The claim made by Sam Pettigrews beautiful disc Domestic Smear is that the bass acts as theatre in order to have us question the very triggers inside us that provide the already always aspect of who we are and how we listen. Here is the central premise and the primary claim of Domestic Smear: “Domestic […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Conrad Schnitzler – Ricardo Villalobos – Max Loderbauer – Zug reshaped and remodeled
posted by lisathatcher
I have a lovely little treat for you lucky lucky readers today! Anyone who reads this blog knows of my deep abiding love of Conrad Schnitzler and my appreciation for what he did within the world of electronic music. Of course I’m not the only one who feels this way about him. M=Minimal have dedicated a large […]
Farewell Carlos Fuentes – you will be greatly missed.
posted by lisathatcher
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been translated into English and other languages. When he was 30 years old Fuentes published his first novel, La región más transparente, which became a classic. It […]
Friendsound – Joyride: Time to chill.
posted by lisathatcher
A lovely little retro pleasure for you today. Self-produced, 1969’s “Friendsound” makes absolutely no attempt to go down the commercial road and to ours ears may deserve to be noted as one of the first real “jam” albums. I’ve got the album in toto for you here – lets take a listen-peek at side the first… Now don’t that […]
Ray Russell Quartet – Dragon Hill: Avant Garde tipping off the edge of trad.
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Dragon Hill Russell 2 Something in the Sky 3 Can I Have My Paper Back 4 We Lie Naked in White Snow 5 Mandala I have a lovely little tid bit for you today. This is one of my favourite wind down discs – a ver neglected classic that will blow you away the more […]
Sannakji – Roberto Mallo, Miguel Prado, Ryu Hankil: subject subverted to sound.
posted by lisathatcher
In the lovely notes to this amazing cd on the TMTG website the following is related: In his first days in spain we recorded with Ryu two improvised pieces. His sounds of mechanical bumps were well known to us, but he did not know our way of working. Taking advantage of these circumstances, and being […]
Hear O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz or How to keep the young at the synagogue.
posted by lisathatcher
Lucky lucky me. Look what landed in my letterbox last night! I’m behind the 8-ball as usual, this was (re)released June 2008, but if your a fan of experimental and avant garde jazz, you will kick yourself for not already having this just as I did when I first got my ears on a couple […]
Cafe de Flore – Music, ritual, religion and life.
posted by lisathatcher
It’s a very brave move to make a spiritualist film in this day and age – particularly one that is well made and treated with great respect. This isn’t some new-agey guff like The Tree of Life, this is an approach at that hard-core naked spirituality. You know, Christianity and reincarnation. While the tree of […]
Tim Coster – A place in the Sun. Music to end time to.
posted by lisathatcher
After Foucault we have the option of seeing history as an epistemological horizon against which certain statements are possible. History is no longer a series of events and concepts in some sort of liniear progression. After John Cage something similar may be stated about music, and silence; that certain kinds of music are an epistemological […]
Brandlmayr, Dafeldecker, Fennesz – Till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created.
posted by lisathatcher
You know the hour. It’s late, you’ve got that work-weary satisfaction deep in your bones combined with an I’m-not-ready-yet fear of the next day. This is the time recommended for you to be listening to this LP. It’s an interesting suggestion because despite the latent jazz building blocks, this is not a lull-you-to-sleep experience. Its […]
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