Now in its 14th year, the unique and constantly evolving Fire! Orchestra is back with their most ambitious work so far as well as their largest line-up, counting a mostly Scandinavian cast of no less than 43 members. While the popular and widely praised Arrival is a highlight in both our and the band´s catalogue, this monumental triple album ups the ante.

Cellist, composer and MacArthur Fellow Tomeka Reid explores new improvisational math with 3+3, the third release by her all-star quartet and her most adventurous project as a leader yet. Featuring Jason Roebke on bass, Tomas Fujiwara on drums, and fellow MacArthur Fellow Mary Halvorson on guitar.

The music is improvised and inspired by the book of Judith Schalansky. The music is an echo of her writing, of inspiration by islands, entities with different and changing characteristics. Judith Schalansky: "Atlas of Remote Islands, 50 islands I never set foot on and never will" Original: "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" (2009, Mare Verlag)a

The ENDERN trio forges a symbiosis of acoustic and electronic sounds that oscillates between somnambulistic utopias and high-energy interaction. With influences from serialism, the avant-garde, contemporary currents and ambient textures, the award-winning musicians create a multi-dimensional band sound that transcends conventional and fixed genre boundaries, intertwining cacophony and utopia through the trio's conceptual composition and improvisation methods, creating an ephemeral and entertaining kind of performance.

Almufaraka brings together the breath and voices of Gaëlle Debra, Patrick Guionnet, and Maryline Pruvost, alongside the sound textures of skins, wood, and metal played by Peter Orins. This quartet explores all technical means to create a music that is both archaic and avant-garde, drawing inspiration from a mythical primitive tradition. By recreating a form of serenity, the music immerses us in an original sonic imagination. The recording offers a journey through the full sound spectrum, from the intimacy of whispers to the power of cries, revealing a deep connection between the musicians and the listener. The emotion becomes palpable, awakening the senses.

On December 6, I'm very happy to announce that my debut studio album, "Processes", will be released through Boomslang Records on all streaming platforms and CD. I was lucky to record this with an amazing piano trio: Francisco Mela and Hidemi Akaiwa. "Processes" includes 10 pieces, exploring many different sounds, emotions, and forms. Mark your calendars!

This is the repeated call and the rallying chorus of the nearly 40-minute centerpiece to composer and percussionist Asher Gamedze’s new album Constitution. The expansive double album, a minoritarian fellowship in breath, is Gamedze’s follow-up to 2023’s Turbulence and Pulse (IARC0057/M3H013), and his first with The Black Lungs, a ten-piece ensemble. The album – recorded in one day at Cape Town’s Sound and Motion Studios – is an elaboration of the possibilities of autonomous constitution in and through polyrhythmic, modal, large ensemble music.

This debut from a Mexico City free jazz quartet sheds light on that region’s often-overlooked avant-garde music scene. Here, dueling saxophones provide discordant and angular melodies over solid irregular rhythmic patterns from double bass and drums. Sonically, Tulpas finds a balance between Euro-improv and American jazz, with structures that sound like they are about to fall apart but somehow manage to be coherent. Recorded live in 2021, Atisbo documents a fresh perspective on the scene’s veterans and new voices alike. The album will be released on September 13 by Astral Spirits.

The Saint of the Pit, Diamanda Galás’ fifth studio album and the second in her trilogy, The Masque of the Red Death, is an urgent record. Its theme is essentially passion, in the sense of suffering, although here, and unlike the passion of Christianity, there is little to offer solace. Re-released on Galás’ own Intravenal Sound Operations (ISO) after its initial release on Mute in November 1986, The Saint and the Pit is a masterpiece of witnessing, forged from grief and fury during the HIV-AIDS epidemic. While its precursor, The Divine Punishment (originally Mute, now ISO), released only five months before in June 1986, invoked Old Testament laws around the clean and the unclean, as a way of raging against the inhumanity of systemic neglect of people with HIV-AIDS, this album is focussed on a more interior response.

Sophie Agnel plays the whole piano. Its body matters as much as its strings. The keyboard's lid is just as good closed as it is open - in fact it’s best slammed open and closed rapidly. Joined by bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble, Three on a Match explodes the piano trio - each player sparking off the other so quickly that it’s impossible to figure out who lit the flame.

On his new solo album, Drømmene (The Dreams), Henrik Pultz Melbye explores different places where dreams unfold, what emotions they evoke in us and what they remind us of. While dreams take place during our sleep, we often find ourselves daydreaming but often unconsciously, affecting our emotional state. This album serves as an output for all those intense emotions we experience.

Recorded in London, July 1971. Previously unissued. Stereophonic sound. Compositions originally commissioned for the 1970 Bradford Arts Festival. Graham Collier's portrait of The West Riding, one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

Pat Thomas returns to OTOROKU for his fourth collection of solo piano improvisations, this time recorded in a studio setting at London’s Fish Factory.

Released in 1962 on the Contemporary Records label, “The Cry!” Is a free jazz album by saxophonists Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons. Also featured are Gary Peacock and Mark Proctor (bass), and Gene Stone (drums). This new edition features remastered hi-res audio from the original tapes.

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut…from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee "Nuclear War," there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra.