I love this playlist – for its variety, its depth and its challenge. From the opening tracks from the latest Dave Holland release to the closing tribute to saxophonist Sonny Simmons, it offers improvised music of the highest calibre. There’s a deep dive into the catalogue of Belgium-based El Negocito Records, stretching the idiom on releases from Astral Spirits Records, and some memories too. I hope you like it.
00:00 Dave Holland * Another Land – Edition * Grave Walker * England
06:53 Soojin Suh & Chordless Quartet * Roots To Branches – Self-released * The Eyes Of Little One * S. Korea
12:56 Host speaks
15:20 Dave Holland * Another Land – Edition * Mash-Up * England
21:49 Sarah Murcia * Eyeballing – dStream * Inefficient * France
25:34 Tom Rainey Obbligato * Untucked In Hanover – Intakt * Long Ago And Far Away * USA 31:54 Host speaks
33:41 Vernacular * The Little Bird – Astral Spirits * The Wretched Of The Earth * USA
44:17 Vernacular * The Little Bird – Astral Spirits * The Blood * USA
51:19 Enrico Morello * Cyclic Signs – Auand * What Happened On The Road * Italy
59:09 Host speaks
59:40 Raf Vertessen * LOI – El Negocito * Fake 3:7 * Belgium
1:06:31 Orange Moon * Orange Moon – El Negocito * Tin Tin * Belgium
1:10:40 Daniele Martini Quartet * Impermanent – El Negocito * Impermanent * Belgium
1:16:25 Host speaks
1:17:30 Michael Foster & Ben Bennett * Contractions – Astral Spirits * Smoke Coming From The Bio * USA
1:27:43 Amok Amor * Amok Amor – Self-released * Sons OF Engels & Marx * Germany
1:33:20 Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake * Celebration – Intakt * Twister * Switzerland & USA
1:39:00 Paul Dunmall & Mark Sanders * Unity – 577 Records * The Vacuum * England
1:46:26 Host speaks
1:49:03 Natalio Sued * Jardin De Estrellas – Ears&Eyes * Gaucho Urbano * Argentina
1:59:17 Joe Farrell * Moon Germs – CTI * Moon Germs * USA
2:06:39 Host speaks
2:07:53 Antonio Bertoni & Stefan Leonardi * Viandes – Astral Spirits * Viandes * Italy
2:16:33 Paul Van Gysegem Quintet * Square Talks – El Negocito * Wings * Belgium
2:22:33 Anemic Cinema * Anemic Cinema – El Negocito * Poète Maudit * Belgium
2:28:40 Host speaks
2:29:55 Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg & Julian Sartorius * Lockdown – Clean Feed * Quarantina * Switzerland & USA
2:35:02 Nick Mazzarella & Quin Kirchner * See Or Seem: Live At Hyde Park Festival – Out Of Your Head * The Peregrine * USA
2:38:34 Host speaks
2:41:06 Sonny Simmons * American Jungle – Rhino * My Favorite Things * USA
2:50:38 Sonny Simmons * I’ll See You When You Get There – Jazzaway * Ancient City Of Petra * USA