John B

Well, I still disagree with both of you, but I haven't litened to Nailed in a while. I'll try to give it another spin later this week. You do know the story behind that performance, right? I don't remember the specifics off the top of my head but I think at least three out of the four performers couldn't stand each other. I imagine that must have affected the level of communication and exploration.

I will endeavor to do it justice. It looks like I have a lot of listening, thinking and posting to do when I get back home...

also, based on recommendations here, I ordered Grand Marquis from Squidco as well as a few AMM discs I have been coveting. I'll post my thoughts once I have a chance to give it a listen or two.

and thoughts will be posted. I'm looking forward to hearing this one!

Thanks for posting this! I have yet to hear anything I didn't like on Blood and Fire.

Squidco has it for $14.95 w/ no shipping. JazzLoft has it and has samples of two tracks, as well.

more live Jandek info: http://www.musicloversfieldcompanion.org/ May 22d in England

I have to go back and relisten to these discs after reading the answers. Great theme!

No, that was Braxton House. I believe Brandon Evans ran/runs Parallactic. The Parallactic titles are available here: http://www.injazz.net you caught me before I edited my post! You are correct. Parallactic was Evans'.

I picked up a copy of this disc, it looks like a boot with no details of date or personnel , any one help me with these details,?? I've got the info at home somewhere. I'll see if I can find it when I return on Tuesday.

I was doing a search over on JC and saw that at least three people "intensely disliked" Jason Kahn -- Songs For Nicholas Ross on Rossbin. I will definitely be avoiding that one. Thanks for the link Chaney! I remember some live Braxton and Sonny Simmons releases before Parallactic disappeared. It would be nice if that material was made available again somehow.

When I Took That Train "Just heard about the gig - I might even make it to this one. The new cd arrived today - the 40th album if I'm not mistaken. The cover features you-know-who standing on a corner in a European city on a rainy day. I'd guess it's London - you can see a red double-decker bus and what looks like a London Underground sign. The old buildings look very distinctive, so the location should be easily identified. The man himself is bearded, wearing a light brown suit and a black hat. He's quite a way back from the camera, so I get the sense that the picture was taken by a companion rather than by a passer-by on request. The first cover featuring Jandek in an identifiable location, and also the first to feature other people (distant) in the background. Musically the album is very similar to the last one (shock horror), featuring acoustic guitar throughout all 11 songs. Lyrically, it's pretty much a sequel to The Door Behind, apparently dealing with the same relationship, which seems to be going well. He's as obsessive and intense about it as always, but mentions that he's been around enough to be able to take it if the relationship ended. Though the mood is positive and even ecstatic, the delivery is often disturbing, as usual partly because of the intimate nature of the material. Much of the lyrics seem to be spontaneous, and on a few songs in the middle of the album he repeatedly babbles long, repetitive lines until he runs out of breath. The last few songs - Angel Moves, Thing Called Me, and My Escape, introduce more opaque imagery. Thing Called Me in particular is one of his odd metaphysical numbers, in which he sings of having existed for 6 million years... another head-scratcher, folks! On first hearing I didn't notice the album title appearing in the lyrics."

No experience yet, but I want to order three of these. (Neumann/Nakamura, Kawasaki / Kahn, Muller / Nmperign) One is now OOP, so I'll have to grab a copy asap. I'd be very interested to read Jon's thoughts on these titles, if he checks in again and sees this.

Not officially announced yet. There was a brief mention in the Wire, but this is definitely still a rumor at this point.

time to start looking into cheap airfare: "Jandek is playing at the 'Sage' in Newcastle on Sunday the 22nd of May"

I can see the headline now: "Single car crash, no one injured. Authorities blame insufficiently interesting "free-jazz" album."

I enjoy O'Neal's Porch quite a bit but I never thought it lived up to the extreme hype it got when it was released / reviewed by the New York Times, etc.

I would love it if Kevin would just release some new material in editions greater than 11, or however many copies of Impish Tyrant were released. I missed out on Horror of Birth, too. Pita / Marhuag would be interesting. It strikes me as more of a Mego than an Erstwhile session, but I'd love to hear the results either way.

12 discs is probably more live V5 than I need right about now. Not a bad price, considering the size of the set, but this one seems like it is for completists only.

Heyner is the bass player for No Neck Blues Band and Test, correct? I'm not familiar with the other two musicians on this one. These all look interesting. I'll grab the Marhaug discs, maybe one or two of the others as well.

I saw an extremely impressive duo set of Pita and Lasse Marhaug last night between 2-3 AM in the No Fun Festival in Red Hook (Brooklyn). massively loud, my ears are just returning to normal now, nine hours later. my wife said she thinks it was louder than the Merzbow show she saw in Tokyo a few years ago. I've been listening to more and more of Lasse's work recently. He seems to have quite a range. Was the set you saw improvised? It might be interesting to hear another all-laptop disc on Erst. I would suggest Marhaug / Drumm, but they have already collaborated and you don't do pre-existing pairings, do you?

Dennis Gonzalez just announced that Nile River Suite, his disc w/ Henry Grimes (his first "post-comeback" recording), Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell Jr and Mike Thompson has been repressed. It went out of print pretty quickly, and is a very good album. He also has a new disc coming out on Clean Feed Records this month. Idle Wild features Oliver Lake on soprano and alto as well as Ken Filiano and Mike Thompson.

I wonder which ones you chose to skip? I skipped the Alan Shorter, Archie Shepp and Paul Bley discs.

I will second that. The cds I order from Jon always arrive extremely quickly.

I just noticed on the Aum Fidelity site that William Parker has a new album, Sound Unity, coming up featuring the same lineup as O'Neals Porch. I know he has many naysayers here but I will be picking this one up soon after it is released.