16 Oct

[ October 24th, 2025 release on Pyroclastic Records – Patricia Brennan Tentet – Of the Near and Far ]

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Visionary vibraphonist, marimbist and composer Patricia Brennan looks to the stars and the universe for inspiration on her stunning new album Of The Near And Far, out October 24, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, uses the constellations as the basis for exhilarating compositions blending jazz, classical and alt-rock influences

“…as challenging as it is danceable, [Breaking Stretch recalls] the fantastical constructions of big thinkers such as Henry Threadgill and Steve Lehman as it interweaves dazzling ensemble passages with bracing solos.” – Hank Shteamer, The New York Times

“Folkloric futurism is a trademark for Patricia Brennan, a brilliant vibraphonist and composer rattling along the volatile edge of contemporary chamber music… the core coordinates of [her] music are fixed someplace that hasn’t yet been charted; Brennan and her expeditionary forces make us feel flush with its discovery.” – Nate Chinen, NPR Music

21 Sep

[ September 26th, 2025 release via Pyroclastic Records, Craig Taborn, Nels Cline and Marcus Gilmore – Trio of Bloom ]

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On Trio of Bloom, their self-titled debut release out September 26, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, three wholly singular artists – Craig Taborn, Nels Cline and Marcus Gilmore – converge for their first-ever meeting, creating what Nate Chinen of WRTI calls a “new-groove supergroup.”

…a first-time collaboration that feels like the work of a proper band. These three players are well-known in the orbits of progressive jazz and beyond, and a particular alchemy occurs between them here…. While each has showed impressive range in the past, ‘Trio of Bloom’… startles with its breadth, touching on serene sonic ambience, funky Afrobeat flow and scrambling avant-jazz.” – Hank Shteamer, The New York Times

“The entire record is shot through with a kind of brimming intensity and an audible joy…These guys were simply made to play together…Killer stuff.” – Jason Bivins, Point of Departure

“…this music is full of riffs and thunder, with Cline searing the air, Taborn creating auditory illusions and Gilmore thundering behind them. But quiet, atmospheric moments abound too, and are just as worthwhile.” – Phil Freeman, The Wire

02 Sep

[ September the 5th, 2025 release on Pyroclastic , Ned Rothenberg – Looms & Legends ]

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Out September 5, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, Looms & Legends features the acclaimed woodwinds master on alto saxophone, clarinets and shakuhachi flute

“Rothenberg pushes sonic and spatial barriers… as he explores combinations of vacillating intervals and knotty melodic kernels, and balances evolving patterns with ripe arpeggios and colourful harmonics.” – Fred Bouchard, DownBeat

“Rothenberg reconciles an unapologetically cerebral approach with accessibility and emotional expression. No mean feat, indeed.” – Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

06 Apr

[ April the 11th, 2025 release on Pyroclastic: Ingrid Laubrock’s “Purposing the Air” ]

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“The genius of Laubrock’s compositions lies in the way they balance compositional structure with improvisational freedom.” – Troy Dostert, All About Jazz

Purposing The Air, out April 11, 2025, sets to music 60 brief yet evocative koans for the pairings of Fay Victor/Mariel Roberts, Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell, Theo Bleckmann/Ben Monder, and Rachel Calloway/Ari Streisfeld (Duo Cortona). Hailed as a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by The New Yorker, Ingrid Laubrock has evolved a distinctive, fascinatingly complex and richly layered sonic vocabulary that spans her efforts as an improviser, as leader of her own diverse ensembles or, as in the case of her captivating new album Purposing The Air, as composer and conceptualist for other musicians.

10 Mar

[ March the 14th, 2025 release via Pyroclastic: Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells ]

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Bone Bells, out March 14, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records, thrives on the pair’s bold instincts, improvisational daring and far-ranging compositional vision

“Courvoisier and Halvorson have a chemistry that brings out something new in both of them… [Searching for the Disappeared Hour] is a totally involving and, in its own warped way, beautiful session of music.” – Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz

“Courvoisier and Halvorson reach across the specifics of their approach to celebrate a mutuality of taste: of melodic shapes, of rhythmic structures, of harmonic colour.”– J.D. Considine, JazzTimes

12 Oct

[ October the 18th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Brandon Seabrook – Object of Unknown Function ]

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Object of Unknown Function, out October 18, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, layers vintage banjos, electric and 12-string guitars and cassette recordings into an uncategorizable hybrid, one of its kind recording.

“Seabrook occupies sound worlds all his own. Is it jazz? Metal? Classical? Folk? Punk? It’s all of the above—usually at the same time.” – Brad Cohan, Bandcamp Daily

25 Sep

[ September 27th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Kris Davis – Run the Gauntlet ]

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Grammy-winning pianist/composer Kris Davis pays tribute to six extraordinary women pianists with her new trio album Run the Gauntlet

Out September 27, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, the album – with bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake – celebrates Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier and Renee Rosnes

“Davis’ music is precisely and unmistakably the sound of today… [she] has the acuity and focus to root a farsighted vision firmly in the present.” – Michael J. West, DownBeat

06 Mar

[ March 8th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: David Leon – Bird’s Eye ]

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Bird’s Eye, due out March 8, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, features a pathfinding new trio with gayageum player DoYeon Kim and drummer/percussionist Lesley Mok.

“[David Leon’s] extroversion feels like a natural part of his musical personality, spiking his agile post-bop with nifty conceptual brio that never gets in the way of his desire to communicate.” – Peter Margasak, The Quietus

“[Bird’s Eye] maintained an easy and fluid connection… [Mok] effortlessly augmented Leon’s… solos and punctuated the texture without overpowering DoYeon Kim, who shredded so hard on the gayagum that she had to actually reassemble her instrument before the set was over.” – Lana Norris, I Care If You Listen

02 Feb

[ February 2nd, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Ches Smith – Laugh Ash ]

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Due out February 2, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, the album features a brilliant ensemble with James Brandon Lewis, Nate Wooley, Anna Webber, Shahzad Ismaily, Oscar Noriega, Shara Lunon, Jennifer Choi, Kyle Armbrust and Michael Nicolas.

“A go-to percussionist for experimental jazz and new-music ensembles, Ches Smith gravitates toward edgy outfits… while displaying a musical personality as detail-oriented as it is sweepingly ornate.” Steve Futterman, The New Yorker

“The nondescript term ‘drummer’ doesn’t get near the chemistry of earworm hooks, sharp-end jazz innovation and global-musical openness of New York percussionist/composer Ches Smith.” John Fordham, The Guardian

21 Dec

[ December 21th, 2023 release on Pyroclastic Records: Bertoia Sound Sculptures + 12 Master Improvisors = Sculpting Sound ]

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Pyroclastic Records presents Sculpting Sound, a groundbreaking collection of six once-in-a-lifetime performances bringing together twelve master improvisers with the sound sculptures of visionary artist Harry Bertoia

These captivating performances, available on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023 via SculptingSound.org, feature Nels Cline, Ben Monder, Ambrose Akinmusire, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, JD Allen, Jen Shyu, Brandon Seabrook, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Kris Davis and Craig Taborn