Hoppy T. Frog

What did I buy over the weekend? TOO FUCKING MUCH oh, and the Mariinsky recording of Shostakovich's "The Nose".

Baltimore represent!

Man, that is the fakest photo since all those curtains started appearing in front of Stalin's old friends.

I have to say three cheers for Archeophone specifically because they troll these byways that are written out of the official histories of American pop culture. The past was as complicated a place as today is.

I am convinced all the "Audiophile" "180-gram" vinyl out there from previously unknown record labels are either boots or straight up pirates (especially the ones that claim to issued by the original label)

So Cosby likes the Art Ensemble but not Anthony Braxton?

I think "The Wire" (the magazine, not the TV show)coined that term, so yeah, that sounds about right. See also: "post-rock", "trip-hop", "new weird America", "hypnogogic pop", "hauntology" etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

All I was sayin' re: your categorical statement that nobody rates it. (And I know you exaggerate for effect--it's funny until my particular ox gets gored.) Hoppy "Stuck in bumper-to bumper traffic on I-270 as we speak"

Payment details are pretty sketchy. Are you planning to order this? How would I go about it? The Europeans seem to go for instant bank transfers which are not available here in the USA. Has anyone bought anything straight from FMP?

PM Sent Mobley

Is anybody domestic (USA) going to be carrying this? The last bunch came through JazzLoft.

Bullshit. "Anyone" apart from African Americans of all ages in a swath from Baltimore to Petersburg, Va. And what I'm saying is, let's go to a VFW hall in Temple Hills, MD and you take the mic and tell that to the crowd.

Allen is lucky to play with THB, Goodnes, do I ever love his duets with Braxton (Bynum not Allen's... though I'm sure an Allen Lowe / Anthony Braxton duet would be interesting also....). Yeah, Bynum has a certain "something" that perhaps it's a sense of good humor and warm-heartedness I sense in his music and personal nature that may make him the greatest and most deep of all of the Anthony Braxton students (like the good humor and warm-heartedness Braxton himself shares with the world).

Ah yes, who can forget Buddy's flute solos in Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"?

And considering they barely add any new jazz or classical releases, even from the labels they routinely carry, I might start running out of stuff I want, too.

Has anyone else been bugged by the prominent typos and erroneous assertions? Just two examples I remember: The island of Cyprus misspelled as "Cypress" and Tito-era Yugoslavia referred to as a "Soviet satellite state".

What's north of Portland? The Arctic?

I have lately been putting in random search words into the Gramophone.net website to see what comes up, especially search words of a historical nature: A search on "Mussolini" brought up a December 1943 column from a British soldier stationed overseas who details his record shopping in Eritrea, of all places (apparently well stocked with Italian opera records). A search for "Hitler" brought up this rather less delightful correspondence from the 1933 Bayreuth Festival... http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/September%201933/47/819915/A+GRAMOPHONIST+AT+BAYREUTH

This has been heavily advertised in the UK music press for the last year or so...I get a bit weary of seeing it. That Brennan fellow is a handsome chap, though.

I got it last week. Finally! But worth the wait. Does anyone know if it is all one composition? There are separate bands on the records, and they seem to be discrete pieces. Ailanthus is one piece in three movements; Altissima is one piece in four. Thanks, Cliff.

Hundreds more Rounder albums have been added in the last couple weeks.

Seems to be unavailable through all the usual channels, Squidco, Cadence, Jazzloft...

Look for..the Nes-sa la-bel.

I got it last week. Finally! But worth the wait. Does anyone know if it is all one composition? There are separate bands on the records, and they seem to be discrete pieces.