Tantris, man:

Quote from: Tantris on 19:09:55, 09-03-2007

Where can I hear this kind of music in performance?

Depends where you live, man >>> AND: it's worth taking intae consideration that yon fabulous run of 'Company' records document a kinda 'Golden Age' of UK/international free improv... http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/

I mean it's a rare thing in the blighted UK these days to get a crew like that together, but IF & WHEN it does happen, it's more likely to be in the back room of a workingmens club like THE RED ROSE in London's unfashionable Finsbury Park than in any, more, kinda, er... branded venue.

Er.. yep. There is an UNDERGROUND of free improvisation which is VERY active in many cities & towns, small local scenes.
The Sheffield site above used to keep a sort of updated monthly "what's on" for various UK/European clubs/towns/artists, but that, along with the poor old fledgling New-LMC site seems to have lapsed in that area...

It is hep.

Lucky for the music it is resistant to commercial marketing, unlucky for the hapless enthusiast out in the sticks. And the goddam BBC are failing in their coverage. Jeez, back when King Kennytone was a lad, (out in the goddam middle of nowhere, hunched over buzzing valve radio..), there'd be some free improvised music on Radio £3 most weeks ... cats like Charles Fox & Derek Jewell would slip summat in there, in their tiny little 45min shows...

Today's TAPAS-LOVING MEDIA JOHNNIES HOWEVER, those muthas can't even hear this stuff.

KEEP IT SMALL:
NO STARS
JUST FREE MUSIC, INNIT

Wasn't there a recent discussion on one of the Radio 3 related boards about composers not being able to 'cross over' form 'classical' to 'jazz' and vice versa? Try telling that to Barry Guy, eh? To add to your ancient ISKRA 1903 CD, how about the October 5th 1992 recordings on Maya MCD9502, or Evan Parker and Barry Guy's "Obliquities" on Maya MCD9501? (If you can find them, that is)

That would do nicely, Richard. Now nobody has an excuse for not getting them.