NEW RELEASES & RESTOCKS FOR JANUARY 26th 2001:

1.WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET-O'Neal's Porch (Centering 1003) Featuring Rob Brown, Lewis Barnes, Hamid Drake & William Parker! Excellent new in & out qt. date! Self-produced by William and everyone plays extraordinarily well! $12.

2.HANS TAMMAN & DOMINIC DUVAL-The Road Bends Here (Leo) Probing improv duo for acoustic endangered guitar and contrabass splendor!! Rare opportunity to hear Hans' guitar manipulations on an acoustic instrument for the first time! $14.

3.ERHARDT HIRT-Acoustics (Nur Nicht Nur 5245) Former FMP guitar explorer and member of a new guitar quartet w/ Hans Tamman, Roger Kleier & Nick Didkovsky plays strange solo acoustic guitar with electronic manipulations! In a special tin case. $14.

4.IANNIS XENAKIS-Pleiades (Harmonia Mundi 1905185) Richly defined and bizarre percussion piece performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg!! Only $10.

5.KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN-Aus Den Sieben Tagen (Hamonia Mundi 190795) Contains two sections of Stockhausen's legendary "musique intuitive" masterwork, based on an obscure set of instructions as an improvisational guide. Recorded in 1969, with Karlheinz working the operating filters and potentiometers and an ensemble of piano, reeds, viola, tam-tam, electronium, contrabass and percussion! On sale for $10.

6.MARCEL DUCHAMP-The Entire Musical Work (Dog w/ a Bone 01) Performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble with Ben Neill and composed by master-dadaist Duchamp from 1912-1921. Includes "Erratum Musical" for three voices and two versions for player piano and chamber ensemble, plus the conceptual piece "Sculpture Musicale" performed by John Cage. Liner notes include reproductions of Duchamp's scores, rare photographs of Duchamp's home-made instruments and a mesostic/poem by John Cage. $16.

7.JOHN CAGE/KENNETH PATCHEN-The City Wears a Slouch Hat/Imaginary Landscape/Credo in Us (Cortical Foundation 14) Last few remaining copies of this limited edition release with three legendary works! $15.

8.PAULINE OLIVEROS & REYNOLS-In the Arms of Reynols (Cream Gardens 04) Beautiful and haunting drone music played by Pauline on her trusty accordion and reconstructed by Reynols with bewildering, brutal and luminous results!! $14.

9.MAYA BEISER/STEVEN SCHICK-Caught by the Sky with Wire (OO Discs 67) Bang-on-a-Can All-Star cellist and percussionist perform five challenging works comissioned and composed especially for this duo by Nick Didkovsky, George Lewis, Jack Body, Chinary Ung and Franghis Ali-Zade!! A truly dynamic duo!! $14.

10.ELLEN BAND-90% Post Consumer Sound (Experimental Intermedia 124) Deeply inspired by the infinitely complex textures, rhythms and colors of ordinary life and redesigned to reflect the imagistic, mnemonic and psycho-acoustic properties of sound. Description by Phil Niblock or Jimmy Johnson or maybe Al Margolis-who knows? $13.

In a few weeks the consistently demanding Emanem label will have five new releases to get excited about - including an EVAN PARKER with STRINGS 3 cd set, solo sax cd from John Butcher, solo piano music from Pat Thomas, an improv string trio w/ Jon Rose, Aleks Kolkowski & Matthias Bauer and a piano/sax duo from Veryan Weston & Caroline Kraabel!