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I agree. I am not the biggest AEoC fan in general, but to my ears their later stuff is markedly worse than earlier. And Lester Bowie's Brass Band... eh.

Nice price, although none of the AEC ECM releases are that good, IMHO. As far as I am concerned, with AEC the earlier - the better.

I agree. Widmann is good. Overall, there are a lot of excellent composers around these days (or perhaps as many as always, it is just that their music is recorded more often). Listening to Morton Feldman piano works / Ilic. I have heard quite a few versions of "For Bunita Marcus", but keep returning to this one for whatever reason.

Yes, this one is good, although perhaps too reliant on catchy hooks. Listening to Dusapin quartets 6 & 7 by Arditti SQ. Great.

Loks like an ID photo to me, but mug shot is a possibility - he had problems with US authorities (nothing to do with music) that led to his fleeing to Mexico.

Nancarrow - Player Piano Studies 33-41 c. Oh yes.

Excellent.

Nancarrow - Player Piano Studies. This is great stuff.

And Red Octopus is no longer there either.

Yes, she's great. Was planning to listen to some Xenakis, but will listen to this one now, Xenakis later.

And there is Strings with Evan Parker (EMANEM)

Scott Fields - Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (2015). Excellent solo acoustic guitar release. Perhaps the best I've heard from Mr. Fields. Bandcamp for this release: https://newatlantisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/burning-in-water-drowning-in-flame

This one is not available on Spotify, although most of hatarts are. I understand that Corbett vs. Dempsey acquired the rights to all the McPhee HatHut recordings, so I guess we will see it released eventually.

Bad Shank - The Lost Cathedral.

Bandcamp "special" on Joe McPhee: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/08/21/joe-mcphee-discography-guide/?utm_source=notification . What a musician!

Well, Spotify (or Apple, or amazon prime) is your friend. Saved me a lot of money.

Flurin, knowing a bit about your tastes, I don't think you will like it. It's too similar to Old and New Dreams - to a point of intentional copy (drums sound is very Blackwell, and Redman plays a lot of his father's licks), but the writing is definitely not on the same level. Well played, of course, but very safe. Sounds quite contrived and forced to me.

The disc is merely OK (admittedly, I did not get to the end yet). A lot of the music sounds like going through the motions. I also didn't like Ches Smith's playing. He plays too much with too few ideas and with this ugly boomy drums sound (IMHO, of course). Does not fit the sound pallet. And his persistent falling back on steady beat is annoying. Overall, the combination of personalities is not that good a match, although I would probably be interested in hearing a duo of Parker and Taborn. Not sure about Mr. Smith, but there is definitely better stuff available from Parker, Holland and Taborn. Regarding hard leftists in Western Europe, I really wish they shared my experience of staying in a line for one hour to buy one loaf of bread in Moscow in 1980s. I definitely acknowledge the imperfections of the capitalist system, and they can and should be managed and corrected, but socialism (or communism) is really not the way. I see pampered starry eyed students here in Vienna with barely coherent leftist ideas - this is understandable and sort of cute. But when somebody in his 70s is still there, I have less understanding for this.

Very nice. thanks for posting this.

Checked out the "Journey..." album out on Spotify. Average tenor player (with pretty sound), quite square, not too adventurous, and lick-heavy drummer, who sounds like Andrew Cyrille quite a bit. Very predictable. This probably would have sounded conservative already in '66.

I don't disagree, all I've heard is mostly really solid stuff. But enough about this new shit. Let's discuss a Coltrane's rehearsal tape!!!!!!!! Or wish Happy Birthday to somebody who's been dead for 30 years!!!!!!

Anders Brødsgaard - Gakaxy. Excellent.

I agree, the quality/quantity ratio is probably not the highest. But there is a lot of good stuff nonetheless. And lately their artwork has become really good. Here is one more I enjoy: https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/the-space-between/

A lot of good stuff on this label. I like this one a lot: https://cleanfeed-records.com/product/so-soft-yet/

Well, if it does, here is some more wild Roslavets. This is on par with anything written at that time (1920s), as far as I am concerned. I don't think there are commercial recordings available.