NEW TRADES feb 2010
Jan.31, 2010
Trades feb 2010!!!
a new selection of trades is offered below. please answer mats@matsgus.com for your offers.
The try me ensemble – try me / blue tower records btshh 50 (SWE)
Very very rare 7” ep, made in 50 copies only, for the 50th birthday of record shop owner and enthusiast Harald Hult. Recorded 1990 in stockholm with the cream of the Swedish improvised music scene w a.o. Iskra, Dror Feiler, two slices , Sten Sandell, Mats Gustafsson, Raymond Strid etc etc. never for sale before…and now only for trade…
SORRY – traded!
Very rare ESP 7” (!).
The classic Ayler trio playing Holy Family … and Ornette playing with Izenson & Moffet. Unbelievable music and one of the true gems of free jazz on 7”!
ESP didn’t make many 7”´s…. and this one is the ONE to get!
SORRY – traded!
Merzbow – the Art of Merzbow – way out 007, 7” (USA)
Amazing music… one of the strongest documents of merzbow fury.
You cant have enough of merzbow on 7” format!! Fill your jukebox up!
Great condition vinyl in heavy cardboard sleeve.
still available!!!!
Take a deep breath… this jewel never freakin shows up… it took me over 10 years to find it. And funny enough I got hold of two copies within the same week…
Evolution Ensemble Unit – Concrete Voices !!!!! LP (JAP)
Mototeru Takagi and Toshinori Kondo taking it away!!! Insane free jazz meltdown combined with amazing version of a.o. Monk…
Takagi… one of the meanest and most ferocious tenor sax players ever. WILD!!!
Yes, it is good as you think. Truly amazing… and very very rare!
sorry TRADED!
Milford Graves & Don Pullen – Nommo, SRP 290, LP (USA)
A CLASSIC free jazz bomb… one of the finest documents of free jazz ever done. Piano and drums in a dialogue that just lifts the roof off.
A personal fav and really hard to find these days.
SORRY TRADED!
Willem Breuker – my baby has gone….ICP Flexi Disc!!! (NL)
I had this extreme rarity on my list in the fall… it disappeared the first day of the trade list. And its understandable why… rarer then rare and in one of the greatest formats ever: the 5” flexi disc.
All you need!
SORRY – TRADED!
Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Super Sonic Jazz, Saturn ( 2nd press ) (USA)
One of the most amazing Arkestra documents. Music is just over the TOP!!!
Amazing…
This is the 2nd pressing (the original 1 st press is rarer then hens teeth…) of a monster album! Still rare to find… and its Sun Ra at his preem!
SORRY – TRADED!!!!
Mats Gustafsson / My Cat is an Alien – cosmic debris nr 4 (ITA)
Limited 12” Lp / 100 copies only with an original artwork by MCIA. Sealed in bubble plastic. NEW. This is copy nr 69 / 100. Released 3 years ago… and already very very rare. This is a vinyl that will hardly ever show up again…
STILL AVAILABLE!!!
Hold on to yr hats… this one is GREAT and RARE… very rare:
AR Penck with Frank Lowe, Jeanne Lee, William Parker, Billy Bang and Dennis Charles. What a line up!!! Unbelievable… and mega rare… all the pencks Lps are rare… but this one beats most of them. And music is ROCKIN!
AR Penck & ensemble – Goin Through, Private release 12” LP (GER)
This one will go really fast…without doubt.
STILL AVAILABLE!!! the offers has NOT been strong enough for this BOMB!!!
Yosuke Yamashita Trio – Mina´s second theme, Victor LP ( Jap)
The early Yamashita trio playing their EXPLOSIVE free jazz in a manner not equal to anything else. With the mighty Takeo Moriyama on drums.
This music simply just blow my mind off off off every time I hear it…
A CLASSIC!!!!
STILL AVAILABLE!!
Howard Riley Trio – Angle , CBS ( UK)
A 1968 BOMB of improvised music by one of the classic trios of European free music. Barry Guy and Alan Jackson beating the shit out of the instruments… with a Howard Riley at his very very finest. Fantastic music… Piano Trio the way it should be!
Really hard to find these days and worth looking and waiting for… seriously!
SORRY – TRADED!
Peter Brötzmann Quartet – lila eule nr 1 & 2, stop smiling 7” EP (USA)
One of the first recorded material of Brötzmann together with Peter Kowald.
A 1965 free jazz excursion of highest quality!!!
Limited release with a Chicago based magazine, Stop Smiling. Released some years ago and Completely GREAT! Cover made by Brötzmann… one of the most beautiful 7”´s ever done…
SORRY – TRADED!!!
Sonic Youth w Mats Gustafsson – Lightning, Olof Bright editions, 7” EP (SWE)
Very limited edition of 100 copies made in the year of 2000… makes this 7” one of the rarest SY collectibles ever. It never shows up! Came originally inside of an art edition Black Box , made for an art exhibition in Ystad, Sweden. A handful of artists copies were made and this is one of them,
Very… very rare…
and STILL AVAILABLE…a 2 nd copy… the first went fast…
Dudu Pukwana & Spear – Flute music, Virgin (UK)
Super great LP of music w John Stevens and mongezi Feza a.o.
A 1974 recording of great british / South African free jazz… a lp u don’t see every day.
Not the rarest… but rare enough…
STILL AVAILABLE!
and a close up on the labels:
And again… another one of Bengt Nordström´s magic rarities:
Bengt Nordström – Plastic Alto/ the Bass Player & Reality – Bird Notes (SWE),12”LP
Without cover, comes in a white and black cardboard sleeve.
Frippe´s classic solo recordings + a track by great Swedish bass player Sven Hessle. This record was probably done only in 20 copies or so. Hand stamped labels by Bengt Nordström himself. Music History… I kid you not!!!
Very very rare!
The Plastic Alto track is one of the best solo tracks he ever recorded! Amazing!
SORRY – TRADED RIGHT AWAY!
And finally… this is the BOMB of the February trade list… the HOLY GRAIL of European improvised music:
FOR EXAMPLE – workshop freie musik 1969 – 1978 / FMP 3 LP Box w Book. (GER)
Solos, groups and orchestras on separate LPs and an amazing Book of great footage and texts about the music and its players.
Perhaps the most important document of the European scene ever made.
Made in only 200 copies!!! 200 copies only…
This monster never shows up these days.
I cant recommend it enough. The perfect combination of GREAT music, rarity and amazing design. It never gets better then this. Great condition as well!
Never rereleased, this holy grail includes music by Brötzmann, Globe Unity, Frank Wright Unity, Steve Lacy, Han Bennink, Derek Bailey etc etc….
A BOMB!!!
Only serious trade offers please.
SORRY TRADED!… of course…..
Please email to mats@matsgus.com with your trade offers…
New trade lists coming up every month… the first one to come up with a good offer gets it. I don’t wait to compare offers. The first goooooooooood offers gets the get!
One vinyl per day keeps all the doctors away…
när frihet går före allt!
Jan.14, 2010
när frihet går före allt av Emil Carlsson / LIRA
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FIRE!
Jan.09, 2010
Fire!
Mats Gustafsson – saxophones, Fender Rhodes and live electronics
Johan Berthling – bass, guitar, organ
Andreas Werliin – drums and percussion.
New ensemble with members from The Thing, Tape, Wildbirds and Peacedrums,
creating a mix of slow down – speeded up, distorted versions of contemporary experimental music.
With inspiration from mining, large lorry engines, electro acoustic music from Sweden and a large variety of creative garage rock and free jazz, FIRE! is building up a new language and models for how improvised music can be done.
“…det är som Ramones, fast utan sång!!!” Per Svensson, 2010
“… eller snarare som the Doors, fast tvärtom!” Per Svensson, 2010
Click the image to download a high rez image
First release on rune grammofon, LP and CD, in 2009:
RLP 3091 – Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago
http://www.myspace.com/earthwindand
Photos:
Johan Döden Dahlroth
Hypnotic and psychedelic different sounding ”jazz” (Rune press)
Out of the seemingly inexhaustible treasure chest that is the Scandinavian experimental scene comes this latest Swedish supergroup, formed of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, member of many a formation, of which the best known is perhaps The Thing, bassist Johan Berthling, co-founder of Häpna and member of Tape, Animes and Sten Sandell Trio, and Andreas Werliin, the drumming half of Wildbirds & Peacedrums amongst other things. Having landed on Rune Grammofon with their first missive, this three-headed entity, who operate under a banner which, thanks to a prominent element of punctuation, unmistakably suggests an element of urgency, have such widespread backgrounds that the sum of their collaborative effort was bound to surpass much of their individual outputs.
You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago is a pretty dense and vibrant affair, which rakes influences way beyond the confines of jazz, pulling in elements of seventies psychedelic rock and experimental Kosmische/Krautrock, amongst other things, into these four radically different tracks, two of which clock around the fifteen mark, bookended by two much shorter pieces. Propelled by a pretty fluid and volatile rhythmic section, which is as much at ease with introspective moments as it is with incendiary passages, these songs drift from the primal sax effusions of If I Took Your Hand to the hypnotic groove of the last segment of But Sometimes I Am or from the rambling and feverish cadence of the first half of that same piece to the more sophisticated layering of Can You Hold For A Minute? and the surprisingly light tribal flow of the title track.
The two centre pieces share a particular format which has the trio work a meandrous path through restrained musical forms before building up to a rhythm which eventually transforms the scope of these pieces altogether. The way they achieve this is very specific to each track though. Of the two, But Sometimes I Am is the one that goes through the most profound changes, rising from an opening sequence cast around a pretty minimal bass-drum pattern and the distant hum of processed distortion in the back, which get progressively ripped apart by blazing gusts of sax. Taking advantage of a lull in the proceedings, Mariam Wallentin, the other half of Wildbirds & Peacedrums, hangs a few vocal arabesques over a monolithic Hammond drone, but soon the pace increases radically, throwing the piece into a much more hypnotic groove where the rhythmic section, like a runaway train, crashes through distorted guitars and keyboards until it eventually burns out a few minutes down the line.
Can I Hold You For A Minute? on the other hand is a more linear construction which the trio continuously refine, bringing in elements in much more subtle fashion. There is, here too, a clear progression, but this is done through sophisticated sonic layering, which, over the first eight minutes, gives the track growing density. Over the last few minutes, it appears to be ceased by rampant decay as the sounds decompose one by one until there’s nothing left but a cluster of distortions.
On these two pieces, Gustafsson’s sax is often ubiquitous by its absence, but the direction chosen by band doesn’t necessarily justifies its presence, leaving the man free to contribute a much wider palette. As an entity, Fire! work extremely well. Fearlessly pushing into uncharted territories, combining elements which are usually kept well apart into a greatly contrasted and eclectic sonic canvas, the trio have created with this first album a particularly intense and daring soundtrack which can only captivate more with time.
www.themilkfactory.co.uk
“Fire!” is Mats Gustafsson on saxophones and Fender Rhodes, Johan Berthling on bass, electric guitar and Hammond organ, and Andreas Werliin on drums. The first piece is built around a repetitive bass vamp, a solid anchor point for the drums to go haywire and Gustafsson to have a no-holds-barred sax solo, screaming and wailing as if his life depended on it, yet ending all smooth and gently. The second piece, “But Sometimes I am”, starts with a slow acoustic bass figure around which Werliin adds percussive depth on his cymbals. After some four minutes the sax joins with some gut-wrenching multiphonic sound, full of distress and sadness, a sound which is so unmistakably identifiable as Gustafsson, so human and authentic that it’s really frightening, and – suprise – his sound merges into some high-toned singing by Mariam Wallentin, on a true psychedelic backdrop reminiscent of Pink Floyd’s “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”, but then the electronics set in as the speed increases, moving to an inevitable paroxysm we know from the early Floyd. Absolutely mesmerizing. “Can I Hold You For A Minute”, starts with a rock-ish mid-tempo beat, with bass and drums laying a repetitive pattern for the electric guitar and keyboards to build a hypnotic wall of sound, through which Gustafsson’s piercing sax comes tearing through, as if his soul was condemned, for ever.
The last track starts light-footed, with some handclapping accompanying a repetitive sax over an odd 2/4 rhythm, of which the tempo increases, a little too joyful and too much of a contrast with the carefully built up atmosphere of the previous tracks.
This is not fusion. It is not even progressive jazz rock à la Soft Machine. It’s the endless psychedelic and epic – as yet unpolished – sound mastership of the early Pink Floyd in a more modern form with the magnificent voice of Gustafsson to add emotional power.
http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com
Fire! är en presumtiv supergrupp, om än i klart mindre skala än, säg, Cream. Vad som avgör är förväntningarna man kan ha på just den här konstellationen. Saxofonisten Mats Gustavsson känner många till; han är redan ett världsnamn inom improvisationsmusiken. Basisten Johan Berthling har hörts med bland andra Tape och Sten Sandells trio. Och så trummisen Andreas Werliin, som häromåret slog igenom med kritikerrosade Lovebirds & Peacedrums. Det blir inte nödvändigtvis bra. Många band har sett bättre ut på papperet än de låtit i verkligheten. Men Fire! håller. De spelar med kropp och själ. En övertygelse som oavkortat strömmar genom musiken. Det rock och jazz och impro i ett. Kraftfulla, långsträckta stycken som avtvingar mig en reaktion och får mig att vilja gå mot strömmen. Werliin gör mycket. Hans tunga spel över pukorna är en viktig del i Lovebirds & Peacedrums och har samma bärande effekt här. Något helt annat än Cream.
Johannes Cornell
curator of the nickelsdorf FEST 2010!
Jan.02, 2010
yours truly have gotten the great GRREAT pleasure of being the artistic curator of the NICKELSDORF KONFRONTATIONEN 2010 —- 15 – 18 TH JULY 2010.
together with the almighty legend Hans Falb the program will be created and refined during this winter
watch out for more news soon and on
http://www.konfrontationen.at/
see ya all in JULY!!!!!




































