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This is proibably my favorite CT.

DISCPLUS confirmed my order for hatOLOGY VAO and "Annette", as well as for Dunmall's "Ghostly Thoughts". Thanks, king ubu. Looking for Mengelberg now. Chaney, I haven't received "Pigs...", nor have I received any response to my e-mails. I guess I have to file a complaint with somebody... BTW, I got a spare copy of "Annette" here in Berlin, so I'll be eager to trade it.

Meanwhile I keep listening to Mark Dresser Trio's Aquifer on Cryptogramophone. I listened to it already four times in a row - and I hardly ever listen to any CD even twice in a row... Amazing, amazing music.

If you're interested - available from SQUIDCO for $26.45 + $4.00 shipping. You even checked the international shipping! You are such an internationally-minded guy, Chaney. Thanks a lot. Ordering immidiately.

Hey Geoff, nice to see you here! When I was living in Italy I saw this Waldron/Lacy duo around in stores but decided to skip it in favor of the hatOLOGY set (which I still have to buy, before 3000 anonimous maniacs snap all copies). John B, I don't have Brötzmann's WELS - it is in my volumnous to get list. Chaney, thanks for heads up on Cadence - I might have to try it - I never bought from them because of the non-subscriber fee and the inconvenient website. But now since themusicresource.com stopped procuring new Cadence, CIMP and other "advanced" stuff, this might be my only choice. king ubu, I of course also would like to get my copy of the Swiss steam.

king ubu, are you in Zürich this Sunday, btw? I'll be passing through in the evening - we could catch up. Yeah, I forgot - you can skip the Noah Howard one on Ayler - it's a bit predictable and repetative. Howard is an excelletn musician heard better on other CDs (the one on Eremite for example, and the one on Boxholder with Kenny Clarke - shit, I can never remember the CD titles).

king ubu, the one I would recommend first and foremost would be Brötzmann's Live at Nefertiti - this is probably my favorite Brötzmann CD. Excellent drumming and bass guitar, and Brötzmann is in top form creating a lot of beauty with references to the whole history of tenor saxophone. I keep repeating it, but I find it truly amazing how he developed into such a diverse musician in just 30 years. I second ...and William danced - very happy music. Another very good one is 2-CD set called FLowers for Johnny - this is trio of the same guy who plays on "...and William danced" with Johnny Dyani on bass. Dyani's bass parts are really worth the price of this CD alone.

Got a package from Cryptogramophone (Crypto guys asked to thanks you Tony) and listening to Mark Dresser's Trio Aquifer - astonishing stuff. Great, really. Hans, a lot of (excellent) arco playing. Where is Hans, btw?

I just ordered Two Days In Chicago and Annette from Cadence. Can you keep me in mind re The Minimalism of Erik Satie? Thanks!!!! PS: Maybe I shouldn't be selfish. Please keep as ALL in mind. You mean all 4 of us here interested in music like this? Although somewhere there seem to be 3000 people buying all this stuff.

I am going to Berlin this weekend - I will look around in stores for OOP hatOLOGY stuff. Let me know if you are interested.

I just ordered from them (they don't have Mengelberg listed), but I am not too hopeful. Fuck, how I hate all this OOP business. And who the fuck is buying them all?!! king ubu, I just received Waldron's Up Popped the Devil from amazon.fr. It is an Enja HW 2003 reissue (not announced on the website, of course). It's good to see that Enja HW is at least functioning.

roi ubu, the links are priceless. VAO "Satie" disc will be searched for with cursing and swearing. The only VAO I have is a live double-CD thing (forgot how it is called, of course) and it is very good. Filigree is still in print - I bought it from zwei for some negligible amount of €. It's quite good, aminly due to very tight band and good themes. Get Quartett stuff instead. Regarding my handle - you mean you don't have the Cyrilllic fonts installed on your computer yet?!?

Shit, I don't have any of those, and from what I've heard they are good. Fuck, I hate all this OOP thing...

I have Filigree, but haven't listened to it yet. Actually, I will put it right now if I am able to find it. Talking about free improv vocalists, I am usually very sceptical about female voices, but there are several stunning records. One of them is No Secrets by Quartett (Gary Peacock, Julian Priester, Gerry Granelli and Jay Clayton) on New Albion records. In case you didn't figure this out, Jay Clayton is a vocalist here, and the emotional range that she manages to convey with her (beautiful) voice is astonishing (in case of Newton, I find very little emotion in her singing, but mostly acrobatic aping).

Yeah, Leandre's and Newton's vocalisings don't inspire me too much either. You are lucky Irene Aebi wasn't performing with Lacy. BTW, is there a website listing jazz concerts in Switzerland - I seem to be missing a lot of stuff? king ubu, I remeber you recommended something on Altrisuoni label - what was that?

Thanks Chaney, I'll be picking up some of those. Just today actually I was listening to en excellent CD with Ms. Léandre's participation - VInny GOlia, Ken Filiano, Joelle Leandre - "Haunting the Spirits Inside Them..." (Music & Arts, 1995) (AMG review). Combination of very jazzy and quite melodic Golia's reeds and two wailing basses (unfortunately for Hans, there is boeing by at least one bassist most of the time) is mesmerizing. I got this disc for $7 at themusicresource.

I've been really getting more and more interested in Erstwhile this year. I've picked up quite a few of their releases and have enjoyed all of the, to varying degrees. I have not, however, heard any of the three you mentioned. I'll pick up Particles and Smears when it is reprinted next year. Which For4Ears discs are you thinking about picking up? John, I would recommend getting Tom and Gerry. Particles and Smears is good.. very good, but if you want to hear a groundbreaking record, a real masterpiece (and something more in a "jazz" side), go for "Tom and Gerry".

OK, I have only two Gräwe CDs Concert San Francisco 1995 (Music & Arts). Solo. Quite unique - the guy is playing basically a European impressionism-type of stuff (thing Ravel and Debussy) with some very clever rythmical structures and unpredictable improvisations. Some times Cecil-ish, but in a more gentle way. A lot of ideas. I like it. Light's VIew (Nuscope, 1999). This is a duo with John Butcher. Haven't listened to it yet - will do over the weekend. king ubu, I will make a bit of an overview of "good" Russian stuff later. Good thing is that discs by RUssain artists can be bought in RUssia for $5-6, so I can bring you (and anybody who is interested) some from my next Russian trip. Ganelin Trio albums are easily available from LEO RECORDS - 10+ discs, so you don't need any secret Russian sources. I have a few Genelins and somehow cannot warm up to them. I don't know what's there (or what is not there) that prevents me from enjoying their music - this is really original explorative stuff played with amazing skill. My perception of their music might change though. One of the Russian (well, Ukranian actually) musicians I find very interesting is Yuri Yaremchuk - he plays reeds. You can check some samples here (this is with the Second Approach band): http://zvuki.ru/M/P/23002

Doris goes into the shopping cart.

Thanks John. I am actually eyeing Erstwhile for quite some time now. I have only a couple of Erstwhile releases: "Tom and Gerry" and "Paricles and Smears" and they are both outstanding. Hey, I have "Weather Sky" as well, but I don't remember it. Anyway, I will make a big Erstwhile order soon. As for Müller, I will try to buy the CDs from him directly.

How about a bit of Swiss uglyness: For4Ears I know nearly nobody from the catalog, except for Butch Morris, Urs Leimgrüber and Freddy Studer, but the samples are GOOD. A lot of this stuff seems to be available at FORCED EXPOSURE for $14.

king ubu, I know both of these Russian labels: Solyd and Long Arms. They both were started in the late-80s and are pretty dead by now. I heard very few of their releases, but I saw many of these artists live in Russia. It is pretty uneven stuff. In general Russian improvisational music scene is not particularly rich (although there are some excellent musicians - I'll expand some time later). If you are interested in anything from their catalog, I can contact the owners of the labels directly when I am in RUssia next time (Spring, I guess) to see if anything is still avilable. It looks like this AVANTART website is dysfanctional as well, so I doubt you can order anything from it. Meanwhile, new November Leo Records releases are listed on Leo website: http://www.leorecords.com/?m=catalogue&release=2003/11 This Chadbourne thing looks scary...

...and a good cover!! I actually don't have it - I will, of course get it sooner or later. The next Brötzmann I plan to buy is THIS ONE. It's on excellent Italian Splasc(H) lable.

The Music Resource, based on my previous experience, is very slow, but delivers. ...and you can view your order status. I normally expect to get about 85% of my TMR order - and I order some quite obscure stuff. The sad thing is tat TMR seems to have completley cut on avant-/free- stuff - I don't see them offering any of the 2002/03 releases. Still their back catalog is large enough (check out all these Music & Art releases for $7).

What about Georg Gräwe's own label: RANDOM ACOUSTICS. Looks good. I don't own anything from its catalog. Interesting, that Gräwe himself now prefers to record for other lables (Nuscope, for example). Anybody heard his new release yet, by the way?