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A hundred years, by lind (avant-rock, compilation / archival material, full-length, released December 28, 2021, Lille, France)



Favourite track: The fold

 

Wrong Number, by DARŁÓWKO (avant-rock, female-fronted, full-length, released January 12, 2022, Darlowo, Poland)



Favourite track: Kebab City

 

Grain Gamelan, by One More Grain (avant-rock, full-length, releases January 31, 2022, UK)



Favourite track: Iwan Gunawan - Won't Get Fooled Again

 

Usually I don't think of myself as an avant-garde listener. Occasionally, however, I still check this thread because some of the music mentions hear does actually appeal to me.

I am pretty sure it was a post on this thread that alerted me to last year's Apartment House recordings of John Cage's Number Pieces. I received my copy of this set during the holidays and have been returning to it on a very regular basis. It's got the kind of sounds that make me want to re-listen to this music at different volumes and I am also looking forward to finding out how it sounds with headphones.

So here's a tip of the hat to you avant-gardists: thanks!

 

Sam Rivers Zenith

Joe Maneri Dahabenzapple

From Wolves to Whales Strandwal

 

Oh Yeah!!

the Round Man playing to a (relatively) large crowd that were apparently not informed to hate it. Or hate on the *great* Randy Peterson. Opening unaccompanied Papa Joe on tenor is priceless. I told Mat once that this recording for me was the ultimate group of 3 long form instantly composed truly freely improvised music. Must have been great at the time but even greater as the 20 plus years have gone by since I was first exposed to Joe Maneri. To my ears at first it was SO foreign to any other saxophonist. Today when I play his music (I usually stick to the core classics that include Mat & Randy) I leave often not wanting to hear other saxophonists for at least a little while.

that’s quite a transition into listening to Rempis

 

Indeed.

 

Gerald Cleaver's Black Host Life in the Sugar Candle Mines
The End Svårmod och vemod är värdesinnen
Fire! Defeat
The Thing Action Jazz
The Thing w/ Joe McPhee She Knows
The Thing w/ Neneh Cherry The Cherry Thing

 

And Then The Sun Rose In The West, by Matekita (electronic music / nu-jazz, full-length, released October 22, 2021, Paris, France)



Favourite track: Security Announcement

 

fans of Nils Frahm / Otto A Totland

Nebel lang "Directions For Stopping"

The Nebel lang sound is driven through improvisations, to capture chance moments that cannot be repeated. These sounds were impulsive, as if entirely natural, as part of the environment within a given moment in time. The tuning, environment and textural sound of a particular piano can never truly be replicated or reperformed.

 

Im Siel, by Giant Hedgehog (experimental rock, full-length, physical CD & vinyl LP available, released January 17, 2022, Münster, Germany)



Favourite track: Im Siel

 

Zlatko Kaucic - Diversity
2019, Not Two Records

Listened to the first CD on this set... I think it was @Dahabenzapple who posted it recently or possibly @bzfgt ... Pretty amazing trio with Evan Parker and Agusti Fernandez.

 

Nonclassical is a label releasing all kinds of new avant-garde works and it's worth taking a look. They put out some excellent compilations during the lockdown with the title of I hope this finds you well in these strange times and also the Langham Research Centre which I've posted up a while back.

Shop — nonclassical

One of the three that I picked up recently is this one. I haven't worked out what my favourite track is yet - I'll let you know...

 

Fred Frith Trio Road

fantastic set, the first have particularly is kind of a proggy rock trip

 

Rempis Percussion Quartet Cochonnerie
Sud des Alpes


Both great....

 

Hard to choose. These are very unique documents. I cannot think of a 2 drummer group like this. Along with Kuzu & From Wolves to Whales, these are probably the 3 Rempis groups I’d love to see the most.

Besides Covid, the fact that Frank Rosaly & Pascal Niggenkemper live in Europe probably eliminates 2 of the 3 for the future.

right NOW I’d settle for any great free jazz show

 

No Kuzu on the horizon, either. Ballister in Philly April 14

 

Need proof of booster and mask at Jazz Gallery now

 

No problem with the former

 

Ernesto Diaz-Infante - Vacilando EP's
2022, Ramble Records

This is becoming one of my favorite labels. Diaz-Infante has been around for awhile but I hadn't come across his music until lately. This is a beast of a collection, just over two hours of solo improvisation recordings. Really engaging at times, with some drone/repetitiveness that can get into that hypnotic ambient state. Awesome record.

 

Joe Morris is curating a series monthly in Hartford at Real Art Ways. Lilypad in Inman Sq Cambridge is full speed and Tony Malaby teaches at Berklee now. Seen him twice at Lilypad in the last two months.

 

I had no idea this existed. On vinyl no less!

 

Yeah, it's not my favorite but I kind of got into the spirit of it this time through and it's pretty good. The band is fantastic of course, and Cherry's contributions are OK

 

There's a remix version of the album as well.

 

1982 + BJ Cole
2012, Hubro

Nils Økland - Hardanger fiddle, violin
BJ Cole - pedal steel
Sigbjørn Apeland - harmonium
Øyvind Skarbø - drums

Recorded December 7th, 2011, at Grieghallen Studio,
Bergen, Norway