stuartjewkes

Bo influenced a hell of a lot of my favourite bands and produced lots and lots of great songs. RIP

If Braxton comes to the UK again I am going without a doubt

That would be Ian Carr's two-part documentary done for UK Channel 4 quite a few years back. Well worth checking out, with some nice live clips (much of which has subsequently been released in one form or another). Superb, thanks for the info. I like a bit of context.

Liquid Liquid - Slip In And Out Of Phenomenon Funky and disjointed post punk gems from the 80s, one track forms the basis of White Lines.

Thanks! Just got them. That Miles at Monterey 63 is excellent! Isn't it just! I've listened through 3 or 4 times now and there's a lot of stuff going on. I think I'm going to try and get another free trial tonight using a different card

Not watched it yet but I'd been looking out for a cheap copy of Kind Of Blue for a while as I know it like the back of my hand through friends and a cassette copy but never had it on CD or LP. I found it last weekend for £3 coupled with a DVD called The Miles Davis Story which I'm looking forward to watching. It lists a bunch of performances but I'm guessing it's mainly going to be biog with some clips in between.

I stand corrected

Just spent my monthly allocation on a bunch of metal: Entombed - Clandestine Iron Monkey - Our Problem Neurosis - Through Silver Blood Khanate - Khanate Isis - Mosquito Control Om - Variations on a Theme Om - Conference of the Birds Also if you go to www.emusic.com/lovefilm you can get a trial with 35 free tracks and an audiobook! Go get my friends. I got the following with that: Henry Cow - Unrest Anthony Braxton - Trio & Duet Miles Davis - 1963 Montery The Monks - Monk Time Terry Riley - In C (because you can never have to many recordings of this) And I got an audiobook called Jazz:something or other. It's ok so far but a bit irritatingly American in delivery, my problem more than the mp3s I'm sure. He also pronounces things in an incredibly strange way. Is Louis Armstrong really Lew-iss rather than Loo-ee as I have thought for years?

Neil Young is one of my favourite artist of all time and shares the top spot with The Fall for out and out consistently interesting music. Any takers for the new album? Although I am a little over familiar with Ordinary People from the bootlegs years ago it stands up as a brilliant epic.

The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent. As good as anything else they've done in my opinion. Rollicking rockabilly and punk spirit pound from a youthful sounding MES with a liberal smattering of experimentation. You're a fool if you don't like The Fall (well at least if you haven't tried them).

This month I got Trio & Duet (1974 I think?) from eMusic and it is frankly superb. The second 'side' is my first experience of Dave Holland and it's a joy.

Beans... Lazer beans. Fast and bulbous! And genius, life changing to say the least.

I would dearly love to have a go at reading some of his writings but I fear total incomprehension and an impending sense of money waste. I think I'll get Forces In Motion shortly as i like a bit of reading material on this sort of maverik. Back to the music, I've been listening to the 6 Compositions (GTM) 2001 box and I've been getting quite a lot from the pared down performances. The Iridium is better composition wise in my opinion but sometimes the mass of players can obscure the intentions. Here everything is up front and visible and quite fascinating. I've not got to grips with the long composition over 2 cds yet, find it quite difficult to apply myself to something so singular over such a period that isn't of the ambient/noise variety that you can fade in/out of. I have been neglecting ole Brax though in favour of more mild music with an aim to improve my own playing. As much as I enjoy parping along to a Braxton date I feel most of it flying obscenely over my head.

I only have Eskimo and I haven't listened to it yet. It's in my queue from eMusic. From what I've heard of them I think it could be a passionate love affair

I've listened to Repent once and to be honest it did very little for me. Lots of hot air without anything genuinely interesting. I might give it another spin and reasses but as it is I have no interest in investigating further.

With the exception of Joanna Newsom's Ys (with which I am obsessed and I now own the deluxe double vinyl issue and about 20 bootlegs of in various forms) the Braxton box is easily my favourite emusic download sinse I signed up. I have only really explored the first cd thoroughly and I've already had about 20 hours of enjoyment. It will take me years to get to grips with it all.

Guru Guru - UFO (limited vinyl reissue in tasty gatefold of this quality Krautrock unit) Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpatuum Mobile (double LP 2004 studio album from the pipe banging noiseniks I've grown to love from the b-sides and klive takes LP I found accidentaly a few months back) C-Clamp EP (a one sided/etched 12" featuring this interesting post rock outfit, aparently limited to 400 copies and only cost £3. Seen a copy selling on a site somewhere for £26 so not bad find really.)

Oh well it's only the Black Crowes. And Maxim come to think of it. I'd probably give them both 1.5 stars without wanting to read/hear them.

Just on my first listen through Composition No. 287 from the Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 set and finding it strange hearing such a small group handling GTM when my only previous exposure to GTM was through the Iridium set. An amazing slow paced solo from Brax at about the 10 min mark and the guitarist is superb. I do think that some of the GTM I've heard so far tends to have about 40 minutes of good music in about an hour of performance, with the other 20 mins devoted to a steady pulse ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-sqeakber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber and little else. When you reach the good stuff though it makes it all worth while.

Besides neck tension I'm not sure there's much you can do mate. The string gauge is the only thing I've found that works for me. I now keep a 'noise box' classical electro acoustic guitar detuned for dirty sounds but that's for feedback work etc.

This time I got: Anthony Braxton - Six Compositions 2001 GTM, first 2 cds Bauder/Ajemian - Object 3 And my favourite band of all time that I still haven't heard everything by: The Fall - Unutterable, Extricate and the Protein Christmas ep. Lots to sink my teeth into and I've still got a backlog of stuff from last month I didn't even listen to once!

Yes, I saw he Arkestra open for YLT 3(?) years ago and after the YLT set they brought the Arkestra out for a 15 minute version of Nuclear War. !!!!!!!!!! Lucky fellow!

I love Nuclear War, but never heard the original version. I'm familiar with the Yo La Tengo cover. Anyone else partial? I love em.

No worries just heard a good old freakout and loved every second

Just on my first listen to the first cd of Solr Myth Approach Vols 1 & 2, sounds good so far. Lots of percussion and pretty free, but I have heard say that there is some solo moog stuff at one point which I'm pretty excited about. I've seen a few Sun Ra cds about recently at reasonable prices so I might pick them all up.