recommend for me: jazz + early synths/musique concrète/the studio-as-instrument

You guys should check out The Feed-Back, a 1970 album by The Group, which was a pseudonym for Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza, an avant-garde Italian collective that included Ennio Morricone (he played trumpet). It's like jazz-funk meets modern composition, all laid over an insane funk beat; honestly, it reminds me of On The Corner, but recorded two years earlier and slightly less dense, but also weirder at times. I'm actually writing a review of it that'll be on Burning Ambulance tomorrow; in the meantime, here's the title track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKIvS2AI5O4

"Seems like a pretty underrated figure."

george russell was kinda born to be underrated. there are liner-notes going back 50 years about how underrated/underheard he is. maybe it was just meant to be.

i guess morricone's "gli occhi freddi della paura" OST would fit here as well (that's kind of of a gruppo di improv... effort)

hasn't 'the feed-back' album just been reissued ?

seem to have seen a few of my dj/collector friends on FB mentioning they have got copies recently.

^here's hoping. niente, the till recently unreleased followup to the feed-back lp, is worth checking out too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiIT7K4A6rU

rabih beaini's "albidaya" would fit here, too - better than much it has been compared to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3dur47Ywlg

this album is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-04Dey1SzQ

Thanks for the George Duke recommendation, really enjoying the MPS box

Cool! It was one of the best record purchases I've made in recent years.

do other folks rate this one?

http://beingsubstance.blogspot.com/2013/08/george-lewis-chicago-slow-dance.html

it's not musique concrete in the strong sense but it achieves something similar, i think

George Lewis' Voyager is a landmark piece for live improvisation and realtime interactive computer music. Pitch analysis and response. Your mileage may vary with the Yamaha FM synth sounds he chose to deploy the interactive computer responses, but it's still an amazing thing to see live, and he's revived / updated the piece recently with modern technology. Very impressed with the last few performances of his I've seen.

Don't know 'Chicago Slow Dance'.

i've been exploring george lewis's stuff recently, it's always interesting

Lewis' Homage to Charles Parker is really gorgeous, I wouldn't have gotten into it had Cook not given it 5 stars in Penguin Guide to Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd44vTL4Qc8

this has already become one of my favorite threads ever.

man, i haven't pulled that homage to charlie parker album out in a while. so beautiful.

sometimes i like the idea of chicago slow dance a bit more than the music itself. but it's still really inventive and unusual.

That youtube is the entire Homage to Charles Parker album, btw. The first 17:50 is the first track, "Blues." The rest of it is "Homage to Charles Parker" itself -- absolutely one of my favorite pieces of music ever, such raw naked emotion in the solos.

hasn't 'the feed-back' album just been reissued?

It has. I got the reissue in the mail, which is what sparked my review.

note to Spotify compiler: there are two Supersilent tracks available on compilations

Soft Machine - Six (studio half) and Seven

that feedback reissue is so friggin' pricey everywhere i look. if you ever want to sell your promo, phil, lemme know.

Spotify playlist spottily updated

Too bad Gil Evans' There Comes a Time is not available there, but there's quite a bit of synth on Svengali.

that feedback reissue is so friggin' pricey everywhere i look. if you ever want to sell your promo, phil, lemme know.

― scott seward, Thursday, September 4, 2014 11:24 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw it on amazon for like $14...

cheapest on amazon right now is 27 bucks including shipping. which isn't horrible i guess...but i can't remember the last time i paid that much for a cd...

vinyl on amazon is 40 and up.

whole thing's on youtube, via Mr. Ambulance's review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHpumFSr6t8#t=105

Good call re pre-On The Corner and especially the Canny use of crisp beats, which def. kept me listening, but overall preferring the actual OTC and actual Can, esp. much of what they're doing in that mostly-performance documentary I posted upthread.

yeah i only know it from youtube really. i'd like to have a hard copy.

Miles Davis' "Great Expectations" to fucking thread.

ha, someone must have bought that $14 copy. oh well.

this Jean Guérin track is pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgLnLdBp5TQ

although it leans more toward jazz-inflected electronic than electronic-inflected jazz, and nothing else on the album is quite so jazzy.

that's sweet