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. Jacksonville Florida experimental noise music record label punk jazz
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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)
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Prologue
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.
ACT ONE
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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ACT TWO
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.
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.
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.
VB027 - michael lanier / jamison williams:
'Emily Dickinson', this delicate portrait of isolation, grief, passion, and poised loneliness, together with calming restraint and confidence, frames an idealized glimpse into the heart, wisdom, and fidelity found in the works of this renowned poetic classicist; subtle, and beautifully paced, a sincere work of honor.
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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.
Coming soon (audio)
'TRAPBOMB' (henderson/gruda/davis bros./peele/williams)
'Annie Lytle Elementary School no. 4'
Invocation of Aphrodite (williams)
video
Bill Henderson / Jamison Williams, "for Devin Renee DeVasquez"
Jamison Williams, "for Pia Reyes" (solo alto saxophone)
Jamison Williams, "for Ingeborg Sorensen" (solo alto saxophone)
Bill Henderson / Jamison Williams, "for Jacqueline Bouvier"
Coming soon (video)
AG Davis, "for Meister Eckhart" (voc)
AG Davis / Jamison Williams, "for Kim Yoon-shim" (voc, as)
