Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Bobby Kapp – Synesthesia

(2026, 250lmt, 6panel digipack CD, FK030)

Synesthesia reunites Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Bobby Kapp in a powerful new exploration of contemporary free jazz, following the acclaimed Ineffable Joy and Heptagon. Blending spontaneous composition with deep collective interplay, the quartet moves through shifting textures, emotional intensity, and refined modern jazz forms. Perelman’s expressive tenor saxophone, Shipp’s architectural piano language, Parker’s resonant bass presence, and Kapp’s fluid rhythmic detail create music that is both deeply intuitive and constantly evolving. Expansive yet focused, Synesthesia captures four master improvisers in complete artistic spontaneous composition.

Ivo Perelman – tenor sax
Matthew Shipp – piano
William Parker -bass
Bobby Kapp – drums

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Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista – Triacontagon

(2026, 250lmt, 6panel digipack CD, FK029)

Triacontagon brings together Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, and Cyro Baptista for a powerful journey through free improvisation, ritual rhythms, electro-acoustic abstraction, and shifting sonic geometries. Inspired by multiplicity and unstable forms, the album unfolds through six expansive pieces filled with mystery, intensity, and tropical surrealism. A deeply immersive collaboration from three master improvisers pushing beyond musical boundaries.

Ivo Perelman – tenor sax
Elliott Sharp – 8-string electric guitar
Cyro Baptista – percussion, vocals

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Savina Yannatou, Gonçalo Almeida, Costis Drygianakis – Independent / Interdependent

(2026, 300lmt 180g 12” Colored Vinyl, FK028)

The album captures a unique performance where each musician interacts freely, blending acoustic and electronic textures. Extended vocal techniques, bowed double bass, and deep electronic processing create a dark, immersive sound world.The music explores the balance between independence and interaction, separation and connection, letting sound develop organically through collaboration and experimentation. Independent / Interdependent is a record about listening, responding and the dynamic space between musicians, where structure and tension emerge naturally from the performance.

Savina Yannatou – voice
Gonçalo Almeida – doublebass
Costis Drygianakis – sound processing

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Susana Santos Silva, Vasco Trilla – Mushin

(2026, 300lmt 180g 12” Clear Vinyl, FK027)

In Mushin, Silva and Trilla embody this philosophy through a deeply responsive interplay. Rather than structured compositions, the music unfolds as a living process, an organic exchange where trumpet and percussion move between tension and silence, density and openness. Each gesture feels both spontaneous and inevitable, reflecting a heightened state of listening and awareness. While “no-mind” might suggest emptiness, Mushin reveals it instead as a fertile ground: a condition where thoughts may arise, but without attachment, allowing pure expression to take shape.
The result is an immersive listening experience that invites the audience into a space of reflection, intensity, and subtle transformation.

Susana Santos Silva – trumpet
Vasco Trilla – percussion

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Camila Nebbia, Gonçalo Almeida, Sylvain Darrifourq – Hypomaniac

(2025, 300lmt 180g 12” Vinyl, FK026)

The end result is absolutely fascinating, bringing a fantastic journey that is hypnotic and build up like a sonic storm setting the house on fire. The interplay between the trio sounds organic, flowing and inventive, despite their different approaches. Collective chaos but always grooving very hard!
Nebbia bridges the gaps between free jazz tardition and contemporary jazz creating beautiful lines with her saxophone that floats and forms shapes in the air. Her distinctive and sophisticated musical lanquage becomes one body with the psych – harsh playing from Gonzalo Almeida and the deep active rhytmic support from Sylvain Darrifourq. Here, Almeida flirts with extremes in volume and sound density, pushing the acoustic bass into noisy groovy reaches. Darrifourq empraces with light touches of sound percolating from space evolving into an abstract solid theme. His work on the drum set manages to stay on a permanent red level of energy, while being hypnotic and psych in the same time!

Camila Nebbia – tenor sax
Gonçalo Almeida – double bass
Sylvain Darrifourq – drums

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Sakata, Di Domenico, Damianidis Bros, Scoric, Nilssen-Love, Yamamoto – Hyperentasis

(2025, 300lmt 180g 12” Double Vinyl, FK025)

Hyperentasis is a double LP celebrating the unique connection between legendary saxophonist Akira Sakata and the city of Thessaloniki. Home to Defkaz Records and the birthplace of the Damianidis brothers, Thessaloniki has welcomed Sakata countless times. This release captures two of his landmark performances as a bandleader in the city. These two LPs are inseparable pieces of the same musical puzzle: the first sets the stage for the second, with the entire journey from Entasis to Hyperentasis spanning 90 minutes of pure, immersive free jazz.

Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, clarinet, vocals, bells
Giovanni Di Domenico – piano
Giotis Damianidis – electric guitar
Petros Damianidis – double bass
Aleksandar Škorić – drums
Paal Nilssen-Love – drums
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – drums

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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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Giovanni Di Domenico – Edge Runner / Alex Zethson – Noema

(2025, 300lmt 2CD gatefold, FK023)

CD1. Giovanni Di Domenico as a master of his instruments produces bulky sound rugged and dark atmospheres but also plainly beautiful through stark contrasts. Improvisation is therefore more as a state than an outline or shape, the timbre is the actual carrier of the form, drone is the crucial element.
CD2. Noema consists of a live recording of an improvisation based on a four-part open compositional framework. Drawing influence from a broad spectrum – ranging from the hypnotic explorations of Charlemagne Palestine to the rhythmic intensity of Meshuggah and the incandescent presence of Alice Coltrane’s musicality – the piece strikes an intricate balance between structure and spontaneity.

CD1: Giovanni Di Domenico – grand piano, Hohner organetta, pipe organ and electronics
CD2: Alex Zethson – grand piano

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Rapid Zen – Fried Brains

(2025, 250lmt 180g 12” Colored Vinyl, FK022)

The trio Rapid Zen creates a dynamic blend of really unique music by fusing rhythmic patterns with audio experiments. They achieve this by combining a layer of turntable sampling and scratching that provides a distinctive and varied sound interacting with a broad palette of different techniques on double bass, percussion, and voice. Fried Brains is the first release of the project.

Gonçalo Almeida – double bass
Barbara Togander – turntables & voice
Vasco Trilla – drums & 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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