black flowers

black flowers - i grew from a stone to a statue (bo'weavil 2009)

"The music references repeatedly the cyclical nature of life, in both the form and the lyrics. "I've seen them all rise and fall." With that, the inevitable break in the cycle. "For the Lord knows who must die." Another reminder to live in the now. And this is what it sounds like." bo'weavil

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tom james scott

tom james scott - red deer (bo'weavil 2007)

"Tom James Scott is a young classically trained guitarist, a mainstay of the improvising collective CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few. These 5 slices of acoustic alchemy are well formed compositions for acoustic guitar, where the wealth of folk guitar has been distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation." bo'weavil

Voice of the Seven Woods, Satie, James Blackshaw...

Earthlight (mp3 sample)

tight meat duo

tight meat duo - vanishing fist (bo' weavil, 2007)

"Tight Meat, a duo of the fantastic free drummer Alex Neilson and the fiery sax of David Keenan. A powerful onslaught of free jazz with David providing some high energy saxophone screams alongside Alex' plethora of rhythmic energy. "Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Stooge to Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion. Judging by the music heard on /Vanishing Fist/, their first salvo under the name Tight Meat Duo, these twentysomething/thirtysomething Glaswegian deviants are prime examples of the dictum that the new wave of free musicians act on impulse. They've studied and immersed themselves in some of the most life affirming vibrations of all time, those silhouettes, shadows and forecasts of tomorrow disguised as free jazz, as Sun Ra almost put it; sensed this essence flooding their synapses, rewiring their DNA, messing with the id so inherited 3D vision becomes implanted Third Eye cosmology; and now they're getting in on the aktion." Tony Herrington

Tight Meat Duo no tienen una obra discográfica extensa (Vanishing Fist y un cd-r como Tight Meat Trio con George Lyle llamado Ganges Letdown) pero son casi los más veteranos de la escena noise, free jazz y folk. David Keenan como integrante de Taurpis Tula y 18 Wheeler, pero también como cabecilla y hacedor absoluto de los míticos Telstar Ponies (imposible no acordarse de Lugengeschichte) y, lo más sorprendente, como crítico y propietario de Volcanic Tongue. por otro lado, Alex Neilson como ese batería mutante más cercano a la magia que a la música, el nombre que se repite en casi todos los discos de Richard Youngs, colaborador en estudio y compañero de viaje en numerosos directos de Jandek, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Heather Leigh o Alasdair Roberts. ambos siguieron caminos paralelos (Neilson llegó a tocar con Telstar Ponies y Keenan con Taurpis Tula) hasta reencontrarse por fin como Tight Meat Duo. la parte sensible de Flaherty & Corsano y el eslabón perdido entre Arthur Doyle, con quien comparten el sonido sucio y destartalado y esa sensación de libertad, y Ashtray Navigations. ¿lo mejor? los casi ocho minutos de 'Please let me Die' invocando los fantasmas de Albert y Donald Ayler y el espacio interstelar de Coltrane. punk rock action + free jazz dreams = Tight Meat Duo.

Your Meaningless Work Is Sandcastles (mp3 sample)

Please Let Me Die (mp3 sample)

donald mcpherson & tetuzi akiyama

donald mcpherson & tetuzi akiyama - vinegar & ram (bo' weavil, 2006)

"This LP and CD recorded in New Zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising.
This record finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem.
The LP is limited hand numbered edition of 500 and the CD is limited to 1000, there are 2 extra tracks on the CD that do not appear on the vinyl version. The LP has 2 tracks that are in an extended form."

estos días no he parado de escuchar 'Between the Trees' que es preciosa y cuyo principio podría ser el de cualquier canción de los discos más raros y experimentales de Richard Youngs con Alex Neilson y Simon Wickham-Smith y cuyo final podría ser el de cualquier reencarnación de Brad Rose. en el tránsito entre Pre-existence y la filigrana casi noise de Terrifying Street, en algún punto entre Loren Mazzacane Connors, Ben Kunin, Derek Bailey, Greg Malcolm, John Fahey... se encuentra Vinegar & Ram, la otra cara de Tetuzi Akiyama, su entendimiento casi perfecto con Donald McPherson, y su disco más dulce, sencillo, fingerpicking, raga y 'tangible'

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Smokestack Blues (mp3)

Table Talk (mp3)

Painstacker (mp3)