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"The concert of David Rosenboom was a dream come true concert that was able to take place thanks to the collaboration of DePlayer, CafeOto and les ateliers claus. It became a memorable concert with a little stress beforehand as David Rosenboom got robbed on a train in Rotterdam hours prior to the concert in Brussels. The rest of the day we went looking for all the missing pieces of the puzzle in order to let David Rosenboom perform the concert the way he wanted to. Please check the notes of the night itself + per track David Rosenboom wrote the notes."

"This concert was presented at Les Ateliers Claus with a 6.2 sound system using unique, quasi-3D sound diffusion algorithms written by the composer-performer. The result was captured in multi-channel recordings that have been rendered here in stereo in a way that hopefully preserves at least hints of the original, immersive sound environment." David Rosenboom

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Mixed and mastered by David Rosenboom.

LAC016 - David Rosenboom

TRACKLIST:

1. 0:00 Himiko Kikuchi - Cosmic dust blue
2. 6:13 Casiopea - Asayake
3. 11:20 Kazumi Watanabe - Park Avenue
4. 16:55 Masabumi Kikuchi - Dancing Mist
5. 34:36 Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat
6. 40:02 Ryo Kawasaki - Hawaiian Caravan
7. 45:49 Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media - Breeze
8. 50:20 Seaside Lovers - Evening Shadows
9. 54:22 Shigeo Sekito - The Word II
10. 57:24 Shigeharu Mukai - Mirage

Pride of Japan - Japanese Jazz Fusion

Concert performance by Taylor with Thurman Barker, William Parker, Carlos Ward and Leroy Jenkins. Remaster of the original double LP.

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William Parker / bass
Thurman Barker / marimba, drums
Cecil Taylor / piano
Carlos Ward / reeds
Leroy Jenkins / violin

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Tracklisting:

1. Live in Bologna - 1.09.53

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Remastered by Alan Mosley.

Leo Records - LR100 Cecil Taylor Unit "Live in Bologna"

Vocalist and pianist Amina Claudine Myers pays tribute to one of her biggest influences, Bessie Smith. Myers has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1966 and has been composing for voice and instruments ever since. Gorgeous record. 

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Amina Claudine Myers / voice, piano, organ

Cecil McBee / bass

Jimmy Lovelace / drums, bells

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Recorded and mixed by Roddy Hoi at Big Apple Studio, New York, 19 & 22 June, 1980. Mastered by David Crawford. Front cover photography by Spencer A Richards.

Amina Cludine Myers Salutes Bessie Smith

Leo Records LR103 Amina Claudine Myers "Jailhouse Blues" from Salutes Bessie Smith

"Poco a Poco, the first Ganelin CD released by Leo back in 1988, was reissued late last year in a limited edition of 500 copies. If you missed it the first time around, don’t make the same mistake twice; this is not only one of the group’s finest documents, but one of the most distinctive visions of post-’60s avant-garde jazz available. The disc presents a concert recorded in Novosibirsk in February 1978. The recording quality, as might be expected, is brittle and thin; these are, after all, “officially” unauthorized recordings. Still, it takes little effort to get used to the sound, and the quality of the performance far outweighs such a caveat.

Ganelin’s music does not prove so very foreign to those with an affinity for the A.A.C.M., especially in its members’ multi-instrumentalism and theatricality, and the Dutch avant-garde, with which the Trio shares a particularly European brand of whimsy and an informed thumbing of the nose at tradition. Tarasov’s barreling drum assaults are reminiscent of Han Bennink’s similar outbursts, but, like Bennink, Tarasov is capable of delicacy and can also swing mightily. Ganelin conflates stride, boogie, modern classical pianism and post-Taylor tumult into an impressive arsenal perfectly suited to the band’s compression of decades of jazz history-and on occasion, native folk music-into the span of a show or even a single piece. And Chekasin, inscrutable and often seemingly detached, mines a vein not far removed from Roland Kirk or the Art Ensemble’s reedmen Poco a Poco captures a vivid suite (the pieces are titled “Poco 1” through “Poco 11”) that displays the band at its best, and if the element of visual theatricality is absent, it is scarcely missed. - Steve Smith"

"The Ganelin Trio in live performance must have been an impossibly seductive occasion. Most jazz life in the former Soviet Union centred around festivals which no doubt provided the usual opportunities for predictable caravans of musicians to practise their scales. The most important was the Autumn Rhythms Festival in Leningrad (present day St. Petersburg) where no band was invited to play two years in a row. The exception to the rule was always the Ganelin Trio. They played every year." - Steve Kulak

"Maybe not since the first Ornette Coleman records appeared has Western European jazz experienced quite such a shock of the totally unexpected as the Ganelin Trio produced." - The Wire

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Vladimir Tarasov / drums, percussion
Vyacheslav Ganelin / piano, keyboards, dulcimer, guitar
Vladimir Chekasin / reeds, flute, ocarina, voice

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Recorded live in Novosibirsk, February 1978. Remastered by Alan Mosley

Poco-a-Poco

LR101 - The Ganelin Trio "Poco 1" from Poco-a-Poco

This record of zany duets is among Eugene Chadbourne's wildest and dearest recordings, featuring selections from over two decades. These duets with Han Bennink, Derek Bailey, the late Charles Tyler, John Zorn, and others, showcase the woolliest side of Chadbourne's woolly playing and his dodging all over the musical and historical map.

The first track is an acoustic version of John Lee Hooker's "Whiskey and Women," accompanied by Bennink playing a pizza box with brushes, a giant bass autoharp played with drumsticks, and, of course, a drum kit. Chadbourne plays the tune straight (for him) at the beginning, even getting all the words right, but then veers off his National Steel onto a "communist" five-string banjo, and he and Bennink run the course, carrying the off-meter 12-bar blues as off-world as they can go, laughing all the way.

Next up is Derek Bailey and Chadbourne on two selections. The first, "In Search of Carl La Fong," is filled with commentary by both men. Bailey's guitar and Chadbourne's electric rake and electrified banjo trip and slip all over one another here, with respect and purpose, of course, but nonetheless sloppily. It's a rousing series of musical maneuvers at over nine minutes.

When Bennink and Chadbourne reunite, it's a darker, more percussive show: feedback from rhythm and lead instruments becomes the M.O. by which they create something resembling a melodic idea from the wreckage. And it's quite beautiful, as Gershwin's songbook comes through as the melodic framework for the improvisation.

The work with Tyler, "In Between Comme C and Come Saw," is balls-out space improv, though the master saxist uses his baritone in striking ways not usually becoming of the instrument itself. It becomes a kind of clogged, scraped, razor-voiced bell in the tower of noise. Tyler draws microtones out of the instrument we have literally never heard before, and Chadbourne is content to lend idiomatic support to this gracious unfolding.

"Red Lightning, Pt. 1" by Chadbourne and Zorn is hilarious. This is more in line with Zorn's Classic Guide to Strategy than anything else, in both spirit and execution -- though there are no duck calls credited on this recording. There is space here, sometimes long periods of it, where what is happening between the pair is not readily apparent; there is plenty of trickery and tomfoolery as well, leaving the listener guffawing in more than a few places.

Eugene Chadbourne - Boogie with the Hook

LR242 - Eugene Chadbourne - Whiskey and Women · Duet for Giant Bass Autoharp & Communist Banjo

"It is as though I've known, seen, heard Steve forvever with his groups, projects, and his music! It is an honour for me to see this recording released. Steve loved this duo! Improvising with Steve was always an adventure. The music was simply there, immediate, full of play and emotioins, surprises, joy, and paradoxically, full of control and freedom! "Just make music and follow it," - as Steve said so well. I would like to dedecate this to Irene Aebi, his lifelong companion and beautiful musician. Hey Steve, so long, we miss you so much!" - Joëlle Léandre 

"This recording documents a live meeting of two of the strongest and most radically different improvisers in the world. The pairing of the convolutedly logical and ironic Lacy and the aggressive and passionate Leandre stands as one of the best examples of the ability of conscientious artists to meet and create great music. Check the first track where Lacys restrained yet harmonically probing architecture joins in a stately waltz with a neo-classical bowed response from Leandre. Track two features water buffalo groans and African wood trumpet sounds from a decidedly atypical Lacy, which seems to spark the musical equivalent of raised eyebrows and laughter from Leandre. Track three starts with Lacy chanting "one more time with Leandre joining in a extemporaneous rant in French before they get to their instruments in a seamless finale. Track four is the most poignant of all; its a minute long phone message from Steve Lacy in French expressing his joy at the performance and his affection for Leandre (he passed away two years later fromliver cancer). This last track, for me, makes this CD a beautiful and touching tribute to one of the icons of music, the Satie of Jazz, Steve Lacy." - Nilnan Perera

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Steve Lacy / saxophone

Joëlle Léandre / double bass

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Recorded live at Cafe Belga, 28th July 2002. This concert was part of Lacy's farewell tour of Europe before he went back to the USA in 2002. The concert was organised by Cedric D'hondt/ Champauditif. Recorded and mastered at Odeon Mobile Unit studio. The last track is a phone message left on Léandre's answering machine by Lacy, expressing his wish for this performance to be released.

One More Time

LR422 - Steve Lacy and Joëlle Léandre "One More Time " [sample]

extract from 'tse #3' by the trio of Cyril Bondi (harmonium & pitch pipes), Pierre-Yves Martel (viola da gamba) and Christoph Schiller (spinet), from the CD 'tse' (2018)  The pieces on the CD are improvised around the basis of a pre-agreed sequence of pitches.

Tse 3: Cyril Bondi, Pierre-Yves Martel, Christoph Schiller

Rothenberg’s solo work on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and shakuhachi has been internationally acclaimed with over a thousand performances on 4 continents since 1980. His musical voice is built on a timbral palette which integrates ‘extended’ and standard instrumental technique into a seamless whole. The Crux, in Rothenberg's own words, is "a re-assertion of solo work as a primary expression of [his] creative voice." 

"I've found myself gradually less concerned with 'stylistic purity' as I've gained confidence that I can play in any kind of idiom where I have enough fluency to assert my musical identity. So I indulge these omniverous interests. They, together with the input of my various co-conspiritous over the the years, are my primary source of musical energy." - Ned Rothenberg.

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Ned Rothenberg - alto saxophone, bass clarinet

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Recorded December 19, 1991, June 18 & August 9, 1992 at Acoustic Recording and Park Place Studios, Brooklyn. Edited and sequenced at Studio PASS. Mastered at NY Digital Recording. All pieces recorded direct to 2-track digital, no overdubbing is involved.

The Crux

LR187 - Ned Rothenberg "Maceo" from "the Crux"

This is a fascinating context for Parker, an improvisation duo with a Chopin-specialised classical pianist, Patrick Scheyder. Scheyder's background brings a powerful undercurrent to the music: though he clearly relishes the openness of the situation, he's disinclined to tiptoe around his partner's desires, and imposes strong thematic directions to the music. One of Parker's best-recorded solo-soprano investigations of recent times bursts from the track Dancing with Dr Dee, while Scheyder's shimmering, trilling unaccompanied piano piece has both eloquent energy and patient use of space and the sonics of the piano. Skrying In Mortlake - after a toe-in-the-water start - showcases the fragility of Parker's tenor- sax nuances today in a manner unthinkable in earlier stages of his uncompromising career. - John Fordham

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Evan Parker / saxophones

Patrick Scheyder / piano

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Recorded November 4, 2000 at Gateway Studio, London. Painting by Vladislav Makarov.

Evan Parker & Patrick Scheyder

LR326 - Evan Parker & Patrick Scheyder "Dancing With Dr Dee"

A live recording by two great bass players at the "Sons d'Hiver" festival on January 9, 1998. 

"Though the basses often soar and sing here, the notion of fundamentals, of the deepest pitches, remains at the core of this music, bending our ears to the subtler vibrations, training them in the messages of a profound human history. This concert is a ceremony and seminar, roots and branches, essential human song welling through and out of fundament" - Stuart Broomer 

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Joelle Leandre / bass, voice 

William Parker / bass

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Recorded at the festival "Sons d'Hiver", 9 January, 1996, at the Theatre A. Vitez, Ivry sur Seine by Jean-Marc Foussat. Illustration by LS Popova.

Contrabasses

LR261 - Joelle Leandre & William Parker "Duet Three" from "Contrabasses"

After a successful tour supporting The Hour of the Star, the group's remarkable 2011 debut for Leo Records, Perelman decided to explore his relationship with each member of the unit in more intimate settings. Having worked with Matt Shipp and Gerald Cleaver on Family Ties (LR 630) Ivo Perelman continues to explore his relationship with each member of his quartet in a slightly different setting. 

"This is more free than the previous album; yes, I agree with that. I think because Matthew is such a wonderful musician, and he has this antenna; and because Gerald can go any way the music goes...Since the piano is a harmonic instrument you would think it would limit the choices, but with Matthew it does not. And when I do venture out of tonal Western music, into noises and microtones, this doesn't scare him; he takes it as an opportunity to expand the music." - Ivo Perelman

"The Foreign Legion is Perelman's eighth record named in honor of one of Clarice Lispector's novels. Emboldened by the stellar contributions of his empathetic sidemen, the leader's cathartic performances transpose the Brazilian author's emotionally charged narratives into pure sonic expression, continuing his fertile exploration of a vibrant new tradition." All About Jazz

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Matt Shipp
Ivo Perelman
Gerald Cleaver

LR643- Perelman / Shipp / Cleaver - "Mute Singing, Mute Dancing"

"Recorded live at the "Praxis '85" festival in Athens, Greece on May 8, 1985, a night when, by the sound of things, each man was in thorough musical command. A high-energy, high-passion, all-around great recording." - All About Jazz

"The concert took place in Orpheus Theatre. In a room behind the stage we found costumes and hats from a previous theatrical performance. We quickly agreed on the unusual headgear and only when somebody announced our trio on stage did I let Famoudou and John know the parameters of the piece. These were the followin: everybody dashes to his instrument onstage as fast as he possibly can and starts to play as loud as possible, as much as possible and as quickly as possible without a second's delay. The intensity of the piece was to be at its peak from the first note. The text of the patriotic poem I recite which is taken up and improvised on by John and Famoudou goes like this:

crack, sudden

flower, blue

bottle, fly 

bad, beat

small, wise

glass, equal

pain, taste

snow, fast

button, knee

mercy"

- Hartmut Geerken (Januarry 1999) trans. Isabel Seeberg

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Recorded live at PRAXIS 1985 by George Ergomenides. Remastered by Mick Richie. Photos by Agis Kelpekis.

Leo Records GY4 - Geerken / Tchicai / Don Moye "Sawasawa"

"Complete performance by the legendary trio of their seminal composition Semplice (57 minutes) plus three encores." 

"The Ganelin Trio created some of the best improvised music ever played in the old Soviet Union, which you may think is like saying they're the best country music singers in the Metropolitan Opera company until you hear this disc. Recorded live in Moscow in 1983, this performance consists of Ganelin's fifty-seven minute "Semplice," plus three relatively brief encores." - All About Jazz

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Vladimir Tarasov / drums, percussion, horn
Vyacheslav Ganelin / piano, keyboards, flute, horn, percussion
Vladimir Chekasin / saxophone, clarinet, flute, percussion

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Recorded live in Moscow 20th November 1983. Remastered by Alan Mosley. Photos by Hans Kumpf. Special thanks to Olivia Lichenstein for smuggling this recording out from behind the iron curtain.

Con Affetto

Leo Record GY2 - "First Encore"

Alexander Kan’s liners do a good job of setting the stage occupied by these pre-perestroika musicians; he recounts scenes that read like LeCarre. And indeed the strongest impression of this music is its urgency. Cliched reflections about the tormented Russian anima are almost unavoidable, but the fact is that music has great immediacy for people in times of crisis; I have seen it in such unromantic settings as an RAF base on the eve of the Falklands gambit.

This urgency is what compels Vyacheslav Ganelin (piano, various instruments), Vladimir Tarasov (percussion) and Vladimir Chekasin (saxes, various) to free improvisations of sustained focus and intensity at live sets recorded in Leningrad and West Berlin. The latter appearance greatly impressed the Western critics, and the music stands up well. These men are playing for their lives, and have no time to worry about whether this or that transition might be difficult. As a result potential pitfalls vanish into thin air as they achieve a kind of mobility rare outside of Sun Ra and a freedom that must have been sweet indeed." - Duck Baker

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Vladimir Tarasov / drums, percussion, bells, talking drum
Vyacheslav Ganelin / piano, bassett, guitar, percussion
Vladimir Chekasin / as, ts, wooden flute, cl, bassett-horn, percussion, voice

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Part 1 recorded live in Leningrad, Nov 5, 1980. Part 2 recorded live in West Berlin, October 29, 1980. Tapes remastered by Alan Moseley. Special thanks to Liz Trott for smuggling out the tapes.

LR108 - The Ganelin Trio - Ancora De Capo Part 1

"From the Miller box of tapes and other archives, this music has not previously been released, taken from live performances of different Ispingo formats in the UK and Europe. The music sounds a vibrants as when played in 1973 and 1976, so many memories." - Hazel Miller.

"This previously unreleased material comes from 1970s Miller-led gigs in Britain and France, featuring two superb free-jazz pianists (the late Chris McGregor on the first; Britain's Keith Tippett on the second), legendary alto saxophonist Mike Osborne, and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. Gripping episodes abound, such as the sound of Osborne's vinegary, Ornette-meets-Ayler sax soaring over Miller's whipping bass figures on the gruffly tender Bloomfield, McGregor's fills on the riffy Quandry (made fortuitously more pungent by the off-pitch piano), and two versions of the springy, Mingus-like Touch Hungry – the first with a percussively Monkish McGregor, the second with some fine, Miles-like trumpet from Marc Charig. Those who remember Miller's heyday will love this rough-hewn document, as will fans of the South Africa-celebrating Townships Comets and Moholo-Moholo's current work." - John Fordham

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Harry Miller / bass

Louis Moholo-Moholo / drums

Keith Tippett / piano

Mike Osborne / alto saxophone

Mark Charig / trumpet

Malcolm Griffiths / trombone

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Tracks 1 - 3 recorded in London, England on June 4th 1973. Tracks 4 - 7 recorded at Chateauvallon Jazz Festival, France, July 7th, 1976.

OG041 - Harry Miller "Mofolo"

FPBJPC – “Jubilee” LP
http://www.recitalprogram.com/jubilee/
out Sept. 18th, 2020.

Limited Edition of 100 LPs
20-page color booklet with photos
‘Spiky DJ’ sticker

Purchase

R77 - FPBJPC - "At Recital’s Earth Day Gala 2019" excerpt from Jubilee LP

R79 – Philip Corner – “Through Mysterious Barricades with George Maciunas” LP
http://www.recitalprogram.com/through-mysterious-barricades/
out Sept. 18th, 2020

-Limited Edition of 250 LPs
-12-page pamphlet of scores and an essay by Corner

R79 - Philip Corner - "Side 1" excerpt from Through Mysterious Barricades with George Maciunas LP

It's the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To celebrate the occasion and as a welcome signal to the cold season, cellist Okkyung Lee created a spellbinding mix for us. We caught up with the South Korean artist, whose latest album 'Yeo-Neun' is in our list of the stand-out records of the year, to talk about what 2020 has been like for her. Read the interview here: https://www.electronicbeats.net/okkyung-lees-winter-solstice-mix

Winter Solstice Mix by Okkyung Lee

"Michael Hurley came to play les ateliers claus early May 2013. A few days prior to the concert Michael flew into Brussels. For reasons - lets say unknown - Michael wasn’t picked up at the airport and tried to make his way to a hotel. There’s was no connection with Michael and we had no clue where he was. Nobody had. He went missing until a few hours prior to the concert.

Michael Hurley showed up - not very happy - telling us how he missed his pickup and checked into a random hotel. For some reason Michael managed to book himself a room in one of the shabbiest hotel - restaurants in Brussels. Happy to be amongst people and fans again, Michael played a long set, just not enjoying enough wine to forget about his lonesome adventure.
We gave number 13 with this reason to Michael Hurley."

chris

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