Avant Garde 2023

On LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show, The Residents present a collection of eight instrumental studio demos recorded in 1982 for their planned (and later aborted) 10th Anniversary tour.

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut…from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee "Nuclear War," there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra.

In the past four years, Fabian Dudek received a lot of attention, especially with his quartet (with Felix Hauptmann, Fabian Arends, David Helm). Already their debut release in 2019 and the subsequent tour, sponsored by the Musikfonds, were met with enthusiastic responses.

Delve into the captivating world of contemporary classical music with Giacomo Manzoni's Parole da Beckett. This mesmerizing programme, brought to life by the exquisite soprano Livia Rado alongside the Coro Polifonico Castelbarco, Ensemble Vocale Continuum, and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, a testament to the innovative spirit of composer Giacomo Manzoni. Released by MILANO DISCHI, the album focuses on the title piece, which takes inspiration from the words of Samuel Beckett, weaving a sonic tapestry that blurs the lines between music and literature.

“Johnson’s sterling sound and quicksilver mind place him firmly in the modern jazz tradition.” — DownBeat

Azimuth, the trio of pianist John Taylor, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and singer Norma Winstone, already sounded like a fully-fledged ensemble when this, the group’s first album was released in 1977. Expanding and roaming beyond the spectrum the vocal jazz genre was usually limited to, Azimuth proved of a progressive spirit from the start. Upon the debut’s release, Melody Maker remarked that “this album may (…) be the first sign of [John Taylor’s] evolution into a genuinely important composer: behind its graceful flowing beauty lies a spirit of inquiry which will surely lead further.”

The music is improvised and inspired by the book of Judith Schalansky. The music is an echo of her writing, of inspiration by islands, entities with different and changing characteristics. Judith Schalansky: "Atlas of Remote Islands, 50 islands I never set foot on and never will" Original: "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" (2009, Mare Verlag)a

One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane's 4th Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out." (NPR). Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane's 4th Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out." (NPR). Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

The 13th Anniversary Show was The Residents' second tour. It started in 1986 and took them to America, Europe, Japan and Australia - this recording is from Minneapolis, USA.