what are you listening to? a second wave

[dave quam]

[RFKorp]

- Object 1 (Locust)

Maybe I should re-listen to that. I remember finding it by far the least interesting disc in the whole Object series.

hmmmm, i have 3 albums from the series, 1 is the best i think.

I'm gonna pull out all 6 today and re-listen if I have time but my memory is that the Bject and EKG are both pretty superb although truthfully neither is the best work of either band in question. And the Le Doigt De Galilée CD also completely unexpectedly RULES. Bauder/Ajemian is nice but nothing so unusual that I remember it well, and BNSF is a lot of fun but not necessarily the most forward thinking music either, I think it gets the most raucous of them all. Dorner/Holm went right over my head when I listened, leaving virtually no impact. But maybe that was just me at the time, not the disc.

[MRS]

Okay this is what local radio was spinning early this morning, not what I posted on the last page, really inspired stuff. Monkish intervals and inherent playfulness, think if Gerry Hemingway had a nonet or some like permutation in the late 60s. Taking into account the brackish sound quality + what I just described, a quite anachronistic approach. Seems that this is wildly oop, a shame.

[hatta]

Mitsuhiro Yoshimura/Masahiko Okura Trio (Presquile)

[This is Good]

[mudd]

seriously good.

m

[J.F.]

Me np: Goh Lee Kwang - Coins

I have this one playing now as well.

One aspect I like in particular is the way the surface resonates... urgh... it has something of a warm bassy sound to it, and seems to give me a quite vivid impression about the materialistic or physical or hylic qualities of the thing... sort of.

I mean... I love wood, and this sounds like a massive piece of wood - one of the kind you grab and just get the idea of the energy it carries - well, not in the sense of tree-hugging, but purely physical.

I think the recording captures that quite well, which in my ears lifts the recording above being "interesting" to being sensually enjoyable and pleasant.

(now please nobody tell me the surface is actually made of synthetic material )

[Alastair]

BBC Radio 1 "Top Gear" 31 December 1967, presented by John Peel and Tommy Vance. All three hours of it. Isn't the internet amazing?

Amen Corner, on the other hand...

[7/4]

this just in:



Iannis Xenakis - Orchestral Works

[barry]

[Dohol]

I love Oregon..But I never liked this record all that much..

[hatta]

Choi Joonyong/Hong Chulki/Sachiko M/Otomo Yoshihide Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (Balloon & Needle)

[This is great]

[barry]

I love Oregon..But I never liked this record all that much..

No? and i like this one a lot. lots of improv and towner introduces the synth into the mix with some really tasty, organic sounds ( something that sure doesnt last for too many albums ). this one and the next one "crossing" are really great ones to me, and crossing being walcott's last, is a real special one. i dont have much use for oregon post walcott, but up till then...really good.

[faster]

For a couple minutes in maybe 2000 or 2001, the bassist from Oregon hung around Linda Austin's Performance Works Northwest dance space--Linda was a big supporter of the improvised music community--and did a bunch of free improv. He may have even played with some of the Super Unity guys (not me) iirc. Didn't last long & he was a pretty funny huppie type, but it was a weird thing to happen.

[hatta]

Radu Malfatti Kid Ailack Hall 5 (b-boim)

Just finished listening to this and it is pretty uninteresting overall. It's interesting to compare Cage's time bracket pieces with Malfattis. Both emphasized the use of affectless tones and the same structural elements (though Malfatti may not give you a time range to play in, I don't quite recall). Yet Cage's pieces are filled with warmth and heart and Malfatti's just come across as pinched and anal. Perhaps it's because Malfatti is always in these ensembles, it'd be interesting to hear people playing these that had never heard his interpretations.

[surfer]

Efzeg - Boogie

Not really my thing, but I am enjoying it despite myself.




Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Renkel - Rebecca (Two Variations)

This one I absolutely love, probably my favorite new to me recording I've heard this year. There is just a wonderful lyricism and organic mellifluousness that I instinctively am drawn to.

[thenationalacrobat]

Daisuke Miyatani - Diario

bonny.

[Joda]

(acoustic)

[Jason Brogan]

Tim Parkinson, cello piece [Edition Wandelweiser]

[grisha]

[hatta]

Mitsuhiro Yoshimura/Toshiya Tsunoda/Taku Sugimoto Santa (Presqu’île Records)