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RE: Hans Reichel's daxophone rules!!
by Mark Saleski 15 May '03

15 May '03

> > >I just picked up the excellent "Gravikords,Whirlies & Pyrophones" >compilation at the library and especially the Hans Reichel piece blew me >away. I've heard his amazing guitar playing before, but the daxophone is >really something special!! Perhaps the coolest "homemade" I've ever heard >(but I haven't heard Fred Frith's new band yet, though). > i've got that cd. the first time i heard the daxophone track it was late at night....and it scared the crap outa me! -- Mark Saleski - marks(a)foliage.com | http://www.foliage.com/~marks "Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power." - Baron Wessenberg

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New Tzadiks...
by Arthur Gadney 15 May '03

15 May '03

Anyone had a chance to pile through the new batch of Tzadiks? I'm especially interested in the new disc by Seiichi Yamamoto. At first I was very skeptical, but after several listens I grew more and more into his previous one "Crown of Fuzzy Groove" and this one seems to continue this direction. YAMAMOTO SEIICHI - Nu Frequency (Tzadik 7243) Since the late '80's, Yamamoto has played brilliant and brutal noise/prog/psych lead guitar for the sensational and crazed Boredoms, as well as his own twisted band - Omoide Hatoba and more recently with the great trance/psych/rock unit - Rovo! 'Nu Frequency' is his rare new solo/duo effort with Yamamoto on guitar, bass synth and percussion and Ms. China on drums/percussion on three tracks. This is a fine blend of ambient, space-rock, free-floating, instrumental bliss. Dreamy drones and hypnotic noodling bathe our minds in a wash of groovy ghosts. Ancient synth squiggles, eerie blips, laid back Dead-like space music and even some soothing funky jazz flows like liquid herbal smoke and makes us feel free, relaxed and floating on clouds of joy. This what us old hippies used to refer to as head music, so light up that joint and dream wayS CD release for $14. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Henry Rollins/Black Flag (No Zorn)
by Samerivertwice＠aol.com 14 May '03

14 May '03

All: Below is Henry Rollins's latest newsletter. I'm forwarding it on in case any of you are Rollins Band fans (which is somewhat likely) or grew up listening to Black Flag (which is more likely) or the type of person who just wants to support a good cause (which is most definite). I'll let Henry do the rest of the talking. Tom This is a pretty massive undertaking but we’re going for it. You remember the Rise Above: 24 Black Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three album that we did last year. We did some shows at the end of last year with that material. Thanks to the generosity of the audiences, we were able to send the West Memphis Three Defense Fund ten thousand dollars. We had a great time playing those songs live and the audience was into it too so we have decided to take it worldwide. We will be doing several dates starting on June 01. There’s a solid month in America for sure and the dates are being booked as I write this. From there we go to Europe and as it looks now, Australia will be included. For the US shows, none other than the man himself, Mr. Keith Morris, the original singer in Black Flag the leader of the Circle Jerks will be joining us. When you hear him sing these songs—whoa. We did an instore appearance last year with Keith starting the set out and when Keith and the boys went into Gimmie Gimmie, I damn nearly wept. Keith did all but one of the shows with us last year and he was amazing. So, there’s a ton to be done to pull this off. The first show is in less than three weeks. We will be ready with the music, the boys are amped and ready to hit the rehearsal room. We will be learning songs that are not featured on the record. Last year we were playing Can’t Decide, Clocked In and Don’t Care and they sounded great. I have to think we’ll be learning some more songs for the tour. The hard part is getting all the details hammered out. There’s a lot of press to be done and countless other things. Road manager Mike Curtis has been working his ass off getting things together. This week the press release goes out and we’ll see if any of the press types want to write about it. This is for us to obsess and worry about and we’ll do what it takes. Here’s what I need from you. I need you to show up to these shows. Flat out. All the money we make goes to the West Memphis Three Defense Fund and right now things are at a very interesting place in the case. DNA evidence from the case that the defense never had the budget to test the first time around is now being tested. Now we ’re onto something. But, this testing isn’t cheap and that’s where the money is going. I need you to show up at the show. I need you to tell a friend. That’s what I need. I need these shows packed out and the house rockin’. From our side of things, I want to make this absolutely clear: We are not going to be casually shuffling through these songs like it’s some oldies show and you’ll be kind of into it because everyone’s hearts were in the right place. We are a trained assault unit. We are going to fuck you up with this music. This is not a Black Flag reunion. Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski wrote some of the best songs ever and we are hell bent on rendering them as best we can. If we didn’ t know for sure that the set was bomb proof, we wouldn’t be out all summer wasting everyone’s time. This is a one time, one time only tour. We’re not looking to cross over to some new audience by playing someone else’s music or cash in on some dubious claim to fame. We didn’t write any of these songs. On this tour, we are a cover band. I should add that when I say cover, I mean you better take cover when we hit stage because we’re not fucking around. I think I have made myself clear on this point. Hey you know what? The DNA evidence might come back inconclusive and it none of this will have made a difference. This was a botched case from the beginning. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley didn’t get a fair day in court and that’s not right and if you’re down with this program then you’re standing up for justice. They’ve been hanging out in prison for ten years and all you have to do is come to the show and have a great time as you know you will and you will have made a huge difference to three people who have absolutely no recourse now other than to depend on the will of good people to do the right thing. And that would be you, right? Please join us this summer. Please don’t respond to this letter. The next two and a half weeks will be very busy and there’s no time to answer any questions. There’s nothing to ask on this one. Anyone who has their own WM3 Group in their town, make some fliers for the show and get the word out. For dates, locations and other information for these shows, please go to our website. If you don’t see your city, don’t write us about it. Right now there’s no time to answer any questions. Myself and the staff here are going to be wall-to-wall on this thing until the band heads out so please understand. Any shows that come in will be posted immediately. Get ready to rock. For anyone who received this newsletter and are not aware of what I have been talking about, please go to www.WM3.org for more information. Thank you. --Henry Rollins PS: Tour dates are posted at www.21361.com ______________________________________________________ Discs I'm listening to at work: Solomon Burke -- Don't Give Up On Me Tim O'Brien -- Red on Blonde Beck -- Sea Change Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Axis: Bold As Love Dusty Springfield -- Dusty in Memphis Johnny Cash -- At Folsom Prison

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Re: holland festival 2003- chimeras etc.
by Emmanouil Papagiannakis 14 May '03

14 May '03

I saw last night the program of the BIMHUIS for June: people visiting for Holland festival should consider making it a long visit. On 6+7 of June there is the dOEK festival, which among a great deal of the local impro scene (which is worth the visit in itself) it features P.Brotzmann (7th). Then there's a guitar evening with Ribot and Bailey among others on the 9th, Zorn evenings on 10,11,12 Bennink+Bailey 11th, NC on the 17th (got my tickets today, it seems that it will be for real!!!). See you there (here) peace, manolis

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Hans Reichel's daxophone rules!!
by Gullasch Baronen 14 May '03

14 May '03

Hi! I just picked up the excellent "Gravikords,Whirlies & Pyrophones" compilation at the library and especially the Hans Reichel piece blew me away. I've heard his amazing guitar playing before, but the daxophone is really something special!! Perhaps the coolest "homemade" I've ever heard (but I haven't heard Fred Frith's new band yet, though). What would be the next daxophone CD to get? I see that "Yuxo" and "Shanghaied on Tor Road" are labelled as "daxophone operettas", which might be rather cool. Any suggestions? Ciao, Jonas _________________________________________________________________ Send søde postkort til søde mennesker http://www.msn.dk/postkort

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(NZC) tribute to jack johnson
by Sean Westergaard 14 May '03

14 May '03

i was just told that the 5 disc complete tribute to jack johnson sessions will be released in september. hopefully we'll get an advance, and i'll keep you posted. i'm twitching in anticipation.....

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north sea jazz festival 2003
by manolis 14 May '03

14 May '03

The program has been officially announced: www.northseajazz.nl highlights include Electric Masada and Broetzmann tentet on July 13. What a Zorn-summer here! manolis

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Re: zorn-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8
by Herb Levy 13 May '03

13 May '03

Skip Heller <velaires(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >Sort of. You can have balls and still say something ill-founded. > -- I know MANY women who would not only agree with this statement, Skip, they would insist that there's a causal relationship between the two clauses. Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb(a)eskimo.com

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Re: Iceman Is
by Dan Frank Kuehn 13 May '03

13 May '03

A few years ago, I did the graphic design for the CDs and the web site for this Tim Linhart, who started making traditional instruments (guitars, cellos, etc.) out of ice up at the Taos Ski Valley, got reviewed on National Public Radio, and went on to do at least one northern European tour, including the famous "Ice Hotel"... http://www.kissmyice.com/ Would've said something before, but the music isn't as interesting as "Iceman Is". Dan

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tim berne, marty ehrlich and kevin norton
by brian sullivan 12 May '03

12 May '03

hello, does anyone have tim berne caos totale, nice view pace yourself, marty ehrlich travellers tale or kevin norton change dance. i can trade, thanks, brian. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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