Judith Schwarz & Manu Mayr – PRCDR
PRCDR, the album, and the Viennese experimental duo of drummer-composer Judith Schwarz and bassist-composer-producer Many Mayr bring together two busy musicians with diverse and versatile musical interests.
Schwarz plays in the electric dance trio Other:M:other,...
Noël Akchoté x 2: with Vesna Pisarović and Luís Ianes
Two completely different albums with prolific French guitarist-composer Noël Akchoté.
The first album is the surprising collaboration of Croatian pop and jazz singer-songwriter Vesna Pisarović with Akchoté, trumpeter Axel Dörner, drummer-percussionist Tony Buck (of The...
Philippe Petit – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Japanese experimental short film Emperor Tomato Ketchup (トマトケチャップ皇帝, Tomato Kechappu Kōtei, 1971. When it was first released it was in a 27-minute version but the director’s cut that was 75-minute and its wa...
Richard Valitutto plays Sarah Hennies’ SOVT
SOVT (Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract) (2017) is a 55-minute minimalist piece by American, New York-based composer-percussionist Sarah Hennies that addresses the vocal exercises that strengthen the voice by helping the vocal cords vibrate more efficiently,...
Chaz Underriner – Moving
Moving is a series of multidisciplinary works by American experimental composer, guitarist, and transmedia artist Chaz Underriner, who is often associated with the reductionist Wandelweiser Group of composers, and is an associate professor of...
Anna McMichael & Clocked Out – Peak Plastique
Peak Plastique is a clever musical examination of the surprising sonic characteristics of plastic, while reflecting on the ubiquitous, paradoxical presence of this material across our environment and our complex relationship with it despite...
Ricardo Jacinto – SOLO
Portuguese, Lisbon-based Ricardo Jacinto is an experimental cellist, conceptual composer, sound artist and designer, and architect who thinks of solo free improvisation as an exploration of the relation between sound and space. He is...
Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat – Là
Là refers to Là-bas, the 2006 film by Belgian-Jewish director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), in which Akerman expressed her ambivalent relations with the Israeli state, especially its settler-colonial narrative. Phonetically, Là (meaning ‘there’ in French)...
Two Argentinian cellists: Violeta García and Cecilia Quinteros
Two experimental Argentinian cellists from Buenos Aires - Violeta García and Cecilia Quinteros - keep exploring and expanding the sonic palettes of their instrument.
Violeta García is a composer and curator now based in Bern,...
Meinrad Kneer / Albert van Veenendaal – The Munderkingen Sessions, Part 2
German, Berlin-based double bass player-composer Meinead Kneer and Dutch, Amsterdam-based pianist-composer-arranger-producer Albert van Veenendaal have played together for almost 25 years and collaborated in many musical endeavors. They founded the Evil Rabbit label, dedicated...