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Brave man, sticking your head above the parapet, Hatta. I agree more or less with what you say about the Fuhler, Looper (a yawn indeed), the Rowe / Krebs and the Rhodri Davies, which seems to have yielded up all it's likely to yield up to my weary ears after five listens.. and take your point on the...

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I Am King wrote:Wouldn't mind getting this.

Neither would I, if only to compare with the earlier Bouzel Complete Webern set with the LSO and the Juilliard 4tet. Anyone got both?

fearandpanic wrote:There is no other world. I wonder what lofty realm he has in mind.

On relistening to the recording of the interview I take this to mean "almost another world [from the piece you've just played me]". Our conversation was in reference to Earle Brown's Octet I.

He repeatedly denied the accusations from Tina's autobiography (and autobiographical film), and then published a (partly) repudiating account in his own autobiography, not surprisingly in very toned down terms. In any case, it doesn't diminish his musical achievements. (Same goes for Wagner and Gar...

Excellent article, thanks for bringing it to my attention. From the forthcoming Keith Rowe Invisible Jukebox in next month's Wire : "I would say the two supreme recordings of last century are John Tilbury's [recording of Morton Feldman's] For Bunita Marcus and David Tudor's recording of Cage's Varia...

Greenwich Village is good also, and the other one I really like is Albert Smiles with Sunny, which is recordings of the same trio as Spiritual Unity (Peacock/Murray) a few weeks before. this material is also half on Prophecy and half on disc 2 of Holy Ghost, but if you can still find ASWS, I'd defi...

MRS wrote:They just tried to name a street after him on the east side literally last week and the mayor 86'd the idea.

Do you think the fact he beat the shit out of his wife might have had something to do with it?

You're gonna love that box set. Some essential stuff on there - from Coltrane's funeral for instance. I thought that was one of the more disappointing tracks in the box, along with the much trumpeted Ayler-meets-Cecil track. Nice documentation though, but if you're starting in on Ayler I'd go with ...

if you could use some sort of explosive to actually blow up an artist who would it be and what sort of explosive would you use? Probably myself. Great career move.. look what it did to Curtis and Cobain. Is that a promise?! Cor :D We'll see how sales of the forthcoming album on Incunabulum go.. may...

If you could blow up (as in make them huge with the adoring masses of the world) any small or unknown act who would it be? Manuel Mota maybe. Love the guy and his music. if you could use some sort of explosive to actually blow up an artist who would it be and what sort of explosive would you use? P...

Thought that was rather funny, actually. Odd.. it's as if Stockhausen died for me sometime in the mid 80s, when he disappeared into the Verlag (gulag?). with its gaudy photos of birthday cakes and frilly shirts and inevitable (yawn) "Stockhausen and the Beatles" pages. I've been telling myself for y...

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Dan Warburton wrote:I'm listening RIGHT NOW (heh heh, writing an IHM post at the same time, is that really listening,? yo Fearandpanic [sic]) to Taku U and Mattin's Attention. And I don't know what to make of it at all!

did you laugh?

For about the first ten minutes, and then it just started getting on my nerves.

Nice collection of links, thanks! Reminded me just how much I dislike those omnipresent xylophone / vibraphone rolls.. Why does he always have to double the melody with pitched percussion? Answer: to prove to the public they're not making it up on the hoof, like, aren't we clever.. It's the kind of ...

walnutking wrote:Gordon Mumma

Elaine Radigue

Hermann Nitsche

Henry Cowell, which no one here seems to give a fuck about

I do - it's Hermann Nitsch (no "e" baby) I don't give a fuck about

Always been a bit wary around hardcore Zappa lovers (not thinking of Ben Watson specifically, whom I've only met once, but L? Quan Ninh and Edward Perraud are - or were - major league FZ fans).. they have a compulsive habit of wanting to quote the Great Man, either by singing along the "unsingable" ...

fearandpanic wrote:a quite silly, jargon-y kind of word (overly); .

Ah, that's me all over(ly). Silly and jargon-y to the max(field).

DAMN Bhob that reminds me I forgot to apologise for not showing up at (after) your gig last week - sorry man! Spent the evening cycling all the damn way to the sticks (public transport was on strike here last week folks) to master an album, and by the time I finished it was way past my bedtime. Bimb...

Whaddya mean, crapping out? This is a pretty serious debate here: we've got a guy whose historical importance to the music we all appreciate here (not just minimalism, either) has, in my opinion, been blown out of all proportion - if he's so damn important, why doesn't he throw the doors open to the...

the New World CD reissue of the Advance LP, the 'Night Music' track on the Odyssey LP & 'Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean)' from the OHM Early Gurus box are the only currently available tracks the New World CD was originally supposed to be all-Maxfield -- they were nego...