The Mystery Lesson

The Mystery Lesson part 11 14-Sep-2007

1. Sunburned Hand of the Man / What color is the sky in the world you live in? / Smalltown Supersound

2. Tigersmilk / Already crippled by water and wind / Family Vineyard

3. The Geordie Approach / Beardsley / Bruce’s Fingers

4. Winning / A list of why not / Ache

5. Jazkamer & Smegma / Carnivorous Bog / No Fun

6. F. Ampism / Fake Speaker Hands / N/A

7. Brother Ah / Beyond Yourself / Rapster

8. Ken Vandermark / Paal Nilssen-Love / Open Too Close / Smalltown Superjazz

9. The Geordie Approach / Robson / Bruce’s Fingers

10. Bolide Awkwardstra / Untitled / N/A

11. Mike Taylor Quartet / Pendulum / Sunbeam

The Mystery Lesson part 10 10-Aug-2007

1. The George Burt/Raymond MacDonald Quartet / Ant of Wolfsburg / Textile

2. Hornweb / Lower Globe / Discus

3. Morviscous / Tummler / Not given

4. SFQ / Start frame + soft hard (interpolation 1) / Bruce’s Fingers

5. ZAUM / He knows how to drive but he never goes far / Amazon

6. Hornweb / Corpse Radical / Discus

7. The Missing Ensemble / Zero Sum / Low Impedance

8. Natasha Anderson / Naked /with a Ladies’ gun

9. Moha! / Ibiza two / Rune Grammofon

10. Death Qunt / Letter from Peter / Big Filthy Records

11. Burning Star Core / The Emergency Networks are Taking over / No Quarter

The Mystery Lesson part 9 06-Jul-2007

1. Philip Gibbs / The sound of one who loves / Duns

2. Gibbs/Campbell/Dunmall/Carter/Rogers/Parker/Drake / Blown Away / Duns

3. Ultralyd / Musica Imperativa / Rune Grammofon

4. Corey Mwamba / Coreynomates / N/A

5. Hugh Hopper / Lonely Woman / Cuneiform

6. Mats Gustafsson & Yoshimi / Soundless cries with their arms in the air / Smalltown Superjazz

7. Arti & Mestieri / Dimensione Terra / Moonjune

8. Fulborn Teversham / Empty Shell / Pickled Egg

9. Free Tallinn Trio / Long to see you / AVA Muusika

10. Ultralyd / Figurae / Rune Grammofon

11. Slow Listener / Sarcasm my old friend / Celebrate Psi Phenomenon

12. The Thing / Chiasma / Smalltown Superjazz

The Mystery Lesson part 8 08-Jun-2007

1. Original Silence / In the Name of the Law / Smalltown Superjazz

2. Powerhouse Sound / 2-1-75 / Smalltown Superjazz

3. Shabaka Hutchings / Untitled / N/A

4. Sun Ra / India / Fivefour

5. Lasse Marhaug / Soya Across the Street / Smalltown Superjazz

6. The Sunburned / Untitled / Ecstatic Peace

7. David Watson / Pythia / Ecstatic Peace

8. Myra Melford & Tanya Kalmanovitch / Kaligandhaki / Perspicacity

9. Powerhouse Sound  / Old Dictionary Smalltown Superjazz

10. Steve Noble/John Edwards/Alan Wilkinson / Kwakm’bababli Stomp / Bo’Weavil

The Mystery Lesson part 7 04-May-2007

1. Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake / Planet E / Thrill Jockey

2. Two Bands and a Legend / Louie Louie / Smalltown Superjazz

3. Peter Ivers’ Band / Tobacco / Hux

4. Lennie Tristano / Digression / Fivefour

5. Tony Conrad / Indicting Lully / Table of the Elements

6. The Free Zen Society / Glistening / Thirsty Ear

7. Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell / Streaming / Pi

8. Fraud / Voodoo Teeth / Babel

9. Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly / Day of the Dead / Babel

10. Two Bands and a Legend / The Nut / Smalltown Superjazz

The Mystery Lesson part 5 02-Mar-2007

1. The Painful Leg Injuries / Every Minute of Every Day Someone is Having an Apocalypse / OKS Recordings

2. Text of Light  / Rotterdam 1 / Room 40

3. Matthias Schubert Quartet / Brettspiel / Red Toucan

4. Tom Arthurs & Richard Fairhurst / Furungel / Babel

5. Radio I-Ching / Fife and Drum / Resonant Music 

6. Nat Baldwin / Enter the Light Out / Broken Sparrow 

7. Shining / The Red Room / Rune Grammofon

8. Andy Haas / BLU 113 Penetrator / Resonant Music

9. Radio I-Ching / Song for Che / Resonant Music

10. Tammen Darth Dahlgren Rosen / A Place that has Emotional Significance / ESP-Disk

11. New Ghost / C.T. (What I'm Saying) / ESP-Disk 

The Mystery Lesson part 4 26-Jan-2007

1. Paul Flaherty / Frank Rosaly / Untitled / N/A

2. Led Bib / Manifesto for the Future / Babel

3. John Medeski / Matthew Shipp / Noonday Demon / Thirsty Ear

4. Volcano the Bear / My Favourite Tongues / Vivo Records

5. Exploding Star Orchestra / Sting Ray and the Beginning of Time: Part 3 / Thrill Jockey

6. Cain/Major/Doctor/Spicer / Tone Gem / N/A

7. John Wolf Brennan / Marcia Funebre / Leo Records

8. Led Bib / Chocky / Babel

9. Sean Noonan / Scabies / Songlines

The Mystery Lesson part 3 15-Dec-2006

1. Exploding Star Orchestra / Sting Ray and the Beginning of Time Part 1 / Thrill Jockey

2. Kelomat / Rhythmus für Esoteriker / Pan Tau-X

3. Derek Bailey / Anecdote / Incus

4. Jessica constable and Philippe Gelda / Cool Thing 1 & 2 /  Self-released CDR

5. Ellery Eskelin / Coordinated Universal Time / Prime Source

6. Kelomat  / Al Funghi / Pan Tau-X

7. Liberation Prophecy / Armed Ant War / Basement Front Records

The Mystery Lesson part 2 20-Oct-2006

1. Dream/Aktion Unit / Birth of the Ghoul / Volcanic Tongue

2. Nels Cline / Compulsion / Cryptogramaphone

3. Myra Melford / Equal Grace / Cryptogramaphone

4. Gordon Grdina/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian / String Quartet #6 / Songlines

5. James Beaudreau / Under the Tree on the Hill / Workbench

6. John Tchicai/Charlie Kohlhase/Garrison Fewell / Ramana Maharshi / Boxholder Records

7. Nels Cline / Not Sa No Sa / Cryptogramaphone

8. Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio featuring Billy Bang / Kau / Delmark