Д.Д. Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 "the guy who's screenname is the symbols i don't know the name of" D.D, this should be your new user name. Quote
Guest Chaney Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 I just love pulling this picture off my hard drive. David / Д.Д. is th gentleman on the left. The other chap is Flurin / king ubu. Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 (edited) I just love pulling this picture off my hard drive. David / Д.Д. is th gentleman on the left. The other chap is Flurin / king ubu. I forgot about that one! This was made before the (phenomenal) Barry Guy concert I drove 250 km to see (in addition to having a pleasure of meeting Flurin in person). Edited March 25, 2006 by Д.Д. Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 Are you familiar with a Russian composer Anton Batagov? I recently bought a 3cd set of his called The Wheel of the Law. Very minimalist, very beautiful. "Three discs, three tracks composed for organ, glockenspiel, xylophone, piano and percussion, inspired by Buddhism and the Quest for Nirvana, and the practices involved: peace, meditation, deep thought, breathing, conciousness. Repetitive and melodic, lush and so so beautiful." Never heard Batagov. He has quite a large discography (mostly on Long Arms label), and I've been meaning to check out some of his works. Will buy some some of his CDs next time I'm in Russia. Quote
John B Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 (edited) The real Funny Rat crew: (From left to right) D.D., king ubu, John B, Chaney, J.A.W. Edited March 25, 2006 by John B Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 The real Funny Rat crew: (From left to right) D.D., king ubu, John B, Chaney, J.A.W. This is more or less the way I imagine you. Quote
Guest Chaney Posted March 25, 2006 Report Posted March 25, 2006 (edited) OH SURE! John WOULD trot out that picture as he always was the cutest of us all! And I come off looking like a nutter. Yea, ask me again to take a group photo! ~~~~~~~~~~ Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers ~~~~~~~~~~ Upcoming (72 days, as of 3.26.06) Atavistic reissue: Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet Frank Wright : Saxophone Peter Brotzmann : Saxophone Hannes Bauer : Trombone Alan Tomlinson : Trombone Alex Schlippenbach : Keyboards Harry Miller : Bass Louis Moholo : Drums Recorded during The 164th NDR-JAZZWORKSHOP, November 12th, 1981 at the Funkhaus (Hamburg) "The story is simple. We were touring with this band, and the reason I could put the band together in the first place was a radio gig in Hamburg. Michael Naura, chief of the jazz dept there, was setting up a series of on-air concerts in a 200-seat studio, so we performed the first piece, which I called "Alarm." I used the graphic instructions for a reaction to a nuclear emergency, a series of waves and straight tones, repeated in a certain way. We had planned two more pieces, one by Willem Breuker and one by Frank Wright. My piece took about 40 minutes, the first half of the concert. At the end of the performance, Naura came to me – while we were still on the air – and whispered that the house got a bomb threat and had to be evacuated. So I had to bring the piece quickly to and end and the audience was asked to leave the hall. We also had to pack and leave. Police and special forces showed up with all kinds of equipment, gear, dogs – we know all that better now than then. That was the end of the concert and that’s the 40 minutes we have on tape." -Peter Brötzmann, Chicago, October 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~ Boris Kovac, anyone? I've been listening to and enjoying East Off Europe. Any others of his that are recommended? (Interesting site: PIRANHA.) Edited March 26, 2006 by Chaney Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 26, 2006 Report Posted March 26, 2006 (edited) Friends, very OOP solo Bhob Rainey "Withered Grasses" (Tautology, 1999) is available from jazzloft for $15. Got my copy, haven't listened to it yet. Since we are in the solo reeds territory, let me reiterate this: Friends, I just had a first listen to a Eric Barber's "Maybeck contstructions" (pfMENTUM), and I am quite impressed. Solo tenor and soprano saxophone, again (as with Bühler, who I also discovered a bit earlier) an Evan Parker disciple, and again, IMO, more focused and profound. Very impressive multiphonics and other extended techniques, but also impressive ideas. His tenor and soprano sound really nice (and really well recorded!) - clean, clear, rich sound. It is good that Barber is not ashamed to use more conventional saxophone playing techniques - and when he does, it sounds even pretty. All very coherent, with a constant flow. If there is a little drawback is that it's a bit too precisely calculated (large part of it might be written in advance, I thought), IMO. Highly recommended. Got my copy at indiejazz for $12.50. A sample is avilable at the pfMENTUM page linked to above. (Not too updated) Eric Barber website is here. Gets better at every listen. And a really beautiful sound (recorded at Maybeck Recital hall). ------------------------ Also, I was enjoying Julius Hemphill & Abdul Wadud: "Live in New York" (Red Records) today. I have most of available Hemphill, and I think this is his best one. Recorded live in 76; Hemphill is extremely lyrical, melodic, searching and free. What amazed me while I listened to it today is that Wadud is playing very West-African type of accompaniment (I guess I noticed it only today since I've been listening to a lot of Malian music lately) - this hypnotic repetative percussive figures in odd meters... his cello even sounds like some African instrument. I am not sure whatthe status of Red Records is right now, so I suggest you do not wait for too long with getting this one - I can't imagine you can be disappointed with it. Well, listened to another Hemphill-Wadud duo: Oakland Duets (Music & Arts). This one is recorded much later - in 92. It is also a good one, but not as astonishing as "Live in New York". First, the sound balanse is worse - Wadud is too upfront vs. Hemphill. Second, there is less stretching - theseare shorter tunes - and tunes they are: songlike and pretty; Wadud is doing a more standard "walking" sort of playing - no Africanisms here, IMO. Still excellent music. Now will go for "Buster Bee" - hemphill's duo with Olvier Lake on Sackville. Edited March 27, 2006 by Д.Д. Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers Nice one . Quote
David Ayers Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 Upcoming (72 days, as of 3.26.06) Atavistic reissue: Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet Frank Wright : Saxophone Peter Brotzmann : Saxophone Hannes Bauer : Trombone Alan Tomlinson : Trombone Alex Schlippenbach : Keyboards Harry Miller : Bass Louis Moholo : Drums Recorded during The 164th NDR-JAZZWORKSHOP, November 12th, 1981 at the Funkhaus (Hamburg) Like the look of this. Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 (edited) Upcoming (72 days, as of 3.26.06) Atavistic reissue: Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet Frank Wright : Saxophone Peter Brotzmann : Saxophone Hannes Bauer : Trombone Alan Tomlinson : Trombone Alex Schlippenbach : Keyboards Harry Miller : Bass Louis Moholo : Drums Recorded during The 164th NDR-JAZZWORKSHOP, November 12th, 1981 at the Funkhaus (Hamburg) Like the look of this. Looks tasty, and this is Brötzmann's period I am not too familiar with. Anybody got the Schwarzwaldfahrt Atavistic reissue yet? Gary???? Edited March 27, 2006 by Д.Д. Quote
gnhrtg Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 Jazzloft now has Clusone 3's Rara Avis ( ) in stock. Quote
Guest akanalog Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 abdul wadud is awesome. what happened to him? after a point in the 80s i don't see him appearing on much. and his body of work is small otherwise. too bad-love his riffing..... Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 Upcoming (72 days, as of 3.26.06) Atavistic reissue: Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet Frank Wright : Saxophone Peter Brotzmann : Saxophone Hannes Bauer : Trombone Alan Tomlinson : Trombone Alex Schlippenbach : Keyboards Harry Miller : Bass Louis Moholo : Drums Recorded during The 164th NDR-JAZZWORKSHOP, November 12th, 1981 at the Funkhaus (Hamburg) Like the look of this. Looks tasty, and this is Brötzmann's period I am not too familiar with. Anybody got the Schwarzwaldfahrt Atavistic reissue yet? Gary???? Schwarzwaldfahrt is great, but better as an LP as the extra material isn't that cool... The Brotzmann/Miller/Moholo is what needs to be reissued, though Alarm is a good record. C Quote
P.L.M Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 The Brotzmann/Miller/Moholo is what needs to be reissued A dreamin' back up for BRÖTZ. Quote
J.A.W. Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 The real Funny Rat crew: (From left to right) D.D., king ubu, John B, Chaney, J.A.W. I left the crew a while ago, though... Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 The Brotzmann/Miller/Moholo is what needs to be reissued A dreamin' back up for BRÖTZ. The only recording of this trio avialble on CD is one track on the DIW Hell's Kitchen / Live from Soundscape compilation - correct? Gotta go back and listen to it attentively. I am actually curious to hear what Brötzmann sounds like with Fred Hopkins and Rashied Ali (on Songlines (FMP)). Quote
.:.impossible Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 The real Funny Rat crew: (From left to right) D.D., king ubu, John B, Chaney, J.A.W. This is more or less the way I imagine you. John, you look like you've been pumping some iron since I last saw you. You been working those triceps? Everybody's looking good. Hans, any thoughts of getting the crew back together? Quote
John B Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 I left the crew a while ago, though... You can take Hans out of the Funny Rat thread but you can never take the Funny Rat out of Hans. (Plus you still have the fifth highest post count in this thread. Gokhan is nipping at your heels but still has quite a ways to go.) .:.impossible - My triceps are so well-developed because I am constantly moving the can of hairspray around my head, flexing and pressing the button to spray more onto my startlingly large explosion of multi-colored hair. After a few hours I've got a nice burn both in the muscles of my arm and in my eyes, from the mist of spray that surrounds me at all times. Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 27, 2006 Report Posted March 27, 2006 I left the crew a while ago, though... After a few hours I've got a nice burn both in the muscles of my arm and in my eyes, from the mist of spray that surrounds me at all times. This explains this wistful and sligtly unfocused gaze. Quote
Guest Chaney Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 Unless I'm mistaken, two or three newly listed items from hatART: hatOLOGY 591 Pauline Oliveros The Roots Of The Moment Total time 58:19, ADD, Barcode: 752156059127 For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: “... to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels are more than coincidental. In fact Pauline would be as able a captain of any Starship in the fleet of the United Federation of Planets. A bit of a difference here though, for Pauline Oliveros, space is not necessarily the final frontier and the barrier at the end of the universe is just another interesting challenge. For Pauline Oliveros, like Sun Ra, Space is the place. — Joe McPhee hatOLOGY 629 Russ Lossing All Things Arise Total time 61:19, DDD, Barcode: 752156062929 For Lossing, improvisation is clearly a special act, a study in transparence and transformation, a creative exchange among the elements. One hears fresh relations of time and space. His acute sense of time connects inevitably to its absence. Space is heard in his sense of density, the room he can make around a note even at high speed, the contrasts between counterpoint and elegant strings of single notes. Space is also vertical in Lossing’s music--in the ways that wide and tight intervals interact in his chords. This solo CD seems almost two-sided, like the LP of tradition. There is a side of free improvisations followed by treatments of largely familiar themes. We might think of it as a voyage inward and a voyage outward; a journey forward followed by one into the past. — Stuart Broomer hatOLOGY 633 Polwechsel Archives Of The North Total time 51:35, DDD, Barcode: 752156063322 The Polwechsel project has been exponential in defining new approaches to the composition/improvisation paradigm and in doing so have created a music that defined, examined and radically reassessed its own genre. Each phase of Polwechsel has been marked by a defining document and the releases of their recordings have frequently book-ended trends and movements in improvisational and experimental music – Polwechsel has had a direct and profound influence on the agenda of a genre coined “electro-acoustic improvisation” for example… On Archives Of The North, Polwechsel has switched again. The unit has transformed itself by adding the two percussionists, and these works all deal the application of percussion as centrifuge. This is a generative music which stems and blooms from a controlled and deliberate structural center. This work ascends from common notions of musicality and sound production, where obliteration, feedback and the extraneous are emancipated into a fully blown dialect which could be defined as expanded technique. — Dean M. Roberts Quote
Chalupa Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 hatOLOGY 591 Pauline Oliveros The Roots Of The Moment Total time 58:19, ADD, Barcode: 752156059127 For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: “... to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels are more than coincidental. In fact Pauline would be as able a captain of any Starship in the fleet of the United Federation of Planets. A bit of a difference here though, for Pauline Oliveros, space is not necessarily the final frontier and the barrier at the end of the universe is just another interesting challenge. For Pauline Oliveros, like Sun Ra, Space is the place. — Joe McPhee That's interesting that you mentioned Pauline Oliveros. She is playing in town - twice - this weekend.... http://arsnovaworkshop.com/frame_perform.html Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 (edited) Unless I'm mistaken, two or three newly listed items from hatART And a reissue of McPhee, and one from Lacy band... and I understand that Warne Marsh's "Ne plus ultra" is here as well. This Polwechsel disc looks good. --------------------------- Listened today for the first time to Charlied Haden Montral concert with Joe Henderson and was shocked to discover how much I didn't enjoy it. I listened two times in a row, just to be sure. Henderson sounds like a master of clichés (his own ones, but still clichés). No flow of ideas, no development, just a set of licks played one after another. His solo on "Round midnight" does not go anywere, and just consists of variations on a theme - I can hardly even call it improvisation. I was taken aback by how un-free, confined and... well, boring it all sounded. Understand, I have considered Henderson one of my favorite jazz saxophonist. I now need to go back to (A LOT of) Henderson's CDs I have to check whether this is just a exceptionally-weak disc (could this be why it was not released at the time with other Haden Motreal sets?), or I have gone through a fundamental reappraisal of Henderson's talents. I wonder if this evil Abbey man's music (which I've been listening to and enjoying all day today :rsmile: ) has anything to do with this. Edited March 28, 2006 by Д.Д. Quote
jon abbey Posted March 28, 2006 Report Posted March 28, 2006 yep, looking forward to that Polwechsel disc, it's supposed to be out next month sometime. I wonder if this evil Abbey man's music (which I've been listening to and enjoying all day today :rsmile: ) has anything to do with this. glad you're enjoying that stuff! any specifics, pro or con, yet? once you go eai, you can never go back. Quote
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