Oax Pick - Alternative Christmas Album # 4 - Milk Illusion

Milk Illusion - Demo EP (2011)
Why not? Keep the family close, one day they might be the ones who pay your bills.
www.myspace.com/milkillusionband
O'

Oax Pick - Alternative Christmas Album # 3 - John Mayall

John Mayall - Back to the Roots (2 LP 1971)
The voice, the playing, the strong songs, the huge ability to find right musicians for his music.... Say no more.
(This posting dedicated to TC3)
O'

Oax Pick - Alternative Christmas Album # 2 - First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit - The Big Black & The Blue (2010)
Two sisters, Klara & Johanna Söderberg, performing lovely weird folk tunes, inspired by people like Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes & Bright Eyes.... but, wait... They're much better than being inspired copycats. Mighty original with wonderful vocal harmonies and strong tunes. Their future has just started.
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Oax Pick - Alternative Christmas Album # 1 - Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head & The Sky (2009)
When this great artist returned to the music scene it was with a brave and experimental album combining freesinging tunes with beautiful melodies. Yoko sings, Sean Lennon produces and plays together with a handful mainly Japanese great musicians.
An album that makes the day.
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Joxfield ProjeX BnP's Investigation recycled

There are some guy John Tocher having a pretty interesting album project called Sadayatana.
On a new release, Sadayatana 051: Black City he's presenting a 3 hour set of compiled music to which he has added mystic sounds, field recordings, effects, etc.
One of the tracks used is "Investigation" from JP cult album Bits & Pieces.

You can download John's effort from

http://www.archive.org/details/Sadayatana051

And don't forget the original source:

http://www.archive.org/details/ca241_jpx



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Oax Pick - Mount Everest Trio

Waves from Albert Ayler (LIM LP 1975)(Atavistic CD 2000)

Finally, at last, brought to my sublime collection of great music, this masterpiece of Swedish, openminded free jazz. Three musical masterminds from Gothenburg together as a trio; Gilbert Holmström on saxes is blowing my head off with his brilliant and intensive clever play, Kjell Jansson on double bass is stable as a rock, sometimes letting the bassnotes fly like a bird over the rock instead of being one, and Conny "Bonke-Conny" Sjökvist on drums was probably born on a drummers chair, presenting rhythms and polyrhythms as a most natural force from him. Three musicains, one body. I once had the vinyl version, but it was lost and if it ever is on sale it's for huge amounts on money, a couple of hundred dollars or so. The CD re-issue from Canadian Atavist do have three bonus track recorded in 1978 which for once makes the CD version superior to the LP (Hmmmm). Also hard to get and you have to be prepared to open up you wallet a bit. The replica of the LP cover do have a mark of a price tag in the upper right corner (which wasn't a part of the original cover design). Charming, but it also shows how hard it is to get a copy of the original.
Liner notes by Mats Gustafsson. Anyone surprised?
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Tin Can Music Netlabel

Tin Can Music has for years been a low profile label used as a tool for strict limited CDR self-releases by Joxfield ProjeX.
This will continue.

But, Tin Can Music has also transformed into a Netlabel with the ability to mainly release Joxfield ProjeX music for free to thoses who don't want to share their money with us.

Joxfield ProjeX will constantly continue to move around exploring sounds in the fields of psychedelic, space rock, kraut, improvised, electric, electronic, progressive, free from, ambient, noise, jazz, spoken word, and more.

Stay vital, keep informed!

O'

Teasers: www.myspace.com/joxfieldprojex
Old stuff: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=joxfield%20projex
Contact: oax.joxfield@gmail.com

Joxfield ProjeX - VoxLuxRabax (Tin Can Music Netlabel 2011)

We're proud to present:

Joxfield ProjeX – VoxLuxRabax
(Tin Can Music VLR)

2011

01. Lingering Above 10.03
02. Abandoned Asteroid – Space Journey 10.15
03. Ola & The Jugglers 14.40
04. Cats Sing Strange Songs 16.53

This is Joxfield ProjeX’ new release.
It’s psychedelic music, it’s kraut and space. There are even some brutal ambient.
It’s created through free form minds, sometimes within frames of steady beats, sometimes not.
It’s very electric.

Yan plays keyboard, program heavy drums, add some weird sounds here and there.
Oax play guitar, sometimes with ebow, sometimes just punch it and see what happens.

Most of the music is recorded live at Kolpebo, Sweden, with few overdubs and edits.
Production, sounds & visions by Joxfield ProjeX 2009-2011

This music should be played with full attention at any volume you like.



Find it here:

http://archive.org/details/JoxfieldProjex-VoxluxrabaxtinCanMusicVlr2011

Hallow's Night

A somewhat weird kind of video of Airwaves Joxfield's "Hallow's Night".
Recorded as a collaboration tune a couple of years ago.
Who's done the video? No idea.
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Lost Track # 1

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.
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Dragons on Radio Amarna

If you can't get enough of old Joxfield ProejX' tunes?
Try Radio Amarna, the great Independent Internet Radio Of The University Of Akhet-Aten.
In this months program "Dragons Fly in the Night" from Concret Letters A-M.
Joxfield ProjeX guested by Geoff Leigh in an inspired mood; singing, playing soprano sax & flute, arranging the brass - it's a great moment!
Find it here in the 3rd part of the show:

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

Thanks to Johannes Bearlap for great and constant support

O'

Terrascope Rumbles August 2011

Anyone addicted to the Rumbles reviews from yours truely?
Last third part of the selected section
Get it immediately at
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_August_11.htm
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Numbers & Letters in Terrascope

Yours truely's favourite on-line magazine Terrascope offers this month a nice review of Numbers & Letters.
A new album by Joxfield? Oh, no, but a classic is a classic (hehe), nothing we can do anything about.
ThanX to Simon Lewis for nice words like these:

"Featuring the talents of Yan and Oax, Oxfield Projex latest offering is a sprawling triple CD-R collection the includes elements of Kosmiche Music, electronics, drone, experimental sounds and psychedelia, all blended skilfully to create a sound of their own. Those wondering about the Terrascope link may be interested to know that Oax is better known as Stefan Ek, whose delightful prose have graced the Rumbles column on several occasions and, hopefully, will do so again.

Moving swiftly on, disc one, entitled “Abstract Numbers” contains 10 pieces of music that feature guitars, synths, efx, samples and various manipulations, each has a similar feel, although there is enough variety to hold the listeners interest, with the stop/start strangeness of “have I Been Here Before” and the bubbly cut-up nature of “A Secret Door” catching my ear, whilst “balinese Jig” contains some excellent guitar noises within its grooves.

Moving on to disc two, entitled “Concrete Letters A-M”, we are greeted by the electronic groove of “In The Garden of Eden”, a Heavy bass line getting your head nodding as a Soprano sax, dances spasmodically around the room. On “Kenji Self-Unit” there is a definite Fripp influence present, whilst the excellent “Electric Apple” is a fine slice of modern psych, with more wonderful guitar playing. To be honest, the whole disc crackles with vitality, the arrangement and melodies ensuring the music shines out, alive and ready to free your mind.

Last but not least, Disc three, “Concrete Letters N-Z”, not only maintains the quality of what has gone before but actually raises it, to my mind the strongest of the three discs. First highlight is “Ruff and Tough”, a glorious wave of noise, guitars and “Wild Organ” competing to out manoeuvre each other over a solid rock beat and burbling electronics, the mood softened by the following track “Mind the Gap”, which shimmers gorgeously, with some great vocal samples adding a devotional edge. This is the perfect bridge between the noise of the previous track and the delightfully relaxing mood of “Shimmering Aohm”, the guitar just drifting in a haze, whilst subdued beats add a heartbeat to the proceeding. After the Kraut-rock roar of “Silent Night-Night Silence”, there is a strong Gong feel to the space-psych of “The Entropy is Strong” which features some wonderful flute playing, the disc finally brought to a close by “No Kro Poh”, a fragile piece with sitar, soft vocals and samples of rain, thunder and fire, sweet ambience indeed.

There you have it, Not only do these guys write for the Terrascope, they also find time to write and record some damn fine music, give them a listen, at least, they surely would appreciate it. (Simon Lewis)"

(http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_August_11.htm#Joxfield)

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

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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!!!

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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....

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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

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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!

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