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Fire! - (Without Noticing) (2013)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Sept. 17, 2013
Fire! - (Without Noticing) (2013)

Fire! - (Without Noticing) (2013)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 41:59 min | 101 MB
Genre: Free Jazz, Experimental, Electronic | Label: Rune Grammofon

After successful collaborations with prestigious guests like Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi and the widely acclaimed Fire! Orchestra release earlier this year our Swedish friends are back as a trio, lighting up a sonic blaze of rock based riffs and hypnotic jazz-psychedelia. As far from noodling instrumentals as it's possible to get, the tracks are spontaneously combusting rituals with a clear sense of purpose. Each of the three members is gifted with a formidable technique and arsenal of tricks and effects on their respective instruments, and the album also sees acclaimed saxophonist Mats Gustafsson boosting his already versatile skills, by swapping to Fender Rhodes and electronics on selected tracks.

Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray - Ichida (2018)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 9, 2018
Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray - Ichida (2018)

Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray - Ichida (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 229 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 99 MB | Front cover
Genre: Avant-garde Jazz, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Black Truffle

Oneirc avant-jazz-fusion, keening from the spiritual to the arcane and back in almost palindromic form. The players’ decades of combined improv experience is patently obvious. Exquisitely recorded and mixed by Jim O’Rourke, another adventurous side from Oren Ambarchi’s excellent Black Truffle.
The first release from the duo of two important yet often underappreciated musicians, Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray. Ishibashi is a singer-songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist, known in Japan both for her own elaborately conceptual solo albums and for her frequent collaborations with figures such as Jim O’Rourke, Merzbow, and Phew…

Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (1974/2024)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 15, 2024
Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (1974/2024)

Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (1974/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 182 + 187 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 + 114 MB
37:49 + 37:32 | Jazz, Rock, Free Improvisation, Art Rock, Avantgarde, Experimental | Label: Week-End Records

Big tip! Lunching into 2024 after after a stellar 2023, Week-End Records delivers one of their most important offerings to date, the first vinyl reissue of Fred Frith’s seminal 1974 solo debut, “Guitar Solos”, in more than 40 years, marking the album’s 50th anniversary. A groundbreaking work in the field of avant-garde recordings that changed everything in its wake, incorporating a startling range of sonorities and approaches within constrained means, to celebrate its half-century mark, Frith has returned to its groundwork and recorded a brand new solo effort, “Fifty”, which now makes up an entire second LP of material for this very special release. Truly incredible and as historically important as records and reissues come.

Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps (2016)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Jan. 19, 2016
Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps (2016)

Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps (2016)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 44:07 min | 101 MB
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Rune Grammofon

Fire! is a Swedish trio comprising Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) that came together with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music, with a number of influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock and noise. Fire! is also their vehicle for rekindling their instrumental skills and playing outside their comfort zones, or collaborating with prestigious guests such as Jim O´Rourke (Unreleased?, 2011) and Oren Ambarchi (In The Mouth A Hand, 2012). A parallel but no less powerful project is their gargantuan Fire! Orchestra, previously a 30 piece behemoth (now scaled down to a mere 18 piece) of a band that convened for the first time in January 2012 for a memorable concert. Their third album is expected later in 2016.

Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps (2016)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 3, 2019
Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps (2016)

Fire! - She Sleeps, She Sleeps (2016)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 243 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 101 Mb | 00:44:09
Avant-Garde Jazz, Psychedelic, Fusion | Label: Rune Grammofon

Fire! is a Swedish trio comprising Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) that came together with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music, with a number of influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock and noise. Fire! is also their vehicle for rekindling their instrumental skills and playing outside their comfort zones, or collaborating with prestigious guests such as Jim O´Rourke (Unreleased?, 2011) and Oren Ambarchi (In The Mouth A Hand, 2012). A parallel but no less powerful project is their gargantuan Fire! Orchestra, previously a 30 piece behemoth (now scaled down to a mere 18 piece) of a band that convened for the first time in January 2012 for a memorable concert. She Sleeps, She Sleeps is the trio´s fifth album and displays an intriguing cocktail of dark and brooding, hypnotic slowcore jazz.

Fire! - Defeat (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 20, 2021
Fire! - Defeat (2021)

Fire! - Defeat (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 213 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 85 Mb | 00:36:14
Jazz Rock, Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Rune Grammofon

Not the most optimistic title for pressing times, but the music sees Fire! tracking new paths and reaching new levels of excellence, still honoring their 12 year old vow of presenting a fresh approach to improvised music. Their debut album, You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago, was released in 2009 to wide international acclaim. “The basic strategy of pairing the expressive energy of free jazz with a sturdy sense of groove has yielded something potent and self-contained” (New York Times). Between this and Defeat there´s been five albums, including collaborations with Jim O´Rourke (Unreleased?, 2011) and Oren Ambarchi (In The Mouth A Hand, 2012).

Fire! Orchestra - Exit! (2013)  Music

Posted by mark70 at March 9, 2013
Fire! Orchestra - Exit! (2013)

Fire! Orchestra - Exit! (2013)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 44:23 min | 101 MB
Genre: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Rune Grammofon

Fire! is a Swedish trio comprising Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape) and drummer Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums). Fire! is where they go to stretch their instrumental skills and to play outside their comfort zones, or collaborate with prestigious guests (see their previous Rune Grammofon releases You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago [2009], Unreleased? with Jim O'Rourke [2011], and In the Mouth a Hand with Oren Ambarchi ]2012]). Fire! Orchestra takes the project to the next level: a sonic behemoth comprising 31 members that should be unmanageable, but turns out to possess the elegance and lucidity of the righteous free-jazz big bands of the past.
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Axis/Another Revolvable Thing (2020)

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Axis/Another Revolvable Thing (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 538 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 222 Mb | 01:36:41
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz | Label: Blank Forms Editions

Axis/Another Revolvable Thing is the second installment of Blank Forms’ archival reissues of the music of Japan’s eternal revolutionary Masayuki Takayanagi, following April is the cruellest month, a 1975 studio record by his New Direction Unit. Comprised of recordings of a September 5, 1975 concert by the New Direction Unit at Yasuda Seimei Hall in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, the two-part set showcases Takayanagi in deep pursuit of what he began calling “non-section music” after leaping beyond the confines of his prior descriptor “real jazz.”

Félicia Atkinson - Hand in Hand (2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 20, 2017
Félicia Atkinson - Hand in Hand (2017)

Félicia Atkinson - Hand in Hand (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:58:08 | 260 Mb
Experimental, Electronic, Abstract, Ambient, Spoken Word | Label: Shelter Press

Preeminent avant-garde composer Felicia Atkinson weaves myriad, filigree electro-acoustic and non-musical metanarratives in her totally absorbing follow-up to A Readymade Ceremony [2015] - a remarkable album which attracted high acclaim worldwide and pushed her to the core of the modern experimental sphere.
Les Rallizes Dénudés - Naked Diza Star (2013) [3CD Box Set]

Les Rallizes Dénudés - Naked Diza Star (2013)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Bamboo, BAM3CD7014 | ~ 1527 or 559 Mb | Scans(png) -> 146 Mb
Noise / Psychedelic / Experimental Rock

Though Les Rallizes Denudes, also known as Hadaka no Rallizes, were one of the earliest and most revolutionary Japanese psychedelic rock bands, and have existed off and on through four decades, they are also one of the most obscure, barely known even in their native country. This cult of noise terrorists shrouded themselves in mystery, seldom touring and releasing very few records, usually with no discernible label. Their sound presages the later psychedelic experimental noise of Fushitsusha, High Rise, and others in the current crop more than any other Japanese psychedelic group from the late '60s…