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No shit!- and still 2.5 days to go! This set shouldn't be that hard to locate, I assume.

Sounds interesting! Gotta start catching up with SteepleChase catalog.

Great to see the development of the thread. I would suggest that posters who don't receive any requests for the CDs they offer for some time (a week, shall we say it?) offers something elese instead. After all, if you received a CD from somebody, you gotta send a CD to somebody as well. A good karma preservation principle.

Circumvention Music, anybody?

Interesting you don't mention postage to North America from overseas. If you think about it, you'll discover that non-US posters are more likely to pay higher shipping fees as (with this board membership being predominantly Amrican) they are more likely to ship to the US, than US posters to overseas. Or you assume that nobody in the US might be possibly interested in what international posters have to offer ?

Great idea. I also think it would be better to do away with PMs and award the CD to the first poster in the thread.

I think he tattooed his drums only. Both releases look very tasty. I think DMG is selling Unorthodox releases.

How IS that album? I've seen it in the stores. Pretty good. Covers, but very well done. John French sings an excelent Beef. Makes me forget it's not Don. I heard some broadcast, and was really disappointed. Well played, but Ihated the Beefheartian vocals - what's the point of trying to sing exactly (and this seemed to be the intentiona - with all Beefheart licks and mannerisms) like Don - it's impossible to do it. This is such an opriginal music, and as soon as you introduce an element of imitation (however well-intended) into it, it is downgraded to a second-tier copy. Why not have a trumpet play the vocal parts for example, and make it a bit more creative (like what Phillip Johnston's Fast 'N' Bulbous are doing, for example).

Locomotive

Tony, I don't have it, but's its on THE LIST. Love Masaoka! -I mean not in the ubu-Ibarra type of way, but love her playing! ------------------ As for Sperry, I plan to get at least on of his solo records on Limited Sedition.

Looking at the cover, some of the less open-minded of you might gently enquire - what the fuck is that? is this some more of heavy metal "music" that John B and Д.Д. are pathologically partial to? Well, it might be nearly as good as that. Personnel: Billy Bang - violin Charles Gayle - alto & tenor saxophones Sirone - bass Tyshawn Sorey - drums A new release on Silkheart records.

Upcoming Rastascan release: WOLFGANG FUCHS with Tom Djll, Tim Perkis, Gino Robair, John Shiurba, and Matthew Sperry SIX FUCHS: http://www.rastascan.com/catalog/brd052.html Looks interesting.

Great idea. I'd say 96 kbit/sec should be adequate. Thanks!

Friends, I would like to recommend highly the follwoing record: Gray Ghost - "How to Create Words" (482 Music, 2003) Hard-to-describe music. A lot of things are mixed together - some John Butcher, some Evan Parker, some E IA (I think), some fairly traditional "free jazz"... All sounds very creative, enjoyable and relevant. Sound samples at CD Baby. Available at indiejazz, CD Baby or directly at 482 Music. -------------------------------- Also, have been listening to some Erstwhile treasures that landed at my door. Keith Rowe/Günter Müller/Taku Sugimoto - "The World Turned Upside Down" Pure gentle beauty. Fairly quiet, but with its own logics, developmentand a lot of clever interaction. The best one of 4 records with Keith Rowe I have so far ("Weather Sky" and "Live at Lu" - both on Erstwhile, I found extremely boring, and "Grain" on Zarek is very good, but probably sllightly less interesting than "The World...") Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler - "Bart" This one is a much more rambunctious affair, and I like it even more. The sounds that Messrs. Lehn and Schmickler emit are very pleasing to my ear (a lot of low-to-mid register, shall I say "farting" sounds - no sine waves), all quitre energetic (but not violent or noisy) with a lot of dynamic variation, exciting interplay and constant surprises. Interaction between musicians is truly fascinating - gentlemen obviously had fun playing with each other. Was going out tonigh, and just couldn't leave until the record was over - was really mesmerized by what I was hearing. More Erstwhile stuff to explore in the next days.

Time to become a vocal one, then!

IMO, you are not getting the full effect not only because of Bowie's absense, but because this is a realtively weak performance by other band members. For AEoC at their prime go for Fanfare for the Warriors, as was already recommended above.

Oh yes.

I have the same impression of Murray. Technically superior player, but his music just sounds fake to me.

Send it as a present to somebody - jon abbey, for example. oh, you guys! just what I need in my mailbox, more unsolicited crap, how did you know? Well, I got a package in my mailbox today...

Hannibal is great! Would love to heare more of him! Same here - I guess his Enja stuff is all OOP, right? You never know with Enja HW... I got this one from amazon.de some time ago - and it is good:

Learned from a mutual friend that Marion Brown is much better now. He recently received a $5,000,000 compensation for the wrongful amputation of part of his leg. Hope to be in touch with Marion directly soon! Guy, keep us posted!

Hannibal is great! Would love to heare more of him!

I'd say that Cox's playing here is more interesting than on his solo disc.

Unlike Dal Vivo! a/k/a From the Alive One!, Work -- when it desires to do so -- manages to be jubilant without screaming CLOY! And at 47 minutes, not-at-all-odddly enough, I wanted MORE! And so, a second spin. ON THE EDIT: CRIPES this is good! Nice call, ubu. John: You're in for a treat. Tony, pay a special attention to Humair's work on track 6 - the guy's imagination (and skill) is endless! Should be listened to in headphones.