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"Human Sacrifice for Beginners" and "Dexedrine Dreams Redux" are among the highlights taped from this full-moon'd evening of cross-continental jazz collaboration at Cerro Concepción in Valparaíso, Chile. Players include Emer Mulholland on guitar; Zhang Li on upright bass; Alvaro Macaya on Saxophone; Jiang Dan on drums; and Tom Fahy on piano/keys. 

Emer Mulholland, the group's namesake, is a classically-trained musician who runs Bookmakers Studio East in Gaillimh, Galway Ireland.

As for pianist Tom Fahy, well...

'Tom Fahy' (pseudonym: Quinn McCarthy) is an assemblage of musicians headed by multi-instrumentalist, composer, and author Tom Fahy. Core members include Jiang Dan, Rachael Eisley, Zhang Li, Liu Kaige and Emer Mulholland, while other players, including Alvaro Macaya, Thomas Byrne, Vicente Labarca, and Marco Falabella, are drafted for the requirements of particular pieces. (Read the full bio at tomfahy.org)

The incredible universe of Tom Fahy encompasses the independent publisher Orchard Park Press, as well as the record/net-label Stag Records. Active since 1991, Stag Records now shares over seventy-five releases via their website, all under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

This album is a tribute to Aestrid Byrne, whose fantastic Music for Toy Pianos was previously featured by Oddio Overplay in a spotlight on "The Underappreciated Kinderklavier."

Plaistow are a Swiss post-jazz trio named after the Squarepusher song "Plaistow Flex Out," and with a song of their own titled "Steve Reich." Whether imagining new forms of techno, minimalism, post-rock/noise or improvised music, all Plaistow's recordings are realized organically with a drum kit, bass and piano.

The group met through improv and netaudio communities over five years, and now have several netlabel releases in their growing discography. The latest is on Insubordinations, a netlabel for whom Plaistow's drummer Cyril Bondi organizes concerts. Released this past month under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, Lacrimosa consists of two fantastically expansive minimalist tracks, and is also available in a limited edition cdr / digisleeve.

Here's a video of Plaistow performing the title track to Lacrimosa live at Jazzdor in Strasbourg France:

FMA also hosts 2010's Insubordinations/Unit Records release The Crow, (featuring "Full CSS" below) and 2008's 12rec release Do You Feel Lucky (featuring "Steve Reich" below).