Towards The Margins

So it's over - Improv, like football isn't coming home... That's a rap for Towards The Margins. It's been a lovely 3 1/2 years hosting the show and I'd like to thank everyone at FutureMusicFM for the love and support, to the labels and musicians that sent me stuff to play and most of all the listeners to the show. It's been a gas but time to get my Sunday evenings back. lots of love Shaun xx Tracklisting: Shepherds of Cats & Günter Heinz - It Took Me To A New Place, Grand, Rich and Full of Quirky Ornaments - Shepherds of Cats & Günter Heinz (Tombed Visions) - Buy Bryan Kolaczkowski - Encapsulated Sugar Coating the Figurative is the Literal - A Guide For The Future, Which Is The Past (Self Released) - Buy Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle - Patterns Emerge - Void Into Shape (Self Released) - Buy Dirk Serries - Assert Total Illusory Curve - Etched Above The Bow Grip (Raw Tonk) - Buy Hugues Vincent & John Curry - Werther Wartet - Tagtraum (Improvising Beings) - Buy En Bas Quartet - 3rd Movement - En Bas Quartet (Northern Contemporary) - Buy Wayne Rex, Dave Jackson, Rich Goodson - Hollow Arms - Double Album (MuteAnt) - Buy Ian Brighton - Going Home - Now & Then (Confront) - Buy Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Toward The Margins - Toward The Margins (ECM) - Buy Some Some Unicorn - Sustained Peace (edit) - Unicornocopia (Clutter Music) - Buy

Some highlights from the 4 years of Towards The Margins   Tracklisting: Albert Ayler – The Wizard – Spiritual Unity (ESP) – Buy Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Rambunctious 2 – Quintessence (Emanem) – Buy Viv Corringham – Construction Site: Moorgate – Gum + Butts (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Martin Archer – The Casuist – Story Tellers (Discus) – Buy Matana Roberts – Responsory – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation) – Buy Hans-Karsten Raecke & Lawrence Casserley – Episodes Memories: Twitter – Piano – Sculptures of Wires & Drifts (Self Released) – Buy Daniel Carter, Watson Jennison, William Parker, Federico Ughi – I Told – Vol. 3 Rochester Live! (577) – Buy Charlie Ulyatt – Erasing Angels – Shifting (Self Released) – Buy Archipelago – Light Pollution – Weightless (Self Released) – Buy Anton Hunter – Retaken – Article XI (Efpi) – Buy

A full show featuring music from the Nachtstück Records label to celebrate them putting their catalogue online for pay what you can pay what you will. So listen in and if you like what you hear here https://nachtstuckrecords.bandcamp.com/music Tracklisting: Mathew Ostrowski & Karlheinz Essl - Flechtwerk (edit) - Flectwerk - Buy Colectivo Abaetetuba - Schatten (edit) - HUECHELU (v 1.2) - Buy FFE - Calumet Granite (Yerevan, Armenia - August 2014) - Road Tapes Volume 1 - Buy Benedict Taylor - Sistere (edit) - Solstice - Buy Michael Lytle, Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen - Oui Oyi - Twelve Ways Of Saying Yes In 18th Century France - Buy Martina Verhoeven & Dirk Serries - Citadelic (edit) - Citadelic - Buy Tom Jackson - F (edit) Tiago Morais Morgado - Silêncio - Cálice (Requiem Para Um Sonho) - Buy António Panda Gianfratti - Não Poderias Entrar Duas Vezes No Mesmo Rio (edit) - Solo - Buy José Manuel Berenguer - Trenes Alla Fuga (edit) - Trenes Alla Fuga - Buy Vladimir Luchansky & Roman Stolyar - Live at ESG-21 (edit) - Buy

A Clinical Jazz special tonight!! We have been playing a track from each of the 9 volumes over the last couple of months so to celebrate the fact that you can have all this wonderful music for nothing we tip our hat to Clinical Archives who put this set out, covering music from around the globe.   Tracklisting: Strings Of Consciousness (France) – Asphodel Goat (United States) – The High Priestess (edit) Arkana Music (Canada) – Through Sacco’s Eyes Crash Trio (Italy) – Vischio (edit) Kaido Yutaka (Japan) – Seven Currents No School (Sweden) – Shorter Piece 2 The Moglass (Ukraine) – Oct. 4, 2008 (excerpt) Ilton JN (United Kingdom) – Lucid Touch Alissid Jazz (Russia) – Autumnish (edit) All tracks from the compilation Clinical Jazz “Clinical Jazz” is an eclectic and illogical compilation.Range: ….from “clinically” traditional jazz directions…… up to unclassable and clinically indefinable “jazz” forms. Released in 2008 by Clinical Archives :: Download

A hot and humid night in Cumbria and we’re playing some perfect music for the occasion. One hour of sticky, summertime tracks for your listening pleasure. It got so damn hot the studio fan was left on during the talky bits.   Tracklisting: Christina Kubisch – Diapason (edit) – Diapason (Semishigure) – Buy Philip Sulidae – Conurb complexity version – Conurb (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Wayne Rex, Dave Jackson, Rich Goodson – Crumbling From Below – Double Album (MuteAnt) – Buy Anthony Braxton – First Set (edit) – Composition No. 94 For Three Instrumentalists (Leo) – Buy Vortex – No Title 01 – Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) – Download Dirk Serries, Martina Verhoeven, Colin Webster – Cinepalace (edit) – Cinepalace (New Wave of Jazz) – Buy John Stevens Trio – Summertime – Live at The Plough (Ayler) – Buy Hartmut Geerken And Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Disc 1 (edit) – Zero Sun No Point (Dedicated To Mynona & Sun Ra) (Leo) – Buy Pharoah Sanders – Ore-Se-Rere – Elevation (Impulse!) – Buy Áine O’Dwyer – 21.12.12 (edit) – Gegenschein (Self Released) – Buy

Some right sparky tunage on tonights show. Some new releases and many dips into the archives all held together with the aural gaffa tape that is Shaun’s dull set tones… All a welcome break from the world soccer ball.   Tracklisting: Actis Band – Porci Padani – Garibaldi (Leo) – Buy Han Bennink & Dave Douglas – Too Close For Comfort – Serpentine (Songlines) – Buy Michel Kristof & Vinnie Paternostro – A Dog Without A Home – A Place You Could Not See A Time You Did Not Know (Muteant) – Buy John Stevens’ Away – Temple Music – John Stevens’ Away / Somewhere In Between / Mazin Ennit (BGO) – Buy Spring Heel Jack – Red Worm – The Blue Series Continuum: Masses (Thirsty Ear) – Buy Trygve Seim – Himmerland I Tidevand Part IV – Sangam (ECM) – Buy Wayne Rex, Dave Jackson, Rich Goodson – Ear To The Glass – Double Album (Muteant) – Buy Dolmen Orchestra – Contemplation For A Sacral Sequence (Nico Marziliano) (edit) – Sequenze Armoniche (Leo) – Buy [Br]om – Spolz – Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) – Download This Saxophone Kills Fascists – Large Ensemble – Live at Hollow Earth Radio (Self Released) – Buy

Episode 161 – wowwee!! another solid show with a mixture of new and old, so buckle up buttercup and enjoy.   Tracklisting: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans – We Be All Africans (Cultural Odyessy) – Buy John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane – The Sun – Cosmic Music (Impulse!) – Buy Yuri Yaremchuk – Fragment №1 (edit) – Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) – Download Henry Threadgill Zooid – After Some Time – This Brings Us To, Volume I (Pi) – Buy Urs Leimgruber – Two (edit) – Chicago Solo (Leo) – Buy Luke Stewart – Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Part 1 (edit) – Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier (Astral Spirits) – Buy Mark Browne & Chris Whitehead – A History of Breath (edit) – A History of Breath (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer – Ashen – Vestigium (Discus) – Buy The Stan Tracey Quartet – No Good Boyo – Jazz Suite (Inspired By Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood) (Columbia) – Buy Jason Nazary, Terrie Ex, Jasper Stadhouders – 1 (edit) – Live at Space is the Place (Doek Raw) – Buy

A hot and balmy night in Cumbria, playing a host of fantastic of new releases, with the odd classic thrown in to keep everything hunky dory.   Tracklisting: Charlie Ulyatt - Hanging From A Nail - Inaudible Gestures (Self Released) - Buy David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham, Alan Wilkinson - Side A (edit) - Live at Islington Mill (Tombed Visions) - Buy Idris Ackamoor - Beginning Roots Part I (edit) - The Collective (Cultural Odyssey) - Buy Kaido Yutaka - Seven Currents - Various Artists: Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) - Download John Dikeman & Aleksandar Škorić - Encore: Ghosts (edit) - ...Again comes the rising of the Sun... (Doek RAW) - Buy OMA - Aberfan (a text by Jon Langford about the Aberfan Disaster 1966, which G.W Sok slightly adapted) - OMA (Tombed Visions) - Buy Tea Rockers -  Transferred To Another Post - Fictions (Self Released) - Buy Gidouille - Zone (Self Released) - Soundcloud Stephen Grew & Adam Fairhall - Salt Line (edit) - Free Piano From The English North (Tombed Visions) - Buy Bella - UN (edit) - UN (Pan Y Rosas Discos) - Download

A show bursting at the edges with new releases, highlighting the talent on show around the world. Some truly amazing music on the show tonight that is all worthy of your undivided attention. So listen and listen good.   Tracklisting Sleight of Hand – April 18th 2018 (edit) (Self Released) – Buy Trio Lio – Coure [fragment] – Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) – Download Novamusica Lab.5 – Past In The Future – 7 Quadri Di Un Paesaggio Immaginato (Bunch) – Buy Idris Rahman, Leon Brichard, Tom Skinner – Flute Song (Outro) – Wildflower (Self Released) – Buy Kastenfaul – 7m1 – – – (Self Released) – Buy Kurushimi – Silent, As In A Crimson Sunrise (edit) – Shōtotsu (Self Released) – Buy Brandon Evans – You’re So Right (edit) – Elliptical Orbits, Axis, Ellipses, & Ellipsis: One (Self Released) – Buy STL Free Jazz Collective – The Other Side – STL Free Jazz Collective Live at 14th St, Artist Community May 12, 2018 (Self Released) – Buy Matthew Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet – Mercury Lights – Contra-Fact (Astral Spirits) – Buy Irreversible Entanglements – Fireworks – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem) – Buy

A hot night here in Cumbria matched by the selection of hot trax being played. Only 3 new releases on show tonight so some solid gold from the Towards The Margins archive.   Tracklisting: Wadada Leo Smith - Another Wave More Waves (edit) - Tao Njia (Tzadik) - Buy Christian Vasseur - Sa Grand-Mère - Barreaux Dans le Ciel (A La Limite Du Présent vol . 2 / 3) (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy Don Cherry ‎– Teo-Teo Can - Mu Second Part (BYG) - Buy Chicago Underground Trio - The Enormous Room - Possible Cube (Delmark) - Buy Talea - Pregunta Compleja - Argumentos y Falacias 3 (Six Ensemble) - Buy Fred Frith - Heart Bares - Cheap at Half the Price (Ralph) - Buy Ivo Perelman & Joe Morris - Blue Lester - Blue (Leo) - Buy Oli Mayne, Noel Taylor, James O'Sullivan - Flotzon, Jetson, Lagan - Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) - Download The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Passione - Impressions (Leo) - Buy Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders ‎- Isis And Osiris - Journey In Satchidananda (Impulse!) - Buy

A fantastic selection of new releases this show. 2018 is already a great year for new sounds and already a top 10 would be hard to choose. So pour yourself something nice, slip into something comfortable and listen up…   Tracklisting: Dadala – The Wind Part 3 – The Wind (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Corey Mwamba & The 7 Gates Ensemble – Along the Vardar (edit) – City of Skopje Museum (Self Released) – Buy Metamorphic – Truth – The Two Fridas (Discus) – Buy Populaere Mechanik – Captain B (Track 1) – Various Artists: Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) – Download Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – December 20th 2017 Track 2 – Winter…. 17-18 (Self Released) – Buy Philippe Lemoine & Simon Rose – Medium – Séance (Tour De Bras) – Buy Rachel Musson & Corey Mwamba – One (edit) – One and Other (Self Released) – Buy Yuji Ishihara, Yuma Takeshita, Hiroyuki Ura – Duration, Dynamics and Pitch (edit) – Calm! Hearts! Passionate! (Zoomin’ Night) – Buy The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – The Nothing Changes – The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (Planet Mu) – Buy Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi – Nostrand Avenue – New York United (577) – Buy

Three new, excellent releases from Discus on tonight’s show along with another preview from the forthcoming Sloth Racket album. and more. lots more…   Tracklisting: John Escreet – Part V – Sound, Space and Structures (Sunnyside) – Buy The Black Hakawati – There’s a Hole at the End of the Tunnel – Various Artists: Clinical Jazz (Clinical Archives) – Download Eclectic Maybe Band – Manipulation En Absense D’Action – The Blind Night Watchers’ Mysterious Landscapes (Discus) – Buy Leap of Faith – A Measure of Connotative Meaning (edit) – Semantic Differentials (Evil Clown) – Buy Metamorphic – Deer Medicine – The Two Fridas (Discus) – Buy Chris Cundy & Benedict Taylor – Elephant Decorations – Various Artists: Limited Options Remain: Tangible Qualities (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Collective 4tet – Convergence (edit) – Synopsis (Leo) – Buy Chris Meloche, Martin Archer, Gino Robair, Lyn Hodnett – Part 3 (edit) – The Sincerity Of Light (Discus) – Buy Cyro Baptista – Yeqon – Banquet Of The Spirits – (Tzadik) – Buy Sloth Racket – A Glorious Monster (edit) – A Glorious Monster (Luminous) – Buy  

A real corking show tonight even with a few technical gremlins creeping in. Luckily the gremlins that left silences were when I was rambling and the quality music wasn’t affected – so there’s a couple of little gaps to cleanse your audio palette so enjoy the trip. Tracklisting: Bryan Kolaczkowski – Ideum (edit) (Exclusive) – Bandcamp The Spirit Farm – Adam, Corey (Featuring Adam Fairhall & Corey Mwamba) – The Spirit Farm (Slam) – Buy Alexander Manotskov – Autobiography – Dreams of Jacob, or Scary Place (Fancy Music) – Buy MAI mai – Dear Prudence (edit) – MAI mai plays the Beatles vol. 2 (Zoomin’ Night) – Buy Sloth Racket – Animal Uprising (edit) – A Glorious Monster (Luminous) – Buy Lounge Ryszards – Miraż Landżu – Polish Jazz vol. 420 (Szara Reneta) – Buy Frank Wilke & Wayne Rex – Gold Flakes in Bed – Cobra Venom (Muteant) – Buy Martin Archer – Of Of Violin Plus Saxophone – Live in Krakow (audioTONG) – Buy Lola de la Mata – Curtain Call – Remise En Bouche (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Charlie Ulyatt – Church of Sound (edit) – Live: Church of Sound April 2018 (Self Released) – Buy

Lack of time and resources mean that tonight's show is mainly classic tracks from the vault. Not that that is a bad thing, as there's some stunners in there well worth another listen. All that and the voice is back after last weeks technical gremlins... Tracklisting: Lärm Und Harmonie - Track 4 - Lärm und Harmonie EP (Nachtstück) - Buy Dave Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds - Conference of the Birds (ECM) - Buy The Keith Tippett Octet - The Dance Of The Return Of The Bike Ride From Shinanagh Bridge With The Wind At His Back - The Nine Dances Of Patrick O'Gonogon (Discus) - Buy Matthew Bourne - The Kabin - The Electric Dr M (Sound) - Buy Hervé Perez - Alessandria I Piazza Liberta - Postcards Never Sent (Self Released) - Website Borah Bergman with Roscoe Mitchell - Grab It - The Italian Concert (Soul Note) - Buy Ornette Coleman - Motive For Its Use - Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino) - Buy Frank Gratkowsi, Simon Nabatov, Marcus Schmickler - Allocation III - Deployment (Leo) - Buy Quadraceratops - Spiderling - Quadraceratops (Efpi) - Buy Paul Metzger - Untitled (edit) - Deliverance (Locust Music) - Buy

A show of classics tonight from some of the great improvisers. Some tracks are not far off 50 years old and are still sounding fresh. A couple of newer tracks are in there showing the scene is still in very safe hands. Tracklisting: Dave Holland & Barre Phillips - Raindrops - Music From Two Basses (ECM) - Buy Black Carrot - Chicken Bones And Fruit Skins - Metamorphosis (Moon City Musik) - Buy BBRS - Follow Your Heart - Improvising in the Consulting Room (Leo) - Buy Stephen Grew & Adam Fairhall - Snake Pass - Free Piano From The English North (Tombed Visions) - Buy M'Boom - It's Time - Collage (Soul Note) - Buy Derek Bailey, George Lewis, John Zorn - The Warning Track - Yankees (Celluloid) - Buy Martin Hoogeboom - A Sacred Place (Part IV) - A Sacred Place (Live) (Self Released) - Buy Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Goldwrap - Tuesday Wonderland (ACT) - Buy Herbie Hancock - Quasar - Crossings (Warner Brothers) - Buy Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Second Part (edit) - Enough Still Not To Know (SOFA) - Buy

Some absolute classics on tonight’s show, including Sun Ra, Meredith Monk, and Moondog. If that wasn’t enough we have some cracking new releases including 2 tracks from new ODD7 releases.   Tracklisting: Brandon Lopez, Chris Corsano, Sam Yulsman – 15.43 (edit) – Holy, Holy (Tombed Visions) – Buy Enzo Rocco & Lol Coxhill – Two of Two (Live) – London Gigs (Self Released) – Buy Bryan Kolaczkowski – Disparate (edit) – Totality (ODD7) – Buy Sun Ra – The World of The Invisible – The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums Cymbals & Crystal Spears (Evidence) – Buy Meredith Monk – Plague – Book of Days (ECM) – Buy Moondog – Oo Solo – More Moondog (Prestige) – Buy The Clarinet Trio – Waters – 4 (Leo) – Buy Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble – IV – The Moment’s Energy (ECM) – Buy Seth Bennett, Anton Hunter, Shaun Blezard – On Anton’s Step (edit)  – A Yearning (ODD7) – Buy Common Objects – Cup and Ring (edit) – Whitewashed With Lines (Another Timbre) – Buy

Topped and tailed by tracks from the sadly departed Cecil Taylor tonight’s show features some tracks that are keeping the fire of improvised music burning strongly and a little from comrades in music that fit so well with what we play on the show. For Cecil, Barbara and Mary. May you all become buddhas xx Tracklisting: Cecil Taylor – Port Of Call (Take 2) – World of Cecil Taylor (Candid) – Buy John Russell & Paul G. Smyth – Kinneigh (edit) – Ditch School (Weekertoft) – Buy Sad Man – Slug – Slow Bird (Self Released) – Buy Konst:it – Atalante (edit) (Self Release) – Info Li Tieqiao, Liang Yiyuan, Han Ying, Zhu Fanqiong – 下 (Down) – Caicun Wharf – Li Tieqiao Facebook Lucia Chamorro – Sororidad Mutante – Luna Anfibia (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Rachel Musson & Olie Brice – Barchanoid – Tapering Arms Point Into The Wind (Weekertoft) – Buy Sergey Maltsev Band – Song for Nata (edit) – Live at Model T (Fancy Music) – Buy Steven Lanter & Mat Maneri – Magic – Reaching (Leo Records) – Buy Cecil Taylor – Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) (edit) – Unit Structures (Blue Note) – Buy

Top tip for aspiring DJs from an old pro – don’t spill water on stuff!! Had a little mishap this afternoon and split a pint of water over my kit, luckily grabbed the mac mini quickly but the Korg nanoKontrol2 took the full hit. The show tonight featured me trying to get it to work – unplugging and putting on top of the heater – worked intermittently but caught me out a couple of times. Plus the stream went down briefly a few times. Luckily the music is wonderful so we sailed on through with glitter in our hair  Tracklisting: Sabir Mateen & Davide Merlino – Clarinet, Alto Sax, Flute, Prepared Drumkid and Logdrum (edit) – Live at Big Lebowski (Floating Forest) – Buy Talea – Comprensión – Crónicas de un Tránsito 2 (Six Ensemble) – Buy The Reggie Workman Ensemble – Ballad for the Silf (edit) – Altered Spaces (Leo) – Buy Cecil Taylor – Wallering – Looking Ahead (Contemporary) – Buy Zhu Wenbo & Paolo Gàiba Riva – Muschata – Harvesting Pumpkins Before Winter (Zoomin’ Night) – Buy Même Les Oiseaux Puent – Sana Silentia (edit) – Sana Silentia (La Belle Borgne) – Buy Brandon Evans – Psy 7 – Psy (Self Released) – Buy Chicago Underground Duo – The Light In Between – In Praise of Shadows (Thrill Jockey) – Buy The Nels Cline Singers – The Angel of Angels – Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone) – Buy Sam Andreae, David Birchall, Otto Willberg – Live in Beppu (edit) – Live in Beppu (Vernacular/Heavy Petting) – Buy

How did we get to #149 shows! God knows but we did. Tonight we got some ace drone based stuff and all the usual out there shenanigans.   Tracklisting: Chris Watson – Vatnajökull – Various ‎Artists: Haunted Weather. Music, Silence And Memory (Staubgold) – Buy The Pitch – Pillars (edit) – The Pitch (Granny) – Buy Francois Carrier, Michel Lambert, Alexey Lapin – Love In Space – In Motion (Leo) – Buy Left Hand Cuts off the Right – I (edit) – Desired Place (Hominid Sounds) – Buy Ivo Perelman, Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver – Family Ties (edit) – Family Ties (Leo) – Buy Alan Wilkinson, Charles Hayward, Lester Moses – GBH – Various Artists: Relay III: Random Play (2:13) – Buy Kazuhisa Uchihashi & Richard Scott – Atom Kiss – Awesome Entities (Sound Anatomy) – Buy Martin Hoogeboom & Juan A. Miñana – OLK 4 – OLK-GLIMM (Etched Traumas) – Download Aoki Satoru – Nibiro – FRGD (Self Released) – Buy Orlando – Space Cake (edit) – Makina Guru  (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download

A mother's day treat for you all. Why not listen with mother to this hour of prime cuts of improvised music and associated musics. All the usual magic but cynically marketed back at you by our corporate sponsors... Have a listen, tell your mum and enjoy the show. Tracklisting: Z'EV & Steve Mackay - Live KFJC 2007 (edit) - Live KFJC 2007 (MuteAnt) - Buy Li Tieqiao - Look Down - Mountain and Sea Pass (Bad Head) Myriad’s Flight – X (edit) (Exclusive) – Annie Kerr website – Jamie Sturrock website Cold Bath Street - Swimming With Sharks - Sound Research Rebellion (Self Released) - Buy Hugues Vincent, Vladimir Kudryavtsev & Maria Logofet - Toys for Boys - Free Trees (Leo) - Buy Tim Dorofeyev's Project  - Indostan (Part 1) - East North (Leo) - Buy Christian Vasseur - Le Héron - Cent Millions d'Années (A La Limite Du Présent vol.1-3) (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy Favourite Animals - Sam Andreae/Julie Kjær/Tullis Rennie - Wasps/Wolves Trios EP (Sloth Racket) - Buy Charlie Ulyatt - But No Straight Roads - Water Follows The Shape (Self Released) - Buy John Coltrane & Don Cherry - Focus On Sanity (edit) - The Avant-Garde (Atlantic) - Buy

Buzz, buzz, buzz goes the honey bee, twiddly, diddly dee goes the bird... or something... (c) Jonathan Richman. So anyway, cracking show tonight. A host of amazing new releases with some great older things to fill the gaps. 2018 is going to be another rather special year for improvised music I think. Tracklisting: Clara Saleiro - Solo #2 - Clara Saleiro Plays Flute Solos By Tiago Morais Morgado (Nachtstück) - Buy Kirill Shirokov - Whole Body (second part) (edit) - Whole Body (Pan Y Rosas Discos) - Download Avant'n'Gard - M‐a Mânat Maica la Capre - Colinde Netemperate (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy Myriad's Flight - VI (Exclusive) - Annie Kerr website - Jamie Sturrock website Stuart Russell - Third - Fifteen - (Self Released) - Buy Gebhard Ullmann & Achim Kaufmann - Fleckgeist - Geode (Leo) - Buy Benedict Taylor - Sistere (edit) - Solstice (Nachtstück) - Buy Brazen Wolf - Bergmann's Rule (edit) - Brazen Wolf (Asrec) - Buy Li Tieqiao - Dead Forest (edit) - Wind of Lunacy (Self Released) - Buy Yoko Miura & Jean-Marc Foussat - The Space (edit) - When Lowlands Consume The Space (Creative Sources) - Buy

Tra la la… Never know quite what to say here, so I’ll just let you know there’s an hour of top improvised music and inane blather for your lugholes tonight. The show is dedicated to The Shaking Ray Levi Society and all who sail in her.   Tracklisting: Fred Casadei – A Calm Starry Night – Spiritual Unity LOVE (Self Released) – Buy Twinkle³ – David Ross, Richard Scott, Clive Bell – First Night’s Sleep – Let’s Make a Solar System (Sound Anatomy) – Buy Anthony Braxton – Composition N. 213 (Edit) – Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Volume 4 (Leo) – Buy The Shaking Ray Levis – Lady Ms Girl Shine – False Prophets Or Dang Good Guessers (Incus) – Buy Voice of the Dewclaws – Six – Voice of the Dewclaws (Self Released) – Buy Blazing Flame – Stone Circle – Murmuration (Leo) – Buy Giorgos Christianakis – The Collector – …Should Be Feared (?) TLM presents Volume 1 – (Thirsty Leaves Music) – Buy Paul Hession, Alan Wilkinson, Simon H Fell – Snog With My Drums – Foom! Foom! (Bruce’s Fingers) – Buy Chicago Underground Duo – Fluxus – Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey) – Buy Cecil Taylor – Lazy Afternoon – World of Cecil Taylor (Candid) – Buy

Some connection problems here tonight – luckily if you’re listening to the show on catch up then you’ll have smooth sailing all the way. Some great music on the show tonight so put on your captain’s hat and set sail with an hour of prime improv.   Tracklisting: Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser – HK D&B – Derek Bailey Playbacks (Bingo) – Buy Leap of Faith Orchestra – SuperClusters (edit) – SuperClusters (Self Released) – Buy Kassia Flux – Udhun – I Hear You (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Brice Catherin & Jacques Demierre – We Asked Luc To Play A Solo – Bimo (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download LoE LoF LoN & Wayne Rex – Honker Fanfare – LoE LoF LoN Meets Wayne Rex (MuteAnt Sound) – Buy Yannick Diraison & Marin Leyton – III – Yannick Diraison & Marin Leyton (Nachtstück) – Buy João Camões, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Jean-Marc Foussat – Berceuse pour Manuel (edit) – Autres Paysages (Clean Feed) – Buy Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle – Tangent – Void Into Shape (Norwegianism) – Buy Kaffe Matthews – The Last of The Violins Part 1 – CD DD (Annette Works) – Buy Miles Davis – Miles Runs The VooDoo Down (edit) – Bitches Brew Live (Columbia) – Buy

An hour of sublime, super sweet, spontaneous creations from around the world. Some new, some old but all top class.   Tracklisting: Anthony Osborne – His Lenses To Be My Apoclogypst – Wakeschrift (Self Released) – Buy Chicago Underground Trio – Protest – Slon (Thrill Jockey) – Buy Paul Flaherty, Gene Moore, Gene Janas, Federico Ughi – The Countries – Morfina (577) – Buy Martin Archer & Engine Room Favourites – One Minute To Midnight/Bejing Halflife (edit) – Safety Signal From A Target Town (Discus) – Buy Lao Dan – Self-Destruct Machine (edit) – Saxophone Anatomy (Armageddon Nova)  – Buy Evil Robot Hustler – Born Broken – Opium Den (Brandon Evans) – Buy Daijiro Matsuda & Ryoko Ono – Yell Back – Newduo series 002 (Ono Ryoko) – Buy Richard Sanderson & Mark Sanders – Enzyme Friction – Resonance Volume 8 Number 1 (London Musicians’ Collective) – Buy William Price – Rush Hour Mvt III – Rush Hour (Ablaze) – Buy Keith Rowe & Christian Fennesz – Are Solely For The Convenience (edit) – Live at The ULU (Erstwhile) – Buy

Triangle tonight is focused on the label Constellation – or rather 3 releases on the label by Matana Roberts. There’s a track from each of the chapters of the COIN COIN trilogy, and wonderful it all is. Alongside this, we have the usual new releases and classics from the vaults.   Tracklisting: Tony Bevan & Matthew Bourne – Live at Leeds College of Music, May 2010 (edit) (Foghorn) – Download Coffin Screws – ~~~ (edit) – Dec 12th 2017 (Self Released) – Buy Bryan Kolaczkowski – Act One (edit) – Messiah Control (Self Released) – Buy Colin Webster & Graham Dunning – Through The Hub – Most Of What Follows Is True (Sound Holes) – Buy 3 Head Mechanism – Pause – Full Auto Stop (Self Released) – Buy Takami Fujimoto & Michel Kristof – L – Golden Cloud (MuteAnt) – Buy Ivy Meadows – Amaryllis Flower (edit) (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Matana Roberts – Lulla-Bye – COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation) – Buy Matana Roberts – Amma Jerusalem School – COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation) – Buy Matana Roberts – All Is Written – COIN COIN Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation) – Buy

Triangle tonight was the glorious MuteAnt Sounds netlabel of Florida with the rest of the show chockablock with esoteric goodies for your ears.   Tracklisting: Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everybody Love Free Music But Nobody Loves Free People – Why Four Strings (Self Released) – Buy Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel with Benjamin Shirley – Part 2 – DfTaLS with Benjamin Shirley (Self Released) – Buy Edward Sanderson – 17-07-01 Entering 798 – Beijing 2016-2017 (Zoomin’ Night) – Buy Me, Claudius – Sleeve Him – Back to the Sweat-Out Tower (Linear Obsessional) – Buy simakDialog – Kemarau (edit) – Patahan (Moon June) – Buy Chicago Underground Duo – Memoirs Of A Space Traveller – Axis and Alignment (Thrill Jockey) – Buy Yoshio Machida – Texas Vino – Naada (Amorfon) – Buy Steve Mackay + The Radon Ensemble – A5 Mixed Martial Language – Tunnel Diner (MuteAnt Sounds) – Buy Kenny Millions – Bop It – Multiplexity (MuteAnt Sounds) – Buy Arnold Young & Flavor Mixing Systems – Bamboo Interlude Texas Driveway Holding Pattern (edit) – Live at Westport Coffee House Theater (MuteAnt Sounds) – Buy

Feels like Christmas never happened... but fully back in the improv saddle now and what a show we rounded up for you. 2 amazing pre-release wonders to really kick the year into hyperdrive, some other stunning new releases and some vintage cuts from the archive.   Tracklisting: simakDialog - Trah Lor, Rupa - Demi Masa (Moon June) - Buy Anton Hunter - I Dreamed I Spat Out A Bee - Article XI (Efpi) - Buy Martin Pyne & Stephen Grew - After The Snow (edit) - Winter Landscapes (Tall Guy) - Buy Sad Man - Duel - Interstellar Sound Space (Self Release) - Buy STL Free Jazz Collective with Douglas R. Ewart - Chant - STL Free Jazz Collective with Douglas R. Ewart (Self Released) - Buy Graham Dunning & Colin Webster - There Is No Why - Most Of What Follows Is True (Sound Holes) - Buy Dave Jackson & Wayne Rex - The Sharp End - First Offence (Live in London)/Sticks and Stones (Live in Bristol) (MuteAnt) - Buy André Borges - Coming Back in 5 - Saxcretino (Sê-lo!) - Buy Radio Diaspora - Lama - Radio Diaspora (Sê-lo!) - Buy SPIO (São Paulo Improvisers in Orchestra) - Tríptico III (edit) - Conduction BR#5 (Sê-lo!) - Buy

The first show of 2018. As we enter the 4th year of Towards The Margins we finish off our Top 10 of 2017 with albums from 5 to 1. The full 10 listed here: Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem) Archipelago – Weightless (Self Released) Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi) Charlie Ulyatt – Shifting (Self Released) Brazen Head – Verdigris (Self Released) Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries – Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk) Shepherds of Cats & David McLean – Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions) Evan Parker, John Russell, Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor – Reunion at Cafe Oto (FMR) Led Bib – Umbrella Weather (Rare Noise) Martin Pyne – Behind The Mist (Self Released) Tracklisting: Brazen Head – At The Edge Of Things - Verdigris (Self Released) - Buy Brazen Head – My Eyes, My Eyes - Verdigris (Self Released) - Buy Charlie Ulyatt – A Taste of Ore - Shifting (Self Released) - Buy Charlie Ulyatt – Erasing Angels - Shifting (Self Released) - Buy Tyshawn Sorey – Flowers for Prashant - Verisimilitude (Pi) - Buy Archipelago – Red Giant - Weightless (Self Released) - Buy Archipelago – Glittercliff - Weightless (Self Released) - Buy Irreversible Entanglements – Chicago to Texas - Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem) - Buy

Last show of the year and to go out in style we present the first half of our choices for the Top 10 releases of 2017. Join us in 2018 for numbers 5 through to number 1 Top 10 releases 0f 2017 as played on Towards The Margins – Part 1 (numbers 6 – 10) 6. Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries – Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk)7. Shepherds of Cats & David McLean – Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions)8. Evan Parker, John Russell, Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor – Reunion at Cafe Oto (FMR)9. Led Bib – Umbrella Weather (Rare Noise)10. Martin Pyne – Behind The Mist (Self Released)   Tracklisting: Martin Pyne – Yarthkin – Behind The Mist (Self Released) – Buy Martin Pyne – Asrai – Behind The Mist (Self Released) – Buy Led Bib – On The Roundabout – Umbrella Weather (Rare Noise) – Buy Evan Parker, John Russell, Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor – Walthamstow Cheesecutter (edit) – Reunion at Cafe Oto (FMR) – Buy Evan Parker, John Russell, Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor – What Else Did You Expect? (edit) – Reunion at Cafe Oto (FMR) – Buy Shepherds of Cats & David McLean – Disc 2 (edit) – Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions) – Buy Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries – Live at De Ruimte (edit) – Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk) – Buy

A pre-recorded show that went out live after Shaun read the instructions on how this works... But by the by, some great music on tonight's show including a Triangle trio of tremendous tracks from Thirsty Leaves. Tracklisting: Biliana Voutchkova, Michael Thieke, Roy Carroll - As Found (edit) - As Found (Sound Anatomy) - Buy Coffin Screws + - '''' (edit) - June 10th, 2017 (Self Released) - Buy People in Motion + Fred Frith - Piece # 2 (edit) - The Clit Stop (Object-A) - Buy Sam Andreae, David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham - Bridge as an Object - The Difficult Second Album (Tombed Visions) - Buy Wöstheinrich, Seidel & Lankow - Kreuzberg Polyphony Sessions, Episode 4, Part 1 (edit) - Kreuzberg Polyphony Session, Ep. 4 (Iapetus) - Buy John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane ‎– The Sun - Cosmic Music (Impulse!) - Buy Anthony Osborne - Aloof Sensorium - Haptic Perception (Self Released) - Buy Avant'n'Gard - Din Patru Cornuri de Lume - Colinde Netemperate (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy Francesco Covarino - Oliva#91 - Olive (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy Modified Dog - Night Dist. (edit) - Memories21 (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy

After an afternoon and early evening stage managing a Christmas Lights switch on it's lovely to know you have some amazing free jazz and improvised music to play on the show. Triangle takes in one of the giants with 3 tracks from Impulse! a label responsible for some of the milestone albums in jazz history. Also featured are some stunning new releases from around and about. Tracklisting: Charlie Ulyatt - We Had The Sea - Shifting (Self Released) - Buy La Corporación - Directorio de Sacrificantes - Rerum Novarum (Pan Y Rosas Discos) - Download Lapslap - Geltscher - Zuppa Inglese (Leo) - Buy Hank Tilbury - Lazy Rain - Watching the Distance (Self Released) - Download Shepherds of Cats & Günter Heinz - Slowly I Walked Through The Bubblegum Interior - Shepherds of Cats & Günter Heinz (Tombed Visions) - Buy This Saxophone Kills Fascists - Live at House of Commons (edit) - Live at House of Commons, Ottawa June 28 2017 (Self Released) - Buy Freenetics - Black Chairs - Underground PM (Discordian) - Buy Albert Ayler - A Man Is Like A Tree - Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe (Impulse!) - Buy Yusef Lateef - Medula Sonata - Psychicemotus (Impulse!) - Buy Archie Shepp - Things Have Got to Change (edit) - Things Have Got to Change (Impulse!) - Buy

An excellent show full of highlights this evening - Two tracks from each of the Ripsaw Catfish members large ensemble work that are both just about to be released and a UK tour with both ensembles about to happen. We have Anton Hunter's Article XI and Cath Roberts' Favourite Animals, both which are sounding like good last minute bets for the years best of lists. The rest of the show is the packed with the usual high-quality mix of new releases and older tracks from the archive. So hit the sofa and float downstream with Towards The Margins. Anton Hunter – I Dreamed I Spat Out A Bee – Article XI (Efpi) – Website Cath Roberts – Confirm or Deny (edit) – Favourite Animals (Luminous) – Website Goat’s Notes – Forever Bar and Grill – Cosmic Circus (Leo) – Buy Daniel Carter, Patrick Holmes, Matthew Putman, Hilliard Greene, Federico Ughi – Words Glow – Telepathic Alliances (577) – Buy Peeter Uuskyla, Tellef Øgrim, Anders Berg – LAIV (edit) – LAIV (Simlas) – Buy Noise Eating Monsters – Monster Munch (edit) – Noise Eating Monsters (Muteant Sounds) – Buy Brandon Evans – SAMO (same old shit) after Jean-Michel Basquiat – Solo Alto Saxophone, Public Library Sessions Vol. 3 (Self Released) – Buy Aoki Satoru – Gagogego – O Louco (Self Released) – Download Cath Roberts – Off World – Favourite Animals (Luminous) – Website Anton Hunter – Retaken – Article XI (Efpi) – Website

Self-referential triangulation tonight with the featured label being our good selves at ODD7. After a 2 year break, we are back with a new release and plans for more. The new look version is going to be digital only and will release artists that we have ties with either with gigs or because we have played them quite a bit on the show. So you know it’s going to be fine, fine sounds. All profits from the sales will go towards ODD7 and help us to put on events and such like. The rest of the show is equally classy so tune in, turn up and flip out…   Tracklisting: Charlie Ulyatt – Erasing Angels – Shifting (Self Released) – Buy Hartmut Geerken & Art Ensemble Of Chicago – No Point (edit) – Zero Sun No Point, Dedication To Mynona & Sun Ra (Leo) – Buy Glowering Figs – Wrongie Bongie (He’s a) – Glowering Figs (Slam) – Buy SAWA – Live at the Wellcome Collection for BBC Radio 3 (edit) (Two Rivers) – Buy Daijiro Matsud & Ryoko Ono – Stay Lost – Newduo Series 002 (Ono Ryoko) – Buy Kate Armitage & Dave Jackson – No Reason (edit) – No Reason (Self Released) – Buy Shanyio – Sliding The Voice of An Angel – Pribegie (Self Released) – Buy Greta Buitkutė & Charlie Collins – The Wind Writes To Me – Clothes-Line (ODD7) – Buy Yoko Miura & Teppo Hauta-aho – Nostalgia (edit) – Nostalgia (ODD7) – Buy Some Some Unicorn – Set Two (edit) – Live at Iklectik (ODD7) – Buy

A pre-recorded show this week, but a corker none the less. Triangle feature is on Cronica - field recording/music concrete label and very fine sounds, plus the usual mix of new and old releases from the world of improvisation and beyond... Tracklisting: Al Sand & André de Castro - Algo Está Acontecendo - Improvável (Al Sand) - Buy Lawrence Casserley, DJ Illvibe, Jeffrey Morgan, Harri Sjöström - Gutaonkla (edit) - Live At Club Der Polnischen Versager, Berlin 2016 (Unisono) - Buy Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries - Live at De Singer (edit) - Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk) - Buy Richard Scott's Lightning Ensemble - Streakers - Hyperpunkt (Sound Anatomy) - Buy Moor Mother - Loves Revenge More Than His Children - Manufacture of Indigo (Self Released) - Buy Paul Newman & Anthony Osborne - Murmuration - Two Halves: Volume Two ({AN} Eel) - Buy Tellef Øgrim - Only One Fruit - What Is It (Simlas) - Buy Dan Powell - Cable Hut 14 - At Cuckmere (Cronica) - Buy Emidio Buchinho & Carlos Santos - The Venus of Pistoletto (edit) (Cronica) - Buy Tarab - Gleaners (edit) (Cronica) - Buy

Quickly put together show after a weekend of Dalton LitFest. But what a stunning show it was. Some great new releases and many class items from the vaults.   Tracklisting: Moody Alien – Calliope – Harm’s Bright Smile / Civilization / In The Forest (Thirsty Leaves) – Buy James O’Sullivan – First and Last Breath – IL Y A (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Dom Minasi – The Transformation (edit) – The Vampire’s Revenge (CDM) – Buy George Haslam & Mario Rua – Fleetwood (edit) – Maresia (Slam) – Buy Roscoe Mitchell Sextet – Ornette – Sound (Delmark) – Buy LoE LoF LoN & Wayne Rex – Elastic Quality Ritual – LoE LoF LoN Meets Wayne Rex (Ferror) – Buy Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Lawrence Casserley – Zool – Dividuality (Maya) – Buy Anthony Braxton & Brett Larner – Composition 72a – 11 Compositions (Leo) – Buy Italian Instabile Orchestra – Pierrot Solaire (edit) – Live in Noci & Rive-de-Gier, 1991 (Leo) – Buy Ama Jazz – In One Breath (edit) – In One Breath (Leo) – Buy

After a week off to work at Tusk Festival, we're back playing music that lives Towards The Margins - the new releases have built up, some great older releases new to us here and a couple of old favourites - a pure smorgasbord of improvised wonder.   Tracklisting: Gift Aid Stickers - We Both Would - Money Chops (Knunk) - Buy In Quattro - The Tiny Leap (edit) - In Quattro (Floating Forest) - Buy Colin Webster & Andrew Cheetham - Eller (edit) - A River Carving Ever Through The Land (Raw Tonk) - Buy André de Castro & Wayne Rex - A Day Full of Burnt Matches (edit) - Matches in Darkness (Al Sand) - Buy Dom Minasi String Quartet - Zing, Zang, Zoom! - Dissonance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (Konnex) - Buy Lawrence Casserley & Adam Linson - Stratum Spongiosum - Integument (Psi) - Buy Richard Scott & Marta Zapparoli - Zygomycota - Hyphae (Sound Anatomy) - Buy Francesco Covarino - Oliva#70 - Olive (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy Rui Bonito - Low Key - Low Key (Thirsty Leaves) - Buy John Daly, Moody Alien & Zenjungle - A Fortuitous Encounter of Parallels (edit) - TLM presents Vol.1 ...Should Be Feared (?) (Thirsty Leaves) – Buy

A show of mighty fine music and a very tired presenter. Been a very long week here, finished with a full on weekend of Fun Palaces. Tonight’s triangle feature is Iklecktik, a glorious venue in London with the rest of the show taken up with some great new releases and a couple of older tracks.   Tracklisting: Tyshawn Sorey – Contemplating Tranquility (edit) – Verisimilitude (Pi) – Buy Lawrence Casserley & Jeffrey Morgan – Martian Arts – Room 2 Room (Konnex) – Buy Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle – Live at De Singer (edit) (Raw Tonk) – Buy Sawa – Chai Chai Alay – Sawa (Two Rivers) – Buy Yazz Ahmed – Bloom – La Saboteuse (Naim) – Buy Archipelago – Let Go Of – Weightless (Self Released) – Buy Talea – #48 – Cuaderno de Prácticas 11 (Six Ensemble) – Buy Tellef Øgrim – Sit – What Is It (Simlas) – Buy Katsuya Nonaka – Nonaka – Nonaka, Kanngiesser, Ikeda, Bell Live at Iklectik (Iklectik) – Buy Edward Lucas & Elico Suzuki (Suzueri) – Two Before the Fourth (edit) (Iklectik) – Buy Machinefabriek – Live at Iklectik (edit) (Iklectik) – Buy

It is easy to big up what you do, to say the tracks you’ve chosen are the best, but really, really, we have some stunning new releases on tonight’s show. There are 4 or 5 albums that will be vying for a place in the Top Ten albums of 2017 we played tonight. The older stuff is not too shabby either!! So turn the lights down low and listen to #130…   Tracklisting: Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble – Hasselt 3 – Hasselt (Psi) – Buy Gusev KP, Martin Hoogeboom, Paul Mimlitsch – III – Trapped! (Thirsty Leaves) – Buy Irreversible Entanglements – Enough – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem) – Buy Lone Arrivals – Placed In Ember – Nomad Roads (Tiny Wytch) – Buy Tyshawn Sorey – Cascade in Slow Motion – Verisimilitude (Pi) – Buy Viv Corringham & Lawrence Casserley – NE Caicias – Anemoi (FMR) – Buy Moondog – Oboe Round – Moondog (Trunk) – Buy Daniel Carter, Patrick Holmes, Matthew Putman, Hilliard Greene, Federico Ughi – Words Glow – Telepathic Alliances (577) – Buy Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie II – Renisha McBride (featuring Arnold Lee) – Silenced (577) – Buy Federico Ughi – Sogno Sempre D’Estate (edit) – Heart Talk (577) – Buy

A set of classics tonight from some of the giants of freely improvised music. If you are new to this form of music then you won't go far wrong starting here... All killer, no filler. Tracklisting: Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe, Seymour Wright - at29 (edit) - Küchen, Rowe, Wright (Another Timbre) - Buy Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Familie (edit) - Oliv & Familie (Emanem) - Buy Yoko Miura & Teppo Hauta-aho - Nostalgia (edit) - Nostalgia (ODD7) - Buy Philipp Wachsmann & Lawrence Casserley - Purple Plumed Plover - Garuda (Bead) - Buy Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips - Variation 6 - Sankt Gerold (ECM) - Buy Meredith Monk - Respite - Songs Of Ascension (ECM) - Buy Lol Coxhill & Veryan Weston - Sneeze - Boundless (Emanem) - Buy Derek Bailey - Improvisation On Guitar Piece No.1 - Pieces For Guitar (Tzadik) - Buy John Coltrane - Jupiter Variation - Interstellar Space (Impulse!) - Buy Mark Wastell - Crimson (edit) - Come Crimson Rays (Kning Disk) - Buy

A good bit of drifty, droning goodness on the show tonight with a great Triangle feature of vintage jazz and experimental electronics re-issued on Trunk Records as part of their 50p Fridays download series.   Tracklisting: Attilio Mineo – The Queen City – Man in Space with Sounds (World’s Fair Records) – Buy Deep Tide Quartet – The Imploder – See One, Do One, Teach One (Discus) – Buy Bryan Kolaczkowski – Layerling (edit) – The Figurative is the Literal; A Guide for the Future, Which is the Past  (Self Released) – Buy Isnaj Dui – Loop 3 – Sunspot Loops (Courier) – Buy Space Metal Chaos Ensemble – Hold on to Your Pantaloons (edit) – Electropositivity (Evil Clown) – Buy Tiago Morais Morgado – 64 (Nachtstück) – Buy Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – Live at the Spot August 2017 (edit) (Self Released) – Buy Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake – Where Flamingos Fly – The Newest Sound Around (Trunk) – Buy Hideo Shiraki – In Fiesta – In Fiesta (Trunk) – Buy Pierre Henry & Maurice Béjart – Transfiguration (edit) – Orphée Ballet (Trunk) – Buy

In a tiny corner of Cumbria every Sunday the Towards The Margins radio show slips out onto the air, playing an hour of the finest improvised music. This weeks show features world exclusive plays of forthcoming albums coming out soon from labels in Yorkshire and New York, a bunch of other new releases and finished off with a triangle of tracks from Portugal. Towards The Margins. Punching well above its weight!   Tracklisting: Daniel Carter, Watson Jennison, William Parker, Federico Ughi – You Think So – Vol. 3 Rochester Live! (577) – Buy :: (Forward Festival Kickstarter) EUH! – Michael Ball Stole My Moped (The Ballad of Montpellier) (edit) – Michael Ball Stole My Moped (The Ballad of Montpellier) (Self Released) – Buy Deep Tide Quartet – See One, Do One, Teach One (edit) – See One, Do One, Teach One (Discus) – Buy Giacomo Salis, Paolo Sanna Percussion duo – Live at Cavallerizza Irreale (edit) – Live at Cavallerizza Irreale (Plus Timbre) – Download Áine O’Dwyer – Underbuilding – Safely Adrift (Self Released) – Buy Isnaj Dui – Blind Spot – Poiesis (Rural Colours) – Buy Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie II – Malissa Williams & Timothy Russell feat. Melvin Gibbs – Silenced (577) – Buy :: (Forward Festival Kickstarter) Julie Kjær 3 – Dear Mr Bee – Dobbeltgæenger (Clean Feed) – Buy Luis Jose Martins – Folksong (edit) – Tentos, Invencoes E Encantamentos (Clean Feed) – Buy Trinity – Breaking Them Old – Breaking The Mold (Clean Feed) – Buy

Another great show with a subtle field recordings theme weaving through. Amongst the mighty fine music, tonight sees the return of Triangle – the feature where we close the show with 3 tracks from a featured label. Tonight it was the turn of the lovely named shhpuma.   Tracklisting: Giovanni Lami – 10-00 (edit) – Hysteresis II (Czaszka) – Buy Out of The Blue – Vöglein – Sommerwellen, Out of The Blue live at Donaufestwochen Strudengau (Nachtstück) – Buy Evan Parker & Seymour Wright – Stone III – Tie the Stone to the Wheel (Fataka) – Buy Crank Sturgeon – False Hello (edit) – Forging Hay (Orb Tapes) – Buy Shepherds of Cats & Günter Heinz – In the Distance I Saw Me Mate – Shepherds of Cats & Günter Heinz (Tombed Visions) – Buy Zarabatana – Zaratustra – O Terceiro Corno (A Giant Fern) – Buy Daniel Barbiero & Cristiano Bocci – Bruxelles Gare du Midi (edit) – Non Places (Acustronica) – Download OZO – Short Story – A Kind of Zo (Shhpuma) – Buy Big Bold Back Bone – Immerge (edit) – In Search Of The Emerging Species (Shhpuma) – Buy João Camões & Jean-Marc Foissat – Suite Pour La Trosième Oreille (edit) – A La Face Du Ciel! (Shhpuma) – Buy

An austerity special tonight. The entire playlist was put together for £8, mainly that high because I couldn’t resist adding to my Evan Parker collection so blew £7 on a CD. Most of the tracks presented tonight are farmed from Bandcamp and the netlabel scene and I for one dare you to see any slipping of standards! An hour of prime pay what you want improv for your ears.   Tracklist: WeaklingChild – Desecrate This Church (Self Released) – Buy Natalia Kamia & Haruhiko Okabe – Mastcutters’ Hymn to the Solar Bird – Mastcutters (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Tim Hill, Michael Fairfax, Dave Young – Swimming with Leviathans – Leviathan Whispers (Self Released) – Buy Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson – Great Hall no. 4 – University Improvisations: The Great Hall (Self Released) – Buy Chris Cundy & Benedict Taylor – Hidden Bomba (edit) – Hidden Bomba (Linear Obsessional) – Buy Dave Jackson & Dave Birchall – Stay Free (edit) – Stay Free (Self Released) – Buy Tiago Morais Morgado – M de a Amor, Fá de Nota Musical (edit) – M de a Amor, Fá de Nota Musical (Nachtstück Records) – Buy John Coxon, Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost – Cinema (edit) – Cinema (Fataka) – Buy Bryan Kolaczkowski – Part Two (edit) – Cryptech (Self Released) – Buy Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – Live at Betty’s Grill in Nashville (edit) (Self Released) – Buy

All newish releases on tonight’s show – this year really is fizzing with amazing releases from all over the globe. So strap in for an hour of exploratory, improvised music.   Tracklisting: Bryan Kolaczkowski – Why Be Spectre (edit) – Expansion and Contradiction (Self Released) – Buy You and Me – Ghostyard – Beast Diaries (Self Released) – Buy Bad Body featuring Circuit Breaker – Tears Before Bedtime – Live Life (Tombed Visions) – Buy Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Wolfgang Seidel, Volker Lankow – Kreuzberg Polyphony Sessions, Episode 4, Part 1 – Kreuzberg Polyphony Session, Ep. 4 (Iapetus) – Buy Tim Hill & Dave Young – Meantime – Boneyard Rants and Raves (Self Released) – Buy Talea – #44 – Cuaderno de Prácticas 10 (Six Ensemble) – Buy Yeah You – Hair Moats – Krutch (Slip) – Buy Edward Lucas & Elico Suzuki (Suzueri) – Two Before the Fourth (edit) – Two Before the Fourth (Iklectik) – Buy Tony Peña, Juan Antonio Miñana – La Espera – Sin Rumbo (Six Ensemble) – Buy Leap of Faith – Impactor (edit) – Impactor (Evil Clown) – Buy

A cracking show tonight. Some great new releases and some absolute classics from the vaults. No amusing stories to recount or interesting facts to give you. We have racked up the episodes to #123 which is nice though. Tracklisting: Art Pepper - Straight Life - Meets The Rhythm Section (Contemporary) - Buy Brazen Head - Kraken Song (edit) - Verdigris (Self Released) - Buy John Dikeman, Dirk Serries, René Aquarius - Day Realms (edit) - Day Realms (Tombed Visions) - Buy Leap of Faith Orchestra - Supernovae (edit) - Supernovae (Evil Clown) - Buy Carolina Rizzi & Omar Grandoso - Rock Nacional (edit) - Rock National (Pan Y Rosas Discos) - Download Sabu & Sahib Shihab - Nus - Various: Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam (Jazzman) - Buy Ryan Kinney & Ambrose Pottie - Shack of My Dreams (edit) - Insensiblement (Self Released) - Buy Maja Bugge - Shelter - Shelter (Euridice) - Buy Shepherds of Cats & David McLean - Nnnnnyyyyyaaarrrrgggnnnnneeeeeiiiiiarrrrnnnnn Naaaaaayyyyyyyyyooooowwwwwwnnnnnnn Coda Hhhhooohhaaaaah - Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions) Buy Don Cherry - Eagle Eye - Orient (BYG) - Buy

All the usual type of quality items for your aural pleasure – lots of new releases, some exclusives, some absolute classics. An hour of joyful noise.   Tracklisting: Sam Andrea, David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham – Bridge as Object – The Difficult Second Album (Tombed Visions) – Buy Quartet & Quintet – Quartet live at Vortex Jazz Club February 8th 2017 (edit) – Double Vortex (A New Wave of Jazz) – Buy Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Part 2 (edit) – Karyobin (Island) – Buy Andrew Voigt & Ed Herrmann – Solar Parity (edit) – Voyage (Garuda) – Website Xol – Oxolo (edit) – Exit To Now (Improvising Beings) – Buy Piotr Glavatskikh – Symposium, Movement III – The Unfound Sound (Fancy Music) – Buy Brazen Head – No Time Like The Present – Verdigris (Self Released) – Buy Amble Skuse – Still Again August 2016 (Unreleased) – Amble Skuse website Birchall Cheetham Duo – Measured Mass – Tipping Point (MIE) – Buy Aging – Doused In The Moon (edit) – Suitable For Night (Tombed Visions) – Buy

A smoothly run show with a big pile of new releases and some sneak peaks of things coming out later in the year – marvellous stuff from some amazing artists and labels.   Tracklisting: Ahmed Abdul-Malik – Nadusilma – Various Artists: Spiritual Jazz 7, Islam (Jazzman) – Buy Chicago Underground Duo – Left Hand Of Darkness – Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey) – Buy Mark Hanslip – Church Side 1 (edit) – Church (Tombed Visions) – Buy Leap of Faith Orchestra – Possible Universes (edit) – Possible Universes (Self Released) – Buy Ryoji Hojito & Hugues Vincent – Sweet Morning – Strange Days (Improvising Beings) – Buy Jan Daelman, Dirk Serries, Thijs Troch – Live At Koffie & Ambacht (edit) – Live At Koffie & Ambacht (Nachtstück) – Buy Bleak Moose – Kasha Improv (edit) (Unreleased) – Amble Skuse website Far Rainbow, Cath Roberts, Tullis Rennie – A Broad Trembling Cloud (edit) – Noon 22nd Century (Self Released) – Buy Martina Verhoeven & Dirk Serries – Innocent As Virgin Wood, Part 1 to 6 – Innocent As Virgin Wood (A New Wave Of Jazz) – Buy Shepherds of Cats & David McLean – Slow Dance At The Martian Wedding (edit) – Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions) – Buy

Big load of new and un-released tracks on tonight’s show. Some quite stunning pieces for you, all along with the thinking man’s Albert Tatlock at the controls.   Tracklisting: Burton Greene – Nostalgia Variations – Compendium (Improvising Beings) – Buy Philippe Petit – In Memory… (edit) – Fil Spectrum & Philippe Petit (Self Released) – Buy Sufus Hufus – Nowhere Togoh 3 – Sand Talk (Self Released) – Buy Gintas K – Amnesia (edit) – (Unreleased) – Website Contemporary Jazz Quintet – Action #2 – Actions 1966-67 (Atavistic) – Buy THF Drenching – Pupation, for Lol Coxhill (edit) – Pupation (Council of Drent) – Buy Zarabatana – Peçonha – O Terceiro Corno (A Giant Fern) – Buy Uniphant – Journeying (edit) – (Unreleased) Eric Zinman – Outpost – Zither Gods (Improvising Beings) – Buy Foxes Fox – Renard Pâle – Naan Tso (Psi) – Buy

Good solid show tonight with no technology problems. A fantastic batch of new releases to play you with the gaps stuffed with vintage music from the TTM vaults. Tracklisting:  Pierre Henry - Expressionism 1952 Musique Sans Titre Cinquieme - 1st Panorama de Musique Concrete (Trunk) - Buy Vilde&Inga - Urtjern - Silfr (Sofa) – Buy Hervé Perez - Lastingham (edit) - Sounding Out (Self Released) - Download Erik Enocksson - The State The Sea Left Me In - Farväl Falkenberg (Kning Disk) - Buy Dave Jackson & Richard Hemmings - Opposition - Out Side (Self Released) - Buy Lars Larsson, Peeter Uuskyla, Niclas Rydh, David Bäck - Pensive (edit) - Pensive±Influx (Simlas) - Buy Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders - Divertimento Für Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Part 3) - Divertimento Für Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Alien Transistor) - Buy Vladimir Luchansky & Roman Stolyar - Live at ESG-21 (edit) -  Vladimir Luchansky, Roman Stolyar - Live at ESG-21 (Nachtstück) - Buy Bird Architects - Prelude 4 MD - Gone (Slam) - Buy Rhodri Davies, David Sylvian, Mark Wastell - There Is No Love (edit) - There Is No Love (Confront) - Buy

Tech problems tonight so most of the live show didn’t go out, the fun of the modern age. Luckily we record these things at both ends so you still get to hear the show on archive. Some great new releases on the show for you, including a cheeky play of the latest release I’m involved in – maybe that was what went wrong – the nepotism police shut me down…   Tracklisting: Bass Tone Trap – Final Recordings #3 – Radio Hallam Session & Final Recordings (Sheffield Tape Archive) – Buy Orfeo 5 – In a Flower’s Radiance Part 2 – In The Green Castle (Discus) – Buy Vilde&Inga – Usynlig Flimmer – Silfr (Sofa) – Buy Julien Palomo – Studies on Alan Silva – Anytia, part II – Approches (Music For Alan Silva And François Tusques) (Improvising Beings) – Buy Rollerball – Moonless – Post Amen (El Gallo Rojo) – Buy Amanda Irarrazabal, Cecilia López, Cecilia Quinteros – Receptculo – La Corporación (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Alex Ward – Chasm (edit) – Proprioception (Weekertoft) – Buy Julia Kent – Arlanda – Delay (Important) – Buy Laurent Avizou, GOM – Hidden Force – Beyond Visible (Haze) – Download Those Darn Gnomes – Peeling (edit) – Peeling (Self Released) – Buy

Only a couple of new releases this week, but both are excellent. The rest of the show is taken up by a leaf through the archive, picking out some releases that still sound as fresh as the day they were released.   Tracklisting: Cecil Taylor ‎- Conquistador! (edit) – Conquistador! (Blue Note) – Buy Fred Lonberg-Holm – #2 (edit) – Lightbox Orchestra The Drummers (Self Released) – Buy Magda Mayas – Trace (edit) – Terrain (Gaffer) – Buy Gidouille – Superego (edit) – Eedipal Wrecks (Cruel Nature) – Buy Deemer – Pattern 2 (edit) – Interference Patterns (Luminous) – Buy Lisbon Improvisation Players – Copy This – Motion (Clean Feed) – Buy Isabel Nogueira & Luciano Zanatta – Piano Duo – Unlikely Objects (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Part 3 – Karyōbin (Island) – Buy Klaas Hübner – Single Tube – SOG (Slip) – Buy Ray Dickaty – Legitimate Protest (edit) – DCD Trio Live at Eszeweria (Self Released) – Buy