Bo\\\' Weavil Recordings is a new London based imprint dedicated to releasing onto vinyl and CD great music that has been long out of print, or never had a vinyl or CD release before.
The label\\\'s intention is to put out some lost gems from the wealth of traditional folk music and avant-garde/free music while also releasing records cataloging the current scene of avant folk music from around the globe.
Alan Wilkinson, John Edwards and Steve Noble
Originally released in 2007, Obliquity is a free jazz record, if you'll forgive the use of such a hoary, old-fashioned phrase. Its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive, places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: Ayler, Sanders, Graves, and Frank
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N.E.W. (Noble/Edwards/Ward)
Steve Noble (drums/percussion), John Edwards (bass) and Alex Ward (electric guitar) are N.E.W.. Deadeye Tricksters incorporates language, ritual, myth, and laughter. Play is at the heart of the interaction of these great players. From the opening riff, with Ward's scattergun guitar fizzing around
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Noah Howard
Originally released on Freedom Recordings, 1969. The Black Ark is one of the most sought-after underground free jazz releases of all time. This record simply is THE BOMB -- a perfect combination of Noah Howard's soulful compositions and playing, infused with plenty of sweet/sour/in/out forms and
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Oren Ambarchi
Another release from the great Australian experimental guitarist, Oren Ambarchi. A Touch label recording artist, Oren has been making music since 1986, creating sounds from the guitar that one would not expect to hear. On this LP, two long tracks reside one per side, starting from minimal,
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Peter Brotzmann and Wilkinson Quartet
A long overdue meeting of two of the titans of the saxophone. Alan Wilkinson (alto, baritone & voice) and Peter Brötzmann (clarinet, tarogato & tenor) together with Willi Kellers (drums) and Simon H. Fell (bass) blow up one hell of a storm. The individuals on this recording consciously commit,
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Robbie Basho
Subtitled: Live at the Kulturforum, Bonn, Germany, November 24, 1980. Another in the Wooden Weavil series, this time an unreleased live Robbie Basho recording from Germany in 1980. Robbie Basho was one of the great pioneers of the acoustic steel string guitar in the U.S., along with Leo Kottke and
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Tetuzi Akiyama & Donald McPherson
Originally released in 2006. Recorded in New Zealand in 2004, this is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of two virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald
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Tight Meat Duo
Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Pop to Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion. Judging by the music heard on Vanishing Fist, their first salvo under the name Tight Meat Duo, these
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Tom James Scott
Debut solo recording by Tom James Scott, a young classically-trained guitarist, and a mainstay of the improvising collective, CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music (solo and choral), composition, and field recording, to
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Wooden Spoon
This is the debut full-length release by Wooden Spoon on Bo' Weavil. Wooden Spoon seeks to create a music free from the influence of the modern world, to evoke some kind of state of pastoral introspection at once joyful and sad. Influenced by the Takoma school of guitar players, Popol Vuh, and
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