
"On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese..." At a Polish church basement sale in the EV a few months ago, I bought this Tom Glazer cassette for something like 50 cents. I also bought a lot of Polskie Nagrania vinyl in the hopes that it would be jazz but it all turned out to be light instrumental/vocal music of one kind or another. Of course, the real charm was the coffee and cupcakes being sold and the Polish kids intended to market them. I'd never heard of Tom Glazer before--but, incidentally, I came across [...]

Innova Records , flagship label of the American Composers Forum, releases way too much for any one person to actually listen to. I do give each of their discs at least a cursory spin, if not necessarily from beginning to end. Much of their material goes over my head, as my knowledge/understanding of modern composition is pretty weak. But they also dabble a bit in experimental, electronic and improvised music, and occasionally they send me an item that I can really and truly identify with. Christopher Campbell's new Sound the All-Clear is one of those [...]