omg wtf Albert Ayler fans brace yourselve

Key features of this wonderful October surprise, per the one-sheet:

*the 9 CDs, duh
*extensive unpublished Ayler interview footage
*208 page full-color hardbound book
*all materials housed in lavish tabletop Spirit Box format:
-deluxe molded "onyx" box cast from handcarved wooden original
-packed with Ayler-related sacred possessions

there's more but really if you dig Ayler that oughta be enough. As for me, I either gotta finish the "Albert Ayler's last week on earth" novel that I started & then quit working on a couple years back or else consign the project to the dustbin

xpost strongo I have the sampler in hand & they've set the release date

Set yourself a deadline, set yourself a batch of words to work on per day, and go for it.

Mostly I'm psyched that the Coltrane funeral tapes will finally be released.

Problem is I find box sets difficult to work through. It took me months to listen to 6LPs of sound poetry and I still have not worked through the cecil taylor 10 CD box. Same with this coltrane 5LP box I got second hand.

I wuv ayler but you know, mixed feelings about buying the thing (though its a great fuck you for the hataz).

Julio, do you have the Cecil FMP thing?? Did you find it used?

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x-post: broheems I got some of the individual CDs as fasr as the FMP goes (about 5 or 6, I really wanna listen to the han bennink one but whatever really).

Right now I have the Pere Ubu box set out from the Princeton library, but I can't find it in my room...

I love box sets and make no apologies for it. "Fetishism" whatever. They're really ideally suited for jazz and blues performers and the like, where improvisation and individual voice are fundamental. Great way to sink your teeth into an artist and uncover the morphology of their art. Although, yeah, I do find the way certain of them become these hipster totems (i.e. doods who own that Goodbye Babylon or Patton box and NO OTHER BLUES) irritating. But what're you gonna do.

Musical Gigantism: Classic or Dud?

JOhn - dunno if you saw my post - how's the sound quality on the sampler? does it list any sources for the stuff? (not that it would factor in my decision to purchase, but i'm quite curious how they found the material)

the ayler thing sounds cool. revenant rules.
m.

I think 2T's is a great idea for a box...group that is working around the same thing over and over (as I recall they played 10 shows over a week in 1990 and that's what you get), does it change and if so how? does it matter if it doesn't? questions and questions bah i just wanted get a that view of cecil's art but that's one thing and then sitting down with it is another.

is sven-erik geddes going to do the liners?

(From this http://www.jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?t=5204 amusingly named site).

ALBERT AYLER
HOLY GHOST
REVENANT RVN CD 213
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2004

DISC ONE:

Herbert Katz Quintet w/Albert Ayler
June 19, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland
1. Sonnymoon for Two (8:35)
2. Summertime (6:55)
3. On Green Dolphin Street (3:30)

Cecil Taylor Quartet w/Albert Ayler
November 16, 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark
1. spoken intro (4:33)
2. Four (21:44)

Albert Ayler Trio
June 14, 1964 in New York City
6. untitled, ends with "Saints" (6:39)
7. Saints (10:20)
8. Ghosts (10:50)

DISC TWO:

Albert Ayler Trio
June 14, 1964 in New York City
1. The Wizard (6:39)
2. Children (9:17)
3. Spirits (0:58)

Albert Ayler Quartet
September 3, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark
4. Spirits (9:40)
5. Vibrations (8:14)
6. untitled (9:09)
7. Mothers (7:53)
8. Children (8:30)
9. Spirits (1:24)

Burton Greene Ensemble w/Albert Ayler
Jan/Feb 1966 in New York City
10. untitled (9:08)

DISC THREE:

Albert Ayler Quintet
April 16, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
1. spoken intro (1:00)
2. Spirits Rejoice (4:41)
3. D.C. (6:09)
4. untitled (7:04)
5. Our Prayer (6:50)
6. spoken intro (0:25)
7. untitled (16:01)
8. Ghosts (6:35)

Albert Ayler Quintet
April 17, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
9. Spirits Rejoice (6:47)
10: Medley: Prophet - Ghosts - Spiritual Bells (15:05)
11. Our Prayer (10:07)

DISC FOUR:

Albert Ayler Quintet
April 17, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
1. untitled / Truth Is Marching In (16:19)
2. Spirits (9:40)
3. Medley: Zion Hill - Spirits - Spiritual Bells (22:34)
4. untitled (9:38)

DISC FIVE:

Albert Ayler Quintet
November 3, 1966 in Berlin, Germany
1. spoken intro (1:18)
2. Ghosts / Bells (11:10)
3. Truth Is Marching In (7:30)
4. Omega (3:50)
5. Our Prayer (4:19)

Albert Ayler Quintet
November 8, 1966 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
6. spoken intro (1:23)
7. Truth Is Marching In (10:33)
8. Bells (5:43)
9. Spirits Rejoice (10:25)
10. Free Spiritual Musics Part IV (7:04)

DISC SIX:

Albert Ayler Quintet
June 30/July 1, 1967 in Newport, Rhode Island
1. Truth Is Marching In / Omega (9:36)
2. Japan / Universal Indians (5:57)
3. Our Prayer (8:30)

Albert Ayler Quartet
July 21, 1967 ("Coltrane Funeral") in New York City
4. Love Cry / Truth Is Marching In / Our Prayer (6:20)

Pharoah Sanders Ensemble w/Albert Ayler
5. Venus / Upper and Lower Egypt (22:30)

Albert Ayler
ca. late August 1968 in New York area
6. untitled blues (6:17)
7. untitled sermon (1:45)
8. Thank God for Women (10:22)
9. New Ghosts (demo fragments) (6:06)

DISC SEVEN:

Don Ayler Sextet w/Albert Ayler
January 11, 1969 in New York City
1. Prophet John (10:51)
2. Judge Ye Not (10:31)

Albert Ayler Quartet
July 28, 1970 in Villages Vacances Tourisme, St. Paul de Vence, France
3. Mothers/Children (8:35)
4. untitled (14:29)
5. untitled (5:20)
6. untitled (10:55)

DISC EIGHT:

1. Albert Ayler interview with Birger Jørgensen, ca. early December 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark (5:20)
2. Albert Ayler interview with Birger Jørgensen, November 11, 1966 in Copenhagen, Denmark (5:31)
3. Albert Ayler interview with Daniel Caux, July 27, 1970 in St. Paul de Vence, France (38:54)

DISC NINE:

1. Albert Ayler interview with Kiyoshi Koyama, July 25, 1970 in St. Paul de Vence, France (58:21)
2. Don Cherry interview with Daniel Caux, unknown date in St. Paul de Vence, France (17:42)

here's the tracklisting, pls. excuse any typos:

DISC ONE
Herbert Katz Quintet w/Albert Ayler:
June 19, 1962 in Helsinki, Finland
1. Sonnymoon for Two
2. Summertime
3. On Green Dolphin Street

Cecil Taylor Quartet w/Albert Ayler:
November 16 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark
4. spoken intro
5. Four

Albert Ayler Trio
June 14, 1964 in New York City
6. untitled; ends with "Spirits"
7. Saints
8. Ghosts

DISC TWO
Albert Ayler Trio:
June 14 1964 in New York City
1. The Wizard
2. Children
3. Spirits

Albert Ayler Quartet:
September 3. 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark
4. Spirits
5. Vibrations
6. untitled
7. Mothers
8. Children
9. Spirits

Burton Greene Quintet w/Albert Ayler:
Jan/Feb 1966 in New York City
10. Untitled

DISC THREE
Albert Ayler Quintet
April 16, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
1. spoken intro
2. Spirits Rejoice
3. D.C.
4. untitled
5. Our Prayer
6. spoken intro
7. untitled
8. Ghosts

Albert Ayler Quintet:
April 17, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
9. Spirits Rejoice
10. Medley:
Prophets - Ghosts - Spiritual Bells
11. Our Prayer

DISC FOUR
Albert Ayler Quintet:
April 17, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
1. untitled/Truth is Marching In
2. Spirits
3. Medley:
Zion Hill - Spirits - Spiritual Bells
4. untitled

DISC FIVE
Albert Ayler Quintet:
November 3. 1966 in Berlin, Germany
1. spoken intro
2. Ghosts/Bells
3. Truth is Marching In
4. Omega
5. Our Prayer

Albert Ayler Quintet:
November 8, 1966 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
6. spoken intro
7. Truth is Marching In
8. Bells
9. Spirits Rejoice
10. Free Spiritual Musics Part IV

DISC SIX
Albert Ayler Quintet:
June 30/July 1, 1967 in Newport, Rhode Island
1. Truth is Marching In/Omega
2. Japan/Universal Indians
3. Our Prayer

Albert Ayler Quartet:
July 21, 1967 ("Coltrane Funeral") in New York City
4. Love Cry/Truth is Marching In/Our Prayer

Pharoah Sanders Ensemble w/Albert Ayler:
January 21, 1968 in New York City
5. Venus/Upper and Lower Egypt

Albert Ayler:
ca. late August, 1968 in New York area
6. untitled blues
7. untitled sermon
8. Thank God for Women
9. New Ghosts [demo fragments]

DISC SEVEN

Don Ayler Sextet w/Albert Ayler:
January 11. 1969 in New York City
1. Prophet John
2. Judge Ye Not

Albert Ayler Quartet:
July 28, 1970 in Villages Vacances Tourismew, St. Paul de Vence, France
3. Mothers/Children
4. untitled
5. untitled
6. untitled

Discs eight and nine are interviews, some of them featuring video of performance one supposes: the interviews are all individually listed on the one-sheet

xpost you mean I spent all this time typing that up? shit

I am so ready for this box NOW

Really intrigued by those Cleveland shows...

Julio, i have stalled on the first disc of "For Christian Wolff"- when am i going to have 3 and a half gours to listen to it properly i wonder? plus you pretty much have to be not doing anything when you listen to Feldman. Much appreciated though and i WILL get there.

I hope there's some footage too. I know the BBC recorded some but it was destroyed.

jed- See the thing abt 'for christian wolff' is that I don't think of it as a box-set but as a 3CD set. I think I set sometime for feldman during easter/christmas break. I can't do much while listening to any record (used to but I think my brane has shrunk over the last year or two), really, which is another problem.

If there really is existing Ayler performance footage...wow.

-- mentalist (pete...) (webmail), June 10th, 2004 6:05 AM. (mentalist) (later) (link)
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i think there is a bit of that, too. not like heavy literary exegesis, though, i hope.

"what patton is singing about here is the transgressive power of the 'id' in a postmodern milieu."

i can't believe some of you are whining about having TOO MUCH Ayler to wade through. Gee whiz, what'll I do with a house full of ice cream, puppy dogs, and cheerleaders wearing Pink Floyd t shirts? Heavens!

Life's too good, bros.

Anyway I'm psyched.

i'm gonna go put on the music is the healing... lp and get further psyched

The thing has to be seen (and held in your sweaty hands) to be believed. Seriously, there is no fucking contest: box of the year, if not the decade, just for packaging alone. I'm not an Ayler obsessive, but this thing might make me one.

-- Begs2Differ (expresso222...) (webmail), September 1st, 2004 4:39 PM. (Begs2Differ) (later) (link)
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revenant didn't give out promos of the patton box either. just a one-cd sampler thing. i think there might have been a few promos of the beefheart box though.

i suppose it costs a lot to create such luscious packaging, but even so i sort of resent that all of these boxes revenant has put out are so far outside my price range. they are rivalled only by bear family in that regard.

The address Mr. Thomas would like you to use is in fact directors@ubuprojex.net

I can confirm that there was a single disc promo for this box.

And I haven't had time to write about this properly for the blog yet but what they're saying above is true; skip eating for a week to buy this box set.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0441/davis.php

Jandek - 'The Myth of Presence'

20 CDs of unreleased Jandek in a "spirit box". Includes hardback book printed on saffron stock, 'America, Thomas Paine, Elvis and Jandek", by Greil Marcus.

Pre-orders being accepted at Amazon.com and the Smithsonian Institute for Tenuous American Studies NOW!!!

It is a black plastic box containing nine discs, a partial facsimile edition of an issue of "The Cricket," the magazine of which Amiri Baraka was one of the editors, and an oblong, hardcover, 208-page book of essays and data, tracking Ayler's life up, down and sideways. There are copies of a snapshot depicting the prepubescent Albert with saxophone and of a flyer from the nightclub Slug's along with a real pressed flower in a plastic sleeve. It feels funereal, like something that should be buried with the body. Or mutely symbolic, like some totem in a dream.

disk 6 blew my *mind* last night.

Anyway, Stollman told me ESP-Disk is preparing its own lavish Ayler box, which he claims will be in the neighborhood of (actually, he used the words "at least" and I had a tiny heart attack) 10 discs and will include video material, unreleased liveage, and stuff previously available on Euro labels but now re-captured, rights-wise, by the Ayler estate. Plus, I'm guessing, significant chunks of the extant ESP-Disk Ayler catalogue. He says he's trying to get it out by the fall.

Just thought I'd set some folks to droolin'.

i feel like there should be a separate thread established simply for the purposes of yearning for the revenant box. if there already is one of these, please point me to it.

can't stop listening - day / night / awake / sleeping / driving / eating / right now

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING THAT BLUEMAN POSTED A LINK TO?? WTF? HOW DO I GET ONE?? POST MY ADDRESS TO THAT SINGAPORE EMAIL LIST?? F THAT/ WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

He has a lovely speaking voice.

so did any more of this ever come out on vinyl? I have the 3LP on Revenant (catalog # 6011) but that can't be all of it.

O_O

There are TWO Ayler boxes?! Get with it, Rabies.

Did anything ever come of the planned ESP box mentioned upthread?

And I think that was indeed all of the cd box that was released on vinyl (my wife got me a copy of that for xmas two years ago).

The other 2 vinyls never came out as far as i know.

bummer, another great lost Revenant project.

As posted in the Revenant Records thread...

A heads up for those in the UK that the distributor Cargo is doing the Albert Ayler "Holy Ghost" box set on Revenant at a special mid price to be released on July 28th (along with the Charley Patton "Screamin' & Hollerin' The Blues" box set).

Given the dealer price, they should retail for about £35 each, depending on the shop's mark up, so it's a pretty major saving from the normal price (and they're generally not even in stock at Cargo either).

So, if you're at all interested then definitely get along to your favourite local independent record shop and encourage them to order copies from Cargo. I'm definitely jumping at the chance for both box sets; can't resist a price like that.

Roll on the end of July.

Man I love Ayler but I will def be getting the Patton set first.

Ooftae I will be getting in on that.

Already own it :)

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=12;1;5;26&sku=224393

Got this cheap last year - like 30 ber. Such a pretty box set, what with the pressed flower and pic of him as a tyke and all. So necessary. So ace

It's an unmissable price. I can't wait for the end of the month.

The Charley Patton box is there for the same price too, as mentioned above in the first thread-revive post.

managed to pick this up for the amazing bargain price of a fiver from amazon shops last month. it's absolutely gorgeous. I was almost scared to play the CDs, lest I mar its perfection.

It's a pity that Ayler never did "Unchained Melody."

Gonna get this.

Got the Charlie Patton already. Paid distributor price for it so I don't feel too bad it's going cheap now.

Arse...

Due to an extended holiday by the chaps at Revenant these box sets [Charley Patton & Albert Ayler] will now be delayed and released mid to late August…as soon as we have confirmation of the date then we’ll let you know…

...from Cargo

Arse indeed!

Ah, well.

Man I love Ayler but I will def be getting the Patton set first.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 23 June 2008 22:23 (3 weeks ago) Link

otm

They arrived! Cargo came through in the end.

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v0/p1001731043-3.jpg

It's out of stock at the moment. But don't worry, we're doing all we can to get it to you as quickly as possible. Plus, we won't charge you until it's in the post. If you'd prefer not to wait, login to My Account at hmv.com to cancel your order.

BOOOOOOO

Much did you pay?
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£40 suckers! Yes for both.

<does a primitive blues/free jazz style Friday night party dance>

Play.com is charging £29.99 for the Ayler

As I think i said upthread I got my Ayler box when it came out.

These have to be the best £40 I've ever spent.

cant remember what i paid, thought it was really cheap though..

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ARGH

Is this actually in stock anywhere?

Back-ordered, etc. . .

I don't know about online stocks (it's not looking good though from a quick search), but my copies arrived at the shop yesterday on my day off and were a mighty pleasant surprise on my arrival this morning.

Apparently a customer had seen copies in the local HMV too, so it may be worth checking your local bricks & mortar shops, particularly any smaller independents that might have got privileged treatment from Cargo if they only had limited quantities to actually send out.

you're always on a day off. everytime i go in youre not there.

Ha, I seriously wish that were the case - a mighty 2 days off a week, as per any minimum wage full-time master-bag monkey. You need to stop dropping by on Tuesdays and Thursdays is the problem... I'm an elusive one...

I might be in next week or the week after. Depends on if there's a nice sunny day so I feel like popping in to Glasgow. You getting the Pentemple lp in?

I'm not sure, as I don't handle SRD (the SL distributor) personally, but if there's any available through the normal channels then I'd expect us to get 1 or 2 (although the CD didn't do all that well for us, surprisingly).

I preferred the ascend ( i bought that cd) but I waited to get this on vinyl, now the Ascend is getting a vinyl release after all *sigh*. Southern Lord keep doing that to me.

i normally wouldn't be such a twat, but calling Patton "primitive blues" does him a severe disservice. His work is among the most accomplished/sophisticated Delta blues of any decade.

My apologies, I did waver on whether it was the right adjective, but couldn't think of anything better in the moment.

I blame the American Primitive CDs.

ian is the new Amateurist :) but of course he is totally OTM. Patton is a more sophisticated guitarist than ... oh hell, who knows... let's just start with every "southern lord" douchebag that has been slavishly referenced in the last few posts. "southern lord" , my god, who gives a fuck

stormy davis is the old stormy davis

The dried flower is a nice touch.

yeah, isn't it?

I mentioned on the rolling vinyl thread that I sold a Jay Reatard 7" on eBay and bought this with the proceeds. Since I got the single from my local store for like 4 bucks, I figured I was obligated to kick back.

I really love the repro of the Slug's flyer that also lists Sun Ra and other luminaries, all playing within the same week.

Got the Ayler boxed set finally ($48 via Caiman and another $50 for Screamin'/Hollerin' which should arrive soon enough) and this is the most gorgeous elaborate boxed set I've ever seen. Seriously beautiful. Music is pretty amazing so far too, but I think it's going to take me a while to get through everything in here.

urgh! only $50 for the Patton set? Where'd you find that price? Amazon Marketplace doesn't have it for that low ... And yeah, the Ayler set is wonderful, musically/aesthetically ... I've never bought the Patton set becuz it is so expensive and I have pretty much everything music-wise. But I still wannnnnnt it.

I brace myself everytime I see this thread at the top of the page

Caiman was listing Ayler at $45.49 and Patton at $47.92 for about three seconds. They filled the former immediately (it took three weeks to arrive though) and the latter last week (I'll get it before X-Mas hopefully.) Shipping $5.96 total.

Music is pretty amazing so far too, but I think it's going to take me a while to get through everything in here.

It gets better. Then it gets dramatically worse. Then a little better.

My question is, when the hell's the DVD of My Name Is Albert Ayler coming out?

Haha well I didn't start at the beginning so I am going for the high first.

Finally got this after years of coveting it (remember when this thread was first posted). Ayler makes me so happy. Listening with interest.

Ghosts
Spirits
Children
Saints
Mothers
Vibrations
Bells

Those my friends are titles.