in no particular order….

but, we need to present these finds already here…. more info to come later about each indivual vinyl in our favourite format ever: the seven inch… the EP… the 45…. this baby has many names…. and they are all good…. as long teh format is 7 inch!!!

obscure french 7″ with amazing pic sleeve of Pharoah Sanders beast!

amazing release w dutch / swedish singer Vreeswijk together with the mighty Jan Johansson Trio!

a 7 inch version of the epic masterpiece by late great trumpeter Tony Fruschella!!!

TOTALLY obscure acetate in one copy of early unknown swedish free jazz from 1963…. a SENSATION!!!!!!

a unique ( one copy???) acetate in 7″ format with the legendary Monica Zetterlund… another absolute SENSATION!!!!!

a bizarre steve lacy involved release on french Saravah label….

a very very rare release with the swede Jan Henning… 14 (!!!) year old genius…playing smooth….

a unique ( one copy ??) acetate w lasse arnys orchetstra… playing jazz jaazz jaaaazzzz… handpainted cover….

mats gustafsson, wien, jan 2013

vinyl list as of december 2012

A list of 10 great songs from Tom Waits, one of my heroes outside free jazz and improvised music. No preferential order. I could easily list another 10 favorite titles by master Waits.

Tom Traubert´s blues

Hold on

Jersey girl

Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis

Kentucky Avemue

Saving all my love for you

That feel

Never let go

Falling down

Take care of all of my children

Bjorn Thorstensson, October 2012

‘5 favourites from around the world’

Folk Music of The Western Congo (Ethnic Folkways)
Ecstatic Congolese drum/vocal music

Japon 3 – Gagaku (Ocora)
Imperial court music from Japan

Crescent – By the Roads and Fields (FatCat)
English west country pastoralism

Indianmusik Från Columbia (Musiknätet Waxholm)
‘Indian’ music from Columbia

Ghedalia Tazartes – Repas Froid (PAN)
French autodidactism

John Chantler, London, oct 2012

OTO Projects / Cafe OTO

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Discaholic Corner´s — MUST HAVE COMPLETIST LIST — creative, experimental and  improvised music!

Not many artist deserves to be on a (stupid…) list like this. We know.

There are a lot of musicians and groups that made amazing music… but over the whole career? Not many.

We will make a list here… very subjective of course…. Very subjective…

But we hope that you take the list as an objective truth!

These are all artist that (on vinyl) will make your life more beautiful and shiny… that will help you get up from bed in the morning… and hit the bed late nights…

Music from these vinyls will for sure make you become a better person (with a better vinyl collection as a bonus!!!).

Music comes first, even if there is also other parameters/ factors that are important of course. Such as an artists visual works and overall feel…

This is what DC thinks should be in every home of a real discaholic with interests in creative, experimental and  improvised music.

Please observe; Vinyl only of course. Cds are for beginners….

VINYLS ONLY!!!

When it comes to other kinds of music… you are on your own, baby.

DC  vinyl completist list  of 2012 and onwards:

Derek Bailey

Merzbow

Sten Hansson

Bengt Nordström

Albert Ayler

Tony Fruschella

Lars Gullin

Evan Parker

John Russell

Börje Fredriksson

Bo Wärmell

Mototeru Takagi

Herbie Nichols

Peter Brötzmann

Steve Lacy

and of course: Joe McPhee!!!!

these are ALL necessary… VERY NECESSARY!!!

mats gustafsson / Discaholic corner , october 2012

FAVOURITE QUINCY JONES VINYLS

1.     The Art Farmer Septet, Prestige 7031, 1954 (USA) , LP,  with a.o. Gigi Gryce on alto sax. Quincy Jones on the piano and some amazing arrangements… check Mau- Mau out!!! 10 years before ” A Love Supreme”… it is ALL there. WILD & BEAUTIFUL!

2.     Quincy Jones & Harry Arnold ” The Midnight Sun Never Sets”, Metronome MEP 424, 1958 (SWE), EP featuring Arne Domnerus on Alto sax. Conducting and arrangements by QJ. Mindbending alto sax solo…

3.     Quincy Jones & Swedish-American All Stars ”Pogo Stick” ,  Metronome MEP 30, 1953, (SWE) EP , with a.o.  Lars Gullin, Art Farmer and Åke Persson. Arrangements and leadership by QJ… just… beautiful…

4.     Quincy Jones & Swedish-American All Stars ”Jones´Bones” ,  Metronome MEP 31, 1953, (SWE) EP , with a.o.  Lars Gullin, Art Farmer and Åke Persson. Arrangements and leadership by QJ… just… amazing…

5.     Quincy Jones ”the boy in the tree” , Mercury MG 60338, 1961 (SWE) , arrangements by QJ with an amazing band w a.o. Eje Thelin, Benny Bailey, Åke Persson and Sahib Shihab!!!

6.     Clifford Brown – Art Farmer ”Stockholm Sweetnin”, Metronome MEP 18, 1953 (SWE) with a.o. Lars Gullin, Arne Domnerus and Åke Persson. Great arrangements by QJ.

7.     Clifford Brown – Art Farmer ”Falling inLove with Love”, Metronome MEP 19, 1953 (SWE) with a.o. Lars Gullin, Arne Domnerus and Åke Persson. Great arrangements by QJ!

8.    Helen Merrill,  EmArcy MG 36006 , 1955  (USA) with a.o. Clifford Brown. Musical arrangements  and liner notes by Q.J.

Mats Gustafsson, october 2012

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AUSSIE 7″ ´s !!!!

The Died Pretty – Mirror Blues (Citadel) 1984

Dubrovniks – Fireball Of Love (Citadel) 1988

The Eastern Dark – Johnny And Dee Dee (Waterfront) 1985

Fun Things – Lipstick (?) 1980

God – My Pal (Augogo)

Hitmen – I Don’t Mind (WEA) 1981

Hoodoo Gurus – Be My Guru (Big Time) 1983

July 14th –Me & My Gun (Greasy Pop Records)1984

The Lime Spiders – Slave Girl (Citadel) 1984

Lipstick Killers – Hindu Gods (Of Love) (Lost In Space) 1979

Minuteman – Voodoo Slaves (Citadel)1982

The New Christs – The Black Hole (Citadel) 1987

Angie Pepper (Frozen World)

Radio Birdman – Aloha Steve And Danno (Trafalgar) 1978

The Saints – Just Like Fire Would (Mushroom)1986

Scientists – Swampland (Augogo) 1982

Deniz Tek – 100 Fools (Citalel)1981

Wet Taxis – C’mon (Hot) 1984

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Gert-Olle Göransson & 4-Eyed Thomas, october 2012

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5 Semi-recent visits to great record stores

Disk-Union – Tokyo, Japan
The first time I went to Japan, I could only afford to window-shop, but it seems like free jazz record prices have since plummeted. e.g.:
*3LP Coltrane in Japan box set (with longer Jimmy Garrison solo than what’s on the US Impulse release) for about $10. And that wasn’t even the cheapest copy in the store!
*Japanese BYGs (Archie Shepp’s Blasé, Cherry-Blackwell Mu First Part & Kenneth Terroade’s Love Rejoice) for the equivalent of about $8 US each.

Flipside Records – Pompton Lakes, NJ
Awesome time-capsule style record store. The racks are overstuffed with records somewhere between dusty and just plain dirty. Some good stuff up top, but the five-buck & under bargain bins below the racks are where it’s at. Scored the following:
*coupla gamelan records for $5 each
*$3 Lightning Hopkins side
*Harmonica Blues: Great Harmonica Performances of the 1920s and ’30s on Yazoo. The Freeman Stowers track “Railroad Blues” (1929) is fantastically unhinged. If you dig Sonny Terry’s “Shoutin’ the Blues” (see: the dancing chicken scene in Werner Herzog’s Stroszek), you might like this. A LOT.

Steady Sounds – Richmond, VA
I guess I was so elated by finding a copy of Dewey Redman’s Ear of the Behearer for $3 that after I left I didn’t even notice I turned the wrong way down a one-way street and continued on for a coupla blocks. No harm, no foul.

Low – Charlottesville, VA
I had 5 minutes to kill before soundcheck at the place I was playing, so I stopped into a vintage clothing/antique store with a sign saying it also had some records for sale, not expecting much. Hot damn, that was a nice surprise to find some great records nestled among the fancy hats and curios. I walked out with an armful of killer Nonesuch Explorer records* and was 30 minutes late for load-in. Then I went back the next day and picked up some more. There was also a vintage Curtom (Curtis Mayfield’s label) shirt in the clothes section, but like a fool, I passed it up.
*highlights: Turkish Village Music, Korean P’ansori, Witchcraft & Ritual Music from Africa, Burundi: Music from the Heart of Africa, etc…

Angry Mom – Ithaca, NY
More Nonesuch Explorer records, Music and Dances of Occidental Africa on Olympic Records (which is a good, unintentionally wise-ass name for a record label, if you ask me), and a $2.50 copy of Curtis Mayfield’s “There’s No Place Like America Today.”

Chris Corsano, Middle Grove, NY, Sept. 2012