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more Week 19 picks... Justin Dunk http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/week-19-cfl-picks-plenty-play-season-winds/ 3Down http://3downnation.com/2016/10/28/week-19-picks-riders-say-goodbye-stamps-chase-history/#comments

Happy Birthday 2016 Guy!

Week 19 game notes http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/27/cfl-ca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-19/ ***** This week's game will be the last at Taylor Field. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/27/nye-mosaic-heartbeat-rider-nation/ http://www.tsn.ca/fans-players-to-say-goodbye-to-mosaic-stadium-1.593544 ***** Week 19 picks... Jamie Nye http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/27/weekly-predictor-will-rookie-lead-als-another-victory/ Dan Ralph http://www.thespec.com/sports-story/6933888-cfl-picks-week-19/ The Grueling Truth http://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-showweek-19/ ***** Justin Dunk thinks that Bo Levi Mitchell should be this year's *unanimous* MOP. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/25/cfl-mop/#comments ***** Ian Busby (who is from Calgary) speculates that this year's Grey Cup may be another Battle of Alberta. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/26/west-grey-cup-might-wakeup-call-cfl-needs/#comments ***** Joel Gasson ruminates on who will be the Riders' nominees for this year's CFL Awards. https://outlook.live.com/owa/?realm=hotmail.com&path=/mail/search/rp ***** Dave Dickenson expects Bakari Grant to be back from the injured list for the Western Final. http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-expect-grant-back-for-playoffs-1.592856 ***** TSN looks at this week's games in anticipation of the playoffs. http://www.tsn.ca/playoff-seeding-the-focus-in-week-19-matchups-1.591191 ***** 10/26 checking down http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/26/checking-collaros-comes-back-esks-battle-injuries/ ***** Marshall Ferguson admires "the Canadian game." http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/25/ferguson-canadian-game-beautiful-unique/

Week 18... Hamilton 39....Ottawa 36 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2345/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/21/ticats-make-playoffs-via-hard-fought-ot-win-ottawa/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/22/redblacks-fall-apart-late-14-thoughts/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/23/good-bad-hamiltons-thrilling-double-overtime-win-redblacks/#comments ***** With the Ticats' victory, both Toronto and Montreal were eliminated from the playoffs, joining Sask. So now the remainder of the season will be devoted to determining the playoff matchups. http://www.cfl.ca/standings/ ***** Calgary 31....Toronto 13 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2346/toronto-argonauts-vs-calgary-stampeders/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/22/argos-playoff-contention-loss-stamps/#comments ***** Montreal 19....Sask 14 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2347/montreal-alouettes-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/22/riders-remind-everyone-still-ways-go-loss-montreal/#comments http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video/bizarre-ending-caps-alouettes-win-over-roughriders%7E978140 ***** BC 32....Edmonton 25 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2348/edmonton-eskimos-vs-bc-lions/ ***** Week 18 Plays of the Week http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/24/kegsize-plays-of-the-week-wk-18-3/ ***** Vic Rapp died today at 80. RIP. http://www.tsn.ca/former-lions-coach-rapp-dies-at-80-1.592871 http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/vic-rapp-cfl-former-coach-of-the-year-dead-1.3823376 ***** I forgot to mention a couple of weeks ago that Baltimore let Marc Trestman go. http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/ravens-insider/bal-john-harbaugh-fires-offensive-coordinator-marc-trestman-20161010-story.html ***** Here are some articles about the playoff races. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/23/first-place-east-make-big-difference-ticats/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/25/breaking-cfls-races-top-bottom/#comments ***** This week's power rankings cfl.ca http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/25/nissan-titan-power-rankings-adams-jr-helps-alouettes-take-flight/ Malcolm Kelly http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-1.3820767 Scott Cullen http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-lead-lions-rise-in-cfl-power-rankings-1.592807

ECM Keith Jarrett A Multitude of Angels Keith Jarrett: piano U.S. Release date: November 18, 2016 ECM 2500-03 B0025828-02 CD 6025 570 2466 1 A Multitude of Angels is a four-disc set of recordings from a series of solo concerts in Italy in October 1996, documenting four nights of performances from Modena, Ferrara, Turin, and Genoa. These discs fit into the chronology of Jarrett’s many live solo recordings after 1995’s La Scala. A Multitude of Angels marks the end of the first period of the solo concerts, documented on ECM recordings from the Bremen-Lausanne set to Sun Bear Concerts, an era in which Jarrett’s spontaneously developmental, free-flowing music could lead the receptive improviser to many different places. “Jazz is ever present here,” says Jarrett of the music on A Multitude of Angels, “alongside my deep closeness with classical music (modern and ancient, Ives and Bach)…” The continuous arc of music from each of the Italian concerts is comprehensive: “I could feel the energy as spiritual, but sometimes I was in a Baptist church, sometimes in a mosque; or in Ireland, Spain or Africa…Of course, none of this was going through my mind at all as I played, because I was playing as though it was the last time.” In terms of performance format, it was to prove a ‘last time’ of sorts, a conclusion of the pianist’s experiments with long-form improvisation. As he explains in his liner notes, “These were the last concerts I played having no breaks within each set.” After these concerts, two years would elapse before Jarrett played in public again. At home, he recorded the solo The Melody At Night With You in 1997, a meditation on pure melody, and returned to the stage with his “Standards” trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette at the end of 1998. Solo concerts were slowly reintegrated into his itinerary – see 2002’s Radiance, for instance – by which point the format itself had changed, with the sets now sequences of improvised “pieces”. So the music A Multitude of Angels closes a chapter. Of the early solo concerts Keith Jarrett once said, “When I play pure improvisation, any kind of intellectual or emotional handles are inappropriate to just letting the river flow.” The recordings – including the present one, captured by Jarrett himself on a DAT machine – allow performer and listener to re-enter the river. “I can only hope you can have the extraordinary experience I had upon re-discovery of this music,” says Jarrett. ECM David Virelles Antenna David Virelles: acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ, Roland JUNO-6, Vermona electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, prepared piano, programming, samples Alexander Overington: electronics, samples, cello Henry Threadgill: alto saxophone Román Díaz: vocals Marcus Gilmore: drums, electronic percussion Rafiq Bhatia: guitar Etián Brebaje Man: vocals Mauricio Herrera: percussion Los Seres: percussion* *a fictional percussion ensemble, created and programmed by David Virelles Release date: November 18, 2016 ECM 3901 B0025611-01 UPC: 6025 571 0440 0 The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. His latest ECM offering is Antenna, music attuned to a timeless rhythmic-cultural current even as it pulses with a vibrantly urban, modernist energy. A six-track, 22-minute EP released exclusively on vinyl and digitally, Antenna sees Virelles channel Afro-Cuban percussion into an electro-acoustic, almost psychedelic swirl, one that melds jazz improvisation and organic grooves with digital refraction, shadowy synthesizers, otherworldly field recordings and even Cuban street poetry. Antenna is an undulating, throbbing, dizzying dream of sound. Virelles’ ECM leader debut from 2014, Mbòkó, scored high on Best Of The Year lists for The New York Times, NPR, iTunes and The Village Voice, among others. The Guardian described Mbòkó as “a jazz-infused world-music project beyond categories,” adding: “Virelles looks set to make big differences in contemporary music for years to come.” The pianist was born in 1983 and bred in Santiago de Cuba, moving to Canada in 2001 and to New York City in 2009. His studies included private lessons in composition with the great jazz composer-saxophonist-flutist Henry Threadgill, who adds his alto to the teeming sonic brew of Antenna. Prior to the release of Mbòkó, Virelles appeared as a sideman on two ECM albums: Tomasz Stanko’s double-disc Wisława and Chris Potter’s The Sirens, both from 2013. Reviewing a Virelles headlining concert later at the Village Vanguard, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described the pianist as having “a sure touch and multiple musical vocabularies, of which he seems determined to create a synthesis that isn’t schematic or obvious.” About Antenna, Virelles says: “This album is unlike any that I’ve made before – the music would have been impossible to create in the usual way, with this level of sonic experimentation. I wanted the music to have the sound and feel of traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms, but generated and deconstructed electronically, so that I could make new, very different music out of those elements. I spent a lot of time trying to make my electronic percussion sound as natural as possible, yet Marcus Gilmore’s drums and cymbals were sampled so that he could not only play his drum kit but also generate some grooves digitally, still using his own sound. We added ambient noise in the background of the opening and closing percussion pieces I programmed, to make them sound like field recordings – a sonic atmosphere I like. I’m proud of the otherworldly aspect of those tracks.” The album title, Antenna, reflects the music’s ancient-meets-modern blend, Virelles explains: “There’s a very old idea of human beings, or any living organism, functioning as antennas for a higher order of intelligence and purpose – our bodies being conduits for the manifestation of that energy in the physical world.” The irresistible track “Rumbakuá” – with its tapestry of Cuban vocals and traditional rhythms voiced with an urban phrasing and feel – evokes the channeling of Afro-Cuban culture down through the generations. “It’s about how the culture survived dislocation and colonization, remaining a beacon for people,” Virelles says. “The words – in Spanish as well as African dialects that survived in Cuba – reference music, poetry, religion, divination, herbology. They’re also an invitation to rejoice, as these are things that give us an identity and a path even when people lack the material essentials.” On “El Titán de Bronce” Virelles improvises across an atmospherically off-kilter electro-acoustic groove. “Water, Bird-Headed Mistress” features Threadgill’s distinctive alto saxophone threaded through an electronic eddy of textured sound, designed in league with co-producer Alexander Overington. “I’m obsessed with sound, being able to tell stories with it,” Virelles says. “To me, the means aren’t as important as the ends when it comes to music. Whether I’m using the piano or a synth and samples, I’m always trying to tell stories with sound. And there’s no doubt that the experience of working with electronics has opened me up to new concepts rhythmically, expanding my range as a composer and a musician.” Reflecting on the communicative role of rhythm in ancient cultures, Virelles points out how “master drummers were revered in those societies. Their role went beyond music: They served as storytellers and spiritual guides. Different kinds of rhythms communicated different messages, and these rhythms are related to our physical experience as we’ve evolved over thousands of years. I suspect that’s why, even in contemporary Western culture where we don’t have an equivalent notion to the master drummer, we still respond viscerally to the sound of drums. In creating Antenna, I imagined those age-old rhythms being played by a futuristic drum ensemble – one that I ended up calling Los Seres, even though those sounds were programmed by me. I tried to translate a timeless rhythmic aesthetic to electronic instruments, as well as experiment with rendering a modern vocabulary via traditional drums. I wanted this music to underscore the commonality between past and present.”

Happy Birthday 2016 spin!

Happy Birthday 2016 Justin!

How about Terry Gibbs? It's been some time since his last album.

Zsófia Boros guitar The second album from the Hungarian-born Vienna-based guitarist finds her embracing a broad scope of music, broader even than on her outstanding debut En otra parte. This time the range extends from contemporary composition to jazz etude via music from Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Azerbaijan - all embraced with imagination and creative flair. Pieces played here by Zsófia Boros include Egberto Gismonti’s challenging “Celebração de Núpcias” (made famous on Dança das cabeças), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s “Fantasie”, Al Di Meola’s “Vertigo Shadow”, and Carlo Domeniconi’s Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba”. These Local Objects are rendered universal by Boros’s subtle and sensitive playing in an album recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in November 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019 Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin: voices; Bohdan Hilash: woodwinds; John Hollenbeck: percussion Allison Sniffin: piano, keyboard, violin, French horn; Laura Sherman: harp For five decades, vocalist-composer Meredith Monk has explored what she calls “primordial utterance,” or non-verbal vocal sound that lay beneath and beyond language, expressing “that for which we have no words.” This exploration has led her to create music that The New Yorker describes as simultaneously “visceral and ethereal, raw and rapt,” an art that “sings, dances and meditates on timeless forces.” With her latest, multivalent ECM New Series album, Monk aimed to address ecology and climate change, she says: “Believing that music speaks more directly than words, I worked to make a piece with a fluid, perceptual field that could expand awareness of what we are in danger of losing. On Behalf of Nature is a meditation on our intimate connection to nature, its inner structures, the fragility of its ecology and our interdependence.” Voices and instruments have equal weight: sometimes each is heard alone; sometimes they are blended to form a new, mysterious sound; sometimes they are combined to create intricate, layered, yet transparent sonic landscapes. The Crossing PRISM Saxophone Quartet Donald Nally, conductor The music of English composer Gavin Bryars has long managed the distinction of being both “accessible and defiantly personal” (The New York Times). A deep yet unsentimental emotional resonance and a patient, contemplative view of time – whether relating to harmonic rhythm or human experience – are complementary characteristics that run through his instrumental, vocal and theatrical catalog like a red thread, the composer inspired by disparate spirits from Wagner and Satie to Cage and Silvestrov. The ECM New Series released multiple recordings of Bryars’ music in the 1980s and early ’90s, including the classic albums After the Requiem and Vita Nova. The first full ECM album from Bryars in decades is The Fifth Century, which includes the seven-part title work: a slowly evolving – yet immediately involving – setting of words by 17th-century English mystic Thomas Traherne, performed by the mixed choir of The Crossing with saxophone quartet PRISM. The album also features Two Love Songs, luminous a cappella settings of Petrarch for the women of The Crossing. The music within words, the humanity in breath, the sense of eternity within a moment or of a moment in eternity – all are at play in Bryars’ latest music. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019

Bobby Vee has died at 73. RIP. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-vee-sixties-pop-idol-dead-at-73-w446448 His The Night Has a Thousand Eyes has always been a favorite of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCLB6Y8zjA

I first collected bubble gum cards in 1959 (MLB, NFL and CFL). As a general rule, I prefer the teams from that year, without having moved, changed names, etc. So I'm very pleased with a Chicago Cubs/Cleveland Indians matchup.

Happy Birthday 2016 Matthew!

Happy Birthday 2016 gregmo!

Thanks Jim and Rod! Rod, I too think that Crickets is the best song on the Windy album. I think that you have a higher opinion of that album than I do. I picked it up thirty years ago at a used record store. I think that I have all of her other Verve albums except the one where on the cover she is walking past an outdoor cafe whose tables have Campari umbrellas. Anyone know that one?

I am looking at the relatively new box set Astrud Gilberto - 5 Original Albums. https://www.amazon.com/5-Original-Albums-Astrud-Gilberto/dp/B019GAUOSW The last album is called "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do." Not only have I never heard it before, but I don't think I ever saw it in the stores! Does anyone have an opinion of it? Thanks!

Perry Mason: The Complete Movie Collection (Raymond Burr only...30 movies) - $32.04 prime https://smile.amazon.com/Perry-Mason-Complete-Movie-Collection/dp/B01B67YA10/

Drummer Jerome Jennings Debuts as a Leader with "The Beast," New CD Set for November 18 Release By His Iola Records Imprint Jennings Helms a Sextet Featuring Bassist Christian McBride, Pianist Christian Sands, & A Front Line Consisting of Dion Tucker, Trombone; Sean Jones, Trumpet; Howard Wiley, Tenor Saxophone CD Release Shows Scheduled for Nov. 22 Dizzy's, NYC Nov. 26-27 Night Town, Cleveland October 21, 2016 Since moving to New York from his native Cleveland 12 years ago, Jerome Jennings has become one of the most in-demand jazz drummers on the scene. Currently a member of the Christian McBride Trio, Craig Handy's 2nd Line Smith, and the groups of vocalist Paula West and singer/trumpeter Bria Skonberg, Jennings boasts an impressive resume that speaks to his versatility and rhythmic mastery. With the release on November 18 of his debut CD, The Beast, on his new Iola Records imprint, Jennings is now stepping out as a poised, swinging, and strong-minded leader in his own right. He has drawn together some of his favorite players from coast to coast -- five-time Grammy-award-winning bassist Christian McBride, poll-winning fellow Ohioan Sean Jones on trumpet and flugelhorn, McBride trio pianist Christian Sands, longtime Harry Connick Jr. trombonist Dion Tucker, and the explosive Oakland tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley, a member of Jennings's current band -- for a set of compositions by Freddie Hubbard, Ben Webster, and bassist Jon Burr; adaptations of an ice-cream-truck jingle and a chart-topping R&B hit (New Edition's "Cool It Now"); and three originals by the leader. Jazzmeia Horn, winner of the 2012 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal and the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Vocal competition, joins the sextet for an arrangement by Jennings and Curtis Fuller of the standard "You Don't Know What Love Is." The title track is based on an incident in which a Princeton, New Jersey, police officer pulled Jennings over while he was driving home from a gig at 2 a.m. for allegedly having a tiny Cleveland Browns football helmet hanging from his rearview mirror. He was held for 50 harrowing minutes before being released without having even been issued a ticket. The hard-swinging number begins with a press roll on the snare drum that slows to a stop, indicating the process of pulling off the road. Tension between the horn and rhythm sections during the head and solos reflects the way Jennings was repeatedly interrupted while trying to answer the officer's questions. "I call it 'The Beast' because that's another way of saying 'police' or 'system,'" the drummer explains. "Everything I do in that tune is significant." Jerome Jennings was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 28, 1980. His early interest in drums turned into a passion after his mother brought home an Art Blakey album. He played in various ensembles in high school before receiving a full scholarship to Ohio State University, where he studied with trumpeter Pharez Whitted. He went on to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance from Rutgers University and a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Studies, Performance, and Drums from Juilliard. In 2001, Jennings set out to meet and play with as many former members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers as possible. They included Charles Fambrough, Curtis Fuller, Benny Golson, David Schnitter, Ronnie Mathews, Javon Jackson, Curtis Lundy, Wynton Marsalis, Lonnie Plaxico, Valery Ponomarev, Bobby Watson, Frank Lacy, and, the drummer adds, "even Mr. [Sonny] Rollins. He played a bit with Blakey. I worked with Sonny for three years. That was almost an out-of-body experience. "I felt that if I could play with guys who played with great drummers, particularly Art Blakey, and they could tell me I'm swinging, then I'm swinging," he explains. "I learned so much from them in terms of the spirit of the music. It's not necessarily a technical thing. It's how you're carrying yourself and how you carry the music and move it forward by addressing where it came from." Jennings's knowledge of and passion for the music has led to him teaching in a variety of jazz education programs over the years. He's presently giving classes for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz for Young People program, Jazz for Teens at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and is a featured lecturer for Jazz At Lincoln Center's Swing University. When he's not playing drums or teaching, Jennings pursues an acting career as time permits. He played a minor role as Chuck Berry's drummer in the motion picture Cadillac Records, spent four months off-Broadway at The Little Shubert Theatre playing drums and acting in Lady Day starring his friend/mentor Dee Dee Bridgewater, and recently starred in Laurence Holder's one-man play The Gospel According to Max Roach at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City, among other credits. He's had to miss out on some important auditions because of his musical commitments, "which is always tough. But music is the priority for me." Jennings has planned CD release shows for 11/22 at Dizzy's in New York City, and 11/26-27 at Night Town in his hometown of Cleveland. Personnel will include Dion Tucker, trombone; Kenyatta Beasley, trumpet; Howard Wiley, tenor saxophone; Christian Sands, piano; and Elias Bailey, bass. Jazzmeia Horn will be featured with the sextet at Dizzy's. Photography: Javier Oddo EPK - Jerome Jennings "The Beast" Web Site: jeromejennings.com

Week 18 picks 3DownNation http://3downnation.com/2016/10/21/week-18-picks-will-emerge-awful-east/#comments Dan Ralph http://www.thespec.com/sports-story/5971881-cfl-picks-week-18-eskimos-poised-to-pounce-on-lowly-riders/ Justin Dunk http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/week-17-cfl-picks-redblacks-fighting-for-east-division-crown/ ***** league press release for this week http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/this-week-in-the-cfl--week-18/n-5209903 ***** Week 18 game notes http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/20/cfl-ca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-18/

Eraldo Bernocchi Joins Hindustani Lap Steel Guitarist Prakash Sontakke On Sublimely Beautiful New RareNoise Release Invisible Strings CD, VINYL (180 GMS) AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON NOVEMBER 18, 2016 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM. Eraldo Bernocchi Baritone Guitars, Electric Guitars, Electronics Prakash Sontakke Lap Steel Guitar ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in 2008 by two Italians, entrepreneur Giacomo Bruzzo and music producer Eraldo Bernocchi. Located in London, the label's mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the art-form, while choosing not to be bound by pre-conceptions of genre. It seeks to become a guiding light for all those enamored by exciting, adventurous and progressive sounds. For further information and to listen to excerpts, please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com. New York, October 19, 2016 - On his latest RareNoise release, the one-time Italian punk guitarist and current experimental musician-producer-sound designer Eraldo Bernocchi joins Indian slide guitar master Prakash Sontakke for a rare encounter on the sublimely beautiful Invisible Strings. A melding of East and West, Bernocchi plays sparse guitar lines behind the Hindustani lap steel virtuoso on this evocative collaboration between the two. From "The Last Emperor Walked Alone" to "Sublime Skies," "Bangalor Electric" and "The Unsaid," Bernocchi and Sontakke strike an uncommon accord on this meeting of the spirits. "The first time I heard about Prakash was in a project with Eivind Aarset where he played guitar. His name popped out again from a journalist who suggested I should do something with him because we could really get along. He actually was right. Prakash is such a sensitive person, able to adapt to any style or sound environment. And he has an amazing way of mixing Hindustani classical music with new technologies as well lap steel guitar." In shaping a sonic environment for Prakash to play in, Bernocchi was mindful of letting things flow in the studio as the music took shape. "It's difficult for me to start with a sound concept," he says, "as sound lives by itself and blooms according to what's surrounding it. I was intrigued by the idea of working with another guitar player, especially one coming from a different tradition who was confronting himself with a more western instrument. I have loved Indian and Asian music since I was a teenager and for me to work with someone so skilled, so amazingly dynamic has been a kind of dream fulfilled." Bernocchi acknowledges that Brian Eno's 1983 ambient music project Apollo (which utilized lap steel guitar) was a seed for his own work on the Invisible Strings project. "I own Apollo on vinyl, CD and tape, "he says. "It is one of my favourite records of all time. It's very likely that in a silent way, when I had the chance to play with someone who eventually reminded me of those moments, my brain reacted to it with a big smile." Add the fact that Prakash is Indian and Bernocchi professes a special love for that place and its music, and you have the makings of magical outing. Bernocchi, who co-founded RareNoise Records in 2008 with Giacomo Bruzzo, has recorded with the bands Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood and Owls and also collaborated with minimalist pianist-composer Harold Budd for the London-based label. For Invisible Strings, he saw his role as a guitarist from a couple of different points of view. "The first approach was creating atmospheres around Prakash's guitar magic. I used a lot of pedals and I completely reshaped the sound of the guitar as we know it," he explains. "On the record there are a lot of sounds that are made with guitar but they sound like from other instruments. I've always been interested in using the guitar as a tool, as something that could create sounds out of space or nowhere. There are pads, drones, keys that are coming from my guitars. I mainly used baritone guitars, especially a custom- made aluminum one built for me by Nude Guitars from Italy. They're amazing instruments with such a sustain that sometimes you think there's compression applied but it's just the aluminum neck dialoguing with the wood body.The second phase was duetting with Prakash, creating something that could be a sort of dialogue. This was much more risky as he is such a skilled player and so sensitive that I was worried to spoil the magic of his melodies. But I think in the end it worked well and everything was natural." Bernocchi explains the process of carving out the evocative soundscapes heard behind Sontakke throughout Invisible Strings. "Every track starts with a melody, a harmony, a loop of something I had in mind that I was sending to Prakash to record on. He was then sending me back his guitar parts or his ideas for melodies and harmonies, and from that point I was starting to build tracks. So every groove, beat, bass line or my guitar parts are always dialoguing with what he was sending me. Sometimes we reversed the process with me sending over themes, like on 'The Unsaid' for example. It's a time-consuming process, especially because I'm a studio maniac and I'm never satisfied. So ultimately it took one and a half years of sessions to complete this project. "It is a very emotional album," Bernocchi continues, "as during the process of composing and recording it, we exchanged a lot of personal stories, impressions, memories. A lot of small stories surfaced during the making of Invisible Strings -- some happy, some melancholic, some really sad. Prakash is one of those persons with whom I could fully open my heart to emotions. I can't wait to play live with him." Invisible Strings, Bernocchi's most genuinely heartfelt and strikingly evocative recording to date, will be released on RareNoise Records in November. TRACKS 1. The Last Emperor Walked Alone 2. Will You Stay 3. From Star To Star 4. The Invisible Ferry 5. Sublime Skies 6. Bangalor Electric 7. Purple Yellow 8. Walking Backwards Again 9. The Unsaid

RareNoiseRecords Presents BOBBY PREVITE'S MASS Monumental Work Blends Early Music And Metal. CD, DOUBLE-VINYL (2 X 180 GMS) AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON NOVEMBER 18, 2016 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM. WITH Stephen O'Malley, Jamie Saft, Marco Benevento, Reed Mathis, Stephen O'Malley, Don McGreevy, Mike Gamble & THE ROSE ENSEMBLE Conducted by Jordan Sramek (for exact line-up scroll down) ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in 2008 by two Italians, entrepreneur Giacomo Bruzzo and music producer Eraldo Bernocchi. Located in London, the label's mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the art-form, while choosing not to be bound by pre-conceptions of genre. It seeks to become a guiding light for all those enamored by exciting, adventurous and progressive sounds. For further information and to listen to excerpts, please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com . New York, October 19, 2016 - As widely renowned for his unerring, intuitive grooves behind the kit as he is for his inventiveness as a composer and bandleader, Bobby Previte stretches into some totally new musical terrain on Mass, his RareNoise debut as a leader and followup to 2014's cooperative trio project The New Standard with bassist Steve Swallow and keyboardist Jamie Saft. A modernist re-imagining of the choral epic Missa Sancti Jacobi by 15th century composer Guillaume Dufay, Previte's Mass prominently features the imposing sound of cathedral pipe organ along with an acclaimed early music chamber vocal group, the 11-voice Rose Ensemble conducted by Jordan Sramek, and a slamming core group consisting of Previte on drums, Marco Benevento on pipe organ and Rheem organ, Don McGreevy, Stephen O'Malley, Mike Gamble and Jamie Saft on electric guitars and Reed Mathis on electric bass. A kind of heavy metal requiem mass, full of thrashing feedback guitars and grinding power chords, hellacious fuzz bass, thunderous beats and the glorious sound of a Medieval vocal choir, Mass is unlike anything Previte has done before in his extensive discography, which covers recordings by his bands Weather Clear Track Fast, Latin for Travelers, The Coalition of the Willing, Bump and the Beta Popes. "I've been thinking about this idea for at least 12 or 13 years now," says thed rummer-composer. "In fact, I scored a version of it in the early 2000s that I toured Europe with. Then when when I got home, I decided it wasn't right and threw it all in the trash. It wasn't powerful enough. So I went back to the drawing board." Previte first encountered composer Guillaume Dufay in his Early Music class in college. "You have to remember, when Dufay wrote his music it was performed at a time in which there were no loud man-made sounds -- no amplifiers, airplanes, bombs, etc. Performed in a hard-walled stone church, the sound racing around the walls and bouncing off the ceiling, it had to have been an overwhelming experience. Now it feels quiet, meditative, but in the context of its time I believe it was a powerful, soul-shaking, transportive, otherworldly music. And I needed to match that power, so I had to go with Metal -- a reviled music that somehow still keeps coming." Previte and his wife, the writer and choreographer Andrea Kleine, presented the piece in 2007 as a full-blown theater production at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. "She wrote the book and directed it," he explains. "It was then that I met the Rose Ensemble. They specialize in Early Music, which was essential to me. It's a very different discipline than other vocal music. And for them to have the courage and the openness to do a project like this, where I asked them to sing in a different tempo, key and time signature while the crushing metal band was playing -- that was truly inspiring." The players involved in Mass are old cohorts of Previte. Organist Benevento and bassist Reed played in his The Coalition of the Willing. Saft played in Previte's Latin for Travelers band and is also a key member of 2014's The New Standard on RareNoise. Guitarist Gamble has been a longstanding collaborator and is also a member of Previte's current working quartet, Bobby Previte and the Visitors. Guitarists O'Malley and McGreevy are members of the Seattle-based drone and doom metal bands Sunn O))) and Earth, respectively. "O'Malley in particular used a gigantic wall of amps in the studio," says Previte. "If you want that sound, you can't use a little stomp box, you have to actually move all that air. It was exhilarating to watch." Twelve years in the making, Mass is the culmination of a long road for Previte. "I am super happy with how it turned out, as it is extremely difficult music to perform," he says. "Each of the three pillars of the piece -- choir, metal trio, and pipe organ -- are operating within their own algorithms, their own keys, time and tempo. And the piece is written for them to be on parallel tracks but making a different fourth thing, dovetailing together on the cadences. Eventually we all began to be able to hear how it all worked, what notes the choir should be singing when you, as the guitarist, were on your third beat of your bar number 15, a 4/4 bar, at quarter note = 60, as they were in their 33rd bar of 6/8 in a completely different tempo. It sounds crazy. Well, it is crazy! But the design worked eventually, which is a testament to the musicians and their resilience." Previte adds about his latest opus, "It has probably the greatest cover art I have ever had on any of my records. Astonishing work by, and all respect to, the artist, Hadi Nasiri." Check out Mass, Previte's most audacious recording to date, on RareNoise Records. Bobby Previte's Mass is built upon a re-arrangement of the Missa Sancti Jacobi by Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), pipe organ music inspired by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) ON ALL TRACKS THE ROSE ENSEMBLE Conducted by Jordan Sramek With Eric Betthauser, John Bitterman, Heather Cogswell, Lisa Drew, Linda Kachelmeier, Kristine Kautzman, Kathy Lee, Tim O'Brien, Jordan Sramek, Kim Sueoka, Paul M. Tipton 1. INTROIT Stephen O'Malley - guitars Jamie Saft - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums, guitar, pipe organ, combo organ 2. KYRIE Stephen O'Malley - guitars Don McGreevy - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums 3. GLORIA Stephen O'Malley - guitars Don McGreevy - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums 4. ALLELUIA Stephen O'Malley - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums 5. CREDO Stephen O'Malley - guitars Don McGreevy - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums, synthesizer bass 6. OFFERING Mike Gamble - guitars Stephen O'Malley - feedback solo Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums 7. SANCTUS Stephen O'Malley - guitars Don McGreevy - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums, pipe organ 8. AGNUS DEI Marco Benevento - pipe organ, Rheem organ Reed Mathis - electric bass Bobby Previte - drums 9. COMMUNION Stephen O'Malley - guitars Marco Benevento - pipe organ, electronics Bobby Previte - drums, Farfisa organ

This is my kind of jazz album - a small combo playing standards (or other songs with great melodies). Recommended.

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