News

Friday, December 2nd around 9PM CST, we'll be offline.  Shouldn't be too long!  Thank you for your understanding, we've got some maintenance to do.

Scheduled Service Outage

PayPal APIs will be offline from 11:00 PM PT to approximately 11:30 PM PT on August 18th, which will cause error messages for anyone attempting to purchase during that time. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

We're finishing a few updates to the site in the next few weeks, and won't be releasing any new items until those are complete. We hope you understand! The store will close for several hours over the weekend. Thank you!

Catalytic-Sound

venue :: city :: country
artist

2 July 2011

Ljubljana Jazz Festival :: Ljubljana :: Slovenia
Eric Revis' 11:11 :: Ken Vandermark / Jason Moran / Nasheet Waits

Vancouver Jazz Festival :: Vancouver BC :: Canada
Broo / Nilssen-Love duo
The Thing

3 July 2011

Vancouver Jazz Festival :: Vancouver BC :: Canada
Atomic

6-9 July 2011

Kongsberg Jazzfestival :: Kongsberg :: Norway
Brötzmann / Solo
Duo with Evan Parker
Trio with Massimo Pupillo & Paal Nilssen-Love

7 July 2011

Mayhem :: Copenhagen :: Denmark
Mats Gustafsson Solo

8 July 2011

The Stone :: New York :: USA
Sean Conly / Steve Swell / Chad Taylor / Ken Vandermark Quartet.

Kongsberg Jazzfestival :: Kongsberg :: Norway
ZU / Mats Gustafsson

9 July 2011

The Stone :: New York :: NY :: USA
Chad Taylor / Ken Vandermark Duo.

Kongsberg Jazzfestival :: Kongsberg :: Norway
Brötzman / Pupillo / Nilssen-Love TRIO
Paal Nilssen-Love SOLO
Barry Guy New Orchestra

10 July 2011

Jazz a Luz :: Luz-Saint-Sauveur :: France
ZU / Mats Gustafsson

16 July 2011

Co-Prosperity Sphere :: Chicago :: USA
Terrie Hessels / Ken Vandermark duo / opening of the "Addis Show"
paintings by Adrienne Pierluissi, photographs by Ken Vandermark
images and impressions of Addis : Ethiopia

17 July 2011

The Sugar Maple :: Milwaukee :: WI :: USA
Terrie Hessels / Ken Vandermark duo

18 July 2011

Molde Jazz festival : Molde : Norway
Stian Westerhus & Trondheim Jazzorkester

21 July 2011

Molde Jazz festival : Molde : Norway
Broo / Sorey / Nilssen-Love

23 July 2011

Downtown Arts Center :: Lexington :: KY :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

24 July 2011

Bobo Gallery :: Asheville :: NC :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

26 July 2011

The Blue Nile (balcony room) :: New Orleans :: LA :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

27 July 2011

New Forest Center :: Birmingham :: AL :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

28 July 2011

Alabama Art Kitchen :: Tuscaloosa :: AL :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

29 July 2011

Cine Theatre :: Athens :: GA :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

30 July 2011

Jazz on the Beach :: Raahe :: Finland
FIRE!

Conundrum :: Columbia :: SC :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

31 July 2011

Park Avenue CDs :: Orlando :: FL :: USA
Tim Daisy / Ken Vandermark Duo

catalytic-sound.com has been devised by Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Ken Vandermark to be a musician run cooperative that will give fans a single source to locate our work, especially unique or out of print albums, and special items (such as prints of Brötzmann's prints, catalogs, t-shirts, etc.) that are unavailable anywhere else.

While on tour we're frequently asked for certain recordings that are hard to find (independent labels with limited distribution, coupled with a diminishing number of record stores, has made it more and more difficult for listeners to locate documents of our music). Since it's essentially impossible for us to tour with the wide array of material that we're producing, catalytic-sound has been created to give people interested in our music direct access to it. The labels we work with are cooperating to make this musician organized program feasible- we buy albums directly from them or their distributors so that everyone gets paid correctly and we can make our prices as fair as possible for the customers.

Each week new recordings will be added to the site, we're in the process of working with Eremite and Jost Gebers of FMP to add these labels to the roster, and soon digital downloads will be available for all albums we're offering at catalytic-sound. Stay tuned, things are developing quickly, and it's exciting for all of us to find new ways to make our music more accessible to the fans of contemporary Jazz and Improvised Music. Many thanks for the incredible assistance of Mandy and Cale, who have made the whole idea of the project a reality.