1.DAVE DOUGLAS' CHARMS OF THE NIGHT SKY-A Thousand Evenings (BMG 63698) Featuring Mark Feldman, Guy Klucevsek & Greg Cohen! The much anticipated return of Dave's most luscious & beautiful project. Currently on tour in England. $14.

2.JIM BLACK-Alasnoaxis (Winter & Winter 061) Featuring Chris Speed, Skuli Sverrisson & Hilmar Jenssen on guitar. This is drummer & percussionist extraordinare (for Pachora and Bloodcount) Jim Black's diverse & great debut as a leader!! $14.

3.CHRIS SPEED-Emit (Songlines 1532) Featuring Cuong Vu, Skuli Sverrisson and Jim Black! Fourth fine release from the in-demand tenor sax and clarinet hero from Bloodcount, Pachora, Myra Melford's Same River Twice & Dave Douglas' Sanctuary! $15.

4.ANTHONY BRAXTON & BRANDON EVANS-Composition 249 (Paralactic 21) Incredible hour-long piece for two sax specialists which is rather restrained yet completely engaging! $14.

5. JOHN LINDBERG ENSEMBLE-A Tree Frog Tonality (Between the Lines) Featuring Leo Smith, Larry Ochs & Andrew Cyrille! Outstanding bassist & composer returns with an incredible new offering! $15.

6. BILL LASWELL- Asana 2: Moving Meditation (Meta 010) Compilation featuring Bill, Zakir Hussain, Nils Petter Molvaer, Material, Pressure Drop, Asiatronic, Divination, Mike D. (Beastie Boys) and Sharon Gannon. $12

7.ALEX BLAKE/PHAROAH SANDERS QUINTET-Now is the Time (Bubblecore 030) Featuring John Hicks on piano, Victor Jones on drums, Neil Clark on percussion and Pharoah wailing like a man possessed on tenor sax!! Alex is a fantastic contrabassist who strums, plucks and does amazing things to his double bass! Superb! $14.

8.KEITH TIPPETT- Linuckea (FMR CD70) SERIOUS effort with a string quartet!!! $17

9.HUGH HOPPER/LISA KLOSSNER- Cryptids (Blueprint 337) Featuring Elton Dean, Gary Smith [from Mass & Powerfield!] and Pip Pyle. Second fab release from Softs' fuzz-bass god with a magical new vocalist! $14.

10. JON ROSE-The Hyperstring Project (ReR JR6) Brilliant and bizarre violin weirdness drawing on infinite samples from a deep sonic well! Jon is curating two weeks of string players at Tonic this month and this cd release gig will be at Roulette on Oct. 21st! $14.

11.JON ROSE & THE EXILES-One (Megaphone no #) The Exiles are Jon Rose on various violins & samples, Joe Williamson on basses and Tony Buck on drums (Peril and both are from Kletka Red). Very intense improv insanity with throttling post-punk rhythm team! $14.

12.[DAVE SOLDIER'S] THE KROPTKINS-Five Points Crawl (Mulatta 003) With Lorette Velvette on sexy vocals, Dave Soldier & Charles Burham on violins, Dog on guitar, Moe Tucker & Jonathan Kane on drums. Another swell pop confection from Dave Soldier's rock band. A hit on WFMU, but no distribution as of yet!?! $14.

13.JONATHAN HARVEY-Tombeau De Messiaen (Saragasso 28029) Stunning electronic music with real-time orchestral forces realized at IRCAM by this astounding British composer. $14.

14.JONATHAN BEPLER-Cremaster II (self produced) Scary soundtrack featuring Zorn's drummer of choice - Dave Lombardo (from Slayer, Zorn-Frith-Laswell & Xu Feng) with the buzzing of bees getting underneath our skins. Minimal distribution. $17.

15.GUILLERMO GREGORIO-Otra Musica (Atavistic 209) Tape music, fluxus, and free improv from '63-'70 in Buenos Aires from this Argentinean clarinetist & alto saxist who went on to record various cds for Hat Art/Hatology. Important archival gems unearthed! $13.

16.SOFT MACHINE-Live at the Paradiso 1969 (Blueprint 193) Cosmic Canterbury treasure from Softs' 'Volume Two' era classic live set with Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt! $14.

17.ART BEARS-Winter Songs/The World as it is Today (ReR ABCD01) 2nd & 3rd lps from brilliant/disturbing/amazing Henry Cow offshoot band featuring Dagmar, Fred Frith and Chris Cutler!! It doesn't get much better than this! $14.

18.DON CHERRY-The Sonet Recordings (Verve 533049) Essential reissue of two classic Swedish-only lps from the late, great world music explorer & pocket trumpet avant-jazz hero himself!! Two cd set for $22.

19.DON CHERRY & KRYSTOF PENDERECKI- Actions (no label) Featuring The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra including Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Brotzmann, Willem Breuker, Gunter Hampel, Terje Rypdal and Han Bennink!!! $13.

20.JOHN LINDBERG ENSEMBLE-The Cat Bird Sings (Soul Note 120198) Featuring Leo Smith, Larry Ochs [Rova] and Andrew Cyrille. First time on cd for this classic! $14.

21.PETE FINE-One Day of a Chrystalline Thought (Shadoks 003) Psychedelic concerto and early70's guitar concept record with beautiful vocals. A true rarity as only 100 copies were made on lp originally. Now on cd for $14.

22.FATE-Sgt. Death (Shadoks 017) Astounding Doors-like pure psych with fuzz-tone guitar, heavy organ and songs about the Vietnam war from 1968! $14.

HENRY THREADGILL- Too Much Sugar For A Dime
TALIP OZKAN- The Dark Fire
MANDINGO- New World power
HAKIM BEY- T. A. Z.
MANDINKA & FULANI MUSIC OF THE GAMBIA- Ancient Heart
MAHMOUD GHANIA & PHAROAH SANDERS- The Trance Of Seven Colors
SIMON SHAHEEN- Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab... AND:

24. Two out-of-print Paul Schutze titles featuring Bill Laswell:
 

PHANTOM CITY- Shiva Recoil LiveUnlive $17
PHANTOM CITY- Site Anubis $15

For longer descriptions, check out the Axiom page of the DMG website which is http://DownTownMusicGallery.com