Henry Flynt - You Are My Everlovin' This is the new reissue on Superior Viaduct. GREAT droning violin/tambura duo with Catherine Christer Hennix from 1981....
Assumed Possibilities: Still Point Chris Burn: piano, toy pianos Rhodri Davies: harp Phil Durrant: violin Mark Wastell: cello Recorded at Gateway Studios, London, January 7, 2001 (Rossbin Production, RS007) (Italy) (CD)
I just posted this as a new thread but it's sinking like a stone, so perhaps it should have been a post here? My daughter's in her final year of her Masters degree in Mechatronics and attended a presentation about music created live using algorithms. It's now just hit the Guardian music section, interesting? After this it runs to what I think my daughter went along to, she's not bought or produced any music yet.
Irreversible Entanglements - S/T Free jazz and Black Liberation poetry! This is one of the best things I've heard all year.....
JOHN BUTCHER soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone PHIL DURRANT violin JOHN RUSSELL guitar 1 - HEAVY MERGE - 19:51 2 - BELAYED - 13:10 3 - BUFFET BALLS - 4:55 4 - BEYOND HEADLINES - 6:57 5 - CLIMATE CHANGE - 22:02 Digital concert recordings: 1-4 by STUDIO CCAM: François Cacic and François Dietz Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (Centre Culturel Andre Malraux) 1998 May 22 at MUSIQUE ACTION '98 (15th season) 5 by EMANEM: Martin Davidson London (Red Rose) 1998 March 15 at a MOPOMOSO monthly concert
Sure, I know of him. His life was rather sad, plagued by drugs and a fragile mental state. He was a terrific singer (operatic), and of course a piano player. Most of his works are lost, since he was evicted from his apartment and the landlord threw them all out, but some remain. New World Records released a 3-CD set a few years back which is a fantastic collection (they call it a box set, but it ships in a fat-Jewelcase). There aren't many recordings of him playing, so anything New World finds is really something. If you like his singing the only CD worth getting is Eight Sons for a Mad King, conducted by Pierre Boulez. I've seen his work slotted into the "minimalist" camp - since he studied with Glass and Reich in their formative years - but it's a fit at all. His piano playing is more along the lines of Lubomyr Melnyk. I didn't know about this new Eastman release, so much appreciated!
Thanks for the info, Vaughan! Sad indeed. I can hear the Minimalist comparison, but there's something uniquely his going on too. I'll need to hit Ebay/Discogs/somewhere for the physical set you mentioned I guess. New World has it as a download only now. I'll have to check out Lubomyr Melnyk as well.
I don't but I do own the 2CD set Charly put out a few years back that collects their first two albums. It's outtasite!
Earth - Live HEX; In A Large City On The North American Continent So I finally decided to fill some holes in my aRCHIVE collection and get this as well as the Boris 3CD set and Growing's live album. I haven't gotten the Boris set yet but this is fantastic! Looooong, slooooooooow McCarthy-inspired doom-scapes!
Yeah, it's gold. I have the CD I posted, but sadly it's only a needle drop. I may actually have an AVI of the movie on my hard disks somewhere.
Melnyk is actually in the Guinness Book of Records as being the fastest pianist alive. He plays beautiful rushes of notes like waves coming into the shore. Be thinking along the lines of Charlemagne Palestine doing Strumming Music (which, if you don't have it, can be found in a great multidisc set from Sub Rosa which includes Strumming Music played on Piano, then Harpsichord, and finally by a string Quartet. Not an expensive set either.......)
Julius was a teacher of mine at SUNY Buffalo in the mid 70's and later a friend in NYC. I composed a piece for him once. We'd sometimes meet for chess and I used to visit him in his tiny apt. in the East Village. I have fond memories of him. He was quite the character. A much better singer and pianist than a composer IMHO. I last saw him in 1982.
Lines in Australia Personnel: Axel Dörner – Trumpet; Jim Denley – Flutes, Alto Saxophone; Philipp Wachsmann – Violin, Electronics; Marcio Mattos – Cello, Electronics; Martin Blume – Percussion.
Kristoffer Lo - Anhedonia I ran across this release by one of my favorite artists today. Lo plays amplified tuba, flugabone and guitar. Great dark ambient Anhedonia
Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Fennesz/O'Rourke/Drumm/Siewert Werner Dafeldecker, electronics, bass; Christof Kurzmann, G3, clarinet, theremin; Christian Fennesz, G3; Jim O'Rourke, G3 (track 1); Kevin Drumm, guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4); Martin Siewert, guitar (track 5). Graz (09.55) Wels (11.48) Nickelsdorf 1 (13.16) Nickelsdorf 2 (19.52) Bern (18.56) Recorded live in 1998 at the locations indicated.
John McCowen - Solo Contra EP Solo contrabass clarinet with a lot of playing in the upper register and with circular breathing. This is a new release yesterday and was in my recommended list in Bandcamp. I've listened to it 3 times already. Solo Contra, by John McCowen
Inutili - Music To Watch The Clouds On A Sunny Day I read about this album a while back on Julian Cope's Head Heritage site. I was under the impression that it was a vinyl only release but a CD version is available which I got via ebay for like $5. This is a mind-melting recording of twisted, improvisational psych consisting of only two massive tracks. GREAT stuff!!!! Music To Watch The Clouds On A Sunny Day, by Inutili
