JOE JONES

Back and Forth / Exhibition Sound

(? Records) Used CD $30.00

Recorded August 1985, Jones’s whirring, clanking mechano-constructs refuse to sit still. “Back cover shots display several motor-agitated automatons with single beaters attached to end(s), pre flail. Heard: motorik-accent hand drum, metallic ping, bells, glockenspiel (possibly), distant melodic informations, presumably of aleatoric / wind-based selection. Jones’s music continues to exasperate and provide much needed WTF synapse-misfire. Defiant.”

JOE JONES

Solar Music at Sierksdorf, Ostsee

(Edition Telemark - 314.08) LP $36.00 (Out-of-stock)

Performed and recorded early morning April 1, 1984, on a beach at the Baltic Sea, originally released as a tape in an edition of 15 (Edition Hundertmark 1984). The 2001 CD reissue by ? Records omitted the seven photo prints of the original tape edition; Edition Telemark’s edition reproduces them for the first time. Gatefold PVC sleeve. Edition of 200

JOE JONES

Xylophone

(? Records) Used CD $25.00

A 31-minute, deliriously good sound piece recorded in 1976, made by a music machine xylophone (a motorized cork beater that runs over the Lyrica tone-tubes in monochromatic fashion, creating an illustrious wave of cosmic fracture). Edition of 500