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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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Freejazz.org
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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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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Clutter-funkk
Drum&Bass DJ, has been known to work with me...
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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
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
"...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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Frakture
Club
Veterans of
thirteen 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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