Bruce Lee Gallanter of Downtown Music Gallery's Reference and Recommended Lists for 2005


The good news is that for the first time that I can recall, I have finished putting together my group of recommended lists before the end of January. This was due to being able to work undistracted on these lists for nearly a week up at my fiance Huguette's (yes it is true) house in Victoriaville earlier this month. I've read through all 52 weekly newsletters twice and then checked out dozens of discs to see what would make the final cut. I've broken it down to nine lists.
The reason I do these long lists is for both of us. It gives me a chance to take a closer look at the entire year and get an idea what important CDs & DVDs have been released. I do feel most fortunate to able to listen and review so much interesting music, although it is a bit overwhelming at times. I used to complain about not getting enough promos, now I get way too many and feel a bit guilty about not being able to hear them all. Maybe when I retire or in the next life... Since our newsletters are so bloody long, this is a way of boiling them down to just a bunch of lists to consider. Please, take your time when reading them, no doubt that you might have missed something that you care about.
The first list, "125 Recommended Instrumental/Avant Discs of 2005', is the one that I worked the hardest on. I just couldn't keep it down to 100. I did pick 25 favorites which have asterisks (*) next to them. These are the ones that I have listened to the most and would recommend to serious listeners. Practically everything on this list, I've reviewed in a newsletter, which you can check out by searching for it in our vast database. All of my reviews, except for the early years of our newsletters, end with BLG, my initials. You will also find reviews from guest writers like Mikey "IQ" Jones, Michael Anton Parker, David Beardsley and on rare occasion my partner, Manny 'Lunch' Maris, will write a short recommendation [he says he can't write!] Thanks to them for lightening my burden. This first list is the only one in reverse alphabetical order, so my main man, John Zorn could be at the top. Another good place to check out other reviews on-line is All Music Guide, from who we occasionally borrow or magazines like The Wire, Signal to Noise and All About Jazz.
I've put a few observations at the end of some of these lists to help clarify certain things. Since I haven't had the time to listen to everything more than once or twice, especially the modern composer list, I have put asterisks next to discs that I have checked out and would recommend. Happy hunting!


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PART I - BRUCE LEE GALLANTER'S 125 RECOMMENDED INSTRUMENTAL/AVANT DISCS OF 2005 [reverse alphabetical, sorry]

* JOHN ZORN'S ELECTRIC MASADA - At the Mountains of Madness [2 CD set] (Tzadik )
* ZORN/DOUGLAS/PATTON/BURGER/LASWELL/PEROWSKY - The Stone/ Issue One (Tzadik 0002)
JOHN ZORN/MASADA STRING TRIO - Azazel/Masada Book Two (Tzadik 7351)
JOHN ZORN - Filmworks XV (Tzadik 7345)
JOHN ZORN - Filmworks XVI (Tzadik 7347)

OTOMO YOSHIHIDE'S NEW JAZZ ORCHESTRA [ONJO] - ONJO (Doubt 102/ Japan)
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE'S NEW JAZZ ORCHESTRA [ONJO] - Plays Eric Dolphy's 'Out To Lunch' (Doubt 108)


DAVID S. WARE QUARTETS - Live in the World [3 CD set] (Blue Series/Thirsty Ear 57153)

* VANDERMARK 5 [VANDERMARK/REMPIS/BISHOP/KESSLER/DAISY] - Alchemia [12 CD box set] (Not Two 750)
THE VANDERMARK 5 - The Color of Memory [2 CD set] (Atavistic 166)
[KEN VANDERMARK/NATE McBRIDE/PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE] FME - Cuts (Okka Disk 12061)

KAZUTOKI UMEZU - Show The Frog (Doubt 104; Japan)

ASSIF TSAHAR/COOPER-MOORE/HAMID DRAKE - Lost Brother (Hopscotch 33)
TRIO-X: JOE McPHEE-DOMINIC DUVAL-JAY ROSEN - Moods: Playing with the Elements (CIMP 328)
TIZIANO TONONI SEXTET - Peace Warriors/Tribute to Ornette Coleman (Black Saint 120151)
* [KEITH & JULIE TIPPETTS/PAUL DUNMALL] DARTINGTON IMPROVISING TRIO - Live At The Priory (FMR)
KEITH TIPPETT/JULIE TIPPETTS [DRISCOLL]/PHILIP GIBBS/PAUL DUNMALL - Mahogany Rain (Duns 044; UK) unfortunately already out of print
TERRITORY BAND {VANDERMARK...] - 4 / Company Switch [2 CD set] (Okka Disk 070)
CECIL TAYLOR & THE ENSEMBLE - Almeda (FMP 126/Germany)

* FREDY STUDER/HAMID DRAKE/MICHAEL ZERANG - Drummin' Chicago (FMR 160/UK)
* WADADA LEO SMITH/WALTER QUINTUS/KATYA QUINTUS/MIROSLAV TADIC/MARK NAUSEEF - Snakish (Leo 435)
SIRONE BANG ENSEMBLE [SIRONE/BILLY BANG/CHARLES GAYLE] - Configuration (Silkheart 155/Sweden)
SONNY SIMMONS + STRING QUARTET - The Traveller (Jazzaway 11/EEC)
ELLIOTT SHARP - Quadrature (Zoar ZPO-01)
* ALEX VON SCHLIPPENBACH 5 - Monk's Casino - Complete Works of Thelonius Monk [3 CD set] (Intakt 100)
* SCHLIPPENBACH/DUNMALL/ROGERS/BIANCO - Vesuvius (Slam 262/UK)
JAMIE SAFT TRIO - Astaroth: Book of Angels Vol. 1: Masada Book Two (Tzadik)

PAUL RUTHERFORD/KEN VANDERMARK/MULLER/VAN DER SCHYFF - HOXHA (Line 26/Spool 126/Canada) GEORGE RUSSELL - 80th Birthday Celebration [2 CD set] (Concept)
KEITH ROWE/SACHIKO M/T. NAKAMURA/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - ErstLive 005 [3 CD set] (Erstwhile 005)
* KEITH ROWE/AMBARCHI/FENNESZ/NAKAMURA - Four Gentlemen Of The Guitar [2 CD set] (Erstwhile 46)
* ROVA ORKESTROVA w/FRITH/NELS CLINE/KIHLSTEDT/MORI/YOSHIHIDE - Electric Ascension 2003 (Ata. 159)
HERB ROBERTSON NY DOWNTOWN ALLSTARS - Elaboration (Clean Feed 42; Portugal)
ALESSIO RICCIO With ELLIOTT SHARP/ TIM BERNE - Hallucinated Memories (Unorthodox 8; Italy)
* MARC RIBOT/ROY CAMPBELL/HENRY GRIMES/CHAD TAYLOR - Spiritual Unity (Pi Recordings 15)

POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE [OLUYEMI & IJEOMA THOMAS] - First Ones (Charles Lester 26-008)
WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET - Sound Unity (Aum Fidelity 34)
EVAN PARKER & SEPTEMBER WINDS - Short Stories (Leo 428; UK)
* EVAN PARKER/JOHN COXON/ASHLEY WALES - Evan Parker with Birds: For Steve Lacy (Treader 01; UK)
EVAN PARKER/BARRY GUY/PAUL LYTTON/PHILIPP WACHSMANN/JOEL RYAN - Free Zone Appleby 2004 (PSI 05.05)
[EVAN PARKER/STEVE BERESFORD/JOHN EDWARDS/LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO] FOXES FOX - Naan Tso (psi 05.07)
PAINKILLER [JOHN ZORN/BILL LASWELL/HAMID DRAKE] - V.12: Zorn 50th Birthday Celebration (Tzadik 5012)
* PAGO LIBRE [w/JOHN WOLF BRENNAN/ARKADY SHILKLOPER] - Stepping Out (Leo 444; UK)

ODYSSEY [JAMES BLOOD ULMER/CHARLES BURNHAM/WARREN BENBOW] - Back In Time (Pi 18)

THE NU BAND [MARK WHITECAGE/ROY CAMPBELL/JOE FONDA/LOU GRASSI] - Live (Konnex 5141; Germany)
NOW ORCHESTRA & MARILYN CRISPELL - Pola (Victo)
NILSSEN-LOVE/KEN VANDERMARK - Dual Pleasure II [2 CD set] (Smalltown Supersound)
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE With EVAN PARKER/SANDELL/HAKER FLATEN - Townorchestrahouse (Clean Feed 41)
THE NECKS - Mosquito/See Through [2 CD SET] (RER NECKS5/6)

SUNNY MURRAY - Perles Noires/Volume 1 & 2 (Eremite 045 & 046)
IKUE MORI - Myrninerest (Tzadik 7714)
* BEN MONDER - Oceana (Sunnyside Records 1146)
LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO/STAN TRACEY - Khumbula (Remember) (Ogun 016; UK)
NICOLE MITCHELL/BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE - Hope, Future and Destiny (Dreamtime Records 007)
MEV/AMM - Apogee [2 CD set] (Matchless 61/UK)
* MAT MANERI - Pentagon (Thirsty Ear 57163)
EYAL MAOZ - Edom (Tzadik 8105)

JOHN LINDBERG/BAIKIDA CARROLL/STEVE GORN/SUSIE IBARRA - Winter Birds (Between the Lines 71203)
* STEVE LEHMAN - Demian as Posthuman (Pi Recordings 17)
OKKYUNG LEE - Nihm (Tzadik 7715)
* JOELLE LEANDRE/INDIA COOKE - Firedance (Red Toucan 9327; Canada)
ADAM LANE TRIO With VINNY GOLIA/VIJAY ANDERSON - Zero Degree Music (CIMP 325)
STEVE LACY/MAL WALDRON - Japan Dream: At The Egg Farm 1992 [Ltd Ed] (Egg Farm; Japan)

KONK PACK [TIM HODGKINSON/THOMAS LEHN/ROGER TURNER]- Off Leash (Grob 654)
[HAINO KEIJI & THE RUINS] SANHEDOLIN - Manjoicchi wa muko (PSF 162; Japan) - not available
UCHIHASI KAZUHISA/ TATSUYA YOSHIDA - Hercules' Icy Club (Tone Industria 011/Poland)
ACHIM KAUFMANN/FRANK GRATKOWSKI/WILBERTE DE JOODE - Unearth (Nuscope 1016)
* HENRY KAISER & WADADA LEO SMITH's YO MILES - Upriver [2 H-SACD set] (Cuneiform 202/203)

* THEO JORGENSMANN 6 - Fellowship (Hatology 616/Switzerland)

VIJAY IYER - Reimagining (Savoy 17475)

WAYNE HORVITZ/SAMWORTH/LEE/CLARK/VAN DER SCHYFF - Intersection Poems (Spool 125/Line 25)
JOHN HOLLENBECK LARGE ENSEMBLE - A Blessing (Omnitone 15209)
GERRY HEMINGWAY QUARTET - The Whimbler (clean feed 040)
GERRY HEMINGWAY [w/GRATKOWSKI/WIERBOS] - Double Blues Crossing (Between the Lines 71202)
CRAIG HARRIS w/ STEVE COLEMAN/DON BYRON/HUGH RAGIN - Souls Within The Veil [2 CD Set] (Aquastra 01)

* BARRY GUY NEW ORCHESTRA - Oort-Entropy (Intakt 101/Switzerland)
* BARRY GUY/LONDON JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA - Study II/Stringer (Intakt 095/Switzerland)
MATS GUSTAFSSON - Catapult: Baritone Sax Solo (Doubt 103; Japan)
DREW GRESS w/ TIM BERNE/ALESSI/TABORN/RAINEY - 7 Black Butterflies (Premonition/Koch 5809)
BURTON GREENE/ROY CAMPBELL QUARTET With ADAM LANE/LOU GRASSI - Isms Out (CIMP 316)
DENNIS GONZALEZ'S SPIRIT MERIDIAN [w/ OLIVER LAKE] - Idle Wild (clean feed 035/Portugal)
VINNY GOLIA QUINTET with NELS CLINE/ALEX CLINE- One, Three, Two [2 CD Set] (Jazzhalo 18/19)
FRODE GJERSTAD/JOHN STEVENS - Keep On Playing (FMR 162/UK)
GIORGIO GASLINI - Gaslini Plays Sun Ra (Soul Note 121490/Italy)

SATOKO FUJII ORCHESTRA [NAGOYA VERSION] - Nagoyanian (Bakamo 01; Japan)
SATOKO FUJII 4 w/ NATSUKI TAMURA/MARK DRESSER/JIM BLACK - Live In Japan 2004 (Natsat 3022/Japan)
COR FUHLER NONET With AB BAARS/TONY BUCK/TOBIAS DELIUS/WILBERT DE JOODE - Corkestra (Data 44)
* FRED FRITH/CARLA KIHLSTEDT/STEVIE WISHART - The Compass, Log And Lead (Intakt 103)
BILL FRISELL - Richter 858 [H-SACD] (Songlines 1551)
DOMINIC FRASCA - Deviations (Cantaloupe 21032)
FIELDWORK [VIJAY IYER/STEVE LEHMAN/ELLIOT HUMBERTO KAVEE] - Simulated Progress (Pi 16)
CHRISTIAN FENNESZ/SACHIKO M/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/PETER REHNBERG - s/t (Erstwhile)
AVRAM FEFER/BOBBY FEW - Heavenly Places (Boxholder 049)
* SIMON H. FELL - Composition No. 62 (Bruce's Fingers 57/UK)

MARCO ENEIDI/LISLE ELLIS/PETER VALSAMIS - Sound on Survival Live (Henceforth 101)

PAUL DUNMALL/PAUL ROGERS/TONY LEVIN - Deep Joy [4 CD-R set] (Duns LTD 041/UK) out-of-print
PAUL DUNMALL With STEVIE WISHART/PAUL LYTTON - In Your Shell Like (Emanem 4111; UK)
PAUL DUNMALL/PAUL ROGERS/PHILIP GIBBS/TONY LEVIN - Thankyou Dorothy (DUNS 046; UK)
SCOTT DuBOIS QUINTET featuring DAVE LIEBMAN - Monsoon (Soul Note 121409; Italy)
MARK DRESSER - Unveil: Solo Bass (Clean Feed 43; Portugal)
HAMID DRAKE & BINDU - Bindu (RogueArt 0001)
DAVE DOUGLAS/MICHAEL MOORE/PEGGY LEE/MARCUS ROJAS/DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF - "mountain passages(" (Greenleaf 5802)
DAVE DOUGLAS - Keystone [CD + DVD] (Greenleaf Music 03)
NICK DIDKOVSKY/PAUL ROGERS/KEVIN NORTON - The Bright Lights, The Big Time (FMR 163/UK)
BENOIT DELBECQ UNIT - Phonetics [H-SA-CD] (Songlines 1552)
ELTON DEAN & SOPHIA DOMANCICH - Avant (Hux 063; UK)

JACQUES COURSIL - Minimal Brass (Tzadik 8016)
COOPER-MOORE - Outtakes 1978 (Hopscotch Records 16)
* CLAUDIA QUINTET [JOHN HOLLENBECK] - Semi-Formal (Cuneiform 217)
CURTIS CLARK TRIO & SEPTET w/ LOUIS MOHOLO/TRISTAN HONSINGER - Dreams Deferred (Nimbus 3813)

JOHN BUTCHER/EVAN PARKER/LOU GARE - Horn_Bill [2 CD set] (Matchless 63/UK)
PETER BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET - Be Music, Night (Okka 059)
PETER BROTZMANN/HAN BENNINK - Still Quite Popular After All Those Years [LP only] (Bro 4)
ANTHONY BRAXTON With KEVIN O'NEIL/KEVIN NORTON/ANDY EULAU - 20 Standards [Quartet] 2003 [Ltd Ed 4 CD set] (Leo 431-434; UK)
ANTHONY BRAXTON & WALTER FRANKS - 4 Improvisations [Duets] 2004 [2 CD set] (Leo 429/430; UK)
* ANTHONY BRAXTON/GYORGY SZABADOS/VLADIMIR TARASOV - Triotone (Leo 416/UK)
ANTHONY BRAXTON - NINETET (YOSHI'S) 1997, Vol.3 [2 CD Set] (Leo 420/421; UK)
* ANTHONY BRAXTON QUINTET - Quintet (London) 2004: Live At The Royal Festival Hall (Leo 449)
MICHAEL BISIO QUARTET with AVRAM FEFER/STEPHEN GAUCI/JAY ROSEN - Connections (CIMP 323)
TIM BERNE/HARDCELL - (feign) (Screwgun 700015)
TIM BERNE/PARAPHRASE - Pre-Emptive Denial (Screwgun)
LOUIE BELOGENIS/SHANIR EZRA BLUMENKRANZ/KENNY WOLLESEN - Unbroken (Tick Tock 001)
DEREK BAILEY - Carpal Tunnel (Tzadik 7612)

FRED ANDERSON/WILLIAM PARKER/HAMID DRAKE - Blue Winter [2 CD set] (Eremite)
AMM - Norwich (Matchless 64/UK)
*ALTERED STATES [UCHIHASHI/MITSURU/YASUHIRO] - Bluffs [2 CD set] (Innocent 011/012; Japan)

--There are 25 titles above with asterisks (*), which means they are completely essential!


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PART II - RECOMMENDED & NOTEWORTHY PROGRESSIVE & ART-ROCK DISCS (NEW & OLD) OF 2005

DAEVID ALLEN - Australian Aquaria (Voiceprint 294 VPT; UK) - reissue from 1990
DAEVID ALLEN - Live In 1988: The Return [2 CD set] (Voiceprint 337 VPT; UK)
ANEKDOTEN - Waking The Dead: Live In Japan 2005 (Arcangelo 1094; Japan)
KEVIN AYERS - Deia...Vu (Discmedi/EEC) - mediocre
KEVIN AYERS - Alive in California (Box O Plenty)
* KEVIN AYERS - The BBC Sessions: 1970-1976 [2 CD set] (HUX 073)
* BEGNAGRAD - Begnagrad (MIO 006; Israel) - from 1982
ADRIAN BELEW - Side One (Sanctuary)
ADRIAN BELEW - Side Two (Sanctuary)
ANDY BOLE - Ramshackle Pier (Ad Hoc 05) - reissue
* HAROLD BUDD - Avalon Sutra/As Long As I Can Hold My Breath [2 CD set] (SamadhiSound 004)
HAROLD BUDD/BRIAN ENO - The Pearl (Astralwerks 31976) - reissue
* CAN - Unlimited Edition [H-SACD] (Spoon 9290) - from 1971
CAN - Future Days [H-SACD] (Spoon 9288)
CAN - Soon Over Babaluma [H-SACD] (Spoon 9289)
CAN - Landed [H-SACD] (Spoon 9291)
CARAVAN - The Album (Eclectic 1011; UK) - reissue from 1980
CARAVAN [HASTINGS/RICHARD & DAVE SINCLAIR/COUGHLAN] - Back To Front (Eclectic 1010; UK) '82
CARAVAN [PYE HASTINGS/COUGHLAN/RICHARDSON/WEDGWOOD/SCHELHAAS] - Live UK Tour 1975 (MLP 03; UK)
* CAVEMAN SHOESTORE - Super Sale (Build a Buzz)
CHEER-ACCIDENT - Introducing Lemon (Skin Graft 71)
CIRCLE - Forest (No Quarter 10)
* CLUSTER & BRIAN ENO - Cluster & Eno (Water 156)
TONY CONRAD WITH FAUST - Alive! (1995): Outside The Dream Syndicate (Table of Elements 48)
D'ARCANA - D'Arcana (Lemuria Music 000401)
D'ARCANA - As Worlds They Rise And Fall (Lemuria 402)
* ELTON DEAN & SOPHIA DOMANCICH - Avant (Hux 063; UK)
[ELTON DEAN/JIM DVORAK/JOHN EDWARDS/CROWTHER/LEBAIGUE] ORGANON - Klusterbuckstuckle (Slam 256)
[ELTON DEAN/ALEX MAGUIRE/FRED T BAKER/LIAM GENOCKEY] PSYCHIC WARRIOR (Hux 060)
DJAM KARET - Recollection Harvest (Cuneiform 219)
BOB DRAKE - The Shunned Country (ReR CTA SC01)
EAST OF EDEN - Graffito (Eclectic 1020; UK) - new disc from reunion
* EGG [DAVE STEWART/MONT CAMPBELL/CLIVE BROOKS] - Egg (Eclectic 1014; UK) - reissue
* EGG [DAVE STEWART/MONT CAMPBELL/CLIVE BROOKS] - The Polite Force (Eclectic 1015) - reissue
BRIAN ENO - Nerve Net (Hannibal/Ryko 1477; UK) - [2005 re-master] - reissue
BRIAN ENO - Neroli (Hannibal/Ryko 1480; UK) [2005 remaster] - reissue
BRIAN ENO - The Shutov Assembly (Hannibal/Ryko 1478; UK) [2005 remaster] - reissue
BRIAN ENO - The Drop (Hannibal/Ryko 1479; UK) [2005 re-master]- reissue
BRIAN ENO - Another Day On Earth (Hannibal/Ryko 1475)
BRIAN ENO/DIETER MOEBIUS/HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS [ENO & CLUSTER/KLUSTER] - After The Heat (Water 162)
BRIAN ENO/DIETER MOEBIUS/HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS/CONNY PLANK - Begegnungen (Water 163)
BRIAN ENO/DIETER MOEBIUS/HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS/CONNY PLANK - Begegnungen II (Water 164)
ERUPTION [CONRAD SCHNITZLER/KLAUS SCHULZE/MANUEL GOTTSCHING] - Eruption (QBICO 32; Italy) - [LP only]
FOREVER EINSTEIN - Racket Science (Cuneiform 206)
FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA - Soleil 12 (Cuneiform 218)
ROBERT FRIPP - Love Cannot Bear (DGM 0552)
* FRED FRITH With ARDITTI STRING QUARTET - Eleventh Hour [2 CD set] (Winter & Winter 910 103)
* FRED FRITH/CARLA KIHLSTEDT/STEVIE WISHART - The Compass, Log And Lead (Intakt 103)
FUCHSIA - Fuchsia (Night Wings 002/Italy)
GENTLE GIANT - The Power And The Glory (DRT 352) [2005 remastering]
GENTLE GIANT - Interview (DRT 357)
GONG - Angel's Egg (Virgin 2006; UK) - reissue w/ bonus tracks & new booklet
GONG - You (Virgin 2019; UK) - reissue w/ bonus tracks & new booklet
GONGMAISON/GONG - Gongmaison (Voiceprint 350 VPT; UK) - from 1989 w/ Didier & Graham Clark
* GONG - Live In Sherwood Forest '75 (MLP 09; UK)
GRYPHON - Crossing The Styles [2 CD set] (Castle/UK)
GUAPO - Black On! (Ipecac 59)
* MONIKA H BAND [MONIKA HEIDEMANN] - Bright (MH 2005)
STEVE HACKETT - Voyage Of The Acolyte (Charisma; UK) [2005 REMASTER]
PETER HAMMILL w [DAVID JACKSON/HUGH BANTON/GUY EVANS/ROBERT FRIPP] - Fool's Mate (Charisma 1037)
* HATFIELD AND THE NORTH - Hatwise Choice (Hatco 73-7501/UK) - we can't get copies, sorry!
* HET [DOMINIQUE WEEKS/CASS DAVIES/CATHERINE JAUNIAUX/TIM HODGKINSON] - Let's Het (Ad Hoc 03)
BRIAN HOPPER With ROBERT WYATT/HUGH HOPPER - If Ever I Am (Voiceprint 338 VPT; UK)
*HUGH HOPPER With ELTON DEAN/ROBERT WYATT - JAZZLOOPS [Ltd Ed CD-R] (Burning Shed; UK)
* HUGH HOPPER & MATT HOWARTH With ROBERT WYATT - The Stolen Hour (Burning Shed 204; UK)
HUGH HOPPER BAND - Meccano Pelorus (Cuneiform 55006)- reissue
[HUGH HOPPER] NDIO - Air Back (Cuneiform 216)
* IF - Waterfall (Repertoire 4998; Germany)
* IGNOBLE VERMINE - A Tribute to Ptose (Musea 8678/France)
KHAN With DAVE STEWART/STEVE HILLAGE - Space Shanty (Eclectic 1016) '72 reissue, w/ bonus trax
KING CRIMSON - Live in Warsaw, Poland 2000 [2 CD set] (DGM KCCC 28)
KING CRIMSON - Power To Believe Tour Box [CD & Booklet] (DGM 0301)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/McDONALD/LAKE/GILES/SINFIELD]-In The Court Of The Crimson King (DGM)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/LAKE/GILES BROS./COLLINS/SINFIELD/TIPPETT] - In The Wake Of Poseidon (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/COLLINS/HASKELL/McCULLOCH/SINFIELD w/K. TIPPETT] - Lizard (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/MEL COLLINS/BOZ BURRELL/IAN WALLACE/PETER SINFIELD] - Islands (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/WETTON/ BRUFORD/DAVID CROSS] - Starless And Bible Black (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/WETTON/BRUFORD/CROSS/JAMIE MUIR] - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/WETTON/BRUFORD With CROSS/McDONALD/COLLINS] - Red (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [ROBERT FRIPP/BILL BRUFORD/ADRIAN BELEW/TONY LEVIN] - Discipline (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [ROBERT FRIPP/BILL BRUFORD/ADRIAN BELEW/TONY LEVIN] - Beat (DGM/Inner Knot)
KING CRIMSON [FRIPP/COLLINS/BURRELL/WALLACE/SINFIELD] - Live At Brighton Dome, 1971 [2 CD set] (DGM KCCC 30)
KING CRIMSON - Vol 2: The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, 1981 - 2003 [4 CD Box & book] (DGM 0551)
KLUSTER [SCHNITZLER/MOEBIUS/ROEDELIUS] - Zwei-Osterei (Think Progressive 28; Germany)
KLUSTER [SCHNITZLER/MOEBIUS/ROEDELIUS] - Klopfzeichen (Think Progressive 28; Germany)
KRALDJURSANSTALTEN - Nu Ar Det Allvar!! & Voodoo Boogie (Megaphone 020)
* KOREKYOJINN [TATSUYA YOSHIDA/KIDO NATSUKI/NANSUNO MITSURO] - Isotope (Tzadik 7257)
* KTU [KIMMO POHJONEN/SAMULI KOSMINEN/TREY GUNN/PAT MASTELOTTO] - 8 Armed Monkey (Thirsty Ear 57092)
LA DUSSELDORF - La Dusseldorf (East West 44121/Germany) - reissue
LA DUSSELDORF - Viva (East West 44113/Germany) - reissue
LIGHTNING BOLT - Hypermagic Mountain (Load 78)
MACHINE AND THE SYNERGETIC NUTS - Leap Second Neutral (Cuneiform 210)
MADE IN MEXICO - Zodiac Zoo (Skin Graft 77)
* MAKE A RISING - Rip Through The Hawk Black Night (High Two 005)
PHIL MANZANERA w/ ROBERT WYATT/ENO/THOMPSON/McKAY - 50 Minutes Later (Expression/Hannibal/Ryko 1503)
* MASSACRE [FRED FRITH/BILL LASWELL/FRED MAHER] - Killing Time...Plus (Fred FRO 10/ReR)
MASS CULTURE CONTROL BUREAU (MCCB)[GEOFF LEIGH & various]- ...Things >From The Past(Ad Hoc 01)
MATS/MORGAN BAND [MATS OBERG/MORGAN OGREN] Thanks for Flying with Us (Cuneiform 215)
MILK FROM CHELTENHAM - Triptych of Poisoners (Alga Marghen 057) - reissue
* MIRIODOR - Parade/Live at NEARFest 2002 [2 CD set] (Cuneiform 208/209)
MODULO 1000 - Nao Fale Com Paredes (World In Sound 1025; Germany) - reissue/from Brazil
NINE HORSES [DAVID SYLVIAN/STEVE JANSEN/BURNT FRIEDMAN] - Snow Borne Sorrow (SamadhiSound 006)
ORTHRELM - OV (Ipecac 64) ORTHRELM - Ov (Ipecac; IPC 64)
* PAK - Motel (RA 007)
* POCKET ORCHESTRA - Knebnagauje MIO/Israel) - outstanding reissue, sadly out-of-print
POLE VOLT - Automatic Frequency (Moebius Musik 001/Canada)
POPOL VUH - Coeur De Verre (Heart Of Glass) [soundtrack] (SPV 70182; Germany)
POPOL VUH - Fitzcarraldo [soundtrack] (SPV 70202; Germany)
* PRESENT - A Great Inhumane Adventure (Cuneiform 207)
* PROG IS NOT A FOUR LETTER WORD [V.A.] - Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (Delay68 03; UK)
PIP PYLE'S EQUIP OUT w/ ELTON DEAN/PAUL ROGERS/PATRICE MEYER - Instants (Hux 062; UK)
ALEC K REDFERN and The EYESORES - The Quiet Room (Cuneiform 204)
* ROUGE CIEL - Veuillez Proceder (Monsieur Fauteux 12/Quebec)
SECRET OYSTER - Vidunderlige Kaelling (Laser's Edge 1043) reissue from 1975
* SKELETON CREW [FRED FRITH/TOM CORA/ZEENA PARKINS] - Learn To Talk/The Country Of Blinds...Plus [2 CD set] (Fred FRO 08-09/ReR)
* SLAPP HAPPY with FAUST - Acnalbasac Noom (ReR SH)
SOFT MACHINE [RATLEDGE/WYATT/HOPPER/DEAN/DOBSON] -Braida Reactor 1971[2 CD set] (Voiceprint 345)
SOFT MACHINE - Somewhere in Soho [2 CD set] (Voiceprint 262) - April 20--25, 1970 at Ronnie Scott's
* SOFT MACHINE & HEAVY FRIENDS - BBC in Concert 1971 (HUX 067/UK) rec. March 11th, 1971
* SOFT MACHINE - BBC in Concert 1972 (HUX 070/UK) - July 20. 1972 - at the paris theatre in London
* SOFT MACHINE LEGACY - Legacy Live: In Zaaandam, Holland May 10 2005 (Moonjune 006)
* SOFT MACHINE - British Tour '75 (MLP 10/UK) [Ratledge/Etheridge/Jenkins/Babbington/Marshall!]
TEMPEST [JOHN HISEMAN/ALLAN HOLDSWORTH/OLLIE HALSALL] - Under The Blossom: Tempest/Living In Fear... Plus BBC 1973 [2 CD set] (Castle 36221)
TU [TREY GUNN/PAT MASTELOTTO] - Official Bootleg [CD-EP] (TU 02)
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR [HAMMILL/BANTON/EVANS/KEITH ELLIS] - The Aerosol Grey Machine (Fie 9116; UK)
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (Charisma 1007; UK)+ 2 bonus trax
* VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR w/ ROBERT FRIPP - H to He Whom Am The Only One (Charisma 1027; UK) + bonus
* VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR With ROBERT FRIPP - Pawn Hearts (Charisma 1051; UK) + bonus trax
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR [PETER HAMMILL/D. JACKSON/H. BANTON/ EVANS] - Godbluff (Charisma 1109; UK)
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR [PETER HAMMILL/D. JACKSON/H. BANTON/ EVANS] - Still Life (Charisma 1116; UK)
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - Present [2 CD set] (EMI; UK)
WHA HA HA - Getahaitekonakucha (Columbia 53310; Japan) - reissue
WHA HA HA - Shinutokiwa Betsu (Columbia 53309; Japan) - reissue
* RICH WOODSON'S ELLIPSIS - The Nail That Stands Up Gets Pounded Down (N/twirp 01)
* WOOF RECORDS [TIM HODGKINSON/CATHERINE JAUNIAUX/MICK HOBBS/BILL GILONIS] - Woof 7 Inches (Ad Hoc 04) - reissue
* ROBERT WYATT & FRIENDS - Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th of September, 1974 (Hannibal 1507)
YOWIE - Cryptoology (Skin Graft 74)

What is "progressive" music? Since no-one completely agrees and since smart folks like us don't care about categories and/or marketing strategies, I can only speak for myself. True progressive music draws from the most forward-looking of many musical streams - rock, jazz, classical, folk, noise and free musics. For myself, the ultimate progressive bands were the Mothers of Invention, Soft Machine and Henry Cow, as well as King Crimson, Electric Miles Davis, Nucleus, etc. Since this music started in the late sixties, there has been 100's of different bands referred to as "progressive". Although this term often carries some unfortunate baggage thanks to bands like Genesis who started out with something unique and ended up as pop ditty-saurs.
For this year, we've seen a slew of great reissues: the entire King Crimson catalogue (again), the entire Van Der Graaf Generator catalogue and all with bonus tracks plus their reunion in the UK which some say was the best prog reunion ever! Also the entire Eno catalogue is back as well as the many of the great Can and Gentle Giant discs. Best yet for us Canterbury fans is long lost Robert Wyatt & Friends 'Live at Theatre Royal Drury Lane' from '74 and six different unreleased Soft Machine discs!!!
As far as new releases go, please check out Rouge Ceil, Rich Woodson, Present, Make A Rising, Monika H Band, KTU, PAK, Miriodor, Caveman Shoestore, Yowie, Cheer Accident and David Sylvian's Nine Horses.


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PART III - JAZZ/AVANT REISSUES & HISTORIC RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS for 2005

KAORU ABE - Winter 1972 (PSF 158/Japan)
* NEIL ARDLEY/IAN CARR/MIKE GIBBS/STAN TRACEY With KENNY WHEELER/JOHN TAYLOR/TONY LEVIN - Will Power: A Shakepeare Birthday Celebration In Music (Vocalion SML8412; UK)
ALBERT AYLER/NORMAN HOWARD/HENRY GRIMES/EARLE HENDERSON/SUNNY MURRAY - Spirits [a/k/a Witches & Devils] (Breathless 52006)
* ALBERT AYLER QUARTET - Live on the Riviera 1970 (ESP 4001) - previously unreleased!
ALBERT AYLER - Spiritual Unity (ESP 1002)
ALBERT AYLER - New Grass (IMpulse! 426902)
ALBERT AYLER - Bells/Prophecy (ESP Disk 4006)
ALBERT AYLER - The Actual Complete Live At Slug's Saloon 1966 [2 CD] (ESP Disk 4025)
DEREK BAILEY - Aida (Dexter's Cigar 05) - sold out, will be repressed eventually
* DEREK BAILEY/EVAN PARKER - The London Concert (PSI 05.01/UK) from '75 + 31 min. unreleased
DJANGO BATES - Summer Fruits (And Unrest) (W&W/JMT 919065; Germany)
DJANGO BATES - Autumn Fires (And Green Shoots) (W&W/JMT 919069; Germany)
TIM BERNE'S CAOS TOTALE - Nice View (W&W/JMT 919068; Germany)
* TIM BERNE'S BLOODCOUNT - Lowlife: The Paris Concert 1 (W&W/JMT 919074; Germany)
* TIM BERNE'S BLOODCOUNT - Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert 2 (W&W/JMT 919075; Germany)
* TIM BERNE'S BLOODCOUNT - Memory Select: The Paris Concert 3 (W&W/JMT 91908)
JAC BERROCAL - Fatal Encounters (Megaphone 008)
ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS - The Big Beat (Blue Note 63800)
PAUL BLEY - Early Trios (Fresh Sound 386) '53 &'54, w/ Mingus, Blakey, Percy Heath
BORBETOMAGUS - Barbed Wire Maggots (Agaric 1983)
* PETER BROTZMANN/HAN BENNINK - Schwarzwaldfahrt - expanded edition [2 CD set] (Atavistic/UMS 254)
* CLIFFORD BROWN/MAX ROACH QUINTET - Brownie Lives! (Fresh Sound 389)
MARION BROWN - Marion Brown [Quartet](ESP Disk 4011)
BILL BRUFORD w/DAVE STEWART/ALLAN HOLDSWORTH/ANNETTE PEACOCK/JEFF BERLIN] - Feels Good To Me [2 CD set] (Winterfold 03 VPT; UK)
BILL BRUFORD w/ DAVE STEWART/ALLAN HOLDSWORTH/JEFF BERLIN] - One Of A Kind [2 CD set] (Winterfold 04 VPT; UK)
DONALD BYRD/BOBBY JASPAR QUARTET - Au Chat qui Peche (Fresh Sound 388) '58
DONALD BYRD - Fuego (Blue Note 63802)
URI CAINE - Sphere Music (W&W/JMT 919064; Germany)
* DON CHERRY With PHAROAH/GATO BARBIERI/HENRY GRIMES/ED BLACKWELL - Symphony For Improvisors (Blue Note)
* DON CHERRY With PHAROAH SANDERS/HENRY GRIMES/ED BLACKWELL - Where Is Brooklyn? (Blue Note)
ALAN COHEN With KENNY WHEELER/MICHAEL GIBBS - Running Wild/Black Brown & Beige [2 CD set] (Vocalion LK 4252; UK)
* GRAHAM COLLIER - Workpoints/Two Concerts from a Golden Age of British Jazz [2 CD Set] (Cuneiform)
* JOHN COLTRANE - One Down, One Up/Live at The Half Note [2 CD Set](Impulse! 62143)
THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET - Actions 1966 -'67 (UMS/Atavistic 250)
* MILES DAVIS - Vol. 8: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 [6 CD Box Set] (Columbia Legacy 93614)
DR WHO AT THE BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - Volume 1: The Early Years (BBC DRW 01; UK)
DR WHO AT THE BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - Volume 2: New Beginnings (BBC DRW 02; UK)
* DON ELLIS - Essense (Pacific Jazz 1101) '62 - w/ Paul Bley & Gary Peacock!
* BOOKER ERVIN - Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note)
ROBIN EUBANKS - Mental Images (W&W/JMT 919072; Germany)
SHAMEK FARRAH and FOLKS - La Dee La La (Quadraphonic 1105)
MICHAEL GARRICK QUINTET With JOE HARRIOTT/SHAKE KEANE - October Woman/Anthem-Wedding Hymm (Vocalion 8413)
* MICHAEL GIBBS - Just Ahead [2 CD set] (BGO 679; UK)
GRANT GREEN - Sunday Morning (Blue Note 63815)
* IAN HAMER SEXTET w/TUBBY HAYES/ALAN SKIDMORE/DICK MORRISSEY-Acropolis [2 CD set] (Jasmine 641)
HERBIE HANCOCK - Inventions And Dimensions (Blue Note 63798)
* TUBBY HAYES QUARTET w/ TONY LEVIN/M. PYNE/MATHEWSON - Addictive Tendencies: Live '66 [2 CD set] (Rare Music 28)
TUBBY HAYES - Jazz Tete-A-Tete (Harkit 8114/UK)
TUBBY HAYES - Live At The Dancing Slipper [2 CD set] (Harkit 8198; EEC)
* JONAS HELLBORG/BUCKETHEAD/MICHAEL SHRIEVE - Octave Of The Holy Innocents [Reworked](Bardo 132)
* EDDIE HENDERSON - Anthology Vol 2/Capricorn Years: Realization/Inside Out (Soul Brother 11)
* ANDREW HILL - Andrew! (Blue Note)
* DAVE HOLLAND & BARRE PHILLIPS - Music From Two Basses (ECM 1011)
ELMO HOPE - Trio & Quintet (Blue Note)
MARC JOHNSON' RIGHT BRAIN PATROL - Magic Labyrinth (W&W/JMT 919073)
TONY KINSEY QUINTET w/ JOE HARRIOTT/DON RENDELL - Introducing The Tony Kinsey Quintet/"Jazz at the Flamingo" Session [2 CD set] (Vocalion LK4213; UK)
BASIL KIRCHIN - Abstractions of the Industrial North (Trunk 012; UK)
* LAST EXIT [SHARROCK/P. BROTZMANN/RONALD S. JACKSON/LASWELL] - Koln (1986) (UMS/Atavistic 252)
STU MARTIN/JOHN SURMAN - Live at Woodstock Town Hall (Breathless 52003)
MAULAWI - Maulawi (Universal Sound 026/UK)
BROTHER JACK McDUFF - Who Knows What Tomorrow's Gonna Bring? (Water 143)
* JACKIE McLEAN - Consequence (Blue Note)
JOE McPHEE/JOHN SNYDER - Pieces Of Light (UMS/Atavistic 256)
* PAT METHENY/ORNETTE COLEMAN With CHARLIE HADEN/JACK DeJOHNETTE/DENARDO COLEMAN - Song X [Expanded Edition] (Elektra/Nonesuch 79918)
THELONIUS MONK - Piano Solo 1954 (Coppens 6002; EEC)
* THELONIUS MONK QUARTET - At Carnegie/with John Coltrane (Blue Note 35173)
PAUL MOTIAN And The ELECTRIC BEBOP BAND - The E.B.B.B. With Joshua Redman (W&W/JMT 919061)
PAUL MOTIAN With DEWEY REDMAN/BILL FRISELL/JOE LOVANO - Trioism (W&W/JMT 919067)
PAUL MOTIAN & ELECTRIC BEBOP BAND - Reincarnation Of A Love Bird (W&W/JMT 919071)
PAUL MOTIAN TRIO With BILL FRISELL/JOE LOVANO - At The Village Vanguard (W&W/JMT 919080)
* [JOHN ZORN'S] NAKED CITY - The Complete Studio Recordings [5 CD set & book] (Tzadik 7344)
ART PEPPER-The Art of Pepper/Omega Sessions (Fresh Sound 378) ['57 & '58]
* HANNIBAL PETERSON & THE SUNRISE ORCHESTRA - Children of the Fire (Universal Sound 027/UK)
* JULIAN PRIESTER - Love, Love (ECM 1044)
IKE QUEBEC - Complete 45 Sessions [2 CD set] (Blue Note)
FREDDIE REDD QUARTET With JACKIE McLEAN/MATTOS/L. RITCHIE - Music From 'The Connection' (Blue Note 63836)
DON RENDELL JAZZ SIX - Playtime..plus (Vocalion LK4284; UK)
HANK ROBERTS - Little Motor People (W&W/JMT 919062; Germany)
SONNY ROLLINS QUARTET With STAN TRACEY/RICK LAIRD - Live in London 1966 Vol 2 (Harkit 8107)
PHAROAH SANDERS - Pharoah's First (ESP 4008)
* PHAROAH SANDERS With JOE BONNER/MICHAEL WHITE - Elevation (Impulse 427602)
IRENE SCHWEIZER w/ LOVENS/GEORGE LEWIS/NICOLS/LEANDRE/SOMMER/LINDSAY COOPER - Live At Taktlos (Intakt 001)
SONNY SHARROCK TRIO - Dance With Me Montana (Marge 20; France) reissue w/ bonus tracks
ARCHIE SHEPP ATTICA BLUES BIG BAND - Live at the Palais des Glaces:Paris 10/24/79 [2 CD set] (Blue Marge 1001; France)
* SONNY & LINDA SHARROCK/DAVE BURRELL/SIRONE/TED DANIELS/MILFORD GRAVES - Black Woman (Water 152)
* SONNY SIMMONS - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings: Staying On The Watch/Music From The Spheres [2 CD set] (ESP Disk)
SIRONE [NORRIS JONES] - Sirone Live (UMS/Atavistic 253) - from 1991
* SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE - A New Distance (Emanem 4115/UK) - from '94, bonus tracks
JOHN STEVENS/TREVOR WATTS/BARRY GUY - Mining the Seam-Rest of the Spotlite Sessions (Hi4Head 003)
BILLY STRAYHORN & JOHNNY HODGES - The Stanley Dance Sessions (Lone Hill 1019)
* SUN RA And His SOLAR ARKESTRA - Volume 3: Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra (ESP 4002) unreleased
SUN RA And His SOLAR ARKESTRA - Volumes 1 & 2: Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra (ESP 4005)
* SUN RA & His SOLAR ARKESTRA - Nothing Is (ESP Disk 4024) + 20 of unreleased music
* SUN RA - Sleeping Beauty (Art Yard 003; UK) - LP only, limited edition
SUN RA - On Jupiter [ LP only release] (Art Yard 004)
* JOHN SURMAN with JOHN TAYLOR/JOHN MARSHALL/BRIAN ODGERS - Way Back When (Cuneiform 200)
GARY THOMAS - Exile's Gate (W&W/JMT 919066; Germany)
PATTY WATERS - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings: Patty Waters Sings/College Tour (ESP Disk 4019)
MIKE WESTBROOK CONCERT BAND w/M. OSBORNE/RUTHERFORD/SPEDDING/HARRY MILLER - Love Songs (Vocalion 8407)
* MICHAEL WHITE With PRINCE LASHA/CECIL McBEE - Land Of Spirit And Light (Impulse 427702)
* BARNEY WILEN -Moshi (Saravah) - African/jazz/prog from 1970 & '71
JOHN WILLIAMS' BARITONE BAND w/ JOHN SURMAN/ALAN WAKEMAN/CHRIS BISCOE/TREVOR TOMKINS - Baritone Band (Spotlite 564; UK)
* MARY LOU WILLIAMS - Mary Lou's Mass (Smithsonian Folkways 40815)
* FRANK WRIGHT - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings: Frank Wright Trio/Your Prayer [2 CD set] (ESP Disk 4007) + 20 min of unreleased interviews
STOMU YAMASHTA w/ KLAUS SCHULZE/STEVIE WINWOOD/AL DIMEOLA/MICHAEL SHRIEVE - The Complete Go Sessions: Go/Go: Live From Paris/Go Too 2 [2 CD set] (Raven; Australia)
*[JOHN ZORN'S] MASADA - Sanhedrin [2 CD set & book] (Tzadik 7346)

What amazes both Manny and myself is the large number of incredible British modern and progressive jazz gems from the sixties and seventies which have been reissued over the past few years, on labels like Vocalion, Harket, Emanem, Ogun and Cuneiform. Do not miss these essential reissues by Tubby Hayes, Neil Ardley, Mike Garrick, Ian Hamer, Mike Westbrook, anything with John Stevens & Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Plus ESP is back and releasing their entire catalogue with much-improved sound. and often bonus tracks! Both Cuneiform discs by John Surman and Graham Collier are previously unreleased treasures!


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PART IV - NOTEWORTHY & RECOMMENDED CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER & ELECTRONIC ALBUMS FOR 2005

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS - Strange and Sacred Noise (Mode 153)
JAVIER ALVAREZ - Cactus Geometries - Offrande (INA GRM 5015; EEC)
DIETER AMMANN - The Freedom Of Speech (Hat Now 158/Switzerland)
TEODORO ANZELLOTTI/MANUEL HIDALGO - Nuut/Introduktion Und Fuge/Gran Nada (Winter & Winter - 117)
ROBERT ASHLEY - Celestial Excursions [2 CD set & book] (Lovely Music)
ROBERT ASHLEY - Perfect Lives [2 DVD set] (Lovely Music)
BALANESCU QUARTET - Maria T (Mute 9286)
FRANCOIS BAYLE - Vol 18: La Forme de l'esprit est un papillon (INA GRM 1804)
DAVID BEHRMAN - My Dear Siegfried/QSRL: 5 Pieces [2 CD set] (XI 129)
ANDRE BOUCOURECHLIEV - Threne (INA GRM 2025; EEC)
PIERRE BOULEZ/PI-HSIEN CHEN - Notations & Piano Sonatas (Hat Now 162/Switzerland)
PIERRE BOULEZ - Conducts Boulez/Le Marteau sans maitre/Derive 1 & 2 (Deutsch Grammophon 75327)
CHRIS BROWN - Rogue Wave (Tzadik 8014)
GAVIN BRYARS - Biped: Music For The Dance By Merce Cunningham (GB 02; UK)
GAVIN BRYARS & JUAN MUNOZ/BALANESCU QUARTET - A Man In A Room, Gambling (GB 04; UK)
GAVIN BRYARS - Oi Me Lasso (GB 05; UK)
GAVIN BRYARS/MASKATS/VALENTIN SILVESTROV//LATVIAN RADIO CHOIR - On Photography (GB 07; UK)
HAROLD BUDD + ERALDO BERNOCCHI - Music For 'Fragments From The Inside' (Sub Rosa 239/Belgium)
JOHN CAGE/ARDITTI STRING QUARTET - Vol. 33: The Works For Violin 6/The String Quartets 4 [2 CD Set] (mode 144/145)
JOHN CAGE - One7 [from One13], One8 (OgreOgress)
JOHN CAGE/BARTON WORKSHOP - Barton Workshop Plays John Cage [2 CD set] (Etcetera)
ELLIOTT CARTER - Orchestral Works (Arte Nova 277730)
LUCIANO CILIO - Dell' Universo Assente (Die Schachtel 07; Italy)
ALDO CLEMENTI/GRUPPO APERTO MUSICA OGGI - Punctum Contra Punctum (Die Schahtel 12/Italy)
COMBUSTION CHAMBER - Interconnector (BVHaast 0804/Netherlands)
TONY CONRAD - Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969) (Table of Elements 83)
RICK COX - Fade (Cold Blue Music CB00020) [CD-EP]
ALVIN CURRAN - Canti Illuminati (Fringes Archive 02; Italy)
* ALVIN CURRAN - Toto Angelica (ReR IDA 020/UK)
ALVIN CURRAN - Inner Cities [4 CD set] (Long Distance 560304; EEC)
FRANK DENYER - Faint Traces (Mode 151)
AGOSTINO DI SCIPIO - Horbare Okosysteme (Edition RZ 10015; EEC)
TOD DOCKSTADER - Aerial Volume 1 (Sub Rosa 223; Belgium)
* TOD DOCKSTADER/DAVID LEE MYERS - Bijou (ReR TDDM2 02677/UK)
TOD DOCKSTADER - Aerial Vol 2 (Sub Rosa 228; Belgium)
PAUL DOLDEN - Delires De Plaisirs (Empreintes Digitales 0577; Canada)
ROGER DOYLE - Charlotte Corday And The Lament Of Louis XVI/The Passades, Vol I (BVHaast 0304)
PAUL DRESHER - Cage Machine (New Albion 125)
ARNOLD DREYBLATT & THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS - Nodal Excitation (Dexter's Cigar 15)
* JULIUS EASTMAN - Unjust Malaise [3CD set] (New World 80638)
HENRI DUTILLEUX - Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Arte Nova)
* MORITZ EGGERT - I Belong This Road I Know (Between the Lines 71201)
ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE - In Nomine: The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book (Kairos; 0012442KAI)
MORTON FELDMAN [various w/ KEN VANDERMARK/CHARLES WATERS/LARRY OCHS] - Morton Feldman Jazz Tributes (Villars 01)
MORTON FELDMAN - Composing By Numbers - The Graphic Scores 1950-67 (Mode 146)
MORTON FELDMAN - Triadic Memories (Long Arms 3049; EEC)
LUC FERRARI/ERIK M - Archives Sauvees Des Eaux (Angle; Italy)
HENRY FLYNT - Purified by the Fire (Locust 67)
JIM FOX - Descansos, past (Cold Blue Music CB00021) [CD-EP]
* FRED FRITH With ARDITTI STRING QUARTET - Eleventh Hour [2 CD set] (Winter & Winter 910 103)
* CLEMENS GADENSTATTER - Comic Sense (Kairos 1245/Austria)
KYLE GANN - Long Night (Cold Blue Music CB00019) [CD-EP]
KYLE GANN - Nude Rolling Down an Escalator: Studies for Disclavier (New World)
ORLANDO JACINTO GARCIA - Fragmentos Del Posado (New Albion 124)
PETER GARLAND - Love Songs (Tzadik 8012)
GILLES GOBEIL - Trilogie d'Ondes [CD/DVD] (Empreintes Digitales 0576; Canada)
* GERARD GRISEY - Les Espaces Acoustiques [2 CD set] (Kairos 1242/Germany)
* PIERRE HENRY - Voyage Initiatique (Phillips 6730/France)
HANS WERNER HENZE - Violin Concertos No. 1-3 [2 CD set] (DG Scene 601 1242)
* HANS WERNER HENZE - Ode to the West Wind (Arte Nova 894040)
HANS WERNER HENZE - Ein Landarzt, Das Ende Einer Welt (Wergo 6666; Germany)
ICEBREAKER - Terminal Velocity (Cantaloupe 21031)
IN NOMINE/ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE - The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book [2 CD set] (Kairos 1244/Germany)
ROBERT IOLINI - Songs From Hurt CD (RER RI2/UK)
JASON KAO HWANG - The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown [2 CD set] (New World)
ICEBREAKER - Cranial Pavement (Cantaloupe 21024)
INA GRM [V.A.] - Archives GRM [5 CD set] (INA GRM 1030; EEC)
HENRY JACOBS - The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs [CD/DVD] (Important Records 054)
MAURICIO KAGEL - Die Stucke der Windrose (W&W 109; Germany)
ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - One and Many (Sub Rosa 214; Belgium)
L'ALBUM DES SIX [V.A.] - Cocteau, Satie, and Les Six (LTM/Salon 2402)
DAVID LANG - Elevated [CD/DVD] (Cantaloupe 21029)
JACQUES LEJEUNE - Eloge de la Betise: Ou les Peripeties des Ubu (INA GRM 1021)
L'HEXACORDE - Ensemble de Guitares (Monsieur Fauteux 10/Quebec)
BRAD LUBMAN - Insomniac (Tzadik 8017)
ALVIN LUCIER - Nothing Is Real... (Wergo 6660/Germany)
ALVIN LUCIER/BARTON WORKSHOP - Wind Shadows (New World 80628)
ALVIN LUCIER - Anthony Burr/Charles Curtis [2 CD Set] (Antiopic 002; EEC)
* [PIERRE-YVES] MACØ - Circulations CD (Sub Rosa 240/Belgium)
ELIO MARTUSCIELLO - Unoccupied Areas (ReR EM1)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Preludes & Etudes (Arte Nova)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jesus [2 CD set] (Arte Nova 852920)
MOONDOG - Pastoral Suite/Surf Session (Moondog's Corner 001)- reissue from 1953
MOONDOG - The Viking of Sixth Avenue [2 LP set] (Honest Jon's Records 118/UK) recordings from 1949-1995
GORDON MUMMA - Electronic Music of Theatre and Public Activity (New World 80632)
* MAX NAGL/FRANZOBEL - Der Siebte Himmel in Viertein [2 CD set] (ORF 403/Austria)
OLGA NEUWIRTH - Chamber Music (Kairos 1246; Germany)
MICHAEL NYMAN - The Libertine [sndtck] (MN 104)
OHM [V.A.] - Early Electronic Gurus Of Electronic Music: 1948-1980 [Expanded Edition: 3 cd set + DVD + book] (Ellipsis Arts)
HANS OTTE - Orient:Occident Minimum:Maximum (Pogus 21037)
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE/DAVID COULTER/MICHAEL GIRA/JEAN MARIE MATHOUL - Gantse Mishpuchah - Music in Three Parts (Fringes 16; Italy)
HILDA PAREDES - Listen How They Talk: Chamber Music 1998-2001 (mode 149)
BERNARD PARMEGIANI - L'eil ecoute (INA GRM 2026; EEC)
HARRY PARTCH - Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3 (New World 80623)
HARRY PARTCH - Vol 4: Harry Partch Collection (New World 80624)
HARRY PARTCH/PHILIP BLACKBURN - Enclosure III: Harry Partch [Book] (Innova/American Composers Forum) - [500+ pages]
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI//HELMUTH RILLING - Credo (Hannsler 98.311; Germany)
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER//ARDITTI QUARTET & TEODORO ANZELLOTTI - Figura I-IV (W&W 097)
LARRY POLANSKY/DIY CANONS [V.A.] - Pieces Based On 'Four Voice Canons' [2 CD set] (Pogus 21036)
* ANDREW POPPY - ...On Zang Tumb Tuum: The Beating Of Wings/Alphabed/Under The Son...[3 CD set] (ZTT 186CDX; UK)
PRIMA MATERIA - The Tail of the Tiger (Die Schachtel 010/Italy)
ELIANE RADIGUE - Geelriandre/Arthesis (Fringes Archive 01; Italy)
STEVE REICH/SO PERCUSSION - Drumming (Cantaloupe 21026)
STEVE REICH - Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977 - Kitchen Archives (Orange Mountain 018)
STEVE REICH & PHILIP GLASS - Images 4 Music [DVD] (Orange Mountain 5001)
TERRY RILEY & MICHAEL MCCLURE - I Like Your Eyes Liberty (SRI Sunshine Music 02)
TERRY RILEY & STEFANO SCODANIBBIO - Diamond Fiddle Language (Wergo 6675)
* TERRY RILEY - Assassin Reverie (New World 80558)
TERRY RILEY - Descending Moonshine Dervishes/Songs For the Ten Voices Of The Two Prophets [2 CD set] (Kuckuck 12047) - reissue from 1982 & '83
TERRY RILEY - The Harp Of New Albion [2 CD set] (Celestial Harmonies 14018) - reissue from 1986
DANE RUDHYAR/STEFFEN SCHLEIERMACHER - Works For Piano (Hat Now 140)
CARL RUGGLES/DONALD BERMAN - The Uncovered Ruggles (New World Records 80629)
ERIK SATIE - Vexations (LTM/Salon 2389; EEC)
GIACINTO SCELSI - The Piano Works 2 (Mode 143)
GIANCINTO SCELSI - Suono Rotondo / Solo Works & Trio Improvisations (Wergo 6672)
GIACINTO SCELSI - The Art of Song of Giancinto Scelsi (New Albion 129)
BARRY SCHRADER - Lost Atlantis (Innova 629)
PIERRE SCHAEFFER - L'Oeuvre Musicale [3 CD set] (INA GRM 1006-8; EEC) - reissue
KURT SCHWITTERS - What a Beauty/Die Ursonate (Wergo 6313/Germany)
KURT SCHWITTERS/HANS ARP/RAOUL HAUSMANN - Dada Antidada Merz (Sub Rosa 195; Belgium)
* ELLIOTT SHARP - Dispersion Of Seeds for String Quartet & Computer (Zoar Portal Series ZPO-03)
JAMES TENNEY/MAELSTROM PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE - Pika-Don (Hat Now 151)
STEVAN KOVACS TICKMAYER - Repetitive Selective Removal of One Protecting Group (ReR ST2 02677/UK)
ASMUS TIETCHENS - e-Menge (Line 020
DAVID TUDOR - Live Electronic Music (EMF 54/154)
JAKOB ULLMANN - A Catalogue of Sounds 1995-1997 (Edition RZ 1017; EEC)
* MATTHEW WELCH - Dream Tigers (Tzadik 8015)
TREVOR WISHART/HORACIO VAGGIONE/JONTY HARRISON - Etc. (EMF 53/153)
STEFAN WOLPE - Enactments, Works For 1, 2 & 3 Pianos (hat Now 162)
CHARLES WUORINEN - On Alligators (Tzadik 8010)
* IANNIS XENAKIS - Vol. 5: Electronic Works 1 - La Legend D'Eer [DVD] (mode 148)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Vol. 6: Works for Strings (Mode 152)
WALTER ZIMMERMANN - The Echoing Green (Mode 150)
EVAN ZIPORYN - Typical Music (New Albion 128)
* JOHN ZORN - Rituals (Tzadik 8011)
* JOHN ZORN - Mysterium (Tzadik 8018)

This is the only one of these lists where I've only listened to about a third of all 150+ discs listed, hence only a few asterisks. If I had more time and money I'd like to hear them all. I am slowly listening to as many as I can.


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PART V - BRUCE'S ROCK/ROOTS/PSYCH/VOCAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2005

ROBERT WYATT & FRIENDS - Theatre Royal Drury Lane September 8th, 1974 (Hannibal)
BOB DYLAN - Bootleg Vol 7: No Direction Home [2 CD set] (Sony Legacy)
JESSE SYKES & THE SWEET HEREAFTER - Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)
IVA BITTOVA/BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS - Elida (Cantaloupe)
RICHARD THOMPSON - Grizzly Man [soundtrack] (Cooking Vinyl 360)
IRON & WINE - Woman King [EP] (Sub Pop)
NEIL YOUNG - Prairie Wind (Reprise)
SUN KIL MOON - Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde)
WILCO - Kicking Television/Live in Chicago [2 CD set] (Nonesuch)
MONIKA H BAND [MONIKA HEIDEMANN] - Bright (MH 2005)
CATHERINE JAUNIAUX with TIM HODGKINSON - Fluvial (Ad Hoc 02) - reissue
OOIOO - Gold & Green (Thrill Jockey 160)
SYNAPSE [HACO/AKI ONDA/IKUE MORI/KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI]- Raw (Tzadik 7254)
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno CD (Important 058)
NINE HORSES [DAVID SYLVIAN/STEVE JANSEN] - Snow Borne Sorrow (SamadhiSound 006)
VASHTI BUNYAN - Lookaftering (Dicristina 006)
ARTHUR RUSSELL - World Of Echo (Audika 1002) - Reissue
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE - Come On Back (Rounder)
JERRY GRANELLI/RINDE ECKERT - Sandhills Reunion [H-SACD] (Songlines 1553)
ODYSSEY [JAMES BLOOD ULMER/CHARLES BURNHAM/WARREN BENBOW] - Back In Time (Pi 18)
CHICAGO BLUES REUNION - Buried Alive in the Blues (Out of the Box)
FATIMA MIRANDA - ArteSonado [134 page booklet & CD] (Europeo Musica 19/Spain)
ROSWELL RUDD & THE MONGOLIAN BURYAT BAND - Blue Mongol (Sunnyside 1147)
BIRDBRAIN - I Fly (Persian Cardinal)
CHARMING HOSTESS - Punch (ReR CH) - reissue
JOHN CALE - Black Acetate (Astralwerks)
SEXSMITH & KERR - Destination Unknown ( )
BRENDON ANDEREGG - Falling Air (Psych-o-Path 009)
ROBERT EEN - Expanding Universe [CD-R] (Buzzbox 1115)
THE RESIDENTS - Animal Lover (Mute)
JONATHAN KANE - February (Table of Elements 88)
SUSAN HOWE & DAVID GRUBBS &- Thiefth (Blue Chopsticks 15)
CAROLEEN BEATTY - You're Only as Pretty as You Feel (Black Beauty 72009)
DEVENDRA BANHART - Crippled Crow (XL Recordings)
NIGHT WATCH - Scenes (self-produced/no number)
TIME OF ORCHIDS With JULEE CRUISE - Sarcast While (Tzadik 8013)
FANTOMAS - Suspended Animation [Ltd 1st Ed w/Booklet] (Ipecac 62)
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - Iao Chant from The Cosmic Inferno (Ace Fu)
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER [JOMF] - Flags of the Sacred Harp (All Tomorrow's Parties 20; UK)
JOANNA NEWSOM - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
LOS NENA - [2nd] (Nena Discos/Mexico)
ANNA HOMLER/STEUART LIEBIG DUO - kelpland serenades (pfMentum 029)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Feels (Fat Cat 011)
LATITUDE/LONGITUDE - self/titled (self-produced)
DUB GABRIEL - Bass Jihad (Azra 03)
TAKUMA KANAIWA - The Lemurian Sounds of Takuma Kanaiwa (amukaT Recordings)
KEIJI HAINO - Black Blues [Acoustic Version] (DSA 54087/France)
KEIJI HAINO - Black Blues [Electric Version] (DSA 54088/France)
CHRISTY DORAN'S NEW BAG - "Perspectives" (Between the Lines 71204/Germany)
JAMES BLOOD ULMER - Birthright (Hyena)
BRIAN ENO - Another Day On Earth (Hannibal/Ryko 1475)
HRSTA - Stem Stem In Electro (Constellation 036/Canada)
ELLIOTT SHARP - "Commune - Music For The Film by Jonathan Berman" (Zoar 025)
MAJA RATKJE & JAAP BLONK - Majaap: Improv Isors (Kontrans 850)
PUPPETINA [ANNA HOMLER/STEPHANIE PAYNE] - Piewacket! (Pasha Nina Teen 01)
MIKE LADD With VIJAY IYER/ANDREW LAMB/ROY CAMPBELL/GUILLERMO BROWN - Negrophilia [the album] (Thirsty Ear 57156)
UNKNOWN INSTRUCTORS [MIKE WATT/GEORGE HURLEY/JOE BAIZA]- The Way Things Work (Smog Veil 056)
AUDIOFILM:[AKCHOTE/BERESFORD/REIJSEGER/ROBERTSON] - Der Kastanienball: The Fall of Lucrezia Borgia [2 CD set] (W&W 107)
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW [JEREMY BARNES] - A Hawk and a Hacksaw (Leaf 035; UK)
ESPERS - The Weed Tree (Locust 73)
JOHN PARISH - Once Upon a Little Time (Thrill Jockey 157)
MANY BRIGHT THINGS - Many Bright Friends (Wild Places 15)
SCREAMING HEADLESS TORSOS [DAVID FIUCZYNSKI] - 2005 (Fuzelicious Morsels 8904)
MX-80 - We're An American Band (Family Vineyard 30)
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - Iao Chant from The Cosmic Inferno (Ace Fu 34)
BUCKETHEAD - Kaleidoscalp (Tzadik 7409)
THEA GILMORE - Songs from the Gutter (Compass Records)
RICHARD BLIWAS - Walk the Bike (Rising Rose) - from 2000, but just discovered
FOVEA HEX [CLODAGH SIMONDS] - Bloom (Die Stadt 83; Germany)
JORANE - The You And The Now (Six Degrees 1108)
RODD KEITH - Saucers In the Sky (Roaratorio 10)
THE KLEZMATICS - Brother Moses Smote The Water (Piranha)
KOBY ISRAELITE - Mood Swings (Tzadik 7199)
DAMON KRUKOWSKI & NAOMI YANG - The Earth is Blue ('202020' 001)
THE CHURCH - El Momento Descuidado (Cooking Vinyl)
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Twin Cinema (Matador)
CHOCOLATE GENIUS - Blank Yankee Rock (Commotion)
MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE - The Visible Sign of the Invisible Order (Abduction 029)
MIKE PATTON/THE X-ECUTIONERS - General Patton Vs The X-ecutioners (Ipecac 60)
BIG STAR - In Space (Ryko)
ALARM WILL SOUND//APHEX TWIN - Acoustica Performs Aphex Twin (Cantaloupe 21028)
ANA DA SILVA - The Lighthouse (Chicks On Speed 13; Germany)
THE HUNGRY MARCH BAND - Critical Brass [Ltd. & Numbered Edition of 300] (self produced)
KOH [YAMABUKI] With SATOKO FUJII/TED REICHMAN - Yamabuki (Libra 203-012; Japan)

This is a highly eclectic list to say the least. I listen to very little indie-rock, since so little of it interests me. It is in some sort of order. Besides Jesse Sykes, I've become a big fan of Iron & Wine and Sun Kil Moon over the past year or so. I got to admit that I got a chance to hear the latest CD by the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney, two folks I have long given up on, and actually dug their new ones. The second disc of that Dylan Bootleg Series thing with Mike Bloomfield and other members of Butterfield Blues Band completely blew my mind!


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PART VI - ROCK/FOLK/PSYCH/ROOTS REISSUES & HISTORIC RECORDINGS FOR 2005

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!) [2 CD set] (Static Caravan 004; UK)
* AMERICAN PRIMITIVE VOL 2 [V.A.] - Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) [2 CD set] (Revenant 214)
ART & LANGUAGE And THE RED CRAYOLA [KRAYOLA] - Corrected Slogans (Dexter's Cigar 009)
ED ASKEW - Ed Askew Artist's Edition [aka Ask The Unicorn expanded edition] (ESP Disk 1092)
BASTRO [DAVID GRUBBS/BUNDY K BROWN/JOHN McENTIRE] - Antlers: Live 1991 (Blue Chopsticks 14)
ANNE BRIGGS - A Collection (Topic 504; UK)
ANNE BRIGGS - Sing a Song For You (Fledg'ling 3008; UK)
BLUES PROJECT - Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go (Acadia 8070; UK) - w/ 6 bonus tracks
BRAINTICKET - Cottonwoodhill [aka First Album] (Phonag 81120; EEC)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Inside Out (EMI 66175; UK)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Oora (EMI 66177; UK)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Wasa Wasa (EMI 64112; UK)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Sing Brother Sing (EMI 64124; UK)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Edgar Broughton Band (EMI 64156; UK)
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Keep Them Freaks A Rollin' (EMI 64179; UK)
MARTIN CARTHY - Chronicles - A Journey Through The Folk Revival [4 CD box set] (Free Reed 60)
GENE CLARK - White Light (A&M 93209; Germany)
TODD TAMANEND CLARK - Nova Psychedelia: 1975-1985 [2 CD set] (Anopheles 10)
COB - Moyshe McStiff &The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart (Radioactive 119/UK)
*THE COLLECTORS - Grass & Wild Strawberries (Collector's Choice 500)
SHIRLEY COLLINS - Adieu To Old England (Fledg'ling 3023; UK)
SHIRLEY COLLINS - The Power Of The True Love Knot (Fledg'ling 3028; UK)
SHIRLEY COLLINS - The Sweet Primeroses (Topic 476; UK)
SHIRLEY COLLINS & DAVY GRAHAM - Folk Roots, New Routes (Fledg'ling 3052/UK)
COMUS - Song To Comus: First Utterance/To Keep From Crying/Dawn EP [2 CD set] (Castle; UK)
CREATION REBEL/NEW AGE STEPPERS - Threat to Creation (Cherry Red 021/UK)
IVOR CUTLER - Life In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol II (Rev-Ola 1; UK)
*TIM DAWE - Penrod (Radioactive 095/UK)
* DEFUNKT [w/ JOE BOWIE] - Hannibal Years: Defunkt/Thermonuclear Sweat [2 CD set] (Hannibal 150)
SANDY DENNY - Like An Old Fashioned Waltz [expanded edition] (Island 315; UK) - 4 bonus tracks
SANDY DENNY - Rendezvous [expanded edition] (Island 316; UK)
SANDY DENNY - Sandy [expanded edition] (Island 314; UK)
SANDY DENNY - The North Star Grassman And The Ravens [expanded edition] (Island 313; UK)
* (IAN) DEVINE & (ALISON) STATTON With BLAINE L REININGER - The Prince of Wales (LTM 2433; EEC)
DEVINE & STATTON With MARC RIBOT/ROY NATHANSON/CURTIS FOWLKES - 'Cardiffians' (LTM 2435; EEC)
DONOVAN - Sunshine Superman (EMI 73566/UK)
DONOVAN - Mellow Yellow (EMI 73567/UK)
DONOVAN - The Hurdy Gurdy Man (EMI 73568/UK)
DONOVAN - Barabajagal (EMI 73569/UK)
DRANSFIELD - The Fiddler's Dream [2 CD set] (Castle/UK)
DREAMIES - Dreamies: 2006 Special Edition (Wilmington 10001; EEC)
EDISON ELECTRIC BAND - Bless You, Dr. Woodward (Water 155)
FAIRPORT CONVENTION - Rising For the Moon (Island 155/UK)
FAIRPORT CONVENTION - Cropredy Capers - 25 Years Of The Festival [4 CD box set] (Free Reed 25)
FAIRPORT CONVENTION - Cropredy Box: 30th Anniversary Set 1997 [3 CD set] (Castle)
THE FALL - The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 [6 CD box set] (BBC 982; UK)
FAMILY - BBC Radio Volume 2: 1971-73 (Hux 060; UK)
BILL FAY - Bill Fay (Eclectic 1022; UK) = 2 bonus tracks
BILL FAY - Time Of The Last Persecution (Eclectic 1023; UK)
BILL FAY GROUP - Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Jnana 1976; Canada)
FOLK IS NOT A FOUR LETTER WORD [V.A.] - Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word (Delay68 01; UK)
FONOTONE RECORDS [AMERICAN PRIMITIVE] - Fonotone Records 1956-1969 [5 CD Box] (Dust To Digital 003)
* FOREST - Forest (Radioactive 058) - from 1969
FRESH MAGGOTS - Fresh Maggots (Sunbeam Records 5002/UK)
THE FUGS - Virgin Fugs (ESP Disk 1038)
PETER GILES/MICHAEL GILES/ROBERT FRIPP - The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp (Eclectic 1021; UK)
*BARRY GOLDBERG-STEVE MILLER BLUES BAND - 1965-66: Blowing My Mind Plus (Acadia 8048; UK)
GOLGOTHA - Old Seeds Bootleg (Radioactive126/UK)
* DAVY GRAHAM - Folk, Blues & Beyond...(Fledg'ling 3050/UK) [1963-'65, 4 bonus tracks]
* DAVY GRAHAM - HAT (Fledg'ling 3051/UK) - 1969
* DAVY GRAHAM & SHIRLEY COLLINS - folk roots, new routes (Fledg'ling 3052/UK) from 1964
* DAVY GRAHAM - Large as life and twice as natural (Fledg'ling 3054/UK) from 1969
* DAVY GRAHAM - Midnight Man (Fledg'ling 3053; UK) - from 1966
DAVY GRAHAM & HOLLY - Godington Boundry (President 160)
GYPSY - The Romany Collection (Hux 056; UK)
HAWKWIND - Codename Hawkwind (Neptune; UK) - live 1971
HAWKWIND - On Sundown (Neptune; UK) - live 1972
DORIS HENDERSON with JOHN RENBOURN - Watch the Stars (Fledg'ling 3055/UK) from 1967
* GARY HIGGINS - Red Hash (Drag City 295) from 1973
THE ID - The Inner Sound of the Id (World In Sound 1026; Germany)
IGGY & THE STOOGES - Heavy Liquid [6 CD set] (Easy Action 003/UK)
NEIL INNES & THE WORLD - Lucky Planet (Acadia 8056; UK)
JOSEPH - Stoned Aged Man (Radioactive 134; EEC)
*KALEIDOSCOPE - Pulsating Dream - The Epic Recordings: Side Trips/Beacon >From Mars/Incredible/ Bernice [3 CD set] (Acadia 8059)
RODD KEITH - Saucers In the Sky (Roaratorio 10)
ERKIN KORAY - Erkin Koray (Istanbul Plak 02; EEC)
JACKIE LOMAX - Home Is In My Head (Water 153)
JACKIE LOMAX - Three (Water 154)
*LOTHAR & THE HAND PEOPLE - Space Hymn/Presenting...Lothar & The Hand People: The Complete Capitol Recordings [2 CD set] (Acadia 8058; UK)
LOVE, PEACE & POETRY [V.A.] - Turkish Psychedelic Music (QDK 047; EEC)
MARSUPILAMI - Marsupilami (Breathless 52012)
JOHN & BEVERLY MARTYN - Stormbringer! (Island 137; UK)
* JOHN & BEVERLY MARTYN - The Road to Ruin (Island 318; UK)
MAXIMUM JOY - Unlimited: 1979-1983 (Crippled Dick 101; Germany)
EUGENE McDANIELS - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (Water 150)
MC5 - Are You Ready To Testify: The Live Bootleg Anthology [3 CD set] (Castle 36186)
MC5 - Purity Accuracy [6 CD set] (Easy Action 002/UK)
THE MELVINS - Mangled Demos From 1983 CD (Ipecac 063) - unreleased from 1983
MEMPHIS HORNS - Memphis Horns (DBK Works 516)
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND - Listen Listen: The Definitive Collection (Cherry Red 110/UK)
MOONDOG - Moondog And His Friends [10" only] (Honest Jon's 024/UK)
* MORGEN - Morgen (World Psychedelia 8480; S. Korea)
* ENNIO MORRICONE [Presented by MIKE PATTON] - Crime and Dissonance [2 CD set] (Ipecac)
THE MOVE - Message From The Country...Plus (EMI; UK)
MY MIND GOES HIGH - Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults/various (WEA 74708/UK)
NINO ROTA - LSD Roma (El Records 061; UK)
* NO NEW YORK [ DNA/JAMES CHANCE/MARS/TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS/Prod. by ENO] - No New York (Lilith 102)
ONE ST. STEPHEN - One St. Stephen (Radioactive 113/UK)
PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY - Spreading From The Ashes (Big Beat 245; UK)
* PEARLS BEFORE SWINE - Complete ESP-Disk Recordings: One Nation Underground/Balaklava (ESP 4003)
TOMMY PELTIER - Chariot of Astral Light (Black Beauty 72008)
PLAINSONG - Plainsong [2 CD set] (Water 149)
* PLASTIC CLOUD - Plastic Cloud (Pacemaker 46; Canada) - Toronto, 1968 - Amazing jangle/fuzz w/ great harmonies!
* PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED [PIL] - Metal Box [aka Second Edition] (Virgin 87473; UK)
PUNK ATTITUDE [V.A.]/ DON LETTS dir. - Punk: Attitude [2 DVD set] (Capital Ent 08)
QUINTESSENCE - In Blissful Company (Repertoire 1009; EEC)
QUINTESSENCE - Quintessence (Repertoire 1016; EEC)
QUINTESSENCE - Dive Deep (Repertoire 1063; EEC)
RED CRAYOLA WITH ART & LANGUAGE [KRAYOLA] - Kangaroo? (Drag City 080)
* THE RESIDENTS - Not Available (Euro Ralph 034; EEC)
THE RESIDENTS - Duck Stab (Euro Ralph 007/8; EEC)
BIFF ROSE - The Thorn In Mrs. Rose's Side / Children Of Light (Water 161)
SAN UL LIM - San Ul Lim (World Psychedelia 8482; S. Korea)
SCRITTI POLITTI - Early (Rough Trade)
* THE SERPENT POWER/TINA & DAVID MELTZER - The Serpent Power/Poet Song (Akarma 053/054; Italy)
SHRIMP BOAT - Speckly (Aum Fidelity 33)
JUDEE SILL - Dreams Come True: Hi, I Love You Right Heartily Here [2 CD set] (Water 140)
JUDEE SILL - Judee Sill (Water 158)
JUDEE SILL - Heart Food (Water 159)
JOHN SIMON - John Simon's Album (Water 145)
* THE SLITS - Cut...Plus (Koch 9672)
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - Downside Up: B Sides And Rarities [4 CD Box set] (Polydor 21823)
ALAN SONDHEIM/RITUAL ALL 770 - The Songs (Fire Museum 04)
*S ONS OF CHAMPLIN - Loosen Up Naturally (Acadia 8057; UK)
* SPIRIT - Spirit Of '76 [2 CD set] (BGO 605; UK)
SPIRIT - Son Of Spirit/Farther Along (BGO 644; UK)
* SPIRIT - Model Shop (Sundazed 6197) - previously unreleased soundtrack
SPIRIT - Blues From The Soul [2 CD set] (Acadia 8047; UK)
SPIRIT - Live From The Time Coast 1989-1996 [2 CD set] (Acadia 8073; UK)
MICK STEVENS - The River/The Englishman (Shadoks 072)
* MARK STEWART With THE MAFFIA, THE POP GROUP - Kiss The Future (Soul Jazz 113; UK)
STRANGELY STRANGE BUT ODDLY NORMAL [V.A.] - An Island Anthology 1967-1972 [3 CD set] (Island 22950; EEC)
TAMAM SHUD - Gooluntionites and the Real People (Radioactive 097)
THE STOOGES [IGGY POP] - Extended Play [CD & DVD] (Easy Action 006; UK)
DAVE SWARBRICK - It Suits Me Well/The Transatlantic Anthology (Castle Music 36205)
LINDA THOMPSON - Give Me A Sad Song (Fledg'ling 3020)
RICHARD THOMPSON, ASHLEY HUTCHINGS, JOHN KIRKPATRICK, BARRY DRANSFELD - Morris On (Fledg'ling 3037)
THUNDERTREE - Thundertree (Radioactive 096)
T*I*M*E [Trust in Men Everywhere] - Time/Smooth Ball (See For Miles; UK)
* TIME - before these was...(Shadoks Music 054/Germany) Toronto, '68 - often brilliant, avant/folk/rock...
TIME MACHINE - A Vertigo Retrospective [3 CD set] (Vertigo 82798; UK)
TOKYO FLASHBACK [V.A.] - Tokyo Flashback 5 (PSF 8020; Japan)
TOUCH - Touch (Eclectic 1005; UK) - reissue from 1969, w/ bonus tracks
MERLE TRAVIS - Strictly Guitar (Sundazed 9010)
* TREES - Garden of Jane Delawney (Columbia 06064/UK) - from 1970
* TREES - On the Shore (Columbia 84435/UK)
T.REX [MARC BOLAN] - Total T.Rex [6 CD set] (Easy Action 001; UK)
TROJAN DUB MASSIVE [V.A. mixed by BILL LASWELL] - Dub Massive: Chapter 1 (Sanctuary 80492)
TROJAN DUB MASSIVE [V.A. mixed by BILL LASWELL] - Dub Massive: Chapter 2 (Sanctuary 80493)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX - My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair... [Expanded Edition] (A&M 9822509/Germany)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX - Prophets Seers & Sages, The Angels Of The Ages [Expanded Edition] (A&M 9822510/Germany)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX - Unicorn [Expanded Edition] (A&M 9822511/Germany)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX - A Beard Of Stars [Expanded Edition] (A&M 9822512/Germany)
UNICORN - Uphill All the Way (Breathless 52011)
T-REX - Electric Warrior [Expanded Edition] (A&M 93113; UK)
T-REX - Total T-Rex [6 CD set] (Easy Action 001/UK)
* JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER - L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches (Night & Day 048/France)
* TOM VERLAINE - Warm and Cool (Thrill Jockey 162) - many bonus tracks
VIOLENT FEMMES - BBC live (Hux 065; UK)
SCOTT WALKER - 5 Easy Pieces [5 CD Box-Set] (Mercury 81044/UK)
THE WATTS 103rd STREET RHYTHM BAND - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band (Water 147)
SPEEDY WEST - Guitar Spectacular (Sundazed 9008)
WORLD PSYCHEDELIC CLASSICS [V.A.] - Vol 3: Love's A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa (Luaka Bop)
LINK WRAY AND HIS RAY MEN - Law of the Jungle: The Swan Demos '64 (Sundazed 6221)
BETTY WRIGHT - My First Time Around (Water 151CD)
JERRY YESTER & JUDY HENSKE - Farewell Aldebaran (Radioactive 133; EEC)
YO LA TENGO - Prisoners Of Love: A Smattering Of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003 [Ltd 3 CD Edition] (Matador 10645)
THE YOUNGBLOODS - Beautiful! Live in San Francisco, 1971 (Sundazed 11148)

This is another rather long list (130+), but it could've been much longer. Reissue psych labels like Radioactive release way too many discs, sometimes 2-5 per week. I read their hype every week and give a listen to many of their discs but often come away disappointed. A handful of rare gems from this year would include: Tim Dawe, Forest, Trees, Jean-Claude Vannier, TIME (not the US T.I.M.E.). Morgen, Gary Higgins, Plastic Cloud and The Collectors. What is great is large amount of British folk and folk rock reissues (6) from Davy Graham, Shirley Collins, Fairport Convention, Donavon, Sandy Denny and the Trees. What I'm working on is writing my own reviews of some of the better reissues, instead of the borrowed reviews we get from distributor new release sheets that are often misleading.


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PART VII - WORLD ETHNIC MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 2005 [short list]:

MUNIR BASHIR & THE IRAQI TRADITIONAL MUSIC GROUP - Iraqi Traditional (Le Chant Du Monde 2741321)
CHOUBI CHOUBI! [V.A.] - Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq (Sublime Freq 025)
CULT CARGO [V.A.] - Belize City Boil Up (Numero 06)
JACK DeJOHNETTE & FODAY MUSA SUSO - Music From The Hearts Of The Masters (Golden Beams/Kindred)
ESPAGNE [V.A.] - Valencia, Cant d'estil - Singing Contests (Ocora 560189/France)
ETHIOPIQUES - MAHMOUD AHMED - Vol. 19: Alemye (Buda Musique 86010; EEC)
* ETHIOPIQUES - EITHER/ORCHESTRA/MULATU ASTATKE - Vol. 20: Live in Addis [2 CD set] (Buda Musique 860121)
FOLK AND POP SOUNDS OF SUMATRA [V.A.] - Vol. 2 (Sublime Freq 018)
GUITARS OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar [Burma] Vol. 2 (Sublime Freq 024)
KABIYE [V.A.] - Kabiye Orchestras & Lithophones (Ocora 560195; France)
HARMIKA YAB-YUM [V.A.] - Folk Sounds From Nepal (Sublime Freq 017)
* KONONO NO. 1 - Congotronics 1 (Crammed Craw 27; Belgium)
* KONONO NO. 1 - Lubuaku: Live (Terp; Belgium)
LAGOS CHOP UP - various artists [2 LP set] (Honest Jon's Records 015)
THOMAS MAPFUMO - Spirits To Bite Our Ears: The Singles Collection 1977-1986 (DBK 522)
MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA/GNOUA BROTHERHOOD OF MARRAKESH - Moroccan Trance Music Vol. 2/Sufi Music (Sub Rosa 097/Belgium)
MOLAM [V.A.] - Thai Country Groove from Isan (Sublime Frequencies 019)
NIGER [V.A.] - Hunters of the Dallol Mawri (Ocora 560170/France)
NIGER [V.A.] - Magic & Ecstasy in the Sahel [DVD] (Sublime Freq 022)
RADIO PHNOM PENH [V.A.] - Radio Phnom Penh (Sublime Freq 020)
RADIO SUMATRA [V.A.] - The Indonesian FM Experience (Sublime Freq 021)
RADIO PYONGYANG [V.A.] - Commie Funk and Agit Pop From the Hermit Kingdom (Sublime Freq 023)
* ROSWELL RUDD & THE MONGOLIAN BURYAT BAND - Blue Mongol (Sunnyside/Soundscape 1147)
SPIRITS OF LIFE - Haitian Vodou (Soul Jazz 105)
STREETS OF LHASA [V.A.] - Streets of Lhasa (Sublime Freq 016)
T.P. ORCHESTRE - The Kings of Benin Urban Groove 1972-80 [2 LP set] (Soundway 004/UK)
TIBETAN BUDDHIST RITES [V.A.] - From The Monasteries Of Bhutan [2 CD set] (Sub Rosa 222)
TRIFON TRIFONOV & STANIMAKA - Bulgarian Wedding Music From The Last Century (W&W 100; Germany)
MAHALA RAI BANDA - Mahala Rai Banda (Crammed Cramworld 31; Belgium)


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PART VIII - RECOMMENDED DVD ISSUES OF 2005:

ORNETTE COLEMAN//SHIRLEY CLARKE, director - Ornette: Made In America (Synergetic)
EBBA JAHN'S JAZZ FILM of the SOUND UNITY FESTIVAL [FIRST VISION FESTIVAL] - Rising Tones Cross (Film Pals)
JOHN COLTRANE - Trane Tracks: The Complete Video Coltrane [DVD] (Efor 722563)
BOB DYLAN - No Direction Home - The Complete Documentary [2 DVD Set] (Paramount)
JIMI HENDRIX - Live At Woodstock 1969: The Complete Set [DVD] (MCA)
CREAM - 2005 Reunion: Royal Albert Hall May 2,3,5,6 [2 DVD set] (Rhino)
WADADA LEO SMITH GOLDEN QUARTET -Eclipse/A Film By Jacques Goldstein[2 DVD set](La Huit)
FRANK ZAPPA - Dub Room Special [DVD] (Eagle)
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Swim: A Musical Adventure [DVD] (Kulture)
CHARLES MINGUS - Live At Montreux 1975 (Passport)
BRIAN ENO - 14 Video Paintings: Thursday Afternoon/Mistaken Memories Of Mediaeval Manhattan [DVD] (All Saints/Hannibal/Ryko 1508)
KEN JACOBS/JOHN ZORN - Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise [DVD] (Tzadik 3004)
GONGMAISON/GONG - Live At The Fridge [DVD] (Voiceprint DVD7 VPT; UK) from early 90's
JONI MITCHELL - PAINTING WITH WORDS AND MUSIC/A LIFE STORY: WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND [2 DVD set] (Eagle 39072)
KJELL BJORGEENGEN {with MARC RIBOT} - New Videoworks [60 page hardcover book & DVD] (The National Museum of Contemporary Art/Norway)
MARTINA KUDLACEK//JOHN ZORN - In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Zeitgeist 1055)
EDO BERTOGLIO Film of JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT [with DNA/GRAY/JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS/TUXEDO MOON/KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS] - Downtown 81 (Zeitgeist 1025)
GHOST - Metamorphosis: Ghost Chronicles 1984-2004 CD/DVD (Drag City 279)
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA/PHILL NIBLOCK's Film of - The Magic Sun (Atavistic UMS 9861)
RYOJI IKEDA - Formula [DVD & Book] (Touch FORMA 001; UK)
TRIBUTE TO JOHN COLTRANE [WAYNE SHORTER/DAVE LIEBMAN/RICHIE BEIRACH/EDDIE GOMEZ/JACK DeJOHNETTE] & TRIBUTE TO BILL EVANS [GORDON BECK/TONY OXLEY/KENNY WHEELER/STAN SULZMANN/DIETER ILG] - Live Under The Sky//Live At The Brewhouse (Eagle Media 39076)
FELA KUTI - Music Is The Weapon [DVD] & The Best Best Of Fela Kuti [2 CD set + 1 DVD in a box set] (Wrasse 132; EEC)
THE RESIDENTS - Icky Flix [DVD] (Euro Ralph/MVD 4437; EEC)
ERIK FRIEDLANDER - Vanishing Point / A Road Journal [DVD] (Arconomics 01)
LEE RANALDO & LEAH SINGER - Drift [DVD] (Plexifilm 022)
BERLIN SUPER 80 [V.A.] - Music & Film Underground West Berlin 1978-1984 [DVD + CD + BOOK Box Set] (Monitor Pop 16; Germany)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Vol. 5: Electronic Works 1 - La Legend D'Eer (Mode 148)
HANS FJELLESTAD - Moog: A Documentary Film [DVD] (Plexifilm 018)
VINNY GOLIA LARGE ENSEMBLE - 20th Anniversary Concert [DVD] (Nine Winds 250)
KEN JACOBS/JOHN ZORN - Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (Tzadik 3004)
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA - Live At The Palomino November 1988: In Concert Vol 1 (Transparency 170)
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA & HIS ALL STARS With DON CHERRY/LESTER BOWIE/ARCHIE SHEPP/DON MOYE/PHILLY JOE JONES - East & West Berlin: In Concert Vol 2 (Transparency 171)
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA - Live In Europe: In Concert Vol 3 (Transparency 172)
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA - WPFW Radio Jazz Festival: In Concert Vol 4 (Transparency 173)
GENTLE GIANT - Giant On The Box [DVD] (DRT 359)
GLENN O'BRIEN'S TV PARTY - Premier Episode - December 18, 1978 (Brink)
GLENN O'BRIEN'S TV PARTY - The Documentary (Brink)
GLENN O'BRIEN'S TV PARTY - Halloween Show - October 30, 1979 (Brink)
GLENN O'BRIEN'S TV PARTY - Time & Makeup Show - August 19, 1979 (Brink)
THE STOOGES - Extended Play [CD + DVD] (Easy Action 006/UK)
SCREAMING HEADLESS TORSOS [DAVID FIUCZYNSKI] - Live! In New York And Paris [2 DVD set] (Fuzelicious Morsels 8905)


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PART IX - HONORABLE MENTION BIG LIST (300 +)

AHMED ABDULLAH'S EBONIC TONES - Tara's Song (TUM 9/EEC)
CHRIS ABELEN - Proost (Bvhaast 0202/Netherlands)
CHRIS ABRAHAMS - Thrown (Room40 409)
TETUZI AKIYAMA/GUNTER MULLER - Points And Slashes (Erstwhile 44)
TETUZI AKIYAMA - Route 13 to the Gates of Hell: Live in Tokyo (Headz 043; Japan)
AKIYAMA/NAKAMURA/YOSHIHIDE/UNAMI - Compositions for Guitars Vol. 2 (A Bruit Secret 104/France)
TETUZI AKIYAMA - Pre-Existence (Locust 72)
SUSAN ALCORN - Sur [CD-R] (Uma Sounds)
SUSAN ALCORN w/ JOE McPHEE/ANDREA PARKINS- Concentration: High Zero Fest 2004 (Recorded 17)
OREN AMBARCHI - Triste (Southern Lord 46)
SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND - Believe (Cryptogramophone 123)
ARILD ANDERSEN GROUP - Electra (ECM 1908) PAOLO ANGELI - Nita L'angelo Sul Trapezio (ReR PA2/UK)
LAURA ANDEL/ELECTRIC PERCUSSIVE ORCHESTRA - In::tension (Rossbin 022/EEC)
PAOLO ANGELI - Nita L'angelo Sul Trapezio (ReR PA2/UK)
PAOLO ANGELI/HAMID DRAKE - Uotha (Nu Bop Records 1/Italy)
LOTTE ANKER/CRAIG TABORN/GERALD CLEAVER - Triptych (Leo 441; UK)
PETER APFELBAUM & THE NEW YORK HIEROGLYPHICS - It Is Written (ACT 9437/Germany)
MICHAEL ATTIAS - renku (Playscape 80504)
MICHAEL ATTIAS QUARTET - Credo (Clean Feed 51/Portugal)
AYUO - Aoi No Ue (Tzadik 7260)

AB BAARS TRIO - Party at Bimhuis: 10 Years Ab Baars Trio & Guests (Wig 9; EEC)
BAGHDASSARIANS/BALTSCHUN/BOSETTI/DONEDA - Strom (Potlatch 204/France)
ELLEN BAND / DAVID LEE MYERS - Two Ships (Pogus 21035)
BILLY BANG - Vietnam: Reflections (Justin Time 212)
CYRO BAPTISTA'S BEAT THE DONKEY - Love The Donkey [aka Beat the Donkey Beat remixed] (Tzadik 7613)
STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS - Unknown Music 1: Alien Letter (Sillyboy 008/Italy)
PIERRE BASTIEN - Pop (Rephlex 162/UK)
CLIVE BELL & SYLVIA HALLETT - The Geographers (Emanem 4112; UK)
STEVE BERESFORD & TANIA CHEN - Ointment (Rossbin 18)
BORAH BERGMAN/LOL COXHILL/PAUL HESSION - Acts Of Love (Mutable 17519)
ANTOINE BERTHIAUME/QUENTIN SIRJACQ/NORMAN TEALE - Leaves And Snows (AM 135; Canada)
FARUQ Z BEY & NORTHWOOD IMPROVISORS - Rwanda (QBICO 37; Italy) [LP only]
TONY BIANCO - Avyayah: Drone Drums (FMR 176; UK)
MICHAEL BLAKE NEW QUARTET - Hammond Rens [2 CD set] (ILK 740)
MICHAEL BLAKE TRIO - Right Before Your Very Ears (Clean Feed 44)
RAN BLAKE & DAVID FABRIS - Indian Winter (Soul Note 121-327/Italy)
BLUE COLLAR [NATE WOOLEY/STEVE SWELL/TATSUYA NAKATANI] - Lovely Hazel (Public Eyesore 81)
SALVATORE BONAFEDE/ENRICO RAVA/JOHN ABERCROMBIE/RALPH TOWNER- Journey To Donnafugata (CAM)
ALBERTO BRAIDA/LISLE ELLIS/FABRIZIO SPERA - Di Terra (NuBop 02; Italy)
ANTHONY BRAXTON & MILO FINE - Shadow Company CD (Emanem 4113; UK)
ANTHONY BRAXTON/MATT BAUDER - 2 + 2 Compositions (482 Music 1034)
BROOKLYN SAX QUARTET - Far Side Of Here (Omnitone 12206)
CHRIS BROWN - Talking Drum[Binaural motion recordings composed as a dialogue of distances](Pogus)
ROB BROWN QUARTET - Radiant Pools (RogueArt 02/France)
BUCKETRIDER - L'Evenements (Dr Jim's 35; Australia)
HAROLD BUDD - Avalon Sutra/As Long As I Can Hold My Breath [2 CD set](SamadhiSound 004)
GREG BURK TRIO [w/ STEVE SWALLOW & BOB MOSES] - Nothing, Knowing (482 Music 1037)
BURNT SUGAR - If you can't dazzle them with your brillance... [2 CD-R set] (Trugroid)
BURNT SUGAR VS. THE DOMINATRIX - A Greg Tate/Qasim Naqvi Mash-Up [CD-R](self-produced)
JOHN BUTCHER w/ DURRANT/LOVENS/MALFATTI/JOHN RUSSELL - News From The Shed (Emanem 4121; UK)
TAYLOR HO BYNUM & SPIDERMONKEY STRINGS w/ JASON HWANG/TOMAS ULRICH/OKKYUNG LEE - Other Stories (482 Music 1041)

WILL CALHOUN - Native Lands [CD & DVD set] (Halfnote 4524)
DANIEL CARTER/STEVE SWELL/FEDERICO UGHI - Concrete Science (577 Records #5)
CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE & THE THING [MATS GUSTAFSSON/INGEBRIGT HAKER FLATEN/PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE] with JOE McPHEE - Sounds Like A Sandwich [CD ep] (Smalltown Supersound 103; EEC)
JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO With HAMIETT BLUIETT/JAMES BLOOD ULMER - Out Of Nowhere (Halfnote 4520)
EUGENE CHADBOURNE - The Hills Have Jazz: For Wes Craven (Boxholder 046)
MORI CHIEKO - Jumping Rabbit (Tzadik 7252)
TOM CHRISTENSEN - new york school (Playscape 41504)
ALEX CLINE/KAORU/MIYA MASAOKA/G.E. STINSON -Cloud Plate (Cryptogramophone CG 121)
NELS CLINE/WALLY SHOUP/CHRIS CORSANO - Immolation/Immersion (Strange Attractors 039)
DAN CLUCAS/IMMEDIATELY - Exile (pfMentum 028)
BILL COLE & WILLIAM PARKER - Two Masters Live at The Prism (Boxholder 047)
GENE COLEMAN/FRANZ HAUTZINGER/SACHIKO M/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - Concert in St. Louis (Grob 656)
COLLECTIVE 4TET (Geisser/Hennen/Hoyer/William Parker) - Moving Along (Leo 418; UK)
COLLECTIF INAUDIBLE [V.A.] - Cardo: Improvised Music In Brussels (EMANEM 4122)
CONTROLLED BLEEDING - Shanked and Slithering (Hospital Productions 99)
COOPER-MOORE/ASSIF TSAHAR -Tells Untold (Hopscotch 30)
[COOPER-MOORE/TOM ABBS/CHAD TAYLOR] TRIPTYCH MYTH - The Beautiful (Aum Fidelity 035)
MIKE COOPER - Metal Box (Rossbin 20)
CHRISTY DORAN'S NEW BAG - "Perspectives" (Between the Lines 71204/Germany)
THE COSMOSAMATICS [SONNY SIMMONS/MICHAEL MARCUS/TARUS MATEEN/JAY ROSEN] - Magnitudes (Soul Note)
THE COSMOSAMATICS [SONNY SIMMONS/MICHAEL MARCUS] - Zetrons (Not Two 764/Poland)
THE COSMOSAMATICS [SONNY SIMMONS/MICHAEL MARCUS] - Reeds & Birds (Not Two 757)
CRACOW KLEZMER BAND - Plays John Zorn Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: A Tribute to Bruno Schultz (Tzadik 7349)
CRIMETIME ORCHESTRA w/ B. WESSELTOFT/HAKER FLATEN/NILSSEN-LOVE - Life Is A Beautiful Monster (Jazzaway 009)
ANDREW CYRILLE/ANTHONY BRAXTON - Vol 1: Duo Palindrom 2002 (Intakt 088)
ANDREW CYRILLE/ANTHONY BRAXTON - Vol 2: Duo Palindrom 2002 (Intakt 089; Switzerland)

DANIELE D'AGARO with JEB BISHOP/KENT KESSLER/ROBERT BARRY - Chicago Overtones (Hatology 613)
DAHINDEN/KLEEB/POLISOIDIS/HOLDRICH - Concept of Freedom/Braxton + Ellington (Hat Now 614)
STEVE DALACHINSKY & MATTHEW SHIPP - phenomena of interference (Hopscotch Records 19)
CARLO ACTIS DATO/BALDO MARTINEZ - Folklore Imaginario (Leo 437; UK)
RHODRI DAVIES/INGAR ZACH - Ieirll [LP only] (QBICO 031/Italy)
[ELTON DEAN/JIM DVORAK/JOHN EDWARDS/CROWTHER/LEBAIGUE] ORGANON - Klusterbuckstuckle (Slam 256)
[ELTON DEAN/ALEX MAGUIRE/FRED T BAKER/LIAM GENOCKEY] PSYCHIC WARRIOR - Psychic Warrior (Hux 060)
DECISION DREAM - Steamroom Variations (Red Toucan 9328/Canada)
[TRIO] DEROME GUIBEAULT TANGUAY - The Feeling Of Jazz (AM 145/Quebec)
WHIT DICKEY - In a Heartbeat (clean feed 037)
JOHN DIKEMAN With TATSUYA NAKATANI/JACK WRIGHT/NATE WOOLEY - A Combination Of Events [Ltd Ed] (Archive 9)
TOD DOCKSTADER/DAVID LEE MYERS - Bijou (ReR TDDM2 02677/UK)
ARMEN DONELIAN - Grand Ideas Vol 3 - Full Moon Music: Free Improvisations For Solo Piano (Sunnyside 1090)
CHRISTY DORAN/FRITZ HAUSER/URS LEIMGRUBER/HANS-PETER PFAMMATTER - La Fourmi (Creative Works)
CHRISTY DORAN/ERIKA STUCKY/FREDY STUDER/KIM CLARKE - Jimi [Hendrix] (DoubleMoon/Challenge 71048; EEC)
ARTHUR DOYLE With WILBER MORRIS/RASHID SINAN - No More Crazy Women [ LP only] (QBICO 33; Italy)
MARK DRESSER w/ALEXANDRA MONTANO/DENMAN MARONEY/MICHAEL SARIN - Time Changes (Crypto 124)
DRUMMERS DOUBLE BILL - S.O.S. (Bvhaast 0703/Holland)
PAUL DUNMALL/PHILIP GIBBS/STEVE DAVIS/DAVE KANE - Bernd Wimmer On The Burnt Zimmer (Duns 042/UK)
PAUL DUNMALL/BRUCE COATES/PHILIP GIBBS/HILARY JEFFREY - Live At The Old Library (Duns 043/UK)
PAUL DUNMALL/PHILIP GIBBS/PAUL ROGERS- The Big Return (DUNS 045; UK)
PAUL DUNMALL/MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN/PHILIP GIBBS - Tapaleit (Duns 047; UK)
PAUL DUNMALL/PHILIP GIBBS/TONY HYMAS - Neen (Duns 048; UK)
PAUL DUNMALL - Solo Soprano Saxophone (FMR 167/UK)
BRAD DUTZ - Nine Gardeners Named Ned (pfMentum 026)

EARTH PEOPLE - Now Is Rising (Undivided Vision 004) [Ltd ed of 250 copies]
ZE EDUARDO/JACK WALRATH QUARTET - Bad Guys (Clean Feed 47/Portugal)
KAHIL EL'ZABAR RITUAL TRIO With BILLY BANG - Live At The River East Art Center (Delmark 1566)
MARTY EHRLICH - News On The Rail (Palmetto 2113)
HARRIS EISENSTADT - Ahimsa Orchestra (Nine Winds 0237)
HARRIS EISENSTADT - The Soul and Gone (482 Music)
PETER EPSTEIN/BRAD SHEPIK/MATT KILMER - Lingua Franca [H-SACD] (Songlines 1555; Canada)
EXPLODING CUSTOMER - Live at Tampere Jazz happening (Ayler Records 031/Norway)

FAST 'N' BULBOUS: CAPTAIN BEEFHEART PROJECT With GARY LUCAS/PHILLIP JOHNSTON - Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform 205)
ENRICO FAZIO 7TET - Live In Milano: Villa Litta (Leo 424; UK)
AVRAM FEFER/BOBBY FEW - Heavenly Places: Duet Vol 2 (Boxholder 049)
AVRAM FEFER/MICHAEL BISIO - Painting Breath, Stoking Fire (CIMP 324)
[SIMON H. FELL/SIMON ROSE/STEVE NOBLE] BADLAND - The Society of the Spectacle (EMANEM 4120)
SIMON H FELL/HARRIS EISENSTADT/IAN SMITH - K 3: Live In London (Bruce's Fingers 58; UK)
AGUSTI FERNANDEZ & MATS GUSTAFSSON - Critical mass (psi 05.06; UK)
AGUSTI FERNANDEZ/PETER KOWALD - Sea Of Lead (Hopscotch 17)
JOE FIEDLER TRIO - Plays The Music Of Albert Mangelsdorff (Clean Feed 49)
MILO FINE/DAVU SERU/ELLIOT FINE - Percussion Music: Improvised [2 CD set] (Elfin EFP 1/2)
JAMES FINN TRIO With DOMINIC DUVAL/WARREN SMITH - Plaza De Toros (clean feed 34; Portugal)
PAUL FLAHERTY/RANDALL COLBOURNE QUINTET - Kaivalya Vol 1 (Cadence 1177)
PAUL FLAHERTY/STEVE BACZKOWSKI/CHRIS CORSANO - The Dim Bulb (Wet Paint 3003)
[FLAHERTY/KELLEY/HEYNER/CORSANO] COLD BLEAK HEAT - It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War (Family Vineyard 35)
[PAUL FLAHERTY/JOE McPHEE/STEVE SWELL]JUMALA QUINTET - turtle crossing (clean feed 038)
JEAN-MARC FOLTZ/BRUNO CHEVILLON - Cette Opacite (Clean Feed 45; Portugal)
THE FONDA/STEVENS GROUP - Forever Real (482 Music 1032)
FREEBASE [ALAN WILKINSON/MARCIO MATTOS/STEVE NOBLE] - The Ins and Outs (Emanem 4116/UK)
FREEDOM OF THE CITY FESTIVAL 2004 [V.A.] - small groups [2 CD set] (Emanem 4215; UK)
FREE FUNK [w/ PERRY ROBINSON & TREY LEWD] - Free Funk [LP only] (QBICO 35; Italy)
ROBERT FRIPP - Love Cannot Bear (DGM 0552)
BILL FRISELL TRIOS - East West [2 CD set] (Nonesuch/Elektra 79863)
SATOKO FUJII QUARTET - Angelina (Libra 204-014; Japan)

MICHAEL GALASSO With TERJE RYPDAL/MARC MARDER/FRANK COLON - High Lines (ECM 1713)
GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY - Live in Germany (Auris Media 005/Israel)
THE GANELIN TRIO - Eight Reflections OF The Past Century (Auris 02; EEC)
THE GAUCI TRIO - long night waiting (Cadence Jazz 1180)
STEPHEN GAUCI TRIO With TODD NICHOLSON/J CARLSTEDT - First, Keep Quiet (CIMP 326)
PHILIP GAYLE - the mommy row (Family Vineyard 38)
GIANNI GEBBIA/LUKAS LIGETI/MASSIMO PUPILLO - The Williamsburg Sonatas (Wallace Records 55/Italy)
JOE GIARDULLO - weather (Not Two 755/Poland) - solo soprano sax
HEINZ GEISSER/GUERINO MAZZOLA QT. With MAT MANERI/SCOTT FIELDS - Chronotomy (Black Saint 120173)
JOE GIARDULLO/CARLOS ZINGARO - Falling Water (Drimala 4-347-06
[FRODE GJERSTAD/KJETIL BRANDSDAL/ANDERS HANA/MORTEN OLSEN] ULTRALYD - Chromosome Gun (Load 70)
FRODE GJERSTAD/NILS HENNIK ASHEIM - The Shortest Day (FMR 155; UK)
FRODE GJERSTAD TRIO WITH PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE/O STORESUND - Last First (Transparency 79)
GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA With MAGGIE NICOLS - Which Way Did He Go? (FMR 158; UK)
VINNY GOLIA - Music for Like Instruments; The Flutes (Nine Winds 269)
VINNY GOLIA - Clarinets: Music for Like Instruments (Nine Winds 279)
GREG GOODMAN/GARTH POWELL/GEORGE CREMASCHI - Woody Woodman's Circus Of Construction (Beak Doctor 8)
GUNDA GOTTSCHALK/PETER JACQUEMYN/UTE VOLKER - baggerboot (Henceforth Records 102)
GUILLERMO GREGORIO - Coplanar (New World 80639)
RICHARD GROSS - Ovation (Sachimay Interventions 07 CD-R)
DAVID GRUBBS & NIKOS VELIOTIS - The Harmless Dust (Headz 038; Japan)
NORMAND GUILBEAULT - Mingus Erectus (Ambiances Magnetiques 134)
GUSH [MATS GUSTAFSSON/STEN SANDELL/RAYMOND STRID] - Electric Eels [LP only] (QBICO 030/Italy)
GUSH [MATS GUSTAFSSON/STEN SANDELL/RAYMOND STRID] - Norrkoping (Atavistic 161)
[GUSTAFSSON/HAKER FLATEN/NILSSEN-LOVE] THE THING - Garage (Smalltown Supersound 78)
[GUSTAFSSON/HAKER FLATEN/NILSSEN-LOVE] THE THING - Live At BLA (Smalltown Supersound 99; EEC)
MATS GUSTAFSSON & DAVID STACKENAS - Blues (Atavistic 163)

ANDY HAAS & DON FIORINO - death don't have no mercy (Resonant Music 001)
CHARLIE HADEN LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA - Not In Our Name (Verve 494902)
JIM HALL / ENRICO PIERANUNZI - Duologues (CAM Jazz 5009)
GUNTER HAMPEL EUROPEAN TRIO - emission 2004 (Birth 41202)
HANNAFIN/MORAN/WOOLEY - 11-07-04: This Machine Kills Fascists (Sachimay Interventions 6) [CD-R]
MASASHI HARADA/MAT MANERI - The Soul With Longing For Dim Hills And Faint Horizons (Leo 442; UK)
STEVE HARRIS ZAUM - Above Our Heads the Sky Splits Open (Slam 258/UK)
STEVE HARRIS ZAUM - the little flash of letting go/live at the Spitz (Spitz Live Records 0001/UK)
MARK HARVEY & THE AARDVARK ORCHESTRA - Trumpet Madness (Leo 423; UK)
GEORGE HASLAM/WATERMAN/OLESEN/KERSHAW/SVARD/JONES - Latin From The North (Slam 317; UK)
HAUSCHKA [VOLKER BERTELMAN] -The Prepared Piano (Karaoke Kalk 031/Germany)
FRITZ HAUSER With PAULINE OLIVEROS/DAVID GAMPER/URS LEIMGRUBER - Deep Time [2 CD set] (Deep Listening 32)
EMILY HAY - Like Minds (pfMentum 022)
JONAS HELLBORG/NILADRI KUMAR/V SELVAGANESH - Kali's Son (Bardo 44)
RICK HELZER/VINNY GOLIA - Fancy Meeting You Here (Nine Winds 224)
PETER HERBERT - Naked Bass (Buzo Records 508356/Austria)
[PETER HERBERT CONTRABASS SEXTET] BASSINSTINCT - Bass Instinct (Camerata 25089; EEC)
DAVE HOLLAND BIG BAND - Overtime (Dare2/Sunnyside 3028)
KATO HIDEKI/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/UEMURA MASAHIRO - Green Zone (Doubt 106/Japan)
MAYA HOMBURGER/BARRY GUY/PIERRE FAVRE - Dakryon (Maya 0501/Switzerland)
[WILLIAM HOOKER/ROY CAMPBELL/JASON HWANG] THE GIFT - Live At Sangha: Nov 6th 2004 (Bmadish 02)
WILLIAM HOOKER/GLEN HALL/LEE RANALDO - Oasis of Whispers (Alien8 59; Canada)
HUGH HOPPER & MATT HOWARTH [comics] w/ ROBERT WYATT- The Stolen Hour (Burning Shed 204; UK)
LINDSEY HORNER With MARTY EHRLICH/URI CAINE/PETE McCANN/BOBBY PREVITE - Don't Count On Glory (Cadence)
EARL HOWARD - 5 Saxophone Solos (Mutable 17521)
STEVE HUBBACK & PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE - Off The Map (FMR 138; UK)
HUBSCH/SCHUBERT/WEIRBOS - Longrun Development of the Universe/2 Is This Our Music? (Konnex 5163/Germany)
JASON KAO HWANG/FRANCIS WONG/TATSU AOKI With WU MAN - Graphic Evidence (Asian Improv 66)

IF, BWANA/AL MARGOLIS - Rex Xhu Ping (Pogus 21038)
IMAGINATIONAL ANTHEM [V.A. With JOHN FAHEY/SANDY BULL/BERN NIX et al] - The Acoustic Guitar (Tompkins Square 531)

KHAN JAMAL QUINTET w/ GRACHAN MONCUR III/BYARD LANCASTER - Black Awareness (CIMP 322)
PETER JACQUEMYN - Kontrabas Solo (Logos 05/Belgium)
HAKIM JAMI & THE STREET BAND With FARUQ Z BEY - Volume 1 & 2 (Reparation)
RUSS JOHNSON QUARTET - Save Big (Omnitone 12205)
ANDERS JORMIN - Xieyi (ECM 1762)

JEFF KAISER/ANDREW PASK - The Choir Boys (pfMentum 024)
EYVIND KANG/TUCKER MARTINE - Orchestra Dim Bridges (Conduit 1305)
[PANDELIS KARAYORGIS/NATE McBRIDE/CURT NEWTON] M13 - We Will Make A Home fro You (Clean Feed 39)
PANDELIS KARAYORGIS - Seventeen Pieces: Solo (Leo 417/UK)
HAINO KEIJI - Uchu ni karami tsuiteiru waga itami (PSF 8020; Japan)
GREG KELLEY - i don't want to live forever (Little Enjoyer 1/Gameboy 73)
GUY KLUCEVSEK - The Well-Tampered Accordion (W&W 106)
FRANZ KOGLMANN - Let's Make Love: An Imaginary Play In 12 Scenes (Between the Lines 71206)
MAKIGAMI KOICHI - Koedarake (Tzadik 7253)
KNEEBODY - Kneebody (Greenleaf/Premonition 5813)
TOSHINORI KONDO - Fukyo (Tzadik 7255)
KOREKYOJINN [TATSUYA YOSHIDA/KIDO NATSUKI/NANSUNO MITSURO] - Isotope (Tzadik 7257)
JOHN KORSRUD - Odd Jobs, Assorted Climaxes (Spool 203/Canada)
PETER KOWALD - Live At Nigglmuhl (Free Elephant 5; EEC)

DIANE LABROSSE/MARTIN TETREAULT/HACO - Lunch in Nishinomiya (IMJ 527; Japan)
STEVE LACY/JOELLE LEANDRE - One More Time (Leo 422; UK)
MIKE LADD w/ VIJAY IYER/ANDREW LAMB/ROY CAMPBELL - Negrophilia [the album] (Thirsty Ear 57156)
GILLES MARIE-PAUL LAHEURTE - Dreams: Spontaneous Music 2005 (Selfgratifying GMPL 9646)
[ANDREW LAMB/CHRIS PARKER/ALVIN FIELDER] M41 - The Orbit of Sirius [CD-R] (self-produced 001-05)
STEVE LANTNER/JOE MORRIS/LUTHER GRAY - Blue Yonder (Skycap 18)
THE LAPPETITES - Before the Libretto (Quecksilber 010/Germany)
LARS-GORAN ULANDER TRIO - Live at Glenn Miller CafØ (Ayler Records 013)
MATT LAVELLE - Making Eye Contact God/Live in New York [LTD] (Utech Records 007)
JOELLE LEANDRE - Concerto Grosso [2 CD Set] (Jazzhalo 21/22; EEC)
PEGGY LEE BAND - Worlds Apart (Spool 124/Line 24)
URS LEIMGRUBER/JACQUES DEMIERRE/BARRE PHILLIPS - LDP - Cologne (PSI 05.03/UK)
ROBERT MARCEL LEPAGE - Pee Wee et Moi (AM 144; Canada)
LESS OF FIVE [w/ GIORGIO OCCIPINTI] - Acrobati Folli E Innamorati (Nine Winds 244)
STEUART LIEBIG/MINIM - Quicksilver (pfMentum 023)
STEUART LIEBIG/STIGTETTE - Delta (pfMentum 033)
CHARLES LLOYD With GERI ALLEN - Jumping The Creek (ECM 1911)
LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA - Responses, Reproduction & Reality (EMANEM 4110; UK)
FRED LONBERG -HOLM - Other Valentines (Atavistic 165)
RAYMON LOPEZ FLOWERS TRIO w/ SOPHIA DOMANCICH/JOELLE LEANDRE - Flowers of Peace (Leo 438)

CARL MAGUIRE - Floriculture (Between the Lines 71209/Germany)
[TONY MALABY/EIVIND OPSVIK/JEFF DAVIS] TONE COLLECTOR - Tone Collector (Jazzaway 012; EEC)
TONY MALABY/ANGELICA SANCHEZ/TOM RAINEY - Alive In Brooklyn - Volume 2 (Sarama Records)
MANY AXES [SUSAN RAWCLIFFE/BRAD DUTZ/SCOTT WILKINSON] - 2 Many Axes (pfMentum 020)
MAP [MARY HALVORSON/CLAYTON THOMAS/TATSUYA NAKATANI] - 6 Improvisations for Guitar, Bass & Drums (H&H 1)
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/YASUNAO TONE/CHRISTIAN WOLFF - Event (Asphodel 2032)
MAT MARUCCI/MARKUS BURGER ENSEMBLE SOUNDS with JOHN TCHICAI/ADAM LANE - Genesis (Cadence 1178)
[GEORGE MARSH/W A MATHIEU] GAME/NO GAME - Acts Of Love (Mutable 17518)
BILLY MARTIN & SOCKET w/SHELLEY HIRSCH/E. KANG/C. BAPTISTA - January 14th & 15th 2005 (Amulet 017)
[JOE McPHEE/DOMINIC DUVAL/JAY ROSEN] TRIO X - Moods: Playing With The Elements (CIMP 328)
JOE McPHEE/MATT SHIPP/DOMINIC DUVAL - In Finland (Cadence 1186)
MISHA MENGELBERG - Senne Sing Song (Tzadik 7613)
MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Merzbuddha (Important 52)
MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Sphere (Tzadik 7256)
PAUL METZGER - Three Improvisations on Modified Banjo (Chairkickers 015)
SZILARD MEZEI INTERNATIONAL ENSEMBLE - Draught (Leo 447; UK)
PHIL MINTON & VERYAN WESTON - ways out east, ways out west (Intakt 097/Switzerland)
[PHIL MINTON/FRED VAN HOVE/MARCIO MATTOS/MARTIN BLUME] AXON - Constant Comments (FMR 156; UK)
NICOLE MARGARET MITCHELL/BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE - Hope, Future and Destiny (Dreamtime Records 007)
ROSCOE MITCHELL QUINTET - Turn (RogueArt 0003/France)
ROSCOE MITCHELL & TATSU AOKI - Chicago Duos (Asian Arts)
MOMENTUM [JOHN WOLF BRENNAN/GENE COLEMAN/THOMAS K J MEJER/MARC UNTERNAHRER] - Momentum 4: Rising Fall (Leo 440) RAS MOSHE MUSIC NOW UNIT - Live Spirits No. 1 [Ltd. Edition of 75] (Utech Records 002)
RAS MOSHE MUSIC NOW UNIT - Live Spirits No. 2 [Ltd edition of 75] (Utech Records 003)
PAUL MOTIAN TRIO With BILL FRISELL/JOE LOVANO - I Have The Room Above Her (ECM 1283)
MOUNT ANALOG [TUCKER MARTINE] - New Skin (Film Guerrero 18)
MR. DORGON - God Is Greatest (Tzadik 7408)
MTKJ QUARTET - Making Room for Spaces (Nine Winds 245)
DAVID MURRAY & GWO-KA MASTERS With PHAROAH SANDERS/HAMID DRAKE - Gwotet (Justin Time 200)
MICHAEL MUSILLAMI TRIO [w/ JOE FONDA & GEORGE SCHULLER] - dachua (Playscape 20505)

SIMON NABATOV OCTET w/ GRATKOWSKI/MINTON/WOGRAM/REIJSEGER - A Few Incidences (Leo 446; UK)
MAX NAGL ENSEMBLE - Quartier Du Faisan (Hatology 621/Switzerland)
TATSUYA NAKATANI/AUDREY CHEN DUO With SUSAN ALCORN - Limn (H&H 6)
[TATSUYA NAKATANI/VIC RAWLINGS/RICARDO ARIAS] N.R.A. - (free103point9 Audio Dispatch)
SAINKHO NAMCHYLAK & TriO - Forgotten Streets Of St. Petersburg: 20th Anniversary (Leo 439)
MUNEHIRO NARITA - Narita (PSF 161/Japan)
NATTO QUARTET [PHILIP GELB/SHOKO HIKAGE/TIM PERKIS/CHRIS BROWN] - Thousand Oaks (482 Music 1036)
THE NECKS [CHRIS ABRAHAMS/LLOYD SWANTON/TONY BUCK] - Photosynthetic (Long Arms 3053/Russia)
LAUREN NEWTON/JOELLE LEANDRE - Face It! (Leo 450; UK)
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE - Twenty-Seven Years Later [ltd ed of 150] (Utech 024)
PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE/ANDERS HANA - AM/FM [ltd ed of 150 #'d copies] (Utech 023)
NOISETET -obscure (self-produced)
NO-NECK BLUES BAND - The Collective Imaginings Of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co:[ltd ed] (Green Naftali 80)
SOREN NORBO TRIO - Tu-Whoo-to You (SN 0301/Denmark)
KEVIN NORTON - Quark Bercuse: Solo Percussion Vol I (FMR 172; UK)

ITARU OKI UNIT With NATSUKI TAMURA/SATOKO FUJII/KEIZO NOBORI et al - Live (Polystar; Japan)
MARK O'LEARY / MAT MANERI / MATTHEW SHIPP - Chamber Trio (Leo Records; 425)
MARK O'LEARY / MAT MANERI / RANDY PETERSON - Self-Luminous (Leo Records; 426)
MARK O'LEARY/TOMASZ STANKO/BILLY HART - Levitation (Leo 445; UK)
MARK O'LEARY/URI CAINE/BEN PEROWSKY - Closure (Leo 448; UK)
SEIGEN ONO ENSEMBLE - Septet 2003 Live [Hybrid SACD] (Saidera 1025H; Japan)
JULIEN OTTAVI/DION WORKMAN - Misenlian (Erstwhile 45]

EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE - The Eleventh Hour (ECM 1924)
EVAN PARKER/CHARLES FARRELL - Glossalallia (World Tribe 2961 CD-R; UK)
EVAN PARKER/MARK SANDERS/JOHN COXON With ASHLEY WALES - Trio With Interludes (Treader 02; UK)
WILLIAM PARKER With ERI YAMAMOTO/MICHAEL THOMPSON - Luc's Lantern (Blue Series/Thirsty Ear)
STEFAN PASBORG & LIUDAS MOCKUNAS w/ MARC DUCRET & JOHN TCHICAI - Toxikum (Ilk Music 004)
[JACO PASTORIUS/[V.A. TRIBUTE To ] GOSPEL FOR J.F.P. III - Tribute to Jaco Pastorius (Moonjune 005)
WAYNE PEET QUARTET - Live at Al's Bar (pfMentum 027) w/ Nels Cline & G.E. Stinson
PEOPLE [MARY HALVORSON/KEVIN SHEA] - Declaration of Independence (I + Ear 01)
PHILADELPHY'S PAINT w/ MARC RIBOT/LUKAS LIGETI-Paint: Tap the Ethereal[2 CD set](Extraplatte 13)
ROD POOLE/SASHA BOGDANOWITSCH - Mind's Island (Just Guitar 01)
POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE [OLUYEMI THOMAS] - First Ones (Charles Lester 26-008)
POTAGE DU JOUR [JURG SOLOTHURNMANN/FRANZISKA BAUMANN/CHRISTOPH BAUMANN] - Potage Du Jour (Leo 443; UK)
NIELS PRAESTHOLM /EMBLA NORDIC PROJECT - Imagic (Curling Legs 45/Norway)
MIKE PRIDE With TONY MALABY/WILLIAM PARKER/CHARLIE LOOKER - Scrambler (Not Two 766; EEC)
DAFNIS PRIETO - About The Monks (Zoho 200502)
PSI [JAIME FENNELLY/CHRIS FORSYTH/FRITZ WELCH] - Artificially Retarded Soul Care Operators (Evolving Ear 12)

QBICO U-NITE [V.A. With ALAN SILVA/PAUL FLAHERTY/CHRIS CORSANO] - In Bruxelles I [2 LP set] (QBICO 26/27)
QBICO U-NITE [various w/ ARTHUR DOYLE/DANIEL CARTER/CHARLES WATERS/PERRY ROBINSON/SHANIR BLUMENKRANZ/STEVE DALACHINSKY] - In New York I [2 LP set] (QBICO 24/25; Italy)
QUARTET NOIR [CRISPELL/LEIMGRUBER/LEANDRE/HAUSER] - Lugano (Victo 096/Canada)

RADAR - Easy Listening (Tzadik 7251)
* ELIANE RADIGUE - L'ile Re-sonante (Shiin 1/France) - not available
REUBEN RADDING With MATT MORAN/OSCAR NORIEGA - Intersections (Pine Ear 01)
LEE RANALDO - Music for Stage And Screen (DSA 54085/France)
RASHINIM/JOHN ZORN MASADA - Masada Rock: Rashanim Plays The Unknown Masada (Tzadik 8103)
SCOT RAY & BILL BARRETT - Gutpuppet II (Woetone Records 120)
STEVE REID ENSEMBLE - Spirit Walk (Soul Jazz Records 122)
ALESSIO RICCIO/DAVID SHEA/ELLERY ESKELIN - Drawing - Opus 2: Paul Klee (Unorthodox 5; Italy)
ALESSIO RICCIO/ERNST REIJSEGER - Drawing: Works For Drums And Cello (Unorthodox 2; Italy)
ALESSIO RICCIO - Unsubstantial: For Sonorous Sculptures, Piano And Violin (Unorthodox 4; Italy)
ALESSIO RICCIO With MICHEL GODARD/MIRKO GUERRINI - (In)Natural Rhythms (Unorthodox 3; Italy)
ERIC GLICK RIEMAN/LESLI DALABA/STUART DEMPSTER - Lung Tree (ReR RDD 02677/UK)
SAM RIVERS With BEN STREET/KRESTEN OSGOOD And BRYAN CARROT - Purple Violets (Stunt 416; EEC)
JOCELYN ROBERT - Pandore [4 CD set] (AM 903; Canada)
PAUL ROGERS/ANDREW BALL/PHILIP GIBBS/JON IMPETT/PAUL DUNMALL - Undistracted (Duns Ltd. 040)
JACK ROSE- Kensington Blues (VHF 092)
JAY ROSEN - Songs For Samuel (CIMP 327) - solo drums
OLAF RUPP/TONY BUCK/JOE WILLIAMSON - Weird Weapons (EMANEM 4119; UK)
PAUL RUTHERFORD - Iskra3 (PSI 05.02/UK) - solo trombone w/ live computer processing
PAUL RUTHERFORD - Neuph (EMANEM 4118; UK)

MARK SANDERS - Swallow Chase (Treader 03; UK)
SAWS - Saws (In Tone 09)
JENNY SCHEINMAN with BILL FRISELL/RON MILES/DOUG WIESELMAN - 12 Songs (Cryptogramophone 125)
MARCUS SCHMICKLER & JOHN TILBURY - Variety (A-Musik 29; Germany)
JOHN SCHOTT'S - Typical Orchestra (Self Released)
DAVID SHEA - The Book of Scenes (Sub Rosa 224; Belgium)
CARRIE SHULL/TARA FLANDREAU/REUBEN RADDING - The Branch Will Not Break (Umbrella 30)
IRENE SCHWEIZER/OMRI ZIEGLE - Where's Africa (Intakt 098; Switzerland)
IRENE SCHWEIZER - Portrait [CD with a 88-page booklet] (Intakt 105-Switzerland)
HAREL SHACHAL & ANISTAR - Esh (Common Ground 01)
ELLIOTT SHARP/MERZBOW [MASAMI AKITA] - Tranz (Caminante Recordings 002)
ELLIOTT SHARP - What Sebastian Dreamt (Zoar ZPO-02)
ELLIOTT SHARP - Tone Of Finland: The 'Tom Of Finland' Soundtrack + Remixes [2 CD set] (Crystal Eye 113A/B)
SONNY SIMMONS - The Traveler (Jazzaway 011/Norway)
SLAM TRIO [BLAISE SIWULA/ADAM LANE/TOSHI MAKIHARA] - In Stillhouse (Cadence 1185)
SMASH and TEENY [JOHN BUTCHER/SARAH PEEBLES/NILAN PERERA] - Gathering [CD & CD/DVD] (Spool 305)
GARY SMITH/MUKAI CHIE - Eight + (Paratactile 1117; UK)
ROGER SMITH & LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO - The Butterfly and the Bee (Emanem 4114; UK)
SoNu - Sounds from the Source (Nine Winds 222)
SOFT MACHINE LEGACY [HOPPER/DEAN/ETHERIDGE/MARSHALL] - Live In Zaandam, Holland 5/10/05 (Moonjune 6)

SOUND INFUSION [w/ STEVE SWELL/DANIEL CARTER/REUBEN RADDING] - Creative Music Recorded Live @ Elixir Smart Bar 2003-2004 (Ilgenfritz)
SPUNK - En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom (Rune Grammofon 2048; EEC)
BURKHARD STANGL/CHRISTOF KURZMANN - schnee...live (Erstwhile/ErstLive Series 003)
JOHN STEVENS QUARTET - New Cool (EMANEM 4117; UK)
MICHAEL JEFRY STEVENS/JOE FONDA QUINTET - Forever Real (482 Music 1032)
BOB STEWART/RAY ANDERSON HEAVY METAL DUO - Work Songs and Other Spirituals (self produced )
STRING TRIO OF NEW YORK With OLIVER LAKE - Frozen Ropes (Barking Hoop 009)
TAKU SUGIMOTO - Live In Australia [2 CD set] (IMJ 524/5; Japan)
SKULI SVERRISSON & ANTHONY BURR - A Thousand Incidents Arise (Worker's Insitute 03; Australia)
SYNTOPIA QUARTET [KUGEL/MAURER/PUNTIN/MANDERSCHEID] - Mars (Nemu Records 001/Germany)

AKI TAKASE/ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH/DJ ILVIBE - Lok 03 (Leo 427; UK)
NATSUKI TAMURA/ELLIOTT SHARP/SATOKO FUJII/TAKAYUKI KATO - "In The Tank" (Libra 104-011/Japan)
[NATSUKI TAMURA/KAZUHIKO TSUMURA/SATOKO FUJII/NORIKATSU KOREYASU] GATO LIBRE - Strange Village (Onoff/Muzak 1073; Japan)
DAVID TAYLOR/STEVE SWELL QUINTET w/ BILLY BANG/TOMAS ULRICH/KEN FILIANO - Not Just... (CIMP 321)
JOHN TCHICAI/FEWELL/TRACANNA/PORTA/MANZI - Big Chief Dreaming (BlackSaint 121385)
MARTIN TETREAULT/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - Grrr/Tok/Ahhh/Hmmm [4 CD set] (Ambiances Magnetiques 902)
[GARY THOMAS/JOEL GRIP/DEVIN GRAY] CORPULENT - Wolfwalk (Umlaut 01)
TIGERSMILK [MAZUREK/ROEBKE/VAN DER SCHYFF] - From the Bottle (Family Vineyard 28)
JOHN TILBURY - Plays Samuel Beckett (Matchless 62/UK)
[KEITH TIPPETT/HOWARD RILEY/STEPHEN GREW/PAT THOMAS] PIANOFORTE - Pianoforte (Slam 257; UK)
STAN TRACEY & EVAN PARKER - Crevulations (PSI 05.04/UK)
TRIO CAVEAT [JOHN MCLELLAN / JAMES ILGENFRITZ / JONATHAN MORITZ] - An All-too Brief Silence That Speaks
Untold Volumes (Earthtones)
ASSIF TSAHAR With TATSUYA NAKATANI/KJLA STRING QUARTET - Project Solitude (Hopscotch 36)

BIRGIT UHLER/DAMON SMITH/MARTIN BLUME - Sperrgut (BalancePointAcoustics 09)
GEBHARD ULLMAN/CHRIS DAHLGREN/PETER HERBERT - BassX3 (Drimala 4-347-07)
[GEBHARD ULLMANN/JURGEN KUPKE/MICHAEL THIEKE] CLARINET TRIO -Ballads & Related Objects (Leo 415)

FRANK VAN BOMMEL QUINTET - Ore (BVhaast 0704/Netherlands)
[KEN VANDERMARK/NATE McBRIDE/PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE] FME - Cuts (Okka Disk 12061)
[KEN VANDERMARK/HAAVARD WIIK/INGEBRIGT HAKER FLATEN] FREE FALL - Amsterdam Funk (Smalltown Supersound 95)
DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF [w/ MICHAEL MOORE] - The Definition Of A Toy [H-SACD] (Songlines 1554)
VANISHING PICTURES [WACHTELAER/OTOMO/WACHSMANN...] - Like One Feather (FMR 159; UK)
JOZEF VAN WISSEM - Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear... (BVhaast 0905; Netherlands)
MICHAEL VLATKOVICH - Across 36 Continents (pfMentum 030)
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA - Tuning to the Rooster (Important 061)
VIBRATIONAL THERAPISTS [HENRY WARNER/PARKER/ANDERSON] - The Radius Of The Mind (VT 001-03)
ANDRE VIDA/ANTHONY BRAXTON - Child Reel Eyes (Vidatone 5)
STEPHEN VITIELLO & DAVE TRONZO - Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts (New Albion)
VOLCANO THE BEAR - Catonapotato (Digitalis 014)

TREVOR WATTS - World Sonic (HI 4 Head 04; EEC)
MATTHEW WELCH - Dream Tigers (Tzadik 8015)
VERYAN WESTON/JOHN EDWARDS/MARK SANDERS - Gateway to Vienna [2 CD set] (EMANEM 4214; UK)
KENNY WHEELER With CHRIS POTTER/JOHN TAYLOR/DAVE HOLLAND - What Now? (CAM 5005)
MARK WHITECAGE & THE BI-COASTAL ORCHESTRA - BushWacked: A Spoken Opera (Acoustics 416)
WHITE OUT with JIM O'ROURKE & WILLIAM WINANT - China Is Near (ATP 012)
ANDREAS WILLERS With DOMINIQUE PIFARELY et al - Montauk (Between the Lines 71208)
BRIAN WILLSON/YUKO FUJIYAMA/DOMINIC DUVAL - things heard unheard (Deep Listening 31-2005
MICHEL WINTSCH/FRED FRITH/FRANZISKA BAUMANN/BERNARD TRONTIN - Whisperings (RecRec 75)
NILS WOGRAM & SIMON NABATOV - The Move (Between the Lines 71205; EEC)
NATE WOOLEY - Wrong Shape to be a Story Teller (creative sources recordings 038)
JACK WRIGHT & BOB MARSH - Birds In The Hand (Public Eyesore 69)

MICHIYO YAGI - Seventeen (Zipangu 019; Japan)
USUI YASUHIRO & ELLIOTT SHARP - Volcanic Island (Bakamo 03; Japan)
YITZHAK YEDID - Passions And Prayers (Between the Lines 71207)
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - Guitar Solo: 12th October 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn Tokyo + 1 (Doubt 101)

Z'EV/JOHN DUNCAN/AIDAN BAKER/FEAR FALLS BURNING - Untitled [2 CD + 2-7" set] (Die Stadt 85; Germany)
PATRICK ZIMMERLI - Phoenix [Hybrid SACD] (Songlines 1548; Canada)
CARLOS ZINGARO/MARCIO MATTOS/SIMON H FELL/MARK SANDERS - Live in Guimaraes (Bruce's Fingers 59; UK)
JOHN ZORN & YAMATAKA EYE - V.10: Zorn 50th Birthday Celebration (Tzadik 5010)
JOHN ZORN - The Best of Filmworks - 20 Years of Soundtrack Music/1986-2005 (Tzadik 7350)
JOHN ZORN MASADA/BAR KOKHBA SEXTET - V.11: Zorn 50th Birthday Celebration [3 CD set] (Tzadik)
ZU - The Way Of The Animal Powers (Xeng 04; Italy)
ZU/MATS GUSTAFSSON - How To Raise An Ox (Atavistic 168)


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