2023. Brooks is Sondre, Emil and Bendik’s trio who each invited a teacher for a studio session during their second year jazz studies at NTNU in Trondheim. This resulted in the presence of Ingebrigt, Vigleik and Erik. We also asked Jørgen to[...]
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Axel Filip, Oscar Andreas Haug & Margaux Oswald
Xanthic Tales
Released 2022
Xanthic Tales is the first album documenting the international collaboration between trumpet player Oscar Andreas Haug, pianist Margaux Oswald and drummer Axel Filip. Free flowing, thematic and daring, the trio makes use of elements such as microtonality and preparations to create their captiiating[...]
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Enok Monk
føkt mose EP
Released 2024
Recorded and mixed in GODSterminalen by Trond Wiger for Alt for Høyt for Langt for Kort Forlag 2023Mastering by Karl Klaseie, Øra MasteringChorus lyrics På gli by Stig Aarskog
Cover photo by Trond Wiger - trondwiger.noCover design by Juliane Schütz - julieannenoying.com
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Kristian Enkerud Lien's KRISE
Svartsymra
Released 2023
Svartsymra is an avant-garde exploration of sound and musical boundaries by the experimental contemporary ensemble KRISE, led by Kristian Enkerud Lien. The ensemble ventures into new territories by blending just intonation, microtonality, rock club vibes, and Norwegian folk music in an innovative w[...]
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Peders Hode
The Things I Ate
Released 2023
With the release of the album The Things I Ate, the talented guitarist and composer Peder Overvik Stuberg (b. 1996) makes a bold entrance unto the international jazz scene. The album showcases an instrumentalist, a band leader and a composer with a varied yet simultaneously distinctive and remarkab[...]
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TEIP TRIO & Maria Norseth Garli
Improvisasjon av 21. november 2022
Released 2023
On the evening of the 21st of November 2022, the first of a four-day long recording session at Verkstedhallen, Trondheim, TEIP TRIO and Maria Norseth Garli got together for a one-off set of improvisations. Garli’s acoustic guitar, combined with the room’s lack of monitoring, called for a soft a[...]
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Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe
The Rite of Spring – Spectre d’un songe
Released 2023
Sylvie Courvoisier is often viewed as a jazz pianist because her oeuvre is so fundamentally grounded in her profound skills as an improvisor. However, astute listeners realize quickly that she brings the touch and outlook of classical pianism to her work and indeed, the music of Messiaen, Bach, Lig[...]
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Sylvie Courvoisier
Chimera
Released 2023
Chimaera is the newest ensemble of pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier. The virtuoso band brings together key musical personalities from the New York jazz scene in Wadada Leo Smith, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, and features Austrian artist Christian Fennesz, whose ambient texture[...]
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Re-Ghoster Extended
The Zebra Paradox
Released 2023
Setting the stage for The Zebra Paradox requires building anticipation and intrigue on the inside of the listener before they even hear the first notes. To accomplish this an imagined transference of information must bloom like a deep inhalation of sonic spores. If categories can be applied to expl[...]
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Germán Bringas, Gibrán Andrade & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Trio
Mexico City [CAA-068]
Released 2024
"I met Germán Bringas when I was 19 years old, in 2009. He has been a musical father to me ever since. I remember the first time we played two duo sets in front of 5 people at his venue Jazzorca. He took the concert and the music as seriously as if it were a full concert hall. After performing we [...]
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