V/A - 2nd Juju Anniversary: A Lucky Selection

Mr. Lucky is a veteran in the trade of music-blogging and sonic-sharity. He has created, murdered and survived no less than 13 music blogs since 2006, such as Orang Aural, Squeezo, Cut-Out, Border Music, Infinity in Sound, Cineville, Mr. Lucky and a thousand others, endowing the sharosphere with a million sounds of his choice just for the love of humanity. Currently he is profitably running a psychic hut for the mystic misfits of our era, his longest venture so far.

Mr. Lucky was not only an inspiration for the creation of Bravo Juju but has also been a supporter, an ally and a friend of the Ewing Clan almost since day one. We were thus very happy when one of his secretaries informed us that Mr. Lucky had accepted our little challenge: to make a selection of some of the music he had enjoyed the most in the Bravo catalogue for the past two years, and create a compilation to mark the anniversary - no limits whatsoever. But one needs limits, of course, and Lucky decided to restrict his selection to artists he discovered here over this 2-year span. In the end, he produced a fine, diverse, and very personalized collection of 16 tracks, to which he was also kind enough to add a brilliant cover.

We can't think of a better way to celebrate two years of Jujuness than to invite one of our readers/listeners to offer us this sort of selection/feedback. A warm thank you to Lucky for all the work.
There are no plans to murder J.R. yet.

bravo juju | 2nd anniversary
a lucky selection

♠ 1
Dig d'Diz & Mondriaan String Quartet - Ontaarde Moeders (Unnatural Mothers): Moeder (Mother 1) (1996)
- from "Dig d'Diz meets the Mondriaan String Quartet"

♠ 2.
Rova Saxophone Quartet - Escape from Zero Village (1981)
- from "As Was"

♠ 3.
Alejandro Viñao - Go (1) - tape composition (1981)
- from "Hildegard's Dream"

♠ 4.
Robert Marcel Lepage - Le Sourire de la Joconde (1992)
- from "Ambiances Magnétiques: La Bastringue Migratoire - vol. 1"

♠ 5.
Lata Mangeshkar & Padmini Shivangi - Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973)
- from RD Burman's soundtrack "Yaadon Ki Baaraat"

♠ 6.
Balinese Gamelan - Angklung kembang kirang (1993)
- from "Anthologie des Musiques de Bali Volume 2 - Gamelan Virtuoses"

♠ 7.
Lonnie Johnson (w/ Blind John Davis, Andrew Harris) - He's a Jelly-Roll Baker (1942)
- from "She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes"

♠ 8.
Henry Mancini - Your Father's Feathers (1961)
- from "Hatari!"

♠ 9.
Orkest De Volharding - Misha Mengelberg: Dressoir (1991)
- from "Trajekten"

♠ 10.
Peter Blegvad & John Greaves - Like A Baby (1982)
- from "State of the Union"

♠ 11.
Dhol, Divali percussions at Haridwar (1998)
from "Ganga - Les Musiques du Gange"

♠ 12.
Kaffe Matthews - Skagerrak: The Air Hostess (1999)
- from "cd Cécile"

♠ 13.
Joe McPhee Po Music - Blues for New Chicago (1981)
- from "Topology"

♠ 14.
Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys - Dirty Dog (1936)
- from "Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing"

♠ 15.
New Winds (Robert Dick, Ned Rothenberg, JD Parran) - St. Louis Thank You Notes (1989)
- from "Digging it Harder from Afar"

♠ 16
Sentiu Dukun - Tari Belian (Benuaq) - a ritual healing ceremony (1997-98)
- from "Bornéo: Musiques des Dayaks et des Punans"


total time: 75'27
Compiled by Lucky.


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V/A - Zenial Reworked (2003)

Lukasz Andrzej Szalankiewicz is a Polish digital sound designer and multimedia collaborator who has worked since 1994 under the name Zenial and, later, also as Palsecam. Continuing the tradition begun with last year's (highly recommended) "Reworked" for Black Faction, a collection of artists from around the world have a go at Zenial's original material.

Here the tracks run the gamut from minimalism to noise. The first few, collaborations with Kasper T. Toeplitz and Maciek Szymczuk, are subtle enough - full of digital crickets, restrained noise and melodies, glitch rhythms and steady electronic hum. Then KK. Null rudely awakens anyone who might have been lulled to sleep with an unforgiving swathe of noise. Andrew Lagowski's first track offers more blips, smears and bass but the second (as well as the following Andrew Duke & Zenial track) moves into subliminal ambient territory. Vidna Obmana wraps windy textures around a repetitive bass/rhythm line while Amir Baghiri's near ten minutes gradually becomes one of his own "Yalda" tracks replete with tribal drumming and seething washes.

Two of Zenial's tracks (three are credited solely to him) are relatively tame, crackling and cooing tiny rhythmic melodies and murmurs while the other juxtaposes truncated Hip-Hop samples with electronic abstractions. Jason Wietlespach & Jon Mueller (both of the Crouton Music collective) add saxophone and found sound sort of percussion to the electronic sputtering while Tetsuo Furudate plays with deep gong-like tones. Vivo are a label to watch from here on [brainwashed.com]

1. Kasper T Toeplitz & Zenial - Van Helsing Froz
2. Maciek Szymczuk & Zenial - Zenial's Theme Remix
3. K.K. Null - Echoes From Lamberton Remix
4. Andrew Lagowski - Cyclosynapsia Remix
5. Andrew Lagowski - Aktyb7ff Remix
6. Andrew Duke & Zenial - IB7: Ludojad
7. Vidna Obmana - Palsecam Theme Recycled
8. Amir Baghiri - Ilustracja #1 / E-nimalic Remix
9. Zenial - Sanok 13
10. Zenial - Zenzo
11. Jason Wietlespach, Jon Mueller & Zenial - Angst
12. Zenial - Hippi
13. Tetsuo Furudate - Hamlet Remix
14. Zenial - Untitled
15. Zbigniew Karkowski - Sunset Remix [multimedia avi by Neon/Piotr Nierobisz]

Design by Krzysztof Slaby
Released by Vivo Records in 2003

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V/A - Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing (Box-Set)

Secret Jazz: The Swinging Side of Western Swing
by Norman Weinstein

Western Swing is a musical genre wonderfully described by its leading historian Cary Ginell as "a bastard child that neither country nor jazz is willing to accept into their own house. In my opinion they are an important part of both genres." Jazz historian Ted Gioia in this thoughtful The History of Jazz, while also omitting any mention of Western Swing, does address a key reason for its neglect among jazz listeners: For example, most chronicles of musical activity in the 1920s will draw an implicit delineation between popular music, jazz, and classical composition. Hence, accounts of jazz tend to present a polarized landscape in which hot bands (Henderson, Ellington, Goodman, Basie) thrive, develop, and change in complete isolation from other musical currents.

Such categorizations may make the narrative structure of a music history book flow more smoothly, but much is lost in the process. Strange to tell, I heard an album of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, the best known Western Swing band of all time, the same year I first heard a Coltrane album. Who I was many decades ago could not have allowed myself to conceive of Bob Wills and John Coltrane as belonging to the same musical universe. True, I heard Wills as a creator of eccentric mutation of big band swing, but the steel guitar and fiddles? And, oh, they looked so Texan redneck on the album photo, so unhip. Age brings with it an appreciation of musical hybrids, those defined out by academic music histories as well as those predicated on reverse-racist stereotypes.

'The pure products of America go crazy,' wrote the esteemed poet William Carlos Williams, and if America has produced 'pure' musical products unique to its national identity, Western Swing must be counted among them. Part of its purity of form is its wholehearted embrace of jazz. The simplest way to define the genre is to identify it as a style evolving from a hybridization of black and white Southwestern string band styles encompassing a broad variety of jazz, blues, and country music characteristics. Strings bands began in several parts of the country with fiddlers and guitarists performing a variety of old folk, blues, and minstrel tunes. When Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, the subject of the only authoritative book on Western Swing, written by Cary Ginell, added a piano and Brown's crooning voice (think early Bing Crosby) to the string band format, Western Swing emerged. And there was one other unlikely jazz flavor instrumentally Brown added: the steel string guitar of Bob Dunn. Dunn, as unlikely as it would seem for a steel guitarist circa 1935, had as his musical idol the great jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden. So he improvised on steel guitar with Teagarden's trombone sound in mind. And less we neglect the piano man, Fred 'Papa' Calhoun certainly performed with a sophisticated awareness of Jelly Roll Morton and Earl Hines.

For any Western Swing novice on a budget, but with a deep hankering for a superbly sequenced overview of the style, there is the four disc box on the Proper label, Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys: the Golden Years of Western Swing. All of this suggested listening involves going to your favorite music store and veering away from where jazz CDs are displayed. It may feel a bit odd to rub shoulders with the Dolly Parton set, but the rewards are stunning. Next time you hear about 'the West Coast' jazz style, think of the wild West style as a neglected forerunner. More stars shine bright in the heart of Texas than you may have ever realized.

DISC 1: THE EYES OF TEXAS (1932-1936)

1. Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys
2. Nancy Jane - Fort Worth Doughboys
3. Oh You Pretty Woman - Milton Brown & His Brownies
4. Brownie's Stomp - Milton Brown & His Brownies
5. Osage Stomp - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
6. Who Walks in When I Walk Out - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
7. Boyd's Blue - Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers
8. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers
9. Sadie Greee (The Vamp of New Orleans) - Roy Newman & His Boys
10. Who's Sorry Now - Milton Brown & His Brownies
11. Down by the O-H-I-O - Milton Brown & His Brownies
12. Barn Dance Rag - Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers
13. Never No More Blues - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
14. Too Busy - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
15. Rambler's Stomp - Doug Bine & His Dixie Ramblers
16. Eyes of Texas - Milton Brown & His Brownies
17. Yellow Rose of Texas - Milton Brown & His Brownies
18. Red's Tight Like That - The Tune Wranglers
19. Buster's Crawdad Song - The Tune Wranglers
20. Big Daddy Blues - Jimmie Revard's Oklahoma Playboys
21. Feather Your Nest - Lem Fowler's Washboard Wonders
22. Dirty Dog - Jimmie Revard
23. My Galveston Gal - Milton Brown & His Brownies
24. El Rancho Grande - The Tune Wranglers
25. Texas Sand - The Tune Wranglers



DISC 2: PLAYBOY STOMP (1937)

1. Women Women Women - Shelly Lee Alley
2. Mean Old Lonesome Blues - Buddy Jones
3. Bring It on Down to My House - Derwood Brown & His Musical Brownies
4. Corrine, Corrina - Cliff Bruner
5. One Sweet Letter From You - Cliff Bruner
6. Fort Worth Stomp - The Crystal Springs Ramblers
7. Women ('Bout to Make a Wreck Out of Me) - Buddy Jones
8. Streamlined Mama - Buddy Jones
9. Blue Guitars - The Light Crust Doughboys
10. Dirty Dog Blues - Mountain Mountaineers
11. Mississippi Sandman - Modern Mountaineers
12. Hot Tamale Pete - Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets
13. Married Man Blues - The Nite Owls
14. There'll Be Some Changes Made - W. Lee O'Daniel & his Hillbilly Boys
15. Dirty Hangover Blues - W. Lee O'Daniel & his Hillbilly Boys
16. Lose Your Blues and Laugh at Life - Jimmie Revard's Oklahoma Playboys
17. Range Rider Stomp - The Range Riders
18. Hold That Critter Down - The Sons of the Pioneers
19. Chicken Reel Stomp - The Tune Wranglers
20. Playboy Stomp - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
21. Moonlight in Oklahoma - Smokey Wood
22. Keep on Truckin' - Smokey Wood
23. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Derwood Brown & His Musical Brownies
24. Just Once Too Often - The Light Crust Doughboys
25. Loudmouth - Modern Mountaineers



DISC 3: TOBACCO STATE SWING (1938-1941)

1. Kangaroo Blues - Cliff Bruner
2. Pine State Honky Tonk - Claude Casey & His Pine State Playboys
3. Better Quit It Now - Adolph Hofner
4. Pussy, Pussy, Pussy - The Light Crust Doughboys
5. I'll Keep My Old Guitar - Adolph Hodner His Texans
6. Cowboy's Swing - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys
7. Lonesome Road Blues - W. Lee O'Daniel & his Hillbilly Boys
8. Liza Pull Down the Shades - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
9. Truck Driver's Blues - Cliff Bruner
10. My Untrue Cowgirl - Jewel Cowboys
11. San Antonio Rose - Cliff Bruner
12. Gonna Get Tight - Sunshine Boys
13. Let's Make Believe We're Sweethearts - The Light Crust Doughboys
14. Mississippi Muddle - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys
15. Billy Boy - Louise Massey & Her Westerners
16. Good Gracious Gracie - The Light Crust Doughboys
17. Mean Mean Mama (From Meana) - The Light Crust Doughboys
18. Jones Stomp - Port Arthur Jubileers
19. Rockin' Rollin' Mama - Buddy Jones
20. Blue Steel Blues - Ted Daffan's Texans
21. New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
22. Bob Wills Special - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
23. Pussywillow - Port Arthur Jubileers
24. Tobacco State Swing - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys



DISC 4: OAKIE BOOGIE (1941-1947)

1. Draftboard Blues - Cliff Bruner
2. Whatcha Gonna Do - The Hi-Flyers
3. Cotton Eyed Joe - Adolph Hofner
4. Sally's Got a Wooden Leg - The Sons of the West
5. What's the Matter With Deep Elem - Sunshine Boys
6. Li'l Liza Jane - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
7. Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter
8. Forgive Me One More Time - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
9. Shame on You - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
10. Steel Guitar Stomp - Hank Penny
11. Boogie Woogie Boy - Porky Freeman Trio
12. That's What I Like About the South - Cliff Bruner
13. Stay a Little Longer - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
14. Oklahoma Blues - Zeke Clements
15. Oklahoma Stomp - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
16. Nails in My Coffin - Jerry Irby With His Texas Ranchers
17. Bob Wills Two Step - Luke Wills Rhythm Busters
18. I Got Texas in My Soul - Tex Williams & the Western Caravan
19. Wildcat Mama - Hank Penny
20. Betty Ann - Jesse Ashlock
21. One Year Ago Tonight - Don Churchill & Texas Mavericks
22. Oakie Boogie - Johnny Tyler
23. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams & the Western Caravan
24. Square Dance Boogie - Johnnie Lee Wills
25. Humpty Dumpty Heart - Hank Thompson

Box-set released by Proper Records in 1999.

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V/A - Voices of Forgotten Worlds : Traditional Music of Indigenous People (1996)

"Another amazing double CD compilation published by Ellipsis Arts, of world wide ethnic and religious music, this time centered on the voice, on singing traditional songs. One can hear on this excellent recording sounds springing all across from South America to Japan, passing through Northern Europe, Africa (Northern and Sub-Saharan), Australia and Asia.
The small book that comes with the CD portrays an interesting initiation to the documented music on this great compilation." ~ Ludwig Vanessa

"Excellent samples of various groups and locations all over the world. The range is from Tuvan throat singers, Inuit songs, the Australian Aborigne digeridoo, three Native American pieces among others, but there is something from every geographical area and musical style. If you are interested in a wide variety of groups or would like to hear samples of various groups, this CD set is usefula as it gives a taste and an introduction to different ethnic group music styles. The accompanying booklet is a very useful resource in learning more about the music, the culture and in some cases, the performers of these pieces.
The book that accompanies the CD is superbly produced with high quality color pictures, notes about the artists, descriptions of the culture, and remarks about the recording process for each track. As a one-purchase introduction to the music of indigenous peoples, it can't be beat. But be careful for after reading about and listening to this music, you may find yourself wanting to purchase lots more music you only get to sample here." ~ amazon customers review

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Track list:

CD1
1-01 Tuva Folk Ensemble Tuvans (5:04)
1-02 Nakamoto Matsuko Ainu (1:41)
1-03 Nakamoto Matsuko Ainu (0:46)
1-04 Las Golondrinas Viajeras Garifuna (4:36)
1-05 Kantus Ensemble From Bautista Saavedra Province* Quechuan (3:22)
1-06 Ole Larsen Gaino Máhte Lemet Elle (1:29)
1-07 Elen Inga Eira Sara Migal Elle Gáren (1:19)
1-08 Bunun People Of Taiwan* Bisitaita (2:40)
1-09 Kanak People Of New Caledonia* Danse De Toka Nod (4:20)
1-10 Australian Aborigines Dalubun (2:06)
1-11 Musa Jan And Zahir Jan Pashtu Ghazal (4:20)
1-12 Jyãpu Musicians Of Guita Tol Mãrsi Mãlãsri (2:06)
1-13 Inuit From Siorapaluk* Imîna Imîna (4:44)
1-14 Inuit From Siorapaluk* Navssâpaluk Sadorona (4:27)
1-15 Maya Singers* Son Sventa N'Ahual San Lorenzo (Song For Our Lord San Lorenzo) (3:24)
1-16 Ashiq Hasan Trio Koroghlu (Azerbaijani) (0:31)
1-17 Maori People Of New Zealand* He Toa Takitini / Ka Tohia Atu Koe / Ki Okoiki (2:26)
1-18 Rashaida Rashaida Dance (4:57)
1-19 Monks Of Gyütö Tantris College* Gyütö Tantra (3:58)
1-20 Tashi Palkit And Isewang Namgyal Kidar Ghungsgot Thonpo (The High Sky) (4:33)

CD2
2-01 Honiata Musicians Of Guadalcanal Island Mbumbusa (Warrior's Cry) (1:25)
2-02 Villagers From Panueli Vinango (Voyage By Canoe) (3:45)
2-03 Ba-Benjellé Pygmies* Elengi Ceremony (Excerpt) (3:52)
2-04 Raman Sawut And Osman Oskur Nazirkhom (3:20)
2-05 Central Mekragnoti Of Brazil No'ôk-'ãmõr (Learning The Songs Of The Corn) (4:49)
2-06 Tolai Musicians* Akuka (Tubuan Dance) (3:52)
2-07 Gamelan Salunding Of Tenganan Gending Sekar Gadung (Excerpt) (4:14)
2-08 Turkmen Untitled (Turkmen Folk Song) (2:43)
2-09 Gondang Sabangunan Ensemble Batara Guru (5:40)
2-10 Wodaabe Of Dakoro* Lelore (4:40)
2-11 Bad Canyon Wellpinit Singers Stick Game Song (3:28)
2-12 Edward Lee Natay Navajo Squaw Dance (3:07)
2-13 Northern Cree Singers Of Saskatchewan* Squaw Dance Song (2:15)
2-14 Hukwe Ubi Zawose* Sote Tulifurahia Kama Siku Ya Arusi (Lyrics To Right) (6:07)

Originally published by Ellipsis Arts in 1993, reissued in 1996 as a book-cd set

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V/A - Kimus #4 (1991)

A Hat Art Sampler presenting alternate takes and unreleased titles.
Released in a limited edition of 1500 copies in 1991.
Cover Art by Jean Villard.
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Fritz Hauser & Stephan Grieder
The Mirror (1989)

1. Der Spiegel
2. Area (2)

Stephan Grieder - Organ of St. Leodegar, Lucerne
Fritz Hauser - Cymbals, Drums, Timpani
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Franz Koglmann
A White Line (1989)

3. At the Jazz Band Ball (2)
4. Aristony (2)
5. A White Line (2)
6. Je? (2)

Franz Klogmann - Flugelhorn & Trumpet
Mario Arcari - Oboe
Tony Coe - Clarinet & Tenor Sax
J-C Mastnak - French Horn
Raoul Herget - Tuba
Paul Bley - Piano
Helmut Federle - Accordion
Burkhard Stangl - Guitar
Klaus Koch - Bass
Gerry Hemingway - Drums
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Anthony Braxton
Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions (1989)

7. Wow
8. Dreams (2)
9. Lennies Pennies (2)

Anthony Braxton - Alto Sax, Sopranino, Flute
John Raskin - Baritone Sax
Dred Scott - Piano
Cecil McBee - Bass
Andrew Cyrille - Drums
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Horace Tapscott
The Dark Tree (1989)

10. The Dark Tree

John Carter - Clarinet
Horace Tapscott - Piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Andrew Cyrille - Drums
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V/A - State of the Union (1992)

STATE OF THE UNION

A Collection of 68 short works curated by Elliott Sharp. Avant, Jazz, Rock, Noise, and all the Downtown space between. A good overview of what (some) Popular Music sounded like before the bloody 90s.

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1992#1

1. David Weinstein - Non-Verbal News (1:00)
2. Barbara Barg - Hey Geoge (1:00)
3. Borbetomagus & Voice Crack - Westworld (1:03)
4. Soldier String Quartet - Patchwork Quilt For Those Now Gone (0:55)
5. Margot Mifflin - Backlash (1:03)
6. Krackhouse - The Whole World Turned Upside Down (0:53)
7. Ikue Mori - Frankspeach/Tonge And Groove (0:59)
8. Anthony Coleman - Patches '91 (0:56)
9. God Is My Co-Pilot - Role Model (0:55)
10. Lois V. Vierk & Ngoneni Cele - Nkosi Sikelel 'l Africa (1:07)
11. Marc Ribot - Motherless Child (1:04)
12. Vicki Stansbury - African Spit Poems (0:58)
13. Gen Ken Montgomery - Keystone Model CC-16 (1:03)
14. John Zorn & Yamatsuka Eye - Cowlick Pussyman (1:07)
15. David Fulton - Overture For The 90's (1:06)
16. Nicholas Collins - Tropical Boubou (0:52)
17. Marc Sloan - Murk (1:21)
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1992#2

18. Syd Straw - What I Heard (0:54)
19. David Linton - Land Du Lack (1:11)
20. Pamela Z - State (1:09)
21. Grafted Media Devil - A Minute To Pray (0:57)
22. Mofungo - Down He Looked, At Her Pocketbook (0:51)
23. Henry Kaiser - Moosylvania Perestroika Guitar Solo (0:59)
24. Mad Arab - The Cold Silent Treatment (1:04)
25. David Shea - Quiet Please! (0:54)
26. Alex Noyes - Vocalize (0:59)
27. Wanda Phipps & M. Doughty & Jonathan Maron - Marching To Euphoria (1:04)
28. Michelle Kinney - An Arrival (0:58)
29. Brian Karl - Inspirational Message (0:54)
30. Lee Ann Brown & Sarah Boyd Blair - The Of A The (0:59)
31. A Thousand Tiny Fingers - Ready, Set, Shred (1:09)
32. Leslie Ross - A New World Sympathy (0:54)
33. Hal Willner - Jerry's Hymn Of The Republic (1:13)
34. Shelley Hirsch - Hallucinogen (0:55)
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1982 #1

35. John Lurie - Good Morning Dear (1:05)
36. Felipe Orrego - One Minute (1:04)
37. Peter Blegvad & John Greaves - Like A Baby (1:01)
38 - Diana Meckley - A Small Motion (1:02)
39. Bill Obrecht - Cornered (1:09)
40. Pulsallama - May (1:44)
41. Bartok Liebermann - As Told To Andrew Zev Weinstein (0:35)
42. Michael Boom - Misery Loop (0:44)
43. Squat Theatre - Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free (1:28)
44. A.C. Chubb - Rough Translations Will Be Provided For The Ancient Inscriptions (0:50)
45. Gerry Lindahl - What's To Come (1:00)
46. Arto Lindsay & Toni Nogueira - Due Pay To (1:05)
47. Social Climbers - Standing In The Need Of Prayer (1:00)
48. Sonorexia - F Troop (0:57)
49. Tim Wright (2) - My Town (1:00)
50. Spalding Gray - Address (1:23)
51. Thi-Linh Le (w/ Laswell, Beinhorn, Skopelitis) - No Regrets (1:18)
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1982 #2

52. Christian Marclay - Disc Composition #23 (1:07)
53. Adele Bertei - Baal (1:17)
54. Ivan Kupala - Discoration Of Independence (1:09)
55. Charles K. Noyes - Discrepancies (0:59)
56. Chris Vine - Terminal Activity (1:02)
57. Tuli Kupferberg - A Rant (1:20)
58. Sue Hanel - Agenda (1:06)
59. Butch Morris & Jessica Hagedorn - Crayon Bondage (1:13)
60. F.A. Nettelbeck & Wayne Horvitz - Beer Notation (0:40)
61. Martin Bisi & Victoria Galvez Bisi - Bear Dance (0:54)
62. Melody Sumner - The Time Is Now (1:02)
63. Marina La Palma - World Whirl (1:15)
64. Bob Holman & Vito Ricci - Panic DJ's State Of The Union (1:10)
65. Artless Time - Cherry Blossom (1:12)
66. Fred Frith & Tina Curran - I'm Still Here And I Know What Time It Is (1:06)
67. Patrick Sumner - Precious Chemicals And Dice (1:15)
68. Hi-Sheriffs Of Blue - HMZ (1:08)


Tracks 01-34 released in 1992.
Tracks 35-68 originally released in 1982.

Collection released by Muworks in 1993.

"ALL PROFITS DONATED TO NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP"

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V/A - Women in Electronic Music (1977)

The original release featured Charles Amirkhanian’s selections of electro-acoustic works by seven women who were, or would become, prominent composers of their day. Although the 1977 album title (New Music for Electronic & Recorded Media) did not refer to gender, the project sought to raise the visibility of women in classical music. The composers selected were Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Roberts, Ruth Anderson, and the soon-to-be well-known Laurie Anderson.

As with many technological developments from the beginning of the twentieth century that came to fruition after World War II, the ideas of early electro-acoustic composers outpaced the readily available technology. For example, Johanna M. Beyer’s 1939 Music of the Spheres, which opens the CD, allowed violins to be substituted for the three electronic instruments specified in her original score. The first performance of Music of the Spheres as conceived by Beyer was produced and recorded in 1977 specifically for this album. After a lion’s roar and triangle duet opening, the piece unfolds with one of the electronic instruments performing an ostinato figure that gradually accelerates and then decelerates while the other two electronic instruments present a two-voice contrapuntal melody, punctuated throughout by occasional triangle attacks.

The repetitive motorized sounds that open Annea Lockwood’s World Rhythms are jolting after the serenity of Beyer’s work. A composition exploring the polyrhythms of nature, a series of initial water sounds precedes an overlapping succession of recordings of pulsars, earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, rivers, peepers, fire, storms, waves, and breathing. Recordings of nature and the shared journey are important elements in Lockwood’s work, and would be displayed again on a larger scale in her well-known A Sound Map of the Hudson River (1982) and the recently completed epic A Sound Map of the Danube.

Oliveros’s 1965 San Francisco Tape Music Center work Bye Bye Butterfly demonstrates her early use of electronic music technology to create an improvised real-time performance piece. The studio equipment available to her was too large and bulky to move easily into a concert hall, so her works in this style were improvised directly to magnetic tape. She continued to work on this concept, which she called the Expanded Instrument System (EIS), and its current digital incarnation, created with design and programming contributions by Panaiotis, David Gamper, and Zevin Polzin, remains central to much of the music that Oliveros composes today. Bye Bye Butterfly opens with a primary texture of electronic combination tones processed through tape delay feedback loops. Halfway through, a recording of Madame Butterfly is introduced and processed in a similar fashion (a precursor to the digital sampling and looping we take for granted in music today). Oliveros explained that she simply wanted to include an LP recording in her new composition, and her choice of the Madame Butterfly disc was completely random. This chance selection, however, can also be heard as a metaphorical goodbye to Pauline Oliveros, the orchestral French horn player from Houston, as this spirit from the past mingles with the new sounds of the experimental composer she had become.

Appalachian Grove I, inspired by mountain fiddle music, is an up-tempo, computer-generated composition by the highly inventive and under-recognized composer Laurie Spiegel. Produced at Bell Labs in 1974 using Max Mathews’s GROOVE programming system, Spiegel says the piece was “composed in reaction to an overdose of heavy, sad, introspective contemporary music.” Spiegel’s simple computer-generated timbres result in the discrete, fast-moving dots of sound that dominate the composition. The pointillistic opening leads to a passage of sustained sounds that then return to the initial texture. A broader selection of Spiegel’s musical experiments from this period can be heard on her EMF recording Obsolete Systems.

The two Laurie Anderson pieces that close the CD, New York Social Life and Time to Go, gave the world its first exposure to the experimental composer/performance artist who would soon achieve mainstream success with the rise of Oh, Superman on the British pop charts. New York Social Life follows Anderson through a day of quick conversations often beginning with “Hey, how are you,” and ending with “really busy now,” “we should really get together,” and “got to go.” Interspersed are a gallery owner’s lament that “It’s just not like it was in the ‘60s, those were the days,” and a man from Cleveland inviting her to perform, saying her work is “not really my style, kind of trite, but listen, it’s just my opinion.” Her day ends with a friend calling to say “and listen Laurie, if you want to talk, I’ll leave my answering machine on and just give me a ring any time.” Anderson delivers her text with a waltz-like lilt accompanied by an unconventional performance on the tambura by Scott Johnson. Time to Go opens with a guitar and organ riff performed by Johnson as Anderson tells the story of Diego, a night-shift guard at the Museum of Modern Art whose job it is to snap the patrons out from their “art trances” and tell them to leave. As the story ends, a multi-tracked minimalist violin duo by Anderson thickens the texture while her voice continues to repeat the phrase “time to go.” -- Douglas Cohen

1. Johanna M. Beyer - Music Of The Spheres (1938)
Performed by The Electric Weasel Ensemble
Donald Buchla: Frequency Shifting
Brenda Hutchinson - Pulse Control
Allen Strange , David Morse , Stephen Ruppenthal - Synthesizer
Charles Amirkhanian - Triangle
2. Annea Lockwood - World Rhythms (1975)
3. Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
4. Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Grove I (1974)
5. Megan Roberts - I Could Sit Here All Day (1976)
Danny Sofer - Drums
Phill Loarie & William Novak - Voice
6. Ruth Anderson - Points (1973-74)
7. Laurie Anderson - New York Social Life (1977)
Scott Johnson - Tambura
8. Laurie Anderson - Time To Go (1977)
Scott Johnson - Guitar, Organ

Compilation by Charles Amirkhanian.
Originally released on LP by 1750 Arch Records, 1977.
CD re-release by CRI in 1997 and New World Records in 2006.

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V/A - She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes

PART I
LEMON SQUEEZERS
1. Bo Carter - Banana in Your Fruit Basket
2. Bo Carter - She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes
3. Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - What Fault You Find in Me?
4. Son House - My Black Mamma I & II
5. Big Bill Broonzy (w/ Black Bob) - Milk Cow Blues
6. Maggie Jones (w/ Satchmo & Fletch Anderson) - Anybody Here Want to Try My Cabbage
7. Lil Johnson (w/ Charles Avery) - You'll Never Miss Your Jelly Till Your Jelly Roller's Gone
8. St. Louis Bessie (Bessie Mae Smith w/ Peetie Wheatstraw & Charlie Jordan - Sugar Man Blues
9. Sara Martin ( w/ the Clarence Williams Orchestra) - Kitchen Man Blues
10. Lucille Bogan (w/ T.A. Dorsey & Tampa Red) - Coffee Grindin' Blues
11. Robert Johnson - Milkcow's Calf Blues

Part II
GRINDERS & OTHER SEX METAPHORS
12. Washboard Sam & His Washboard Band (w/ Black Bob & Big Bill Broonzy) - Barbecue
13. Bessie Jackson (w/ Lucile Bogan, W. Roland, Josh White) - Barbecue Bess
14. Jimmie Gordon (w/ H. Malcolm, Charlie McCoy, Harrison) - She Sells Good Meat
15. Lil Johnson (w/ Myrtle Jenkins, Big Bill Broonzy) - My Stove's in Good Condition
16. Lil Johnson & Her Chicago Swingers - Hottest Gal in Town
17. Bessie Smith (w/ Charlie Green, Porter Grainger) - Empty Bed Blues
18. Lonnie Johnson (w/ Blind John Davis, Andrew Harris) - He's a Jelly-Roll Baker
19. Lil Johnson (w/Black Bob, Bill Settles) - Get'em from the Peanuts Man
20 Lil Johnson (w/ Black Bob, Bill Settles) - Sam the Hot Dog Man



Recorded 1924-1942
Selection by Jean-Paul Levet
Cover Photo: Stove in John Fredrick Kitchen, Maryland 1941.
Illustration: Robert Crumb

If you don't like my sweet potato
What made you dig so deep,
Dig my potato field
Three or four times a week?
Lil' Johnson, "You'll never miss your Jelly".

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V/A - Nexsound Ringtones

An useless Nexsound collection of 57 ringtones for your mobile surveillance machine, courtesy of the following artists:

Günter Müller
Francisco Lopez
Andrey Kiritchenko
Frank Bretschneider
Kotra
Kim Cascone
Roel Meelkop
Zavoloka
Bluermutt
Arturas Bumsteinas
I/Dex
Thomas Korber
AGF
Nole Plastique

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V/A - Corbett vs. Dempsey: Eye & Ear

"In late 2004 the Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery hosted Eye & Ear, an exhibit that was showing the works of musicians who are also visual artists; this album, which was originally available during the show as a CD-R, features seven tracks by various participants.

The album starts strong with a pair of jazz duos. “Jada” is a crackly acetate of a 1950 performance by the incomparable clarinetist Pee Wee Russell and pianist Michael Snow (a painter and an experimental filmmaker, respectively). Snow’s ivory-tinkling is rather late night, but Russell’s blowing is beyond ingratiating. Then comes the 2004 reunion of Peter Brötzmann, also playing clarinet, and drummer Han Bennink. Given the participants, the reluctance with which “Take 5” rises from silence and the restraint that governs their interactions is remarkable, but the intensity of its melancholy vibe is not. Sun Ra checks in with an a cappella rejection of romance that sounds like it was sung into a cheap handheld cassette recorder. It’s really just a trifle, but it affirms his roots in cornball pre-WW II songcraft. “Dickie’s Dream” by Dave Coleman & Friends is a winning small-group swing tune from 1943 or thereabouts that betrays none of bebop’s looming impact; tap your foot and sip your drink, this tune will serve you well.

The rest of the album is of more recent vintage and mainly Midwestern provenance. Chicago-based sound artist Lou Mallozzi’s electro-acoustic orchestration of whistles, crackle and groan makes no secret of its amplifier-dependent origins, which makes the growl of Sebi Tramontana’s untreated trombone seem like a brightly inked cartoon character dropped into a grainy black and white film clip from long ago. Mark Booth, of Tiny Hairs, contributes a contemplative acoustic guitar recital whose obvious debt to David Grubbs is ameliorated by the knowledge that Grubbs doesn’t play that way much anymore. Instrument inventor Hal Rammel’s “Weave & Daze” starts with field recordings of stormy weather, but soon leaves the outdoors behind for what sounds like a document of Rammel working at his tool bench".

Bill Meyer

1. Michael Snow (piano) & Pee Wee Russell (clarinet): Jada
recorded in Chicago, 1950

2. Peter Brötzmann (a-clarinet) & Han Bennink (drums): Take 5
recorded at LOFT, Köln on 4 February 2004

3. Sun Ra (voice): I Don't Believe in Love
recorded in Chicago, circa 1956

4. Dave Coleman & Friends: Dickie's Dream
recorded in Hollywood, 1943/44

5. Sebi Tramontana (trombone) & Lou Mallozzi (turntables, CDs, tapes, microphones): #2
recorded at ESS, Chicago, June 1999

6. Mark Booth (guitar, sine wave): November
recorded in Copenhagen, 2003

7. Hal Rammel (soundscape): Weave and Raze
recorded in Wisconsin, 2002

Originally released as a limited edition audio companion piece for Corbett vs. Dempsey's "Musician <-> artist" gallery opening in Chicago, December 3 2004.
Published by Atavistic in 2006.

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V/A - The Complete Death of Cool (2001)

"The self-proclaimed Stupidest Recording Organization in the World, the Noodles Foundation, the brainchild of Si Begg, has a ramshackle, nothing's sacred attitude to the world that makes it music hilarious, exciting and beyond-diverse. The Complete Death of Cool, the title of which, like everything they do, is a sly subversion of an already existent cultural artifact, collects tracks from two vinyl-only compilations. There's 38 tracks here, by mysterious artists with names like The Buttmasters and Cabbage Head. When the veils are taken off, as on the Noodles web site, you'll see some familiar names among the participants, but the pseudonyms help add to the wild mystery of this whole thing. Beginning with a track which splices up electronic whirrings, goofy announcer voices, rock star voices, manic beats, cheesy 70's organ music and all sorts of other voices and sounds in under two minutes, The Complete Death of Cool flies all over every map, written or unwritten, before you even know what you're listening to. Throughout there's beats, rhythms and melodies of all sorts, plus a mad collection of samples, some given in straight form and some reworked for effect. It's a circus of sound from start to finish, a trip, for sure. But it's also a completely full page, an album packed with more furiously delivered sounds, ideas, jokes and surprises than you can imagine. Dissecting it all would take up volumes of books that no one would read, so don't think too hard, just let them take you on a ride". Dave Heaton

"The Complete Death Of Cool is a compression of the previously released Parts 1 & 2, with a letter from the Noodles Foundation slipped in to its sleeve, making clear their manifesto of musical equality, their love of aesthetics over fashion. Noodles is also dedicated to being "the stupidest recording organisation in the world". It's a partnership between 1970s Hammond organ wunderkind Zygmunt Janowski and that sonic disrupter with an identity-crisis, Si Begg, no doubt appearing here several times under various pseudonyms. These pair set the test tone immediately with a three-track barrage of tumbling, loopy trash, kitsch soundbites levering into huge boom-beats, petulant scratching, 80s Smurf vocoding, a tuning-dial twisterama that soon develops a lumbering funk habit. It's a complete ear-mugging, setting a precedent for 38 (count 'em) nervy, swervy, pervy, scalpel-edited vignettes. Hopefully one or two of The Buttmasters, Anal Parade and Barry Pseudonym are really Si Begg. Also on hand are Sand, their speeding noir jazz burbling with electro-harmonised trombone, Mou Ars On, flapping and glugging their disruptive freak-funk, or Cursor Miner's subversively fey electro-crooning. A further high spot is provided by the orchestrated burp-chorus of The Hibiscus Geronimo III Players, leading straight into the bass-jacking, robot sexuality of Michael Forshaw's "Work That Mutha". The Noodlers recommend a party airing, thereby keeping hold of your wanted guests and spewing the rest right out into the gutter". Martin Longley

1. ZYGMUNT JANOWSKI - Intro 2.
2. SI BEGG - New And Different Experiment
3. SI BEGG & NAVARIO SAURO - Unknown Dialect
4. SAND - Desperate
5. ROBIN MAHONEY - Sunnyside
6. THE BUTTMASTERS - Chesty
7. DEEP BURIAL - Gimme That Wine
8. DR DOBROVOLSKI - Putge
9. THE BUTTMASTERS - Dirty Tackle
10. JAMIE LIDELL - Mouth Fool
11. MOU ARS ON - Pizza Tock Baby
12. ANAL PARADE - Ansaphone
13. ZYGMUNT JANOWSKI - Rock 1
14. BARRY PSEUDONYM - Hetroskedacity
15. ROBIN MAHONEY - Harmonica Storm
16. THE HIBISCUS GERONIMO III PLAYERS - Boiled Grease Feast
17. MICHAEL FORSHAW - Work That Mutha
18. CABBAGE HEAD - Future Today
19. CURSOR MINER - Curse_Of_The_Bannister
20. THE BUTTMASTERS - Sweet Dreams
21. SAND - Take 4
22. THE BUTTMASTERS - Lawn Food
23. ROBIN MAHONEY - English Cubase
24. NEIL LANDSTRUMM - Titos Block
25. BARRY PSEUDONYM - Pissed Scratch Break
26. CABBAGE HEAD - Fun Fun Fun
27. DR KOSMOS - Holiday
28. SI BEGG - Brothers And Sisters
29. DR DOBROVOLSKI - Batcholo Mang
30. SI BEGG - Singcircle
31. CURSOR MINER - Totallyunreal
32. CURSOR MINER - T9
33. DR DOBROVOLSKI- Saxon Come From Barnsley
34. VAN DER HOOGS COUNTRY CURATIVE- Circle Obs
35. CABBAGE HEAD - Commercial Suicide
36. STEVE DIXON - I Dream Of Genie
37. THE BUTTMASTERS - Gangstairs
38. ROBIN MAHONEY - Cucumber Song

Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Released by Leaf Label & The Noodles Foundation in 2001.
"I'm not young anymore, I prefer serious music"

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V/A - Pioneers of Electronic Music

In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky, then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have important consequences for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Electronic music was born.

Over the next ten years, Ussachevsky and his collaborators established the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which Ussachevsky directed for twenty years. It was the first large electronic music center in the United States, thanks to the path-breaking support of the Rockefeller Foundation and encouragement from two of the country’s leading universities. The Center became one of the best-known and most prolific sources of electronic music in the world. All of the music on this historic reissue is the result of the pioneering work of the Center and its composers.

The guest composers and Columbia-associated composers who have produced pieces at the Center include Bülent Arel, Luciano Berio, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, Arthur Kreiger, Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, and Edgard Varèse. Ussachevsky’s own students at the Center included Jon Appleton, Wendy Carlos, Charles Dodge, Robert Moog, Alice Shields, Harvey Sollberger, and Charles Wuorinen. Of the seven composers most closely associated with the Center from its early years, six are present on this disc.

01. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Sonic Contours (1952)
02. Otto Luening - Low Speed (1952)
03. Otto Luening - Invention in Twelve Tones (1952)
04. Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space (1952)
05. Otto Luening/Vladimir Ussachevsky - Incantation (1953)
06. Otto Luening - Moonflight (1968)
07. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Piece for a Tape Recorder (1956)
08. Pril Smiley - Kolyosa (1970)
09. Bulent Arel - Stereo Electronic Music #2 (1970)
10. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Computer Piece #1 (1968)
11. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Two Sketches for a Computer Piece #1 (1971)
12. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Two Sketches for a Computer Piece #2 (1971)
13. Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms #5 (1969)
14. Alice Shields - The Transformation of Ani (1970)

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V/A - Ambiances Magnétiques: La Bastringue Migratoire Vol 1 (1996)

"After 12 years of existence and 39 records produced, the seminal Montréal new music label Ambiances Magnétiques felt the need to release its first compilation album, La Bastringue Migratoire. This retrospective CD came out as the label’s main artists (René Lussier, Jean Derome, Joane Hétu and Martin Tétreault, mostly) were about to change their musical approach. After 1996, the bulk of the label’s production will shift from deconstructed rock idioms where humor often plays a central role (Les Granules, Justine, André Duchesne, Jerry Snell) to introverted free improvisation. So La Bastringue Migratoire came at the right time, summarizing the label’s pre-1996 sound. All tracks are taken from albums already published — no unreleased material — and thus this CD offers nothing new to the dedicated fan, but the “musique actuelle” neophyte will find it a helpful sampler. Every major act on the label is represented: René Lussier (thrice if one counts the track by his duo Les Granules), Jean Derome, Martin Tétreault, Justine, Évidence, Bruire and André Duchesne, plus a few lesser-known artists such as Geneviève Letarte and Jerry Snell.
François Couture, All-Music Guide.

"The compilation disc La Bastringue Migratoire makes for a good initiation to the Ambiances Magnétiques label. About a dozen artists are represented here and, though hard to classify, their music is essentially tropes on a basic theme of "art jazz". Some approaches are fairly conventional, like Evidence’s interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s Criss Cross, while others, such as Robert Lepage’s comic-strip-inspired clarinet ditty Le Sourire de la Joconde, are admittedly bizarre. Some tracks are gentle, as in Michel Côté and Diane Labrosse’s Y tu Mirar, while others are brash, like Jerry Snell’s Life in the Suicide Riots. Musical influences present on the disc range from DJ culture in Martin Tétreault’s work, to rock in André Duchesne, to folk music of various cultures sort of sprinkled throughout all the pieces. Poetry is present in the many of the tracks but is particularly central to Genevieve Letarte’s La Ragazza. My favorite work is Les Granules’ Le Tango Qui Ne Finit Jamais -- it combines kitsch with music-craft in a way that is at once sinister and charming. If you haven’t had the pleasure of aurally ogling anything from Ambiances Magnétiques, I strongly recommend La Bastringue Migratoire.

Noah Wane in Splendid E-Zine, June 22nd 1998

1. René Lussier - Mme. Xavier Martin Revisitée/ Le P'tit Jésus de M. Chose
2. Geneviève Letarte - La Ragazza
3. Martin Tétreault - Leurs Personnalités
4. Hétu/Labrosse/Parkins/Roger/Tenko - Épilogue
5. Robert Lepage - La Sourire de la Joconde
6. Jerry Snell - Hope
7. Évidence - Criss-Cross
8. Les Granules - Le Tango Qui Ne Finit Jamais
9. Danielle Roger - La Muette
10. André Duchesne - Elle
11. Justine - Bon Appétit
12. Michel F. Côté/Dianne Labrosse - Y Tu Mirar
13. René Lussier - Les Foins
14. Bruire - Les Deux Mégots
15. Geneviève Letarte - Les Fictions
16. Jean Derome et Les Dangereux Zhoms - Zuripari

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V/A - Ethiopian Groove: The Golden Seventies (1994)

1. Alemayehu Eshete & Shebelles Band - Tashamanaletch
2. Hirut Bekele & Police Orchestra - Ewnetegna Feker
3. Alemayehu Eshete & Shebelles Band - Wededku Afkerkush
4. Tamrat Ferendji & Sensation Band - Anchin Yagegnulet
5. Aster Aweke & Sensation Band - Antiye
6. Bzunesh Bekele & Dahlak Band - Atrakegn
7. Wallias Band - Musicawi Silt
8. Aster Aweke & Sensation Band - Etetu Beredegne
9. Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band - Feker Aydelmwey
10. Aster Aweke & Sensation Band - Lomiye
11. Tamrat Ferendji & Sensation Band - Ya Jaleleto
12. Bzunesh Bekele & Dahlak Band - Tigel New
13. Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band - Good Aderegechegn
14. Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band - Gedawo
15. Asselefetch Ashine & Getenesh Kebret & Army Band - Meche New
16. Asselefetch Ashine & Getenesh Kebret & Army Band - Amlak Abet Abet

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Read Empire and Revolution, a very informative interview with Francis Falceto, the creator of the Ethiopiques collection.

V/A - Resonance 7.1 (1999)

1. Philip Corner - Earth Breath

2. Philip Corner + Anton Lukoszevieze - Soloist Piece

3. Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening (for LMC)

4. John Cage - Musicircus (excerpt; 1967)
Clarinet - Linda Merrick
Conductor [Eight Trumpet Group] - Gregory Rose
Fiddle [Folk] - Pete Cooper
Performer - COMA Ensemble, COMA Voices, Daryl Runswick, Dave Ryan, Dave Smith, Ensemble Bash, Guidhall Percussion Ensemble, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Hugh Davies, Ian Mitchell, LSO Education Project, Simon Deorgher, Stefan Szcelkun
Piano - Lois Svard, Philip Mead, Yoko Ono
Directed By - Stephen Montague
Soprano Vocals - Allison Bell, Heather Edwards

5. Thurston Moore & John Tilbury, with Bryn Harris, Michael Parsons, Sophie Hampshire: Concerto for Guitar and Posthumous Scratch Orchestra
Guitar - Thurston Moore
Tape [Live Mix Of Various Archive Recordings Of The Scratch Orchestra] - Bryn Harris, John Tilbury, Michael Parsons, Sophie Hampshire

6. Mass Producers: PLSE (Mass)
Alto Saxophone - Annie Quicke, Belinda Braggins, Caroline McCookweir, Louise Petts, Sarah Osborne, Sarah Tobias, Sarha Moore, Yvonne Brown
Baritone Saxophone - Angele Veltmeijer, Beverly Chadwick, Caroline Kraabel, Felicity Vernon
Tenor Saxophone - Bettina Schmid, Claire Carayannis, Corinne Pollard, Kate Gittins, Rachel Bartlett, Sian MacDonald, Sue Lynch, Viv Soan

7. Xentos Jones: The Misanthrope
Performer [Machines] - Andy Lowe , Xentos
Voice Actor [Alceste] - Paul Wilcocks
Based on a Play by Molière


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Check our other Resonance (Vol. 6.2) post and see the comments for Vol. 6.1 (courtesy of Lucky).
This is dedicated to Lucky, who sort of requested it.

V/A - Resonance 6.2 (1998)

1. U-Brown + King Tubby - The Big Licking Stick
(make your own dub by using the balance control - guaranteed fun!)
2. Roof - The Prince (live)
(Tom Cora: cello; Luc Ex: bass; Phil Minton: voice; Michael Vatcher: drums)
3. John Butcher - Three Scenes for Five Tenors
(no electronic processing; all sounds acoustically generated)
4. John Wynne - Electropathy
(consists only of sounds which are normally avoided in music recording)
5. John Wall - Untitled 4 (live extract)
(with instrumentalists John Edwards, Peter Sheppard and Jorg Windmann)
6. Ralf Wehowsky - Vier Vorspiele (parts 1+2)
(featuring Marchetti's L'Oeil Retourné; additional vocals by Dorothea Conradi)
7. Thomas Köner + Max Eastley - Im Concert Volkbuhne 4/97
(no comments)
8. Kaffe Matthews - How many planes are there in the sky at the same time?
(live sampling and processing of violin through LiSa)
9. Pita - Mincadub
(recorded live on mini-disc)
10. D - SDC
(no comments)
11. Ground Zero vs Xentos - Luk Ma Noh
(recorded live in London '97; deconstructed and remixed by Xentos)


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V/A - Angelica '95 (1996)

1. Lol Coxhill - The Red Flag
2. Heiner Goebbels - Die Befreiung des Prometheus
3. Jon Rose + Otomo Yoshihide - Ping pong, King Kong
4. Maarten Altena Ensemble - America is Waiting
5. Steve Beresford + Jon Raskin + Otomo Yoshihide - Release the Bats
6. Phil Minton + Veryan Weston - And Who's Next?
7. Steve Adams + Pat Thomas - SAT
8. Rova - Freedom in Fragments (extract)
9. Specchio Ensemble - Appendice alla Suite no. 1 (Remix)
10. Oban Sax Quartet - Mubak
11. Phil Minton + Veryan Weston - Elephant
12. Rova: Freedom in Fragments.
13. Specchio Ensemble: Collettivo Diretto #5
14. N.O.R.M.A. + Chris Cutler + Phil Minton - Trains tango
15. Heiner Goebbels - Die Befreiung des Prometheus (extract)
16. Mike cooper + Lol Coxhill + Chris Cutler + Edoardo Marraffa + Luigi Mosso + Larry Ochs + Jon Raskin + Pat Thomas - It Slipped my Mind
17. Lol Coxhill - Jumping Flea
18. Lol Coxhill - Oh, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
19. Lol Coxhill - BMT Pot Pourri
20. Phil Minton + Veryan Weston - Copswebs
21. Rova - Freedom in Fragments (extract)
22. Jon Rose + Otomo Yoshihide - TV Shopping
23. Phil Minton + Veryan Weston - Rain or Hail
24. Lol Coxhill – Retreat

Recorded 2-7 March 1995, Angelica Festivale Internazionale di Musica, Quinta Edizione, Bologna.

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See the release documenting the 1991 edition (Angelica '91) at Lucky's Cut-Out

The Miracle of Levitation: Experimental Sounds from the United States and Japan (1995)

1. Ground Zero - Lam Cheng-ying
2. Uchihashi Kazuhisa - Solo Guitar
3. U.S. Maple - I Found a Place to Have My Kittens
4. Xome - Children Recognizing Meat as a Main Dish
5. Pencilneck - This Close
6. 7000 Dying Rats - If I Can't Understand It..., I'll Crush It
7. James Plotkin - Event Horizon
8. Tsunoda Tsuguto - Rena+Ami
9. Ruins - Still Live
10. Jim O'Rourke - Milena Dravic
11. Liminal - 04.16.94.21.24.20
12. Akiyama-Sugimoto - Blues for Prince Myshkin
13. Cult Junk Cafe - The Jackson Stomp
14. Melt Banana - Party-Hat
15. Lumbar Trio - The Resonance Handbook
16. Altered States - Mosaic (Excerpt)
17. Yasuhiro Ohtani - A Memory Book
18. Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar Solo
19. Flying Luttenbachers - This Is What We Do to Our Enemies
20. TV Pow - Big Fat Fuckin Zero

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