best releases: John Zorn - Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik) Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium (Thirsty Ear) Fred Frith - Prints 1987-2001 (Fred Records) Fred Frith - Rivers & Tides (Winter & Winter) Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra - The Owner of the River Bank (Enja) Louis Sclavis - Napoli´s Walls (ECM) Erik Friedlander Topaz - Quake (Cryptogramophone) Julius Hemphill - One Atmosphere (Tzadik) Art Ensemble Of Chicago - The Meeting (Pi Recordings) Dave Douglas - Freak In (RCA Bluebird) Connie Bauer / Peter Kowald / Günter Sommer - Between Heaven and Earth (Intakt) Hamid Drake / Assif Tsahar - Soul Bodies (Ayler Records) best reissues: Albert Mangelsdorff And His Friends (MPS / Universal) Sun Ra - Cosmos (P-Vine) Sun Ra - Live at Montreux (Universe) Fred Frith - Step Across the Border - DVD (Winter & Winter) Sonny Simmons - Burning Spirits (Contemporary) Frank Lowe - Black Beings (Calibre / ESP) Albert Ayler - Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse!) Tim Berne - Fractured Fairy Tales (Winter & Winter / JMT) Miniature - I Can't Put My Finger On It (Winter & Winter / JMT) best performances: A Night Of Joy And Music ded. to Peter Kowald w/ P. Brötzmann, H. Drake, M. Gustafsson, W. Parker etc. (Frankfurt 01/11) Sun Ra Arkestra (Uncool Festival 05/29-06/01) Steven Bernstein Diaspora Blues (Saalfelden 08/29) Franz Hautzinger (Saalfelden 08/31) Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (Karlsruhe 09/14) Italian Instabile Orchestra (Darmstadt 09/27) The Thing w/ Joe McPhee (Wels 11/09) Peter Brötzmann - Hamid Drake Duo (Hofheim 11/20) Andreas np: Hans Koch Solo - Uluru (Intakt) _________________________________________________________________ Schützen Sie Ihren Posteingang vor unerwünschten E-Mails. http://www.msn.de/antispam/prevention/junkmailfilter Jetzt Hotmail-Junk-Filter aktivieren!
I liked Tania Maria -- Live At The Blue Note (by far my favorite disc of the yr) Al Green -- I Can't Stop Outkast -- Speakerboxxx/The Lovebelow Rooney (self-titled) Bacharach Meets Isley The Bruthers -- Bad Way To Go (60s garage re-ish, killing) Raymond Scott Quintette -- Microphone Music James Blood Ulmer -- No Escape Fr The Blues Steely Dan -- Everything Must Go Music vid -- Prince Live At The Aladdin in Vegas (the only human with a dick as big as Tania Maria's, musically speaking) Rara Avis -- Louis Armstrng Plays WC Handy (greatest album ever by the single greatest musician this country ever produced. Play every morning and remind yourself that the W does not represent the American spirit -- Louis does). Best live show I saw this year: Jack Sheldon, just like Greg Cohen told me he'd be skip h
My faves of 2003: New: Fred Frith: Keep The Dog Live (Fred Records) John Zorn: Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 3 - The Unknown Masada (Tzadik) Soft Machine: Bbc Radio 1967-1971 (Hux BBC) Dave Douglas: Freak In RCA Bluebird) Gregg Bendian/Jeff Gautier/Stuart Liebig/G.E. Stinson: Bone Structure (Cryptogramophone) Frisell/Ribot/Sparks: Masada Guitars (Tzadik) Volapuk-Where Is Tamashii? (Orkestra) Sylvie Courvoisier With Mark Feldman/Erik Friedlander - Abaton (ECM) Eugene Chadbourne/René Lussier "L'Oasis" (Victo) Reissues: Aksak Maboul: Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine (Crammed) Miles Davis Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Sony) Peter Tush
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