You're taking on BlueNote here, was just listening to Herbie Hancock DVD the other day, incredible stuff, this fits right in, thought the 4/4 would remain really appreciated the waltztime although wondered about the calliope effect or what I read as such - btw if you have any comments on the mp3s I've put up wd be glad to hear them - curious about the instrumentation you're referencing - this is so fucking sophisticated - clean - brings back memories of Downbeat magazine, that's still going but it's lost the edge from the Jones' Applecores days - anyway - you've even got the snare/hihat in there w/ the echo & that high flute - cool or even cold version of Mingus - then again I love the being-there of jazz, the _body_ of it, the real-time edge to it - can't stand those latenight talkshow bands - Paul Shaffer - all this cymbal work - there's an odd repression to at least the bands I've listened to - keeping the equalizer even-paced - I miss Cherry, Pharoah Sanders - that fucking dates me - well I used to go walking thru Cabbagetown - this is the revised edition - after the new money moved in - where's Walker Evans when we need him - there's an existential aspect to the being-outside-of-time in these peaces - that's cresendos and diminuendos as if there were solos - but then more - coming in - Ascension on quaaludes to the incandescent power (The Ogre) - tuned in tuned down - one of the problems I've got w/ digital - there's no noyz boyz - no string buzz cough breath errors - don't know if you listened to the Track stuff I've got up - it's all that - noyz of acoustic guitar - buzz/ - errors - strin/g slippage - hammer on w/ nail click - times you can hardly here the cords - alway/s had a problem w/ vibraphone btw - played xylophone at 1 point - again that hammer sound - vp takes it all out - anyway - west coast jazz - cool jazz - continuous transmutation of form - wonder about the beat - the 4/4/4 the most part but then I'm tired of breathing that way - prefer the 1/1 of fast new music - which can go to X/Y or any such - depends and usually doesn't - or nothing - when Ayler and friends loosen out into that boundary no-man's no-woman's either between open/close statements - lost in the bridge of infinitude - infinite speedup sends it Coleman or sum such - those fast riffs all orderly - I'm always wondering about beauty - that split in yr work - between the scratch-lexture and the cool jazz stuff - prefer the chalk but that's the annihilation/apocalypse in me talking - these are unutterably beautiful - alan
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Talan Memmott wrote:
Blue Node // [N]+Semble Seven, count 'em seven new tracks from [N]+Semble. A little jazzier than the previous album, PulpCycle. http://memmott.org/nsemble/ comments?
For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
