Anyone had a chance to pile through the new batch of Tzadiks? I'm especially interested in the new disc by Seiichi Yamamoto. At first I was very skeptical, but after several listens I grew more and more into his previous one "Crown of Fuzzy Groove" and this one seems to continue this direction. YAMAMOTO SEIICHI - Nu Frequency (Tzadik 7243) Since the late '80's, Yamamoto has played brilliant and brutal noise/prog/psych lead guitar for the sensational and crazed Boredoms, as well as his own twisted band - Omoide Hatoba and more recently with the great trance/psych/rock unit - Rovo! 'Nu Frequency' is his rare new solo/duo effort with Yamamoto on guitar, bass synth and percussion and Ms. China on drums/percussion on three tracks. This is a fine blend of ambient, space-rock, free-floating, instrumental bliss. Dreamy drones and hypnotic noodling bathe our minds in a wash of groovy ghosts. Ancient synth squiggles, eerie blips, laid back Dead-like space music and even some soothing funky jazz flows like liquid herbal smoke and makes us feel free, relaxed and floating on clouds of joy. This what us old hippies used to refer to as head music, so light up that joint and dream wayS CD release for $14. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0320/king.php Regards Franz Fuchs
Stanley Crouch gone from JazzTimes is a shame, just because -- in the midst of saying quite a few things that I think were wrongeheaded -- he was one of the few guys in the field who could really move around in the pre-Bird conception of the music and hear things and be on target. Pretty much like everyone else who read that column, I felt like calling up Don Byron and saying"Okay, I'll hold him, you hit him". His dismissals of hip hop, the involvement of world music, and fusion didn't exactly put the guy at the top of my Christmas card list. But that he was one of the few guys with balls enough to say "the further jazz gets away from the blues and from swinging, the further it gets from the heart of itself" (paraphrasing) in the Zorn era. (I happen to think that the definition of swinging expands over time and is as subjective as any concept can be.) I don't agree with his racial opinons, because I think the issues that face Modern America have at least as much to do with class. And I certainly don't think elevating critics to the same type importance in the culture as the music is the ticket, seeing's as how they're two different mediums. If JazzTimes really took that much exception to what he wrote, they probably shouldn't have hired Stanley in the first place. Kinda hard not to know who you were getting there. -- skip h http://www.skipheller.com on 5/13/03 3:58 PM, Franz Fuchs at f.fuchs@gmx.net wrote:
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From: skip Heller
But that he was one of the few guys with balls enough to say "the further jazz gets away from the blues and from swinging, the further it gets from the heart of itself" (paraphrasing) in the Zorn era. (I happen to think that the definition of swinging expands over time and is as subjective as any concept can be.)
Doesn't the second sentence (with which I agree) qualify the compliment of the first? Regards Franz Fuchs
on 5/13/03 7:36 PM, Franz Fuchs at f.fuchs@gmx.net wrote:
From: skip Heller
But that he was one of the few guys with balls enough to say "the further jazz gets away from the blues and from swinging, the further it gets from the heart of itself" (paraphrasing) in the Zorn era. (I happen to think that the definition of swinging expands over time and is as subjective as any concept can be.)
Doesn't the second sentence (with which I agree) qualify the compliment of the first?
Regards Franz Fuchs
Sort of. You can have balls and still say something ill-founded. -- skip h http://www.skipheller.com
skip wrote to zorn: sH> Sort of. You can have balls and still say something ill-founded. I was saving this for a sig file, but oh well ... "One cannot judge the value of an opinion simply by the amount of courage that is required in holding it." -- George Orwell -- Jim Flannery newgrange@talmanassociates.com When you can't give anything, you can also receive nothing. Through giving, you also receive. You can never stop giving. When you have nothing more to give, you're dead. -- Mustafa Tettey Addy np: Charles Hayward, _Near+Far_ nr: Claude Lévi-Strauss, _Tristes Tropiques_
According to metalindex.com, Mike Patton is all done with Mr. Bungle. Here's a snip: "I think [MR. BUNGLE] is over," Patton told Underdog Online. "The guys are spread all over the world and we don't talk to each other. I have not spoken to a couple of the guys since the last tour, years ago." -- Gary
Well, I hope Patton is pulling our leg again, like in that press conference in which he announced his homosexuality (theoretically false, of course) at the peak of FNM's success. Otherwise, that's bad, bad news and despite "California" was not their best album at all, imho, I deposited the highest expectations on them. At least the next Fantomas album is out next September, 2003. But I really wanted another "Disco Volante" on my shelves... Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: David Shea "Hsi-Yu Chi" (Tzadik) --- Gary M Gettier <ravens515@comcast.net> escribió:
According to metalindex.com, Mike Patton is all done with Mr. Bungle. Here's a snip:
"I think [MR. BUNGLE] is over," Patton told Underdog Online. "The guys are spread all over the world and we don't talk to each other. I have not spoken to a couple of the guys since the last tour, years ago."
-- Gary
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