Discus Music

10/07/2025

The Modfather knows where it's at....

Das Rad - Buzzsaw 7" vinyl limited edition out now....
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/buzzsaw-500v-2025

08/06/2025

New DL release from Inclusion Principle!

This the third in a series of EPs Inclusion Principle is publishing to celebrate their 20th anniversary.

The duo showcase their trademark combination of electronics, field recordings and woodwinds while exploring new sounds. With every
recording, a different process and different instrumentation makes a unique combination. And yet each one is a very recognisable
Inclusion Principle production.

With quantised entanglement the new collection of tracks is firmly beats driven, linked by a couple of more atmospheric interludes. The duo uses their full range of software, hardware and acoustic instruments to weave their textures and melodies together.

martin archer: organ, modular synth, drum programming, bass synth, ipad, baritone, tenor and alto saxophones, harmonica, recorders
hervé perez: field recordings, processing, electronics, beats, shakuhachi, alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet

5 track album

23/05/2025

New Discus Music release from Uroboro!

This release from composer / saxophonist / poet Keith Jafrate, together with a top flight band of Discus Music regulars, is a powerful and beautiful spiritual work. Never rushing, and always deeply involving, this music creates a peaceful yet mindful vibe in the midst of troubled times.

faith brackenbury - vocals & violin
laura cole - piano
anton hunter - guitar & electronics
johnny hunter - drums
keith jafrate - vocals & saxophones
john pope - bass
sylvie rose - vocals & flute

9 track album

23/05/2025

New Discus Music release from Small Blue!

Small Blue is a piano trio in the classic modern jazz tradition, featuring strong material which includes straight ahead swinging tunes and beautiful ballads - but always with a twist from the compositional mind of drummer Martin Pyne.

David Beebee - piano
Marianne Windham - bass
Martin Pyne - drums

12 track album

23/05/2025

New Discus Music release from Larry Stabbins and Mark Sanders!

11 beautifully recorded explorations from two improvising masters.

Larry Stabbins - alto saxophone, concert and alto flutes, bass clarinet
Mark Sanders - percussion

11 track album

23/05/2025

New Discus Music release from Das Rad!
When Das Rad toured across the north of England in September 2024, our take on the old psych garage classic Buzzsaw by The Turtles proved to be a popular live number - so much so that we decided that while it might not fit on an album, it would make a great vinyl single. So here it is!

3 track album

14/05/2025

A short clip from the Das Rad gig at the Sidney & Matilda from their tour24. The band have a date at Sheffield Greystones on May 26 to launch their new single (vinyl!) "Buzzsaw".

https://dasrad.uk/media/

https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/buzzsaw-500v-2025

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/.../2025.../20:00/t-zzrljoz

30/04/2025

Hi Everyone - Hugo from Discus Music here again with the news that Bandcamp Friday is upcoming once more – 2nd May is the next one!

Martin tells me there are a lot of new releases, and just in time for Bandcamp Friday there are a lot of new special offers and price reductions.

New releases from Das Rad (7” single) / Stephen Grew / Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders / Billy Marrows / Adam Fairhall & Johnny Hunter / Eclectic Maybe Band / Inclusion Principle / Walt Shaw & Jim Tetlow. All at the top of the page at https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/ .

All the new special offers and price reductions are on that guy Martin Archer's personal back catalogue.

If you to go the “artists a-z” page on Bandcamp - https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/merch - you’ll see releases now in artist name order so you can browse easily like the racks in a record store. You’ll see there the several new “2 for £20” CD bundles, together with a number of older items reduced to £9/£7 for CD/DL.

And Martin has made five further “giveaway” reductions to £4.50/£3 – Hornweb (26CD) / Artefects (with Neil Carver) (24CD) / 88 Enemies (solo digital piano) (10CD) / Masayo Asahara (19CD) / ASK Acoustic Quartet (27CD).

Do take a look please – making all this stuff is meaningless without folks like yourselves buying it, apparently. Please dive in and take a bite.

29/04/2025

"There have been a few album length reappraisals of the work of the late Mary Lou Williams in recent years, but this terrific set from the Manchester UK-based pairing of pianist Adam Fairhall and drummer Johnny Hunter manages to be both one of the most traditional and the most adventurous..... Fairhall enhances the period feel by his use of upright piano, while Hunter's restricts himself solely to snare drum. However that decision in no way limiting his expressiveness, as can be heard from his tappy, scratchy improv textures on an otherwise stealthy interpretation of "Nicole". The joyous renditions of Williams' material are clearly full of affection, even as the pair deconstruct, fragment and even totally abandon them. Ultimately, the merry confluence of jaunty swinging grooves and spirited digressions into the weeds enriches both." - John Sharpe, NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD

10 track album

25/04/2025

I'm just trying a little experiment with three 2022 Discus Music releases which never sold as many copies as I hoped. The price is reduced to £4.50 CD / £3.00 DL. If this offer goes well, I might widen it to include some other low selling back catalogue items. Obviously I'm hoping that at this special price you might be tempted by all three.

138CD Wasp Honey - Martin Archer / John Jasnoch / Sarah Farmer / Lee Boyd Allotson
“Martin Archer corrals some top-notch names on the new jazz circuit to birth this quietly unassuming and arresting release….. Each musician brings a colorful tincture of fundamental prowess to the gathering….. There’s worse ways to go than getting stung by the sweet nectar of this lot.”

136CD Jak Tar - Paul Hession – drums, cymbals and gongs / Michael Bardon – double bass / Christophe de Bézenac – tenor saxophone
"These three voices work well together, using similar textures and timbres and making their sound as one ecstatic sound which breathes in and out as one spirit/force.”

122CD Provenance - Martin Archer / John Jasnoch
"Holds the ear’s interest thanks to contours sharp enough to cut glass.”

Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation. EU customers! Your purchase will be shipped to you from within the EU. No unexpected import charges!

25/04/2025

Fire is Stephen Grew's latest solo piano release on Discus Music.

"The ideas come fast, swelling and retreating and falling away with little regard for structural limitations, although one can simply kick back with headphones on and it all tends to make sense as it progresses along its guided path, Grew’s mastery of this instrument is holding everything together, where his notes coalesce and commingle like perfect colours and scatter like stars in the night sky." - Peter Thelen, Exposé

4 track album

24/04/2025

A four star review in Jazzwise for this new Discus Music release from Billy Marrows.

Captured live at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, this is an expanded version of Marrows’ original release, Penelope. Written initially to support and celebrate Marrows’ mum in her fight against pancreatic cancer, it’s no surprise this version is imbued with a poignancy, given Penelope herself passed before the studio album’s release in early 2024. But this is no mournful performance. Now with an added, brassy (but not brazen) overture, and the original guitar solos now orchestrated, the music is all the richer in composition and more embedded with essentially the same group of musicians. It’s Marrows’ skill as writer and arranger to move between lustrous big band orchestrations to intimate duo and trio episodes with ease. ‘Transition to the Garden’, for example, begins with a rainforest array of cymbals and subtle woodwinds before growing into ‘The Garden’ with Marrows' arpeggiated guitar against glowing fretless bass and spacious piano until the brass arrives subtle and sighing. Those urgent brass swells are resonant of Gil Evans, but Marrows can pull it back to silence at will. His command of dynamics is impressive. The chamber intimacy of ‘February’ with its cello is gate-crashed by the appropriately monickered ‘Be Right Bold’ with its ‘in your face’ trombone. A celebration of life, with a portion of sales going to the World Child Cancer charity. Four stars. - Andy Robson

16 track album