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Elliott Sharp is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A key figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Sharp has released over sixty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction, as well as the use of computers in live improvisation with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s. He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet

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Trifecta

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ivo/Ribot - One; Ivo/Ribot - Two; Ivo/Ribot - Three; Ivo/Ribot - Four; Ivo/Ribot - Five; Ivo/Sharp - One; Ivo/Sharp - Two; Ivo/Sharp - Three; Ivo/Sharp - Four; Ivo/Sharp - Five; Ivo/Sharp - Six; Ivo/Sharp - Seven; Ivo/Morris - One; Ivo/Morris - Two; Ivo/Morris - Three; Ivo/Morris - Four; Ivo/Morris - Five.

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Triacontagon

By Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista

Label: defkaz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dionysus In The Amazon; Sacred Geometry Of The Tropics; Inside A Broken Circle; Electric Bacchanalia; Irregular Forms In Humid Space; Disordered Continuum.

Article: Interview

Petr Studený: Listening as a Creative Act

by Nenad Georgievski
August 22, 2026

For Petr Studený, music has never been a passive background hum. Since 1979, he has operated under the self-assigned title of “active listener"--a designation that treats the intake of sound as a foundational creative act. Based in Prague, a city whose “magical" atmosphere he credits as a silent collaborator, Studený has spent decades navigating the intersections of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Music from Rich Willey, Paul Hecht, La Boeuf Brothers And More

by Bob Osborne
July 9, 2026

The conventional meets the experimental with a mix of new releases including three new ones from Ivo Perelman and some archive UK jazz from a band that never got around to releasing an album in its lifetime. A spicy mix of straight ahead jazz together with the best in current improvisation. Playlist Rich Willey ...

Article: Album Review

Ivo Perelman: Trifecta

Read "Trifecta" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 3, 2026

Nella mastodontica discografia (quasi duecento album incisi, la maggior parte dei quali per l'etichetta londinese Leo Records) di Ivo Perelman, storico sassofonista di origine brasiliana, mancava un triplo CD dedicato all'arte del duo sax-chitarra. Ecco quindi Trifecta dialogo a rete libera con tre dei massimi chitarristi della scena contemporanea quali Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Joe Morris. ...

Article: Album Review

Perelman / Ribot / Sharp / Morris: Trifecta

Read "Trifecta" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 19, 2026

With a discography approaching 200 releases, it might be tempting to imagine saxophonist Ivo Perelman as a kind of jazz gunfighter, in the lineage of Charlie Parker or Coleman Hawkins, stepping into one cutting contest after another. But that image misses the mark. Perelman's recordings are rarely about competition. Instead, they are grounded in creation, collaboration ...

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Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

By Sergio Armaroli

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Intro; Pigs Grunting; The Train; Chewing On Crackers; BluBottle Fly; Rubber Boots; Iron Scaffolding; 20 Scratchin Pencills; Scraping Frost Windshield; Wheezing Lungs; Small Scissors; Low Groan.

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Follow A Very Heavy Person, First Visit

By Sergio Armaroli

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Barely Hiding A Vocal Sneer; Suppressing A Sneeze; A Very Heavy Person; Violent Gasp; Puffing; Mallet; Dog Softly Barking; Straw; Squeal Of Servo; Sheets Of Rain; Loud Mother Daughter; Long Thin Spring.

Article: Interview

Sergio Armaroli: The Musical Omnivore

by Mark Corroto
November 19, 2025

Sergio Armaroli is an Italian composer, percussionist, vibraphonist, teacher and visual artist whose music can be found on multiple labels including ezz-thetics, Leo Records, Dodicilune, Ictus Records and Da Vinci Classics. His 2025 releases include Deconstructing Ayler In The Universe (Dodicilune), And I Entered Into Sleep (Die Schachtel), and the ezz-thetics discs Introducing A Very Heavy ...