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Mats Gustafsson & Paal Nilssen-Love

2013

"It is a short EP, but the quality of the playing, and the interaction between both musicians is among the best you can find - powerful and deeply emotional at the same time. Great stuff."

Full Blast & Friends

2011

Universal Indians with Joe McPhee

2015

"(Universal Indians; John Dikeman, Jon Rune Strøm & Tollef Østvang) have the partnership of another one of the “new thing” mavericks, Joe McPhee. Now, you may ask: is this a nostalgic celebration of the past, with the same kind of revisionist perspectives we find in present recuperations of the bebop formats? No. That wouldn’t be possible with the involvement of someone like McPhee, even if the American relocated in Amsterdam and the two Norwegian improvisers wanted it, and they don’t. Their guest is widely known for his achievements in renewing the free sub genre, and in his path he made important contributions to other music practices. This record reflects that openness and what you have here is the free jazz after free jazz. Intrigued enough?"

Michiyo Yagi / Joe McPhee / Lasse Marhaug / Paal Nilssen-Love

2015

"Yagi, Marhaug and Nilssen-Love are joined by Joe McPhee, that confirms once again to be one of today’s great masters of creative music, still pushing the envelope after almost fifty years of glorious career... A true ensemble effort, this record keeps a cohesive approach and tight interplay throughout, revealing at each turn new shades of creativity and a treasure trove of unusual timbres and eccentric ideas. Highly recommended (Nicola Negri, The Free Jazz Collective)"

Fake the Facts

2014

Don Dietrich / Ben Hall

2011

"Fearless fire jazz from the deepest depths of the inferno. Outside tradition in total freedom and ecstatic insanity. Seriously awesome and scorching."

Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet

2000

"The whole thing starts off in full gear, with the reeds joined in a scream that could wake the dead. It is worth noting that this music reaches points of terrifying intensity at times, although it also balanced by a great deal of more subdued exploration. It seems to alternate between these extremes every few minutes or so, making for a very satisfying experience. –All About Jazz"

Mats Gustafsson & Colin Stetson

2012

"The listener is not excluded from this conversation. Instead, it is extended to her via the duo's adherence to close listening and the economy of their individual and collective expressions. With Stones, Gustafsson and Stetson have encountered not only one another in a magical way, but they communicate the power of beauty itself."

Tarfala Trio

2011

Joe McPhee

1977

The Thing & Neneh Cherry

2012

GUSH

2015

"Two years ago, Gush celebrated 25 year as a group. One of the concerts on the anniversary tour was organized by FRIM/SYD at Inter Arts Center in Malmoe. Konvoj Records were there! Very few things need to be said about Gush. With their abstract compositions, dissonances and free improvisations, they have already found their way into the ears of most of the daring listeners. Gush was a central force in establishing the scene for free improvised music and free jazz in Sweden in the late 80's. The group and its musicians have since continued to strongly affect, mold, deform, develop, embroil and transform both the sound of their music as well as its audience. Konvoj Records are very proud to present a recording of this amazing event in May, 2013! "

Audio One

2014

"Like a prize fighter, the ensemble moves with all the nimble dexterity of a small group when needed, bobbing and weaving until an opening presents itself, delivering precise jabs or opening out to rain down a concentrated torrent of blows. Hailing from a city which has had a hand in producing some top class large ensembles in recent years, Audio One is instantly a contender to the throne (Matthew Grigg, The Free Jazz Collective)"

School Days And The Thing

2002

"Norman Howard played trumpet with the legendary Albert Ayler but, so far as we are aware, he only released a cassette recording as a band leader. This was on the Homeboy label in 1968 and was entitled "Burn Baby Burn". He played with Joe Phillips on alto saxophone, Walter Cliff on bass and Corney Millsap on drums. The inspiration behind our current release is to showcase this wonderful music with an updated hue. The recording, which was made in the cellar of the Anagram Records store in Stockholm on November 19th 2001, brings together Mats Gustafsson and a group of Swedish, Norwegian, and American musicians."

Joe McPhee & Steve Lacy

2013

Original Silence

2008

Various Artists

2013

Christof Kurzmann

2014

"Austrian musician & composer, curator, label-founder (charhizma), co-founder of the legendary Viennese bar for electronic musc (Rhiz) with many releases/bands/projects over the years, turns 50. A perfect time for a big multi-variant collection of his unreleased work: solos, duos, special collaborations, groups, for instance with B. Fleischmann, Ken Vandermark, Robert Wyatt Mats Gustafsson, Tony Buck, and many more. From electronica to avantgarde and improvisation to political chansons."

Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor

2018

"The duo Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor has produced original works where poetry and guitar combine in explorations of thematic axes. With the project 'Heretics', of which Tout Ce Que Je Sais (All I know) is the second part, they revive the most obscure, violent, erotic passions, summoning the great figures of their personal mythologies. In the company of Caravaggio, Marquis de Sade, William Burroughs and figures such as Jose Mujica, the duo immerses the listener in another world history peopled by radical thinkers. 'Heretics' pays homage to those heroes who used transgression and excess as a necessary means for the advance of humanity. In this new album, recorded live at the Carreau du Temple in Paris on the occasion of Périphérie du 35e Marché de la Poésie (2017), Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor deliver a radical work at the confines of literary and musical creation"

Harold E. Smith / Mike Kull / Joe McPhee

2001

"McPhee states that Trinity was the first record where he really began to feel comfortable with his tenor playing. Drinking in his work on each of his horns over the duration of the album it’s startling how much of McPhee the mature player is already solidly in place and his explanation takes on new candor. Curiously the gothic sword and sorcery cover illustration is left unexplained."