Only one feature tonight! New on Chant Records, Action Friend! After that, a grab-bag of favourites and obscurities!
Formed in 2005 in Denver, CO, this is Action Friend's 3rd release, their 1st n Chant Rec's. Action Friend are now based in LA, and original members Jeremy McLean and Paul Alexander have initiated John Schuller (Master Musicians of Bukkake, Earth, Asva, The Youngs) and Mark G. Thornton (God Of Shamisen) into the fold. ‘bon•ho•mie,’ is a genre-hopping romp, from Super-heaviness to avante-garde to downhome rock. |
Airborne Infant Tree Action Friend - bon.ho.mie - Chant Records |
LMNOP Whole Action Friend - bon.ho.mie - Chant Records |
Sewer Abuse Action Friend - bon.ho.mie - Chant Records |
Night Brunch Action Friend - bon.ho.mie - Chant Records |
She Was, She Isn't Action Friend - bon.ho.mie - Chant Records |
Now on to the Miscellany, starting in the same vein as Action Friend, Aluk Todolo! |
IV Aluk Todolo - Voix |
Under The Sea Nomeansno - ONE |
Stabbed by an Angel Heroine Sheiks - Out of Aferica |
Peste Rossa Futuropaco - S/T |
Finishing up with one of the tracks we missed on the Futuropaco feature last week - great LP! Continuing on to Toronto in the early-70's with Jackal's one-and-only LP! |
A New Day Has Arisen Jackal - Awake |
Midnight Sun Harvey Mandel - Baby Batter |
Intro Song John Lee - Chu Babaloo |
A Lifetime of Vacations Decade of Dreams - A Lifetime of Vacations |
Finishing up with the title track to Fredricton, N.B.'s Decade of Dreams' final CD (a bit of a 'retrospective/Mop-up' of unreleased stuff), A Lifetime of Vacations from '92. Now onto Norway's Bushman's revenge and their 2016 release 'Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen'. |
Gamle Plata Til Arne Bushman's Revenge - Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen |
Round and Round Amakadauri - Hypnotistique |
Burning off Impurities Grails - Burning off Impurities |
The Circular ruins Master Musicians of Bukkake - Far West |
OK, one more piece of crazy improv-rock before we start making inroads into jazz... and what a way to finish the post-rock-mania! |
Chorg (Cpt. Gyrok's) Electric Orange - Krautrock From Hell |
Culver City Park Dave Douglas - Freak In |
Snakehips Dream Nucleus - Live 70-72 |
Now in the jazz vein, we hit the more experimental side to finish up the Nightwatch - a Canadian solo player and something new on Chant, XOL. XOL is a quartet of veteran improvisers on the vibrant European free music scene, with Guy Bettini on cornet, trumpet and fluegelhorn, Harri Sjöström on soprano sax, Luca Pissavini on bass and Francesco Miccolis on drums and percussion. XOL has toured extensively with the legendary Peter Brötzmann, and members have worked with other luminaries including Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Gerry Hemingway and Tiger Okoshi. |
To See More Light Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3 |
The Whole Moon XOL - plays X.EN - Chant Records |
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12:12 AM, August 20th, 2018