You definitely better not read Koby Israelite’s comments on BL in this interview then:
https://themusicandmyth.com/2019/05/...ll-lawson/amp/
New cd i recently mastered
by Aceta a chamber rock ensemble from Chile
Compositions and cincept by Rodrigo Maccioni
Soon to be released by Azafran Media
https://youtu.be/cIwvYSCENKY
How come I'm not in this thread yet?
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.
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.
First finding of 2022:
..."experimental music for people with mental issues" from Quito, Ecuador. It's kicking my arse.
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.
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.
Quito, Ecuador is not a place I've heard any prog from, as far as I can remember. Very cool!
Agree on all accounts, and together with Sharrock's Ask the Ages it's also one of the very few lasting/surviving downtown sound "major" releases retaining a complete documentation of why this was such a unique wave of contemporary music-culture (I think it has endured better than Laswell's Baselines at that). They are both as rock and as jazz as they are heavily avant-garde, almost perfectly capturing that exact zeitgeist of free-form, unprejudiced creativity in cross-generational American musicmaking of the day.
I'll have to say though, that to ME much of Material's earlier matter (ha!), like the Temporary Music anthology collects, comes across as rather tedious nowadays.
There's stuff by Lounge Lizards, Doctor Nerve, Golden Palominos, Last Exit, Curlew, Massacre or a couple of the No-Wave bands (Swans and Mars especially) I'd probably rate above Memory Serves myself, but the fascination with that album was how such initially "difficult" material could be communicated and transferred so apparently uninhibited to unversed listeners. It's still an extremely listenable record, with a couple of tracks (notably the closer "Silent Land") even bordering on generally accessible and - indeed - generally memorable and/or hummable. A fab piece of work, and with Massacre's Killing Time, the bizarre New York Gong and some of his input with Painkiller, my fave cup of Laswell altohether.
"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
I've been enjoying this record immensely the last few weeks:
Gabriel Zucker - Leftover beats from the edge of time
https://gabrielzucker.bandcamp.com/a...-edges-of-time
I dunno it it is really 'avant-prog'. It is certainly hard to classify. Somewhere in between big band Jazz and modern classical with some rock and even pop thrown in. Extremely rewarding to delve in.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-best...-all-time/?amp
Far Out Magazine's (?) 10 Best avant garde albums of all time. Have at it....
Do they even understand that 'avant-garde' denotes something other than 'avant-garde-rock'?
And I even own and enjoy most of those on the list, except for Lennon's Lions - which I owned but basically amounts to pure rubbish and shouldn't figure on any list if it doesn't concern cornflakes in the toilet bowl. It's not creative, not radical or daring, not "colourful", not even the slightest bit transgressive.
Where the hell is Nico's Marble Index, given the obvious pretext of styrlistic criteria at play?
Shit. Starsailor is excellent but neither the best nor the most culturally-consequent Buckley-record. Is this post-modern hipster parade attempting to survive both pandemic and woke onslaught?
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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
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