Standing room only last Sunday night at Sparticle Space.
Pure improv, jazzy prog fusion I suppose. The radio station has been playing their stuff
here like crazy. Even hot chicks in attendance!
Standing room only last Sunday night at Sparticle Space.
Pure improv, jazzy prog fusion I suppose. The radio station has been playing their stuff
here like crazy. Even hot chicks in attendance!
Can "pure improv" also be "prog fusion"? I usually think of prog as all written out, with complex time changes and unison passages.
I guess it's all relative. Improvisation with a Mellotron perhaps.
No
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You're dead wrong!
BTW, news are just in that they've finally found a new actor to take over D. Craig's tenure as James Bond:
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"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Even if it made a comeback it would all be for naught anyway since it won't be recorded in 1973.
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Steve F.
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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.
Why do complex time signatures have to be written out? I heard 5/4 11/8, 13/8, 6/4, 3/4. and 4/4. All done in an improvisational way. Is that not jazz prog rock fusion?
I never thought of jazz as having to be written out like classical music. Might be a chart or skeleton.
Never - you will just have to listen to the old records for all eternity.
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.
And although it may come out exactly identical to source, the sound isn't good anymore once you get to realize that it was processed through a laptop. In fact it instantly gets really, really bad then.
And evil too.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
doesn't "laptop", depend on if your standing up or sitting?
The older I get, the better I was.
Yup, and if you can carry and manoeuver it from atop your cranium it gets to be a skullheadtop.
Nah, seriously - laptops are cool enough as long as we make them look like genuine instruments; attach a stringed neck to it, give it a paintjob to hide the keys, equip it with a proper body form. It's the look of the sound that matters!
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Leonardo Pavkovic will say "yes". His Moonjune Records are releasing progressive fusion (or whatever he calls it) all the time.
Here's their latest: improv from Reuter, Wingfield, Stavi and Sirkis:
https://markwingfield-moonjune.bandc...-24bit-88-2khz
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.
Not talking about releasing records. Anyone with a "laptop" can do that these days. Will people actually get away from their laptop and go out
and see live fusion in a venue that is NOT drawing only upon their past releases from the 70's era. They will all be gone soon as we are seeing.
If I want to go out and see live fusion improv etc, where do I go? It comes back when there is a scene, a real scene with people who show up and support it. Musicians who show up and play it.... not in the past but in modern times.... this weekend!
Last edited by Steve F.; 01-12-2017 at 08:06 PM.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
“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.
https://youtu.be/RzDBYIhfu0g?t=660
Be sure to start at 11:00
Would you consider something like that your "live improv fusion"?
Last edited by rminsk; 01-13-2017 at 01:57 AM.
Yes, provided that you fuse the right ingredients (as per the example below; where I'm listening to Embryo jamming with Missus Beastly).
Hey, I saw Présent at Studio Athanor around 03 (not the 2005 gig, the same day UZ's stage comeback), and the place was crawling with young lightly-dressed female student headbanging to their music. Guy Seghers (still the ir band and label manager) sitting next to me at the bar had his eyes bulging out and I thought he was about to bust into his pants
The only comeback that happened was Présent returned to the place to play the other gig (mentioned above)... and no hot chicks then... The only other time I saw a concert there was Chris Spedding and no significant amount of hot chicks either (but a whole bunch of rockabilly-dressed dude .... frightening and hilarious sight at the same time
Turns out the reasons why there were so many chicks was last day of exams and a whole bunch of them elected that place to party-hardy-hearty, whether they liked the music or not
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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