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Urban Sax 1st LP

11410 Urban Sax 1st LP 01 Urban Sax Part I (17:48) 02 Urban Sax Part II (18:04) Total time: 35:52 LP released 1977 on Czame-Cobra (reissued 1986 on Celluloid) 16 saxophone players gathered to record the 1st Urban Sax LP, after several years of touring festivals and outdoor venues. They were perhaps reluctant to actually [...]

30 May 2008 at 09:21 - Comments

V/A : The Miracle of Levitation

11385 V/A : The Miracle of Levitation Experimental Sounds from the United States and Japan (1995) The Miracle of Levitation (Gentle Giant, GGCD001) (CD) Lam Cheng-ying (3:54) Ground Zero: Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, guitar Eye Yamatsuka: vocals Junji Hirose: sax Shuichi Chino: piano, sampler Hideki Kato: bass Masahiro Uemura: drums Michiaki Tanaka: percussion Recorded 1991 in [...]

28 May 2008 at 11:52 - Comments

Akiyama / Barnes/ Ezaki : Futuro

11378 Tetuzi Akiyama/Tim Barnes/Masafumi Ezaki Futuro (quakebasket 2003) Guitar – Tetuzi Akiyama Percussion – Tim Barnes Trumpet – Masafumi Ezaki Recorded live at Cafe Futuro, Osaka, January 25, 2003. In early 2003, Akiyama (guitar) and Barnes (percussion(s) began a tour that took them from Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, to New York, North Hampton, [...]

27 May 2008 at 12:05 - Comments

davies / hayward / eckhardt / capece : amber

11368 rhodri davies / robin hayward / julia eckhardt / lucio capece amber (creative sources 2005) davies / hayward / eckhardt / capece : amber Rhodri Davies : harp Robin Hayward : tuba Julia Eckhardt : viola Lucio Capece : soprano saxophone, bass clarinet Total Time 42:42 2005 Recorded on April 2004 in Berlin No [...]

26 May 2008 at 12:53 - Comments

Rowe, Lehn, Schmickler: Rabbit Run

11356 Keith Rowe, Thomas Lehn, Marcus Schmickler: Rabbit Run 1 piece split into 42 segments, designed to be played either linearly or randomly Keith Rowe, Thomas Lehn and Marcus Schmickler are three of the most prominent names in the European experimental world, each with their own distinct history and discography. All three are members of [...]

25 May 2008 at 11:35 - Comments

Keiji Haino – I Said, This Is The Son of Nihilism

http://modisti.com/system/archivo/11345.jpg” align=”middle” alt=”image”> 11345 Keiji Haino – I Said, This Is The Son of Nihilism The japanese underground has no more notorious an icon than the spectacularly enigmatic Keiji Haino. His career spans thirty years of solo recordings, improvisational collaborations and group work with Fushitsusha and lost Aaraaff. i said, this is the son of [...]

23 May 2008 at 02:18 - Comments

Peter Evans – More Is More

11335 Peter Evans – More Is More What if Evan Parker played the trumpet? A possible answer to that captivating question comes in the personage of Peter Evans and his newly released solo venture on Psi. Evans adapts the familiar Parkerian extended techniques of circular breathing, split tones and multiphonics to a degree that the [...]

22 May 2008 at 12:06 - Comments

Greg Kelley – I Don

11319 Greg Kelley – I Don’t Want To Live Forever Mad piece by trumpeter Greg Kelley. Composed out of improvisations made during a tour with Mike Bullock, Kelley uses a Dada approach, using collage as the primary tool of composition, connecting fragments of sound into a fuzzy and icy mosaic that would be lovely as [...]

21 May 2008 at 13:10 - Comments

Andre Vida – Saxophone Solos

11300 Andre Vida – Saxophone Solos VT14 1. tale of to sax 1:55 2. for evry moan 3:47 3. i before e except after e and weird 6:03 4 thanksgiving was 12.18 Arriving in NYC in 1995 at the age of 19, with male pattern baldness shaved in his head by his own hand, Andre [...]

20 May 2008 at 13:50 - Comments

Tellus #15: The Improvisors

11269 Tellus #15: The Improvisors 1986 – [8 mp3s] Excerpts from The Stephanie and Irving Stone Festival of Improvisors recorded at Roulette, NYC on November 8, 9, and 10, 1985. Chris Cochrane – electric guitar, Anthony Coleman – electric organ (8:53) Carol Emanuel – harp, Tom Cora – electric cello, Bill Frisell – electric guitar, [...]

18 May 2008 at 11:41 - Comments