Every once in a while an album comes along that so thoroughly satiates my musical interests and desires at that given period of my life that I develop a special connection to the album and its music. It's a symbiotic relationship where the album doesn't just define a season of listening, but my life also seems to lend the musical contents particular meaning and context. Party Intellectuals has been that kind of album for me over the course of the last few months. Its ebullient, irreverent spirit is refreshing and liberating, and I haven't heard a modern album [...]
The guitarist Marc Ribot first came to public notice when he worked with Tom Waits on the latter's groundbreaking album, Rain Dogs . Twenty years before that, Albert Ayler released his free jazz classic, Spritual Unity . And over forty years on from that, Ribot attempted to revisit that album, by releasing an album of his own with the same name. Different times, but the same feeling. That's a theme that runs through the music as well. The musicians may not be playing in the same key, or using the same time [...]
I normally can't get my ass off the chair to go to a concert if I don't know it a few days beforehand. Yesterday night though I had to act spontaneous as Marc Ribot was in town with his Spiritual Unity project playing Albert Ayler pieces. It was an intense show with little interaction between the band and the audience, Ribot was typical with his brown leather jacket sitting sideways to the stage and immersed in music. There was Henry Grimes an original member of Albert Ayler's quintet who's been MIA through [...]
Waldeck - Ballroom Stories ( Dope Noir ) : Monsieur Waldeck 's latest installment of noir jazz & downtempo music. Past review on undomondo Radio Luxembourg - Diwrnod Efo'r Anifeiliaid () : Short but irresistably cute guitar lead pop songs and English & Welsh hybrid lyrics. Past review on undomondo . Old Time Relijun - Catharsis in Crisis ( Krecs ) : OTR is one of the few bands who can explain their [...]
Official band photo Suishou No Fune Sir Richard Bishop not only delivered one of this year's greatest albums, but also without doubt the best album title. As a title While My Guitar Violently Bleeds is profoundly ambiguous in a sense that it does not merely refer to a full-blown, aggressive guitar bashing sound, but all the more – and definitely so in Sir Richard Bishop's case – to a profound passion that pores from every note played in an almost spiritual way. The title alone is good enough to dedicate two mixes to it, [...]
Tim Sparks: Kodashim [2003] Marc Ribot: Sansanah [2003] Two compositions from MacArthur Genius John Zorn . This post is my small tribute in honor of Tonic , which announced it was closing yesterday. What is this city coming to? YouTube: Buy Masada Guitars here .
This week I'm checking up on some of my avant-guitar heros. I've been crawling around the attic of my musical memory ever since a friend burned me his 107+ hours of a certain kooky jamband that we were head-over-heels for in high school. I've realized that for me improvised music was like a drug, especially in the way that I got interested in it. First it was the small time stuff: going to a hippy-ish rock concert, listening to the band go "way out," dancing while flailing arms in the air, etc. Of course, as guidance counselors have [...]
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Young Guns - "Winter Kiss"
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Daft Punk graba con Giorgio Moroder
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