Clinical Archives is independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music. The basic directions : abstract, avant-garde, alternative, indie, intuition improvisation, free improv, jazz fusion, electronic jazz, free jazz, funk rocktronica, jam band, live electronic, experimental, manipulation, neoclassicism, illbient, ambient, musique concrète, noise, tape music, minimalism, acousmatic music, sound sculpture, sound collage, electroacoustic, acoustic; drone, new wave, field recordings, microsound, montage, psychedelic, folk; quasi-folk; prog-rock; post-punk; trip-hop, soundscapes, sound art, spoken word, strange and other forms ...
"Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music"
All those works are released for free under Creative Commons Licences.
Amalgamation of elements of jazz tradition (especially free jazz and jazz fusion of 60s-70s) with instrumentation/concepts of avant punk rock (especially dissonant strains, no wave, grindcore, hardcore). Examples: John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, James Chance & the Contortions, Lounge Lizards. Roots of punk: Velvet Underground, Stooges, MC5. Roots of avant/free jazz: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Sonny Sharrock.
Dave Douglas - Trumpet, Adam Benjamin - Rhodes, Gene Lake - Drums. Marcus Strickland - Saxophones, Brad Joes - Bass, DJ Olive - Turntables. Moonshine, the newest album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territory. The evolutionary/revolutionary aspect is found in the vibrant alchemy between Douglas' avant-garde leaning compositions, the relentless, polyrhythmic funk of drummer Gene Lake and bassist Brad Jones, the Sun-Ra-esque sonics of Adam Benjamin who plays a highly modulated Fender Rhodes and the post-post blowing of the front line featuring Douglas and saxophonist Marcus Strickland. But what puts this one over the top is the true integration of a DJ, in this case DJ Olive, into the constantly shifting improvisations of a cutting edge band. Rolling Stone called Keystone's 2005's self titled album, "a modernist requiem." Moonshine takes it a step further: a modernist recipe for the future sound of electronics, jazz, and new composition.
"I think of it as Green Beat," says Douglas with a grin, referring to the organic way that the rhythms of vinyl, laptop, and drum set coalesce in this infectious, grooving new album. One forgets all the elements that go into this hybrid music, as each piece amounts to a masterpiece of modern jazz-informed composition and performance.
There are many details buried in these tracks, and perhaps the most remarkable thing is that the basis for this recording was a single performance in front of a live studio audience. The state-of-the-art mutli-track recording of this session makes possible a hybrid of the best parts of studio isolation and live excitement. It allowed Greenleaf Music to raise to the highest level the post-production of these recordings.
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Cecil Taylor
Vernon Reid
Melvin Gibbs
Byard Lancaster
Sonny Sharrock
Peter Brotzmann
Bill Laswell
Aiyb Dieng
James Blood Ulmer
Albert Mangelsdorff
Joseph Bowie
Wadada Leo Smith
Larry Ochs
George Adams
Bad Plus
Django Bates
Han Bennink
Ed Blackwell
Ed Thigpen?
Ernest Dawkins
Scott Fields
Mike Garson
Charles Gayle
Globe Unity Orchestra
Joe Harriott
Roy Haynes
TheoJorgensmann
Jeanne Lee
Joe McPhee
Medeski, Martin, + Wood
Misha Mengelberg
Kenny Millions
don Pullen
Sam Rivers
Alexander von Schlippenbach
David S. Ware
Matthew Shipp
Susie Ibarra
William Parker
Bill Dixon
Craig Taborn
loft jazz scene
Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge
Ken Vandermark
David Boykin
Aaron Getsug
Jeff Parker
Kevin Drumm
Nicole Mitchell
Karl E.H. Seigfried
Tim Berne
Tim Berne's Bloodcount
Borbetomagus
Lounge Lizards
James Chance
James Blood Ulmer
Sonny Sharrock
Diamanda Galas
Bill Laswell
Bill Frisell
punk jazz
Evan Parker
Archie Shepp
M-Base
Hermeto Pascoal
Kaoru Abe
Sergey Kuryokhin
Derek Bailey
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams
Anthony Braxton
Roscoe Mitchell
Hamid Drake
Fred Van Hove
Steve Lacy
Lol Coxhill
Vinko Globokar
Ray Anderson
Henry Kaiser
Chris Speed
Tom Abbs
Assif Tsahar
Matana Roberts
Conny Bauer
Vyacheslav Ganelin
Vladimir Tarasov
Masayuki Takayanagi
Ivo Perelman
Milford Graves
Multi-instrumentalist, multi-talented avant-garde folk artist Arto Tuncboyaciyan, and Singer Serj Tankian, team up for an improvisational, innovative, medley of rock/jazz,metal/Armenian/Turkish/African/Chinese/Japanese kaleidoscopic music...
"The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated."
- Marc Medwin, allaboutjazz.com, August, 2007, USA
" ... improvisational genius of the highest order"
- Tom Sekowski, The Live Music Report, January 2008, USA
The birth of soundscape aesthetics; postmodernism; minimalism and droning minimalism; second-generation minimalists; event music in the electronic age; collage and field recordings in the electronic age; collage in the age of the sampler; post-jazz; post-chamber; glitch; digital minimialism; ambient avantgarde; database of contemporary composers; chronology; selected works...