FMP questions

this would be a great time for an FMP search/destroy thread as well.

''The "I hate all things Nick Cain-related" thread or whatever it was called led me to discover the FMP online site.''

So all is not lost. That thread was actually worth something (hey, george, I posted a reply to your, er...attack on my 2 listens method- you'll see that you kinda misread me).

FMP- postal charges. Don't know abt that one but I've been concentrating on the Cecil 'In berlin '88 releases. There are at least 10 CDs. I got 7 so far and they are all in Black with title/particpants in white.

Though he has other releases on that label.

After that I intend to go after Peter Brotzmann who has many releases on there. I got a reissue 'Nipples' from a session in '68/69 (not on FMP) so I'll need some more soon.

Does anyone know of other really nice releases on that label that don't involve those two. What abt Hans Reichel?

Hans Reichel: I love his duet album with Tom Cora (Angel Carver, FMP 15). The solo daxophone operetta "Shanghaied on Tor Road" remains one of the most unlistenable albums I know of.

Other faves that aren't Brotzmann/Taylor: "Duets" (CD 19/20) - Fuchs/Koch/Sclavis/(Evan) Parker "Comite Imaginaire" - Holz Fur Europa "Et On Ne Parle Pas Du Temps" - Louis Sclavis/Ernst Reijseger

In general, I've found the solo albums a bit of a slog, but anything with two or more players to be incredibly worthwhile.

can you give us a link doug?

i thought i owned loads of fmps but now i look i don't

I love Hans Reichel's solo alb 'The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir' - it's not a 'hard slog' at all, particularly if you already dig Derek Bailey, or 'Guitar Solos' by Fred Frith. FMP reissued 'Ymir' on CD along w/ another Reichel solo alb, 'Bonobo Beach'.

Also search: 'Machine Gun' by The Peter Brotzmann Octet, natch.

Mark,

No problem: http://www.fmp-online.de

i don't hate all things related to Nick -- no RATHER it's just a case of a magazine of VERY INTERESTING music being edited very flippantly and self-indulgently in that indie-kid-esque "i'm well informed -- word, from the wise guy" way, the least deserving of such music seeming to me to be the fmp type stuff

i have no problem with his delegation of reveiw duties in 70% of cases but i think a reveiw by Nick is untrustworthy given his record so far as documented in _his_ magazine opprobrium of smug scenester nepotism and whanna-be-dandy dilettanteism

please do not let me or him put you off the music and please do take into account the level of musical history and actual knowledge and actual enthusiasm inherent/apparent in each of the reviews, of which i think 70% are very good, given the music itself and the art politics unfortunately linked in (often by opprobrium itself but often simply an element of the music)

but there isn't so much music politics in fmp as they're a small label trying to do CD justice to an immensely sympathetic approach to recording and so also a seemingly necessary and significant back catalog

i've had best luck simply using http://www.cadencebuilding.com

One very good, and usually overlooked, FMP release dates from the late seventies - "Und?" by Radu Malfatti (trombone) and Stephen Wittwer (guitar). Years ahead of its time, as the cliche goes; as with Malfatti's work in general (excluding his post-'93 stuff) a very shrewd mix of humour and silence with an underlying romanticism.

This reminds me that I owe Julio a potted guide to Radu Malfatti from a request he made months back; I haven't forgotten and will get round to it eventually, promise.

Cheers Marcello, I look forward to it.