From: Seth Tisue <s-tisue-NOSPAM@nwu.edu>
To: dougo@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Chug poll
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:20:31 -0600


Not a "best of the year" list so much as just some records I heard and
liked.  Most of them came out of Chicago.  This is all new music, no
reissues or archival releases.

all-Chicago:
  Bishop, Jeb - 98 Duets CD (Wobbly Rail)
  Gastr del Sol - Camoufleur CD (Drag City)
  Gregorio, Guillermo - Ellipsis CD (hatOLOGY)
  O'Rourke, Jim - Please Note Our Failure 10" (Some)
  Town and Country - CD (BOXmedia)
  Vandermark Five - Target or Flag CD (Atavistic)
collaborations involving Chicagoans:
  AALY Trio & Ken Vandermark - Hidden in the Stomach CD (Silkheart)
  Drumm, Kevin & Taku Sugimoto (duo) - Duo CD (Meme)
  Drumm, Kevin & Taku Sugimoto (split) - Folie a Deux CD (boxMEDIA)
  Graewe, Georg - Melodie und Rhythmus CD (OkkaDisk)
  Gustafsson/Gregorio/Nordeson - Background Music CD (hatOLOGY)
  Licht, Alan & Connors, Loren Mazzacane - Hoffman Estates CD (Drag City)
  O'Rourke, Jim & Muller, Gunter - Weighting CD (For 4 Ears)
non-Chicago:
  Jandek - I Woke Up CD (Corwood)
  Oval - Dok CD (Thrill Jockey)
  Autechre - Ae CD (Warp)
  McPhee, Joe - As Serious As Your Life CD (hatOLOGY)
  Taylor, Cecil - Qu'a: Live at the Iridium Vol. 1 CD (Cadence)

The best concerts I saw in 1998:
  Loren Mazzacane Connors/Alan Licht/Jim O'Rourke/Darin Gray
    @ Reckless Records, @ Empty Bottle
  Roscoe Mitchell et al (playing "L-R-G", "The Maze", "S II Examples")
    @ Museum of Contemporary Art
  Clusone Trio @ Empty Bottle
  Fred Anderson duo w/ Robert Barry @ Empty Bottle,
    duo w/ Josh Abrams @ XoinX Tea Room
  Peter Kowald solo @ Renaissance Society
  Kraftwerk @ Riviera
  The Ex, U.S. Maple @ Empty Bottle
  Ab Baars Trio, Ab Baars & Misha Mengelberg duo @ Velvet Lounge
  High Rise @ Empty Bottle
  Georg Graewe/Frank Gratkowski/Kent Kessler/Hamid Drake @ HotHouse
  Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra @ The Note

== Seth Tisue <s-tisue-NOSPAM@nwu.edu>         http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/
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