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Links
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here's some sites we
recommend:
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General
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European
Free Improvisation
A general list of
practitioners of the art, lots of piccies and
audio, lots of info, a fair who's who of
European Free Improvisors. Like it says.
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Restructures
"The restructural musics from the
post-Ayler/Cage continuums have not been
documented correctly and this 'MIS-AWARENESS'
must be addressed." -- Anthony Braxton
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Jazz
Services
The UK's promoter
of the artform. Loadsa links, directories of
people etc etc
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European
Jazz Network
Pretty much as it sounds, whole
bunch of interesting stuff from the continent
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modisti
Modisti is an interactive virtual environment
for new music.
An online directory with information with regard
to experimental music, it’s performers and
enthusiats, thru lists promotion activities such
as concerts, festivals, etc., as well as record
releases.
New releases & free mp3 downloads in
experimental music. News, concerts, performances,
festivals, labels etc: based in Spain, but with a
worldwide outlook.
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Musicians
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Bob
Drake
Musician, artist and photographer
of cemetaries
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Bret
Hart
Guitarist out of North Carolina.
Check the Instrumentales Duet series, and many
other fine recordings here...
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Ken
Hyder
Fae Dundee - London based
drummer, works w/Tim Hodkinson, Maggie Nicols
- his band Talisker bridged the gap between
free music and scottish folk, and he once did
an album w/Dick Goughan, which is about as
good as a CV gets, in my opinion...
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Kaffe
Mathews
Generally marvellous
violinist and sound manipulator
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Deep
Listening Institute
All you might want to know about
Pauline Oliveros and collaborators.
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Paul
Hession
banging the big soft drum set in
Leeds, UK
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Caroline
Kraabel
Musings on Life and Sound
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Anthony
Donovan
Info on his artworks and the
Murmurists
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Sonicanta
Glenn Weyant's project involves playing
the fences between the US and Mexico: the resulting
mixes are yours to download.
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Philip
Jeck
Sound and turntable artist. Perhaps
best known for installations involving dansettes,
but his solo stuff is absorbing and wonderful too,
if less visually spectacular.
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Smack 77
Si Mack's YouTube Channel, including
D-fekt
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Tri-centric
Foundation
Home of all things to do with Anthony
Braxton.
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Lee
Noyes
Drummer,
guitarist, composer, based in Sweden.
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Zines
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Perfect
Sound Forever
Online 'zine
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Experimental
Musical Instruments
Site of the american mag of the
same name - the title more or less tells you
everything, ie it's about unusual instruments,
so if that's what you want, this is where it
is...
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Furthernoise
Furthernoise is an online platform for the
creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of
innovative cross genre music and sound art for the
information & interaction of the public and
artists alike.
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Labels
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Leo
Records
Great label. Tell them we
said hi...
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Bruce's
Fingers
Label of the late Simon Fell;
website still there, tho you can't buy stuff any
more.
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Potlatch
French improv label
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Babel
"...the
Cliche-free independent"
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Cadence
Out of NYC - Cadence is fairly
straight ahead, also home to CIMP records,
very purist improv label.
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Rastascan
Improv and cutting edge from
the West Coast (of the US, that is, rather
than Conway)
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Cuneiform
US label, lotsa interesting stuff.
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Discus
Step forward, Martin Archer and his
'adventurous label', outta Sheffield.
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Emanem
Martin Davidson's London based
label
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Recommended/ReR
Megacorp
Chris Cutler's home to all
that is wonderful
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Materiali
Sonori
eclectic selection from
Italy's finest
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Aumfidelity
"if you are looking for
human-organized sounds to potentially tranform
you, your search here has yielded a treasure"
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Incus
Documenting
the
recorded legacy of the late Derek Bailey.
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Slam
George Haslam's
long-running document of the British free jazz
scene. Recommended.
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Organisations
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FRIM
Wassat, then? it's the Swedish
Association for Free Improvised Music
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Mopomoso
London monthly club, now happily
installed in their new home at the Vortex
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email: info[at]whi-music.co.uk
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