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[javier4w]

An afternoon with Jürg Frey:

Streichquartett II - Quatuor Bozzini
A memory of perfection - Erik Carlson, violin
Sam Lazaro Bros - John McAlpine, piano
Canones incerti - Ensemble Dedalus
Viola, klavier - Christina Fong, viola/Paul Hersey, piano
Pianist, alone - R. Andrew Lee, piano
Ohne Titel (2 violinen) - Clemens Merkel & Joanna Becker, violin
Wen 3 - Erik Carlson, violin

[cleanzero]

[yonhosago]

[Dan Warburton]

New York Art Quartet, Call It Art (Triple Point Records)

http://www.triplepointrecords.com/

"strictly limited to 665 hand-numbered copies / 156-page clothbound book / complete history of the Quartet and its members along with a full itinerary / dozens of photos, manuscripts, and other memorabilia / custom birch wood box"

The weekend couldn't have started better.

[rolandtravy]

Hi there. I'm new to the forum.
This week in the stereo two classics from the '80:
Brian Eno and David Byrne-My life in the bush of ghosts.
Talking Heads-Remain in Light.
Sorry for my bad english, hope you don't mind.

[yonhosago]

electrodomésticos se caiga el cielo [2013]

[ascendsilverpoison]

Keiji Haino - Abandon all words at a stroke, so that prayer can come spilling out...

[Tanner]

New York Art Quartet, Call It Art (Triple Point Records)


"strictly limited to 665 hand-numbered copies / 156-page clothbound book / complete history of the Quartet and its members along with a full itinerary / dozens of photos, manuscripts, and other memorabilia / custom birch wood box"

The weekend couldn't have started better.

Holy shitballs, 340 bucks? What portion of NYAQ's audience is this being made for? Yeesh. And I though black metal was fetishistic. I'm surprised there aren't plaster casts of Milford Graves' teeth included in this, or maybe some locks of Rudd's hair. Ugh. 'Strictly limited."

Anywho, I'm listening to something slightly less KVLT: Mare "Spheres Like Death"

[Dan Warburton]

Holy shitballs, 340 bucks?

If I recall correctly, when Ben Young emailed round a couple of years ago to announce the project, we were invited to pre-order and commit to the tune of $1500 or something like that. If it had been 340 I would have probably chipped in myself. Even so, when you do the math, even if they give 65 copies away and sell the rest at the asking price, that's $200,000. Which ain't shabby. I heard Milford doesn't come cheap. The first Triple Point record, the Taylor / Oxley double LP, was also pricey ($110).

What portion of NYAQ's audience is this being made for?

Collectors, my friend. My dear departed buddy Didier Kowalski was salivating about this for months. And would have thought nothing of paying the price. Completism is a serious addiction. Didier was the kind of guy who'd buy reissues of the same album - he had three different copies of The Black Ark!

And I though black metal was fetishistic.

Well, there are folks who post here who think nothing of jetting across continents to catch the latest Erstwhile festival, n'est-ce pas?

I'm surprised there aren't plaster casts of Milford Graves' teeth included in this, or maybe some locks of Rudd's hair.

Yeah, like that dried flower they stuck in the Ayler Revenant box a few years ago (also lovingly curated by Ben Young). Whatever, the music is terrific, the book excellent. I'm just so happy to have been sent a copy.

[rolandtravy]

Fred Frith-Live in Japan



Crazy improvisations using prepared guitar, violin and other odd sound sources.

[bedouin]

New York Art Quartet, Call It Art (Triple Point Records)

It is impressive how fresh and in control the first 2 NYAQ discs sound today.
At least compared to the free jazz of the time.
Probably the same with this release.

...but the poem "Black Dada Nihilismus" by Amiri Baraka, included on their first record.
Man, this is so brutal and hard to take.

[Dan Warburton]

There isn't much Baraka in this set (thankfully, imo). I'm amazed, though, that the rest of the stuff has taken so long to surface (I suspect, again, that Graves was holding out.. when will we see decent reissues of his IPS stuff?), especially since the market has been flooded in recent years with plenty of (good but not exceptional) Sun Ra.

[rostasi]

Beautiful set indeed. Dan, did they send this gorgeous wooden box
with the interlocking sliver of wood that holds it all in place, etc.
or do they have a simpler set for review purposes?

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Now playing: Simin Ghanem - Abre Payizi

[Dan Warburton]

No, I got the bloody great big box, which must weigh about 4kg (note that the price doesn't include shipping ). And knowing Ben Young's concern for detail, I very much doubt that this will surface later in some cheapo reissue. Of course, some hip dude will rip it from vinyl and post it somewhere as a download, just a question of time I suppose

[yonhosago]

Stefan Thut & Johnny Chang two strings and boxes

[Piano Mouth]

[laszlo juhasz]

Carl Ludwig Hübsch / Pierre-Yves Martel / Philip Zoubek - June 16th



http://www.schraum.de/en/catalog/schraum17.html

[javier4w]

Morton Feldman · Violin and Orchestra (ECM New Series 2013)
Carolin Widmann violin/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Emilio Pomàrico,conductor

[Hal McGee]

Radu Malfatti / Taku Unami - goat vs donkey

[GerCoffey]

Les Rallizes Denudes - Great White Wonder (Phoenix)
Library Assistants - S/T (No Fans)
Kevin Drumm - Earrach (Self)
Yeh/Wesseltoft/Courtis/Lee - Cold/Burn (Feeding Tube)