MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind

On November 8, 2011, Indirecto Records released a double-live album featuring guitar guru John Scofield and genrebusting improvisational jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood. MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind is a live collection of twelve tracks culled from their 2006 MSMW tour and features music from Scofield’s A Go Go and MSMW’s OUT LOUDER .

1. A Go Go
2. Deadzy
3. What Now
4. Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing
5. Cachaca
6. In Case the World Changes It’s Mind
7. Miles Behind
8. Little Walter Rides Again
9. Hanuman
10. Amazing Grace
11. Southern Pacific
12. Hottento

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20 brand new tracks to celebrate Medeski Martin & Wood’s 20th anniversary. These songs were recorded and released digitally in nine volumes over the course of 2011.

1. Me2
2. Shackman
3. Synesthesia
4. Down On Me
5. Born On A Bus
6. Tiznit Stomp
7. Fuck You Guys (First Take)
8. Box Car Lullabye
9. Make Room For Another (Mix By DJ Olive)
10. Last Of A Kind (Mix By DJ Olive)
11. Aquila The Hyun
12. Doppler
13. Silk
14. Stubborn Comfort
15. Sea Shack
16. Nuba
17. Palo Santo
18. Illmoan
19. Mean Irene
20. Floodwater

Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set

Medeski Martin & Wood release their first box set called Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set. The box set packages the individual Radiolarians installments together for the first time and also includes additional material including a double vinyl LP, a live album called “Explorarians,” a remix album aptly titled “Remixolarians” and “Fly In A Bottle,” MMW’s first feature-length DVD.

Radiolarians III

Medeski Martin & Wood releases the final installment of The Radiolarians Series on August 4, 2009

1. Chantes des Femmes
2. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
3. Kota
4. Undone
5. Wonton
6. Walk Back
7. Jean’s Scene
8. Broken Mirror
9. Gwyra M

Radiolarians II

Medeski Martin & Wood released the second installment of The Radiolarian Series on April 14th, 2009.

1. Flat Tires
2. Junkyard
3. Padrecito
4. Ijiji
5. Riffin’ Ed
6. Amber Gris
7. Chasen vs Suribachi
8. Dollar Pants
9. Amish Pinxtos
10. Baby, Let Me Follow You Dow

Radiolarians I

Restlessly inventive improvising trio Medeski Martin & Wood have embarked on an ingenious new experiment dubbed The Radiolarian Series.

1. First Light
2. Cloud Wars
3. Muchas Gracias
4. Professor Nohair
5. Reliquary
6. Free Go Lilly
7. Rolling Sun
8. Sweet Pea Dreams
9. God Fire
10. Hidden Moo

Zaebos

Focused, ecstatic and wildly improvisational, the trio of Medeski Martin & Wood is one of the most popular and vibrant instrumental ensembles of the last few decades, playing to packed houses from Budokan to Bonaroo and back again. Original members of the earliest Masada units (reaching back to 1993), they are a natural choice to interpret the lyrical Book of Angels, and here return to the fold like three prodigal sons. Ten exhilarating and creative arrangements of Zorn compositions that alternately groove, lope, shred and burn with a fiery passion.

1. Zagzagel
2. Sefrial
3. Agmatia
4. Rifion
5. Chafriel
6. Ahalj
7. Asaliah
8. Vianuel
9. Jeduthun
10. Malach ha-Sopher
11. Tutrusa’

Let’s Go Everywhere

When John Medeski, Chris Wood and Billy Martin go into the studio to record any new album, they re never sure what will emerge. It was no different when the trio gathered in an upstate New York studio with a few concepts, a few musical ideas and a few friends, to create Let’s Go Everywhere, the first recording designed to please their youngest fans. Amazon.com says “Let’s Go Everywhere is the kind of record that kids-music insiders get all wound up about, and for a reason that can be summed up in two tidy little words: it’s awesome.”

1. Waking Up
2. Let’s Go Everywhere
3. Cat Creeps
4. The Train Song
5. Where’s the Music
6. Pat A Cake
7. Pirates Don’t Take Baths
8. Far East Sweets
9. On An Airplane
10. The Squalb
11. Let’s Go
12. Old Paint
13. Hickory Dickory Dock
14. All Around The Kitchen
15. We’re All Connecte

OUT LOUDER

“Funky, infectious, brash and sometimes downright beautiful” is one way to describe Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood’s second album, Out Louder. The groove-heavy trio is once again paired with guitar guru John Scofield for a mind-blowing improvisational album that continues to push their sound to new levels.

1. Little Walter Rides Again
2. Miles Behind
3. In Case The World Changes Its Mind
4. Tequila and Chocolate
5. Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing
6. Cachaca
7. Hanuman
8. Telegraph
9. Whats Now
10. Julia
11. Down the Tube
12. Legalize I

Note Bleu-Best of the Blue Note Years 1998-2005

The grooves go as deep as the funkiest recesses of the dance floor and the soundscapes soar to heights beyond the stratosphere. Since the early ‘90s, MMW has been bending brains and moving behinds, fusing jazz, funk, and electronica into a viral groove that you can’t help but catch. “Note Bleu” collects the finest of their six Blue Note albums into one must-have MMW anthology.

1. The Dropper
2. Sugar Craft
3. I Wanna Ride You
4. Nocturne
5. Partido Alto
6. Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho (illyB Remix)
7. Note Bleu
8. Pappy Check
9. Mami Gato
10. Off the Table
11. Queen Bee
12. Hypnotized
13. Hey Joe
14. End of the World Party
15. Uninvisible
16. Whiney Bitches
17. The Builder
18. Toy Dancin

End Of The World Party (just in case)

End Of The World Party (just in case) features producer John King of the Dust Brothers, best known for producing classics like the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique and Beck’s Odelay.

1. Anonymous Skulls
2. End of the World Party
3. Reflector
4. Bloody Oil
5. New Planet
6. Mami Gato
7. Shine It
8. Curtis
9. Ice
10. Sasa
11. Midnight Poppies/ Crooked Birds
12. Queen Be

Uninvisible

Back to the GROOVE! Horns. Turntables. Classic MMW with a future twist. Uninvisible will take you many places, none of which expect to go.

1. Uninvisible
2. I Wanna Ride You
3. Your Name Is Snake Anthony
4. Pappy Check
5. Take Me Nowhere
6. Retirement Song
7. Ten Dollar High
8. Where Have You Been
9. Reprise
10. Nocturnal Transmission
11. Smoke
12. First Time Long Time
13. The Edge of the Night
14. Off the Tabl

Electric Tonic

Available ONLY through the band’s store or at a live show, Electric Tonic is electric improvisational birthday music recorded July 4th 1998 in Downtown New York’s most intimate venue. This album was recorded by MMW archivist Federico Cribiore, who claims that it’s ABSOLUTELY one of his top 5 Desert Island records. Patriotism never sounded so good.

The Dropper

Imagine the cubist angles of Sun Ra’s alto saxophonist Marshall Allen fluttering in between beats, Marc Ribot on guitar, plus strings, and a percussion ensemble, and you have a glimpse into what the Dropper is about. The album organically weaves avant-garde experimentalism and hypnotic thunder music into a well-developed dropper. Witness the trio’s maturing sound metamorphize once again.

1. We Are Rolling
2. Big Time
3. Felic
4. Partido Alto
5. Illinization
6. Bone Digger
7. Note Bleu
8. The Dropper
9. Philly Cheese Blunt
10. Sun Sleigh
11. Tsukemono
12. Shacklyn Knights
13. Nora

Tonic

Recorded in a venue that was once a kosher winery, Tonic is 100% Lower East Side quality. Combine acoustic works from the MMW songbook with compositions from John Coltrane and Lee Morgan and you have one of the most exciting live discs MMW has ever released.

1. Invocation
2. Afrique
3. Seven Deadlies
4. Your Lady
5. Rise Up
6. Buster Rides Again
7. Thaw
8. Hey Jo

Last Chance to Dance Trance (perhaps)

A harkening back to the earlier years. Yes Sir. Gramavision rolls out a compilation of MMW from 1991-1996. This is essentially a small case study on the development of the MMW sound. You can hear acoustic work from their first album just a few tracks away from a live Boulder 96 recording.

1. Chubb Subb new mix
2. Bubblehouse
3. Last Chance To Dance Trance (perhaps)
4. Hermeto’s Daydream
5. Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus
6. The Lover new mix
7. Where’s Sly new mix
8. Macha
9. Beeah
10. Strance of the Spirt Red Gator
11. Bemsha Swing/ Lively Up Yourself
12. Dracula
13. Night Marchers Live 4/18/96 Boulder, C

Combustication Remixes

This is a pretty cool EP. It is sort of like having your head opened up and having six different producers ranging from Dan the Automator to Bill Laswell perform reconstructive surgery on your MMW listening apparti. When you are all done, you walk away muttering, “Mmm… Remix…”

1. Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho –illyB Remix
2. Whatever Happened to Gus (Word To The Drums Mix)
3. Start-Stop – DJ Logic Remix
4. Nocturne – Automator Remix
5. Sugar Craft – Yuka Honda Remix
6. Satan’s Church of Hypnotized Logic –Bill Laswel

Combustication

A deeper groove, plus turntables and powerful experimentation guide MMW through their first Blue Note Release. The hard hitting Sugar Craft featuring DJ Logic is exciting, edgy, and danceable. Nocturne seems to float through a dark, and strangely comfortable dreamscape. Latin Shuffle features one of the greatest recorded piano solos by John Medeski. Rounding out the album and adding an insightful voice is Poet Steve Cannon on Whatever Happened to Gus.

1. Sugar Craft
2. Just Like I Pictured It
3. Start-Stop
4. Nocturn
5. Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho
6. Whatever Happened to Gus
7. Latin Shuffle
8. Everyday People
9. Coconut Boogaloo
10. Church of Logic
11. No Ke Ano Ahiahi
12. Hypnotize

Bubblehouse

Collective featuring DJ Olive, Loop, and Once 11, plus DJ Logic team up to remix three Shackman standards. Check out the Dracula reinvention - one of the creepiest hip-hop instrumentals ever featuring downtown guru John Zorn.

1. Bubblehouse
2. Bubblehouse BBQ Mix
3. Dracula Remix
4. Macha
5. Spy Kis

Farmer’s Reserve

Farmer’s Reserve was recorded by Medeski Martin & Wood at the famous “Shack” in Hawaii in 1996. The album consists of one continuous 40-minute improvisation followed by a 15-minute epilogue. The music is minimalist, and free form. A sonic MMW journey. Farmer’s Reserve is no butt-shaker! Headphones are highly recommended. Available exclusively through mail order and at live shows.

Shack-man

A blessing descended from above when this album was created. How else could music this beatific be created in a Hawaiin shack with the help of solar power? The melodies are intoxicating, the beats are badder than the JB’s on a good day, and Mr. Wood is the funky glue.

1. Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus
2. Think
3. Dracula
4. Bubblehouse
5. Henduck
6. Strance of the Spirit Red Gator
7. Spy Kiss
8. Lifeblood
9. Jelly Belly
10. Night Marchers
11. Kenn

Friday Afternoon in the Universe

15 tracks of unadulterated old school MMW. The first album without a horn section finds the trio in peak form. This might be the only time you will hear Chris Wood playing harmonica and wood flute, but then again, people are known to do strange things on Friday afternoons.

1. The Lover
2. Paper Bass
3. House Mop
4. Last Chance to Dance Trance (perhaps)
5. Baby Clams
6. We’re So Happy
7. Shack
8. Tea
9. Chinoiserie
10. Between Two Limbs
11. Sequel
12. Friday Afternoon In the Universe
13. Billy’s Tool Box
14. Chubb Sub
15. Khob Khun Kru

It’s a Jungle in Here

A true gem. This album reflects the early trio sound with horns, and a special guest appearance by Marc Ribot on electric guitar. You can still hear many of the classic tunes from It’s a Jungle in Here in MMW’s live sets today.

1. Beeah
2. Where’s Sly
3. Shuck It Up
4. Sand
5. Worms
6. Bemsha Swing- Lively Up Yourself
7. Moti Mo
8. It’s a Jungle In Here
9. Syeeda’s Song Flute
10. Wiggly’s Wa

Notes From the Underground

MMW’s DIY masterpiece. The foundation for their distinctive sound is captured on this album in all its acoustic grandeur. You can hear the band really stretch out in these arrangements, shifting from Ellington’s Caravan, to Wayne Shorter’s Orbits, to original compositions with the help of Sex Mob’s slide trumpeter extraordinaire Steven Bernstein.

1. Hermeto’s Daydream
2. The Saint
3. La Garonne
4. Orbits
5. Uncle Chubb
6. Rebirth
7. Otis
8. United
9. Caravan
10. Querenci