NEW RELEASES FOR SEPTEMBER 1999:
 

1.ZEENA PARKINS-Pan-Acousticon (Tzadik 7049) Fascinating! w/ Sara & Margaret Parkins, Mark Stewart, Joe Trump & Jim Pugliese; co-produced by Elliott Sharp. $14.

2.PRELAPSE-Prelapse (Avant 053) Finally! Incredible Naked City cover band from Boston, who do half known & rare Naked City tunes as well as similar mind blasting originals - Zorn sits in on sax! $18.

3.DAVID WATSON-Skirl (Avant 077) w/ Andy Haas, Cyro Baptista, Tony Buck, Jim Pugliese & Christine Bard - layers of swirling bagpipes, thunderous percussion, didjeradoo & sax! $18.

4.GIUSTINO DI GREGORIO-Sprut (Tzadik 7050) unique & unusual sampling collages from Italian new music composer inspired by John Oswald's Plunderphonics. $14.

5.DANNY COHEN-Museum of Dannys (Tzadik 7405) deranged pop tunes from hero of 'Self Indulgent Music' and brother of Greg Cohen; influenced by Esquivel, Dylan, Brian Wilson & Daniel Johnston-$14.

6.FRED FRITH -Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood,Wire(RecRec off-shoot)2 CD set with Han Bennink, Chris Cutler, Zeena Parkins, Myra Melford...Based on graphic scores. Finally in stock, 2CDs for $31.

7.BILL LASWELL TRIO-Broken Vessels OST (Koch 8055) w/ Nicky Skopelitis & Lance Carter - powerful instrumental music -pumpin' funk/rock/jazz coolness - Lori Carson sings on one track. $14.

8.BILL LASWELL-Imaginary Cuba: Deconstructing Havana (Wicklow/BMG 63514) compilation of traditional, dub versions & Bill jamming with various Cubans - probably $14.

9.MATT SHIPP/ROB BROWN/WILLIAM PARKER- Magnetism (Blue Regard 1957) $14

10.EUGENE CHADBOURNE-Beauty & the Bloodsucker (Leo 280) w/ Ellery Eskelin, Leonid Soybelman, Jeff Sipes, Gino Robair, Brian Ritchie ...Insect & Western weirdness continues... $14.

11.SONNY SIMMONS/BRANDON EVANS/KEVIN NORTON-Universal Prayer (Parallactic 05) immense storm of saxes & perc from veteran free-jazz master & two fine Braxton collaborators - $14.

12.DOMINIC DUVAL-The Equinox Trio (Leo 267) w/ Michael J. Stevens on piano & Tomas Ulrich on cello - superb improv effort from three local masters! $14.

13.MISHA FEIGEN-Both Kinds of Music (Leo Lab 060) w/ Elliott Sharp on dobro, Eugene Chadbourne on banjo, Davey Williams on el. guitar & LaDonna Smith on violin; Misha on balalaika & a. guitar - $14.

14.EMMANUELLE SOMER-The Apple Tree (Lyrae 98016) w/ Peter McCann, Chris Potter & Jim Black - Emmanuelle is an excellent oboe & English horn player; her composing is also quite fine! $14.

15.PAUL MOTIAN ELECTRIC BEBOP BAND-Play Monk & Powell (W&W 45) w/ Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Potter, Steve Cardenas & Steve Swallow - $14.

16.JERRY GRANELLI & BADLANDS-crowd theory (Songlines 1526) w/ Chris Speed, Briggan Krauss, Peter Epstein & Jamie Saft - another fine effort from this strong drummer & composer - $14.

17.KEVIN NORTON-For Guy Debord[in 9 events](Barking Hoop 001) with Anthony Braxton, Bob DeBellis, David Bindman, Thomas Ulrich & Joe Fonda recorded live at Tri-Centric festival $12. 

18.UNIVERS ZERO-The Hard Quest (Cuneiform 120) amazing reunion effort after 13 years!! $13.

19.VON ZAMLA-1983 (Cuneiform 121) superb live cd from this great Scandinavian unit! $13.

20.BLAST-A Sophisticated Face (Cuneiform 125) another great cd from this Dutch avant-chamber-rock unit - tight, complex, Henry Cow-like depth... $13.

21.THE HOSEMOBILE-what can & can't go on (Cuneiform 122) 2nd powerful release from this dense, dark, throbbing quartet from Tennessee - $13.

22.RICHARD PINHAS & PETER FROHMADER-Fossil Culture (Cuneiform 123) heavy blend of Pinhas' soaring, sustained (Frippian) el. guitar w/ Peter's nightmarish sonic miasma synth playing - $13.

23.MUSHROOM-analog hi-fi surprise (Inner Space 7708) second strong space-rock-psych journey from this Bay area band who have backed Kevin Ayers live & Daevid Allen in the studio & live, too!! $12.

24.SMOKIN' GRANNY-sirius matter (Metaphonic 9909) Kat's fave new prog band - from North Carolina and boy do they ever smoke!! Mostly live & well recorded. $14.

25.KRAKATOA-plan ahead (self produced/no number) jeez, where do they all come from?!? More great prog!! $14. 

MORE NEW RELEASES OF EUROPEAN/IMPROV/ELECTRONIC/MODERN CLASSICAL...
 

26.GROUND ZERO-Last Concert (Amoebic 02) final live gig from a twelve member version of this unique unit led by Otomo featuring three saxists & four sampler players - Japanese import for $18.

27.KEITH ROWE ELECTRONIC ORCHESTRA-MIMEO (Perdition 009) AMM's distinguished el. guitar manipulator combines forces with electronics wizards - Fennesz, Pita, Phil Durrant... $14.

28.VHF-Extracts (erstwhile 001) w/ Simon H. Fell on bass, Graham Halliwell on alto sax & Simon Vincent on drums - subtle & distinct British electro-acoustic trio cd from a our favorite new label! $14.

29.LEIMGRUBER/CRISPELL/LEANDRE/HAUSER-Quartet Noir (Victo 067) excellent Euro style improv quartet set live at Victo & most memorable gig from 1998 fest!! $14.

30.ARMY OF GHOSTS-The Horror (Parallelism 004) impressive young tenor sax & drums duo who have played at DMG before under the name of Ayler's Angels - $12.

31.CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE- Schlingen - Blangen '88 recording of legendary minimalist organ music performed in the Netherlands by the Iggy Pop of new-music. (New World 80578) $14.

32.THE NECKS-Aquatic (Carpet Bomb 005) w/ Chris Abrahams on piano, Stevie Wishart (Chris Burn Ensemble) on hurdy gurdy & Tony Buck (Peril, Kletka Red) on drums - ambient jazz at it's finest - $10. 

NEW REISSUES & HISTORIC RECORDINGS NEW REISSUES & HISTORIC RECORDINGS:
 

33.MARION BROWN & GUNTER HAMPEL-Gemini-Play Sun Ra Compositions (Birth 037) live from '83 & '93 - fine duo effort from wonderful free/jazz legends on alto sax & bass clarinet/vibes!! $14.

34.MINGUS BIG BAND-Blues & Politics (Dreyfus Jazz 36603) opening w/ an actual Mingus narration, this is a great release of some of Mingus' best pieces played with his special spirit! $14.

35.PEARLS BEFORE SWINE-Constructive Melancholy (Birdman) best-of from 4 fine folk-rock efforts on Reprise of this superb unit fronted by Tom Rapp - an essential offering for $14.

36. WIZZ JONES-Magical Flight (Scenescof 1006) Legendary british folkie/acoustic guitar hero and singer reissue of the out of print LP from '77 - with members of Steeleye Span - $14. 

37.MICHAEL LYTLE - GEORGE CARTWRIGHT - DAVID MOSS-Meltable Snaps-Points Blank +. (Recommended/No Man's Land nml 8604) Ultra rare limited edition CD re-issue combining 2 even rarer LPs. Featured guests include Zorn (conducting the group on his early game-piece 'Rugby'), Bill Laswell ( on 4 tracks), Tom Cora, Christian Marclay, George Lewis, Peter Kowald.We have only 5 copies of this, after which this CD will be long gone - so fanatics act fast! $ 20. 

1.ELLIOTT SHARP/ORCHESTRA CARBON-SyndaKit (Zoar) limited edition of 400 signed & numbered by E. Sharp; performed by a 12 piece all-star downtown unit - dense & intense! $22.

2.BILL FRISELL-The Sweetest Punch [Songs of Bacharach & Costello] (Decca 559865) w/ Don Byron, Billy Drewes, Curtis Fowlkes, Brian Blade; 2 vocal trax each by Cassandra Wilson & Elvis Costello! $14.

3.DON BYRON-Romance with the Unseen (Blue Note 99545) w/ Bill Frisell, Drew Gress & Jack DeJohnette; supposedly wonderfully, promo on it's way, we'll let you know...$14.

4.MARIO PAVONE NU TRIO-remembering thomas [chapin] (KFW 257) w/ Peter Madsen & Matt Wilson; superb heartfelt tribute to the late great Thomas Chapin; jazz piano trio cd of the year!!! $13.

5.DAEVID ALLEN'S UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS-money doesn't make it (innerSPACE 7707) Wow! Cosmic, psychedelic, spacerock, w/ members of Frisco's Mushroom & our beloved Gong leader!! $12.

6.BUCKETHEAD-Monsters & Robots (CyberOctave 47499) w/ Bootsy, Bill Laswell, Brain, Les Claypool, DJ Disk, DJ Eddie Def & XtraKid; another brain-blastin', guitar shredding...yes & only $10.!

7.DAVEY WILLIAMS & ABBEY RADER-The Ballistics of Yin & Yang (Abray 0055) Davey is one of the greats of wild improvised guitar from Curlew & TransMusiq, Abbey is an amazing drummer! $14. 

8.B'NAI JEHURUN-The Music of Shabbat... (KFW 258) w/ Anthony Coleman, Marc Ribot, Brad Shepik, Erik Friedlander, Omar Faruk Tekbilek & the voices of two Rabbis; touching, reverent, traditional; $13.

9.HOLGER CZUKAY-Good Morning Story (Tone Casualties 9944) w/ all former Can members & Jah Wobble on a few tracks; great space/ambient/electronic oddities recorded from '91 thru '99! $14.

10.BALLIN' THE JACK-Jungle (KFW 250) w/ Matt Darriau, Frank London, Andy Laster, Art Baron, George Schuller, Ben Sher & Anthony Coleman; mostly this is a Duke Ellington tribute; $13.

11.BRAD JONES' AKA ALIAS-Uncivilized Poise (KFW 247) w/ David Gilmore, D.K. Dyson, Bob DeBellis, Curtis Fowlkes...the new Knit funk squad reappears! $13. 12.LEO KUPPER-Ways of the Voice (Pogus 21018) feat. Anna Maria Kieffer on extended vocals; $10.

13.KEENAN LAWLER-The Ghost of a Plane of Air (self produced) solo resonator guitar weirdness! $13.

The cd releases listed above have arrived in the past week, since Pre-Newsletter 37 was e-mailed & printed up. All but the Holger Czukay are in stock. Some will be reviewed for Newsletter 37 depending on when the promos get here or if there is enough time, the rest will be reviewed in the next newsletter. The good news is that Hoppy Kamiyama's God Mountain label is finally happening once more, with three new releases due next month. We will be restocking most of their amazing back catalogue - probably cheaper than anyone else in the US! 

The bad news is that we have been having e-mail problems all summer long. We know that some of you have not been receiving our newsletters and that some receive them with the html hieroglyphics added. We are very upset about this and are trying our best to fix this problem, hopefully soon. We will be getting a new computer by the end of this year (century), and hope to get our mail order service running even better. In the meantime, if you or one of your friends is having this problem with our monthly pre or newsletters - you can always view or download this information from our ever-growing website-wwwDTMGallery.com . Thanks for your patience & understanding.

 These are my top picks for new arrivals - not all new release but are new to the store. 
 

Lionel Marchetti/Ralph Wehowski -Veir Vorspiele/L'Oeil retourne(SelektionCD026) Indispensable exploratory sound-art label presents collaboration between the leading electro-acoustic punks from Metamkine(F) and Selektion(D) respectively. $16

The HUB -Computer Network Music - (Artefact)S.F.Computer music group feat.Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Tim Perkis and others direct signal through a mainframe developed by the group -This is "The HUB" a systems music machine. $14

Iancu Dumitrescu -Medium 3... (Editions Salabert & Edition Modern France EDMN 1) Rumanian avant composer finest scrapingly abrasive work. $16

Iancu Dumitrescu - Galaxy...(Edition Modern Romania EDMN 1005) More spectral mayhem from the electro acoustic master. $16

Ryoji Ikeda "+/-" (Touch England TO:3 ) pure tone architecture from cubist electronics composer .. A defining event in contemporary electronics $14.

Philip Jeck -Surf( Touch England TO:36) -award winning UK radio artists narcoleptic turntableism.$14

John Wall -Alterstill (UtterPsalm England UPCD2) transcending plunderphonics- the UK artist creates a post-modernist assemblage of improv and composition. Exquisite packaging on both CDs $20

John Wall- Fractuur (Utterpsalm England UPCD3) while "Alterstill" is brilliant - this goes a step further into the sublime. Possibly one of the best works of the 90's - no shit. $20 John Cage- Variations IV (Legacy International U.S. CD 439) Pivotal work - available here at a super low price. $7

Giancarlo Cardini- O Quieta e Dolce Mattina d'Ottobre" (Materiali Sonori Italy MTS 90061) Italian avant garde composer re-explores minimalism, prepared piano's and narratives. 

Eric Cordier- Houlque" (La Grande Fabrique France LGF 003) This is a beautiful booklet (in French) with a CD documentation from an instalation by this electronics composer and improvisor.Ltd Ed catalog. $18

Giancinto Scelsi- Due Componimenti Impetuos (Sub Rosa Belgium SR63) Harmonic white out resonance from one of the greatest... Truly beautiful CD-one of 3 in a series on Sub Rosa $16

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