Numbered edition of 200 copies from the duo of percussionist Ben Hall (Graveyards et al) and guitarist Zac Davis (Lambsbread). This one is more in line with the excellent Cloudburst tape, with Zac moving from fast, zagging note runs through sheet metal chords and stops while Hall accelerates time in buncha simultaneous directions. This one has as much to do with cranky No Wave refusal as it does hyper-dynamic improv pugilism and it comes in a heavy screened wraparound sleeve.

Numbered edition of 200 copies from this clarinet/piano duo with an umbilical that runs all the way back to the sound of Bix Beiderbecke and The Wolverines while projecting improvised music far into the future via a reductionist stance that has more to do with disassembling and reconfiguring free jazz tongue than shutting down the instruments altogether. Braida’s piano playing has an odd, sepia-toned quality that serves to further confuse timelines and the combination of Locatelli’s fleet clarinet work, smearing bird-like phrases into little globes of light, is a beautiful transport. Timeless free jazz that effortlessly sidesteps alla the easy clichés associated with the genre. Pro-printed sleeves, on Ben Hall’s label. “This marks the third release for the duo of Alberto Braida and Giancarlo Locatelli, the first being the incredibly austere Diciannove Calefazioni which was our initial introduction to perhaps the premier group of purpose and restraint in improvising music. Big talk I know but the fact is that these two have developed a dialogue thru their long partnership and friendship that stands as reminder of the potential that contemporary improvisation has always held and the manifestation of many of it's myriad possibilities. Our primary regard for Diciannove Calefazioni [Nineteen Calefactions] and our recent regard for the slightly more boisterous Big Margotta is how well considered their approach to reduction is. Rather than the methodology of Berlin or of Boston, what the group did was to take Beckett's approach to language and apply it to music; that is, to reduce it right to the point of collapse. In Beckett's case language still operates within the rules of grammar and in this duo's case they still operate within the rules of harmony but sans goofball mawkishness, tropes or boring melodicism. If there were fewer notes it wouldn't work and if there were more it would be overbearing. The duo language here is so fleet and well-handled it gives the listener an opportunity to hear experimental music that fulfils both of those qualifications.” – BH.

Great to see the return of Ben Hall’s avant/improvisation imprint Brokenresearch, especially w/this wildcard: Levin-Decanini plays laptop, keyboards and language master across a series of compositions that combine a weird rhythmic logic with bursts of arterial sound, industrial-scale electronics and an uncommon feel for explosive texture. It makes sense being on Brokenreserach in that is combines a weird tape-composition feel that is almost Alga Marghen with a doofy physicality that is pure American Tapes. Throw in some of the headier and more ritualistic Japanese noise – CCCC perhaps – and a feel for the power of punctured silence and you have one of the most puzzling new music releases of the year: “Anthony is a really tremendous improviser in Chicago who I first saw with this post-rock [for lack of any other reasonably descriptive term] group Binges that was just mind-blowing. Essentially a prog duo with an incredible mathy drummer that has a great feel named Chris Robert and Anthony playing bass, guitar, sax, tapes, effects and percussion all at once [one line on one instrument, change etc etc] so it sounded like a disturbed version of On The Corner-era Miles but without any goofy noise or fusion tropes at all -just completely solid music. He gave me this solo disc last year and it has been in heavy, heavy rotation. I'm thrilled to be able to release it and am excited that people are finally giving me stuff that has all the same values of the music on brokenresearch without it having the same sounds or mechanics. This track reminds me of some Pole/Merzbow hybrid kinda slowed and throwed. One of my faves on the label for sure.” – Ben Hall.