Greetings from Accretions!
In 2020, Accretions celebrated 35 years of sonic exploration with a limited edition 12” compilation featuring chihiro butterfly, Bill Horist, Michael Dessen, Chu makino, Mike Pride, Marcos Fernandes, Hans Fjellestad, Damon Holzborn and more.
This year we're offering an Autumn Music Sale through October 24 with special pricing and free or discounted shipping on over 80 titles including CDs, DVDs, vinyl and downloads.
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Latest Releases
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Damon Holzborn & John O'Brien CAT. #: ALP075 The first in a series of albums of synthesizer improvisations created using a game-based collaboration process that creates a tight set of technical constraints as an artistic challenge. |
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Marcos and The Wild Machinations CAT. #: ALP074 Six songs stretching across the spectrum of rock stylings past and present, penned by frontman Marcos Fernandes, heretofore better known as a percussionist/improviser. |
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Various Artists: 35 CAT. #: ALP073 Accretions' 35th anniversary compilation LP with 9 tracks from acoustic to electronic, folk, rock, jazz and everything in between and beyond, illustrates the wide spectrum of styles and sounds the label has come to embody. |
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mrlectronic: Live in the Pit CAT. #: ALP071 mrlectronic merges experimental electronica and improvisation to create pulsebeat soundscapes rich in timbre and texture. |
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Jason Robinson and Eric Hofbauer: Two Hours Early, Ten Minutes Late: Duo Music of Ken Aldcroft CAT. #: ALP072 Saxophonist Jason Robinson and guitarist Eric Hofbauer celebrate the duo music of the late Canadian guitarist Ken Aldcroft in a memorial album of sorts. |
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Damon Holzborn: Alternator I CAT. #: ARW005 A continuation of the sonic explorations that started with Character Weekend and 1 Vox, Vol. 1 and and a hint at new directions. |
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Michael Dessen: Digibone Forest CAT. #: ALP067 Digibone Forest carries the listener through an otherworldly soundscape created by Michael Dessen, a "slide-trombone virtuoso and computer musician of the highest order" (All About Jazz). Moving through a wide range of moods and spaces, the music is at once visceral, ethereal, playfully unpredictable and completely unclassifiable. |
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Noriko Kodama: Abyss CAT. #: ALP069 Deep into the night before the twilight colors the sky, a song on the guitar quietly begins to glisten. Minimal, ambient, reminiscent even of lowercase, her solitary near silent folk music nestles up close and softly speaks to our varying moods. |
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Guitar is Dead: Guitar is Dead CAT. #: ALP068 This album vents the musical aggression of three malcontent New Orleans musicians with blazing guitar solos, spiteful rants and ferocious riffs bridging the fed-up rage of punk and musical finesse of experimental jazz. |
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계수정sOo's collage: (John in the) Cage + Hazel CAT. #: ASP004 A live performance of pieces by Soo Jung Kae and Nate Wooley recorded on October 21, 2018 at viaart gallery/Daedong Hotel on Jeju Island in South Korea. |
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Wormhole: Last Waltz CAT. #: ALP066 Improvisation based on on a graphic score by Marcos Fernandes recorded live at Last Waltz in Tokyo. |
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"Covering all grounds between free rock, sound art and free jazz, the label's devotion lies more in promoting and encouraging experimental music than confining itself to any narrow style."
- François Couture
All Music Guide
"Musicians who thrive on defying convention."
- George Varga
San Diego Union-Tribune
"What the hell is it with the Accretions label? As curators, they are incredibly discerning, assembling some of the most brilliant peripheral musics a consumer could hope for."
- Marc Tucker
Progressione
"Accretions is a sheer treasure trove."
- Tobias Fischer
Tokafi
