Giuseppe Ielasi & EKG - Group

 

Trio recordings from 2005 by Giuseppe Ielasi and American electronics & horns duo EKG (Kyle Bruckman and Ernst Karel). Released on the short-lived Formed label in 2006.

the groop

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Chie Mukai & Yoshinori Motoki - 10 Minutes Free Improvisation Festival

Released as a cassette by Cacoon in 1983, this is one of the earliest recordings of kokyu player Chie Mukai, just a handful of years after her appearance on the legendary East Bionic Symphonia LP. Here, she is joined by guitarist Yoshinori Motoki. 

free

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Chie Mukai & Rinji Fukuoka - L'energie De L'existence

 

A 2003 CD by two legends. Chie Mukai is the vocalist/kokyu player and leader of the band Ché-SHIZU. Fukuoka is the singer/guitarist for the breathtaking psych band Overhang Party and their successor Majutsu no Niwa. This duo album finds Fukuoka playing cello, piano and drums while Mukai sings and plays piano as well as her signature instrument, kokyo. Released on Turtles' Dream, which was a sub-label of Michel Henritzi's short-lived but excellent A Bruit Secret label. 

crazy to l'exist

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Songs

 

Recorded in 1996, released by Bailey's Incus label in 2000. While their previous album was a guitar duo, this one has just Bailey playing guitar and Haino only singing. 

singing

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Drawing Close, Attuning - The Respective Signs of Order and Chaos

 

The Japanese label Tokuma released four massive Fushitsusha albums in the late 1990s, then doubled down with four more Keiji Haino albums: two solo albums, one album by Haino's cover band Aihiyo and one guitar duo album with the legendary Derek Bailey. This is the Haino/Bailey team-up. You know you need it. 

drawing close yadda yadda

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Taku Sugimoto, Burkhard Stangl, Christof Kurzmann - In Tokyo - First Concert, Second Take

 

Sugimoto & Stangl on guitars, Kurzmann on clarinet and laptop. Recorded at Off Site, Tokyo, in 2001. Released as a CD in 2002 by Musica Genera. 

take two

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Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, Kazuhisa Uchihashi - Stop Complaining & Sundown

 

Just like it says on the cover, this album features Hans Reichel in duets with guitarists Fred Frith (of Art Bears, Henry Cow, Naked City) and Kazuhisa Uchihashi (of Altered States and Ground Zero). Released in 1991 by FMP.

Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, Kazuhisa Uchihashi - Stop Complaining & Sundown

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Hans Reichel - Bonobo

 

Solo guitar scratching by Hans Reichel, recorded at Conny Plank's studio (though not produced by him) in 1975, released on wax by FMP the following year. CD reissue by Corbett vs Dempsey in 2017. 

Hans Reichel - Bonobo

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Chris Dadge - I'd Drive Your Ass Across the World, If I Had To

 

CDR in a run of 100 copies from Editions Brokenresearch.

Chris Dadge - I'd Drive Your Ass Across the World, If I Had To

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Hans Buetow & Ben Hall - The Accuracy of Coincidence

 

First release on Ben Hall's Editions Brokenresearch label, a CDR in a run of just 50 copies. Cello and drums from two-thirds of Graveyards and Melee. 

Hans Buetow & Ben Hall - The Accuracy of Coincidence

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Bill Dixon, Aaron Siegel & Ben Hall - Weight/Counterweight

 

Heavy double-LP by two drummers + legendary Bill Dixon on trumpet. Released by Hall's Editions Brokenresearch label in 2009.

Bill Dixon, Aaron Siegel & Ben Hall - Weight/Counterweight

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Derek Bailey & Shoji Hano - Fish

 

Live drums/guitar sesh from 2000, released as a CD by PSF the following year.

Derek Bailey & Shoji Hano - Fish

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va - Sonance Quarry

 

Compilation of Chicago improv from 1997, featuring Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ben Vida, Matt Weston, Liz Payne, Josh Abrams and Kevin Drumm.

va - Sonance Quarry

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Derek Bailey - Notes - Solo Guitar Improvisations

Some geezer making it up as he goes along. Released as an LP in 1985 by Incus.
 

Derek Bailey - Notes - Solo Guitar Improvisations

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Derek & the Ruins - Tohjinbo

 

Second album by the power trio of Derek Bailey with prog/punk duo The Ruins. Released by Paratactile in 1998.

Derek & the Ruins - Tohjinbo

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Derek & the Ruins - Saisoro

 

First album by the legendary Derek Bailey on guitar and the Ruins' Masuda Ryuchi and Tatsuya Yoshida on bass and drums, a combination that seems inevitable and thankfully lives up to expectations. Released in 1995 on Tzadik.

Derek & the Ruins - Saisoro

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Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault, Sachiko M, Yasuhiro Otani - Four Focuses

An album that exploded countless minds when it first landed in 1999, the "VU and Nico" of improvised electronic noise music in that everyone who bought a copy went on to start their own label or band or just fill CDRs with sine waves and feedback. It's a monster.

Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault, Sachiko M, Yasuhiro Otani - Four Focuses

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Choi Joonyong, Joe Foster, & Hong Chulki - 4387 Sec.

Busted electronics, open circuits, turntables, wrecked CDs and players from his trio of South Korea's finest. Recorded in 2004, released as a CDR on Balloon & Needle in 2005. 

Choi Joonyong, Joe Foster, & Hong Chulki - 4387 Sec.

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