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The Vandermark 5

2001

The Thing

2006

ADA

2011

"Ada is one dirty delicious hell raising improvisation. Within a minute of the sets start, Nilssen-Love's wash of percussion stacks, Longberg-Holm's cello stokes, and Brötzmann's sax sparks the fire. This blazing recording, a single 33 minute set by the Ada Trio, begins full blast, ends full blast, and runs the gamut of intensity between. -Paul Acquaro, Free Jazz Blog "

Terrie Ex & Xavier Charles

2011

"In May 2009 we went with Silent Block from France who perform with tables full of self-made instruments and experimental electronica. Xavier Charles is one of the members. He is also an incredible clarinet improviser. Suddenly we found ourselves playing in a room in the Baro Hotel and outside in the garden of the Bateau Ivre bar. An adventure. "Addis" means "new". That's how it felt. -Terrie Ex, Wormer 2010"

Ab Baars / George Dumitriu / Ig Henneman / Pau Sola

 Masafrets

2021

""Romanian George D wanted to know more about the viola and so became ig h's viola friend. she heard the catalan pau s play a cello solo set and invited him to play duo improvisations. he suggested to do a string trio session another time. a date was set with d s and h. the neighbor upstairs ab b was invited to join on shakuhachi for the last hour. the absolute joy of improvising on wooden instruments... a quartet was born.
in the summer of 2019 george and pau spontaneously organized a recording session in the bernard haitink hall of the amsterdam university of the arts. this culminated in the album aforismen aforisme aforismes. all track titles are named after the various soil types from the countries we are born in: holland romania spain.
" -Ig Henneman"

Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet

2014

"Dave Rempis, tenor, alto & bari sax Keefe Jackson, tenor sax, bass clarinet Pandelis Karayorgis, piano Nate McBride, bass Frank Rosaly, drums"

The Thing

2018

"If you count The Thing’s collaborations with Joe McPhee, James Blood Ulmer, Ken Vandermark, Neneh Cherry, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore and DKV Trio too, Again is their 20th album (including the compilation Now and Forever and the split album The Music of Norman Howard with School Days, another Gustafsson project). Literally speaking, The Thing have done it again. After 17 years in the same line-up (Mats Gustafsson on saxes, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on acoustic and electric bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums) you might think that the band’s music has become predictable, that their mélange of free jazz, blues, rock and noise is actually a cul-de-sac because the musical options are exhausted. However, it isn’t. Though Again is the well-proved mixture of cover versions and original compositions, this time the focus is rather on jazz. The only cover, Decision in Paradise, is an old, rather conventional Frank Lowe piece. The Thing turn the tempo down considerably and a trumpet provided by Joe McPhee, the guest star on this track, transforms the falling lines of the original’s opening passage into painfully bruised sounds before Gustafsson strips the delicate melody to the bone (doing this, it reminds me of Gershwin’s “Summertime“). Bass, trumpet and saxophone dance around each other in slow motion and only after four minutes Nilssen-Love enters the game in order to give the piece more drive and tension. It’s the band’s typical way to take possession of a composition which is not their own. - Martin Schray (Free Jazz Blog) Full review here: www.freejazzblog.org/2018/06/the-thing-again-trost-records-2018.html "

Joe Morris

2002

"Again, just four large slabs of music, uncompromisingly played and with that deceptively linear approach which suggests that harmonic depth isn't the first thing that excites the guitarist. -Richard Cook, Penguin Jazz Guide"

Pan-Scan Ensemble

2017

"This band is not about the work of individuals but far more about nine musicians working together and pulling in the same direction to produce a collective triumph. Time and again, the music boils up into thrilling climaxes that set the pulse racing. Live, this must have been one hell of a gig to attend! Happily, this excellent recording has captured it well and conveys its excitement. -John Eyles, All About Jazz"

The Vandermark 5

2003

"Fans of Chicago's incredibly prolific Ken Vandermark will no doubt appreciate the fresh angle his V5 group has placed on these nine tunes, each dedicated to a distinct artist from independent-minded filmmaker John Cassavetes to R&B hero Otis Redding. "

The Vandermark 5

2003

"Fans of Chicago's incredibly prolific Ken Vandermark will no doubt appreciate the fresh angle his V5 group has placed on these nine tunes, each dedicated to a distinct artist from independent-minded filmmaker John Cassavetes to R&B hero Otis Redding. "

Various Artists

2003

"When Åke Hodell crashed his plane on a plain in Skåne in 1941, the sound of a bumblebee was the last thing he could conceive. Bumblebee later appeared in his text and audio composition General Bussig . On the tribute album Friends of The Bumblebee (CD), Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, David Grubbs, bob dog, Mats Gustafsson, Leif Elggren, Dan Fröberg, Elis Ernst Eriksson, Mats Lindström and Daniel Rosenhall will be featured. The album is produced by Dan Fröberg and Mats Gustafsson and also contains an essay by Magnus Haglund"

Zerfu Demissie

2007

"This music is unique to this worid. We had to find out more. August 2006, and we were back in Ethiopia. Jeroen took his mobile studio and Emma her camera. We were hoping to find Zerfu to make a recording with him. And we did find him. He agreed to the project, and a few days later, we recorded him in his empty bedroom at home. Beautiful! Enjoy the sounds within! —Terrie Ex - Wormer, November 2007"

Anker / Courvoisier / Mori

2009

"It's music worthy of deep listening. Leaving the everyday, even as it rewards the effort of doing so, the profundity of the moment also reaches exalted status, making for music that's urgently alive even while it's shot through with contemplation. - Nic Jones, All About Jazz"

Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley

2015

"All Directions Home wastes exactly no time getting going. The pairing is a fruitful one, with two bridging their deep interests in jazz history and tradition with their equally unique talents using extended techniques and crafting avant-garde compositions. Highly recommended (Lee Rice Epstein, The Free Jazz Collective)"

Kuzu

2021

""But their ability to construct musical tension in an almost agonizing way reaches a new peak on All Your Ghosts In One Corner. Drawing on these musicians’ love for a range of weighty musical expression from doom metal to the deeply-rooted spirituality of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, this record perfectly captures the depth of the abyss into which we faced. And yet this record isn’t about fear. Redemption is found in the life-affirming energy of these performances, which reflect a will to survive in the band’s committed focus and tenacity. These are spontaneous rituals performed to brace an entire community for the upcoming storm." - Aerophonic Records"

Joe Morris / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver

2012

"Inspired by the lengthy expositions of Coltrane and Cecil Taylor (although sounding nothing like either) the threesome maintains an urgent pace throughout the first extended piece (50-plus minutes, demarcated into the first two tracks, comprising the opening set in full). In a relatively straightforward execution, the adventure stems from the ceaseless search, as the trio obsessively wrings all the possibilities inherent from a single mood via a steadily blossoming stream of consciousness."

Paal Nilssen-Love & Anders Hana

2010

Joe Morris & Agusti Fernandez

2011

"This guitar and piano duo album from Joe Morris and Agustí Fernández is an outing by like minded improvisors, happily extending the definition of melody and the physical limitations of their respective instruments. Between rich acoustic tones they scratch and pluck in unintended places, creating rhythm and melody in adventurous ways. -Paul Acquaro, Free Jazz Blog"

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet

2007