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 […]
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Brandlmayr, Dafeldecker, Fennesz – Till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created.
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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 […]
La Belle Noiseuse – Jaques Rivette toys with artistic temperament.
posted by lisathatcher
In the hands of such a deft film maker as Jaques Rivette, one assumes every feeling, every idea existent during the film was planted there by the master. Given this assumption and its likely accuracy, what is the most surprising about La Belle Noiseuse is the conflicting inner response to the artists methods experienced while […]
Jack White – Blunderbuss: Not a review.
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Because I really like Jack White and because I am not going to review things I really don’t like on this blog, I will not be reviewing Blunderbuss. Also, I am aware of this: The sleeve of Jack White’s recent single “Sixteen Saltines” shows the man in a mirror, a straight razor near his neck. Two signs sandwich his […]
Mountain Time Standards – Josh Quinlan Quintet: Jazz Colorado Style
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Josh Quinlan is a Colorado based saxophonist, composer and educator. His ten original compositions that make up Mountain Time Standards reflect on the beauty of living in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. This album features award-winning musicians and longtime musical partners of Quinlan’s including Ben Markley, John Lake, Ed Breazeale and Kells Nollenberger. Quinlan […]
Skogen – Ist gefallen in den Schnee: Music with the lightest touch.
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I recently got my copy of this album – as usual behind everyone else – and have pretty much been playing it ever since. The group Skogen revolves around a central premise of free improv within the bounds of a directional piece. The group’s members and its size fluctuate according to the artistic direction of Magnus […]
À bout de souffle – At breaths End – Breathless 52 years on.
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I watched Breathless (again) last week. I know – lucky lucky me. Of course it inspired me to buy myself a New York Herald Tribune T-shirt. I vowed to only ever wear stripes again. I almost cut all my hair and went back to being a blonde – Almost. So what is there to say […]
Enrico Malatesta – Bestiario Volume 2
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Available from Experimedia.net. Here’s a new 7″ from the ‘Bestiario’ series by Italian percussionist Enrico Malatesta. Bestiario is a series of short compositions for solo acoustic percussion, recorded live with no overdubs or editing. Using extremely dense micro-structures, broken rhythms and fast tempi on a very reduced percussion set, those pieces are meant to explore a […]
Last year at Marienbad Results in an Amorous Event – Detail from seiminar by Alex Ling
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The following blog post is my own notes as taken from Alex Ling’s lecture which is available on the Philosophy at UWS website. Alex Ling is Research Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Badiou and Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2011) and the co-editor and translator of […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 71 – 75
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We’re reaching the ‘nether regions’ of the list now, but by no means is the music any less at this end than it was at the other. The world is getting smaller and access is getting broader so the sounds are reflecting our interests and our reach. With Youssou N’Dour and Jonathan Harvey at the end there, we […]
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