kevin drumm

[Eulvin]

Love the packaging too, think that the "previously labelled discs" joke is quite fun
Mines are :
- How I Met Your Mother - S1E14
- Yanni (?) - Voices

[mudd]

i keep forgetting to check if the flo rida album that disc 2 purports to be actually exists.

m

[Alastair]

Everybody Hates Chris series 3 episode 1
Kaskade - The Grand

[Jan Tomioka]

Just PayPal KD for this...

Kevin Drumm-Blank
Released by Consumer Pile. cx90
black cassette, no artwork,no info,just sound, audio on each tape is different.

[mudd]

nice. thanks for the heads up.

m

[mudd]

soooo. eMego is putting SHM out on vinyl.

m

[frozen reeds]

KSV 110 Kevin Drumm & Tom Smith - Mud Keeps Lifting Me Higher



Available for two weeks, then into the vault. The edition depends on you. Thirty? Fifty? Five? Your call.

[bryan]

Kevin Drumm-Blank
Released by Consumer Pile. cx90
black cassette, no artwork,no info,just sound, audio on each tape is different.

on the tape i got..
first side is long stretches of total silence (no.. not total silence.. filled with tape hiss) broken by short interjections of prepared guitar. close to 30 min long. in a malfatti vein.
second side is active prepared guitar which reaches a squall eventually with electronics (?.. well, definitely delay effect) coming into play more and more.

excellent and absurd.

[anti-zarzutzki]

"that jimi hendrix octave pedal was my secret weapon for years"

[nobye-noaloha]

new 7"...
http://fragmentfactory.com/

[jkudler]

i just uploaded the first drumm/sugimoto duo cd, for anyone that wants it. apple lossless files:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9g0q1vd4w8k0j7g

also, from KD's blog:

Tom Smith/Kevin Drumm-Reconquer sleep or disappear cd. Arriving this week! Released on Savage Land records out of Lyon France, edition of 500. contact dagdahammer(at)gmail(dot)com
10 dollars US, 12 overseas

[FRAGMENT]

new 7"...
http://fragmentfactory.com/

it's a collab with Michael Esposito. 300 made on clear/black vinyl. approx 80 left over here...

more info: http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6346

[frozen reeds]

In case anyone missed The Obstacles Of Romantic Exaggeration:

http://toliveandshaveinla.blogspot.com/ ... -week.html

[jkudler]

holy crap. the increasingly hip foundation for contemporary arts just granted KD $25k in unrestricted funding. other winners were marina rosenfeld, steve roden, and michael webster. don't know the last one, and the previous two get more than enough institutional/foundation love for my taste, but it's pretty heartening to see them give it to someone who doesn't seem to play that game much at all. (last year mick barr won, and they've given it to plenty of great people in the past).

https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignP ... 4666745e38

[Dan Warburton]

Good stuff. The set with Capece and Malfatti on Wednesday was excellent.

[Dan Warburton]

In response to a PM from Jon, who reviewed this concert already

I can give you a report on it without having been there or having heard from anyone who was (think of it as a Mattinesque take on concertgoing)

A great idea, this. I think I could have done the same thing with that Léandre / Ayler bash I just savaged in The Wire and PT.

"Last night's trio show at Les Instants Chavires was much anticipated by all.

So why barely three dozen people showed is a mystery to me. Must have been a football match on telly.

Kevin Drumm rarely ventures to this part of the world (or anywhere outside of Chicago, really), and how he would reconcile his normal approach with that of Capece and Malfatti was something everyone was waiting to hear.
Well, it turned out that Malfatti's aesthetic dominated the proceedings

No surprises there. But I sometimes wish he'd blow wild and dirty FMP style just for a few seconds, and give KD something to bite back at (of course, a few flicks of the finger on the keypad and the Mac would obliterate everything in its path, but it'd be a nice way to go)

along with a typically noisy crowd at Instant Chavires.

Not as bad as usual, actually. The punters were attentive and respectful throughout.

Drumm and Capece basically acted as colorists

Not really - Drumm was the continuous element - paper thin drones and various little computer rustles - against which the two horns worked. And against each other. I mean, it wasn't exactly Stan Getz and JJ Johnson trading fours, but they were certainly working with each other's ideas. It wasn't chacun pour soi.

in one long set of improv containing both stretches of silence and quiet activity.

50 minutes. Very little silence indeed, actually.

as always with Radu's work, the focus on each sound becomes crucial

..as if it isn't with anyone else's haha

and Drumm was up to the challenge as a longtime fan of Radu's aesthetic, with he and Lucio both adding their own tiny sounds as the set developed. Capece's sounds acted more in a directly supporting role to Radu's, whereas Kevin's were more in contrast

No, I didn't find that. It was the first time I'd seen LC live, and to be honest I rather prefer listening to what he does: seeing him stick cardboard tubes in the bell of his bass clarinet and then balance sheets of plastic and all kinds of stuff on top was rather distracting - but the end result sounded great.

but all three combined for a very enjoyable if not groundbreaking night of music.

Word. But isn't that always the case? I feel there's very little ground to break any more in live performance of this kind of music - and, unlike Mattin and his crew (I imagine), I don't have a problem with that.

now if only the audience would learn to shut the hell up and listen!"

As I say, they did. Don't know if it would have been worth you crossing the Atlantic to see, Mark (the Rowe Tilbury gig before Xmas was though), but a very pleasant and satisfying evening of fine, carefully wrought music by three fine performers.

[.bzr]

I saw the trio last night in Lille (la Malterie), it was my first live experience with that kind of aesthetic, didn't know what to expect and it for sure was sublime.
The audience was mainly absorbed by the sound/silence and tried to be as silent as possible (I was myself afraid to be too noisy drinking my beer), some drunk guy shouted something stupid and left, and the flush of toilets from the back room made most of us quietly laugh...

I 'm gonna remember that night for a long time!

[Dan Warburton]

How many people were there, just as a matter of interest?

[Jacques Oger]

Good stuff. The set with Capece and Malfatti on Wednesday was excellent.

+ 1

[.bzr]

How many people were there, just as a matter of interest?

Something like 40, including the staff. The audience was older than the usual folks in this place.

After the show my ears were buzzing just like after a noisy gig, kinda strange sensation...