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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Purple Trap - Decided Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called "I" (1998)

DISC 1:

1- Who decided the number 1?
2- Reassembling place of dispersed holy murderous thought, The
3- I already know the settlement of iridescent happiness
4- I can hear a scream... a scream resembling a scream
5- Only half of an imitation or your imitation of yourself
6- Come to this side... sadness
7- Supposedly generous possessors of death meet a warning while napping

DISC 2:

1- Just let us continue to say farewell
2- Decided...already the motionless heart of tranquility, tangling the prayer called "I"
3- Sudden accident protesting production methods, A
4- Where shall released time go next?
5- Continuously draw a gentle spiral... red death!
6- Ask a so-called sage who speaks only plausible excuses the meaning of the volition "further..."

Keiji Haino (vocals, guitar)

Bill Laswell (bass)

Rashied Ali (drums)

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Paul Schutze - Site Anubis (1996)

This is the third CD in a Schütze trilogy which began with 1992's New Maps of Hell and continued with The Rapture of Metals; this final chapter is a certified masterpiece. Schütze, who plays keyboards and also supplies various inventive electronic treatments (tapes, digital sampling, etc.) has something of a signature sound. In the two earlier CDs in the trilogy, echoes of the Miles Davis electric funk emerged from time to time as an influence, along with touches of Jon Hassell (...). But on this CD, connections with the electric Davis of the 1970s are much more blatant. There's no trumpet, but Julian Priester's trombone supplies an occasional approximation, and the formidable guest list also includes Bill Laswell on bass, Lol Coxhill on soprano sax, Alex Buess on bass clarinet and Raoul Bjorkenheim on noisemetal guitars. And then there's the drumming. Dirk Wachtelaer's dominant cymbal and snare work is either very closely miked, or treated (or both), but regardless, it is frequently brutal-slamming, crashing, in-your-face confrontational. Throw in some serious guitar shredding by Bjorkenheim, and inspired electronic moans and howls supplied by Schütze, and you've got music that can grab you by the lapels and toss you into next week, and then turn around and drop almost instantly to an insidious, nightmarish whisper. (...) A major rush, and a major recording.

1. Future Nights
2. Early Mutation
3. Blue Like Petrol
4. Big God Blows In
5. Ten Acre Ghost
6. Eight Legs Out of Limbo
7. Inflammable Shadow (AKA: Vermilion Sands II)

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Bill Laswell - Baselines (1983)

"Even though Bill Laswell was already immersed in numerous projects since the end of the '70s, including leading his loose ensemble Material, he didn't release a solo record until 1984, and Baselines was quite a strange album. On the one hand, there's "Upright Man," one of the most infectious grooves Laswell has ever conceived, boasting ace bass playing and a weird taped sermon as sort-of lead vocals. Then there's "Work Song," which is funky and catchy and features Phillip Wilson's somewhat off-beat drumming (pun intended). The other tracks are more experimental and weird (...) drawing on Ronald Shannon Jackson's irate drumming, Michael Beinhorn's acid-drenched synths and snippets of tapes and shortwave, the stuttering horns of George Lewis and Ralph Carney, the undescribable contributions of Fred Frith, and the vocalisms and percussion (rhythmic and non-rhythmic) David Moss provides. If the somewhat comparable work by Material left you craving more, you will certainly want to give this album a try".

"Judging from the amount of crap Laswell has been releasing in the past years, it may be hard to believe that he was once a talented artist and the force behind Material's experiments with sadistic funk. In this recording, Michael Beinhorn, George Lewis, Fred Frith and others join hands with Laswell's nervous bass to present us with a sci-fi week-end adventure ranging from frantic acid-funk to an almost free kind of synth-jazz. A must for lovers of music that just doesn't fit anywhere"

Bill Laswell: all sorts of basses
Michael Beinhorn: prophet 5 synthesizer, shortwave tapes
Ronald S. Jackson: drums
George Lewis: trombone
Ralph Carney: bass saxophone, contrabass clarinet
Fred Frith: guitar, violin, steinberger string console
Daniel Ponce: congas
Martin Bisi: drums, percussion, synare, metals
David Moss: voice, non-metric percussion, steel-drum
Philip Wilson: drums

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