Loren Mazzacane-Connors & Alan Licht - Hoffman Estates (1998)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Loren Mazzacane & Kath Bloom - Sing the Children Over (1982)

By request, here's this excellent collection of woozy, avant-jazz-psych-etc. In addition to the two musicians listed on the tin, you get contributions from a bunch of great Chicago musicians, not the least of which are from Jim O'Rourke, who played on the initial sessions, then edited them down and added overdubs.

Track listing:

1. Slowly, Slowly, Slowly

2. Block That Nixon

3. Sad at Times

4. Wisdom Day

5. Peace Scare

6. Turner's Murder

7. And Everyone 'Neath Their Vine and Fig Tree Shall Live in Peace

Moonlight walk of the soothsayer

You should also listen to:

Savant - The Neo-Realist (At Risk) (1983)

Anthony Pateras - Chasms (2007)

Jon Appleton & Don Cherry - Human Music (1970)

Got a request for this deeply strange collaborative work from electro-acoustic innovator Jon Appleton and free jazz legend Don Cherry. Sparse, discordant, sonically manipulated sound pieces composed of synth, trumpet, flute, hand drums, and distinctly un-musical mouth noises.

Track listing:

1. BOA

2. OBA

3. ABO

4. BAO

This is Earth Radio, and now, here's human music.

If you like this, listen to:

Tony Scott - Music for Voodoo Meditation (1972)

Hal Russell & Mars Williams - EFTSOONS (1984)

Hal Russell & Mars Williams - EFTSOONS (1984)

Abrasive, sparse free jazz from two American saxophonists/multi-instrumentalists. Between the sax parts often sounding more like guitar feedback than saxophones and the whimsically unsettling atmosphere, much of EFTSOONS plays like a lost Nurse with Wound record.

Track listing:

1. Carnal Concupiscence

2. Is This Virginia?

3. A SYNC/SYNC STAT MUX PROLIXTHUX

4. Odoriferous Flambeaus of the Paranymphs

5. N, SSS, EEE <RETURN>

6. Eftsoons

7. Noise Command: Blast 1

I didn't know anybody, and there was a funny smell

If you like this, listen to:

Anthony Braxton - 3 Compositions of New Jazz (1968)

William Hooker - ... Is Eternal Life (1977)