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Is this a new release? http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000...9615137-0649712

The Thing with Joe McPhee play a version of P.J. Harvey's "To Bring You My Love": http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ouvyxdkb4olg

I would be interested in hearing more Lacy of this type. I have quite few of Lacy CDs (alhough what is "quite a few" when it comes to Lacy's discography? I have 20 or so CDs - it is about 5% of his output, I guess), but most of them are solos-duos-trios, and this large band recording shows a totally new aspect of Lacy's approach to me.

Mengelberg is skippable, IMO. Gregorio I found too dry and academic - will have to listen to it some more. McPhee is essential. ICP is very very good. Eskelin & Braxton I haven't listened to yet. As I mentioend, I hv a spare copy of Braxton's "Basel" available, so let me know if you hve problems findng it.

Believe it or not, amazon.de and amazon.fr will ship to the US. Also, I am sure that DMG and Dustry Grooves in the US will carry those.

They're called Bols. There is an interesting example of bols (even if in somewhat simplified form) within a jazz (or jazz-fusion, if you will) context on Subramaniam's disc which is titled "Seventh something (wave?)" on Milestones. There two percussionists have a sort of fire-spitting "duel" using bols technique at the same time. Sounds exilirating - my favorite moment on this (not bad) CD.

Digipacks. Universal France website says these will be limited editions.

This one is good, if not the best AEoC, IMO. Lester is not playing that much here. unfortunately. For the new Pi one, I will porbably skip it. The previous one The Meeting was quite weak, and this new one is from the same session, so it's hard to expect it would be much better. As a reminder, three AEoC AMerica recordings (Phase One, With Fontella Bass and Certain Blacks) wil be reisues by EmArcy France in a couple of weeks:

I'm in two minds about Clichés. At one time I kinda like it (though it's not even close to Lacy's best albums), at another time I don't care for it at all. And then there's Irène Aebi's vocalizing, which I'm not exactly a fan of... I thought Clichés was absolutely fantastic, with very strong compositions (sounding as if they were written specifically for the featured band, so shocase all of their powerful abilities) and exciting solos, particularly from George Lewis. As far as I remember, there is not that much of Aebi vocals there. ------------------- Regarding Carlo Actis Dato - I got a fresh SIC Trio CD (yes, it's on Leo, you got it) - a three-reed band. I'll report here when I listen to it. ------------------- Gokhan, let us know what you think of AALY's "Stumble" - as I mentioned, I found it less entertaining than I Wonder If I Was Screaming, though still good.

I always come to attention when David issues a friendly recommendation, especially on an OOP title. Just ordered ARP Music along with three other Leo OOPs: Carlo Actis Dato: Urartu Lauren Newton & Joelle Leandre: 18 Colors Robert Dick: Worlds of If Well, I relieve myself of any responcibility for these three. Carlo Actis Dato is a fantastic musician with abundant technique, but in projects under his own name, he tends to overdo it quite a bit. I much more prefer him as a sideman (e.g. with IIO). Leandre/Newton - I would assume Leandre contributes quite a lot of vocalizing here, and her vocal is something I can take in limited doses only (it is great on her recent "For Flowers" (on Leo as well) - very much in the context, and in sync with the ensemble playing, adding additional dark flavor to the music - but then, it is limited to a couple minutes on one track only. Robert Dick for me is the same story as Dato - admirable, even unique technique, but a lot of it boils down to a bags-of-tricks display, IMO (talking about flutists, I very much prefer Carlos Bechegas solo project, also on Leo, believe it or not - that's where you see unorthodox flute techniques applied to create something original. Thinking about it, Bechegas might be my favorite modern flutist). Now, I haven't heard any of these three CDs, so these are merely my speculations. Let us know what you think of them.

Thanks Gokhan. -------------------------- Friends, I see that Leo CD of Akemi Kuniyoshi / Russell Lambert / Paul Moss "ARP Music" is now OOP, and I would encourage you to get your hands on it it is beautiful lyrical free music. One of my favorite Leo CDs. I will add more when I get back home and relisten to it. http://www.leorec.com/?m=select&id=LeoLab_004 Hey, Thom Jurek himself also thinks this is onee of the best Leo Records releases: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...8x6ompej9f8o~T1

Same here - don't have anything except for this hatOLOGY double CD, which I enjoy a lot. Gonna get this Atavistic reissue, since I am very much into Dyani's playing. But note earlier that I go through the recent pile of Atavistic stuff I bought (Global Unity Orchestra 1967/70; Brötzmann "More Nipples", Fred Van Hove Vogel stuff, Caspar Brötzmann and Mario Schiano reissue). These Atavistic guys are on fire.

I probably need to clarify the way the guarantee works - for each CD recommended here that you do not like, you pay a Funny Rat poster who recommended it a full price of the CD plus 10% (for emotional distress). The budget will go for further CD purchases (= more Funny Rat recommendations).

Vapirov has his own label AVA records, and you can purchase his CDs from him directly: http://www.vsjf.com/ava-frameset-1024x768_E.htm Alsa, one disc of the Golden Years of Soviet New Jazz Vol. I set on Leo is dedicated to Vapirov's music: http://www.leorec.com/?m=select&id=CD_GY_401/404

Vapirov has his own label AVA records, and you can purchase his CDs from him directly: http://www.vsjf.com/ava-frameset-1024x768_E.htm Ganelin Trio reunited in 2002 after 15 years of inactivity, and produced a pretty nice (if not essentail) record: http://www.leorec.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_375 I think there is more coming from them later this year on Leo.

Thanks for posting this, ubu. That's very much a Leo-style letter - opinionated and non-compromising. As for me, - well I agree with most of the Hamislton's review.

New releaes from Black Saint / Soul Note / DDQ: http://www.blacksaint.com/sito/TOP_frame.htm Geisser/Mazzolla quartet definitely looks interesting (I am very curious to hear Mat Maneri and Scott Fields together), an this Ullman big band thng is quite itriguing as well. Long live Black Saint.

Anybody's familiar with Recorded releases? Look not bad at all. And one more: ZeroEggzie.

And how about Qoadlibet Recordings?

which ones do you consider to be pretty bad? I'm really just starting to explore his work and am curious which ones I should avoid at first. John, I will have to go through my Sun Ra collection - I haven't listened to anything by him for quite some time (except for outstanding solo recital on Leo (btw, I remeber liking his other solo disc on IAI much less - so here you go, an anti-recommendation) and "Heliocentric Worlds I" .

They don't - it's $6 per package plus $2 per disc. Still not too bad, given that $ is getting cheaper and cheaper. Not going to buy more Sun Ra till I digest 15 or so CDs of his that I have (I remmeber some of them being pretty bad), but will listen to my favorite (so far) Heliocentric Worlds Vol. I (ESP) this weekend.

Thanks John. A bit of good drone won't hurt, I guess. As for e-music - I just like having these little round shiny things with useless artwork and irrelevant liner notes. It's not really about the music - it's THE PRODUCT that matters, right?

I've got a lot of releases on VHF by Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flying Saucer Attack, Sunroof, Pelt, and L (the disc you linked to.) That's some good stuff! I probably would have enjoyed it even more without chanting, but I like it nonetheless. Our own Mr. Abbey distributes Vhf, I assume... err, no he doesn't. OK, I'll buy from the guys directly, even though this shopping cart of theirs does not seem to work.

I've got a lot of releases on VHF by Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flying Saucer Attack, Sunroof, Pelt, and L (the disc you linked to.) Let me know if you want any recommendations I am letting you know, John.

And recommending another major label, here is VHF Records - I don't have anything by them yet, but looks interesting. A lot of Japanese guys. Randomely clicked on a recent release: http://vhfrecords.com/catalog/84.htm - some atmospheric, slow, bluesy acoustic guitar stuff - not bad at all.