^^ If I didn’t already have this one on CD, I would’ve jumped on the Bandcamp sale for sure. Great stuff. Rob Mazurek is awesome.
^^ If I didn’t already have this one on CD, I would’ve jumped on the Bandcamp sale for sure. Great stuff. Rob Mazurek is awesome.
What Is the Beautiful? by The Claudia Quintet +1 with Kurt Elling & Theo Bleckmann.
Done!
First time here and loving it: now we’re talking!!
Happy New Year!
All the best,
Tomás.
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Golden Years by Pixel.
Done!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
Mu by Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland (feat. Michael Manring & Celso Alberti)
Done!
Out of my radar ... great and happy, so happy my friends!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
Really enjoying this. IMO Manring and Alberti should have gotten equal billing.Originally Posted by TCC
Mu by Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland (feat. Michael Manring & Celso Alberti)
Done!
Out of my radar ... great and happy, so happy my friends!
I bought this too, and think it's a great album! I, too, was thinking it was surprising they didn't have equal billing, or done this under a band name they all could have shared. It's all improvised, so that does seem kind of strange. Anyway, it's great. The long track is fantastic. The album is so relaxing, yet there's a lot going on; I never lost interest.
I got this one too when it went on sale. Glad I did!Mu by Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland (feat. Michael Manring & Celso Alberti)
Done!
Out of my radar ... great and happy, so happy my friends!
What's your Bandcamp fan name?I got this one too when it went on sale. Glad I did!
Hey, I actually just changed it so it's easier to find.
https://bandcamp.com/aith01
What's yours?
https://bandcamp.com/jkl2000
Wow, we have 183 items in common!
Nice, man! I just followed you.
Had a feeling we'd have a bit of overlap in our collections. I did some scrolling through your collection and spied several that were on my wishlist actually.
A Beautiful Western Saddle by Curlew.
Done!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
The Nuclear Observatory of Mr. Nanof by Piero Milesi.
Done!
Another great piece of music !!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
This thread should provide the dang links so we don't have to chase them down.
https://mailchi.mp/cuneiformrecords/...BYMp1Iv12V3i14
*bought*
edit: On my 3rd listen. Pretty damned great. New fan here.
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Done ... great!!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
^ Absolutely outstanding album, arguably J. Grigsby's finest achievement.
For "Scarfnet" and "Narcotic Lollipop" he finally got to realize his ensemble-visions with a grander grant to allow for more professionally hired musicians and studio facilities, and boy! it shows/hears. "Lollipop" has to be one of the most intricate charts attempted by a composer/writer who started out in rock music, and it swings and grooves and hits as well. Forceful, dense and wonderful!
"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
Yup, its a great one. On par with those Utotem records imho.
This is a good reminder to dig out my cd and spin it this weekend...been a while.
Love that album.
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.
Just spun Narcotic Lollipop on my hifi. What a killer composition. The trombone solo is excellent too. So much detail in the arrangement....keyboards, horns, mallets, etc just really excellent. I think some big band jazzers might dig it although it travels well outside of a traditional big band comfort zone, but that's what makes it so interesting. Talented guy.
It's Grigsby's homage to Stan Kenton, right? Some of those passages harken back to references of even the earliest works of Kenton (1930s!), but Grigsby himself is so layered in originality that basically every line he writes points some sort of induced reference in the first place. You can hear hints at Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann as well. When I hear stuff as dissonant as this I always wonder at how the professional folks welcomed the sheet music, especially if all they were told was that "[...] this Grigsby is apparently some kind of rock'n'roll guy".
"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
That's a great observation - I didn't "hear" that while listening but it does make sense. I don't really know most of these players, so it's difficult to ascertain what they thought of this music, but I can only surmise they must have really had a lot of respect for these scores because the performance sounds so damn good and very accurate (at least to my ears). I love these type of intricate compositions that you can spin 5 times in a row and pick out new musical "everything" each time. At points, this is as much a modern classical composition as much as a jazz influenced one. Really nice production too - not overly digital sounding at all.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
It's really Grigsby's homage to composer Bob Graettinger and his complete collection of compositions and / or arrangements recorded in his lifetime entitled "City Of Glass"
Bob is one of the most interesting, crazy, tragic and most mysterious figures in modern composition.
This is well worth reading (PDF download)
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.
Also worth reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_o..._Kenton_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.
City of Glass is awesome. My great Uncle Greg Bemko plays cello on it. He is also on Zappa's Lumpy Gravy (credited as Harold G. Bemko) and Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle.
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