OUT MAY 5TH

To celebrate our dear friend Philip Corner's 91st birthday we present a new stripped down version of our 'One Note More Than Once' t-shirt. All t-shirts are printed on quality cotton with our classic logo on the back of the neck. The t-shirts are available on all sizes. They ship both from the US and EU depending on your location to avoid excessive shipping costs and import taxes (remember to select the convenient shipping location when ordering). These are printed on demand, orders are not handled by us and must be placed at our TeeSpring store

“I think the profound sense of jazz music lies in its freedom. In its canonized shape of be-bop, the genre implies a musical theme, a melody and a harmony through which the musician can free himself of his own technical skills by putting them in service of the improvised performance. In some cases this curious research of spontaneity has pushed artists to explore an unusual timbric apparatus, mixing the jazz idiom with those of different musical worlds. I’ve chosen though to only pick tracks that are either early or late in respect to the codified “fusion” genre, which I personally find a bit boring, because it’s too predictable and trapped inside its own codes. Here we will go from the chamber jazz of Gary Burton to the acid-rock fuzz-tinged music of the same vibraphonist; from the contemporary classical influenced jazz of the italian hero Giorgio Gaslini to the free conversations between Anthony Braxton’s saxophone and Richard Teitelbaum’s Moog synthesizer, passing through Alice Coltrane’s cosmic spirituality, Archie Shepp’s shamanic tribalisms, Pat Metheny’s pure noise, the hispanic fascinations of Ron Carter and the Japanese ones of McCoy Tyner, and more. In the adventurous spirit of these proposals, that embrace a time period that goes from 1964 to 2023, I’ve allowed myself to produce a creative mix to create a conversation between these incredible musicians”.

Storia Notturna is the new album by our own Luca Giovanardi. Inspired by the 1989 book by the same name by historian Carlo Ginzburg - a seminal study about witchcraft, pre-christian cults and magic - the album is an "italian tale of psycho-magic in music", as a friend described it. Ranging from acoustic string instruments and percussions to electronic soundscapes, Luca played and produced the music himself, with very few interventions by others: Matilde Bondioli (soprano voice), James Watts (throat singing), plus some stolen field recordings of friends and family members. It's released by Backwards Records and it's available digitally today on Bandcamp only, with the possibility to pre-order the physical LP version.