Spring is finally in the Air! New wonders from..

Sun Ra 6 CD Slugs box .. and Live '64 with Pharoah! Lou Reed Metal Machine Music Trio Live 2CD! Derek Bailey '74! Melvin Gibbs With Pete Cosey & John Medeski! Joe Morris! Cooper-Moore! Gunter Hampel original Heartplants '65!

Bob Moses! Roswell Rudd Trombone Tribe! Miles Okazaki! LaDonna Smith/Michael Evans! Andrea Parkins! Josef Van WIssem! Yoshi Wada! Phil Kline! Remaining INCUS backcatalog!

..and Recently Arrived Used &or Rare CD list [newsletter subscribers only get first crack!],




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LAST CHANCE FOR THIS FOREMAN-ZORN THEATRICAL EVENT - ENDS THIS SUNDAY!

Richard Foreman is one of the most important theatre directors in the world, and has been a personal hero of John Zorn's for over 30 years. This theatre/music piece is the historic first-time collaboration for two masters of the bizarre (both MacArthur geniuses) who individually have challenged, enlightened and entertained adventurous audiences for decades.

ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is a work dominated by ecstatic groans, grunts and babbling, and explores the initiation of a group of people into a world where ambiguous behavior alone leads to freedom--perhaps under the tutelage of the necessary "false messiah." This is one of those events that can only happen downtown - culminating from a chance meeting in the street - independent of any special grants, funding, institution or administration.

Based on ASTRONOME, the intense second CD of a series featuring Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn and Joey Baron, Richard Foreman's staging of it is absolutely stunning!

Please make a special effort to see this once in a lifetime event, which opened FEBRUARY 5th and RUNNING ONLY through APRIL 5th at the ONOTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATRE
@ St Marks Church in the East Village, 131 East 10th St on Second Ave!


to purchase tickets, go to:

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/633735


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Another New Sun Ra monster Live Archive box!

SUN RA & His ARKESTRA - Live At Slugs' Saloon, June & August 1972 [6 CD set] (Transparency 313; USA) 6-CD Boxed Set of 2 complete shows recorded live at Slug's Saloon, NYC, in the summer of 1972. Over 6 hours of music! Even though Sun Ra and the Arkestra played at the legendary NY venue Slug's Saloon nearly every Monday night for five years, there is no documentation of their many shows there ~ until now. This deluxe, hand assembled six-CD set has two complete shows totaling six hours from June and August 1972. This is the group still into their psychedelic excursion back into their jazz roots with a newfound vengeance. A completely raucous blast of Sun Ra energy.
Exquisitely mastered audio, packaged in a custom case with ultra-gorgeous never-seen color photos of Sun Ra, and done specially for this release for the first time the exact complete track listings as provided by Christopher Trent (co-author of 'The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra'). These CDs are factory replicated with excellent audio quality
6 CD set for $39 [super low price!]


Just out from ESP!

SUN RA & His ARKESTRA With PHAROAH SANDERS/BLACK HAROLD MURRAY/ALAN SILVA et al - Complete JHNY - Live At Judson Hall, NY (New Years Eve 1964) 72 minutes - 45 minutes of which are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED material! Recorded New Years Eve 1964 as part of the Jazz Composers Guild's 'Four Days In December' series. Sun Ra [Sonny Blount] piano and celeste; Pharoah Sanders tenor sax; 'Black Harold' Murray flute and log drum; Al Evans trumpet and flugelhorn; Teddy Nance trombone; Marshall Allen alto sax; Pat Patrick baritone sax; Alan Silva bass and cello; Ronnie Boykins bass; Clifford Jarvis and Jimmhi Johnson drums; Art Jenkins space voice.
The first five tracks (Cosmic Interpretation, The Other World, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, The Now Tomorrow, and Discipline) of this concert CD were just found (as a 45 minute stereo tape no less!) and have never been released before; the last six cuts came out as the very rare El Saturn LP JHNY 165, and are found here in mono.
Not only notable for its unique lineup - virtually only appearances of Pharoah Sanders, Black Harold and Alan Silva with the Arkestra - but also for the first known recording of the composition "The Shadow World," here titled "The World Shadow," which was featured on later Arkestra albums. Oh yeah, and it IS eff-ing AMAZING!
CD $12

RONNIE BOYKINS GROUP - The Will Come, Is Now (ESP Disk 3026; USA) Bassist Ronnie Boykins is perhaps best known for his work in Sun Ra's Arkestra, of which he was an intrinsic member for nearly a decade. His inimitable bass style can be heard on all of Ra's most significant recordings, and Ra had a difficult time finding someone to fill Boykins' shoes when he left the Arkestra in 1966. Boykins also recorded with Steve Lacy, Marion Brown, Bill Dixon, Charles Tyler, and Elmo Hope. He stepped out on his own for his first and only release as a leader on The Will Come, Is Now.
He was invited by ESP in 1964 to record his own album, and in February 1974, he told ESP that he was finally ready, and the session took place later that month.His 1975 self-titled release, featuring all original material, is from his post Ra period and represents one of the last great releases in the ESP-Disk catalogue. Featuring Joe Ferguson on tenor sax and flute, Monty Waters and James Vass on alto and soprano sax, Daoud Haroom on trombone, and Art Lewis and George Avaloz on percussion. Also includes various bells and hand shaken instruments played by all musicians. In septet format, Boykins' six originals create a variety of moods and textures that not only evokes the music of Sun Ra but also reflects Boykins' own sensibilities as an artist.
CD $12

ERICA POMERANCE - You Used To Think (ESP Disk 1099; USA) Erica Pomerance is a Canadian documentary film maker, poet and singer- songwriter. In December 1968, she assembled a diverse group of musicians to record her debut album, an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, folk and rock. "This densely packed album, rooted in blues-laden acid folk, is gradually dominated by a more free-form, jazz-influenced style of vocal innovation which brings the album to its frantic climax. While remaining firmly linked to a lyrical base, Pomerance's primitive wails and shrieks shatter the traditional acid folk mold. Singing in French on 'The Slippery Morning', the versatile vocalist is also responsible for the rhythm guitar and hand drumming heard on the eastern influenced 'We Came Via'. "
CD $12

THE NAKED FUTURE - Gigantomachia (ESP Disk 4053; USA) First time release! Led by Old Time Relijun's frontman, Arrington de Dionyso, and featuring members of Bloom Project, Counterfeit Monsters and Poor School, the Naked Future features five tracks of thunderous, cutting edge free jazz. Their diverse backgrounds - from the classical, rock and experimental realms - forge a release modernist in its construction with more than a pinch of old time alchemy. ESP is proud to welcome them into its circle with their first CD release, Gigantomachia.
CD $12


Omigosh! after many years ..A new Incus CD release!

DEREK BAILEY - Lot 74: Solo Improvisations (Incus 57; UK) "In 1974, when Derek Bailey was planning his second solo LP on Incus, he decided to include a side-long solo using his stereo electro-acoustic set-up. Unfortunately, he never seemed to have a 20-minute stretch of time free of interruptions in his home, so he asked if he could record it at my place. After a fairly lengthy drive across London on the arranged date, he discovered that he had brought all his gear except the actual guitar. So he had a cup of tea and a chat, then drove home again. He came again about a week later, on May 13th, this time with everything. I set the level too high for the first two takes, not quite allowing for his enormous dynamic range (which really was not suitable for analogue recording and reproduction equipment). The result was too much distortion for his liking. The level was corrected for the third take which was the one used as the title track on the LP, even though he preferred the music on the earlier takes. All but one of the short pieces on the second side of the LP were recorded by Bob Woolford around the same time, probably at Derek's home. (The exception, 'Improvisation 104(b),' was recorded the previous year and originally released on one of the Incus TAPs -- mini reel-to-reel tapes that were an attempt to bypass the technical problems of going from tape to vinyl. They were reissued by Organ of Corti.) 'Pain In The Chest' and 'In Joke (Take 2)' feature the unamplified 19-string (approx) guitar, which was probably the only instrument that Derek modified -- he otherwise used standard guitars. There was a shortage of good vinyl at the time, making it difficult to get decent pressings. (The original pressing of the solo Steve Lacy Emanem LP sounded as though it had been recorded in a hail-storm.) We were recommended to go to a pressing plant that specialized in 'classical' music. (At the same time that Derek was trying to get Lot 74 pressed, I was also working on his duo album with Anthony Braxton.) The first test pressing of Lot 74 was very muffled, and we discovered that the cutting engineer had played the tape up-side-down, so that the music had been filtered through the tape backing (used on professional tapes to reduce print-through). The cutting was subsequently redone correctly, resulting in an acceptable test pressing. However, the plant manager was completely incredulous and perplexed, as he was used to checking pressings using his library of scores of Beethoven sonatas and the like. How could he tell if the vocal and feedback howls at the start of side two ('Together') were correct? Over thirty years later, advances in technology have eliminated most of the technical problems we had then, so that this magnificent music can be heard sounding better than ever. Every so often, I get someone asking me to issue things on vinyl -- my response is usually not very polite." -- Martin Davidson, Emanem Records
CD $20

[see below for our last copies of available Incus catalog]



LOU REED'S METAL MACHINE TRIO With ULRICH KRIEGER/SARAH CALHOUN - Metal Machine Trio: The Creation Of The Universe [Ltd 2 CD set] (Sister Ray; USA) Two special live concert recordings [October 2nd & 3rd 2008 at the Redcat, Los Angeles] of non-vocal music featuring Lou on guitar and electronics, Ulrich Krieger on tenor sax and live-electronics, and Sarth Calhoun on live processing and Fingerboard. This is the limited edition Deluxe Package featuring photography by Lou Reed.
"..slicing, bronze melon cloud sneaks squeaking and chanting, dour nerves alight docking, enlarging familiarity throbbing, disconnected descending. peak and valley, chorus intruder birth, Frightened Remorse Inside Past Pussyfooting. thrush thrall tighten Extremity Nemesis Ontology. cymbaline misery trompette. outside wanting within, blue church strain slope. collaps scratch blemish pour unknown symmetry cascade almost loss metal index. digits point Upwards!" - Manny 'Lunch' Maris, geist reviewer
2 CD ltd ed set $20



MELVIN GIBBS' ELEVATED ENTITY With PETE COSEY/JOHN MEDESKI/BLACKBYRD McKNIGHT/J T LEWIS - Ancients Speak (LiveWired 1001; USA) Featuring Melvin Gibbs on bass, keyboards & programming, Pete Cosey & Blackbyrd McKnight on guitars, John Medeski, Craig Taborn & Mark Batson on keyboards, Ron Blake, Graham Haynes & Micah Gaugh on horns, JT Lewis on drums plus vocals, rappers & percussion. The new LiveWired label just dropped four bombs and each one is great is its own way. Electric bass great, Melvin Gibbs' disc is an incredible combination of futuristic funk, Latin, rock, jazz and hip hop streams. Melvin takes traditional melodies and brings them up to date. The title track features the Spanish vocals by Pedrito Martinez with the rapping by Chason Walker over a great drum (machine) beat. The contrasting vocals are different yet they work together just right. Melvin sounds like he sampling a lovely kora line on "Sometimes". Again the rap by Ruben sounds swell surrounds by the sung Latin vocals by Afoxe Fihos do Korin Efan. The best part of this piece is Melvin's amazing, slippery fretless bass solo. When the drums (JT Lewis) finally come in on "Canto Por Odudua", that slamming beat is totally uplifting. Melvin's fat el. bass and Pete Cosey's evil guitar solo sound particularly inspired here. Whoa! Why this all works so well is that Melvin has programmed great beats on every track as the center for each piece. There are a half dozen different vocalists on this disc and again Melvin does a fine job of keeping things interesting by using different layers of vocals and each track. I must admit that I listen to very little hip hop music nowadays but I found everything on this disc to be engaging on a few different levels. It is rare (for me) to hear records as funky as this that are still fascinating to listen to but this is one of the best. The few solos by Peter Cosey and Blackbyrd McKnight (Funkadelic guitar demon) are just an added bonus. All four discs on the LiveWired label are great and all somehow related in sound. Not a bad way to start off a new label! - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $14

BURNT SUGAR / THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER - Making Love To The Dark Ages (LiveWired 1002; USA) "The collective personnel features Greg Tate - conducting, guitar & laptop, Lisala, Jeremiah, Latasha, Nevada & Justice Dilla X on vocals, Rene Aken, Ben Tyree, Vernon Reid & Andre Lassalle on guitars, Satch Hoyt, Matana Roberts, Micah Gaugh, Avram Fefer, Harald Kisiedu, Paula Henderson, Michael Veal on reeds, Lewis Barnes & David Smith on brass, Bruce Mack, Vijay Iyer, W-Myles Reilly on keyboards, Will Martina & Mazz Swift on strings, Jared Nickerson, Jason DiMatteo & Shahzad Ismaily on basses and Trevor Holder, Chris Eddleton, Swiss Chris & Meret Koehler on drums. Since Burnt Sugar reinvent themselves every time they play live, it is the same they each time they enter the studio. Each of these five tracks was recorded on a different day during 2008 with varying personnel on each piece. The size of the Arkestra ranges from 18 members to just five with Greg Tate conducting and being the main writer with one cover Miles Davis & Ron Carter. Two of these pieces get two or three different versions.
"Chains and Water" opens the disc and gets three versions. Lisala soulful voice starts things off just right with some fine bluesy harmonica by Mikel Banks. The sly, laid back groove and background vocals are just right. Greg Tate works his mystic magic being adding other instruments often one at a time, line by line. The vibe and the groove slowly getting deeper and funkier. For the second version, the beat it turned inside out with the groove slamming harder and with layers of horns soloing passionately on top. Miles & Ron Carter's "Thorazine/81" is another feisty, jazz/rock/funk groove tune with strong sax solos and the rest of the horns swirling in tight circles. On "Love to Tical", Greg does a swell job of directing by having certain sections lay out while other section come in and Vernon Reid pulls off a stellar guitar solo. For "Dominata", the band is slimmed down to just two saxes, trombone, piano & laptop. Greg's selective laptop samples are in the center while the horns and piano swirl around slowly in dreamy layers. This piece is long, calm and most often hypnotic. The final piece is the title tune and again Greg's laptop ripples underneath the layers of floating violin (by Mazz Swift), horns, guitars, synth, basses and drums. Again Greg does a colossal job of blending various streams into one rich, cosmic carpet ride to exotic lands. In many ways, this is the music of the future where boundaries and names no longer matter. The eager children of Butch Morris have turned into successful space explorers." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $14


JOE MORRIS/JOHN VOIGT/TOM PLSEK - MVP LSD: The Graphic Scores of Lowell Skinner Davidson (Riti 010; USA) Guitarist Joe Morris, bassist John Voigt, and trombonist Tom Plesk, all long time associates of the late, legendary, Boston-based, multi-instrumentalist, biochemist, and composer Lowell Skinner Davidson here perform their interpretations of his graphic compositions. This is beautiful and challenging music from scores created by one of the most idiosyncratic figures in the history of Jazz.
From the liner notes by Joe Morris: "In the history of music and particularly in African-American music Lowell Skinner Davidson, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, scientist, musical visionary, is unique. Among his many references Lowell used his background as a biochemist (at Harvard) to describe his approach to music. He often declared that new sounds had the capacity to re-formulate the biochemistry of the brain. He made only one commercial recording (Lowell Davidson Trio ESPdisk 1965) but left dozens of tapes of his post-1965 music - vital work that is mostly lost. He also left behind hundreds of scores made in the 1980's, many done on 3x5 index cards. We used a few of these to make this recording. You can't read them like regular music, hence the 'graphic' in the title. They offer the player a specific guide toward randomness and imagination, a requirement that they be read as regular notation, but that the results find a balance between melodic line and pure sound. Those results occurred in all of LSD's music. Based on our collective years of experience working with Lowell we did our best to honor the compositions with our own interpretations."
CD $14


COOPER-MOORE - The Cedar Box Recordings [Ltd #d 500 copies] (50 Miles Of Elbow Room/AUM 51; USA) This very sharp gatefold/silkscreened/hand-numbered CD edition of 500 (with an accompanying 20 page booklet) was produced by AUM Fidelity and 50 Miles of Elbow Room in Autumn 2008 on the occasion of the Cooper-Moore's Solo Tour of America.
Cooper-Moore: diddley-bo, horizontal hoe-handle harp, ashimba, bamboo fife, twanger, piano, mouth-bow, three-stringed fretless banjo, percussion, synth, voice
Cooper-Moore has been active on the creative music scene for over 30 years. Recordings with artists such as David S. Ware, William Parker, and especially Triptych Myth showcased his considerable skills as a pianist. While this is the source of his greatest notoriety amongst jazz fans, he has also simultaneously developed instruments of his own design and occasionally invention. Inclusion of some of these instruments with the large ensembles of William Parker, Bill Cole, and Butch Morris gave notice to the jazz world that piano is just one part of a much greater whole that is Cooper-Moore's music.
A whole lot more of it comes together in Cooper-Moore's solo performances, which are remarkable displays of multi-instrumental virtuosity and showmanship. He plays one beautiful handmade instrument after another in imaginative and exciting ways, all the while offhandedly bantering with the audience and offering tall tales that can be disarmingly personal and/or hilarious. The palette and emotional range of the music is quite broad, incorporating free improvisation, composed tunes, and the nether region in between.
The first commercially available documentation of this music was issued in 2004 by 50 Miles of Elbow Room as a quintuple 7" set of solo recordings wherein Cooper-Moore played a different instrument on each side of each record. The tracks include a diddley-bo lament, a mouthbow hymn, a high energy piano improvisation, an effects-laden banjo romp, the discombobulating sound of the twanger, and plenty more. Minus the story of Reverend Love and the overdubbing on The Death Queen, each side of each record featured a solo performance on a different instrument. Among the recording locales were a compost heap on Ward's Island, on a footbridge, at a gig in Bordeaux, on his fire escape, and other places. Housed in a cedar wood box and pressed in an edition of 300, this went out-of-print rather quickly.
Cooper-Moore's fall 2008 tour of the USA presented a perfect prompt for a very sharp CD reissue of this material. Co-released with 50 Miles of Elbow Room, it was available exclusively from Cooper-Moore at these performances, and directly from here ... most of the run has been sold, these are the last few copies
CD $15


This Legendary Free Music recording - limited copies available:

GUNTER HAMPEL HEARTPLANTS QUINTET With MANFRED SCHOOF/ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH/BUSCHIE NIEBERGALL/PIERRE COURBOIS - Heartplants (Birth; Germany) [limited edition CD-R] Originally released on Saba/MPS in 1965. Regarde as one of the top 3 seminal recordings at the birth of the European 'Free' Music [along with Machine Gun and Globe Unity].
As early as 1960, with his colleagues Hampel began to create "some really free forms of jazz. In 1964 I had my first band, a wonderful quintet with Manfred Schoof playing the trumpet, Alexander von Schlippenbach on the piano; these guys have all made their own names in the meantime. The late Buschi Niebergall, a wonderful bass player from Holland. The drummer was Pierre Courbois, and we had, in Europe, the first unit which, so to speak, could play 'with our own hands.' That record was called Heartplants and that got the first wonderful reviews. We matured while doing, first we learned from Charlie Parker and Gillespie, Dolphy, Monk, Mingus, Ellington, and whoever put some great stuff together, but then when I started to play with black musicians, they always talked about Africa, Africa Africa but I was not an African, I was a European so I got more and more aware by checking out my own heritage and by doing so, I didn't have to discover it because I was growing up with it but now I had more substance to see what it was. I learned more about our own European or German or Austrian music and especially when I heard Ellington say there are so many great composers in Europe we can learn from them, about how to get away from the 32 or 12 bar standard jazz grooves, these people like Ellington and Mingus and Cecil Taylor among many others, they were the first ones, they always pointed out that this European composer was influencing them. I had all of this around me and I got more a more involved over the years. I learned how to appreciate my own heritage and from there I learned about forms and started to play with great composers from the classical field or from the new music field because they were in awe of our improvisational skills. And since I was a jazz music I started to improvise with European harmonics, especially with the 12 tone experience, we were capable of improvising in that area and in this way we got close to people like Stockhausne and Penderecki, and a lot of other composers who never had learned how to improvise. " - Gunter Hampel
CD $17

and restocks on these two..

GUNTER HAMPEL/ANTHONY BRAXTON/JEANNE LEE - Familie (Birth 08; Germany) [new packaging 2006] Another legendary date! live from Paris on 4/1/72 [CD-R]
CD $16

GUNTER HAMPEL WORLD COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA - Cavana: Big Band 1981 (Birth 34; Germany) gunter hampel, jeanne lee, perry robinson, thomas keyserling, martin bues, charles walker, jens frahm, ruediger mettenbrink, joachim gueckel, otto jansen, ove vollquartz, ingo marmula, juergen attig, klaus mages
CD $16

GUNTER HAMPEL & GALAXIE DREAM BAND With JEANNE LEE/PERRY ROBINSON/MARK WHITECAGE et al - 1972: Broadway / Folksong (Birth 11; Germany) 1972 studio recording featuring Gunter Hampel on vibes, clarinets, flute, (instant) compositions & conducting, Jeanne Lee - voice, Perry Robinson - clarinet, Mark Whitecage - alto sax & flute, Allan Praskin - alto sax, Toni Marcus - violin & viola, David Eyges - cello, Paul Boulet - guitars and Jack Gregg & John Shea - basses. An outstanding offering that I don't recall ever having seen on vinyl. Starting with strings, flute and voice floating freely on top of some fine written reeds, cello, acoustic guitar and bass below. Strong and well-written, similar to modern classical writing. Boisterous bass clarinet, acoustic guitar, clarinet and voice swirl together with mesmerizing results. Jeanne Lee's incredible free-form voice spins around in the mix, dancing back and forth in the stereo pan-scape. I love when a sub-group breaks into a hummable melody on the second piece while other float freely around the sides. Eventually they move into an epic-length works with complex layers on charted material that evolves though waves of freer terrain. There are rich harmonies at the center and you never when they will break into that theme again. This is like a fairy tale from the future without a storyline, yet it still tells a tale that is difficult to forget. - BLG
CD $16


Four from Sunnyside:

RAKALAM BOB MOSES - Father's Day B'hash (Sunnyside; USA) Featuring Stan Strickland, Ommudra Thomas Arabia, Petr Cancura, Luis Rosa & Nick Videen on reeds, Andrei Matorin on violin, Justin Putill on bass and Rakalm Bob Moses on drums, percussion, piano, kalimba & compositions. Color as expressed through sound has been an important concept in legendary drummer 'Rakalam' Bob Moses's compositions for many years. His new recording Father's Day B'Hash provides a well-documented example of what this means. Moses's New England Conservatory student ensemble displays an understanding of his principles and their own unique voices through especially moving open-ended improvisation " I have been a longtime fan of master-percussionist Bob Moses for more than three decades since seeing/hearing him with Gary Burton, Steve Kuhn, Pat Metheny, Dave Liebman to his numerous and consistently engaging solo records. Over the past decade I've seen Bob (or Rakalam) with Tisziji Munoz a number of times and we've become friends. His drumming never ceases to amaze me. I wasn't sure what exactly to expect from Rakalam's new disc featuring mostly his students, the only name I recognized was/is Stan Strickland who used to play with Marty Ehrlich. I knew I was in for something special but not nearly as extraordinary as this disc turned out to be. This disc was recorded on Father's Day, 2006 and is dedicated to all great fathers who inspire their children in positive ways. One of the things that makes this disc so special is how well it is recorded and perfectly balanced. Commencing with "Exhilaration #1", swirling drums flow underneath waves of reeds, bass clarinet, saxes, violin and bass. There is something quite beautiful, deep and penetrating about this music. All of the reeds and violin are connected spirits singing in deep harmony together. The closet comparison I can make is Trane and Eric Dolphy's cosmic convergences of free flowing spirits. Bassist Justin Putill, who I once heard with Munoz, and Bob Moses sounds inspired, uplifting and immensely creative throughout, playing as one rhythmic force. On "Exhilaration #3", the numerous horns and strings toss around and repeat a few lines over and over in most mesmerizing way while Rakalam spins his cosmic web of percussion around them. The interplay between the horns, strings and percussion is just incredible, spinning like whirling dervishes in full flight. What makes this so special is playing and directing by Bob Moses, a most magical musician and a great father to many of us out here in listening land." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $16

ROSWELL RUDD TROMBONE TRIBE With STEVE SWELL/DEBORAH WEISZ/BOB STEWART/HENRY GRIMES/BARRY ALTSCHUL et al - Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside/Soundscape 1207; USA) Featuring Roswell Rudd, Steve Swell & Deborah Weisz on trombones, Bob Stewart on tuba, Henry Grimes on bass and Barry Altschul on drums, plus guests Steve Bernstein & Sex Mob and Bonerama.
"Roswell Rudd's idea of a trombone army is not as pronounced as one might think when initially looking at the credits. It's not an offshoot of Slide Hampton's World of Trombones, but elaborates on the concept somewhat. Certainly Rudd's veteran status allows him to invite players of different generations who admire him, as Deborah Weisz, Sam Burtis, Josh Roseman, Eddie Bert, Ray Anderson, Wycliffe Gordon, or Steve Swell all fit that bill. Rudd apportions different lineups to play music with far reaching implications, including that of ethnic and down home, creative improvised, European, and American jazz traditions. The music constantly evolves and shapes itself in chameleon proportions, ignoring nothing that Rudd has himself experienced in his lengthy and distinguished career as an original individualist.
Five tracks feature the proper Trombone Tribe, with Weisz, Swell, Rudd, Bob Stewart on tuba, bassist Henry Grimes, and drummer Barry Altschul, a quite formidable ensemble. They include a tuneful and easy swinging tribute for the recently deceased British saxophonist "Elton Dean," the appropriately titled "No End" with the bass lead of Grimes firing up trombone solos with false starts and then steamrolling solos, the samba/Latinized, warm and soulful "To the Day" with bass filling the cracks of a New Orleans-cum-central African theme, the bluesy soul-jazz "Sand in My Slide Shuffle," and the conversational, Dixieland inspired, bawdy, free, low-down, and cleverly titled "Slide & the Family Bone." Two other cuts feature Rudd and the other five trombonists, a brass phalanx of epic proportions. They do the frantic, herky-jerky, Kurt Weill circus inspired "Astroslyde" paralleling bass note informed East European bands, while "Hulla Gulla" is a blues up and down motif derived from a bottom end vamp. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein and Sexmob goof up - la Thelonious Monk in New Orleans during "Twelve Bars," the famous Herbie Nichols march tune laced with the alto sax of Briggan Krauss, while Bonerama get their kicks on the funky strut "Bone Again," with Matt Perrine's sousaphone doing the dirty deed. The final five-piece suite and the introductory fanfare has Rudd working with Gangbe, the world music brass group from Benin, in short, thematic bursts based in joyous shouts, the religious Doxology precept, dance to spiritual music, tuba with vocal chanting, and a modal improvisation, again via Monk. They playing from top to bottom is fantastic, diversity the watchword as you would expect, and the cohesion of all the groups quite enjoyable from track to track, and never boring. It's a genuine triumph for Roswell Rudd in the golden years of a very successful occupancy in modern music, and comes highly recommended. - Michael G. Nastos, AMG
CD $16

MILES OKAZAKI With DAVE BINNEY/JON FLAUGHER/DAN WEISS et al - Generations (Sunnyside 1214; USA) Guitarist Miles Okazaki blends musical elements in very unique ways. His new recording Generations showcases Okazaki's skills of mixing the structure of complex written composition with the freedom of improvisation. The composer relies on a tremendous group of performers to present his music including saxophonists David Binney and Miguel Zenon. This recording is an amazing statement for the extremely talented Okazaki.
CD $16

JIMMY GREENE - Mission Statement (Razdaz/Sunnyside 4608; USA) Featuring Jimmy Greene on saxes & compositions, Lage Lund on guitar, Stefan Harris on vibes, Xavier Davis on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums. A intimate new recording from this master of his instrument and composer providing strong vision and direction to his unit on bassist, composer Avishai Cohen's established imprint Razdaz Recordz/Sunnyside. Jimmy Greene is joined for this full on new adventure with his crackerjack young unit with Mission Statement, which includes nine originals from the saxophonist's pen, on this ten track personal musical statement.
CD $16


LaDONNA SMITH/MICHAEL EVANS - Deviant Shakti (TransMuseq 19; USA) LaDonna Smith, violist, with Michael Evans the infamous NYC percussionist/thereminist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. Recorded under foot, below the studio of Domestic Noise, in the lost cave of Brooklyn New York.
CD $12


HORACE TAPSCOTT - Vol. 1: Lighthouse '79 (NimbusWest 4035; USA) Never before released in any form! Amazing playing from pianist Horace Tapscott with Roberto Miranda and David Bryant basses, George Goldsmith drums; and student horns Gary Bias alto, Reggie Bullen trumpet [whose not-up-to-scratch solos have been edited out]. Recorded live at Rudy Onderwyzer's Lighthouse in 1979 "Horace Tapscott was an amazing pianist, composer, arranger, multi-bandleader and inspiration to many. The Nimbus West label continues to unearth unreleased gems from Tapscott's various bands. On the opening track, "Acirfa", both bassists and drummer playing powerfully underneath Tapscott's extraordinary two handed piano playing, numerous layers of lines converging. Both bassists and the drummer each take strong solos as well. The group sounds almost as if they are speeding at some superhuman level until the second bassist takes his fine arco solo. Mr. Tapscott plucks the strings inside the piano at the beginning of "Dem, Folks", adding some mystery to the sound. The theme and arrangement by Linda Hill, who worked with Tapscott, is thoughtfully written, engaging and well played with by the horns. Again, Horace's piano solo is astonishing, often weaving two or more lines at once. Eventually turning into a marvelous, majestic mostly unaccompanied piano solo, before the lovely muted horns return. Whomever the bowed bassist is (Miranda perhaps?) his solo here and elsewhere is another jewel in Tapscott's crown. The sextet do a poignant version of the standard, "I Remember Clifford" with some tasty trumpet, but it does feel a bit out of place with the high energy of the rest of this disc. Linda Hill provides another fine tune called, "Leland's Song", which has some memorable themes and go through some difficult alternating sections. Again, Tapscott's piano is a marvel of inventiveness as he weaves his way through different sections. Once again, we can thank the fine folks at Nimbus West for digging up another unheard gem from Horace Tapscott's treasure chest." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $13


PETER BROTZMANN/SHOJI HANO - Funny Rat/S 2 (Heart Lord/Kootown; Japan) Featuring Shoji Hano on drums and Peter Brotzmann on alto & tenor sax, clarinet & tarogato. This disc was recorded live at "Candy" in Chiba, Japan in April of 2007, almost two years ago to the day. Japanese drum wiz, Shoji Hano, has worked with Peter Brotzmann in the Daredevil Band as well as in a duo. Shoji has also collaborated with an eclectic group of players like Haino Keiji, Hugh Hopper, Nicky Skopelitis and the Japanese noise/power trio High Rise. This is Shoji's second of three duo discs that he's done with German sax legend Peter Brotzmann.
This disc features four long pieces, all (nearly) over 13 minutes. "A Jiggle Snaps the Lock" features Brotzmann on spooky, voice-like tarogato with Shoji on ritualistic free drums and cymbals. Shoji is a master of mallets and uses them superbly on his drums throughout this piece, slowly playing spiraling waves around the drums. Both of these musicians work well together, slowly building in intensity and tempo as the piece ascends higher and higher. Peter plays alto (?) on "An Essential Dream", the energy escalates as the two musician combine forces. This piece is the longest and the powerful energy is infectious, making me want to scream along. Yeah, go ahead!! Too much! Brotz seems to playing clarinet on "Frog F*ck", which is more laid back, spacious and develops slowly and cautiously. The final piece is called "Special Delivery" and Peter is play tenor with that righteous tone and attack that we all love so dearly. Once again the balance between the two players, the sound blend and controlled chaos is extraordinary as they sound like one connected force of nature. Shoji Hano's drumming is consistently strong, inventive and texturally diverse throughout. He is a perfect match for Peter Brotzmann, another dynamo that rarely seems to rest. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $25

STEPHEN GAUCI QUARTET With NELS CLINE/KEN FILIANO/MIKE PRIDE - Red Feast (Cadence 1216; USA) Featuring Stephen Gauci on tenor sax, Nels Cline on guitar & electronics, Ken Filiano on bass & electronics and Mike Pride on drums. I was intrigued to see the line-up on this disc since some of the folks had never played together and had come from different backgrounds. It came together due to a friend of Steve's who on the crew for Wilco, the roots/rock band that Nels is currently playing with. Although Steve & Mike had played together on different occasions and Nels & Ken had worked together in LA, as well as with Vinny Golia in a quartet that I booked at The Stone, this is a first time meeting of all four members of this quartet and man, do they take off!
"Escape from the Hell Realms" opens with some cautious, mysterious and most effective freer realms. I dig the way things build with Steve's tenor and Nels guitar bending their notes around one another magically. The rhythm team is also a fine form creating turbulent rhythms propulsive the proceedings higher and higher. On "Charnel House" the quartet do a fine job of creating dark and spooky sounds, churning, hypnotic and molasses-like in density. I dig when Steve and Nels toss sounds back and forth like a heated dialogue, with the rhythm team swirling intricately around them. On the title track Steve and Nels play quick yet calm waves of notes around each other. While Steve shows off his gracious, warm jazz-like tenor tone, Nels plays swell chords underneath. Ken takes a strong bass solo with Mike playing exquisite brushes along with him. "Blue Tara" has an eerie, spacious sound with ominous bowed bass, atmospheric guitar sounds, haunting sax and skeletal drums. I dig the it evolves slowly giving each of the four players a chance to stretch and push the music in their own directions. Finally, "Like a Madman Beyond All Limits" erupts quickly with streams of notes from all four burning together. A most impressive endeavor from four strong spirits meeting in the studio for the first time. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $15

TOMAS ULRICH'S CARGO CULT With ROLF STURM/MICHAEL BISIO - If You Should Go (Cadence 1214; USA) Featuring Tomas Ulrich on cello, Rolf Sturm on electric & acoustic guitars and Michael Bisio on bass. Although Tomas Ulrich is no doubt one of best and most in-demand cellists to emerge from the downtown scene over the past couple of decades, this is his first disc as a leader. Not only that, but this disc was the first concert by this fine trio recorded live in Kingston, NY in February of 2007. Tomas has worked with many of downtown's best: Dominic Ducal, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kevin Norton, Mark Whitecage, Steve Swell and Ben Allison. He also worked in Joe Gallant's Illuminati band with guitarist Rolf Sturm. Michael Bisio is another fine bassist who seems to keep pretty busy with Joe McPhee, Steve Gauci, Joe Giardullo and his Michael's own duos, trios, quartets and quintet.
Both Tomas and Rolf contributed two songs each with one group piece. Tomas' "The Last to Know" opens this disc with some scary, powerful unaccompanied cello. Soon Rolf's calm, spacious guitar enters, followed by some strong bowed bass from Mr. Bisio. This trio has a unique, enchanting sound with both the cello and bass bowing together on each side and Rolf playing slow-burning, daredevil guitar parts in the center. Rolf's "So Do You" has an older jazz guitar sound and style with Michael walking on the right and Rolf playing a great, quick witted guitar solo in the center with Tomas finally coming to pick up where Rolf left off, playing another long inspired and intense solo. "Rains End" is a quaint ballad with Rolf on acoustic guitar and a lovely but haunting cello solo by Tomas. "Existential Fragility" is short intense piece of free improv with some scary cello and more restrained guitar and bass. The final piece, "If You Should Go" has a sad, lovely, sort of sentimental melody. Rolf's echoplexed guitar solo is sparkling and quietly enchanting. This is a unique and mighty fine trio that doesn't sound like anything we've heard before. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $15

DAVID GROLLMAN & VALERIE KUENNE - Grollman & Kuenne (self released; USA) [limited edition CD-R, handmade cover] Featuring Dave Grollman on drums and Valerie Kuenne on cello. A few months in September of 2008, a good friend of mine and DMG's named David Hafer passed away. There were two guys named Dave (Grollman & Hafer) who showed up at our free music series almost every week, met at that series and became good friends. This past Saturday (March 28th), we held a memorial celebration for Mr. Hafer at his old apartment two doors down from the old store on the Bowery with music, poetry, spoken memories, food & drink. It was a good way to celebrate his life and get together with friends. At that party, this duo played along with guitarist Rob Price, who also has a duo disc out with Mr. Grollman. I didn't know of cellist Valerie Kuenne before this but was much impressed with her playing, both live and on this disc.
Although the instrumentation is cello and drums, it is often difficult to tell who is doing what. Dave's tribal sounding drums move in waves on the first long track with Valerie's cello spinning in the cracks. Dave does a fine job of rubbing or bowing cymbals and assorted pieces of percussion. Much of this is calm and quiet with a few occasional eruptions. There is a silly section where talks about his little pony and gets some laughs from the audience. By the second half the improvisations get more intense and have some truly inspired segments. The third piece is rather industrial-sounding and is at times over-the-top. I have to admit that Dave Grollman is a most impressive drummer, his playing is consistently fascinating, the cello comes close at times as well. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
CD $10

ANDREA PARKINS - Faulty (Broken Orbit) (Important 199; USA) "Faulty (Broken Orbit) re-imagines Faulty (Per-Objective), an hour long 10-channel site-specific audio work, premiered in 2007 at Diapason gallery for sound in NYC, with sponsorship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the New York Electronic Arts Festival. Faulty (Broken Orbit) is a poetic exploration of mic'ed surfaces and amplified quotidian objects activated into movement, layered against a shifting and slowly settling field of electric-accordion-driven feedback and processed instruments. This massive piece sets out to build elaborate systems in the manner of Rube Goldberg's circuitous contraptions, which Parkins claims as inspiration for both her customized sound processing software and compositional structures: emphasizing idiosyncrasy, tenuous states, and the threat of 'things falling apart.' Andrea Parkins is a NYC-based composer, sound/installation artist, and electro-multi-instrumentalist, acclaimed for her dynamic timbral explorations on electronically-processed accordion and inventive use of custom live sound processing. Together, her laptop electronics and Fender-amplified accordion create a gestural sonic language full of lush harmonics, noisy concretized disruption, and soaring electronic feedback."
CD $14

JOZEF VAN WISSEM - It Is All That Is Made (Important 232; USA) Brand new full length comprised of six compositions from acclaimed lutenist and James Blackshaw Brethren Of The Free Spirit bandmate Jozef Van Wissem. It Is All That Is Made consists of six trance-inducing circular pieces composed for 10 course renaissance -- and 13 course baroque lute. The titles of the pieces and the storyline critically juxtapose the first chapter of Genesis with more contemporary narratives. This evokes a parallel to the mixing of idiomatic classical lute material of the 17th century with modern folk and avantgarde music. The pieces are played forward, then backward, creating music that is potentially without beginning or end. It Is All That Is Made consists of recurring minimal themes emphasizing the listening experience. The photograph on the front cover was taken during a Portuguese festival last summer outside on the museum steps performing for a large crowd without any amplification or artificial light in true cinematic dogma style. Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach to the Renaissance and Baroque lute, probably the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary music. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings made in airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and early music. Van Wissem has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century contemporary music. Although he uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. Van Wissem first came to be noticed a few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to Renaissance lute music: He deconstructed existing compositions, for instance, by playing them backwards. He also composed his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. His music not so much demands concentrated listening, as it brings the listener in a state of concentrated listening. He performs extensively around the world. He also works with the likes of Maurizio Bianchi, James Blackshaw and Tetuzi Akiyama. With Blackshaw, he formed the duo Brethren of the Free Spirit. Van Wissem lectures, as well, on composing for and improvising on the lute."
CD $14

MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Yurikamome: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 3 (Important 236; USA) "Volume three of Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds series. Limited edition of 1000. Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13 month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Beginning in January 2009 one volume of 13 Japanese Birds will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released January 2010."
CD $14

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MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Fukurou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 2 (Important 233; USA) "Volume two of Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds series. Limited edition of 1000. Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13 month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Beginning in January 2009 one volume of 13 Japanese Birds will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released January 2010.
CD $14

MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Suzume: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 1 (Important 230; USA) On the flagship release to his 13 month/13 cd series Masami Akita, herein known as Merzbow, returns to his drumset to accompany his complex analogue noise. His prowess as a drummer rivals his abilities as a noise artist making this an essential and exciting entry into the Merzbow cannon.
CD $14



YOSHI WADA - Earth Horns With Electronic Drone: 77 Minute Edit (EM 1081; Japan) Yoshi Wada and EM Records presents the first-ever, world-premiere release of Earth Horns With Electronic Drone, recorded live in 1974. Combining four of Wada's self-made "pipehorns" (made from plumbing materials, over three meters in length), with an electronic drone tuned to the electrical current of the performance space, this is a lost masterpiece of early minimalism, placing Wada rightfully in the pantheon with La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, Maryanne Amacher and Alvin Lucier. Recorded live in Syracuse, New York, this recording captures the room-filling complex overtones generated by the ever-shifting interplay of the breathing horns and the constant electronic drone. This is a music of ritual hypnotic power, its heavy low-end mass and sense of change within constancy engendering a meditative transcendency. Earth Horns With Electronic Drone is the fourth and ultimate release in Em Records' Yoshi Wada series, a must for all fans of minimalism, heavy drones, ritual, mystery and world-shaking transcendence.
From an original performance of almost three hours, this CD features a 77-minute excerpt.
(The full performance is also available as a 3LP set (162 minutes).
From Earth horns to beyond the firmament: prepare to be elevated! Pipehorns constructed by Yoshi Wada; electronic equipment designed by Liz Phillips and Yoshi Wada; Electronics: Liz Phillips; Pipehorn Players: Jim Burton, Garrett List, Barbara Stewart and Yoshi Wada. 96khz/24bit digitally remastered, including a booklet with text in Japanese & English, and a reproduction circa-1975 Fluxus poster by George Maciunas.
CD $21

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YOSHI WADA - Earth Horns With Electronic Drone: Complete 162 Minute Performance [3 LP set] (EM 1081; Japan) The full 162 minute performance as a 3LP set (the CD edition features a 77-minute excerpt).
3 LP set for $72

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YOSHI WADA - Off The Wall (EM 1078; Japan) More Yoshi Wada from EM Records! The long-awaited reissue of Wada's 1985 LP Off The Wall, recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP-subsidiary SAJ label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ("massive," as Tom Johnson declares in his perceptive liner notes), Off The Wall features Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ, and percussionist Andreas Schmidt-Neri. The original album consisted of two side-long pieces recorded on successive days by Jost Geber, who captured the power and dynamics of the quartet without losing the meditative delicacy of the bagpipes and the intricacy of their interplay with the homemade organ (constructed by Wada), resulting in a slowly-evolving mosaic of combination tones and overtones. Simultaneously static yet changing, rooted and ethereal, homespun and alien, ancient and very modern, the music is created entirely with acoustic instruments but has "electronic" textures at times, yet is very warm and human, always pulsing, shifting and mutating. Em Records is pleased indeed to release Off The Wall for the first time ever on CD, with the bonus track "Die Konsonanten Pfeifen," a slightly earlier recording with Wada and Hankin on bagpipes and Kevin Newhoff on percussion, originally released as a cassette.
CD $21

YOSHI WADA - The Appointed Cloud (EM 1076; Japan) This is the first-ever release of the extraordinary 1987 performance of Yoshi Wada's interactive sound installation The Appointed Cloud, recorded in the Great Hall of the New York Hall of Science. This majestic recording captures 60 minutes of sound produced by a self-made 80-pipe organ, a pipe gong, sirens and a massive suspended metal sheet, all triggered by a computer program designed by David Rayna. The CD also features Wada, Bob Drombowski and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, plus Michael Pugliese (percussion). Dramatically structured, shifting and intense, The Appointed Cloud features massive low frequencies and regal percussion vying with the ululations of bagpipes, all resounding in the huge, reverberant space of the Great Hall with its 24-meter ceiling. This CD, the second Yoshi Wada release as a joint production of EM Records and Omega Point (the first being the reissue of 1982's Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile), is sure to delight all who enjoy drones, dynamics and drama. "His creation explores the effects of low, rumbling bass sounds and the higher, ringing tones of the organ as they reverberate off the curving walls of the space ... The work continues Wada's fascination with producing sub-sonic sounds -- sound frequencies so low that it seems the sounds are produced by the inner ear rather than an outside source." --from the liner notes
CD $21

YOSHI WADA - Lament For The Rise and Fall of Elephantine Crocodile (EM 1074; Japan) "If you have heard the music of Yoshi Wada, you have no doubt been impressed by his amazing sound-worlds. Born in Kyoto, he moved to New York in the late 1960s. He is well-known as a Fluxus artist with links to La Monte Young, and has been involved in many performances and sound installations. Finally, a CD reissue of his most important and rarest LP, Lament For Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile (1982, India Navigation)." Finally, a CD reissue of Yoshi Wada's most important and most rare LP, Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, originally released in 1982 on the India Navigation label. Yoshi Wada is a Japanese sound installation artist and musician -- he moved to New York in the late 1960s, and became well-known as a Fluxus artist with links to La Monte Young, and has been involved in many performances and sound installations. However, he has released only two recordings, which are both hard to find. This CD contains two pieces: track 1 features a solo overtone voice (he studied with legendary Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath) recorded at the performance space Dry Pool (literally a dry pool that Wada slept in before this recording), with a deep underground echoing feeling. Track 2 displays Wada's trademark dense psychedelic drones using his "pipe horn," a home-made, bagpipe-like instrument. These wondrous sounds will take you to another, better world. 96khz/24bit digitally remastered complete full-length version (original LP edition was edited). Liner notes in English & Japanese.
CD $21


GRAILS - Acid Rain [DVD] (Temporary Residence 147; USA) "Following up their widely acclaimed and most successful album, Doomsdayer's Holiday, Grails unleash their first-ever DVD, the career-spanning Acid Rain. Centered around a half dozen mind-altering music videos from their last few albums, Acid Rain also features nearly two hours of live shows from the past several years. Packed full of bonus material and special treats, Acid Rain is as bizarre, eclectic and otherworldly as their albums, with the added spectacle of debaucherous activities, vicarious cult obsessions, and street preachers on roller skates."
DVD $18

MONO - Hymn To The Immortal Wind [2 LP set] (Temporary Residence 148; USA) Double LP version with printed inner sleeves and seven full-color picture/short story inserts. "Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, Mono return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind. The music is naturally majestic, with Mono's trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up. While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of Mono's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become Mono's strongest virtue."
2 LP set for $20
also available on CD for $14


JIM DENLEY & KIM MYHR - Systems Realignment (Either/Oar 01; USA) "Jim Denley and Kim Myhr met in Sydney in early 2007, and Systems Realignment was recorded six months later. Since then the duo has done numerous concerts in Europe and Australia. Systems Realignment is not only a completely new take on guitar/saxophone combinations, but an attempt to rethink their fundamental musical methodology. There is an interest in materiality, almost at a primitive level, without being embarrassed to work with resulting harmonic structures. Frequency and rhythm is examined, but not within conventional grids. Perhaps the positivity of the result, comes from the project not rejecting other musics, but embracing elements from a vast range of sources ranging from traditional to contemporary and electronic music. The result is a lush and surprising flurry of acoustic, electronic and mechanical gestures."
CD $12

DROPP ENSEMBLE - Safety (Either/Oar 02; USA) "and/OAR is very pleased to present Safety, the second release on the either/OAR division and the third Dropp Ensemble release. It's not long into this mysterious offering before it gives you the feeling of standing in a dimly lit location with something hovering among the shadows, while seeing occasional quick movements from the corners of your eyes, leaving you wondering if your eyes are playing tricks on you. Translate this feeling to sound and we have common enough instruments, devices and processes, but hanging in a strange delicate balance, never quite exposing their true identities. Such is the skill that Dellaria and Sonderberg possess. Whomever has followed the history of Sonderberg from the earliest days of this Longbox Recording imprint to the present, has hopefully noticed his increasing mastery of oblique and abstract production with releases also from labels such as Tonschacht, Cathnor, Crouton, Absurd and Twenty Hertz, plus his work with other projects such as Haptic and Civil War. Background in brief: In 2003 Dellaria/Sonderberg founded, and co-direct Dropp Ensemble (pronounced 'drope' -- Swedish for 'drip feed') which consists of an international grouping of musicians and technicians that work together in person or through the mail. The materials are pooled, and undergo extensive production and editing by the duo."
CD $12


WAX POETICS - "The Jazz Issue 2009" [Magazine] (WP 34; USA) On the covers, front: John Coltrane, back: Freddie Hubbard. Contents: Re:Discovery, In Memoriam, 9DW, Stonephace, Ululation, Melvin Sparks, Horace Tapscott, Richard Evans, Creed Taylor (the man behind Impulse, Verve, and CTI Records), Joel Dorn, Analog Out." 112 pages, full color, high gloss, incredibly well done & essential. 34th issue of this U.S.-based production.
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PHIL KLINE - Around The World In A Daze [2 DVD-A] (Starkland 2015; USA) DVD-Audio release, total Content: 110 min. NTSC format, All Region. "Leading new-music composer Phil Kline debuts a major work on this new surround sound DVD. Heard here for the first time, this 65-minute studio composition was commissioned by Starkland to premiere on this high-resolution surround-sound DVD. Daze is Kline's longest work and biggest commission to date. Daze is also likely the largest work so far commissioned for a high-resolution surround-sound recording. Performers include the uber-cool Ethel string quartet and violin virtuoso Todd Reynolds. Surround-sound tracks place listeners inside wondrous boombox choirs, an ethereal Ethel string quartet, a weird madrigal, hyper-dense bells (hundreds of thousands at one point), richly mournful multi-tracked vocals, soaring violinistics, and an immersive environment of 15,000 African gray parrots. The release also offers a second Extras DVD with a composer-produced music video and a 30-minute interview with Kline and John Schaefer. The custom 5"x10" digipak includes a 24-page booklet. The two DVDs contain a total content of 110 minutes. This release follows Starkland's groundbreaking surround-sound Immersion DVD, now recognized as the first commissioned high-resolution surround-sound recording. Immersion won praise from Sound & Vision, Stereophile, Billboard, etc. and was the #1 best-selling DVD-Audio at Amazon for nearly a year. The main disc offers Daze in several formats for various home playback setups: the standard Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1, and high-resolution audiophile DVD-Audio, as well as a stereo version. Playback of the Daze music is accompanied by over 80 images shot by Kline."
2 DVD-A set for $16



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WILLIAM PARKER With TRISTAN HONSINGER/TOSHINORI KONDO/BILLY BANG/CHARLES BRACKEEN et al - through acceptance of the mystery peace (Centering/Eremite 12; USA) recordings from a 5 year period 1974-1979. william parker bass; ramsey ameen, billy bang, jason kao hwang and polly bradfield violins; tristan honsinger cello; peter kuhn, rozanne levine and henry warner clarinets; arthur williams trumpet; toshinori kondo alto horn; charles brackeen and john hagan tenor saxophones; will connell, jr alto saxophone and flute; jemeel moondoc alto saxophone; daniel carter alto and tenor saxophone, flute, trumpet; roger baird and denis charles drums. william parker's earliest recordings as a leader. first released in 1979 on his own centering records (centering 1001), in an edition of 500 copies, THROUGH ACCEPTANCE OF THE MYSTERY PEACE has been a much sought-after collectors item for many years. eremite is proud to return this vital and historically valuable music to common circulation. five ensembles recorded between 1974 and 1979, ranging in size from trio to octet. dennis charles, charles brackeen, billy bang, jason hwang, jemeel moondoc, daniel carter, toshinori kondo, tristan honsiger, polly bradfield, and numerous others from far corners of the nyc free music community. an altogether different view of the new york loft scene than that provided by the Wildflowers Sessions. Includes one previously unissued performance.
CD $15


DARTINGTON IMPROVISING TRIO [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/JULIE TIPPETTS [DRISCOLL]] - Dartington Trio: Live at the BBC/Live At The Vortex (FMR 133; UK) Finally released after being announced three years ago. This CD is now what the trio have agreed is worthy of being heard from what was originally supposed to be two different releases, this one [#133, originally self-titled and to be all BBC recordings] and the no-longer to be released #137 [Live At The Vortex]
CD $16

DARTINGTON IMPROVISING TRIO [KEITH TIPPETT/PAUL DUNMALL/JULIE TIPPETTS [DRISCOLL]] - Live At The Priory (FMR 161; UK) Another exquisite gem from three of our favorite British musicians. This was recorded live at The Priory in Southend-on-Sea as part of the Southend International Jazz Festival in August of 2004. If you get the feeling that reeds giant, Paul Dunmall, never sleeps, you wouldn't be far from the truth as he seems to have another release or two every month. Manny and my favorite pianist, Keith Tippett, records much more infrequently, so that we have time to savor each and every disc. Vocalist extraordinare, Julie Tippetts (once known as Julie Driscoll in a previous incarnation), is on fewer records still, so again we get a chance to enjoy each rare treasure that she appears on. This particular CD consists of one long 53 minute work that I find completely enchanting throughout. Keith plays both inside and on the keyboard of his piano, Julie uses her mysterious voice and plays assorted percussion & some thumb-piano and Paul plays soprano & tenor saxes & a double reed of some kind. From extremely delicate and sublime to free-floating spaciousness to far away eastern lands, eventually the tempo quickens and heavens part. It builds slowly and transcends ever upwards. Perfect music to put one in a deep trance and help us travel to other worlds, inside and outside. I found it impossible to take off once the journey had begun and was quite satisfied by the end. - BLG
CD $16


JUST DRUMS [V.A. With BILLY MARTIN/MICHAEL EVANS/JOHN HOLLENBECK/ANDREW DRURY/MIKE PRIDE et al] - II: The Project [2 CD set] (Fever Pitch 31; USA) Features 35 tracks of primarily solo percussion from John Hollenbeck, Chris Corsano, Fast Forward, Gino Robair, Andrew Drury, Jeff Arnal & Ben Hall, Jim Pugliese, Moe! Staiano, Ches Smith, Michael Evans, Christine Bard, Billy Martin, Sean Meehan, Ravish Momin, William Winant, Trey Spruance, & more. This Just Drums II double CD is a compilation of experimental music by drummers and percussionists. The result is a wide variety of percussion oriented compositions from solo drumming, percussion sounds and electronic manipulation. It's stimulating, it's fun, you'll laugh, you'll cry... A Fever Pitch magazine release.
CD $15



GURU GURU [MANI NEUMEIER et al] - UFO (Lion Prod. 626; Canada) Formed in the summer 1968, when, as acoustic musicians Mani Neumeier and Uli Trepte (up to then Free Jazz) said, 'everyone bought a strong amplifier.' The album text goes on to note that: 'There are many groups who practice with acoustic or electronic instruments a spontaneously changing music, which is characterized as improvisation. Actual improvisation, however -- like for example with the Guru Guru -- is not straight ahead. They orient themselves at agreed upon structures.' Given freedom by the freest label of the day, free jazz drummer Mani Neumeier and bassist Uli Trepte and guitarist extraordinaire Ax Genrich let the acid and the musical innovation flow. Guru Guru were genius, and UFO (released in 1970) was their first testament. Like any truly groundbreaking and important album, UFO makes one ask oneself bizarre questions such as, 'could the members of Joy Division have heard this album?' or induces one to make emphatic statements like 'so this is where Throbbing Gristle got the idea.' This is an album which is Uber-psychedelic, proto-industrial, free in every sense. Or as one writer said, 'A high water mark for acid psychedelia that possibly cannot be beat.' Our Lion Productions edition comes with a 20-page booklet which contains band info, a history of Rolf Ulrich Kaiser and OHR Records, and an OHR label discography.
CD $16

SERGIUS GOLOWIN - Lord Krishna Von Goloka (Lion Prod. 628; Canada) "In 1973, Rolf Ulrich Kaiser's visionary powers acted as a catalyst for an authentic combination of acid, music and spirituality: the mystical LSD-fueled musical project Lord Krishna Von Goloka. For this adventure into Indian and Oriental mythologies and legends, Kaiser asked esoteric Swiss artist (he was a friend of Giger's), poet, specialist on Alpine folklore, and friend of Timothy Leary, Sergius Golowin, to join a group of musicians including Klaus Schulze and members of Wallenstein and Witthuser + Westrupp. It was perhaps mere coincidence that Golowin's classic treatise on witches, herbs, and magic mushrooms was published that same year (Magie Der Verbotenen Marchen); the book was fast becoming a cult item -- it was secretly xeroxed in what was then-Communist East Germany, and later distributed in the hippie-underground there. Sergius Golowin's intellectual and spiritual world of occultism, popular legends, and shamanism were the foundation for the project. He was responsible for the lyrics, which consisted of incantatory recitations in German over the multi-textural compositions. Our Lion Productions edition comes with a 24-page booklet which includes a Sergius Golowin biography, plus translated excerpts from interviews and texts, a list of Golowin's writings, translations of the original LP notes, text, and lyrics, as well as a Kosmischen Kuriere label discography. And on a personal note, we have long thought the song 'Die Weisse Alm' to be perhaps the perfect cosmic folk track: blissed out and uplifting, without being cloying."
CD $16

EMTIDI - Saat (Lion Prod. 627; Canada) "Recording in a good studio in 1972 with an accomplished engineer/musician such as Dieter Dierks (Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Tangerine Dream, and yes, the Scorpions), certainly enabled Emtidi to expand their musical style on Saat. The end result was a shimmering, lush cosmic folk trip, with multi-tracked and treated acoustic guitars plus electric piano, fragile angelic femme vocals, vibes, and mellotron, (punctuated by the occasional acid guitar solo). Yes, Saat is an elevated cosmic folk brew of a refined and most magical kind -- a richly textured sound thick with treated guitars, phased keyboards and trippy electronics, rendering a cosmic atmosphere similar to vintage Klaus Schulze or Ash Ra Tempel, and creating an album which has been called 'one of the most beautiful cosmic treks of all time.' Pastoral imagery runs like a green silken thread throughout this beautiful record, starting with the front cover, a psychedelic airbrush painting of a pink stardust ear of wheat ('saat' means 'seed'), and the inner gatefold, which depicts a luxurious golden field of corn. Bountiful and blissful. Our Lion Productions edition comes with a 16-page booklet which contains band info, a history of Rolf Ulrich Kaiser and his OHR/Pilz/Kosmischen Kuriere Records empire, and a Pilz label discography."
CD $16


MOBY GRAPE [ALEXANDER 'SKIP' SPENCE et al] - The Place And The Time: Rare Tracks 1967-1968 (Sundazed 11206; USA) "Despite a myriad of obstacles, Moby Grape managed to persevere and create a potent and enduring body of recorded work, recording four albums during its original 1967-1969 lifespan. While 1967's Moby Grape is widely acknowledged as a classic (and one of rock's greatest debut albums), the subsequent Wow, Moby Grape '69 and Truly Fine Citizen are all underrated gems. It's a measure of the musicians' abundance of talent and creativity that, despite the multiple roadblocks that they confronted, Moby Grape recorded prolifically and cut a wealth of originally unreleased material. The Place And The Time offers a scintillating assortment of rare tracks cut during the band's heady 1967-1968 heyday. Encompassing audition recordings, album outtakes, alternate versions, live material and more, the recordings offer a powerful testament to the remarkable rapport that made Moby Grape such a unique force. The fact that music this stunning and original sat on the shelf for so long is just another in the litany of injustices that haunt the Moby Grape story. But the band's majestic recorded legacy has outlasted the bad luck, bad choices and bad vibes. The music remains as fresh and inspiring as ever, and the vintage material featured in this collection constitutes a crucial addition to Moby Grape's already monumental body of work."
CD $18


PETER WALKER - Long Lost Tapes 1970 (Tompkins Square 2103; USA) Hi quality, previously unreleased recordings from 1970 from the great raga-guitarist, Peter Walker (whose 2 essential Vanguard albums remain criminally unavailable). Peter's group includes: Maruga Booker (trap and frame drums, bells), Perry Robinson (clarinet), Badal Roy (tablas), Rishi (bass), Mark Whitecage (flute and alto sax). "One cold late fall weekend I put a session together. I found housing for the out of town musicians and invited my friend Maruga Booker who came all the way from Detroit, Badal Roy and I had played together and he was available so he came up from New Jersey, the rest of the guys were already in Woodstock that week. It all came together at Levon Helm's house while Levon was away. I traded with Eddy Offord for the equipment rental and engineering, so in so many ways it was a classic 'Woodstock Production'. It was my last major effort before years of obscurity and remained in storage all these years. Josh Rosenthal encouraged me to dig it out and release it so here it is, I hope you like it." -- Peter Walker, Woodstock, NY, 2008
CD $14


ELDER UTAH SMITH - I Got Two Wings [CD + Book] (CaseQuarter 104; USA) "The electric riff was still a recent miracle when Elder Utah Smith, a superstar evangelist and guitarist from northwest Louisiana, first recorded his signature ascension song, "I Got Two Wings," in 1944. He meant what he sang: Smith typically presided at services in giant homemade seraphim wings. But his musical gifts were very much of this earth: a pitted roar as big and deep as Howlin' Wolf's; an agile clawing attack on guitar, a rough mix of runaway Robert Johnson and sanctified Charlie Christian. Smith cut multiple versions of his hymn for different labels, each a proto-rock & roll train to glory, and they are all on the CD that comes with Lynn Abbott's energetic biography." -David Fricke, ROLLING STONE
CD $16


SONGS OF THE CROOKED DANCE [V.A.] - Early Bulgarian Traditional Music 1927-1942 (Yazoo 7016; USA) "A collection of some of the finest Bulgarian traditional music ever recorded. Documented in the 1920s and '30s, these rare recordings capture the music in all its glory and power. This CD presents a sweeping overview of the whole spectrum of rural and urban Bulgarian music." Includes 32-page booklet.
CD $16

KLEZMER! [V.A.] - Jewish Music From Old World To Our World (Yazoo 7017; USA) "A companion CD to Henry Sapoznik's book Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World (Schirmer) is a chronological anthology which offers an overview of the diversity, audacity and enthusiasm that was Yiddish popular culture at its height, its decline and its current revitalization."
CD $16

THE WHEELS OF THE WORLD [V.A.] - Vol 1: Early Irish-American Music - Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's (Yazoo 7008; USA) "A collection of all-time great performances of Irish traditional music, including selections by such legendary artists as Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Patrick Touhey, Mullaney and Stack, Flannagan Brothers, Packie Dolan, and many, many more. These recordings were made primarily in the 1920s when the pure power of this wonderful tradition was at its peak, and were all made in America, to which a great many of the master Irish musicians had immigrated. Many of these very recordings played a huge role in establishing the basic repertoire of tunes played by Irish musicians for the rest of the 20th century." "Chronicles some of the seminal performers of the first generation of Irish-Americans to record. Among the fiddlers, two stand out in particular - Michael Coleman for the depth and subtlety of his interpretations and James Morrison for his brilliants technique. And Patrick J. Touhey's uillean pipes are a revelation." -- Newark Star Ledger
CD $16

THE WHEELS OF THE WORLD [V.A.] - Vol 2: Early Irish-American Music - Classic Recordings From The 1920's & 30's (Yazoo 7009; USA) "There is no shortage today of talented, even virtuosic, Irish traditional musicians. The 'world music' bins of record stores overflow with Irish discs that have the kind of clean digital sound and sophisticated modern arrangements that the old 78s cannot match. Try as they might, however, today's musicians cannot match the expressive emotion, earthy humor or propulsive rhythmic energy displayed so abundantly on these classic Irish-American recordings from the 1920s and '30s." Artists include Packie Dolan, John McKenna, Michael Gaffney, Michael Coleman, Peter Conlon, Frank Quinn, James Morrison, Edward Mullaney & Patrick Stack, Paddy Sweeney & Paddy Killoran, The Flanagan Brothers, Dan Sullivan and William J. Mullaly. "A preservationist's dream...yields an intimacy not found today." -- Time Out New York
CD $16


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Remaining stocks of INCUS CDs
[now that we've organized what's left after our move..]


ACOUSTIC GUITAR TRIO [ROD POOLE/NELS CLINE/JIM McAULEY] - Acoustic Guitar Trio (Incus 46; UK) "Recorded Los Angeles 2000. Rod Poole (acoustic guitar, bowed guitar). Nels Cline (acoustic guitars). Jim McAuley (acoustic guitars)." This is an improvising trio that have been playing around in the LA area in recent times; McAuley and Poole are both on Nels Cline's all-time"Top 200 Guitarists" list. McAuley is known as a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque (classical guitar), and Poole is the genius Just Intonation force of modern times (see his mesmerizing solo albums The Death Adder and Iasis ). The result is more richly detailed and sonically pleasurable sound base than one sometimes gears up for when approaching the Incus label. According to Nels these guys are known to make up tunings mere minutes before improvising, but the results would indicate a deeply engrained empathy.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/JOHN STEVENS - Playing (Incus 14; UK) '92 studio duo.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/JAMIE MUIR - Dart Drug (Incus 19; UK) Reissue of a 1981 LP, feat. Bailey (guitar) and fellow co-founder of Music Improvisation Company, the legendary, one-time King Crimson-ite Muir. Lots of hovering harmonics as Derek's feedback shoves into the space of Muir's floating timbral spectrum, a masterpiece of sound control.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - Takes Fakes & Dead She Dances (Incus 31; UK) Solo guitar album, with both acoustic & electric cuts. Features 2 live tracks from 9/97, and 8 studio recordings from 5/97, produced by Steve Beresford. "A number of Derek Bailey solo records have appeared in recent times, all either reissues or previously unreleased recordings made in the 1970s or 1980s. Takes Fakes... is his first solo record in seven years."
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/SUSIE IBARRA - Daedal (Incus 36; UK) "Audio document of a February 1999 studio mind-meld between Ibarra (student of Milford Graves, regular of the David S. Ware, William Parker, and Assif Tsahar ensembles, and at one point, fill in drummer for John Zorn's Masada, won the Jazziz magazine 'best new talent' award for 1998) and Bailey focusing on sparse, intuitive rhythmic space (and a few guitar notes every now & then). A fine cure for what ails you."-- Hrvatski.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/ALEX WARD - LOCationAL (Incus 37; UK) "Derek Bailey (guitar), Alex Ward (clarinet)." Five studio tracks, recorded in 1998-99. Plus one live track from 10/98
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - New Sights, Old Sounds [2 CD set] (Incus 48/49; UK) Much desired reissue of one of the most obscure Bailey releases ever, from the long long defunct Morgue label of Japan (run by the legendary promoter Aquirax Aida). Derek has been trying to buy back the masters to this one for a decade+ and has finally succeeded! All tracks are solo guitar (acoustic & electric), the first disc features studio recordings with titles taken from Byron's Don Juan ; the 2nd disc features live recordings from Nagoya and Kalavinka -- all recorded 1978. "Incus has aquired the masters of New Sights Old Sounds , the double solo album Derek Bailey recorded for the Morgue Iabel in 1978. Issued in Japan in 1978 it has been out of print since 1979. It is now issued as a double CD on Incus with the original artwork."
CD $28

DEREK BAILEY/MIN XIAO-FEN - Flying Dragons (Incus 50; UK) "Derek Bailey (guitar) & Mm Xiao-Fen (pipa). Recorded N.Y.C. 1999."
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/JULIAN KYTASTY/ROGER TURNER/ALAN WILKINSON - Duos, London 2001 (Incus 51; UK) "Derek Bailey with: Julian Kytasty (bandura/flute), Roger Turner (percussion), Alan Wilkinson (baritone sax, voice)."
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/SUSIE IBARRA - Bids (Incus 52; UK) "Derek Bailey, electric guitar, Susie Ibarra, percussion. Recorded Kongsberg, Norway 2001."
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/TRISTAN HONSINGER - Tristan [aka Duo] (Incus 53; UK) Derek Bailey (guitar, 19-string guitar); Tristan Honsinger (cello). Recorded live in Massy, France 1975 & London 1976. The London recordings previously issued on Incus LP 20 DUO .
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/INGAR ZACH - Seven (Incus 54; UK) Derek Bailey: acoustic guitar; Ingar Zach: percussion. Recorded February 2002. Zach co-runs the Norwegian label SOFA and is a member of Tri-Dim (recently remixed by Jim O'Rourke).
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/TONY BEVAN/SONIC PLEASURE/ALEX WARD/T.H.F. DRENCHING - Limescale (Incus 56; UK) Derek Bailey: guitar; Tony Bevan: bass saxophone; Sonic Pleasure: bricks, Alex Ward: clarinet; T.H.F. Drenching: dictaphone. Recorded at The Moat Studio, London, 12/02.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY/HAN BENNINK - Han (Incus 02; UK) 'During March 1986, Han Bennink, the Dutch master drummer, and I played a short tour of England - eight concerts in seven days. Of the many times we have played together over the past twenty years or so, this was probably my favourite bout. Four of the concerts were recorded and this disc is a compilation of five excerpts from these concerts. There is no attempt to disguise the edits but the music is presented as two continuous pieces - the way we usually play a concert.' Derek Bailey.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - Solo Guitar Vol 1 (Incus 10; UK) 'Derek Bailey plays electric guitar plus VCS3 synthesiser on Where is the police? ; on Christiani Eddy he plays electric guitar unamplified and on The squirrel and the ricketty-racketty bridge he plays two acoustic guitars at the same time (not double-tracked). The improvisations are on electric guitar.' Recorded February 1971; equipment and recording Hugh Davies and Bob Woolford.
Improvisations 4, 5, 6, and 7 and the three compositions were previously released on Incus LP 2 in 1971. In 1978 the record was re-released as Incus 2R with the improvisations replaced by Improvisations 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. Incus CD10 brings all the material from the two LPs together.
Improvisation 5 was released on the Compilation CD Not necessarily English music on EFM CD 036 in 2002.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - Solo Guitar Vol 2 (Incus 11; UK) Derek Bailey, solo guitar. Ten 10 (17.08), Ten 28 (06.33), Two 50 (06.28), Two 57 (03.25), Three (04.04), Three 05 (02.44), Three 08 (01.21).
Recorded on 22 June 1991 at approximately the times indicated.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - South: Solo Guitar Series No 4 [ltd CD-R] (Incus Sideline Store; UK) Derek Bailey, solo guitar recorded in Miami and Orlando, 1999. Released 2002
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - Different Guitars: Solo Guitar Series No 5 [ltd CD-R] (Incus Sideline Store; UK) 5 cuts on 19 string from the early '70s; 1 cut recorded at Plan B with Min Tanaka dancing December 8th 1987; and 2 cuts using a Gibson Super 400 recorded in Berkeley CA by Greg Goodman April 1992. Released 2002
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - The Appleyard File: Solo Guitar Series No 1 ? [ltd CD-R] (Incus Sideline Store; UK) Confidential: Things you might like to know about Charlie Appleyard. Five cuts including "The Good, The Bad, & The Gruesome"
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - Chats: Solo Guitar Series No 2 ? [ltd CD-R] (Incus Sideline Store; UK) A collection of talking / playing pieces by Derek Bailey from different times and of varied provenance. 13 cuts, only 1 or 2 that have ever appeared before but are long out-of-print.
CD $20

DEREK BAILEY - At The Sidecar - Live At G's Club: Solo Guitar Series No 7 ? [ltd CD-R] (Incus Sideline Store; UK) D Bailey solo elec gtr. Recorded at G's Club, Sidecar, Placa Reial, Barcelona, 10th February 2004
CD $20

HAN BENNINK/DEREK BAILEY - Post improvisation 1: when we're smiling (Incus 34; UK) "On the phone: 'What you doing, Han?' 'I'm practicing. Of course.' 'Me too. Of course. Listen, Han, why don't you record something, post it, and I'll play with it; and I'll record something, post it, and you play with that; and let's see what we've got?' "Yes! Great.'"
CD $20

HAN BENNINK/DEREK BAILEY - Post improvisation 2: air mail special (Incus 35; UK) In early 1999, Derek Bailey and Han Bennink discussed over the phone the idea of exchanging practice tapes for each other to play with. Out of this arose two CDs, Incus CD 34 and this CD. On this CD, Derek recorded acoustic guitar at various locations in Downs Road in summer 1999 and Han recorded over these in the BIMhuis. The earlier CD was recorded first and had worked in the opposite direction, Han recording first.
CD $20

STEVE BERESFORD/DENNIS PALMER/BOB STAGNER/ROGER TURNER - Short In The UK (Incus 27; UK) Ten improvisations by the TN duo known as the Shaking Ray Levis: Palmer (synthesizers, voice) & Stagner (drums, perc.) in collaboration with veteran UK improvisers Beresford (keyboards, small trumpet) & Turner (perc.). Recorded in London, 1994. Crazed improv. at least partially influenced by their shared interests in "TV cartoons, Baptist preaching, mushy peas, the world of the painter and preacher The Reverend Howard Finster," etc
CD $20

TONY BEVAN/GREG KINGSTON/MATT LEWIS - Original Gravity (Incus 03; UK) Tenor sax, guitar, toys, recorder, tapes, percussion, cello, drum, bird calls, etc.
CD $20

JOHN BUTCHER/VENESSA MACKNESS - Respiritus (Incus 21; UK) "...test the ears and patience of yr so called 'friends' -- the trained (operatic) vocalizings of ms. mackness dance and squeak around the flutter-scronk of mr. butcher (he of long-standing brit-free improv fame). Pure frontal-excursion, quiet and slippery..." -- Sonic Death
CD $20

MUSIC IMPROVISATION COMPANY [DEREK BAILEY/EVAN PARKER/HUGH DAVIES/JAMIE MUIR] - 1968-1971 (Incus 12; UK) Jamie Muir, percussion; Hugh Davies, live electronics & organ; Evan Parker , soprano saxophone & amplified auto-harp; Derek Bailey, guitar .
Tracks 1 to 4 recorded in mono in London on 4 July 1969; tracks 5 & 6 recorded in stereo in London on 18 June 1970. CD is a re-issue of Incus LP 17 which is no longer available
CD $20

COMPANY [DEREK BAILEY With BARRE PHILLIPS/TRISTAN HONSINGER/STEVE NOBLE/RICHARD TEITELBAUM et al] - Once (Incus 04; UK) Live '87, Barre Phillips, Tristan Honsinger, Richard Teitelbaum, Steve Noble, Bailey etc.
CD $20

COMPANY [DEREK BAILEY With ANTHONY BRAXTON/STEVE LACY/LOL COXHILL/EVAN PARKER/LEO SMITH/STEVE BERESFORD/MAARTEN ALTENA/TRISTAN HONSINGER/HAN BENNINK] - 6 & 7 (Incus 07; UK) Leo Smith, trumpet and flute; Maarten van Regteren Altena, bass; Evan Parker, tenor and soprano saxophones; Steve Lacy, soprano saxophone; Tristan Honsinger, cello; Lol Coxhill, soprano saxophone; Anthony Braxton, soprano and alto saxophones, clarinet, flute; Steve Beresford, piano, guitar, etc.; Han Bennink, drums, viola, clarinet, banjo etc.; Derek Bailey, electric and acoustic guitars.
From the first Company Week, 1977. Bailey, Parker, Lacy, Coxhill, Bennink, Honsinger, Altena, etc. Recorded at the ICA London by Riverside, May 25-27 1977. "Listened to with ears of 1991, the playing has a naive immediacy that is almost chilling." - Ben Watson. Contains all cuts found cuts Incus LP #30 [Company 7] and 4 cuts from Incus LP #29 [Company 6]
CD $20

COMPANY [DEREK BAILEY With JOHN ZORN/BUCKETHEAD/PAUL LOVENS/ALEXANDER BALENENSCU et al] - '91: Vol 3 (Incus 18; UK) Company Week is one of those annual events (now defunct) that boggles the imagination of the free-improv world, as organized by Derek Bailey. In 1991, John Zorn (alto sax), Alexander Balanescu (violin), Vanessa Mackness (voice), Yves Robert (trombone), Buckethead (guitar), Paul Lovens (percussion), Bailey (guitar), Paul Rogers (bass), and Pat Thomas (electronics/keyboards) met up for 5 days of improvising. All musicians appear on all 3 discs (in various combinations). Of special note is a 12-minute feedback duel between Mr. Bailey & Mr. Buckethead at the end of this volume.
CD $20

COMPANY [DEREK BAILEY With JOHN ZORN/BUCKETHEAD/PAUL LOVENS/ALEXANDER BALENENSCU et al] - '91: Vol 2 (Incus 17; UK) Company Week is one of those annual events (now defunct) that boggles the imagination of the free-improv world, as organized by Derek Bailey. In 1991, John Zorn (alto sax), Alexander Balanescu (violin), Vanessa Mackness (voice), Yves Robert (trombone), Buckethead (guitar), Paul Lovens (percussion), Bailey (guitar), Paul Rogers (bass), and Pat Thomas (electronics/keyboards) met up for 5 days of improvising. All musicians appear on all 3 discs (in various combinations).
CD $20

COMPANY [DEREK BAILEY With RHODRI DAVIES/SIMON H FELL/MARK WASTELL/WILL GAINES] - In Marseille [2 CD set] (Incus 44/45; UK) "Derek Bailey (guitar), Rhodri Davies (harp), Simon H. Fell (bass), Will Gaines (danse claquettes), Mark Wastell (cello). A double CD recorded in Marseille 1999."
CD $28

WILL GAINES With DEREK BAILEY - Rappin & Tappin (Incus 55; UK) Will Gaines: tap; Derek Bailey: guitar. Recorded at the Oostrum Church, Holland, 1994.
CD $20

PAUL HESSION/ALAN WILKINSON/SIMON FELL/JOE MORRIS - Registered Firm (Incus 33; UK) "1996 grouping of saxophonist Alan Wilkinson, bassist Simon Fell, and tubsman Paul Hession (known collectively for their body of work for the Bruce's Fingers and Shock recording organizations, individually for records on Leo and Incus) and guitarist Joe Morris (leader of many fine sessions released on the Aum Fidelity, Knitting Factory, Soul Note, Leo, Hat Art, etc... labels) notable for bridging the Atlantic chasm of US/UK 'energy' jazz circles (a feat worth noting in the apparent cul-de-sac of pan-national out-jazz ensembles). A fine display of blurted spirituality in a decidedly non-bearded setting (despite the appearance of just that on the mugs of mssrs. Morris/Hession). 7 pieces (such as 'Spaceships are Crap' or 'If I've Offended Anyone, I Apologize') over 53 minutes... Red-blooded." --Hrvatski.
CD $20

JOSEPH HOLBROOKE TRIO [DEREK BAILEY/GAVIN BRYARS/TONY OXLEY] - '98 (Incus 39; UK) "Derek Bailey (guitar), Gavin Bryars (bass), Tony Oxley (drums). First performance together since 1966. Recorded in Cologne 1998." "So here they were, together again after 32 years, which is equivalent to the period separating Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings and Ornette Coleman's Tomorrow Is The Question . The essence of the trio was there from Bailey's opening pair of acerbic chords, through Bryars' ever attentive basslines, to Oxley's orchestrations of time itself. There was no sense of nostalgia here, more the feel of three men resuming a conversation they had begun some time ago, while mindful that their subject matter back then has been widely discussed in many languages since, and that this was a restatement through minds enriched with subsequent experiences." -- Andy Shone/ The Wire .
CD $20

JOSEPH HOLBROOKE TRIO [DEREK BAILEY/GAVIN BRYARS/TONY OXLEY] - '65 (Rehearsal Extract) [CD ep] (Incus S01; UK) "CD single (10 & 1/2 minutes) of the Joseph Holbrooke group, recorded in 1965. With Derek Bailey (guitar), Gavin Bryars (bass) and Tony Oxley (drums) -- a legendary ensemble, and a key to the whole dawn of the European free music arena.. The first and only issued recording by this trio (named after an obscure turn-of-the-century UK composer, Joseph Holbrooke) during thier original sixties union.
CD $12

HENRY KAISER/JOHN OSWALD - Improvised (Vancouver) (Incus 26; UK) Guitar/sax duets. Includes one half of the legendary Music Gallery Editions LP, recorded in Vancouver, 1978. And then 4 new recordings from the same space in Vancouver, recorded 18 years later in 1996. "Old and new, the selections heard here are excerpts from a conversation that has been going on for more than 20 years." --Alex Varty.
CD $20

JIM O'ROURKE/MATS GUSTAFSSON - Xylophonen Virtuosen (Incus 38; UK) "Mats Gustafsson (tenor sax, flutephone, flute), Jim O'Rourke (guitar, junk)." Studio sessions recorded in Chicago, 9/23/99.
CD $20

SHAKING RAY LEVIS [DENNIS PALMER/BOB STAGNER] With DEREK BAILEY - Live At Lamar's [ltd CD-R] (Incus Sideline Store; UK) Derek Bailey, guitar - Dennis Palmer, synthesisers - Bob Stagner, percussion. Recorded at Lamar's Chattanooga 1999. Released 2003.
CD $20

ROGER SMITH & NEIL METCALFE - S&M (Incus 24; UK) Smith (guitar) & Metcalfe (flute). "A sequence of recordings made over a 15 month period between 1994-1995. Again, this is the first released recording by a long established duo."
CD $20

JOHN ZORN/FRED FRITH - Art of Memory (Incus 20; UK) Improv duets, in a very free, Incus-style, recorded at Victoriaville. Zorn (alto sax) and Frith (guitar) have dedicated this release to Derek and Evan, as a tribute to their ground breaking work with Incus in the early 70s, and it's a very suitable document.
CD $20


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