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Smalltown Supersound AFJ

‘Smalltown Superjazzz was a free-jazz subsidiary label of Smalltown Supersound from 2005-2012. Dormant then till 2019, it is now reborn as the AFJ-Series, named after a recording by Don Cherry & Krystzof Penderecki’s The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra.
‘AFJ-Series is proud to release this compilation of music from forty releases, spanning almost twenty years of Smalltown Supersound, Superjazzz and AFJ. The idea is to bring the Superjazzz era into the AFJ-Series, but also to leave it behind — and start fresh. A requiem and rebirth combined, inspired by the 1964 ESP Disk sampler (also by its hard editing).
‘Lasse Marhaug spent months ploughing through the entire catalogue. Whilst the main goal was to survey Smalltown’s wide range of releases in the improvised/jazz/free music field, his choices and juxtapositions almost play as a new piece of music.
‘So here it is — forty tracks of total freedom. The universality of improvised music, as Derek Bailey called it.’

• Thurston Moore & Mats Gustafsson - Hit The Wall
• Evan Parker & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - The Brewery Tap
• The Thing - Bag it!
• The Thing with Ken Vandermark - Immediate Sound
• Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Letter to a Stranger
• Two Bands and a Legend
• Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love - Sweet Sweat
• Christian Marclay & Mats Gustafsson - Link
• Free Fall - The Point in a Line
• Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love - Lift Every Voice and Sing
• The Thing & Cato Salsa Experience - Sounds Like A Sandwich
• Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love - Woodcuts
• Offonoff - Slap and Tickle
• Lean Left - Vol 2
• Kieran Hebden, Steve Reid, Mats Gustafsson - Live at the South Bank
• Two Bands and a Legend
• Diskaholics Anonymous Trio
• Yoshimi & Mats Gustafsson - Words On The Floor
• Free Fall - Amsterdam Funk
• Mats Gustafsson & Paal Nilssen-Love - I Love It When you Snore
• The Thing - Action Jazz
• Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love - The Fat Is Gone
• The Thing with Otomo Yoshihide - Live in Tokyo
• Original Silence - The First Original Silence
• Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Chicago Volume
• Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Milwaukee Volume
• The Thing - Mono
• Free Fall - Gray Scale
• Diskaholics Anonymous Trio - Weapons of Ass Destruction
• Mats Gustafsson, Sonic Youth with friends - Hidros 3
• The Thing - Garage
• The Thing - Live at Blå
• Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - 3 Nights in Oslo
• The Thing - Now and Forever
• The Thing with Jim O'Rourke - Shinjuku Growl
• Paal Nilssen-Love & Håkon Kornstad - Schlinger
• Original Silence - The Second Original Silence
• Aotearoa Snuff Jazz Sextet - Live at the Christchurch Town Hall
• Joe McPhee & Lasse Marhaug - Harmonia Macrocosmica
• EYE & Mats Gustafsson - And Now…