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Re: overdue CD reissues
by Andreas Dietz 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

thereÂ´s a vinyl reissue of Art Ensemble - Chi Congo on a label called Paula (mentioned in an earlier footnote but possibly overseen). my wishes for reissues: Ornette Coleman - Crisis (Impulse) Charles Mingus - Music Written For Monterey 1965, Not Heard (East Coasting) Sun Ra - On Jupiter (Saturn) Don Cherry - Blue Lake (BYG) Butch Morris - In Touch...But Out Of Reach (Kharma) Frank Lowe Orchestra - Lowe & Behold (Musicworld) w/ Zorn Cecil Taylor Unit - Nicaragua: No Pasaran/Live In Willisau 83 (Nica) Andreas np: Sun Ra - Cosmos >From: "Kurt Gottschalk" <ecstasymule(a)hotmail.com> > >lester bowie "african children" (horo) >and all the rest of the early art ensemble stuff, for that matter. _________________________________________________________________ Mit MSN Fotos kÃ¶nnen Sie problemlos Ihre Fotos ausdrucken und anderen Benutzern zur VerfÃ¼gung stellen: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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New Berne on New World
by Steve Smith 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

I believe someone here inquired about this... here's a press release I received this evening. It's coming out in a few weeks, I guess - New World's distributors usually hit the stores on the third Tuesday of the month. Steve Smith ssmith36(a)sprynet.com Tim Berne The Sevens New World 80586-2 ARTE Quartett; Tim Berne, alto saxophone; Marc Ducret, acoustic guitar; David Torn, electric guitars, loops, sonic redistribution The Sevens is Tim Berne's most explicitly "compositional" statement in some time. The album's core, a pair of through-composed movements performed by the ARTE saxophone quartet, could serve as an apotheosis of Berne's chamber writing. "Repulsion" features four melodies (or is it one melody in four voices?), variously in dialogue or in chorus. Moving through a range of tonal colors, the piece reflects both Berne's fondness for friction and his less-celebrated sensitivity. In fact, certain sections sound almost wistful, as Berne cloaks his dissonances in subtle shadows. In "Quicksand," the centerpiece of the album, the ARTE Quartett is joined by Berne and Marc Ducret, both of whom provide improvised commentary above and around what's on the page. Here, in one piece, is a fulfillment of the yin-yang ethos inherent in Berne's work, the tensile balance between composition and improvisation. On The Sevens, the process of interpretation assumes several different shapes. First, there's the conventional notion of improvisation on a theme. Then there's the subtler way in which Ducret personalizes the solo miniatures "Sequel Why" and "Sequel Ex"--two fairly divergent takes of the same hauntingly pretty song. Finally, there's the more radical manner of interpretation seen in "Reversion" and "Tonguefarmer"-both of which are the product of studio manipulation at the hands of guitarist/programmer David Torn. This last procedure, a collaborative effort, stretches the bounds of "composition" in clearly contemporary ways. "Reversion," the first of these pieces, is essentially a remix of "Repulsion," with significant modifications. "Tonguefarmer," the second of Torn's remixes, is essentially a palimpsest consisting of successive layers of exposition. For Berne, The Sevens, with its various interpretive assignations, was "probably the hardest one to make, of records I've made, in a long time." For an artist steeped in self-jurisdiction, surrendering even a portion of the product can be a terrifying prospect. Which is exactly why he did it. "Whatever the thing is that I'm least secure with, I tend to want to expose that and face it, in a way." Accordingly, The Sevens ultimately resembles neither his eighties albums nor the live recordings of the nineties-instead defining a new Tim Berne paradigm, an uncertain but surprisingly smooth continuum expressing what the composer calls "unity through contrast."

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hnas reissues
by Lang Thompson 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

The HNAS stuff I heard years back didn't much impress me but I suspect they'd sound better today. Any recommendations from the new batch of reissues? Is the earlier stuff the best? Thanks, Lang ----------------------------- Violinist Bauer-Lechner on Mahler: "The first thing he composed on paper at the age of six was a polka, to which he added a funeral march as an introduction." The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm

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please remove me from the list
by Nicholas Vandenberg 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

please remove me from the list

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Re: overdue CD reissues
by Steve Smith 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

My mouth is now officially watering for the version of Ellington's Fargo concert that Skip mentions. Skip, do you find this label at your local stores, or is it a mail order thing? And yes, I'll jump in with a hearty "Damn straight!" as regards those Rhino X reissues, of which I've grabbed four of the six so far (the first three and 'Ain't Love Grand?'). The candid and revealing liner notes are also worth treasuring - particularly painful are those dealing with recording 'Ain't Love Grand?' with a hair-metal producer who basically wanted to scrub Exene out of the picture. Steve Smith ssmith36(a)sprynet.com NP - Hate Eternal, "Spiritual Holocaust," 'Conquering the Throne' (Wicked World)

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re: reissues
by Toby Dodds 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

If you're gonna say X, I'll throw my pop hat in for XTC. There early eighties albums are great and damn near impossible to get these days. Sheister. -T

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Re: Reissues
by Dgasque＠aol.com 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

I'd love to see those 5 albums by the jazz-rock band Matrix re-issued. Also the lone "Canterbury-esque jazz" Master Cylinder LP on Inner City... -- =dg=

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Fwd: Re: Fwd: RE: RE: SY
by Efrén del Valle 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Hi, I > > > really enjoyed ghosts and flowers, but that's > just > > > me. > > > >No, no, it's not just you! > > I agree, by faaaar their best album ever. Not to that extent in my case. My favorite is "Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star" but "Dirty" and "NYC..." come really close after. > What about The Ex or Boredoms?? Two of my other > absolute favorie bands. In > many ways, I concider them pretty similiar to Sonic > Youth, I can't say much about the Boredoms or The Ex. From the latter, I loved they collaboration with Tortoise in those "In the Fishtank" series from Konkurrent Records. Their guitar sound is superb and they're really countundent. If you mix that with Tortoise's elegance (before "Standards" please) you've got a great record. And then there was that album with Terry Ex and Han Bennink. A tough listen for me. I admit I couldn't stand it. Too disperse for my taste, although both are great musicians, of course. What do people recommend as a good starting point for Boredoms and The EX? Thanks in advance. Best, EfrÃ©n del Valle > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > _______________________________________________________________ Copa del Mundo de la FIFA 2002 El Ãºnico lugar de Internet con vÃdeos de los 64 partidos. Â¡ApÃºntante ya! en http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/fc/es/

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Non-JZ FS: Aube, Pan American, Fonn, Live Human etc.
by pm.carey＠utoronto.ca 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Perhaps of interest ... FOR SALE - all brand new/mint: Aube - "Cardiac Strain" CAN CD (Alien8: aliencd2) 1997 [Ltd to 666] Aube/Knurl - "Split" CAN CD (Alien8: aliencd6) 1998 [Ltd to 500] Fonn - "Field 831" UK CD (Fat Cat: fatcd05) 1999 Jliat - "Still Life #7: The Grandi Series" US CD (Edition) Live Human - "Improvisessions" UK 12" (Fat Cat: fat05) 1998 Maeror Tri - "Multiple Personality Disorder" HOL CD (Korm Plastics) 1993 Pan American - "Quarry" BEL 10" (K-raa-k 3) 1999 Sian - "Still/Act" US 7" (Fever Pitch: fp13) 1996 Sigillum S - "Heteromorphonicks" GER CD (Unclean Production) 1992 -Patrick pm.carey(a)utoronto.ca

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Re: merzbow
by Benjamin Pequet 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

At 11:34 AM 6/5/2002 -0600, "Ricardo Jorge" wrote: >anyone can tell me were I can buy copies of "a perfect pain" and "amlux"?? Merzbow "Amlux": from Important Records, through ebay.com or www.importantrecords.com (where I just saw mention of two Merzbow cds in the works... "Merzbeat" and "Amlux remixed"... Is that to say he's running out of the fantastic titles that characterized his releases...) Merzbow & Genesis P-Orridge - "A Perfect Pain": a fine Cold Spring release. Long oop though. Used or even first-hand copies are still floating around, so keep your eyes open, but www.coldspring.co.uk hasn't had any in years and I have not heard of a re-release yet.

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