稲垣足穂 『山風蠱 さんぷうこ』
津田季穂：装幀
昭森社 昭和15年
2019年9月21日土曜日
書籍 ： 萩原朔太郎－猫町(藍峯舎)
萩原朔太郎の数少ない小説作品の一つである「猫町」は、昭和10年（1935）夏、美麗な豪華本の出版で知られた第一書房の月刊誌「セルパン」に発表され、同年秋、伝説のプライベートプレス「版画荘」から朔太郎自身の装幀で単行本として刊行されました。前年に出版された詩集「氷島」で、詩壇に賛否両論のセンセーションを巻き起こした後、ひっそり世に送り出されたこの小編は、詩人の余技的な仕事と見なされたのか、当時の文芸ジャーナリズムにおいて、特に大きな喝采を浴びることはなかったようです。しかし、そんななかでいち早くこの「猫町」の魅力に深く感応し、これを称揚したのが江戸川亂步でした。翌年春に雑誌に発表したエッセイで亂步は「猫町」について「ポオ小説（さういふ言葉が許されるならば）の一種」とそのユニークさを認めたうえで、「ごく真似手の少ないポオの面影を、久々に見ることが出来て、甚だ感銘が深かった」と讃えています。
朔太郎と亂步は昭和6年（1931）の初対面で「情意投合」して以来、一緒に浅草公園の廻転木馬に乗ったり、新宿のゲイバーで遊んだり、昭和17年（1942）に朔太郎が亡くなるまで、密やかに深い交友を続けていました。共に孤高の存在で、一般には縁遠いと目されていた詩人と探偵小説家を、かくも親しい関係に導いたものは何だったのか――『乱歩謎解きクロニクル』で本年度の本格ミステリ大賞（評論研究部門）を受賞した中相作氏による本書の解説「猫町の散歩者」は、両者の共感と交歓の深層に迫った必読の力作です。
さて、そんな間柄だった亂步の「猫町」への偏愛は、朔太郎没後も少しも変わることがなく、昭和23年（1948）には、「怪談無何有郷」とサブタイトルを付けた随筆「猫町」を執筆しています。後に評論集「幻影城」に収録されたこのエッセイで亂步は、「猫町」の誰も着目しなかった怪談としての魅力を余すことなく語ったうえで、おそらくは朔太郎の発想の源流となった英国の怪談作家アルジャーノン・ブラックウッドの「古き魔術」についても絶妙な語り口で懇切な紹介をして、その後の「猫町」のめざましい再評価へとつながる道筋を示すことになりました。
今回の藍峯舎版「猫町」では、朔太郎の本編と、その名作を「こよなく愛して」きた亂步が朔太郎に捧げた至高のオマージュ「猫町――怪談無何有郷」を、それぞれ初出のテキストによってカップリング。さらに木口木版の世界に新風を吹き込んだ気鋭の版画家林千絵による描き下ろしの挿画１７点と、口絵のオリジナル手彩色木口木版画一葉を添えて、すべての「猫町」愛好家に贈る豪華愛蔵版です。本書でしか覗くことのできない「猫町」の妖美の世界をどうぞご堪能ください。
＜内容目次＞
萩原朔太郎 「猫町」（「セルパン」初出バージョン）
江戸川亂步 「猫町――怪談無何有郷」（「小説の泉」初出バージョン）
林 千絵 「猫町」挿畫帖（別丁四色刷 挿画17点）
解説 中 相作「猫町への散歩者」
口絵 林 千絵 オリジナル手彩色木口木版画（署名・番号入り）
造本仕様
限定220部 予価24,000円（税込） 近日予約開始
A5判変型 天銀 背革 貼函 記番入り
●特装版限定２５部（オリジナル手彩色木口木版挿画収録）2020年新春刊行予定
2019年9月20日金曜日
音楽 ： 5 Classic Cassettes Box(ESP-Disk')
5 Classic Cassettes Box
ESP5088
Old Heaven Bookstore in Shenzhen, China licensed five classic ESP-Disk' albums for a limited-edition five-tape box set sold at the May 2019 Tomorrow Festival in the OCT-Loft district of Shenzhen. ESP imported only 24 copies, so this is even more limited in the U.S.
The albums are:
Albert Ayler: Spirits Rejoice
Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now
Marion Brown Quartet: s/t (the version with four tracks)
Sonny Simmons: Staying on the Watch
Sun Ra: Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
Musicians: Marion Brown / Sun Ra / Sonny Simmons / Albert Ayler / Ronnie Boykins
2019年9月19日木曜日
書籍 ： 池田満寿夫- 母の骨
池田満寿夫- 母の骨
銅版画2点入
寸法 函寸25.2×19.8cm
昭和55年 吾八ぷれす刊
レゾネNo.817 818 銅版2点付属
各葉にサイン 作家署名 限定105/235
2019年9月18日水曜日
2019年9月17日火曜日
音楽 ： An Avant Garde of Our Own: Disconnected Works 1980-2018(ESP-Disk')
An Avant Garde of Our Own: Disconnected Works 1980-2018
Saxophonist/guitarist/composer/music historian/ provocateur Allen Lowe spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few besides Jaki Byard, Beaver Harris, Steven Bernstein, and Air have ever done, intertwining the blues, early jazz, bebop, and the avant-garde. A prolific composer who was incorporating American roots music into his jazz decades before it was hip, he has led project bands featuring a broad array of jazz greats ranging from Doc Cheatham, Randy Sandke, Joe Albany, Don Byron, Ken Peplowski, and Percy France to Matthew Shipp, Julius Hemphill, Marc Ribot, Roswell Rudd, David Murray, Gary Bartz, Nels Cline, Ray Anderson, DJ Logic, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, and Hamiet Bluiett. With two notable but out-of-print exceptions, most of his work has been released on his own Constant Sorrow label. ESP-Disk' has long admired his work and is happy to partner with him on this career-spanning release, which consists of four CDs (3-6) of previously unreleased material and four thematically arranged CDs (1-2, 7-8) collecting a wide variety of material that was mostly previously -- but not widely -- available.
Press Quotes:
"Through no fault of his own, Allen Lowe has become jazz's quintessential outsider artist." - Francis Davis
"I'm a big fan of Allen Lowe and I think as a musician and a scholar he is very important and I think he is deeply misunderstood because he doesn't hate himself." - Anthony Braxton
"Angular, sly and funky, Lowe's CD is a bona fide wake up call from the avant garde." - Jonathan Lethem
"This boxed set is Lowe's magnum opus and then some... It's far ranging, as might be expected, outside and decidedly in. ... 'March of the Vipers' captures Lowe and Hemphill funky and in sync at the Knitting Factory in 1991..." - Jim Motavalli, New York City Jazz Record
CD 1: Live at the Knitting Factory /Verna’s Garage/The Living Room Tapes (1)
1. March of the Vipers 11:48 (NT)
(Allen Lowe tenor sax; Doc Cheatham trumpet; Julius Hemphill alto sax; John Rapson trombone; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; Paul Austerlitz clarinet, Robert Rumbolz trumpet Rec. 1991)
2. Strollin’ with Helen 7:09
(from unissued session; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Percy France tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Joel Perry guitar; Skinny Burgan bass; Sir John Godfrey drums Rec. circa 1980)
3. Dicky Dreamed 3:47
(from unissued session; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Percy France tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Joel Perry guitar; Skinny Burgan bass; Sir John Godfrey drums Rec. circa 1980)
4. Prelude 4:34 (NT)
(Doc Cheatham trumpet; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; Rec. 1991)
5. The Second Assassin 6:12 (NT)
(Allen Lowe tenor sax; Doc Cheatham trumpet; Julius Hemphill alto sax; John Rapson trombone; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; Paul Austerlitz clarinet, Robert Rumbolz trumpet Rec. 1991)
6. No Sharps No Flats Blues 6:23 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Marc Ribot guitar; Jessie Hautala bass; Jake Millett electronic drums Rec. January 2011)
7. Entrance No Exit 3:51 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Matthew Shipp Farfisa organ; Roswell Rudd trombone Rec. December 2009)
8. Rhythm Thing 4:36
(from unissued session; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Percy France tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Dickey Myers alto sax; Joel Perry guitar; Skinny Burgan bass; Sir John (Godfrey drums Rec. circa 1980)
9. Mental Strain at Dawn 8:36 (DWTN)
(Allen Lowe and The American Song Project; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Roswell Rudd trombone; Paul Austerlitz clarinet; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; Robert Rumbolz trumpet; rec. 6/25/94)
10. Tea Party 6:11 (DWTN)
(Allen Lowe tenor saxophone; Roswell Rudd trombone; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums Rec. 5/93)
11. Medillin 9:04 (ATMOI)
(Allen Lowe tenor sax; Don Byron clarinet; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums rec. 12/9/89)
12. Blue Like Me 5:08 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Marc Ribot guitar; Jessie Hautala bass; Jake Millett electronic drums Rec. January 2011)
CD 2 Live at the Knitting Factory/Verna’s Garage/The Living Room Tapes (2)
1. Chinatown My Chinatown 4:40 (MSD)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Doc Cheatham trumpet; David Murray tenor sax; Loren Schoenberg tenor sax; John Rapson trombone; Paul Austerlitz clarinet, Robert Rumbolz trumpet, Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums Rec. 4/19/92)
2. I Alone (The Everlasting Beauty of Monotony) 3:45
(From I Alone: The Everlasting Beauty of Monotony: Matt Shipp plays the Music of Allen Lowe; Matthew Shipp, solo piano Rec. 3/1/15)
3. Riff Raff 5:10
(From the LP: Dickey’s Mood; Dickey Myers tenor sax; Joe Albany piano; Jeff Fuller bass; Frank Bennett drums Rec. 1979 )
4. For Poor B.B. 7:59
(from the unissued session; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Percy France tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Joel Perry guitar; Skinny Burgan bass; Sir John Godfrey drums Rec. circa 1980)
5. The Trapeze Artist’s Anxiety at the First Notes the Jazz Band Plays 3:18 (BET)
(from Blues and the Empirical Truth. Allen Lowe alto sax; Jessie Hautala bass; Jake Millett electronic drums Rec. January 2011)
6. Manhattan Moan 5:09 (BET)
(From Blues and the Empirical Truth; Allen Lowe guitar; Matthew Shipp Farfisa organ; Roswell Rudd trombone Rec. December 2009)
7. Woyzeck’s Death 5:29
(From Woyzeck’s Death: Allen Lowe tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Roswell Rudd trombone; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; Ben Goldberg clarinet Rec. 5/94)
8. Pete Brown 2:59 (BET)
(from Blues and the Empirical Truth; Allen Lowe alto sax; Jessie Hautala bass; Jake Millet electronic drums Rec. January 2011)
9. Other Bodies, Other Souls 6:25 (DWTN)
(Allen Lowe tenor saxophone; Roswell Rudd trombone; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums. Rec. 5/93)
10. The Bear Dances 4:04
(From At the Moment of Impact; Allen Lowe tenor sax, Jeff Fuller bass, Ray Kaczynski drums, Jay Gitlin accordion. Rec. 7/20/89)
11. Bebop Thing 6:28
(from unissued session; Allen Lowe tenor sax; Percy France tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Joel Perry guitar; Skinny Burgan bass; Sir John Godfrey drums Rec. circa 1980)
12. Blue Interlude 2 6:21 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Matthew Shipp Farfisa organ; Roswell Rudd trombone. Rec. December 2009)
13. I Hate Blues 1:47 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Jessie Hautala bass; Jake Millet electronic drums Rec. January 2011)
14. The Lost 2:35 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Matthew Shipp Farfisa organ; Roswell Rudd trombone Rec. December 2009)
15. Stars Fell 3:43
(from For Poor B.B: Allen Lowe tenor sax; Bob Neloms piano; Sean Smith bass; Nick Forte drums Rec. 1985)
16. Ros Speaks 4:00 (BET)
(Allen Lowe alto sax, guitar; Matthew Shipp Farfisa organ; Roswell Rudd trombone. Rec. December 2009)
CD 3: Poor Pilgrims of Sorrow Suite/I Am a Woman Again (Gladys Bentley Suite)
Poor Pilgrims of Sorrow Suite
1. Dark Skies 6:02
2. Hymn for Ives 5:28
3. Julius 4:07
4. Mezz Walk 9:00
5. Poor Pilgrims 8:30
6. Son House 3:51
Allen Lowe alto sax; James Brandon Lewis tenor sax; Ray Suhy, guitar; Darius Jones alto sax; Chris Klaxton trumpet; Hilliard Greene bass; Rob Landis drums
rec. June 2018 by Ben Rice, Degraw Sound
I Am a Woman Again (Gladys Bentley Suite)
7. Opening Theme 0.38
8. Upper East Side Blues 5:38
9. Less Than Blue 0.36
10. Charlotte’s Dance #1 0.26
11. Crosstown Moan 1:04
12. Less than One 0.49
13. Theme: I Am a Woman Again 5:01
14. Charlotte’s Dance #2 5:48
15. Charlotte’s Dance (Goodbye Charlotte) 0.28
16. Blue Interlude 0.34
17. Cross-Dress-Cross/Theme 0.36
18. Gone West/ I Am a Woman Again/Theme/ Ballad 0.44
19. I’m So Blue (Will You Marry Me?) 5:41
20. Ebony and Blue 0.40
21. Still Less Than One 4:32
22. Lord Why Have I Sinned? 0.18
23. Lord Why Have They Sinned? 8:51
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Lisa Parrott baritone sax; Nicole Glover, tenor sax; Ray Suhy, guitar; Nicole Davis trumpet; Kevin Ray bass; Kelly Green piano; Carolyn Castellano drums. Rec. November 2016)
CD 4: Black Brown and Beige, Yellow, Trans and Queer: My Country ‘Tis of This
(Except as noted, Allen Lowe alto sax; Lisa Parrott baritone sax; Nicole Glover tenor sax; Lewis Porter piano; Brian Simontacchi trombone; Hilliard Greene bass; Rob Landis drums. Rec. March 2018 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven.)
1. Tea with Jaki 7:25
2. Mingus' Ghost (Overwrought on the Coast) 9:17
3. Fables of Fascism 7:41
4. Poem for D.A. Levy 2:35
5. Border Crossing 10:35
6. The Death of Florence Mills 1:48
(Allen Lowe, alto sax; Nicole Glover tenor sax; Brian Simontacchi trombone; Lewis Porter, piano; Hilliard Greene, bass; Chris Klaxton, trumpet; Rob Landis, drums. Rec. 6/10/18.)
7. Trombone Wheeze 9:04
8. Pigfoot Mary 13:11
9. Midnight at the Faggot's Ball 9:00
10. Bud's Ghost 2:12
(Allen Lowe, alto sax; Nicole Glover tenor sax; Brian Simontacchi trombone; Lewis Porter, piano; Hilliard Greene, bass; Chris Klaxton, trumpet; Rob Landis, drums. Rec. 6/11/18.)
CD 5: Brother Matthew's Revenge
1. Bb Stomp 10:43
2. Goodbye Julius 7:13
3. Dinah’s Day Off 5:24 (trio: Lowe/Sandke/Porter)
4. Monastery Bounce 6:55
5. Boyce In the Chapel 7:54
6, Julius’ Step 5:44
7. In Other Dreams 6:17 (trio: Lowe/Sandke/Porter)
8. Surrender 4:23
9. Condon’s Dream 4:57
10. Monastery Bounce (2) 7:00
11. Bb Stomp (2) 11:34
(Allen Lowe alto and tenor sax; Randy Sandke trumpet; Steve Swell trombone; Bobby Zankel alto sax; Don Slatoff bass clarinet; Jeremy Carlstedt drums; Ray Suhy, guitar; Lewis Porter piano; Kevin Ray bass. Rec. April 2017.)
CD 6: Hey Lady/Time/Times
1. Other Bodies, Other Souls 4:40
2. Just Who 6:05
3. Delighted 6:58
4. Ellison’s Idea (Not Mine) 10:23
5. Hey Lady 6:58
6. Dodd’s Blues 6:57
7. Time – 1 (with Ken Peplowski and Matthew Shipp) 6:39
8. Times – 1 5:39
9. Time – 2 (with Ken Peplowski and Matthew Shipp) 6:37
10. Times – 2 5:35
(Allen Lowe alto sax; Ken Peplowski clarinet and tenor sax; Aaron Johnson clarinet; Lou Grassi drums; Kelly Green, Matthew Shipp piano; Kevin Ray, bass. Rec. January 2017)
CD 7: The Other America (1)
1. Louis’ Pennies 5:49 (DWTN)
(Allen Lowe tenor sax; Roswell Rudd trombone; Paul Austerlitz clarinet; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; Robert Rumbolz trumpet. Rec. 6/25/94.)
2. Blues Moon Parts 1 and 2 (to Elvis) 4:14 (DWTN)
(Allen Lowe tenor sax; Stacey Phillips National Tricone guitar; rec. 11/93)
3. Devil Got My Woman 4:05 (DWTN)
(Allen Lowe tenor saxophone; Roswell Rudd trombone; Jeff Fuller bass; Ray Kaczynski drums; rec. 5/93)
4. Delta Mountain Breakup 7:22 (MWG)
(Allen Lowe tenor sax, Gary Bartz alto sax, Jake Millet electronics and electronic drums, Jeff Fuller bass; Lewis Porter piano; Christopher Meeder tuba; Brian Simontacchi trombone; Rec. 9/13)
5. The Hunger: Portrait of Jimi Hendrix 7:30 (HWAOV)
(Allen Lowe, alto sax; Nels Cline guitar; Ray Suhy guitar; Matthew Shipp piano; Carolyn Castellano drums; Kevin Ray bass; Larry Feldman mandolin Rec. 3/16)
6. Hymn for the White Folks 5:57 (HWAOV)
(Allen Lowe, alto sax; Nels Cline steel guitar; Ray Suhy guitar; Matthew Shipp piano; Carolyn Castellano drums; Kevin Ray bass; Larry Feldman mandolin Rec. 3/16)
7. Oi Death - 1 3:07
(outtake from Jews in Hell: Radical Jewish Acculturation Marc Ribot solo guitar; Rec 6/06)
8. Oi Death – 2 2:42 (JIH)
(Marc Ribot solo guitar; Rec 6/06)
Musicians: Allen Lowe
音楽 ： Various Artists－New Improvised Music from Buenos Aires(ESP-Disk')
Various Artists
New Improvised Music from Buenos Aires
PRE-ORDER! Release date: October 25, 2019.
ESP-Disk' has a little bit of history with Argentina – we issued Gato Barbieri's first international release, and our Steve Lacy album was recorded there – so we couldn't resist putting out this compilation of 2012-17 recordings (most previously unreleased) from the Buenos Aires scene. In his liner notes, compiler Jason Weiss writes, "In June 1966, just as General Juan Carlos Onganía was leading a military coup d’état, Steve Lacy’s quartet arrived in Buenos Aires: not exactly safe harbor for free jazz. Despite opposition the group gained a small following, appearing on television, at a museum, in private homes, but they couldn’t earn enough for their return flights. When the quartet—Lacy, Enrico Rava, Johnny Dyani, Louis Moholo, a supergroup in retrospect—played at the venerable Instituto di Tella, whose experimental music center was directed by the composer Alberto Ginastera, Lacy instructed the group to do two free improvised sets of twenty minutes each; it proved to be their only document of the whole adventure, released by ESP the following year as The Forest and the Zoo."
And now? Weiss says, "As in European and American cities, the music survives on a DIY homemade spirit to subvert conventions and construct a kind of presence. But the struggle is waged against greater odds," not least because "in recent years the city government has cracked down on the modest cultural clubs found in most neighborhoods where a mix of artistic events would be held, regulating them instead on the same terms as larger, single-purpose venues. Many places couldn’t afford to stay open, while others became more clandestine." It is not a scene that has managed to receive the international attention it deserves. Fortunately Weiss provides plenty more context, biographical info, and quotes from scene stalwarts in his extensive essay in the album's 16-page booklet.
Tracklist
1. "Improvisation on graphic score" Pablo Díaz Quinteto
2. "Primer jugo bovino" Rulemares, Luis Conde – Ramiro Molina Duo
3. "Amable amanecer" Agustí Fernández – Pablo Ledesma – Mono Hurtado
4. "Relámpagos I" Duquesa (Fabiana Galante – Luis Conde)
5. "Che" Leonel Kaplan – Christof Kurzmann
6. "Relámpagos II" Duquesa
7. "La playa pequeña" Norris Trio
8. "Solo piano improvisation" Paula Shocron
9. "18:18" Data Peluda
10. "Relámpagos III" Duquesa
11. "La puerta R" Enrique Norris – Paula Shocron
12. "Improvisation 0681" Cinética
13. "Plaza y la vía" Leonel Kaplan – Pablo Ledesma – Mono Hurtado
14. "Transición" Fulgor al bies
音楽 ： Tales from the Skinny Apartment(ESP-Disk')
Tales from the Skinny Apartment
Release date November 8, 2019
Painted Faces is the long (strange/trip) running voyage of weirdo David Drucker, began in Florida in 2009 and decamped to NYC in 2011. It has sometimes been a loose band in the past with a revolving lineup of outsiders and interlopers (known as The Freak Band), but is usually a solo endeavor, and the bulk of the recordings have been done as such. PF has always been a home recording solo project, one-man-band style heavy on psychOdelic/outsider folk/noise/experimental vibes. He started self releasing CD-Rs in the early days and quickly jumped to tapes on a variety of labels including Already Dead, Lava Church, J&C, Null Zone, Tall Tapes. A "legendary" CD compilation on Gulcher Records and an LP from Already Dead and Almost Halloween Time in Italy brings us to the here and now. Tales from the Skinny Apartment is somewhere around the 20th or so Painted Faces release...he has long lost count.
Drucker runs/curates gigs (and records at) the Skinny Apartment, his dwelling place in Ridgewood Queens, which some folks have called the "realest DIY zone in NYC." He also rips in Dead River Company, Big Hiatus, Shecky, Canyon River Blues and countless other unknown subterranean improv zoner outfits. "Ripping" involves keeping it freaky and weird and ripping sets wherever/whenever, ie always being down to perform whether in a kitchen or a packed ballroom....no diva bullshit, just plugging in (or going sans electricity) and playing...always giving it your all...Ridgewood Rippers are the crew of artists that populate Ridgewood and the loose "scene" around the Skinny Apartment...much of it is in jest, a self-inflated mythology of nonsense which is pervasive in all rock and roll "scene" histories. As a student of rock/pop history, Drucker is fascinated by the loose associations that connect folks from various zones together...i.e. Miles Davis and The Grateful Dead...it's all the same though, the labels and genre distinctions are completely arbitrary. We're all in this together, now more than ever...to be a "ripper" is simply to "rip"...no nonsense!
Painted Faces has toured all over the USA and Canada numerous times, spreading the ripper gospels, and is gearing up for the second European tour with fellow ripper Anura. He is known for falling apart on "stage," with performances heavy on humor, horror, stoned digressions, and cathartic bouts of therapy, part performance art/part standup comedy, eradicating the lines between performer, performance, and audience one show at a time.
Tracklist
1. Chicks That Are into Beefheart (and Jandek) 3:24
2. Florida Bat Salad 1:05
3. Nightmare on Drucker Street 4:37
4. I Took Too Much Acid in 7th Grade 4:22
5. Island of Tragedy 3:04
6. Follow Me Down on Instagram 1:58
7. Seafood Special 3:59
8. My Mom Was a Hebrew School Teacher 4:14
9. Massachussetts Is a Magical Place 4:21
10. The Ridgewood Ripper 5:18
11. I Don't Want to Listen to Your Tape (Cellar Dweller) 8:23
Total time 44:35
All Music Written & Recorded by David Drucker at The Skinny Apartment in Ridgewood, Queens, 2017
Featuring Mike Green (Mezzanine Swimmers) on guitars on "I Took Too Much Acid in 7th Grade"
Cop Funeral on electronics on "Seafood Special"
Chris “Mr Transylvania” Shields on background vocals on "Massachussetts Is a Magical Place"
Eva “Nighttime” Goodman on violin & backing vocals on "The Ridgewoo
音楽 ： Mars Williams－Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas vol. 2(ESP-Disk')
Mars Williams
Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas vol. 2
A product of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians who studied with AACM founders Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell, saxophonist Mars Williams is most famous as a member of The Psychedelic Furs but has proven his jazz bona fides with Peter Brötzmann and Ken Vandermark and while guiding Liquid Soul and Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble, to name just a few. His rock CV is also varied, including many years in Akron New Wave band The Waitresses and work with Billy Idol, Ministry, Massacre, and many more. He also leads the Albert Ayler tribute band Witches & Devils, and out of their holiday concerts grew a unique tradition. One look at this album's track titles and you'll understand the concept here. One listen and you'll hear that, as odd as that concept may seem, it's brilliantly effective, with the disparate melodies working together in their common projection of joy and celebration. And it's worth noting that Williams's worlds collide on track 3 here, featuring The Waitresses' biggest hit, "Christmas Wrapping." Williams played on their original recording. After enjoying An Ayler Xmas vol. 1 last year, ESP invited him to make vol. 2 a co-release of Williams's Soul What Records and ESP-Disk', the top Ayler label. Mars will be supporting the release with both Witches & Devils' annual Xmas show and tours in the U.S. and Europe using renowned local musicians. See the tour press release for specifics.
Track list/times:
1. Xmas Medley
2. O Tannenbaum/Spirits/12 Days of Christmas
3. Love Cry/Christmas Wrapping
4. Carol of the Drum/Bells/O Come Emanuel/Joy to the World
5. Universal Indians/We Wish You a Merry Xmas
Album Credits:
Tracks 1, 3, 4 recorded live at The Hungry Brain, Chicago, U.S.A. with Witches & Devils, consisting of: Mars Williams, saxes, toy instruments; Josh Berman, cornet; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello; Jim Baker, piano, ARP synthesizer, viola; Kent Kessler, bass; Brian Sandstrom, bass, guitar, trumpet; Steve Hunt, drums, percussion; Jeb Bishop, trombone (track 1 only)
Tracks 2, 5 recorded live at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria with: Mars Williams, saxes, toy instruments; Thomas Berghammer, trumpet; Hermann Stangassinger, bass; Didi Kern, drums, percussion; Christof Kurzmann, lloopp, vocals
Press Quotes:
“There’s mirth in the sequencing of their medleys – one track on this CD veers from a steaming rendition of ‘Love Cry’ into The Waitresses’ ‘Christmas Wrapping’ – but the performances are ferocious. Williams leads the charge, summoning an appositely hyper-emotional range of shrieks and roars from his array of saxophones while Berman’s cornet raises the ghost of Donald Ayler and keyboardist Jim Baker evokes the spacy comping of Cal Cobbs. […] This album is probably a bit too rambunctious for most family gatherings, but its committed performances transcend novelty.” – Bill Meyer, The Wire
for 2017's An Ayler Xmas: "The album captures the band deftly underlining familiar themes from Christmas songs such as 'Jingle Bells' and 'Angels We Have Heard on High' as well as the Hanukkah classic 'Ma’oz Tzur' while melding them with the indelible, keening melodies of Ayler staples like 'Spirits' and 'Truth Is Marching In' in extended medleys. Each one is performed with bruising intensity, feverish interplay, and cathartic, sobbing spirituality as the group chases Ayler’s singular marriage of overloaded joy and gushing release—an approach that transcends any seasonal limitations." - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
"Ayler’s themes are as timeless and full of spirit as the holiday classics Williams has chosen and it is great to hear the latter used as vehicles for nor’easter-like improvisations. When the family starts fighting over the last piece of Christmas goose, put on this album and watch a startled peace settle over the relatives." - Andrey Henkin, New York City Jazz Record
"Together, these seven musicians pop through the intertwined compositions with a swirling drive that constantly tumbles back and forth between fiercely played themes and elaborations and variations that are played with the sacred fire of fragments. A few minutes away in 'Ma'oz Tzur (Hanukkah) - Truth Is Marching In - Jingle Bells', the first of three medleys, and you'll already have a party to choose from that combines stateliness and restlessness eagerly on a stirring surface that constantly accelerates and decelerates, and threatens to burst at any moment. Williams tears and whitewashes with a whitewashed, insatiable urgency, Lonberg-Holm makes the cello vultures just as enthusiastically with effects and a passionate scraping bow." - Guy Peters, Enola
"The band’s performance style—which favors high-energy horn solos, spacey keyboard flourishes and rhythms that shift between march time, swing time and no time—nods toward the sound that Ayler projected with the ensembles he toured with during the last five years of his career." - Bill Meyer, Downbeat
Musicians: Mars Williams
音楽 ： Buck Curran－Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas(ESP-Disk')
Buck Curran
Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas
On his second solo album (both co-released by ESP-Disk' and Curran's Obsolete Recordings), the emphasis switches to acoustic guitar. Side A, all solo acoustic instrumentals, seems to have fallen out of a wormhole emanating from Takoma Records in the 1970s. There's some of that on side B as well, but also vocals and other instruments, sometimes overdubbed, and the dedication of "Taurus" to Peter Green, guitarist extraordinaire of the original lineup of Fleetwood Mac (when it was a blues band), hints at the breadth of Curran's influences. The introduction of other timbres and textures doesn't diminish the intimate, almost meditational mood, though.
CD/downloads available now. Vinyl can be preordered and will be shipped by the end of June, with a free download included sent immediately.
Personnel:
Buck Curran: vocals, guitars, harmonium, flute, banjo. Adele Pappalardo: vocals on "Dirt Floor."
Track list/times
A1. Song for Liam (2:36)
A2. Improvisation 1 (1:52)
A3. River Unto Sea (5:38)
A4. Song for Shylah (3:38)
A5. Summer Street (4:22)
A6. Francesco Joaquin's Morning Haiku (1:59)
B1. Improvisation 2 (0:38)
B2. The Sun Also Rises (5:06)
B3. Taurus (4:28)
B4. Compane Del Sabato Mattina (3:56)
B5. Dirt Floor (2:26)
B6. Sea of Polaris (5:03)
Press Quotes for Immortal Light:
"Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence." - Dusted
"The wonderful new Buck Curran LP on ESP-Disk', as gorgeous a psychedelic folk record as can be in 2016." - Jeff Conklin, host of The Avant Ghetto on WFMU
"Curran's first album under his own name invokes swarming natural forces, looking for the borderline between the real and the sublime and, maybe, the supernatural." - Jesse Jarnow, Relix
"Psych folk masterpiece shines bright." - Sid Smith, Prog
"Curran has successfully tapped into that natural beauty and created a slice of alt-folk that is as engrossing as anything you’re likely to hear." - Folk Radio UK
Musicians: Buck Curran
音楽 ： Gabriel Zucker－Weighting(ESP-Disk')
Gabriel Zucker
Weighting
Zucker's first ESP-Disk' album, Evergreen (Canceled World) (ESP5017), was made with his big band, The Delegation. His second is a quartet, with Delegation members Adam O'Farrill and Eric Trudel joined by acclaimed drummer Tyshawn Sorey. A suite inspired by Rachel Kushner's novel The Flamethrowers,Weighting is a spacious mix of composition and improvisation, frequently intimate — sometimes consisting of just intertwined sax and trumpet lines —but occasionally punctuated with rowdy outbursts or densely woven passages.
Track Listing:
1. Would It Come Back To You?
2. The Uselessness of Truth / Not To Be Anything More
3. The Stream of New York / and art, of course
4. Missing Our Appointments With Each Other
5. What's left (when we are always honest) / The Future Was A Place
6. a movie, a lover
7. Dissimulation / Not Knowing It At The Time
8. the stones in my pockets
Personnel:
Gabriel Zucker: piano, compositions; Tyshawn Sorey: drums; Adam O'Farrill: trumpet; Eric Trudel: saxophone
Press:
The Vinyl District review grade: A
NYC Jazz Record “Best Debuts of the Year” list
“Zucker's advanced compositional work is knotty, unpredictable, and utterly satisfying. Spinning with freshness and maturity, Weighting is put forward with a sterling avant-garde posture that reflects the artistry and commitment of the musicians involved.” – jazztrail.net
Musicians: Delegation / Gabriel Zucker
音楽 ： Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK－Wet Robots(ESP-Disk')
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK
Wet Robots
"Few vocalists have the sheer boldness – the outright fearlessness – of Fay Victor as an improviser. The New York native has long been a creative force on the avant-jazz scene, as a singer, bandleader, composer, arranger, and teacher. She has worked on both sides of the Atlantic with the likes of Misha Mengelberg, Roswell Rudd, and Anthony Braxton, along with recording several distinctive albums as a leader. Reviewing her recent disc Absinthe & Vermouth, NPR declared evocatively that Fay’s original songs sound “as if Joni Mitchell wrote lyrics for a lost Betty Carter prog-rock album – and it totally works.” Fay has also recorded edgy blues in a duo with guitarist Anders Nilsson, and she is an inspired re-animator of vintage instrumentals as vocal material, in the spirit of Carmen McRae in Monk; to this end, Fay has performed with her In Praise of Ornette group and with her house-rocking Herbie Nichols Sung band.
"Now we have on record Fay’s SoundNoiseFUNK quartet, featuring Joe Morris, Sam Newsome, and Reggie Nicholson – each an exceptional maker of music in the moment. Although Fay enjoyed a rapport with each of these players in various combinations, this foursome had never played together as a unit before the single summer day last year when Wet Robots was captured in a Brooklyn studio. If jazz is the sound of surprise, this album startles – a sonic funhouse of left turns. The band floats in its own space, untethered by a bass. Morris’s guitar moves like a snake. Newhouse keens, taps, sighs on the straight horn. Nicholson makes his percussion set-up a skittering, rattling thing. Then there is Fay – her voice primal and wild, as attuned to unfettered expression as Albert Ayler’s tenor." - from Bradley Bambarger's liner notes
This is Fay Victor's first album as a leader released on an American label other than her own Greene Street Music, but she is already a star on the New York avant-jazz scene.
Personnel:
Fay Victor, vocals, lyrics
Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone
Joe Morris, electric guitar
Reggie Nicholson, drums
Track List:
01. Funky Dunk 3:55
02. A Witness in the Wilderness 5:24
03. Information Highway 5:16
04. Police Lights and Sirens 7:20
05. Squeeze Bottle 5:01
06. The Blues Are Always Free 5:51
07. Creative Folks! 4:49
08. Textured Pines 10:00
09. Whistling on a Skateboard 7:18
10. I Sing 7:44
11. The Ha-Ha's 1:56
12. Holding Back the Scream 7:03
Total time 66:37
Press Quotes::
“Vocal colossus Fay Victor has been performing otherworldly acrobatics with her pipes since the ’90s…. Wet Robots is her debut record as a leader for ESP-Disk’, and it’s a doozy. The supergroup that the improviser/lyricist calls SoundNoiseFunk—soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome, guitarist Joe Morris, and drummer Reggie Nicholson—is entirely deserving of its name; although the foursome had never played together before stepping into a Brooklyn studio for this project, their red-hot chemistry is evident from the get-go.” Brad Cohen, JazzTimes
“Victor has been singing pretty and singing wild, singing standards and improvising with the heavyweights for years in both Europe and New York.... Wet Robots, however, is her date with a hand-picked band of peers, and it will blow your ears clear out of the water.” – Will Layman, PopMatters
“Victor wields an outsized personality, and however ecstatic her group gets, the ideas she works to impart to listeners refuse to be overwhelmed by the churning backdrop.” – Dave Cantor, DownBeat editor’s pick
Musicians: Fay Victor / Joe Morris / Sam Newsome / Reggie Nicholson
2019年9月16日月曜日
音楽 ： Takehisa Kosugi, Riri Shimada – Perspective
Takehisa Kosugi, Riri Shimada – Perspective
Flowerdogs Record – FDR-001
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
Japan
Electronic
Experimental
収録曲
A
Perspective
B
Perspective
会社名など
Manufactured By – Kojima Recordings, Inc.
クレジット
Piano – Riri Shimada
Violin, Voice – Takehisa Kosugi
ノート
Recorded on December 21, 1980 at Strange Fruit
音楽 ： Robbie Basho－Live in Forli, Italy 1982(ESP-Disk')
Live in Forli, Italy 1982
Basho (1940-86), who died young after a stroke, never got his due in the culture at large, but steel-string guitar enthusiasts have known for decades that he was one of the greats of "American Primitive." Technically adept and compositionally imaginative, fusing the music of many cultures into a mesmerizing solo style, he has been an inspiration for many; his music has generated a surge of interest in recent years. This 1982 concert was part of a four-show Italian tour. It took place at the 18th-century Palazzo Gaddi that housed the local music high school and was mostly used for classical concerts, in an intimate space co-organizer Mario Calvitti (whose memories of the events surrounding this concert make up the bulk of the liner notes) says Basho called "one lovely little room where I could play all night." Only previously released incompletely as a download, this show can now be heard in its full glory.
Vinyl Track Listing:
A1. Redwood Ramble 3:50
A2. Song of the Stallion 4:21
A3. The Grail and the Lotus 8:47
A4. German Chocolate Cake 2:36
A5. Interlude 2:05
B1. Cathedral et Fleur de Lis 8:13
B2. Pavan India 7:58
B3. California Raga 7:40
Total 45:30
vinyl includes download code for the entire program
CD/download Track Listing:
01. Redwood Ramble 3:51
02. Song of the Stallion 4:23
03. The Grail and the Lotus 9:31
04. Interlude 1 0:50
05. German Chocolate Cake 2:42
06. Interlude 2 2:52
07. Cathedral et Fleur de Lis 8:09
08. Pavan India 7:57
09. Interlude 3 2:45
10. Clair de Lune (for Twelve-String) 4:43
11. California Raga 8:09
Total 55:52
Personnel: Robbie Basho, acoustic guitar, occasional vocals
Quotes:
“Basho’s manic, hyperkinetic approach to playing, singing, songwriting and living in general have very few peers. …a guitarist in need of a popular resurrection.” – Pitchfork.com
“Whatever bag he was in, he was in all the way. There was no holding back and no wobbliness at all. He just had the ability to take you somewhere else.” Glenn Jones
“Robbie Basho was an angel. I don’t believe he -Disk')was terrestrial. I would watch him play and be transported in a way I’ve never been transported before.” – Will Ackerman
Musicians: Robbie Basho
音楽 ： Megumi Yonezawa Masa Kamaguchi Ken Kobayashi－Boundary(ESP-Disk')
Megumi Yonezawa Masa Kamaguchi Ken Kobayashi
Boundary
All the members of this trio are Japanese. The pianist and drummer live in New York City and often collaborate; the bassist lives in Madrid but comes to N.Y.C. twice a year for a month each time. The producer heard them at Manhattan jazz bar Tomi Jazz and immediately booked a session to capture their magic before Kamaguchi left town. Yonezawa, from Hokkaido, earned multiple awards while studying performance and composition at Berklee, then joined Greg Osby's group on Jason Moran's recommendation and can be heard with him on the Blue Note album Public. Other credits include work with David Liebman, George Garzone, Sam Newsome, and many more. In 2016 the Fresh Sound New Talent label released her debut album, A Result of the Colors. But none of these credits reflect the freedom with which she plays on Boundary. Kamaguchi , also from Hokkaido, has the most recording credits (upwards of 30) in the trio, ranging from Ahmed Abdullah's Actual Proof (CIMP, 1999) to a series of tribute albums with Vinnie Sperrazza and Jacob Sacks (Fresh Sound New Talent). Inspired to play bass after hearing Jaco Pastorius albums, he studied with Gary Peacock student Yoshio Ikeda, then moved to Boston to attend Berklee, followed by a dozen years in New York City performing and recording with ESP star Sonny Simmons, David Murray, Charles Gayle, Paul Motian, Dave Douglas, Frank Kimbrough, and even Toots Thielemans. Kobayashi, who put the trio together, hails from Tokyo, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in art criticism and art history from Tama Art University. After moving to New York, he expanded his knowledge at the Drummer's Collective. He can also be heard on Jan (2014) with bassist Jochem van Dijk and Nine Stories (2016) with Takeshi Asai.
Megumi Yonezawa, piano; Masa Kamaguchi, bass; Ken Kobayashi, drums
All tracks by Megumi Yonezawa/Masa Kamaguchi/Ken Kobayashi (ESP-Disk' Ltd.) except "I’ll Be Seeing You" by Irvin Kahal/Sammy Fain (Fain Music Co./BMG Gold Songs).
Cover art by Kiichiro Adachi
Photos by Eva Kapanadze
Liner notes by Matthew Shipp
Produced by Steve Holtje
Recorded at Park West Studios on June 4, 2017 by Jim Clouse
Track List:
01. Boundary 4:23 https://soundcloud.com/esp-disk/01-boundary
02. Alchemy 6:03
03. Tremor 4:40
04. Meryon 7:18
05. I’ll Be Seeing You 6:39
06. Reef 7:31
07. Veil 8:50
08. Onement 6:08
09. Wavelength 5:15
10. Nostalgio 9:51
Total time 66:37
Press quotes:
“Japanese expats Yonezawa, bassist Kamaguchi, and drummer Kobayashi use space and silence to riveting effect on nine originals and the standard ‘I’ll Be Seeing You.’ But like her country mate Satoko Fujii, Yonezawa can shock, occasionally sending shards and clusters exploding from the keyboard.”– Derk Richardson, The Absolute Sound
“New York-based Japanese pianist Megumi Yonezawa co-leads a sharp new trio with fellow countrymen, bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Ken Kobayashi. Integrity, freedom, and an extraordinary improvisational facility are part of the group’s philosophy, and Boundary proves their individual and collective value in the process of creating spontaneously from predetermined ideas.” – jazztrail.net
Musicians: Megumi Yonezawa Masa Kamaguchi Ken Kobayashi Matthew Shipp
音楽 ： Matthew Shipp－Zero(ESP-Disk')
Matthew Shipp
Zero
In the first part of his career, Matthew Shipp avoided solo recordings, saying he wasn't ready – and the first solo album he made, Symbol Systems, happened by accident when the other player on the session didn't show up. Since then, his style expanded and matured and he recorded prolifically, including a number of solo albums, but they have remained special events, distinct statements of purpose. Zero continues in this tradition; its philosophical basis can be gleaned from the lecture on the bonus CD. But, of course, it is the music itself which speaks most eloquently.
Please note that the tune titled "Zero" is not the same as a previous Shipp composition of the same title.
Only the first edition (first 880 copies) of this album will include the bonus CD containing the talk Mr. Shipp gave at The Stone.
Track List:
01 Zero 5:31
02 Abyss Before Zero 3:48
03 Pole After Zero 3:19
04 Piano Panels 4:13
05 Cosmic Sea 3:43
06 Zero Skip and a Jump 2:11
07 Zero Subtract From Jazz 6:35
08 Blue Equation 5:14
09 Pattern Emerge 2:46
10 Ghost Pattern 1:39
11 After Zero 5:12
Total time 44:11
https://soundcloud.com/esp-disk/04-lines-of-energy
Bonus CD:
01 Zero: A Lecture on Nothingness 62:58
Matthew Shipp: piano (CD 1), voice (bonus CD)
Steve Dalachinsky: liner notes
Press Quotes:
“Zero is a striking and typically uncompromising solo recording. While Shipp plays aggressive and with signature acuity on pieces like ‘Piano Panels,’ ‘Pattern Emerge’ and the title track, his ‘Abyss Before Zero’ and the harmonically rich ‘Cosmic Sea’ display the thoughtful lyricism of Andrew Hill’s ‘70s solo albums…. Shipp has become an elder statesman on the free-jazz scene. His catalog is deep and his influence undeniable, just as Cecil Taylor and Don Pullen—firebrands from another era—had been a generation before.” – Bill Milkowski, DownBeat
“For years pianist Shipp has gone his own unconventional way. Critics have shunted him into the avant garde piano category. That’s not where he belongs. He is the sole occupant of the Matthew Shipp category. The listener with open ears will understand that individuality is the core of Shipp’s approach. The title of his new solo album, Zero, may suggest metaphysical implications. My advice is, don’t worry about metaphysical implications. Simply listen to Shipp’s keyboard mastery and the wide range of emotions in his playing—and leave categories behind.” – Doug Ramsey, Arts Journal
“Like Monk, Shipp has created his own language, what he might call a symbol system. His blues are often fragmented, leading you away from the familiar and into a house with many rooms. He can attack the keyboards as a percussionist, or play some gentle licks that would soothe a kitten. There is a logic to each piece here, and the listener can have confidence in the resolution of ideas.” – Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
"Matthew Shipp has become an elder statesman in the jazz world. How that happened can be boiled down to two simple elements. One: he has created a unique sound and language for improvised music and two: Shipp has become a doyen of cutting edge music making and opinion." – Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
"[A]n aspect of Shipp's character that is always evident, yet seldom discussed: the emotional commitment in his compositional method is equal to the rigorous intellect he applies in the architecture of creation." – Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com, re: solo album Piano Sutras
"The jazz world does not lack for fine pianists, but those who can sustain listener interest through an extended solo set always have been in shorter supply. These days, few pack their soliloquies with more information, drama and free-ranging thought than Matthew Shipp." – Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
Musicians: Matthew Shipp '
音楽 ： Amina Baraka and The Red Microphone－Amina Baraka and The Red Microphone(ESP-Disk')
Amina Baraka and The Red Microphone
Amina Baraka and The Red Microphone
Amina Baraka speaks truth and spits fire when she reads her poetry. She is a warm and friendly person, but keeps a metal shovel by her front door in case of trespassers. She is a devoted member of the Communist Party USA. She is vast, she contains multitudes. After decades in the shadow of her late husband, poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, Amina is having a career renaissance in the company of The Red Microphone, four musicians who are fellow fighters in the struggle for equality for all. Not that she hasn't been getting her poetry published all those years, but as we have so often seen, poets who add music to the mix can transcend category boundaries and reach more listeners. And this is some powerful music, inside/outside jazz, created in the moment but occasionally building on a composition by group member Rocco John Iacovone, the cadences of Baraka's words intertwining with the rhythms of the music to become more than the sum of its parts.
Personnel:
Amina Baraka: words, lead vocals
with The Red Microphone:
Ras Moshe Burnett: tenor saxophone, flute, percussion
Rocco John Iacovone: curved soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, piano
John Pietaro: musical direction, drums, percussion
Laurie Towers: bass guitar
'amen chorus' on "Talking Drum": Ras, Rocco, John
Track Listing:
1. Time Step 8:41
2. The Spirit of Billy Bang 3:06
3. The Things I Love 7:36
4. Jayne Cortez 8:25
5. Afro American Child 19:33
6. For Margaret Walker Alexander 6:55
7. Real Dreams 4:08
8. Talking Drum 5:45
9. The Fascist 7:32
71:58
All words by Amina Baraka. All music collectively improvised by The Red Microphone except:
music under "Timestep": "Travelin' Thru" by Rocco John Iacovone, with quote of "L'Internationale" by Pierre Degeyter
music under "The Spirit of Billy Bang": by Laurie Towers
music under "The Things I Love": "Blue Nights" by Rocco John Iacovone
music under "Talking Drum": by John Pietaro
音楽 ： Thollem/DuRoche/Stjames Trio－Live in Our Time(ESP-Disk')
Thollem/DuRoche/Stjames Trio
Live in Our Time
Through the wood, sinew, skins, metal and fingers, one hears the years of experiential exploration, responsive nuances, and overwhelming power in the trio's joyfully intense playing. They cover a lot of territory in this recording, conjuring epochs and eras, terrains and cultures. This is improvised music composed spontaneously out of the breadth of experiences. www.thollem.com/thollem-duroche-stjames
André Stjames was a cornerstone of the rich, thriving Pacific Northwest jazz scene and worked regularly with his own ensemble, Mel Brown, The Kin Trio, Gordon Lee, Renato Caranto, and many others. Over the last three decades, Stjames worked with Sonny Rollins, the Harold Land-Blue Mitchell Quintet, Andrew Hill trio and large bands, Bobby Hutcherson, Charlie Rouse, Pharoah Sanders, James Moody, Alan Shorter, Nancy King, and George Cables. Stjames's strong sense of lyricism, buoyancy, and surging momentum, as well as a deep respect for both tradition and innovation, took him to both ends of the jazz spectrum -- from torch songs and two-beat to bop and beyond. He enjoyed freewheeling, open-ended avant-garde combustion with keepers of the flame including Judy Silvano/Cathi Walkup/Andrea Wolper, Ron Steen, Joe Pass, Kai Winding, Herb Ellis, Greta Matassa, and Houston Person as well as trailblazers such as Julius Hemphill, Marty Ehrlich, Eugene Chadbourne, Michael White, India Cooke, Kash Killion, Mal Waldron, and Sun Ra, to name a handful. André Stjames passed away on May 26, 2018 www.andrestjames.com
Tim DuRoche works regularly with the collective ensemble Battle Hymns & Gardens and The Kin Trio, and has logged extensive time with an array of U.S. and European avant-garde jazz innovators, including Dominic Duval, Burton Greene, Matana Roberts, Paul Plimley, Lisle Ellis, Wally Shoup, Gust Burns, Bert Wilson, Urs Leimgruber, Jon Raskin, Perry Robinson, Jack Wright, Doug Theriault, Marco Eneidi, Didier Petit, and Frank Gratkowski, among others. Tim is the host of "The New Thing," a weekly radio jazz radio show on KMHD 89.1 FM, and is the author of the book Occasional Jazz Conjectures (Durable Goods). www.timduroche.com
Thollem has spent his life skirting and erasing the edges of boundaries musically, culturally, geographically. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of artists across idioms and disciplines including William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Nels Cline, Amy Denio, Faruq Z. Bey, Michael Wimberly, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Jon Raskin, Henry Kaiser, Scott Amendola, Daniel Carter, Federico Ughi, Pauline Oliveros, Vinny Golia, and Hafez Modirzadeh, among many, many others. "He inhabits a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and formally" (Terry Riley). This is Thollem's fourth appearance on ESP-Disk', following The Naked Future's Gigantomachia (ESP4053), TSIGOTI's Private Property Speaks to the People of the Party (ESP4057), and Thollem McDonas & Mad King Edmund's Happening: A Movement in 12 Acts (ESP5012). www.thollem.com
Track Listing:
01. Persisted Resistance 18:59
02. Reparation Apparition 14:26
03. Sunshine Pipeline 11:38
total 47:03
Thollem McDonas, piano
Tim DuRoche, drums
André Stjames, bass
https://soundcloud.com/esp-disk/3-sunshine-pipeline
“While harking to the avant-garde ‘new thing’ of six decades past, these now-spacious, now-dense, now-rambling probes of rhythm and harmony are journeys into wholly new and fertile musical territory.” – Derk Richardson, The Absolute Sound
音楽 ： Stephen Dydo & Alan Sondheim－Dragon and Phoenix(ESP-Disk')
Stephen Dydo & Alan Sondheim
Dragon and Phoenix
Dragon and Phoenix refers to the names of the sound holes on the Chinese instrument known as the guqin a.k.a. qin (gu is a prefix meaning "ancient"), which figures prominently on this album of improvised acoustic duos, being heard on thirteen of the sixteen tracks, with two qins on four tracks.
Stephen Dydo, former president of the New York Qin Society, is the more traditional player here, whereas Alan Sondheim has a style heavily based on free improvisation. The two bonded over their instrument collections, sometimes trading or loaning choice items. Dydo, who has also had lengthy careers as classical guitarist and as a twelve-tone composer, once told the author that a good day of composing yielded a measure and a half; this painstaking attention to detail has stood him in good stead during his more recent study of the qin. Sondheim, who has previously had three releases on ESP-Disk' starting in the 1960s and has prolifically spread his recent musical evolution across a variety of other labels, is an impulsive musical adventurer who uses his dizzying array of instruments for what their sounds can contribute to his musical style; he is not unaware of the traditional performance techniques of his instruments, but he never lets his musical expression be limited by or to those techniques.
Except for the use of madal (a hand drum) on one track, all the music here is made with stringed instruments. The music is very often focused on contrasts of timbres and textures. However, there may be as much pure melodic content here as on any Sondheim album. Harmonies are spare but spiced with microtonality. Though it may be more subtle than much of our catalog, attentive listeners will likely find that this meeting of tradition and experimentation lives up to an old ESP-Disk' slogan: "You never heard such sounds in your life."
PERSONNEL:
Stephen Dydo: qin, viola, banjo
Alan Sondheim: qin, viola, banjo, guzheng, rababa, erhu, madal
TRACKS:
01. 天 (Tian/heaven and) 6:56
02. 地 (Di/earth) 5:17
03. 玄 (Xuan/black and) 3:15
04. 黄 (Huang/yellow) 3:52
05. 宇 (Yu/space and) 6:30
06. 宙 (Zhou/time) 5:32
07. 洪 (Hong/vast and) 4:48
08. 荒 (Huang/desolate) 5:45
09. 日 (Ri/sun and) 3:26
10. 月 (Yue/moon) 5:14
11. 盈 (Ying/full and) 3:53
12. 昃 (Ze/setting sun) 3:34
13. 辰 (Chen/stars early) 6:02
14. 宿 (Xiu/interval) 4:51
15. 列 (Lie/ordered and) 5:38
16. 张 (Zhang/spread) 3:35
A note about the track titles: They are based on the first sixteen characters of the Ch'ien Tzu Wen, translated by Ellen Zweig and Alan Sondheim, correlated with other English translations in Ch'ien Tzu Wen, The Thousand Character Classic, A Chinese Primer, edited by Francie W. Paar (Ungar, 1963). The translation is slightly modified for the CD, creating an almost haiku-like poem.
Musicians: Alan Sondheim / Stephen Dydo
2019年9月15日日曜日
音楽 ： Matthew Shipp－Sonic Fiction(ESP-Disk')
Sonic Fiction
After a duo album and two trio albums by Shipp and Walerian, all for ESP-Disk', we get a quartet album from them that continues their strategy of working with different musicians each time out. Bisio and Dickey are long-time collaborators with Shipp, but the addition of Walerian's Zen style changes the dynamics of their interactions. Walerian and Dickey, masters of restraint, were a match waiting to be made, and their instant rapport is one of the attractions of this album.
Track List:
01. First Step 3:24
02. Blues Addition 6:23
03. The Station 5:53
04. Lines of Energy 4:02
05. Easy Flow 5:39
06. The Problem of Jazz 5:00
07. The Note 0:17
08. 3 by 4 6:25
09. Cell in the Brain 5:33
10. Sonic Fiction 11:23
Total time 53:59
http://soundcloud.com/esp-disk/04-lines-of-energy
Matthew Shipp, piano
Mat Walerian, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet
Michael Bisio, bass
Whit Dickey, drums
Press Quotes:
“One would be hard-pressed to find a Matthew Shipp quartet recording as democratically executed as Sonic Fiction… offered as a framework of dialogic expression, a music of ideas communicated, exchanged, and put forth directly and intimately. […] Sonic Fiction marks a new phase for Shipp as its evolves from his previous outings with Walerian (and his numerous dates with saxophonist Ivo Perelman on Leo) toward a shared multivalent lingual space where musical equations are stated, re-examined, and ultimately balanced before they emerge as a new sonic terrain.” – Thom Jurek, AllMusic Guide
“Shipp does not believe in ‘jazz’ per se; the wide-ranging music he plays…will sound like jazz to many, but in keeping with ESP tradition, it subverts definitions and expectations in service of creating magic with sounds. For those unfamiliar with Walerian, the Polish reed player, who has three previous ESP recordings with Shipp, his playing will trigger a sense of wonder.” – Derk Richardson, The Absolute Sound
"Matthew Shipp has become an elder statesman in the jazz world. How that happened can be boiled down to two simple elements. One: he has created a unique sound and language for improvised music and two: Shipp has become a doyen of cutting edge music making and opinion." – Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
"[Walerian] is one of the most talented young jazz musicians on the Polish scene, if not THE most talented." – Maciej Lewenstein, Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond
"The reed work of Mat Walerian really warms up the piano of Matthew Shipp here – as Mat provides these beautiful lines on alto, bass clarinet, flute, and soprano clarinet – which have a resonant quality that really seems to open up Shipp's music too! We've really moved back towards enjoying Shipp in recent years – and the sense of persona in records like this is a good reason why – almost a renewed soul that we haven't heard in years, unlocked in the right setting like this." – Dusty Groove
"Amazing sympathetic piano-sax interaction. Often somber, sometimes blues-inflected, sometimes explosive." – rotfest.com
"Live in Okuden exemplifies the possibilities of the duo. Shipp is in great form and the album is a nice introduction to Walerian's imaginative playing." – Paul Acquaro, freejazzblog.org
"[D]espite featuring the nimble, expressive, and yes interesting and evocative fingers of pianist Matthew Shipp, Live at Okuden really gets its mood, and thus its mojo, from the bass clarinet, alto sax, soprano clarinet, and flute playing of Mat Walerian." - Paul Semel, CultureCatch.com
Musicians: Matthew Shipp / / Mat Walerian / Michael Bisio / Whit Dickey
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音楽 ： Evergreen (Canceled World)(ESP-Disk')
Evergreen (Canceled World)
The Delegation is a project of young phenom Gabriel Zucker that mixes jazz, classical, electronica, rock, and more into a new sound that lives up to ESP-Disk's classic catchphrase, "You never heard such sounds in your life!" This improvising group came together at the 2013 Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop and was soon commissioned by the American Composers Forum; the result is the twelve-movement work on this two-disc set, which was premiered at the Jazz Gallery in New York City in 2014 and earned ASCAP's Morton Gould Young Composers Award.
Personnel
Gabriel Zucker - piano, compositions, lyrics, electronics, voice; Adam O'Farrill - trumpet; Eric Trudel - tenor saxophone; Jacob Teichroew - tenor saxophone, clarinet; Bryan Qu - tenor saxophone; Mark Chung - violin; Ron Lawrence - viola; Eric Allen - cello; Artemisz Polonyi - voice; Lorena del Mar - voice; Bam Bam Rodriguez - bass; Gabriel Globus-Hoenich - drums;David Su - additional electronics
Track Listing
CD 1:
01. Always Know / I'll Follow You (Resistible I)
02. Headlight Imprecise (Summaries I)
03. In the Audience (Disregard I)
04. Bare (Evergreen I)
05. Too Resistible / Roof (Resistible II)
06. were alone / Knowledge Clown (Evergreen II)
CD 2:
07. The End
08. Recover (Disregard II)
09. 3.5 Rotations (Evergreen III)
10. Growing Old (Evergreen IV) / Flow Like Wine (Canceled I)
11. Talk in Undertones (Resistible III)
12. Yellow Paint (Summaries II) / End of Time (Canceled II)
Press Quotes re: Evergreen:
★★★★½ “...a fascinating form of sonic installation blending wild improvisation, classical strings, disciplined unison passages and untrammeled solo excursions.” — Carlo Wolff, Downbeat
“In Zucker’s almost confrontational writing I find the vision of one who is hugely expressive. Here is a young man with a profound sense of tone and colour and how it can be wrought from diverse instrumentation to be affectingly ‘cantorial,’ expressive and hugely symphonic too.” — Raul da Gama, World Music Report
★★★★ “Evergreen (Canceled World) totally lives up to its larger-than-life sweep and scope.” — Dave Wayne, All About Jazz
“Evergreen is a rewarding example of what Brooklyn has to offer avant garde jazz-rock and demonstrates that ESP-Disk’ hasn’t lost its adventurous spirit.” — Alex Henderson, New York City Jazz Record
Acclaim for Gabriel Zucker:
"...suavely combined a symphony orchestra and a jazz band, beginning with a haunting orchestral hush and passing a gentle theme through the jazz soloists. It was a nocturne out of early Bernstein or introspective Sinatra." - Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times re:Universal at Midnight's Carnegie Hall premiere
Bach Society Prize of the Yale Music Department for being "a pianist who has excelled in solo, concerto and chamber music genres, a jazz pianist who has sustained a creative and virtuosic activity during his time at Yale, and a composer who has intensified his ambitious endeavor to find a synthesis between his art music and jazz interests."
Musicians: Delegation / Gabriel Zucker
音楽 ： Talibam!－HARD VIBE(ESP-Disk')
Talibam!
HARD VIBE
Talibam! delights in creating music that cannot be pinned down within the safe-spaces of existing genres. With each new album, Talibam! reinvents their methodological palette in order to bolster a fresh clarity of joyous auditory surprise, something their fans have come to depend on. Talibam! focuses on compositional clarity, with reverence for their diverse interest in genre. On this new album they push the pulse of Motorik rhythm through a Psychedelic Jazz filter. This time out, they have created a sonic edifice so radical, so intricate in its density, that additional hands were required to bring it to life; thus was born the Talibam! Hard Vibe Band with Matt Nelson (Battle Trance, tUnE-yArDs) and Ron Stabinsky (Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Peter Evans Quintet, Relâche) joining Mottel (CSC Funk Band, Alien Whale, Nymph, Platinum Vision) and Village Voice "Best Drummer in New York" Shea (Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Rhys Chatham, People featuring Mary Halvorson).
The scientists in the Talibam! laboratory describe the results thusly: The HARD VIBE composition transforms aspects of rhythm changes into a disciplined sequence of minor key modulations to create a rigorous Hard Vibe obstacle course for the soloists over a tight melodic/rhythmic grid. Inspired by Herbie Hancock's '70s cosmic music, long-form repetitive works such as Miles Davis's On the Corner, Charlie Parker's "Salt Peanuts," Tenor Sax endurance soloists, Albert Ayler's New Grass, the legendary organ brutality of Larry Young, and the NYC Avant-Garde Rock Minimalism of Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, Hard Vibe maintains an infectious pulse with virtuosic structural jazz improvisation. The Jan Hammer/'80s soundtrack-inspired Keytar payoff (second half of side B) brings festival audiences to its feet in epic dance and ripping solo proportions. But those are inspirations more than ingredients. As we at ESP-Disk' are fond of saying, "You never heard such sounds in your life."
Personnel: Matthew Mottel: Fender Rhodes, synthesizer; Matt Nelson: tenor saxophone; Kevin Shea: drums; Ron Stabinsky: Hammond B3 organ; John Olson (Wolf Eyes): cover art
Track Listing:
01. Infinite Hard Vibe Pt. 1 19:44
02. Infinite Hard Vibe Pt. 2 19:21
Press Quotes: "Talibam! manage to cast themselves as a powerful rhythm section... It's pretty cool to hear the Manhattan abstracters create such a cool free jazz/free rock hybrid." - Byron Coley
"Co-conspirators Matthew Mottel and Kevin Shea have something in common with John Coxon and Ashley Wales of Spring Heel Jack in their application of multiple instruments, electronics and collaborators to create an eclectic musical milieu." - Derek Taylor
"This is wildly new music, fresh in its approach to the collision of melody, harmony and rhythm that makes for quite a soup for the songs to swim in." - Raul d'Gama Rose
"Amid the fun and exuberance a clever brain and a strong heart of integrity beats." - Lisa Thatcher
Musicians: Talibam!
音楽 ： Talibam!－Endgame of the Anthropocene(ESP-Disk')
Talibam!
Endgame of the Anthropocene
Endgame of the Anthropocene marks Talibam!’s return to ESP-Disk', a partnership begun in 2009 with the highly acclaimed Boogie in the Breeze Blocks album. Talibam! is a 14-year working unit based in New York City that can be described in various ways -- as a classic keyboards/drums expanded-jazz duo, as Dadaist provocateurs with an innate love for the history of music, as a Fluxus-informed theater troupe, as an electronic ensemble inspired by Stockhausen, or as a rhythm section at the cross hair of agility, speed, punctuation, and intention. Since their inception in 2003, Talibam!’s ultimate goal has been to wed disparate ideologies through proficiency, controversy, inquiry, and compassion. Every Talibam! album attacks from a different angle; Endgame continues this tradition of each new release sounding completely different from everything they've done before, as does HARD VIBE (ESP5015), which will be released on the same day.
Talibam! has made a geopsychic prediction: after it expires in 2048, the Antarctic Treaty System will be rejected. As the rest of the planet will have been rendered uninhabitable due to wars rooted in overpopulation, global warming, and the relentless exploitation of diminishing resources, human interference and the failure to ratify will lead to international war over the sovereignty and control of Antarctica’s vast resources. Endgame of the Anthropocene is Talibam!’s first cinematic album of through-composed ecogothic geosonics. It is the soundtrack to 2048’s despotic nationalism and crumbling international infrastructure, underscoring an eco-mercantilistic tragedy and the desperate plundering of the last pristine landscape on Earth. This inevitable destruction of Antarctica’s purity marks the global-environmental endgame of the Anthropocene. Endgame of the Anthropocene is a dystopian sonic pronouncement of failed socio-environmental memes, and features Talibam!’s emergence into hyperkinetic rhythm-based instrumental/ electronic music. Syncopation via polyrhythmic electronic drum and synth pads create corporeal dance floor beats that would make a super computer perturbed. Kevin Shea is a master of cyber swing and ecowar rhythm — on this record, he keeps it android yet anthropoid, like Aphex Twin meeting a hologram Phil Collins. Keyboardist Matt Mottel anchors wide sweeps of analog synthesis — his sonic palette oscillating between the Silver Apples, Sun Ra, and Arca via an Arduino beta bass drop. This music is hallucinatory composition — electronic muzik via an ethnographic sonic landscape influenced by Parmegiani, Don Cherry, Front 242, Hailu Mergia, Vangelis, Suicide, Islam Chipsy, Stockhausen and DJ Shadow.
Personnel: Matthew Mottel: Mini Moog, Midi Synths, Yamaha CS1x, Roland Juno 1, Roland Lucina, Arp Solus ; Kevin Shea: drums, MIDI Marimba Lumina; Preston Spurlock: cover art
Track Listing:(ESP-
01. "Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only" (Article 1) 11:56
02. Human Interference and the Failure to Ratify 4:08
03. Reign of Primordial Tenure on the Ice Shelf 3:01
04. The Telegenic Annexation of Territorial Expanse in the West 2:03
05. Obsequious Resources Duly Exploited De Novo 5:05
06. Breach of Ecology on the Seabed (Biodiversity in Shambles) 1:51
07. Cost-Effective Drilling Enabled by Pioneering Technologies and Warmer Climates in the Southern Ocean 6:10
08. RISE OF THE DEFENDERS OF ANTARCTICA 4:03
Press Quotes: "Talibam! manage to cast themselves as a powerful rhythm section... It's pretty cool to hear the Manhattan abstracters create such a cool free jazz/free rock hybrid" - Byron Coley
"Co-conspirators Matthew Mottel and Kevin Shea have something in common with John Coxon and Ashley Wales of Spring Heel Jack in their application of multiple instruments, electronics and collaborators to create an eclectic musical milieu." - Derek Taylor
"This is wildly new music, fresh in its approach to the collision of melody, harmony and rhythm that makes for quite a soup for the songs to swim in." - Raul d'Gama Rose
"Amid the fun and exuberance a clever brain and a strong heart of integrity beats." - Lisa Thatcher
Musicians: Talibam!
音楽 ： Buck Curran－Immortal Light(ESP-Disk)
Buck Curran
Immortal Light
Immortal Light is the debut solo album by Psychedelic Folk guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the Psych-Folk duo Arborea. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including 2013's ESP-Disk' release Fortress of the Sun, and produced two various-artist compilations (Leaves of Life, a benefit for the World Food Program, and We Are All One, In the Sun, a tribute to Robbie Basho). Buck has also produced a second tribute to Robbie Basho, Basket Full of Dragons, released on July 5, 2016 by Obsolete Recordings.
Buck's music is influenced by landscapes of nature and has developed through a decade of playing with Arborea and the experience of playing Blues and Folk throughout the 1990s. He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock of the 1960s (Robbie Basho, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley), American Blues and Folk music of the 1930s, British Folk and Psychedelic Folk/Rock of the '60s and early '70s (Peter Green, Sandy Denny, Pentangle, Davey Graham, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, Martin Simpson), Indian Classical music (Pandit Nikhil Banerjee), and Jazz of the '50s and '60s (Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane).
Personnel
Buck Curran: vocals, guitars, harmonium, flute, banjo.
Shanti Deschaine: backup vocals on "New Moontide" and "Bad Moon Rising." Featured lead vocals and harmonium on "Immortal Light."
Track Listing
01. Wayfaring Summer (Reprise) (2:56)
02. New Moontide (5:29)
03. Sea of Polaris (4:59)
04. Seven Gardens to Your Shore (4:41)
05. River unto Sea (7:47)
06. Bad Moon Rising (4:00)
07. Andromeda (5:54)
08. Immortal Light (13:31)
Press Quotes: early reviews of Immortal Light
"Guitar tones linger and reverberate with a mystical translucence." - Dusted
"The wonderful new Buck Curran LP on ESP-Disk', as gorgeous a psychedelic folk record as can be in 2016." - Jeff Conklin, host of The Avant Ghetto on WFMU
Musicians: Buck Curran / Arborea
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