Playlist, Week of 2023-11-26

Don't know if I've mentioned this recording before, but I was not prepared for how intense and engaging Alex Ward's Gated is... I knew of Ward from a few improv records, and from his large ensemble CD Volition, and I knew him to be an excellent clarinetist AND guitarist (and a Cecil Taylor scholar)... but this... well, I don't have the words... powerful, powerful music... sonic psychedelia, Henry Cow grooves, free improv, bludgeoning noise, hard-charging rock, complex time signatures, goodness knows what other touchstones are here... well, it's just blowaway and right up my alley... 

Playlist 2023-11-27:

*AACM Great Black Music Ensemble: Umbria Jazz 2009, Perugia, Italy (CDR) (disc 5)
*Muhal Richard Abrams: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (side 1)
*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (disc 1)
*Area: Caution Radiation Area
*Beatles: 1962-1966 (2023 Edition) (sides 2, 3, 5)
*Anthony Braxton: For Trio (side 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Nine Compositions (DVD) 2003 "Comp. 292 (12tet)"
*Don Byas: 1946
*John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings (disc 6)
*Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
*Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (discs 1, 2)
*Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 2) "Ife"
*Deerhoof: Love-Lore
*Deerhoof: Miracle-Level (sides 1, 2)
*Silke Eberhard/Céline Voccia: Wild Knots
*Donnie & Joe Emerson: Dreamin' Wild
*Grateful Dead: 1972-05-10 Amsterdam (CDR) (disc 3) "Truckin'> > "The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: 1972-05-13 Lille, France (CDR) (disc 2) "Truckin'> > "The Other One"
*Grateful Dead: 1974-07-25 Chicago (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1982-04-02 Durham NC (CDR) (discs 2, 3)
*Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day
*Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices
*Ingrid Laubrock: Monochromes
*Mat Maneri: Pentagon
*Brian Marsella: Gatos Do Sul
*Metaphysical Animation: Metaphysical Animation
*Amina Claudine Myers Trio: The Circle of Time (side 1)
*New Ting: 2023-10-10 "The Heavy Box" (wav)
*Annette Peacock: Sky-Skating
*Prince & the New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls (Super Deluxe Ed.) (discs 2, 7)
*David Sancious and Tone: Transformation (The Speed of Love)
*Sun Ra: Space Is the Place (Blue Thumb) (side 2)
*Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (side 1)
*Cecil Taylor/Anthony Braxton/William Parker: 2007-10-12 Bologna (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Cecil Taylor Quartet featuring Anthony Braxton: 2007-10-13 Reggio Emilia, Italy (CDR) (disc 1)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid/Silke Eberhard Potsa Lotsa XL: 2023-11-04 Berlin (CDR)
*Birgit Ulher/Franz Hautzinger: Kleine Trompetenmusik
*Various artists: The Rough Guide to Salsa Dance (Special Ed.)
*Alex Ward: Gated
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Over-Nite Sensation (5oth Anniversary Super Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)