Strata-East Records
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Strata-East Records, a legendary jazz label founded in 1970 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell, is being reissued through a new partnership with Mack Avenue Music Group. Artist-driven, spiritually and politically conscious jazz, Strata-East's legacy is being revived with high-quality reissues celebrating its creative independence.
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Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1
Chick Corea’s groundbreaking first solo piano album, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1, helped define ECM’s aesthetic and remains a landmark in improvised music. Featuring spontaneous creations alongside memorable themes like “Sometime Ago,” this edition is cut from the original masters and presented in a deluxe gatefold cover.
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Bill Evans
Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964–1969
A stunning collection of never-before-released live recordings from Evans’ 1960s Scandinavian tours. Presented as a deluxe 180-gram double LP with gatefold sleeve and 12-page booklet, and also available as a 2-CD edition, this release captures Evans in Helsinki and Tampere with three legendary trios at the height of his creative powers.
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Painkiller
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The legendary trio PainKiller returns with the third chapter of their new trilogy. The Great God Pan dives into darker, moodier territory—two epic tracks blending crushing metal, ambient textures, and haunting lyricism inspired by Arthur Machen’s gothic tale.
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Trigger & Ikue Mori
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In Vol. 3 Features Trigger are at their most intense, blasting through fifteen of the wildest, most chaotic Bagatelles. Volume 4 showcases Ikue Mori’s masterful electronic interpretations elegant, detailed, and truly one of a kind.
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Vijay Iyer
Defiant Life Now Available on Vinyl!
"Defiant Life" blends Wadada Leo Smith’s expressive trumpet with Vijay Iyer’s rich piano and Fender Rhodes textures. Spanning urgency, bluesy undertones, and reflective beauty, this duo’s second ECM release captures a deep musical dialogue, recorded in just two days at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo.
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Music-lovers of all lands, rejoice! Here you have the rerelease of the fourth album of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra recorded with the Guinean saxophonist Jo Maka. The title says it all: Vol.4 – Jo Maka. But before that, a bit of history…

The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by an “old hand” of French free jazz, François Tusques. Free Jazz, was also the name of the recording made by the pianist and other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and Charles Saudrais) in 1965. But, six years later Tusques had had his fill of free jazz.

So he then founded the Inter Communal, an association a name under which the different communities could become closer and compose, simply. In 1976, on the first album: L’Inter Communal, we can already hear Tusques playing without borders in the company of Carlos Andreu, Ramadolf, Michel Marre and Jo Maka (as a conclusion to this Vol. 4, we can hear them in 1977 at the Moulin de Prades Le Lez). Over the next decade, the, association kept going with concerts at the Dunois theatre, in 1980 and 1981, it welcomed old hands and new recruits (Bernard Vitet, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Jacques Thollot, Sylvain Kassap…).

If Vol. 4 – Jo Maka is an homage to the Guinean saxophonist, who passed away a few months before the release of this selection of concert recordings, it also displays a proud collective inspiration! One foot in the blues, and ears open to everything else, Tusques begins with a lament that the Company rapidly transforms into a joyful dance (“Vive la Commune”), weaves a full-blown party piece (“Poses ton fardeau et remets la machine en route”, “7 rue des prêcheurs”, “Mazir”) or gets fabulous with Mingus (“Fable Of Faubus”). And there you have it, with so many revolutions François Tusques is almost back to free jazz. So, your turn with the turntable!

TRACKS:
01. Vive La Commune
02. Poses Ton Fardeau Et Remets La Machine En Route
03. 7 Rue Des Precheurs
04. Fable Of Faubus
05. Mazir

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