Byard Lancaster - Us LP + 7"At the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared with the Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: It's Not

The Stars" are repeated over in random untrained fashion

1985's MERCY finds an augmented Kiwi Animal trying on what at first glance is a more refined

It will also re-arrive this summer on DFA this summer with its successor

from the Greek hupnos (sleep) and agōgos (leading)

these artifacts are being re-released together on one 12”

but it works when we play together” – Shelley Salant

François J

speaking as much to the haunted music box melodies of Brannten Schnurre as it does Current 93s horror of the countryside

Nathan brings together the great story ("Grounds Zero") and his most personal memories

"If you're waiting for a sign

spoken sensitively like a mother to a resting child

and Earth Liberation Front