Results for "FMR Records"

Kevin Norton: Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol. 1

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
September 27, 2005

Solo music is perhaps the most challenging kind of all. With no place to hide, it's just the musician communicating to the listener. Percussion music presents additional challenges for both the performer and audience, since untuned instruments, like drums and cymbals, lack obvious melodic qualities and tuned instruments, like marimba and xylophone, are not inherently harmonic. ...

888

By Evan Parker

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Improv 1; Improv 2; Improv 4; Improv 3; Group Improv.

Soria Boria

By Peter Brötzmann

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Soria Boria; Orias Oriam; Riaso Riamo; Iasor Iamor; Asori Amori; Moria Soria; Oriam Orias; Riamo Riaso; Amor Iasore; Amori Airom; Airos Airom.

Undraverk

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2004

Innovation

By Trevor Watts

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Staggering; When is Now; Hello; Suzie Jay; Austrian Roll.

Frode Gjerstad and Peter Br: Soria Boria

by Rex Butters
November 6, 2004

European wind wonders and frequent collaborators Frode Gjerstad and Peter Brötzmann bring their glacier-melting intensity to this intimate collection of clarinet duos. These two know their instruments and each other so well that they stick like shadows. Although usually associated with an A-bomb approach to playing, Brötzmann often indulges a rich melodicism on these tracks. The ...

Amalgam: Innovation

by Rex Butters
November 2, 2004

In the early '60s Trevor Watts and John Stevens initiated the long-lived free jazz association that became known as Amalgam. Their extended tenure altered Euro jazz and improvised music forever, following their first recording in '69. Tangent records released their third album, Innovation , in 1974, after their Play Blackwell and Higgins set and several sessions ...

Evan Parker/Phillip Wachsmann/Hugh Davies/Eddie Provost: 888

by Rex Butters
September 7, 2004

These four esteemed improvisers participated with others of their kind at the New Music Days series of concerts as part of the Southend International Jazz Festival in 2003. To engender endless numerological speculation, they chose to perform at 8pm on 8/8, and from those performances come a solo piece each, plus a lengthy ensemble expedition into ...

Ultralyd

By Ultralyd

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2003

Coast to Coast

By Rowland Sutherland's Mistura

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2003