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GUSTAFSSON & KJETIL MOSTER DUO, MATS	Nanaimo Swing	LP	BLACK DOT RECORDS	DOT 006LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/17/2026 "The residents of Scandinavia and those of coastal regions of Canada have more than a few commonalities. For one thing, they love seafood as well as the act of gathering it. And while this briny lust was not the sole rationale behind this, Mats Gustafsson's third visit to the city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia, I am certain it was on his mind. After all, his second visit to the city, with his band Fire!, was designed around a fishing trip envisioned by promoter/label head Jack Tieleman as a sure way to lure those salmon-hungry Swedes to town. That such a gambit was not conjured up again must mean that either Kjetil Moster (a Norwegian rather than Swedish musician) had no overwhelming lust for fin or that their schedule was just too tight. I have asked about this several times, and the lack of response makes me wonder if it is a touchy topic. Maybe there's some kind of law against anti-piscatorial activity in Norway, so things have to be kept hush-hush. But that's just a guess. Regardless, this duo LP is totally great, savage and funny in equal measures. Whether there's sea salt on his lips or not, Mats is one of the great saxophonists of his generation, playing everything from traditional post-bop sax to explosive experimental electronics and many many things in between. The other half of the duo, Kjetil Moster, plays with Mats in a wild quintet called The End, and has a vast array of other projects and ensembles with whom he plays and records. Together, they form and exciting unit, employing a vast array of techniques (freaky and otherwise) to create music ranging from elegantly floating reed interactions to full-on fire music form-tussles. The music at times recalls everything from Eric Dolphy's backyard birdcall practice to rusty electronics worthy of Lasse Marhaug. That Mats and Kjetil are able to flow back and forth between such distant poles during their first-ever appearance as a duo speaks to an excellence in communication as well as lightning-fast response time. It is a gas and a blast from start to finish. How I wish I'd been there!" --Byron Coley

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KELLY, RICKEY	My Kind Of Music	CD	JAZZMAN RECORDS	JMAN 150CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/17/2026 Jazzman's latest Holy Grail reissue is this private press spiritual jazz gem out of California from Rickey Kelly and his vibes and marimba. Features Diane Reeves (vocals) and Adele Sebastian (flute)! "Rickey, I know these are your friends, the guys you went to school with, but if you wanna record an album, you record with musicians who have been playing their whole life; whatever you write, they'll put their whole life into it. You play with your friends; they may not even play in tune." These are the words of Slave guitarist Kevin Johnson, and they were to change the course of young Rickey Kelly's life. It was 1978, and music student Kelly had approached Johnson with a tape of rough demos of some songs he'd written. A San Francisco native, Kelly had recently moved the short distance south to study music at LA City College in East Hollywood. He was a member of E.W. Wainwright Jr.'s African Roots of Jazz, and was spending up to 10 hours a day in practice on both vibes and marimba. He also played with Horace Tapscott, and had his own band made up of fellow students, but it was his ambition to make an album that led to the conversation with Johnson. It was a turning point in his education, and a decision was looming. Some calls were made and the date was set to record at Studio Masters on Beverly Blvd, a studio set up just a few years previous in 1973, owned and operated by Dot Records founder Randy Wood. As the recording session took place, John Wood was listening in. He was impressed. Kelly didn't have the funds to manufacture and release the album himself, so Wood suggested it was pressed up on his in-house studio label, Los Angeles Phonograph Records, and thus the LP My Kind of Music was released early in 1979. The album also saw a subsequent pressing soon afterwards on Dennis Sullivan's New Note label. Kelly remains humble and proud of his debut album to this day. "I was still a beginner" he says, "These masters walked in, smiling, and gave me something worth gold."

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KELLY, RICKEY	My Kind Of Music	LP	JAZZMAN RECORDS	JMAN 150LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/17/2026 LP version. Jazzman's latest Holy Grail reissue is this private press spiritual jazz gem out of California from Rickey Kelly and his vibes and marimba. Features Diane Reeves (vocals) and Adele Sebastian (flute)! "Rickey, I know these are your friends, the guys you went to school with, but if you wanna record an album, you record with musicians who have been playing their whole life; whatever you write, they'll put their whole life into it. You play with your friends; they may not even play in tune." These are the words of Slave guitarist Kevin Johnson, and they were to change the course of young Rickey Kelly's life. It was 1978, and music student Kelly had approached Johnson with a tape of rough demos of some songs he'd written. A San Francisco native, Kelly had recently moved the short distance south to study music at LA City College in East Hollywood. He was a member of E.W. Wainwright Jr.'s African Roots of Jazz, and was spending up to 10 hours a day in practice on both vibes and marimba. He also played with Horace Tapscott, and had his own band made up of fellow students, but it was his ambition to make an album that led to the conversation with Johnson. It was a turning point in his education, and a decision was looming. Some calls were made and the date was set to record at Studio Masters on Beverly Blvd, a studio set up just a few years previous in 1973, owned and operated by Dot Records founder Randy Wood. As the recording session took place, John Wood was listening in. He was impressed. Kelly didn't have the funds to manufacture and release the album himself, so Wood suggested it was pressed up on his in-house studio label, Los Angeles Phonograph Records, and thus the LP My Kind of Music was released early in 1979. The album also saw a subsequent pressing soon afterwards on Dennis Sullivan's New Note label. Kelly remains humble and proud of his debut album to this day. "I was still a beginner" he says, "These masters walked in, smiling, and gave me something worth gold."

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PLUMMER & THE COSMIC BROTHERHOOD, BILL	Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood	LP	JACKPOT RECORDS	JPR 128LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/17/2026 "Welcome to the mind-expanding 1968 jazz recording of Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood -- where Eastern and psychedelic influences meld together to produce one of the trippiest jazz albums on Impulse Records. This LP is a much-sought-after sonic travelogue, with the pop-psych spoken-word sitar freakout of 'Journey To The East' to Bill Plummer's swinging, rapid fire/cool jazz compositions, to his covers that go straight to the heart of any '60s genre-crossing jazz fans. Featuring an incredible who's who of the high-caliber talent bubbling over in the Los Angeles music scene at the time: Carol Kaye (legendary bass player of The Wrecking Crew); Maurice Miller (drummer in The Jazz Corps); Dennis Budimir (guitarist with Chico Hamilton Quintet, Ravi Shankar, and Frank Zappa); Mike Lang (piano with Flamin' Groovies & Hal Blaine); Tom Scott (saxophone with Gabor Szabo & Thelonious Monk); Ray Neopolitan (Bass for The Doors & Leonard Cohen); Milt Holland (percussionist with The Wrecking Crew and Captain Beefheart); Bill Goodwin (drums for Mose Allison and Tom Waits). Housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with iconic liner notes by Frank Kofsky, who comes out swinging hard in favor of the album, while shaking the dust off any jazz snobs left in the '60s who still were not ready to embrace the future of jazz. Produced by Bob Thiele who produced everyone from John Coltrane, Art Blakey, to Charles Mingus, this sonic rarity is yet another impressive vinyl reissue from the folks at Jackpot Records."

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LIGHTMEN, THE	Free As You Wanna Be	LP	VAMPISOUL	VAMPI 352LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/10/2026 Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for peacock and back beat records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane. Free As You Wanna Be, his first album with his band The Lightmen, predates the deep-set, maverick jazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East: this album is a harbinger of the collective voice of resistance to the musical and cultural status quo that emerged in the 1970s jazz underground. Most of the tracks remain strongly groove-based with a clear sense of cohesion, but a few of the performances push further out than you might expect from later Lightmen releases, revealing the band's deep roots in avant-jazz. This lineup includes a very young Ronnie Laws sounding noticeably removed from the jazz-fusion style he'd adopt in the late '70s. Alongside Thomas on drums, the ensemble is rounded out by Doug Harris on tenor sax, Carl Adams on trumpet, Kenny Abair on guitar, and Joe Singleton on trombone.

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ABRAMS, JOSHUA	Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation	LP	DRAG CITY	DC 953LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026 "Joshua Abrams' Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation is the aural manifestation of an art installation described as 'an in-between space and access point to a pulsating experience that connects body and land.' Like the action of a slow-spiraling coil, the music information here revolves in dappling light, an evolution drawn slowly, magnetically forward, resonating there and back again. Deep-reaching in elemental movement, it leaves traces and echoes in the air -- and in our ears, as our own experience evolves. Joshua originally created this music as a four-channel installation to accompany Lisa Alvarado's Pulse Meridian Foliation exhibition at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. Written for two violas (both played by James Sanders), harmonium (Lisa), and electronics (Joshua), it was designed to play on a loop throughout the gallery's open hours between April 1 and August 20, 2023. When playing with Natural Information Society, Joshua's writing is directed toward the form of the music as uniquely occupied by the group. Here, he wrote in strict dialogue with the exhibit, responding with choices in composition, performance and production on Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation. A key interpretation of the exhibition is voiced by Josh in the hand-off of information between the two violas as they weave together from oppositional points across the sound stage. In mixing the original surround sound down to two channels, Joshua worked toward the small details from left to right, placing former residents of triangulated speaker planes in a congenial spot on our present stereo azimuth -- realizing, in the careful growth of this auricular border ecosystem, an essential aspect of the Pulse Meridian Foliation exhibit. In her exhibit, Lisa Alvarado inhabits the process of foliation, in which extreme environmental pressures upon rocks evoke a new crystallization and a changed minerality. For Alvarado personally, this is a matrix through which she can consider time and changes, specifically the politics of change, and dialogues that multiply over distinct chapters of history. On Music for Pulse Meridian Foliation, she asks, 'How does memory transform and live within the body?' and, in collaboration with Joshua Abrams, a transformation is enacted."

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SEPALOT	Black Sky	LP	ESKAPADEN	ESK 169LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 On this album, the former Chasing Clouds have accumulated into the eponymous Black Sky; these drifting soundclouds have swallowed a bulk of Sepalot´s sunny nature; his trademark relaxed attitude gave way to instrumental melancholy and pugnacity. "Before I started recording I listened to lots of The Doors songs. I found the suicidal aspect in their music very exciting. I totally inhaled it," Sepalot reports. "The breakage, the grid, the dirt - that was my inspiration. I was thirsty for the energy of pureness." In order to capture this roughness Sepalots first production steps were drafting soundsketches -- often more than 100 in a row. This is then is followed by a sorting process with many drafts going immediately into the trashcan. The survivors create the first basic draft. There is something waiting in the wings. Featuring Johnny Popcorn, Fab, Ladi6, and Jesper Munk.

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SHAW, WOODY	In My Own Sweet Way	2LP	IN AND OUT RECORDS	IOR 771731LP
$43.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 "The legendary album by IN+OUT from 1989, remastered from the original recordings in a 45rpm 2LP Audiophile Deluxe Edition. This album, recorded during a month-long European tour in 1987, captures Woody Shaw in peak form playing with a spirit and a sense of adventure that identify him as a jazz giant. Woody calls the trumpet 'the prince of all the horns.' Woody is the king of all the trumpet players. Nobody around plays with such a big, round, ravishing sound -- a sound which could easily fool you into thinking that you are listening to a flugelhorn. Woody's musical associates on this album are Alex Deutsch, a young drummer from Austria who has worked in Europe with many American jazz stars and who, at the time of writing, is studying at the Berklee School in Boston; Neil Swainson, a highly gifted bassist from Toronto who has worked with Pat La Barbera and Peter Leitch but is perhaps best known for his superb collaboration with George Shearing; and Fred Henke, a pianist from Montreal whose credits include backing Clifford Jordan, Steve Grossman, and Junior Cock."

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DAGGERBOARD THE SKIPPER & MIKE CLARK	Daggerboard The Skipper And Mike Clark	CD	WIDE HIVE RECORDS	WH 392CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 "Daggerboard The Skipper (Henry Franklin) and Mike Clark present a new album of ten original songs with beautiful orchestrations written by Erik Jekabson and Gregory Howe. Performed by an all-around amazing ensemble with Headhunter drummer Mike Clark, Henry Franklin on bass and Babatunde on conga as the rhythm section while Matt Clark lights up the piano, Dave MacNab (Hamilton) plays guitar and Jekabson soars on trumpet. Also Featured are Mads Tolling on violin, Matt Renzi on saxophone, Mike Rinta on trombone, Ben Davis on cello, and Jonathan Ring on French horn."

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PRESTIN/CARSTEN UHLIG, THOMAS	The River	LP	ZUSTANDSZONE	Z-ONE
$36.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 The River is a live recording -- a snapshot of music from the Hamburger ZustandsZone scene between 2014 and 2025. Blending free improvisation with structural depth, the album offers a sonic exploration that will appeal to both purists of the genre and lovers of avant-garde sounds in the contemporary jazz landscape. The striking artwork underscores the artistic ambition of this highly personal work, which fluidly transcends the boundaries between tradition and modern abstraction.

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GREEN COSMOS	Morgenmusiken	LP	FREDERIKSBERG RECORDS	FRB 022LP
$35.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 In the late 1970s, four young musicians from Marsberg, Germany -- despite the absence of a local jazz scene -- came together to form Green Cosmos, a quartet whose sound drew equally from John Coltrane's spiritual fire, world music traditions, free jazz, and Indian classical influences. Morgenmusiken marks a pivotal stage in the group's evolution, moving beyond the ballad-driven character of their debut Abendmusiken toward freer, more meditative soundscapes. Across seven previously unreleased tracks, the album blends "cosmic music" with "live compositions," reflecting the band's distinctive approach to spontaneous creation. Sessions often began in silence and meditation, gradually unfolding into collective improvisations. The lineup featured Michael Boxberger on saxophone, Benny Düring on piano, and twin brothers Alfred and Ulrich Franke forming a rhythm section frequently described as having a "telepathic connection." Joined by sitar master Narayan Govande, they shaped a sound that balanced freedom with improvisation, space, and silence. "Silence might be the most beautiful part in music," the band once reflected. "One single note can make more of an impression than 100 notes." With this ethos, Morgenmusiken invites listeners on a journey both meditative and expansive -- a discovery of music that feels timeless.

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IFANAME	IFANAME	LP	SONIG	SONIG 097LP
$31.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 Mats Gustafsson met Jan St. Werner in Berlin when they both performed with Peter Brötzmann and a group of prolific improvisers. Mats and Jan share a passion for performing not just inside rooms but also with them, activating space and shaping sound via diversion. Mats introduces Johan Berthling who adds complex bass structures to the nervous jitter of Mats' saxophone and pedals and Werner's digital machinery. The trio instantly agrees on sound as a physical material which can bend and move anywhere within seconds. With this material they establish musical forms which they immediately dissect and reassemble again. It's a nervous ride, a hyperactive conversation keen on detail and open to argument. Although IFANAME's sound is instantly graspable it is also hard to pin down. Nothing seems stable yet it lasts, holds like some kind of catchy glue and disappears as quickly as it came to life. IFANAME is question and concern. It is music as much as it is movement. It is attention, care, curiosity and disaster. Wherever IFANAME came from there is much more waiting ready to burst and reshape in front and inside of our ears.

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OBAD	Suspended	LP	WE RELEASE JAZZ	WRJ 017LTD-LP
$42.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/20/2026 Limited edition, heavy 350gsm sleeve with obi. We Release Jazz presents the limited vinyl edition of Obad's powerful new album Suspended, a vivid document of the Tehran ensemble's endlessly evolving sonic universe -- now available as a limited LP housed in a heavyweight sleeve with an obi strip and featuring original artwork by Iranian painter Sadra Baniasadi. Suspended is a superbly spontaneous, improvisational blend of exploratory jazz fusion, progressive funk-rock, and transcendental groove. Built from lived experience and shaped by Tehran's pulse, Obad's music is kinetic and intuitive -- an ever-morphing dialogue between rhythm and texture, emotion and message. With Farid Farzian Pour on drums, Siavash Karimi on electric guitar, Kiarash Radmehr on bass guitar, and Hamidreza Keshavrpajuh (aka Pajuh) on tenor saxophone, Obad creates a soundworld where hypnotic basslines meet thunderous, free-flowing percussion; where searing guitar motifs coil around saxophone phrases that move from whispered invocation to explosive catharsis. Suspended captures the quartet at full creative stretch: alive, unguarded, and deeply attuned to one another. Sadra Baniasadi's striking cover painting mirrors the album's energy -- bold, dreamlike, charged with movement, and extending Obad's world into the visual realm. Suspended stands as a major statement from one of Iran's most compelling contemporary ensembles, marking Obad's first release on We Release Jazz and continuing the label's commitment to boundary-pushing music born from profound listening, place, and collective intuition.

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QUINTEPLUS	Quinteplus	LP	VAMPISOUL	VAMPI 349LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Quinteplus was born in Buenos Aires at the end of the 1960s, emerging directly from the ideas and experiments of the legendary Agrupación Nuevo Jazz. Founded in the early '60s, this collective brought together some of the most forward-thinking figures in Argentine jazz functioned as a creative lab where musicians questioned where jazz could go next. Among the key ideas discussed was the fusion of jazz with Argentine folk styles such as zamba, chacarera, malambo, cueca, and candombe, as well as a deeper look into African rhythms as a bridge between musical worlds. Two members of that collective, keyboardist Santiago Giacobbe and bassist Jorge "Negro" González, carried those ideas forward when they formed Quinteplus in 1969. The group came together naturally: all the musicians already knew each other and had played in different projects around the Buenos Aires scene. They shared a strong admiration for Julian "Cannonball" Adderley's quintet, along with a clear goal -- to develop a modern jazz language grounded in local Argentine rhythms. From the start, Quinteplus stood out for its openness and adventurous spirit. Rhythm was central, and so was experimentation. The band belonged to a generation of Argentine jazz musicians eager to explore electric instruments and new textures, anticipating what would soon be known as jazz-rock. This was happening in Buenos Aires at the very same time Miles Davis was opening new doors with In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. In 1971, Quinteplus recorded its first and only studio album for EMI. The original lineup featured Jorge Anders on tenor saxophone, Gustavo Bergalli on trumpet, Giacobbe on keyboards, González on upright and electric bass, and Norberto "Pocho" Lapouble on drums and percussion -- who also illustrated the album's iconic sleeve. The record is a refined showcase of the band's musical vision: original compositions, fluent jazz language, folk-derived rhythms, funky electric textures, tight ensemble playing, and standout brass solos. Though critically praised, the album received little label support and sold modestly, eventually becoming a sought-after collector's item. Quinteplus disbanded in 1973, their music was perhaps too bold and unconventional for its time. This first-time reissue brings back a vital chapter of Argentine jazz history, revealing a band that was truly ahead of the curve and still resonates powerfully today.

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MONONOKE	APARt I/modular	LP	TUNNEL.VISIONS	TUNNEL 003LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Mononoke is a Berlin band founded by Fabian Rösch and Benjamin Geyer. Their musical passion is improvisation with a sound that moves between experimental electronic music, jazz, beat music and ambient. This LP combines two EPs which have been released on the Munich based label tunnel.visions, each on one side. APARt was created in the field of tension between spontaneous improvisation and careful studio work, marked by the lockdowns during covid and social isolation. It was precisely this physical separation that gave rise to a new experimental approach. Each track is a puzzle, whose individual pieces were put together, moved around, and placed in new contexts. Instead of jamming and rehearsing together, musical ideas were exchanged online so that they could be freely interpreted, altered and redesigned. Newly found vivid playfulness, fresh approaches and a tilt towards the unexpected marks these songs. Capturing moments in our lives full of challenges, developments and salvation. The same new and unusual process of working separately, shaped the subsequent second EP modular which followed the same working structure but with a new component: the modular synthesizer, which decisively reshapes the sound: a collection of analog textures, broken structures and a touch of raw intimacy.

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THESE THINGS HAPPEN	A Gentle Reminder	LP	CORBETT VS. DEMPSEY	CVSDLP 015LP
$27.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Corbett vs. Dempsey and De Plattenbakkerij collaborate on A Gentle Reminder, the new long-playing vinyl record album by These Things Happen. A transatlantic quartet featuring three Chicagoans and a pianist from Holland, These Things Happen have, with a slight personnel shift (switching bassists from Joshua Abrams to Jason Roebke), remained in existence since for more than a decade. This is the band's second release, following a recording made in 2016 (released by Astral Spirits in 2022), and it continues their dedication to the music of Misha Mengelberg and Thelonious Monk, as well as original material by Hoogland and Jackson. The sound is lean, self-aware, at times humorous, and its generosity suggests the common wellspring of ideas shared by Amsterdam's instant composition scene and the creative music community in the Windy City.

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SHAKE STEW	Ten One Two	2LP	TRAUMTON RECORDS	TRAUMTON 4739LP
$58.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Double LP version. Color vinyl. Shake Stew is more than a band-it's an event. Founded by bassist and composer Lukas Kranzelbinder, the group radiates a sense of magic and energy that turns live performances into hypnotic experiences. Two drum sets, two basses, and three horns create a soundscape shifting between trance-like bass lines, explosive grooves, and delicate sonic structures. Critics praise its cult-like aura: "Able to blind you into a trance and make you dance to your knees," writes MOJO. From packed clubs to the grand halls of Vienna, Shake Stew captivates audiences of all ages. Their anniversary project Ten One Two pushes boundaries even further: new textures, open improvisation, and collaborations, enriched by rising star Yvonne Moriel. After a decade of global tours and major awards, Shake Stew stands as one of the most visionary forces in contemporary jazz. Featuring JJ Whitefield.

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SHAKE STEW	Ten One Two	2CD	TRAUMTON RECORDS	TRAUMTON 4739CD
$30.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Shake Stew is more than a band-it's an event. Founded by bassist and composer Lukas Kranzelbinder, the group radiates a sense of magic and energy that turns live performances into hypnotic experiences. Two drum sets, two basses, and three horns create a soundscape shifting between trance-like bass lines, explosive grooves, and delicate sonic structures. Critics praise its cult-like aura: "Able to blind you into a trance and make you dance to your knees," writes MOJO. From packed clubs to the grand halls of Vienna, Shake Stew captivates audiences of all ages. Their anniversary project Ten One Two pushes boundaries even further: new textures, open improvisation, and collaborations, enriched by rising star Yvonne Moriel. After a decade of global tours and major awards, Shake Stew stands as one of the most visionary forces in contemporary jazz. Featuring JJ Whitefield.

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REICHEL, HANS	Dalbergia Retusa	2LP	BLACK TRUFFLE	BT 139LP
$58.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Gatefold! Comes with booklet. Black Truffle presents Dalbergia Retusa, an extensive double LP selection of the solo guitar music of Hans Reichel, compiled by Oren Ambarchi. Last heard on Black Truffle as one quarter of the joyously anarchic Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett, Hans Reichel (1949-2011) is one of the great figures of experimental guitar music. Though perhaps lesser known than peers like Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, and Keith Rowe, Reichel's rethinking of the instrument was in some ways the most radical of all. Early on, he dispensed with existing guitars to build a series of his own that explored the use of additional strings and fretboards, moveable pickups, extra bridges, special capos, and other innovations documented in the extensive booklet accompanying this release. Reichel was a long-term resident of Wuppertal, the small Western Germany city that became an unlikely center of European free jazz in the late 1960s, also home to Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. His solo debut Wichlinghauser Blues was an early entry into the FMP discography and began a relationship with the label that stretched into the 1990s; all the solo performances heard here were first released on FMP. Reichel was an important source for the development of Oren Ambarchi's own extended approach to the electric guitar. Appropriately enough, his selection opens with the very first piece by Reichel he ever heard, on a flexidisc included with a 1989 issue of Guitar Player magazine. Though Reichel collaborated with others extensively in many settings and also performed on violin and his other major contribution to instrument invention, the daxophone, his music for solo guitar remains at the core of his oeuvre. Focusing exclusively on solo pieces recorded between 1973 and 1988, the 23 pieces on Dalbergia Retusa showcase the range and consistency of Reichel's work, allowing the listener to see how his performances developed hand-in-hand with his instrumental inventions. Many of the pieces from the 1980s make use of varieties of the "pick behind the bridge guitar," instruments of uncanny harmonic richness primarily designed to be played on the 'wrong' side of the bridge. At times the unexpected behavior of attacks, resonance, and decay can almost seem electronic, conjuring up the technology-assisted work of Henry Kaiser or even Fennesz, but realized solely through Reichel's unorthodox techniques on his invented instruments. Extensively illustrated with photos and Reichel's own plans and drawings of his instruments, Dalbergia Retusa is an essential introduction to the unique world of Hans Reichel.

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MMBTUPM	Meditation Music Beyond The Unsleeping Psychopathic Mind	LP	HIDDEN HARMONY RECORDINGS	HH 012LP
$29.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/13/2026 Music spontaneously composed (improvised) by all members of the group. Recorded at Threshold Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Meditation Music Beyond The Unsleeping Psychopathic Mind is a raw, deep free-jazz exploration where synth, voice, saxophone, and percussion dissolve into a single, unfiltered sound world. No boundaries, no polish -- just presence and freedom for sonic expression. Produced by Devin Brahja Waldman and wrapped in hypnotic cover artwork specially crafted by renowned Vancouver-based artist Boone Naka. Strictly limited to 200 hand-numbered LPs, housed in thick old-style tip-on cardboard sleeves. Each copy is packaged with love, dedication, and care.

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ILL CONSIDERED	Live in Jura	2LP	WE RELEASE JAZZ	WRJ 014LTD-LP
$42.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026 We Release Jazz presents this limited vinyl edition of Ill Considered's transcendent live album Live in Jura, an expansive document of the trio's 2023 performance at Spiegelberg Festival -- now available as a double LP with a bonus D-side, housed in a heavyweight sleeve with obi and an original artwork by Vincent de Boer. Captured in the heights of Saignelégier, Switzerland, in the middle of a pasture overlooking the Jura mountains, Live in Jura bottles the singular Ill Considered live experience at its most open, responsive, and elemental. From Idris Rahman (sax, flute), Liran Donin (bass), and Emre Ramazanoglu (drums), this is deep free improv built from intuition and heart -- an ever-evolving conversation of groove, texture, and spirit. Whispered motifs bloom into towering climaxes; earthy bass surges meet shimmering cymbal work; woodwind lines move from meditative invocation to ecstatic release. It is music shaped by the audience, the environment, and the moment: alive, unrepeatable, and deeply organic. The bonus D-side extends the album's world with a unique ambient composition made from field-recorded organic sounds of the forest surrounding the concert area. Re-composed into a drifting, luminous piece, it features The Voices of the Alpenglow, blurring the boundary between performance and landscape, human gesture and elemental presence. Ill Considered -- known for forging improvised music around simple themes or spontaneously created structures -- here reach a new level of sensitivity and power.

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PARMINTER	Hiperborea	CD	SILKHEART	SHCD 169CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026 "Parminter is one of the most exciting new bands to emerge in recent months on the Barcelona scene, a scene that is both unsettling and full of discoveries. Adventurous, free, daring, provocative. Naná Rovira and Carlos Ródenas were part of Trialogue, a trio with which they won various awards and recognitions. It was the addition of keyboards that gave them their current sound with Naná as the figurehead. Parminter's sound is close to early free jazz. A melodic and rhythmic free jazz without much stridency, with a taste for lively melodies that give way to instrumental virtuosity. The songs reach moments of great intensity. It is then that they give way to the most diverse influences and preferences of each of the band members. The electric sound of the keyboard evokes passages of progressive jazz-rock, a contained noise with the distortion of Carlos Ródenas' bass pedals. Of the songs included on the album, only 'Ininteligibilidad', written with Carlos Ródenas, breaks Naná's total authorship. There are two dedications to two musicians. 'Mr. P.S.' refers to the initials of flutist Pablo Selnik and is based on an original idea of his, while 'Nonchalance' is a tribute to his friend and instrumental reference, American saxophonist Paul Stocker, a pioneer of jazz/free jazz in Spain, from the early 1970s. 'Ethiomess,' with its echoes of Ethiopian jazz could mark a different direction, but it does not, and the same is true of 'Hiperbórea', a ballad inspired by South African jazz that gives the album its title. The coherence of the sound is evident in their live performances, perhaps because everything is similar in its differences and the overall sound prevails, strongly marked by the bass clarinet-keyboard tandem. The album is composed of original songs, although when they occasionally include a cover version in their live performances, it fits in with the group's sound. Thus, an Aylerian 'Ghosts', free and lively, is integrated without any problem."

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TO DIE ON ICE	Panoramica degli Abissi	LP	SUBSOUND RECORDS	SSR 165LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026 Panoramica Degli Abissi is a plunge into the heart of a hallucination, sinking and resurfacing to become a wild, sprawling three-dimensional project on the border between audio, video, literature and illustration. It is the second album by To Die On Ice, with sounds and influences that retrieve and delve deeper into the nebulous Lynch Core of the first record, adding -- to the disturbed Black-Lodge-style sensuality, the minimalist noir jazz at ten thousand atmospheres, the soul-blues dilations and sudden vocal lacerations -- a few further acts of madness, such as an a cappella screamo-gospel moment, a touch of Fred Bongusto in a doom key, and two features with Francesca Bono and Vespertina. Also available on turquoise color vinyl (SSR 165LTD-LP).

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KEITA TRIO, ALY	Balafon Evolution	CD	ONE WORLD RECORDS	AKONE 026CD
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026 On his new album, the Ivorian balafon virtuoso Aly Keïta explores new horizons for his instrument in improvised music. Together with his Berlin-based trio, he conquers the peaks of balafon possibilities one by one, wandering between groovy African rhythms, spectacular polyphony and elements of jazz, and combining them into a fusion that is both futuristic and deeply in roots. In Balafon Evolution, Keïta establishes a new level of balafon artistry, creating universal, contemporary soundscapes that transcend cultural boundaries. The Aly Keïta Trio embodies the pulsating spirit of the Berlin jazz scene. Coming from different cultural backgrounds, the three musicians found a common language on stage as they explored the metropole, one of the most active, buzzing jazz hubs of Europe. Aly Keïta and the Dutch drummer Marcel van Cleef began playing together in 2008, forming the core of the trio's future "groove machine." As a part of the Aly Keïta and Magic Balafon formation, they shared a prize of the Global music contest Creole in 2009. Recognized as one of the most intriguing and innovative bass players among the new generation, the Italian bass player Roberto Badoglio, joined trio in 2014, becoming a true "fusion reactor" of the band.

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BAILEY/HAN BENNINK/EVAN PARKER, DEREK	Topographie Parisienne	4CD BOX	FOU RECORDS	FR 034-37CD
$57.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026 "Three legends of jazz and improvised music. A historic three-day concert featuring Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, and Evan Parker, already at the peak of their arts, both free-spirited and deeply attentive to one another (in duo form) or to each other (in trio form), and, of course, incredibly creative. A rare and precious find! Such a recording deserved a beautiful presentation, and that's exactly what we get. A magnificent four-disc set with a booklet. Each disc has its own gatefold sleeve with photos from the concert. The booklet includes liner notes by Bill Shoemaker, Sturat Broomer, Philippe Alen, Joël Pagier, and Jean Rochard, as well as an explanatory note by Jean-Marc Foussat, who recorded the concert."

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