The Mystery Lesson & The Golden Road

The Mystery Lesson part 53 23-Apr-2010

1. Lean Left / Right Lung / Smalltown Superjazzz

2. Quack Quack / Slow As An Eyeball / Cuckundoo

3. Scott Fields Ensemble / The Plagiarist / Clean Feed

4. Barr-Nevai / Untitled  / ugEXPLODE

5. Andrew Paine & Richard Youngs / Third Call to Solomon / Sonic Oyster

6. Mauro Sambo / 02-01-2010 / Ossido

7. William Parker / Cathedral Wisdom Light / Barnyard

8. Paul Motian Trio / Drum Music / ECM

9. Bolide / Coda i / POOT

10. Lean Left / Lean Leftover / Smalltown Superjazzz

11. Correction / Aret ar 1520 / Ayler

12. Van Hove/Dunmall/Rogers/Lytton / Asynchronous / Slam

The Mystery Lesson part 52 09-Apr-2010

1. Sunny Murray / John Edwards / Tony Bevan  / Boom Boom Cat / Foghorn

2. Elephant9 / Habanera Rocket / Rune Grammofon

3. The Chris Welcome Quartet / #17 / Empty Room

4. Vibracathedral Orchestra with Herb Diamante / Yellow Vanilla Haze / No-Fi

5. Lene Grenager & Sofia Jernberg / Excess / Olofbright

6. R.S. Gjersten / Trembling / +3DB

7. Towering Breaker / Untitled / POOT

8. Susan Alcorn & Caroline Kraabel / Little Preach / Mass Producers

9. Elephant9 / Fugl Fonix / Rune Grammofon

10. Empty Cage Quartet / Tzolkein 2+9 / Clean Feed

11. Kim Johannesen / Svein Magnus Furu / Tore T Sandbakken / Dr Fill / AIMSoundCity

12. Dave Leibman / Evan Parker / Tony Bianco / Relevance Part 1 / Red Toucan

The Mystery Lesson part 51 27-Mar-2010

1. Axel Dorner / John Schroder / Clayton Thomas / Oliver Steidle / Res Res / Jazzwerkstatt

2. Marc Edwards Weasel Walter Group / The Coral Reef / ugEXPLODE

3. The Family Elan / Thousands of Patterns of You / alt.vinyl

4. Doug Hammond / Moves / Soul Jazz

5. Stuckometer / Stomacheater / POOT

6. Jackal Blade / Takealook / No-Fi

7. Slow Listener / If At First /  Don‚t Succeed

8. The Vinson Valega Group / Biophilia / Consilience Productions

9. Michael Attias / Sorry / Clean Feed

10. Mostly Other People Do The Killing / Nanticoke Coke / Hot Cup

11. The Family Elan / Glendi Ke Horos / alt.vinyl

12. David S. Ware / Pallene / AUM Fidelity

The Mystery Lesson part 50 12-Mar-2010

1. Bolide / Winter Triptych Part 1 / Archivo De Sangre de Dios

2. Temperatures / Track 1 / Ultramarine

3. Owl Xounds / Translucent Neon Hexagram (Imagined) / Release The Bats

4. Ghost Moth / Sigils Rising / Archivo De Sangre de Dios

5. Blood Stereo / The Giving of the Grape / Pan

6. Pekko Kappi / Track 4 / Singing Knives

7. Andrew Pekler / First / Schoolmap

8. Heather Leigh / Jailhouse Rock  / Not Not Fun

9. Stefan Goldmann / Haven’t I seen You Before? / Tapeworm

10. Roscoe Mitchell Sextet / Ornette / Delmark

11. Temperatures / Track 3 / Ultramarine

12. Jailbreak  / Brought Down / Family Vineyard

The Mystery Lesson part 49 26-Feb-2010

1. Peter Brotzmann / Paal Nilssen-Love  / Strong and Thin / Smalltown Superjazzz

2. Tony Malaby’s Apparitions / Los Voladores / Clean Feed

3. Zevious / After the Air Raid / Cuneiform

4. Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6 / End of a Record Breaker / Hatology

5. The New Mellow Edwards / Helkakelka /  Helkakelka

6. Dead Labour Process / Matrimonial Homes / Unverified

7. Fordell Research Unit / Figs Fae Thistles / Giant Tank

8. Hobo Sonn / Inland Flight / POOT

9. Peter Nicholson / Raymond MacDonald / Langside / Iorram

10. Tony Malaby’s Apparitions / Homogenous Emotions / Clean Feed

11. Matthew Shipp / Nu Abstract / Rai Trade

12. Xtet Project / Ladies Bird / Bushbaby

13. Ivo Perelman / Mind Games / Leo

The Mystery Lesson part 48 05-Feb-2010

1. The Godforgottens / Always Forgotten / Clean Feed

2. Wadada Leo Smith / Crossing Sirat / Cuneiform

3. Medicine and Duty / The Doctor is a Busy Man / Foolproof

4. Lene Grenager / Attitude / +3DB

5. Harappian Night Recordings / Unknown / 100COPIES

6. Dogeeseseegod / Lip Limb Valley / Face in Black Space Recordings

7. Ergo / Rana Sylvatica / Cuneiform

8. Urs Leimgruber / Jacques Demierre / Barre Phillips / Abteil / Jazzwerkstatt

9. Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer / Untitled / POOT

10. Wadada Leo Smith / Umar at the Dome of the Rock / Cuneiform

11. Peter Brotzmann / Alexander von Schlippenbach / Sven-Ake Johansson / Up and Down the Lion ˆ Revised / OlofBright

12. Chicago Underground Duo / Broken Shadows / Thrill Jockey

The Mystery Lesson part 47 22-Jan-2010

1. Circulasione Totale Orchestra / Yellow Bass & Silver Cornet III / Rune Grammofon

2. Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders / Nugget / Maya

3. Seabrook Power Plant / Feedlot Polio / Loyal

4. Janne Tuomi / Elg / FMR

5. Earth Rod / Earth Rod / Sonic Oyster

6. Ahno Zwei / Untitled / Noise for Noise Sake

7. Oneohtrix Point Never / Actual Air / No Fun

8. Usurper & Sticky Foster / Ithaca / Chocolate Monk

9. Caroline Kraabel / Veryan Weston / Mark Sanders / Lot’s Wife / Mass Producers

10. Joe Maneri / Masashi Harada / Pinerskol / Leo

11. Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders / Northern Lights / Maya

12. Energit / Rano / Vampi

13. Brotzmann / Kondo / Pupillo / Nilssen-Love / Hairy Bones / Okkadisk

The Mystery Lesson part 46 08-Jan-2010

1. Taco Bells / Hawaii  / Ikuisuus

2. Bill Orcutt / Lip Rich / Palilalia

3. Bill Dixon/Aaron Seigel/Ben Hall / Hirado / Brokenresearch

4. Pulse Emitter / Decaying Ships / Ultra Eczema

5. Carlos Giffoni and Hivemind / Claustrophobic Wreck / Ultra Eczema

6. Martin Archer / For Terry Riley / Discus

7. Patty Waters / Wild is the Wind / ESP-Disk

8. Trygghet / Square Circle / Atelier Musik

9. Decoy / Set Apart / Bo‚Weavil

10. Taco Bells / Vadelma / Ikuisuus

The Mystery Lesson part 45 18-Dec-2009

1. Decoy / Decoy / Bo’Weavil

2. Peeesseye / Bloodspots in the Porridge / Giant Tank

3. Duncan Harrison & Ian Murphy / A Divine Scrimmage / Rotten Slushy

4. Alistair Crosbie / Untitled / Lefthand Pressing

5. The Ex / Travel On /  Poor Bob

6. Harappian Night Recordings / Kawaida Baby / Ikuissus

7. Trauma / The Calming Effects of the Ocean Precursor / Bells Hill

8. Duane Pitre / Comprovisation for Justly Tuned Ukelin No.1 / Important

9. Noteherder & McCloud / Neon Malt Flare / Dizzy Tiger Music

10. Decoy / Who’s Who / Bo’Weavil

11. Fred Anderson / 21st Century Chase Part 1 / Delmark 

The Mystery Lesson part 44 04-Dec-2009

1. White Out with Jim O’Rourke and Thurston Moore / The Eyes The Mouth / Ecstatic Peace

2. Aram Shelton’s Fast Citizens / Easy / Delmark

3. John Edwards & Chris Corsano / To The Nines / Dancing Wayang

4. Viv / Peace / Pebble

5. Brian Lavelle / The Red and the White / Apollolaan

6. Harappian Night Recordings / The Assassination of Meena Keshwar Kamal / 100copies

7. Nate Wooley / Paul Lytton / David Grubbs / The Seven Storey Mountain / Important

8. Brian Lavelle / Star Temple of Avalon / Apollolaan

9. John Edwards & Chris Corsano / Tsktsking / Dancing Wayang

10. Ilk / Panegyric Territories / Sonic Oyster

11. The A Band / Autograph / N/a