reines d’angleterre “globe et dynastie” long playing record

• untitled (1)
  
• untitled (2)
  
• untitled (3)
  
  
• untitled (4)
  
• untitled (5)

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globe et dynastie lp reines d'angeleterre bo’ weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by reines d'angleterre. this time a thoroughly studio affair. reines d’angleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant outsider musician ghédalia tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and jo aka opéra mort. this lp covers more of the wild ground the band started with on “les comores” released back in 2010, but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite description … a slow trip into wizards intimacy, synthetic jungles, underseas zoos and tibetan-industrial complexes. it feels like one has stumbled into disturbing dreams from a different realm. a quality of mystery, trickery and halucinatory movements slip and shift across the recording. this is out there music, experimental music with no fixed abode with a unique quality that defies most things today.

reines d’angleterre “globe et dynastie” compact disc

• 1 (3:43)
  
• 2 (3:18)
  
• 3 (7:27)
  
• 4 (8:20)
  
• 5 (7:39)

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globe et dynastie cd reines d'angeleterre bo’ weavil is totally psyched to have the opportunity to release the second album by reines d'angleterre. this time a thoroughly studio affair. reines d’angleterre is a fascinating collaboration between avant outsider musician ghédalia tazartès and two electronic botanists, èlg and jo aka opéra mort. this lp covers more of the wild ground the band started with on “les comores” released back in 2010, but going further into a musical terrain that defies definite description … a slow trip into wizards intimacy, synthetic jungles, underseas zoos and tibetan-industrial complexes. it feels like one has stumbled into disturbing dreams from a different realm. a quality of mystery, trickery and halucinatory movements slip and shift across the recording. this is out there music, experimental music with no fixed abode with a unique quality that defies most things today.

stephanie hladowski / c joynes “the wild wild berry” long playing record

• the dark eyed sailor
  
• lord bateman
  
• god bless the master
  
• higher germanie
  
• flash company
  
• george collins
  
  
• the pretty ploughboy
  
• greensleeves
  
• the wild wild berry
  
• the botter withy
  
• died for love

stephanie hladowski / c joynes “the wild wild berry” compact disc

• the dark eyed sailor (3:01)
  
• lord bateman (3:27)
  
• god bless the master (1:50)
  
• higher germanie (2:58)
  
• flash company (3:01)
  
• george collins (4:20)
  
• the pretty ploughboy (3:07)
  
• greensleeves (1:20)
  
• the wild wild berry (3:50)
  
• the botter withy (6:11)
  
• died for love (4:05)

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the wild wild berry cd stephanie hladowski & c joynes this is the first recordings for bo’ weavil by english folk singer stephanie hladowski, coming together with regular recording artist c joynes. the wild wild berry a highly individual record, that accents both their respective styles. chris’ melodic beauty is equally matched by stephanie’s turn of phrase. the album contains their renditions of eleven british traditionals, some better known than others. all the songs were mostly selected from archive recordings at cecil sharp house, and chosen on the basis of something unique about the original recording rather than the song itself. nothing about the record is a let down, the simple melodies and powerful authority that both exhibit make this a recording that one will play a thousand times over.

oren ambarchi “raga ooty b/w nilgiri plateau” long playing record

• raga ooty
  
  
• nilgiri plateau
  
• raga ooty (slight return)

stephen o’malley / steve noble “st. francis duo” double long playing record set

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• untitled (2)
  
  
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• untitled (4)

stephen o’malley / steve noble “st. francis duo” compact disc

• untitled (1) (18:09)
  
• untitled (2) (18:42)
  
• untitled (3) (18:21)
  
• untitled (4) (21:08)

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st francis duo cd stephen o'malley & steve noble having played together in æthenor for the last couple of years, steve noble & stephen o'malley came together to play as a duo at cafe oto in 2011. these recordings are the results of these two hot and sticky nights in east london. noble is a regular at bo' weavil recordings, having appeared on over nine recordings for the label, and a lynch pin in london's improvising community. steve noble studied with nigeria master drummer elkan ogunde and in the early 1980s and over the last 20 years has played with most of the great players from 4 corners of the globe. stephen o'malley predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer from seattle who has been at the centre of avant-garde / drone metal, best known for his group sunn0))), and also a prolific collaborator with many of the finest improvisers. so it was bound to be a memorable night of music to see these two to meet. noble sets the recording off with a full tribal charge, while stephen instead of firing off a shard of ecstatic notes and chords, coaxed his guitar into singing a slow ever growing roar. but soon the two are of into some wildest creative rampages - exciting drum and guitar territory, sounding at times not too dissimilar to haino's fushitsusha, brutally beautiful shredded riffs from o’malley met with noble's exuberant rhythmic force . over this cd the memory of these 2 nights can be heard in full violent sonic attack.

c joynes “congo” long playing record

• the linden tree
  
• crows on the sandpile no. 1
  
• joseph in the sea of corn
  
• and the moon was full and round
  
• stout mr. jemmy hurst
  
• pollard the limes
  
  
• georgie
  
• green orange
  
• ghosts of the field
  
• good luck burgess
  
• the running board (thanet to dogon)
  
• world of kobu

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congo lp c joynes english acoustic guitarist c joynes, a resident of cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the english folk-tune; north and west african music; elements of classical indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the european classical tradition. his approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. - rhodri davies ... there are not too many guitar-players i respect without any reservation. off the top of my head there’s guitar roberts, bill orcutt and sir richard bishop. and c joynes. of the former, i’d say joynes’s closest stylistic analogue is, for my money, that noble knight of araby. not that licks are copped from that flower of chivalry and his unimpeachable companions, the dervishes of delirium. but joynes does borrow from as many and varied traditions as the sun city girls, and like them he never descends into world music blanditudination, nor the faux-hokey archaisms of arcadie. his technique, like sir richard’s, is a fuller’s earth that purifies all such dross and fills the ear with myrrh of the sweetest grade. not many traffic in liquors this strong, so hitch that pony, pilgrim, and drink a while. - bruce russell

c joynes “congo” compact disc

• the linden tree (3:55)
  
• crows on the sandpile no. 1 (2:26)
  
• joseph in the sea of corn (5:24)
  
• and the moon was full and round (4:22)
  
• stout mr. jemmy hurst (2:59)
  
• pollard the limes (2:55)
  
• georgie (4:15)
  
• green orange (1:14)
  
• ghosts of the field (4:07)
  
• good luck burgess (1:23)
  
• the running board (thanet to dogon) (2:09)
  
• world of kobu (7:10)

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congo cd c joynes english acoustic guitarist c joynes, a resident of cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the english folk-tune; north and west african music; elements of classical indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the european classical tradition. his approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. - rhodri davies ... there are not too many guitar-players i respect without any reservation. off the top of my head there’s guitar roberts, bill orcutt and sir richard bishop. and c joynes. of the former, i’d say joynes’s closest stylistic analogue is, for my money, that noble knight of araby. not that licks are copped from that flower of chivalry and his unimpeachable companions, the dervishes of delirium. but joynes does borrow from as many and varied traditions as the sun city girls, and like them he never descends into world music blanditudination, nor the faux-hokey archaisms of arcadie. his technique, like sir richard’s, is a fuller’s earth that purifies all such dross and fills the ear with myrrh of the sweetest grade. not many traffic in liquors this strong, so hitch that pony, pilgrim, and drink a while. - bruce russell

alan wilkinson “practice” compact disc

• line (8:48)
  
• flush. dalston no 2 (14:00)
  
• lonely woman (7:07)
  
• dalston no 1 (20:08)
  
• ear wax (6:11)
  
• you don't know what love is (8:46)
  
• pikieland. (where all the dead jazz musicians go) (2:44)

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practice cd alan wilkinson alan wilkinson's first solo release ‘seedy boy’ was on bruce’s fingers from 1994, which consisted of a collection of solo recordings made in a variety of situations over a number of years. ‘practice’ on the other hand is from 2 recording sessions, the first to mark the end of the carpeted cell alan used as a practice space for some years in an old hospital in dalston, london. the second is from the purpose built rehearsal studios. it seemed an injustice that such a great and underrated saxophonist should not have a cd release cataloguing his solo performances. so it was natural for bo' weavil to ask alan to record such a project. the results are an outstanding number of pieces showing where alan got the nickname “iron lungs wilkinson”, while also showing the more subtle jazz side to his playing as on ornette coleman's “lonely woman”.

simon h. fell “frank & max • bass solos 2001-2011” compact disc

• for john edwards (6:29)
  
• for barre phillips (4:04)
  
• for jo fell & patrick charton (6:19)
  
• for barry guy (5:31)
  
• for harry miller (6:56)
  
• for peter leah (6:43)
  
• turn out the stars (8:53)
  
• for charles mingus (5:25)

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frank & max simon h fell ltd 300 copies cd another important recording that needed to be released was the solo recordings of simon h fell, one of the uk's finest bassists, although currently based in france, simon has been and still is the bass player of choice for many. these tracks were recorded over the last 10 years, which was the last time that he released some solo material (a cassette release) on his own bruce's fingers imprint. this recording covers almost every aspect of simon's playing, the rhythmic strength and melodic structure of his music, to the outer regions of extended technique ..... eking out all manner of sounds from his bass. it is a privilege to be able to release such great music.

roil “frost frost” compact disc

• honeydew (2:37)
  
• costume of melancholy (2:23)
  
• the swinging treatment (4:29)
  
• super vicim (9:26)
  
• water servant (12:36)
  
• the absence of air (4:53)
  
• frost frost (5:55)

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frost frost roil bo' weavil is excited to present the second album from the sydney trio roil. all three of the members of roil - james waples, mike majkowski and chris abrahams have been active in the australian jazz and improvised music scenes for many years; james is possibly best known for his work in the mike nock trio; mike performs regularly with such musicians as jon rose and clayton thomas; many people would know of chris through his work with the amazing three-piece group the necks. together they have been playing as roil since 2007, and this is their first release outside of australia. their music draws upon varied pallet; at times it comes close to free jazz, at other times to experimental improv, while also referencing other styles such as minimalism, reductionism and ambient music. a roil piece incorporates aspects of textural improvisation, bringing extended techniques to bear on a collective sound world; while also being melodic and conventionally rhythmic. bringing together the abstract and the figurative.

decoy / joe mcphee “oto” compact disc

• opening might (39:53)
  
• breakout (30:47)
  
• dancing on the wolf road (8:42)

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oto decoy & joe mcphee decoy’s first recordings as a trio (vol 1: spirit and vol 2: the deep), which were made 9 months before the meeting with mcphee, powerfully illustrated the range of possibilities opened up by bringing a completely fresh approach to what, on paper, looks like a familiar format. received with appropriate enthusiasm, their confident debut encouraged the participants to take a further step with the addition of an illustrious guest. hawkins is a young composer and keyboardist with a rapidly growing reputation and a clear interest in working with musicians of diverse backgrounds (as no now is so, the enigmatically titled 2009 debut album by his own six-piece ensemble, fascinatingly attests). his early training as a pipe organist surely encourages him to exploit the full range of textures offered by the hammond c3 and its accompanying leslie speaker. john edwards may well be the busiest musician on the improvising scene, his near-ubiquitous presence an infallible guarantee of vitality and substance; only his noted ability to bring a sagging session to life is not required here. steve noble, who is among edwards’ regular partners, provides a fine combination of stealth and swing, of drama and discretion, although the dextrous aplomb with which he negotiated a solo passage for small untethered cymbals really had to be seen as well as heard. mcphee may be a man of an earlier generation, but he shares their absolute devotion to cliché-free spontaneity. born in miami in 1939 and raised in poughkeepsie, new york, he started issuing albums on small labels in the late 1960s and has subsequently made a career – in both america and europe, where he lived for a while in the 1970s – out of flying under the radar. listening him working in this unusually stimulating context, and appreciating his eloquence, sensitivity and pronounced gift for timbral variation, it is difficult to understand why he is not spoken of more often in the same breath as some of the more renowned free saxophonists. his ability to sing through the trio’s array of pointilliste textures or to launch himself full-tilt into the churning maelstrom adds a significant element to an already remarkable organism. - richard williams

decoy “volume 1 • spirit” compact disc

• outside in (5:42)
  
• who's who (2:46)
  
• decoy (10:35)
  
• episode no. 69 (9:42)
  
• native origins (14:12)
  
• shadows (4:38)

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spirit decoy there is a companion vinyl with this release of different material: the deep decoy are alexander hawkins on hammond organ, john edwards on double bass and steve noble on percussion. the disturbing, distorted hammond organ sound is a natural fit for a free jazz combo. with a pedigree including low-cost church pipe organ substitute, novelty instrument (vide walt disney’s blame it on the samba, part of his 1948 animated film melody time, where a carmen mirandered ethel smith plays a hammond as it’s blown to bits by ‘toon aracuan) and jazz cool tool bar none courtesy of smiths - jimmy and dr lonnie - mcgriff, patton, young et al, the b3 and leslie cabinet’s overblown bastard tones one minute toying, the next destroying, were made to play the freedom sound. ra did it (free jazz funk on lanquidity, 1978) but the hammond has been over-looked by the improv community. which is a surprise as it combines huge tonal potential with visceral attack, speed of articulation and sheer presence and volume that, when geared to a powerhouse drum ‘n bass combo (as here), creates compelling, reality-jarring music. alexander hawkins has a pipe organ background (which is the ideal grounding for the hammond – you can hear his churchy tones during this album’s playout) and exploits the potential of the c3 to the full – pulls out all the stops, in fact. from the interstellar sounds of the opening outside in and slick be-bopisms of decoy to some fine spine-juddering scronches interspersed in shadows. rhythm team noble and edwards never let it rest (of course), interjecting – injecting, imposing, prompting, inspiring, kick-assing and generally motoring along in fine style. it takes great players at the top of their game to play solo and rhythm at one and the same time without compromising either role and noble and edwards together are able to effectively lock down a groove while using their own instruments (noble’s cymbal work, edwards bowing) to counterpoint hawkins’ organ’s additive waveform synthesis, almost becoming tone generators themselves, so at times the three fuse in one, augmented, hammond.

c joynes “revenants, prodigies and the restless dead” compact disc

• pretty little divorcee (3:18)
  
• mob-happy (3:10)
  
• 'i love you hanny fuji' (4:49)
  
• lay you down o my brother (7:50)
  
• nyambai sawmill (3:36)
  
• bones for dogsi (5:38)
  
• joynes, nc (2:49)
  
• poison in the well (3:55)
  
• skip james on 'the triumph of death' (4:39)
  
• the autumn leaves (7:55)
  
• out of this world (3:00)
  
• happy & delightful (3:39)

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revenants, prodigies & the restless dead c joynes english acoustic guitarist c joynes, a resident of cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the english folk-tune; north and west african music; elements of classical indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the european classical tradition. his approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. - rhodri davies ... there are not too many guitar-players i respect without any reservation. off the top of my head there’s guitar roberts, bill orcutt and sir richard bishop. and c joynes. of the former, i’d say joynes’s closest stylistic analogue is, for my money, that noble knight of araby. not that licks are copped from that flower of chivalry and his unimpeachable companions, the dervishes of delirium. but joynes does borrow from as many and varied traditions as the sun city girls, and like them he never descends into world music blanditudination, nor the faux-hokey archaisms of arcadie. his technique, like sir richard’s, is a fuller’s earth that purifies all such dross and fills the ear with myrrh of the sweetest grade. not many traffic in liquors this strong, so hitch that pony, pilgrim, and drink a while. - bruce russell

starving weirdos “into an energy” compact disc

• seeing is believing (you decide)
  
• pagan unity ritual
  
• everything glass
  
• one white candle, no moon night
  
• walking towards perfection
  
• dawn in the distance
  
• invocation by fire
  
• ocean seal concentration

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into an energy starving weirdos when merrick mckinlay and brian pyle played me the master tapes for this cd, i can't say i was surprised. these eight new pieces bore all the hallmarks of starving weirdos' greatest work: the dizzying mixture of instrumental sounds, electronics, and field recordings, the pointillistic attention to sonic detail, the duo's post-production technique, which achieves something like the aural equivalent of deep-focus photography. yet there was something... different about this particular disc, and i couldn't quite put my finger on it. when i told 'em so, they just nodded and smiled in that aw-shucks manner of theirs. "that means we're doing something right," said merrick. on into an energy the duo is joined by occasional collaborators steve lazar and greg devaney for the length of the record, and perhaps their chemistry together accounts for the elusive shift in focus heard on these cuts. but the group dynamic is a dodgy matter with these guys, unless you happen to catch one of their live performances (good luck with that!) you see, even though starving weirdos routinely break out the rain sticks, the horns, the hand drums, the gee-tars, or the cup-and-ball, at its core their art is a kind of deep-forest-ghetto-musique-concrète. you can never tell if what you're hearing is a real-time performance or a product of copious editing and overdubbing, whether those sounds emanated from tapes or from live instruments, whether it occurred in a tangible three-dimensional space or in a virtual sound-card reality. most of the time, it's a combination of all these, and the results are profoundly transportive, disorienting. yet while the weirdos' song and album titles suggest an esoteric or spiritualist bent, their music is always reassuringly lucid, even earthy. theirs is a mysticism grounded in the ordinary sounds of everyday life in their native humboldt county, california, in the little ecstasies of common experience. at their best, starving weirdos achieve that, ahem, high romantic ideal: to make the familiar strange, and make the strange familiar, just as they do on this disc. - acapulco rodríguez new york, ny .

harappian night recordings “the glorious gongs of hainuwele” compact disc

• mal de ojo
  
• bare cairo
  
• taqsim
  
• headless mule
  
• memoria makhnvischina
  
• bully kutta
  
• the ire of konda mangali
  
• the widow chang, lady pirate
  
• l’overture toissant
  
• scarecrow
  
• the glorious gongs of hainuwele
  
• sarimanok
  
• lila derderba
  
• siyah hashye
  
• nyai roro kidul
  
• red eyes, noose and goad

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the glorious gongs of hainuwele harappian night recordings upon hearing harappian night recordings it is common for people to assume that it is a collage of field-recordings from a varied cast of inhabitants from the non-industrialised parts of the world. such is the rich depth, vitality and authenticity of the recordings. the music and sounds however are created entirely by one man, dr syed kamran ali. he has such an instinctive feel for putting seemingly incongruous sounds together and such audacious irreverence in utilising any instrument or object from around the globe he can lay his hands on that what he creates is unique. the real miracle however is that his attention-defecit scatter-gun one-take approach so often works. it’s an anarchic buzz of ideas constantly usurping each other. duelling ouds, whirling mizmars, screeching jouhikkos, tapping finger harps, rumbling monosynths, groaning harmoniums, a fist full of khene, talking gamelan lila derdeba popping giving a bent backed dante's ring hell or like an egyptian civilian army shitting on eden's skull, or a cuban guerilla force stepping on eisenhower's throat emptying their glorious bladders on his face. and you can dance to it, tuareg style.

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

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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.

victor herrero “anacoreta” compact disc

• jacara zingara
  
• palomino castanetero
  
• anacoreta
  
• shi'ir
  
• trenos
  
• miercoles de c3niza
  
• al tarab
  
• noctambula
  
• a gadir
  
• a la flor del berro

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anacoreta victor herrero introduced to music in his childhood while living in the famous monastery franco erected in a mountain valley west of madrid (el valle de los caídos), victor herrero learned to sing gregorian and mozarabic chant under the guidance of benedictine monks. joining the abbey’s well-respected boys’ choir he performed in around europe and was featured in the soundtrack and as an extra in the belgian cult film ‘farinelli’ (gérard corbiau, 1994) around this time he began studying the classical guitar. as a teenager back in his hometown toledo he formed a psych-rock outfit called ‘cicely’, which grew into a popular madrid-based band. the group lasted 8 years. following this break-up victor recorded and released an album of his solo piano compositions (“connotaciones para piano”) under his old stage name ‘victor cicely’, which was put out by the spanish label sgae in 2006. shortly after this period, victor began collaboration with north american artist josephine foster, accompanying her frequently in concert as well as in the recording studio, most recently playing lead guitar on her new album “this coming gladness” (bo’weavil recordings, 2008). on this very same uk label he is set to release his own new solo album due out in early 2009. a collection of his instrumental songs written for and interpreted upon the spanish guitar, the music embodies different styles which have all formed a part of his experience—classical, folkloric and contemporary threads— all united under the strong influence of traditional musica andaluz.

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  

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

• spellbound (31.30)
  
• recoil (7.53)

tom james scott “school and rivers” compact disc

• school and rivers
  
• two moons beside the horizon sun
  
• seabird
  
• elephants
  
• crane in the north

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

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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.

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

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

• opening shot
  
• empty ballroom
  
• coming up for air
  
• the persuaders
  
• blood on our hands
  
• nerve ending

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)

bo’weavil press release...

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)

c joynes “god feeds the ravens” compact disc

• do as you will do (2:42)
  
• since i lay my burden down (2:36)
  
• and when the sun begins to shine (3:19)
  
• the godolphin arabian (5:16)
  
• the village of manea (4:36)
  
• pirandos tolos (2:38)
  
• “and there seemed to be a great clot of blood shaped like a human head attached to the spurs on the heels of his feet” (1:22)
  
• success (2:24)
  
• a palace plot or some woman’s jealousy (3:06)
  
• night on djerba (3:40)
  
• christmas medley (3:46)
  
  i. i saw three ships come sailing in
  ii. in the bleak midwinter
  iii. the holly and the ivy
  
  
• west cavaliers (2:34)
  
• sycamore, sycamore (2:35)
  
• down in the devil’s own garden (2:37)

bo’weavil press release...

god feeds the ravens c joynes english acoustic guitarist c joynes, a resident of cambridge, has released a few self produced excellent cdrs, but here sees his first bo' weavil release. joynes uses a  heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the english folk-tune; north and west african music; elements of classical indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the european classical tradition. his approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste. the version of ‘since i lay my burden down’ incorporates variations on lyrics and vocal lines drawn from a different song entirely. he has a penchant for reworking over-familiar pieces and stripping them of their kitsch and cliché, presenting them afresh, such as with ‘christmas medley’, the arrangement of ‘a night in tunisia’, and the gospel-based ‘and when the sun begins to shine’. joynes’ music is instinctive, well-researched, placid, and evokes a certain simplicity and naiveté. (rhodri davies)

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)

bo’weavil press release...

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.

tom james scott “red deer” compact disc

• earthlight
  
• flickering shadow of ashes
  
• red deer
  
• gliskr
  
• openings

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

noah howard “the black ark” long playing record

• domiabra
  
• ole negro
  
• mount fuji
  
• queen anne

noah howard “the black ark” compact disc

• domiabra
  
• ole negro
  
• mount fuji
  
• queen anne

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

• obliquity
  
  
• drag head
  
• south of 4
  
• cuttin' the p nut
  
• kwakm'bababli stomp

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

• obliquity
  
• drag head
  
• south of 4
  
• cuttin' the p nut
  
• kwakm'bababli stomp

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

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)

oren ambarchi “lost like a star” long playing record

• lost like a star
  
  
• the final option

wooden spoon “the folk blues guitar of” compact disc

• by the riverside
  
• maimie
  
• dead shrimp
  
• cherry mash
  
• myrtle shade blues
  
• oban
  
• jesus
  
• piano no. 2
  
• in the dark night

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

sharron kraus / meg baird / helena espvall “leaves from off the tree” compact disc

• bruton town
  
• barbry ellen
  
• fortune
  
• my foe
  
• willie of winsbury
  
• the nightingale
  
• john hardy
  
• the derry dems of arrow
  
• now westlin' winds
  
• false sir john

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)

zadik zecharia “kurdish melodies on zorna” compact disc

• groom & bride
  
• chopie
  
• zaina zaina
  
• shehani
  
• ishooka
  
• goola hainar
  
• noora noora
  
• pada pada
  
• sinam cana
  
• baba pachri
  
• shaino
  
• hasaniko
  
• saidako
  
• cazal cazal
  
• sangam (indian melody)
  
• remix of groom & bride, gal tushia
  
• remix of saidako, davis ovadia

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

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)

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

• four sides of contemporary u.k. folk-psych !!

• happy meetings in glory
  
• the wedding dress flag
  
• competition rag
  
• improv no.7 (lookout house)
  
• waltz &: 1/4
  
• fresh air suburb
  
• ivor’s waltz

• untitled banjo #2
  
• untilted banjo #3
  
• april morning

• cloud cover for notional children
  
• elasticated whitman
  
• murmurandum
  
• blown back and fifth
  
• heart’s direction
  
• it am the

• golden ambush
  
• night shift
  
• poolside uglies
  
• carnival of drones
  
• massive volume fluctuations
  
• prince of feats
  
• tropical burnout
  
• glimpsed flamingoes

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

roscoe holcomb “the high lonesome sound” long playing record

• swanno mountain
  
• combs hotel burned down
  
• wandering boy
  
• hook and line
  
• barbara allen blues
  
• married life blues
  
• fair miss in the garden
  
• omie wise
  
• willow tree
  
  
• boat’s up the river
  
• in the pines
  
• fox chase
  
• coney isle
  
• charles guitau
  
• free little bird
  
• baby let your hair roll down
  
• little bessie

c. joynes / the restless dead “8 selections and premonitions from the tower • vol. 4” seven inch single record

• to samarkand for prester john
  
  
• joynes norwich cathedrals

c. joynes / the restless dead “8 selections and premonitions from the tower • vol. 2” seven inch single record

• the limehouse golem
  
  
• the godolphin arabian