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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 36 cd

dredd foole / ed yazijian “that lonesome road between hurt and soul” compact disc

  • you feel
  • overcome
  • buzzin' fly
  • freedom
  • love in the basement
  • charlestown bue
  • so high
2009 release ; lively set of basement jams from old friends dan “dredd foole” ireton & ed yazijian ...
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that lonesome road between hurt and soul
dredd foole & ed yazijian

dredd foole (dan ireton) and ed yazijian met while wandering the shadowy corners of the boston 80’s post-punk scene. ed was playing in such avant- rock combos as high risk group and 7 or 8 wormhearts (and the original pre-lp cul de sac). dan had just dissolved dredd foole & the din, tired of rock as a form and the extraordinary loudness of the group. he wanted a chance to do some real singing. ed was feeling a need for something more subtle and embraced the idea of actually being able to hear what he played. they set out to turn the world onto the largely acoustic folk and free improv stew they had cooked up. the rock audiences of boston where not impressed. indifference and downright hostility were the norm. there was talk of an l.p. and some tentative recordings were done. but before anything could materialize, frustration took over and dan decided to retire from performing music altogether. ed went back to rock music with kustomized. and eventually, dan bought a four-track and recorded the lp in quest of tense (which some consider the opening salvo of the free-folk movement) with ed appearing on one track. but by the time it was released, they had gone their separate ways.

years later by a series of coincidences they reconnected (ed was in chicago. dan had moved to vermont) and they found that when they played together again it seemed nothing had been lost. they did a short tour with comrades and friends damon & naomi and eventually played the now legendary brattleboro free folk festival. they found that audiences were now more open to their efforts.

a couple of years passed during which dan released three solo records and a record with a new improvisational din (which included chris corsano, thurston moore and the members of pelt). ed recorded and released his brilliant solo record, six ways to avoid the evil eye and was even caught playing live with folks like richard bishop and sunburned hand of the man.

then, against all odds, february 2008 found ed & dan recording with ed at the helm in foole’s ashram in brattleboro for the better part of a week. that lonesome road between hurt and soul is the result of those sessions. some improvisations are built on dan’s songs played in a totally unfettered manner. one is based on a tune by j. mascis (dan has been playing this one solo live for a while). and some were recorded as they were created. long talked about, long awaited, years in the making the dredd foole & ed yazijian recordings are finally here.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 34 cd

black flowers “i grew from a stone to a statue” compact disc

  • calvary cross
  • hot crosses
  • polly on the shore
  • and the words fell like malting blossom
  • sweet rivers of redeeming love  
february 2009 release ; first outing from this alex neilson-led quartet with lavinia blackwell, michael “mick” flower, and alasdair roberts ...

not sure if it’s roberts’ presence that leads things into more “song-based” territories than even directing hand, but the vocals are largely the focus, even when the group step out into less rhythmic arenas (listen to the sound-sample for a lovely section involving the group’s collective choiring & mick’s gained “japan-banjo” ...)
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i grew from a statue to a stone
black flowers

alex neilson's peripatetic travels through the musical landscapes of this isle and beyond seem to have reached some kind of milestone with "i grew from a stone to a statue". a summation to date of his musical praxis and a vertiginous launch pad into a number of possible futures. joining him are a number of fellow travelers who share his love of song and a restless frustration with the limits imposed by that or any other form. it's difficult to avoid hackneyed q magazine vernacular such as "supergroup" when writing about a coming together such as this but given the way talent attracts talent that was always going to be the case.

lavinia blackwall, whose fearless improvised vocals have electrified other of alex's projects, trembling bells and directing hand, also plays harp, psaltery and organ. michael flower plays guitar, never sounding more like the leeds takashi mizutani than he does here. possibly straying furthest from familiar territory is glaswegian singer/songwriter alasdair roberts, who also plays guitar and shares vocals with lavinia on the traditional "polly on the shore".

the music they create frequently wrong foots the listener with folk and rock references before tearing down with iconoclastic fervour all the associations of those song-based, narrative-driven, vocal-centred forms. what is left when that scaffolding is removed is music that is infinitely expansive and joyous in its freedom. the songs do have a narrative but one that moves upwards and backwards as well as forwards, with a use of three-dimensional sonic space that doesn't figure in the rulebooks of those megalithic modes. not only space but time becomes a fluid and malleable concept, as it always has been in the hands of those drummers good enough and free enough in style and mind to break through it.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 33 cd

alan wilkinson / john edwards / steve noble “live at cafe oto” compact disc

  • spellbound (31.30)
  • recoil (7.53)
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live at cafe oto
wilkinson / edwards / noble

the live music experience is what it’s all about! let’s face it, the recording, the thing (cd, vinyl, ipod), that you’re listening to now is a luxury – a convenient form of storing and a flawed attempt at revisiting the ecstasy of the live experience. live music is at the heart of civilization and culture. live music is real music – the recording is simply the run out groove of time, a means to try and capture the experience.

this trio is defined by live performance. the relationship between the three, fused into an innate musical understanding through constant exposure to one another in the fiery amphitheatre of improvisation, driven by their individuality, bursts into fissive conflagration in live performance. resourcefully, remorselessly, inventive; muscular and graceful as the needs be – as the moment requires – they are live, alive, life. you can’t experience this trio in all their live magnificence on this wonderful recording, made at the café oto in london’s dalston last july. (you could, if you manage to catch a gig of theirs – and this we’d thoroughly recommend; but not everyone can and not everyone will and this is still a vast world ).

what you do have is a document, authentification if you like, of the obliquity trio live. this is what it’s like; all you have to do is close your eyes, spin the volume dial clockwise, conjure up café oto in your mind’s eye and revisit the ecstasy of the live experience.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 32 cd

tom james scott “school and rivers” compact disc

  • school and rivers
  • two moons beside the horizon sun
  • seabird
  • elephants
  • crane in the north
february 2009 release ; strikingly minimal guitar-based pieces from tom james scott ...
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school & rivers
tom james scott

bo’ weavil is very excited to announce the release of tom james scott’s second album for the label, 5 new slices of minimal guitar compositions. “school and rivers” is varied record, including pieces that were written immediately after the release of “red deer” (weavil26cd), to those that came about just before recording began in march of this year.

david aird's tuba playing on the title piece and 'seabird' provides a necessary weight, pulling at the high notes of the guitar that hang in mid-air, and droning near-dissonant tones in the more fluid sections. tom has an interest in melodies that drift in and out of focus, moving between abstract and more concrete forms, leaving pockets of silence where the listener can escape.

the pieces on this recording remain quite static, following slight variations through time. not to be mistaken as coming from the tradition of fahey et al, tom’s cues are from a far more varied pallet, modern composition, ethnic / folk recordings and the wealth of improvisation are but a few.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 31 lp

josephine foster “this coming gladness” long playing record

  • the garden of earthly delights
  • the lap of your lust
  • lullaby to all
  • i love you & the springtime blues
  • all i wanted was the moon
  • waltz of green
  • sim nao
  • second sight
  • a thimbleful of milk
  • indelible rainbows
july 2008 release ; vinyl version of this most recent set of music from josephine foster, here fronting a small band consisting of scottish free-improv percussionist/wünderkind alex nielson & guitarist victor herrero (whose name is new to me ; his distant reverb-twin rumblings throughout are a joy) ... foster’s voice / affectations / machinations still kind of drive me bonkers, but you kind of have to appreciate her whole long-gone era vibe ...
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josephine foster - this coming gladness.

colorado born josephine foster has practically defined what it means to be an outsider folk singer. initially with born heller and then solo and accompanied by the supposed, her unsettling soprano and way with a song takes the eerie otherness of those early appalachian ballads and brings them, whispering, into our dreams. the coming gladness brings the folk aesthetic that josephine has explored in her recent albums to the psyche rock territory of her recordings with the supposed. this intense, uncompromising music is the looming badlands landscape lit by the charged lightning strikes of an extraordinary voice. that voice belongs to no movement, trend or fashion, any more than the equally haunted spirit of tim buckley, another outsider, another unique talent, did in his day. it is simply great music and josephine foster is, simply, a great singer, simply a great songwriter. guitarist victor herrero and percussionist alex nielson more than contribute to the otherworldly sound of the album. alex nielson has been the drummer of choice for will oldham, current 93, and many others, while also fronting his own bands directing hand, tight meat duo, and trembling bells. victor as accomplished on electric guitar as acoustic, has also a new solo acoustic guitar soon to be released on bo’ weavil.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 31 cd

josephine foster “this coming gladness” compact disc

  • the garden of earthly delights
  • the lap of your lust
  • lullaby to all
  • i love you & the springtime blues
  • all i wanted was the moon
  • waltz of green
  • sim nao
  • second sight
  • a thimbleful of milk
  • indelible rainbows
july 2008 release ; new music from josephine foster, here fronting a small band consisting of scottish free-improv percussionist/wünderkind alex nielson & guitarist victor herrero (whose name is new to me ; his distant reverb-twin rumblings throughout are a joy) ... foster’s voice / affectations / machinations still kind of drive me bonkers, but you kind of have to appreciate her whole long-gone era vibe ...
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josephine foster - this coming gladness.

colorado born josephine foster has practically defined what it means to be an outsider folk singer. initially with born heller and then solo and accompanied by the supposed, her unsettling soprano and way with a song takes the eerie otherness of those early appalachian ballads and brings them, whispering, into our dreams. the coming gladness brings the folk aesthetic that josephine has explored in her recent albums to the psyche rock territory of her recordings with the supposed. this intense, uncompromising music is the looming badlands landscape lit by the charged lightning strikes of an extraordinary voice. that voice belongs to no movement, trend or fashion, any more than the equally haunted spirit of tim buckley, another outsider, another unique talent, did in his day. it is simply great music and josephine foster is, simply, a great singer, simply a great songwriter. guitarist victor herrero and percussionist alex nielson more than contribute to the otherworldly sound of the album. alex nielson has been the drummer of choice for will oldham, current 93, and many others, while also fronting his own bands directing hand, tight meat duo, and trembling bells. victor as accomplished on electric guitar as acoustic, has also a new solo acoustic guitar soon to be released on bo’ weavil.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 30 cd

n.e.w. “deadeye tricksters” compact disc

  • opening shot
  • empty ballroom
  • coming up for air
  • the persuaders
  • blood on our hands
  • nerve ending
july 2008 release ; wicked guitar/bass/drums trio date featuring british improvisors steve noble, john edwards, and alex ward ... closer to projects such as aufgehoben & / or masayuki takayanagi’s new direction unit than the sort of pointillist euro-free scrape these players are more known for ... they get in to some mahavishnu moves & bits that remind me more of this heat than anything else ... nice stuff !!!
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n.e.w - deadeye tricksters (steve noble, john edwards, alex ward).

noble, edwards and ward play together. simple statement, but playing is a serious business. the great cultural historian johan huizinga even suggested re-naming our species homo ludens: man-the-player describes the human (sapiens, wisdom, certainly don’t). play incorporates language, ritual, myth, laughter. play is at the heart of the interaction of these great players. from the opening riff, with ward’s scattergun guitar fizzing around noble’s detonations, the game is on.

it’s often the element of play in improvised music that prepares the ears for its more profound moments. the skittering of drum and bass gives way, suddenly, to a sonic shriek, a blast that leaves the listener metaphorically pressed against the wall. there are few musical experiences that move from the titillating to the terrifying in such a short space of time. noble, edwards, ward are experts at the improv game, tooled up, as they are, with the sharpest of musical wits, the most adroit techniques and almost uncanny powers of perception. listen, and experience n.e.w. at play.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 29 cd

robbie basho “bonn ist supreme” compact disc

  • redwood ramble (3:19)
  • fandango (2:49)
  • (variations on) 'easter' (5:36)
  • rocky mountain raga (9:00)
  • cathedrals et fleur de lis (9:00)
  • german chocolate cake (2:10)
  • silky jane (3:24)
  • the grail and the lotus (8:53)
  • pavan india (8:15)
  • variations on claire de lune (4:46)
  • california raga (9:11)
ah, excellent ... i remember hearing whispers that this was coming out a while back (glenn jones & my man matt azevedo on the production/restoration assist ...) - a newly discovered tape of robbie basho performing in germany in 1980, not long after the release of “art of the acoustic steel string guitar 6 & 12” (materials from said album featuring heavily herein) ...basho’s playing soars throughout, as does his angelic tenor (which, over the past year, i’ve finally begun to “get”) ... students of the long-form modal/eastern-leaning folk-guitar spec ; consider this a no-brainer ... highly recommended !!!
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bonn ist supreme
robbie basho

basho is recognized as one of the essential, transporting acoustic guitarists of his time. his music is indispensable to a host of players, foremost among them, steffen basho-junghans, who has taken basho’s name, and his inspiring example, to places they’ve never been before. such fellow travelers as jack rose, matt valentine and james blackshaw clearly “get” basho, and have been quick to credit his influence. (glenn jones)

in the 1960s and ‘70s, john fahey and leo kottke seemed to soak up all the attention as the primary “wayshowers” of a new approach to the acoustic steel-string guitar. one was dark and paranoid, the other light and humorous; both were still firmly rooted in folk and blues traditions. but another, in some ways greater, challenge to the accepted way of playing and composing on the guitar was also looming up at the time: robbie basho’s. compared to fahey and kottke, though, you would have to describe robbie and his musical antecedents as simply “other.” there are obvious influences from  india, japan and the near east, of course.  but even those are not pure translations of other traditions:  they too have been re-worked by a  creative intelligence.  clearly robbie has widened the musical horizons greatly. (richard osborn)

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 27 cd

peter brotzmann / alan wilkinson “one night at burmantofts” compact disc

  • greeting herr b and herr k (11:07)
  • cormorant number two (26:43)
  • bird flew (23:59)
  • all back to paul's (7:28)
excoriating quartet date led by the invigorated german free-sax titan peter brötzmann & longstanding u.k. skronk-purveyor alan wilkinson ... covers a bunch of free-breath zones; frankly, the group sound marvellous ...
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one night in burmantofts
peter brotzmann & alan wilkinson quartet

peter brotzmann - clarinet, tarogato, tenor sax
alan wilkinson - alto sax, baritone sax, voice
simon h fell - double bass
willi kellers - drums

a long overdue meeting of two of the titans of the saxophone. alan wilkinson (alto, baritone & voice) and peter brotzmann (clarinet, tarogato & tenor) together with willi kellers (drums) and simon h. fell (bass) blow up one hell of a storm. the individuals on this recording consciously commit, putting themselves 'out there', over the edge. the energy, the electricity, generated by saxophonists wilkinson and brötzmann, is a result of their fearless approach to the precipice and their willingness to stare, unblinking, into the abyss. and yet while this music, free jazz, improv, call it what you will, exists at the boundary of our cultural existence, it echoes the sounds first identified as jazz, back at the birth pangs of the modern age. it is the commitment to a collective sound devoid of ego with the fearless individual, that makes this music extraordinary, that provides the moments of almost spiritual communion.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 26 cd

tom james scott “red deer” compact disc

  • earthlight
  • flickering shadow of ashes
  • red deer
  • gliskr
  • openings
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red deer
tom james scott

tom james scott is a young classically trained guitarist, a mainstay of the improvising collective cyrk. tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few. these 5 slices of acoustic alchemy are well formed compositions for acoustic guitar, where the wealth of folk guitar has been distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 25 cd

sharron kraus “right wantonly a-mumming” compact disc

  • wake up, sleepers
  • dargason
  • welcome joyful spring
  • come let us all a-maying go
  • may song
  • wedding song
  • midsummer
  • the hawthorn tree
  • barleycorn
  • harvets time
  • bacca pipes
  • all hallows
  • sun & rose
  • to shorten winter's sadness
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right wantonly a-mumming
sharron kraus & friends

these songs were written over the course of a year, starting at midsummer 2005. sharron's aim was to create songs that could be sung to celebrate the seasons and mark the turning points of the year; songs with choruses that were easy to pick up and that would sit comfortably alongside traditional wassailing songs, carols and may songs.

"each song was written in its season: at midsummer i awoke at dawn, climbed a hill and looked out over oxfordshire and imagined the battle between summer and winter; at midwinter i made holly wreaths, wrapped up warm and went for brisk wintery walks and then huddled in a warm pub with my favourite traditional singers, sang 'to shorten winter's sadness' for the first time and was rewarded with a rousing chorus.

"following and marking the seasons was important to rural communities whose lives depended on a good harvest. i believe that it's just as important for us to do the same: to rejoice when spring comes each year; to be thankful for 'good harvests', whatever form they take; to confront death and the return of winter, and to take comfort in each other's company through the cold months. i hope that these songs will be sung by folk singers in sessions and folk clubs, around bonfires at midsummer gatherings, by choirs, and by ramblers and anyone who takes joy in nature." (sk)

the singers and musicians joining sharron on this record are all connected through the oxford folk scene. ian giles, claire lloyd and graham metcalfe sang together as folly bridge and ian and graham now sing with ian woods as gmw. john spiers and jon boden started playing together at the elm tree. through jon they gained fay. giles lewin is an occasional visitor.

"i like this cd very much, and i loved wake up sleepers, and the wedding song in particular. sharron has a great voice - it's very strong and clear and with a hard edge that is both beautiful and compelling to listen to" (shirley collins 2007)

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 23 lp

alan wilkinson / john edwards / steve noble “obliquity” long playing record

  • obliquity
  • drag head
  • south of 4
  • cuttin' the p nut
  • kwakm'bababli stomp
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obliquity
alan wilkinson, john edwards & steve noble

obliquity is a free jazz record, if you'll forgive the use of such a hoary, old fashioned phrase. its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: ayler, sanders, graves, frank wright. it also swings. at times it dances.

obliquity is a free jazz record through the prism of the improvisational movement in europe, though. this is no attempt at polite revivalism or looking back/up to the 1960s. wilkinson/edwards/noble are producing new, vital music of and for now. you need form to work at this level of spontaneity and certainty and any frequenter of the outer limits of the european music scene could vouch for the jazz porridge these three have put away.

john edwards is such a fixture around the london scene these days it's hard to remember who did bass duty before he turned up. here he pins down the trio with precision and energy - his tremendous internal rhythm on display to full effect throughout.

alan wilkinson is a ferocious improviser, probably best known for membership of the demon hession/wilkinson/fell trio. obliquity features full-spectrum wilkinson: flatouttakenoprisoners saxophonication, squeals, coughs, sustained improvisational experimentation and east london tribal chanting. fierce and wonderful.

steve noble is an upright drummer who reminds me of an old photo of baby dodds. articulate, with a surgeon's accuracy, his crisp percussion work has accompanied dancers, funksters, poets and tuba players. but he's not played better than here: great power, allied to grace, a subtle touch and solid time - the drumming drives the music on to real heights. obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

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alan wilkinson / john edwards / steve noble “obliquity” compact disc

  • obliquity
  • drag head
  • south of 4
  • cuttin' the p nut
  • kwakm'bababli stomp
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obliquity
alan wilkinson, john edwards & steve noble

obliquity is a free jazz record, if you'll forgive the use of such a hoary, old fashioned phrase. its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: ayler, sanders, graves, frank wright. it also swings. at times it dances.

obliquity is a free jazz record through the prism of the improvisational movement in europe, though. this is no attempt at polite revivalism or looking back/up to the 1960s. wilkinson/edwards/noble are producing new, vital music of and for now. you need form to work at this level of spontaneity and certainty and any frequenter of the outer limits of the european music scene could vouch for the jazz porridge these three have put away.

john edwards is such a fixture around the london scene these days it's hard to remember who did bass duty before he turned up. here he pins down the trio with precision and energy - his tremendous internal rhythm on display to full effect throughout.

alan wilkinson is a ferocious improviser, probably best known for membership of the demon hession/wilkinson/fell trio. obliquity features full-spectrum wilkinson: flatouttakenoprisoners saxophonication, squeals, coughs, sustained improvisational experimentation and east london tribal chanting. fierce and wonderful.

steve noble is an upright drummer who reminds me of an old photo of baby dodds. articulate, with a surgeon's accuracy, his crisp percussion work has accompanied dancers, funksters, poets and tuba players. but he's not played better than here: great power, allied to grace, a subtle touch and solid time - the drumming drives the music on to real heights. obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 22 cd

tight meat duo “vanishing fist” compact disc

  • your meaningless work is sandcastles
  • in need of the storm so long
  • last kind words (nibelungen)
  • please let me die
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vanishing fist
tight meat duo

tight meat, a duo of the fantastic free drummer alex neilson and the fiery sax of david keenan. a powerful onslaught of free jazz with david providing some high energy saxophone screams alongside alex' plethora of rhythmic energy.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 21 cd

rob mullender “human resources” compact disc

  • nylon no.1. (2:15)
  • steel no.9. (4:35)
  • nylon no.12. (1:12)
  • steel no.14. (4:24)
  • nylon no.2. (1:16)
  • steel no.1. (4:14)
  • nylon no.3. (6:16)
  • steel no.7. (1:46)
  • nylon no.4. (7:22)
  • steel no.10. (2:32)
  • nylon no.5. (11:28)
  • steel no.5. (3:18)
bo’weavil press release...
human resources
rob mullender

rob mullender's debut album release for bo' weavil takes a few cues from the tracks he laid down on his side of the free london double lp, but on this outing mullender moves off into a wilder set of free improvisation for acoustic guitar. although influences from the great improvisers of the guitar can be detected, there are still slight strains of traditional folk melodies in some of the 12 tracks on "human resources". themes are developed, then dissolve and veer off from the lyrical to the percussive and textural. the use of traditional structures serves only as a point of departure for further exploration into a vast world of the wonderings. limited to 600 cd in hard card mini gatefold lp style sleeve.

"the acoustic guitar is not a mystical instrument (as some seem to want us to think), but it is a complex and subtle one. my relationship with it runs the whole spectrum from love, through indifference, to hate and back. after all - how can anyone really interested in music possibly know what to play or who they are?

the recordings here (on free london) are a survey of my resources for escaping the memetic struggle that the guitar really is. they're all mine apart from the first which was taught to me by davey graham, but i'm told he may have got it from john renbourn, who probably got his inspiration from joseph spence. before that it was a hymn... and so it goes."

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threads:
folk
modern-psych

bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 17 lp

born heller “born heller” long playing record

  • i want to
  • no more lamps in the morning
  • mountain song
  • good times
  • i am a guest in here
  • lulu fellows

  • first kiss
  • the left garden
  • pansies
  • will you ever grow?
  • lullaby no. 5
  • big sky no. 4
bo’weavil press release...
born heller
born heller

born heller are the folk duo of josephine foster & jason ajemian. they beautifully capture the traditions of both american and english folk, with josephine's hushed fragile vocals accompanied by sparse melodic guitar lines and jason's resonant bass sounds. ajemian plays in groups like triage, dragons 1976, and with reedist matt bauder. while foster may be familiar to record buyers for her own solo recordings and others with the supposed, her psych rock outings. born heller is music that needs to be intently listened to, on each listening more and more is unearthed…..

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guitar-themed
free-improvisation
minimalism-drones

 best of 2007 !!! 
bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 15 lp

tetuzi akiyama “pre-existence” long playing record

  • atheist (3:45)
  • reinforcement (4:01)
  • mystification (3:28)
  • fireside (4:42)

  • hollowness (3:28)
  • mutuality (5:16)
  • condemnation (3:51)
  • yearnings (3:32)
gorgeous set of minimal acoustic-guitar improvisations from tetuzi akiyama, nestled smack between the takoma-lineage and more gestural/“onkyo” notions of instrumental space. one his tetuzi’s finest recordings, as effective a rainy-day record as loren mazzacane connors’ seminal “in pittsburgh.” this absolutely comes to life on vinyl; highly recommended.
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pre-existence
tetuzi akiyama

tetuzi akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in tokyo generated around tokyo's off site venue. but to tetuzi's sound owes just as much to the country blues guitarists of the '30s. his sound has taken the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisations. his loose playing side steps the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and traditional folk scenes. he can be heard to amazing effect on ,"time between", on the locust music compilation wooden guitar. also highly recommended is his spare blues ramblings on, relator, on taku sugimoto's slub label.

tetuzi has a varied number of very different projects from free improvisations, working with musicians across the globe, to hard minimalist electric blues boogies, a startling example can be found on idea records "don't forget to boogie" lp and headz live cd version.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 12 lp

donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama “vinegar & rum” long playing record

  • smokestack blues
  • grotto
  • distant steps
  • oblique manner
  • between the trees

  • grassy slope
  • lasting worth
  • table talk
  • painstacker
  • vague inklings
  • it was john
  • tales of the hump
duo session between new zealand guitarist donald mcpherson and tetuzi akiyama; slightly detuned, lurching duo interactions bathed in a fine mist of tape hiss, excellent.
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vinegar & rum
donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama

this lp and cd recorded in new zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of new zealand guitarist donald mcpherson and japanese guitarist tetuzi akiyama. a beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising.

this record finds tetuzi and donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem.

the lp is limited hand numbered edition of 500, and has 2 tracks that are in an extended form.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 12 cd

donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama “vinegar & rum” compact disc

  • smokestack blues (5:16)
  • grotto (4:21)
  • grassy slope (4:46)
  • distant steps (3:41)
  • oblique manner (2:46)
  • painstacker (2:28)
  • fogbounds (6:58)
  • vague inklings (1:38)
  • erratum orbits (3:17)
  • table talk (2:57)
  • between the trees (5:39)
  • lasting worth (2:57)
  • it was john (0:58)
  • tales of the hump (3:06)
cd version ...
bo’weavil press release...
vinegar & rum
donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama

this lp and cd recorded in new zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of new zealand guitarist donald mcpherson and japanese guitarist tetuzi akiyama. a beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising.

this record finds tetuzi and donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem.

the cd is limited to 1000, there are 2 extra tracks on the cd that do not appear on the vinyl version.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 11 lp

rob mullender / wooden spoon / the eidetic band / the ladywoodsman “free london” double long playing record set

  • four sides of contemporary u.k. folk-psych !!
side a - rob mullender
  • happy meetings in glory
  • the wedding dress flag
  • competition rag
  • improv no.7 (lookout house)
  • waltz &: 1/4
  • fresh air suburb
  • ivor’s waltz
side b - wooden spoon
  • untitled banjo #2
  • untilted banjo #3
  • april morning
side c - the eidetic band
  • cloud cover for notional children
  • elasticated whitman
  • murmurandum
  • blown back and fifth
  • heart’s direction
  • it am the
side d - the ladyswoodsman
  • golden ambush
  • night shift
  • poolside uglies
  • carnival of drones
  • massive volume fluctuations
  • prince of feats
  • tropical burnout
  • glimpsed flamingoes
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free london
rob mullender / wooden spoon / eidetic band / ladyswoodsman

free london, is a split double lp (heavy weight vinyl), of 4 bands/musicians currently working in london’s growing improvised folk music scene – weird britannica maybe...

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digital-musics
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition

bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 07 lp

dale berning “the horse stories” long playing record

  • room
  • swimming
  • beat
  • ship camel
  • carpet
  • shadow moving
  • key hole
  • vase
  • another
  • piano
  • oven
  • central heating
  • fireworks
something of a wrench-in-the-mechanics in bo’weavil’s (apparent) modus - a collection of digital musique concrète assemblies by composer dale berning, composed to augment hiraki sawa’s art-film “going places sitting down.”
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the horse stories
dale berning

at the top of a carpeted staircase in a georgian country home a blue wooden rocking horse stands completely still in front of a closed window with a view out onto the green hills and trees and fields beyond. a child rides a stationary wooden horse and travels to faraway places without ever leaving the security of his room.

the movement of a rocking horse is similar to that of a cradle, or a swing, or a lullaby. its about being quiet, its about balance, its about being at home and thinking of elsewhere.

the horse stories is the soundtrack to going places sitting down, a film by hiraki sawa, commissioned by the hayward gallery and bloomberg london, for waterloo sunset, the dan graham pavilion at the hayward in november 2004.

it is a piece about make-believe journeys to far-away places (at the tips of your fingers, between the cracks in the floor at your feet, on the edge and behind the door, right here where you are, close-by...)

for the soundtrack i used sounds belonging to the country house and garden in which sawa filmed - water running in the upstairs bathroom; rain water dripping on the stones outside the kitchen door, sparkling water in a glass on the table, the wind-chime and the clock and the record player... and then the sounds of music boxes being played - one elaborate antique music-box with bells the shape of bees and a miniature hollow drum, and other simple music boxes, playing only one tune each, tiny naked metallic combs and drums and handles.

at the core of all my sound work lies a deep interest in ideas of aliveness, of space and the awareness of time passing, of breathing and being still and of listening. and of the possibility of grace.

dale berning - the horse stories
soundtrack to 'going places sitting down', a film by hiraki sawa.
180g lp (limited hand numbered edition of 500)

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