First we have Ian Brighton's 'Marsh Gas' with a great line-up :
Jim Livesey, alto saxophone
Marcio Mattos, bass
Sound In Brass, handbells
Ian Brighton, guitar
Roger Smith, guitar
Radu Malfatti, trombone
Philipp Wachsmann, violin
Available since December 2018, you'll get it from FMR Records.
The following two CDs/LPs are available since a few days.
Musicians are obvious on the first release. And on the edition with the pipe (Opium for Franz) you'll have - apart - from Franz Koglmann, Steve Lacy, Aldo Romano and Stephen Horenstein also Bill Dixon and Alan Silva on the long first track.
You'll get these two goodies through discogs. Or through the label's website http://www.blackmonk.at/blog (click on 'Mehr erfahren' und you see the contact address and the prices). According the label more is upcoming. Think about new and old Reform Art Unit sessions.
Almost only reissues this time. But at least this subtle new recording I would like to praise.
Here, one of my favourite musicians, Paul Lovens, has teamed with Hugo Antunes (a.o. Red Trio) and the previously unknown (to me, anyway) pianist Seppe Gebruers from Belgium.
So the line-up is percussion, double bass and two pianos, tuned a quarter tone apart.
Get it on vinyl or as a CD from the label El Negocito.
Than I would like to alert you again about the FMP / Destination-out reissue series.
All downloads are available in numerous formats - lossless and lossy.
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/
Originally as LP it had three editions. One from Czechoslovakia (which was the first one) shortly followed by a release from the GDR and finally FMP / SAJ.
Produced by the rather unknown Antonin Matzner who played(?) also on this great recording. It is strongly recommended.
Others participants are f.e. Tony Oxley, Günter Sommer, Willem Breuker, Rüdiger Carl, Rudolf Dasek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Louis Moholo, Trevor Watts.........
This one is especially appreciated. Only two years ago it seemed this rare session with Danny Davis (of Sun Ra fame), Taj Mahal Travellers' Takehisa Kosugi and Peter Kowald won't be reissued at all.
One of the members had objections against a new release.
But obviously and finally Jost Gebers managed to get the rights for this download.
Not only reissues are offered at FMP's bandcamp site but a.o. also this great unreleased session from 1984.
More music than fits on a CD these "minimalistic" improvisations are a treat;
played by Wolfgang Fuchs, Hanns Schneider (bass) and Bernhard Arndt on piano.
I can add another reissue from the french label "souffle continu", this interesting duet between french cellist Jean Charles Capon and Swiss drummer Pierre Favre "L'univers solitude", originally published on the label Sarava, reissued this month on lp
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the music has been perfectly remastered from the original source.
Thank you Correct Silence for the hint. This Capon + Favre LP is unknown to me. But it looks like a winner. I shall order it.
ReplyDeleteand for those who have missed it when it came out in June, here is this fantastic cd by the trio of Johnny Dyani, John Stevens, Frode Gjerstad aka Detail
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Obviously it have already been deleted from the FMR catalogue but the seller Squidco from Discogs still have some copies for sale, don't miss it, it is a masterpiece.
RE: Good Old Circus - Antonín Matzner was producer for most of albums by Jiří Stivín and also organiser and music journalist - Interjazz series was his idea to invite foreign musicians to former Czechoslovakia and play / record with local jazzmen. In later period of his life he was dramaturgist for Prague Spring festival. Regarding his instrumental contribution to album, pianist Emil Viklický said that synthesizer part was played by him, not Matzner. In any case, it is great that Destination: Out did reissue, as Supraphon actually is not able to care about its jazz archive adequately. Thankfully Polish GAD Records are also doing CD reissues of some Czech jazz treasures.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Milo for some background to this recording and Antonin Matzner.
ReplyDeleteAlways appreciated!
Actually, we did post Good Old Circus in the past, i.e. the Supraphone version:
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In any case, the links have lapsed by now.
CS, thanks for notifying about the "new" Detail release. I wasn't aware of it and not of the one up above listed on Discogs. I did get the First Detail which really is the first one, predating the recording on Impetus by nine days.
Hang on, the Detail release from Club 7 (in Oslo) is from September 1982 which means it is prior to the First Detail from October which makes the First Detail in reality the Second Detail. However, it could claim to be the First Detail at the time of as it was released two years before the Club 7 recording. Confusing, innit?
ReplyDeleteObviously the Detail Release issued by FMR, was previously available on tape from Frode Gjerstad himself and it seems that there are two or three other tapes published on Circulazione total, if someone have those tapes or others rarities from Detail, it would be great to post here.
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