KONDO / KAISER / OSWALD ‎– Moose And Salmon (mge30 / LP-1979)

Label: Music Gallery Editions ‎– mge30
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Canada / Released: 1979
Style: Free jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded live 1978
Mixed By [Mixdown] – Henry Kaiser, John Oswald
Selections from seven to eleven takes (a-k) plus guitar solo excerpt.
Lacquer Cut At – The Lacquer Channel Limited / derived from matrix
Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): MGE 30 - MOOSE THREE TLC-T
Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): MGE 30 - SALMON TLC-A

side 1:
A - Moose ............................................................................................................... 26:16
      c .............................. 7:06
      a ............................ 16:07
      b .............................. 3:40

side 2:
B - Salmon ............................................................................................................. 26:12
      h .............................. 1:26
      d .............................. 5:46
      b .............................. 2:51
      HK ........................... 1:57
      g .............................. 5:45
      i ............................... 3:40
      b .............................. 5:03

Personnel:
John OSWALD – performer [player], alto saxophone (Toronto, Canada)
Henry KAISER – performer [player], electric guitar (Oakland, USA)
Toshinori KONDO – performer [player], trumpet, Horn [alto horn] (Tokyo, Japan)

Musician Toshinori Kondo recently left us...... This post is in his honor, and for eternal memory.....

Note:

The material is out takes and reiterations from 2 LP records, "Improvised" (Music Gallery Editions 12), and "Moose And Salmon" (Music Gallery Editions 30). There are some technical problems with over modulating, print thru, and, in the case of the trio tracks and TK 24/02/79, modulation of hum by DBX coding. For the record Moose And Salmon this latter problem was somewhat alleviated by notch filtering and compression, but at the cost of regeneration noise compounded with a low level signal on LP, necessitated by cutting long sides.
Tracks from the Moose And Salmon sessions are coded with letters A-L (12 takes 24, 25 Feb 1979) and sub numbered 0-25 indicating the initial minute of the selection within the take. Each instrument was recorded stereo onto 6 tracks of a Teac 80-8. Mixdown to 2 track stereo by HK & JO.
On this program the selection HK is an excerpt from a longer solo as is the dual horn solo that follows it. Ice Death is HK x 5, California early 1978, and JO (Calgary) is from a session for "Improvised" 23 Jan 78.

Canadian alto saxophonist John Oswald began as a post-jazz improvisor, accompanying Henry Kaiser on "Improvised" (february 1978 - Music Gallery, 1978).Moose And Salmon (february 1979 - Music Gallery, 1979) was a trio with Kaiser on electric guitar and trumpet player Toshinori Kondo. In Moose Kondo's minimalist, viscid and clownesque trumpet forces Kaiser to restrain his acid/psychotic soliloquies and lets Oswald's youthful madness overflow. Salmon is even noisier and even less structured, with the horns squeaking against subliminal guitar drones.

Out Of Stock ...... Very hard to find.

If you find it, buy this album!