what are you listening to? a second wave

[Dan Warburton]

Lovely!

[grisha]

Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea

pretty amazing stuff

[surfer]

Anders Dahl - Doorbells

[SOZ]

[Bill Barton]

Gianluigi Trovesi All'Opera - Profumo Di Violetta

[surfer]

Gianluigi Trovesi All'Opera - Profumo Di Violetta

I doubt there's a bigger Trovesi fan than I on this board, but that looked like a dud to me. how is it?

[Bill Barton]

Gianluigi Trovesi All'Opera - Profumo Di Violetta

I doubt there's a bigger Trovesi fan than I on this board, but that looked like a dud to me. how is it?

This was my first listen... My reactions were generally positive. There's lots of humor present and some great clarinet playing. The arrangements are interesting. A fair amount of electronics supplied by cellist Marco Remondini enliven things. The whole idea of "opera without singers" is actually rather appealing to me. Letting Trovesi and friends loose on Monteverdi, Pergolesi and Verdi turns out to be pretty cool. I found the "spin-off" pieces written by Trovesi much more riveting than the interpretations though. The recording features his trio w/Remondini and percussionist Stefano Bertoli plus Filarmonica Mousike conducted by Savino Acquaviva. It's brand new on ECM.
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Current listening:

Yoshi Fruchter - Pitom

"punkassjewjazz" as it's billed - yikes! - also my first listen - new on Zorn's Tzadik label

[Jesse]

Following only my second listen through, this is a strong, quite moving, piece of music.
I cannot specify why, at this point, but hearing this performance after what is captured on The Room makes me think Rowe is working simultaneously in new areas and in a kind of summa. I use summa in the sense that the scope and shape of Rowe's explorations on these two releases is the sound of regathering, then jettisoning certain elements associated with him. ErstLive007 shares with The Room a feeling of a very compressed sonic history, abstract, sure, but narrative as well. Maybe his more explicit referencing of Rothko in the earlier work planted this seed in my head, but I hear the structuring of the Baroque pieces as being both lovingly glanced at, then almost annihilated here. Anyway, it clearly sounds like music made by someone in a mature, comprehensive phase of their personal history. Granted, I know Rowe's age and career going into this, but still.
This is as engaging as I've found Rowe to be since ErstLive005. Imo, the solo work is pulling ideas and feelings out of depths equal to the collaborative settings.

[Yii]

rebecca - variation no 12



i had a dinner so salty, it makes me thirsty..

[fearandpanic]

Jelly Roll Morton, The Piano Rolls (realized by Artis Wodehouse).

Recordings of piano rolls made by Morton in 1924. The piano rolls he had available to him were of the less luxurious variety, so neither the dynamics nor the pedalling was recorded. They're convincingly restored here, and it's good to hear his music in improved sound quality on an excellent piano.

[Yii]

Matar Muhammad - Tribute to a Master of the Buzuq

this reminds me of sir richard bishop's works. pretty good.

[surfer]

This was my first listen... My reactions were generally positive. There's lots of humor present and some great clarinet playing. The arrangements are interesting. A fair amount of electronics supplied by cellist Marco Remondini enliven things. The whole idea of "opera without singers" is actually rather appealing to me. Letting Trovesi and friends loose on Monteverdi, Pergolesi and Verdi turns out to be pretty cool. I found the "spin-off" pieces written by Trovesi much more riveting than the interpretations though. The recording features his trio w/Remondini and percussionist Stefano Bertoli plus Filarmonica Mousike conducted by Savino Acquaviva. It's brand new on ECM.
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OK you convinced me. That actually sounds pretty interesting, and I had thought originally that there were vocals on it.

If you're not familiar with it, you might also want to check out Trovesi's Around Small Fairy Tales, which sounds somewhat similar. Not my favorite Trovesi, but still good.

[Bill Barton]

I know what you mean... The whole idea of "jazz opera" sort of raises a red flag for me. Thank goodness there aren't any singers (or "throats" as a musician friend of mine calls them).

Current listening, in a very different mood:

Abbey Lincoln - You Gotta Pay the Band (One of the few singers I really like )

This was my first listen... My reactions were generally positive. There's lots of humor present and some great clarinet playing. The arrangements are interesting. A fair amount of electronics supplied by cellist Marco Remondini enliven things. The whole idea of "opera without singers" is actually rather appealing to me. Letting Trovesi and friends loose on Monteverdi, Pergolesi and Verdi turns out to be pretty cool. I found the "spin-off" pieces written by Trovesi much more riveting than the interpretations though. The recording features his trio w/Remondini and percussionist Stefano Bertoli plus Filarmonica Mousike conducted by Savino Acquaviva. It's brand new on ECM.
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OK you convinced me. That actually sounds pretty interesting, and I had thought originally that there were vocals on it.

If you're not familiar with it, you might also want to check out Trovesi's Around Small Fairy Tales, which sounds somewhat similar. Not my favorite Trovesi, but still good.

[kristop]

[mudd]

what's that? a single set?

i'm not a huge fan but that looks interesting.

m

edit: oh it's http://www.siwarecords.com/siwanews.html clearly worth the risk.

[niwi]

joseph spence & the pinder family - the spring of sixty-five

[Bill Barton]

Louis Sclavis - Chine

[Jesse]

joseph spence & the pinder family - the spring of sixty-five

Happily, that one makes me think of summer, as it was spinning when we sat out in our (new) backyard last summer.
They love Jebus!

[kristop]

what's that? a single set?

i'm not a huge fan but that looks interesting.

m

edit: oh it's http://www.siwarecords.com/siwanews.html clearly worth the risk.

ya the sample didn't make me want it, but i took the risk. the music is quite nice actually. and the package is bonkers.

[Salty Swift]

Broadcast - Future Crayon



Sylvain Chauveau - The Black Book of Capitalism



Unforgetable classic from high school