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An early symptom of abbeyfication? I am not sure how you guessed I've been listening to Jon's stuff lately ... Drumm/Dörner duo CD (erstwhile 015) is highly recommended. Just checked the Erstwhile website, and it's OOP! Temporarily, I guess?

I'm also not quite in the mood to listen to "One Too Many..." or similar sort of stuff at the moment. What I did listen to with pleasure recently was: Yes, if you are into extreme vocal techniques. I am. Recorded in various inappropriate places (elevators, roofs, basements, etc.). You want a cover? Here is the cover: Now looking forward to listening to Fe-Mail's (of which Ms. Ratkje is a memebr) "All Men Are Pigs" (gameboy) with talented Mr. Lasse Marhaug. You want more covers? Here is the cover:

DA SHIT seems to have fall in every aspect (musicianship level, ideas, musical ambition), lately. But the problem for me has always been that the only thing who was of any interest to me in GEBBIA'works, before ARCANA MAJOR, was, already, his solo work. The rest, even when associate to my avatar or DAMON SMITH wasn't on the same level and no match for the best alto/bass/drums trio recorded at that time (notably, those of Marco ENEIDI). I will try to see Gebbia next week in Palermo, and will voice your concerns. Gebbia's best sax-bass-drums trio disc is Outland (Splasc(H), 1990) - one of his earliest records. My nomination for one of the most insteresting alto-bass-drums combo is Mikolaj Trzaska - Peter Friis Nielsen - Peeter Uuskyla. But I would agree on Eneidi as well. When I saw Trzaska live, I recommended he checks out Eneidi, because I hear some similarities in their approach (Lyons heritage). He didn't know about Eneidi, but was interested.

Doesn't work in "more options".

Just listened to it today. Good stuff. Not as good as the Isipingo disc in the box, but still quite impressive.

IIrc, you could search for exact word combinations putting them in quotation marks. Does not seem to work now - just returns results for any of the words from a phrase.

If I remember correctly, it's quite boring. It's not really a Kontz date, but the one by pianist (forgot the name now). All musicians play well (except for Mahall, who is here, as elsewhere, a very superficial player), but somehow don't click together - drummer is too swinging, pianist too academic, etc. I don't rememebr vocalizing - I believe there is just recitation in Japanese of short Haiku written by each of the musicians. I will give it a spin some time soon to refresh my memory.

Tom Cora - late NYC downtown cello innovator. Played some heavy fiery stuff. His compilation disc on Knitting Facotry (with many of the NYC downtown big names - Zirn, Frith, etc.) is essential. Matt Turner is my favorite living cellist (and a very distinctive pianist as well). He has several outsntainding solo records on Meniscus ("The Mouse that Roared" it's called, I htink) and Fever Pitch. Vincent Coutois, who's been mentioned above, has a beutiful intense solo on Enja MW from a couple of years ago - I would recommend it above his sideman works. Joan Jeanrenaud from Kronos Quartet has engaged in several improv. projects with success. I would highly recommend her disc with Larry Ochs and Miya Masaoka called "Fly, Fly, Fly" (on Intakt). Erik Friedlander's solo disc "Maldoror" mentioned by ubu is excellent (CD Baby site has a lot of samples), and is better than anything elese he's done (IMO). Thomas Demenga has released some very intersting things on ECM, includign veryl iberal interpretations of Bach's cello sonatas. Daniel Levin has a nice disc on Riti - it's in quartet (bass, vibes, cornet, cello). Fred Lonberg-Holm is very active in very diverse projects. I really enjoyed his duo with Carlos Zingaro (violin) released on his own Flying Aspidistra label this year. Ernst Reijseger menitoned by Nat is a improv. cello vetaran. I like his work in a long-standing trio with Georg Gräwe and Gerry Hemingway (they just released a new one on Winter & Winter). Tristan Honsinger has been doing some insane things with cello as well. Frances-Marie Uitti impressed me a lot on her heavy duo "Sonomondo" with Mark Dresser on Cryptogrammophon - they should have full tracks available for downloading on Crypto website. Yes for Peggy Lee! Wanna hear her doing decorative work - go for Dave Douglas stuff. Somehting more creative - try "Western Front" with Carlos Zingaro on hatOLOGy recommended above, or her work on (her?) Spool label. I actually would not recommend David Eyges - this is essentially bass-like plucking type of playing within a very limited blues-based framework. Enjoyable (and well-played, for sure), but not too creative or original, IMO.

I am quite confused by Gebbia's post-Arcana Major output as well (quite sizeable by now) - not even approaching its level. ------------------ For Nakatani, look out for his solo "Green Report" on his own H&H Production label. Good stuff. ------------------ Back to the welcoming EAI land: Xavier Charles / Diane Labrosse / Kristoff K. Roll /Martin Tétrault: Tout le Monde en Place Pour un Set Americain (Victo) is one of the most captivating and engaging things in the genre I've heard. AMG review

I adore Feldman. Radigue I don't know. Airplaines sounds I hate.

Sure. I make about 120 flights per year - and just about 12 train rides. Excitement of railway sounds exploration hasn't worn off yet. I just have to check that I don't have this Distel's disc on my collection.

maybe if David's description had much of a basis in reality, anyway. Would "one of the most boring discs I've heard lately" work better ?

Julien Ottavi / Dion Workman: misenlian (Erstwhile) Know airplanes? Enjoy the sounds they make? Then this is the one for you. Sound pallett covers the exciting range of A340 to B747 to Fokker 50 at various stages of the flight.

This is the long-promised Roxy DVD material, I guess. Gail keeps complaining about commercial challenges of making new FZ material available, but if ZFT had the DVD available during the concerts, they would sell like hot cakes with no overhead costs...

Would be a good choice for a listening session - does anybody but Tony and me have it? Tony, did you ever get a replacement of a defective disc from Sachimay?

Just listened to this one, and yes, I agree - this is an excellent disc! What the music is like? Well... it has all these sounds... you know... brrrrr and pshshshshsh and fsssss and tsk-tsk-tsk and click-click and bzbzbz... some times loud some times soft... you know how it gois... good stuff, in short. 5-minute mp3

Talking about Jack Wright, I see there is one release of him (in duo with Reuben Radding) in the Sachimay Intervention series ($5 per disc): http://www.sachimayrecords.com/21-24.htm

From Damon Smith:

No good. I assume with new website and all that, old FMP releases will be maintained in print. I wonder if TMM will still take place? Last TMM had 2-3 interesting concerts - I was hoping they would get released on FMP one day. As for the already "ready for release" stuff, probably Atavistic could help ? Just heard about this here--not entirely shocking, but I'm still a little surprised. I hope the catalogue remains in print--I'd been holding out on far too many (and, cripes, after-market prices are going to skyrocket). The best prices for FMP I've found are from themusicresource.com, and surprisingly they have most of them available.

But his guitar playing was arguably his very best durign the '82 tour. Got less interesting in '84 and reached the lowest level (well, by FZ standards - meaning still pretty extraordinary) by '88.

No good. I assume with new website and all that, old FMP releases will be maintained in print. I wonder if TMM will still take place? Last TMM had 2-3 interesting concerts - I was hoping they would get released on FMP one day. As for the already "ready for release" stuff, probably Atavistic could help ?

Yeah, Jon don't be shy about it, bring it on.

I was at the release party 4-5 months ago (with shy arts student girls who designed the covers for the CDs in the set in attendance). I like Tarasov, one of my favorite drummers, but I am not sure I really need 11 of his solo drum discs. Will I get this set? Surely I will. Eventually. (If the price is no more than USD90.) Did I mention that the set was sponsoired by The Ford Foundation? I find it quite amusing (and admirable). I'm presuming this is mostly previously released material. Not sure if I need 11 CDs of solo percussion either, but I'll buy it anyway, especially if is as well done as past major undertakings by Leo (ie. Document, Conspiracy, Divine Madness). Well, I don't have any of the previous large Leo boxes, but this one is very handsome. IIrc, all but one discs are previously released (and still available individually). Three of the CDs and the DVD have not been released before. I do not think the eight CDs previously available on Sonore are easy to find now - officially they have been OOP for years. This is NOT 11 CDs of solo drums/solo percussion! Some of the discs even are not solo Tarasov. As to the design: This is NOT a Leo release, but a Long Arms release, although it seemingly is a co-production of the two labels with Leo being clearly in the second place. At least the version I own has got nothing to do with the usual (large) Leo CD box design... maybe Leo is going to release a different version? (which I do not expect them to do, but what do I know). As I remember from the press conference, Leo was brought into the process relatively late, and as a worldwide distirbution partner mainly. yeah, that's not helpful. I'm sure there are some you're not interested in, B. Fleischmann to start, and I don't have a list of what you bought. so if you take a look at the site (charhizma.com), and let me know which you'd like, I'll see if we can get them next time we get a box from Christof. I am actually quite interested in B. Fleischmann disc(s)... I'll send you an e-mail with CHarhizma titles I still need one of these days. ------------------------------ New one on balancepointacoustics: available now: bpa 011 - "Sextessence" - john butcher/aaron bennett/henry kaiser/danielle degruttola/damon smith/jerome bryerton Bennett/Butcher combination is very intriguing... And another tasty-looking new release: nperign / Jason Lescalleet - "Love me too times" on intransitive.

we have a lot of them in stock now, what are you looking for exactly? Jon, I bought every Charhizma CD you carry - so whatever you do not have, are the ones I need.

I was at the release party 4-5 months ago (with shy arts student girls who designed the covers for the CDs in the set in attendance). I like Tarasov, one of my favorite drummers, but I am not sure I really need 11 of his solo drum discs. Will I get this set? Surely I will. Eventually. (If the price is no more than USD90.) Did I mention that the set was sponsoired by The Ford Foundation? I find it quite amusing (and admirable). I'm presuming this is mostly previously released material. Not sure if I need 11 CDs of solo percussion either, but I'll buy it anyway, especially if is as well done as past major undertakings by Leo (ie. Document, Conspiracy, Divine Madness). Well, I don't have any of the previous large Leo boxes, but this one is very handsome. IIrc, all but one discs are previously released (and still available individually).