Colleene Fesko, Shea Prueger, Brody Neuenschwander, France Gall, adriane schramm, Gosford Park (2001), Whitney Cummings, Willard Wigan, Bill "The Fox" Foster, Rebecca Linares, Greta Wodele, Lydia Lunch, Marcel Kanche, Arianna Huffington, European Sharking, David Lynch, Cleon Peterson, Junior Kimbrough, Laura Kightlinger, Gina Carano, Plastiscines, Susan Lisovicz, ursula moore, bianca frieres, Triarii, 'The Grey Album', Emma Starr Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Milena Velba, Carolee Schneeman, SM Lockridge, keziah apuzen, Gribouille, Albert CARRIER-BELLEUSE, Cat Osterman, Theo Jansen, Bruce Timm, Les Calamités, jaap blonk, edith bouvier beale (both), Lindha Kallerdahl, Lladro, sophie evans, anton corbijn, Anna Piaggi, Morton Bartlett, Dignity Village, Alicia Rickter, Judy Dunaway, CINDY MORGAN, Mother Ann Lee, peter brotzmann, kaoru abe, richard kern, Jess Walton, elsa martinelli, Sybarite, Joel-Peter Witkin, john zorn, annabel chong, Ganguro Shibuya Girl, Manolo Blahnik, gunter christmann, mats gustafsson, albert ayler, lol coxhill, nan goldin, Doc Hammer, OEO, DFL, DBC, UFO or DIE, DNA, ZEITGEIST, Sophie Howard, Isabella Blow, Deauxma, laura gemser, McLaughlin Group, hans bellmer, tom waits, Network (1976), The Mighty Boosh, sante d'orazio, Stinky Toys, kowloon walled city, EMILY MORTIMER, willem breuker, Yulia Nova, ashlee simpson, RISK, Albert Fish, david hamilton, slayer, HumanLight, Olga Donetskaya, raymond pettibon, Fritz Haarmann, andrew hirniak, ashley prom, Amanda Lepore, ran asakawa, jimmy coonan & mickey featherstone
Our general mission is to cautiously expose and protect the few creative minds, whose regards for their interests and ideas, are distinctly personal interactive involvements attributing to a more fulfilling open source for self development.
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Vantage Selects: by subscription only, this series of select documents released and crafted with absolute personal approval by specific Vantage artists, and offered with the sole intent to openly give the listener an opportunity to overhear the design strategies, private tastes, and musical direction of the Vantage community, will become available, and highly limited, on a monthly basis, each celebrating an individual artist and a unique voice: unlikely found anywhere else. (6/2009)
VB(p)01 - jamison williams:'Helen Mirren', an outstanding memorial, personal and honest; a shared experience of uncompromised appreciation: a piece of personal admiration, delivered and pronouced, little left unsaid, and much needed, still, to be desired; startling, raw, and stark. (solo saxophone)
VB(p)02 - bill henderson:
'Study of American Classics', an eyeopening voyage into the possibilities found in an instrument whose intentions are none less than that of pure enthuesiasm and auditory high volitility; classics taken further than expected, value found in the truely recycled: variation without precaution, beautiful and with fearful delight. (solo vintage turntable)
VB(p)03 - michael lanier: 'There is a Bad Ghost in this Town'
VB(p)04 - sr camelia / jamison williams:'Piano Duets',
Sharefully enveloped in playful tandem, this eclectic story of
afternoons of muffled sunlight and chardonnay, brings together a balance of
aggressive scholasticism and childish naivety, and for the eager ears of the
passive voyeur, a chance to have been welcomed into a loving entrapment
of tender pettlings and explosive diction.
VB005 - michael lanier / jamison williams: 'Thomas Edison'
, a commendable document of focused deconstruction, a piano/saxophone duo and a great debut disc for anyone interested in capturing the inexpendable value of two undeterred artists celebrating a genius of modern invention.
VB013 - bill henderson / jamison williams: 'Ukiyo-e Shunga'
, one hundred and eighteen short tracks featuring the most intense playmanship and musical velocity; crafted with persevered determination, and guaranteed to blister the facets of preconceived expectations: a pillow book for the ears.
VB007 - jamison williams: 'Adolescence', this engaging installment focuses much attention to the personal uncertainties, embarrassments and qualms, sexual tensions and brooding angst being faced by children in the most difficult phase of their lives. (solo saxophone)
VB009 - jamison williams: 'STUDY TAPES: an artist's account of himself'
, this candid look into the private world of reflective cassette studies, delivers personal selections from hours of previously unheard 'practice tape' recordings; these offer, for the eavesdropper, a brief glimpse of undisturbed focus and relentless concentration. Included: composition and personal notes. (solo saxophone)
VB015 - yu adachi / jamison williams: 'Frank Lloyd Wright', throughout his lifelong career, Frank Lloyd Wright reshaped American architecture on the strength of progressive conceptual design, and empowered the world with his belief in perfecting structured livable art; this guitar/saxophone duo demonstrates the impenetrable focus of a visionary, determined through amour propre and obstinance, to immortalize his invaluable contribution to artistic habitable construction.
VB003 - jamison williams: 'An Intimate Portrait of Youth', a breathtaking look into the vibrant subtlety, calming restraint, and dismal loneliness found in the preciousness of being alive in the early years of life. (solo saxophone)
"This ['Intimate Portrait'] is hands down one of the most startlingly original things I've heard in ages, and listened to in a dark room on good headphones, one of the most compellingly unpleasant musical experiences you're likely to have."Lissajou(http://www.myspace.com/lissajou,
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VB021 - ag davis / jamison williams:'A Private History of Comfort Women', this poignant account of musical dualism opens the unforgiving world of sexual violence and war crimes, brought on by the Japanese military and administered to the unknowing abductees of ravaged and conquered nearby countries; these stories tell a tail of sadistic terror, sympathetic isolation, and the hope of an acknowledged apology, speak words in a language bitter with unforgiven torment.
VB019 - jamison williams: 'STUDY TAPES: The Artist's Account of Himself: Jan-Aug 09', this insightful glimpse into the improviser's detailed personal saxophone arrangements, gives a voyeuristic keyhole look into the flaws, accomplishments, fear, anger, and joy found in creating a world of sound from within the heart of a daily musical explorer; definitely an inspirational work of art, open and available, unrelenting and vulnerable, a must for any saxophone student.
VB023 - ag davis: 'Study of Children's Classics',
this alarmingly visceral dictation of pure rigor and violence,
retells the calming and torrid tale of innocence lost, then found;
a poetic, and allegorical lullaby for solo voice,
heartfelt and wonderfully terrifying.
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(POP) nouveau: selective release union, a fifty-part presentation of selected historical works, created by the individuals that helped to build what Vantage Bulletin is today, and what it has come represent; archaic, raw, festering with flaws and inconsistency, and an utmost sense of dutiful responsibility.
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In Process
VB011 - bill henderson / jamison williams: 'Harry Houdini', the duo of Bill Henderson and Jamison Williams has always been an exciting event of unbridled enthusiasm coupled with anxious unexpectation, together they offer insight to the trap-door, smoke and mirrors, and sleight of hand antics of the world's most famous escape artist and magician.
VB017 - extra sexes: 'Revenge', brothers AG Davis, and Bryan Davis are joined by Bill Henderson, to solidify a true testament of the majestic charisma found in the delivery of 'just desserts'; piercingly dark, and unpleasantly inviting, these collection of poetic stories enchant with woven anecdotal terror and ironic discontent: powerfully dictated, and with twisted droll.
Coming soon (audio)
'TRAPBOMB' (henderson/gruda/davis bros./peele/williams)
'Annie Lytle Elementary School no. 4' Invocation of Aphrodite (williams)
Ah My Lover… Can you remember that night too? Do you desire to rember again? Do it with me, my Lover, for the last time.
“You didn’t bring with you any luggage; there wasn’t anything you needed but me and my ropes, but me and my ribbons. I’ve seen you and I ‘ve understood that it was you. You didn’t need to tell me who you was or what you was coming to do. Our aim was clear, from the beginning. I layed on the bed my Lover, and you undressed me...you started from my shoes. You had to know, to smell, to touch every single piece of me, little by little.
We had our time my Lover, and that was our time.
I wanted you to know me as none had seen me before: I wanted to be myself , unmasked. Your undressing me left me naked as I have never been before and I felt my skin for the first time.
I asked you to tie me up , my Lover, and to tap my mouth: I didn’t want to have any desire but only the one you could have for me, with me. And you did it my Lover. I didn’t want that not a word of mine could have changed your wills, that could have brought you to come back... I wanted to be your wishes.
You loved me as I would have liked to be loved, you loved me as none as ever loved me. You tie your knots around me, around my elbows, around my ankles, around my desires. I asked you to tight your knots: I wanted to feel my blood running on my veins, I wanted to feel myself alive and only your.
You are gone away my Lover, after that night you went away.. You took my ropes and my ribbons away with you. I will use them again when you will come back. If you will ever come back.
