Vultures Invading...

A couple of days ago when I was about to eat my breakfast I realised I must have cooked an egg of a vulture, not a hen-egg, as usual.
Strange things are happening....
O'

Season Opening Of Camp Brana

Camp Brana - the infamous little cottage place where the first Joxfield ProjeX' recordings were made in the very early of may 2005.
It really seems like a long time ago, it has surely been a long journey.
Four short, long years - a huge amount of music made and more is to come.
I was sitting close to the open fire with my guitar, a little amp and some efx pedal. Yan was sitting in the other end of the room, a bit away from the fire, freezing, with his keyboard in the knees playing some weird stuff. There were some disturbing sounds we didn't want to record, but couldn't find them untill we realised it was Yan's teath clicking.
Suffer, suffer, suffer - all for the art.

This last weekend I went to the place again, opened it up for the summer season, took my first outdoor lunch.

Yan wanted to do our following recordings in a warmer and more comfortable place (with indoor toilette, indoor shower....) so half a year later we ended up at the famous Camp Kolpebo to which we've returned every time we have recorded together... But, that's another story.
O'

Just An Important Album Pt 9

Well, what to say about these groundbreaking albums?
Avant freeform pop with punk attitude long before punk was invented.
Otherwise it's very well played, very well composed and arranged and very well sung.
Pure joy.
Trout Mask Replica was released in 1969. Produced by Zappa.
Lick My decals Off, Baby was released the year after, 1970.
TMR is considered being a true classic - and I can't nothing but agrtee, but like many others I think maybe that LMDOB are superior to it.
TMR are always re-issued as CD whenever needed and very easy to find. LMDOB was released on CD in 1989 and have been out of print for almost 20 years - unbelievable. But, there's a new re-issue on vinyl, so go find the old grammophone again!
O'

The Past Is Present...

In 1975 the Swedish free improvisation group ISKRA released their self-titles debut-album, a 2 LP set which never have been re-issued on CD.
I bought it in those days, heard it a couple of times, thought it was a bit difficult even though I liked some of it. It disappeard. Probably because I sold it to a 2nd hand record store, I guess.
Recently I laid my hands on an mp3 version of it and when listening to it yesterday I realised something have changed, it was really good, so, now it's safe in the computer...
O'

Not Only Springtime

Abstract Numbers & Concrete Letters A-Z

Have anyone missed it's springtime?
Of course not. For more than a week the sun has been kind and gentle with its shining on our pale bodies. It's gives energy and creativity (well...)

A week ago at the (in)famous Camp Batang we made the final adjustments to our huge Abstract Numbers & Concrete Letters A-Z ProjeX, an ambitious tour de force we've been involved in for more than two years, spending hundreds and hundreds of hours to get things in the way we want, to be satisfied (which actually never will happen as we're never 100% satisfied with what we do, but anyway...)
23 - 25 tracks, depending how you count (two of them are two-parted), about 2 ½ hours of music.

Oax & Yan of Joxfield ProjeX
+ Guests:

Geoff Leigh - Soprano sax, Flute, Efx, Vocals, Composer, Author (Geoff Leigh, Henry Cow, Mirage... name it)
Pat Mastelotto - Drums, Percussions, Samples (King Crimson, Stickmen, XTC... name it)
Nike Ström - Bass (Everywhere and all over for decades)
Håkan Almkvist - Sitar, Tampura, Bass, Indian Percussion (Oriental Squeezer, Ganapati)
José João - Elephant Noiseguitar, Samples (Orquestra Populare de Paio Pires)
Regina P - Vocals (Copernic #)
Kenji Siratori - Spoken Word, Author (Kenji Siratori)
Churner - Harsh Noise (Churner)
Sakamoto Hiromichi - Cello (Haco, Sakamoto Hiromichi)

So, now when it's ready it's up to YOU to get it.
Stay alert!

O'

Just An Important Album Pt 8

Another triplet of must-have albums of undescribeable aural experiences:

In Search Of Space


Doremi Fasol Latodo


Space Ritual


In spring 1973 Yan and I for the first time did act as DJs on a big school disco at our own school. Some people knowing our musical taste were suspicious, but the arrangers of the disco only knew us as kind and easygoing guys and had no idea to what we use to listen to at home. They probably thought it was the chirpy-chirpy-cheep-cheep stuff that was going around at the radio of the time.
After some heavy openers with tracks from Iggy & The Stooges Raw Power we turned on 'You Shouldn't Do That' from In Search Of Space on the highest volume and left the DJ stand, went dancing with some inncoent girls. Soon we were the only ones dancing....

This was the beginning and the end of our very short career as DJs.
On the other hand it our love affair with the early Hawkwind stuff recently had begun...

O'

Mushroom Gods

Sometimes coincidentally your footsteps crosses an unknown path.
A while ago I became aware of the cultish British psych/spece/whatever band Mushroom Gods.

From their own information:
"We are one of the best British underground neo psychedelic progressive rock groups of the late 90's to come out of Leeds, perhaps too underground for our own good as we where never signed to a major record deal but had a large following of spores around the country. Extensive touring gave us an energy and a freakout in our live sound quite unlike our peers always unfashionable and always unapologetic for it. We are Influenced by a real mix of bands; Hawkwind, Amon Duule 2, Can, Tangerine Dream, Jimi Hendrix, Big Black, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Pere Ubu, Soft Machine, Captain Beefheart and of course early Pink Floyd we where born in the wrong era but are still die hard hippies . The Mushroom Gods are: Lost Johnny keyboard, vocals Dick Freek drums Mathew Corbett sitar, flute, effects Fast Elbert Kram guitar CJD Bass, vocals if you wish to contact or more info; mushroom@hotmail.co.uk if you want the music for fwee go to....................... http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=mushroom+gods&audio=on ...................and download now its not illegal i own the fkin music!"

I couldn't have said it better myself. Just go for it! It's great!
They should at least have been as big as Hawkwind (especially as H-wind of the 90s wasn't too intersting, impo).




O'

Just An Important Album Pt 7

Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)

Silver Apples - Contact (1969)

Two guys from New York City, Simeon Coxe III (Simeon), on oscillators and primitive synthesizer of own homemade origns and/or constructions, and Danny Taylor on drums and percussions. Stanley Warren was a guy who wrote the words to most of the songs
Modern, original, almost a decade before Alan Vega & Suicide's attempts. Melodic mantras and pulsating beats we recognised on the dancefloors in the late 90s.
And on and on...
These two records are magnificent and good, pointing forward in a most unusual way. And we're still talking about the 60s...
An important album? Well, actually it wasn't for me. I've recently heard them, but them almost chocked me and made me think how come this little combo became cult and not on top of the bills of cred?
I don't have any answers... Sometimes things just happens.
Anyway.. lend them a few ears or so...
In 1970 a third album was recorded, Garden, but as their label Kapp Records, was bought by MCA and the album was lost and forgotten until 1996 when it was released.
O'

DonnoJanne & Maec's (? & !)

Who are these guys?

Anyway,

we wish you a nice and cosy Easter.

Be careful with martyrs, nails and wooden blocks.

O'

Proud Parent

http://www.indoorpercussioneurope.org/

And you figure out yourself...

O'

Joxfield on Clinical Archives

Good news folks.

When first reading the policy of the great free download Clinical Archives' site we realized this is where we belong.

Quote:

Clinical Archives is independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music. The basic directions : abstract, avant-garde, alternative, free improv, intuition improvisation, jazz fusion, electronic jazz, free jazz, funk rocktronica, jam band, live electronic, experimental, manipulation, neoclassicism, illbient, ambient, musique concrète, noise, tape music, minimalism, acousmatic music, sound sculpture, sound collage, electroacoustic, acoustic; drone, new wave, field recordings, microsound, montage, psychedelic, folk; quasi-folk; prog-rock; post-punk; trip-hop, soundscapes, sound art, spoken word, strange and other forms ...
"Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music"

End of quote.

Anyone being listening to Joxfield ProjeX' music disagree?

Anyway, today the two albums
PICNIC

and
BITS AND PIECES # 1 - 13

has been uploaded.
All for free. Just a clic, some waiting and then it's all yours.
Just go for it! Enjoy!


http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com/

O'

In My Letterbox...

A couple of days ago, in my letterbox, a little package with Jonas Kullhammar Quartet's 8 CD Box Set 'The Half Naked Truth'.



Today, in the same letterbox, Daevid Allen's 'Gong Dreaming 1', the history and the mystery of his years with Soft Machine and the early years with Gong... Part 2 to come soon.
The future looks bright
O'

True Support

One of our BIG SUPPORTIVE HEROES is Jerry at Aural Innovations.
Newly you could read this message from his Space Rock & Psychedelic Radio Station:

"Hear Joxfield ProjeX on the new edition (show #213) of Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio."

And you'll find "ORIENTAL FLIP FLOP" from Joxfield ProjeX future release PHANTASTIQUE, SIDE A & SIDE B, a virtual LP.
Check the station at...

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

O'

Omar

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez' 'Calibration' on the stereo.
Just a really nice and modern psychedelic album.
Lend it an ear.
More interesting alone than with his Mars Volta
O'

NoNoiseMusic

It's not always neccessary having everything in extended concepts.
Joxfield ProjeX' Virtual EP "Death of a Sirloin Steak" consist only of the 9 minutes title track + as a "B Side" the lengthly version of "As conceptual As..."
It's very un-noisy, it has its sublimity, its stillness and it's living its life in the terratories between music and none-music, and I really like it.
If I may say so.
Let's see if it will be released somewhere sometime.
O'

On A Monday Evening...

This is the place where you can spend some time a monday evening i Gothenholm Stockburg.
The iDEALIST Joachim N arranges some openminded mindblowers.
First the wonderful, expressive Italian Jooklu Duo with Virginia Genta blowing her lungs in and out on saxes/flutes/rizzlerazzles while David Vanzan's intense drummings washes the floor like a Tsunami. Impressive.
Magnificent free jazz.

Then...
Borbetomagus...

What can I say?
When Donald Miller first touches his guitar and all you hear is a SCREAM of sounds from the underground, immediately hit by Jim Sauter's and Don Dietrich's frantic tenorplaying. Constantly, breathless.
If J Duo was a Tsunami this is the energy of a dwarf planet concentrated, it's like all earthquakes gathers as one, it's..... yes, it's.
The floor starts bleeding, the walls expands. It's music, it's not music, it's music... Constructed, de-constructed. And then the guys turns their sax clocks to each other, like two satelites docking each other, and the sound from each saxophone expands into something.... what?
Energy is the word. Two lengthly tunes.
I almost never stick my fingers into my ears when listening to live music, but here I had to. And still the sounds did hit me as if it was from trucks crashing right in front of me.
And it was wonderful TakeNoPrisoner - NoCompromise noise, loud as hell, but also became ambient in some way. A physical drone.
And unconsciously you starts think about music/sounds/noise from a philosophical point of view, where one starts and ends, where the other takes over, starts and ends, and on and on.

Then home to sleep.
Bells where ringing...
O'

Just An Important Album Pt 6

On this very typical March day, while eating my breakfast, while watching through the kitchen window how the snowmixed rain is pouring down outside, I chose to put on some Brian Eno records on the player.
And how much I realized the importance of 'Another Green World' and 'Before And After Science', their wonderful mix of strong melodies, gentle ambiences, well sung and played, this none-musicain Brian Eno has a wonderful, gentle voice - I love escpecially when he uses it for the harmonies - and he's also a magnificant player, no matter what he say himself. Both records have great production by Eno and Rhett Davies.
Even though there was a two year span between them, for me they have always been connected, almost as if they were a double set, and very often when I play one of them I also paly the other one. 81 minutes of genius.
O'

Just An Important Album Pt 5

When sitting here listening to Aphex Twin's great "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" I realise how many of all those ambient/techno/etc records that probably never would have been made if it wasn't for the ancestors. Fripp & Eno and those, of course, all the way back to Satie and others.
But, on machines, I cannot think of anyone more important for me as a listener than the old guys in Tangerine Dream whos records until mid-70s were magnificent.
In 1974 I bought "Phaedra", really a landmark for me as an appreciater of ambient sounds with discreet rhythms here and there. It was spellbinding. Long, silent pieces of sounds and music, low volume, but so full of inspirational stuff. Sometimes when things get quiet you're forced to concentrate on what you hear and the audio experience gets even bigger than if it would have been loud as hell.
A while after that I bought the 2 LP set "Zeit", a none-rhythmic ambient masterpiece with for side-long tracks. It was like entering into surreal none-existing landscapes. You could hear it, but was it there?
O'

Salt Of The Earth

TC3 at the salt department of the grocery store.
O'

Not A Calm Evening

Yesterday evening Yan arrived for a short stay for a couple of days.
Usually he arrives about 11 PM after driving with his wife from Stockburg Gotholm, but this time he surprised me by arriving a couple of hours earlier.
My calm-evening-watching-TV-from-my-favourite-place-in-the-sofa was sabotaged.
"WHERE IS IT?", was the first thing he said.
"What?" I answered.

he said.
"Oh, on the balkony" I said.
Just a few minutes later:
"AND THE REST!!!" he demanded.
"?????" was the look of my face.

, of course" he said.
I just had to go and get it.
And then there was a couple of hours drinking, listening to Oax-Goes-DJ stuff
(= psychedelic, old, new, noise - even Yan had to agree Merzbow have some qualities ....)
and not too few of oddities from the Joxfield ProjeX' mythological vault.
Late to bed.
Early up, away to my daytime job.
From the inside of Yan's bedroom I could hear some deep

A bit tired because of too little sleep, but at least I'm happy not feeling like


Later today

will arrive. He's good at cooking and I think there also will be some beers, booze and Muzak tonight.
Life repeats itself sometimes...
O'