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RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026
We Release Jazz presents this limited vinyl edition of Ill Considered's transcendent live album Live in Jura, an expansive document of the trio's 2023 performance at Spiegelberg Festival -- now available as a double LP with a bonus D-side, housed in a heavyweight sleeve with obi and an original artwork by Vincent de Boer. Captured in the heights of Saignelégier, Switzerland, in the middle of a pasture overlooking the Jura mountains, Live in Jura bottles the singular Ill Considered live experience at its most open, responsive, and elemental. From Idris Rahman (sax, flute), Liran Donin (bass), and Emre Ramazanoglu (drums), this is deep free improv built from intuition and heart -- an ever-evolving conversation of groove, texture, and spirit. Whispered motifs bloom into towering climaxes; earthy bass surges meet shimmering cymbal work; woodwind lines move from meditative invocation to ecstatic release. It is music shaped by the audience, the environment, and the moment: alive, unrepeatable, and deeply organic. The bonus D-side extends the album's world with a unique ambient composition made from field-recorded organic sounds of the forest surrounding the concert area. Re-composed into a drifting, luminous piece, it features The Voices of the Alpenglow, blurring the boundary between performance and landscape, human gesture and elemental presence. Ill Considered -- known for forging improvised music around simple themes or spontaneously created structures -- here reach a new level of sensitivity and power.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/27/2026
Drummer/composer Booker Stardrum delivers a new powerful solo album Close-up On The Outside, his first for We Jazz Records. The new record sees Stardrum (also a member of SML) doubling down on the earthy tactility of human sound and communication while also exploring rich, electroacoustic landscapes. The album involves Stardrum's close collaborators Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Chris Williams, Lester St. Louis, Logan Hone and Michael Coleman. The opening title track and the brief "Minturn" place Stardrum's solo music in the stillness of a late summer farm, with field recordings of insects and birds localizing the music; wooden balafon-like strokes are then looped into the foundational structure of the closing "Inside Sounds," hovering at poles that are both plaintive and direct. Dry, homemade mallet instruments and field recordings also nod in the direction of Harry Partch. There's a lot of warmth and sweat in Stardrum's music -- even if it's electroacoustic, one feels that it's made by people, and there is a biologically systemic quality to the way in which digital and analog sounds are interpolated. He creates textures through midi controllers, samples, and loops, wherein acoustic sequences are altered to fit plugged-in concepts or acoustic instrumentalists are brought in to humanize what he's already mapped out electronically. Threading the unique and very present feel of other musicians into his universe with an electronic hand is a fascinating challenge. The people Stardrum chose to work with on Close-up on the Outside are mostly artists he's worked with for years, or been connected to through mutual instigators. Bringing it back to the earthbound carpet that he's striving for, the push-pull between humanism and machinery ties into an ecological concept that Stardrum wants to call attention to. Toggling between composer and organizer, sound designer and instrumentalist, Stardrum offers that this music "represents my pure vision because it's my music, but that vision also involves playing with other people and letting them do what they do and also hoping that they're trusting me to do what I do. But in the end, making a solo record is much more a conversation with myself than setting up an improvised dialogue with various collaborators. Everything has its own special place in my orbit."
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$32.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/27/2026
LP version. Almost seven years after their last release, numerous international tours, and winning the award for Best Band at the first edition of the German Jazz Awards 2021, PHILM is releasing two new albums. 2024 was recorded in an old Berlin cinema, the Zentrifuge. In search of "their own rhythmic mantras," as Philipp Gropper explains, strange, multi-layered grooves and unfamiliar sounds. Catapulted into strange worlds by Gropper's compositions, PHILM is concerned with the emotional content of these grooves and navigating them together. This adventurous atmosphere in the room and the interpersonal interplay leave their mark on the sound. Because that's exactly what PHILM is all about: a band that's not about outdoing each other with solos, but about finding a shared musical language, creating together, like an interlocking sound machine.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/27/2026
After many years of fruitless praying, a true collector grail can finally grace every turntable the world over. Bright And Shining is a miraculous leftfield library classic from the genius mind of Barbara Moore. With originals almost impossible to find, you already know how crucial this beautiful reissue is. Recorded in 1981 for Sylvester Music Company, Bright And Shining is breezy, dreamy and funky in a perfectly smooth jazzy-soul-groove fashion, with Moore's patented celestial male-female vocal harmonies this time benefitting from the addition of Fender Rhodes and pumping bass lines. As one particularly enthusiastic Discogs user put it: "If Eno is responsible for Music for Airports, Moore is responsible for Music for Holidays." Indeed, this is brilliantly unique, "maximum happiness music." If you miss the sun-dappled soft-psych soul of Koushik, the heavenly vocal arrangements of the great Library Music doyenne Barbara Moore will see you just right. The gigantic title track, "Bright And Shining," gallops out the gate, all sophisticated, jazzy leisure-soul with sax and guitars backing Moore's effortless vocal swag in this relaxed, mid-tempo head-nod strut. Up next, the sunny, vibey "Fly Me High" features strolling, "unworded" vocals alongside breezy alto sax and electric guitar. The jazzy "Real Thing" is another exercise in strolling sophistication, complete with wordless vocal harmonies. The fairly self-explanatory "Voice Over Sax" sounds precisely how you would expect; a relaxed sax number with heavenly vocal support. The audio for Bright And Shining has been meticulously remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring this release sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry in Holland. The original, iconic sleeve has been restored as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/27/2026
A great name. A great cover. And, of course, outstanding library music. Soul City Orchestra's Meal Ticket houses titanic funk, mellow groove and symphonic disco-soul. Released in 1977 on Rouge, a subsidiary of the prestigious and long-established British library label Music De Wolfe, Meal Ticket was crafted by the studio band Soul City Orchestra (a pseudonym for the De Wolfe in-house composers Chris Rae and Franck McDonald). The driving instrumental funk-rock of the A Side is enhanced with strings and no little drama. However, it's undoubtedly the peerless flipside that makes this record an essential part of any collection. Head straight to highlight "Chamber Maid"; insistent, conga-driven funky rock with lashings of string-heightened drama. It's sophisticated, classical and deeply classy. The majestic, powerfully emotive "Sore Head" contains an excellent intro drum break and sultry slo-mo disco breaks throughout. It's low-key stunning. With a few melodic switch-ups, it's symphonic soul heaven and is comfortably the best and most beautifully crucial track on Side A. The breezy, Philly soul-tinged "Short Change," its intense strings reminiscent of the Salsoul Orchestra and TSOP, presents an easy-glide funk that's just irresistible. The funky, cool and slick AF "Wheeling And Dealing" is laconic flute and string-propelled sophisticated mid-tempo disco soul. It's worth the price of admission alone. The breezy, mellowed out disco-funk workout "The Jam" is a deliciously slinky and sophisticated soul strut. The crowning glory is the sweeping, sublime symphonic disco breaks of horn-infused "Soul City Drive," an absolute monster of radiant heavy soul-funk à la Barry White with great string and brass arrangement. Basically, this is essential for all groove-aficionados. The audio for Meal Ticket has been meticulously remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring this release sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry in Holland. The original, iconic sleeve has been restored as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.
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$32.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/27/2026
LP version. Almost seven years after their last release, numerous international tours, and winning the award for Best Band at the first edition of the German Jazz Awards 2021, PHILM is releasing new music. 2025 was recorded live at the Loft in Cologne in April 2025. The sound here is darker, more emotional. The two pieces "no words" I and II are good examples of this, dealing with the bewilderment and horror in the face of current crises, wars, and the repeatedly destructive role of the global North. Between dissonance and beauty, a wide range of emotions opens up. With 2024 and 2025, PHILM are opening a new chapter for themselves, further honing their long-standing and rightly celebrated consistent understanding of jazz, of storytelling through music, which has had a decisive influence on the European avant-garde.
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$36.50
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RELEASE DATE: 2/20/2026
Transparent yellow color vinyl version. For a few fleeting moments during a sunset, the sky is cast a vivid shade of amber. A dramatic flare of color, a moment belonging to both the day and the night. It is within this vibrant, ephemeral world, that Mongolian-born, Munich-based Enji has written her album Sonor. Sonor is a reflection of Enji's personal evolution and the complex emotions that accompany living between two worlds. The album's themes revolve around the unplaceable feeling of being between cultures, not as a source of conflict, but as a space for growth and self-discovery. Enji explores how distance from her traditional Mongolian roots has shaped her identity, and how returning home brings a heightened awareness of these changes. Backed by a band of renowned jazz musicians (Elias Stemeseder on piano, Robert Landfermann on bass, Julian Sartorius on drums and co-composer Paul Brändle on guitar), Enji isn't just revisiting tradition, she's distilling the feeling of home, of small joys that reveal their significance only when viewed from afar. Like a familiar song hummed by a parent, her music captures the essence of belonging, not tied to a single place, but to the emotions and memories that shape humanity.
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$14.50
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RELEASE DATE: 2/13/2026
ATA Records present the new release by Work Money Death, A Portal to Here. This album continues WMD's exploration of spiritual jazz and the sounds and styles that evolved out of the '60s New Thing, particularly the recordings of Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders. The first WMD album released since the tragic death of ATA guitarist Chris Earl Dawkins in early 2025, all four tracks reference the journey that band members and the studio have been on -- in many ways this record is a testament and tribute to Chris, his musicality and creativity. Featuring WMD stalwarts Tony Burkill, Neil Innes, Sam Hobbs, and Sam Bell, the album introduces Sorcerers keyboardist Johnny Richards to the WMD sound. Richards brings a fresh new take to the piano role here, drawing on what is clearly a broad knowledge of jazz history and channeling that through his own unique 21st century musical perspective. The album also features contributions from Alice Roberts on harp, bringing the spirit of Alice Coltrane, Ben Powling on baritone saxophone, Richard Ormrod on woodwind, and Kev Holbrough and Steve Parry on brass. Those Sun Ra-esque horn sections lift the mood whenever they appear. Standout tracks are the second, "Dance of the Spirits," with a strong core of "Baptism and The Blues" and some lovely playing by Richards, and the third track, "Brother Earl," which begins with Tony on flute over rhythms that are directly reminiscent of open-hearted, late-'60s spirituality. A Portal to Here is a stunning addition to the WMD catalogue and a clear statement that the band continues to create and produce, whatever life throws its way.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/13/2026
The historical importance, influence, and stature of the Schlippenbach Trio was cemented long ago. Formed in 1970 by German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach in the early days of European free jazz, the group also featured British saxophonist Evan Parker and German drummer Paul Lovens, and soon formed the core of the mighty Globe Unity Orchestra from that point on. As heard on its 1972 debut for FMP Pakistani Pomade -- reissued by Cien Fuegos back in 2015 -- its foundational music helped establish the group's feverish free improvisation as a dominant thread in the history of European free jazz. The intellectual and artistic curiosity of the group's members, to say nothing of their paradigm-shifting technique and collective sensibility, changed the course of free improv forever. Schlippenbach Trio soon snapped back into its working methodology on its follow up album, Physics, in 1993, which further elevates the singularity of Elf Bagatellen. The album captured a different side of the trio and helped inform the modern classical tilt in European improvised music. Cien Fuegos now reissues this undeniable classic, making it available on vinyl for the first time ever.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/13/2026
First released on Prestige in 1957 New Trombone is Curtis Fuller's debut album. Back in the day, Fuller was a 23 years old Detroiter whose fluent style represented a new step in the trombone's evolution. Backed by a solid quintet featuring Sonny Red (alto sax), Hank Jones (piano), Doug Watkins (bass), and Louis Hayes (drums), Fuller opens up with a strong hard-bop album including three originals and a couple of standards. This is highly swinging Jazz based on group interlay and with deep roots in blues.
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$35.00
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RELEASE DATE: 2/13/2026
LP version. ATA Records present the new release by Work Money Death, A Portal to Here. This album continues WMD's exploration of spiritual jazz and the sounds and styles that evolved out of the '60s New Thing, particularly the recordings of Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders. The first WMD album released since the tragic death of ATA guitarist Chris Earl Dawkins in early 2025, all four tracks reference the journey that band members and the studio have been on -- in many ways this record is a testament and tribute to Chris, his musicality and creativity. Featuring WMD stalwarts Tony Burkill, Neil Innes, Sam Hobbs, and Sam Bell, the album introduces Sorcerers keyboardist Johnny Richards to the WMD sound. Richards brings a fresh new take to the piano role here, drawing on what is clearly a broad knowledge of jazz history and channeling that through his own unique 21st century musical perspective. The album also features contributions from Alice Roberts on harp, bringing the spirit of Alice Coltrane, Ben Powling on baritone saxophone, Richard Ormrod on woodwind, and Kev Holbrough and Steve Parry on brass. Those Sun Ra-esque horn sections lift the mood whenever they appear. Standout tracks are the second, "Dance of the Spirits," with a strong core of "Baptism and The Blues" and some lovely playing by Richards, and the third track, "Brother Earl," which begins with Tony on flute over rhythms that are directly reminiscent of open-hearted, late-'60s spirituality. A Portal to Here is a stunning addition to the WMD catalogue and a clear statement that the band continues to create and produce, whatever life throws its way.
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$16.50
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RELEASE DATE: 2/6/2026
Francois Houle and Georg Graewe present Music For Clarinet And Piano. Recorded on May 5, 2023 in Vienna. Featuring Georg Graewe on piano and Francois Houle on clarinet. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Martin Siewert.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/6/2026
Re-press of the sold-out 2024 album. Described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the most fascinating singers in modern music," New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised singer and multi-instrumentalist Ganavya released her album Daughter of a Temple in November 2024. For the album, she invited over 30 artists from various disciplines to a ritual gathering in Houston. Accordingly, the resulting album features numerous contributors, including renowned musicians such as esperanza spalding, Vijay Iyer, Shabaka Hutchings, Immanuel Wilkins, and Peter Sellars. The results, an innovative and deeply moving blend of spiritual jazz and South Asian sacred music, were first recorded by Ryan Renteria and then further processed and mixed by Nils Frahm at LEITER Studio in Berlin in 2024. Ganavya is the author and singer of the first Tamil lyrics to win a Latin Grammy, she was a singer in Vijay Iyer's Ritual Quartet and solo singer on Quincy Jones's "Tocororo," which reached number 1 in the jazz charts. She recorded her latest album, Like The Sky I've Been Too Quiet, with Shabaka Hutchings and features guests such as Floating Points, Tom Herbert, Carlos Niño, and Leafcutter John.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/30/2026
Almost seven years after their last release, numerous international tours, and winning the award for Best Band at the first edition of the German Jazz Awards 2021, PHILM is releasing two new albums. 2024 was recorded in an old Berlin cinema, the Zentrifuge. In search of "their own rhythmic mantras," as Philipp Gropper explains, strange, multi-layered grooves and unfamiliar sounds. Catapulted into strange worlds by Gropper's compositions, PHILM is concerned with the emotional content of these grooves and navigating them together. This adventurous atmosphere in the room and the interpersonal interplay leave their mark on the sound. Because that's exactly what PHILM is all about: a band that's not about outdoing each other with solos, but about finding a shared musical language, creating together, like an interlocking sound machine.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/30/2026
Almost seven years after their last release, numerous international tours, and winning the award for Best Band at the first edition of the German Jazz Awards 2021, PHILM is releasing new music. 2025 was recorded live at the Loft in Cologne in April 2025. The sound here is darker, more emotional. The two pieces "no words" I and II are good examples of this, dealing with the bewilderment and horror in the face of current crises, wars, and the repeatedly destructive role of the global North. Between dissonance and beauty, a wide range of emotions opens up. With 2024 and 2025, PHILM are opening a new chapter for themselves, further honing their long-standing and rightly celebrated consistent understanding of jazz, of storytelling through music, which has had a decisive influence on the European avant-garde.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
"After her self-titled debut, Chiaré returns with SEI, a collection of six brand new tracks. The Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist blends the technical mastery from her jazz singing diploma and ongoing classical double bass studies with the raw talent recognized by the 2023 Bianca D'Aponte Award for emerging Italian singer-songwriters. For this record, Chiaré has teamed up with forward-thinking producer Pasquale Strizzi to further refine her sound, whose folk and jazz influences are now intertwined with electronic elements."
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
"For the second time in a matter of weeks, here we have an opportunity to hear more from guitarist Derek Bailey, this time performing with John Stevens. Neither man should need much by way of introduction: both were seminal figures in the world of free improvised music as it took shape in the 1960s and '70s. Thanks to Michael Gurzon's recording, here they are, in 1989, performing together at The Duke of Wellington in London. The first track, 'I'm Alright Actually,' begins with a series of slippery shapes, the noise-elements of Bailey's guitar merging with those of Stevens' percussion in a non-stop stream of invention. The music reaches a point of stasis before moving off into a series of angular shapes which give way to a stream of more slow-moving ideas. There is always a sense of restlessness though, a feeling that, at any moment, things might get more chaotic, which, inevitably, the do. The music ebbs and flows, but the inventiveness and the sense of restless energy is always there. A few seconds of applause have been left in at the end, which really captures the ambience of the venue (the same goes for both the other tracks, too). The second, 'What's the Time?', begins with more spacious, harmonic-dominated ideas from Bailey, in dialogue with Stevens' 'pocket trumpet'. Almost seven minutes in, the music becomes more dense and agitated. Towards the end it almost comes to rest in another section dominated by harmonics, then tries to build up to a climactic moment before subsiding back into something more reflective. The third, 'More', starts with some shifting chords from Bailey backed up with some fragmentary interventions from Stevens, after which things quickly become more sustained and fast-moving. About six minutes in, the pace drops and we're treated to a strikingly lyrical piece of playing from Bailey. Anyone interested in improvised music will want to listen to this, not just on account of its undoubted historical value, but because of the music itself. It's both a great listen and a text-book example of how to make up music as you go along." --Dominic Rivron
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
sMiLes, the eleventh album by Canadian-Haitian musician Jowee Omicil, stands out as a vibrant manifesto of freedom and authenticity. Fearless and boundless, the album celebrates self-expression, the beauty of imperfection, and the courage to trust the music. Through eleven tracks and a bonus track featuring multi-award-winning singer Dominique Fils-Aimé, Jowee unfolds a uniquely rich soundscape. The album navigates between the legacy of Abbey Lincoln and the resonances of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Roy Hargrove, while asserting a deeply personal identity. Between Cap-Haïtien and 52nd Street in New York, between voodoo drums and cosmic vibrations, sMiLes illustrates the approach of an artist in constant search of innovation, faithful to his essence and his creative freedom. Also featuring Ludovic Louis, Mawuena Kodjovi, Malika Zarra, and Jonathan Jurion.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
Sumrrá asks: "Can we free ourselves from prejudice, cultural and personal. How can we liberate ourselves from the bias and self-sabotage that we got from our ancestors, our environment, our society and our cultural background." REVOLUTI8N explores seven themes in the band's eighth album. Sumrrá express their thoughts through music and tone poems. They seek to trigger an inner Revoluti8n, to spark it. They are shooting an arrow towards the direction they believe the world collectively must look today. After 25 years and hundreds of concerts around the world, Sumrrá continues to look into the future. Pianist Manuel Gutierrez, double bassist Xacobe Martínez Antelo, and drummer L.A.R. Legido perform with a maturity and freshness of ideas that has made their devoted fan base continue to grow. Smart, dynamic and emotional music from Galiza, Spain. Having already released seven albums, REVOLUTI8N, is their eighth. Also available on yellow/black splatter color vinyl (CLE 080LP).
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
LP version. Yellow/black splatter color vinyl. Sumrrá asks: "Can we free ourselves from prejudice, cultural and personal. How can we liberate ourselves from the bias and self-sabotage that we got from our ancestors, our environment, our society and our cultural background." REVOLUTI8N explores seven themes in the band's eighth album. Sumrrá express their thoughts through music and tone poems. They seek to trigger an inner Revoluti8n, to spark it. They are shooting an arrow towards the direction they believe the world collectively must look today. After 25 years and hundreds of concerts around the world, Sumrrá continues to look into the future. Pianist Manuel Gutierrez, double bassist Xacobe Martínez Antelo, and drummer L.A.R. Legido perform with a maturity and freshness of ideas that has made their devoted fan base continue to grow. Smart, dynamic and emotional music from Galiza, Spain. Having already released seven albums, REVOLUTI8N, is their eighth.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
"I was seriously impressed by Spoken/Unspoken, the 2021 debut album by the Berlin trio Jane in Ether, which includes pianist Magda Mayas along with violinist Biliana Voutchkova and recorder player Miako Klein, but the trio's fantastic follow-up Oneiric proves what can happen when a group develops it sound over time, slowly congealing into an approach where its components are increasingly elusive. Once again the music is all improvised, but for the most part this new release digs deeper into a unified approach to sustained sound than the debut. To be sure, there are passages when the three instrumentalists carve out distinct areas of interrogation, improvising as three voices meticulously weaving their output together, such as the opening moments of 'soaring' where Mayas produces a carpet of percussive resonance both directly upon the piano's strings and mediated through objects, Klein blows unpitched breaths in alliterative spams, and Voutchkova weds vocal fry, wordless meandering, and delicate, weightless bowed violin tones, but the bulk of the record almost feels compositional in terms of how cohesive the individual transmissions operate as one. For me the undeniable highlight of the new album is the title piece, a nineteen-minute excursion where the component sounds meld wondrously into a tactile, ever-shifting meditation marbled with endless textural variation and harmonic movement. Taste is personal, of course, but these days the improvised music that routinely speaks loudest to me is when musicians achieve this kind of spontaneous sonic marriage, working collectively, and subsuming individualities in pursuit of a massed ensemble sound in which each particular element exists to serve the whole. Of course, this approach isn't new and we could look back to AMM as one potential starting point, but I feel like this approach has achieved a critical mass of late. This sort of pursuit actually feels far more non-idiomatic than any of the improvisation that once claimed that mantle." --Peter Margasak
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
50th anniversary reissue! Step into the wild heart of New York's underground avant-garde jazz scene with Voyage from Jericho. Recorded in 1974, release in 1975, this landmark session finds the Charles Tyler Ensemble pushing boundaries with fearless improvisation, deep spiritual yearning, and a raw emotional fire. Joined by top-tier collaborators -- including Arthur Blythe, Earl Cross, Ronnie Boykins, and Steve Reid -- Tyler shapes a sound that fuses avant-garde intensity with soulful depth, creating a powerful celebration of freedom and expression. This is music that demands attention and rewards deep listening. Whether you're a devoted explorer of the avant-garde or a curious listener seeking something beyond the mainstream, Voyage from Jericho offers a journey both challenging and transcendent. In short: if you're ready to move past comfort zones and into the outer reaches of jazz, Voyage from Jericho is a voyage worth taking. Includes 28-page booklet.
"This first-ever vinyl reissue of saxophonist/composer Charles Tyler's Voyage from Jericho album brings his life and work into much greater detail with an exhaustive liner essay by historian Cisco Bradley, unpublished photos and a new remaster from the original tapes. Essential!" --Clifford Allen
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RELEASE DATE: 1/23/2026
LP version. sMiLes, the eleventh album by Canadian-Haitian musician Jowee Omicil, stands out as a vibrant manifesto of freedom and authenticity. Fearless and boundless, the album celebrates self-expression, the beauty of imperfection, and the courage to trust the music. Through eleven tracks and a bonus track featuring multi-award-winning singer Dominique Fils-Aimé, Jowee unfolds a uniquely rich soundscape. The album navigates between the legacy of Abbey Lincoln and the resonances of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, and Roy Hargrove, while asserting a deeply personal identity. Between Cap-Haïtien and 52nd Street in New York, between voodoo drums and cosmic vibrations, sMiLes illustrates the approach of an artist in constant search of innovation, faithful to his essence and his creative freedom. Also featuring Ludovic Louis, Mawuena Kodjovi, Malika Zarra, and Jonathan Jurion.
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FFL 094LP
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$31.50
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RELEASE DATE: 1/16/2026
At the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared with the Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: It's Not Up To Us. The following year he came to Paris in the wake of Sunny Murray. He would come back to France in 1971 (again with Murray) and in 1973 (without Murray for a change). This is when he met Jef Gilson, the pianist and producer who encouraged him to record under his own name again. On Palm Records (Gilson's label), he would release four albums: Us, Mother Africa, Exactement, and Funny Funky Rib Crib. Us, the first of the four records, was recorded on November 24th, 1973 with Sylvin Marcon electric bass and the evergreen Steve McCallon on drums. On the album, the trio works from the John Coltrane model; free jazz shook up by the timely contributions of the bassist, followed by a mesmerizing atmospheric music. Then, Lancaster delivers a sinuous solo path, which is a reminder of his unique tone. On the album's companion single, the trio launches into great black music of a different genre which would lead the clairvoyant François Tusques to claim that Byard Lancaster is an "authentic representative of soul/free jazz." This is the first ever stand-alone vinyl reissue of Us. Carefully remastered and restored by Gilles Laujol. Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur. Includes four-page booklet with rare and unpublished photos 425GSM Frovi Brown Board Heavyweight 180 gr. LP with bonus 7". Officially Licensed from Palm/Geneviève Quievreux.
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SUC 063CS
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Lisbon-based duo Garoa -- formed by Brazilian musicians Raphael Soares (drums, percussion) and Henrique Dias (piano, synthesizer, guitar, percussion) -- craft an evocative soundscape that merges Afro-Brazilian rhythms with ambient textures. Their latest release, recorded in May 2024 at Estúdio Fetra, presents a free-flowing exploration where harmonies and rhythms unfold organically, avoiding rigid structures and embracing improvisation full time. The album's compositions are anchored by the interplay between Soares' fluid percussion and Dias' expansive harmonic approach. Tracks like "A Sandália Quadrada de Lampião" and "Xaxado de Chicago" weave percussive patterns reminiscent of Brazil's Nordeste, blending them seamlessly with atmospheric synthesizers. "Baião de 2" and "Farofa e Cachaça" carry the unmistakable swing of Brazilian traditional forms, reinterpreted through Garoa's lens of modernity and free flowing spontaneity. Produced and mixed by Kellzo, the album captures the spirit of a collaboration that thrives on fluidity and openness. Garoa doesn't aim for definitive statements; instead, they invite the listener into an evolving sonic landscape, where tradition and experimentation walk hand in hand.
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