+1 for the new Gogo Penguin. I'm loving it. Loved their previous one as well.
+1 for the new Gogo Penguin. I'm loving it. Loved their previous one as well.
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
Portico Quartet have a new release out today, the partner piece to Art In The Age Of Automation called Untitled (AITAOA #2)
https://porticoquartet.bandcamp.com/...itled-aitaoa-2
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Pretty good, but, especially due to it's short nature, it definitely has a feel of an 'odds and sods' release (which, I suppose it is, but you know...)Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad
I'd still buy.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
Never let good music get in the way of making a profit.
I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
New Nik Bartsch Ronin, Awase, is released on 5/5 and I get to see the band the same day. Sweet.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I see them the following Wednesday.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Thanks for posting this, Ian. Somehow, I'd missed that they were back to the original configuration - their eponymous album as a trio was a huge disappointment. Just bought this, & its predecessor, to which I am currently listening. The best work that they have done since their first two records - a magnificent return to form.
Thursday for me! Can't wait.
David
Happy with what I have to be happy with.
"The sign is a fracture
which only ever opens on to the face
of another sign."
[The Empire of Signs, Roland Barthes]
This haiku-like observation, cited by Bärtsch in the "sleeve notes", is taken from sections of the text discussing a certain emptiness, a certain lack of significance or meaning, of "depth", in the Japanese haiku, & then in (or on) the painted faces of Japanese theatre. Evoking the "purity" of the mask/painted face, Barthes writes: "Reduced to the elementary signifiers of writing (the blank of the page & the indentations [marks, traces] of its script), the face dismisses any signified, ie any expressivity: this writing writes nothing (or writes: nothing)..." I like the idea that what Barthes is trying to gesture towards here could be transposed to minimalist jazz(rock) - that its formalism actively works to erase, or exclude, "meaning" or "significance", that its effects are achieved at the level of the musical signifier rather an any signified "sense", that these effects are achieved through the contrast between the spaces in & the marks of the music, & through the displacements (or fractures) which open up within the repetititons within the music.
Anyway. The music of Awase is superb - my initial impression is that it is Bärtsch's best album since Holon & Stoa. it's a particular treat to hear Modul 36 revisited!
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My initial impression is that I'm glad Nik's gone back, at least somewhat, to yelling "HOH!" to signal to the band it's time to change.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
This was exactly what I thought - &, maybe subliminally, why I have found myself enjoying the album so much!
Well, I can't sing along because it's too complicated for me to do so, but I do like to shout "HOH!" along with the records, once in a while!
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Do you find yourself trying to time your "HOH's" just right?!! (I give the air a little punch - it's the minimalist jazz antidote to an air guitar solo)
Well, I can't sing along because it's too complicated for me to do so, but I do like to shout "HOH!" along with the records, once in a while!
I loved when he did that live, it was fun.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Yes!
It's like getting all the beats right air-drumming to Egg or Upsilon Acrux!
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
I always liked it and found it funny and fun and charming. It's like it was their unique 'thing', in addition to all the other unique things.
I think [think, not know] that he never stopped doing it, but it was eliminated from the recordings by Manfred ['the HOH! eliminator'] Eicher....
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Just listened to The Necks.. Interesting album..
Which one? There’s a dozen or more....Just listened to The Necks.. Interesting album..
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Superb band, seen them live twice, I get into a meditative state and just zone in. Great stuff. Ones I have:-Just listened to The Necks.. Interesting album..
Hanging Gardens
Drive By
Vertigo
Aether
Chemist
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
The first one that the original poster posted....Hanging Gardens I believe
These bands have a certain Tangerine Dream feel to them. Only partially though
Ah. hanging gardens is my absolute favorite from them.The first one that the original poster posted....Hanging Gardens I believe
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Same here. Got it based on Kerman reco.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Really ?
I always knew he disliked the drumming
I could be wrong, my memory isn't great but I thought it was Dave.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I was looking for something to do on 2nd July and found a gig by these guys:
Hadn't come across them before but tickets are booked, looking forward to it.
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