Recent Finds and Other Things
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jazzy_daveOn my travels in the work i do across the south and London i pop into second hand dealers and charity shops when i can. Doing Croydon almost continuously has led to some recent bargains. First off David Grubbs "The Thicket" (Drag City 1998) £3 from a charity shop, next Joe McPhee Po Music "Linear B" (Hat Art 1991) for £1, and The Charles Gayle Trio "Live At Disobey" (Blast First 1994) which was originally only available through Wire magazine limited to 500 copies (and as far as i know still is) for £4 from Beanos actually. Little do they know how obscure this one is!
It was Wire that produced the Sun Ra video through Blast First at the same time (1994) which in my first Ebay adventure sold for £65 - i only bought it for ten pound!
I used some vouchers from Record and Tape Xchange as well to obtain a CD by the merging of Mouthus and Double Leopards calling themselves White Rock and their CD "Tarpit" released in 2004 for £6.
There is a review of this cd at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/white-rock/tarpit.shtml which is quite edifying.
Also exchanged some classical stuff at Fine Records in Hove to get Herbert Henke's "John Cage Early Piano Music" (ECM 2005) and Pierre Boulez "Sur Incises" (DG 21st Century 2000).
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The David Grubbs album is superb. How come i missed it in '98?
Nice to get the blistering live set by Charles Gayle - fire music indeed in the white hot heat of collective free improv. Man can he blow a sax!!
Been reading about Henry Threadgill in the Pataphysics book on the train back and it got me thinking i must dig out some of his stuff in my collection and play them again, in particular the one he cut for Axiom.
Also must check out some of William Breuker's albums,also featured in the same with Fred Frith,Chris Cutler,etc.
OTHER THINGS
Good news,lots of work come in for June after i thought that things would get tough and little work around. It looks like May was an unusual,and very quiet, blip in the MR calendar,as recent work from ORC,Synovate,Outlook Research,QRS,And Continental Research is filling the gaps (with,unusually ISL and Oxford Research being quiet). This lot will mean shit all to non-market researchers,so i apologise straight away,and move on.
Tomorrow at the Corn Exchange is the Joe Boyd / Robert Wyatt discussion,and with the help of my brothers' £20 cheque a concert on Sunday at the Dome with Cheik Lô and Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra. Both events i have been waiting for quite some time.
Noticed that the Noting Hill shop i visit still has the LAFMS set,but i shall wait to see it drop price again before i buy. I still have plenty of their vouchers to go towards it.
Downloaded a biography of Jorge Luis Borges,the fantasmagorical novelist and author, from the net via http://www.ubu.com/ ,and as it's in AVI format i coverted it to MPEG format ready to be burned to DVD.The film is about 45 minutes long and is free to download. This website is one i have mentioned before and will keep on referring to it as it is full of films,texts and mp3's to download from the fringes of the cultural mileu. For Samuel Beckett fans there is a load of stuff and radio plays to listen to as well. If you are into poetry and sound-poetry there is stuff from Sweden,some henri Chopin,Bob Cobbing and many more. I could spend hours going round the site. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Bradxxx has been unusually quiet on his blog recently. I hope he's okay.His show on http://totallyradio.com/ is worth listening to.Perhaps he will be at the next stallholders meeting in roughly 2 weeks time.
Stephen felt a bit down and is thinking of giving up his part of the stall,but it could be he just felt unwell today.He might also cut down his bypasszine site as well.The reasons is that he jut bought the new Swll Maps CD an dit has inspired him into writing songs again. If he does wind down his contribution to Stall 33 in Snoopers then GC could take over.
It was Wire that produced the Sun Ra video through Blast First at the same time (1994) which in my first Ebay adventure sold for £65 - i only bought it for ten pound!
I used some vouchers from Record and Tape Xchange as well to obtain a CD by the merging of Mouthus and Double Leopards calling themselves White Rock and their CD "Tarpit" released in 2004 for £6.
There is a review of this cd at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/white-rock/tarpit.shtml which is quite edifying.
Also exchanged some classical stuff at Fine Records in Hove to get Herbert Henke's "John Cage Early Piano Music" (ECM 2005) and Pierre Boulez "Sur Incises" (DG 21st Century 2000).
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The David Grubbs album is superb. How come i missed it in '98?
Nice to get the blistering live set by Charles Gayle - fire music indeed in the white hot heat of collective free improv. Man can he blow a sax!!
Been reading about Henry Threadgill in the Pataphysics book on the train back and it got me thinking i must dig out some of his stuff in my collection and play them again, in particular the one he cut for Axiom.
Also must check out some of William Breuker's albums,also featured in the same with Fred Frith,Chris Cutler,etc.
OTHER THINGS
Good news,lots of work come in for June after i thought that things would get tough and little work around. It looks like May was an unusual,and very quiet, blip in the MR calendar,as recent work from ORC,Synovate,Outlook Research,QRS,And Continental Research is filling the gaps (with,unusually ISL and Oxford Research being quiet). This lot will mean shit all to non-market researchers,so i apologise straight away,and move on.
Tomorrow at the Corn Exchange is the Joe Boyd / Robert Wyatt discussion,and with the help of my brothers' £20 cheque a concert on Sunday at the Dome with Cheik Lô and Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra. Both events i have been waiting for quite some time.
Noticed that the Noting Hill shop i visit still has the LAFMS set,but i shall wait to see it drop price again before i buy. I still have plenty of their vouchers to go towards it.
Downloaded a biography of Jorge Luis Borges,the fantasmagorical novelist and author, from the net via http://www.ubu.com/ ,and as it's in AVI format i coverted it to MPEG format ready to be burned to DVD.The film is about 45 minutes long and is free to download. This website is one i have mentioned before and will keep on referring to it as it is full of films,texts and mp3's to download from the fringes of the cultural mileu. For Samuel Beckett fans there is a load of stuff and radio plays to listen to as well. If you are into poetry and sound-poetry there is stuff from Sweden,some henri Chopin,Bob Cobbing and many more. I could spend hours going round the site. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Bradxxx has been unusually quiet on his blog recently. I hope he's okay.His show on http://totallyradio.com/ is worth listening to.Perhaps he will be at the next stallholders meeting in roughly 2 weeks time.
Stephen felt a bit down and is thinking of giving up his part of the stall,but it could be he just felt unwell today.He might also cut down his bypasszine site as well.The reasons is that he jut bought the new Swll Maps CD an dit has inspired him into writing songs again. If he does wind down his contribution to Stall 33 in Snoopers then GC could take over.
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Charles Gayle
Date: 2006-05-28 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 11:19 am (UTC)Will carry on with the stall and LiveJournal - was just feeling poorly yesterday.