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From Marco Eneidi website: "Mar. 19th, 2005 Ayler Records and Annan Muusic presents trio with Paul Lovens and Peter Janson at the Museum of Modern Art in Norrkoping, Sweden". As Ayler Records are involved, hopefully this one got recorded and will be released one day - looks like a kick-ass combo!

From the Gerry Hemingway website: "April 15th, 2005 is the street date for the release of a new quartet cd called The Whimbler which will be coming out on Clean Feed Records of Portugal". I saw this quartet live and was not too impressed - but if you like the previous Hemingway Cleen Feed release ("Devils's Paradise"), you might enjoy this one as well - same well-writted, slighly funky post-bop tunes, same safe in-the-pocket playing... I am more intrigued by this one (upcoming on between-the-lines): Hemingway: "Wolter Wierbos came as the only carry over from the original quintet, Frank Gratkowski ably took over the reed chair, Amit Sen, who I had met through the Swedish project played cello, and Kermit Driscoll joined as bassist (el and ac)". I am interested to hear Gratkowski playing somebody else's material.

This one is beautiful - hopefully you receive it. Got it. Tony, have you had a chance to listen to this one yet? - would be interested to hear your opinion. I found this to be a very charming and original work.

ubu, you are the master of suspence.

Great to see Parallactic stuff available as downloads - and $5 per dosc is about what I am preparepd to pay for a download... ---------------------- If you are interested in exploring some contemporary "classical" music try the internate radio at: http://www.contemporary-classical.com/ Good selection, and you can place a request, which will be played in an hour or so.

No experience yet, but I want to order three of these. (Neumann/Nakamura, Kawasaki / Kahn, Muller / Nmperign) One is now OOP, so I'll have to grab a copy asap. I'd be very interested to read Jon's thoughts on these titles, if he checks in again and sees this. I have one, and it's excellent:

Jeez, your high-frequency sensitivity must be taking a beating if that's in heavy rotation in your house. Just listening to it straight through is enough to get my ears tingling. Interesting disc but it's definitely not one I pull out lightly. Same thoughts.

When I was 12-13 I listened to The Beatles A LOT (all albums equally frequently, with slight preference to "Revolver") - although I don't listen to their stuff nearly as much now, I proibably still haven't cought up listenig this mch to any other disc. When I was 14 I listened to Pink Floyd "The Wall" for a year or so nearly every day - there is no way I will ever be able to catch up with this with any other album (even though it is very unlikely I will listen to "The Wall" ever again). If you take more "mature" years, these two will share the first position - and are very likely to keep it in the years to come: Interestingly enough, the second disc was bough basically accidentally - this was my first CD I bought myself. I had money only or one CD, so I confusingly browsed in a store and liked the cover of this one (having been vaguely familiar with Prokofiev's name), tried it in store and loved it. The two young guys who perform on it are absolutely unknown - but whatever performance of Prokofiev violin sonatas I've heard later (and I heard at least 5 of them), including some by very big names, they cannot overshadow this one for me.

I have Steve Nelson-Raney's duo with Hal Rammel (winds and invented instruments, respectively) "Breathing" on Penumbra. Never listened to it. Gonna listen to it NOW!

Tony, we had a bit of a discussion on Kaoru Abe on in The Rat with some recommendations from Jon and Nate, I think.

To Jason's excellent list of major solo saxophone works I would add: Gianni Gebbia "Arcana Major / Sonic Tarot Sessions" (Ratascan / Studio Supremo) Bhob Rainey "Ink." (Sachimay) Jack Wright "Places To Go" (Spring Garden) Ned Rothenberg "The Crux. Selected Solo Wind Works (1989-92)" While all four are highlyl individual musicians, you will hear elements of "For Alto" in each of these works. Today listened to Braxton's "Saxophone Improvisations Series F" for the first time, and indeed this is an outstanding record - and quite different from his later solo works (which I also enjoy a lot - in fact I strongly prefer Braxton in solo stetting).

Incidentally, just yesterday I was enjoying the first listening of the Brandenburg concerts, Alfred Cortot conducting (EMI Reference series - now OOP?). Now, the quality is not exaclty hi-fi (but very decent for '30s recording) but the performances is very lively and moving.

I think you'd dig either one of the Marion Browns. Charles Tyler's "Eastern Man Alone" is surely very accessible (and very good). Same refers to two piano trio albums - Lowell Davidson trio and Baob james trrio.

Gonna do some listening this weekend. Have you listened to any of those?

Good, Chuck. Now how about releasing it?

Not true. Go for Ivo Perelman.

Some catchy, ruggedly-swinging tunes -- much swagger, meant in a good way -- but no great shakes, IMHO. Reminds me a bit of Raphe Malik's ConSequences. Good music to play while driving. Driving? Too dangerous for me - I can easily fall asleep listening to "O'Neal's Porch"...

This one I'd be definitely interested in hearing.

Utech record newsletter: January and February were slow, but I'm excited to have three new releases for March. These will be available before the month is up, so keep an eye on the site www.utechrecords.com Paal Nilssen-Love/Lasse Marhaug "Personal Hygiene" [uR-005] Edition of 75. Drums and electronics. Paal Nilssen-Love/Nils Hernrik Asheim "Pipes and Bones" [uR-006] Edition of 75. Drums and church organ. Matt Lavelle "Making Eye Contact With God" [uR-007] Edition of 50. New York-based trio of trumpet, bass and drums. Includes Matt Heyner and Ryan Sawyer. ____________________________________________________________________________ Releases will keep rolling through spring and summer with titles from Matt Lavelle (NY), Fire and Flux (NY), Jesse Quattro (SF), Steve Hubback (Iceland) and Triage (Chicago). Late summer or early fall will see the release of two more recordings from Paal Nilssen-Love. The first is a duo set with guitarist Anders Hana and the other a solo recording called "Twenty Seven Years Later." Tentative releases for the rest of the year include: Audiotrope (Milwaukee), Ryfylke (Norway), Lotte Anker (Denmark), Henrik Rylander (Sweden) and The Rempis Percussion Quartet (Chicago). There may be some surprises along the way as well. ____________________________________________________________________ Still available: Lasse Marhaug "Spaghetti Western Rainbow" [uR-001] Edition of 50. Ras Moshe "Live Spirits 1" [uR-002] Edition of 50. Second pressing. Ras Moshe "Live Spirits 2" [uR-003] Edition of 50. Second pressing. Frode Gjerstad/Steve Hubback "One Foot Moving" [uR-004] Edition of 75.

5000 is probably more than enough to satisfy demand for this sort of music globally. That's why I was sceptical about it being supposedly a Europe-only release when they just came out - 5000 is just too much for Europe alone...

I wonder which ones you chose to skip?

This is a great disc indeed (the best Solal I have heard, probably) - sadly OOP.

Insane. Have you considered sending a money order? Are you sure you need it to be sent by a "certified" carrier insured (so that you don't only pay a lot for the shipping, but also the import duties)? - regular post in Bulgaria should be OK.

John, Tony, good haul - looking forward to reading your reviews of these createve sources discs. Neither am I left without nothin' - just returned home after two-week traveling and found quite a few packages clogging my mailbox, including themusicresource order mentioned above, CDUniverse order inclluding Corea, Chick / Haynes, Roy / Henderson, Joe / Peacock, Gary Live In Montreux Jenkins, Leroy - Solo Shorter, Wayne - Night Dreamer Bailey, Derek - Aida Fast 'N' Bulbous - Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind Jeff Parker - The Relatives And a couple from Amazon.de: And the New York Contemporary [CD] Von: Archie Shepp And the one I've been looking forward to hearing for quite some time:

I am curious - does the US edition also have French liner notes (liner notes are quite so-so here, anyway)?