Poet, metalinguist, cultural theorist and musician Alan Sondheim is best-loved by consumers
well for watching, for listening, med döva öron - with deaf ears well for history they's drumbeats great ending-up attitude to avant garde full-transportational properties what is it, ESP rendition? phantom tone is organic, close-up, slow-motion, organic material crossed, formal coronas, recherché, singular On Saturday, February 17, 2007, at 01:29AM, Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Qbico 56 LP review > >Review @ http://www.volcanictongue.com/ > >Alan Sondheim >56 >Qbico #56 >LP >£12.99 > >Poet, metalinguist, cultural theorist and musician Alan Sondheim is >best-loved by consumers of sub-underground fare for the stellar sides he >recorded for ESP-Disk in the late-60s. But prior to that he was already >active as an improviser in Rhode Island working with Ritual All 770, a >multi-disciplinary group that combined brass, vocals, tranced hand >percussion, bass and drums with a great up-ending attitude to avant garde >sources that was reminiscent of the way that the Los Angeles Free Music >Society would later use a goofy strategy of provocative art prank as a >cover to allow non-initiates to work on serious formal breakthroughs. The >Songs - an early collaboration between the two - was originally issued on >Riverboat Records in 1967 and has remained fairly unknown outside of All >770's appearance on the legendary Nurse With Wound list that appeared in >copies of that group's first album, Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table >Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella. 56 represents his first new LP in 35 >years. Here Sondheim is solo, using guitar, alpine zither, electronics and >field recordings. The guitar material orbits a bunch of singular >hemispheres that would seem to locate the arc of his melodic thought >somewhere between the odd, baroque constructions of Sandy Bull and the >knotty dissonance of John Fahey - or even at points Derek Bailey - while >the electronics and field recordings are full of subtle concentric rings >of melodic suggestion and feel almost like close-ups on organic events, >full of refracted slow-motion pulses and coronas of phantom tone. The >whole set is perfectly assembled, with tracks short enough not to be too >gruelling and long enough to reveal their full transportational >properties. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say it was Sondheim's most >accomplished work to date. A classic of avant extension and highly >recommended. > > >news tip of the tongue catalogue contributor columns >label events email updates contact order info >secondhand & rare wholesale & distribution photos > >http://www.a-musik.com/cart/catalog.php?label=739&am_id=238b... > >SONDHEIM, ALAN 56 >red vinyl with white, photos by alan sondheim, cover by qbico. rec. >2005/06 in ny and la. "after releasing two unique lp back in the 60's for >the legendary esp label with his ritual all 770 and another one for >riverboat, finally alan sondheim is back ! this is his 1st lp after nearly >35 years and here he plays guitar, alpine zither, electronics, field >recording... as usual he present us an eclectic mix of fascinating >sounds..." (label info) > >QBICO > >LP >E17.90 > >http://www.lifegatemusicshop.it/catalog/product_info.php?ln=fra&products_id=C68061 > >Recherche Avancée Recherche Avancée >SONDHEIM, ALAN - 56 > >22.03 Euro >Date de sortie:2007-02-01 >Support:1 LP >Genre:EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC >Label:QBICO >Disponibilité dans:20-22 jours >Barcode: >Imprimé en:NL > > >=== Also look for FireMuseum ski/nn and The Songs, ESP recordings, etc. >=== > >
