Browse by Label: PSI (UK)

Artist:	PARKER, EVAN
Title:	Lines Burnt in Light
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 01.01CD

"With the release of Psi 01.01 Evan Parker begins a new chapter in the work he started in 1970 with Incus Records. After leaving Incus and a long period of working with other independent labels E.P. has decided to start a new label of his own (assisted by Martin Davidson of Emanem). 'Much has changed in the intervening years. The LP format with all its attendant technical woes and disappointments has been replaced by CD; the technology and economics have changed markedly in favour of the small independent producer; a whole global culture for improvised music has developed. P.S. I called it Psi for all the associations with irrational numbers, golden ratios etc but above all for the Psi phenomena which I am convinced are at the heart of improvised music making.' -- Evan Parker. His first solo soprano saxophone record in several years, recorded in the inspiring acoustics of St Michael and All Angels Church in west London. 62 minutes, previously unissued."

Artist:	PARKER OCTET, EVAN
Title:	Crossing the River
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.02CD

"Groups in the range septet to tentet are increasingly possible, given the long term commitment to free improvisation from London-based musicians. This CD features two extended octet improvisations by Neil Metcalfe (flute), John Rangecroft (clarinet), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin), Marcio Mattos (cello), John Edwards (bass), John Russell (guitar), and Agustí Fernández (piano) -- plus a string quintet, and some short trios and duos."

Artist:	PARKER, EVAN
Title:	The Topography of the Lungs
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.05CD

Long awaited reissue of what was the first ever Incus label release, originally issued in 1970. With two previously unreleased bonus tracks. A trio recordings by Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), Derek Bailey (guitar) and Han Bennink (percussion), Evan has dubiously reissued this just under his own name, with inferior new artwork (the original artwork is included inside and you can refold the booklet to display it!). "The Topography of the Lungs is considered a landmark recording in the history of improvised music. Back in print as a CD for the first time and for the first time in many years. Two previously unissued pieces from the same 1970 session have been found and added."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Free Zone Appleby 2005
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.06CD

"Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone), Paul Dunmall (soprano & tenor saxophones), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electronics), John Edwards (bass), Paul Rogers (bass), Tony Levin (drums), Tony Marsh (drums). The acoustics of Ancient Space and Chris Trent's engineering sensibilities bring a more free jazz orientated combination of some of Evan Parker's favourite musicians in a full programme of open playing. Three trios, a quartet and a nonet."

Artist:	SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Title:	Biosystem
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.07CD

"John Stevens (percussion & cornet), Nigel Coombes (violin), Roger Smith (guitar), Colin Wood (cello). The first recording of the 'string' version of the SME, that lasted (minus Wood) until 1992." "We had a willow tree in the back garden and I used to look at the willow tree and the grass and think, well we could be like this. We could be very close to nature if we learned how to just purely interact..." John Stevens. Reissue plus 35 minutes of extra material from the same session. Originally recorded on 6/28/77.

Artist:	FURT
Title:	Omnivm
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.09CD

Richard Barrett & Paul Obermayer: live electronics. Recorded 2005/6. "Furt's new CD combines live sets from Durham and Belfast into a vertiginous journey lasting almost 78 minutes. Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer once more redefine the outer limits of intensity, virtuosity and improvisational rapport in electronic music in Omnivm, named after 'the essential inherent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything' in Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman."

Artist:	CASSERLEY/SIMON DESORGHER, LAWRENCE
Title:	Music From ColourDome
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 07.01CD

"Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument), Simon Desorgher (flute & bass flute), with Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), David Stevens (computer processing), Philipp Wachsmann (violin). Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher have been performing in and around Peter Jones' inflatable structures since the early '80s, and as Directors of the Colourscape Music Festivals have invited many performers to work with them and create new performance possibilities in these intensely special environments. Evan Parker, Philipp Wachsmann and David Stevens are among them, and various combinations of these players have occurred in many contexts before; but it was in the ColourDome in Exeter in July 2006 that we first played together as a quintet. ColourDome is a vibrant and special atmosphere in which to work, and that day in Exeter was very hot; the intensity of the color and the heat are embedded in these performances. Maybe that explains the intensely colored music, and the way in which our individual sounds frequently melt into one!"

Artist:	HOULE/EVAN PARKER/BENOÎT DELBECQ, FRANÇOIS
Title:	La Lumière De Pierres
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 07.02CD

"François Houle (clarinets), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Benoît Delbecq (prepared piano). Delbecq and Houle had often discussed expanding their collaborative concept to include a third person, so in 2005, when composer Michel Frigon invited them to perform at his Innovations concert series in Montréal with Evan Parker, they seized the opportunity to record this new trio formation. The result is something very special. Collectively these musicians inhabit a highly distinctive sound world and their sonic explorations bring us some of the most exquisite, intricate and beautiful music one could ever hope to hear."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Free Zone Appleby 2006
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 07.04CD

"Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Rudi Mahall (bass clarinet), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electronics), Alexander von Schlippenback (piano), Aki Takase (piano), Paul Lovens (drums). The acoustics of Ancient Space and Chris Trent's engineering sensibilities bring an international combination of some of Evan Parker's favorite musicians in a full program of open playing. Four duos, five trios and a quartet." 79 minutes.

Artist:	FORCH
Title:	Spin Networks
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	PSI 07.05/06CD

"Furt [Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer] (electronics), John Butcher (soprano & tenor saxophones), Rhodri Davies (harps), Paul Lovens (drums), Phil Minton (voice), Wolfgang Mitterer (piano, electronics), Ute Wassermann (voice). Recorded at the SWR New Jazz Meeting in December 2005, is the first release from an ongoing project in which Furt is expanded into an electroacoustic octet with a unique collective sound, where vocals, instruments and electronics coalesce into a dense but transparent vortex."

Artist:	ANGELI/EVAN PARKER/NED ROTHENBERG, PAOLO
Title:	Free Zone Appleby 2007
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.04CD

Paolo Angeli (Sardinian guitar & electronics), Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), Ned Rothenberg (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet). "The Free Zone in 2007 was played by just three. The smaller than usual line up allowed for a more intense investigation of the relationships between the players. For the first time an entire set was played by all three musicians and this set was so successful that it is presented unedited, along with two duos. There will be no Appleby Festival in 2008, and therefore for the moment the sequence comes to an end with what many people considered the most successful Free Zone ever."

Artist:	ECKHARDT, JOHN
Title:	Xylobiont
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.05CD

"John Eckhardt brings the technique and sensibility required by the music of Xenakis, Feldman and Ligeti to this debut recording of double bass improvisations recorded in 2007. Some of the sounds on this CD might suggest electronic manipulation or overdubbing (which have nowhere been used) -- one of Eckhardt's principal musical strategies is to explore the polyphonic potential of a given playing situation, and another is to concentrate to a seemingly obsessive degree on a seemingly restricted area of instrumental technique until it yields up its inner variety and complexity."

Artist:	VON SCHLIPPENBACH, ALEXANDER
Title:	Friulian Sketches
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.07CD

Alexander Von Schlippenbach (piano), Daniel D'agaro (clarinet), Tristan Honsinger (cello). "This spontaneous chamber music establishes further advances in the development of improvisation as compositional process. Recorded in the prestigious Arte Suono Studios, Udine." "As you taste this dish, you'll be perhaps so engaged to query about the ingredients. At any given time you could lay this musical output equally at the feet of jazz, classical, or 20th century composed music. But the ingredients won't explain why it's so delicious -- it's the spices, seasoning, and flair of the chefs." -- from the notes by Ben Young.

Artist:	WARLEIGH, RAY
Title:	Rue Victor Massé
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.08CD

Ray Warleigh (alto saxophone & flute), Tony Marsh (percussion). "'What I play is absolutely unpremeditated. There are no soundscapes or pictures in my head. But I like melody very much, and I've thought about it a lot.' After several attempts to make relatively lavish studio productions we agreed that the music here had the spirit that Ray wanted regardless, or perhaps because, of the absolutely basic way in which it was recorded. Unbelievably, this is only the second album made under his leadership -- the first was made in 1968! His consistently fine playing can be heard in duo with long-term associate Tony Marsh, whose drumming just gets better and better."

Artist:	EDWARDS, JOHN
Title:	Volume
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.09CD

"The first solo CD by John Edwards, increasingly recognized as one of the most significant players of his generation. Recorded in splendid detail by John Wall, these nine tracks are a very fresh take on the possibilities of unamplified double bass playing, making it a major entry in the solo bass literature." "This solo recording is an unusual and rare offering that comes from a musician who performs every day, every week, and appears on over 100 records. It's a selection of sounds, melodies, and gestures from this characteristic spectrum, combined with behaviors belonging to a virtuoso, and with those that can only be learned from persistent jig sawing or by illuminating and fusing all user manuals." -- From the notes by Marek Tuszynski. Has been referenced as Steve Beresford's "Best Record Of 2008".

Artist:	NILSSON/STEN SANDELL/RAYMOND STRID, PER ANDERS
Title:	Beam Stone
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.02CD

Per Anders Nilsson (computer and synthesizer), Sten Sandell (piano, prepared piano, electronics and voice), and Raymond Strid (percussion). "Beam Stone was founded a year before this October 2007 recording. The trio consists of three free improvisers, each with a distinctive personal sound. Their aim with Beam Stone is to explore sonic territories with the guidance of different pre-defined concepts. Listening and sonic exploration are considered the essential points of departure."

Artist:	CASSERLEY & ADAM LINSON, LAWRENCE
Title:	Integument
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.03CD

"Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument and voice) & Adam Linson (double bass, live processing and sampling) met first when Adam joined the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble for the Free RadiCCAls festival at the CCA, Glasgow in November, 2004. They formed an almost instant rapport, which has continued ever since. During Lawrence's European tour in May, 2007 they met again and performed with the Ensemble in Cologne, after which Lawrence spent several days in Berlin. For two of those days they recorded together in Adam's studio. On the first day they stuck to their basic instruments -- Adam on bass while Lawrence was processing. On the second day they experimented with adding Adam's own processing and Lawrence's voice to the mix. Most of the tracks on this CD come from the first day. The enthusiasm, excitement and energy of those sessions will be abundantly clear from this CD." 56 minutes.

Artist:	FERNANDEZ, AGUSTI
Title:	Un Llamp Que No S'acaba Mai
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.04CD

Agustí Fernández (piano), John Edwards (double bass), and Mark Sanders (drums). "Agustí Fernández's connection with the London scene grows stronger by the year. His trio with John Edwards and Mark Sanders brings him to the heart of things. Their set played at the Jazz Sigüenza 2007 festival in Spain comprised this free improvisation, which was captured by the fabulous ears of ace engineer Checa R Puértolas & mixer Feran Conangla." Recorded 12/2007; 47 minutes.

Artist:	EVANS, PETER
Title:	Nature/Culture
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.05/6CD

"A sequel to his highly-acclaimed first solo CD More Is More on psi 06.08. Peter Evans writes: 'Over the past couple of years one of my main creative outlets has been solo trumpet performance. These discs are meant to show various aspects of my music's development and were recorded in two different settings (studio and concert) and under two different circumstances. Jazz musicians have often referred to the playing of a solo as 'telling a story,' which is essentially how I look at this music; it is an opportunity to state possibilities and tell stories that are short, long, true, false, unfinished, overlapping, fantastic and mundane.' 108 minutes."

Artist:	GRUTRONIC
Title:	Essex Foam Party
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.07CD

Stephen Grew (keyboard, processing), Richard Scott (buchla lightning, analogue synthesizer, sampler, processing), Nick Grew (transduction, processing) & David Ross (drosscillator) + special guests Orphy Robinson (vibraphone) & Paul Obermayer (sampler). (2006-8) "Grutronic are a collective of free improvisers -- all have a past/present as acoustic ensemble players. In Grutronic they are re-incarnated as electronic musicians, extending technique through the development of personalized systems of sound production and control. Current intuitive and performance-oriented technologies put tools and techniques, once the preserve of the electronic music studio, into the hands of the players. Grutronic take on these new challenges with glee, aiming to surprise and delight the listener and themselves with unheard forms and sound-relationships, fixed during the act of performance."

Artist:	FURT
Title:	Sense
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.08CD

"Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer (electronics) perform a semi-composed extended suite, plus an improvised tribute to Stockhausen. (2008/9). 'Too often, critics make an automatic separation between 'emotion' and 'intellect', a framework which will get one nowhere with Furt. Instead, their music shows graphically how fused, how inseparable are the two. As Richard Barrett puts it: 'The music is motivated by emotional and sensual considerations as much as by anything else. Without wishing to sound too pretentious I think it's concerned with finding and exploring (musical) states of consciousness to which the word 'ecstasy' might well be completely appropriate (at least in an etymological sense).'' -- From the notes by David Grundy."

Artist:	PARKER, EVAN
Title:	Set
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.09CD

"Evan Parker (saxophones), Barry Guy (bass), Paul Lytton (tympani, percussion & live electronics), Furt [Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer] (electronics), Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument), Walter Prati (live processing), Marco Vecchi (sound projection) This music was inspired by Lynn Margulis' serial endosymbiosis theory (Set), and is dedicated to her and her amazing insights into the mechanisms of biological evolution. In inviting Paul Lytton, Barry Guy, Walter Prati, Marco Vecchi, Lawrence Casserley and Furt, I was trading on the pre-existing musical structures that these musicians brought with them: the solo works of Guy, Lytton , Casserley and myself; the duos with Lytton, Guy, Prati and Casserley, the trio with Guy and Lytton, the trio with Guy and Casserley; my asking Furt added a further music with its own history. (Evan Parker). Commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage 2003. Previously unissued."

Artist:	BARRETT, RICHARD
Title:	Adrift
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 09.10CD

"Three live performances of collaborative electroacoustic compositions from 2007-08, recorded in London, Brisbane and Antwerp, each exploring different points of contact between precomposed structures and spontaneous invention: a duo adrift (in memory of Paul Rutherford) with pianist Sarah Nicolls, a nonet codex IX (in memory of Mauricio Kagel) with the Elision ensemble, and a 17-piece group with Ensemble Champ d'Action realizing codex VII (to Vinko Globokar)."

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Artist:	DUDEK, GERD
Title:	'smatter
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 02.01CD

Artist:	BENNINK & EVAN PARKER, HAN
Title:	The Grass is Greener
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 02.02CD

Artist:	PARKER & GEORGE LEWIS, EVAN
Title:	From Saxophone & Trombone
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 02.04CD

Artist:	PARKER & PAUL LYTTON, EVAN
Title:	Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones)
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 02.05CD

Artist:	PARKER/BARRY GUY/PAUL LYTTON, EVAN
Title:	At Les Instants Chavirés
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 02.06CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Free Zone Appleby 2002
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	PSI 03.02/3CD

Artist:	WHEELER, KENNY
Title:	Dream Sequence
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 03.04CD

Artist:	TRACEY & EVAN PARKER, STAN
Title:	Suspensions and Anticipations
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 04.02CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Pisa 1980 Improvisors Symposium
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	PSI 04.03/4CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Free Zone Appleby 2003
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 04.05CD

Artist:	PARKER/SCHLIPPENBACH/LYTTON
Title:	America 2003
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	PSI 04.06/7CD

Artist:	RYAN, JOEL
Title:	Or Air
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 04.08CD

Artist:	SANDELL & DAVID STACKENAS WITH PARKER/GUY/LYTTON, STEN
Title:	Gubbrora
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 04.10CD

Artist:	BAILEY/EVAN PARKER, DEREK
Title:	The London Concert
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 05.01CD

Artist:	RUTHERFORD, PAUL
Title:	Iskra3
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 05.02CD

Artist:	LEIMGRUBER/JACQUES DEMIERRE/BARRE PHILLIPS, URS
Title:	LDP - Cologne
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 05.03CD

Artist:	PARKER/BARRY GUY/PAUL LYTTON/PHILIPP WACHSMANN/JOEL RYAN, EVAN
Title:	Free Zone Appleby 2004
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 05.05CD

Artist:	FERNANDEZ & MATS GUSTAFSSON, AGUSTI
Title:	Critical Mass
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 05.06CD

Artist:	FOXES FOX
Title:	Naan Tso
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 05.07CD

Artist:	MAHALL, RUDI
Title:	Solo
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.01CD

Artist:	TAKASE, AKI
Title:	Tarantella
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.03CD

Artist:	LINSON, ADAM
Title:	Cut and Continuum
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.04CD

Artist:	SCHLIPPENBACH TRIO
Title:	Winterreise
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSI 06.10CD

Artist:	BARK!
Title:	Contraption
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 07.03CD

Artist:	VAN HOVE, FRED
Title:	Journey
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.03CD

Artist:	LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
Title:	Improvisations for George Riste
Label:	PSI (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSI 08.06CD