STAALPLAAT - catalog

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Akio Suzuki's diary from the 2006 Resonant Spaces tour in the UK during June 2006 as translated and introduced by Alan Cummings.
The long promised debut of Davey Schmitt's film column Heel on Reels appears with the article Panic!: Anger and the Oedipal Complex in Fernando Arrabal's Cinema in which he argues these over the top films are better than those of Arrabal's long time friend and collaborator Alejandro Jodorowsky.
The Infinite Horizons of Stomu Yamash'ta by Gregor Meyer - a massive overview of the life and work of avant garde percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta, including his first English-language interview in over 30 years. A child prodigy, his meteoric rise in the Classical world spawned a new world of improvisation and Avant Classical in the late '60s and early '70s before melding Eastern concepts with Jazz Fusion via his more well known outfits Come to the Edge, East Wind, and Go. Includes never-before-revealed insight into collaborations with Toru Takemitsu, Takehisa Kosugi, Masahiko Sato, the Baschet brothers, and others. Years in the making, this exhaustive survey corrects misinformation and apocrypha carried down for decades, and opens a new window to Yamash'ta's current projects featuring instruments made from resonant stones. Includes an complete discography of his official releases.
An overview of Raymond Dijkstra's music by Eric Lanzillotta discussing his beautiful limited edition vinyl releases and the gorgeous sounds on them. Written with the cooperation and oversight of the artist, this article offers some new insight into his work.
Eric Lanzillotta's reviews of vinyl, compacts discs, and a book, both new and old by Amolvacy, Axa Hour of Dora Bleu, Brštzmann/Wilkinson Quartet, Children of the Sixth Root Race, Coffee, Michael Esposito & FM Einheit, Glass Farm Ensemble, Alexander Hawkins / Dominic Lash / Paul May / Alex Ward, [-hyph-], Dan Joseph, Ariel Kalma, Christina Kubisch, Alan Licht & Aki Onda, M.B. + E.D.A., JŽr™me Peignot et Marc Dachy, Pt™se, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Sapat, Matt Shoemaker, Sun City Girls, The Ten Thousand Things, Roland Topor, toy.bizarre, Uw Hypotheekadvies, Valley of Ashes, Fred Van Hove, Timo van Luijk & Kris Vanderstraeten, and "Bollywood Steel Guitar".
Patrick Marley's column Nickels and Dimes discusses Orange, Raven, Joshua Burkett, Paul Metzger, Knife World, and Julie Mittens.

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