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You missed this one, then:

In NO way understanding how this ended up on Time Records. My copy is a tad noisier, but not so much as to make me not want to see a visualization of it, animated or live action.

Never met him, did work locally with his cousin Pat for a while, good times. Here's an article from 2010: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2010-02-12/960857/ and one from 1997: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/horn-free/

I hear it all over the record, start to finish. This is the version I have, and I do note that it's marketed as Ultra Audio and Wall To Wall Stereo, so that's probably it, Post-prod ping-pong. It's a distraction, to put it mildly.

Are we referring to the New Music String Quartet in general, or specifically to their recordings for the Bartok label? If the former, I guess it's safe to presume that this will be a wise addition to the library? https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Columbia-Collection-String-Quartet/dp/B07NBC89BF/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1553958938&refinements=p_32%3ANew+Music+String+Quartet&s=music&sr=1-1

The LP I recently bout has this weird stereo thing where soloists are hard-panned between channels in the course of their own solos, like they're trading fours with doppelgangers of themselves. Besides wondering if they were told to play their solos in such a way that this could be achieved, I'm wondering if this effect was carried over to the CD mix. Also, was there a mono mix released? It doesn't really work for me, what they did with that. I'd like to hear the record/music without it. Again, was there a mono version, ever?

Nobody familiar with this label and its output?

Throughout history, there's been no shortage of unfunky white people, if that's the point. And I don't mean to equate funky with black. The word itself definitely has ethno-racial connotations, but the concept of funky is damn near universal. It''s that zone that is between zones, the zone that you can always get to, but never by will, especially not by desire. It's a compelling reality in its presence, and an even more real repulsive reality in its absence. There, there''s some rhetoric for everybody''s dumb asses. Now go buy my record.

Songs! Still! Really! No idea what this is. I mean, I know what it sounds like, and I like it, but I don't know near enough to know what it really is. Sigune von Osten sure has an impressive resume, but her profile on record seems to be scant indded. Why that is, I have no idea. I also don't have enough of a base knowledge to know how well she's interpreting this stuff. Her Cage does compare favorably to Cathy Berberian's, although of course, it's doesn't (it can't) ahve the real-time mindfuck quality that Berberian brought full on. Tell you what, though - if I ser her walking around, I'm a=gonna follow her for a while. Seems like where she goes, things follow.

Ever seen those records where the shrink-wrap seam is, like, halfway, on the backside? And overlaps? They weren't born that way.

Ok, yeah, they bought the Tower website/domain/whatever. I do recall murmurings about the whole thing being a little shady in some way, before and after the Tower thing. But hell, it was the internet record business.

I think(???) that they took over (or were taken over by?) the Tower brand when Tower folded. And that was that. Something like that?

I really don't hear anybody sounding "awful" here, at least not in terms of technique. Groove is in its own pocket, nobody's slopping shit up, playing notes they don't mean to play, none of that. And the violin player plays with confidence and accuracy. And that's a good thing, really, it is. But playing flaccid (a word that has a life beyond the penile, btw), flat-lined music with no guts, that's not a good thing. It's not even 'happy" music. It's like smooth jazz only with angles. but they're 2D angles, not 3D. So....bfd. and of course, mileages will vary, as they should.

But they do - and they want you to know that they do. The implication is that if you like those "politics", they you will "like" the music. even whether or not you actually listen to it on its own terms won't matter. and I'm like, well, if that's the card you gonna play, play it better than this, because all I see is a card with no possible hand behind it. Not only do I doubt they own any guns, I bet they also don't play poker worth a damn.

And I see the potential for that. But that clip seriously dis-incentivizes me to find out, especially when coupled with the PR blurb. Maybe they need to shoot their publicity team. Or at least threaten to!

Here's some reality: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/mark-hughes-right-bear-arms/

That's hardly a new rule! Ok, keep telling yourself that reality is not real. That type of thinking is all the rage these days, so you'll feel right at home, no doubt! The fear of guns is like any other fear of an inanimate object. What you need to be afraid of is de-evolution of humanity, with or without guns. But no, let's piss our Paranoia Pants anytime the word "gun" come up, that will fix the problem. Again, good luck with that.

You think wrong. Jesus dude, people own guns/knifes/etc, always have always will. It's as much a part of urban life as it is rural, and I've had plenty of exposure to them on both ends, enough to know that people who seek "protection" go there, and not always without good reason. That is not to say that a lot of stupid things happen when a lot of stupid people buy guns, but it is to say that when I rode a long with certain bandleaders to get their cash payroll to a safe place along a routes that very much posed real-world hazards and they had their protection at the ready, I was not at all unsympathetic. I also remember when the Panthers called for their community to be armed and ready to defend themselves against hostile attacks from the established power structure. That shit got real and then it got hot, but dammit, people responded to a real threat in kind. I don't fault them for doing so. In fact I respect that willingness to have skin (literally) in the game a whole helluva lot more than I do all this boohooshiningstar rhetoric that is going to get all of nothing done. Just saying - real problems call for real solutions. I'm glad people are feeling good and not letting the bastards get them down, but feeling good alone is just bullshit. When they come after you, whatcha' gonna have to push them away? Resistance? Yeah, good luck on that one... Does it have to be guns/knives/etc? As the man said, you don't need the bullet when you got the ballot. But to pretend that there's not a place, and often enough, a need, for literal self-protection in this and any/every world, that's delusional. Now - am I myself armed? Maybe yes, maybe not. Do you want to find out? Thank you, fellow-moderator!

I mean, OG Archie Shepp was definitely a propagandist, but the heat of his music represented (and often enough, matched) the heat of his rhetoric. He made you liste to both, the music and the propaganda. This shit just makes you want to ignore it all, which I'm thinking is NOT a desired outcome.

I think they have a very defined concept. That's the problem (if there is one, and really, at this point, those horses have left so many barns and taken the cows with them, so there's no more milk to spill. No more tears, baby shampoo now, musical baby shampoo).

I think it's more impotent than inept. They all have obvious instrumental facility, they just don't have anything to do with it (at least not in that clip).

Is this something that all seasoned classical listeners know about? If so, what are the opinions? If not, how does this look to you? It looks GREAT to me! https://www.discogs.com/label/356652-Bart%C3%B3k-Records

I had no choice, they were playing it on the radio when I was, like, 17! Still gonna need somebody to explain Jack Six to me, though. But this, jeez, this one was played at least 3X a week, probably more, I was pulling in the signal from Fort Worth on FM after midnight, > 1250 miles away, can't say that they didn't play it every damn night, I knew it before I did the original.

Mulligan had the marquee appeal, but the real story on those records was Alan Dawson.