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search: "Le Jazz Non" comp., A Handful of Dust's "Jerusalem Street of Graves", self titled K-Group album.

destroy: the Birchville Cat Motel album.

what about newer stuff? I just got the new Bruce Russell/Ralf Wehovsky CD and the Tetuzi Akiyama/Greg Malcom/Bruce Russell/Toshimaru Nakamura album but haven't listened to either of them yet.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, the birchville album does destroy.

le jazz non, lovely midget, k-group, sandoz lab technicians, pieters/russell/stapleton, handful of dust _musica humana_, doramaar, omit _quad_, blah blah blah blah.

alot of the newer stuff just kind of loses the thread, for me. there was one with a couple of french guys on it that was pretty good, though.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

there was one with a couple of french guys on it that was pretty good, though.

oh yeah, the Pheremone record. I've never heard that one... what's it like? Cellos, yeah?

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, it was the marchetti/noetinger/werchowski cd. pretty nice 'live' electro-acoustic rattlings, tappings, scrapings, bleepings, thumpings.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty packages that should never be unwrapped.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned the live Flying Saucer Attack 'collage' cd yet

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, that! that was pretty cool.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

greg malcolm's 'homesick for nowhere' was one of my favourite releases of last year. greg's a great fella, always puts on an entertaining show. the albums comprised of his own rather unusual interpretations of the likes of ornette coleman's 'lonely woman', steve lacy's 'blues for aida' and Konrad Bauer's 'Oderbruch', mixed in with his own compositions, often based on traditional kletzmer tracks and european folk songs. they're all acoustically-based numbers created with a specially modified guitar with a series of pickups placed on the neck of the guitar, inside the cavity etc, creating all sorts of unusual sounds, and mixed with his tendencies to employ cheap toys (such as pocket fans, noise-guns etc) against the pickups, and rub the strings, run marbles over the body of the guitar etc etc.. its kind of hard to describe without witnessing, but the album is WONDERFUL..

― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

hey, if anyone's got a copy of le jazz non handy, could you give me the details on the lame & sorry track? it's um . . . little lame mcgee & . . . something. & were they really shayne carter & alastair galbraith, or am I smoking crack?

― etc, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

i have it at home, but won't be there until tomorrow, if you can wait that long.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

"featuring Alastair Galbraith as Little Lame McGee - gtr, and Shayne Carter as Big Sorry Brown - gtr. c/o Next Best Way."

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party, Thursday, 12 January 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

thanks heaps! have the essay-on-cardboard & the envelope the CD came in, but had lost the rest of the packaging, & the CD itself, tho have a tracklist-free cdr lying about. surprisingly little info on the 'net on such a seminal compilation!

― etc, Thursday, 12 January 2006 08:01 (twenty years ago)

seminal and still an excellent collection, but it's interesting how LJN managed the feat of anticipating the recent resurgence of the NoiZyland scene without actually representing its current, arguably most pivotal players, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton. almost as though it's Bruce Russell's manifesto for a post-Xpressway reality that never quite materialized when and in the manner planned. the follow-up Scandinavian LJN volume was slightly more on the mark, heralding both the miscreant Norwegian noise of the Lasse Marhaug axis and the post-ECM cool of Rune Grammofon with uncanny prescience.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

uh... were kneale and milton doing stuff when le jazz non came out? (seriously, i can't remember.)

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

i want to say that the s/t birchville cd came out well after le jazz non, but obviously that doesn't preclude him doing a bunch of cassette shit before that.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

LJN was '96, the BCM s/t on Insample was '97. but BCM wasn't Kneale's first project, was it? i thought most of the CPsiP gear is archival stuff from pre-BCM bands (Ohm, Lugosi, Sunship, etc). but maybe all this was even too underground for Bruce to hear the rumblings.

AM is the more curious LJN exclusion, since he seems to have been part of the c60sphere since the '80s - and yet has only come to anything close to prominence in the last few years. and mostly through his own reissue efforts with Pseudo-Arcana. so could be he was too far removed from the CH inner circle to be a blip on Russell's radar.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Kneale was at least putting out BCM lathe-cuts in '96, because these were compiled on one of the early CPsiP cdrs. but he first played shows with Russell & Co. in 1999, according to the PSF interview. so either Bruce, in a rare lapse of foresight, didn't know the kid would become a future savior of the NZ underground, or there just wasn't room to include everyone. Richard Francis, Stefan Neville, and Clayton Noone aren't represented either. extending LJN's purview a few years further, i wonder if Russell would have anticipated the post-Thela adventures in electro-acoustics of Roberts, Workman, etc.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

actually, it was the marchetti/noetinger/werchowski cd. pretty nice 'live' electro-acoustic rattlings, tappings, scrapings, bleepings, thumpings.

Which I found the other week for a buck. A good late night listen, actually, and I can't better the basic description here.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

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