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08/24/2024

The uncensored and celebratory music of Albert Ayler, sounding with a raw sensitivity, speaking in tongues, untethered to the timeline of the body, free and spiritual.

Consider we hear the blues in this music. He learned saxophone from his father and they played duets in church. Later he attended the Cleveland School of Music. He moved to NYC in 1962 where he was a key figure in the avant-garde jazz scene, just before being called to service for the US Army until 1964.

Later that year, his album Spiritual Unity was recorded and released by ESP-Disk. Now we re-examine the weight of transcendence. He lived in Europe and NYC where he recorded and performed vigorously until his mysterious death in Paris November 25th, 1970. Albert Ayler was a Cancer born July 13th, 1936 to Edward and Myrthle Ayler.

We have the following in stock:
Spiritual Unity (LP)
Bells (LP)
Prophecy (LP)
Bells & Prophecy (CD)
NYC Eye & Ear Control (LP)
Albert Ayler T-shirt

10% off with code "Ayler Field Commemoration"

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07/13/2024

Are you the future CEO of HandsOn Pet Sitting ™ brainstorming ways to swag out your profile? Animal Reiki is rated E for Everyone!

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05/22/2024

Theorists unite! Get the full set. Don't overthink it.

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05/11/2024

Exploratory

05/09/2024

sound gathering with Lucian Ban

04/24/2024

Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck

Includes historical context for the development of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) and biographical info of musician-members, in particular Nicole Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, AACM Great Black Ensemble, Fred Anderson, George Lewis, Air Time, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and Muhal Richard Abrams.

It is FUN to listen to the music being described and follow along with the notes and notation, especially the non-standard notation employed for non-standard sound tools and free-form movements.

There is a bit of heavy analysis within these pages, but I think most of the book is written in a style that can be enjoyed from a listener/fan perspective.

I especially enjoyed Chapter 9 on Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening, an album in my regular rotation since its release on FPE in 2017. I’d been happy surrendering myself to the sound and letting it paint my thoughts with its beautiful curiosities, but this reading granted a new depth. I began to hear more storytelling in greater detail. Took note of the entrance of movements, themes, and solos. Then it then became more of a theatrical presentation in my mind. Shakespearean. Included also is a page of Mitchell’s written music. Another layer to aid in our understanding of intent. She rules. I'm a huge fan.

The previous 8 chapters get the same treatment. If you’re a person who likes to sit down and listen to music like this, I think you would also enjoy listening to it while reading this book.

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04/20/2024

ECHOLOCATION by Mendoza Hoffs Revels is rocking fusion of jazz and metal, progressive but a new wave of it, experimental in it’s freshness, punk in it’s irreverence. A supergroup of composer-musicians Ava Mendoza, Devin Hoff, James Brandon Lewis, and Ches Smith brought to us by the ever discerning New York label Aum Fidelity.

This album makes a statement from an official type of position, I think guitarist Ava Mendoza is the esteemed mayor of contemporary/avant-garde/free jazz & rock. Check her bio, she’s done everything! In Ava We Trust! When you see the ensemble live, you sense the band likes the music, and that they like being together, you become a part of their joyous family by proximity, & when you play the record the joy is experienced again and again.

Echolocation! Have it on-hand in your home library! Have it on-hand to hold like another hand which is romantic, or on-hand to hold like a slab of cement as in the activity parkour which is athletic. Why parkour? Why anything at all? Get the record or CD & get an extra copy for your underground bunker. Get a copy for your mom. Get a copy for your dad. It's wanted by all, dead or alive and it is music you want moving through physical space among all kinds of shapes - with you.

In our shop at 58 N 6th & online https://boopsnyc.com/products/ava-mendoza-echolocation-lp-aum-fidelity

AUM Fidelity

04/09/2024

chicken projectiles

03/16/2024

open community free improvised music 4-6pm this Sunday 3/17! bring your own instrument, sound, voice, words, scrap metal, k***s, drone machine etc. 58 north 6th street in williamsburg, brooklyn. dm any questions!

01/29/2024

Sound melt Sunday with Kendraplex and Jason Nazary

01/28/2024

My pop - Dr. Loove- with uncle Marcus Rojas

01/23/2024

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Toy Store Session 1, 10/29/23

Issues are in

We had a visitor! Happy to see Reggie Watts drop in before his book launch event nearby. I'd just come back from bringing a guitar I really like down from upstairs, and there he was to listen to me go on and on about it and offer some empathy. Magic all around, made my day :)