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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.
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Latest Releases
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Damon Holzborn & John O'Brien: Exquisite Coast Two CAT. #: ALP076 The second 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
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- Tobias Fischer
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