John B

I highly recommend this disc on Label Bleu. Very, very good.

I highly recommend this disc, which I just heard for the first time yesterday: Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson - Vibrations (Steeplechase) This is not the Sun Ra you might know from albums such as Atlantis or the ESP discs. Very lyrical, very supportive of Dickerson. You can tell that Ra and Dickerson were really listening to each other and neither is trying to dominate the album. Very, very nice tunes.

I own Nishoma, so I am a little disappointed with myself for not guessing that disc. I did pick out the dancer, which is pretty cool. I can't believe I didn't guess Monk and Booker. I will also be buying a copy of that CUT disc, as well as the Monk. The Sun Ra track shocked me. I've got an unopened copy of that disc on vinyl. I never expected to hear anything like that track, which is my own failing. If there is one thing you can expect from Sun Ra it is the unexpected. I'm really looking forward to the answers on disc #2!

any recommendations for those who have never explored the label? limited to what is currently available through ErstDist, say?

officialy, yes. You are in for a real treat as you start exploring Ayler. When you are ready to move on past the box I would highly recommend grabbing Spiritual Unity and Spirits Rejoice next. If you do a quick search there have been lots of great recommendations posted fairly recently.

There is a really good review of the first four ErstLive discs posted over at Stylus now. The author, Ed Howard, posts quite bit over at IHM and has released some really good solo laptop records of his own.

and the jandek news just keeps on coming... a second Jandek tribut albums is being released in April: http://www.summerstepsrecords.com/news.html Down In A Mirror - A Second Tribute To Jandek Track listing: 1. "Crack A Smile" - Jeff Tweedy 2. "You Painted Your Teeth" - Live Show Rabbits 3. "The Dunes" - Eric Gaffney 4. "Your Other Man" - Okkervil River 5 "Message To The Clerk" - Brother JT 6. "I'll Sit Alone And Think About You" - Six Organs Of Admittance 7. "Cave In On You / European Jewel (Incomplete)" - Home For The Def 8. "Down In Mirror" - The Marshmallow Staircase 9. "White Box" - The Mountain Goats 10. "Aimless Breeze" - George Parsons 11. "Nancy Sings" - Lewis and Clarke 12. "Naked In The Afternoon"- Jack Norton 13. "Sung" - Rivulets 14. "Babe I Love You" - Kawabata Makoto 15. "The Spirit" - Wayside Drive 16. ";Just Die"; - A Real Knife Head 17. "Van Ness Mission" - Ross Beach 18. "I Found The Right Change" - Multi Panel 19. "Babe I Love You"- Dan Melchior 20. "You Painted Your Teeth" - Pothole Skinny 21. "With U Icon (An Homage) - Dirty Projectors

I'll second what Big Al said. These discs are great!

I could go on for a while if allowed to choose more than one: staying with officially released albums that have not been mentioned yet: Miles - Agharta Miles - Pangea Miles - Dark Magus Jimmy Smith - Cool Blues Jimmy Smith - Live at Club Baby Grand Roy Brooks - The Freed Slave ("Do your thang, Roy, DO YOUR THANG!") Braxton - Dortmund 1976 Braxton - Basel 1977 Brotzmann's Die Like a Dog - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bap-Tizum

Needless to say, very strange. John: Didn't you promise us that the live CD/DVD would be release number 40? As I am not a "representative of Corwood Industries" my promises are meaningless here. That was, however, the rumor after the Scotland gig.

Mingus - Antibes

A new Jandek album available for "pre-sale" on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

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likewise.

The trailer for this movie has now been posted online: http://www.theminutemen.com/med.html looks great! This requires Quicktime to view.

This, for example:

from Pitchfork: Minutemen Documentary to Premiere This Week James Gregory reports: As our punk heroes wage the treacherous battle with middle age, more films chronicling the glory days of the once-vital movement are slowly making their way to the silver screen. Following in the wake of last year's well-received Ramones documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, comes a new documentary tribute to legendary California trio the Minutemen. Produced by Rocket Fuel Films, We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen compresses the band's all-too brief five-year lifespan into a feature-length history lesson. Directed by longtime fan Tim Irwin, the project details the band's existence from its early-80's inception, through five classic SST studio albums, to its 1985 disbanding after the death of frontman D. Boon in a tragic car accident. Bursting with creativity and a sense of improvisation previously unheard in the American punk scene, the band skirted the lines between punk, hardcore, free jazz, folk, and rockabilly (as heard in songs like "Corona", which served as the theme to MTV's Jackass). The Minutemen's SST output, especially the classic '84 release Double Nickels on the Dime, has cemented the band's place as one of indie rock's landmark bands, and its influence can still be heard throughout the community to this day. According to the film's official website, the upcoming documentary began filming in January 2003, and the final edit features over eighty interviews, including input from surviving band members Mike Watt (bass) and George Hurley (drums), as well as Thurston Moore, Flea, Henry Rollins, and Ian MacKaye. We Jam Econo is also full of previously unseen Minutemen live footage, which director Tim Irwin recently shed some light on in a post on the film's site. "We were blown away by some of the stuff that came out of the woodworks," Irwin wrote. "Most notably a two-camera recording of a show at the Starwood in November of 1980. We also have a show at the 9:30 Club, a performance at Irvine Meadows, the acoustic session from a public access channel, and various other one-offs." According to producer Keith Schieron, the film has about 25 live performances in it and the DVD will have about fifty. Although a distribution deal has not been worked out yet, We Jam Econo will make its theatrical premiere on February 25 in San Pedro, California. The screening will be followed by a Q+A with Irwin and Schieron, as well as Watt and Hurley. Additional screenings are being planned for major cities across the country.

I'm wondering if there may be a problem. I ordered last Wednesday and there is still no charge on my credit card, no CD in my mailbox and no email, anything at all from DMG. DMG is a very small store run by two guys. They can get busy. I usually give them a call and check in if I want to order something from them. You'll usuallu get Bruce or Manny who, although gruff, is very helpful.

see what you can get for it on ebay. List as "extremely rare oop cd of the Art Ensemble performing Don Cherry's Mu, in it's entirety, while sounding eerilylike two people rather than four."

No, I lucked out. My Mu is Mu and my AEC is the AEC.

No silence on my copy, either. (also the Fuel 2000 version)

off the top of my head I would highly recommend all of these: Braxton – Birmingham 1985 (3) Braxton – Coventry 1985 (4) Braxton – Two Compositions Trio 1998 (2) Ganelin Trio – Catalogue Live (1) Ganelin Trio – Con Affeto (4) Ganelin Trio – Ancora (2) Albert Ayler - Slugs Saloon 1&2 (4) Ivo Perelman – Seeds, Vision (3) my next Leo download will be this one: Braxton/Parker – Duo London (5)

Could you send it over to me? Do you still have my email address? If not, I'll send you a PM.

I just read that Lasse Marhaug has replaced Kevin Drumm in Ken Vandermark's Territory Band. That should be interesting. I'd be interested in hearing that band with Lasse. His album Lesbian Brunch, with Carlos Griffoni is fantastic, although most definitely not to all tastes. Harsh electronics segueing into heavy metal samples. Bliss for some, hell for others.

I had never heard of Hannibal (the musician, not the general who crossed the Alps on elephants) before reading the previous page. Is there one album in particular one should start exploring his work with? Now playing: Lacy / Humair / Cox - Work Very nice!