7″

*Fugazi – guns, drugs & money / drunken ducks records

ferocious fugazi just ripping!!! looks pretty much like a boot… but music is… full of it ALL!!!

*The Ex - maybe I was the pilot / ex records

the new Ex ep…. just fantastic… the first record w arno on vocals and guitar. this is IT!!!! this is nasty and beatiful!

*Hans Dulfer & Ritmo natural - red, red libanon / catfish

insane music… strats with a brutal tenor sax growl and goes into some really weird soul swing… very intense!!!

*Hacke Björksten & Åke Persson Quintet / metronome 353

classic… just freakin classic swedish jazz… a masterpiece and worth waiting for. it took me some years… w Jan Johansson on piano. brilliant!!!

*Inge Brandenburg - europes best jazz singer / decca

amazing early german jazz session. dark voiced Inge heped by amazing bari player Helmut Brandt! really really nice…

12″

*Joe McPhee – Alto / Roaratorio

an amazing amazing document by master McPhee. all on alto (-sax and -clar )….he is a monster. this music is HEAVY… it doesnt get heavier… totally FANFUCKINTASTIC! hand painted cover….mmmmmmh….

*Masayuki Takayanagi – The new direction Unit – AXIS / Offbeat

this is the SHIT! totally mindblowing session… one of the best… ultimate guitar treatment. TOTALLY GREAAAAAAAAT!

*Inge Brandenburg – Its alright with me / CBS, Germany

Inge´s first 12″, from 1965 with Gunter Hampel Quartet…. with a young Bobo Stenson at the keys… oi oi oi… this is quiet a surprise. really great and adventerous at the same time steady in the tradition. vibes and piano is KILLIN! and Inge´s dark voice hits nice spots in the heart…rare like hens teeth, but wort going for!

*Jan Johansson – M / Megafon

the CLASSIC… the CLASSIC… this is the swedish LP you all should have…an amazing document with some sensational early attempts of free improsvised music, conducted by Johansson. One of the most amazing piano players worldwide, but even more a musical mind of few comparishment. I listened to this one so many times… and it surprises me all the time… all the time… a BEAUTY of a double LP… a BEAST of BEAUTY!!!!

*John Edwards & Chris Corsano – TSKTSKING / Dancing Wayang

a GREAT new LP of imrpovised duets of bass and drums… liners by the one and only Mr Parker. ( and liners are great…).unusual format with two great improvisers. One of the best records of free in a loooooong time.

*The Werner – Rosengren Swdish Jazz Quartert – Bombastica / jazzland

another CLASSIC swedish jazz lp… great tunes, mostly by Lars Werner. wonderful wonderful. and the drumming by Spångberg is poetry… pure msuical poetry! highly recommended!!!

* Marzette Watts.- ensemble / savoy

the BOMB!!! this is a LP I ve been looking for … many many years… and its freakin worth waiting for. its a BOMB a  free jazz BOMB!…it has it all. Watts, one of the must forgotten HEAVY players ever… and in the compnay of  Patty Waters and JC Moses it cant go wrong. Produced by mighty Bill Dixon!

Recent finds march / april 2009

7”
The White Stripes – Jolene / Hello Operator // sympathy for the record industry 619
the ultimate version of Dolly Partons mega hit Jolene.

Little Richard – Tutti Frutti/ I m just a lonely Guy // Specialty 561-45
The king… the one and only… on a beaten up piece of vinyl. Just the way we like it! Rockin!

The Pop Group w Tristan Honsinger – we are all prostitutes // rough trade rt 023
A Fantastic croup with a fantastic guest….. I had no idea about the existance of this piece of vinyl w a supercool DIY cover.

Bustmonsters – Weedhead E.P. // WildWestRecords 011
Rare, insane and beautiful full blast vinyl with an even more insane cover… w massami akita making noise on the drums

Rolf Ericson Sextet – Russ and Arlene… // Metronome MEP 247
Wonderful Swedish jazz from the golden era of jazz w. The help of great Freddie Redd trio and some beeeeeaaaautiful soloing by swedish tenor sax player Erik Nordström

12”

Aaron Dilaway – green silcscreened fishes
A GREAT document from noise maestro Dillaway. Released on a beautiful blue vinyl with green fishes swiming around on the silkscreened side of the vinyl. Great design – great music!

Masahiko Togashi & Masayuki Takayanagi – Pulsation 1983 // King Records K28P 6244
The guitarist of guitarist in a very creative duo w percussionist Togashi. Beautiful cover with the two men looking at the sea (!)
A must have…

The JR Mitchell / Byard Lancaster Experience – Live at the Mac Alester Collage ´72 // DogTown Records
A Free Jazz BOMB! After 15 years of searching it feels good to finally have bought this rarity!
And it ROCKS! Like mad! A BOMB!
And with JR mitchells own stamp in one of the corners…. Yum!

The Music Machine – The Music Machine ,Talk Talk // Original Sound LPM 5015
One of the GREATEST garage records ever in its first release. All you need…
Just a FANTASTIC record. Beautiful cover

Georgie Fame – The Two Faces of Fame // CBS 63018
Great jazz singing with exceptional band including Terry (!) Oxley on drums, Kenny Wheeler on trumpet and Gordon Beck on piano…

Sun Ra – Universe in Blue // Saturn ESR 200
Another BOMB… every new Saturn LP is a BOMB… this is no exception.
A BEAUTIFUL cover. ”Helped” by someone in the arkestra with some black ink…
Just amazing… just amazing…

great recordshopping in Vancouver , BC…. I tell you….

GREAT SHIT!

after a very nice evening with trading, listening and hanging… I came out of this AMAZING recordshop with HEEEAAVVVY stuff in my bag:

*Sun Ra – Daddy´s Gonna tell you no lie – a saturn 7″ !!! killing doo woop arkestra insanity!

*the Plastic Cloud – shadows of your mind, a Allied records 7″…. amazing early garage… amazing….

* Something Wild – Trippin´out on Psychadelic Records!!!! man oh man, this 45 has been on the top of my list for a couple of years now… the vinyl of the year! this is the BOMB!!!!

and some very very very neat 12″ :

*The Millenium – Begin (are you kidding me ??? this is a masterfuckinpiece of music! – it has it all!!!!, cant believe it… I finally found the 1st pressing of this monster!!!)

*The Golden Dawn – Power Plant… wow… wow… fuckin hell…. never heard of before… absolute chock! “five young men, with a powerful message” as it says on the beautiful sleeve. amazing garage / psych insanity!!!!

and another GARAGE BOMB!!!!!:

REIGN GHOST …again an ALLIED Record… and this is another BOMB!!! the weirdest, most beautiful voice in a garage setting, blowing your freakin brains OUT!!!!

and may more things ….

I tell you now… If you are around British Columbia, Canada,  at some point, just stop by this eminent vinyl shop for the greatest garage / psych stuff available!

http://dandelionrecords.ca/

vinyls vinyls vinyls… recent finds and recommendations:

*Spider Burks presents LEO´S FIVE – LG records

a very very young Hammett(Hamiett) Bluett (Bluiett) on baritone sax. must be the first (?) recording of this GREAT baritone player! Honking and bluesing around in late 50´s horn & organ based rock outing!

very rare record almost to the extent of being unknown ( to me at least…). thank god I have two copies…

very very interesting and swining like MAD! please check out the solo monster LP by Bluiett: Birthright on India Navigation. that is a MONSTER solo record! breathtaking at least…

*Clint Jackson – Mother Africa – Palm 9

A real Free Jazz killer  from a Jef Gilson produced session in Paris in 1974. with my alto fav Byard Lancaster ripping the flesh out of the air! never seen this one before… Thanx Henrik for getting it for me.Lancaster is really something else! his tone is the SHIT!

*Paul Gonsalves – boom-jackie-boom-chick – vocalion LAE 587

the man on tenor sax. THE MAN! a record I have been listening to every day for two months now. this is JAZZ… JAZZ!!! Gonsalves´s tone is inside… inside everything… and at the same time, just freakin outside. moving freely… improvising !!! and in great british company! To bad I only have this LP in a japanese pressing! anyone that wants to get rid of his original pressing ?

and what a title !!! “I should care” is treated with so much love… its almost painful. BEAUTIFUL!!!

*PJ HARVEY – 4 track demos – Island LP

well…. this is raw… raw and naked. I have no words for this music.I  finally found the original pressing of this masterpiece. yes, its a fuckin masterpiece! just because its so raw and in a way “not” ready… but IT IS! No safety nets here! why cant more musicians be more daring and try the same “demo” idea like Polly Jean, I think that would be really interesting on many layers.     with the original “naked” cover. this is truly a GEM! HIGHLY recommended!

*Lars Lystedt Sextet – Jazz Under the Midnight Sun – Swedisc LP 10

One of the true KILLER records of swedish jazz. A group from Umeå ( my hometown iy happens to be …;)) playing with all their guts and fantasy! inspired by Mingus and alikes they are most of all creating their own Jazz. absolute amazing alto playing by Ulander and Sten Öbergs way of treating time and colour on the drums is just astonoshing! One of the best hidden secrets in European Jazz!!! Its a rare lp… but worth looking for! I promise!

and… right now…in the mail from Italy: a Lp I have been looking for forever:

Mario Schiano´s “If not Ecstatic , we refund”…. a MONSTER! a KILLER!

I should have it in a week. a MONSTER!

Gunter Christmann, Paul Lovens, Marten Altena  – Weavers – Po Torch 7 / absolutely insane free improvised music with everything you need in music; action, space, phrasing and sense of form. an absolute MASTERFUCKINPIECE!!!! ( I had the pleaseure of playing with Lovens and Christmann this week in Hannover… nothing could be better… The focus and dedication these two masterplayers has is without compare… I kid you not!!! )

Bill Callahan – Sometimes I wish we Were An Eagle – Drag City / the ultimate song record by Callahan. what we have been waiting for since the Red Apple Fall LP. beautiful… just beautiful…

but please check out swedish Freddie Wadling… there is some elements in Callahan´s record that really remindfs me of the great Wadling moments in Cortex and Blue For Two and other great swedish groups from the past

Ida Maria – Fortress round my heart – mercury / a surprise of many during the tour w the thing in the US and canada… picking up vinyl all over the place… the cover made me curious. And the fact this is a Swede that I didnt know about… fanfuckintastic voice and really great songs. and the production is real cool to. I like!!!

Wyrd Visions – Sigill – VOID 009-1 / !!! ??? what is this… another record found at great record store “Rotate this” in Toronto!!! is he singing in swedish ? yes , he is… and why…really fuckin brilliant record… slow acoustic metal. fahey/ o rourke gitarr and great voice. music I have never heard… anything like it. very cool! beautiful printed cover, lim ed of 350…

Serge Chaloff – Blue serge – Capitol /  one of he greatest records of recorded jazz…. YES, it is! together with Lars Gullin my absolute fav among bari players. and this record KILLS! it has everything… everything that JAZZ should be about. The Rhytm section of Sonny Clark, philly Joe and Vinnegar has never been better. This is a piece of vinyl that I always comes back to… EVERYY WEEK! makes me smile – makes me fly!

Wenderlea Maravilhosa -  Polydor ( brasil ) / oh oh oh … I got this amazingly fucked up music at Trolpicaliana in Furs in NYC some weeks ago.. its been spinning since then. It is one of the  most amazing mixes ever. oh my god… tropicaliana, funk, soul, pop…call it whatever u like. but it sounds like nothing else. seriously… this is ROCKIN! ( not in the way we are used to, but anyway… )

Demetrio Stratos – Cantare la Voce – Cramps / ok…. this is a serious piece of music… a voice that freakin KILLS anything in its way… like nothing else. cant really compare it with anything…  but it goes into your system like Ripley´s Alien. amazing… just amazing…. solo

45´s section:

PJ Harvey & John Parish – Black Hearted Love – Island / she is back again… in another great collab w John parish. and it twist my mind again… the lyrics… the voice… its the SHIT! sorry about the expression… but , this is the SHIT!

Lars Gullin – Freedom – Falk 102 / the holy grail for Gullin collectors. the lost piano recording that Gullin made very late in his career on a religous label in Sweden… the piano pieces of Gullin are just amazing. simple and very touching! the b-side  with the biblical choir is… something different… oh oh ohjjj….

Betty LaVette – He made a woman out of me – Silver Fox / yes YES YES! Betty is doing it! and this song anf the b-side (nearer to you) is amazing songs. aaaaaah  YES!!!! fantastic!

The Hentchmen  – the breather – a happy hour record / another great garage 45 by the hentchmen. organ, guitar and drums in a very trashy mix with NERVE and balls! just freakin great! why are no one doing this kind of kickass gagare muisc any more ?

soon here… the new sonic youth : The Eternal

the ultimate mix of great songs, noise, garage. this is the ALBUM we have been waiting for!!!!

absolutely ROCKIN!!!

relaese date : 9 th june

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