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Ben Hall and Hans Buetow
The Accuracy of Coincidence
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Recorded in 2004 featuring several different generations of Graveyards including the earliest members Coccyx and Jason Shearer on flutes and the addition of Joe Westerlund on mallet percussion... read more mp3

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Abcess
Cette Haine Humaine
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Harsh noise approaches focusing on some of the most unforgiving frequencies to come from jazz ride cymbals alone. A bit like the illegitimate child of Prurient and Sean Meehan.mp3

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Graveyards
Mouth Breaks Bone
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Initial Graveboys release on the label finds the team in full industrial reduction. Unquestionably a harbinger of the acoustic Wolf Eyes approach to sound and new music phraseology that has become a mainstay of the trios all avant pastiches.mp3

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Death Knell
The Church Bell Scrape
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Bleak post-Webern looks at industrial art suites from the Graveyards rhythm section of Hall and Buetow. 'Cello that creates flashes and of fire in the sky and percussion that sounds like shackles and the cacophony of Italian church bell sound clash.mp3

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Death Knell
Angry Trumpets of Woe
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More damaged formal/informal adaptations of Webern to the sounds of filthy, decaying Detroit and the solitude of Vermont winters. Infinite shades of grey to portray blight in nature and industry. mp3

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Graveyards
Vulture's Banquet
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Cut Hands:
This could well be jazz as imagined by an orgasmic Einstürzende Neubauten circa 1981. From the start the trio plays a ramschackle, screeching set. Hitting everything with everything while Olson makes love to his saxophone's dark side. mp3

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Graveyards
Mondrian, but with razor blades
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
A stripped down Graveyards in full-frontal drums/sax duo oblivion mode. Some of Olson's most pyrotechnic re-thinks of the post-AACM stream of instant thought pared with some emphatically opaque drum terror from Ben Hall. mp3

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Death Knell
Exchange of Accusations
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Essentially an Olsonless Graveyards set. A very squared off and space inducing neo-chamber approach to street fighting. Rather than a hackneyed duo call-and-response blather fest this falls much more into the strict and segmented call-you-out... read more mp3

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Ben Hall. Mike Khory. John Voigt
Horizon
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Trio session recorded in Vermont of long time collaborators Hall and Khoury and fantastically empathetic post-bop session bassist John Voigt. Rhythmically and harmonically a meltdown of boppish, modal mentalities, 20th century string approaches and west African drum music as re-imagined by stevedores.... read more mp3

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Graveyards
John Brown, on his way to the scaffold
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
American gothic free jazz from the always spine-thrilling Graveyards trio Funereal dooms of percussion, slow tongues of rusty lung and rough-ass rope burns combine in a mud-caked processional... read more mp3

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Death Knell.Dead Machines
A Thousand Means to One End
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
Dream-team low-level lurk featuring John and Tovah Olson of Dead Machines alongside Olson's Graveyards partners. Dark avant garage stasis that sounds a little like This Heat circa Made Available running through bleak/austere re-thinks of Iancu Dumitrescu miniatures. mp3

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Graveyards
Bare Those Excellent Teeth, pt. 1
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The dirty trio in a 20th century nod to the roundness of space and pacing with Dixon-esque swirls of melody and underwater shiploading. Comprised of the sorts of attackless scrape and long decay movement that begin in trees and mountains and ends in disorienting urban melee. Tympani, electronics, 'cello and saxophones. mp3

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Alberto Braida, John Hughes
Mobile
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
Precise documentation of a ruminative series of duets for piano and acoustic bass from Hamburg-based bassist John Hughes and pianist Alberto Braida, who was part of the late Peter Kowald's last recorded trio... read more mp3

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Mêlée
Newest Ruins
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First recordings from the Graveyards rhythm section of Hall and Buetow with trumpeter Nate Wooley handling the reins. Few musicians can exist so simultaneously in maps of post-bop freedom and linearity and lowercase restraint without seeming at least a little like a dilettante but the precision and clarity of Wooley's playing brings... read more mp3

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Graveyards
Unmarked Graves
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
New, very minimal/threatening free jazz shadow play with hand-carved blocks of feedback, distant growling harmonics, doomy, explosive drums with a feel somewhere between Anthony Braxton plays Leave The City and a totally creepy re-staging... read more mp3

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Graveyards
The Breath Stop
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The boys in a seriously reductionist mode which is not to say that there aren't Sheppish pushes toward orchestral dramatic gesture but that it's all sinew and skeleton in regards to rhythm, melody and formal compositional restraints. mp3

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Jeff Arnal. Dietrich Eichmann
Live in Hamburg
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Violent uses of architectural space and the dream time acoustic –industrial sound from the duo of Berlin-based composer/pianist Eichmann and fantastically inventive and robust Brooklyn drummer Arnal.... read moremp3

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Mêlée
Bare Those Excellent Teeth, pt. II
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The second volume of compositions and improvisations with Hall's focus on tympani and the groups focus on the anatomies of classical experimentation as imagined by Evan Parker and Air. Elliptical rather than definition by repetition....read moremp3

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Mêlée
With Aaron Siegel
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
Aspects of minimalists like Terry Riley and Maryanne Amacher animate some of the more extended sections alongside the kind of fast-scrabbly style of Company, Malcolm Goldstein etc and some dark, static almost Bill Dixon-esque desolate space. mp3

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Graveyards
Esprit de Corpse
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David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue:
Starts off in a minimal/glacial style that has aspects of Akio Suzuki and Sean Meehan before moving into some manhandled very 20th century avant-sounding tone poetry with orchestral percussion, bass clarinet (?) and high lonesome electronics.... read more mp3

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Sick Llama & Ben Hall
KillDevilHills
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Brain numbing harsh electro-acoustic essays by a duo that's one half so mellow as to be coma-esque and another half that's so uptight as to start fires by talking – guess who's who. Yet and still a meeting whose diametrics produce... read more mp3

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Ex-Graveyards
Mourning Light
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New line up with former '98-'99 Graveboy Coccyx returning to the fold on reeds and tapes. Double saxophone approach frees Olson to do some heavy lifting with a fuller electronics advance than has been previosly present in the Graveyards catalog. Pursposefully longer pieces that... read more mp3

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KillDevilHills
The Loneliest Corner of Michigan
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Heath Moerland/Sick Llama in full reed/electronics standoff mode with Ex-Graveyards troupe Coccyx on soprano and tapes and Ben Hall on percussion and electronics in absolute persecution of standard "noise" procedures - a bit like the Rust Belt itself waking from...read more mp3

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Traum
Slab
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Zac Davis who has had his Michigan rights revoked for theft finds himself on the very last brokenresearch release to ever have him associted with said label. Heads up with percussion hater Hell Hall this is some Billy Cobham vs. Coryell under dirt filled microscope for the mass of listeners who...read more mp3

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Graveyards and Dead Machines
Machineyard in Soundworld
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Olson pulls 2xduty on this low-level lurk meltdown. The dream time goes 2 vs. 2 for a 1/8 speed that sounds. Like contact mic'd drifts of glaciers that make reverb seem like a concept developed by inuits this sound moves slower than slow and spotlight the intricacies of interaction afforded only between....read more mp3

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Emeralds
Queen of Burbank Vol. 2
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Waves and waves of tranquility from Cleveland's best drone outfit. If this was a 70's synth record you would very happily dangle the only locally known copy of it in front of yr crew and admonish them for not being dedicated as you to find such an important piece of the sound puzzle. Truly startling in its beauty, Emeralds...read more

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Traum
Raw Sense of Humor
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Brutal fusion/psych rethinks of Dejohnette, Rypdal, Holland [on 'cello this 'go round] conducted thru loft-era 70's free jazz. The Blue Humans are the elephants in the room but its more like Blue Humans as interpreted by Bailey, Oxley and Reijseger....read more mp3

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Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley
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Melee trumpeter Nate Wooley and 30yr Evan Parker trio drummer Paul Lytton match up for this cross-generational slugfest. Wooley is in full pan-compositional, poly-formal, post-structuralist trumpet acrobatic mode with no visible safety net and really why would he need one? For his part Lytton shows why.....read more mp3

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Hell and Bunny with Greg Kelley
Burn It For The Nails
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After a garish trio-supposed to be a Melee plus Kelley---date in Western Mass it was only a matter time before this trio got together to do the scrape and crunch. It's interesting to see how Kelley approaches the 1/4 speed lurch. In comparison with Olson and Wooley it's a bit more fireworks oriented but.....read more mp3

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Traum
Cinder Blocks
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After a post-theft restructuring, Traum reformats as more of a trio approach this go-round with Chris Riggs absolutely destroying the guitar chair. And what a damaged overall approach it is. The formal constraints bring something out that tends towards some of the most unknown.....read more mp3