Freedonia Music was born in 2006 to promote Creative Improvised Music, offering a catalog of archival performances and contemporary recordings of New Music from the heart of the heartlands. Music to wake up your ears! |
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Wright / Mills
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FM42
KUVUKA LISTEN |
Deeply spirited creative free improvisation showing postmodern jazz and classical influences by two master musicians at the height of their expressive powers. A summit conference for piano and drum set. Refreshingly vigorous. [READ MORE] |
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Mandat / Mills
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FM41
New Music for Clarinet & Piano LISTEN |
Improvised duets with a strong avant classical flavor revealed in a broad variety of forms, moods and themes. These well defined spontaneous compositions are played with elegance and flair revealing a near-telepathic rapport. A mature vision delightfully rendered. [READ MORE] |
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Greg Mills
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FM39
Mosaique For Berio For Messiaen For Carter 1 For Carter 2 For Xenakis For Takemitsu For Stockhausen For Babbitt For Lutoslawski |
Improvised Classical Music. Mosaique is created in the spirit and practice of free improv utilizing a language of musical possibilities based in Modern Classical. Each of these nine improvised compositions is dedicated to a different 20th century composer whose unique voice lives as concept and inspiration, the ghost in the machine of Mills' considerable technical and imaginative skills.
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Zelenka / Mills
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FM37
Circle Skydiving Inside out In Praise Of Perfect Numbers In The Vernacular Estellarizations Currents Into the Dark Rainman Bhakti Festival Of The Destroyer Of Illusion |
Directed & free improvisations:
Previously unreleased recordings from a 1997 New Music Circle concert plus newly remastered studio tracks present high points in the decades spanning collaboration of Mills & Zelenka, aka the band EXILES. The music ranges from free improv and sparse avant-garde performance to the exotic instrumentation of orchestral studio works. [READ MORE] |
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Greg Mills
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FM40
Duets cello cello cello cello inside piano vibes bass clarinet soprano sax soprano sax bass clarinet bass flute soprano flute soprano flute cello cello cello cello |
Free improvisation duets for piano with cello, vibes, reeds, and flute:
Duets showcases Mills in the multifaceted role of accompanist behind a stellar array of soloists. The piano can be understated and supportive, or provocative, or intimately conversational in these varied dialogues with cello, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, vibes, and flute. The music is free improv. The feel is Avant Classical.
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Free Jazz Posse
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FM34
Conspire Suite: Day Breaks For The Sleep Walkers Time To Face The Music Cliff Note Jump Occam's Kindest Cut Sweet Street Sunshine City Zig Zag Tag Spooky Action At A Distance While Chrome Burns Triptych Living In Science Fiction Creatures Of The Dream Garden Inland Islands Requiem For Nostalgic Strategies |
Small ensemble free improv/free jazz: A suite of explosive variations, anti-minimalist depth charges with lyric intermezzo. Plus intimate electronic trilogy for voice and free jazz winds. Plus Spontaneous Combustion St. Louis Style.
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The James Marshall Human Arts Trio
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FM36
Illumination U City Blues Untitled Life Light India |
Trio & small ensemble free jazz: This remastered 1980 recording with its additional, never before released 18 minute bonus cut, is dedicated to the memory of James Marshall, co-founder and driving force of the Human Arts Ensemble. It showcases his unique voice and improvisational style on alto, tenor and soprano saxophones. With drum set and percussion accompaniment, Marshall's solos range from lyric to incendiary, are profound and passionate in feeling, intelligent and exacting in execution.
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The Perihelion Quartet
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FM38
A Day at the Circus! Overture Tag Team 1 A Horse Of A Different Color Pyrotechnic Dreams Freaks Of Nature Tag Team 2 Funtasm In The Round Bulls-eye! Tag Team 3 Dangerous Turns Above The Net The Lion's Share |
A celebratory cycle of free improvisations deriving and departing from the euro-classical avant-garde. Piano, percussion, reeds & cello are voices from the depths of uncivilized dreams proclaiming a fantastic bestiary, a surreal circus.
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Andreotti / Mills / Stone
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FM35
Triopolis Rapid Disclosure Underground Trajectories Sticky Thorns Collateral Insights Upwards Inside Job Forensic Mystics A Close Call Beyond The Threshold Rays Of Gold Ceres Invincible Intentions Tag Team |
Improvised music for cello, piano & reeds. On the edge, where the euro-classical avant-garde meets free improv. Not like anything else but if you like Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, this might be your dinner music.
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Human Arts Ensemble
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FM30
Needle of Light St. Louis Blues Revisited Lotsa Laffs Short Shots Axman In the Woods in Winter Nuclear Madness Superman: An American Adam Aphrodite |
Previously unreleased old school free jazz avant-blues, & theatrical constructions by The James Marshall Human Arts Ensemble with original poetry & vocals by Michael Castro. Recorded in a variety of live concert & studio settings, this is deep roots performance poetry 30 years before it became a fashion & acquired a name. [READ MORE] |
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Squid Choir Orkestra
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FM31
Infinite Circus Infinite Circus Radio Grace The World Itself Cries Out Outriders |
Electronic free improv derived from a darkly industrial sound pallet of unnamed mutant colors, destructured musical elements & extended instrumental techniques combining to create a deeply textured, high voltage electric odyssey. Squid Choir Orkestra features Jeremy Melsha, Dave Stone, Ajay Khanna, Jay Zelenka, Aaron Smith & Derek Leu. [READ MORE] |
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FM SAMPLER vol.1
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FM32
Ghost Machines Invocation, excerpt Sonaire: Subterranean Forrest Midnight In The Garden Festival for the Destroyer of Illusion Blue Oktober Ghost Machine Treasons Suspended Sentence The Man Who Looked Into Coltrane's Horn |
Freedonia Music presents Ghost Machines, a showcase of vintage & contemporary recordings of avant-garde, free jazz & free improv artists from St. Louis USA. Featuring performances by The Human Arts Ensemble • EXILES • The Free Jazz Posse • Squid Choir Orkestra • JD Parran • Michael Castro • Greg Mills • Dave Stone. [READ MORE] |
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Shubitidze/Zelenka/Stone
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FM33
Lifeline Blue Arcana Revelation Space 2 Voices In The Mirror Gondwana Revelation Space Walkabout Naissance In Cloud Forest Dream |
Intimate improv duets & trios for voice, baritone sax & electronic alto sax featuring the stellar vocals of Georgian rock/pop cabaret singer Lika Shubitidze. A journey of exploration & discovery beyond the borders of song where voice becomes instrument and music becomes revelation. A joyful noise! [READ MORE] |
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EXILES
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FM26
KalimbaMania Global Dance Shamani The Upper Room Les Sons De Bali Joy Raga Siva Rio Gango Oriental Garden Akool Old World Raga |
Lyrical passionate & compelling music explores exotic structures & tunings in this digitally remastered reissue from 1989. In a surprising extension of their unique vision, EXILES reinterprets the ancient indigenous Kalimba in a contemporary improvisational context. [READ MORE] |
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Human Arts Ensemble
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FM25
Autonomous Oblast Invocation Oasis Remembrances of the Present |
Big band old school free-blowin' free jazz from the James Marshall Human Arts Ensemble. Featuring rare performances by Maurice Malik King, James Marshall, Luther Thomas, Thurman Thomas, Jim Miller, Carl Arzinia Richardson, Papa Glen Wright, and others. Recorded in 1975 & digitally remastered from the original studio tapes. [READ MORE] |
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Castro / Parran
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FM29
Kokopilau A Poet Who Died Young The Man Who Looked Into Coltrane's Horn The Creed of the Seed The Kokopilau Cycle |
A ceremony of the ancient future celebrating a 30 year collaboration between multi-instrumental Horn Master JD Parran & Warrior Poet Michael Castro that began with the St. Louis Black Artist Group & The Human Arts Ensemble in the 1970's. Retelling mythic tales of life death & rebirth with voice, tenor sax, indigenous hand crafted instruments and postmodern techniques. A spontaneous bop kabbalah. [READ MORE] |
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Greg Mills
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FM24
ESFOMA One for Ives Esfoma Raga Vishnu Chorale & Variations Piece for Two Pianos |
Improvised music for solo piano. Mills' 1984 classic digitally remastered from the original studio tapes.
"... drawing inspiration from such diverse sources as 'cool' jazz, a variety of non-Western musical cultures and the early- and mid-20th century avant-garde schools...Mills' playing radiates a high level of intensity...a rhythmic vitality that catches hold of the listener instantly and never lets go, a sense of timing that's utterly sure and secure, a virtuosity that sets the keyboard ablaze. He's an exciting pianist." --James Wierzbicki, St. Louis Globe-Democrat [READ MORE] |
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Castro / Catalano
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FM28
Endless Root Poetry Is Freedom Ring The Ants Them Deep Mirror Chump Change Heraclitis Got It Right |
Performance poetry with music. From a 1996 concert featuring multi-instrumentalist Joe Catalano and renowned writer/performer Michael Castro in a profoundly intimate & empathetic series of originals. [READ MORE] |
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Dave Stone
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FM23
Dave Stone Solo Balizentanenanen There Is A Little Man Inside Dundtor Abaab Aspasapapas Bezawedjeblebleb Ackakaplakakpla Nower What? Behind Ceiling, Walls and more... |
Jazz tenor-man par excellence' solo excursion for multi-reeds (tenor, soprano, & baritone sax; alto, soprano, & bass clarinet.) Stone's music is urgent and relentless. A cycle of highly organized spontaneous compositions deeply rooted in both jazz and free-music improvisational traditions. [READ MORE] |
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Squid Choir Orkestra
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FM17
Fractured Infinity Ghost Machine Treasons Saucer Secrets Blind Science City On The Dark Side Of The Moon Levitation Happy Gargoyles |
Electric eclectic free jazz. Sax-assault space-scape electronic iterations. Post-nuclear sonic geographies from the Thunderdome on the Dark Side of the Moon. Power Electronics! Free-Fall Levitation! [READ MORE] |
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Free Jazz Posse
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FM18
Fanfares For The Noh Age Yer Fly's Wide Open... Midnight In The Garden Noh Trans Requiem Move 1 Passages Downstreet Serenade Move 2 Nothing Holding Up The Sky Coriolis Current Again |
A free jazz suite for wind ensemble and guitar portrays a lush sound-scape densely alive with dark voices and interwoven motifs, a haunting vision illuminated by humor, irony and immanent hope. A cycle of fast slow-songs celebrating a requiem and rebirth: midnight in the garden.... [READ MORE] |
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Stone / Zelenka / Mills
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FM19
Premonitions Cryptic Triptych Stations Unknowing Is Next Age News Suspended Sentence: Rainman's Outta Prism Vernacular New Earth Dreams |
Orchestral music for ensemble winds, piano and percussion. Prepared piano duets. Straight ahead trios for piano and saxophones. Twisted haiku for piano, synths, sax mouthpieces and trombone. Saxophone Chorus. Composed improvisations blur the boundaries between preconception and spontaneous execution. Music without firewalls. [READ MORE] |
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EXILES
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FM20
From The Edge Sonaire: Subterranean Forest Music Of The Ancient Future Scherzo Estellarisations From The Edge Into The Dark Currents Sonaire: The End Of Time Bhakti Mantra Perihelion Sonaire: Forbidden Planet Festival For The Destroyer Of Illusion |
Orchestral compositions for non-orchestral instrumentation and duet free-improvisations. This is the 'Best of Exiles' vol. 1, culled from their previous 7 releases and documenting a twelve year history of recording and public performance culminating in the 1990 Leo Records release, Stranded In Paradise. Hear the result of this extensive collaboration in an evolving vernacular unique even to the experimental realm of New Music. [READ MORE] |
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Greg Mills
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FM21
Blue Oktober Sonata for 2 Pianos: 1. Fanfares For The Uncommon Man 2. Etude Fantastique 3. BerSeusse 4. Enclaves Klavierstucke I Blue Oktober Formation II Klavierstucke II Secret Passages and more... |
Improvised music for piano: solo, duos, trio multi-tracks and percussion: Blue Oktober exists beyond style, genre or influence. Here are the seasons-between-seasons: a musical syntax uniquely self-referential in the most creative sense; a private personal language everyone knows. Dazzling keyboard technique in the service of daring passionate communicative improvisation. Intelligent and compositionally sophisticated. Tears It Up! Lays It Down! [READ MORE] |
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EXILES
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FM22
Stranded In Paradise Devotion Nocturne In Corpor And Es Sonaire: Subterranean Forest Outside The Gates part 1 Outside The Gates part 2 Temple Of Fire New World Raga Sonaire: Forbidden Planet |
Exiles' music features indigenous (nonwestern) and contemporary instrumentation, free jazz sensibilities and post-modern euro-classical influences:
"Amalgamating influences so diverse as to create new forms...new approaches to composition and a previously unimagined vocabulary of expression. Time suspends itself. The antidote to artifice." --Marc S. Tucker, Liner Notes [READ MORE] |
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