Elliott Sharp: S&D

he did a great LP on SST with the Soldier String Quartet called Tesselation Row (haha do you SEE!!)

In fact he was the best thing on SST: discuss.

Heard of him but thanks to yr thread just checked a website. A massive discog. Tesselation row is indeed a string quartet! And On SST!

I'll buy it if I find this (is it out of print?).

One of the artists that's too damn prolific for his own good. I say this as a listener wanting easy access to the good stuff, of course -- being that damn prolific is probably the best way to make a decent living as an avant-gardist.

My flatmate used to have that Elliot Sharp alb, and I used to have the Rhys Chatham rec that Homestead brought out at the same sorta time - both gone from the flat now, tho' I miss the Sharp more than the Chatham. Both of 'em weird hardcore rec label attempts to expand the music's vocab - but prob. too little too late...

But NOT the best rec ever released on SST (that wld be, ho hum, 'Double Nickel On The Dimes' prob.)

See, this is why I read The Wire. This guy sounds really interesting.

Can anyone do a POV/POX?

I've just downloaded Carbon 'Amusia' and this is really exiting my ears, what should I spend some money on? I'm equally as open to rock orientated stuff as I am his larger scale things. The Wire reccommends these:

Carbon - Monster Curve, Amusia
Terraplane - Blues For Next
Orchestra Carbon - Radiolaria
Elliott Sharp and Reinhold Friedl - Anostalgia
Elliott Sharp - Velocity of Hue, Radio Hyper-Yahoo

Anything else that I should check out?

I don't know most of these but Abstract Repressionism is a remarkable, essential album. Noise and dissonance are sculpted masterfully into an almost symphonic form and set to heavy beats too. I think it would definitely be of interest to fans of Japanese noise/prog stuff. I've also enjoyed a lot of his improv stuff. I have Terraplane, one of his rock/blues things. It's OK.

AR is with Orchestra Carbon, BTW.

(It can be a little challenging to make it through the whole thing in one sitting, mind, but still there's lots of great stuff there.)