Eremite Records
Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor
Onilu
MTE-82
the drum, and its entire global family of membranophones, shakers, and idiophones, are conduits for their collective creative voice
Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, William Parker
The Ancients
MTE-80-81
the intergenerational coalition of Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, & William Parker
Natural Information Society
Since Time Is Gravity
MTE-78-79
mojo magazine #1 underground album 2023
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy
MTE-76-77
x2LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by the acclaimed guitarist & composer's los angeles 4tet. pitchfork 100 best albums of the 2020s
beautifully exectuted audiophile reissue remastered from original tapes
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker
descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
MTE-74-75
washington post best albums 2021
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Mandatory Reality
MTE-71-72
the wire magazine #9 record 2019/ washington post #2 song 2019
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Mandatory Reality
MTE-70-71
the wire magazine #9 record 2019/ washington post #2 song 2019
J.A.N.I.S. & Jeff Parker
screenprinted tour poster
MTE-6865
19" x 25" screenprinted tour poster
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble
Drum Dance To The Motherland
MTE-69
the definitive vinyl edition of the most legendary private press underground jazz album of the 1970s
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Simultonality
MTE-68
pitchfork 8.1 rating / the wire magazine #7 record 2017 / uncut magazine #15 record 2017
Joshua Abrams
Music for Life Itself & The Interrupters
MTE-67
abrams music for two acclaimed documentaries by steve james
Byron Morris & Gerald Wise
Unity
MTE-66
exact repro of lost 1969 washington DC private press free jazz LP
Jeff Parker
Slight Freedom
MTE-65
repressed! 2022-12-02 new york times best albums 2016
Joshua Abrams
Magnetoception
MTE-63-64
the wire #3 record of 2015 / pitchfork #2 'experimental' record 2015
Joshua Abrams
Represencing
MTE-62
deluxe CD edition with unreleased material. other music's best reissues 2014
Joshua Abrams
Natural Information
MTE-61
deluxe CD edition with unreleased material. other music's best reissues 2014
TEST
Always Coming From the Love Side
MTE-59-60
the music reaches such a joyous pitch the players break into song
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society
Father of Origin
MTE-54-55-56
AMS was both a radical arts presenting organization & a killer band. its story is a long buried & previously undocumented chapter of the early loft era
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble
Drum Dance to the Motherland
MTE-50
deluxe reissue of this outsider holy grail. an improbable fusion of cosmic free jazz & full-on live dub production techniques
John Blum Astrogeny Quartet
John Blum Astrogeny Quartet
MTE-49
secret jazz hero blum joined by expat antonio grippi & one of the baddest rhythm sections in free jazz history
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake/William Parker
Blue Winter
MTE-47-48
a pinnacle in his work & in its documentation
Sunny Murray
Perles Noires vol. II
MTE-46
full of fire and surprise, ornery as hell, charming and urbane, and totally, unstintingly true to his free-spirited aesthetic
Sunny Murray
Perles Noires vol. I
MTE-45
one of the most original musical minds of the past 50 years, a genuine innovator, the liberator of the drum kit, & an artist of uncompromising honesty
Marshall Allen/Hamid Drake/'Kidd' Jordan/William Parker/Alan Silva
The All-Star Game
MTE-44
a remarkable gathering of first & second generation american free jazz heavyweights
Jemeel Moondoc with Denis Charles
We Don't
MTE-43
moondoc had a special chemistry with charles, whose caribbean-inflected rhythms animated jazz in an entirely unique way
Alan Silva & The Celestrial Communication Orchestra
H.CON.RES.57/TREASURE BOX
MTE-39-40-41-42
frighteningly powerful, summing up in its massive structure & sound all the forms & aesthetics that gave rise to it
chosen by the wire as one of the "crucial" brötzmann recordings
William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra
Raincoat in the River
MTE-36
parker's five section narrative suite based on the life of the late street musician marvin nunez. parker solos on four different instruments
Raphe Malik Quartet
Companions
MTE-34
all the concentrated drive, tautness & ferocity characteristic of malik's strongest music
Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker with Hamid Drake
New World Pygmies vol.2
MTE-30-31
heading off to the african interior in a joyful explosion of power and light
Jemeel Moondoc and the Jus Grew Orchestra
Spirit House
MTE-29
a joyous fusion of hard-bop & avant garde visions. warehouse find = new lower price
Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
Alan Silva & The Sound Visions Orchestra
MTE-26
forget cute hand signals — conduction silva-style also involves blood-curdling tribal war cries
Tom Bruno
White Boy Blues
MTE-22
maybe he took the phrase underground musician too seriously. maybe everyone else didn't take it seriously enough
Peter Brötzmann Die Like A Dog Quartet
From Valley To Valley
MTE-18
70 minutes of uproarious group conjuring by brötzmann's quartet for the apocalypse
Alan Silva & WIlliam Parker
A Hero's Welcome: Pieces For Rare Occasions
MTE-17
two modern giants of the bull fiddle united in a project of awesome power
Sunny Murray with Sabir Mateen
We Are Not at the Opera
MTE-14
like baby dodds and kenny clarke before him, sunny murray revolutionized the role of the drummer in jazz. final copies
William Parker
Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace
MTE-12
reissue of parker's rare self-released 1st album with additional material. final copies
Denis Charles
Captain Of The Deep
MTE-09
one of only two records released under the leadership of the legendary denis "jazz" charles
Christopher Cauley
FINland
MTE-06
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