Reliable Kert!

From our favourite, Kert Semm, on his blog Recent Music Heroes (http://agier.blogspot.com/2011/05/joxfield-projex-hypnotic-wash-up-2011.html)
we did find these kind words:

Joxfield ProjeX - Hypnotic Wash Up (2011)

Clinical Archives

/Kosmische musik, Krautrock, Psychedelia, Avant-rock, Fusion, Progressive rock, Space rock, Dance rock/

Comment: One of my favs (from Sweden) are back with a brand new release...it reminds me of the first CAN`s issue I have ever heard - CAN (1979), which is used to be ashamedly underrated by the musical press worldwide. More detailly, those subtly flowing, high-ridged guitar riffs are pulled off to the frontline, slightly danceable spaced-out washes ride into a listener`s consciousness, subdued autotuned vocals, altogether making lots of sense through dynamic jamming sessions. Space-funk, kraut-fusion etc... Hipernotik.



Whatelse can we do but thank dear ol' Kert!

O'

Cough, cough - Wisdom

If you ever doubt...

http://www.joxfieldprojex.com/gpage.html

O'

Oax Pick - Coltrane's Impressions

Re-buying stuff on vinyl? Crazy, but I do it and I love it. It's like re-opening doors, coming in to rooms you haven't being visiting for a while. Here's John Coltrane's "Impressions" (Impulse A-42), a classic masterpiece as with so many others of his records. The addition of Eric Dolphy's bass-clarinette on the opener "India" - wow!!!

O'

Oax Pick - Keith Tippett's Ark

Being a fan of King Crimson as well as Canterburians like Soft Machine and such in the early 70's you also came across the magnificant piano player Keith Tippett. His freely floating fingers, atonal gestures fascinated.

When realising he had released some albums with his Keith Tippett Group we just had to check 'em up. "Dedicated to You, but You Weren't Listening' was great and from that one the step into Centipede's "Septober Energy" wasn't long. Four side-long tracks, a short-lived 50-piece big-band of jazz-freejazz-rock. It became an aural classic.

Please, don't ask me to explain it, but for reasons I actually don't know the "follow up" to Centipede, Keith Tippett's Ark and their album "Frames - Music for an Imaginary Film", became a hidden treasure which I discovered last year. Released on Ogun Records in 1978 (OGD 003/004), also four side-long tracks, also a big band, 20 musicians, jazz-freejazz, composed as well as improvised, well-known players like Elton Dean, Peter Kowald and Julie Tippett etc, as well as for me unknown musicians. It's an amazing album and even though it really annoys me that I didn't discover it until reasently it also makes me happy to find out there still are some unheard true tresures left. It brings light into the life of a addictional music lover.
For you who hates vinyl I think it's also realeased on CD

O'

What The Heck?

(c) Ted Eastman

Ehhrrr....

O'

Clinical Archives Mix April 2011

A couple of months ago Clinical Archives started a compilation series, Clinical Archives Mix.
On the 4th volume, the April 2011 edition, you can find a contribution from your local heroes. Check it, download it, enjoy the abbreviated Joxfield ProjeX.

http://clinicalmix.blogspot.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/camix04

O'

The Book I Read - Just Kids by Patti Smith

Patti Smith on her years with Robert Mapplethorp.
Just Kids.
Magnificent! Read it! It's an order!

O'

Changes, changes, all these changes...

For all of you devotees who cares about the really important stuff in life, like what's happening to the infamous Joxfield ProjeX, this is something for you:
A while ago MySpace made a new design of all their sites. Yes, that also included the infamous little combo as well.
As a result of that extreme make-over there was some useful links that disappeared from the front pages of our sites.
So, if you urge for reaching our various musical spheres just follow the links below.
And don't forget our beloved, befriended hero brothers Ambient DarkWhite.


www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojex
Our main source, the place for the most recent stuff


www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojexambient
Our space for ambient music and other related stuff, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.


www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojexvoice
We're not much of singers, but this is the place for some of our vocal music, maybe the most commercial side of Joxfield. Or not.


www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojexancient
Once our space for old stuff, but since long it has been the space for our side projex and since very long it's the same bits n pieces filling the player.


www.myspace.com/ambientdarkwhite
This is the place for the mysterious, cult, hero brothers Ambient DarkWhite. Not too much happens on this site, but when it does, be sure to be there because it's interesting. The world stops, everyone attend: "What's in the air today? Ohh, I can feel it, there must be some new Ambient DarkWhite music around!!!"

O'

Smorgasbord...

Have you missed it?
After a couple of adventurous months when it was deleted because of some unbelievable and weird claim from A Big Film Company it's back on Internet Archive again for free and legal download. Go for it, enjoy!
http://www.archive.org/details/ca402_jp
O'

Oax Pick - Jazz

Hidden behind all Noise, Psych, Space, Flip, Flop is JAZZ. Relief and treasures at the same time.
Here's David Holland Quartet's "Conference of the Birds" from 1973.
The Quartet features DH, Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul - Say no more. Post-electric 1970's jazz of best kind. Snap it!

O'

Expand Your Aural Vision

Beware!

O'

Discogs updates

For all of you who wants to follow track:

Joxfield ProjeX' discography at Discogs has recently been updated.

http://www.discogs.com/search?q=Joxfield+Projex&type=all

Find the hits, the mythological releases, the hidden gems and all the other of our albums you are interested in.

Most of them are net label Clinical Archives free downloads (Internet Archive)
If you want an mp3 copy of the early limited releases just drop an email to
oax.joxfield@gmail.com
and you might receive a zip-file of interest for no cost at all.
Don't forget to write as an email subject: "I adore your music"

O'

Hypnotic Was Up - Out now on Clinical Archives (ca432)

Nevermind what day it is - it's not a joke.
Today is the day of the release of "Hypnotic Wash Up", Joxfield ProjeX new (well...) album at Clinical Archives.

Download it for nothing at
http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com/
or
http://www.archive.org/details/ca432_jp

Release info:
“While standing in my kitchen doing the wash up and listening in my ghetto-blaster to the Majestic Pattern City Revisited Evolution suite from the Joxfield ProjeX very strict limited self-release album ‘The Pond Intermezzo’ (2006) I realized how goddamn good it was and that these tracks deserved being properly released. The album was originally printed in about 20 copies which mostly were given away to some of our friends. Very few copies were sold for almost nothing. The story of the suite: For the TPI sessions Yan had made a hypnotic, long pattern to which I made a 20 minutes long guitar improvisation. Due to too many wrong notes it was re-recorded once. There was more guitar terror and even more wrong notes. There was also a short, recorded sung melody. Then Yan locked himself into his room for a couple of months, re-worked the recorded music, picked up some themes from the solos, developed it, mixed it, split it, added the treated vocal parts, added some other freaky vocal parts and finally presented what’s heard here. Maybe it’s a bit accessible to have the suite split into eight parts, but the true reason was Yan’s then car stereo which refused to play too long songs, it had to be split into parts.”
(Oax)

Joxfield ProjeX is a genre-free duo of Oax and Yan.
Oax: Guitars, vocal
Yan: Keyboards, programming, director

Cover art by The Dynamic Duo
Production, sounds & visions by Joxfield ProjeX
This may be Joxfield ProjeX eighth release on Clinical Archives.
As always we thank Alex for generous support

Contact:
http://www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojex
http://www.oaxofjoxfield.blogspot.com

Enjoy!
O'

The Vegetable Man Project Vol 6

Vegetable Man-Effervescent Elephant Medley

Almost forgotten about this... The story:
During the early days of our extended MySpace career we became friends with nice fellows Airwaves, a Swedish combo playing some friendly pop music. Maybe not the music we play ourself, but nevermind, they're kind people.
Once Patrik Arvidsson, the guitarplayer of Airwaves, asked us for some collaboration. The Airwaves gals and guys had a fascination for Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd stuff and should participate on a Vegetable Man tribute album (Volume 6) with their version of Vegetable Man (connected with Effervescent Elephant).
In 2007, at the end of our "Numbers & Letters" sessions we took up the tune.
We were asked to add something after the guitar solo at 1.59 minutes ("but don't touch anything before that"), so, at 1.59 we threw out every original file of the tune except the drums and Sussie's vocals, entered Yan's fat keyboard chords and my kind-of-tribute-to-David-Gilmour's-ca-1971-playing guitar. With a good mix, great mastering and re-entery of the nice (is it?) dobro sliding it all becoame a nice piece of joint music (?!?!). The artists name used was AirwavesJoxfield.

ThanX Patrik for initiative and a believe in us playing pop music.

Somewhere there probably is an album and if you find it you can buy it, it has its moments. Enjoy!

O'

New MySpace Background Image

Right on, again! The ol' bums goes DarkWhite...
O'

New Joxfield Logos - Beware !

Right on! Get used to 'em...
O'

Oax Pick - Swedish Azz

Azz?
Yes!
O'

Collision Sint Lucas Gent

Something interesting showed up on You Tube.
One minute video art by (probably) some "heirweghjonass".
The music is PnB 5 (aka Wakie Wakie Finn) from Joxfield ProjeX release Bits n Pieces.
Fingerprints here and there - when will Joxfield conquer the world?
O'

Interview

On his Recent Music Heroes blog Kert Semm published an interview with Oax regarding some Joxfield ProjeX activities.
Check it:

http://agier.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-with-oax-joxfield-projex.html#links

O'

Oax Pick - Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple (2 LP version)(2001)

One Acid Mothers a day keeps the doctor away!

O'

Want Some PO Netterblad?

The so far biggest download "hit" of our Clinical Archives releases is "Shimmering Mah No 1" (ca310) with almost 35.000 downloads.
The triptych painting used for cover art is made by old friend PO Netterblad.
It's about time to show some more of his great talant.
Take it away!









And the artist, of course...



www.ponetterblad.com

O'

Terrascope Rumbles January 2011

Your truely wish you some pleasant and inspiring reading...

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_January_11.htm

O'

Oax Pick - Tony Williams Lifetime

Emergency! - 2 LP (1969)

(turn it over) - LP (1970)

This is SO powerful. The perfect power trio of Tony Williams on furious drumming and whispering vocals, John McLaughlin on demon guitar and Larry Young on wild organ (love his science fictional chords like from outer space), including the bass pedals. On (turn it over) mighty Jack Bruce is added on bass.
The music is expressive in more than one way and often finds it climax when all of them 3/4 climbs the peak of madness. Pure music! Gee fer it!

O'

The Guru Himself

We salute The Guru Himself on his Zero to Infinitieth birthday (yesterday) with a Hooraaay!!!!!
The Dynamic Duo

Joxfield ProjeX on Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio this week

We find ourself being in good company, as always, when uploaded on Aural Innovations might Space Rock Radio this week.
Visit the air!

http://aural-innovations.com/radio/playlist.html

O'

Free Albums Galore said...

Joxfield ProjeX is one of the most consistently rewarding avant-garde/experimental music groups that I have featured on Free Albums Galore. The project is actually a duo by two musicians simply named Oax , who plays most of the guitars, and Yan who takes care of the keyboards. Both of them also contributes electronic effects and various other instruments to the mix . There are a few albums by them released on Clinical Archive. Yet Numbers and Letters is by far their best and most realized effort. It is also my pick for best online avant-garde/experimental music release for 2010.

One of the things that makes this album stand out is the addition of guest artists which seems to bring the best out of Joxfield ProjeX. There are just too many guests to mention but you can find them listed on the download page. However, two that tend to stand out for me are saxophonist Geoff Leigh and sitarist Håkan Almkvist. The album is over 2 hours long and is the equivalent of 3 CDs. Disc A is titled Abstract Numbers and it is a bit more introverted than the other two offerings. It is also my favorite precisely due to the quieter and serious structure that pervades through the tracks. Disc B & C are titled Concrete Letters: A-M and Concrete Letters: N-Z. They have an harder edge but still are entertainingly complex efforts. They may be a bit more challenging for the avant-garde music novice.

Those who enjoy more experimental forms of music will appreciate Numbers and Letters but the music is not so “out there” that more conventional music lovers will not enjoy it too. So download it and give it a listen.

http://freealbums.blogsome.com/2011/01/07/joxfield-projex-guests-numbers-letters-3-disc-set/

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Of course we thank them a lot for picking Numbers & Letters as the best online avant-garde/experimental music release for 2010. We're deeply honored.

O'

21st Century Psychedelic Music

Now it's 2011.
Tired of being haunted by all that old stuff we're now heading for some new challenges, 21st Century Psychedelic Music.
The chrystal ball says the future will bring you a couple of volumes of disordered, noisy and squeaky music, just wait and see.
And, if you're lucky, maybe Yan will construct a Pop version of it all as well.
If you're eager enough you can check the myspace player for some teasers.
Hurry, it will not be there forever!

www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojex

The Dynamic Duo

MerryMerryMerry!!!

Today is the darkest day of the year. And it's white...
We want to wish you A Merry JoxMas & A Happy New Ear
The Dynamic Duo

Now It's Official - Tag It!!!

As it's hard to update every single social media there is to be found, and as we after years of being The Masters of a Very Sleepy web-site (so sleepy that we constantly re-direct it to our MySpace site) we've finally decided to not wake it up yet.
AND, as MySpace is very hard to keep in control (they change whatever they want to change whenever they want to do it without even ask the users about our opinion)
So, until we come up with something better Memories Of My Illusions will be the official place to find updates for Joxfield ProjeX' activites as well as all the other fuzzy stuff you'll expect find here every now and then.
O'

Don't Fuzz With Fuzzy Duck

Just to bring you to some Attention!
Fuzzy Duck's self-titled one and only album from 1971. Intense prog, like some speeded up National Heath, Egg or so.
Paul Francis (drums, percussion), Mick (Doc) Hawksworth (bass, vocals, acoustic 12-string, electric cello), Roy (Daze) Sharland (organ, electric piano) and Grahame White (guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar).
(Roy Sherland was the organ player (not THAT organ) in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. He's mighty.)
Learn it! Remember!
And, of course, this wouldn't have come up to the surface of our cultural and aural minds if it wasn't for Yan's lobbyistic efforts. Such a nerd he is!
O'

Enjoy Eloy

Not too often I raise my eyebrows for old symphonic prog these days, but when I hear Eloy's 6th release, "Ocean", I must admit it's a hell of a good album. Four lengthly pieces, all including wellknown prog signs as well as space rock and - well - krautrock. If they would have their roots on The British Isles they might have had another and bigger role in the encyclopedias of Music of Inportance. 1977 was the year. Is this Punk Rock? Hell no, but give it a chance!
For friends of Amon Dûûl 2 ca 1969 - 1972.
O'

Joxfield On The Radio

Two great shows running right now:

Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio
(http://aural-innovations.com/radio/playlist.html)

&

Radio Armana
(http://www.bardo-beat.com/UniAmarna/Radio.htm)

Not only that you'll find your favourite Swedish dynamic duo presenting their fruitful efforts, you'll also find some other great space, psych and electronic sounds of muzak.

Be brave! See what's behind the links!

O'

Reminder - AltRev's Joxfield videos

For those of you with short memory (and no illusions):

Some time ago we did send AltRev a few tracks from Joxfield ProjeX album "Numbers & Letters" (ca408) and some other of our tunes. He made some nice vids for us
If you check YouTube you can find 'em there. Go Psychedelic!
- Electric Apple
- Have I Been Here Before
- The First Days
- Silent Night/Night Silence (2 vids)
and more...

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joxfield+projex&aq=f
http://www.archive.org/details/ca408_jp

O'

Avant Music News

AMN Picks of the Week (Nov 21, 2010)

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Guillaume Perret / The Electric Epic – Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic (2010)
Gebhard Ullmann / Steve Swell 4 – News? No News! (2010)
The Usaisamonster – RIP (2010)
Lucian Ban / John Hebert – Enesco Reimagined (2010)
Dave Liebman – Turnaround (2010)
Joxfield ProjeX and Guests – Abstract Numbers (2010)
Joxfield ProjeX and Guests – Concrete Letters (2010)

http://www.avantmusicnews.com/2010/11/21/amn-picks-of-the-week-87/

(Who are we not to agree?)

O'

Attention! Mats Gustafsson - Needs!

For those who care about what happens out there:
A new LP from Mats Gustafsson. "Needs!" on the great Dancing Wayang label.
The first you see is the extremely wonderful art sleeve painting as an fold-out by Mathias Pöschl.
Then you put on the LP and if you coincidentally have no idea what you'd expect to hear you might think MG will blow you away, as you've been used to he's doing every now and then (and you love it).
But, if you've read anything about this release you'll have the feeling that this is something else.
And it is.
MG is playing with MG, the reeds man with the electronics one.
Is it music? Silly question. What IS music? Ask John Cage. He would tell you it IS music. But, who cares.
What MG does and how he does it is actually a bit unintersting. What's really intersting is how it sounds. And it just sound great, more like electro-acoustic improvisations than anything else.
And, as always with sounds of music, it speaks better for itself than if anyone, like me, is trying to pathetically explain the texture of it.
Challenge your mind, go and get it yourself!
The quick ones will receive an 3" additional bonus CDr.
www.dancingwayang.com/
www.matsgus.com

O'

Attention! Göteborg Art Sounds

I reade the news today, o, boy... And it was good new for those who care.
The every-second-year festival Göteborg Art Sounds will become an annual one from 2011 and on.
The festival always presents new, evocative and intersting sounds and music.
May 6th & 7th 2011 - Remember that!
www.gas-festival.com/en

O'