Street date August 17th, 2010

We are extremely happy to announce that the new Eli Kezler and Talibam! vinyl releases have arrived!

Eli Keszler - Oxtirn - Limited edition 300 LPs - Silk-screened, hand-numbered poster featuring artwork by Eli  Keszler - Free digital download included - Includes digital only bonus track - FLAC or 320 kbps DRM-Free MP3s Oxtirn is a truly unique and powerful blend of free energy, modern composition and mechanical music that defies genre. With two proper full lengths and an array of self-releases under his belt, Eli Keszler has turned to ESP-Disk for the release of Oxtirn, his third, most composed and large scale effort to date.  Capturing Keszler and crew at their most frenetic, Oxtirn abruptly spills out into a cacophony of tuned brass, squeaking rust, and electrically shorting contact mics, taking the detritus of post-industrial existence (sheet metal, spring boards and motors wrenched from their initial hearths) and transforming that refuse into a twenty-first century musique-concrete orchestra. On the album’s initial track, motors tumble across prepared sheets of metal as expertly placed squalls of bowed string and what could only be described as the sounds of a phantom brass band (courtesy of multiple horn player Andrew Fenlon and Keszler’s longstanding partner Ashley Paul on clarinet) mesh transcendentally with Keszler’s precise percussion and bursts of controlled chaos.  Side B sees Eli and sonic artist Sakiko Mori on both prepared and installed pianos; as the two furiously scrape and agitate strings with a mix of switch-operated motors, contact mics and suspended preparations, slowly undulating resonant clusters float on top of the underlying din, creating a striking contrast. Here, the eerie timbre of Keszler’s bowed crotales recall Italian futurist Luigi Russolo’s Intonarumori and the string quartets of Dumitrescu. Accompanying each digital release is an eye popping and dizzying visual score that proves Oxtirn, despite sounding wholly improvised, is a meticulously micromanaged piece of sound sculpture.  In addition to the score, each digital release boasts an extra track with Keszler on “metal configurations”.  The vinyl is limited to 300 copies and comes packaged with a beautiful, hand-screened poster featuring original artwork by Eli Keszler.

TOUR DATES Aug 17, 2010 Oxtirn Record Release at Bowery Poetry Club New York, NY Sep 3, 2010 ON LAND Festival with Ashley Paul San Francisco, CA Sep 19, 2010 Sonic Circuits Festival Washington D.C.

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ESP 4065 Talibam! – Cosmoplitude - Limited edition 45rpm 7″ - Brand new singles - Co-released with Electric Cowbell - Digital download included Cosmoplitude is a sexy, ultra-limited-edition 45rpm 7″ single co-released by ESP Disk’ and Electric Cowbell Records. This historic album not only marks Talibam’s first-ever single and 20th record, but also ESP’s first single in their legendary 40+ years as a vanguard label. Side A’s ‘Cruisin the Cooke Isle’ and side B’s ‘Cosmic Attidude’ are ready for Dj spins on Milano fashion runways, in Brooklyn punk basements, or at hot tub parties from Vegas to Tibet… Ka-ching + Ohm = KA-BONE! Cosmoplitude is a transcendent, compassionate cosmic attitude emanating from and permeating through everything — space/places/animals/stimuli/desires/gut feelings. If you can catch on to the cosmop, the obstacle course of notated expectations, shifting brightness and energy standards, daily costume changes, uber-media-mind-chip commentary, and cultural/political flux will all suddenly transform into an inspired/extinguished altered state of disjointed iconic impressions giving birth to positive urban countenance and lavish peace. Talibam’ Cosmoplitude will improve your own personal cosmoplitude, GUARANTEED. TOUR DATES Sep 1, 2010 Record Release @ Zebulon New York, NY

It’s time to make room for our new fall releases and the perfect chance to pick up some ESP-Disks at ridiculously cheap prices. This sale runs for just 12 days (until Monday August 9th), so get them while they last!

In addition to the sale items, we are proud to offer a fine selection of vintage ESP vinyl for the collector in you family.

Happy summer everybody!

ESP LIVE & Issue Project Room Present…

The 1st Annual
Albert Ayler Festival
Record Fair & Musical Celebration

Saturday July 10th, 2010

Sun Ra – College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is…

In 1966 Bernard Stollman sent Sun Ra and his Arkestra, along with audio engineer David B. Jones on a tour of five New York Colleges. When they returned, just 39 mintues of music was chosen to be released as the original ESP 1045 “Nothing Is…”. 44 years later, after extensive research, producer and Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson has pieced together the missing parts of the infamous New York College Tour. Recorded on May 18th 1966 at St. Lawrence University in Potsdam, NY, this illuminating document represents the full 70 minute first set, of which ESP 1045 “Nothing Is…” was taken, including an introduction by ESP alum Burton Greene. In addition, producer Michael D. Anderson has uncovered a partial second set from the same evening and some rare rehearsal footage recorded during a sound check before the concert. With over 90 minutes of additional material, this two disc set allows a close up look at the band’s repertoire and sound over an entire evening, including the rarely performed State Street and alternate versions of Theme Of The Stargazers and The Second Stop Is Jupiter. Remasted from the original tapes and presented in superb quality, College Tour Volume One is a vivid snapshot of the mid-sixties Ra and his intergalactic band.

Personnel: Sun Ra: piano, John Gilmore: tenor sax, Marshall Allen: alto sax, Pat Patrick: baritone sax, Robert Cummings: baritone clarinet, Teddy Nance: trombone, Ali Hassan: trombone, Clifford Jarvis: drums, Ronnie Boykins: bass, tuba, James Jackson: log drum, flute, Carl Nimrod: sun horn, gong

“The vitality that made this music invigorating and challenging is as palpable today as it was almost forty years ago.” – Jerry D’Souza, All About Jazz

ESP 4059Konitz, Cheek, & Furic Leibovici – Jugendstil II Following up the critically acclaimed 2008 release, Stéphane Furic Leibovici and Chris Cheek return for this second volume, produced by Jim Black and featuring the alto saxophone giant Lee Konitz. An achievement in balance and taste, the resulting music is so thoughtful, intent and vibrant that it need not be forced upon you. The music unfolds for the listener in the subtlest of ways, as if the composer is challenging our very notion of what will come next. Like a mediation on color and space, you begin to let go of your assumptions and allow the harmonies and structures wash over you. The interaction of Konitz with his bandmates is a delicate dance of lyrical brilliance. Criss-crossing saxophones glide through Furics intense and wide open bass work. Furics compositions fuel extended interplay as the musicians seem to bounce from one musical theme to the next. This music is the epitome of finesse. Effortless and deep at the same time. Personnel: Lee Konitz: alto saxophone. Chris Cheek: tenro saxophone, Stephane Furic Leibovici: double-bass, Jim Black: glockenspiel, vibraphone, chimes, Dan Dorrance: alto flute, bass flute, piccolo, Joy Plaisted: harp, Maria Garcia: celesta, Chris Speed: clarinet “If you long for some lovely, thoughtful late-night listening, than this disc was made ESPecially for you my dears. Four stars!” Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

R E I S S U E S

ESP 3028 Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity Before his career defining records on Arista/Novus in the 80s and 90s, jazz and fusion guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson recorded his debut for ESP-Disk’. The sessions, recorded in New York, Connecticut and Los Angeles in the summer of 1976 are wildly meditative and personify the seventies laid-back vibe. A trio of soft, lilting melodies set the mood; David Murray on tenor sax, Oliver Lake on flute, and the album’s leader, Michael Gregory Jackson on acoustic guitar. The unfolding stream of ideas make these improvisations vital today; arhythmic strumming, an enchanted R&B vocal from Mr. Jackson, avant percussive clatter, processed electric guitar, and fiery horn lines over timpani and flute. Composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, cited as a major influence by Mr. Jackson himself, is featured on the album. Personnel: Michael Gregory Jackson (acoustic guitar, vocal, electric guitar, electric mandolin, bamboo flute, timpani, marimba, percussion) David Murray (tenor sax) Oliver Lake (flute, soprano sax, alto sax, talking drum, cowbell) Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet, soprano trumpet, fluegel horn, Indian flute) “An overlooked early session from multi-instrumentalist Michael Gregory Jackson, recording here with a trio of great horn players in a wonderfully sensitive sound!” dustygroove.com

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05/14 @ 8:00pm – Giuseppi Logan’s 75th Birthday Bash + Befo’ Quotet + TAUOM

Buy Tickets | Admission: $10

Giuseppi Logan

Giuseppi Logan (born May 22, 1935) is a jazz musician originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to reeds at age 12. At the age of 15 he began playing with Earl Bostic and later studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1964 he relocated to New York and became embroiled in the free jazz scene.

Logan played alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, piano and Pakistani oboe. He collaborated with Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and Bill Dixon before forming his own quartet made up of pianist Don Pullen, bassist Eddie Gomez and percussionist Milford Graves. After Pullen’s departure, pianist Dave Burrell joined the group. Logan was a member of Byard Lancaster’s band and toured with and appeared on records by Patty Waters. He recorded two albums for the ESP Disk record label and later appeared on an album by Roswell Rudd on the Impulse! label.

http://www.tompkinssq.com/giuseppi_logan.html

TAUOM
Ricardo Gallo, piano
Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
Dan Blake, saxophones
Ricardo Gallo

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Ricardo Gallo is active as a composer of contemporary concert music, both acoustic and electronic, and as a pianist performing jazz and improvised music.  He leads different projects that relate aspects of Colombian folklore to contemporary musical expressions, and performs with several improvisational groups.  Gallo started his studies at Universidad Javeriana in his native city of Bogotá, and then transferred to the University of North Texas (UNT), where he graduated in 2002, and was honored Outstanding Composition Student the same year. Ricardo is at the moment a PhD candidate in composition at Stony Brook University. He has been awarded a scholarship from the university and has been an assistant for the Computer Music Studio, as well as assistant of the Jazz Department under the direction of trombonist Ray Anderson.

He leads since 2004 his Bogotá-based quartet along with some of the best musicians from the scene in Colombia: Jorge Sepúlveda on drums, Juan Manuel Toro on double bass, Juan David Castaño on percussion, and Ricardo Gallo on piano. With this group Gallo has released two albums as leader: “Los Cerros Testigos” (December, 2005), and “Urdimbres y Marañas” (December, 2007), both with great critical acclaim.

In New York he has performed his music with several groups including musicians such as: Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Pheeroan akLaff, Dan Blake, Satoshi Takeishi, Jorge Roeder, Tom Blancarte, Sam Sadigursky, Franco Pinna, among others. He has performed with Ray Anderson’s groups and is currently member of Peter Evan’s Quartet. Ricardo has also collaborated with other Colombian musicinas’ projects. His most recent release is a CD of his duo with guitarist Alejandro Flórez, titled “Meleyólamente”.  His music appears in several compilations in Colombia, U.S. and Europe.

This time at Issue Project Room Ricardo Gallo will present “Tauon”, a trio with Satoshi Takeishi on percussion, Dan Blake on saxophones a Ricardo Gallo on piano, performing all original music, improvised and/or notated.

Satoshi Takeishi (Percussion, Electronics)

Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was ‘Macumbia’ with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to Miami, U.S. where he began working as an arranger/producer as well as a performer. In 1987 he produced ‘Morning Ride’  for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded in vast variety of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music with musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, MIchael Attias, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.

Daniel Blake (saxophones)

Daniel Blake has been featured as a composer and saxophonist throughout Europe, South America, and the United States.  He has appeared on recording and in performance with Anthony Braxton, Kenny Werner, Herbie Hancock, Danilo Perez, and many others.  A versatile force in both the chamber and improvised music worlds, his works have been performed by Duo Diorama, redfish bluefish ensemble, and The Cygnus Ensemble, among others.  His playing has been called “joyous, upbeat, and ebullient” (Cadence Magazine), and his work as a composer “viscerally entertaining” (All About Jazz NY).  He is currently in demand as a saxophonist, and is a regular member of Lukas Ligeti’s Kaleidoscope, Peter Evans’ Sparks Orchestra, and the Julian Lage Group. As a recording artist, Blake is a featured soloist on Anthony Braxton’s “Trillium E” project, and was recently a featured soloist on Danilo Perez’s Grammy-nominated “Panama Suite.”

In 2008, Dan Blake was awarded the John Lennon Songwriting Contest’s Grand Prize, ASCAP’s Young Jazz Composer’s award, and City University’s Morton Feldman Composition Award.  Since February 2007, he has co-curated the “Defacto Series,” a concert series dedicated to experimental multi-media and improvised music in Brooklyn.  Dan Blake is currently a Ph.D. candidate in composition at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and serves as adjunct lecturer in music history at Brooklyn College.  He currently studies composition and improvisation with Robert Dick. Past teachers include Steve Lacy, John McDonald, George Lewis, Tania León, Danilo Perez, and Jason Eckardt.

Befo’ Quotet is a rhythm and dues band that takes a folkloric approach in paying tribute (hence the term ‘dues’) to the rhythmic contributions of African diaspora communities such as blues, jazz, and R & B. African and Caribbean rhythms and spoken word are woven throughout their music.

The “Befo’ Quotet” includes:

Atiba Kwabena-Wilson: vocals, flutes and percussion

Yoshiki Miura: guitar

William Dotts: bass

Sean Brock: drums

Ray Graham: percussion

Atiba Kwabena-Wilson (musician/poet/storyteller) is the founder and artistic director of both Songhai Djeli and the Befo’ Quotet. He was the recipient of a full Scholarship for voice and flute, earning his B.A. in Music from Long Island University. Mr. Kwabena-Wilson studied arrangement and orchestration for jazz ensembles with Calvin Hill (bassist with Max Roach and faculty advisor for L.I.U.). He also studied Jazz Improvisation with the late John Lewis (pianist with the Modern Jazz Quartet and professor at City College).

Yoshiki Miura

20 years performing in the New York City area, with a funky, energetic jazz sound. His music crosses the traditional modern jazz boundaries, injecting R&B, and Latin styles.

His numerous performances include; “Texaco New York jazz Festival ‘98 & ‘97 “, “Grand Central’s Anniversary 2000?, “JVC Jazz Festival at Saratoga”, “Live at Blue Note in NY 2000?.

He was selected to recording session with EMI label under the Amalia Gre group on 2003 & 2005. also music tour with Amalia Gre in Italy, March – August 2004, April – May 2006 include performance at Blue note in Milano, and opening act for Michael Blecker group at Trino jazz Festival.

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