"Beyond the Corner": New Miles Davis Box Set

yeah - man that's an ugly cover tho

don't think that's the actual cover -- just an illustration to go with the review ...
i want this set bad, but i'll probably have to wait til xmas. dang.

"Apparently, Vince Wilburn (Miles' nephew) had some issue with it and pulled it at the 11th hour. This happened with the Cellar Door set and delayed it a couple months IIRC. Rumor has it it should be released the first week of October."

I wonder if I could get a pair of "Vote Miles" dolphin trunks made at neighborhoodies or someplace similar.

I know for damn sure I wouldn't have the guts to wear them.

i think the artwork is the figures from the album sleeve somehow transposed onto the brushed-bronze box the Jack Johnson set came in

http://www.miles-beyond.com/images/albums/otcset.jpg

okay that's much better!

that is fly

That's lovely.

ok, so it's the first week of october. where's the box? any truth to the rumor that the cover art is being stickered over with a big picture of vince wilburn with the caption, "did you know that miles davis was my uncle? huh? didja?"

So I'm going to take this box set's release, and my recent interest in the music of Funkadelic and Sly & the Family Stone, as signs that I should listen to On the Corner.

what are dolphin trunks?

i've always wanted a Vote Miles shirt or button

Great review, Phil.

Um, link?

Yeah, there's no mention of it on Phil's blog.

Haven't posted the link there yet, but here 'tis.

Nice. Thanks for the link, Phil.

there's a decent sized feature on this in the new Wax Poetics (Miles on the cover). Interviews with Cosey and Henderson -- don't think I've read too many interviews with those two. I bought it, but I haven't read it yet. Gah, I really really want this box set -- anyone find any decent deals on it?

45 bucks offa itunes

and oh hey it's awesome

Sweet.

hmm $45 is a pretty good deal. but do i want the pretty packaging? ie, am I a sucker? Answer: probably.

my wife is telling me that this is not gonna be available in time for my birthday :(

Jax0n:

dolphin trunks = tight fitting shorts similar to the ones the big-booty babe on the OTC album cover wears.

In other news, I am probably the same kind of sucker Tyler probably is.

Interview with Henderson, Cosey, and Liebman – some sort of promotion for the box:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFUhV_ciNQg

Says 'part 1 of 3' but I can't find the others …

Amazon.uk release date now has it coming out Oct. 29. We'll see.

liner notes are great -- good to finally know which Stockhausen he was listening to, Paul Buckmaster's liner notes mention he brought over a copy of the Mixtur / Gruppen LP, and the first night he shows up to crash at Miles' they leave each side playing on repeat for hours. Mixtur is the orchestral piece where each instrument is sent through seperate microphones to filters & ring mods, and the trumpet textures really stick out. He also mentions later seeing a cassette of Hymnen in Miles' Lamborghini.

good to finally know which Stockhausen he was listening to

awes

haha I just saw some old longhaired overweight beardo reading about this in the elevator

aha! news! sort of! from paul tingen's Miles Beyond site:

"I've been receiving several e-mails from folk in the US complaining that the On The Corner boxed set has still to turn up, and wanting to know why. I called Sony Legacy, and they tell me that they have production and transportation problems. The box is apparently rather difficult to make, involving a metal casing with embossed imprint, and is made in China. Small shipments are trickling into the US, and the Legacy representative couldn't say where they would be available first. The company doesn't even have promotional copies yet."

looks like a boss box too:

http://www.miles-beyond.com/images/albums/OTCboxedset.jpg

nice detail with the raised embossment: they gave the blonde guy all the way on the left a glaringly huge package

sorry, all the way on the right (we knew that)

I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.

After seeing the packaging, I think I went from mere lust to full-out fuckwant.

Vote Miles!

I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.

-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:34

lol otm

i totally have a vote miles shirt xpost

After seeing the packaging, I think I went from mere lust to full-out fuckwant.

-- The Reverend, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

same here. i am a little ashamed...

The company doesn't even have promotional copies yet."

Um...then why are there so many advance reviews? I suspect Sony/Legacy is doing some leg-pulling.

They sent out advances (plain white sleeve w/6 CD-Rs in it; I got one, obviously. But they haven't yet sent full-art copies out to reviewers who wrote the thing up based on advances, which they usually do.

I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.

-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

me too!

Listened to Bill Laswell's 'On The Corner (Subterranean Channel Mix)' from Panthalassa: The Remixes. I can't decide if he improved on Teo Macero's edits by making the track more structured, or if he just made it sound like any Material album. Leaning towards the former.

Andy K was spot on, this really does make you want to stop listening to everything else. I haven't heard any of the other complete sessions boxes-- I figured tight editing is part of what made the originals so great, didn't want to spend the dough-- but this is just incredible.

Free me!

If anyone's on Ruckus.com (free DRM'd downloads if you've got a .edu e-mail address, probably US-only), the whole thing's there.

ok wow a friend told me about ruckus but i just assumed it didn't have anything cool on it.

thx dude!

Oh man Ruckus looks fantastic. How about a five years defunct .edu e-mail address? :(

you can reg as an alumni

You have to be able to get mail at the .edu address, is the thing. That's what you'll be registered under.

Interview with Henderson, Cosey, and Liebman – some sort of promotion for the box:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFUhV_ciNQg

Says 'part 1 of 3' but I can't find the others …

-- Brakhage, Friday, October 5, 2007 5:21 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

The whole interview video - with bits of live footage! is on the official site.