A SHORT BUT EXCITING LIST OF GEMS: FINALLY! THE VERY FIRST RELEASE from DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY'S LONG AWAITED DMG ARC LABEL - AN HISTORIC REISSUE OF SELWYN LISSACK'S CLASSIC 'FRIENDSHIP NEXT OF KIN' DISC featuring: MONGEZI FEZA, MIKE OSBORNE, KENNETH TERROADE, HARRY MILLER & EARL FREEMAN! WILLIAM PARKER & THE LITTLE HUEY CREATIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA'S 'TRIBUTE TO PERCY HEATH', NO-NECK BLUES BAND LIVE AT VICTO, FRED FRITH & JANET FEDER CD/DVD, THE WORK'S 'SLOW CRIMES' REISSUE, ASSIF TSAHAR/COOPER-MOORE/CHAD TAYLOR, AURORA JOSEPHSON/JOELLE LEANDRE/DAMON SMITH/MARTIN BLUME, FOUR from HATOLOGY: STEVE LACY at the NEW JAZZ MEETING, JOHN CARTER /BOBBY BRADFORD QT'S 'SEEKING', COLIN VALLON TRIO, CHRISTIAN WEBER with HANS KOCH, MICHAEL MOSER & MARTIN SIEWERT, TONY CONRAD, CHRIS CHALFANT, TIM BRADY & LORI FREEDMAN, THE ENTIRE HISTORIC DUST TO DIGITAL LABEL, and... AN UPDATED LIST OF OUR REMAINING OUT-OF-PRINT 'DIW' & 'AVANT' LABEL CDs!





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THE DMG INVITATIONAL/MAGIC MUSIC FESTIVAL CONTINUES WITH MORE HISTORIC PERFORMANCES AT THE STONE EVERY NIGHT EXCEPT MONDAYS. THIS WEEK'S GREAT GIGS FEATURE:


* Friday, December 8th at The Stone - 8 & 10pm - $10 per set
DENNIS GONZALEZ & YELLS AT EELS with special guests KEN FILIANO on bass & PATRICK HOLMES on clarinet; YELLS AT EELS features DENNIS GONZALEZ on trumpets, AARON GONZALEZ on bass and STEFAN GONZALEZ on drums
World-traveling trumpet hero Dennis Gonzalez rarely seems to rest. He has recorded with Charles Brackeen, Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Nels & Alex Cline, Malachi Favors, Louis Moholo, Carlos Ward, Ahmed Abdullah, Kidd Jordan, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille & Ellery Eskelin. His two young sons, Aaron & Stefan, are pretty incredible as well.


* Saturday, December 9th at The Stone at 8 & 10pm - $15 per set
DENNIS GONZALEZ with PAUL DUNMALL/PAUL ROGERS/TONY LEVIN! Featuring Dennis Gonzalez on trumpets, Paul Dunmall on saxello & tenor sax, Paul Rogers on contrabass and Tony Levin on drums. First time collaboration with four giants of avant jazz. Anyone who was lucky enough to have checked out any of the six sets by the Deep Joy Trio (Dunmall/Rogers/Levin) this past weekend at The Stone knows that they are phenomenal musicians!


* Sunday, December 10th at 8 & 10pm:
RADIO I-CHING BIG BAND with Special Guests: PERRY ROBINSON, WILLIAM PARKER & DANIEL CARTER! Featuring ANDY HAAS on sax & electronics, DON FIORINO on guitar & weird ethnic stringed instruments and DEE POP on drums, with PERRY ROBINSON on clarinet, William Parker on acoustic bass and Daniel Carter on numerous reeds & trumpet! (Tom Verlaine is not playing)


* Tuesday, December 12th at 8 & 10pm:
SELWYN LISSACK'S 'FRIENDSHIP NEXT OF KIN' CD RELEASE SET!
Featuring: SELWYN LISSACK/BRICE WINSTON/WILLIAM PARKER/ROY CAMPBELL!
South African-born drummer, composer & hologram sculptor, Selwyn Lissack, performs a rare gig in NY for the first time in nearly 40 years as Downtown Music Gallery reissues his classic album, 'Friendship Next of Kin' from 1969 on their own DMG ARC label. Selwyn's all-star quartet features Brice Winston (New Orleans) on sax, Roy Campbell on trumpets, William Parker on contrabass and Selwyn on drums & direction. A truly historic night that should not be missed!


* Wednesday, December 13th at 8 & 10pm: admission $15 per set
GRACHAN MONCUR III/JAMES SPAULDING/MICHAEL BLAKE!
Featuring Grachan Moncur III on trombone, James Spaulding on alto sax and Michael Blake on tenor sax. Legendary trombonist & composer, Grachan Moncur III recorded two classic records for Blue Note in the sixties, two more gems for BYG in the early seventies and one for the JCOA Orchestra, before disappearing from the scene for a long while. Grachan is back once more with a handful of fine discs and gigs in the last few years. For his debut at The Stone he is joined by two local legendary saxists: James Spaulding and Michael Blake.


* Thurday, December 14th at 8 & 10pm: admission $15 per set
BONE featuring HUGH HOPPER/NICK DIDKOVSKY/JOHN ROULAT! Featuring:
HUGH HOPPER on electric bass, NICK DIDKOVSKY on guitar & computer and JOHN ROULET on drums! Former-Soft Machine & current Soft Machine Legacy fuzz-bass god, Hugh Hopper, performs in a fabulous trio that made one great CD for Cuneiform, but have never performed live! He is joined Dr. Nerve's lead guitarist, Nick Didkovsky and ace drummer, John Roulet!


* Friday, December 15th at 8pm: Admission is $20 (advance tickets are sold out)
FRED FRITH/HUGH HOPPER/CHRIS CUTLER!
Featuring FRED FRITH on guitars, HUGH HOPPER on electric bass & CHRIS CUTLER on drums. First time meeting on stage with Frith & Cutler from Henry Cow & The Art Bears with Hopper, legendary bassist for Soft Machine & Isotope!

* Friday, December 15th at 10pm: Admission is $20 (advance tickets are sold out)
FRED FRITH & CHRIS CUTLER DUO! Featuring Fred Frith on guitar and Chris Cutler on drums! First duo set in more than a decade from two master improvisers and original members of Henry Cow & Art Bears!


* Saturday, December 16th at 8 & 10pm: Admission is $20 per set (advance tickets sold out) FRED FRITH / TIM HODGKINSON / CHRIS CUTLER!!! Featuring
FRED FRITH on guitar, TIM HODGKINSON on reeds & flat-guitar & CHRIS CUTLER on drums/percussion! First time in nearly 30 years that these three original members of Henry Cow will performed together live! Check out their amazing improvisations on the recently reissued 'Henry Cow - Concerts' CD!


* Sunday, December 17th at 8pm: Admission is $20, reserved tickets first
TIM HODGKINSON & FRED FRITH! Featuring TIM HODGKINSON on reeds & flat-guitar and FRED FRITH on guitar w/ effects! A rare duo set that also hasn't played in many years and has made just one out-of-print recording!

* Sunday, December 17th at 10pm: Admission is $20, reserved tickets first
TIM HODGKINSON & CHRIS CUTLER! Featuring TIM HODGKINSON on reeds & flat-guitar and CHRIS CUTLER on drums! Yet another rare meeting with two original members of Henry Cow that have never performed in the US together!


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As some of you may have noticed, last week's emailing of the newsletter FOLLOWED the posting of it at our site. This was due to our Server's Mail Server Machine denying us access for unknown reasons. We temporarily are using 'group mailing list' software, which is why the look is a bit different. Unfortunately we have no way of tracking who ultimately gets the newsletter this way. Ah, WellÉanother change soon come.

For those of you who missed seeing the mailing last week, part two was a massive HAT sale - $4 off on any regular priced [non-CD SALE] Hat titles -
because of the email f*#k-up,
the sale is now extended through NEW YEAR'S EVE 12/31 !!!

to check out the HAT LIST, Go to:

http://downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/news/Newsletter-2006-12-01.html

This sale DOES NOT INCLUDE the four new Hat releases below, just so ya know!


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THE FIRST RELEASE ON OUR 'DMG ARC' LABEL [after two years, finally!!!]

SELWYN LISSACK'S FRIENDSHIP NEXT OF KIN With MIKE OSBORNE /MONGEZI FEZA/KENNETH TERROADE/HARRY MILLER/EARL FREEMAN - Facets Of The Univers (DMG ARC 702; USA) The First Release on our newly formed DMG ARC label is considered by many fans to be one of the rarest late '60s Euro/Brit avant jazz recordings
Originally released on the BYG associated 'Goody' label in France [in fact the only one of seven Goody releases that was an original release, and not a questionable reissue], the LP has commanded high prices ranging to $100 to $300 from collector's shops and auction websites including eBay. From Clifford Allen:
"To most historians of the "new music", creative improvisation took a somewhat different turn in Europe during the late '60s than it did in the United States, concentrating less on African roots (understandably) and building on both European folk forms and innovations in academic art music and other time arts. Yet in England there was a greater confluence of African musical forms and influence, which is crucial in distinguishing vanguard British improvisation from its brethren in other parts of Europe. Chris McGregor, a white classically-trained pianist from Cape Town, brought the Blue Notes with him to Germany in 1966, finally settling in London. This was the ensemble that, ostensibly "led" by a white South African (though clearly drawing more from kwela and township music as well as jazz), introduced drummer Louis Moholo, bassist Johnny Dyani, trumpeter Mongezi Feza and reedmen Dudu Pukwana and Ronnie Beer to the European jazz community. In addition to the South African scene, expatriate improvisers from Jamaica (reedmen Joe Harriott and Ken Terroade) and Barbados (trumpeter Harry Beckett) were also at the forefront of London's new music community.
Drummer Selwyn Lissack, though often not mentioned in the same breath as the above, is nevertheless an interesting piece of the British-South African puzzle. Born and raised in Cape Town, Lissack emigrated to England in 1967 (independently of the Blue Notes) on his way to New York - visa problems kept him in Europe until the end of 1969. Lissack was active on the Cape Town scene in the early 60s, despite anti-integration laws that often broke up musical associations (he's white), but the pull of more fruitful work opportunities elsewhere was undeniable. Upon joining the London community, the young drummer began organizing sessions in his apartment with John McLaughlin, Mike Osborne and other luminaries of the scene, while also studying with Philly Joe Jones (at the time living in Kensington). Lissack's style merges the tidal waves of Elvin and Sunny Murray with the fleetness and occasional bombast of Roy Haynes and Philly Joe, and is more rooted in bop than Louis Moholo.
The result of two years of weekly rehearsals with the British and South African avant-garde, Facets of the Universe, released in a limited edition by the BYG subsidiary Goody in 1969, features Lissack in a sextet with Feza, Osborne (alto and clarinet), Terroade (tenor and flute), South African expat bassist Harry Miller and American bassist and multi-instrumentalist Earl Freeman, a stalwart on many BYG-Actuel recordings, heard here also on piano, flute and reciting his poetry. Produced by Aynsley Dunbar vocalist Victor Brox, Facets of the Universe consists of two sidelong pieces: Terroade's Love Rejoice, retitled Friendship Next of Kin for this LP; and a lengthy collective improvisation inspired by Freeman's poetry entitled Facets of the Universe (though confusingly the poem also includes the line Friendship Next of Kin). Yet this music has little in common with strains of British or South African jazz of the time; rather, the approach is somewhere between Sunny's Swing Unit, the Art Ensemble (of Chicago) and fiercer Brotherhood of Breath dates.
For this reissue on New York avant record store Downtown Music Gallery's own ARC label, Friendship Next of Kin is presented in two versions: an edited version which includes a drum solo excised from the original take (replayed here), and the album version without the solo. With masters apparently long-gone, the original vinyl in all its French-pressed glory was used, and it is a credit to the engineer that the muddy mix has been brought up to clear, crisp levels that do well in separating the musicians and the music. Friendship (under its alternate title) appeared in somewhat more frantic form on Terroade's BYG session (Love Rejoice, Actuel 22, recorded a few months prior to this date), with reedmen Ronnie Beer and Evan Chandley (Cohelmec Ensemble), pianist Francois Tusques, drummer Claude Delcloo, and Freeman and Beb Guerin on basses. The tune is a weighty, churchy dirge much like those penned by Sunny Murray and Frank Wright that the leader directs into a fast tempo to gird a brittle, smeared Feza contribution, the composer's paint-peeling tenor pyrotechnics (under which Freeman switches to piano), followed by a collective lead-in to Osborne's thoughtfully searing contribution (of the three horn players only Osborne maintains the tempo and character of the original theme, however distorted the notes get) and, finally, Lissack's restored drum solo, a dense thematic exposition recalling his opening salvo on trumpeter Ric Colbeck's Aphrodite. After a brief collective improvisation, the joyous processional through the back streets of Cape Town and Kingston returns to close the piece.
Facets of the Universe is something altogether different from the post-Ayler material on side one, and echoes Ra and the AACM in its wide-open spaces, with Freeman reading a highly disparate imagist poem over a stew of tympani, finger cymbals, organ, marimba (courtesy Brian Gascoigne), piccolo and clarinet that recalls Joseph Jarman's reading on Song For or David Moore's with Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton on Levels and Degrees of Light. Following this otherworldly declamation, Feza, Terroade and Osborne take off into a maelstrom of brass and reed smears over surging bass and percussion, an ecstatic tidal wave of activity brought on by the tension of words and poetic ideation. Such a setting necessarily focuses the attention on Freeman, who went on to lead the Sound Craft Orchestra in the early 1980s, which featured leading lights of the New York underground, and recorded a hideously rare LP with clarinetist Henry Warner and percussionist Phillip Spigner, The Freestyle Band. His poetry and arpeggiated piano on Facets of the Universe add to the mystery of the uniform of aviator goggles and union work suit. Facets closes just as sparsely as it began, with the last gasps of tenor and pocket trumpet encircled by castanets, celeste, wooden flute (Freeman again) and gongs as it comes full circle. In a way, this is not surprising, as the session was taped on the night of a lunar eclipse.
The record sank upon its release, even by BYG offshoot standards. Goody was a bootleg label that released unauthorized versions of records on Delmark, Metronome and Clifford Thornton's Third World imprint, and Selwyn Lissack's one and only LP as a leader was the closest thing to a "legitimate" release in the series. Unfortunately, Claude Delcloo butchered both the English liner notes and the track listing, leaving some to wonder who the poet was on side two, which along with poor mastering and shoddy pressing and even the omission of a major solo by the leader (!) resulted in nothing less than a shameless mishandling of one of the heaviest slabs of improvised music of the late 60s. Lissack made one more startling appearance as a sideman with Osborne and bassist Jean-Francois Jenny-Clarke on trumpeter Ric Colbeck's lone LP for Fontana (The Sun is Coming Up, 1970) before finally heading to New York to become involved with holographic sculpture and design (he taught and assisted Salvador Dali in holographics), still practicing music but concentrating his research on three-dimensional forms.
Despite its inconsistencies at the hands of its label, Facets of the Universe is truly a fascinating document of the Pan-African avant-garde captured at a place where European, African, American and West Indian roots merged to create two universal improvisations. What more could one have asked of a single opportunity to record as a leader?" - Clifford Allen
From Andrey Henkin:
"Recorded September 1969: London, England. The career of white South African Selwyn Lissack is a mysterious one. It is unclear when he left, but he was in England in the late '60's. He played in a group with Lol Coxhill; recorded Facets, his only album as a leader; and played on The Sun is Coming Up by Ric Colbeck (whatever happened to him?). He then gave up music and is now a well known sculptor, working mainly on holographic sculpture. This album has a stellar lineup, including alto flamethrower Mike Osborne and fellow South African Harry Miller. It also borrows two participants and the side-long track format of Kenneth Terroade's Love Rejoice (BYG/Actuel, 1969).
Free Jazz is best categorized geographically. Groups like the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Iskra 1903 cast the mold that will forever be equated with improvisational music from the UK-sparse, understated and often quite tedious.
However, this is definitely NOT what Facets of the Univers or its players are about. Players like the always-intense Mike Osborne, like Harry Miller, who could and did play just about everything with everybody, like Kenneth Terroade, who participated in the American expatriate free jazz scene in Paris that was well documented on the BYG Actuel series. The approach to extemporization is in fact closer to the Actuel model than one might expect. The brief march-like melody of the title track is merely a jumping off point for various solos, both unaccompanied, and in tandem with others. Lissack plays with an appealing sense of urgency, each line always rolling out towards the next phrase, keeping the music mobile. The piece ebbs and flows as three horns simultaneously ascend to frenzied peaks, then descend into near silence. The second piece "Friendship Next Of Kin" is more influenced by contemporary classical music in its sparseness. It does not disappoint in energy as the intensity rises steadily for the second half. It is perhaps only marred by some bizarre spoken word that is unfortunately common to this kind of music. The liner notes did not originally identify the piano player or speaker but it can be safely assumed that it is Earl Freeman [and passerby Louis Moholo provides some incidental percussion]." - Andrey Henkin, AMG

Ltd Ed CD for $14


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FOUR NEW HATOLOGY RELEASES:

JOHN CARTER & BOBBY BRADFORD'S NEW ART JAZZ ENSEMBLE - Seeking (a/k/a Revelation) (Hatology 620; Switzerland) This CD reissue brings back clarinetist John Carter's first recording and the earliest example of his mutually beneficial teaming with trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Formerly out on Revelation, this Hat Art reissue is most surprising in that Carter mostly plays alto and tenor, with a rare appearance on flute and only one selection ("Sticks And Stones") on clarinet, the instrument that he would soon give up the others for. Less surprising is that the music is most influenced by Ornette Coleman although Carter's style was already showing individuality and the lyrical Bradford always had more technique than Don Cherry. Bassist Tom Williamson is excellent in support and drummer Bruz Freeman comes across as the most conventional player on the date. These freebop performances hold one's interest, vary moods and manage to be both free and melodic. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG
CD $20

STEVE LACY - New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002 (Hatology 631; Switzerland) Featuring Steve Lacy on soprano sax, Philip Jeck on turntables, Christof Kurzmann & Bernhard Lang on electronics, Peter Herbert on double bass and Wolfgang Reisinger on drums. This synthesis of jazz, composition and electronic music was made possible above all by Steve Lacy's extraordinary openness, which - as he himself said - has often brought him together with musicians whose roots are not in jazz. Steve Lacy was a searcher to the very end. We are going to miss Steve Lacy's overwhelming passion for sonic exploration. - Reinhard Kager [Please note: 16 of the 61 minutes found here were previously released of Hat 607.]
CD $20

COLIN VALLON TRIO - Ailleurs (Hatology 636; Switzerland) The members of this trio all share a strong awareness of sound quality and timbre, which sets them apart from other musicians. Three distinct instrumental voices - Colin Vallon's 'singing' piano, Pat Moret's 'full reverberating' bass and Samuel Rohrer's 'polyvalent' drums - blend into a highly complex ensemble sound; here, too, the band hashardly anything in common with the traditional jazz piano trio conventions. What is nearer to their heart than virtuoso pirouetting is weaving and elaborating concise sketches of moods and atmospheres, feverish emotions or bizarre combinations of sounds into dense textures. Here three artists are at work who are unable to speak with evasion or artifice. In other words: three true jazz musicians. That is, musicians who understand jazz as a living art form, and thus music that is played con amore. Tradition is neither glorified nor denied, instead, it stimulates the musicians to discover and express their own personal identity. - Tom Gsteiger
CD $20

CHRISTIAN WEBER With HANS KOCH/MICHAEL MOSER/MARTIN SIEWERT /CHRISTIAN WOLFARTH - 3 Suits & A Violin (Hatology 634; Switzerland) What Christian Weber and Co. have achieved on 3 Suits & A Violin is a music that eschews formulaic approaches and instead temper their group sound in dense laminations of texture and sonic residue. The result is an arresting music that combines elements of group-improvised minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation and avant-garde chamber music into a texturally rich exploration of detailed noise texture... In Christian Weber's work noise has become closely connected to the repertoire, that his music sits very comfortably within this, as if to question if, then, noise has such a natural and reflexive occurrence on the instrumental practice, so then, he constructs pieces which are bathed in these static residues and phantom details. - Dean M. Roberts
CD $20



NEW ON VICTO:

WILLIAM PARKER & THE LITTLE HUEY CREATIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA - For Percy Heath (Victo 102; Canada) This is the sixth colossal disc from William Parker's wonderful downtown all-star orchestra. This is live from the 2005 Victoriaville Musique Actuelle Festival and it consists of one long suite dedicated to the late Modern Jazz Quartet bassist Percy Heath, an inspiration to William Parker. William's propulsive bass is at the center of the storm here, quickly pulsating as the band swirls tightly around him. On the left side, we find the trombones, bari sax & tuba playing this one line over and over. On the right side, there are 5 saxes & 3 trumpets, playing their intersecting lines together. Ace Gold Sparkle drummer, Andrew Barker, does a fabulous job of balancing the dynamic waves soaring back and forth. This is truly exciting, intense and exhilarating music. What is great is how this builds in layers, different groups of horns playing around one another in different patterns. Inspired solos emerge from the waves and erupt as the rest of the band expands and contracts beneath. There is always a few different dialogues going on simultaneously, as the various waves move organically through the currents connecting them. William Parker's buzzing bass is forever vibrating, sometimes quick, sometimes slow, yet always holding everything together. His bowed bass solo on the third section is pretty phenomenal, but it is his charts and focus as the leader that is most impressive. From time to time, there are these occasional melodies that rise from the chaos and shine like little lights in the turbulent sea. I recall the sound at the concert being a bit chaotic, yet this disc sounds incredible, everything is so well defined. Bravo to our local heroes once again! - BLG
CD $15

THE NO-NECK BLUES BAND - Nine for Victor (Victo 103; Canada) New York's occasional uptown heroes, The No-Neck Blues Band, are an enigmatic bunch of crazy folks. Their rare gigs are often unpredictable, they range from the ridiculous to the magical side of improv and anywhere in between. You never know how many of them there will be or which ones will be wearing strange costumes. This set was recorded live at the Victo New Music Fest in May of 2005 and I recall it being one of their better performances. I am sure that some the other more demanding new music or jazz snobs would probably not agree. Rather than presenting their set in its entirety, the No-Neckers have edited it down to a more focused set of sub-sections, which still flow together pretty well. The instrumentation includes el. guitars, acoustic & electric bass, sax, lots of percussion, some keyboards and odd voices. This music sounds tribal, free-flowing, sorta psychedelic, naively cosmic, throbbing, fun, strange, magical, drone-like, etc. Perhaps this is the most superbly recorded and well-edited of all No Neck discs, it is certainly one of, if not their best. There is a weird section with bizarre, unintelligible mumbled voices that you just got to dig. Wild, wooly and oddly wonderful. - BLG
CD $15

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - Il Suono Venuto Dallo Spazio (Victo 101; Canada) Enregistre 'live' au 23 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, le 20 mai 2006. "Each album or performance by My Cat Is an Alien is an invitation to leave on a cosmic journey, without resorting to the numerous cliches of the space music genre. Think instead of a synth-less Ash Ra Tempel coming across the quiet improvisation current. Think of stripped-down music made of looped droning guitars, caressed percussion, toy instruments and toy microphones being used while boldly disregarding all printed warnings. Think of a cosmos glorifying its vacuous interstellar space, the silence that amplifies the smallest particles of sound. Or don't think at all and just let yourself be swept away." - Francois Couture
CD $15


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CHRIS CHALFANT - Book Of Unstandards: Sound Recordings [2 CD set] (Jyaku Sound; USA)
CD 1: Performance at the Book Signing Party [for Book of Unstandards shhet music book] June 21 2006 Weiler Concert Hall, NYC CD 2: Various live and studio recordings 1996-2005
Guest performances by Judy Bady, Michael Braudy, Thomas Buckner, Connie Crothers, Dojo Band, Bobby Few, Ken Filiano, Pamela Fleming, Rob Garcia, Emily Howard, Joseph Jarman, Aaron Johnson, Jessica Jones, Tony Jones, Joseph Kubera, Glynis Lomon, Elyzabeth Meade, Pauline Oliveros, Syd Smart, Chris Sullivan, Ken Yamazaki
"[Book of Unstandards is] an empowering anthology of music for the performer in much the same way that jazz's body of standard repertoire serves as a mere, yet vital, outline to individualistic, expressive performance. Like every important composer in jazz and the classical world, Chalfant has tapped into the essence of song, which never lets the actual composition get in the way of the music. - Jazz Improv Magazine
2 CD set for $18

also available

CHRIS CHALFANT - Book Of Unstandards: Anthology Of Music [Book] (self published; USA) Book of Unstandards is a 200 page collection of 128 scores of music written by Chris Chalfant over the past thirty years, representing the diversity of her musical palette. The reader can find tunes for any instrument which can be played in any style, songs with lyrics, written out compositions, poetry with instructions, and others. The music is for all levels, and all ages, from light to serious, from traditional to avant-garde. "Chris Chalfant is that rare combination of first rate jazz composer and improviser" - Chris Kelsey
Chalfant has many recordings as leader, including "Vision Festival 2002" with the Lifetime Visions Orchestra, "Love and Light" and "All in Good Time" with Ken Filiano and Ken Yamazaki, and "Convergence" with Noah Howard, Wilber Morris and Calyer Duncan. Her works can also be heard on Graham Haynes' "Nocturnal Parisian" and Bobby Few's "Mysteries". ("The Umbrella Man" has been widely performed by Few in Europe.) Chris Chalfant has had the opportunity to perform, in addition to those mentioned above, with Thomas Buckner, Karen Borca, Tomas Ulrich, Steve Swell, Kali Z. (LVO), Karl Berger and Raphe Malik (Longy Improvisation Ensemble), Rain House (from the Living Theatre), Nancy Ostrovsky (painting), Mat Maneri , Gunter Hampel, Malcolm Goldstein, Graham Haynes, and Myra Melford.
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NEW ON 'AD HOC'É

JANET FEDER With FRED FRITH - Ironic Universe [CD + DVD] (Ad Hoc 19/20; USA) On these disks, Denver-based acoustic guitarist Janet Feder furthers her exploration on the instrument, and teams up with another of the world's most respected guitarists, Mr. Fred Frith. A whole gamut of strange techniques, musical strategies, beautiful tunings and ambiences are employed; The outcome is sure bliss for fans of modern, instrumental music. Part avant-garde, part classical, part folk, in fairly equal proportions, this approach has never before been attempted with such striking success. The DVD portion is separated into 2 segments: Janet's videos were beautifully shot and edited by Hollywood film-maker David Quinn, in a professional studio as she played live. Each track is presented in a different setting to embellish the diverse performances. Fred's video is one, longish improvised session from a recent concert in Boulder, Colorado, also professionally filmed and edited by Quinn. Fred abandoned his electric guitar in lieu of his Taylor acoustic for the event, bringing his playing into a new realm, while still managing to put his many toys (bowls, chains, brushes, dowls etc.) to good use.
CD + DVD set for $32

THE WORK [TIM HODGKINSON/BILL GILONIS/MICK HOBBS/RICK WILSON] - Slow Crimes (Ad Hoc 15; USA) Originally issued on vinyl in 1982, this music, along with that of compatriots This Heat and Unrest Work & Play, set the stage for a unique type of new British Invasion; one that seemed to absorb the complexity and slickness of Progressive Rock, whilst throwing its aesthetics to the dogs, in lieu of the energy and power of early Punk. THE WORK were amongst the first few to purposefully break their own mold in an attempt to break new ground, concomitantly creating music that seems more comfortable resting on a bed of nails than precious laurels. The drums are primal, and hold the entire band together in a polyrhythmic way that was, at the time, unheard-of in Punk music. The vocals are offered unapologetically, sometimes in semi-screams of anguish and insolence. The guitars & bass chug along, daring the listener to tap their foot in time to regain one's bearings. Over it all is the collective penchant to add experimental noise, to further a state of shock. The group worked tirelessly within these guidelines on the road for 2 years before disbanding, only to reform some seven years later, releasing two additional and equally excellent albums.
CD $16


TONY CONRAD - Joan Of Arc (Table of Elements 77; USA) "Tony Conrad is a founding father of 'minimalism' and a giant in the American soundscape. The indefatigable Conrad kept busy during the Revolution Summer of 1968. In addition to his reunion recordings with John Cale (documented in the Cale set New York in the 1960s), Conrad starred in Ira Cohen's legendary film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and made extensive solo recordings, including 'Joan of Arc', available here for the first time. One of Conrad's personal favorites, it's a long piece for pump organ, in which he conjures both searing white heat and malignant gothic dread. An excerpt was used as the soundtrack for the Piero Heliczer film of the same name, but Conrad feels a greater affinity with that year's Cohen film; accordingly, Cohen graciously provided restored stills from Thunderbolt Pagoda for the packaging of this release. Cohen's sumptuous imagery -- which Jimi Hendrix described as 'looking through butterfly wings' -- features a blissed-out and shirtless Conrad replete in pencil mustache, mascara and blood-red turban. The man is just downright cool -- about as cool as Hendrix, and almost always louder."
CD $16


TIM BRADY - [Guitar Obsession] (AM 156; Canada) This extraordinary solo disc features Canadian guitarist and modern composer Tim Brady on various electric guitar with devices, loops, tapes, computers and bows. Mr. Brady uses five different guitars and each piece was recorded live or in the studio in four different locations, although 8 of the 11 pieces are from Tim's own studio. "GO" features Tim on what sounds like an army of acoustic guitars with minimal devices. The quick picking is astonishing as layers of guitars pile up and expand, sounding like the League of Crafty Guitarists. "Yellow, Add Green" is completely different as the guitar is distorted with a heavy metalish sound and Tim even wails on some of those high-speed fusion/metal licks, throwing in segments of more melancholy playing as the alien guitars are pushed to the sides. "As Softly Sounds" is lovely, laid back piece with some sublime jazz guitar playing and complex chords. "Frame 22: Switch" is a short suite in 5 parts that keeps switching between different styles and sounds. Backwards guitars, warped guitars and assorted electronics mutate guitar sounds in a variety of different ways. Strangely fascinating. "Le Chant des baleines" was composed by Jean-Francois Laporte and is for bowed guitar with metal extension & resonator. Eerie, scraped and bowed strings vibrate and drift and does sound like "an evocation of an underwater soundscape", as the notes say. "unplugged" (Alexandre Burton) is for detuned, unplugged electric guitar & computer. The frenetic guitar consistently erupted and triggers different sounds. Spectral composer Tristan Murail's "Vampyr!" gets a crazed heavy metalish treatment and turns out to be an unexpected delight. Concluding with Laurence Crane's "Bobby J", which is an elegant piece with nice volume pedal swirls. This is a must for all guitar-freaks with adventurous taste. - BLG
CD $14

LORI FREEDMAN - 3 (Trios) (AM 157; Canada) Featuring clarinets sorceress Lori Friedman in three trios with some of Quebec's best players: Rene Lussier (guitars) & Martin Tetreault (turntables), Jean Derome (saxes, etc.) & Rainer Wiens and Nicolas Caloia (contrabass) & Danielle Palardy Roger (percussion). This disc was recorded live over three nights and later reworked in a studio. I've caught Lori Freedman some half dozen times of the past few years, playing solo, in duos and doing improv, at Victo, Guelph and also at the Vision Fest. She is an excellent musician, her solo set at Guelph in 2005 was one of the best sets that year. For this fine release, Lori works with three different trios of Quebec's finest players, each trio quite different in sound. The first trio features our friend Rene Lussier on guitars and Martin Tetreault on turntables, often without records. There is an odd balance between Rene's diverse and ever-changing guitar approaches and Martin's electronic-sounding turntables manipulations. Lori is in the middle, twisting her clarinets into a variety of odd shapes and sounds. At times I am reminded of Zorn's cartoon music, always changing and using that sly humor behind the unexpected twists and turns. The trio with Jean Derome on sax & objects and Rainer Wiens on prepared guitar is also a strange one. As Rainer plays Frith-like quiet guitar soundscapes, Jean plays his charming, fractured early Zorn-like mouthpiece manipulations. Lori is a good match, also bending her notes a similar way and blending perfectly with her two gifted partners. The third trio features Nicolas Caloia on double bass & Danielle Roger on percussion. I am unfamiliar with Nicolas but I do know Danielle from different disc on AM, as well as seeing her in a duo with Frith last year in Montreal. This trio is the most minimal, slowly weaving their sounds cautiously around one another. Some of these pieces were reworked in the studio, here we find Lori's snake-like clarinet panning around in the mix, often closely mic'd with careful attention to each sound. This is quite a strong batch of trio improvisations that work together well as a whole connected work. - BLG
CD $14


MUSICWORKS - Explorations in Sound [65 page magazine & CD] (#96/Fall 2006) A most impressive Toronto-based new music digest with excellent, well written and provocative articles on K-Space (Tim Hodgkinson/Ken Hyder/Gendos Chamzyryn), Paul Dolden, Autorickshaw (fascinating Vancouver world/improv quartet), James Tenney, Tim Brady and Kristi Allik & Robert Mulder. Regional new music coverage from Los Angeles, New Zealand & Chicago. Live music reviews of various festival in Canada, including FIMAV in Victoriaville and Sonambient in Berlin. Disc reviews of Carnival Skin, Tom Djill, Leroy Jenkins, Radu Malfatti, Satoko Fujii, Reuben Radding & Ursel Schlicht, John Wall, etc. Book reviews of Horace Tapscott's 'The Dark Tree', Music, Machines. The CD features tracks from Autorickshaw, Paul Dolden, K-Space and Allik & Mulder.
65 page magazine with CD for $12


PHILIP COHRAN & THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE - The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute To Music) (Zulu/Katylyst; USA) Reissue of the rare '70s LP on Zulu.
CD $14




NEW ON 'BALANCEPOINTACOUSTICS'..

AURORA JOSEPHSON/JOELLE LEANDRE/DAMON SMITH/MARTIN BLUME - cruxes (Balance Point Acoustics 10; USA) Vocalist Josephson and bassist Smith have been contributors to a strong free music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. Smith's Balance Point Acoustics label has been issuing recordings that document their intriguing collaborations. For this set, the two are joined by German drummer Martin Blume (who collaborated with these musicians on 2003's Zero Plus) and French bassist Joelle Leandre. Although this is an ad-hoc group, they obviously speak the same language, the results making this an excellent recording of conversational free Jazz. The instrumentation of voice, two low string instruments and percussion assures that this grouping will have a unique sound. It achieves its ultimate expression on the final studio track, Praxis, where both basses are sliding buoyantly over and around each other as Josephson acrobatically leaps atop the lines and Blume provides a chattering accompaniment. Although the majority of these tracks feature full group improvisation, several tracks feature brief duets and trios from the group. The deep sound of the strings of Leandre and Smith put Josephson's vocals in stark relief on Siberia Of The Mind. Josephson and Blume duet on Napoleon's Favorite Wine with each focusing on small gestures that become larger and end in a grand gesture. It's one of the best free improvs I've ever heard that lasts under two minutes. More importantly, it doesn't feel like a fragment but a complete statement. The live tracks are longer and have a more leisurely pace. But only the 20 minute final track seems a bit overlong. And while it has a few brief dead spots, after a bit of meandering the four find common ground and the music takes off again. Besides, this track has some of the most compelling music of the set, most notably when Leandre and Smith play an arco drone in accompaniment to Josephson's stratospheric flight. Cruxes is yet another example of the fertile music that's been brewing in the Bay Area for a number of years now. - Robert Iannapollo, Cadence
CD $14

AND RESTOCKS ON THESE TWO RECENT 'BPA' TREASURES...

AARON BENNET/JOHN BUTCHER/HENRY KAISER/DANIELLE DEGRUTTOLA /DAMON SMITH/JEROME BRYERTON - Sextessense: A Tribute to John Stevens & SME [Spontaneous Music Ensemble] (BalancePointAcoustics 11; USA) Featuring Henry Kaiser on guitar, John Butcher & Aaron Bennet on saxes, Danielle DeGruttola on cello, Damon Smith on acoustic bass and Jerome Bryerton on drums, plus Kurt Newman on guitar on one track. John Stevens is perhaps the most influential and most beloved of all British modern "jazz" drummers, he certainly cast a large shadow on the entire European avant/jazz scene since his the mid-sixties. As a leader or co-leader of so many diverse and influential ensembles, Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME), an original member of Company, Amalgam, Detail and John Steven's Away, his playing embraced so many different streams, free/jazz, Ornette-like grooves, fusion, South African and rock-like groove-space. He played in duos and trios with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Frode Gjerstad, John Butcher and Gary Smith. He worked with musicians as diverse as Bobby Bradford, Dudu Pukwana, Alan Holdsworth, Julie Tippetts and John Martyn.
So, it makes perfect sense that a musicians like Henry Kaiser, John Butcher and Damon Smith, would want to do a tribute to this great man, spirit, teacher, drummer and multi-bandleader. Much of Stevens' best work was done with the legendary SME, which le led for nearly thirty years (1967-1994), with changing personnel on almost every recording. Although SME were known as a "free" ensemble, it is Steven's direction that made them so cohesive and often so magical. I get the feeling that the same vision or direction was used to guide this extraordinary session. Henry has chosen some like-minded players here and although I am unfamiliar with Mr. Bryerton, Mr. Bennet & Mr. Newman, everyone fits just right into the often nimble, yet focused world of directed improv. Most carefully recorded so that one can swim within sea of rich details. This is one of the finest improv dates I've heard in recent memory, you get the feeling that there is some close listening and responding going on here. Nice to hear from the wonderful cellist Danielle DeGruttola, whose playing can only be heard on a few other discs with Henry. An extraordinary session on all accounts. - BLG
CD $14

HENRY KAISER With DEREK BAILEY/TOSHINORI KONDO/JOHN OSWALD /DAMON SMITH - Domo Arigato Derek-Sensei! (Balance Point Acoustics 202; USA) This is stunning heartfelt tribute to Derek Bailey, the grand-daddy of freely improvised guitar music who passed away on Christmas day of last year. Henry Kaiser, who was greatly influenced, as well as a friend and collaborator with Mr. Bailey, performs solos, duets and trios with the following: Derek Bailey, Toshinori Kondo (trumpet), Sang-Won Park (chango), Davey Williams (guitar), Motoharu Yoshizawa (contrabass), Larry Ochs (soprano sax), Greg Goodman (piano), Andrea Centazzo (percussion), Damon Smith (bass), Mototeru Takagi (tenor sax), Henry Kuntz (tenor sax), Kiku Day (shakahachi), and Charles K Noyes (percussion)! Henry fills this long disc with some 15 tracks challenging improvisations. Henry also speaks about Derek as he performs on a few tracks, something that Derek often did instead of writing letters to friends. Henry also explains and demonstrates some of the techniques to Derek helped invent. What I dig most about this extraordinary disc is that the spirit and influence of Derek Bailey flows through this entire, wonderfully organized collection of music from folks who owe a debt to this marvelous and sorely missed innovator. - BLG
CD $10 [Special Price]




THE MULTIPLE-AWARD WINNING 'DUST TO DIGITAL' LABEL IS SERIOUSLY DEDICATED TO SALVAGING THE TRULY 'UN-COMMERCIAL' MUSICS - MEANING THE ROOTS OF THE VARIOUS GENRES WE HAVE TODAY, MUSICS THAT WEREN'T DONE TO MAKE A LIVING, BUT WERE A LOGICAL OUTGROWTH OF UNAVOIDABLE EXPRESSION.
[BTW - our pal Michael Graves (Osiris Studio) who helped restore DMG's Selwyn Lissack release, is responsible for the audio restoration/transfer/mastering on several of DTD's releases below]

ART OF FIELD RECORDING [V.A.] - 50 Years of Traditional Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum: Sampler (Dust To Digital 007; USA) This is a CD preview release of an upcoming Dust-to-Digital 5CD collaboration with renowned music archivists, Art and Margo Rosenbaum. The diverse talents of the Rosenbaums have allowed them to record music traditions in a way few others could have done. Dust-to-Digital is proud to announce this project in an attempt to keep alive the music they love so dearly. Get ready for antebellum spirituals, lined-out hymns of country churches, old time frolic tunes, bottleneck blues, hammer-and-pick work songs, dance music of fiddle bands, unaccompanied mountain ballads, and backwoods banjo tunes. Art Rosenbaum has been recording American traditional music for half a century -- and in the process produced over 15 LPs and CDs, two hardcover books, and archival material deposited in the Library of Congress, Indiana University, and University of Georgia archives. In 2007, Dust-to-Digital will release a 5CD set of Art Rosenbaum's recordings. The presentation will be in book form, with notes and commentary on all the tracks, many of Art's own drawings and paintings as well as Margo's photographs, and of course, five CDs. The content of the several CDs will be roughly inspired by Harry Smith's organization of his classic Anthology of American Folk with some important differences.
CD $15

DESPERATE MAN BLUES [V.A.] - Discovering The Roots Of American Music [sndtck] (Dust To Digital 005 A; USA) A compilation of songs as featured in Dust-to-Digital's Desperate Man Blues DVD (which chronicles the amazing life in music of Joe Bussard, founder of Fonotone Records). Blues. Gospel. Jazz. Hillbilly. The late 1920s was the Big Bang of the music industry. King of record collectors Joe Bussard tells the story of "America's real music" with passionate enthusiasm in his own inimitable style. The film has an outstanding soundtrack featuring artists Charley Patton, Son House, The Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, Blind Willie McTell and a roster of other roots musicians. Jewel case packaging; released by multi Grammy-nominated Dust-to-Digital.
CD $15

DESPERATE MAN BLUES: JOE BUSSARD//EDWARD GILLAN, director Discovering The Roots Of American Music: Joe Bussard (Dust To Digital 005 V; USA) This DVD documentary chronicles the amazing life in music of legendary record collector, Joe Bussard (founder of Fonotone Records). Blues. Gospel. Jazz. Hillbilly. The late 1920s was the big bang of the music industry. King of record collectors Joe Bussard tells the story of "America's real music" with passionate enthusiasm in his own inimitable style. The film has an outstanding soundtrack featuring artists Charley Patton, Son House, The Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, Blind Willie McTell and a roster of other roots musicians. Deluxe DVD with 51-minute documentary feature film and 30-minute featurette; clear amaray case; NTSC format, all region DVD.
Track Listing: Feature film: 51 mins. Feature Film with audio commentary: 51 mins. Featurette Update on Joe's Life: 30 mins. Plus the following audio-only material: Joe Bussard Radio Show: 30 mins. Audio of 78s: 15 mins.
Total Content - 3 hours of video/45 minutes of audio
DVD $22

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? [STRING BASS V.A.] - Anthology of the String Bass 1925-1941 [3 CD Box + book] (Dust To Digital 004; USA) The first anthology ever of the string bass; A 3CD box set in a cardboard box; 96-page book. Original recordings from 1925-1941, from the legendary archival label Dust-To-Digital (that previously brought the world the beyond-elaborate 'Goodbye, Babylon' and Fonotone Records boxsets).
"Not so long ago, the string bass stood tall and proud -- roughly the length and breadth of a poor man's pine coffin -- in every musical aggregation throughout the land from Bangor to Buenos Aires, from the highest high life to the lowest lowdown: From tuxedoed symphony ensembles to tipsy Calypso bands to honkytonkers in oil-field dives, from elegantly gelled tango orchestras to jazz combos in unspeakable speakeasys to methed-out rockabilly trios right off some flatbed: you can be damned sure Johnny Cash wouldn't have been able to walk the line without bassist Marshall Grant keeping him honest. But somewhere along the line, the upright acoustic bass was snatched from its hallowed place atop the sedans (special carriage) and show-stages and relegated to the trash-heap of history in favor of Leo Fender's sleek electric cousin, plugged in to compete with amplified guitar and drums. Now the stand-up bass makes its appearance mostly in limousine-liberal Lincoln Center jazz benefits and hardcore bluegrass bands -- or as a comical hayseed prop in retro hillbilly outfits. And yet in that span between the turn-of-the-century tuba blaring from an Edison cylinder and today's synthesized-bass loops heaving from every SUV on the pike, the hypnotic pull of the old-school string bass remains. A musical craft handed down by calloused, bandaged fingers, it wrought a mighty saga of bottom-heavy rhythms that rattled the walls of many a venue and anchored many an historic recording session. Without it, the revolutionary sound of American mongrel music of the last century would have been thin gruel indeed." --Eddie Dean, from the liner notes.
3 CD set + Book for $55

I BELONG TO THIS BAND [V.A.] - 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings (Dust To Digital 006; USA) This current collection of Sacred Harp singing is the first to offer a full range of recordings by traditional Sacred Harp singers from 1922 to the present, and is a companion to the Sacred Harp documentary by Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp, the first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing. This CD is unique in a number of respects. It contains several prewar and mid-century recordings never before released on CD, some of which have never been released at all. Sacred Harp singing is typically a community musical and social event, held at all-day singings and conventions in the rural South. It is characterized by mass participation, full-voiced singing, lack of instrumental accompaniment, and rotation of song leaders. Growing out of the singing-school movement of the 18th century, and preserving the music of the first American composers, it came to be associated in the deep South with church and community homecomings and decoration days, and with sumptuous "dinner on the ground" spread in the churchyard at noon. It differs from shape-note gospel singing in that the repertory is largely pre-Civil War, and is relatively fixed in one of the 20th-century revisions of the original 1844 oblong tunebook by B. F. White and E. J. King. Although The Sacred Harp was called "the book oftenest found in the homes of rural Southerners other than the Holy Bible," the tradition was ignored by the cultural elites of the nation and region. For 85 years, commercial record producers and documentary folklorists have tried to capture this "harmonic complex of singular charm," as Jackson described it. Surprisingly, though, the earliest recordings differ sharply from the powerful sounds heard at today's singings. Many reflect the more informal uses of Sacred Harp music in the family circle, while others show the influence of professional gospel quartet singing. Displaying a wide range of ensembles and vocal styles, this release includes recordings of quartets and other groups who recorded for major record labels before World War II, private studio recordings of the 1950s and 1960s, and digital field recordings of large contemporary singing. This collection also weaves three important strands of this music: early commercial recordings, cut on 78s in the 1920s through the 1940s, home recordings made by small groups of singers in the 1950s, and contemporary "all day sacred harp singings." The very fact that these separate strands appear together here on one CD is part of what makes this collection so unique, yet the historical breadth of the material is also noteworthy. Cardboard arigato pak with 16-page saddle-stitched booklet.
CD $15

FONOTONE RECORDS [AMERICAN PRIMITIVE V.A.] - Fonotone Records 1956-1969 [5 CD Box] (Dust To Digital 003; USA) Fonotone Records 1956-1969 [5 CD Box] (DTD 003CD). Massive 5CD set of American Primitive music unearthed for the first time (in various styles: Jug Band, Country, Old Time, Blues and Bluegrass), recorded and documented by Joe Bussard's 78-RPM Fonotone label, 1956-1969 - not one track previously on CD before. Incredible package featuring 131 tracks over 5 discs, 160-page perfect-bound book, 17 full-color postcards, 3 record label reproductions in souvenir folder and a nickel-plated Fonotone Records bottle opener(!) - all packaged in a deluxe cigar box. The label that gave us one of the most elaborate packaging presentations of the modern era (Goodbye Babylon, DTD's first release from 2004). What started as a conversation about Fonotone Records metamorphasized into this 5CD box set, for which no stone went unturned. Master reel-to-reel tapes, unplayed for decades but still pristine, were painstakingly remastered; forgotten Kodak slides in old cigar boxes were dusted off and retouched; and musicians of all stripes who had disappeared more than 35 years ago were tracked down. Their stories, and the story of Fonotone, the last 78-RPM record label in the land, are told here with words, pictures and music. Take a look-see, give it a listen, and get a rare portrait of a long-gone America.
5 CD set for $70

GOODBYE BABYLON [COUNTRY GOSPEL V.A.] - Goodbye, Babylon [6 CD Box set] (Dust To Digital 001; USA) Debut release on this label, an incredible package of early gospel music, in a deluxe handcrafted wooden box (designed by Susan Archie, who was previously responsible for the Grammy-winny Charley Patton boxset on Revanant). 5 CDs featuring 135 songs (1902-1960), 1 CD featuring 25 sermons (1926-1941). Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars. Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe. 200 page book with Bible verses, complete lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations. Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8" x 11" x 2.5" cedar box. "If you're not sure where you'll stand on judgement morning, we have five CDs of guitar evangelists, holiness string bands, jubilee gospel quartets, sacred harp choirs and sanctified jug music to rock your soul plus one CD of shouting sisters and powerful preachers to deliver the message about your starry crown." According to Greil Marcus: "The best country-religious music collection I have ever heard."
6 CD set for $95

WHERE WILL YOU BE CHRISTMAS DAY? [GOSPEL V.A.] - Where Will You Be Christmas Day? - Holiday Series Vol 1 (Dust To Digital 002; USA) 24 Recordings from 1917 - 1959. "Following up last year's critically acclaimed Goodbye, Babylon box set, Dust-to-Digital is proud to announce our new Holiday Series, curated by musicologist Dick Spottswood. Based on his popular radio show in Washington, D.C., our series is initiated with a Christmas Gift, a compact disc full of rare yuletide gems. Just as Goodbye, Babylon showed the many sides of gospel music, this CD shows many sides of Christmas - from Jesus born in the manger to Leroy Carr spending the holiday in jail. Some of the artists featured include Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Butterbeans and Susie, Fiddlin' John Carson, Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers, Lightning Hopkins, Los Jibaros, Kansas City Kitty, Lead Belly, Lord Executor, Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Bessie Smith. Together they provide a stark contrast to the commercialized Christmas we know today..."
CD $15


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SALIM WASHINGTON & RBA [ROXBURY BLUES AESTHETIC] With JOE BONNER - Love In Exile (Accurate 5028; USA) Salim Washington (tenor saxophone, flute); Kurtis Rivers (alto saxophone); Henry Cook (baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute); Frank Lacy (trumpet, trombone); Waldron Ricks (trumpet); Melanie Dyer (viola); Joe Bonner, John Kordaleski (piano); Fred Woodard (guitar); Artie Moore, Brian McCree (bass); Bobby Ward (drums).
Salim Washington has had a wonderfully checkered career, from Detroit inner-city teenager to prep school phenom, Harvard undergrad, preacher, teacher, father of four, grad student, and consistently through all of this, Roxbury Mass. based reedman and composer.
Although he has appeared previously as a sideman (including an early Accurate release, The Billy Skinner Double Jazz Quartet "Kosen Rufu" AC-3333), "Love in Exile" is Salim's first album as a leader. It features his core band along with some very distinguished guests, namely Joe Bonner on piano, Kuumba Frank Lacy on trombone and trumpet, and Artie Moore on bass.
CD $15




SPECIAL SALE!! TWO LEGENDARY JAZZ RECORDINGS - ONLY ON CD FROM JAPAN AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES [originally $30 each]

ARCHIE SHEPP - The Magic Of Ju-Ju (Impulse!/UCCU 5240; Japan) Recorded April 26, 1967. On this 1967 Impulse release, tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp unleashed his 18-minute tour de force "The Magic of Ju-Ju," combining free jazz tenor with steady frenetic African drumming. Shepp's emotional and fiery tenor takes off immediately, gradually morphing with the five percussionists -- Beaver Harris, Norman Connor, Ed Blackwell, Frank Charles, and Dennis Charles -- who perform on instruments including rhythm logs and talking drums. Shepp never loses the initial energy, moving forward like a man possessed as the drumming simultaneously builds into a fury. Upon the final three minutes, the trumpets of Martin Banks and Michael Zwerin make an abrupt brief appearance, apparently to ground the piece to a halt. This is one of Shepp's most chaotic yet rhythmically hypnotic pieces. The three remaining tracks, somewhat overshadowed by the title piece, are quick flourishes of free bop on "Shazam," "Sorry Bout That," and the slower, waltz-paced "You're What This Day Is All About." ~ Al Campbell, AMG
CD $20

DON CHERRY With SONNY SHARROCK/ALBERT MANGELSDORFF/BERNT ROSENGREN/KARL BERGER/JOACHIM KUHN et al - Eternal Rhythm: Lie Ankara 1969 (MPS/Universal UCCU 5184; Japan) 1968: Eternal Rhythm is a masterpiece on several levels. It was one of the earliest major examples of the idea that it was possible for any and all musical cultures to exist simultaneously, a philosophy that rejected any innate musical hierarchy and had no trouble placing the earthiest blues alongside the most delicate gamelan. It was also a summit meeting between representatives of the American and European jazz avant-garde, black and white, dismissing as meaningless both the cautious attitude of American jazz musicians toward Europeans edging onto their turf and the tentative stance of Europeans playing a music that was not "theirs." More importantly, Eternal Rhythm exists as an utterly spectacular, movingly beautiful musical performance, one of the rare occasions where the listener has a visceral sense of borders falling and vast expanses of territory being revealed for the first time. Cherry balanced compositional clarity, wild free improvisation, and a totally inclusive musical consciousness in a manner seldom achieved, resulting in a cohesive, spellbinding session. His own playing throughout on both trumpet and flute is at his highest levels, but the contributions of his fellow musicians are just as amazing. Special mention should be made of guitarist Sonny Sharrock, whose "glass shards" approach is in full bloom here, and vibraphonist/pianist Karl Berger, who throws himself with sublime abandon into both the gamelan and blues aspects of the piece. If only the pallid "world music" of the succeeding decades had followed this model! Eternal Rhythm is Don Cherry's masterwork and one of the single finest recordings from the jazz avant-garde of the '60s. It is required listening. ~ Brian Olewnick, AMG
CD $22


THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PSYCH RE-ISSUE...

BREAD, LOVE AND DREAMS - Amaryllis (Sunbeam Records 5027) The third and final album by the Edinburgh-based duo of David McNiven (ex-Human Beast) and Angie Rew was barely released in 1971, but has gone on to become one of the most treasured "acid folk" albums of all time. Comprising the epic, 21-minute title track and four unforgettable stand-alone songs, Amaryllis features a heady, trippy blend of true acoustic melodies as well as outstanding support from musicians including Danny Thompson and Terry Cox of Pentangle, and is an essential purchase for all fans of psychedelic singer-songwriting.
CD $16


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THESE JAPANESE 'DIW 'AND 'AVANT' LABEL TITLES WE HAVE ON SALE:

KAORU ABE - The Last Recording [CD ep] (DIW 458; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

BRUCE ACKLEY TRIO With GREG COHEN & JOEY BARON - The Hearing (Avant 069; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

ALVA - Fair-Haired Guillotine (Avant 072; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

AYIBOBO [JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY et al] - Stone Voudou: Live (DIW 462; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

WALTER BISHOP JR. TRIO - What's New (DIW 605; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY & THE BLUE WAVE BANDITS - Blackadelic-Blu (DIW 883; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

LESTER BOWIE'S NEW YORK ORGAN ENSEMBLE - The Organizer (DIW 821; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DOUGIE BOWNE With JOHN MEDESKI/FRED HOPKINS - One Way Elevator (DIW 920; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

[V.A. Tribute To DAVE BRUBECK] IN HIS OWN SWEET WAY - In His Own Sweet Way (Avant 005; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

RAHN BURTON TRIO With WALTER BOOKER/JIMMY COBB - The Poem (DIW 610; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

CAKE LIKE - Delicious (Avant 029; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

EUGENE CHADBOURNE/MARK DRESSER/SUSIE IBARRA/JOE MORRIS - Pain Pen (Avant 044; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

CHRIS COCHRANE With ZEENA PARKINS/ANN RUPEL/MARC ANTHONY THOMPSON et al - Bath (Avant 042; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

THE CONTEMPORARY PIANO ENSEMBLE With HAROLD MABERN/MULGREW MILLER et al - The Key Players (DIW 616; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

STANLEY COWELL/FREDERICK WAITS/BUSTER WILLIAMS - We Three (DIW 807; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

BLOSSOM DEARIE - Sings Rootin' Songs (DIW 311; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DRAGON BLUE [TENKO With OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/KATO HIDEKI] - Hade's Park (Avant 075; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

TAYLOR EIGSTI TRIO - Taylor's Dream (DIW 624; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

JAD FAIR & THE SHAPIR-O'RAMA - We Are The Rage (Avant 052; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

GOD IS MY CO-PILOT - Mir Shlufn Nisht (Avant 032; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

STEVE GROSSMAN - Katonah (DIW 811; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

STEVE GROSSMAN QUARTET - Hold The Line (DIW 912; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

JOHN HICKS TRIO - Inc. 1 (DIW 817; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

WAYNE HORVITZ 4+1 ENSEMBLE [FOUR PLUS ONE] - From A Window (Avant 080; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

ROBERT HURST TRIO With KENNY KIRKLAND & ELVIN JONES - One For Namesake (DIW 617; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

LEE HYLA - In Double Light (Avant 015; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

GEOFF KEEZER TRIO - World Music (DIW 609; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID KIKOSKI QUINTET - The Five (DIW 941; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID KIKOSKI TRIO - Comfortable Strange (DIW 625; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

TOSHINORI KONDO - Nerve Tripper (DIW 453; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

HELGE LIEN TRIO - Asymmetrics (DIW 630; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

HELGE LIEN TRIO - Spiral Circle (DIW 627; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

M-BASE COLLECTIVE [CASSANDRA WILSON/STEVE COLEMAN/GREG OSBY et al] - Anatomy Of A Groove (DIW 864; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

HAROLD MABERN TRIO With CHRISTIAN McBRIDE/JACK DeJOHNETTE - Lookin' On The Bright Side (DIW 614; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

HAROLD MABERN TRIO With RON CARTER/JACK DeJOHNETTE - Straight Street (DIW 608; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

RONNIE MATHEWS TRIO With RAY DRUMMOND/BILLY HIGGINS - Dark Before The Dawn (DIW 604; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MARIE McAULIFFE'S ARKSEXTET - Refractions: Plays The Music Of Burt Bacharach (Avant 070; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID MURRAY & JACK DEJOHNETTE - In Our Style (DIW 819; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET With DON PULLEN - Shakill's II (DIW 884; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID MURRAY With DAVE BURRELL/FRED HOPKINS/RALPH PETERSON Jr - Ballads (DIW 840; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID MURRAY With DAVE BURRELL/FRED HOPKINS/RALPH PETERSON Jr - Spirituals (DIW 841; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MIKE NOCK - Changing Seasons (DIW 628; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

BOB OSTERTAG - Fear No Love (Avant 041; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

WILLIE OTERI With MIKE KENEALLY/TONY LEVIN/PAT MASTELOTTO/RONAN CHRIS MURPHY/EPHRAIM OWENS - Spiral Out (DIW 466; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

GEORGE ROBERT & KENNY BARRON - Peace (DIW 945; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

ROUGH ASSEMBLAGE [NORMAN YAMADA/MARK DeGliANTONI/ERIC QIN] - Construction & Demolition (Avant 017; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MICHEL SARDABY With JAY LEONHART/ALBERT 'TOOTIE' HEATH - Night Blossom (DIW 602; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID SHEA - Shock Corridor (Avant 013; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

SMARNAMISA! RESIA VALLEY MUSIC [V.A.] - Folk Songs & Dances From North-East Italy (Avant 047; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

STRATA INSTITUTE [STEVE COLEMAN/GREG OSBY/VON FREEMAN/DAVID GILMORE/KENNY DAVIS/MARVIN 'SMITTY' SMITH] - Transmigration (DIW 860; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

JUNKO SUMI - Junko Sings Japanese Nursery Rhymes [aka Ghin Ghin Ghira Ghira] (DIW 943; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI/KAORU ABE - Gradually Projection (DIW 425; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

TRIO TRANSITION [REGGIE WORKMAN/FREDDIE WAITS/MULGREW MILLER] - Trio Transition (DIW 808; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

JAMES BLOOD ULMER With RONALD DRAYTON/MARK E PETERSON/AUBREY DAYLE - Blues Preacher (DIW 869; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

THE VIVIAN SISTERS [LAURA CROMWELL/JAMIE SAFT/VANESSA HODGE] With ZEENA PARKINS/BRIGGAN KRAUSS et al - Vivian Sisters (Avant 079; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

DAVID WATSON With JULIE BROWN/DOUG SAFRANEK/MICHAEL ATTIAS/ANDY HAAS/TONY BUCK/CYRO BAPTISTA et al - Skirl (Avant 077; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

SEAN WAYLAND - Colossus of Rhodes (DIW 626; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

THE WHISTLING HANGMEN [OREN BLOEDOW] - Barhopping (Avant 071; Japan)
CD $12.00 7 for 6 SALE.

CARLA WHITE - The Sweetest Sounds (DIW 422; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

JAMES WILLIAMS With GEORGE COLEMAN et al - Meets the Saxophone Masters (DIW 868; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

CASSANDRA WILSON With JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY - Dance To The Drums Again (DIW 863; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

BERNARD WOMA - Live At The Pito Bar (Avant 063; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

RICHARD WYANDS TRIO - The Arrival (DIW 611; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.

MASAHIRO YOSHIDA/ALLEN FARNHAM/RAY DRUMMOND - Uno (DIW 600/J-1001; Japan)
CD $10.00 7 for 6 SALE.

ZE'V - Heads & Tales (Avant 034; Japan)
CD $8.00 7 for 6 SALE.


THESE JAPANESE 'DIW 'AND 'AVANT' LABEL TITLES WE HAVE VERY LOW STOCK ON [2-6 copies] :

KAORU ABE - Last Date 8/28/78 (DIW 335; Japan)
CD $18

KAORU ABE - Live At Gaya Vol 2 (DIW 372; Japan)
CD $18

KAORU ABE - Live At Gaya Vol 5 (DIW 375; Japan)
CD $18

KAORU ABE - Live At Gaya Vol 7 (DIW 377; Japan)
CD $18

KAORU ABE - Live At Gaya Vol 8 (DIW 378; Japan)
CD $18

RASHIED ALI/LOUIE BELOGENIS/WILBER MORRIS - Live At Tonic (DIW 940; Japan)
CD $18

GERI ALLEN/CHARLIE HADEN/PAUL MOTIAN - Segments (DIW 833; Japan)
CD $18

CHRIS ANDERSON TRIO - Blues One (DIW 607; Japan)
CD $18

ARCANA [BILL LASWELL/TONY WILLIAMS/DEREK BAILEY] - The Last Wave (DIW 903; Japan)
CD $18

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Alternative Express (DIW 832; Japan)
CD $18

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Ancient To The Future (DIW 804; Japan)
CD $18

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Naked (DIW 818; Japan)
CD $18

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO With CECIL TAYLOR - Thelonius Sphere Monk: Dreaming Of The Masters Vol 2 (DIW 846; Japan)
CD $18

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO/SOWETO With AMABUTHO MALE CHORUS - Art Ensemble Of Soweto (DIW 837; Japan)
CD $18

AYIBOBO [JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY et al] - Freestyle (DIW 877; Japan)
CD $18

DEREK BAILEY - Guitar, Drums 'n' Bass (Avant 060; Japan)
CD $18

DEREK BAILEY & MING XIAO-FEN - Viper (Avant 050; Japan)
CD $18

DEREK BAILEY/JOHN ZORN/WILLIAM PARKER - Harras (Avant 056; Japan)
CD $18

DUCK BAKER//HERBIE NICHOLS - Spinning Song: Plays The Music Of Herbie Nichols (Avant 040; Japan)
CD $18

JOEY BARON'S BARONDOWN With ELLERY ESKELIN/STEVE SWELL - Crackshot (Avant 059; Japan)
CD $18

BERLIN CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ORCHESTRA/ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH/AKI TAKASE et al - Live In Japan '96 (DIW 922; Japan)
CD $18

BOREDOMS - Wow 2 (Avant 026; Japan)
CD $18

JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY & THE BLUE WAVE BANDITS - Rock The Cathartic Spirits: Vibe Music And The Blues (DIW 911; Japan)
CD $18

JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY & THE BLUE WAVE BANDITS - Saints & Sinners (DIW 872; Japan)
CD $18

LESTER BOWIE'S BRASS FANTASY - My Way (DIW 835; Japan)
CD $18

LESTER BOWIE'S BRASS FANTASY - Serious Fun (DIW 834; Japan)
CD $18

LESTER BOWIE'S NEW YORK ORGAN ENSEMBLE - Funky T, Cool T (DIW 853; Japan)
CD $18

PETER BROTZMANN/HAINO KEIJI/SHOJI HANO - Shadows: Live In Wels March 2000 (DIW 938; Japan)
CD $18

MARION BROWN With DAVE BURRELL/TAKASHI MIZHASHI/WARREN SMITH - Live In Japan (DIW 356; Japan)
CD $18

BUCKETHEAD BUCKETHEADLAND With BOOTSY COLLINS - Bucketheadland [2 CD Set] (Avant 007; Japan)
CD $35

PIECES [BUCKETHEAD & BRAIN] - I Need Five Minutes Alone (Avant 054; Japan)
CD $18

GEORGE CABLES With CECIL McBEE/BILLY HART - Night And Day (DIW 606; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES CARTER - JC On The Set (DIW 875; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES CARTER QUARTET With CRAIG TABORN - Jurassic Classics (DIW 886; Japan)
CD $18

VINCENT CHANCEY - Next Mode (DIW 914; Japan)
CD $18

GREG COHEN - Way Low (DIW 918; Japan)
CD $18

STEVE COLEMAN & DAVE HOLLAND - Phase-Space (DIW 865; Japan)
CD $18

STANLEY COWELL TRIO - Close To You Alone (DIW 603; Japan)
CD $18

DARE DEVIL [PETER BROTZMANN/SHOJI HANO/TETSU YAMAUCHI/HARUHIKO GOTSU] - Dare Devil Live At Tokyo Oct. '91 (DIW 857; Japan)
CD $18

DNA [ARTO LINDSAY/IKUE MORI/TIM WRIGHT] - Live At C.B.G.B.S (Avant 006; Japan)
CD $18.00 STOCK

DAVE DOUGLAS - Moving Portrait (DIW 934; Japan)
CD $18

DAVE DOUGLAS & SANCTUARY - Sanctuary [2CD Set] (Avant 066; Japan)
CD $27

DRUMS OF DEATH: FIELD RECORDINGS IN GHANA [V.A.] - Drums Of Death (Avant 062; Japan)
CD $18

STEPHEN DRURY - Faith,the Loss Faith,and the Return of Faith (Avant 022; Japan)
CD $18

DYING GROUND [EYVIND KANG/KATO HIDEKI/GRANT CALVIN WESTON] - Dying Ground (Avant 076; Japan)
CD $18

EASSIDE PERCUSSION [ESP] - ESP (Avant 073; Japan)
CD $18

RINDE ECKERT With BILL FRISELL/JERRY GRANELLI et al - Finding My Way Home (DIW 859; Japan)
CD $18

MARK FELDMAN & SYLVIE COURVOISIER - Music For Violin And Piano (Avant 065; Japan)
CD $18

JOHN FRENCH - O Solo Drumbo (Avant 024; Japan)
CD $18

PETER GARLAND - Nana And Victorio (Avant 012; Japan)
CD $18

BEN GOLDBERG - Twelve Minor (Avant 035; Japan)
CD $18

STEVE GROSSMAN - Standards (DIW 803; Japan)
CD $18

GROUND ZERO [OTOMO YOSHIHIDE'S] - Plays Standards (DIW 420; Japan)
CD $18

ANDY HAAS With FRED FRITH/HAINO KEIJI/IKUE MORI/CYRO BAPTISTA/ANTHONY COLEMAN/MAKIGAMI KOICHI - Arnhem Land (Avant 048; Japan)
CD $18

CHARLIE HADEN LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA - Dream Keeper (DIW 844; Japan)
CD $18

BILLY HARPER - If Our Hearts Could Only See (DIW 931; Japan)
CD $18

HARRIETT TUBMAN [BRANDON ROSS/MELVIN GIBBS/J T LEWIS] - (Treasure Hunt For The) Prototype (Avant 078; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID HAZELTINE With PETER WASHINGTON/LOUIS HAYES - The Classic Trio (DIW 620; Japan)
CD $18

HELL'S KITCHEN [V.A. With DON CHERRY/ODEAN POPE/PETER BROTZMANN/LOUIS MOHOLO/HARRY MILLER et al] - Live From Soundscape (DIW 405; Japan)
CD $18

JOHN HICKS With DAVID MURRAY - Sketches Of Tokyo (DIW 812; Japan)
CD $18

TRISTAN HONSINGER/TOSHINORI KONDO/PETER KOWALD/SABU TOYOZUMI - What are You Talking About? (DIW 456; Japan)
CD $18

WAYNE HORVITZ & PIGPEN - V As In Victim (Avant 027; Japan)
CD $18

ROBERT HURST - Robert Hurst Presents (DIW 873; Japan)
CD $18

JEF LEE JOHNSON - Communion (DIW 926; Japan)
CD $18

PHILLIP JOHNSTON'S BIG TROUBLE - The Unknown (Avant 037; Japan)
CD $18

GEOFF KEEZER - Other Spheres (DIW 871; Japan)
CD $18

HAINO KEIJI With GREG COHEN & JOEY BARON - An Unclear Trial: More Than This (Avant 074; Japan)
CD $18

TOSHINORI KONDO/PAUL LOVENS/PAUL LYTTON - Death is Our Eternal Friend (DIW 455; Japan)
CD $18

LARVAL [BILL BROVOLD] - Larval (Avant 055; Japan)
CD $18

BILL LASWELL Vs. SUBMERGED - Brutal Calling (Avant 081; Japan)
CD $18

GEORGE E LEWIS With ROSCOE MITCHELL - Voyager (Avant 014; Japan)
CD $18

FRANK LOWE QUINTET - Live From Soundscape (DIW 399; Japan)
CD $18

ROMERO LUBAMBO - Lubambo (Avant 023; Japan)
CD $18

HAROLD MABERN TRIO With CHRISTIAN McBRIDE/TONY REEDUS - Mabern's Grooveyard (DIW 621; Japan)
CD $18

HAROLD MABERN TRIO With CHRISTIAN McBRIDE/TONY REEDUS - Maya With Love (DIW 622; Japan)
CD $18

HAROLD MABERN With KEVIN EUBANKS/RON CARTER/JACK DeJOHNETTE et al - The Leading Man (DIW 876; Japan)
CD $18

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 1 (ALEF) (DIW 888; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 2 (BEIT) (DIW 889; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 3 (GIMEL) (DIW 890; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 4 (DALET) (DIW 923; Japan)
CD $15

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 5 (HEI) (DIW 899; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 6 (VAV) (DIW 900; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 7 (ZAYIN) (DIW 915; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 8 (HET) (DIW 925; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 9 (TET) (DIW 933; Japan)
CD $17

MASADA [JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON] - Masada 10 (YOD) (DIW 935; Japan)
CD $17

MATERIAL [BILL LASWELL With MICHAEL BEINHORN/FRED FRITH/CHARLES K NOYES/DAVID MOSS/MARK E MILLER] - Live From Soundscape (DIW 389; Japan)
CD $18

RONNIE MATHEWS TRIO - Lament For Love (DIW 612; Japan)
CD $18

MEMPHIS PIANO CONVENTION [V.A. With JAMES WILLIAMS/HAROLD MABERN/MULGREW MILLER et al] - Memphis Piano Convention (DIW 613; Japan)
CD $18

MISHA MENGELBERG & ICP ORCHESTRA [INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL: PETER BROTZMANN/MICHAEL MOORE/TOSHINORI KONDO et al] - Japan Japon (DIW 454; Japan)
CD $18

MISHA MENGELBERG TRIO With GREG COHEN/JOEY BARON - No Idea (DIW 619; Japan)
CD $18

TAKEO MORIYAMA QUARTET - Live At Lovely (DIW 820; Japan)
CD $18

WILBER MORRIS/DAVID MURRAY/DENIS CHARLES [WILBER FORCE] - Wilber Force (DIW 809; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY - The Tip (DIW 891; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY BIG BAND Conducted By LAWRENCE BUTCH MORRIS - Conducted By Lawrence Butch Morris (DIW 851; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET - For Aunt Louise (DIW 901; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET +1 [BRANFORD MARSALIS] - Fast Life (DIW 861; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET With DAVE BURRELL/FRED HOPKINS/RALPH PETERSON Jr - Lovers (DIW 814; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET With DAVE BURRELL/FRED HOPKINS/RALPH PETERSON Jr - Tenors (DIW 881; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET With JOHN HICKS/FRED HOPKINS/IDRIS MUHAMMAD - Love And Sorrow (DIW 921; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY SPECIAL QUARTET With ELVIN JONES/McCOY TYNER/FRED HOPKINS - David Murray Special Quartet (DIW 843; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID MURRAY With DAVE BURRELL/FRED HOPKINS/RALPH PETERSON Jr - Deep River (DIW 830; Japan)
CD $18

MUSIC REVELATION ENSEMBLE [JAMES BLOOD ULMER/DAVID MURRAY et al] - After Dark (DIW 855; Japan)
CD $18

MUSIC REVELATION ENSEMBLE [JAMES BLOOD ULMER/DAVID MURRAY/JAMAALADEEN TACUMA/RONALD SHANNON JACKSON] - Music Revelation Ensemble (DIW 825; Japan)
CD $18

NAKED CITY [JOHN ZORN/BILL FRISELL/WAYNE HORVITZ/FRED FRITH/JOEY BARON/YAMATAKA EYE] - Grand Guignol (Avant 002; Japan)
CD $18

NAKED CITY [JOHN ZORN/BILL FRISELL/WAYNE HORVITZ/FRED FRITH/JOEY BARON/YAMATAKA EYE] - Heretic (Jeux Des Dames Cruelles) (Avant 001; Japan)
CD $18

NAKED CITY [JOHN ZORN/BILL FRISELL/WAYNE HORVITZ/FRED FRITH/JOEY BARON/YAMATAKA EYE] - Radio (Avant 003; Japan)
CD $18

NAKED CITY [JOHN ZORN/BILL FRISELL/WAYNE HORVITZ/FRED FRITH/JOEY BARON] - Absinthe (Avant 004; Japan)
CD $18

NEW YORK ART QUARTET [ROSWELL RUDD/JOHN TCHICAI/REGGIE WORKMAN/MILFORD GRAVES] With AMIRI BARAKA - 35th Reunion (DIW 936; Japan)
CD $18

JOHN OSWALD/PLUNDERPHONICS - Plexure (Avant 016; Japan)
CD $18

ROBERTO OTTAVIANO & MAL WALDRON - Black Spirits Are Here Again (DIW 917; Japan)
CD $18

JACO PASTORIUS & ESSENCE - Last Flight (DIW 831; Japan)
CD $18

'BIG' JOHN PATTON QUINTET - This One's For J.A. (DIW 919; Japan)
CD $18

PDB [JACO PASTORIUS/KENWOOD DENNARD/HIRAM BULLOCK] - PDB (DIW 827; Japan)
CD $18

PHALANX [GEORGE ADAMS/JAMES BLOOD ULMER/SIRONE [NORRIS JONES]/RASHIED ALI] - In Touch (DIW 826; Japan)
CD $18

PHALANX [GEORGE ADAMS/JAMES BLOOD ULMER/SIRONE [NORRIS JONES]/RASHIED ALI] - Original Phalanx (DIW 801; Japan)
CD $18

PINK INC. [ALEX DEUTSCH/JAMAALADEEN TACUMA/GEORGE GARZONE] - Pink Inc. (DIW 852; Japan)
CD $18

JIM PLOTKIN - The Joy Of Disease (Avant 028; Japan)
CD $18

PRELAPSE - Prelapse (Avant 053; Japan)
CD $18

BOBBY PREVITE EMPTY SUITS With WAYNE HORVITZ/JEROME HARRIS/ROBIN EUBANKS et al - Slay The Suitors (Avant 036; Japan)
CD $18

MARC RIBOT - Don't Blame Me (DIW 902; Japan)
CD $18

MARC RIBOT/SHREK - Shrek (Avant 033; Japan)
CD $18

[LIU] SOLA & WU-MAN - China Collage (Avant 046; Japan)
CD $18

DAVE SOLDIER - Smut (Avant 019; Japan)
CD $18

SUN RA & His ARKESTRA - Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo: Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion (DIW 824; Japan)
CD $18

SUN RA & His ARKESTRA - Live From Soundscape [Limited Ed. 2 CD Set] (DIW 388; Japan)
CD $35

CRAIG TABORN TRIO - Craig Taborn Trio (DIW 618; Japan)
CD $18

JAMAALADEEN TACUMA - Dreamscape (DIW 904; Japan)
CD $18

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI/KAORU ABE - Kaitai Teki Koukan [Deconstructive Communication]: New Direction (DIW 415; Japan)
CD $18

TRIO TRANSITION [REGGIE WORKMAN/FREDDIE WAITS/MULGREW MILLER] With OLIVER LAKE - With Oliver Lake (DIW 829; Japan)
CD $18

TWICE TOLD TALES [LOUIE BELOGENIS/TONY MALABY/TREVOR DUNN/RYAN SAWYER] - Twice Told Tales (DIW 944; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES BLOOD ULMER With CHARLES BURNHAM/CALVIN JONES/AMIN ALI/MICHAEL MUSTAFA ULMER/CALVIN WESTON - Forbidden Blues (DIW 932; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES BLOOD ULMER With DAVID MURRAY/OLIVER LAKE/OLU DARA/AMIN ALI/RONALD SHANNON JACKSON/CALVIN WESTON/ - Are You Glad To Be In America? (DIW 400; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES BLOOD ULMER With ORNETTE COLEMAN/JAMAALADEEN TACUMA/DENARDO COLEMAN - Tales Of Captain Black (DIW 403; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID S WARE QUARTET With MATTHEW SHIPP/WILLIAM PARKER/SUSIE IBARRA - Godspelized (DIW 916; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID S WARE QUARTET With MATTHEW SHIPP/WILLIAM PARKER/MARC EDWARDS - Flight Of i (DIW 856; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID S WARE QUARTET With MATTHEW SHIPP/WILLIAM PARKER/WHIT DICKEY - Third Ear Recitation (DIW 870; Japan)
CD $18

DAVID WEINSTEIN - Perfume (Avant 020; Japan)
CD $18

MICHAEL WEISS QUARTET - Power Station (DIW 924; Japan)
CD $18

WHAT WE LIVE [LISLE ELLIS/LARRY OCHS/DONALD ROBINSON] - What We Live (DIW 909; Japan)
CD $18

RODNEY WHITAKER - Children Of The Light (DIW 907; Japan)
CD $18

RODNEY WHITAKER - Hidden Kingdom (DIW 929; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES WILLIAMS ALL-STARS With NICHOLAS PAYTON/RON CARTER/BILLY HIGGINS et al - Classic Encounters! (DIW 937; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES WILLIAMS MAGICAL TRIO With RAY BROWN/ELVIN JONES - Awesome! (DIW 623; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES WILLIAMS SEXTET With CLARK TERRY/CHRISTIAN McBRIDE et al - Talkin' Trash (DIW 887; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES WILLIAMS With JOE HENDERSON/GEORGE COLEMAN et al - Up To The Minute Blues (DIW 882; Japan)
CD $18

JAMES WILLIAMS/CALVIN NEWBORN - Memphis Convention (DIW 874; Japan)
CD $18

JACK WILSON TRIO - In New York (DIW 615; Japan)
CD $18

MIN XIAO-FEN - With Six Composers (Avant 021; Japan)
CD $18

OTOMO YOSHIHIDE'S NEW JAZZ QUINTET [ONJQ] - Live (DIW 942; Japan)
CD $18

OTOMO YOSHIHIDE'S NEW JAZZ QUINTET [ONJQ] - Tails Out (DIW 946; Japan)
CD $18

JOHN ZORN'S COBRA - Tokyo Operations '94 (Avant 049; Japan)
CD $18


...AND THESE OUT-OF-PRINT JAPANESE 'DIW 'AND 'AVANT' LABEL TITLES WE HAVE ONLY ONE COPY EACH
at various premium prices:

GERI ALLEN/CHARLIE HADEN/PAUL MOTIAN - Live At The Village Vanguard (DIW 847; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO & LESTER BOWIE'S BRASS FANTASY - Live At The 6th Tokyo Music Joy '90 (DIW 842; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

ALBERT AYLER - First Recordings Vol 2 (DIW 349; Japan)
CD $50

BACK ON 52ND STREET [V.A. with DEREK BAILEY & GEORGE LEWIS/DEWEY REDMAN & ED BLACKWELL/DENIS CHARLES/MARION BROWN] - Live From Soundscape (DIW 406; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $30

ABDULAI BANGOURA - Sigiri (Avant 064; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

STEVE BERESFORD With JOHN ZORN/DAVE DOUGLAS/GREG COHEN/KENNY WOLLESEN - Signals For Tea (Avant 039; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

GREG COHEN - Moment To Moment (DIW 928; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

DEFUNKT [JOE BOWIE et al] - Heroes (DIW 838; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

DISCO BHANGRA:WEDDING BANDS FROM RAJASTHAN [V.A. ] - Disco Bhangra (Avant 031; Japan) SEALED COPY
CD $25

ERIK FRIEDLANDER'S CHIMERA - Chimera (Avant 057; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

DOUG HAMMOND With STEVE COLEMAN/BYARD LANCASTER et al - Spaces (DIW 359; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

RONALD SHANNON JACKSON & THE DECODING SOCIETY With JEF LEE JOHNSON/DAVE FIUCZYNSKI/DOM RICHARDS - Raven Roc (DIW 862; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

LATIN JAZZ - Live From Soundscape (DIW 407; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

MISHA MENGELBERG TRIO With BRAD JONES/JOEY BARON - Who's Bridge (Avant 038; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

IKUE MORI With MARC RIBOT & ROBERT QUINE - Painted Desert (Avant 030; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

DAVID MURRAY - Jug-A-Lug (DIW 894; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

DAVID MURRAY And MILFORD GRAVES - Real Deal (DIW 867; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

DAVID MURRAY OCTET With DAVE BURRELL/HUGH RAGIN/WILBER MORRIS/CRAIG S HARRIS et al - Picasso (DIW 879; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

DAVID MURRAY QUARTET - Long Goodbye: A Tribute To Don Pullen (DIW 930; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

DAVID MURRAY/JAMES NEWTON QUINTET With JOHN HICKS/FRED HOPKINS/ANDREW CYRILLE - David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW 906; Japan)
CD $20

SUNNY MURRAY With ALBERT AYLER/DON CHERRY/HENRY GRIMES/LOUIS WORRELL/LEROI JONES [AMIRI BARAKA] - Sonny's Time Now (DIW 355; Japan) SEALED COPY
CD $35

MUSIC REVELATION ENSEMBLE [JAMES BLOOD ULMER/DAVID MURRAY et al] - Elec. Jazz (DIW 839; Japan) sealed copy
CD $30

ROBERT MUSSO With DAVE LIEBMAN/BILL LASWELL/BYARD LANCASTER/BERNIE WORRELL/CHARLES BURNHAM et al - Innermedium (DIW 416; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $30

'BIG' JOHN PATTON With JOHN ZORN/ED CHERRY/KENNY WOLLESEN - Minor Swing (DIW 896; Japan) SEALED COPY
CD $25

ARTHUR RHAMES TRIO - Live From Soundscape (DIW 401; Japan) SEALED COPY
CD $25

[JAMIE] SAFT/[CUONG] VU With ANDREW D'ANGELO/JIM BLACK - Ragged Jack (Avant 068; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

JENNY SCHEINMAN QUARTET - Live at Yoshi's (Avant 045; Japan) sealed copy
CD $25

SUN RA & His ARKESTRA - Live From Soundscape (DIW 388; Japan)
CD $30

JAMES BLOOD ULMER With QUARTETTE INDIGO [JOHN BLAKE/GAYLE DIXON/RON LAWRENCE/AKUA DIXON TURRE] - Harmolodic Guitar With Strings (DIW 878; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $30

DAVID S WARE QUARTET With MATTHEW SHIPP/WILLIAM PARKER/WHIT DICKEY - Earthquation (DIW 892; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $25

[JOHN ZORN/MIKE PATTON] WEIRD LITTLE BOY - Weird Little Boy (Avant 043; Japan) SEALED COPY!
CD $40


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THE DMG RECOMMENDED NYC GIG LIST WILL BE CONDENSED FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, SINCE WE ARE CURATING THE ENTIRE MONTH AT THE STONE



TONY SCHERR with ANTON FIER & CATHERINE POPPER!

MONDAY DEC 11th - 9pm
&
MONDAY DEC 18th - 9pm

At MARION'S - 354 Bowery (bet. E. 4th & Great Jones)
just a few steps from DMG!!!

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Saturday, December 9, 10 PM
Brecht Forum 451 West St, NYC
Ras Moshe Quartet:
Ras Moshe- tenor sax & flute, Jackson Krall- drums, Steve Swell- trombone, Burton Greene - piano

Thursday, Dec 21 9 pm
Zebulon 258 Wythe Ave
Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn (Bedford-1st stop on L train in Bklyn)
(free entry, great food and drinks)


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wednesday night of the ravished limbs
in DECEMBER

DEC 6
8PM - RON HORTON QUINTET
Ron Horton will be performing music from his latest cd, Everything In a Dream, Fresh Sounds New Talent. David Adler of Jazz Times says of the cd, "On this CD, Horton's virtuosity and imagination exceed (his) remarkable Subtextures CD of 2003. These pieces cover a wide sonic spectrum and feature improvisation and ensemble writing at its highest level." Horton's ensemble will include Michael Blake (tenor sax), Tom Beckham (vibes), Ben Allison (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums).
10PM - THE BEN ALLISON QUARTET
Ron Horton ö trumpet, Steve Cardenas ö guitar, Ben Allison ö bass, Gerald Cleaver - drums; A band that knows exactly what it is doing at all times - Allisonâs compositions are complex yet slyly surprising ö you donât realize exactly how catchy they are until you find yourself humming them." (NPR). Cowboy Justice, Ben's most forward thinking album to date, reached #1 on the CMJ (College Music Journal) radio charts and with it "Allison changes parts÷timekeeping, mood-setting, harmony, counterpoint÷more often than Peter Sellers in an Ealing Studios movie, and just as naturally and wittily" (Absolute Sound). The band's been busy touring in Europe and the US and is at the height of its powers.

DEC 13
7 - MIDNIGHT
A SPECIAL CONCERT TO BENEFIT KERMIT DRISCOLL
Bassist Kermit Driscoll has been battling late-stage Lyme disease for the past several months. All proceeds from this evening's concerts will go directly to helping he and his family in this time of financial stress.
7:00: THE OTHER QUARTET: Ohad Talmor, Russ Johnson, Pete McCann, Mark Ferber
8:00: DAVE DOUGLAS: with Mark Feldman....others TBA...
9:00: MICK ROSSI'S ANTI-MATTER BAND. Mick Rossi, Ron Horton, Billy Drewes, Marcus Rojas, Mike Sarin, Charlie Descarfino
10:00 BEN MONDER: w/ Chris Lightcap, Satoshi Takeishi
11:00 Russ Johnson's SAVE BIG; w/ John O'gallagher, Kermit Driscoll, Mark Ferber $25 cover

DEC 20
8 & 10PM
GERALD CLEAVER & UNCLE JUNE
Craig Taborn: piano, Drew Gress: bass, Tony Malaby: tenor saxophone, Mat Maneri: viola. Up-South, ill-rational conjurations for a whole mess of folks. Sets tonight being recorded for forthcoming album.

DEC 27
8PM
REUBEN RADDING TRIO - Matt Moran, vibes; Matt Bauder, reeds; Reuben Radding, double bass
Reuben Radding's INTERSECTIONS (Pine Ear) is a blend of counterpoint-driven chamber-improv and dodecaphonic jazz, influenced by English change ringing, Schoenberg, and Jimmy Giuffre. "This is complex and demanding music, executed with grace and precision." --Jazz Times; "Radding has a fertile and wide-ranging imagination." --Signal to Noise
10PM
PECK ALLMOND KALIMBA KOLLECTIVE
Kenny Wollesen drums, bass kalimba, Rufus Cappadocia 5-string electric cello, Bonga Jean-Baptiste Haitian drum, kalimba, Peck Allmond kalimba, flute, trumpet, saxophone


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BARBES
376 9th St. at 6th ave, Brooklyn
718 965 9177 www.barbesbrooklyn
f train to seventh ave in park slope
shows at 8pm and 10pm-12am $8 each


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This week at Tonic
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)

--Fri, Dec 08-- curated by John Zorn
* FULL FORCE 2: The new rock complexity: Gutbucket plus Blind Idiot God plus Kayo Dot at 8pm
* The Bunker upstairs at 11:30pm
* The Bunker at 10pm

--Sat, Dec 09-- curated by John Zorn
* FULL FORCE 2: The new rock complexity: Electric Kompany plus Ocrilim (Mick Barr of Orthrelm) plus Time of Orchids at 8pm
* One Self (DJ Vadim) at Midnight
* Shades of Brown: Sight & Sound in subTonic at 9pm

--Sun, Dec 10--
* The Four Bags plus Ted Reichman & Anthony Burr at 8pm

--Mon, Dec 11--
* Angela Desveaux plus Archer Prewitt Band at 8pm

--Wed, Dec 13--
* Reverand Glasseye plus Beat Circus at 8pm
* Socket with Billy Martin, Eyvind Kang, Kato Hideki, Grant Calvin Weston, Shelley Hirsch & Shahzad Ismaily at 10pm
* Pure Fire in subTonic at 8:30pm

--Thu, Dec 14--
* The Green Olive plus Salt & Samovar plus La Laque at 8pm

--Fri, Dec 15--
* NIME at 8pm
* POING featuring Maja Ratkje at Midnight
* The Bunker in subTonic at 10pm

--Sat, Dec 16--
* Electric Kulintang: Susie Ibarra & Roberto Rodriguez at 8:30pm
* Amir ziV's DROID at 10:30pm
* Costanza at Midnight
* Shades of Brown: Sight & Sound in subTonic at 9pm


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