― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Sylvester, Monday, 15 March 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link
Some searches:
Massacre - Funny Valentine.Ikue Mori - Garden is marvy too. Intricate layered Alessis drum machines.Yes, Ibarra's Flower After Flower, absolutely.Merzbow - 1930
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
Horse Tricks by Mark De Gli Antoni is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Yes to: destroy Zorn
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 15 March 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Concerts Vol. 1: Masada String Trio (volume 2 is a Zorn/Graves duo disc, can't fucking wait!)
Kabell Years - Wadada Leo Smith (great reissue of 4 privately pressed 70s Smith albs w/ extra tracks etc. - all of the Wadada Tzadik releases I've heard are superb, and reason enough to 'justify' the label's existence)
Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking - John Zorn (beautiful soundtrack recorded by most of the Electric Masada group)
Meditations for Piano - Borah Bergman ("solid enough")
Plus I finally heard Solo for Wounded CD by Yasunao Tone, a wonderful piece of electronica that offers a v. different take on micro-glitch
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 15 March 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago) link
also 'ganryu island': a 'solid' improv sesh between zorn and michihiro sato.
''Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Concerts Vol. 1: Masada String Trio (volume 2 is a Zorn/Graves duo disc, can't fucking wait!)''
:-o
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
Cathode is also great, yes. First track is something I heard a couple of seconds of and knew I could easily listen to it if it went on for an hour or so.
― original bgm, Monday, 15 March 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
I'm really looking forward to that Zorn/Graves cd too.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
I n t e r e s t i n g sounds, but like much of this music, it doesn't hit me on an emotional level.
I definitely like Ibarra's own Folkloriko more.
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Not yet, sundar. It's not difficult to listen to really, it just doesn't excite me much. But since it's not difficult to listen to, I will probably throw it on at least a few more times. I might just keep it around for the sake of having some of that sort of thing on hand.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Missing Italics.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
bar kokhba sextet vol. 2sanhedrin: masada 1994-1997: unreleased studio recordingsjamie saft trio: astaroth
anyone got anything to say about any of them?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― I've Said It Before, Friday, 29 July 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a moray! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 30 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: Tzadik and its prices and its founder
― ghetty green (eman), Saturday, 30 July 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 30 July 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy - MArc Ribot, Yo! I Killed Your God.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Is the Hoahio a new release? The most recent Tzadik releases I picked up were Ikue Mori's Myrninerest (one long computer music composition - quite impressive) and Merzbow's Sphere (interesting - I need to listen some more).
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Henry Kaiser / Charles K. Noyes / Sang Won Park: Invite the Spirit 2006 [#7617]
One of the most evocative and successful meetings of East and West reunites to weave their magic spell via kayagum, electric guitar and percussion. Invite the Spirit was a sensation when it was first released in 1983 and now over twenty years later they are sounding better than ever. Joined by two scintillating Korean P’ansori vocalists on several tracks this is a whole new take on the Korean shamanistic tradition. Over seventy minutes of timeless, ecstatic, magical music unlike anything you’ve ever heard.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
There really is a Jewish conspiracy!
(joke)
But Zorn's sax playing really does suck.
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lynco (lync0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I also hate the pompous uniform design of Tzadik releases. Who's the *genius* that thinks it's "avant-garde" to place light-coloured font over metallic paper on the 'New Japan' series, thus rendering the entire thing completely unreadable?
Oh, and 'New Japan' is a silly, lazy moniker as well.
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ivan G (Ivan), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
This is excellent. Sometimes it's jazz in a fairly straight ahead way, sometimes it's more modern classical (usually with a downton NYC sort of feel), with melodies and harmonies that often seem like they would work in pop. I hear things that remind me of Steve Reich, Joan LaBarbara (although mostly her vocal technique is pretty standard), maybe Bjork? Even Shiina Ringo, though I don't want to say it, because I'm sure any resemblance there is strictly coincidental. There's also someone else (I think) doing Persian classical vocals in a couple places. I certainly find it more interesting than most of Zorn's own Jewish tinge recordings. The biggest drawback (for me) might turn out to be that it tends to be a very theatrical sort of recording, which I find tends to wear out more quickly for me. The lyrics are all from the Songs of Songs (sung in the Hebrew) and I think the theatrical tone of the music comess out of the way the original text is written as a dialogue. But it's very good and after a few listens, I'm still feeling I need to listen several times to get a better handle on it, which isn't to say it's inaccessible, just fairly rich.
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
not destroy so much as, well, just kinda uneven: the two milford graves solo records. both have their moments, particularly "transcendence" on grand unification. but too much of the material sounds unfocused, nowhere near the impact of his esp-disk with sunny morgan.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 4 November 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
https://roulette.org/event/improv-nights-2024/
A BENEFIT FOR TZADIK RECORDSLimited Run, the online distributor for Tzadik’s direct-to-consumer mail order projects has declared bankruptcy owing the label $70,000. To help rebalance this loss these kind musicians have generously offered to make these three concerts benefits for Tzadik.Please come, donate, and help Tzadik continue its mission to support and document new music in the 21st century.A three-night run bringing together master improvisers to perform in multiple configurations and combinations, organized by and featuring John Zorn with Ikue Mori, Wendy Eisenberg, Dave Douglas, Sean Ono Lennon, Peter Evans, Kalia Vandever, Miles Okazaki, and many others.
Limited Run, the online distributor for Tzadik’s direct-to-consumer mail order projects has declared bankruptcy owing the label $70,000. To help rebalance this loss these kind musicians have generously offered to make these three concerts benefits for Tzadik.
Please come, donate, and help Tzadik continue its mission to support and document new music in the 21st century.
A three-night run bringing together master improvisers to perform in multiple configurations and combinations, organized by and featuring John Zorn with Ikue Mori, Wendy Eisenberg, Dave Douglas, Sean Ono Lennon, Peter Evans, Kalia Vandever, Miles Okazaki, and many others.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:57 (four months ago) link
It's crazy to me how even artists I've been listening to for more than 30 years, who are known worldwide, are balancing on a knife's edge financially. Zorn, Laswell...these are major cultural figures, and they're basically living gig to gig.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:11 (four months ago) link
Laswell I believe, especially after the last couple of years. But Zorn, I suspect he's doing fine between gigs, grants, etc. If people are curating multi-night festival appearances featuring him and several of his bands, I'd hope he's at least got some pretty good guarantees coming to him. Granted, he likely rolls a lot of that into his labels/projects, but that's a choice. (A choice I'm glad he's making, mind.)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:01 (four months ago) link
Interview with Heung-Heung Chin: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/01/the-art-and-design-world-of-heung-heung.html
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
Cool ty, I always wondered about the art!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:01 (three months ago) link
Yeah, that was great.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:04 (three months ago) link
Yeah, that's great stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:05 (three months ago) link
It's crazy to me how even artists I've been listening to for more than 30 years, who are known worldwide, are balancing on a knife's edge financially.
It's not that crazy. thanks, Spotify!
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:07 (three months ago) link
I gotta be honest, I wish Zorn would sell more merch! Bring on the posters, the prints, t-shirts, the coffee table books! The Tzadik site has pretty slim pickings.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:13 (three months ago) link
Related, I wonder when/if they are going to (home) release the Zorn docs that the actor Mathieu Amalric has been making:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ybQOI5M3g
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link