In A Similarly Silent Way

i think i only have jaco type stuff. the way all the instruments sound on the two i have really bothers me....it gets my inner rockist/jazzist all up in arms.

the zawinul album i was talking about upthread is probably my favorite record i've bought this year so maybe i should check it out.

anyway i don't wanna be a negative nelly and distract peeps from peepin that herbie mann record, it's great!

have to say thanks again on this thread for the Necks reccs! Eeeyowch, they are incredible.

this album is like son of silent way: maybe a little funkier.

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/10/albumcoverEddieHenderson-Sunburst.jpg

i think anyone who digs shorter/zawinul stuff with miles would dig the first WR album and the live in tokyo stuff.

― scott seward, Sunday, December 7, 2008 9:21 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

live in tokyo is a GREAT record

Why was Sunn 0)))'s "Alice" from their last album (Monoliths & Dimensions) never added to this thread? Anyway, adding it now. ;-)))

In light of this - http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/miles-davis-in-a-silent-way-round-21-nicks-choice/ - I'm thinking I might pursue a few more of these soundalikes.

David Behrman - On the Other Ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGLg_d_0UDE

Always thought this was a shameless ripoff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xs4ddoxPtc

Post Up Your Mixtapes 2014

garrett list's your own self is giving me a bit of an in a silent way fed through minimalism vibe

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

The first two Weather Report albums with Miroslav Vitous on bass definitely fit in the Bitches Brew/In A Silent Way axis points.

There are other tunes later on in Weather Reports records that get into that area too.

that garrett list is really hitting the spot. thanks!

^^^ That Garrett List recording is spectacular indeed. Reminds me of Pharoah Sanders' Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord. Pretty hard to buy though, it seems :(

this was mentioned upthread but wow this is similar and really good

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/2/23/albumcoverJohnAbercrombie-Timeless.jpg?1203727973

Van Morrison's 'When Heart is Open', mentioned by Tyler upthread, is very good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-RiXhzz6M

8 years and no mention of Les McCann's Invitation to Openness?! It kind of slips into a Silent Way parody at times but it's a lovely warm listen,

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

Mercury rev played Ssh/Peaceful live, not sure how frequently, but it did make it onto Lego My Ego as part of a medley with Very Sleepy Rivers.

Thanks for the Paul Schutze recommendation - very much enjoying Apart.

you guys check this one out yet?
https://schlarb.bandcamp.com/album/plays-music-for-airports

I listened just the other day. Hmm. I think I like the first track, but I sort of lost interest (I know this is part of the point). What did you think?
I think I prefer the Bang On A Can version.

i thought they pulled it off nicely -- obviously very much "let's do music for airports like in a silent way" but i dig it.

I'm not super familiar with Music For Airports - own it, rarely listen to it - but that Psychic Temple version is VERY Silent Way. Nice.

Didn't Eno say his idea of ambient music came from listening to He Loved Him Madly from Get Up With It at semi audible volume as he lay in bed ill?
So some echoes of Miles might be likely.

It’s early 1975, and Brian Eno strains to hear the recording of 18th century harp music a friend has given him.

Eno is in recovery after being hit by a car and can barely get out of bed. After putting the record on with great difficulty and lying back down, he notices the volume is too low, and that one channel on his stereo is blown.

The sheer pain of moving forces him to listen to the record at a volume that barely eclipses the background sound of the room around it.

eno talked about he loved him madly in the On Land liners:

When I was in Ghana, for instance, I took with me a stereo microphone and a cassette recorder, ostensibly to record indigenous music and speech patterns. What I sometimes found myself doing instead was sitting out on the patio in the evenings with the microphone placed to pick up the widest possible catchment of ambient sounds from all directions, and listening to the result on my headphones. The effect of this simple technological system was to cluster all the disparate sounds into one aural frame; they became music.

Listening this way, I realised I had been moving towards a music that had this feeling; as the listener, I wanted to be situated inside a large field of loosely-knit sound, rather than placed before a tightly organised monolith (or stereolith, for that matter). I wanted to open out the aural field, to put much of the sound a considerable distance from the listener (even locating some of it “out of earshot”), and to allow the sounds to live their lives separately from one another, clustering occasionally but not “musically” bound together. This gave rise to an interesting technical difficulty. Because recording studio technology and practice developed in relation to performed music, the trend of that development has been towards greater proximity, tighter and more coherent meshing of sounds with one another. Shortly after I returned from Ghana, Robert Quine gave me a copy of Miles Davis’ “He Loved Him Madly”. Teo Macero’s revolutionary production on that piece seemed to me to have the “spacious” quality I was after, and like “Amarcord”, it too became a touchstone to which I returned frequently.

Always thought Talk Talk's last two albums have a heavy In A Silent Way vibe.

And then there's this... incredible Finnish spiritual jazz from the early 80s.

https://soundcloud.com/arclighteditions/jone-takamaki-trio-bhupala-i-ale003

was he talking about the fellini movie there or referencing some piece of music I'm unaware of?

yeah the fellini film
In using the term landscape I am thinking of places, times, climates and the moods that they evoke. And of expanded moments of memory too… One of the inspirations for this record was Fellini’s “Amarcord” (“I Remember”), a presumably unfaithful reconstruction of childhood moments. Watching that film, I imagined an aural counterpart to it, and that became one of the threads woven into the fabric of the music.
here's the whole essay: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=614

this year's "blackened cities" by melanie de biasio definitely has that sound going on.

This thread is livid with great recommendations - cheers for the de Biasio heads up rushomancy, great stuff.

8 years and no mention of Les McCann's Invitation to Openness?! It kind of slips into a Silent Way parody at times but it's a lovely warm listen,

― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Friday, July 1, 2016 12:17 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this rules

wendell harrison's "an evening with the devil" (1972) definitely belongs here. check the passage that kicks in around 6 minutes:

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

a lot of don cherry's '70s stuff fits here, too. particularly the passage that begins about 3 minutes into "chenrezig" from the "brown rice" album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS8PK53DYGA

and also pretty much the entire terry riley / don cherry collaboration from 1975. cherry's horn comes in at around 3m40s and it is wonderful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6449e2LsUI

and then also maybe some of that later bill dixon stuff where he's sort of doing this drone thing and there's a lot of reverb.

and the last track on this chico freeman record. starts around 30 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0hESHyPZI0

several of the tracks on Big Fun remind me of IASW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UT3qeqzejI

Recollections (from the extended version is a reworking of Ssh/Peaceful, innit? Either way, it's a miracle.

i stupidly have never checked out Big Fun because I figured it'd be full of the harsh side of things, i'm one of those sad folks who can't really hang with super-out-there 70s miles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hL_7b1sf-k

i stupidly have never checked out Big Fun because I figured it'd be full of the harsh side of things, i'm one of those sad folks who can't really hang with super-out-there 70s miles

No, it's exactly the opposite, except for "Go Ahead John." The other tracks are all on the In a Silent Way/Side Two-of-A Tribute to Jack Johnson spectrum. "Ife" is practically ambient dub.

yeah — the wild/intense stuff is maybe what's best known from Miles' 1970s, but even things like Agharta have moments that are just beautiful.

right on! i'll check it out tonight

yeah tbh i've meant to dig into the other stuff, it just all seems so daunting and massive.

yeah, not to say there isn't plenty of "out" playing and general freakiness, but especially in 74-75, I've found a bunch of subtler/gentler stuff creeping into the live shows.

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

^ Oof, tasty. Kind of Sextant + IASW, in 15/8/time!

This Circle feat. Verde album sounds like a meditation on IASW.

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

Heard Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay for the first time last night through a friend's really nice sound system, and it was spectacular and in a similarly silent way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9aGUom3Bk

I really like the version of that song on the CTI Allstars California concert lp played by the stripped down band
Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Stanley Turrentine (tenor saxophone), George Benson (guitar), Johnny Hammond (keyboards), Ron Carter (upright bass), Billy Cobham (drums), Airto Moreira (percussion).

Title track of Red Clay is still one of my fave CTI jams

A friend gave me Red Clay on vinyl a few years back; I played it once and filed it away. I'm listening to it now via the link above and it's better than I remember. Doesn't have IASW's languid spaciness, though.

that mal waldron track upthread is radical. annoying that copies of that record are so pricey (appears to be on spotify though).

was gonna mention that julian priester "love,love" embedded above - what an extraordinary cut (side one esp but both are huge)

Nice one tyler - like that.

Do we need an ambient Americana thread? I guess the Fahey one does the trick but still...

not a bad idea — there's that "wide open desert music" thread, but that might be slightly more specific

Got to say the 2 keyboard version of the Allman Brothers with Chuck Leavell on electric piano and only Dickie on guitar doing “Elizabeth Reed” off the Wipe the Windows live album has a silent way vibe. Worth checking out if unfamiliar with the take.