Save 20% on all 4 albums with this DSD Bundle!

This DSD Bundle contains 4 albums from the Vancouver-based label Songlines Recordings. They specialise in producing modern and avant jazz that typically crosses musical borders, and these four albums are on par with that description.

Ditty Blei [Pure DSD]

Cat. No. SGLSA15472
Hilmar Jensson, Electric & Acoustic guitar
Jim Black, Drums
Andrew D’Angelo, Alto Sax & Bass Clarinet
Trevor Dunn, Double Bass
Herb Robertson, Trumpet

An acoustic quintet of hand-picked players from the downtown New York scene gives Jensson’s challenging compositions a rhythmic flair and melodic/harmonic interest.

The V16 Project

Cat. No. SGLSA15442
Jerry Granelli – electro-acoustic percussion
David Tronzo – acoustic & electric guitars
Christian Kögel – acoustic & electric guitars
Anthony Cox – bass

The V16 Project was Jerry Granelli’s core group of the 2000s. It featured a two-guitar frontline and diverse approach – jazz improvisation, blues-rock-funk fusion, freeform jamming, sampled soundscapes and more – making it equally at home in jazz and avant-rock contexts.

Alleviation

Cat. No. SGL16232
Mikkel Ploug, Acoustic Guitar

Solo jazz guitar records are not that common, solo acoustic guitar records perhaps even less so outside of the classical and folk/world traditions. But Mikkel Ploug (co-leader and main composer of the avant chamber jazz trio Equilibrium, with three releases on Songlines) is a Jazz Guitarist with interests in Folk, World and Classical Music.

Speak To It (Remastered) – transferred from analog tape

Cat. No. SGL25142
Andrew D’Angelo, alto sax, bass clarinet
Chris Speed, tenor sax, clarinet
Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitar
Jim Black, drums
Holly Palmer, voice (6)

Originally released in 1996, the fourth recording by the then Brooklyn-based collective Human Feel ranges across jazz, improv, and contemporary classical/new music, with a passing nod to the traditions of eastern Europe. As composers, Black, Speed and D’Angelo provide different frameworks for the band’s characteristic, often tensile explorations, heard as well in their atmospheric rendition of the Billie Holiday standard “Left Alone” where they’re joined by vocalist Holly Palmer.