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Index of New Releases for April 2008
New Releases for April 2008
Artist:
NAKAMURA/ENGLISH, TOSHIMARU
Title:
One Day
Label:
ERSTWHILE
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ERST 053CD
"Toshimaru Nakamura is one of the most distinguished and original voices in the world of electroacoustic improvisation, with a vast body of work built up over the past decade. The duo of English, Joe Foster and Bonnie Jones, formed in 2004 in Seoul, have developed their aesthetic ever since, whenever possible given their bi-continental status (Foster lives in Seoul and Jones in Baltimore). In the summer of 2007, the trio played together in Tokyo for the first time, one concert followed by one day of studio recordings, and the latter became
One Day
.Three lengthy improvisations showcase a unique collective aesthetic, dense and organic, pointillistic but rough, focused but not overly polished. The gorgeous textures of the design come from original drawings by Baltimore artist Erin Womack."
ESP-DISK
Artist:
COLEMAN, ORNETTE
Title:
Town Hall 1962
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 1006CD
Ornette produced this concert at Town Hall. Digitally remastered. Manufactured in the USA by the original label. New digipak format. "For this Town Hall concert, Coleman debuts with his new trio (a unit that would return in 1965) featuring the remarkable bassist David Izenson and drummer Charles Moffett. Together they perform 'Doughnut,' 'Sadness,' and an extensive 23-and-a-half minute version of 'The Ark.'" --Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Artist:
VA
Title:
New York Eye and Ear Control
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 1016CD
"Featured artists: Albert Ayler (tenor sax), Ed Blackwell (trumpet), Don Cherry (trumpet, cornet), Sunny Murray (drums), Gary Peacock (bass), Roswell Rudd (trombone), John Tchicai (saxophone, alto sax). Michael Snow is a Canadian national treasure, a true Renaissance man. He assembled a stellar group to improvise a sound track for his art film, titled
Walking Woman
, featuring a silhouette that is rumored to have been inspired by Carla Bley. Digitally remastered. Manufactured in the USA by the original label. New digipak format. 'This is a very interesting set, music that was freely improvised and used as the soundtrack for the 34-minute short film
New York Eye and Ear Control
. Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler leads the all-star sextet (which also includes trumpeter Don Cherry, altoist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray) on two lengthy jams. The music is fiery but with enough colorful moments to hold one's interest throughout.'" --Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Artist:
ZITRO, JAMES
Title:
Zitro
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 1052CD
"Featured artists: James Zitro (drums), Michael Cohen (piano), Bruce Gale (bass), Warren Gale (trumpet), Allan Praskin (alto sax), Bert Wilson (tenor sax). James Zitro was the percussionist on Sonny Simmons' 2nd album on ESP. When he was invited to produce his own album for ESP, he chose Seattle native Bert Wilson and Michael Cohen, who doubled as a lawyer in San Francisco. Digitally remastered. Manufactured in the USA by the original label. New digipak format. 'For his debut as a leader, drummer James Zitro leads a couple of lengthy blowouts ("Freeken" and "Happy Pretty"), plus the dense "Fourth." With altoist Allan Praskin, tenor saxophonist Bert Wilson, trumpeter Warren Gale, pianist Michael Cohen and bassist Bruce Gale keeping the ensembles quite crowded, these mostly free-form performances will be seen as either fascinating or monotonous, depending on one's viewpoint.'" --Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Artist:
LOWE, FRANK
Title:
Black Beings
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 3013CD
"This historical session, recorded in 1973 for ESP-Disk, was tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe's debut as leader and is one of his most electrifying earlier efforts.
Black Beings
features all original Lowe material, with Joseph Jarman on alto and soprano sax and Leroy Jenkins on violin. Lowe participated in the New York free jazz revolution, first gaining notoriety in the mid-'60s playing with Sun Ra, and later, Alice Coltrane, Rashied Ali, Don Cherry and violinist Billy Bang."
Artist:
CHERRY, DON
Title:
Live at Cafe Monmartre 1966 Volume Two
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 4043CD
"Featured artists: Don Cherry (trumpet), Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone), Bo Stief (bass), Karl Berger (vibraphone), Aldo Romano (drums). The opening set at the Café Montmartre is provided here. It will be followed later in the year 2008 by release of the last set of the evening. Digitally remastered. Manufactured in the USA by the original label. New digipak format."
Artist:
YUGANAUT
Title:
This Musicship
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 4044CD
"Featured artists: Stephen Rush (Fender Rhodes, Micromoog, toys, euphonium), Tom Abbs (bass, violin, tuba, didjeridoo), Geoff Mann (drums, cornet, mandolin, vibes).
This Musicship
, piloted by Yuganaut, a crew of three intrepid explorers skilled in traveling the byways of space and time in the spirit of such previous pathfinders as Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Miles Davis in his '60s and '70s electric period. 'Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs, and Geoff Mann create genuinely unpredictable soundscapes throughout this highly diverse disc, but always with attention to organic development and flow... Yuganaut proves that their chosen style of musical expression can be the sound of something genuinely startling.'" --Dave Lynch,All Music Guide
ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Artist:
SHANTEL
Title:
Disko Partizani Remixes
Label:
ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
AY 010EP
Shantel
's "Disko Partizani" is a worldwide anthem of the Balkan pop movement. The video has over 1 million clicks on YouTube and MySpace, and is in heavy club rotation in France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Turkey and the Netherlands. Featuring exclusive and strictly limited remixes by
Yamaha vs. Electrico
,
Marcus Darius
and
Tricky Cris
, and
Dublex Inc.
. "Disko Partizani" is a place where electro, house, freestyle, hip-hop and dub-heads shake hands, drink vodka and rock out.
ETUI (GERMANY)
Artist:
MENTALIC
Title:
Prague Remixed
Label:
ETUI (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
ETUI 011EP
"This is Mentalic's
Prague
, with remixes by End Of Tape and Insect O. It's hard to put a finger on Mentalic. His tracks are fuzzy and hard to grab. Their sound is croaky, abstract and dark, yet at the same time saturated with melodic moments corresponding to Mentalic's idea of advanced techno. The original version takes us on a 10-minute stroll through Prague at night with its maze of tiny streets, across ancient bridges and castle walls only to beam you directly into the stroboscope. Gunjah & Stachy aka End Of Tape have an absolute sense of the dancefloor -- they twist this track with its functional focus on minimal fiddly sounds. Insect O.'s 'Late Nite Dub' twirls itself with an honest take-off through the night. These three carefully-arranged soundscapes don't hide the time and the nocturnal endorphin release! Let's dance!"
EXACT CHANGE
Artist:
WELCH, DENTON
Title:
In Youth Is Pleasure
Label:
EXACT CHANGE
Format:
Book
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
EC WELCH
New 2008 edition (originally reissued by Exact Change in 1994), with added cover blurb from Richard Hell! "First published in 1945,
In Youth is Pleasure
is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is fifteen years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school -- but as in all of Welch's work what is most important are the details of his characters' surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William Burroughs writes, 'makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes.' Also included in this edition is the first U.S. publication of
I Left my Grandfather's House
. This first-person account of a idyllic walking tour in the British countryside undertaken when Welch was eighteen makes a fascinating companion piece to the fictionalized, though no less autobiographical,
In Youth is Pleasure
."
"Delicacy of perception is precisely the same thing as delicacy of description. Denton Welch is like a British baby Proust in his astounding grasp of his own (usually 'mundane') experience. Nothing much happens in his books but the most wonderful writing."
-- Richard Hell
FALLOUT (UK)
Artist:
STAINED GLASS
Title:
Crazy Horse Roads
Label:
FALLOUT (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$22.00
Catalog #:
FO 2034LP
Previously reissued on CD by Fallout, now issued on deluxe LP format as well; 180 gram pressing. Californian psych-pop act
Stained Glass
issued a string of excellent singles and two superb albums between 1966 and 1969, but finally splintered when none of them sold. This classic fusion of acid rock, folk, pop and country originally appeared in 1968 and shows Stained Glass to have been one of the most unfairly overlooked U.S. bands of their era.
Artist:
VELVET NIGHT
Title:
Velvet Night
Label:
FALLOUT (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
FO 2083CD
Recorded in New York's Record Plant under the guidance of cult producers
Jimmy Curtiss
and
Steve Kanyon
(best-known for their involvement with pop-psych favorites the
Hobbits
and the
New Hobbits
), this Italian-American psych rarity originally appeared in 1970 and has barely been heard since. A mixture of covers of songs by
Cream
,
Donovan
,
The Band
and
Tim Hardin
and eerie originals such as the hard acid-rock title track, it's presented here complete with an ultra-rare bonus track taken from their sole 45.
FIRE MUSEUM
Artist:
WONDROUS HORSE
Title:
Cavallo Meraviglioso
Label:
FIRE MUSEUM
Format:
CD
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
FM 016CD
"Welcome one and all to the world of Wondrous Horse!
Cavallo Meraviglioso
is the debut offering from the transatlantic (Italy/U.S.) duo of Vanessa Rossetto (Pulga, The Mighty Acts of God, etc.) and Salvatore Borrelli (aka (etre) & Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia). These two musicians continue to evolve in fascinating ways, and the sounds to be found on
Cavallo Meravigliso
may come as a surprise to some, which makes it all the more exciting to hear. An avant folk tour de force combining elements of electroacoustic music, glitch and many other experimental forms,
Cavallo Meraviglisio
gallops upon the scene assured and ready. Performing with an arsenal of instrumentation at the ready (violin, viola, balalaika, theremin, guitar, dulcetina, concertina, autoharp, bells, xylophone, voice, baritone guitar, tablas,
darbukas
, Turkish
saz
, xylophone,
esraj
, dulcimer, resonant ukulele, celtic 'droned' harp, banjo, kalimba, shruti box, Irish bouzouki, lap steel guitar, toys & drum machine, since you asked) the duo have crafted a recording that successfully combines the myriad of influences of its creators into an organic and unique whole. It takes a wondrous horse such as this to take the intelligent listener on a trip through such a unique and appealing sonic journey, so hop on and ride away today!"
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