jon abbey

no plans to reprint it, I don't think you guys understand just how dreadful the market is for CD sales these days, and there's no real way to reprint less than 1000 copies. Keith Whitman still has at least one for sale here: http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com

he's got a looooong way to go, I wouldn't hold my breath.

the material is more similar to Radigue, the pacing reminds me of Feldman (Radigue too).

hehe, sure. it's not really an improv disc, it's more along the lines of a Radigue or Feldman record. are you fans of those composers?

maybe if David's description had much of a basis in reality, anyway.

hehe, just eating dinner, kids. I was going to get to you, go for it so North Country has evidently dropped Hat Art, because Werner U. started going directly through a couple of outlets in the US (I believe just DMG and Jazz Loft). we may be stocking some titles also, but only if I can get Werner to drop his suggested retail prices from $20 (reasonable in Europe, too high here). I talked to Bruce/DMG about this today, and he wants to do the same thing, so we'll see.

yeah, that's not helpful. I'm sure there are some you're not interested in, B. Fleischmann to start, and I don't have a list of what you bought. so if you take a look at the site (charhizma.com), and let me know which you'd like, I'll see if we can get them next time we get a box from Christof.

we have a lot of them in stock now, what are you looking for exactly?

the sale you're talking about is a February thing thus far, but if you buy 5 single discs at any time, it's only $55 including shipping within the US.

Christof Kurzmann runs Charhizma, he's a Viennese musician who's lived in Berlin for a while, and his releases are almost all drawn from these two scenes. I still don't really understand your specific taste at all, so I'm not sure what here would appeal to you, it's mostly electroacoustic or electroacoustic-influenced music of one kind or another. Christof also dabbles in poppier areas at times, the B.Fleischmann discs are very big sellers. their "orange" release is probably the first classic in this area, still maybe the best release they've done: http://www.charhizma.com/quart/index.html the Neumann/Krebs, Efzeg and Fagaschinski/Gal are also all recommended. have you heard any/many of the Vienna releases on my label? I'd recommend most of those over most of these, the Siewert/Brandlmayr or the Stangl/Kurzmanns or the Polwechsel/Fennesz or the Stangl/Dieb13 or the Neumann/Beins. Hat Art has also begun releasing more and more discs from this scene, fairly hit and miss so far, with a new Polwechsel just out, and an Efzeg imminent also.

what do you want to know?

I heard the Max Nagl quartet set here recently (with Akchote, Margarida Garcia, and Marina Rosenfeld) was awful, but I didn't make it there myself. the Jason Kahn Japan tour diary here is an amazing read, more so the more familiar you are with all of the people involved. honesty is a rare thing from musicians writing in public, even if it's a seriously cranky form of honesty. the Loren Connors box review is also one of Dan's finer moments.

yeah, most of the better Hatology releases seem to be reissues of earlier Hats, not that I've actually heard the bulk of them (largely going by reports and personnel). but the original Hat CD series 6001-6200 was a classic imprint, whereas the last few years, the label seems far less relevant. I do like the Trapist disc (although I passed on releasing it on my own label in favor of doing the later Too Beautiful To Burn), and I haven't heard the new Polwechsel yet. the ErikM/Fennesz is in desperate need of some editing, it should be maybe a half hour shorter. even pending the Polwechsel (and the Efzeg en route), I'd say it's safe to say that the Vienna releases I've done since 2000 are a far stronger group, and I don't have anywhere near the resources (or the distribution) of Mr. Uehlinger. needless to say, the Berlin, London, Tokyo and any other electroacoustic scenes have been mostly or totally ignored.

I don't agree about Hatology, especially these days, but the Tenney and Hauser discs above are both very strong. I haven't heard the other two.

A Bruit Secret: I believe Michel Henritzi announced a while back he was ceasing operations. Thanks, Cash: I set up the NYC show for this quartet, which was just before 9/11 (they actually did a show that night, in Colorado). I don't think the horn-heavy lineup showcases the musicians very well, I personally prefer the nmperign duo as part of a trio, with Jason Lescalleet, Le Quan Ninh (amazing live trio) or Gunter Muller. there's a new double CD on Intransitive from the trio of nmperign (Kelley/Rainey, in case anyone doesn't know) and Lescalleet, Love Me Two Times, a very ambitious statement I'm still trying to get my head around, but which is decidedly recommended nonetheless (if only for its ambition, something sadly lacking in most improvised music releases these days).

nice, I'd go check that out too. Lucio and Axel have a duo CD in the works on the Slovenian label l'innomable, nice stuff. Boris and Serge have recently released a few things, including a duo disc on Charhizma and a trio disc on Absinth with Burkhard Beins that I have yet to hear, sadly.

DMG's web site isn't so accurate in terms of what they actually have, you should give them a call or send them an e-mail and see what they've actually got.

Martin Brandlmayr Burkhard Beins Tim Barnes Sean Meehan

those Shoemaker reviews are so superficial, I'm not sure how anyone could take much out of them. "A Moment's Notice" seems pretty accurate, I passed on sending him review copies of Ersts.

all the long songs from the first three Funkadelic records, particularly What Is Soul?, Maggot Brain, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, maybe a couple of others.

my "take on the recording", honestly, is that it's right up there with the strongest single discs of free improv ever. free improv vocalists are very tough, because everyone has their own connotations with the voice, since we've all got one and we're surrounded by them all day long. Ami transcends all that to my ears, she's quite good at reducing the voice to pure sound. but obviously, for you it didn't/doesn't work, that's cool. I produced Tears, including selecting, ordering and helping edit the material, so you'd probably be better off with other perspectives than mine, which is why I linked the Panzner review.

here's a good review, this might help: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/cosmos/tears.htm

L'Innomable is Slovenian. http://www.linnomable.com/

Generative Themes is a very good one also. most AMM discs are by the above trio, or at least the majority of them. the box set has them also (from 15 or 20 different people? I forget exactly), so both boxes. some of the others have liners on the web, Hands of Caravaggio and Duos for Doris, maybe that's it. I saw this duo in NYC right after the record came out, in '94, I think. one of the first two live eai shows I saw, along with AMM around the same time (the third disc of Laminal). very good show, nice record (at the time I loved it), but Gunter's work has gotten so much more sophisticated since then, it's not even comparable.

tint is awesome, maybe Gunter Muller's best record to date, and that's saying something. I still have a handful of loose ones I'll sell if people are interested. there is no other AMM in this configuration (quartet with Rohan de Saram). de Saram was only in the band for a year or two, his overwhelming commitments to the Arditti Quartet forced him to leave after that. other AMM recs: I have to believe we've been through this before on this thread, but if you search and can't find anything, I'll be happy to do a brief primer from my perspective.