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Ah, Keith Fullerton Whitman continues to do his thing! Interesting musician in his own right. https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/music

In case anyone missed this recent reissue... perhaps the first official CD reissue of all of these rare titles? https://alphastate.nyc/products/gil-melle-the-andromeda-strain Gil Mellé; The Andromeda Strain, Tome VI, Waterbirds + May 2022; due to numerous requests, and in the spirit of celebrating Creel Pone's 17th Anniversary with a bang, here is a completely revised replica edition of this time-tested title, with the original Kapp 10"/LP issue of "The Andromeda Strain" OST augmented with Melle's two other relatable issues of Jazz-Electronics from the vinyl era: "Tome VI" & "Waterbirds" across two discs (plus a short bonus track of a "Demo" of the Percusotron III!) Creel pone of one of the most legendary Early Electronic music film scores (right up there with Bebe & Louis Barron’s “Forbidden Planet”, Bernard Hermann’s “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, and Oskar Sala’s Trautonium sound design for Hitchcock’s “The Birds”) - mainly due to the scarcity & production values of the original release: a Hexagonal 10” record housed in a six-fold flap-system affixed to the cover of a metallic 12” sleeve which opens up to reveal a set of photos from the film & the liner notes. All well & good, but the attraction for me to this suite of pieces by jazz composer Gil Mellé has always been the bizarre invented electronic instrumentation (like the Percussotron III - a primitive drum machine) and lo-fi / distorted Musique Concrète techniques (the first piece alone consists of ten tape-transformed piano parts and the ambience of a bowling alley). For early 70s Hollywood film-score material, this stuff is pretty damn far out ... most of it sounds like a more free/European take on the Patrick Gleeson collabs on Herbie Hancock’s “Sextant”, other parts sound like the weird Finnish jerry-rigged electronics of Erkki Kurreniemi or even the more far-out segments on the first two Kluster records. No matter how you slice it, this is an important set; rife with sound-research oriented takes that situate it well within the Creel Pone canon.

Sending you healing thoughts!

Sam Sam Gendel, SUPERSTORE https://samgendel.bandcamp.com/album/superstore-2 Interesting miniatures built around Gendel's (often electronically modified) saxophone when not built on (usually J Dilla-esque) beats

Curtis Clark perhaps?

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Amazing; thanks for sharing this!

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Dang. Far too young! "Master of the tenor saxophone, dark humor and blazing analytical thought" indeed.

He will be missed for sure. So thankful for the great music he left us.

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That's Ernie Henry, Two Macero, and Bill Hardman on the 1956 gig (!).

Joe Boyd on Nick Drake. I like what he says (speculation though it may be) about the possible influence of bossa nova on Drake's music. Also, this video about Drake's distinctive sound.

The figure in that footage certainly matches descriptions of Drake. I.e., he was a tall dude. If it is him, how appropriate that he's walking away from the camera — and the viewer.

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Another one: "Warm Canto," Mal Waldron, THE QUEST.

Herbie Nichols, "The Spinning Song"