[hiland]

 

Paul Flaherty has been a direct lifeline to the radical free-reed lineage of Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Peter Brotzmann and Arthur Doyle since first coming into our vision sometime in the 80s. At some point in the 90s he began woodshedding hard with Northampton, Massachusetts resident spirit-drummer Chris Corsano. As the contemporary free-noise-space-weird underground gathered around minds were liberated to godhead heights.

Also in the 90s a young and beautiful boy-man named Bill Nace was drawn to the region by the living art and music here and also began inter-sonic-guitar/linguistics with Corsano (as Vampire Belt). After Corsano relocated to the UK, Nace began a long-running duo with Flaherty.

Sonic Youthian Thurston Moore had been tracking Flaherty’s comet whilst perusing dog-eared copies of Cadence mag in the early 90s. He eventually booked the infamous Flaherty-Colbourne group for their first ever NYC gig at the legendary now-defunct Cooler club on way West 14th Street.

In 98 Moore and his family escaped to free-zone Northampton and immediately fell in with Corsano and Flaherty as a trio. (This group recorded, with the extended lineup of saxophonist Wally Shoup, for a Japanese only CD produced by Jim O’Rourke – which Ecstatic Peace will re-issue to the western world soon ‘nuff).
Subsequently Moore and Nace begat Northampton Wools, a basement-ritual guitar-noise duo (Ecstatic Peace CD forthcoming). From time to time Nace, Moore and Flaherty would collect their energies and throw down live trio sessions which still resonate through the valley’s ear(s).

This trio CD is a session Flaherty set up in the late winter of early 2008. There are 3 tracks (“sex”’ “drugs” and “lavender”), one short, two looong. It is a primo example of this threesome’s focus and sonic storytelling, ferocious yet pensive.
Cover art by Noise Nomads.
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=1&pro ducts_id=263

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

I've never heard of Bill Nace before.
Cool.

[noisereductions]

sounds good.

I really like when T throws down in freejazz ensemble, rather than just going for straight up noise.

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

sounds good.

I really like when T throws down in freejazz ensemble, rather than just going for straight up noise.

Like "barefoot in the head".
I got lucky finding that used a few years back.

[mil_pl]

new noisee. thanks for info.

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

Is Thurston the tall blotch?

[mil_pl]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

Is Thurston the tall blotch?

for sure .

[whorefrost]

cannot wait to hear this one dudes

[blunderbuss]

Shit, I must have that. Paul Flaherty fucking slays me.

[scott v]

Bill Nace slays, need a new Vampire Belt recording badly.
my copy of this is ordered...

[stu666]

just got mine today

[mil_pl]

and how is it ?

[stu666]

it's fookin' awesome!

[greedrex]

Originally Posted by stu666

it's fookin' awesome!

you mean 'it fookin' rules"?

[stu666]

thats the one

[scott v]

Got mine today too... I second that!
This is HEAVY! definitely something to wrap your head around at high volume and very well recorded in the studio, good stereo seperation between the guitars (thurston to the right? and bill to the left?) and Paul is blasting just to keep up with the Wools. Highly recommended!

[stu666]

when i play this cd with winamp it comes up with a strange album name "Courtney Love Killed Da Cobain"

and tracks:

Sex - Why Won't Anyone Talk About It?
Drugs - Elegy For All The Murdered Rockstars
Lavendar - Mafia Runs CIA Runs Entertainment Industry Ruins Souls

[hiland]

ive wondered where those title/song credits come from....
i know discogs lists it as that..but im not sure why...
http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Flaherty...elease/1500763

[scott v]

Originally Posted by hiland

ive wondered where those title/song credits come from....
i know discogs lists it as that..but im not sure why...
http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Flaherty...elease/1500763

I believe there is specific information/data stored on cds that make it recognize specific track titles and the such, i also thought this was interesting when these titles showed up in my iTunes and they're not listed on the digipack.

[hiland]

well itunes (if you are connected online) gets their album info from the CDDB. so it's entirely possible that someone 'made up' titles and submitted them to CDDB.