Not just a store, DMG is also a label.
Two Momentous Releases out now ON OUR OWN DMG/ARC label – we re SO PROUD!
RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/WILLIAM PARKER/HAMID DRAKE – DMG @ The Stone Vol 2: December 26 2006 DMG ARC 722; USA
The second in our series of CDs recorded at the DMG New Music Magic Mystery Festival at The StONE IN December 2006. The final week of our festival began on Tuesday, December 26th with Raoul Bjorkenheim, William Parker and Hamid Drake, another first time meeting. Raoul is a member of the explosive Scorch Trio, ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING JAZZ/ROCK/NOISE POWER TRIOS TO EMERGE FROM Scandinavia and was ONCE IN A GREAT QUARTET CALLED Krakatau ECM . Raoul asked that we help put him together with his dream rhythm team: William and Hamid! The gig, well attended, was explosive throughout. Raoul also played his electric viol da gamba, as well as an electric mando/guitar. Raoul looked like a kid who wON THE LOTTERY AND JUMPED AROUND WITH GLEE, OVERWHELMED TO BE PLAYING WITH TWO OTHER GIANTS WHO WORK SO WELL TOGETHER. As William and Hamid cONTINUALLY WHIPPED UP A RHYTHM STORM, Raoul took ONE FURIOUS SOLO AFTER ANOTHER. Two incredible sets – the best parts of which are captured ON THIS CD, which has been in CONTINUOUS PLAY ON MY HOME PLAYER FOR TWO WEEKS! Mannylunch joins me in saying a very loud All Thumbs Up! – BLG
CURLEW GEORGE CARTWRIGHT/TOM CORA/NICKY SKOPELITIS/BILL LASWELL/BILL BACON or DENARDO COLEMAN – Curlew 1st Album Live at CBGB 1980 2 CD set DMG ARC 704; USA
DISC ONE: The legendary first self-titled album by Curlew, initially released by Landslide on LP in 1981 and out-of-PRINT ever since, with the original lineup of saxophONIST/COMPOSER/LEADER George Cartwright, Tom Cora ON CELLO AND DEVICES, Nicky Skopelitis ON GUITAR, Bill Laswell ON BASS, AND Bill BacON ON DRUMS. This incredible record, originally released by Landslide in the U.S. and U.K., has never before been released on CD anywhere! BONUS MATERIAL ON THIS DISC INCLUDES SIX MORE CUTS FROM ONE OF THEIR EARLIEST LIVE GIGS AT CBGB on February 6th 1980, previously unreleased in any format! two other tracks from this gig are included as part of the original album sequence
DISC TWO: Previously unreleased in any format! A complete 64 minute set from CBGB on October 1st 1980, with almost the same lineup, except Denardo Coleman from Ornette s Prime Time, and Jayne Cortez Firespitters is ON DRUMS!
From the liner notes: George Cartwright formed Curlew in 1979 .. immediately attracting the brightest and best legends-to-be to his side. Bill Laswell paid his dues in R&B rhythm sectiONS ALONG THE East Coast, first coming to prominence in New York GONG WHICH DEBUTED AT Daevid Allen s ZU Festival, where George, Bill, Nicky, Fred Frith and so many others first met. Bill later transformed NYG into Material . Nicky Skopelitis was a shy but mONSTROUSLY TALENTED GUITARIST AND OUD PLAYER. Tom Cora had worked with Karl Berger, Eugene Chadbourne, and Andrea Centazzo, extending the language of cello. Bill BacON WAS FORMERLY OF Flying Island, and a student of world percussiON UNDER Collin Walcott.
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