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Hey ghost, how was it? I only now saw this thread - I'm a big fan of Hoagy's Pacific album and several of his movie appearances (in my book he won the oscar for best ever performance as a bar pianist in Hawks' "To Have and Have Not", and he's great next to Kirk Douglas in that Bix biopic, too).

love "Large aluminium"! Hey Al, time for a new alias? Large one laffs!

yet another one... © Mark Wohlrab

Enjoy the Clayton! It's one of the very few Mosaics I have on LP. Fantastic stuff, all round!

maybe you're right... if I want to know more, some day, I'll drop you a PM.

Rod, thanks for your post! Maybe I'm just too young to get the fluxus movement, maybe I'm too... categorical? I don't know. I'll keep trying, though. (Just please spare me any more Yoko Ono videos and similar crap!) Of course I don't know the names you mention (ok, Paik yes, but none else), but maybe I should give another try, soon. Any suggestions for books? (I suppose it's not something to put into books, but then, what other possibility does one have with things - at least partially - past?)

yes indeed!

just listening to the first cut now! thanks a lot for sharing these, Dan & Jim!

Those are both really inexpensive through Screwgun. The Empire box is on sale for $6 a disc ($30) and the Bloodcount box is $28 for 3 discs or, if you buy all three Bloodcount releases, $40 for 5 discs. Not too shabby. Yes, I'm aware of this - really good prizes, indeed! Anyone here familiar with "Ogloudoglou", the duo of drummer Michael Kiedaisch and singer Frank Wörner? Heard a broadcast of them interpreteing Scelsic, Cage, Billone and Xenakis. Maybe this goes beyond the rat's scope, but hey, we've discussed anything from Jelly Roll to da shit, so why not this!

"Science Friction" and "Open/Coma" are the only officially released Berne discs I have, so far, but I think both are excellent! Just to add my opinion on Berne. I'll have to pick up both his box set offerings, some day! I definitely want to hear more!

huh? you got it, too? now I *am* confused! no problem to spread it, but it was actually considered to be a little thank you for those who helped burning and mailing my BFT - glad everybody likes it, though! I wanted to have "Reflections" on my BFT, but for time reasons I had to cut it. now back on topic, willya!

Yeah, you never know if there's an actual bass, or if something like this pops up on those discs:

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Oh, and I never had any interest in fluxus, don't ask me why, but I always found their stuff extremely boring and lacking any originality. Duchamp, on the other hand... he was a giant, in my opinion.

Rod, I know what you mean, and believe me, I love some of Tzara's stuff! (Obviously, with my nick, I gotta be a big dada nut...) My point is not this usual process you describe (someone comes out big, others jump in to say they'd been there before but no one noticed back then...), but rather I'd like to urge you to check out Serner! He was definitely one of the most creative minds with words, ever, and he surpasses Tzara by far, no matter how big they came out! I have no idea if anything of Serner's is available in English translation, probably his enjoyable but mostly pretty straight novel, "Die Tigerin", but I'm not talking about this or his criminal novels here, but the rest of his oeuvre. Maybe you read german? There are a few nice dada anthologies around, from Reclam and other publishers, but Serner is most often, even in these anthologies, but a minor character. Also, with Tzara, I think, his getting into the surrealist circles (much much less interesting and much more predictable, is my generalizing verdict, as opposed to the dada movement) did help a lot for him staying everybody's darling. Serner, on the other hand, vanished. There is no certainty about his life after a certain date. The last thing known, I think, is that he taught languages in some Eastern European country, thus maybe the Nazis got him, maybe he started a new with a new identity and no one knew... certainly a mysterious character! *************** Now, just started reading this one (although in a totally different, pinksh, colour): Pretty intriguing, I must say. I'm not sure his argumentation holds up, in the end (from some pretty deep reviews, that is), but the historical part he starts with is very very interesting, and yet another proof that Carl Schmitt's thoughts remain very relevant, no matter how much of a Nazi he was or not. (english title: "State of Exception", available for 12 bucks at Amazon)

Two Chronogical Jazz Classics of Mildred Baileys (coverin 1940-45) - found them on sale, never heard any of her music, before.

Happy Birthday! And keep those great photos coming!

oh no! this is sad! ubu

Stubblefield was not in that good shape when I saw them (there's a thread about it, I think, in the appropriate section of the board). But look out for Wayne Escofferey! I love his playing, told him so after the concert, and he seems to be a very kind person. Eddie Henderson was the letdown, the other two trumpet players present, Gayton and Sipiagin, did some great blowing, though!

Many thanks! It means a lot to the fellas. Greg Nagy Organissimo Mgt Glad to be in! I got their first disc very late... and this is the least I can do, in return to using this board almost daily! Plus, obviously, I enjoy the first disc, and look forward to hearing this new one a lot!

Tzara was not a poet. He was a clever businessman and a thief. Go read Walter Serner if you're in for the original! Tzara translated full paragraphs and sentences into French for his Dada-manifestos that Serner wrote in German. But then Tzara was the quizzical darling of everybody... and Serner the most obscure of them all.

Happy Birthday!

Ubu - have you heard her playing in the Braxton quartets? Don't panic! Yes, I'm aware of that... but I heard not much good on here recent Intakt appearance, and frankly I don't like her ECM-styled "lyrical piano" stuff (this got a not at all cliché-free ECM specialty, it seems - and believe me, I'm not at all an ECM basher!). I'll go for Grimes, anyway, and it's the first time I'll see Cyrille, too, so I won't miss!

What? Oh my god, this is sad news! Way too early! What a great career he had!