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Very interesting. American citizenship - is it to secure funding? Or was it for the British musicians' union?

GBP 4K in 1969 is equal to GBP 56K (USD 72K, EUR 65K) today.

very good

What's so tough? You go to the label's site (http://futuramarge.free.fr/), pay €16 ($17.5) by PayPal and receive your CD in a couple of weeks.

Gotta check this one out.

On repeat all day today:

Spotify has more than 100 Arditti albums (include a lot of Montaigne stuff). Enough for me, I guess.

Prompted by Larry's post: Great music - free and inventive, played wonderfully and recorded just superbly. There is a little documentary this recording (on the earlier set, to be exact):

While making a decision if I want to see this live tonight, listening to this:

Is it just me or does he look like Peter Lorre? Just reinforces my conviction that classical recordings should not put the musicians on the cover. Yeah, why don't they put composers instead?! So much better:

Well, there is a Volume 2 released just last year (with equally enthralling cover art): I guess we can expect Volume 3 some time soon.

They should survive this somehow.

Oh yes.

Vynil is a higher-margin product and is a growing, if microscopic, segment (although I think it is a stupid fad that will die out fairly soon). CDs are a declining segment with collapsed pricing. Yes, there were 28M CDs sold in the UK last year - it is 100M less than 10 years ago (and at lower prices too). Downloads are bullshit too, declining even faster than CDs. Streaming is the format of the future - and indeed of today. LPs are somewhat more difficult to pirate than CDs, this might also be a reason why some musicians / labels prefer them.

No CD = ignoring 10 disgruntled dudes at Organissimo. Not exactly "the market". CDs are 7% of the music sales (that's in the US, might be even less in Europe).

Just earlier today was listening to Chris Welcome's "Luz" - what an excellent album. With Jonathan Moritz, Shayna Dulberger and one of my favorite drummers, John (Johnny) McLellan (who sadly died a few years ago). https://chriswelcome.bandcamp.com/album/luz John McLellan tribute:

Ardittis are great. Saw the live a few times - phenomenal. The a series of recordings they did for AEON (Birtwistle, Ferneyhough. Dusapin, Gerhard, etc.) are outstanding.

Don't get me wrong, this was not a bad concert. Maneri was the best of the three, his sound simply gorgeous. There were just not too many ideas floating around.

Well, touring is taxing, particularly when you are not young anymore.

Leandre-Maneri-Cleaver concert was very much so-so. They all seemed very tired, and Maneri was coughing quite a bit. The music was quite subdued, repetitive and sort of lazy challenge-wise. Played one short set (two sets were expected). Leandre was bowing 95% of the time. Mercifully, nearly no vocalizing. Going thought my collections there are clunkers galore: "Blue Memories" with Mario Schiano & Renato Geremia, "No Waiting" with Derek Bailey, "Organic - Mineral" with Kazue Sawai, "Sur une Balançoire" with Gianni Lenoci, "Winter in New York - 2006" with Kevin Norton. I don't remember it that well, but I seem to recall that Stone Quartet at Vision is not particularly a revelation either. Coincidentally, just bought the Decoy / McPhee CD from Bo'weavil a couple of days ago, looking forward to hearing it.

Re Cage, listened to this one. Liked it a lot!

Or just go for this cheap ( https://www.amazon.de/50-Jahre-Wergo-Musik-unserer/dp/B007LHGD10/ ) set on WERGO, a lot of goodies here:

Great stuff. I am not too knowledgeable about Cage (and a lot of what I heard I did not like), but I really like this piano music cycle by Boris Berman on Naxos. I had the complete piano music set by Schleiermacher (on MDG), and did not like it nearly as much as Bermans.