Browse by Label: BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)

Artist:	JOYNES & THE RESTLESS DEAD, CWK
Title:	8 Selections And Premonitions From The Tower, Vol. I
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	BW 001EP

Joint release with Great Pop Supplement, in an on-going series of five 7"s by C Joynes, and collaborators. All limited to 350 copies, with die-cut sleeves and pressed on colored vinyl. The first in the series features Joynes' solo guitar together with a series of contributors and collaborators, including the avant-garde harpist Rhodri Davies, sound artists Babygrand, who work to create intimate pieces using household objects and field recordings, and saxophonist/flautist Glen Hall, a composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.

Artist:	N.E.W.
Title:	NEWtoons
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SIDRA 001LP

This is the third full-length release by N.E.W., the UK jazz power trio of Alex Ward (electric guitar), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums/percussion). NEWtoons is the first release in a new series on Bo' Weavil Recordings -- Sidra Edition. Pressed in a limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, and housed inside thick, hand-assembled covers. NEWtoons captures the trio in all their live ferocity, potency and inventive group improvisation. Equal measures free improv as avant-rock, these three live tracks reveal the sheer power, attack and total commitment that these musicians have to reaching new heights. As Jazzwise magazine put it, "Ward is phenomenal, all spidery glissandi and slashing chords. Edwards is a dark magus of a bass player thundering against the elements, while Noble is a violent, malevolent presence. If these guys' personalities reflect their playing, you just wouldn't want to find yourself down a darkened alley with them. A white-knuckled ride you'll be glad to take." Pressed in a limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, and housed inside thick, hand-assembled covers.

Artist:	DECOY
Title:	Vol. 2: The Deep
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SIDRA 002LP

This is a companion vinyl release for Vol. 1: Spirit (WEAVIL 040CD), but with totally different material, none of which crosses over with Spirit. A part of the limited Sidra edition, in only 300 hand-numbered copies with hard-cover, hand-assembled sleeves. Decoy is a free-jazz trio with some boundary-pushing organ, featuring three of the most groundbreaking artists in London's current jazz scene: Alexander Hawkins (pipe organ), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums).

Artist:	REINES D'ANGLETERRE
Title:	Les Comores
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	SIDRA 003LP

LP release. Reines D'Angleterre (trans. "Queens Of England") is a band made up of French avant-garde legend Ghédalia Tazartès and a couple of hyperactive young Parisian upstarts, Jo Tanz and él-g. Both of these characters are steeped in subversive operations covering psych-folk and "toon-psych" films (él-g), and the Tanzprocesz label (Jo Tanz). They also both perform under the moniker of Opéra Mort and have made work as Lö Jengi. Reines D'Angleterre are a damaged conglomeration of live concrète, sound poetry, faux ethnicity and sincere eccentricity. Les Comores (a reference to the island off the eastern coast of Africa which France still administers as an "overseas collectivity") is comprised of inexplicable ethnic residue and feasts on duality: chaos and order, narrative and anti-narrative, construction and destruction, comedy and dread. The glottal panoply of vocals ride in tandem with electronics: cracked, beaten, weathered and bruised. This is a brain-meltingly dark, gloriously unstable affair, but not one devoid of emotion. Edition of 400 hand-numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight matte black embossed sleeve with insert.

Artist:	TALIBAM! WITH ALAN WILKINSON
Title:	Dem Ol' Apple Pie Melodies
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	SIDRA 004LP

LP release. Determined to continue collaborating with revolutionary blitzkrieg musicians in perpetuity, Brooklyn's Talibam! (Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea) were set up on a blind date with Alan Wilkinson by Bo' Weavil Recordings for a London basement show in May 2008. Like a late '60's Sadean love-in ripe with Joycean epiphanies, Talibam! heard in Wilkinson's tone the strength and grit of a fine British pint served cool and fresh... a perfect energy to swing-bounce their roly-poly hieroglyphic dance mayhem. A second gig happened in fall 2008, followed by this recording in winter 2009. If Talibam! and Wilkinson were a rugby team, they'd be in first place, trouncing competitors with more riff-hard tenacity and more powerful/declarative end-zone dances. Balancing contradictory cultural fragments into a psychedelic yin and yang power drive of glitch emission, sprezzatura horns, Zarathrusta organ drone launch, and sayanora-rama drum spills, Wilkinson, Mottel, and Shea turn animatronic nihilists into veritable musicological sexphorisms -- they cut the tension on the dancefloor like that abrupt liminal point between peace and footsie, between donuts and bagels, between lizards and turtles. These three dangerously handsome myriad-men from the future have materialized mixed signals into sharp-fanged foreign accents on this red-eye voyage to vinyl metropoly, a 2-sided ecosystem of Gatsby-killer morph-prov entitled Dem Ol' Apple Pie Melodies. Limited edition of 350 hand-numbered copies. Lavish heavyweight matte sleeve with insert, designed by Damien Beaton.

Artist:	AMBARCHI & ROBBIE AVENAIM, OREN
Title:	Dream Request
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	SIDRA 005LP

Bo Weavil presents a sublime duo recording from old sparring partners Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim, recorded live in Tel Aviv in 2009. This is a single edit of the performance which perfectly captures the chemistry between Robbie's busy percussive maneuvers and Oren's textural overlay. A previous performance of the pair was documented on the Clockwork CD (re-issued by Room40) and prior to this the notorious The Alter Rebbe's Niggun CD was released on Tzadik. Here, the two come together with an energetic performance of free interplay. Steeped in rock, electronics and feedback, the duo conjures an ecstatic instrumental journey. Momentum builds while shifting around a variety of sonic styles until the entire patchwork is laid bare, exposing all the nuance within. Edition of 350 numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight silkscreened sleeves.

Artist:	STARVING WEIRDOS
Title:	Rolled In The Midst Of Never-Ceasing Currents Flowing...
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	SIDRA 006LP

...Without A Rest Forever Onward. Firstly, this is not for the faint-hearted, but fear not, this is not another noise record. This LP is something else altogether. This is a massive, glorious psychedelic din, a thick fog of dramatic sound events. Starving Weirdo's latest offering promises to enfold the listener who will experience the ecstatic grandeur of Anton Bruckner as much as the rich industrial drone of David Jackman. This is Lhasa in California -- a world drenched in ecstatic thrills and intense ethereal exploration. There are sounds, there are drones, there are rhythms and there are songs -- a glorious concoction that moves in a vertical fashion. As we live today, in all this murk; all this twisted history and convoluted present, we can be thankful that these folks in California came together to create such a glorious record for all to bathe in. But this, like all good things, is limited and will not be around forever. Step in now or forever remain the great unwashed. Edition of 350 numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight silkscreened sleeves.

Artist:	HOLCOMB, ROSCOE
Title:	The High Lonesome Sound
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 003LP

2005 release, last copies. "The third release from London based label Bo' Weavil Recordings, goes further into the depth of traditional American folk music with the legendary Roscoe Holcomb performing 17 powerful songs shaped by the hard times and conflict between old and new that marked his life in the rural Appalachian mountains. The sounds on this record were collected 40 odd years ago. Sometimes when you listen to Roscoe Holcomb sing it might've been 400 years ago. Sometimes it could be happening to you right now. These songs and instrumental pieces go back to the 20s and 30s and beyond, into the mists of pre-recorded time. They are the traditional songs of the Kentucky mountains before the advent of radio and record player when itinerant musicians, market places, church and country fair were the conduit of tradition. But these songs, recorded in the unique high and lonesome style of Roscoe Holcomb, were the last folk songs. Already, 40 years ago, Holcomb's music was not appreciated in his own community. He was a throwback, a dinosaur in the age of the Twist. A singer with a truly 'high lonesome sound' that sends shivers down the spine, and a hard-hitting wonderful banjo-player/guitarist. This LP also contains Roscoe performing unaccompanied ballads, banjo and harmonica solos. These recordings were previously released by Folkways in 1968 that had a powerful influence on the folk music revival, and has been crying out for a new vinyl release. Accompanied by some of the original notes on the lyrics and history of each song and some new comments on Roscoe in 2005."

Artist:	BERNING, DALE
Title:	The Horse Stories
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 007LP

Originally released in 2005. Dale Berning's The Horse Stories is the soundtrack to Going Places Sitting Down, a film by Hiraki Sawa, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg London, for Waterloo Sunset, the Dan Graham Pavilion at the Hayward in November 2004. It is a piece about make-believe journeys to far-away places (at the tips of your fingers, between the cracks in the floor at your feet, on the edge and behind the door, right here where you are, close-by). For the soundtrack, Dale used the natural sounds of the country house and garden in which Sawa filmed -- water running in the upstairs bathroom, rainwater dripping on the stones outside the kitchen door, sparkling water in a glass on the table, the wind-chime, the clock, the record player and the sounds of music boxes being played: an intricate antique music-box with bells the shape of bees and a miniature hollow drum, and other simple music boxes, playing only one tune each, with tiny, naked metallic combs, drums and handles. At the core of all Dale Berning's sound-work lies a deep interest in ideas of aliveness, of space and the awareness of time passing... of breathing, being still and listening, with grace. Hand-numbered, limited edition pressing; 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Free London
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 011LP

Originally released in 2006, featuring Rob Mullender, Wooden Spoon, Ladywoodsman, and The Eidetic Band -- each given one side of an LP. Free London is a split double LP (heavyweight vinyl), of four bands/musicians from London's improvised folk music scene. LP1: Wooden Spoon is seeking to create a music free from the influence of the contemporary world, to evoke some kind of state of pastoral introspection at once joyful and sad. Influenced by the Takoma school of guitar players, Popol Vuh and folk music from around the world. Rob Mullender presents some solo acoustic pieces that owe much to heroes of the English guitar in Jansch, Renbourn and others. Mullender also spent some time woodshedding with Davey Graham. His music is rife with delicate wonderings that edge towards a freer conception of folk music. LP2: Eidetic Band works throughout the different musical diagrams, those both fictional and unreal (the names of folk, noise, drone, jazz etc.) -- traditions which inform ways of feeling, playing and showing with sounds. They are interested in exploring each in neverending turn, feeling each sound more and more deeply. Ladyswoodsman is the London-based duo of Luke Garwood (aka Duke Garwood) and Paul May. Using a variety of different instruments from guitars and clarinets to all kinds of percussion in the creation of improvisations that ignite the imagination. Some of the tracks have a down-home folky feel, while others could find themselves happily nestling amongst the free jazz greats of the late '60s.

Artist:	MCPHERSON & TETUZI AKIYAMA, DONALD
Title:	Vinegar & Rum
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 012CD

Originally released in 2006. Recorded in New Zealand in 2004, this is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of two virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald McPherson, a native New Zealander, has released a number of extremely limited lathe-cut folk records. Tetuzi Akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in Tokyo generated around Tokyo's Off Site venue. But Tetuzi's sound owes just as much to the country blues guitarists of the '30s. His sound has taken the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisations. His loose playing side-steps the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and traditional folk scenes. Tetuzi has a varied number of very different projects from free improvisations, working with musicians across the globe, to hard minimalist electric blues boogies. Vinegar & Rum finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that upon each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem. The CD is limited to 1000 copies, with two extra tracks that do not appear on the vinyl version.

Artist:	ZECHARIA, ZADIK
Title:	Kurdish Melodies On Zorna
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 014CD

Zadik Zecharia's zorna playing is a powerful and relentless blast of beauty. The drone-like qualities that engulf both the listener and player are unyielding in their intensity from start to finish. The instrument, well-known in the Middle East, particularly in Kurdistan, Iraq and Turkey, is similar in sound and intensity to the Scottish bagpipes. Zadik takes few pauses for breath, but wildly plays a continuous flow of melody weaving around the dola drum that provides a pulsating rhythm. Zadik Zecharia was born in the Sharnash Village in Kurdistan and moved to Israel in 1950. Zadik has dedicated his whole life to playing the zorna -- a traditional, trumpet-like instrument (but longer and narrower), that has been identified with the Kurdish people. "There are two kinds of melodies: chopie and shechni. The chopie are the fast melodies, tunes for dancing with the high notes of the zorna. The dola drum always accompanies the zorna on chopie tunes. The shechni are slower melodies in the background, sad tunes that are usually played while the celebrators are sitting around the table. It reminds them of their Motherland, Kurdistan, and serves as an intro to the partying and dancing." --Tzadik Zecharia, Jerusalem 2005. First released on cassette in the 1980s, Bo' Weavil reissues this with a beautiful digipack designed sleeve. Limited to 550. With remixes by Gal Tushia and David Dradia.

Artist:	AKIYAMA, TETUZI
Title:	Pre-Existence
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 015LP

Originally released in 2006. Tetuzi Akiyama has been a major player on the free music/improv scene in Tokyo for over 20 years. Pre-Existence first came out on CD as a part of the great Wooden Guitar series from Locust. Akiyama's playing here is one of a minimalist approach, discovering and investigating the empty spaces between each note. He does not follow the Takoma guitar school style of finger-picking, but instead invokes a far more warped primitive country blues feel with a meditative quality. You never know where you are going to be led with his guitar, down roads rarely travelled. With his dense tapestry of sounds, Akiyama evokes emotions that at times are uncomfortable, but are of real beauty. Open your ears and let the music take you far, far out there.

Artist:	KRAUS/MEG BAIRD/HELENA ESPVALL, SHARRON
Title:	Leaves From Off The Tree
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 016CD

New repress of a previously sold-out 2006 release. Bo' Weavil releases Leaves From Off The Tree: a three-way project of Sharron Kraus, Meg Baird (Espers) & Helena Espvall (Espers). This is a beautiful recording of traditional folk material, with the most stunning singing and arrangements of some of England and Appalachia's finest songs. The songs on this record were recorded after many an evening swapping songs (and beers!) in Fishtown, Philadelphia, where Sharron had moved from her native England, and Meg and Helena were already installed. Meg and Sharron both had traditional music backgrounds and would meet up and teach each other Appalachian and English ballads, and improvise harmonies and alternate melodies. At some point, Helena was invited along and her voice and cello added a rich new layer. All nine songs were recorded live in one afternoon, so as to capture the relaxed atmosphere of the group's gatherings.

Artist:	BORN HELLER
Title:	Born Heller
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 017LP

Originally released in 2007. Limited LP version of this album, previously released on CD by Locust. Numbered edition of 550. Born Heller is the folk duo of Josephine Foster and Jason Ajemian. They beautifully capture the traditions of both American and English folk, with Josephine's hushed, fragile vocals accompanied by sparse melodic guitar lines and Jason's resonant bass sounds. Ajemian plays in groups like Triage, Dragons 1976, and with reedist Matt Bauder. Foster may be familiar to record buyers for her own solo recordings and with The Supposed, her psych-rock outlet. Born Heller is music that needs to be intently listened to -- on each listening, more and more is unearthed.

Artist:	WOODEN SPOON
Title:	The Folk Blues Guitar of Wooden Spoon
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 018CD

This is the debut full-length release by Wooden Spoon on Bo' Weavil. Wooden Spoon seeks to create a music free from the influence of the modern world, to evoke some kind of state of pastoral introspection at once joyful and sad. Influenced by the Takoma school of guitar players, Popol Vuh, and folk music from around the world, Wooden Spoon's methods are instinctive, and his music has a reality and honesty rare in these times.

Artist:	AMBARCHI, OREN
Title:	Lost Like A Star
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 019LP

Originally released in 2007. Limited edition vinyl by the great Australian experimental guitarist, Oren Ambarchi. A Touch label recording artist, Oren has been making music since 1986, creating sounds from the guitar that one would not expect to hear. On this LP, two long tracks reside one per side, starting from minimal, low-frequency sounds to ever-growing drones of manipulated guitars... staggeringly beautiful! Limited to 650 hand-numbered copies.

Artist:	TIGHT MEAT DUO
Title:	Vanishing Fist
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 022CD

Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Pop to Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion. Judging by the music heard on Vanishing Fist, their first salvo under the name Tight Meat Duo, these twentysomething/thirtysomething Glaswegian deviants are prime examples of the dictum that the new wave of free musicians act on impulse. They've studied and immersed themselves in some of the most life-affirming vibrations of all time, those silhouettes, shadows and forecasts of tomorrow disguised as free jazz, as Sun Ra almost put it; sensed this essence flooding their synapses, rewiring their DNA, messing with the id so inherited 3D vision becomes implanted Third Eye cosmology; and now they're getting in on the action. Mini-gatefold LP sleeve.

Artist:	WILKINSON/EDWARDS/NOBLE
Title:	Obliquity
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 023CD

Originally released in 2007, Obliquity is a free jazz record, if you'll forgive the use of such a hoary, old-fashioned phrase. Its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive, places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: Ayler, Sanders, Graves, and Frank Wright. It also swings. At times it dances. Obliquity is a free jazz record through the prism of the improvisational movement in Europe, though. This is no attempt at polite revivalism or looking back/up to the 1960s. Wilkinson/Edwards/Noble are producing new, vital music of and for now. John Edwards pins down the trio with precision and energy -- his tremendous internal rhythm on display to full effect throughout. Alan Wilkinson is a ferocious improviser, probably best known for membership in the demon Hession/Wilkinson/Fell trio. Obliquity features full-spectrum Wilkinson: flat-out, take-no-prisoners saxophonication, squeals, coughs, sustained improvisational experimentation, and East London tribal chanting. Steve Noble is an upright drummer with a surgeon's accuracy, his crisp percussion work has accompanied dancers, funksters, poets and tuba players. But he's not played better than here: great power allied with grace, a subtle touch and solid time -- the drumming drives the music on to real heights.

Artist:	HOWARD, NOAH
Title:	The Black Ark
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 024CD

Re-issued by the request of Noah Howard's family and estate. Noah sadly passed away suddenly on the 3rd of September, 2010. Born in New Orleans in 1943, Noah was a key player in the U.S. free jazz scene from the late '60s. He recorded albums for ESP and numerous other labels, including his own Altsax label. Many see 1969's The Black Ark as Noah's defining statement, so it is only fitting that it should be available once again.

       "It's no understatement that The Black Ark is one of the most sought-after underground free jazz releases of all time. The original Freedom vinyl LP and the brief Japanese CD reissue were criminally out-of-print and impossible to find. Both versions popped up on internet auction sites once in a blue moon but when they did, they always fetched insanely astronomical prices. This record simply is THE BOMB -- a perfect combination of Noah's soulful compositions and playing, infused with plenty of sweet/sour/in/out forms and shapes from the incredible line-up assembled for this release. Plus we get to experience Arthur Doyle's outrageous debut on a recording session, increasing the playing and feeling to an intense level throughout. And dig the spaced-out Afro-delay on Juma's percussion (yes, that Juma from Hendrix's killer Woodstock show of the same year). All of the players on this record combine to make it a CLASSIC and its esteemed reputation is well earned." --Oren Ambarchi

       Musicians on this record include: Noah Howard (alto), Arthur Doyle (tenor), Earl Cross (trumpet), Leslie Waldron (piano), Norris Jones (bass), Mohammed Ali (drums), and Juma (congas).

Artist:	HOWARD, NOAH
Title:	The Black Ark
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 024LP

2007 release, last copies. Originally released on Freedom Recordings, 1969. Numbered vinyl edition of 1000 and another superior piece of documentation from Bo' Weavil. The Black Ark is one of the most sought-after underground free jazz releases of all time. This record simply is THE BOMB -- a perfect combination of Noah Howard's soulful compositions and playing, infused with plenty of sweet/sour/in/out forms and shapes from the incredible line-up assembled for this release. Plus we get to experience Arthur Doyle's outrageous debut on a recording session, increasing the playing and feeling to an intense level throughout. Other players include Norris Jones (bass), Juma (congas), Mohammed Ali (drums), Earl Cross (trumpet), and more.

Artist:	KRAUS & FRIENDS, SHARRON
Title:	Right Wantonly A-Mumming
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 025CD

Subtitled: A Collection of Seasonal Songs and Celebrations. Solo album by this UK folksinger who has recorded with Meg Baird and Helena Espvall. Has been compared to Karen Dalton, Shirley Collins, Judy Dyble, etc. These songs were written over the course of a year, starting at midsummer 2005. Sharron's aim was to create songs that could be sung to celebrate the seasons and mark the turning points of the year; songs with choruses that were easy to pick up and that would sit comfortably alongside traditional wassailing songs, carols and May songs. As Kraus herself explains, "Each song was written in its season: at midsummer I awoke at dawn, climbed a hill and looked out over Oxfordshire and imagined the battle between summer and winter; at midwinter I made holly wreaths, wrapped up warm and went for brisk wintery walks and then huddled in a warm pub with my favorite traditional singers, sang 'To Shorten Winter's Sadness' for the first time and was rewarded with a rousing chorus. Following and marking the seasons was important to rural communities whose lives depended on a good harvest. I believe that it's just as important for us to do the same: to rejoice when spring comes each year; to be thankful for 'good harvests,' whatever form they take; to confront death and the return of winter, and to take comfort in each other's company through the cold months. I hope that these songs will be sung by folk singers in sessions and folk clubs, around bonfires at midsummer gatherings, by choirs, and by ramblers and anyone who takes joy in nature." The singers and musicians joining Sharron on this record are all connected through the Oxford folk scene. Ian Giles, Claire Lloyd and Graham Metcalfe sang together as Folly Bridge and Ian and Graham now sing with Ian Woods as GMW. John Spiers and Jon Boden started playing together while Jon was living in Oxford. Since he relocated to Yorkshire, he and Fay are frequent visitors. "I like this CD very much. And I loved 'Wake Up Sleepers,' and 'The Wedding Song' in particular. Sharron has a great voice -- it's very strong and clear and with a hard edge that is both beautiful and compelling to listen to.' --Shirley Collins, 2007

Artist:	SCOTT, TOM JAMES
Title:	Red Deer
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 026CD

Debut solo recording by Tom James Scott, a young classically-trained guitarist, and a mainstay of the improvising collective, CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music (solo and choral), composition, and field recording, to name but a few. These 5 slices of acoustic alchemy are well-formed compositions for acoustic guitar, where the wealth of folk guitar has been distilled through a minimalist mindset to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation. Hard card mini-gatefold sleeve limited to 500 copies.

Artist:	BROTZMANN/WILKINSON QUARTET
Title:	One Night In Burmantofts
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 027CD

A long overdue meeting of two of the titans of the saxophone. Alan Wilkinson (alto, baritone & voice) and Peter Brötzmann (clarinet, tarogato & tenor) together with Willi Kellers (drums) and Simon H. Fell (bass) blow up one hell of a storm. The individuals on this recording consciously commit, putting themselves "out there," over the edge. The energy and electricity generated by saxophonists Wilkinson and Brötzmann, is a result of their fearless approach to the precipice and their willingness to stare, unblinking, into the abyss. And yet while this music (free jazz, improv, call it what you will) exists at the boundary of our cultural existence, it echoes the sounds first identified as jazz, back at the birth pangs of the modern age. It is the commitment to a collective sound devoid of ego with the fearless individual that makes this music extraordinary and provides moments of almost spiritual communion.

Artist:	JOYNES, C
Title:	God Feeds The Ravens
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 028CD

C Joynes' God Feeds The Ravens is part of Bo' Weavil's Wooden Weavil series. English acoustic guitarist C Joynes uses a heavy, thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country blues and early ragtime; however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. The version of "Since I Lay My Burden Down" incorporates variations on lyrics and vocal lines drawn from a different song entirely. He has a penchant for reworking over-familiar pieces and stripping them of their kitsch and cliché, presenting them afresh, such as with "Christmas Medley," the arrangement of "A Night In Tunisia," and the gospel-based "And When The Sun Begins To Shine." Joynes' music is instinctive, well-researched, placid, and evokes a certain simplicity and naiveté.

Artist:	BASHO, ROBBIE
Title:	Bonn Ist Supreme
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 029CD

Subtitled: Live at the Kulturforum, Bonn, Germany, November 24, 1980. Another in the Wooden Weavil series, this time an unreleased live Robbie Basho recording from Germany in 1980. Robbie Basho was one of the great pioneers of the acoustic steel string guitar in the U.S., along with Leo Kottke and John Fahey in the 1960s. This program appears to have been recorded in one go. Robbie scatters his Americana numbers throughout, beginning with "Redwood Ramble," and ending with "California Raga." This date finds Robbie in fine fettle, his playing sharpened by the intensity of touring, his mood seems ebullient, at times (as on "Fandango") he comes off like John Lee Hooker's sun-kissed cousin, stomping furiously along to his playing. There is sweetness to his material, yes, but this is not, as Jack Rose put it, "music for wineries." There is the galloping muscularity of Basho's playing, coupled with the sheer hugeness of his sound; the fearless employment of dissonance as part of his musical make-up; a love for the unexpected chord change. Robbie was a voracious and uncompromising player. Basho's singing was as integral to who he was as his guitar playing, and when he opened his mouth, he filled the room with sound. Say what you like about his lyrics, no one can accuse Basho of dilettantism, of dabbling, or of trying something on merely for effect. Whatever bag he was in, he was in all the way. Liner notes from Glenn Jones and Stephen Basho-Junghans, and beautifully remastered by Glenn Jones.

Artist:	N.E.W.
Title:	Deadeye Tricksters
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 030CD

Steve Noble (drums/percussion), John Edwards (bass) and Alex Ward (electric guitar) are N.E.W.. Deadeye Tricksters incorporates language, ritual, myth, and laughter. Play is at the heart of the interaction of these great players. From the opening riff, with Ward's scattergun guitar fizzing around Noble's detonations, the game is on. It's often the element of play in improvised music that prepares the ears for its more profound moments. The skittering of drum and bass gives way, suddenly, to a sonic shriek, a blast that leaves the listener metaphorically pressed against the wall. There are few musical experiences that move from the titillating to the terrifying in such a short space of time. Noble, Edwards, and Ward are experts at the improv game, tooled up, as they are, with sharp musical wits, adroit techniques and almost uncanny powers of perception.

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	This Coming Gladness
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 031CD

This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.

Artist:	FOSTER, JOSEPHINE
Title:	This Coming Gladness
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 031LP

Previously released on CD by Bo' Weavil Recordings, now available on vinyl. This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labeling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.

Artist:	SCOTT, TOM JAMES
Title:	School And Rivers
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 032CD

This is the second full-length release for UK-based Tom James Scott for Bo'Weavil. School And Rivers is a selection of five new slices of minimal guitar compositions. These are varied pieces that were written immediately after the release of Red Deer (WEAVIL 026CD), to those that came about just before recording began in March of 2008. David Aird's tuba playing on the title track and "Seabird" provides a necessary weight, pulling at the high notes of the guitar that hang in mid-air, with droning, near-dissonant tones in the more fluid sections. Tom has an interest in melodies that drift in and out of focus, moving between abstract and more concrete forms, leaving pockets of silence where the listener can escape. The pieces on this recording remain quite static, following slight variations through time. Not to be mistaken as coming from the tradition of Fahey et al., Tom's cues are from a far more diverse palette, modern composition, piano contemplations, ethnic/folk recordings and the wealth of improvisation are but a few.

Artist:	WILKINSON/EDWARDS/NOBLE
Title:	Live At Cafe Oto
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 033CD

Bo' Weavil Recordings presents a live recording of UK free jazz trio Alan Wilkinson (baritone/alto sax, voice), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums/percussion). Let's face it, the recording, the thing (CD, vinyl, iPod), is a convenient form of storing and a flawed attempt at revisiting the ecstasy of the live experience. Live music is at the heart of civilization and culture. Live music is real music -- the recording is simply the run-out groove of time, a means to try and capture the experience. This trio is defined by live performance. The relationship between them, fused into an innate musical understanding through constant exposure to one another in the fiery amphitheater of improvisation, driven by their individuality, bursts into fissive conflagration in live performance. Resourcefully, remorselessly, inventive; muscular and graceful as the needs be -- as the moment requires -- they are live, alive, life. You can't possibly experience this group in all their live magnificence on this wonderful recording, made at Cafe Oto in London's Dalston in the summer of 2008. But what you do have is a document, an authentification if you like, of these three consummate musicians live. This is what it's like; all you have to do is close your eyes, spin the volume dial clockwise, conjure up what you would imagine to be Cafe Oto in your mind's eye and revisit the ecstasy of the live experience.

Artist:	BLACK FLOWERS
Title:	I Grew From A Stone To A Statue
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 034CD

This is the first release by UK percussionist/singer Alex Neilson under his Black Flowers moniker. Founding mind-bending projects as Directing Hand and Scatter, playing with artists such as Will Oldham and Current 93, collaborating with Richard Youngs and Alastair Galbraith, and performing live with Jandek as a percussionist for all of his Glasgow appearances, I Grew From A Stone To A Statue is a musical log of his peripatetic travels through the musical landscape -- a summation to date of his musical praxis and a vertiginous launch pad into a number of possible futures. Joining him are a number of fellow travellers who share his love of song and a restless frustration with the limits imposed by that or any other form. Lavinia Blackwall, whose fearless improvised vocals have electrified other of Alex's projects, Trembling Bells and Directing Hand, also plays harp, psaltery and organ. Michael Flower plays guitar, never sounding more like the Leeds Takashi Mizutani than he does here. Possibly straying furthest from familiar territory is Glaswegian singer/songwriter Alasdair Roberts, who also plays guitar and shares vocals with Lavinia on the traditional "Polly On The Shore." The music they create frequently wrongfoots the listener with folk and rock references before tearing down with iconoclastic fervor all the associations of those song-based, narrative-driven, vocal-centered forms. What is left when that scaffolding is removed is music that is infinitely expansive and joyous in its freedom. The songs do have a narrative, but one that moves upwards and backwards as well as forwards, with a use of three-dimensional sonic space that doesn't figure in the rulebooks of those megalithic modes. Not only space but time becomes a fluid and malleable concept, as it always has been in the hands of those drummers good enough and free enough in style and mind to break through it.

Artist:	HERRERO, VICTOR
Title:	Anacoreta
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 035CD

This is the debut, full-length release by Spanish guitarist Victor Herrero. Introduced to music in his childhood while living in the famous monastery Franco erected in a mountain valley west of Madrid (El Valle de los Caídos), Herrero learned to sing Gregorian and Mozarabic chant under the guidance of Benedictine monks. Joining the abbey's well-respected boys' choir, he performed in and around Europe and was featured on the soundtrack and as an extra in the Belgian cult film Farinelli (Gérard Corbiau, 1994). Around this time, he began studying the classical guitar. As a teenager back in his hometown of Toledo, he formed a psych-rock outfit called Cicely, which grew into a popular Madrid-based band. The group lasted 8 years. Following this break-up, Victor recorded and released an album of his solo piano compositions (Connotaciones Para Piano) under his old stage name Victor Cicely. Shortly after this period, Victor began collaboration with Josephine Foster, accompanying her frequently in concert as well as in the recording studio, most recently playing lead guitar on her 2008 album This Coming Gladness (WEAVIL 031CD/LP). Anacoreta is a collection of his instrumental songs written for and interpreted upon the Spanish guitar, and the music embodies different styles which have all formed a part of his experience -- classical, folkloric and contemporary threads -- all united under the strong influence of traditional música Andaluz.

Artist:	DREDD FOOLE & ED YAZIJIAN
Title:	That Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 036CD

Dredd Foole (Dan Ireton) and Ed Yazijian met while wandering the shadowy corners of the Boston '80s post-punk scene. Ed was playing in such avant-rock combos as High Risk Group and 7 or 8 Wormhearts (and the original pre-LP Cul de Sac). Dan had just dissolved Dredd Foole & The Din, tired of rock as a form and the extraordinary loudness of the group. He wanted a chance to do some real singing. Ed was feeling a need for something more subtle and embraced the idea of actually being able to hear what he played. They set out to turn the world onto the largely acoustic folk and free-improv stew they had cooked up. Boston rock audiences were not impressed. Indifference and downright hostility were the norm. There was talk of an LP, and some tentative recordings were done. But before anything could materialize, frustration took over and Dan decided to retire from performing music altogether. Ed went back to rock music with Kustomized. And eventually, Dan bought a four-track and recorded the LP In Quest of Tense (which some consider the opening salvo of the free-folk movement) with Ed appearing on one track. But by the time it was released, they had gone their separate ways. Years later, by a series of coincidences, they reconnected, and they found that when they played together again, it seemed nothing had been lost. They did a short tour with comrades and friends Damon & Naomi and eventually played the now-legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Festival. They found that audiences were now more open to their efforts. A couple of years passed during which Dan released three solo records and a record with a new improvisational Din (which included Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore and the members of Pelt). Ed recorded and released his brilliant solo record, Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye and was even caught playing live with folks like Richard Bishop and Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Then, against all odds, February 2008 found Ed & Dan recording, with Ed at the helm in Foole's Ashram in Brattleboro for the better part of a week. That Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul is the result of those sessions. Some improvisations are built on Dan's songs played in a totally unfettered manner. One is based on a tune by J. Mascis, and some were recorded as they were created. Long talked about, long awaited, years in the making -- the Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian recordings are finally here.

Artist:	HARAPPIAN NIGHT RECORDINGS
Title:	The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 037CD

Upon hearing UK-based Harappian Night Recordings' The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele, it is common for people to assume that it is a collage of field-recordings from a varied cast of inhabitants from the non-industrialized parts of the world. Such is the rich depth, vitality and authenticity of the recordings. The music and sounds, however, are created entirely by one man, Dr. Syed Kamran Ali. He has such an instinctive feel for putting seemingly incongruous sounds together and such audacious irreverence in utilizing any instrument or object from around the globe he can lay his hands on, that what he creates is unique. The real miracle, however, is that his attention-deficit, scatter-gun, one-take approach so often works. It's an anarchic buzz of ideas constantly usurping each other. Duelling ouds, whirling mizmars, screeching jouhikkos, tapping finger harps, rumbling monosynths, groaning harmoniums, a fist full of khene, talking gamelan lila derderba popping, giving a bent-backed Dante's ring hell or like an Egyptian civilian army shitting on Eden's skull, or a Cuban guerilla force stepping on Eisenhower's throat, emptying their glorious bladders on his face. And you can dance to it, Tuareg-style. References to Gnawa possession ceremonies, William Morris' early fantasy novels, goddesses sprung from coconuts, anarchist Ukrainian armies, evil eyes, etc., abound.

Artist:	STARVING WEIRDOS
Title:	Into An Energy
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 038CD

This is a new release by California's extremely prolific avant-drone duo, Starving Weirdos. These eight new pieces bear all the hallmarks of Starving Weirdos' greatest work: the dizzying mixture of instrumental sounds, electronics, and field recordings, the pointillistic attention to sonic detail, the duo's post-production technique, which achieves something like the aural equivalent of deep-focus photography. On Into An Energy, the duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay is joined by occasional collaborators Steve Lazar and Greg Devaney for the length of the record, and perhaps their chemistry together accounts for the elusive shift in focus heard on these cuts. You see, even though Starving Weirdos routinely break out the rain sticks, the horns, the hand drums, the guitars, or the cup-and-ball, at its core their art is a kind of deep-forest-ghetto-musique concrète. You can never tell if what you're hearing is a real-time performance or a product of copious editing and overdubbing, whether those sounds emanated from tapes or from live instruments, whether it occurred in a tangible three-dimensional space or in a virtual soundcard reality. Most of the time, it's a combination of all these, and the results are profoundly transportive and disorienting. Yet while the Weirdos' song and album titles suggest an esoteric or spiritualist bent, their music is always reassuringly lucid, even earthy. Theirs is a mysticism grounded in the ordinary sounds of everyday life in their native Humboldt County, California. At their best, Starving Weirdos achieve that high romantic ideal: to make the familiar strange, and make the strange familiar.

Artist:	JOYNES, C
Title:	Revenants, Prodigies And The Restless Dead
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 039CD

This is the second release on Bo Weavil Recordings by UK guitarist C Joynes. Joynes is a musician whose playing has consistently invoked a broad and shifting stream of inspirations -- from the pioneers of the Takoma school, (e.g. John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc.) to contemporaries such as James Blackshaw. As a guitarist, there is no doubt that Joynes has been influenced by some of the most idiosyncratic finger-pickers of the last 40 years and beyond, but his music goes far beyond simply this. His recordings have always offered many dimensions for the listener to explore, be it through solo acoustic pieces, larger ensemble work, or the intimate use of improvisations and hill recordings. Building on previous albums, Revenants, Prodigies And The Restless Dead is a more expansive affair. Joined on a number of these tunes by an assortment of friends and collaborators, a range of acoustic and vintage electronic instruments all make appearances, gradually fleshing out some of the ideas and directions that Joynes clearly has imprinted in his mind's eye, adding color and hue to some of these beautiful compositions. A self-described "Anglo-naive and contemporary parlour guitarist," Joynes' circular and mesmerizing compositions possess an expressive, mystical bend that lend a flushness to the traditional songs he interprets.

Artist:	DECOY
Title:	Vol. 1: Spirit
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 040CD

Decoy is UK-based Alexander Hawkins (pipe organ), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums). The disturbing, distorted Hammond organ sound is a natural fit for a free-jazz combo. With a pedigree including low-cost church pipe organ substitute, novelty instrument (re: Walt Disney's "Blame It On The Samba," part of his 1948 animated film Melody Time, where a Carmen Miranda-ered Ethel Smith plays a Hammond as it's blown to bits by 'toon Aracuan) and jazz-cool tool bar-none courtesy of Smiths -- Jimmy and Dr. Lonnie -- McGriff, Patton, Young, et al, the B3 and Leslie cabinet's overblown bastard tones one minute toying, the next destroying, were made to play the freedom sound. Alexander Hawkins has a pipe organ background (which is the ideal grounding for the Hammond -- you can hear his churchy tones during this album's playout) and exploits the potential of the C3 to the full -- pulls out all the stops, in fact. From the interstellar sounds of the opening "Outside In" and slick be-bopisms of "Decoy" to some fine spine-juddering scronches interspersed in "Shadows," rhythm team Noble and Edwards never let it rest as they interject, inject, impose, prompt, inspire, and kick-ass to make a proper sonic palette for the organ platform. It takes great players at the top of their game to play solo and rhythm at one and the same time without compromising either role and Noble and Edwards together are able to effectively lock down a groove over some truly inventive stretching of a traditionally-rigid instrument.

Artist:	DECOY & JOE MCPHEE
Title:	Oto
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 041CD

In its short life, London's Café Oto has played host to more than its share of memorable gigs by such improvisers as John Tchicai, Marshall Allen and Evan Parker, but surely none more remarkable than the December 2009 meeting of the veteran American saxophonist Joe McPhee and the British trio Decoy: the organist Alexander Hawkins, the double-bassist John Edwards and the drummer Steve Noble. It was a night of unceasing reward from music distinguished by such intensity of spirit and richness of timbre. Hawkins is a young composer and keyboardist with a rapidly growing reputation and a clear interest in working with musicians of diverse backgrounds. His early training as a pipe organist surely encourages him to exploit the full range of textures offered by the Hammond C3 and its accompanying Leslie speaker. John Edwards may well be the busiest musician on the improvising scene, his near-ubiquitous presence an infallible guarantee of vitality and substance; only his noted ability to bring a sagging session to life is not required here. Steve Noble, who is among Edwards' regular partners, provides a fine combination of stealth and swing, of drama and discretion, although the dexterous aplomb with which he negotiated a solo passage for small, untethered cymbals really had to be seen as well as heard. McPhee may be a man of an earlier generation, but he shares their absolute devotion to cliché-free spontaneity. Listening to him working in this unusually stimulating context, and appreciating his eloquence, sensitivity and pronounced gift for timbral variation, it is difficult to understand why he is not spoken of more often in the same breath as some of the more renowned free saxophonists. His ability to sing through the trio's array of pointillist textures, or to launch himself full-tilt into the churning maelstrom, adds a significant element to an already remarkable organism.

Artist:	ROIL
Title:	Frost Frost
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 042CD

Bo' Weavil is excited to present the second album from the Sydney trio Roil. All three of the members of Roil, James Waples, Mike Majkowski and Chris Abrahams have been active in the Australian jazz and improvised music scenes for many years; James is possibly best known for his work in the Mike Nock Trio; Mike performs regularly with such musicians as Jon Rose and Clayton Thomas; many people would know of Chris through his work with the three-piece group The Necks. Together they have been playing as Roil since 2007, and this is their first release outside of Australia. Their music draws upon a varied palette; at times, it comes close to free jazz, at other times to experimental improv, while also referencing other styles such as minimalism, reductionism and ambient music. A Roil piece incorporates aspects of textural improvisation, bringing extended techniques to bear on a collective sound world while also being melodic and conventionally rhythmic. Bringing together the abstract and the figurative. Limited to 500 copies.

Artist:	FELL, SIMON H.
Title:	Frank & Max: Bass Solos 2001-2011
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 043CD

Bo 'Weavil presents the solo recordings of Simon H. Fell, one of the UK's finest bassists. Although currently based in France, Simon has been and still is the bass player of choice for many. These tracks were recorded over the last 10 years, which was the last time that he released some solo material (a cassette release) on his own Bruce's Finger imprint. This recording covers almost every aspect of Simon's playing -- the rhythmic strength and melodic structure of his music, to the outer regions of extended technique -- ekeing out all manner of sounds from his bass. It is a privilege to be able to release such great music. Limited to 300 copies.

Artist:	HESSION/WILKINSON/FELL
Title:	Two Falls & A Submission
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 044CD

"Greetings, grapple fans" were the words that introduced Saturday afternoon wrestling on British commercial television when all three members of this trio were boys. These memorable words were spoken by a silky-voiced commentator called Kent Walton, who commentated on wrestling between 1955 and 1988. When discussing improvised music, there are three frequently-used analogies that usually come to mind: having a conversation, making love, or wrestling. Wrestling seems particularly apt when thinking about the music of Hession/Wilkinson/Fell, as the group does tend towards a playful, grappling style. This irreverence is conducive to making good music and it speaks of their ease with each other's playing that they can throw each other around and pin each other to the canvas, musically-speaking. This recording was made during a reunion tour for over 20 years of playing together, and it is their first for Bo' Weavil. They have recorded for a number of labels in the past; Fell's Bruce's Fingers imprint and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace, but this is their first in many years. Here's hoping it's the start of many more. Limited to 350 copies.

Artist:	WILKINSON, ALAN
Title:	Practice
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 045CD

Saxophonist Alan Wilkinson's first solo release Seedy Boy was released on Bruce's Fingers in 1994, which consisted of a collection of solo recordings made in a variety of situations over a number of years. Practice, on the other hand, is from two recording sessions, the first to mark the end of the carpeted cell Alan used as a practice space for some years in an old hospital in Dalston, London. The second is from the purpose-built rehearsal studios. It seemed an injustice that such a great and underrated saxophonist should not have a CD release cataloging his solo performances, so it was natural for Bo' Weavil to ask Alan to record such a project. The results are an outstanding number of pieces showing where Alan got the nickname "Iron Lungs Wilkinson," while also showing the more subtle jazz side to his playing as on Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman." Limited to 300 copies.

Artist:	JOYNES, C
Title:	Congo
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 046CD

Continuing further into the territories of domesticated English voudou sketched out by 2009's Revenants, Prodigies & The Restless Dead (WEAVIL 039CD), UK guitarist C Joynes' Congo is dominated by notions of landscape, imagination and personal ritual. However, while elements of introspection and intensity do appear, the mood is one of simple, uplifting joy. Warm, woody sounds and themes for a variety of donated, rescued and homemade instruments contrast with occasional stark arrangements, bursts of blossoming electricity, and passages of dense improvisation. Contributions from friends and colleagues generate momentum and interplay at key points, enabling these recordings to site the loner aesthetic within the traditions of social music for dancing and communion.

Artist:	JOYNES, C
Title:	Congo
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 046LP

LP version. Continuing further into the territories of domesticated English voudou sketched out by 2009's Revenants, Prodigies & The Restless Dead (WEAVIL 039CD), UK guitarist C Joynes' Congo is dominated by notions of landscape, imagination and personal ritual. However, while elements of introspection and intensity do appear, the mood is one of simple, uplifting joy. Warm, woody sounds and themes for a variety of donated, rescued and homemade instruments contrast with occasional stark arrangements, bursts of blossoming electricity, and passages of dense improvisation. Contributions from friends and colleagues generate momentum and interplay at key points, enabling these recordings to site the loner aesthetic within the traditions of social music for dancing and communion.

Artist:	O'MALLEY & STEVE NOBLE, STEPHEN
Title:	St. Francis Duo
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 047CD

Having played together in Æthenor for the last couple of years, Steve Noble and Stephen O'Malley came together to play as a duo at Café OTO in 2011. These recordings are the result of these two hot and sticky nights in East London. Noble is a regular at Bo' Weavil Recordings, having appeared on over nine recordings for the label, and a linch pin in London's improvising community. So it was bound to be a memorable night of music to see these two meet. Steve Noble studied with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde in the early 1980s and over the last 20 years has played with most of the great players from all four corners of the globe. Stephen O'Malley is predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer who has been at the center of avant-garde/drone metal, best known for his group Sunn0))), and also a prolific collaborator with many of the finest improvisers. Noble sets the recording off with a full tribal charge, while Stephen, instead of firing off a shard of ecstatic notes and chords, coaxes his guitar into singing a slow, ever-growing roar. But soon the two are off into some wild, creative rampages -- exciting drum and guitar territory sounding at times not too dissimilar to Haino's Fushitsusha, brutally beautiful, shredded riffs from O'Malley meet with Noble's exuberant rhythmic force . On St. Francis Duo, the memory of these two nights can be heard in full violent sonic attack.

Artist:	O'MALLEY & STEVE NOBLE, STEPHEN
Title:	St. Francis Duo
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$36.50
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 047LP

2LP version. Having played together in Æthenor for the last couple of years, Steve Noble and Stephen O'Malley came together to play as a duo at Café OTO in 2011. These recordings are the result of these two hot and sticky nights in East London. Noble is a regular at Bo' Weavil Recordings, having appeared on over nine recordings for the label, and a linch pin in London's improvising community. So it was bound to be a memorable night of music to see these two meet. Steve Noble studied with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde in the early 1980s and over the last 20 years has played with most of the great players from all four corners of the globe. Stephen O'Malley is predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer who has been at the center of avant-garde/drone metal, best known for his group Sunn0))), and also a prolific collaborator with many of the finest improvisers. Noble sets the recording off with a full tribal charge, while Stephen, instead of firing off a shard of ecstatic notes and chords, coaxes his guitar into singing a slow, ever-growing roar. But soon the two are off into some wild, creative rampages -- exciting drum and guitar territory sounding at times not too dissimilar to Haino's Fushitsusha, brutally beautiful, shredded riffs from O'Malley meet with Noble's exuberant rhythmic force . On St. Francis Duo, the memory of these two nights can be heard in full violent sonic attack.

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Artist:	MULLENDER, ROB
Title:	Human Resources
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WEAVIL 021CD