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Rhys Chatham - An Angel Moves Too Fast To See - (Radium) Music for 100 electric guitars, electric bass, and drums. Beautiful!

Yup.

Yeah, it's all over the place. I had to rifle through about seven copies just to grab a JVC copy of The Bridge yesterday...

Think I prefer Kevin, My Dear Son. That is an excellent record - weird, but excellent.

I am tempted to give chewy/Aric my number. For real.

I would rather talk about t-shirts, honestly.

The Watts, yes. The McGregor (subject of PM), no...

Yeah, I know. I wouldn't block anyone, and especially chewy/contemporaryladySF/ariceffron (who I have seen a photo of!)

My dad will be pleased...

So does that mean chewy is real?!?

chewy's got an extra.

I've heard that Wright is a mediocre set. For whatever reason, dudes get fired up...

Hell, I can't even find a Lungfish shirt...

Chuck? Chu-uck?

A great introduction, indeed...

My vinyl and I haven't reached that stage yet... Well, you should have also some feticists inclinations. I would suggest you a carefully listenig of 'The Velvet Underground and Nico'... More to the point, "Sister Ray..."

Will this be the kind of roast where your fellow lodge members give you what's what?

I just saw a clip from an interview with him where he states that he had been writing chamber music in the style of Haydn... so, that seems like reason enough. Remember that on his first Blue Note there was a through-composed piece for piano and bass, so he was even at that early stage also interested in writing music.

Agreed, the Pentangle and their brethren were/are great.

...and for those into earlier formats... Willie Brown 78

Davy Graham is brilliant - those are some of the most crucial guitar ragas outside of Sandy Bull.

Good point on Black Saint/Soul Note. Calig also put out some great sides with Marion Brown as well as some serious Euro-free shit, tho ceased relevance pretty quickly (if they ever had it). I can't answer for Manfred Eicher's reasoning and would hope it's more aesthetic than otherwise biased. Dunno. You're right, though: ECM sound could do a lot for somebody like Matt Shipp (if he were to avoid the trip-hop crap or whatever the fuck)... As for Braxton and Muhal - interesting idea. It's a drag that 90% of that material is on import-only labels that are a bitch to find in, say, a "store" somewhere other than NYC/CHI/SF. The EP Electro-Acoustic shit is weak, and I wholeheartedly agree that the world doesn't need another EP record (nor another KJ record) in theory. But of course, people will continue to release records if so inclined, and there's obviously an audience. Better EP and KJ than a lot of other crap out there... Brotzmann/Moholo/Miller def. needs a proper reissue; I love Brotz and concur on the Patchen bit. Mike Pearson's reading a bit more theatrical than KP's dustiness (for me) requires, but still very good.

Continuing with the sax-drums duo format, Shoji Ukaji (baritone/tenor) and Sabu Toyozumi (drums) - Sound of Vision - (private release, no label) Pretty smokin' set of duets between the great Sabu and Ukaji, who's also on Sabu's Message to Chicago.

Hans-Peter Hiby and Paul Hession - The Real Case - (Senti) Solid reeds-drums duo from the little-recorded Wuppertal reedman, and S.H. Fell's regular drummer. Great bit of underwater saxophone playing, too!