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Conceived as rendering of a live concept the Berlin based duo of Tony Buck and Magda Mayas have been developing during one year or so, featuring multi-speaker and multi-layered audio, the essence of Stereo sees SPILL performing in the studio, improvising and reacting to previously recorded improvisations and pre-structured, pre-recorded elements.

Edgar Varese, Francois Tusques, Tristan Tzara, Thomas Bonvalet, Nick Cave, interview with saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki by Guillaume Belhomme, 90 book and music reviews.

Learning jazz dance.

Historical and aesthetic approaches of jazz dances.

The self-titled 2nd release of the trio featuring Anthony Pateras, Scott Tinkler and Erkki Veltheim, a stochastic / carnatic free improvisation session recorded in Melbourne's Church of All Nations.

The life and times of jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, free-jazz precursor and collaborator of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman.

An album for children about horror movies and monsters.

Two new musical encounters.

Two new musical encounters.

Kurt Schwitters' Merz Manifesto; AMM by David Grubbs; Daunik Lazro's discography reviewed by Luc Bouquet and... Daunik Lazro; interviews with Anna Tjan from the label Dancing Wayang and Dave Phillips; on Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman. Plus: some sixty book and record reviews.

Improvised trio featuring sound engineer and Synthi player Jean-Marc Foussat, and father and son Christian and Quentin Rollet. Free music with a wide dynamic range and wild acoustic and electronic spaces.

Recorded in March 2016, “Actions Soniques” is a meeting of free rock with free impro into an electroacoustic environment with a clear and powerfull voice. This is the last CD from Dominique Répécaud (1955-2016).

First French translation of the famous 1966 interview with the American saxophonist by writer and jazz specialist Frank Kofsky.

Created by Aidan Baker (Nadja), Gaspar Claus (Pedro Soler, Angélique Ionatos…), Franck Laurino (Zëro), and Maxime Tisserand (Chapelier Fou), this extraordinary project offers 11 tracks of ambient post-rock music that would have integrated the whole notion of freedom in jazz.

Created by Aidan Baker (Nadja), Gaspar Claus (Pedro Soler, Angélique Ionatos…), Franck Laurino (Zëro), and Maxime Tisserand (Chapelier Fou), this extraordinary project offers 11 tracks of ambient post-rock music that would have integrated the whole notion of freedom in jazz.

First reissue ever of one of the holy grail LP from the vault of the amazing Italian library music label Octopus. Originally released in 1973, Climax is a killer studio session by Amedeo Minghi, Piero Montanari and Roberto Conrado. An incredible collection of psych jazz funk tunes with crazy moog sounds, violent drums and deep bass. Ultra rare, hard to find item finally available again.

Second in the Book of Air series, this recording is performed by vvolk, a group of 18 improvisers who explore the relation between time and motion: How is the perception of sound influenced by time? How do we relate to time in music as improvising performing musicians?

Second in the Book of Air series, this recording is performed by vvolk, a group of 18 improvisers who explore the relation between time and motion: How is the perception of sound influenced by time? How do we relate to time in music as improvising performing musicians?

Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.

Instruments that sound like instruments: the debut album from North of North, featuring Anthony Pateras (piano), Scott Tinkler (trumpet) and Erkki Veltheim (violin).

The French translation of David Grubbs's long-awaited study of the role that sound recordings play in representing experimental music of the 1960s.

A literary text by Guillaume Belhomme combining metafiction and cut-up, with a CD on which Daunik Lazro performs Vieux Carré, a composition by Joe McPhee evoking the old French Quarter of New Orleans.

A study of John Coltrane's live recordings.

Performances of clarinet solo around the work of Roger Caillois & graphic scores (with Maurice Benhamou, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Michel Doneda, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jonas Kocher, Ly Than Tien, Christian Rosset, and Matthieu Saladin).

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).

First publication in French dedicated to Jackie McLean (1931-2006).

The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.

The legendary French trumpeter is back after 20 years with its special atmosphere and feeling, and a lot of guests—a real event.

A short retrospective of the blog Au grisli clandestin, a visual annex of the musical website Le son du grisli.

RadioDordogne#1 is a vast montage of sound recordings made by the sound cartographers in 2014 for the web radio RadioDordogne. Sound heritage, readings, landscapes, archives, musical creations are intertwined to propose six radio pieces for listening.

The series of "Papiers Ouverts" by Jean Degottex (1918-1978) created in 1974 and poems by Maurice Benhamou fed the improvisations of the two musicians. Ghosts, ruins, stars, rubble ... punctuate this work recorded in Belgium, Monos gallery.

The lyrical and earthy flight of Isabelle Duthoit, the furious growls of Johannes Bauer's dandy trombone, the electrifying stripes of Luc Ex, the legendary founder of Dutch group The Ex, produce a passionate musical mix.

What is it we call “Black” music? A selection of texts from the April 2010 conference in Bordeaux based on a critical discussion of Philipp Tagg's open letter about “Black music,” “Afro-American Music” and “European Music.”

A musical, pictorial and cinematographic journey, as many sensitive interpretations of the domain of Certes in Gironde. Through the prism of Ernest Valeton de Boissière, inventor of the place and transmitter of the social utopias of the 19th century.

The Cigar That Talks, recorded by the trio of Michel Doneda, soprano and sopranino saxophones, John Russell, acoustic guitar and Roger Turner, drums and percussion, is an album of radical improvisation where copper, wood and steel become music by the only miracle of a perfect interaction seized on the spot.

Free improvisations and phonographies in the forest, bundles of sounds, armfuls of dead leaves, arboreal rhythms, chestnut blasts.

A musical project recorded in in multi-track in different places of the Vézère valley (France), caves and troglodytic sites.

An improvised performance with Benjamin Bondonneau (clarinet), David Chiesa (double bass), Didier Lasserre (drums), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Laurent Sassi (sound).