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I thought Billy Gault had a number of records and some production credits as well. Creepy Farakahn lyrics? Interesting...

Sven-Ake Johansson "Schlingerland" (SAJ) ... just nabbed this and it's far better and different than expected. Tom-echo sound art? Wild.

on Black Marigolds... great band, and the poetry is pretty interesting in a British modernist-surrealist sort of way... I think the Bards didn't have the other Garrick, because this is the only one I got. The Skidmore is ok, not as good as 'TCB' on Phillips (2nd LP, w/ Surman and Osborne) but solid. Chitinous I'm getting into - had forgotten that it was Buckmaster behind it; he was in the Third Ear Band as well as arranging a lot of pop records I never bothered to listen to. Sort of like a cross between Third Ear, Birtwistle and 70s Miles - in other words, pretty weird!

The flutist is Becky Friend, Alan Silva's then-girlfriend (early '70s). Conception Vessel is a really, really good date.

I've always been curious about that record - isn't Warren Smith the drummer? As for Al Shorter, Tes Esat is such a mysterious title and a heavy slab of batshit free music that it outdistances Orgasm by at least, I dunno, eight inches...

Mal Waldron - Blood and Guts Alan Silva - My Country Noah Howard - At Judson Hall Dave Burrell - High Michel Portal - Splendid Yzlment Karlheinz Stockhausen - Aus den Sieben Tagen: Kommunion/Intensitaat Patty Waters - College Tour Don Cherry - Symphony for Improvisers John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes Sandy Bull - Inventions ...

Actually, our man on alto is the late, great Robin Kenyatta.

I'm gonna make a SuperAmerica run for some glazed-raised right now!

Would that be Bace Face Willotte?

Try the 2LP reissue on ECM - great sound!!! ← I've got the Verves on LP which sound OK, but could sound better... curious about the live material, though. Any thoughts on it?

Dave Burrell - Windward Passages (Hat Hut) Jaki Byard - Solo Piano (a second vote for that Prestige) Mal Waldron - The Opening (Futura) ... and probably any solo Cecil LP will do you right, though I myself prefer him with a(nother) drummer.

I ordered the Garricks, the Chitinous and the Skid from Dusty Groove and they should be here shortly...

Yoshi Wada - Off the Wall (SAJ) quartet for two bagpipe players, electric organ and tympani, a more primitivist 'In C' if you will. Except that it's probably not in C. Jiri Stivin and Rudolf Dasek - System Tandem (Japo) great set of reeds-guitar duets from two storied Czech improvisers. Richard Landry - Fifteen Saxophones (Wergo) - the sidelong tenor-with-echo solo is well worth investigating.

PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME IN MY LIFE I WILL AGREE WITH ARIC!

Whoops, my fault... he got 'lumped'!

Yeah, I was wrong about that - sorry for the confusion. Didn't realise Cuneiform had done this, but I got a note from them that I'm getting a 1969 Surman CD as a review copy and figured... oops! CT

that is one far-out story...

Richard Landry - Fifteen Saxophones (Wergo) a fantasia for overdubbed and tape-delayed freeish tenor playing from a member of Steve Reich's and Philip Glass's ensembles.

This does look pretty good. I assume the source material is from NDR Jazz Workshops? That ZoKoSo is a great little record, I might add. As for Dauner, he's a friggin' nut! Anybody here ever heard that record on Calig? Makes the Bob James ESP sound like cocktail music...

OK, the moniker is kind of boring but what can you do? "Ethnic" music sounds a bit worse, actually. I think this thread was started to, um, discuss what people like. So, for my two cents, I really enjoy Carnatic vocal music of South India (Pandit Pran Nath, Ramnad Krishnan, etc), as well as South Indian flute music. Pannalal Ghosh plays some of the heaviest Indian flute music I've heard - sounds like a low alto or a bass flute... pretty amazing stuff, and apparently his premature death has brought him much Dolphy-esque renown in South Indian music circles. Got some good Turkish street music, more saz than you can shake a stick at. CT

Wow... I'd much rather have that than, uh, a lot of records any day. Almost bought the Cecil on Transition once but then remembered how much my Visa loves my money and... well... maybe another day. It's hard to find these with the booklets, too.

I dunno, I always wanted mine to ring "Ghosts" - never will I tire of that theme!

Seigfried Kessler - At the Gill's Club Barre Phillips - For All it Is (I know Journal Violone is beautiful, but this one smokes!) Derek Bailey - Improvisation (Cramps - anybody heard the one on Morgue?) Marion Brown - Three for Shepp Rolf & Joachim Kuhn - Impressions of NY Eje Thelin - Acoustic Space Joe McPhee - Tenor Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow Muhal Richard Abrams - Levels and Degrees of Light Roscoe Mitchell - Sound New York Contemporary Five - Volume 2 (Sonet) Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land Teo Macero - Teo (Prestige) Jimmy Giuffre - Thesis (yeah, I know I still need to get the double on Hatology) Keith Jarrett - Life Between the Exit Signs Ray Russell - Rites and Rituals Six Organs of Admittance - Compathia Drive Like Jehu - s/t

I think the word 'pot' is the operative one here...