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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Jack White – Blunderbuss: Not a review.
posted by lisathatcher
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
posted by lisathatcher
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.
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
Enrico Malatesta – Bestiario Volume 2
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 71 – 75
posted by lisathatcher
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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