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The first show of 2018. As we enter the 4th year of Towards The Margins we finish off our Top 10 of 2017 with albums from 5 to 1. The full 10 listed here:

1. Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)
2. Archipelago – Weightless (Self Released)
3. Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi)
4. Charlie Ulyatt – Shifting (Self Released)
5. Brazen Head – Verdigris (Self Released)
6. Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries – Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk)
7. Shepherds of Cats & David McLean – Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions)
8. Evan Parker, John Russell, Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor – Reunion at Cafe Oto (FMR)
9. Led Bib – Umbrella Weather (Rare Noise)
10. Ma [...]

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Last show of the year and to go out in style we present the first half of our choices for the Top 10 releases of 2017.

Join us in 2018 for numbers 5 through to number 1

Top 10 releases 0f 2017 as played on Towards The Margins – Part 1 (numbers 6 – 10)

6. Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries – Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk)
7. Shepherds of Cats & David McLean – Shepherds of Cats & David McLean (Tombed Visions)
8. Evan Parker, John Russell, Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos, Trevor Taylor – Reunion at Cafe Oto (FMR)
9. Led Bib – Umbrella Weather (Rare Noise)
10. Martin Pyne – Behind The Mist (Self Released)

Tracklisting:

1. Martin Pyne – Yarthkin – Behind The Mist (Self Released) – Buy< [...]

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A pre-recorded show that went out live after Shaun read the instructions on how this works… But by the by, some great music on tonight’s show including a Triangle trio of tremendous tracks from Thirsty Leaves.

Tracklisting:

1. Biliana Voutchkova, Michael Thieke, Roy Carroll - As Found (edit) - As Found (Sound Anatomy) - Buy
2. Coffin Screws + - ‘”’ (edit) - June 10th, 2017 (Self Released) - Buy
3. People in Motion + Fred Frith - Piece # 2 (edit) - The Clit Stop (Object-A) - Buy
4. Sam Andreae, David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham - Bridge as an Object - The Difficult Second Album (Tombed Visions) -

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After an afternoon and early evening stage managing a Christmas Lights switch on it’s lovely to know you have some amazing free jazz and improvised music to play on the show. Triangle takes in one of the giants with 3 tracks from Impulse! a label responsible for some of the milestone albums in jazz history. Also featured are some stunning new releases from around and about.

Tracklisting:

1. Charlie Ulyatt - We Had The Sea - Shifting (Self Released) - Buy
2. La Corporación - Directorio de Sacrificantes - Rerum Novarum (Pan Y Rosas Discos) - Download
3. Lapslap - Geltscher - Zuppa Inglese (Leo) - Buy
4. Hank Tilbury - Lazy Rain - Watching the Di [...]

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An excellent show full of highlights this evening - Two tracks from each of the Ripsaw Catfish members large ensemble work that are both just about to be released and a UK tour with both ensembles about to happen. We have Anton Hunter’s Article XI and Cath Roberts’ Favourite Animals, both which are sounding like good last minute bets for the years best of lists.

The rest of the show is the packed with the usual high-quality mix of new releases and older tracks from the archive. So hit the sofa and float downstream with Towards The Margins.

1. Anton Hunter – I Dreamed I Spat Out A Bee – Article XI (Efpi) – Website
2. Cath Roberts – Confirm or Deny (edit) – Favourite Animals (Luminous) – Website
3. Goat’s Notes – Forever Bar and Grill – Cosmic Circus (Leo) –  [...]

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Self-referential triangulation tonight with the featured label being our good selves at ODD7. After a 2 year break, we are back with a new release and plans for more. The new look version is going to be digital only and will release artists that we have ties with either with gigs or because we have played them quite a bit on the show. So you know it’s going to be fine, fine sounds. All profits from the sales will go towards ODD7 and help us to put on events and such like.

The rest of the show is equally classy so tune in, turn up and flip out…

Tracklisting:

1. Charlie Ulyatt – Erasing Angels – Shifting (Self Released) – Buy
2. Hartmut Geerken & Art Ensemble Of Chicago – No Point (edit) – Zero Sun No Point, Dedication To Mynona & Sun Ra (Leo) –

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A pre-recorded show this week, but a corker none the less. Triangle feature is on Cronica - field recording/music concrete label and very fine sounds, plus the usual mix of new and old releases from the world of improvisation and beyond…

Tracklisting:

1. Al Sand & André de Castro - Algo Está Acontecendo - Improvável (Al Sand) - Buy
2. Lawrence Casserley, DJ Illvibe, Jeffrey Morgan, Harri Sjöström - Gutaonkla (edit) - Live At Club Der Polnischen Versager, Berlin 2016 (Unisono) - Buy
3. Graham Dunning & Dirk Serries - Live at De Singer (edit) - Live In The Lowlands (Raw Tonk) - Buy
4. Ric [...]

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Quickly put together show after a weekend of Dalton LitFest. But what a stunning show it was. Some great new releases and many class items from the vaults.

Tracklisting:

1. Moody Alien – Calliope – Harm’s Bright Smile / Civilization / In The Forest (Thirsty Leaves) – Buy
2. James O’Sullivan – First and Last Breath – IL Y A (Linear Obsessional) – Buy
3. Dom Minasi – The Transformation (edit) – The Vampire’s Revenge (CDM) – Buy
4. George Haslam & Mario Rua – Fleetwood (edit) – Maresia (Slam) –

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After a week off to work at Tusk Festival, we’re back playing music that lives Towards The Margins - the new releases have built up, some great older releases new to us here and a couple of old favourites - a pure smorgasbord of improvised wonder.

Tracklisting:

1. Gift Aid Stickers - We Both Would - Money Chops (Knunk) - Buy
2. In Quattro - The Tiny Leap (edit) - In Quattro (Floating Forest) - Buy
3. Colin Webster & Andrew Cheetham - Eller (edit) - A River Carving Ever Through The Land (Raw Tonk) - Buy
4. André de Castro & Wayne Rex - A Day Full of Burnt Matches (edit) - Matches in Darkness (Al Sand) -

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A show of mighty fine music and a very tired presenter. Been a very long week here, finished with a full on weekend of Fun Palaces. Tonight’s triangle feature is Iklecktik, a glorious venue in London with the rest of the show taken up with some great new releases and a couple of older tracks.

Tracklisting:

1. Tyshawn Sorey – Contemplating Tranquility (edit) – Verisimilitude (Pi) – Buy
2. Lawrence Casserley & Jeffrey Morgan – Martian Arts – Room 2 Room (Konnex) – Buy
3. Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle – Live at De Singer (edit) (Raw Tonk) – Buy
4. Sawa – Chai Chai Alay – Sawa (Two [...]

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It is easy to big up what you do, to say the tracks you’ve chosen are the best, but really, really, we have some stunning new releases on tonight’s show. There are 4 or 5 albums that will be vying for a place in the Top Ten albums of 2017 we played tonight. The older stuff is not too shabby either!! So turn the lights down low and listen to #130…

Tracklisting:

1. Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble – Hasselt 3 – Hasselt (Psi) – Buy
2. Gusev KP, Martin Hoogeboom, Paul Mimlitsch – III – Trapped! (Thirsty Leaves) – Buy
3. Irreversible Entanglements – Enough – Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem) – Buy
4. Lone Arrivals[...]

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A set of classics tonight from some of the giants of freely improvised music. If you are new to this form of music then you won’t go far wrong starting here… All killer, no filler.

Tracklisting:

1. Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe, Seymour Wright - at29 (edit) - Küchen, Rowe, Wright (Another Timbre) - Buy
2. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Familie (edit) - Oliv & Familie (Emanem) - Buy
3. Yoko Miura & Teppo Hauta-aho - Nostalgia (edit) - Nostalgia (ODD7) - Buy
4. Philipp Wachsmann & Lawrence Casserley - Purple Plumed Plover - Garuda (Bead) - Buy
5. Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips - Variation 6 - Sankt Gerold [...]

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A good bit of drifty, droning goodness on the show tonight with a great Triangle feature of vintage jazz and experimental electronics re-issued on Trunk Records as part of their 50p Fridays download series.

Tracklisting:

1. Attilio Mineo – The Queen City – Man in Space with Sounds (World’s Fair Records) – Buy
2. Deep Tide Quartet – The Imploder – See One, Do One, Teach One (Discus) – Buy
3. Bryan Kolaczkowski – Layerling (edit) – The Figurative is the Literal; A Guide for the Future, Which is the Past  (Self Released) – Buy
4. Isnaj Dui [...]

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In a tiny corner of Cumbria every Sunday the Towards The Margins radio show slips out onto the air, playing an hour of the finest improvised music. This weeks show features world exclusive plays of forthcoming albums coming out soon from labels in Yorkshire and New York, a bunch of other new releases and finished off with a triangle of tracks from Portugal.

Towards The Margins. Punching well above its weight!

Tracklisting:

1. Daniel Carter, Watson Jennison, William Parker, Federico Ughi – You Think So – Vol. 3 Rochester Live! (577) – Buy :: (Forward Festival Kickstarter)
2. EUH! – Michael Ball Stole My Moped (The Ballad of Montpellier) (e [...]

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Another great show with a subtle field recordings theme weaving through. Amongst the mighty fine music, tonight sees the return of Triangle – the feature where we close the show with 3 tracks from a featured label. Tonight it was the turn of the lovely named shhpuma.

Tracklisting:

1. Giovanni Lami – 10-00 (edit) – Hysteresis II (Czaszka) – Buy
2. Out of The Blue – Vöglein – Sommerwellen, Out of The Blue live at Donaufestwochen Strudengau (Nachtstück) – Buy
3. Evan Parker & Seymour Wright – Stone III – Tie the Stone to the Wheel (Fataka) – Buy
4. Crank Sturgeon [...]

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An austerity special tonight. The entire playlist was put together for £8, mainly that high because I couldn’t resist adding to my Evan Parker collection so blew £7 on a CD.

Most of the tracks presented tonight are farmed from Bandcamp and the netlabel scene and I for one dare you to see any slipping of standards! An hour of prime pay what you want improv for your ears.

Tracklist:

1. WeaklingChild – Desecrate This Church (Self Released) – Buy
2. Natalia Kamia & Haruhiko Okabe – Mastcutters’ Hymn to the Solar Bird – Mastcutters (Pan Y Rosas Discos) – Download
3. Tim Hill, Michael Fairfax, Dave Young – Swimming with Leviathans – Leviathan Whispers (Self Released) –

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All newish releases on tonight’s show – this year really is fizzing with amazing releases from all over the globe. So strap in for an hour of exploratory, improvised music.

Tracklisting:

1. Bryan Kolaczkowski – Why Be Spectre (edit) – Expansion and Contradiction (Self Released) – Buy
2. You and Me – Ghostyard – Beast Diaries (Self Released) – Buy
3. Bad Body featuring Circuit Breaker – Tears Before Bedtime – Live Life (Tombed Visions) – Buy
4. Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Wolfgang Seidel, Volker Lankow – Kreuzberg Polyphony Sessions, Episode 4, Part 1 – Kreuzberg Polyphony Session, Ep. 4 (Iapetus) – < [...]

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A cracking show tonight. Some great new releases and some absolute classics from the vaults. No amusing stories to recount or interesting facts to give you. We have racked up the episodes to #123 which is nice though.

Tracklisting:

1. Art Pepper - Straight Life - Meets The Rhythm Section (Contemporary) - Buy
2. Brazen Head - Kraken Song (edit) - Verdigris (Self Released) - Buy
3. John Dikeman, Dirk Serries, René Aquarius - Day Realms (edit) - Day Realms (Tombed Visions) - Buy
4. Leap of Faith Orchestra - Supernovae (edit) - Supernovae (Evil Clown) - Buy
5. Carolina Rizzi [...]

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All the usual type of quality items for your aural pleasure – lots of new releases, some exclusives, some absolute classics. An hour of joyful noise.

Tracklisting:

1. Sam Andrea, David Birchall, Andrew Cheetham – Bridge as Object – The Difficult Second Album (Tombed Visions) – Buy
2. Quartet & Quintet – Quartet live at Vortex Jazz Club February 8th 2017 (edit) – Double Vortex (A New Wave of Jazz) – Buy
3. Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Part 2 (edit) – Karyobin (Island) – Buy
4. Andrew Voigt & Ed Herrmann – Solar Parity (edit) – Voyage (Garuda) – We [...]

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A smoothly run show with a big pile of new releases and some sneak peaks of things coming out later in the year – marvellous stuff from some amazing artists and labels.

Tracklisting:

1. Ahmed Abdul-Malik – Nadusilma – Various Artists: Spiritual Jazz 7, Islam (Jazzman) – Buy
2. Chicago Underground Duo – Left Hand Of Darkness – Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey) – Buy
3. Mark Hanslip – Church Side 1 (edit) – Church (Tombed Visions) – Buy
4. Leap of Faith Orchestra – Possible Universes (edit) – Possible Universes (Self Released) – Buy
5. < [...]