Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Adam Rudolph – Beingness

(2025, 300lmt 180g 12” White Cream Vinyl, FK024)

”A voyage from the Corner to the Cosmos. As the tracks titles reveal, there’s a connection to the authentic spiritual search and devotional imperative in jazz that goes all the way back to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. It suggests an urgent call to engage in real inner work. Far galaxies become facets of the eternal soul. The macrocosm becomes the microcosm. It’s the only Journey left to make” The Wire – Daniel Spicer
”In an era when jazz recordings often prioritize polish over risk, Beingness feels monumental. It is raw and refined, cerebral and soulful, ancient and new. With the passing of Wayne Shorter, the jazz world has lost one of its great seers, but this album makes one thing clear: those who hold the keys to this lineage of deep musical knowledge are still with us, still creating, still evolving. And on Beingness, they have given us a masterwork that doesn’t just belong to 2025, it stands outside of time.” Paris Move – Thierry De Clemensat

Dave Liebman: soprano saxophone, wood flutes
Billy Hart: drum set
Adam Rudolph: handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija), piano, percussion

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Yuki Fujiwara – Glass Colored Lily

(2024, 300CD Digipack, FK021) & (2025, 250lmt 180g 12” Pink Vinyl OBI, FK021)

”This is a recording of very unique musicians. Everyone had a deep understanding of music from different cultures, including Japan. Think of it as a new cultural ensemble with everyone bringing their experiences to the overall sound. Japanese musicians – Yuki and Mitsuhiro brought their very own strong statements and presents. I should say this session was a Ichigo-Ichie: once-in-a-lifetime sound encounter.”
”Today, we were transforming all the elements into sound…. I think this recording speaks that way.” Bill Laswell

Yuki Fujiwara – shinobue
Mitsuhiro Sonoyama – sax
Peter Apfelbaum – keys, clarinet, flute
Will Bernard – Guitar
Bill Laswell – 8-string bass, EFX, production
Adam Rudolph – percussion

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Kristo Rodzevski – Black Earth

(2023, 500lmt, 180g 12” Vinyl, 350gsm Gatefold, FK017)

Black Earth has eleven traditional Macedonian songs infused with African aesthetics, including Gnawa undertones, Congo rumba, and African field recordings. The core of the traditional Macedonian harmonies and rhythms was developed over the centuries from the Ancient Greek and Roman Empire’s lyricism, Byzantium’s chants, and the Ottoman Empire’s classical music progressions, by way of multiple migrations, storytelling, wars, myths, tribalism, reconciliations, etc.) In a nutshell, Black Earth is a filtrate of the trans-generational transmission of resilience, trauma, love, and naivete.

Kristo Rodzevski – vocals, acoustic guitar, tambura
Dominic James – electric guitar
Josh Werner – bass
Adam Rudolph – sintir, percussion
Bill Laswell – bass, field recordings, production

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Milcho Leviev, Lakis Tzimkas – Conversations From The Past

(2022, 500CD Digipack, FK014)

Lakis Tzimkas and Milcho Leviev came in contact in 2002 during their first common performance. Ever since, a special bond has been created in both personal and artistic levels. One of the outcomes of this common progression is this recording, five years before Milco Leviev had passed (1937-2019). This CD features compositions by both. The style oscillates between the classical and jazz music bordering the cinematic. Musical narrations create a tension that births the sense of depth, motion and emotion.

Milcho Leviev – piano
Lakis Tzimkas – double bass

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Yiannis Balafoutis – Yerma / Γέρμα

(2006, 500CD Digipack, FK003)

The Mediterranean atmosphere with the Byzantine layers gives in a special characteristic to this album. The playing is not derived by the effect of technique but have is aiming to a journey that could anyone do in personal spiritual destinations. In this full of atmosphere music labyrinth, soul from inside melodies looks for placidity and clear conscience. This is a unique work in texture and quality in which the sentiments and the memories of composer are emerging through his music.

Yiannis Balafoutis – clarinet, nevi, flute with beak, lyrics, song
Giannis Tsentouros – percussion
Dionysis Sampaziotis – classic guitar
Alexandros Botinis – violoncello
Costas Stefanopoulos – sazi
Giannis Panagiotopoulos – udi

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Bass To Bass

(2006, 500CD Digipack, FK002)

Two great musicians “bass to bass” for the first time exploiting the new soundscape of two acoustic basses competing each other, frequently exchanging roles on their own compositions, as well as on well-known jazz standards!

Lakis Tzimkas – doublebass
Nektarios Karantzis – doublebass

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