The liner notes in Droplets, conceived by Dominic Lash tells us of a group formed by Lash specifically to focus on performance of works by the Wandelweiser collective. This floating group of musicians will be known as The Set Ensemble, and relate primarily through a shared interest in the work of Alain Badiou who deployes mathematical set […]
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Breakthrough sometimes breaks through – Why I still love Gotan Project
posted by lisathatcher
OK!OK! I know its colonizing-yuppie and oh-so Buddah-bar, but one of my weaknesses is my love for Gotan Project. I have a ‘soft spot’ for lounge music anyway, I’m a hard-core Francophile (left-bank-o-phile really) and Gotan does force me to reach for the red wine and wooden cheese board, but I can’t help it. The […]
Retro Love – Songs of Leonard Cohen
posted by lisathatcher
In retrospect there is music in one’s life that is recognisable as formative. I only recently ‘discovered’ my passion for avant garde music, but I would have to say looking back that there are certain albums that set me up for a love of music when I finally found my place in that vast ocean. […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 66 – 70
posted by lisathatcher
We’re in the 1980’s now with this wire post, and as you will see from the list, what pop is just starting to pick up, avant-garde was done with in the late 1970’s. It’s an exciting time for music with the sophistication of the electronic sounds. I’m all abuzz writing this to find out that Konrad Becker […]
Incisions by Black Cracker – The already music shuffling from immanence to silence and back again.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok – colour me Peach! I’m excited about this music offering today. This hot little disc that I will wax lyrical about in just a few lines time, is the frist release on the enthusiastically titled It’ll Be Awesome label recently launched in Sydney Australia! My home town. What is even more exciting about Incisions […]
Sonore – Oto: Every assertion automatically becomes its opposite.
posted by lisathatcher
01 Fragments For An Endgame Sonore is Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson; seasoned players who each have credits listed to their names. They come together as Sonore which is its own unanimous committment to their music as a process. These are players each intimately engaged with their instruments, allowing their engaging to be a perpetual lesson in […]
“A” Trio – Music to our Ears: Acoustic Improv goes Electric
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03 Track 03 3 Listen to The Shape of Jazz that Came – Track #3 “A” Trio is Mazen Kerbaj (Trumpet) and Sharif Sehnaoui (acoustic guitar) and Reed Yassin (double bass). Music to our ears is a tidy little disc just released on Mazen Kerbaj’s label from Lebanon Called Al Maslakh (The Slaughtehouse). Track one is […]
Martin Denny – Exotic Moog: Exotica in a quiet village.
posted by lisathatcher
It’s Friday night here. Its been a big week. It’s Samuel Becketts birthday and I’ve been reading him even more than usual. I’m tired. I want Martin Denny Exotic Moog. One of my favourite down time discs! Enjoy. From Decrepit Tapes: Exotic Moog is the glittering grail for both Martin Denny collectors and Moog […]
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
posted by lisathatcher
Deep inside my capacity for music listening is a vast potential for horizonal expansion with the texture of cyber-like plasticity. Separate from the music that now inhabits it, or rather tries to inhabit, is the space for music. Long before the music presented itself, something inside me – god, evolution or an expanding to nowhere […]
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