Hungarian based label BMC specializes in intuitive and creatively loose material. Here are six of their recent releases. Hang on tight!
Christian Weidner/as, Jozef Dumouilin/p-key, Ronny Graupe/tstrg and Dejan Terzic/drpperc get together for 8 songs mostly composed by the drummer. There is 
a repetitive pulse to the post bopping “Trainride” and Weidner’s alto is soft on the dreamy “New Coalescence”. There’s a mix of urgency and looseness on the slow to fast to slow “Schnell” and the free “B-Longing and Beyond” while “Graupe gets funky on the busy “Gravity”. Lots of side bars.
Fabrice Martinez plays trumpet and flugelhorn, Laurent Bardainne is on tenor sax and analogue synth with Thomas de Pourquery lending voice and alto sax on 9 intuitive originals. There’s a feel akin to the early 70s synth albums by Tomita with Captain Beefheart on the eerie “The Sign Part 1” while the sax players fidget with their mouthpieces on “The Sign Part 3”. The 
saxes scramble on “Night of the Stranger” and Martinez squawks out animal sounds on the free “Antique Angels”. Music or sounds?
All three members of the Yves Robert Trio dabble with electronics or software on these 19 concise pieces here. Meanwhile, Robert/tb, Bruno Chevillon/eb and Cyril Atef/dr/voc create a mix of acid rock (“Inoxidental” “Herpes” ), duck quacks (“A Genous Les Piuces”), funkhy soul (“Embrasser Mon Tuyau” and even a dash of Weather Report (“Pour Tout AuPlus Rien Au Mond” “Your Skin”) on this mix of plugged in and throwing sounds against the wall to see what sticks.
Sebastian Brun plays drums and electronics, Vincent Courtous is on the cello and Robin Fincker blows into the tenor sax, mixing inspiration fro Puccini’s opera Tosca. Fincker’s tenor trudges with Brun through “Waiting For Sadness” and weaves around the dirge of “San Andrea”. There’s a static feel to Coda” and “Les Demons de Tosca Part II’ with some rich cello pizzicato’d musings for “Des Maux De Tous Les Jours” and angelic electronics for “Les Demons de Tosca Part I”. Beware, this is a place for tears.
Miklos Lukacs plays the harpsichord-like cimbalom, Gyorgy ORban is on bass and Istvan Balo hits the drums onthis two part opus of 8 pieces. Hints of an Orson Welles move are delivered on the eerie “Refraxcted Silence In A Heartbeat’ and the scary “Metamorphosis”. Things get intense and dark with Balo’s feature “Memento” and chaotically frenetic on the free form “Realistic Visions” and the caustic head on collision of “The Long Life of Ephemera”. A head on collision?
Except for a spoken lecture on rhythms on “Fair Ground”, this 15 song collection by acoustic guitarist Csaba Palotai and “prepared” acoustic guitarist/percussionist Steve Arguelles could make for a gorgeous tapestry of strings. The two gents mix their compositions with that of Bela Bartok, making for a mix of Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. There’s an Andalusian joy on the folksy “Phosphere” and a Middle Eastern lilt on “ A Melody Tonic”. There’s even a mix of hip hop and Indian Bollywood on “Parallel Motion” and “Hommage”, with a gong bringing in the mood to “Oriental”. The strings tap and dance on the pretty “Tin Tents” and get funkyh on “Bulgarian Rhythm 1” and the pretty “Bulgarian Rhythm 2”. A true joy.
Sylvain Rifflet plays tenor sax, Jon Irabagon blows into the sopranino and mezzo-soprano saxes, Sebastien Boisseau holds things down on the bass and the pulse is driven by drummer Jim Black on this 7 song collection of mostly originals. The songs include tapes and lectures of various social/racial issues, with Paul Robeson included with Black’s flailing drums on “Paul Robeson”, with a gruff Greta Thunberg lecturing on “climate justice” in the kinetic and bohemian “Greta T.” Andre Malraux speaks on the artsy “Jean Moulin” with “Adults In The Room” includes a speech by Emma Gonzales about gun violence. Visionary, or do you want some cheese to go along with all of these whines?