Hey, I'm with Will York on this (isn't he a member of this very list?). Looking forward to Ebaying it at some point in the future to some silly Patton-head, Alastair -----Original Message-----
From : ripleyjames@comcast.net To : zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Date : 25 February 2004 01:00:55 Subject : Hemophiliac in SF Guardian I thought some people might be interested here in this over-cranky write up for tonight's Hemophiliac appearance in San Francisco.
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Bad blood
It must be a source of endless frustration for the starving artists of the noise and free-improvisation scenes, who often have trouble moving a few hundred units of their latest proud creation, to see an all-star side project like John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Ikue Mori's Hemophiliac effortlessly sell out a few thousand copies of an Internet-only CD ý priced at 45 bucks no less. The real knee-slapper is this overpriced CD (self-titled, and released in 2002 through Zorn's label, Tzadik) isn't even any good ý it sounds like something you'd yawn and fidget through on improv night at the local art-gallery storefront. So why would anyone recommend seeing this trio live? Morbid curiosity? A celebrities-at-their-worst-style fascination with public failure? Or the slim hope these talented cult icons reach beyond the Knitting Factory improv clichýs and smarmy laptop computer gimmicks that characterize so much of the CD? Cross your fingers. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 Folsom, S.F. $20. (415) 255-0333. (Will York)
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So anybody who enjoys something you dislike is silly or what? I personally like Hemophiliac and I think it couldn't be further from a gratuitous improv-session band or a Patton-related joke. At least these guys sound like themselves and haven't tried to appropiate the typical free-improv language, which, to me, has sounded boring and cliché-ed for ages now, at least in 80% of the cases. I haven't listened to "Weird Little Boy" because of what I've read/heard about the album so far, but I think I'll change my mind and go ahead with it. Perhaps if I had read these opinions on Hemophiliac I wouldn't be enjoying their Tzadik album today. These all-star bands do not always work but it's unnecessary to be oversuspicious about everything. Sometimes they do! On the other hand, I'm with those on the "Fuck Bungle" sector. Those guys are working on enough interesting stuff for me to care about what MB will/would be doing in a decade. Best, Efrén del Valle --- alastair@pretentious.co.uk escribió: > Hey, I'm with Will York on this (isn't he a member
of this very list?).
Looking forward to Ebaying it at some point in the future to some silly Patton-head,
Alastair
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From : ripleyjames@comcast.net To : zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Date : 25 February 2004 01:00:55 Subject : Hemophiliac in SF Guardian I thought some people might be interested here in this over-cranky write up for tonight's Hemophiliac appearance in San Francisco.
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Bad blood
It must be a source of endless frustration for the
starving artists of the
noise and free-improvisation scenes, who often have trouble moving a few hundred units of their latest proud creation, to see an all-star side project like John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Ikue Mori's Hemophiliac effortlessly sell out a few thousand copies of an Internet-only CD ý priced at 45 bucks no less. The real knee-slapper is this overpriced CD (self-titled, and released in 2002 through Zorn's label, Tzadik) isn't even any good ý it sounds like something you'd yawn and fidget through on improv night at the local art-gallery storefront. So why would anyone recommend seeing this trio live? Morbid curiosity? A celebrities-at-their-worst-style fascination with public failure? Or the slim hope these talented cult icons reach beyond the Knitting Factory improv clichýs and smarmy laptop computer gimmicks that characterize so much of the CD? Cross your fingers. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 Folsom, S.F. $20. (415) 255-0333. (Will York)
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