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Jon Hain - Catalog

Honor Among Thieves is one of the hottest psychedelic blues bands. This disc catches them live at the Harmony Bar on Halloween, 1997.

The Vision and a Friend


Jon Hain - Catalog

Recorded over 3 days at Smart Studios, this album, quite simply, rocks. For rockin blues, it does not get any better than this.

Four Songs (EP)


Jon Hain - Catalog

Honor Among Thieves clock in with four high-energy cuts on this 1993 EP.

Running With Scissors


Jon Hain - Catalog

Great performances of compositions influenced by a combination of methodical explorations of the history of Western tonal systems with an undercurrent of post-modernism.

denouement


Jon Hain - Catalog

The music on this double trio project sounds as though it were composed by the bastard child of King Sunny AdAfA2 and Ornette Coleman. For most of the compositions, the trios are working in different but interlocking pitch sets and compound time signatures. These structures result in pip-popping little kicks and difficult-to-pin-down harmonies.

Borderlands


Jon Hain - Catalog

The Erica MAther Trio's Borderlands is a CD with something for everyone. Styles range from stright-ahead swing to funk to latin to pure art chamber music. Of the disc Mather says, "it is a survey of influences which have manifested themselves in these nine compositions. Emotional sources for the compositions came from many places such as intriguing characters in books (Barbara Kingsolver's Adah), and capturing the feeling of a month in terms of music (February and January)."

Fugu


Jon Hain - Catalog

The first and last compositions on Fugu were written for choreographer and dancer Li Chiao-Ping, although they have not yet been performed as dances. All but one of the pieces use varying compound time signatures and all are based on Stephen Dembski's post-serial tonal organization system. In fact, this is the most cohesive representation of that system as an nside the changes alternative to traditional jazz improvisation. Although many of Fields other compositions rely on Dembski's system, in these other cases the pitch sets are used just... [read more]

This Theater Was Razed


Jon Hain - Catalog

This Theater Was Razed is Schaefer's debut CD featuring an eclectic variety of popular Madison area musicians. The songs are undeniably theatrical and range from folk to blues. The songs are colorful if at the same time decadent in themes; including songs pertaining to ghosts in the moviehouse and muderous brothers locked up in the smokehouse.