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Plutonium Records. I just recived a couple of their CDs. Gave a first very unfocused listen to brassum - good music - tuba-trumpet,-trombone-drums, New Orleans goes free. Outstanding musicians. Will giver it more listens and will expand here.

IMO, when listeninng the only thing one should take into consideration is the music itself. No comments, recommendations or "explanations" (even from the renown gurus of noise as ourselves) mean anything at that point. Another story is when you are thinking what to spend your $$$ on. Then, your best bet is to trust our "taste" .

Polish label NotTwo released a new Cosmosamatics Trio disc: Reeds and Birds. For those of you who don't know, Cosmosamatics is an excellent band of Sonny Simmons - alto sax, English horn, vocals Michael Marcus - tenor sax, saxello, Bb clarinet Jay Rosen - drums at the core. Previously there was a bassist also (on two Boxholder releases and on Bleu Regard live disc), but looks like for now it is a trio. http://www.nottwo.com/PelnaPlyta.php?Id=292&W=0&Od=&Off= I will be in Poland next week, and will try to pick up some of the NotTwo releases. Let me know of you are interested in anything. COmplete NotTwo catalog: http://www.nottwo.com/Katalog.php?ws=0&Typ=NT&W=0

Please do!

A Finnish label: TUM Records. I don't know the leaders, but the sidemen (Cyrrille, Tchicai, Workman) are vaguely familiar. MP3s available.

New Victo release: KAZUE SAWAI / MICHEL DONEDA / KAZUO IMAI / LÊ QUAN NINH / TETSU SAITOH "Une chance pour l’ombre" looks very tasty. Press release on the Victo website: http://www.victo.qc.ca/

out of the discs I have heard I would highly recommend these: Sparks Fly Upward - Alex Cline Ensemble I would argue about this one - I found it to be new-agy and lacking any sense of adventure. Cryptogrammophon website is generous with mp3s, so you can check it out before making a decision.

Another nice Internet radio: http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/listening/index.html Both "smooth" and "crunchy" channels are funnyratty enough. Friends, this is some really insane stuff! (I am on the "crunchy" channel - noit yet ready for the "smooth" one). I am to a large extent ignorant when it comes to (good) modern academic music, so this is an eye-opener to me. 90% of what I hear go to THE LIST immidiately.

Drimala website is down - obviously, hordes of international customers are exploiting your kind offer and browsingthe site.

Flurin: Let me know if you want to use my address as the ship to address and then I can ship the CDs to you. You could then PayPal the postage to me. It could save you some hassle with customs. I would use this offer as well, if you don't mind.

Sergey Letov Mats Gustafsson

A lot of good stuff here. I would highly recommend (insist, basically) Michel Lambert's "Out Twice" (mp3s and reviews here) -it's on page 3 of the bargains list. Thanks for posting this! They have some fantastic discs on sale. Too bad I already own a lot of the ones I would want to pick up. Has enyone here heard Kent Kessler's solo disc and have a recommendation pro or con? I did a search for it (typing the title in the search field and displaying results as posts) - you'll find a lukewarm review of Nate Dorward's. Any recommendations? I have the McPhee, and I might be interested in the Hal Russell and Bobby Few, but most of these artists are more or less unknown to me. ubu LAMBERT! LAMBERT! LAMBERT!!!!!! Flurin, keep in mind that Drimala does not help with customs arrangements, so you are likely to pay taxes if the order (including shipping) is more than Sfr. 50.

I'll try to come to this one as well.

The compositions are excellent, but Ornette's solos seem to be absolutely the same to me here. Blackwell is on fire here. Good remaster.

Drimala sale: A lot of good stuff here. I would highly recommend (insist, basically) Michel Lambert's "Out Twice" (mp3s and reviews here) -it's on page 3 of the bargains list.

Another nice Internet radio: http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/listening/index.html Both "smooth" and "crunchy" channels are funnyratty enough.

Naaked City Complete Studio Recordings. Makes sense? Haven't heard anythng by Naked CIty.

Sun Ra

I found I do have a CD with Assif Tsahar in my collection: Andy McWain Quartet "Starfish" (Fuller Street Music, 2002). Started listening to it, but got annoyed by third track. Just empty dead bullshit. Tsahar has chops, though. Gonna listen to some Romanian folk music instead before going out (as Tony kindly relieved me of the honorable duty to listen to the 7PM (EST) radion show tonight). Was in Romania recently (and what a run-down country it is, my friends) and picked up a couple of CDs. Should be good. Also, listened to some of the HARRRRDOCORRRRRE Jazz (as understood by Universal Japan: LINK), namely Sun Ra "It's After The End Of The World" (recorded live in 1970), and this is some good stuff! Now, I am not the biggest Sun Ra fan out there - I feel a lot of stuff is too sloppy, and his 80s-90s stuff tends to fall into a somehwat predictable routine - but the best stuff (like Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra VOl. I (ESP)) is phenomenal, IMO, and this record is one of the best Sun Ra I've heard. There is quite a bit of free blowing by Gilmore and Allen, and a lot of tinkering with electric keyboard (which I like). Some humorous (and rather short) recitation as well. And the sound of this Japanese reissue is excellent. As there is never enough of HARRRRDCORRRRRE Jazz, I picked up all of the series (except for Don Cherry, since I already have this disc in less hardcore edition), so I'll be reporting soon. Regarding Sun Ra, I would encourage everybody to check out the Solo Piano Recital (Leo) released a couple of years ago. Really surprising stuff (and more interesting than other solo Sun Ra releases).

Mwah, it's only 5:50 PM over here right now. Yeah, time to go to bed to be fresh and rested by the 7pm (EST) radio show. Sunday, David. Sunday! Maybe we could get Flurin to record each weakly three hour show and then he could disperse sets all over the globe. John (couw) could do the artwork! Ahh, darts.... Sunday. Thanks Tony. Otherwise, I would have been listening to a show today at 7pm (EST) and would have surely become a Hank Mobley fan just because I would have assumed this is the latest hatOLOGYLeoEMANEM release. And yes, I agree regarding commanding ubu to record the shows - the man is in constant need of recording, burning and shipping out something - does not matter what.

Mwah, it's only 5:50 PM over here right now. Yeah, time to go to bed to be fresh and rested by the 7pm (EST) radio show.

Not unless we make two versions: one for adults and one for all ages. "Funny Rat - A grown-up's guide to [add attribute of your choice] music" Sounds good to me. The only thing, some (most?) would argue about the "music" part of the title, so I woulsd leave it open. Or we can put "?" at the end.

It will also be acocmpanied by a multi-volume hard-cover Complete Funny Rat Transcriptions (with original spelling intact), with comprehensive index (that Hans is working on), indivual posters' taste evolution trees (like Chaney's unimpressive flirting with eai - the story of constant doubt and apprehension, or on a degenerative side - John B's and Д.Д.'s heavy metal deviations), list of naive innocent victums (Clunky buying Gebbia's "Arcana Major"), and illustrated biographies of all participants.

The first time I hear this . The song is pretty, btw.

indeed. I am looking forward to these.