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[Alastair]

I found Samla a bit twee, although "Familjesprickor", when they became Zamla Mammaz Manna, was better.

It's not surprising that Tatsuya Yoshida likes them so much.

[przesyt]

I found Samla a bit twee, although "Familjesprickor", when they became Zamla Mammaz Manna, was better.

It's not surprising that Tatsuya Yoshida likes them so much.

Twee Pop.

[sevenarts]

recent:
Pita - Seven Tons For Free
The Shadow Ring - Wax-Work Echoes
Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba - Moorish Music from Mauritania
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads

np: Richard Youngs - Advent

[bedouin]

Andy Votel Presents Brazilika
inspired by the tropicalia thread.

[horaflora]

Oscillation/vacillation

Some gorgeous, and some painful, all enthralling.


What do you guys make of/like/dislike about very high pitches?

For me, certain ones work well with the music and I enjoy them, but the more the element of screech is involved, the less I really love it, though even then, those sounds add to the composition in subtle and structural ways.

[horaflora]

God how i hate music.

[billygomberg]

God how i hate music.

it's fucking terrible isn't it


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stefano pilia action silence prayers

[Joda]

it's fucking terrible isn't it

Mostly, yeah.


Crunch Black - The Blackness

[billygomberg]

Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide Good Morning Good Night



been a good long time since I took these discs in. like ajar, I am still very impressed by everything about this recording.

[jkudler]

Unrest - Fuck Pussy Galore

nirav - did you see any of their recent reunion shows? the one in philly was pretty fucking great. possibly only because it was songs i memorized when i was 15 years old, but still. . . it didn't dampen their legacy. i remember their support bands in nyc were better too.

went to the christian marclay exhibit at the whitney today - anyone else? has this been discussed here? i was a bit underwhelmed though also kinda rushed. the listening lounge and the room with videos of past performances seemed the most interesting and where i could afford the least amount of time. oh well.

now playing cornford/rodgers - "turned moment, weighting" for the first time. i know i'm a bit late to this by IHM standards, but it's sounding GREAT. nice work, guys.

-j.

[RFKorp]

the listening lounge and the room with videos of past performances seemed the most interesting and where i could afford the least amount of time. oh well.

except that, when I was there, the listening lounge was only playing his most widely distributed CD, "Records." (Maybe there's other stuff that comes up in the playlist sometimes?) And the videos of past performances were almost exclusively the same excerpts that are on youtube. There was only one piece I hadn't seen online before and it was the least interesting.

[jkudler]

heh. i hadn't even thought to look on youtube. the ones i saw weren't even amazing quality, either (fidelity-wise), but it was brief. the listening lounge seemed to basically be an ipod on shuffle - it was a duo with otomo when i walked in.

any other thoughts on it, richard?

[jon abbey]

I haven't gone to the Marclay thing. he was a huge influence on my taste in the nineties, but somehow I don't find the Whitney thing intriguing at all.

[RFKorp]

other thoughts: "The Bell and the Glass" was actually a pretty enjoyable video piece. everything else was pretty stupid.

I spent way too much time with "Chalkboard 2010" though... Heavily considered obliterating huge chunks of people's text to create some abstract images, but finally went subtle. Removed "not"s from the middle of sentences. Added them to others. Changed every reference to "Art" into a reference to "Fart" instead. Modern fart is great! it gives people so much to talk about....

There was also a bizarre amount of text on one part of the wall all about The Beatles. By the time I was done, the same content was all about Lil B instead. Except one really dumb John Lennon quote, where, instead of just erasing the name and re-attributing as would have matched my prior pattern, I erased the quote and adjusted it to read "Hos on my dick cause I look like John Lennon."

[faster]

Nicely done, Richard.

[nirav]

nirav - did you see any of their recent reunion shows? the one in philly was pretty fucking great. possibly only because it was songs i memorized when i was 15 years old, but still. . . it didn't dampen their legacy. i remember their support bands in nyc were better too.

went to the christian marclay exhibit at the whitney today - anyone else? has this been discussed here? i was a bit underwhelmed though also kinda rushed. the listening lounge and the room with videos of past performances seemed the most interesting and where i could afford the least amount of time. oh well.

I'm actually pretty late to the game on Unrest, didn't really hear them in the old days, and didn't see them on tour. It's nice summer music tho...

I actually thought that the Marclay exhibit was pretty poor, aside from the performances...I've seen a few things of his that I thought were ok - photograms of unspooled tapes, "Stool" (a barstool with a trumpet bell creating a void in the seat, hilarious), but everything just seemed really mediocre. His work is so much about quoting, reference and punning - but the material he's using - music & it's residue - already has layers and layers of that within, and his work seems to me to flatten, rather than integrate/say something about/build upon the intertextuality already present.

Did you see the Charles Burchfield exhibit? Now *that* was something special....

[jkudler]

I actually thought that the Marclay exhibit was pretty poor, aside from the performances...I've seen a few things of his that I thought were ok - photograms of unspooled tapes, "Stool" (a barstool with a trumpet bell creating a void in the seat, hilarious), but everything just seemed really mediocre. His work is so much about quoting, reference and punning - but the material he's using - music & it's residue - already has layers and layers of that within, and his work seems to me to flatten, rather than integrate/say something about/build upon the intertextuality already present.

this actually pretty much sums it up for me; i was sort of soft-pedaling my opinion earlier (and, to be fair, i didn't have a lot of time with the exhibit). agree with richard that the duchamp/bell movie seemed more interesting. but all the musical staff stuff (zeena's performance was her 'playing' record covers, and then it turned out that a lot of them had actual musical notes on them) seemed kinda old-fashioned and almost like it could have been the work of an aggrieved ex-conservatory student than having real general interest.

-jesse

[Jesse]

For some reason Forced Exposure sent me the new Marclay Graffiti release, recorded in 2007 or '08; this is Melvin Gibbs [!], Vernon Reid, Renaldo, Elliot Sharp and Mary Halvorson [!] essentially shredding for 60 minutes, in response to graffiti *scores* Marclay collected from public spaces in Berlin many years ago.
Why this is being released now [aside from its coinciding with the Whitney exhibit] is lost on me. With the exception of Halvorson's inexplicable presence, when I saw the roster and autuer behind the project, I thought *1989*. It really is, as jesse said, old-fashioned, even moribund in time and concept.
The Walker Art Center here anointed Marclay many years ago, never failing to curate his work, however light-weight and insubstantial. Some artists, once institutionalized, are in the rota no matter their ongoing relevance. From my perspective, the Walker consistently curates music that art centers of their ilk found gripping 10-20 years ago-e.g., Frisell, Marclay, Dave Douglas.
I attempted to reach the Walker music curator 5 years ago [sorry if I have told this story before here] to discuss the curator hearing some of the areas of music I was into that seem to be off his radar. It was, I knew, a fool's errand, but whatever. I learned quickly that he is curating within layers of bureaucracy, that no one speaks with him directly, that his assistant's assistant said she'd convey my "concerns" to him , etc etc.
Several musicians based in Europe, when planning tours here, have asked me if contacting the Walker might be worthwhile. Not since the 80s is the unfortunate answer.

[faster]

I actually thought that the Marclay exhibit was pretty poor, aside from the performances...I've seen a few things of his that I thought were ok - photograms of unspooled tapes, "Stool" (a barstool with a trumpet bell creating a void in the seat, hilarious), but everything just seemed really mediocre. His work is so much about quoting, reference and punning - but the material he's using - music & it's residue - already has layers and layers of that within, and his work seems to me to flatten, rather than integrate/say something about/build upon the intertextuality already present.

Yeah. Bunch of one-liners.

[orangettecoleman]

Paco Pena - Fabulous Flamenco

I've been on a big flamenco guitar kick lately. I ordered a stack of books so I'd have something to practice, since I still immensely enjoy playing guitar but the kind of EAI/Lowercase noise stuff I do isn't the kind of thing I have found a way of practicing...