ZerxCatalog-Various Artist

#003 - KUNM RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & OTHER POETIC EXCURSIONS
Ten-Piece ensemble comprised of Mark Weaver, tuba; Justine Flynn, horn; Courtney Smith, harp; Pam Morden, violin, mandolin; Eileen Sullivan, violin; Bonnie Renfro, violin; Alicia Ultan, viola; Stefan Dill, guitar; Mark Weber, hubcaps, piano, radio dial; Lou Morales, percussion; accompanying poets Todd Moore, Patti Littlefield, David Abel, JB Bryan, Linda Yen, & Joshua Bodwell, in a live broadcast. This was released in a limited edition with bonus tracks of Outpost Repertory Jazz Orchestra w/ Mark Weber (me) recitin’ poemetry.

#012 - BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME I NEED A CHRISTMAS TREE
This title always makes me think that a christmas tree must be a sort of mixed drink. And this CD is a mixed blessing. It is so godawful that your friends will cringe. No yuletime gathering is complete without it. Other times I listen to it and think it is a pure masterpiece. Everybody’s on here. We even got one of America’s great poets, Gerald Locklin, to sing 2 registers above his natural range - a parlor serenade strained with rusty harmonicas, gunshots, and plenty of chestnuts roasting on an open fire. This probably should have been a limited edition.
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#018 - BONEFIED
Steve Feld, Kurt Heyl, Gary Sherman, Mark Weaver, Jefferson Voorhees - low brass & percussion, mostly trombones because these guys are Roswell Rudd’s back-up band when he comes to New Mexico. Luxuriant maelstrom. Blissful chaos. No trivial corridor. Heraldic trombones !

#019 - Protuberance - TREATED AND RELEASED
Tweaked to perfection as well. This trio of electrical guitar, tuba, & drumnset ( Paul Pulaski, Mark Weaver, Dave Wayne) gargles with nails, spits out swooping streamers of refracted & imploding sonic waves. Hypnotic. Locomotion. Music rating: 423

#029 - Stefan Dill - FLOWER & SONG duets
Stefan Dill is one of the best guitarist I have ever heard in my life. Period. Better than best. Circles of harmonic density. Layered multiplicitous lyricism. Aztec sacrifices. Entirely improvised collaborations with Jack Wright, John Dikeman, Dave Wayne, John Jasnoch, and Dave Nielsen.

posted by Mark Weber @ 2:51 AM