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Unless pushed, I've pretty much given up reviewing Erstwhile releases for Bagatellen (or elsewhere) simply because conflict of interest ...

Just a note on recent arrivals: Mattin/Taku Unami - Attention (hibari-w.m.o/r) hoo-boy..... Abjector (Tim Goldie) - [sic] (hibari - w.m.o/r)...

I finished reading Morton Feldman's "Give My Regards to 8th St." this afternoon which, shockingly, I'd never gotten around...

I'm going to see a performance of several Gavin Bryars pieces on Thursday at Roulette as part of the annual Interpretations series. It w...

If I've done things correctly, you'll be seeing a word verification requirement for posting comments here as of now. Hate to do it b...

I have a small "complaint" about museums: there's too much art. When Keith and I were up at DIA:Beacon last week, I was amblin...

*sigh* Sometimes I think I'm never going to get back to playing my old vinyl... new stuff: Haptic - Correction (Entr'acte) hamaYoko ...

Wonderful and exhausting week thus far. Picked up Keith around midnight Sunday, spent a fair bit of the next two days going over various bit...

That mini-dust up at Bags following my review of the Propagations disc (Potlatch) is still simmering. I seem to rub Damon the wrong way, wha...

Moderation in all things. Gets tricky when you do it on a website, though. A little history, first. Bagatellen was begun several years back ...

I received five pretty interesting things from Hibari and Skiti the other day. Noid - "you're not here" Toshiya Tsunoda - Low ...

Party like it's 1966. A thematic Record Club last evening. At the previous get together, we decided to do a club where all music selecte...

My review of Dörner's "sind" at Bags brought up the hoary question of whether solo improv recordings are on inherently shaky g...

(photo: Yuko Zama) As I've mentioned before, I do try to write up the great majority of releases that are sent my way and feel more than...

I should take more vacations like this. Ten days, post-season, in Montauk is both very restful and can be very productive. Having nothing va...

Leaving tomorrow for ten days in Montauk, Long Island, probably without computer access unless I happen on an internet cafe. Montauk's a...

Somewhere around 1972, in Poughkeepsie, I discovered that the local library (Adriance Public Library) had LPs for loan. In the spring of tha...

First Record Club in quite some time last night, first I've attended since May having missed June's. Special guest Chris Cochrane, a...

I don't normally do concert plugs here but there's this band Floriculture, who are playing in Brooklyn at the Center for Improvisati...