Bruce Lee Gallanter of Downtown Music Gallery's Reference and Recommended Lists for 2003:

It is finally done and BOY! did it take a great deal of work!
Here are eight lists of discs released in 2003 for you to look over. I suggest that you print up a copy if you can, so you can check it out when you have some time, there will be some printed copies in the store as well.

The big list (Avant/Downtown/Prog) has nearly 500 titles (jeez) and is alphabetical. It is essentially a reference list of nearly all the "interesting" discs released last year.

On this Master Reference List, I have included labels & catalogue numbers when possible and even some prices, which of course can change [and some did from when they were first listed, mainly imports due to our weak $ ]. Some prices are missed because the items only had a brief life in the store due to limited availability, so if you decide to check out/order any of those items, expect a possibly different price [on imports] than when they were first listed

I have put (*) asterisks next to the titles that I am recommending, generally discs that I have desired to listen to many times.
If you'd like a longer review of many of these recommended discs, please check out our website.

The other big list is the Reissue and Historic Recordings one, which is also alphabetized, with some more asterisks as well.

The shorter lists (Rock/Vocal/World/Psych, Modern Classical & Electronic and Boxsets/DVDs) are mostly those I am also recommending.
There are also lists for the complete 2003 releases of Bill Laswell, Acid Mother Temple, and the Tzadik label for the completists and the curious amongst us. I am sure I've missed a few titles, so it is up to you to let me/us know. Many of these discs are available from your friends here at DMG, although a few are already unavailable. This was definitely a big labor of love, but I am relieved to have it finished and ready for your perusal.






MASTER REFERENCE LIST [ & EXTREME RECOMMENDATIONS * ] OF AVANT/DOWNTOWN/PROGRESSIVE DISCS for 2003:


JUHANI AALTONEN TRIO - Mother Tongue (TUM Records 002) - $16
TOM ABBS 4TET - Conscription (CIMP 288) w/ Okkyung Lee - $14
JOSH ABRAMS - Cipher (Delmark 546) w/ Axel Dorner & Guillermo Gregorio - $15
ABSOLUTE ZERO - Crashing Icons (ReR M=R.2) w/ Pip Pyle - $14
YAEL ACHER & "KAT" INDUSTRIAL - electro/instrumental jazz (Modiano 0203)
(CARLO) ACTIS (DATO) BAND - Garibaldi (Leo 365) - $15
ACTIVE INGREDIENTS - titration (Delmark 547) with Jemeel Moondoc - $15
OSKAR AICHINGER - Synapsis (Between the Lines 029) - $17
NOEL AKCHOTE - Perpetual Joseph (Rectangle 2)
TETUZI AKIYAMA - Resophonie (A Bruit Secret 08)
AKIYAMA/NAKAMURA/SUGIMOTO/WASTELL - Foldings (Confront 12)
AKIYAMA/NAKAMURA/MALCOLM/RUSSELL - International Domestic (Corp. Herm. 040)
RALPH ALESSI - this-against-that (RKM Music 003) - $15
MARSHALL ALLEN/DRAKE/K. JORDAN/W. PARKER/SILVA - The All-Star Game (Eremite 44) - $15
RODRIGO AMADO/CARLOS ZINGARO/KEN FILIANO - The Space Between (Clean Feed)-$16
*AMALGAM - Innovation (FMR 110) w/ Trevor Watts, John Stevens & Keith Tippett - $16
OREN AMBARCHI/GUNTER MULLER/PHILIP SAMARTZIS - Strange Love (For 4 Ears 1448) - $15
*LAURA ANDEL ORCHESTRA - Somnambulist (Red Toucan 9322) - $15
RAY ANDERSON & MARK DRESSER - Nine Songs Together (CIMP 295) - $14
PAOLO ANGELI -Bucato (ReR PA1) - $14
ARCANE DEVICE - Engines of Myth (ReR DLM1) - $14
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - The Meeting (Pi Recordings 07) Joseph Jarman returns! - $15
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Tribute to Lester (ECM 1808/966) - $16
ASSUMED POSSIBILITIES [CHRIS BURN/RHODRI DAVIES/DURRANT/MARK WASTELL] -Still Point (Rossbin 007) - $17
RASHU ATEN - Gong Spirit (RE 3922)
AB BAARS TRIO - 10 Years Ab Baars Trio: Party at the Bimhuis (Wig)
BADAWI [RAZ MESINAI] - Clones & False Prophets (ROIR 8284) - $14
DEREK BAILEY & CARLOS BECHEGAS - Right Off (Numerica 1100)
DEREK BAILEY & TRISTAN HONSINGER - Tristan [Duo] (Incus 53) - $17
DEREK BAILEY & INGAR ZACH - Seven (Incus 54) - $17
[DEREK BAILEY] - Limescale (Incus 56) w/ Tony Bevan & Alex Ward - $17
*DEREK BAILEY/FRED FRITH/ANTOINE BERTHIAUME - Soshin (Ambiances Magnetiques 113) - $14
ALBEY BALGOCHIAN'S BAND OF PEACE - Rhythmism (self-produced) w/ Sabir Mateen
*LUCIAN BAN & ALEX HARDING 5TET - Premonition (CIMP 277) - $14
BILLY BANG/JOE FONDA/BARRY ALTSCHUL - Transforming the Space (CIMP 284) - $14
ANDREW BARKER/MATT SHIPP/CHARLES WATERS - apostolic polyphony (Drimala 03) - $14
TIM BARNES/TOSHIO KAJIWARA/MARINA ROSENFELD - A Water's Wake (Quakebasket) - $14
JOEY BARON/ROBIN SCHULKOWSKY - Dinosaur Dances (L-M 30619) - $15
STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS - Rivers and Bridges (Strange Attractors 010) - $14
MICHAEL BATES - Outside Sources (Pommerac Records 238 338) - $14
*CONNIE BAUER/PETER KOWALD/GUNTER SOMMER - Between Heaven & Earth (Intakt 079) - $16
CONRAD BAUER - Hummelsummen (Intakt 085) solo trombone - $16
*LOUIE BELOGENIS/TONY MALABY QUARTET - Twice Told Tales (DIW 944) - $18
EXUBERANCE [LOUIE BELOGENIS/ROY CAMPBELL QT.] - The Other Shore (Boxholder 040) - $14
*BENDIAN/GAUTHIER/LIEBIG/STINSON - Bone Structure (Cryptogramophone 114) - $14
STEVE BERESFORD / ROGER TURNER / ALAN TOMLINSON - Trap Street (Emanem 4092) - $17
BORAH BERGMAN - Meditations (Tzadik 7180) - $14
*BORAH BERGMAN & THOMAS CHAPIN - Toronto 1997 (Boxholder 033) - $14
*TIM BERNE'S SCIENCE FRICTION - The Sublime & ScienceFrictionLive (Thirsty Ear 57139) [2 CD set] - $17
RICHARD BISHOP/BASHO-JUNGHANS/AKIYAMA/JACK ROSE - Wooden Guitar (Locust 33) - $14
PAIVI BJORKENHEIM & PATRICK MARTINEZ - Lapin Kulta (self-produced cd)
RAOUL BJORKENHEIM - 14 Days [CDR] (self/produced) - no longer available
CINDY BLACKMAN/SANTI DeBRIANO/DAVE FIUCZYNSKI - "Trio + Two" (Free Lance 0304)
BLAST - Altrastrata (ReR) - $14
FREDERIC BLONDY/LE QUAN NINH - Exaltatio utmusque mundi (Potlatch 203) - $17
BONE [DIDKOVSKY/HOPPER/ROULAT] - Uses Wrist Grab (Cuneiform 176) - $13
BORBETOMAGUS - Songs our Mother Taught Us (Agaric 1995) - $14
ALESSANDRO BOSETTI/MICHEL DONEDA/BHOB RAINEY - Places Dans L'Air (Potlatch 103) - $17
BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE - Quartets (Atavistic 136) - $15
BOBBY BRADFORD/FRANCIS WONG/WILLIAM ROPER - Purple Gums (Asian Improv 64) - $14
BRANDLMAYR/DAFELDECKER/NEMETH/SIEWERT - The Instability of Symmetry (Grob 547)
*ANTHONY BRAXTON - Solo [NYC] 2002 (Parallactic 53) {2 CD set} - $28
ANTHONY BRAXTON/TAYLOR HO BYNUM - Duets [Wesleyan] 2002 (Innova 576) - $14
*ANTHONY BRAXTON - Two Compositions [Trio] 1998 {2 CD set} (Leo 367/368) - $26
ANTHONY BRAXTON - Four Compositions [GTM] 2000 (Delmark 544) - $14
*ANTHONY BRAXTON - Solo [Milano] 1979 - Vol. 1 (Leo GY 20) - $16
*ANTHONY BRAXTON - Ninetet {Yoshi's} 1997, Vol. 2 [2 CD set] (Leo 382/383) - $26
*ANTHONY BRAXTON-SONNY SIMMONS-BRANDON EVANS-ANDRE VIDA-SHANIR BLUMENKRANZ-MIKE PRIDE - s/t [2 CD set] (Parallactic 54) - no longer available - possibly reissued in the near future
BRENNAN/DENZLER/WEBER/WOLFARTH - Momentum 3 (Leo 355) - $15
JOHN WOLF BRENNAN/PEGGY LEE/DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF - zero heroes (Leo 373) - $15
WILLEM BREUKER KOLLEKTIEF - "With Strings Attached" (Bvhaast 0203) - $18
*PETER BROTZMANN/W. PARKER/H. DRAKE - Never Too Late But Always Too Early [2 CD set] (Eremite 37/38) - $22
PETER BROTZMANN & WALTER PERKINS - The Ink is Gone (Bro 003) [LP only]
PETER BROTZMANN/BORGMANN/W. PARKER/R. BAKR - The Cooler Suite (Grob 539) - $15
PETER BROTZMANN/SHOJI HANO - Funny Rat CD (IMJ 512) -$17
*ANTHONY BROWN/ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA - Monk's Moods (Water Baby 1001) w/ Steve Lacy - $15
CAMERON BROWN & THE HEAR & NOW - Hear & Now! (Omnitone 15205) -$15
ROB BROWN - Solo/Silver Sun Afternoon (no label/no number) - $10
KYLE BRUCKMANN - Wrack (Red Toucan 9323) - $15
THE BSC - Good (Grob 543) w/ Bhob Rainey/Greg Kelly/Axel Dorner/Andrea Neumann - $15
*CHRIS BURN ENSEMBLE - Horizontals White (Emanem 4080) -$17
*BURNT SUGAR/BUTCH MORRIS/PETE COSEY/MELVIN GIBBS - The Rites (Avantgroid 0301) - $16
BURNT SUGAR - Black Sex Yall/Liberation & Bloody Random Violets (Trugroid 007) [2 CD set] - $21
BURT/MacDONALD 4 w/ LOL COXHILL - Tsunami (FMR 82-0501) - $16
GEORGE BURT/RAYMOND MACDONALD QT. w/ LOL COXHILL - Coxhill Street (FMR 92-10502) - $16
JOHN BUTCHER/MIYA MASAOKA/GINO ROBAIR - Guerrilla Mosaics (482 Music 1013) - $14
*JOHN BUTCHER & JOHN EDWARDS - Optic (Emanem 4089) - $17
JOHN BUTCHER - Invisible Ear (Fringes 12) solo processed saxes - $18
JOHN BUTCHER, ANDY MOOR & THOMAS LEHN - Thermal (Unsounds 04)
JOHN BUTCHER/FRED LONGBERG-HOLM/MICHAEL ZERANG - Tincture (Musica Genera 4) no longer available
URI CAINE - Concerto Koln/Diabelli Variations [of Beethoven] (Winter & Winter 086) -$15
STEVE CARDENAS - Panoramic (Fresh Sound NT 171) - $14
*DANIEL CARTER & REUBEN RADDING - Luminescence (Aum Fidelity 025) - $14
DANIEL CARTER/MORGAN CRAFT/ERIC EIGNER - Mysterium (Eavesdrop 001) - $14
GEORGE CARTWRIGHT'S GLORYLAND PONYCAT - Black Ants Crawling (Innova 592) - $14
*EUGENE CHADBOURNE - Dr. Chad's Adventures at the Tonic Guitar Fest [2 CD set] (Leo 386/387) - $26
CHAINWORKS - twenty minutes in brooklyn, 5-4-2003 [CD-EP] (Sachimay 9359)
*STEVE COLEMAN & FIVE ELEMENTS - On the Rising of the 64 Paths (Label Bleu 6653) - $16
COLLECTIVE 4TET - Synopsis (Leo 380) w/ William Parker - $15
*GRAHAM COLLIER & THE COLLECTIVE - bread and circuses (Jazzprint 131) - $16
LOREN CONNORS & DAVID GRUBBS - Arborvitae (Hapna 13)
LOREN CONNORS - The Murder of Joan of Arc (Table of the Elements 59) [LP only] -$15
*LOREN CONNORS & ALAN LICHT - in France (FBWL 206)
SYLVIE COURVOISIER/MARK FELDMAN/ERIK FRIEDLANDER - Abaton (ECM 1838/0001308) [2 CD set] - $26
LOL COXHILL - Out to Launch (Emanem 4086) - $17
LOL COXHILL & HOWARD RILEY - Duology March 2002 (Slam 249) $17
CRACOW KLEZMER BAND - Bereshit (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7183) - $14
MARILYN CRISPELL/STEFANO MALTESE - Blue & Red [2 cds] (Black Saint 120209/199) $15 each
CUL DE SAC - The Strangler's Wife (Strange Attractors 017) - $14
CUNNINGHAM/DRAMINSKY-HOJMARK - aleatory grammar (Spooky Sound/no number)
*CURLEW - Mercury (Cuneiform 177) - $13
CHRIS CUTLER - Solo (ReR CC10) - $14
CHRIS CUTLER & THOMAS DIMUZIO - Dust (ReR CCTD2) - $14
[CHRIS CUTLER/BOB DRAKE/LUKAS SIMONIS] VRIL - Effegies in Cork (ReR VRIL 1) - $14
DAFELDECKER/HAUTZINGER/TILBURY/SACHIKO M - Absinth (Grob 435) - $15
DAFELDECKER/KURZMANN/DRUMM/ERIKM/DIEB13/NOETINGER (Charhizma 020) - $15
WERNER DAFELDECKER/KLAUS LANG - Lichtgeschwindigkeit (Grob 541) - $15
DAIMONJI - Improg (Poseidon/Musea 014) Featuring Hoppy Kamiyama
*DANIELE D'AGARO/ERNST GLERUM/HAN BENNINK - Strandjutters (Hatology 590) -$17
*MATT DAVIS/PHIL DURRANT/MARK WASTELL - Open (Erstwhile 32) - $13
DAVKA - The Golem (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7185) - $14
DEEP LISTENING BAND/JOE McPHEE QT. - Unquenchable Fire (Deep Listening 19-2003) $14
BENOIT DELBECQ - Nu - Turn / Piano Solo (Songlines 1543) [SA-CD] - $17
BERTAND DENZLER & HANS KOCH - Asymetries (Ambiances Magnetiques 112) - $14
*JEAN DEROME/LOUIS SCLAVIS QUARTET - "Un Moment de Bonheur" (Victo 086) - $15
JEAN DEROME - Le Magasin Du Tissu (Ambiances Magnetiques 094) - $14
PIERRE DIAZ/THOMAS CARBOU - 3 Quartets (DiCi Records 001)
WHIT DICKEY TRIO AHXOLOXHA - Prophet Moon (Riti 006) - $14
DIRTY THREE - She Has No Strings Apollo (Bella Union 44)
HERBERT DISTEL - Railnotes (Hatology 594) - $17
DJ MUTAMASSIK & MORGAN CRAFT - Rough Americana (COL 002)
DJ WALLY - nothing stays the same (Thirsty Ear 57140) w/ Matt Shipp & Daniel Carter - $15
MICHEL DONEDA/URS LEIMGRUBER/KEITH ROWE - The Difference Between a Fish (Potlatch 302) - $17
MICHEL DONEDA/ALESSANDRO BOSETTI/BHOB RAINEY - Places Dans L'air (Potlatch 103) - $17
*ARMEN DONELIAN - Quartet Language (Playscape 050292) w/ Thomas Chapin! - $14
*DAVE DOUGLAS - Freak In (RCA) - $16
ARTHUR DOYLE/EDWARD PERRAUD/DAN WARBURTON - The Basement Tapes (Durtro 063) - $18
KEVIN DRUMM - Land of Lurches (Hanson Records 104)
KEVIN DRUMM/FRED LONGBERG-HOLM/WEASEL WALTER - eruption (Grob 546) - $15
ANDREW DRURY - a momentary lapse (innova 581) w/ Eyvind Kang & Myra Melford - $14
*MARC DUCRET - Qui Parlet? (Sketch 333028) - $16
PAUL DUNMALL/P. GIBBS/A. BALL/N. METCALFE/H. JEFFREYS - No Agents of Evil (DUNS 026) 2 cds
PAUL DUNMALL/HILARY JEFFREYS/TONY MARSH - High Bird, Low Bird (Duns 027) - $14
PAUL DUNMALL/P. GIBBS/H. JEFFREYS/TONY BIANCO - Garganchelopes (Duns 028) - $14
PAUL DUNMALL - solo bagpipes [volume 3] (FMR 118) - $14 for now
PAUL DUNMALL/PHILIP GIBBS/JOHN ADAMS - Can't Just Be a Body (Duns 031) - $14
*PAUL DUNMALL/PAUL ROGERS/KEVIN NORTON - Ryoicholum: For Your Pleasure (CIMP 289) - $14
PAUL DUNMALL/PHILIP GIBBS/ANDREW BALL/NEIL METCALFE/HILARY JEFFREYS - Newagents (Duns 032) - $14
*PAUL DUNMALL & PAUL ROGERS - Log Cabins (Duns 033) - $14
PAUL DUNMALL & TONY IRVING - Cocteau's Ghost (Duns 034) - $14
*PAUL DUNMALL & BRUCE COATES - 19 Years Later (Duns 035) - $14
*DOMINIC DUVAL/JOE MCPHEE/JOHN HEWARD - Undersound II (Leo 363) - $15
ROBERT EEN - Mystery Dances (Starkland 212) - $14
MORITZ EGGERT - Wide Unclasp (Between the Lines 031) - $17
MARTY EHRLICH - Line on Love (Palmetto 2015) - $15
BRUCE EISENBEIL/STEPHEN FINN/TONYWREN - Keep The Meter Running (9 Winds 246) - $14
[HARRIS EISENSTADT/NOAH PHILLIPS QUARTET] - Boxes of Water (Evander 017)
LIBERTY ELLMAN - Tactiles (Pi Recordings 08) - $15
*JAMES EMERY - Transformations (Between the Lines 027) - $17
ERSONIC - Mystery Theatre (Victo 085) w/ David Mott - $15
ELLERY ESKELIN/ANDREA PARKINS/JIM BLACK - Arcanum Moderne (Hatology 588) - $17
EXIAS-J - Electric Conception "avant-garde" (PSF 133) - $20
JOHN FAHEY - Hard Time Empty Bottle Blues (Table of the Elements 60) - [LP only $15]
JOHN FAHEY - Red Cross (Revenant) CD $17 LP $14
KALI Z. FASTEAU - Oneness (Flying Note 9009) - $14
AVRAM FEFER QUARTET - Shades of the Muse (CIMP 286) - $14
SIMON FELL QUINTET [SFQ] - thirteen rectangles (Bruce's Fingers) - $18
*SIMON H. FELL - Kaleidozyklen [Composition No. 57] (Bruce's Fingers) - $18
FENNESZ - Live in Japan (Headz 010) - $17
SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE - From the Diary of Dog Drexel (Rossbin 008) - $17
KEN FILIANO - subvenire (Nine Winds 223) [solo contrabass] $14
FIRE OF SPACE - Age of Epoch (AR 0107) [w/ Jordan McLean]
DAVID 'FUZE' FIUCZYNSKI & RUFUS CAPPADOCIA - Kif (Fuzelicious Morsels 8903) $14
49' NORD [POULSEN/DENZLER/MARGUET] - tentacles (Av-Art Records 1013)
FREE ZONE APPLEBY 2002 - s/t (PSI 03.02/3)[2 CD set] w/ Evan Parker - $26
ERIK FRIEDLANDER - Quake (Cryptogramophone 118) - $14
*ERIK FRIEDLANDER - Maldoror (Brassland) solo cello - $14
FRITH/DEROME/BOISEN/TANGUAY - all is bright, but it is not day (Amb. Mag. 106) - $14
FRITH/DALABA/GLICK/RIEMAN/KIHLSTEDT - self/titled (Accretions 030) - $14
*FRED FRITH - Rivers and Tides {working with time} (Winter & Winter 092) - $15
*FRED FRITH/KEEP THE DOG - That House We Lived In (Fred Records) [2 CD set] - $23
FRED FRITH - Steps Across the Border [DVD] (Winter & Winter 915 001) - $29
SATOKO FUJII QUARTET - Minerva (Libra 204-007/Japan) - $18
*SATOKO FUJII ORCHESTRA EAST - Before the Dawn (Libra 3010/Japan) - $18
*SATOKO FUJII ORCHESTRA - The Future of the Past (Enja 1003/Japan) NY Orch. - $18
ANDERS GAHNOLD/JOHNNY DYANI/MATTHEWS TRIO - flowers for johnny (Ayler Records 017/018) -2 CD set
SLAVA GANELIN/ESTI KENAN OFRI - Birds of Passage (Leo 366) - $15
THE GANELIN TRIO - 15 Year Reunion/Live at Frankfurt Book Fair (Leo 375) - $15
*THE GATHERING - For John Stevens (Emanem 4091) [w/ Maggie Nicols] - $17
CAROL GENETTI/DAMON SMITH/FRED LONBERG-HOLM - sense of hearing (balance point acoustics 005)
JOE GIARDULLO & SANGEETA MICHAEL BERARDI - Art Spirit (Boxholder 028) - $14
JOE GIARDULLO/JOE McPHEE/MIKE BISIO/TANI TABBAL - Shadow & Light (Drimala 02) $14
JOE GIARDULLO 4TET - Now Is (Drimala 347) - $14
PHIL GIBBS & JOHN ADAMS - Seen a Mouse (Duns 030) - $14
JOACHIM GIES - Rilke Anthology 1 (Leo 359) - $15
FRODE GJERSTAD/JOHN EDWARDS/MARK SANDERS - The Welsh Chapel (Cadence 1161) - $14
*FRODE GJERSTAD/PETER BROTZMANN QT. - Sharp Knives, Cut Deeper (Splasch 850) - $18
FRODE GJERSTAD & DEREK BAILEY - Nearly a D (Emanem 4087) - $17
LUTZ GLANDIEN - Lost In Rooms (ReR LG3) - $14
*GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA - Globe Unity 2002 (Intakt 086) - $16
GOLD SPARKLE TRIO - thunder reminded me (clean feed 009) - $16
VINNY GOLIA - Feeding Frenzy (Nine Winds 229) - $14
DENNIS GONZALEZ NEW SOUTHERN QUINTET - Old Time Revival (Entropy 014) - $14
GEORG GRAEWE - Fantasiestucke I - XIII for piano solo (Nuscope 1014) - $15
JERRY GRANELLI - The V16 Project (Songlines 1544) [SA-CD] w/ Dave Tronzo - $17
*FRANK GRATKOWSKI QUARTET - Spectral Reflections (Leo 374) - $15
FRANK GRATKOWSKI/DAMON SMITH/JEROME BRYERTON - The Voice Imitator (bpa 006)
CARL GRUBBS QUARTET - Stepping Around the Giant (CIMP 273) w/ Odeon Pope! - $14
(DAVID) GRUBBS/(MATS) GUSTAFSSON - Off-Road (Blue Chopsticks11) - $14
TREY GUNN - Untune the Sky [CD & DVD set] (Inside Out 60512) - $20
*BARRY GUY/EVAN PARKER - Studio/Live Birds and Blades [2 CD set] (Intakt 080) - $26
TOM HAMILTON / AL MARGOLIS / MIKE SILVERTON - Analogue Smoque (Pogus 21029) [2 CD set]
SHOJI HANO - 48 (Improvised Music from Japan 505) solo drums! - $18
FRANZ HAUTZINGER/MANSON LIU WINTER - Brospa (Grob 544) - $15
SACHI HAYASAKA - Minga (Tzadik New Japan Series 7244) - $14
MARK HELIAS' OPEN LOOSE - Verbs of Will (Radio Legs 011) w/ Tony Malaby - $14
JONAS HELLBORG/SHAWN LANE/SELVAGANESH - Icon (Bardo 042) - $15
*GERRY HEMINGWAY QUARTET - Devils Paradise (Clean Feed 010) - $16
JULIUS HEMPHILL - One Atmosphere (Tzadik 7090) $14
PETER HERBERT - You're My Thrill (Between the Lines 032) - $17
PETER HERBERT & KOEHNE QUARTET - musique humaine/music for strings (Aziza Music 1004) - $14
KURT HEYL & BEN WRIGHT - West Coast Tour 2003 [2 CD set] (self-produced)
*SHELLEY HIRSCH & KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI - Duets (Innocent 008) no longer available
*DAVE HOLLAND QUINTET - Extended Play Live at Birdland (ECM 1864/65 967) [2 CD set] $26
LARS HOLMER'S GLOBAL HOME PROJECT - Sola (Krax/Infinite/Japan)
WILLIAM HOOKER/ROGER MILLER/LEE RANALDO - Monsoon (Atavistic 146) - $15
BILL HORVITZ THREE - The Disappearance (Evander 18) - $14
EARL HOWARD/PARABOLA ARTS ENSEMBLE - Strong Force (Mutable Music 17511) - $14
NOAH HOWARD - Eye of the Improvisers [2 CDR set] (Alt Sax 2030) w/ Frank Wright & Arthur Doyle - $20
HUBBUB - Whoop Hoop (Matchless 53) [w/ Frederic Blondy & Bertram Denzler]
CHARLOTTE HUGG/CHANTAL LaPLANTE - Brilliant Days (For 4 Ears 1446) - $15
*DANIEL HUMAIR - Baby Boom (Sketch 333034) - $16
CAROLYN HUME / PAUL MAY - Wet Map (Leo 385) - $15
SUSIE IBARRA & MARK DRESSER - Tone Time (Wobbly Rail 014) - $14
HANS JOACHIM IRMLER - Lifelike (Staubgold 44) - $14
*VIJAY IYER [QUARTET] - blood sutra (Artists House 09) - $16
VIJAY IYER & MIKE LADD - in what language? (Pi Recordings 09) - $15
IZITITIZ - Lucky Bird CD (Sound@1 65)
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER - Europe 2002 [2 CD set] (U-Sound 002)
PHILIP JECK - 7 (Touch 57) - $15
BRAD JONES QUARTET - Pouring My Heart In (Senoj Music 20) - $14
JOSEPHSON/WACHSMANN/LINDSAY/SMITH/BLUME - zero plus (balance point acoustics 007)
EYVIND KANG - Live Low to the Earth (Abduction) - $14
*EYVIND KANG - Virginal Co Ordinates (Dischi di Angelica 016) - $18
*KAYO DOT [MAUDLIN OF THE WELL] - Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik 7092) - $14
UCHIHASHI KAZUHISA - Flect [Solo Electronic Guitar #4] (innocent records 009) - $18
UCHIHASHI KAZUHISA/JOELLE LEANDRE/BRETT LARNER - No Day Rising (Spool 121) - $15
HAINO KEIJI - Mazu Wa Iro O Nakuso Ka (PSF 8014) - $20
HAINO KEIJI - "C'est Parfait" Endoctrine Tu Tombes La Tete La Premiere (Turtles Dream 01)
FRANK KIMBROUGH TRIO - Quickening (Omnitone 15203) - $15
*BASIL KIRCHIN - Quantum (Trunk JBH 003/UK) w/ Evan Parker
KLAXON GUEULE - grain (Ambiances Magnetiques) - $14
GUY KLUCEVSEK/PHILLIP JOHNSTON - Tales from the Crypt (Winter & Winter 088) - $15
KNEAD [HAINO KEIJI/TATSUYA YOSHIDA/HISASHI SASAKI] - This Melting Happiness (Fractal 023) LP
FRANZ KOGLMANN - Fear Death by Water (Between the Lines 034) - $17
CHARLIE KOHLHASE - play free or die [2 CD set] (Boxholder 036/037) - $20
*PETER KOWALD & TATSUYA NAKATANI - 13 Definitions Of Truth (Quakebasket 020) - $14
PETER KOWALD & WILLIAM PARKER - The Victoriaville Tape (Victo 088) - $15
*PETER KOWALD/GOUDBEEK/JACQUEMYN/MORGAN - Dubbel Duo (Konnex 5111) - $17
PETER KOWALD - Duos2/Europa America Japan (FMP 124) - $17
PETER KOWALD/MIYA MASAOKA/GINO ROBAIR - Illuminations (Rastascan 049) - $14
DAVID KRAKAUER'S KLEZMER MADNESS! - The Twelve Tribes (Label Bleu 6637) - $16
ANNETTE KREBS & ALESSANDRO BOSETTI (Grob 540) - $15
*STEVE LACY/ANTHONY COX/DANIEL HUMAIR - Work (Sketch 333028) - $16
STEVE LACY - Meets the Riccardo Fassi Trio: Dummy (Splasch 843)
STEVE LACY - The Beat Suite (Sunnyside 3012) - $15
OLIVER LAKE BIG BAND - Cloth (Passin' Thru 41217) - $14
ANDREW LAMB/TOM ABBS/ANDREI STROBERT - The Pilgrimage (CIMP 282) - $14
LAMINAR - Nozzle (Asphodel 2017) - $14
LARVAL - Obedience (Cuneiform 178) - $13
JOELLE LEANDRE/ MASAHIKO SATOH/YUJI TAKAHASHI - Signature: Live at the Egg Farm [2 CD set] (Red Toucan 9321)
THOMAS LEHN & PAUL LOVENS - Achtung (Grob 537) - $15
URS LEIMGRUBER/GUNTER MULLER/ARTE QUARTET - e_a.sonata.02 (For 4 Ears 1447) - $15
ROBERT MARCEL LePAGE + LA NEF - La Machine a Explorer le Tempo (Amb. Mag. 116) - $14
DANIEL LEVIN QUARTET - Don't Go It Alone (Riti 009) - $14
ALAN LICHT - A New York Minute (Experimental Intermedia 128) [2 CD set]
DAVID LIEBMAN - Colors [Solo Tenor Saxophone] (Hatology 600) - $17
DAVE LIEBMAN BIG BAND - Beyond the Line (Omnitone 12204) - $15
CHRIS LIGHTCAP QUARTET - bigmouth (Fresh Sound NT 148) w/ Tony Malaby - $14
JOHN LINDBERG - Rumination (Between the Lines 025) - $17
[FRANK LONDON/GREG WALL] HASIDIC NEW WAVE - Live in Cracow (Not Two 709) - $17
LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA - Freedom of the City 2002 (Emanem 4090) - $17
GARY LUCAS & JOZEF VAN WISSEM - Diplopia (BVHaast 0103) - now $18
*LUNGE [GAIL BRAND/PAT THOMAS/PHIL DURRANT/MARK SANDERS] - Strong Language (Emanem 4079) - $17
RENE LUSSIER - Tombola Rasa (La Tribu 21570) -
SACHIKO M - Derive (Noise Asia 15) - $15
SACHIKO M & SEAN MEEHAN - self/titled (Overturned Bowl/no number)
*JOHN MADOF - Rashanim (Tzadik 7178) - $14
PETER MADSEN - sphere essense/another side of monk (Playscape 010303) - $14
*RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA - black water (Red Giant 012) - $15
TONY MALABY- Apparitions (Songlines 1545) [Super Audio CD] - $17
RADU MALFATTI/ILYA MONOSOV - Selbander/Music For Listening (Bremsstrahlung 004) [2 CD set] - $17
[RADU MALFATTI/TAKU SUGIMOTO] RAKU SUGIFATTI - Futatsu [2 CD set] (IMJ 508/9) - $23
MAT MANERI TRIO - For Consequence (Leo 360) - $15
DENMAN MARONEY - Fluxations (New World 80607) w/ Ned Rothenberg & Dave Ballou - $15
KAFFE MATTHEWS/ANDREA NEUMANN/SACHIKO M - In Case of Fire Take the Stairs (IMJ)
BILL McHENRY QUARTET - Featuring Paul Motian (Fresh Sound NT 160) - $14
JACKIE McLEAN - the jackie mac attack live (Dreyfus Jazz 37022) - $15
JOHN McNEIL - This Way Out (Omnitone 15204) - $15
*(JOE McPHEE'S) TRIO X - Journey (CIMP 283) - $14
JOE McPHEE QUARTET - Heat Suite (Konnex 5122) - $17
MERZBOW / PAN SONIC - V (Victo 089) - $15
MERZBOW - Cycle (Very Friendly) -
MERZBOW - SCSI Duck (Fourth Dimension 66) - $15
*RAZ MESINAI - Resurrections for Goatskin (Tzadik 7086) - $14
GAEL MEVEL TRIO - Danses Paralleles (Leo 376) - $15
RON MILES QUARTET - Laughing Barrel (Sterling Circle 1219) w/ Brandon Ross - $15
PHIL MILLER-IN CAHOOTS - All That (Cuneiform 181) - $13
LIVIO MINAFRA - La Dolcezza Del Grido (Leo 384) - $15
PHIL MINTON & ROGER TURNER - drainage (Emanem 4211)[2 CD set] - $26
NICOLE MITCHELL BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE - Afrika Rising (Dreamtime 004) - $14
ROSCOE MITCHELL & NOTE FACTORY- Bad Guys (Around 96) - $18
*WOLFGANG MITTERER - Radio Fractal/Beat Music (Hatology 606)[2 CD set] - $26
AMANDA MONACO 4 - self/titled (Genevieve Records 30601) - $14
JEMEEL MOONDOC with DENIS CHARLES - We Don't (Eremite 43) - $15
ANDY MOOR/THOMAS LEHN/JON BUTCHER - Thermal (Unsounds 04) - $16
*JEMEEL MOONDOC JUS GREW ORCHESTRA - Live at the Vision Festival (Ayler Records 047) - $18
*COOPER-MOORE/TOM ABBS/CHAD TAYLOR - Triptych Myth (Hopscotch 14) - $14
COOPER-MOORE & ASSIF TSAHAR - America (Hopscotch 18) - $14
*GUNTER MULLER /OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - Time Travel (Erstwhile 029) - $13
GUNTER MULLER - eight landscapes (For 4 Ears 1445) - $15 - not easy to get
TISZIJI MUNOZ - Divine Radiance (Dreyfus Jazz/Anami 36706) - $15
MICHAEL MUSILLAMI TRIO - bejing (Playscape 121802) - $14
SIMON NABATOV - Perpetuum Immobile/solo piano live (Leo 358) - $15
SIMON NABATOV/HAN BENNINK - Chat Room (Leo 378) - $15
TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA / TETUZI AKIYAMA - Meeting At Off Site Volume 2 (Improvised Music from Japan 506) - $18
TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA - No Input Mixing Board Volume 3 (Alcohol TN1) - $16
TED NASH - Still Evolved (Palmetto 2092) - $15
THE NECKS - Aether (ReR Necks2) - $14
*THE NECKS - Drive By (ReR Necks3) - $14
NEW CIRCLE FIVE - Dreaming Wide Awake (Deep Listening 20-2003) w/ P. Oliveros - $14
THE NEW FLAGS - Total Music Meeting 2002 (ALL 5) - $17
NYC: NOISE FROM THE UNDERGROUND - Space is No Place (Psych-o-Path 5) - $10
NIGHTWATCH - s/t (Double Murder Records No #)
*LE QUAN NINH - Le Ventre Negatif (Meniscus 011) - $13
9! - none (t) (Matchless 54) [w/ Eddie Prevost] - $17
LE QUAN NINH - Le Ventre Negatif (Meniscus 011) - $13
NMPERIGN [GREG KELLEY/BHOB RAINEY]GUNTER MULLER - more gloom, more light (Rossbin 010) - $17
JEROME NOETINGER/ERIK M - What a Wonderful World (Erstwhile 028) - $13
MARK NODWELL - Nemesis (Songlines 1539) w/ Ron Miles, Art Lande & Tom Rainey - $17
KEVIN NORTON QUARTET - Dream Catcher (CIMP 280) - $14
KEVIN NORTON'S METAPHOR QUARTET - Not Only in that Golden Trees (Clean Feed 011) - $16
*KEVIN NORTON/JOELLE LEANDRE/TOMAS ULRICH - Ocean of Earth (Barking Hoop 007) - $14
GIORGIO OCCHIPINTI - Histoire (Between the Lines 033) - $17
*OLAF TON - self/titled (Leo 381) - $15
*AKI ONDA - Ancient & Modern/Cassette Memories Vol.1 (Phenomena 020)
JIM O'ROURKE - Scend [LP only] (Three Poplars 8)
OSSATURA - Verso (ReR 02) - $14
WILLIE OTERI w/ MIKE KENEALLY/T. LEVIN/MASTELOTTO/OWENS/MURPHY- Spiral Out (DIW 466) - $18
*STEPHAN OLIVA/FRANCOIS ROULIN - Ten Variations for Lennie Tristano (Sketch 333024) - $16
PACHORA - A Stereotypical (Winter & Winter 082) - $15
PAGO LIBRE - Phoenix - Live In Salzburg & Zurich (Leo 377) - $15
EVAN PARKER & SEPTEMBER STRINGS - Alder Brook (Leo 379) - $15
JEFF PARKER.KEVIN DRUMM.MICHAEL ZERANG - out trios volume two (Atavistic 147) - $15
WILLIAM PARKER/JOE MORRIS/HAMID DRAKE - Eloping with the Sun (Riti 007) - $14
*WILLIAM PARKER VIOLIN TRIO - scrapbook (Thirsty Ear 57133) Featuring Billy Bang - $15
*WILLIAM PARKER/LITTLE HUEY CREATIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA - Spontaneous (Splasch 855) - $17
WILLIAM PARKER - Fractured Dimensions (FMP 122) w/ Alan Silva, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter - $17
WILLIAM PARKER/COLLECTIVE 4TET - Synopsis (Leo 380) w/ Jeff Hoyer - $15
ZEENA PARKINS - $Shot [Lacey/Lauro/Parkins/Cornell] (self-produced)
*MARIO PAVONE/MICHAEL MUSSILAMI - Op Ed (Playscape 21901) - $14
*MARIO PAVONE NU TRIO/QUINTET - orange (Playscape 61803) - $14
PELT - Pearls from the River (VHF 76) - $14
BEN PEROWSKY - Camp Songs (Tzadik 7175) - $14
*POLYSOFT w/ HUGH HOPPER & ELTON DEAN - Tribute to Soft Machine (Le Triton 3506) - $16
POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE [OLUYEMI THOMAS] - Live in New York (Edgetone Records 4018)
BOBBY PREVITE & BUMP - Counterclockwise (Palmetto 2091) - $15
[EDDIE PREVOST] CONDITIONS - A Bright Nowhere (Matchless 55) - $17
RACHEL'S - Systems/Layers (Quarter Stick)
BHOB RAINEY/MICHEL DONEDA/A. BOSSETIE - Places Dance Air (Potlatch 3) - $17
ROLAND RAMANAN - Shaken (Emanem 4081) - $17
SCOT RAY QUINTET - Active Vapor Recovery (Cryptogramophone 117) w/ Nels Cline - $14
TED REICHMAN - Emigre (Tzadik 7182) - $14
RETURN OF THE NEW THING - Traque (Ayler 010) - now $18
*MARC RIBOT - Scelsi Morning (Tzadik 7089) - $14
MARC RIBOT - Soundtracks II (Tzadik 7516) - $14
*HOWARD RILEY-JOHN TILBURY-KEITH TIPPETT - Another Part of the Story (Emanen 4088) $17
PETE ROBBINS - centric (Telepathy Records/no number)
JASON ROEBKE - Rapid Croche (482 Music 1016) - $14
DEAN ROBERTS - Be Mine Tonight (Kranky 063) - $14
HERB ROBERTSON/MACK GOLDSBURY/BEIR/BATZEL - A-Live at A-Trane (Konnex 51130) $18
*NEIL B. ROLNICK - Fish Love That (Deep Listening 2002)
JON ROSE - Fleisch/Hyperstring 2 (Saucerlike Recordings 005)
JON ROSE & HOLLIS TAYLOR - Great Fences of Australia (Dynamo House/no number)
JON ROSE - The People's Music (ReR JR7) - $14
SCOTT ROSENBERG - Creative Orchestra Music Chicago 2001 (New World 80572) - $15
JOSH ROSEMAN UNIT - Treats for the Nightwalker (Enja 9437) - $16
*ROVA SAX QUARTET - Resistance (Victo 086) - $15
KEITH ROWE/OREN AMBARCHI/SACHIKO M/OTOMO/ROBBIE AVENAIM - Thumb (Grob 432) - $15
*KEITH ROWE/THOMAS LEHN/MARKUS SCHMICKLER - Rabbit Run (Erstwhile 027) - $13
KEITH ROWE/MICHEL DONEDA/URS LEIMGRUBER - The Difference Between a Fish (Potlatch 302) - $17
KEITH ROWE / JOHN TILBURY - Duos for Doris (Erstwhile 030) [2 CD set] - $20
ROSWELL RUDD/TOUMANI DIABATE - Malicool (Sunnyside/Soundscape 3008) - $15
*RUINS + KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI - self/titled (Sound Factory 028) - no longer available
SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA & TATSUYA YOSHIDA - Dear Mama: Live Uppsala May 2003 (Krax /Japan)
ANGELICA SANCHEZ [QUARTET] - Mirror Me (Omnitone 12202) - $15
PATRICK SCHEYDER - Solo Piano II (Leo 362) - $15
*URSEL SCHLICHT/STEVE SWELL 4TET - Poets of the Now (CIMP 272) - $14
ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH - broomriding (PSI 03.05) - $17
*IRENE SCHWEIZER/PIERRE FAVRE - Ulrichsberg (Intakt 084) - $16
*THE SCIENCE GROUP - Spoors (ReR Science 2) w/ Chris Cutler & S. Tickmayer - $14
*GEORGE SCHULLER - round 'bout now (Playscape 021302) Miles tribute - $14
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER - Room Pieces [2 CD set] (Experimental Intermedia 127)
THE SEALED KNOT - Surface/Plane (Meniscus 012) [Beins/Davies/Wastell] - $13
YAMAMOTO SEIICHI - Nu Frequency (Tzadik New Japan Series 7243) - $14
SAM SHALABI - Osama (Alien 8 Recordings) - $14
MARTIN SIEWERT/MARTIN BRANDLMAYR - Too Beautiful to Burn (Erstwhile 031) - $13
PAUL SHAPIRO - Midnight Minyan (Tzadik 7174) - $14
*ELLIOTT SHARP - The Velocity of Hue/Solo Acoustic Guitar (Emanem 4098) - $17
BRAD SHEPIK TRIO - drip (KFW 312) - $14
MATT SHIPP/ANDREW BARKER/CHARLES WATERS - apostolic polyphony (Drimala 03-34)
*[MATT SHIPP'S] CONTINUUM - Good and Evil Sessions (Thirsty Ear 57134) - $15
MATTHEW SHIPP - The Sorcerer Sessions (Thirsty Ear 57141) - $15
WALLY SHOUP TRIO - fusillades & lamentations (Leo 364) - $15
*WALLY SHOUP/PAUL FLAHERTY/THURSTON MOORE/CHRIS CORSANO - Live at Tonic (Leo 369) - $15
*SONNY SIMMONS QUARTET - Renegade Society New York 2002 (Parallactic 52) - no longer available
*SONNY SIMMONS - Solo/Out into the Andromeda (Parallactic 2003) [1 CD & 2 CD versions] -nla
GARY SMITH - FutureThoughtReveal (Paratactile 1115) - $17
*WADADA LEO SMITH & ANTHONY BRAXTON - Organic Resonance (Pi Recordings 06) - $15
PAUL SMOKER - Duocity in Brass and Wood [2 CD set] (Cadence 155/56)
SOFTWORKS - Abracadabara (Tone Center 4029) w/ Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper & Alan Holdsworth) ! - $15
SOUND-LEE! - Plays the Music of Lee Konitz (Geestgronden 021) w/ Jorrit Dijkstra - $18
THE SPACE BETWEEN - With Joelle Leandre (482 Music 1017) w/ Pauline Oliveros - $14
SPRING HILL JACK - Live (Thirsty Ear 57130) [w/ Evan Parker, Han Bennink & Matt Shipp] - $15
*STEVENS/ROBERTSON/FELDMAN/RUST/SORGEN - Aercine (Drimala Records 347-06) - $14
MICHAEL JEFRY STEVENS - The Survivor's Suite (Jazz Halo 015) - no longer available
STONE HOUSE [ROB BROWN/JOE MORRIS/LUTHER GRAY] - Likewise (Riti 008) - $14
*CO STREIFF SEXTET - Qattara (Intakt 078) - $16
SUBARACHNOID SPACE - Also Rising (Strange Attractors Audio House 013) - $14
TAKU SUGIMOTO GUITAR QUARTET - self/titled (Bottrop-Boy 014) - $16
TAKU SUGIMOTO - Chamber Music (Bottrop-Boy 019) - $16
SUN CITY GIRLS - Bleach Has Feelings Too?/To Cover UpÉ [2 LP only set] (Eclipse 02)
SUN RA - Solo Piano Recital/Teatro La Fanice Venezia (Leo GY 21)
*JOHN SURMAN/JACK DeJOHNETTE/LONDON BRASS - Free and Equal (ECM 1802) - $16
*STEVE SWELL SEXTET - This Now (Cadence 1159) - $14
STEVE SWELL/TOM ABBS/GEOFF MANN - Still in Movement (CIMP 285) - $14
STEVE SWELL SEXTET - Suite for Players (CIMP 292) - $14
*TIBOR SZEMZO/THE GORDIAN KNOT COMPANY - South of No North (Leo 361) - $15
*DEMPA [AKI TAKASE/ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI/TONY BUCK] - Nine Fragments (Leo 346) - $15
*AKI TAKASE/RUDI MAHALL - The Dessert (Leo 370) - $15
HORACE TAPSCOTT - Solo Piano - Volume Ten (Nimbus 2370) - $14
*CECIL TAYLOR OCTET - Light of Corona (FMP 120) - $17
RICHARD TEITELBAUM - Blends (New Albion 118) w/ Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway & Trilok - $15
TELECTU - Quartetos (clean feed 006) [3 CD set] w/ Sunny Murray, Eddie Prevost & Gerry Hemingway
TERTIARY TRIO [ANDY HAAS/DON FIORINO/PAUL CORIO] - title goes here (rent control 009) - $10
PAUL TERMOS & MISHA MENGELBERG - Sessions Volume 1 (X-OR 015/Bimhuis 006) - $18
PAUL TERMOS & WIEK HIJMANS - Sessions Volume 2 (X-OR 016/Geestgronden 23) - $18
*THINKING PLAGUE - A History of Madness (Cuneiform 180) - $13
MALACHI THOMPSON & AFRICA BRASS - Blue Jazz (Delmark 548) - $15
THRENODY ENSEMBLE - Timbre Hollow (New Albion) - $15
KEITH TIPPETT/HOWARD RILEY/JOHN TILBURY - Another Part of the Story (Emamen 4088) - $17
*KEITH TIPPETT & PETER FAIRCLOUGH - Imago (Jazzprint 132) - $16
ALAN TOMLINSON/STEVE BERESFORD/ROGER TURNER - Trap Street (Emanem 4092) - $17
YASUNAO TONE - Yasunao Tone (Asphodel) - $14
*DAVID TOOP - Black Chamber (Sub Rosa 205) - $14
TOTAL MUSIC MEETING 2002 - Audiology II/11 Groups in Berlin (ALL 006) w/ Evan ParkerÉ - $17
*TRAPIST - Highway My Friend (Hatology 586) - $17
TRICKY DILEMMA - The Howling Necessity (Truegroid)
TRI-FACTOR [EL ZABAR/B. BANG/BLUIETT] - If You Believe (8th Harm. Breakdown 80004)
*GIANLUIGI TROVESI OTTETTO - Fugace (ECM 1827/000-849) - $16
ASSIF TSAHAR/PETER KOWALD/SUNNY MURRAY - MA: Live at Fondacio Juan Miro (Hopscotch 15) - $14
*ASSIF TSAHAR/MAT MANERI/JIM BLACK - JAM (Hopscotch 21) - $14
ASSIF TSAHAR & TATSUYA NAKATANI - Come Sunday (Hopscotch 24) - $14
KEVIN UEHLINGER - Alchemusic {Vol. 1} (newsonic 35)
FEDERICO UGHI/OPTIONS - South of Brooklyn (577 Records #4)
*SUHKAN UHKA - Suhka (TUM 001) - $16
*ULLMANN/STEVENS/FONDA/BENNINK - Conference Call/Variations on a Master Plan (Leo 371) - $15
*VANDERMARK 5 - airports for light (Atavistic 140)
KEN VANDERMARK - Furniture Music (Okkadisc 046) solo sax - $14
*[KEN VANDERMARK TRIO] FREE FALL - Furnace (Wobbly Rail 013) - $14
JOZEF VAN WISSEM - Simulacrum/Mirror Images for Solo Lute & Electronics (Bvhaast 0104) - $18
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA - the queen of guess (vhf #77) - $14
MIROSLAV VITOUS - Universal Syncopations (ECM 0001289/1863) w/ John McLaughlin - $16
VOICE CRACK/GUNTER MULLER - Buda_Rom (For 4 Ears 1344) - $15
*MAL WALDRON/STEVE LACY/JEAN-JACQUES AVENEL - One More Time (Sketch 333023) - $16
MAL WALDRON/MARION BROWN - ÉSongs of Love and Regret (Free Lance 0302)
GREG WALL/FRANK LONDON BAND - Birth and Rebirth (Not Two 709) - $17
DAVID S. WARE STRING ENSEMBLE - Threads (Thirsty Ear 57137) - $15
RANDY WESTON - Live in St. Lucia (Image Entertainment 3007) [CD & DVD]
VERYAN WESTON - Tessellations (Emanem 4095) - $17
DOUG WEISELMAN - Dimly Lit (Tzadik 7515) - $14
MARK WHITECAGE/DOMINIC DUVAL/JAY ROSEN - No Respect (Acoustics 414) - $14
PETER WHITEHEAD - Giselle (Out of Round Records 009) - $14
ANDREAS WILLERS - In the North (Between the Lines 026) - $17
JAH WOBBLE & DEEP SPACE - Five Beat (30 Hertz 20) w/ Harry Beckett, Philip Jeck - $15
*JACK WRIGHT - Open Wide (Recorded 009) - $14
SEIICHI YAMAMOTO - Nu Frequency (Tzadik 7243) - $14
YITZHAK YEDID - Myth of the Cave (Between the Lines 028) - $17
*AMI YOSHIDA - Tiger Thrush (Improvised Music Japan 504) - $18
*OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/MARTIN TƒTREAULT - Studio-Analogique-NumŽrique (Amb. Mag. 111) - $14
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - Blue [soundtrack] (Headz 004/Japan) - $17
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA - Turntables & Computers (Headz 014) - $17
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/PARK JE CHUN/MI YEON - Loose Community (IMJ 511) - $18
ZAKARYA [YVES WEYH] - Something Obvious (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7184) - $14
CARLOS ZINGARO & VOICECRACK - Ba Kagpja (Sirr 2014)
*JOHN ZORN [BILL FRISELL/MARC RIBOT/TIM SPARKS] - Masada Guitars (Tzadik 7171) - $14
JOHN ZORN - Masada Tribute Vol. Two/Voices in the Wilderness [2 CD set] (Tzadik 7172) - $20
*JOHN ZORN - Chimeras (Tzadik 7085) - $14
*JOHN ZORN - The Unknown Masada/Volume 3 (Tzadik 7181) - $14
*JOHN ZORN - Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking (Tzadik 7343) - $14







2003 RECOMMENDED VOCAL/ROCK/POP/PSYCH/PROG/WORLD RELEASES


ROBERT WYATT - Cuckooland (Hannibal/Ryko 1468)
JESSE SYKES & THE SWEET HEREAFTER - Reckless Burning (Burn Burn Burn 30)
METAMORPHOSIS DIP - Contaminated Chamber Music (Leo 357)
RADIOHEAD - Hail to the Thief (Capitol/EMI 84543)
DANIEL LANOIS - Shine (Anti 86661)
RICHARD THOMPSON - The Old Kit Bag (UK import/Spin Art US)
ROBERT WYATT - Solar Flares Burn for You (Cuneiform 175)
IVA BITTOVA & NETHERLANDS WIND ENSEMBLE - Ples Upiru/Dance of the Vampires (Indies 169)
CHRIS SMITHER - Train Home (Hightone 58)
THE MAGIC BAND - Back to the Front (All Tomorrow's Parties 6) w/ Gary Lucas & Drumbo
KAYO DOT [formerly MAUDLIN OF THE WELL] - Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik 7092)
THINKING PLAGUE - A History of Madness (Cuneiform 180)
DIAMANDA GALAS - La Serpenta Canta (Mute)
KARLA KIHLSTEDT - 2 Foot Yard (Tzadik Oracle Series 7706)
FRED FRITH - Prints [snapshots, postcards, messages & miniatures] (ReR/FRA 02)
ELLIOTT SHARP'S TERRAPLANE - do the don't (Zoar 023)
HENRY KAISER & GLENN PHILLIPS - Guitar Party (Gaff)
GILLIAN WELCH - Soul Journey (Acony 305)
CARLA BOZULICH [w/ NELS CLINE] - Red Headed Stranger (Stair Builders 01)
JOHN CALE - 5 Tracks (EMI 621)
JOHN CALE - HoboSapiens (EMI 5917112/Europe)
STEVE WYNN - Static Transmission (DBK 105)
THE VANITY SET - Little Stabs of Happiness (Cargo 005)
THE DEAD C - The Damned (Starlight Furniture 21)
HACO/SAKAMOTO HIROMICHI - Ash in the Rainbow (Detector 26)
JAH WOBBLE - English Roots Music (30 Hertz 21)
YOSHIMI & YUKA - Flower With No Color (Ipecac 034)
MICHAEL GILES - "Progress": Circa 1978 (Voiceprint 264)
CHRISTY DORAN'S NEW BAG - Heaven is Back in the Streets (Double Moon 71031)
MATT SHIPP/ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Antipop Vs. Matthew Shipp (Thirsty Ear 57120)
DAVID SYLVIAN - Blemish (Samahdi Sound 01)
AMI YOSHIDA - Tiger Thrush (Improvised Music Japan 504)
ENSEMBLE IBN ARABI - Arabo-Andalusian Sufi Songs (Long Distance 45013)
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES - Just An American Boy [2 CD set] (E-Squared 51256)
JOHN SINCLAIR & HIS BLUES SCHOLARS - Fattening Frogs for Snakes (Okra-Tone 4968)
GARY LUCAS - Operators are Standing By/The Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996 (KFW 316)
HUGH HOPPER/JULIAN WHITFIELD - in a dubious manner (deliberate/no number)
ETHIOPIQUES - Volume 13: Ethiopian Groove (Buda Musique 82255)
ABYSSINIA INFINITE - Zion Roots (Network 24.971) w/ Gigi & Bill Laswell
LAURA LOVE - welcome to pagan place (Koch 8478)
GEOFF MULDAUR - Beautiful Isle of Somewhere (Tradition & Moderne 025)
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - Live (Sickroom)
SOULREACTIVE - saltsound (chief inspector 200305) w/ Jessica Constable
ERNST REIJSEGER/MOLA SYLLA/SERIGNE GUEYE - Janna (Winter & Winter 094)
LOREN CONNORS - The Departing of a Dream Volume II (Family Vineyard 22)
ROBIN WILLIAMSON - Skirting the River Road (ECM 1785/858)
HOAHIO - Peek-Ara-Boo (Tzadik New Japan Series 7245)
DAVID FIUCZYNSKI - black cherry acid lab (Fuzelicious Morsels 8902)
PAK - 100% Human Hair (Ra Sounds 003)
PALINCKX - Momentum & Wag (Lowlands)
DUFUS - "1:3:1" (ROIR)
SKIST - Ellipsis (Polarity 521/Japan) featuring Haruna Ito & Samm Bennett
KITTY BRAZELTON/DAPHNA NAPHTALI - What is it like to be a bat? (Tzadik 7707)
RORY BLOCK - last fair deal (Telarc 83593)
DUB GABRIEL - Ascend (Baboon Records 826237000527)
DANNY BARNES - dirt on the angel (Terminus 0303)
ACID MOTHER TEMPLE/KINSKI - Kinski/Acid Mother Temple (Sub Pop 626)
LOU REED - The Raven (Sire/Reprise 48372) w/ Ornette & Willem Dafoe, produced by Hal Wilner
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - And This Is Our Music (Tee Pee Records 052)
"WINGED MIGRATION" - O.S.T. (Higher Octave) w/ Robert Wyatt & Nick Cave
ADACHI TOMOMI ROYAL CHORUS - Yo (Tzadik 7242)
VIJAY IYER & MIKE LADD - in what language? (Pi Recordings 09)
BOB DRAKE - 13 Songs and a Thing (ReR CTA13)
THE PUDDLES - self/titled (self produced)
MUNA ZUL - Muna Zul (Tzadik Oracle Series 7708)
TRIPOD - TriPod (Moonjune 004)
THIGHPAULSANDRA - Double Vulgar (Retractor 001)
JIM DICKINSON FIELD RECORDINGS - Delta Experiment Project Vol. 3 (Birdman)
MOTORPSYCHO - It's a Love Cult (Stickman Records 041/Rubric)
MELT-BANANA - Cell-Scape (Azap 05)
DAVID GRISMAN - Life of Sorrow (Acoustic Disc 53) w/ John Hartford, Ralph Stanley
DAVID BYRNE - Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey 133)
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Electric Version (Matador 551)
ADRIAN SHAW - Look Out (Woronzow Records 51)
SAMSARA SOUND SYSTEM - ritual of carousel (Baboon 004)
KRAKATOA - we are the rowboats (Cuneiform 168)
SACHI HAYASAKA - Minga (Tzadik 7244)
TOWN AND COUNTRY - Five (Thrill Jockey 128)
DAVID BUDBILL/WILLIAM PARKER/HAMID DRAKE - songs for a suffering world (Boxholder 44)
ANIMAL COLLECTIV - Here Comes The Indian (Paw Tracks 001)
DJ SPOOKY - Dubtometry (Thirsty Ear 1282)
CURSE/MARC RIBOT/DAVID AMRAM - Pull My Daisy (CRO 023) [CD-EP)
ESTRADASPHERE - Quadropus (Web of Mimicry 013)
BARDO POND - On The Ellipse (ATP R5)
BRIDE OF NO NO - Bride Of No No (Atavistic 141)
THANATOPSIS [BUCKETHEAD TRIO] - Axiology (TDRS music 2566)
LITTLE ANNIE & THE LEGALLY JAMMIN'- self/titled (Italic 035)
MAROON - Who the Sky Betrays (Head Fulla Brains 04)
ENSEMBLE ELEKTRA - The Book of Time (Milo Records 104)
RON ANDERSON & JASON WILLETT - Be the First on the Block to Eat the Snake (Ra Sounds 004)
BOB DYLAN & VARIOUS - 'Masked & Anonymous/OST (Columbia 90618)
THE CHIEFTAINS - Further Down the Old Plank Road (RCA 82876) w/ Carlene Carter, Emmylou Harris & John HiattÉ
BUCKETHEAD - Bucketheadland 2 (Ion 2019)
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III - So Damned Happy/Live (Sanctuary 06076)
KOBY ISRAELITE - Dance of the Idiots (Tzadik 7179)




RECOMMENDED MODERN CLASSICAL AND ELECTRONIC DISCS FOR 2003:


JOHN ZORN - Chimeras (Tzadik 7085)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Terretektorth (Editions RZ 1015/6) [2 CD set]
LUCIANO BERIO - The String Quartets (Montaigne 782155)
JAMES TENNEY - Forms 1-4: In Memoriam Varese, Cage, Wolpe, Feldman (Hat Now 127)
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS - In The White Silence (New World 80600)
MAURICIO KAGEL - Black Madrigal (Winter & Winter 090)
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - In Mid-Air (Alga Marghen 047)
JORGE ANTUNES - Savage Songs/Works from 1961-1970 (Pogus 21027)
ELLIOTT SHARP - String Quartets: 1986-1996 (Tzadik 7084)
ELLIOTT SHARP - Racing Hearts/Tessalation Row/Calling (HR.Musik.De 0018)
ETHEL [STRING QUARTET] - self/titled (Cantaloupe 21017)
TERRY RILEY - Moscow Conservatory Solo Piano Concert (Long Arms 1032)
TERRY RILEY & REPETITITION ORCHESTRA - self/titled (Long Arms 1033)
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN/BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS - Gigantic Human Dancing Machine (Cantaloupe 21012)
JOAN LA BARBARA - Voice Is The Original Instrument/Early Works [2CD] (Lovely Music 3003) reissue
JAMES TENNEY - Selected Works 1961-1969 (New World 80570)
LUC FERRARI - Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works (EMF 037)
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN - Gigantic Human Dancing Machine (Cantaloupe 21012)
FREDERIC RZEWSKI/LISA MOORE - Which Side Are You On? (Cantaloupe 21014)
JOHN OSWALD - A Paranthesie (Imprintes Digitales 0368)
IANNIS XENAKIS - Anastenaria (Col Legno 20086)
EARLE BROWN - Chamber Music (Matchless 52)
JOHN CAGE - The Works for Piano 5 (Mode 123) w/ HaydŽe Schvartz & Jack Bruce
JOHN CAGE - James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (Wergo 6310) 2 CD set
JOHN CAGE - Variations I-III (Mode 129)
JOHN CAGE - An Alphabet: James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie [2 CD se] (Wergo 63102)
ELLIOTT CARTER - Quintets and Voices [DVD] (Mode 128)
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Tierkreis, Zodiac (Wergo 6659)
PIERRE-YVES MACE - Faux-Jumeaux (Tzadik 7078)
CAROLYN YARNELL - Sonic Vision (Tzadik 7087)
MILTON BABBITT - Occasional Variations (Tzadik 7088)
PAUL DOLDEN - Seuil de Silences (Emprintes Digitales 0369)
MICHAEL FINNISSY - Lost Lands (Metier 92050)
LEO KUPPER - Complete Electronic Works 1961-74 (Sub Rosa 184)
DAVID LANG - Child (Cantaloupe 21013)
CHRISTIAN WOLFF - Complete Works for Violin & Piano (Mode 126)
THOMAS KONER - Unerforschtes Gebiet (Die Stadt 56)
A LAMINAR PROJECT - Manifold (JdK 08)
MORTON FELDMAN - Works for Violin & Piano (Mode 126)
CHRISTIAN WOLFF - Early Piano Music {1951-1961} [2 CD set](Matchless 51)
MAURICIO KAGEL - Transicion II/Phonophonie (Mode 127)
YASUNAO TONE - Yasunao Tone (Asphodel 2011)
PHILL NIBLOCK - Touch Food (Touch 59/UK)
MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER - Room Pieces (Experimental Intermedia 127)
CHAS SMITH - An Hour Out of Desert Center (Cold Blue 0013)
WARREN BURT - Harmonic Colour Fields (Pogus 21028)
EVAN ZIPORYN - Shadow Bang (Canteloupe 21015)
HENRY BRANT - The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 1 [2 CD set] (Innova 408)
MAURICIO KAGEL - Rrrrrrr (Aeon 0311)
ALVIN LUCIER - Navigations for Strings/Small Waves (Mode 124)
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE - Charlemagne at Sonnabend [2 CD set] (Alga Margen 2001)
RHYS CHATHAM - Echo Solo (Azoth Schallplatten 001) LP only release
TEODORO ANZELLOTTI - 3 Compositions by John Cage (Winter & Winter 080)
KAIJA SAARIAHO - Six Japanese Gardens & Trois Rivieres Delta (INAgram 5013)
FRANCOIS BAYLE - Toupie dans le Ciel (Magison 102)
ASMUS TIETCHENS - Biotop (Die Stadt 61)
CHIEN-YIN CHEN - Purr (Tzadik 7091)
MORTON FELDMAN - String Quartet No. 2 [5 CD set/1 DVD] (Mode 112)
MORTON FELDMAN - Violin and String Quartet [2 CD set] (Hat Now 2137)
LOU HARRISON - Serenado (New Albion 123)
JOAN JEANRENAUD - Metamorphosis (New Albion 120)
ANTHONY PATERAS - Malfunction Studies (Synaesthesia)
ALVIN LUCIER - Navigations?Small Waves (Mode 124)
ASMUS TIETCHENS - Adventures in Sound/Nachstucke [2 CD set] (Die Stadt 55)
OSSATURA - Verso (ReR 02)
CARL STONE - Nak Won (Sonore 19)
MARK APPLEBAUM - Catfish (Tzadik Composer Series 7094)
MICHAEL BYRON - Awakeing at the Innof the Birds (Cold Blue)
SCOTT ROSENBERG - Creative Orchestra Music Chicago 2001 (New World 80572)
JOSEPH SUCHY - calabi.yau (Staubgold 43)
LAMINAR - Nozzle (Asphodel 2017)
TAKU SUGIMOTO - Chamber Music (Bootrop-Boy 019)
ERIC CHASALOW - Left To His Own Devices (New World 80601)
TONY CONRAD - Fantastic Glissando [LP only] (Table of the Elements 82)




RECOMMENDED REISSUES & HISTORICS RECORDINGS for 2003 - Alphabetical


KAORU ABE - The Last Recording (DIW 458)
*DAVID ACKLES - American Gothic (Collector's Choice 311)
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival [2 CD set] (Epic 86909)
ALTERATIONS - Viola Enough! (Atavistic UMS 239) [Steve Beresford & David Toop]
*AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC - Volume 2 [2 CD set] (Sub Rosa 200)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Spirit they're gone Spirit they vanished/Danse Manatee [2 CD set] (Fat Cat 07)
JON APPELTON - Syntonic Menagerie 2 (Phenomena 010)
*ARCADO - Behind the Myth (JMT/W&W 919 039) [Feldman/Dresser/Roberts] - $15
AREA - Live '77 [2 CD set] (Akarma 1042)
*ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - Live in Paris [2 CD set] (Actuel/BYG/Charly)
*KEVIN AYERS - Joy of a Toy (Harvest 43502/UK import) w/ bonus trax - $14
KEVIN AYERS & THE WHOLE WORLD - Shooting at the Moon (Harvest 43532) - bonus trax - $14
*KEVIN AYERS - Whatevershebringswesing (Harvest 43542) no eggsplanation_
KEVIN AYERS - Bananamour (Harvest 43512)
*ALBERT AYLER - "The Copenhagen Tapes" (Ayler Records) w/ Don Cherry, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray
ALBERT AYLER - Lšrrach, Paris 1966 (Hatology 573) - $17
*BADEN-BADEN FREE JAZZ ORCHESTRA - Gittin' to Know Y' All (UCCU 9018) w/ Art Ensemble - $25
DEREK BAILEY - Duo & Trio Improvisation (UCCU 9021) - $25
SKIP BATTIN - self titled (Collector's Choice 387)
*HARRY BECKETT - Flare Up (Jazzprint 124) - $16
HAN BENNINK - Tempo Comodo (Data Records)
*TIM BERNE'S CAOS TOTALE - Pace Yourself (W&W/JMT 919040) - $15
*TIM BERNE'S - Fractured Fairy Tails (JMT/W&W 919030) - $15
BRATKO BIBIC & THE MADLEYS - In the Family Garden (SyHaPa)
*ED BLACKWELL TRIO - Wall-Bridges [2 CD] (Black Saint 120153) w/ Dewey Redman
ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS - Indestructible (Blue Note 80915)
*PAUL BLEY - Ramblin' (Sunspots 528/BYG)
PAUL BLEY TRIO - Closer (ESP 1021/Abraxas CD)
BOBBY BRADFORD - Love's Dream (Emanem 4096) - $17
*GLENN BRANCA - The Ascension (Acute Records 002) - $14
*ANTHONY BRAXTON - Solo [Milano] 1979 Volume 1 (Leo GY 020)
ANTHONY BRAXTON - This Time... (Sunspots 3)
LENNY BREAU & BRAD TERRY - Complete Living Room Tapes [2 CD set] (Art of Life 1004)
*PETER BROTZMANN SEXTET/QUARTET - More Nipples (Atavistic UMS 236)
PETER BROTZMANN/FRED VAN HOVE/H. BENNINK - s/t (Atavistic UMS 244/FMP 130)
JAKI BYARD/JOE FARRELL QUARTET- The Last from Lennie's (Prestige 11029)
*THE BYRDS - Sweetheart of the Rodeo [2 CD set] (Columbia Legacy 87189)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND - Railroadism: Live In The USA 72-81 (Viper 015) - $20
*IAN CARR & NUCLEUS - Solar Plexus/Belladonna [2 CD set] (BGO 566) - $20
IAN CARR & NUCLEUS - Labyrinth/Roots [2 CD set] (BGO 567) - $20
LORI CARSON - Stolen Beauty (Restless 73780)
CENTRAL AFRICA MUSICAL ANTHOLOGY OF THE AKA PYGMIES - s/t [2 CD set] (Ocora 560171/2)
*DON CHERRY - Orient/Blue Lake [2 CD set] (Actuel 4 & 11/BYG/Charly)
*DON CHERRY - Live in Ankara (UCCU 9013) - $25
CONTORTIONS - Buy (4 Men with Beards 503) LP only reissue
*JACQUES COURSIL - Way Ahead (Sunspots 535)
*ELTON DEAN'S NINESENSE - Live at the BBC (HUX 046)
SUSSAN DEYHIM/RICHARD HOROWITZ - Desert Equation: Azax Attra (Crammed 111)
TOD DOCKSTADER - 8 Electronic Pieces (Locust 36) [reissue from 1961]
BABY DODDS - Talking & Drum Solos (Atavistic UMS 241)
DOME - 1 / 2 (Mute/Grey)
DOME - 3 / 4 (Mute/Grey)
BARRY DRANSFIELD - Barry Dransfield (Spinney 003)
MARK DRESSER/MARK FELDMAN/HANK ROBERTS - Arcado String Trio (JMT/W&W 919028)
*DR. JOHN - All by Hisself/Live at the Lone Star (Hyena 9317) [1 CD/1 DVD set]
*DUELLO MADRE - Duello Madre (Mellow 180)
EILIFF - Bremen 1972 (Garden of Delights 082)
DUKE ELLINGTON - Never No Lament/The Blanton Webster Band [3 CD set] (RCA 50857)
EMBRYO - Bremen 1971 (Garden of Delights 084)
ETHIOPIA - Ari Polyphonies/various artists (Ocora 560174)
EXUMA - Exuma (Repertoire 1006)
FACTRIX - Artifact [2 CD set] (Storm 08) - no longer available
FAMILY - Live (Mystic 176) from 1971
*TAL FARLOW 4 - Complete Private Recordings (Definitive 11263)
FAUST - Faust (Universal 9259/Japan)
FAUST - So Far (Universal 9260/Japan)
*ANTON FIER - Dreamspeed/Blind Light [2 CD set] (Tzadik)
*FRED FRITH - Steps Across the Border [DVD] (Winter & Winter 915 001)
FRED FRITH/KEEP THE DOG - That House We Lived In (Fred Records)[2 CD set]
FUSHITSUSHA -1978: Eien no ho ga saki ni te o dashita no sa (PSF 8016)
*ANDERS GAHNOLD/JOHNNY DYANI/MATTHEWS TRIO - flowers for johnny [2 CD set] (Ayler 017/018)
DIAMANDA GALAS - The Litanies of Satan (Mute 001/UK)
EDDIE GALE - Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (4 Men w/ Beards 127-lp/Water-cd)
EDDIE GALE - Black Rhythm Happening (4 Men w/ Beards 128-lp/Water-cd)
*[GANELIN TRIO] GOLDEN YEARS OF SOVIET JAZZ - Volume IV: Ganelin Trio (Leo GY 413-416)
THE GANELIN TRIO - 15 Year Reunion: Live At Frankfurt Book Fair 2002 (Leo 375)
THE GANELIN TRIO - Ttaango_In Nickelsdorf (Leo Golden Years 18/19) [2 CD set]
GARLAND FINK CHILDS MILLER SMITH COX LENTZ - Complete 10" Series from Cold Blue [2 CD set] (Cold Blue 0014)
*JIMMY GIUFFRE/PAUL BLEY/STEVE SWALLOW - Emphasis & Flight 1961 [2 CD set] (Hatology 595)
JIMMY GIUFFRE/PAUL BLEY/STEVE SWALLOW - Fly Away Little Bird (Sunnyside 3503/Owl)
*GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA - Improvisations (UCCU 9020)
MILFORD GRAVES - Meditation Among Us (UCCU 9022) - $25
*MILFORD GRAVES - Percussion Ensemble (ESP 1015/Abraxas CD) - $16
*HENRY GRIMES TRIO - The Call (ESP 1026/Abraxas CD) - $16
GEORGE GRUNTZ - Mental Cruelty (Atavistic UMS 238)
GURU GURU - Essen (Garden of Delights 075)
*BILLY HARPER/S. FORTUNE/S. COWELL/R. WORKMAN/B. HART - Great Friends (Evidence 22225)
*JONAS HELLBORG/SHAWN LANE/JEFF SIPE - Temporal Analogues of Paradise (Bardo Retro 136)
THE HIGH LLAMAS - retrospective, rarities & instrumentals [2 CD set] (alpaca 63881)
*ANDREW HILL - Passing Ships (Blue Note 90417)
DAVE HOLLAND & BARRE PHILLIPS - Music for Two Basses (UCCU 9017)
HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS - Good Taste is Timeless (Sundazed 6208)
HONSINGER/KONDO/KOWALD/TOYOZUMI - What are You Talking About? (DIW 456)
REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON - God's Got It (Case Quarter 101)
SKIP JAMES - Hard Time Best (Universe 094)
JAPAN - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin 91016/UK)
JAPAN - Tin Drum (Virgin 91018/UK)
JAPAN - Oil On Canvas (Virgin 91030/UK)
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - The Soul of a Man (Universe 096)
GERSHON KINGSLEY - First Moog Quartet (Dagored 148)
*BASIL KIRCHIN - Quantum (Trunk JBH 003/UK)
TOSHINORI KONDO/PAUL LOVENS/PAUL LYTTON - Death is Our Eternal Friend (DIW 455)
*ERKIN KORAY - Elektronic Turkuler (World Psychedelia 6-8461)
STEVE LACY - Moon (Sunspots 529/BYG)
STEVE LACY - Plays Monk (Get Back 2023/BYG) [LP version]
STEVE LACY/ROSWELL RUDD QUARTET - School days (Hatology 578)
STEVE LACY 6 - We See/Thelonius Monk Songbook (Hatology 569)
BYARD LANCASTER - It's Not Up to Us (Water 115) w/ Sonny Sharrock
THE LAST POETS - Jazzoetry (Get Back 8028)
*BILL LASWELL - City of Light / Hashisheen [2 CD set] (Sub Rosa 114/154)
BILL LASWELL - Final Oscillations (Quatermass 137)[2 CD set] {August}
BILL LASWELL - ROIR Dub Sessions (ROIR 9500)
KEITH LE BLANC - Major Malfunction (EFA 33423) w/ bonus tracks
*JEANNE LEE - Natural Affinities (OWL/Sunnyside 3509)
*JEANNE LEE & MAL WALDRON - After Hours (Owl/Sunnyside 3502)
FRANK LOWE - Black Beings (ESP 3013/Abraxas)
P. LYTTON/J. STEVENS/F. PERRY/E. PREVOST/T. TAYLOR - improvising percussionist (FMR81-0501)
ANGUS MACLISE - Astral Collapse (Quakebasket 016)
*ANGUS MACLISE - The Cloud Doctrine [2CD set] (Sub Rosa 182)
ALBERT MANGELSDORFF - And His Friends (MPS 73752)
*MARS - The Complete Studio Recordings (G3G Records/Spooky Sound)
MC5 - Motor City is Burning (Earmark 40001) [2 LP only set]
JOHN McLAUGHLIN TRIO - Live at Royal Albert Hall (W&W/JMT)
*JOE McPHEE & THE BILL SMITH ENSEMBLE - visitation (Boxholder 034)
MISHA MENGELBERG & ICP ORCHESTRA - Japan Japon (DIW 454)
*ILHAN MIMAROGLU/FREDDIE HUBBARD - Sing Me a Song of Songmy (Atlantic Masters)
CHARLES MINGUS - Presents Charles Mingus (Candid 79005) [w/ Eric Dolphy!]
CHARLES MINGUS - Mingus (Candid 79021)
*ROSCOE MITCHELL & SOUND ENSEMBLE - Snurdy McGurdy (Nessa)
*LOUIS MOHOLO/KEITH TIPPETT/LARRY STABBINS - Tern (Atavistic UMS 245/SAJ 43/44)
THE MOLES - On the Street [2 CD set] (Wishing Tree 022)
*GRACHAN MONCUR III - New Africa/One Morning I Woke UpÉ (Actuel/Charly)
THELONIUS MONK - In Paris/Live at the Olympia (Hyena 9316) [1 CD/1 DVD set]
*LEE MORGAN - Sonic Boom (Blue Note) w/ David Newman, Cedar Walton & Julian Priester
BOB MOSES - Love Animal (Mozown/Amulet 011)
PAUL MOTIAN [QUARTET] - On Broadway Vol. 2 (W&W/JMT 919 038)
*SUNNY MURRAY - An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker) (Sunspots 540/BYG)
SUNNY MURRAY - Sunshine (Sunspots 530/Actuel 7)
MUSIC ELECTRONICA VIVA - MEV (IRML 02)
MUSIC IMPROVISATION COMPANY - self/titled (UCCU 9019/Japan)
NEW YORK NOISE - Dance Music from the New York Underground (Soul Jazz 77)
KEN NORDINE - Wink (Asphodel 2015)
*NUCLEUS - Elastic Rock/"We'll Talk About it Later" [2 CD set] (BGO 47)
*NUCLEUS - Live in Bremen [2 CD set] (Cuneiform 173/174)
*TONY OXLEY/ALAN DAVIE - Duo (ALL 7)
BRUCE PALMER - The Cycle Is Complete (Collector's Choice 375)
*EVAN PARKER - The Snake Decides (PSI 03.06)
CHARLIE PATTON - The Best of Charlie Patton (Yazoo 2069)
LINDA PERHACS - Parallelograms (Wild Places 005)
*ASTOR PIAZZOLLA - Pulsacion (Circular Moves 7013)
*ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Y SU QUINTETO - Adios Nonino (Circular Moves 7012)
*THE POP GROUP - Y (Warner Bros. 722/Japan) - $25
PSYCHEDELIC JAZZ - various artists (Universal 8848/Japan)
RAIN TREE CROW - Rain Tree Crow CD (Virgin 91025/UK)
*SAM RIVERS - Fuschia Swing Song (Blue Note)
HANK ROBERTS - Birds of Prey (W&W/JMT 919033)
*PHAROAH SANDERS - Live at the East (UCCU 9016)
*ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH TRIO - Pakistani Pomade (Atavistic UMS 240)
CONRAD SCHNITZLER - Gold (Marginal Talent 526)
ARCHIE SHEPP & THE FULL MOON ENSEMBLE - Live in Antibes Vol. 1 (Sunspots 534)
*ARCHIE SHEPP - Yasmina a Black Woman/Poem for Malcolm [2 CD set] (Actuel/BYG/Charly)
*ALAN SILVA & THE CELESTIAL COMMUNICATION ORCHESTRA - Luna Surface (Sunspots 539/BYG)
ALAN SILVA - Skillfullness (ESP 1091/ABRAXAS)
*LEO SMITH & BILL SMITH ENSEMBLE - Rastafari (Boxholder 035)
*THE SOCIAL/SCIENCE SET - self/titled (Beak Doctor 5 & 6) w/ Evan Parker, Derek BaileyÉ
*SOFT MACHINE - BBC Radio 1967-1971 [2 CD set] (Hux 037/UK)
*SOFT MACHINE - BBC Radio 1971-1974 [2 CD set] (Hux 047/UK)
*SPACEMEN 3 - Forged Prescriptions (Space Age Orbit 006) [2 CD set]
JOSEPH SPENCE - Happy All the Time (Water)
SPIRITUALIZED - The Complete Works {Volume One} [2 CD set] (Arista/Spaceman 009)
*SPK - Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers (Mute 003)
SPK - Information Overload Unit (Mute/SPK 001)
SPK - Auta Da Fe (Mute/SPK 004)
STEREOLAB - ABC Music/Radio Sessions [2 CD set] (Strange Fruit 8623)
JOHN STEVENS/TREVOR WATTS/BARRY GUY - Application Interaction And (Hi 4Head 2)
SUN CITY GIRLS - God Is My Solar System/Superpower (Eclipse SCG 01) [2 LP set]
*SUN RA ARKESTRA - It's After the End Of The World (Universe 070)
SUN RA & HIS INTERGALACTIC RESEARCH ARKESTRA - Live in Paris at the "Gibus" (Universe 079)
*SUN RA - Solo Piano Recital: Teatro La Fenice Venicia (Leo GY 021)
SUN RA ARKESTRA - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1 & 2 (Universe 080) 2 CDs
SUN RA - Spaceship Lullaby (Atavistic UMS 243)
DAVID SYLVIAN - Brilliant Trees (Virgin 91307/UK)
DAVID SYLVIAN - Alchemy an Index of Possibilities (Virgin 91308/UK)
DAVID SYLVIAN - Gone To Earth (Virgin 91309/UK)[2 CD set]
DAVID SYLVIAN - Secrets of the Beehive (Virgin 91310/UK)
CECIL TAYLOR - Jumpin' Punkins (Candid 79013)
CECIL TAYLOR - The World of Cecil Taylor (Candid 79006)
*CECIL TAYLOR - Student Studies (Fuel 2000 3020613392)
*CECIL TAYLOR UNIT -Live in the Black Forest (UCCU 9014)
*TELEVISION - Marquee Moon (Elektra/Rhino 73920) w/ numerous bonus tracks
GLEN VELEZ - Internal Combustion (Schematic)
*TOM VERLAINE - Tom Verlaine (Collector's Choice 316)
TOM VERLAINE - Flash Light (Collector's Choice 394)
*MAL WALDRON & STEVE LACY - Live at Dreher Paris, 1981 [4 CD set] (Hatology 596)
*BEN WATT - North Marine Drive/Summer into Winter (Get Back 635) [LP only] w/ Robert Wyatt
WEEKEND - Archive (Vinyl Japan 124)
WOLTER WEIRBOS - Wierbos (Data Records)
JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS - Off White (4 Men with Beards 504) LP reissue only
WILD DUB (various artists) - Dread Meets Punk Rocker (Select Cuts 2017 CD)
CASSANDRA WILSON - She Who Weeps (W&W/JMT 919041)
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE - We Insist? (Noise Asia 35)
*LARRY YOUNG - Mother Ship (Blue Note 90415)




IMPORTANT BOX SETS, COMPILATION, BOOKS and DVD RECOMMENDATIONS for 2003:


CECIL TAYLOR FEEL TRIO - 2 T's for a Lovely T (Mole Jazz) [10 CD box set] w/ William Parker & Tony Oxley; Live at Ronnie Scott's - $210
ALAN SILVA & CELESTIAL COMMUNICATION ORCHESTRA - Treasure Box [4 CD box set] (Eremite 39/42) - $120
JIMMY LYONS - The Box Set (Ayler Disc 036-040) [5 CD set] - now $110
MILES DAVIS - The Complete Jack Johnson Session [6 CD set] (Columbia/Legacy) - $65
AMPLIFY 2002 - balance box set (Erstwhile Records 033-040) [7 CD/1 DVD Box Set] - $160
FESTIVAL BEYOND INNOCENCE - A Brief History in 67 Chapters [4 CD set] (Innocent Records 102-105/Jap. import)
IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN - Magazine & CD (IMJ 301) - $18
FREEDOM OF THE CITY 2002 - Small Groups [2 CD set] (Emanem 4086) - $26
PETER BROTZMANN - Inexplicable Flyswatter/Works on Paper 1959-1964 [CD & book] (Atavistic 1926) - $40
RHYS CHATHAM - An Angel Moves Too Fast to See [3 CD set] (Table of the Elements 57) - $50
SCOTT FIELDS ENSEMBLE - 96 Gestures (CRI Blueshift 90438) [3 CD set] [rel. 2001] - $20
GOLDEN YEARS OF SOVIET JAZZ - Volume IV [4 CD set] (Leo GY 413-416) w/ Ganelin Trio plus - $36
MAL WALDRON & STEVE LACY - Live at Dreher Paris, 1981 (Hatology 596) [4 CD set] - $33
Music From The ONCE Festival 1961-1966 [5 CD set] (New World 80567) - $70
DENIS CHARLES - An Interrupted Conversation by Veronique N. Doumbe [DVD] (Ndolo Films) - $25
FRED FRITH - Middle of the Moment (Winter & Winter 915-002)[DVD] - $29
SONNY SIMMONS - the multiple rated-X truth (Parallactic Films/DMG Arc)[DVD-R] - $20
SUN RA - Space Is The Place (Plexifilm 010)[DVD] - $20
MAYA DEREN - Experimental Films (1943-1959) [DVD] (Mystic Fire Video 7649) - $30
IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN - Extra 2003 [Book & 2 CDs] (IMJ 302/3) - $20
GOODBYE BABYLON - various artists [6 CD set in a wooden box] (Dust to Digital) gospel & sermons - $95
MARC SLOAN - Tree of Nerve Endings [10 CD boxset & booklet] (self-produced) - $100
KING CRIMSON - Eyes Wide Open [2 DVD set] (Discipline Global Music/Sanctuary 88639) - $28
LOVE - The Forever Changes Concert (Snapper 021) [DVD] - $18
AMON D††L II - Play Phallus Dei [DVD] (Repertoire 3016) $22
CAN - DVD [2 DVDs & 1 CD] (Mute 9231) - $46
PENTANGLE - Captured Live [DVD] (Intense Vision 006) - $22
TALKING HEADS - Once in a Lifetime [3 CD/1 DVD box set] (Rhino/WB 73934) - $65
SAN AGUSTIN - The Expanding Sea [3 CD set] (Table of the Elements TI) - $45




THE MONTHLY TZADIK RELEASES FOR 2003 WERE:


January, 2003:
1.JOHN ZORN-BILL FRISELL/MARC RIBOT/TIM SPARKS - Masada Guitars/Volume One (TZ 7171)
2.CARLA KIHLSTEDT - 2 Foot Yard (Tzadik Oracle Series 7706)
3.SASHA ARGOV - Great Jewish Music (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7173)
4.SYZYGYS - Complete Studio Recordings (Tzadik Archive Series 7140)


February, 2003:
5.ELLIOTT SHARP - String Quartets: 1986-1996 (Tzadik 7084)
6.BEN PEROWSKY - Camp Songs (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7175)
7.PAUL SHAPIRO - Midnight Minyan (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7174)


March, 2003:
8.KRAMER - The Greenberg Variations (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7176)
9.ZAHAVA SEEWALD & PSAMIM - Koved: A Tribute to Martin Weinberg (Tzadik RJCS 7177)
10.LIMITED EXPRESS (HAS GONE?) - Feeds You! (Tzadik Japan Series 7241)
11.JOHN ZORN - Masada Tribute-Vol. Two/Voices in the Wilderness [2 CD set] (Tzadik 7172)


April, 2003:
12.JOHN ZORN - Chimeras (Tzadik Composer Series 7085)
13.JOHN MADOF - Rashanim (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7178)
14.KOBY ISRAELITE - Dance of the Idiots (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7179)
15.ADACHI TOMOMI ROYAL CHORUS - Yo (Tzadik New Japan Series 7242)


May, 2003:
16.BORAH BERGMAN - Meditations (Tzadik New Japan Series 7180)
17.RAZ MESINAI - Resurrections for Goatskin (Tzadik Composer Series 7086)
18.YAMAMOTO SEIICHI - Nu Frequency (Tzadik New Japan Series 7243)
19.SACHI HAYASAKA - Minga (Tzadik New Japan Series 7244)


June, 2003:
20.BRAZELTON/NAPHTALI - What is it like to be a bat? (Tzadik Oracle Series7707)
21.CAROLYN YARNELL - Sonic Vision (Tzadik Composer Series 7087)


July, 2003:
22.JOHN ZORN - The Unknown Masada/Volume 3 (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7181)
23.JOHN ZORN - Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking (Tzadik Filmworks Series 7343)
24.MILTON BABBITT - Occasional Variations (Tzadik Composer Series 7088)


August, 2003:
25.MARC RIBOT - Scelsi Morming (Tzadik Composer Series 7089)
26.JULIUS HEMPHILL - One Atmosphere (Tzadik Composer Series 7090)
27.DOUG WIESELMAN - Dimly Lit: Collected Soundtracks (Tzadik Filmworks 7515)


September, 2003:
28.MARC RIBOT - Soundtracks II (Tzadik Filmworks Series 7516)
29.CRACOW KLEZMER BAND - Bereshit (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7183)


October, 2003:
30.TED REICHMAN - ƒmigrŽ (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7182)
31.ZAKARYA [YVES WEYH] - Something Obvious (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7184)
32.CHIEN-YIN CHEN - Purr (Tzadik Composer Series 7091)
33.KAYO DOT (MAUDLIN OF THE WELL) - Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik Composer Series 7092)
34.MUNA ZUL - Muna Zul (Tzadik Oracle Series 7708)


November, 2003:
35.ANTON FIER - Dreamspeed/Blind Light [2 CD set] (Tzadik Key Series 7609)
36.DAVKA - The Golem (Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Series 7185)
37.HOAHIO - Peek-Ara-Boo (Tzadik New Japan Series 7245)
38.MARK APPLEBAUM - Catfish (Tzadik Composer Series 7094)




BILL LASWELL & LASWELL-RELATED RELEASES for 2003 are:

[BILL LASWELL'S] AXIOM - Reconstruction & Vexations (Axiom 2093) - [January]
AUDIO LETTER - Neti Neti Remix (Jivamukti/Meta 156) [March]
*PHAROAH SANDERS/GRAHAM HAYNES - With a Heartbeat (Evolver 2015) [April]
*LUCKY PETERSON - Blue midnight Sun (Dreyfus Jazz) Laswell production & bass
KARSH KALE - Liberation (Six Degrees Records 657036 1090) [June]
ASANA 3 - Peaceful Heart (Meta Records 15) w/ Asha Puthli, Pharoah & Nicky -[July]
*JON MADOF - Rashanim (Tzadik) Laswell production
LILI HAYDN - Light Blue Sun (Private Music) [September] - Laswell production & guests
*TABLA BEAT SCIENCE - Talamanam Sound Clash: Further Adventures in Hypercussion [2 DVD set] (Palm 3065)
GIGI - Illuminations Audio (Palm/Axiom) remixes
*ABYSSINIA INFINITE featuring "Gigi" - Zion Roots Ethiopian Soul Music (Network 24.291) Sept.
*BUCK JAM TONIC [JOHN ZORN/BILL LASWELL/TATSUYA NAKAMURA] - Untitled [2 CD set] Live in Tokyo, Dec. 6th, 2003 (Wilddisk 001) - no US release & impossible to get, so far
*BILL LASWELL - AFTERMATHematics/Rhythm & Recurrence (Sub Rosa 216) November
*OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/BILL LASWELL/YOSHIGAKI YASUHIRO - Soup (P-Vine 5856) - December


Reissues:
PETE NAMLOOK & BILL LASWELL - Outland 3 (Fax/AW 027) [May]
*ANTON FIER - Dreamspeed/Blind Light [2 CD set] (Tzadik)
BILL LASWELL - Final Oscillations (Quatermass 137)[2 CD set] {August}
BILL LASWELL - Roir Dub Session (ROIR) November
PETE NAMLOOK / BILL LASWELL - The Psychonavigation Collection MP3-CD (FAX 3003)
*BILL LASWELL - City of Light / Hashisheen [2 CD set] (Sub Rosa 114/154)




2003 ACID MOTHER TEMPLE & RELATED RELEASESÉ

ACID MOTHER TEMPLE - electric heavyland (Alien 8-34)
ACID MOTHER TEMPLE/KINSKI - Kinski/Acid Mother Temple (Sub Pop 626)
TSURUBAMI - Tsukuyomi Ni (Riot Season Repose 002) - July
MAKATO KAWABATA - I'm In Your Inner Most (Ochre 035) reissue
MAKATO KAWABATA - I'm Still Here Now [Live at La Chapelle)] (Ochre 041)
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - Magical Power from Mars (Important 017)
TSURUBAMI - Gekkyukekkaichi (Strange Attractors 015)
REBEL POWERS - Not One Star Will Stand the Night (Strange Attractors 016)
AMATERASU - various artists (Fractal 021) [2 CD set]
ACID MOTHER TEMPLE - Soul Collective Tour 2003 (Eclipse Records/AMT 010)
DARE DEVIL BAND - Inomusha (PSF 148/Japan)
COTTON CASINO - We Love Cotton (Sillyboy 006)