For the most hard core Joxfield ProjeX devotees. Here are some non-Joxfield produced compilations where we've been asked to add a track. The tracks are not released anywhere else but on this albums, some of them very hard to find, some not. Judy Dyble - Gathering The Threads (Fifty Years of Stuff) (2015) Track: No Kro Poh V/A - Wire Tapper 38 (2015) Track: China Syndrome (Radio Ed) V/A 25 years of good clean fun...(A Celebration of the Terrascope and Phil McMullen) (2015) Track: Mesele Pattern V/A Vegetable Man Project 6 (2009) Track: Vegetable Man (a collaboration with Airwaves)
Over & Out was a track recorded in 2007 for the Joxfield ProjeX & Guest's 3 disc album "Numbers & Letters" (2010). The track was lost but has recently been found again.
Judy Dyble : Vocals
Nikke Ström : Bass
Janne Yan & Stefan Oax : Music, Words, Instruments, Sounds & Vision
Judy's CV includes not only some good solo recordings, she was also Fairport Convention's first singer as well as singer with pre-King Crimson Giles, Giles & Fripp.
Nikke is a fabulous Swedish bass player with a CV that includes... well, actually he has played with almost everyone of importance; rock, blues, experimental, psychedelic, name it!
Janne Yan & Stefan Oax's CV... Past, Present, Future
Who?
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Where?
Bare Wires (Decca)
When?
1968
Why?
There can't be said much enough about John Mayall's importance as an expander of the definition of blues. What he did in the late 60's and early 70's is nothing but avant garde, progressive, psychedelic and sometimes even touching free form elements as in this particular track, Fire. It's situated as the fourth part of the Bare Wires Suite on the album of the same title. It's non-rhythmic freely floating, Mayall's wailing voice over the instruments, creating moments that makes me wonder: Could possibly Mats Gustafsson's band Fire! have taken their name from this track? I don't think so, but they should have. It would have been fair. And great. Anyway, it's a marvellous tune, a hidden gem.
This is the orgininal work in progress version of "Kenji Self-Unit" which in another version finally ended up on Numbers & Letters album. It features the rare one and only guest appearance by legendary Thomas Mera Garz on drums & percussion. For people who have spend the last 50 years or so in a cave: TMG is the legendary stable-as-a-rock-but-makes-the-music-fly-light-as-a-feather drummer & percussionist of some of the most important psychedelic trance rock bands in Sweden ever: Pärson Sound, International Harvest, Harvest, Träd Gräs & Stenar and countless numbers of others. Thomas nowadays also create excellent music and videos. Go for Meramorr on Youtube and you'll find some other treasures.
Heard on Self-Unit - Version Zero is: Thomas Mera Garz - Drums, percussion Kenji Siratori - Voice + author of words Nikke Ström (Yes, another legend in Sweden, but you who have left the cave already knows that) - Bass Yan - Spiritual Mind Oax - Guitars Music & Production by Oax & Yan 2007 - Powered by Tin Can Music
Self-Unit - Version Zero feat. Thomas Mera Gartz by joxfieldprojex
This is another true rarity from the Joxfield ProjeX vault. The last track to be recorded during our first recording sessions at Camp Brana in May 2005 was Dark White House. The beats, the guitar riffs and the synth loops was recorded and then all ideas was completely lost, we were exhausted by this our first 24 hours a day of instant composing and the well seemed to have been running out of water. We were ready to get sober and return to civilization. But, the basic track was so good, it would really have been a pity to leave it there. Then, from out of nowhere, an idea came up: "Why not make a Gorecki?". The response was: "????". But, the idea was inspired by the beginning of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, to start with chords with the dark, low, bass tones and then go lighter and lighter, find a crescendo and then turn back. But, in this tune the crescendo was loads of disonant and atonal key chords. The track was finnished and we did really like it, put it as the last track on disc 1 of the Dark White Morning album.
In 2009 Yan picked up the track again and made a house version of it to fill the dance floors with all these two-left-legged persons, just as us. It could have been released as a 12" single but never was. Recently it was found in the vault and through this posting now saved to the word. Get up and dance! Challenge yourself! Unleash!!
"Joxfield ProjeX, Sweden's leading purveyors of total-immersion freeform-psychedelic-kraut-space-rock-call-it-what-you-will music are back with another helping of... oh, let's not beat around the bush, it's good old honest-to-goodness NOISE! Which Is A Good Thing. If you've heard any of Oax' and Jan's previous works, you kind of probably know what to expect by now (and, presumably, have already made up your mind whether you like it or not!). Guaranteed to shake the cobwebs out of your belfry or make your coffee morning go with a swing. As they themselves say "This music should be played with full attention at any volume you like..."."
From minty's mews (http://ppmews.blogspot.com/2012/03/joxfield-projex-voxluxrabax.html)
ThanX a lot, Minty
And don't forget where to get the music for the same price as you pay for the air you breathe:
Who? Chicago / Terry Kath Where? Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall 4 LP Box Set When? 1971 Why? Filled myself with a couple of Taliskers and put this on, let the nostalgia flow over me... but, wait... is it nostalgia? No, no, no... nothing like that even though this album was my favourite Christmas present in 1971, 40 years ago (Mah God! how time flies!)... no, it's much more than that... it's a wonderful heavy riff and even though the original track on Chicago Transit Authority is magnificent in itself, this is a 15½ minutes version that really takes off, leaving Terry Kath in one of his greater moments (and there was a lot of them), sometimes with Robert Lamm treating the organ also very inspring, battling along. A great piece of music by a really talanted band that got lost in AOR hell just shortly after. How could this happen???!!!! O'
Who? Spooky Tooth Where? Spooky Two (LP, Island Records, ILPS 9098) When? 1969 Why? Because of the magnificent riff (Tony Iommi would have loved to be the one who made it), the carving-metal falsetto co-vocals (not of the BeeGees helium-voiced kind), the expressive and wonderful two minutes guitar solo. O'
