I Heart Noise (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
MySpace Page Lightning Bolt are Providence, Rhode Island based duo of Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson, well-known for their electryfing shows and music, which according to All Music Guide, sounds like a combination of Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Ruins, Slayer and Ornette Coleman, all thrown into a blender. Band members met when they attended Rhode Island School [...] Related posts: New Releases –...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
THESE FOOLISH THINGS GHOSTS BOUNCIN’ AROUND Marc Ribot Don’t Blame Me DIW : 1995 MR, guitar. Many thanks to all entrants in the contests we ran last week. The song is a duet between McCoy Tyner and Marc Ribot called “Improvisation #2.” Congratulations for recognizing the tune and players are due to: Bart White, in “(almost) jazzless Tampa” Bart was one of three to...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Filed under: All About Jazz A jazz artist who balances a sharp ear for melody with an intellect inspired by improvisation's outer reaches, Joe Morris is part of a community of musicians who play what has been called the downtown jazz, avant-garde, free jazz or even just free music scenes. Since he began performing on guitar in 1975, he's carved out a reputation for himself that is up there with innovative...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
MONOCEROS 2 MONOCEROS 4 Evan Parker Monoceros Incus : 1978 EP, soprano sax. In the pantheon of saxophone colossi, there is a special place reserved for Evan Parker. Taking late Coltrane as his jumping off point, Parker has expanded the language of the saxophone as much as anyone over the past three decades. A central figure in the European Free Improv scene alonside [...]
visoundtextpoem (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
simple form mimics conception. leaf fall ,fall leaf, fall lee, fall e, folly. built to deify man. grand schematics. plot lot plat. derek bailey, guitar gog. ear bleed. html error. carpel phoneme syndrome. peptide release. quebeq (topographically fascinating). gender repay soliloquy. tongue licks teeth, teeth bites voice. spit out sound. throat wobble aerodrome sneeze mountain. latter rodger sneaks...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Recorded at Vision Festival XIII in 2008, this pairing of French bassist {{Joelle Leandre = 8642}} and American trombonist {{George Lewis = 8726}} brings together two of the most gifted and committed musicians in improvised music. They've been acquainted since the '70s and distinguished themselves as duo improvisers in the best company. (Among their individual highlights are the former's duets with...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Sahmadisound Blemish must have marked a mini-seismic ‘event’ for David Sylvian when it was recorded over a six week hiatus, marking a departure from his normal precision in the studio. The songs were stark, aching confessionals that recalled the work of the late modernist Samuel Beckett in the honest nature of their ruminations on everything [...]
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
No Business LP 6 Sinners, rather than Saints is only the fourth meeting on record of English bassist-composer Barry Guy and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson over almost two decades, and for that alone this vinyl-only release on Lithuanian imprint No Business should be more than a curio. The duo format is an interesting one, which [...]
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
In modern music, the guitar has an unsurpassed history as the choice instrument for cutting-edge musicians. From Julian Bream stuffing one Bach voicing after another into its six strings to Derek Bailey eschewing standard melodies altogether in favor of harmonics and overtones, the challenge to create a new voice for the guitar has been irresistible for musicians for over half a century. These rapid...
Culture Industry (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Sign , David Mutschlecner (Ahsahta, 2007) I’ve never been inclined one way or another in regards to “religious” or spiritual poetry, tho I’ve read my share of Herbert, Donne, & Milton, grappled with Hopkins & David Jones, & more recently enjoyed the work of Donald Revell & Peter O’Leary. It seems somehow appropriate that I paused at the midpoint of Dante’s...
I Thought I Told You To Wait In The Car (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Due to complaints from the handful of regular ITITYTWITC readers (hello, mum and Professor Snuggles, her cat), here's a more legible version of the previous post, with the final visual gag made all the more hilarious by being totally removed and instead explained in words...) End Credits Brad Bradbrad……Guy Workaday Mary Goodenwright…… Camomile Homespun Rivalton Shatworthy…....
The Mire (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Tatsuya Yoshida is one of the most innovative drummer/composer/improvisors in the Japanese avant garde, pushing a unique brand of high energy music that is a mixture of contemporary composition, hardcore and Prog rock. Best known for fronting the drums and bass duo Ruins, Yoshida has led many other groups and collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshihide, Acid...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Albums by pianist Agusti Fernandez and the group Octante (as well as the concurrent release of Barcelona Chronicles by guitarist {{Derek Bailey = 3572}}) provide a timely opportunity to celebrate the dynamic improvised music scene of Barcelona, Spain. The profile of the city's improvisers has steadily grown in recent years, not least because of the work of IBA (Improvisers of Barcelona Association),...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Barcelona Chronicles is the collective title for two Incus DVDs and one CD which document guitarist Derek Bailey playing on three occasions in Barcelona between February 2004 and May 2005. Bailey had moved there from Hackney, London, in 2003. During the spring of 2004, he began experiencing muscular difficulties; in June 2004 he dropped his plectrum during a solo performance. He was initially wrongly...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Percussionist Gino Robair's Rastascan label, based in the Bay Area, has long been a sort of outpost for non-idiomatic improvisation in the US, recording groups like the {{Evan Parker = 10117}}/{{Barry Guy = 7303}}/{{Paul Lytton = 8935}} Trio, German reedman Wolfgang Fuchs, saxophonist {{John Butcher = 5496}} and guitarist {{Derek Bailey = 3572}}. Robair studied with AMM percussionist {{Eddie Prevost...
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