I shall start with three long awaited reissues.
First we have Ian Brighton's 'Marsh Gas' with a great line-up :
Jim Livesey, alto saxophone
Marcio Mattos, bass
Sound In Brass, handbells
Ian Brighton, guitar
Roger Smith, guitar
Radu Malfatti, trombone
Philipp Wachsmann, violin
Available since December 2018, you'll get it from FMR Records.
The following two CDs/LPs are available since a few days.
Musicians are obvious on the first release. And on the edition with the pipe (Opium for Franz) you'll have - apart - from Franz Koglmann, Steve Lacy, Aldo Romano and Stephen Horenstein also Bill Dixon and Alan Silva on the long first track.
You'll get these two goodies through
discogs. Or through the label's website http://www.blackmonk.at/blog (click on 'Mehr erfahren' und you see the contact address and the prices). According the label more is upcoming. Think about new and old Reform Art Unit sessions.
Almost only reissues this time. But at least this subtle new recording I would like to praise.
Here, one of my favourite musicians, Paul Lovens, has teamed with Hugo Antunes (a.o. Red Trio) and the previously unknown (to me, anyway) pianist Seppe Gebruers from Belgium.
So the line-up is percussion, double bass and two pianos, tuned a quarter tone apart.
Than I would like to alert you again about the FMP / Destination-out reissue series.
All downloads are available in numerous formats - lossless and lossy.
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/
Originally as LP it had three editions. One from Czechoslovakia (which was the first one) shortly followed by a release from the GDR and finally FMP / SAJ.
Produced by the rather unknown Antonin Matzner who played(?) also on this great recording. It is strongly recommended.
Others participants are f.e. Tony Oxley, Günter Sommer, Willem Breuker, Rüdiger Carl, Rudolf Dasek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Louis Moholo, Trevor Watts.........
This one is especially appreciated. Only two years ago it seemed this rare session with Danny Davis (of Sun Ra fame), Taj Mahal Travellers' Takehisa Kosugi and Peter Kowald won't be reissued at all.
One of the members had objections against a new release.
But obviously and finally Jost Gebers managed to get the rights for this download.
Not only reissues are offered at FMP's bandcamp site but a.o. also this great unreleased session from 1984.
More music than fits on a CD these "minimalistic" improvisations are a treat;
played by Wolfgang Fuchs, Hanns Schneider (bass) and Bernhard Arndt on piano.