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#N.Y.に有るライヴハウスです。
その筋では有名みたいで、フツーじゃない人達がよってたかって演奏してます。
John Zorn,Tom Cora,Elliot Sharp,Zeena Parkins,Doctor Nerve,Marc Ribot,Fred Frithなどなどなどなど
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Live at The Knitting Factory

#5枚組みのKnitting Factoryのライヴオムニバス。結構昔買いました、その頃はピンと来なくって、vol.2とvol.5は売っちゃいました、今になってすげー後悔してます。
このvol.1はやっぱりCurlewとあとBrand-XのPercy Jonesの入っているScannersが格好良いです。
  1. Curlew/Croix
    • Pippin Barnett (drums)
    • George Cartwright (sax)
    • Tom Cora (cello)
    • Ann Rupel (bass)
    • Davey Williams (guitars)
  2. Bosho/Atsui Yoru No Kawa
    • Samm Bennett (electronic percussion)
    • David Fulton (guitars)
    • Yuval Gabay (drums)
    • Kimoto Kumiko (vocals,percussions)
    • Kyle Sims (bass)
  3. Jazz Passengers/Decomposet by a Neck
    • Curtis Fowlkes (trombone)
    • Brad Jones (bass)
    • Roy Nathanson (sax)
    • Jim Nolet (violin)
    • Marc Ribot (guitars)
    • E.J.Rodriguez (drums)
    • Bill Ware (vibes)
  4. M.Dresser, M.Feldman, N.Cline/Harkening
    • Nels Cline (guitars)
    • Mark Dresser (bass)
    • Mark Feldman (violin)
  5. Jazz Passengers/Spirits of Flatbush - Angels Eyes
  6. Scanners/Ironcide
    • Percy Jones (bass)
    • David Linton (drums)
    • Elliot Sharp (guitars)
  7. Miracle Room/Open Heart
    • Ed Greer (bass)
    • Steven Marsh (guitars,vocals)
    • Rock Savage (percussions)
  8. Curlew/The Hard Wood
  9. Hansundtom/Angel-Carver Blues
    • Tom Cora (cello)
    • Hans Reichel (guitars)
  10. Alva Rogers/Pizza Party
    • Charles Burnham (vocals,percussions)
    • Alva Rogers (vocals)
    • Brandon Ross (guitars,vocals)
produced by Robert Appel


A&M RECORDS: CD5242 (1989)
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Live at The Knitting Facotry Volume 3

#そんなわけでvol.3なんですが、まずやっぱりDoctor Nerveですね、N.Didkovsky(来日したときもP.O.Nと一緒にやった時に見た)のギターが格好良いです、格好良いアバンギャルドの見本みたいな。
あとは、Slan(J.Zorn/E.Sharp)もスピード感有って格好良いですね、今気づいたんですけどArto Lindsayなんかも参加してたんですね。
  1. Doctor Nerve/Nothing You Can Do Hurt Me
    • Nick Didkovsky (guitars)
    • Greg Anderson (bass)
    • Leo Ciesa (drums)
    • Dave Douglas (trumpet)
    • Yves Duboin (soprano sax)
    • Rob Henke (trumpet )
    • Michael Lytle (bass clarinet)
    • Marc Wagnon (vibes)
  2. No Safety/Discuss It
    • Chris Cochrane (guitars,vocals)
    • Zeena Parkins (accordion)
    • Ann Rupel (bass)
    • Doug Seidel (guitars)
    • Tim Spelios (drums)
  3. Gentle, Safe and Natural/Bruxa
    • Arto Lindsay (guitars,vocals)
    • Melvin Gibbs (bass)
    • Dougie Bowne (drums)
  4. The Thomas Chapin Trio/Insomnia
    • Thomas Chapin (alto sax)
    • Steve Johns (drums)
    • Mario Pavone (bass)
  5. Negativland/You Must Choose
    • Chris Grigg
    • Mark Hosler
    • Don Joyce
  6. Brandon Ross' The Overflow/The Ugly Waiter
    • Brandon Ross (guitars)
    • Melvin Gibbs (bass)
    • Don Byron (clarinet)
    • Dougie Bowne (drums)
    • Sadiq Bey (percussions)
  7. Don Byron Plays The Music of Mickey Katz/The Wedding Dance
    • Don Byron (clarinet)
    • Mark Feldman (violin)
    • J.D. Parran (clarinet)
    • Tony Barrero (trumpet)
    • Alfred Patterson (trombone)
    • Uri Caine (piano)
    • Mark Dresser (bass)
    • Richie Schwarz (drums)
    • Loren Skalamberg (percussions)
  8. Marilyn Crispell & Andrew Cyrille Duet/Notability
    • Marilyn Crspell (piano)
    • Andrew Cyrille (drums)
  9. Slan/Rictus
  10. Slan/Z.O.G.
    • John Zorn (alto sax)
    • Elliot Sharp (doubleneck guitarbass)
    • Ted Epstein (drums)
  11. No Safety/Oh No
  12. Brandon Ross The Overflow/Kandinsky
produced by Robert Appel


A&M RECORDS: 75021-5299-2 (1990)
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Live at The Knitting Factory Volume 4

  1. Ned Rothenberg Double Band/Rai-Hop
    • Jorome Harris (bass)
    • Gregory Jones (bass)
    • Pheeroan akLaff (drums,percussions)
    • Samm Bennett (drums,percussions)
    • Thomas Chapin (alto sax)
    • Ned Rothenberg (alto sax)
  2. Universal Congress of/Freight Train
    • Joe Biaza (guitars,vocals)
    • Steve Moss (tenor sax,backing vocals)
    • Bob Fitzer (bass)
    • Paul Lyons (drums)
  3. Last Exit/The Sprawl
    • Peter Brotzman (reeds)
    • Ronald Shannon jackson (drums)
    • Bill Laswell (bass)
    • Sonny Sharrock (guitars)
  4. Iva Bittova & Pavel Fajt/Strom
    • Iva Bittova (violin,voice)
    • Pavel Fajt (drums,metals)
  5. Framework/Erghen Diado
    • Erik Friedlander (cello)
    • Kevin Norton (drums,samples)
    • Laura seaton (violin)
  6. Spanish Fly/Cave Man
    • Steven Bernstein (cornet,slide trumpet)
    • Marcus Rojas (tuba)
    • Dave Tronzo (slide guitar)
  7. Miniature/Jersey Devil
    • Joey Baron (drums,electronics)
    • Tim Berne (alto sax)
    • Hank Roberts (vocals,cello)
  8. X-Legged Sally/Fast Forward
    • Peter Vermeersch (tenor sax)
    • Eric Sleichim (alto sax)
    • Michel Mast (baritone sax)
    • Jan Weuts (trumpet)
    • Pieter Lamotte (trombone)
    • Michel Delorie (guitars)
    • Bruno Deneuter (bass)
    • Danny van Hoeck (drums)
  9. Bob Holman/1990
    • Bob Holman
  10. New & Used/Farm Life
    • Dave Douglas (trumpet)
    • Kermit Driscoll (bass)
    • Mark Feldman (violin)
    • Andy Laster (reeds)
    • Tom Rainey (drums)
produced by Robert Appel


A&M RECORDS: 75021-5332-2 (1990)
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John Zorn/Naked City

  1. Batman
  2. The Sicillian Clan
  3. You Will Be Shot
  4. Latin Quarter
  5. A Shot In The Dark
  6. Reanimator
  7. Snagglepuss
  8. I Want To Love
  9. Lonely Woman
  10. Igneours Ejaculation
  11. Blood Duster
  12. Hammerhead
  13. Deamon Sanctuary
  14. Obeah Man
  15. Ujaku
  16. Fuck The Facts
  17. Speedball
  18. Chinato
  19. Punk China Doll
  20. N.Y. Flat Top Box
  21. Saigon Pickup
  22. The James Bond Theme
  23. Den of Sins
  24. Contempt
  25. Graveyard Shift
  26. Inside Starlight
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John Zorn/Kristallnacht

  1. Shetetl (Ghetto Life)
  2. Never Again
  3. Gahelet (Embers)
  4. Tikkun (Rectification)
  5. Tzfia (Looking Ahead)
  6. Barzel (Iron Fist)
  7. Gariin (Nucleus - The New Settlement)
eva records: WWCX-2050 (1993)
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John Zorn/elegy

  1. blue
  2. yellow
  3. pink
  4. black
eva records: WWCX-2040 (1992)
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John Zorn/Film Works

#J.Zornの映画音楽集....といっても馴染みの無いタイトルが並びますけど。
ネイキッドシティとかソロ作みたいに異常に濃いかったり、悲惨だったりはしないので。
    WHITE AND LAZY (1986)
  1. Main Title
  2. Homecoming
  3. The Heist
  4. Meat Dream
  5. Phone Call
  6. End Title
    • Robert Quine (guitars)
    • Arto Lindsay (guitars,vocals)
    • Melvin Gibbs (bass)
    • Anton Fier (drums)
    • Carol Emanuel (harp)
    • David Wainstein (keyboards)
    • Ned Rothernberg (bass clarinet)
    THE GOLDEN BOAT (1990)
  7. Fanfare
  8. Theme
  9. Jazz I
  10. Horror Organ
  11. Mexico
  12. Mood
  13. Rockabilly
  14. Slow
  15. Jazz Oboes
  16. The Golden Boat (Turntalbe Mix)
  17. End Titles
    • Vicki Bodner (oboe)
    • John Zorn (alto sax)
    • Robert Quine (guitars)
    • Anthony Coleman (keyboards)
    • Carol Emanuel (harp)
    • David Shea (truntable,vocals)
    • Mark Dresser (bass)
    • Ciro Baptista (brazilian percussion)
    • Robert Previte (drums,marimba)
    THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1987)
  18. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    • Robert Quine (guitars)
    • Bil Frisell (guitars)
    • Fred Frith (bass)
    • Wayne Horvitz (hammond organ)
    • David Weinstein (keyboards)
    • Carol Emanuel (harp)
    • Robert Previte (drums,percussions,vocals)
    SHE MUST BE SEEING THE THINGS (1986)
  19. Main Title
  20. Swirling Shot
  21. Homecoming
  22. Catalina Flash
  23. Seduction
  24. Sex Shop Boogaloo
  25. Catalina Escape
  26. Worms
  27. Death Waltz Fantasy
  28. Following Sequence
  29. Movie Set
  30. Climax
  31. Going To Dinner
  32. End Title
    • Shelley Harsch (voice)
    • John Zorn (alto sax)
    • Marty Ehrlich (tenor sax,clarinet)
    • Tom Varner (french horn)
    • Jim Staley (trombone)
    • Bill Frisell (guitars)
    • Carol Emanuel (harp)
    • Anthony Coleman (piano,organ,celeste,harpsichord)
    • Wayne Horvitz (hammond organ,piano,DX7)
    • David Weinstein (mirage,CZ101)
    • David Hofstra (bass)
    • Nana Vasconcelos (brazilian percussion)
    • Robert Previte (drums,percussions,vibes,timpani,orchestra bells)
TZADIK: TZ-7314 (1997)
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Naked City/Torture Garden (拷問天国)

  1. Blood is Thin (血が薄い)
  2. Demon Sanctuary (魔の聖域)
  3. Thrash Jazz Assassin
  4. Dead Spot (死角)
  5. Bonehead
  6. Speedball
  7. Blood Duster
  8. Pile Driver
  9. Shangkuan Ling-feng (上官靈鳳)
  10. Numbskull
  11. Perfume of A Critic's Burning Flesh (評論家を燃やせ - いい匂いさ)
  12. Jazz Snob Eat Shit
  13. The Prestidigitator (奇術師)
  14. No Reason To Believe (信じられるわけがない)
  15. Hellraiser
  16. Torture Garden (拷問天国)
  17. Slan
  18. Hammerhead
  19. The Ways Of Pain (痛めつける)
  20. The Noose (絆)
  21. Sack of shit
  22. Blunt Instrument (鈍器)
  23. Osaka bondage
  24. Igneous Ejaculation (火の絶叫)
  25. Shallow Grave (浅い墓)
  26. 雨雀 (Ujaku)
  27. かおる
  28. Dead Dread
  29. Billy Liar (嘘つきビリー)
  30. Victims of Tortune (拷問の犠牲者)
  31. speedfreaks
  32. new jersey scum swamp
  33. S & M Sniper
  34. Pigfucker (豚姦)
  35. cairo chop shop
  36. Fuck The Facts
  37. Obeah man
  38. Facelifter
  39. N.Y. Flat Top Box
  40. Whiplash (むちうち)
  41. The Blade (刃)
  42. Gob Of Spit (痰のかたまり)
Toy's Factory: TFCK-88557 (1991)
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Painkiller/Ritual

    First Set:
  1. Sound check
  2. First blood
  3. Five doors
  4. Cinnabar
  5. Pestilence
  6. The Hex
  7. Snake eyes
  8. Poisonous Visions
  9. Vapors of Phlegm and Blood
  10. Tetragrammaton

    Second Set:
  11. Prophecy
  12. Taantric Bile
  13. The Sieve
  14. Abcesses
  15. Cat's Cradle
  16. Demonic Posession
  17. Tokyo Lucky Hole
Toy's Factory: TFCK-88627 (1993)
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Massacre/Funny Valentine

  1. Leaf Violence
  2. Down to Five a Day
  3. Lizard-skin Junk-mail
  4. Ladder
  5. South Orange Sunset
  6. Six-Cylinder Sinister
  7. 300 Days in the Vacant Lot
  8. Say Hey Willie
  9. Talk Radio
  10. Well-dressed Ripping Up Wood
  11. Further Conversations with White Arc
TZADIK: TZ-7601 (1998)
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The Lounge Lizards

#高校生の頃聴いた時はあまり良さが分からなかったです、J.ZornとかKnitting Factoryとか聴いてた頃は何故か手を伸ばさずにいたラウンジリザーズです。たまにフライングリザーズ（David Cunninghamのいるやつ）とごっちゃになっちゃうんですけど。
Naked City程の濃密さは無いですけど、それに繋がる元のよーな音が鳴ってます。アートリンゼイのギターは「ピキョパキョ」いってるし、キーボードも変態な音してて。ウソジャズというか変態ジャズのはしりかなー？81年作、でも変態度もクオリティも最近の変態ジャズに負けてないです。amazon試聴(2002.1.30)
  1. Incident on South Street
  2. Harlem Nocturne
  3. Do The Wrong Thing
  4. Au Contraire Arto
  5. Well You Needn't
  6. Ballad
  7. Wangling
  8. Conquest of Rar
  9. Demented
  10. I Remember Coney Island
  11. Fatty Walks
  12. Epistrophy
  13. You Haunt Me
EG RECORDS: EEGCD-8 (1981)
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Elliot Sharp/Fractal

  1. Singularity
  2. Squig
  3. Diffractal
  4. Trubulence
  5. Dusts
  6. Lacunar
  7. Not-Yet-Time
DOSSIER RECORDS: DOSSIER-ST-7515 (1986)
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Elliott Sharp - Zeena Parkins/psycho-acoustic

  1. spez
  2. insomnia
  3. pinball logic
  4. shotput
  5. statespace
  6. zeps

    imitations of life:
  7. elmer
  8. elsie
  9. lynx
  10. horseshoe
  11. programinals
  12. creeper reaper
  13. sambar
  14. daisy world
  15. hiroshima heart attack
  16. minima moralia
  17. stroll avoid align
  18. world fail
VICTO: victo-cd-026 (1994)
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Doctor Nerve/Armed Observation

#そしてこれも新宿disk unionにて\300、とってもとってもお買い得。やっぱある程度の需要以上は全く売れなくなっちゃうんでしょうかね、この手のCDは。
これは1stと2ndのカップリング。Doctor Nerveちゅーバンドは、ギターのN.Didkovskyさんのバンドで、彼がHMSL(Hierarchical Music Specification Language: 階層的音楽記述言語)という言語で作曲した音楽を演奏してるバンドらしいです。HMSLがどんなものかは知らないのですけど、内容的には理系アバンギャルド・ジャズって感じですかね。
17曲目以降が自主製作による1stアルバムです。1曲目から16曲目までが2ndで、Fred Frithのプロデュースらしいです。(1999.7.10)
    Armed Observation
  1. Out To Bomb Fresh Kings
  2. Mister Stiff Fires A Dozen
  3. Sister Cancer Brother Dollar
  4. I Am Not Dumb Now
  5. Keine Jazz Platte
  6. Don't Be A Hog
  7. Not Everyone's As RIch As Your
  8. Electric Guitar Solo
    Three Curiously Insubstantial Duets:
  9. I
  10. II
  11. III
  12. Portland Applaunds the Radio
  13. Atypical Tiple
  14. Wir Sind Dickhauter
  15. Don't Worry Do
  16. "That is when they start to have their own way that is when they start to get out of hand"

    Out To Bomb Fresh Kings
  17. Mink Shadows
  18. Unna
  19. It's A Tincture
  20. Spy Boy
  21. Spy Pie
  22. Souls Of The Rich
  23. Nothing You Can Do Hurt Me
  24. A Hummer In His Hand
  25. A God That Can Dance
  26. Personnel Dept.
  27. Doctor Nerve
Arcangelo: ARC-1006 (original released 1984,1987 Cueniform Records: RUNE-38X)
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Doctor Nerve/Every Screaming Ear

#新宿ディスクユニオンにて、\300。オイオイオイそりゃねーだろーといったお値段。
まぁ自分にとっては有難いですけどねー、Arcangeloでリリースするモノって売れないと物凄い値段まで落ちますね。Muffinsなんて定価で買っちゃったのに今日見たら\800だった、なんか損した気分。
でも何枚国内盤扱いで入れてるんですかね？そんなに売れるとでも思ったんでしょうかね、確かに内容良いですけど。(1999.7.10)
  1. Nerveware No.8 (performed by New Ear)
  2. Splinter
  3. Money Where Your Mainz Is
  4. Wir Sind Dickhauter
  5. Where Mainz Your Unna
  6. Unnas Rumpus
  7. Sister Cancer Brother Dollar
  8. Armed Observation
  9. Nerveware No.3
  10. Preaching To The Converted (performed by Isso Yukihiro Group)
  11. Beta 14 ok (perfomed by Isso Yukihiro Group)
  12. Nothing You Can Do Phone Me
  13. Neverware No.1
  14. Dumb Deconstruction
  15. They Were As If They Also Which Pierced Him
  16. Spy Boy
  17. Pain Waints Until Spm
  18. Verily Streaming Aria
  19. Out To Bomb Fresh Kings
  20. When It Blows Its Stacks (Van Vliet, arr Didkovsky, performed by Meridian & Nerve)
Arcangelo: ARC-1024 (original released CUNIFORM RECORDS: RUNE-88 ,1997)
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X-Legged Sally/Eggs and Ashes

  1. Lulu
  2. Laut und leise
  3. Midwave
  4. Hae Song
  5. Turkish Bath
  6. Immer Carlo
  7. Sparadrap
  8. Two Volcanoes
  9. Mask
SUB ROSA RECORDS: SR77 (1994)
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a group/Volume I

#X-Legged Sallyというベルギーの変態系ジャズグループが解散して、その後身バンドがこのa groupになります。以前のアバンギャルドな雰囲気も残っているのですが、それより非常にポップなうたものの側面を展開しています。Die Knodelにも似た陽気な雰囲気で、複雑だったりアバンギャルドだったりするのを気にせず聴ける(私は、そーゆーの大好きなんですけど)内容になっています。
  1. Impossible
  2. Dum Lamb
  3. Selah
  4. Alpine heilcopter
  5. Hi Tom
  6. King of Single Belly
  7. Tortoise man
  8. Lonely skies
  9. Rusty song
  10. Pornland
  11. One man frozen store
  12. Woggy Doggy
KING RECORDS/SEVEN SEAS: KICP-638 (1998.3.27)