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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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Free Jazz Discussion Page
Like it says, a discussion of Free Jazz - read and contribute
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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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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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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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Freenoise
Improvised and
experimental music and art: based in Sheffield, UK
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The Wire
UK mag,
not much improv coverage these days.
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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
Simon Fell,
operating since 1983, important catalogue, you oughta know about it.
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Potlatch
French
improv label
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Babel
Billy Jenkins
and cohorts up to the usual high jinks
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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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Frakture Club
Veterans of ten years
standing, gigs and other activities in Liverpool
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London Musicians
Collective
London
is a port in the South of England.
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Manchester Jazz Festival
promote
throughout the year, as well as the fez itself, in June
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2-13 Club
London, Berlin
and now Greece - CD's and live promotions from the afternoon musicians.
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FRIM
Wassat, then?
it's the Swedish Association for Free Improvised Music
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in swapping links?
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