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Welcome to the board, Raphe!

Friends, I just listened to Harriet Tubman's "I Am A Man" (Knitting Factory, 1999), and I heartily recommend it. The band is Brandon Ross - guitar Melvin Gibbs - el. bass J T Lewis - drums The music is stylistically somewhat close to what Nels Cline Singers are doing - rock-"informed" improvised guitar trio with some catchy melodic passages and groovy bass lines - however, I like Harriet Tubman even more, since there is less of guitar pyrotechnics here, and more focus, space. Also, rocking element is somewhat elss present - the compositions are more open-ended and less rely on riffs or vamps (no power-trio cliches). Guitar sound is beatiful and bass lines are mesmirizing. Good stuff, and I see that it is available at amazon.com for $9: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=music Given that Knitting Factory CDs are OOP, I would recommend grabbing this asap.

How could I forget about Erstwhile! As a reminder, Erstwhile has excellent prices and shipping rates (both US and international), and my experience with them has been invariably positive. As son as I receive a new credit card (my current one got into some on-line fraud case so it was blocked today), I will place an order for some Potlatch, Fringes, Rosbin, Recorded and Charizma releases. And porbably some Erstwhile's as well

Listed at amazon.de with 2-weak delivery lead time at €15 per CD. No prices at Amazon.fr yet.

Thanks Tony! I am about to finish my working day here. Need some food! EAT! HOW I LOVE TO EAT!

$17.45 with shipping is better than €14 without shipping. Ehmmm, Tony my friend, you have spare $17.45 on your bank account?

Believe it or not, I was about to place an ordr with Fringes. Shall I order two copies of it?

I enjoyed everything I've heard by Butcher so far. This one is on the list (it's on Butcher's new own label, isn't it?).

Wise decision. Let us know about Silva.

I thought this one was quite weak. There should be my sort-of-review somewhere up wen we discussed Evan Parker - a couple of dozen pages above. Don't know the Silva thing. What reissue is that? - if ZYX I would sugest you skip it, as they have dreadful remastering.

From the Drimala sale: The David Boykin Expanse - "47th Street Ghost" (Dreamtime, 2001) Excellent free-bop with very impressive Boykin and stunnig Nicole Mitchell on flute. Original tricky compositions. Good stuff. Try to get it.

Conrad Bauer Bruce Fowler

I thought Frank Lacy and Kuumba Frank Lacy were the same person: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...tqjm7i6jg7xr~T1 My favorite - Nils Wogram, probably. Or Jeb Bishop.

I was too a bit underwhelmed by Malik. Great chops amd stamina, for sure, but not that many interesting ideas, IMO. I remember listening to one of the Lyons' Black Saint CDs recently (forgot the title) and thinking: "well, this Malik guy is not that bad, after all"... only to find out later that it was Enrico Rava playing the trumpet!

Ceclestial Harmonies is one of good labels devoted to presenting ehtnic music. Their Music of Islam 17-CD box is an excellent overview of music of Middle East and North Africa: http://www.harmonies.com/releases/19907.htm

Europe?

John, you absolutely have to go. I don't know this bassist, but with Simmons and Marcus you cannot go wrong - both are monster musicians (and Simmons is 70 already!) , and their interplay is invigorating. If they are selling Simmons' CDs, make sure you pick up "Global Jungle" - it's a fairly rare Simmons record from '80s and it's a beautiful one.

Was rolling on the floor re-reading the Funny "Bitch" Rat.

Got my Drimala sale package, and listendd to the first disc: Alan Silva / Oluyemi Thomas "Transmissions" (Eremite) VERY impressed. Captivating bass / reeds duo. I knew SIlva was a monster bassist, but Thomas is a new discovery for me. The man burned on bas clarinet and C-meloidy saxophone. Excellent interplay and very good recording quality. Gotta get more Thomas. Eremite page: http://www.eremite.com/discography/transmissions27.html OFN review: http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/s/silv...ansmissions.asp

From Paal Nilssen-Love's website: Upcoming releases Steve Hubback and Paal Nilssen-Love "off the map" Recorded in Oslo, August 2003. To be released within 2004 on FMR. http://www.fmr-records.com Lasse Marhaug/Paal Nilssen-Love "Personal Hygiene" Recorded in Oslo, August 2004. To be released on My Ears rec. in vinter 2005. Lars Göran Ullander/Palle Danielson/Paal Nilssen-Love "Live at Glenn Miller Cafè" Recorded in Stockholm at Glenn Miller Cafè, late August 2004. To be released on Ayler Records in 2005. http://www.ayler.com Town House Orchestra "Live at the Townorchestra´s house" Evan Parker, Sten Sandell, Ingebrigt Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love. Recorded at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival, July 2002 To be released on Clean Feed in spring of 2005 Jeb Bishop/Paal Nilssen-Love "TBA" Recorded in Chicago, September 2004, to be released on vinyl only (Д.Д.: now, what the fuck is all that vinyl-only thing? first these Okka and brö releases, then this shit. Why limiting your already not-too-large audience?! I want to hear the Biship-Love duo! Gotta write the man a wrathful e-mail.) on My Ears records in spring 2005. Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, "Be Music Night" featuring 10 poems by Kenneth Patchen, read by Mike Person. Recorded in Chicago, November 2004, to be releases on Okkkadisk in May 2005 http://www.okkadisk.com Territory Band 4, "TBA" Recorded in Chicago, September 2004, to be released on Okkadisk in October 2005 http://www.okkadisk.com John Butcher/Paal Nilssen-Love "TBA" Recorded live in Oslo, 2001 To be released on Clean Feed early 2006

I don't have this one, but I have another one by the same band: The Catbird Sings (Soul Note, 2000) and it's an excellent disc. I will pick up the between the lines disc eventualy - I wonder how it is different from the Soul Note one.

Oh, "we" is "he", of course. Thanks for heads up on Nielsen-Love solo - I didn't know he has one, and this is going to be my next purchse. Gotta find a way to buy Sofa CDs at reasonable prices.

Wally Shoup

Saw The THing - more or less what I had expected. Gustafsson played tenor and baritone exclusively, doing mostly fire-music screeming and wailing, and spitting out these patented jethammer-fast flurries of sound (I don't know how the man does it - what are these 1/64 notes? 1/128th?). I didn't like it too much, franky. I don't think that Gustafsson is a particularly good screamer - the (unique) chops are there, but I just don't here enough ideas for it to be interesting and not enough emotion to be engaging. In gneral, from hearing Gustafsson several times live and on several Cs, I feel he is more of an intellectual-European-academic-sound-explorer type of muscian, as opposed to American fire music type of spiritual screemer. So, I mostly enjoyed Gustafsson in those very few moments when he did some rather quiet and slow breathing and various extended techniques sound experiments. It wasn't as bad as David S. Ware who I saw recently, but the question of relevance of such music kept bugging me throughout the concert. At the same time, Gustafsson has to be seen live at least once if only for his super-human technique (he broke the reeds every 10 minutes) and his powerful tornado sound (without mich umplification he was heard VERY LOUD at the other side of the 20-meter hall). Haker-Flatten was inaudible for the first part of the concert - then the sound engeneer woke up and turned the know up a bit. He was good and quite diverse, but not something particularly outstanding. What was outstnding, was of course Paal Nielsen-Love's drumming. He was the main reason I came to the show, and the man delivered! Beautiful, beautiful playing with enough wit, intellect and surprise to compensate for other shortcomings of the concert. Hope we will record a solo one day (or duo with another drummer!).

This one looks tasty! Get two of them if you have a chance to listen and like it, please! I don't know about that trio you mentioned, never actually heard them! But you've heard Sonny Simmons, haven't you? Nothing except this one: Come on Flurin, this is the weakest Simmons CD! During the Weekend I will try to do an overview of Simmons stuff I have. SImmons is monster musician, with totally original style and vision.