1. Pierrot Lunaire/Sleeper, Lesser Invocation (Sic Sic CS): The Pierrot Lunaire piece reminds us that real life underpins music--easy to lose sight of that in consumer/collector culture. Especially when you live in an area where live music of this nature occurs with less frequency.
2. Keir Neuringer, Ceremonies on Air (New Atlantis LP): An incredible statement. This album has been getting a lot of play.
3. Deep Listening Band, Then & Now Now & Then (Taiga 2LP): The wall shelf helps to bring out so much more detail from this release.
4. Sam Rivers, The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse 2LP): Sam Rivers killing it.
5. Steve Lacy, Stamps (HatHut 2LP): I don't mind Irene on this one. Lacy is in fine form on these sides.
6. Mengelberg/Lacy/Lewis/Gorter/Bennink, Change of Season (Soul Note LP): Jamming Herbie Nichols' tunes.
7. Anthony Braxton & Derek Bailey, Moment Precieux (Victo LP): I'll have to dust off the 4-disc box of Braxton duos with Joe Morris. I remember that leaving me a bit cold. This one blows mostly hot.
8. John Carter, Fields (Gramavision LP): Some of the synth work sounds dated, but this is still a very good album.
9. Rova Saxophone Quarter, Beat Kennel (Black Saint LP): Doing their thing
10. Sheldon Siegel, Midden (Sky Lantern CS): Free jazz on cassette.
11. Fushitsusha & Peter Brotzmann, Nothing Changes, No One Can Change Anything, I am Ever-Changing, Only You Can Change Yourself (Utech 3CD): Believe the hype.
12. Wolf Eyes, Six Arms and Sucks (Esquilo CD): Tough to follow a great Def Leopard joke, but the Wolf Eyes pulls it off. Brought me back to seeing them in Buffalo.
13. Art Ensemble of Chicago, Go Home (CD): Dubious reissue of ultra-rare LP on Galloway.
14. Frank Lowe, Black Beings (ESP Disk CD): Such a great album.
15. Bill Lews & Khan Jamal, The River (Philly Jazz LP): Getting out with vibraphone and marimba.
16. MAP, Fever Dream (Taiga 2LP): Lots of scratching, plinking and plunking. Great record.
17. Various Artists, Dynasty at Ghost Town (Bathetic 11 CS): Perfect listening for the dog days of the southern spring. Check it out.
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April 2014 Listening
1.
“Heaven Up Here” Echo and the Bunnymen (Rhino 2564-61162-2)
CD
2.
“Wrong Shape to be a Story Teller” Nate Wooley (Creative
Sources) CD
3.
“Concentric” John Butcher and Paal Nilssen-Love (Clean
Feed CF067CD) CD
4.
“Flower Head” The Wild Mans Band with Peter
Brotzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Peter Ole Jorgensen & Peter Fris Nielsen (Ninth
World Music NWM036) CD
5.
“For Adolphe Sax” Peter Brotzmann, Peter Kowald,
Sven-Ake Johansson and Fred van Hove (Atavistic UMS/ALP230CD) CD
6.
“More Nipples” Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Derek
Bailey, Fred van Hove, Buschi Niebergall and Han Bennik (Atavistic UMS/ALP236CD)
CD
7.
“Blue Train” John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Curtis
Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 53428 0 6) CD
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8.
“Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy and Art Forms
of Dimensions Tomorrow” Sun Ra and his myth Science Arkestra (Evidence ECD
22036-2) CD
9.
“Bird Dies” The Ames Room with Jean-Luc Guionnet,
Clayton Thomas & Will Guthrie (Clean Feed CF231) CD
10.
“Struggling in Public” The Ames Room with Jean-Luc
Guionnet, Clayton Thomas & Will Guthrie (Norwegianism Records NOR 009) CD
11.
“Empriicism in the West” Vinny Golia & Urs
Leimgruber (Relative Pitch RPR 1016) CD
12.
“Kaitaitekikoukan” Kaoru Abe & Masayuki
Takayanagi (DIW-415) CD
13.
“Bridges” Akira Sakata, Andrea Centazzo & Kiyoto
Fujiwara (Ictus Records 162) CD
14.
“Zerfall” Bogan Ghost with Liz Allbee & Anthea
Caddy (Relative Pitch RPR1021) CD
15.
“Fear of Music” Talking Heads (Sire 6076-2) CD
16.
“Soulstorm” Ivo Perelman with Daniel Levin and Torbjorn
Zetterberg (Clean Feed CF184CD) CD
17.
“Rumbling - Globe Unity Special '75” Alexander
von Schlippenbach (FMP CD 40) CD
18.
“Pakistani Pomade” Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan
Parker and Paul Lovens (Atavistic UMS/APLP240CD) CD
19.
“OOO” The Delta 72 (Touch & Go TG212CD) CD
20.
“Pale Horse” Jeremiah Cymerman with Christopher
Hoffman and Brain Chase (5049 Records 5049-003) CD
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