Improv and Avant-Garde

Joyful Joyful Announce Self-Titled Debut Album
PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022
Drone-hymn experimenters Cormac Culkeen and Dave Grenon have announced their debut album as Joyful Joyful. The self-titled effort is due to...
Toronto's Idée Fixe Records Launches Sister Label with the Brodie West Quintet, High Alpine Hut Network
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2022
Toronto's Idée Fixe Records has announced the formation of sister label Ansible Editions, a new home for "loosely defined jazz adjacent wor...
Colin Stetson Used Hog Grunt Recordings In His 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' Score
PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2022
Colin Stetson's latest film score comes into the world with the arrival of David Blue Garcia's Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Netflix February...
Jean-Michel Blais Crafts Lush, Life-Affirming Compositions on 'aubades'
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2022
For Jean-Michel Blais, aubades is a rebirth. From its opening notes, its whisks listeners away. On the new album from the esteemed post-cla...
Loraine James Readies New Album as Whatever the Weather
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2022
Loraine James has announced a new album under alias Whatever the Weather. The North London producer will share the self-titled effort on Ap...
Ryuichi Sakamoto Is Selling Sheet Music to Fight a "Flood of Independent Transcriptions or Arranged Versions"
PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2022
Even the most ardent listeners of Ryuichi Sakamoto make mistakes when it comes to transcribing music from his past performances — an issue...
The Body and OAA Announce Collaborative Album 'Enemy of Love'
PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2022
After getting together with Big Brave for Leaving None but Small Birds last year, the Body have laid plans for another collaborative album....
Brian Eno on NFTs: "Now Artists Can Become Little Capitalist Assholes as Well"
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2021
In spite of its fluid end-rhyme with his surname, prolific composer Brian Eno hasn't bought into the current commotion around crypto. The...