Leeway

John Birch Rick Perry Perry Como

The OBI strip promises "Hyper Magnum Sound." Hmmmm. In truth, the sound is quite good.

Anselm Kiefer Georgia O'Keefe Sweet Georgia Brown

Kid Rock Sista Souljah Queen Latifah

Could that be a very young Farrah Fawcett?

Benjamin Franklin C.L. Lewis Narnia

George III George IV George VI

Happened across the article by Kyle Gann article on the web and was going to post a link, then discovered 7/4 had already posted it (not surprised and thanks!). It is an excellent article.and worth bringing to the forefront again. I like this little snippet: One of the most important stories in 20th-century music is the famous one in which Cage asked the young Feldman how one of his pieces was written. Feldman weakly replied that he didn't know how it was written, and Cage jumped up and down squealing like a monkey and shouting, "Isn't that wonderful! It's so beautiful, and he doesn't know how he did it." That story alone is enough to mark the private onset of a new historical era. Also: One of my favorite stories Feldman liked to tell was of Marcel Duchamp visiting an art class in San Francisco, where he saw a young man wildly painting away. Duchamp went over and asked, "What are you doing?" The young man said, "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing!" And Duchamp patted him on the back and said, "Keep up the good work." In music, it was Feldman, more than anyone else, who gave us permission not to know what the fuck we were doing. Read the rest of the article at the link. Finished Feldman's GIVE MY REGARDS TO EIGHT STREET. Filled with insights, humor and personality. Brooklyn meets high art. Brooklyn wins. BTW, I went to NYU and spent many an hour trooping up and down Eight Street. Feldman knew what he was doing, even if at some points he discovered what he was doing. Yes, by no means was he some untutored "primitive" ( I use the word advisedly), but he preferred instinct to system, practice to theory, artist to "professional." I think Gann lays that out pretty well.

You would think I would have thought of that! As penance, how about:

I just came across this album description: "One night in December 2010, a Moscow audience gathered to witness these three men as they worked in concert to raise a monument. Like the world's great devotional edifices their spire of sound reaches skyward, and like all spires everywhere it is intended as a probe into the heavens, a beacon and a call, an antenna. Like so many towers, theirs is equipped with a lightning rod to steal electricity from the sky and bury it in the earth. They are harnessing natural forces, bringing the skies closer." Quite dreadful and quite unhelpful as musical description. Edited to remove the name of the writer, which is not material here I think.

Happened across the article by Kyle Gann article on the web and was going to post a link, then discovered 7/4 had already posted it (not surprised and thanks!). It is an excellent article.and worth bringing to the forefront again. I like this little snippet: One of the most important stories in 20th-century music is the famous one in which Cage asked the young Feldman how one of his pieces was written. Feldman weakly replied that he didn't know how it was written, and Cage jumped up and down squealing like a monkey and shouting, "Isn't that wonderful! It's so beautiful, and he doesn't know how he did it." That story alone is enough to mark the private onset of a new historical era. Also: One of my favorite stories Feldman liked to tell was of Marcel Duchamp visiting an art class in San Francisco, where he saw a young man wildly painting away. Duchamp went over and asked, "What are you doing?" The young man said, "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing!" And Duchamp patted him on the back and said, "Keep up the good work." In music, it was Feldman, more than anyone else, who gave us permission not to know what the fuck we were doing. Read the rest of the article at the link. Finished Feldman's GIVE MY REGARDS TO EIGHT STREET. Filled with insights, humor and personality. Brooklyn meets high art. Brooklyn wins. BTW, I went to NYU and spent many an hour trooping up and down Eight Street.

Adding 2 more Francois Carrier/Alexey Lapin/Michel Lambert – Inner Spire (Leo) Urs Leimgruber- Chicago Solos PM sent

Terry Adams Ronnie Knight Fagen

Dinah Washington George Washington George Washington Carver

PM on way for Martin Blume/Frank Gratkowski/Thomas Lehn/Dieter Manderscheid/Philip Zoubek – The Shift Also: Otherways – Life Amid the Artefacts (Emanem) Let's add: Joe Hertenstein/Thomas Heberer/Joachim Badenhorst/Pascal Niggenkemper – Polyemma (Red Toucan) Szilard Mezei/Tim Trevor-Briscoe/Nicola Guazzaloca – Underflow (Leo)

DC: 40 days and 40 nights of rain...........

The Razor's Edge Point Counter Point Knife in the Water

BOIS = WOODS in French

Don't Spillett! Schlippenbach Trio: "Slippery When Wet" ?