Triple Bath
$10.00 ppd

Mike Khoury & Ryan Jewell Squall Line Bow Echo Triple Bath Violin and percussion duets from veteran percussionist Ryan Jewell and improviser Mike Khoury. Sparse and experimental with one track recorded live on the Olentangy Rive. .

Triple Bath
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Mike Johnston/Mike Gilmore/Mike Khoury/Kirk Lucas.

Follow up to their first release The Hidden also on Triple Bath. The quartet of veteran improvisers Mike Johnston, Mike Gilmore, Mike Khoury and Kirk Lucas from Michigan. The occidental music band that serves improvisation, experiments by mixing western music culture with the "seducing" east in the best manner. With jazz instrumentation as a base (double bass, vibraphone, violin and cello), already introduced with their debut "The Hidden" also on Triple Bath (July 2007), traditional instruments from Africa (inanga, kalimba, marimba), Asia (sho, shakuhachi, cheng, gong), Middle East (saz, tamboura), America (banjo), Central Europe (zither) and various percussion enrich the universal character of "Impermanence", taking the listener from season to season, from culture to culture... from entropy to elsewhere... The inherent twist of the four musicians towards introducing melody at several points of the album, like in the version of Sun Ra's "When There Is No Sun" and Ahmed Abdul-Malik's "Maghrebi" is certainly not going to bother any lover of avant-garde music - on the contrary - it will introduce him/her to the album's deeper meanings. However, the entropic, improvisational jazz of this quartet is most likely to be comprehended by even the most uneducated ear, for being a product of thought and purity.

Faruq Z. Bey- Hymn Book
of the Anciency (2001-05)
CD

Entropy / Codex 002
$10.00 ppd

Saxophone great Bey is also a published writer and poet. This disc is a collection of Bey's reading his poetry in concert and in the studio in various ensemble settings. There are many impressive and varied selections. Performers incude; Mike Carey, Skeeter Shelton, Mike Khoury, and members of Northwoods Improvisers..

Dennis Gonzalez w/Faruq Z. Bey and Northwoods Improvisers.

Qbico 82
$12.00 ppd

Silkheart and Clean Feed recording artist Dennis Gonzalez teams up with Faruq Z. Bey and Northwoods for this nice blend of the artists playing styles. This is Bey's third release on the Italian vinyl Qbico label.

"In short, a great album, in my opinion of the same expansive and broad-sweeping level as his Nile River Suite or "Dance Of The Soothsayer's Tongue". The overall sound is very coherent, all tracks are of the same high quality, melodic, lyrical and creative. I love it! ***** stars." Stef, Free Jazz Blog 2009