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Entropy / Codex CDs are limited press run discs
that are printed on CDR's with the covers assembled by hand.

Primal Waters
CD

$10.00 ppd

New release: Primal Waters CD

2011 Recording of Faruq Z. Bey w/ Northwoods. Limited edition CD release of 150 copies. New material featuring Faruq with Mike Carey, Skeeter C. R. Shelton, Mike Gilmore, Mike Johnston and Nick Ashton. Published by the Italian Saggitarius A Star record / vinyl label. Vinyl is available through www.dustygroove.com in the U.S.

"Hymn For Tomaz Stanko"
CD

QBICO Records 82
$10.00 ppd

Dennis Gonzales & Faruq Z Bey
with the Northwoods Improvisers Septet

Recorded in November 2004 and March 2005 in Michigan, this is the newest release from Italy's Qbico Records (Qbico 82). Gonzalez, whose recent work has transcended the genres of jazz, has teamed up with Detroit saxophonist Bey, as well as reedmen Skeeter Shelton (son of renown Chicago drummer Ajaramu and the keyboardist/singer Amina Claudine Myers) and Mike Carey, both also from Detroit, along with the grounbreaking Michigan trio Northwoods Improvisers to present a rhythmic and melodic African-tinged release.

"A great album, of the same expansive and broad-sweeping level as 'Nile River Suite' or 'Dance Of The Soothsayer's Tongue' ".
-Free Jazz

Entropy / Codex 002
SOLD OUT

Poetry by: Faruq Z. Bey 2001-2005.

Strings of Niger Vol II
CD

Entropy / Codex 003
$10 ppd

Chetima Ganga and his
DRUMMERS
CD

Entropy / Codex 004
$10 ppd

Strings of Niger
CD

Other Brother Productions 001
$10 ppd

Two long extended improvisations by; Mouhammadou Moussa on the three stringed "molo" lute. And one long extended improvisation by; Abdou Mohammed on the biram harp. With the explosion of hi-tech Afro-Pop music nowdays, these beautiful subtle solo improvisations hold up well to repeated listenings as well as preserving a rare and threatened musical tradition. Highly recommended.

Mike Gilmore- Solo Saz (2000)
CD

Entropy / Codex 001
SOLD OUT

Mike (a member of Northwoods Improvisers) is heard here playing
solo improvisations on the Turkish Saz. Mike is a highly accomplished
string player. The music is both rich and diverse. 30 minutes
total playing time.

Northwoods Improvisers
Spinning CD

ARC, England
$13 ppd

The second release from this Michigan trio who have been making creative improvised acoustic music for over 20 years. We have this one at a domestic price.

"This is brave music you can dance to or hum along with. Spinning is accurately titled; it spins a host of tales so ancient they can no longer be told openly, and offers them in a groove so deep and wide you have no choice as a listener but to sink right in and start moving."

Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Northwoods Improvisers
Fog and Fire CD

ARC, England
$13 ppd

Hauntingly beautiful, refreshing improvised jazz with Middle Eastern and East Asian influences. Three guys with Vibes, Koto, Log Drum, and a variety of other ancient and modern instruments make this one of the best Jazz releases of 1994

"...'Fog' is the listeners' first definitive glance into the extended free ambient universe that the trio explores further on successive albums. Vibe overtones beautifully crash with subdued arrhythmic drumming/percussion, as Johnston first greets listeners with his gorgeous bass recorder playing before again picking up the bass and bowing."

Jason Hundley, All Music Guide

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