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This might be a special period for independent labels to get their websites done - Clean Feed have their website up. Interesting catalog. Anybody heard any of those? According to Jazzmatazz there will be many more releases on Clean Feed this year, including Braxton, Gayle, Ivo Perelman, Dennis Gonzales and others. Not bad.

The Beak Doctor label has just got a its website up and running, finally: http://www.thebeakdoctor.com/ Their release They Were Gentle and Pretty Pigs is pretty phenomenal (although not too gentle), but not that easy to describe (Tony could help probably?). They have one more CD in their catalog: The Social/Science Set and it looks very intriguing. Hope they will reissue the rest of their catalog on CD. And excellent packaging (no OBIs though):

Ahem... Not interested? Don't Knit titles come with an obie? Guess I'll throw those away. Throw away OBIs?!?!?! You know this will totally ruin the listening experience for me.

I have H Portraits which is contained within a rather elaborate paper sleeve. It's on RASTASCAN and I believe -- Д.Д., help me out here -- all Rastascan releases are issued in the same type of packaging. Not too much interested in getting into the packaging discussion (OBIs!, OBIs!) but Rastascan CDs I have (Gebbia's "People in Motion" and Rova's "Morphological Echo" ... that's it, I think) are in jewel cases. What's more interesting is how H Portraits is, compared to Arcana Major?

Looking forward to it. Out of curiosity, are all Gebbia's discs in paper sleeves, or just Arcana Major? Only Arcana Major - it is joint Rastascan/ Studio Supremo release, so the packaging is different (and I like it this way).

Good to hear you're liking it, Hans. You'll probably like Ein Sof, too. (No growling! I think that's Kaveman Kowald, incidentally.) Ibarra gives that set quite a bit more space than Ali's (admittedly fine) pulse machine. So "Deals.." will be the fist Tsahar I will start with. I like sax-bass-drums format a lot, and you can't get too wrong with Kowald and Ali.

I do, I do - but haven't listened to it yet. Will do, and will report here.

Sounds good!

Here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Bq09ds32ba3dg

I'll get the "Open Systems". I don't think I've heard any Tsahar yet.

Ah, OK then. Regarding the throat singing (or overtone singing) - I am quite a fan of Tuvan version of it, but Kowald's attempts don't sound too convincing to me. But not too disturbing either.

Wish I could be of some help but the only Oxley I own is him with Cecil Taylor. Д.Д. perhaps could help? Д.Д. seems to be AWOL. I have this Oxley's disc, but I frankly don't remember it. I will listen to it again and will let you know if can think of anything in the same vein. What's "AWOL" - amassed with otherworldly love?

Gavino Murgia in addition to being vocalist, is a fantastic alto saxophonist and Sardenian bagpipes player. "Fantastic" means super-human technique and great sense for melody. hmmmmn...I don't recall postingthat quote here... B) any recommendations for discs of his to explore? Took me some time to find this disc in my collection. Riccardo Lay Quartetto "Frammenti" (il manifesto, 2001) Riccardo Lay - bass, perc Gavino Murgia - ts, ss, fl, and some Sardenian bagpipe-like instrument(s) Nico Casu - trumpet Fabrizio Sferra - drums Beautiful stuff - somewhat close in style to Don Cherry's "Complete Communion", but with a strong Italian flavor, meaning very melodic and joyful. Very positive music. I think the only place to find this disc on-line is through Felmay: http://www.felmay.it - it is available there for €8.

Never heard of them (which does not mean too much).

Hmm, I haven't heard this CD, but I normally like Shepik's playing a lot - it's Douglas I have problem with... This is one of very few hatOLOGY CDs I plan to skip.

This one is excellent as well. Even William Parker is good - more varied than usual.

He-he, found Sharrock's interview, where he is talking about his FUtura record: Well, it's OK, now I don't mind Terrones not having reissued it...

Futura Ger 12 Michel Portal (sax.alto, clar.basse), John Surman (sax.sop & bar., clar.basse), Barre Phillips (basse), Stu Martin (drums) Jean-Pierre Drouet (perc.) "Alors !!!" - 27.01.1970 Can't be too bad. Still in print. Prices are very reasonable. ..."buying freeze", you say?

Thanks for that link! Didn't know they had a website (never searched, either). ubu THey had an ugly old website that hasn't been updated for years - it listed their old LPs as well (the new one does not) - there was some very intriguing stuff there as far as I remember. Now, the new site lists a lot of stuff I was interested in (including Shepp's "Attica Blues" live thing) as sold out - just when I purchased nearly all the Hats I was looking for and was planning to enjoy an honest buying freeze! As for the Terrones CDs I know, I can highly recommend Ted Curson's "Pop Wine", beautiful Waldron/Dyani's "Some Jive Ass Boer" and Richard Davis' "Total Package" (with mighty Ricky Ford on tenor).

Yeahm Marge, Futura and a couple of other imprints are part of the Terrones group of labels. See here: http://disquesfuturaetmarge.ifrance.com/di...sfuturaetmarge/ They have a lot of great stuff, actually. Frank Lowe, Ted Curson, Waldron, Shepp, Richard Davis, etc. And they are sitting on a Sharrock live record! Lancaster is lame, lame, lame. Beautiful alto sound though, but that's it.

I really like both Hill's "Lifet Every Voice" and Shepp's "Attica Blues" (I don't have "...in Concert" thing - it's on Terrones label). I'll get these Gale CDs some day. And it is the same reissue lable that did Ayler and (very lame) Byard Lancaster last year with excellent sound quality. Good.

Cut it out with all this Lauren Newton nonsence, get the QUARTETT disc now and enjoy REALLY good singing!

Tony, have you had a chance to listen to Shipp/Maneri's "Gravitational Systems"? I would be interested in knowing your opinion - it's a very..hmmm.. "non-obvious" disc. I ccommit to trying to listen to Joe Maneri's "Tenderly" and "Coming Down the Mountain" over the weekend and positng my opinion here.

Looks like NEWSONIC is out of business. I again encourage everybody (ho-ho) to chekc out their releases (there are a lot of mp3s on the website), particularly an absolutely fantasctic and highly original "Alchemusic" by Kevin Uehlinger.

I meant the Maneri/Shipp, not "Dissonant Characters". Like it! Gotta listen more, but like it! ubu What I like so much about it is that Maneri's response to Shipp is absolutely unpredictable. For example, on "Greensleves" (that I've learned to hate, even in Coltrane's performance, precisely for that - predictability of how it might be interpreted), he is responbding absolutely not in the way that SHipp's playing would suggest he "should" respond. Even more so for the composition 8 - Shipp starts with some romantic-melancholic-brooding-beautiful (and a bit banal) figure, and you can already see how Maneri should enter - but he does something absolutely different!... but it fits greatly. All in all, a beautiful music with a lot of fascinating interaction (subtle and otherwise); Maneri is simply formidable (and with beatiful sound) and Shipp interests me more and more with his mathematical approach.