Después de que Japan se separó en el punto más álgido de su carrera por allá de 1981, la carrera de David Sylvian ha dado giros sumamente inesperados para todos, pasando por colaboraciones con artistas de la talla de Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Holger Czukay (de Can), Otomo Yoshihide y Toshimaru Nakimura, Keith Rowe y John Tilbury (de AMM), y siempre manteniendo sus producciones con una calidad impecable. Esta no es la primera colección de canciones de "el hombre más encantador del mundo" (según The Sun), pero sin duda es la primera enfocada a "una nueva [...]
Photo: Dagmar Gebers Bonobo by HANS REICHEL In Europe, Hans Reichel is revered as an innovator and guitarist on par with folks like Derek Bailey and John Fahey. He invented his own unique language on the instrument - but he didn't stop there. He radically modified and created wild new hybrid guitars that produced sounds like the koto, organ, harpsichord, chimes, and even electronics. All of this in the service of extending the expressive possibilities of his music. We're slightly embarrassed to [...]
Derek Bailey - Playing For Friends on 5th Street (by robertohaire ) Playing for Friends on 5th Street catches free-improv guitar legend Derek Bailey in an intimate concert for about 40 friends and fans on December 29, 2001.
Originally posted 19 March 2007 OUTPUT NOTHING TO DECLARE ABRAXAS Wolfgang Dauner Output ECM : 1970 WD, piano, ring modulator, clavinet; Eberhard Weber, bass, cello, guitar; Fred Braceful, percussion, voice. Wolfgang Dauner - not exactly a household name. So here are some [...]
SOUNDDANCE, PT. 2 Muhal Richard Abrams, with George Lewis SoundDance Pi Records : 2011 MRA, piano; GL, trombone, laptop. FOCUS, THRUTIME... -> TIME, PT. 3 Muhal Richard Abrams, with Fred Anderson SoundDance Pi Records : 2011 MRA, piano; FA, tenor saxophone. We're continuing our exploration of the work of the [...]
HOMAGE TO CHARLES PARKER George Lewis Homage to Charles Parker Black Saint : 1979 GL, trombone, electronics; Douglas Ewart, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, cymbals; Anthony Davis, piano; Richard Teitelbaum, polymoog, multimoog & micromoog synthesizers. We're dedicating the next two weeks to providing an inside view of the music of the remarkable composer, trombonist, electronic musician, and professor George Lewis. As a young [...]
THESE FOOLISH THINGS GHOSTS BOUNCIN' AROUND Marc Ribot Don't Blame Me DIW : 1995 MR, guitar. Many thanks to all entrants in the contests we ran last week. The song is a duet between McCoy Tyner and Marc Ribot called "Improvisation #2." Congratulations for recognizing the tune and players are due to: Bart White, in "(almost) jazzless Tampa" [...]
Hi everybody! I've got nothing else to say! I'm in the middle of a frustrating work week, while everybody else i know is either away for a few days or relaxing at home. This should be an eventful week, though. Ken and kT are visiting, there are some great shows upcoming, and...uh...that's about it I guess. I'll have something more interesting to blog about after another open-to-close shift at work tomorrow. And I'm sure I won't at all sound depressed and/or acid-tongued. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to [...]
Record Store Day was a smashing success. We brought in, as far as I know, the 2nd largest amount of dollars in any sale in the history of the store. The only day that outperformed yesterday was Christmas '08. Who the hell says we're in an economic depression? When a tiny independent store can rake in twice my annual salary in a span of nine hours...it really makes one wonder. I'd post some pictures to prove how much pandemonium there was yesterday, but I've yet to find any circulating online. Oh well, it's your loss. That said, today [...]
PART ONE PART FOUR Pat Metheny Zero Tolerance for Silence Geffen : 1994 PM, electric guitars. "The most radical recording of this decade. A new milestone in electric guitar. A challenge to the challengers." - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth The curious case of Pat Metheny, noise artist. Yeah, you read that right. Although best known for his glass-smooth popular jazz fusion with the Pat Metheny Group, he has [...]
DROP ME OFF AT 96TH Derek Bailey Drop Me Off at 96th Scatter : 1995 DB, acoustic guitar. Of all the major avant jazz figures , perhaps no other looms as a more initially forbidding presence than the king of free improv/avant guitar racket, Mr. Derek Bailey. His approach to the guitar sounds almost literally like shredding but superficially owes nothing to either rock or jazz traditions. On early solo concerts like Aida , he [...]
. Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. - W.E.B. Du Bois . ah yes. You know you are waiting for this list. (hah!) Now let's see how I did with my 2007 list. The short answer: [...]
... I've always liked the parts where the music stops and drifts along - you get some ridiculous string orchestra, then it just slips a bit, the pitch goes or they slow it down or something. Then the drums come back - it's completely meaningless! I like that... What is a pain and can sometimes dilute it is the repetitive - looped or sampled - vocals... The funny thing is, I've never heard a jungle record, all I've heard has been off the radio - the only piece of recorded jungle I've heard is by Ninj! It obviously [...]
Physics News is reporting that Australian scientists have proposed a method for teleportation. Right now they're simply working with matter waves, using a technique that differs from quantum teleportation schemes in that they don't require the sender/receiver to share entangled states. I guess they're still miles away from teleporting animals or humans, since they're working with atoms frozen at "about 100 billionths of a degree about absolute zero." [ story ] Whatever, it's not going to work, anyway. They should just read the fictional story I wrote last year about the scientist who figured out how to teleport [...]
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