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BENNINK, HAN
NERVE BEATS
Han Bennink is one of Europes best known improvisational musicians, worked with Misha Mengelberg and established the Instant Composer Pool. Being active since the early 60's, he never lost his energy ...
BENNINK, HAN/KEES HAZEVOT
CALLING DOWN THE FLEVO SPIRIT
The UMS is proud to (finally) reissue 1978's refreshingly unique duo recordings from Kees Hazevoet (c.f., the UNLAWFUL MUSIC & PLEASURE reissues on UMS), and legendary Dutch percussionist/DaDa ...
BERESFORD, STEVE / HONSI, TRISTAN
DOUBLE INDEMNITY + IMITAION OF LIFE
BINARY SYSTEM
INVENTION BOX
The new album of Roger Miller (ex-MISSION OF BURMA) and drummer Larry Dersch. ...
BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE
NOCTURNES
The Boxhead Ensemble returns with their fourth proper studio album (fifth in sum) since the inception of the DUTCH HARBOR project in 1996. The collective's leader Michael Krassner (guitar/organ/fx) ...
BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE
QUARTETS
America's only possible answer to GOD SPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR has delivered their fourth proper album. On this vovage, THE BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE consists of leader Michael Krassner (LOFTY PILLARS), ...
BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE
TWO BROTHERS
Highly detailed acoustic instrumentation dominates the aural landscapes, propelled by the bountiful talents of Mick Turner(Dirty Three), Ryan Hembrey(Pinetop Seven), Glenn Kotche(Pinetop Seven), Fred ...
BRANCA, GLENN
INDETERMINATE ACTIVITY
Long rumored, long awaited and essentially first-time issue of this incendiary Branca masterwork, recorded in 1981 at NYC's Radio City Studios- during the peaked out early era of Glenn's "Guitar ...
BRANCA, GLENN
SYMPHONY #3 - GLORIA
One of Branca's earlier "Guitar Army" pieces, a Crystalline Beauty from 1983 featuring Barbara Ess, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo & Michael Gira as ensemble members. Sonic Youth & SWANS we really just ...
BRANCA, GLENN
SYMPHONY NOS. 8 & 10, LIVE AT THE
Symphony No. 8 (The Mystery): First Movement (passion), Second Movement (Spiritual Anarchy) - composed in 1992 Symphony No. 10 (The Mystery Part 2), First Movement (the Final Problem), Second ...
BRIDE OF NO NO
BRIDE OF NO NO (II)
Azita's BRIDE OF NO NO have delivered their magnum opus to date with this, their untitled second album. Their deconstructive sonic stance now collides head-on with their newly discovered desire to ...
BRÖTZMANN, P/NIELSEN, PF/UUSKYLA, P
MEDICINA
New trio recordings from Free Jazz giant Peter Brötzmann, issued on Atavistic- with Scandinavian masters Peeter Usuklya on drums and Peter FriisNielsen on e-bass. Adventrous music from true men of ...
BRÖTZMANN, PETER / LONBERG-HOLM, FRED
THE BRAIN OF THE DOG IN SECTION
Peaked-out duo recordings from one of the founders of the form and his ever adventurous, cello-torque-ing protégé. Recorded live in November 2007 at Chicago's famed HIDEOUT destination, Brö & Brother ...
BRÖTZMANN, PETER GROUP
ALARM (1981)
Intense FMP ARCHIVE reissue on Atavistic's Unheard Music Series, featuring an incredible, international line-up led Brötz: ESP Records reed-god FRANK WRIGHT & ICP mainstay WILLEM BREUKER (saxes), the ...
BRÖTZMANN, PETER GROUP
FUCK DE BOERE
Another amazing installment in the BRÖTZMANN treasure discovery. One set from '68 Machine Gun Group and one from an amazing '70s date, both never before released. ...
BRÖTZMANN, PETER SEXTET/QUARTET
MORE NIPPLES
One of the greatest archaeological finds of recent years are three lost tracks from the "Nipples"-sessions. Dateline: Germany, 1969. The legendary Line Up: Peter Brötzmann and Evan Parker ...
BRÖTZMANN, PETER/BENNINK, HAN
SCHWARZWALDFAHRT (1977)
(excerpted from Peter's liner notes): "There was a time Han Bennink and I, sometimes with Fred Van Hove, would drive through the Black Forest to get to places like the jazz club in Villingen and ...
BRÖTZMANN/JACKSON/LASWELL/SHARROCK
LAST EXIT KÖLN (1986)
Finally after more than an a decade, this seminal lexicon of lightning is again available for public consumption. A veritable Murderer's Row of sonic titans- each at full strength: Brötzmann on ...
BRÖTZMANN/MANGELSDORFF/SOMMER
PICA PICA (1982)
A sweet period piece from the FMP ARCHIVE, on Atavistic's Unheard Music Series- featuring Brötz, Albert Mangelsdorff & Gunter "Baby" Sommer. (excerpted from Peter's liner notes): "I remember at one ...
CENTRAL FALLS
LOVE AND EASY LIVING
Owing much to the laidback, country vibe of early Neil Young, Central Falls music is langourously melodic with guitars intertwining in a soothing mesh of strummed chords, vocals sung with an ...
CHROME CRANKS, THE
DIABOLICAL BOOGIE
Super-swank enhanced double-cd collection of "singles, demos & rarities" -plus 3 music videos- from NYC's prime dirt-blues movers, culled from their golden 1992-98 era. "This isn't a set of liner ...
CLIFFORD THORNTON NEW ART ENSEMBLE, THE
FREEDOM & UNITY (1967)
CLINE, N./PARKINS, A./RAINEY, T.
OUT TRIOS VOLUME THREE
The third volume in Atavistic's Out Trios Series aligns L.A.-based guitar genius Nels Cline (Wilco), NYC k eyboard/ accordion avatar Andrea Parkins and heavy session percussionist Tom Rainey, ...
CLINE, NELS
DESTROY ALL NELS CLINE
DESTROY ALL NELS CLINEis our hero's superb follow up release to the critically lauded unit mover, Interstellar Space Revisisted. Nels had been building these compositions over a lengthy period of ...
CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET
ACTIONS 1966-'67
Remarkably open to colaborative projects, they succeeded as well in developing a personal voice unlike any other - which was an accopmlishment for a free jazz unit in the mid-60s. The incorporation ...
CUYPERS', LEO
HEAVY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
Leo Cuypers is pianoplayer and composer from the south of the Netherlands. He is one of the kings in creative-music as a bandleader aswell as solo-pianoplayer and bandmember of the WILLEM BREUKER ...
DIETER SCHERF TRIO
INSIDE-OUTSIDE REFLECTIONS (1974)
Another long-lost gem (in a possibly infinite series...) on Atavistic's UMS! INSIDE-OUTSIDE REFLECTIONS, waxed in 1974 by a trio fronted by a little-known multiple reed player from Germany named ...
DUDEK/NIEBERGALL/VESALA
OPEN (1977)
BERLIN, 1977: three masters of European free music convened for a triumvirate summit. Finnish drummer Edward Vesala, known in later years for his fiery big-band outings on ECM, was one of the ...
FARINA, G. / GRAY, L. / MCBRIDE, N.
OUT TRIOS VOL.4: ALMANAC
The fourth volume in Atavistic's Out Trios Series aligns Beantown-via Chicago co-conspirators Geoff Farina (Karate), Nate McBride (Spaceways Inc./Bridge61/(((POWERHOUSE SOUND))) & Luther Gray. A ...
FAUZ'T (FAUST & Z'EV)
FROM THE FROZEN SOUTH
Faust were the leaders of the "Krautrock" movement of early 70s Germany. Their records still sound ahead of their time in the 21st Century, true visionaries and artists. This collaboration features ...
FLESH EATERS, THE
ASHES OF TIME
Unearthed from 1999- and properly presented for mass consumption debut... THE FLESH EATERS: Ashes Of Time. Ashes of Time delivers fifteen songs running the gauntlet and gamut of the aggressive, ...
FLESH EATERS, THE
NO QUESTIONS ASKED
A complete reissue of the long out-of-print debut release by L.A. punk icons THE FLESHEATERS. Featuring performances by John Doe, Exene Cervenka & DJ Bonebreak of X. "No Questions Asked" comes along ...
FRED LONBERG-HOLM TRIO
TERMINAL VALENTINE
Chicago's Renaissance Man Non-Pareil, Fred Lonberg-Holm and his Trio return with TERMINAL VALENTINE, their third proper studio album for Atavistic. With the sympathetically beatific rhythm section of ...
FULL BLAST
BLACK HOLE
Shades of LAST EXIT (sans guitar) are evident, and FULL BLAST also frequently conjurs the essence of Brotzmann's landmark early Free recording, "MACHINE GUN" in it's visceral intensity. Herr Brö ...
GREGORIO, GUILLERMO
OTRA MUSICA
The full title of this collection is: Otra Musica: Tape Music, Fluxus & Free Improvisation in Buenos Aires 1963-70. These recordings bring to light an incredibly sophisticated sound-world of ...
HARNETTY, BRIAN
AMERICAN WINTER
american winter = holler musics woven with archival field/radio recordings, meeting the 21st century. The Berea College (Kentucky) Sound Archives holds non-commercial recordings documenting more than ...
HARNETTY, BRIAN
SILENT CITY
Brian Harnetty is a musician and artist from Ohio, and his work involves overlooked elements of sound. Many of his pieces transform found material--including field recordings, transcriptions, and ...
HARNETTY, BRIAN
THE STAR-FACED ONE (FROM THE SUN RA
Brian Harnetty and company play/sample/improvise with rare Sun Ra recordings. Brian Harnetty's The Star-Faced One travels the peculiarities & particularities of a collection of interplanetary ...
JARBOE (AND LARY SEVEN)
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE LTD.
A definitive reissue JARBOE's out-of-print 3 album: remastered, with 6 bonus tracks, presented in an oversized six-color, 16-page book-let. Beautiful People Ltd. is the second in a series of four ...
LARRY OCHS' SAX & DRUMMING CORE
OUT TRIOS VOL.5: UP FROM UNDER
The fifth installment in Atavistic's Out Trios Series configures a triad of West Coast heavies on sax & double-drums: Larry Ochs (Rova/Orkestrova), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers & more); and Don ...
LONBERG-HOLM|KOTCHE|ROBKE
A VALENTINE FOR FRED KATZ
For a jazz cellist there aren't so many possible heroes on the instrument. Fortunately there's Fred Katz. Not only as a cellist - but as composer and arranger, too. Fred Lonberg-Holm paid homage to ...
LOWMAN, W.W.
KUMQUAT MAY
"Kumquat May" is the second release of Chicago based artist W.W.Lowman (Bosoc&Jorge,Aluminum Group). Recorded between 2009-2011 at IV Labs. The eight track full length takes you from renditions of ...
LUNCH, LYDIA
QUEEN OF SIAM
Re-issue of the long out of print post-wave classic Queen of siam on Atavistic. ...
LUNCH, LYDIA
VIDEO HYSTERY
This retrospective of Lydia Lunch's musical collaborations from 1997-2001 is an incredible representation of her approach to art. Hailed by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential ...
LUNCH, LYDIA & ROWLAND S. HOWARD
SHOTGUN WEDDING
Deluxe Reissue of classic collaboration featuring The Queen of Siam & The Birthday Party's guit-terrorist A "Marriage Made in Hell" between living legend and eternal Truth-Teller Lydia Lunch and her ...
MANERI, JOE & DOLGER, PETE
PEACE CONCERT (1964)
A long-lost '60s treasure from the east coast. rescued and produced by Ken Vandermark's father, Stu! The "Peace Concert", as performed in 1964 by living legend Joe Maneri (alto) and Peter Dolger ...
MCPHEE, JOE
TRINITY
MCPHEE's early 70's work. Blues inflected out-soul issued in '73 in man edition of 1000 copies and has not been available since then. ...
MCPHEE, JOE/SNYDER, JOHN
PIECES OF LIGHT (1974)
Simply put, if Joe McPhee was born in Japan, he'd be regarded as one the country's "National Living Treasures". As an American soul-jazz maverick and standard-bearer of the form since the mid-1960's, ...
MOSLANG-GUHL (VOICE CRACK)
KNACK ON
Released in 1982 by the Swiss duo Norbert Moslang and Andy Guhl. These two are the most important troublemakers in the European improvising scene. ...
MOUNT EVEREST TRIO
WAVES FROM ALBERT AYLER (REISSUE)
(From The Reissue Liner Notes): I Know Two Very Dedicated Dentists Who Are Both Working With Relocating, Reshaping And Repairing The White Mountainhard Filters That Humans Have - In Between Sounds To ...
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN + ENORE ZAFFIRI
THROUGH THE MAGNIFYING ... (CD+DVD)
Clandestine auteurs the Opalio Brothers (AKA My Cat Is An Alien) have deftly sprinkled our solar system with their beautifully fragile, arcane soundscape/tracks via their own OPAX label, as well as ...
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/RAMONA POZINI/LEE RANALDO
ALL IS LOST IN TRANSLATION
NEUMEIER, MANI
SMOKING THE CONTRACTS
Drummer legend Mani Neumeier meets up with guitar extraordinaire Oren Ambarchi and others. "Smoking the Contracts" consists of two extended tracks recorded live in Melbourne in 2007 and 2009. One a ...
PINETOP SEVEN
BRINGING HOME THE LAST GREAT STRIKE
A more elegant and stately record than its predecessor, "Bringing Home The Last Great Strike" illuminates the band's arranging abilities weaving beautiful swaths of strings, woodwinds, and horns ...
ROGER MILLER'S BINARY SYSTEM
FROM THE EPICENTER
Massively regarded since his days as guitar assassin in the legendary MISSION OF BURMA, Roger has since been making intensely sophisticated music, largely driven by his eclectic approach to prepared ...
SCHLIPPENBACH QUARTET
HUNTING THE SNAKE
Astounding 1975 Radio Bremen session from Germany by one of the greatest working bands in the history of European improvised music. A previously unreleased 77:00 min. program with an exclusive ...
SCHLIPPENBACH'S GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA
GLOBE UNITY 67 & 70
SOUND IN ACTION TRIO
GATE
Robert Barry (legendary core member of Sun Ra's ARKESTRA circa 1950s/60s), Ken Vandermark (V5/ Spaceways Inc. / B61/ (((POWERHOUSE SOUND))), and Tim Daisy (V5/ Rempis Percussion Trio/ Triage) dig ...
SPACEWAYS INC.
THIRTEEN COSMIC STANDARDS BY SUN RA
There was some superb alchemy at work here as an ideally assembled group, one part Ken Vandermark, manages to not only interpret, but also pay respect to artists such as Sun Ra and Funkade ...
STARSHIP BEER
NUT MUSIC
Post-BEEFHEART scramble-fry from late '70s; feat. jazz writer Kevin Whitehead. ...
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA
SOME BLUES BUT NOT THE KIND THAT'S
The third deluxe RA reissue in the new O-Card format from the UMS, released in conjunction with EL SATURN Records is here: A superb reissue of a delicious, seldom heard Saturn Records document from ...
TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS
BEIRUT SLUMP/SHUT UP AND BLEED
VANDERMARK 5
BURN THE INCLINE
The annual statement, whatever that is, from Chi-Town avant jazz heavyweights THE VANDERMARK 5 burns brighter than anything the group has ever done before. Eight complexly rich new pieces loaded with ...
VANDERMARK 5
ELEMENTS OF STYLE, EXCERCISES IN SU
The new V5 album, ELEMENTS OF STYLE is largely concerned with scale- and is available ONLY in size XXL. Chicago's (and perhaps America's) most powerful new jazz quintet have created an array of ...
VANDERMARK 5, THE
A DISCONTINUOUS LINE
The Vandermark 5 deliver on the epic promise of 2005's The Color Of Memory with what may well be their most ambitious compositional effort thus far. A Discontinuous Line presents a remarkable range ...
VANDERMARK 5, THE
BEAT READER
KV and Chicago's finest fivesome once again team up with Bob Weston to notch out BEAT READER - the quintet's 12th album for Atavistic over the course of the last decade-plus. Inasmuch as one may ...
VANDERMARK 5, THE
FREE JAZZ CLASSICS VOL. 3&4
The fourth volume of "Free Jazz Classics" will likely be the last. Though I have learned a great deal by rearranging some of my favorite composers' work for the VANDERMARK 5, it's time to leave that ...
VARIOUS - AMPHETAMINE REPTILE
DOPE, GUNS & FUCKING UP YOUR VIDEO
From the mid 80-s through the mid 90's, Amphetamine Reptile Records defined the term "Underground." For blistering genre-creating sounds, graphics and attitude, AmRep had no equal. Being far too raw ...
WALLIN, H. W/DYANI, J. & DAHLBACK, E.
BURNING IN STOCKHOLM (1981)
...The interplay between the players in the Per Henrik Wallin Trio has always been a model for me when it comes to communication in music, that particular symbiosis that appears in a group that has ...
WHARTON TIERS ENSEMBLE
TWILIGHT OF THE COMPUTER AGE
In the midst of the chaos setting up Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon Studio, NYC based producer/studio mogul Wharton Tiers has managed to craft & record about three albums worth of his own heroic ensemble ...
WREKMEISTER HARMONIES
RECORDINGS MADE IN PUBLIC SPACES...
Chicago-based sound artist J.R.Robinson has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US and Europe over the past two years- including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the ...
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