You know what it's like in Grand Theft Auto , right? You pick up a car, ride it around for a bit admiring the steering and handling, and then decide to see what happens when you thrash it. 15 seconds later it's a smouldering heap wrapped around a lamp post and you're looking for a new one. I probably shouldn't be saying this, but that's what Ken Vandermark seems to be like with bands. I mean, sure he's a great driver, but he does leave a lot of groups by the roadside. Bridge [...]
tonight i have been mainly listening to sonny sharrock 's work on space ghost coast to coast. yes indeed. just seems kinda right this is where he finished up, y'know. and some last exit. fuck, the dude shreds on this... [...]
MELVIN THE ECHOS Steve Marcus, Miroslav Vitous, Sonny Sharrock, Daniel Humair Green Line Victor : 1970 Sonny Sharrock, electric guitar; Steve Marcus, tenor and soprano sax; Miroslav Vitous, bass; Daniel Humair, drums. Two words about these tracks: Sonny Sharrock. There simply isn't enough material from the world's greatest jazz guitarist. Green Line is a lost [...]
Here at Consequence of Sound , we like to pay attention to musical guests on late night talk shows. Also, the Gorillaz are pretty popular right now, and they're cartoons, kind of. You might also remember the excellent DANGERDOOM, in which the notorious sometime-performer DOOM and one of the biggest producers going Danger Mouse put together a great album featuring members of Adult Swim 's cartoon comedy block. But both the cartoon-musician relationship and our love of the musical guest have deeper roots, namely in the guise of Space Ghost Coast to Coast . [...]
Originally posted 24 March 2007 HIT SINGLE GHOST PLANET NATIONAL ANTHEM FEAR OF A GHOST PLANET Sonny Sharrock Space Ghost Cartoon Network : 1996 SS, guitar; Lance Carter, drums; Alfrieda Garcia, vocals ("Hit Single" only); Eddie Horst, everything else. "Was that too melodic?" - Sonny Sharrock Final [...]
Alexander R. Galloway : Guy Debord never recovered from the crisis of the 1970s. His late life was beset by chronic illness brought on by an ever growing gluttony in food and drink. By March 8, 1978 Debord's former glory as a radical filmmaker and author had faded. 'The cinema seems to me to be over,' he wrote in a letter. 'These times don't deserve a filmmaker like me.' These times were times of crisis. On March 16, 1978--eight days after Debord's dalliance about [...]
From a twitter by Thrill Jockey , I found out about this article at the New York Edition of Time Out where John McEntire, Jeff Parker and Doug McCombs of Tortoise provide a playlist of their all-time favorite instrumental tracks. The five tracks picked as you might expect provide a peek into the influences of the band. While it's cool that Time Out collected these tracks and provide a streaming player for us to sample the tracks, it doesn't explain who the artists are or maybe the significance of the tracks. 1. Sonny Sharrock [...]
Sonny Sharrock's final album, Ask The Ages , is such a classic that it's next to impossible to find anything new to be said about it. It attracted pretty much universal praise - hardly surprising when you consider the calibre of the musicians who joined Sharrock for this final session. Pharoah Sanders plays sax, Elvin Jones is on drums, and they are joined by the prolific sideman Charnett Moffett on bass. Here's the album's closing track, the leaping, elegiac Once Upon a Time . Sharrock's guitar plays both a scrunched up ball of [...]
END OF THE RAINBOW Sonny & Linda Sharrock Paradise Water : 1975 [Buy It] END OF THE RAINBOW Elvis Costello 1985 King of America (expanded) Rhino : 2005 [Buy It] RAINBOW Gene Chandler 1962 Available on : Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection Shout Factory : 2007 [Buy It] RAINBOW Gene Chandler 1965 Available on : [...]
WELCOME TO NINETIES WEEK (Part two of five) 'Rewrite history while it's still fresh.' - JG Ballard It's too easy to fetishize the distant past. We mostly highlight overlooked jazz from the 60s, 70s, and 80s here at D:O, but that's hardly all the story there is to tell. The music continues to be incredibly vital - varied, adventurous, refined, and risky. Over the past month, we polled music critics, musicians, and jazz bloggers for their favorite records from the 1990s. [...]
HIT SINGLE GHOST PLANET NATIONAL ANTHEM FEAR OF A GHOST PLANET Sonny Sharrock Space Ghost Cartoon Network : 1996 SS, guitar; Lance Carter, drums; Alfrieda Garcia, vocals ("Hit Single" only); Eddie Horst, everything else. "Was that too melodic?" - Sonny Sharrock Final recordings usually carry a whiff of the morbid. If the musician is old or in failing health, there's the idea [...]
...at the old Knitting Factory in New York City on this date in 1994... I posted about Sonny back in July and lots of folks emailed me to say how much they loved him but didn't know anyone else who did! There is now a great new official website for Sonny that recently launched - there's even some audio and video up there - hopefully more people will learn about his work. I really encourage you to check him out. Sonny's music was always out-of-this-world: electric guitar played [...]
Every so often, you'll catch an artist live or listen to an EP or Compilation and stumble across a weird instrumental track. Sometimes these tracks are riveting, other times they're not, but as an audible gawker you stop to listen and try to understand the "why?" This Friday 8-track is a small sampling of bizarre compositions that have caught our ears and keep coming to our forebrain each time is pops up in a shuffled playlist. There is no doubt these tracks are quite off the beaten path. Enjoy! 1. Yoko Ono - "Voice Piece [...]
Jameel Abdul Kebab "The Prisoner" (MP3) No, not a Borat-esque character, but a reclusive Czech named Kamilsky (right) under one of his pseudonymns (another being Koonda Holaa and the Beechees ); he's appeared here at WFMU a few times in various incarnations of the loose collective of experimental musicians revolving around the great Radon label. After wandering around the USA for some time in his RV, he finally settled in the high Mojave desert about 45 minutes from 29 Palms where a couple of weeks ago he and his fine dog hosted a [...]
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