July 2009
3 posts
Sun Ra Interview →
I love how it’s almost like Sun Ra is interviewing the interviewer.
Archie Shepp & Niels Henning-Ørsted Pedersen -...
At the time of this writing this album has 7 ratings on RYM. When I posted this on my old blog I am pretty sure it had two. I don’t know why this album is so unheard of, according to amazon it was recently re-issued to CD so unavailability should not be to blame. I guess the biggest turn off of this album is the lack of a drummer, but NHOP is so skilled and swings so hard it...
June 2009
2 posts
"A Nice Cup of Tea" by George Orwell
Going to start posting here again, thought I’d post this awesome essay.
“If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several ofthe most important points.
This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays...
Steve Lacy - Reflections (1959)
Steve Lacy in a quartet format with Elvin Jones playing Thelonious Monk tunes at absurd speeds. Must I carry on?
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May 2009
4 posts
Various Artists - That Mysterious Forest Below...
I got this CD a while ago in an order from mimarolguemusicsales. I don’t remember ordering it, that being said I never remember ordering anything. Now just keep in mind that this is a matchless recording and read the artists involved:
1. Chant_Lambert_Lexer_Milton_09/11/06 (21.09)
Tom Chant soprano and tenor saxophones — Ross Lambert guitar Sebastian Lexer piano and laptop — Matt...
Steve Noble / John Edwards / Alan Wilkinson - Live...
Shaping up to be the free-improvisation album of the year. While you think The Thing would have explored all there is to explore in the realm of Baritone / Double Bass / Drums this trio offers something completely different. ”Spellbound”, consisting of the majority of the album has so much communication you’d think it is a composition - just listen to the introduction between...
I HAVE EATEN THE CITY - Decay (2006)
This is a local toronto free-improv / noise / sorta-drony group. It’s hard to explain but they are pretty unique, I have no idea whether they have disbanded since all their members are still active in the scene, but I haven’t seen anything played or released by this band since I got this CD-R over two years ago. As far as I know, all their stuff is out of print and since you could...
MV & EE - Black Ark / White Egg (2009)
One of the new batch of MV & EE CD-R’s that just got into Eclipse, I didn’t grab all of them but I am hopefully seeing them on the 22nd so I’ll get the rest (and whatever new things they have!) there.
This is pretty much your typical live CD-R and it has pretty amazing recording quality. “Boo Woe”, a song I have not heard before and isn’t on any other...