After 15 years, a handful of LPs & CDRs, and even a couple of edition-of-one acetates, Hot Cars Warp Records releases its first proper CD just in time for the format's obsolescence. Timing is everything! This all-acoustic solo outing--no electronics or overdubs--more or less further develops what Chris Corsano started on his 2006 recording, The Young Cricketer: one drum set augmented by various re-purposed metal objects, modified reed instruments and bowed strings stretched across drums. 43 minutes/19 tracks--9 of which are interwoven throughout the record in a very loose retelling of the Calonarang story portrayed in Balinese gamelan music. Hot Cars Warp Records.

Scraps And Shadows is the second album by the dream pairing of Joe McPhee and Chris Corsano. A follow-up to "Under A Double Moon", which featured McPhee’s alto saxophone, Scraps And Shadows finds him largely on tenor. Recorded live in Milwaukee in 2011, the album consists of seven dedicatory pieces, from the delicate balladry of “For Adrienne P” to the appropriately combustible “For Han Bennink.” Corsano’s stupendously detailed drumming and McPhee’s free-soul love cries weave a master latticework together. Cover art by Judith Lindbloom. Download coupon included. Roaratorio.

Oceans of drum kit fire bawling and fluttering string overtones fuse a complex web of ear asterism. Infiltrated by a woozy sax line that soon reduces in duration and increases the overall vehemence, with fragmented reed chewing rasp & roar joining a myriad of coordinates in this dense labyrinth of free magic. On the flip stunningly crafted harmonic percolations of feedback glare and riff particles slam into tantric drum force blast beats by Matt Skitz Sanders, on this unexpected monolith from Oren. Art by Paul Coors. Featuring Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, C Spencer Yeh, Oren Ambarchi, and Matt Skitz Sanders. 7" vinyl on Krayon Recordings. Recommended.

PAL-011 Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt LP. “The Raw and the Cooked”. Gatefold LP compiled from tour recordings documenting the guitar/drum duo of Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano. Twelve tracks recorded August & September of 2012 in Brooklyn, Easthampton, Philadelphia & Baltimore. Palilalia.

Another excellent release from Nate Wooley's Seven Storey Mountain project, this time involving Chris Corsano (Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Six Organs of Admittance et al) and C Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core etc). Important Records. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Another great CDr by Chris Corsano. Released on Corsano's own Hot Cars Warp label, The Young Cricketer features 16 tracks, most of which were recorded in Manchester, England, Feb. 1-9, 2006. Recommended.

With a career now spanning over 40 years and more than 100 recordings, Joe McPhee has shown that emotional content and theoretical underpinnings are thoroughly compatible — and in fact, a critically important pairing — in the world of creative improvised music. Since recording The Hated Music with Paul Flaherty in 2000, Chris Corsano has been hyper-active in far-reaching corners of the free improvised world. Under A Double Moon, recorded live in Paris during a spring 2010 tour of Europe, is their first album together (and, given how phenomenally simpatico a partnership they’ve forged, we hope it’s not the last). With cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom and liner notes by John Szwed. Download coupon included. Roaratorio.