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Talking about Hamid Drake
by Arthur Gadney 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

I remember reading in The Wire some time ago about a new live recording with Drake, Ken Vandermark, Han Bennink and two guys from The Ex. I think it was recorded at the Wels festival. Did anybody go to that show? I'm curious if this is one disc I should be picking up. All the musicians are great, but improvised stuff can get pretty crowded with as many as five people, perhaps especially these five! Was it just a noise fest?? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re: PSF question
by Oger 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

I highly recommend : Hiroshi Kawani "Profile" Marginal Consort "Collective improvisations" Kazuo Imai "How will we change" Masayoshi Urabe "Solo" Motoharu Yoshizawa/Kakehisa Kosugi/Haruna Miyake "Angels have passed" and the Kaoru Abe discs Jacques Oger > > >Again and again looking through PSF catalogue from Forced Exposure I still >>can't decide what record to start with. What can you recommend for a free >>improv fan ? >> > >deka >>

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Zorn Sept. celebration
by Craig Lieske 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

Is there a set schedule for the Zornfest this year yet? Is it posted on the net somewhere at all? Anybody??? CL In the CD player:REM-Reconstruction Of The Fables "Driver 8" _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re: PSF question
by David Keffer 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

Deka: I'll third the sentiment on the fact that Fushitsusha's "Double Live II," (PSF 15-16, 1991) is one of the most outstanding releases on PSF, but it's not really free improv, especially not "European Free Improvisation" a la Bailey, Brotzmann, et al. Some of it is pretty highly structured improvisation in the rock idiom. Probably the most important release on PSF and the more improvisational in nature is Keiji Haino's first solo album "Watashi-dake" (translation: Only Me) (PSFD 38, originally released on lp in 1981, cd released 1993). This voice and guitar record is an essential intro to Haino. Those two releases are more than ten years old. Probably the most exciting thing that PSF has released in the past decade is Keiji Haino's "cover band" trio, Aihiyo. This is Haino on vocals and guitar with a bass player (Masami Kawaguchi) and drummer (Ikuro Takahashi). Their second album, unofficially titled "Live", was released on PSF (PSFD-8006, 2000). This is a very unusual cover band; even when you know the originals, the song is barely recognizable. The best songs are those where you don't know the originals and the songs like "The rose has bloomed" (originally by Mike Maki) and "The wind is weeping" (originally by Mops) have all the ferocity of Haino's voice and the power of Fushitsusha blended into rock-oriented anthems. Foot-tapping fun. Listenable again and again and again. There's also a cover of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction". As for all the other artists on PSF, I have never really heard anything else that really (in my opinion) generates anything close to the interest that Haino does. Some people swear that Mikami Kan (who has 15 or so albums on PSF) is an equal to Haino, but everyone I have ever heard say that speaks Japanese. Perhaps, Mikami doesn't transcend the language barrier the way Haino does. Perhaps something else. The real person to address this question to is Alan Cummings, who has probably heard every release in the PSF catalog (and who has written English-language promotional material for most of them). He may still subscribe to this list. David K. On 7/4/03 4:16 PM, "deka" <deka(a)zebratelecom.ru> wrote: > Again and again looking through PSF catalogue from Forced Exposure I still > can't decide what record to start with. What can you recommend for a free > improv fan ?

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RE: The Fall (was: record collections)
by Mail Lists 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

You can find some new Fall here: http://homepage.mac.com/brians2/FileSharing4.html These are Peel sessions # 23 recorded earlier this year. Very good stuff. The Fall play KF 7/6 and 7/7. More tour dates here: http://fall.cjb.net Caught the Portland, OR show and can confirm MES is in top form.

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Takeshi Teruachi
by Gullasch Baronen 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

Yo! I've been looking for something by Takeshi Teruachi & The Bunnys for ages and finally managed to find one song on the web today. And what do you know, it kicks ass!! Is there any good CD releases of him?? I haven't been able to find much info. Actually, I can't even remember how I know the guy. Perhaps Zorn mentions him in the Radio covernotes?? Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Få Hotmail på mobilen http://www.msn.dk/mobile

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PSF question
by deka 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

Dear Z-listers! Again and again looking through PSF catalogue from Forced Exposure I still can't decide what record to start with. What can you recommend for a free improv fan ? deka

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Zorn's fifitieth celebrations
by alastair＠pretentious.co.uk 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

Having seen this http://www.tonicnyc.com/index.cfm?&sk=35384F5C%2DCB26%2D4764%2D96B0%2DE57F8… I'm thinking of moving to NY for September. My job? I can always get another... The most interesting thing (for me) is the performance of Kristallnacht. Wow. Zorn/Frith/Eye should be fun too. Pity that, in reality, I can't see me making the trip. Still, I have seen Naked City this year ;^) Alastair -- Personalised email by http://another.com

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record collections
by jkudler＠wesleyan.edu 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

i believe jon says in that same interview that he doesn't have a day job, so there you go. as for coley, there's a great scene in the half japanese documentary (amazingly, left behind for me by a former roommate) where he's going through his record library and telling stories, and it's just walls and walls and walls. he has some other great bon mots in there too, but i can't remember them right now. -j. > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:07:32 -0700 > From: Chris Selvig <selvig(a)earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: this whole "creative" thing > To: zorn-list(a)lists.xmission.com > Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702095522.00a65380(a)pop.earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed > > I think Abbey's around 30. I've got about half what Abbey has, and with > > the exception of a few dozen 20th-C. classical LPs I bought from the > Memphis Public Library back in 1996, I've listened to everything I own > at > least once, and I'm a single dad & don't get much listening time (except > to > Bob Wills, Hank Williams, The Fall, and Joseph Haydn, my daughter's > faves). I have friends who have tech industry jobs that don't require > much > human interaction & they listen to music on headphones all day long, and > on > their stereos when they get home - at that rate, it would be easy to get > > through 10-12 albums a day. People I'm acquainted with who have much > larger collections than Abbey's plan to spend a lot of time in the > listening chair after retirement - so do I. > I read an interview with Jimmy Johnson, who owns Forced Exposure, and > he > was talking about Byron Coley - he said Coley has about 4000 records > that > he's waiting to get around to at any given time, and around 150,000 > records > in his collection; unless something is truly exceptional, he only > listens > to it once.

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re: nc & baron's kit
by William York 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

<<speaking of which: any drummers out there who have ideas about creatively (... whatÂ¹s wrong with elitism?) using one? in not-necessarily-metal (howÂ¹s that for a label) settings?>> yeah, that is a loaded term ... "creatively" vs. in a metal context. tee hee hee. but weasel walter of the flying luttenbachers uses an odd-sized set with a double bass drum pedal (and possibly no snare, i don't remember) in a freee jazz setting on their LP 'trauma.' zach hill of hella sounds like he uses a double bass drum, but it's just an inhumanly fast right foot. i have a friend who played drums in a free/fake jazz/noise band out here and used double bass drums in a lineup with another drummer and two saxophonists. i'm trying to think of more examples... there have to be some. wy

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