Alan Sondheim Discography of CDs

Alan Sondheim CD discography Released on the notoriously eclectic ESP label in the late sixties, Alan Sondheim's recorded debut, RITUAL-ALL-7-70, followed ESP releases from experimental jazz legend Sun Ra and woolly downtown noise-mongers The Godz--an odd but fitting spot for Sondheim, whose painstakingly composed and often willfully dissonant releases inhabit some unclassifiable stylistic realm that embraces free jazz, classical avant garde, and pure noise. Sondheim plays guitar, koto, violin, english horn, and an assortment of other instruments on this genre-defying work. Recorded January 1967 in Providence, RI Personnel: Alan Sondheim (electric guitar, Hawaiian steel guitar, classical guitar, koto, bansuri, suling, clarinet, English horn, alto saxophone, xylophone, sona); Ruth Ann Hutchinson (vocals); Robert Poholek (trumpet, cornet); Chris Mattheson (bass instrument); J.P. (drums); Barry Sugarman (bongos, tabla). Personnel: Alan Sondheim (xylophone, alto saxophone, sona, classical, electric and hawaiian guitars, English horn, bansari koto, clarinet, suling); Ruth Ann Hutchinson (vocals); Robert Poholek (cornet, trumpet); Chris Mattheson (bass); Barry Sugarman (bongo, tabla); J.P. (drums).

Alan Sondheim albums The return of Alan Sondheim! A recording of solo acoustic guitar and alpine zither songs, this release will delight those familiar with his early Riverboat (reissued as FM 04) and ESP Disc recordings as well as the audience for experimental solo guitar - while creating an audience for experimental solo alpine zither! On this release, Alan performs on the 1927 martin tenor guitar, 19th century parlor guitar, 1920s prime alpine zither and 1860s elegie alpine zither. Dan Wharburton of Paris Transatlantic said of the reissue of The Songs: "an endearingly ramshackle melting pot of free jazz, blues and folk (if Eugene Chadbourne later described his work as "free improvised country & western bebop" then this is "free improvised Hawaiian flamenco gospel blues music theatre).. its influence resonates (indirectly, one imagines, unless there are more copies of the original vinyl in circulation than I imagine) in the free folk of today's New Weird America scene." Now listeners have the opportunity to hear for themselves the present day song form manifestations of this overlooked creative master. ON GUITAR BY ALAN SONDHEIM: Guitar is all I can do. Everything else is talk, concept, ideation. Guitar is labor/energy. Guitar is skill. I wanted to be the fastest guitar player in the ...

Using an arsenal of acoustic instruments including zither, antique classical guitars, tenor banjo and parlor guitar, Alan Sondheim brings these traditional sounding instruments into the realm of improvisation along with Myk Freedman whose lap steel playi Liner Note Author: Alan Sondheim. Recording information: Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Photographer: Alan Sondheim. Personnel: Alan Sondheim (guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, tenor banjo, zither); Myk Freedman (lap steel guitar). Audio Mixer: Luke Mosling.

Released on the notoriously eclectic ESP label in the late sixties, Alan Sondheim's recorded debut, RITUAL-ALL-7-70, followed ESP releases from experimental jazz legend Sun Ra and woolly downtown noise-mongers The Godz--an odd but fitting spot for Sondheim, whose painstakingly composed and often willfully dissonant releases inhabit some unclassifiable stylistic realm that embraces free jazz, classical avant garde, and pure noise. Sondheim plays guitar, koto, violin, english horn, and an assortment of other instruments on this genre-defying work. Recorded January 1967 in Providence, RI Personnel: Alan Sondheim (guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, koto, bansuri, suling, clarinet, English horn, alto saxophone, xylophone, sona); Ruth Ann Hutchinson (vocals); Robert Poholek (trumpet, cornet); J.P. (drums); Barry Sugarman, Berul Sugarman (bongos, tabla). Liner Note Authors: John B. Litweiler; Tom "Tornado" Klatt; Alan Sondheim; Bernard Stollman. Recording information: Providence, RI (01/1967). Personnel: Alan Sondheim (xylophone, alto saxophone, sona, classical, electric and hawaiian guitars, English ...