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"Hansen/Krakowiak attack and disseminate both the turntable and the drum. Their improvisations are built through layers of sound where the instrumentation interpolates becoming musical coitus. Hansen/Krakowiak constuct new waves of contemporary sound, influenced by ...
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SPF304 | SPOOL

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AST33CD | AESTHETICS

"Off Leash is the third release of the delicate high-energy trio Konk Pack - founded in 1998 and made up of Thomas Lehn on EMS-synthesizer, Roger Turner on drums and Tim Hodgkinson on la-top steel guitar and clarinet. Big Deep (1999, GROB 102) was a selection of their ...
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GROB654 | GROB

"Tom Carter (Charalambides) & Vanessa Arn (Primordial Undermind, Gourmet Chef) combined their powers to tap the reverberant waves of the ether on this split release with improv trio from Ukraine - the Moglass. While Carter / Arn part made with lap-steel guitars and ...
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NS28 | NEXSOUND

"Recorded April 6 & September 4, 1997 at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The performances were part of an exhibition of sculptural work by Reinhard Reitzenstein. The exhibition was in two parts, a sound installation entitled Klang ...
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SPL106 | SPOOL

"Second release from the extraordinary ensemble. Lee's compositions kick, simmer and sing, and confirm her as a major talent of what Muhal Richard Abrams called contemporary creative music. The seamless improvisations which colored the first recording so vividly and ...
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SPL117 | SPOOL

"Rosenberg's compositions are as thorny and challenging as their titles ("Shrrr", "Sdppd", "Sttm"...) - his scores leave much room for improvisation, but also present fiendish problems of ensemble coordination, which are brilliantly handled by the Skronktet West. It's ...
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SPA401 | SPOOL

"John Shiurba has assembled an impressive West Coast octet, featuring vocalists Lara Bruckmann and Morgan Guberman, drummer Gino Robair, and bassist Matthew Sperry (among others), and conducts them through five of his tortuous compositions. Hearing the violent, sharp ...
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SPA402 | SPOOL

"She can scrape and stridulate as required, but her cello playing also grants due place to clarity of line and sweetness of tone. Both aspects of Lee's musical character inform her compositions and their performance by an entirely sympathetic sextet." (The Wire) Peggy ...
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SPL105 | SPOOL

RAKE - S/T (CD)

"Enter rake, a musically adventurous trio based in Ottawa, Canada's capital of anything but free music. With the unusual instrumentation of two percussionists and a reed player who features bassoon as much as sax, rake creates rich, widely variegated textures. There ...
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SPL108 | SPOOL

"Rake-Star nails the Ra mantra-approach with their huge sound. The band is heavy on the bottom end and the reeds suggest floating in a zone removed from earth's gravitational pull. Even though the listener can't see the dancer, this live recording is reminiscent of a ...
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SPL123 | SPOOL

with Danielle DeGruttola. "Recorded October 1996 and November 1997. These two masters of improvisation unfold a melange of musical wonderment. They are joined on several tracks by the rich, sonorous sounds of Danielle DeGruttola's cello. By turns, whimsical, ...
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SPL103 | SPOOL

"Gathering brings together the most exceptional music and video art of Toronto duo Smash and Teeny, created live in performance, studio and site-specific outdoor locations in Canada, the U.S. and England between 2001-2003. In this double-CD debut of Smash and Teeny, ...
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SPF305 | SPOOL

"And indeed this music has the radical openness, the lack of boundary, the myopic detail (eschewing grand, overarching gesture), the (perhaps subtle) intricacy (...), and the particularity that I've ascribed to the idea of ornament. ... I think Cameron's pieces are ...
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SPP202 | SPOOL

"One of the main features is Arioso Distante. It is a beautiful 12 minute string piece. It has a classical feel, but often sounds as if there were three different string quartets following similar but not identical scores. The result is a lush, powerful music. Pack uses ...
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SPP201 | SPOOL

"A key to the success of this recording is the well-balanced "equation" of these three specific musicians. Hansen is a Toronto-based turntablist who tends more to Christian Marclay than Kid Koala. He explains, "I started manipulating records back in high school during ...
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SPF303 | SPOOL

"Third CD release from Riot Season and the third album from the newly shortened monikered Aufgehoben (previously Aufgehoben No Process). Anno Fauve sees the band collaborate once again with stereo guitar virtuoso Gary Smith (Mass, Glass Cage, Powerfield etc). Anno Fauve ...
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REPOSECD05 | RIOT SEASON

"They [Lerner & Freedman] have a remarkable symbiosis, with Lerner's quite elegant lines sometimes giving this disc the sound of what it might have been like if Eric Dolphy had ever played with Cecil Taylor. Lerner's powerful phrasing also seems to owe something to ...
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SPL111 | SPOOL

"Recorded June 30, 1998, in Oakland. John Butcher, one of the most original saxophone voices of the day, joined here in good company by Gino Robair and Matthew Sperry. Never content with simply being an exercise in pushing the capabilities of their instruments beyond ...
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SPL109 | SPOOL

special offer "('The Dream of a Ghost') is a collaboration between sound artists Marc Behrens and Francisco López, which started three years ago with a joint recording session at Frankfurt airport. Sharing a common pool of mutated sound materials, they have created two ...
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ABS005-04 | ABSOLUTE

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MSKCD001 | MOUSIKE LAB

when nikos veliotis (cello) forwarded the mail around the first looper scandinavian tour back in 2003 w/ ingar zach (percussion) & martin kuechen (sax) I was expecting them to sound more like a 'classic' free improv combo... however things worked completely different ...
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ABSURD#45 | ABSURD

V.A. - BRICOLAGE #1 (CD)

Comes in a brilliant fabric CD holder. Tracks from Huk Don Phun, Girl Talk, oto, sawako, stAllio, Realistic, jörg piringer, the grassy knoll, B'O'K, ADMacHine, Wobbly, Edward Coli, The Overneath and EVIE SENSATION.
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IA021 | ILLEGAL ART