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drag city (usa) #dc 043 lp

gastr del solcrookt, crackt or fly” long playing record

  • wedding in the park
  • work from smoke
  • parenthetically
  • every five miles

  • thos.dudley ah! old must dye
  • is that a rifle when it rains?
  • the c in cake
  • the wrong soundings
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second album from gastr del sol, but actually the first to feature the twin-headed hydra of david grubbs & jim o’rourke that we came to know & love throughout the 90s ...

an all-over-the-place set of acoustic/electric guitar pieces (fairly prog-oriented), a few passages of room-tone/cassette-recorded piano (with grubbs’ occasional free-associative lyrics), and a few full-blown rock-band extrapolations, and some extended forays into studio manipulation and full-blown musique concrète ...

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drag city (usa) #dc 043 cs

gastr del solcrookt, crackt or fly” cassette

  • wedding in the park
  • work from smoke
  • parenthetically
  • every five miles

  • thos.dudley ah! old must dye
  • is that a rifle when it rains?
  • the c in cake
  • the wrong soundings
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "work from smoke"
yes... it’s also available on cassette (don’t look at me; i’m as suprised as you...)

second album from gastr del sol, but actually the first to feature the twin-headed hydra of david grubbs & jim o’rourke that we came to know & love throughout the 90s ...

an all-over-the-place set of acoustic/electric guitar pieces (fairly prog-oriented), a few passages of room-tone/cassette-recorded piano (with grubbs’ occasional free-associative lyrics), and a few full-blown rock-band extrapolations, and some extended forays into studio manipulation and full-blown musique concrète ...

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drag city (usa) #dc 043 cd

gastr del solcrookt, crackt or fly” compact disc

  • wedding in the park (1:02)
  • work from smoke (12:30)
  • parenthetically (1:20)
  • every five miles (7:49)
  • thos.dudley ah! old must dye (2:40)
  • is that a rifle when it rains? (1:29)
  • the c in cake (3:36)
  • the wrong soundings (14:49)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "work from smoke"
second album from gastr del sol, but actually the first to feature the twin-headed hydra of david grubbs & jim o’rourke that we came to know & love throughout the 90s ...

an all-over-the-place set of acoustic/electric guitar pieces (fairly prog-oriented), a few passages of room-tone/cassette-recorded piano (with grubbs’ occasional free-associative lyrics), and a few full-blown rock-band extrapolations, and some extended forays into studio manipulation and full-blown musique concrète ...

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grob (germany) #grob 656 cd

gene coleman / franz hautzinger / sachiko m / otomo yoshihideconcert in st. louis” compact disc

  • 1_51:33”
  • 2_09:19”
grob press release...
gene coleman: bass clarinet
franz hautzinger: quarter tone trumpet
sachiko m: sine waves and contact microphone on objects
otomo yoshihide: guitar and turntables

gene coleman/franz hautzinger/sachiko m/otomo yoshihide - concert in st. louis

in the last four or five years there has been a clear set trend towards stillness in improvised music. the classical parameters – the forming of energy states, the spontaneous, dense communication – are not relevant to this music, but rather the empty spaces, the disparate, non-dynamic, the recessed. stillness.

this trend is not without its detractors, and from various positions (musicians, theoreticians) it is feared that too much of the former tilled field is being forfeited. there is polemic: improvised music tends to attach itself to trends in new music, after they have long become passé. like the trend of the non-gestural stillness.

gene coleman, bass clarinetist, long-standing protagonist of chicago’s most varying experimental and avant-garde scene (he can be heard, among others, on the albums of gastr del sol), a festival organizer and curator on the go, lives mostly from his compositions. he does not have to hang onto any trend, he does not feel any need to innovate and does not see himself exposed to any scene pressure. gene coleman plays and acts autonomously.

for a tour in the autumn of 2002 he put together a quartet out of musicians with whom he has worked together before. franz hautzinger (quarter-tone trumpet, grob 211, grob 313/4, grob 425, grob 435, grob 544), sachiko m (sinus generator, contact microphones, grob 432, 435), otomo yoshihide (guitar, turntables, grob 432) are all world renowned musicians and improvisers who have mastered the use of musical stillness.

so these are the best prerequisites not to reproduce the “cliché of stillness,” but rather to initiate a restful as well as very open and highly flexible improvising process. stillness is not assumed here, is not a result and an purpose worth aspiring for, but rather it is a means to form. the strong rustling improvisation does not deplete itself, but rather brings forth new constellation of their playing together (also next to each other)

it is slow, peaceful, very relaxed flowing music. but whoever listens closely will hear the tension and the exertion, the wrestling to create expression.

next year grob will release a cd that will present some of his current compositions.

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musica genera (poland) #mg 001 cd

kyle bruckmannand” compact disc

  • and michael (4:27)
  • and jeb (4:52)
  • and jim (4:38)
  • and scott (3:22)
  • and michael (4:04)
  • and gene (2:55)
  • and jeb (8:14)
  • and michael (3:13)
  • and jim (2:52)
  • and fred (3:38)
  • and gene (4:44)
  • and weasel (7:10)
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musica genera press release...
mg 001 : kyle bruckmann
and

kyle bruckmann - oboe, english horn, suona, raita
jim baker - synthesizer
jeb bishop - trombone
gene coleman - bass clarinet
fred lonberg-holm - cello
scott rosenberg - contrabass clarinet
weasel walter - percussion
michael zerang - multiple percussion

total time 54:11

mastered by: savage sound syndicate
produced by: robert piotrowicz

kyle bruckmann: as an oboist and electronic musician has become a fixture in chicago's thriving experimental music underground. with a history of conservatory training gone awry, bruckmann combines the discipline of a classical foundation with the raucous sensibilities of dada and punk in adizzying variety of artistic endeavors. he has lived in chicago since 1996, teaching and free-lancing as a classical musician while playing regularly with some of the city's most creative improvisers and sound artists, including jeb bishop, jim baker, bhob rainey, fred lonberg-holm, bob marsh, robbie hunsinger, michael zerang, guillermo gregorio, and olivia block. ongoing affiliations include ekg, an electroacoustic duo with ernst karel, the rosenberg skronktet ("anyone interested in how creative music develops will want to keep an ear on their progress," kevin whitehead, chicago sun-times), and the experimental punk powerhouse lozenge. as a member of composer gene coleman's ensemble noamnesia, he has collaborated with polwechsel and performed works by george crumb, john cage, charles ives, cornelius cardew, malcolm goldstein, and salvatore sciarrino, among others.his debut cd of solo improvisations, "entymology," available through barely auditable records, has been hailed as "an enchanting experience that expands thepossibilities (and the comprehension) of the double reed family" (françois couture, all-music guide). ekg's "shift or latch" was recently released by crank satori; lozenge's recordings are available through toyo and farrago records.

jim baker (synthesizer) has performed & recorded (as either a pianist or synthesist) in various situations which have included various people, some of whom are also on this record, and others who are not. more specifically, mr. baker has previously performed with mr. bruckmann in situations organized by guillermo gregorio, fred lonberg-holm, scott rosenberg, ernst karel, robbie hunsinger, and michael zerang.

jeb bishop plays trombone with, among others, the vandermark five, the peter brotzmann chicago tentet, the chicago-scandinavia quintet school days, and fred lonberg-holm's terminal four, as well as leading his own trio. he often plays ad hoc free-improvisation gigs in chicago and lsewhere. the chicago label okkadisk has released two cds by the jeb bishop trio, and bishop's cd 98 duets is available on the label wobbly rail.

cellist fred lonberg-holm has performed and recorded extensively throughout north america and europe. while based out of nyc, he performed in and led various ensembles including his quartet peep, anthonybraxton's creative orchestra, god is my co-pilot, and anthony coleman's selfhaters. in the late '90s,lonberg-holm relocated to chicago where he has since become heavily involved in the free music scene. his projects there include the improvisational light box orchestra, pillow, terminal 4, and the peter brotzmann tentet.

gene coleman is a composer, bass clarinetist and artistic director of ensemble noamnesia. his compositions are explorations of possible relationships between noise and what is normally called "music", as well as spatial and temporal perception. with ensemble noamnesia and the yearly festival "sound field" he has had collaborations in chicago with many important composers, including helmut lachenmann, vinko globokar, george crumb, gerhard staebler, kunsu shim, roscoe mitchell, salvatore sciarrino, malcolm goldstein, luc ferrari, karlheinz essl, mathias spahlinger, burkhard stangl, john wolf brennan, guillermo gregorio and others. in the area of improvised music, he has played in concert with evan parker, derek bailey, william parker, roscoe mitchell, jim o'rourke, mats gustafson, taku sugimoto, carl stone, werner dafeldecker, otomo yoshihide, radu malfatti and many others. his recordings include several projects with jim o'rourke and gastr del sol, as well as tony conrad, john wolf brennan and christian wolfarth, gulliermo gregorio, anthony braxton, mats gustafsonand others.

scott rosenberg is a multi-reed player and composer, and the founder of barely auditable records. over the past several years, rosenberg has performed all over the u.s. and in europe with the likes of: pauline oliveros, anthony braxton, christian wolff, helen thorington, eugene chadbourne, fred lonberg-holm, glenn spearman, dan plonsey, gino robair, chris brown, matt ingalls, brenda hutchinson, jeb bishop, luc hautkamp, ralph carney, marco eneidi, maggi payne, tim perkis, toshi makihara, and many others. he currently resides in paris.

weasel walter b. 1972 composer/multi-instrumentalist specializing in confrontation, chaos and asymmetry of form. founding member of chicago-based no wave/free jazz/death metal ensemble the flying luttenbachers (since 1991). has appeared on more than 50 recordings as a leader, band member or side person and performed more than 600 concerts throughout the u.s. and europe. has made and/or recorded improvised music with kevin drumm, fred lonberg-holm, jeb bishop, nandor nevai, jim o'rourke, michael zerang, jeff parker, ken vandermark, hal russell a.o.

percussionist, improvisor and composer michael zerang was born in 1958 in chicago, illinois. he has co-founded and performed with the musical groups liof munimula, the neutrino orchestra, trio troppo, the wonderfuls, the blue angels, sam pappas' tumbling strains, frozen lucy, the quirt quintet, musica menta, the vandermark quartet, dream cheese, the sputter ensemble, in zenith, and broken wire . in addition to these ensembles, zerang currently performs with many innovative musicians including aacm co-founder fred anderson, mats gustafsson, raymond strid, sten sandell, don meckley, jaap blonk, daniel scanlan, peter brötzmann, kent kessler, barre phillips, jim baker, hamid drake, ken vandermark, luc hautkamp, and fred lonberg-holm. he has recorded for okka disc, boxmedia, kontrans, southport, quinnah, eighth day music, garlic, and platypus, labels as well as many others.

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skin graft (usa) #gr 17 cd

brise-glacewhen in vanitas ...” compact disc

  • neither yield nor reap (7:03)
  • host of latecomers (4:00)
  • stump of a drowner (3:58)
  • restrained from do and will not (leave) (10:52)
  • one syntactical unit (24:12)
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skin graft press release...
brise-glace
"when in vanitas... "
catalog number: gr#17

brise-glace is the "cut-up" band formed by jim o'rourke, darin gray, thymme jones & dylan posa. in the tradition of can, this heat and faust, brise-glace is as much about deconstructing the functions of rock music, as it is operating as a rock band. shifting moods and temper, brise-glace masterfully interweave disparate introductory "scenes" that simultaneously challenge expectations and question definitions. also featured are henry kaiser, christoph heeman (hnas) and david grubbs

line up:
darin gray: electric bass
thymme jones: drums
jim o'rourke: guitar, organ, tape, razor blade
dylan posa: guitar

guests
gene coleman: bass clarinet
dave grubbs: organ
christophe heemann: tape
henry kaiser: guitar
carolyn faber: percussion

engineered by steve albini and jim o'rourke.
mixed by jim o'rourke / cover art by jim and mark fischer

fun fact(s): u.s. maple's first lp, "long hair in three stages" was taped over the outtakes from this album. all of the edits on "when in vanitas" were hand cut by jim's trusty razor blade - no computers! well under 1,000 copies of the original vinyl pressing exist! many were damaged by the freight carrier enroute to europe. brise-glace is french. it's the most mispronounced band name in the skin graft discography.

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