Guest Chaney Posted July 25, 2004 Report Posted July 25, 2004 END OF AUGUST 2004: Another essential reissue of one of the major works by Steve Lacy. This is an absolute must and something not to be missed. hatOLOGY 2-604 STEVE LACY FIVE THE WAY (reissue, remastered) Total time 115:32, ADD Notes for The Way by Steve Lacy, Paris December 1979 The Way is a long story. Based on an old Chinese text, attributed to Lao-Tzu, it reached me 2000 years later, in New York, in Witter Bynner’s sing-song version: The Tao Teh Ching (published by Capricorn Books). That was 1959. By ’67 I had already set the melody of ”The Way” for Irène and was mulling over the other verses. The rest of the pieces were written in the late sixties. By the early seventies began the elaboration and realization of this music, known as Tao, which is still going on. By now, after hundreds of performances of this cycle (in solo, duo, quintet, orchestra, with dancers, electronics, etc.), the shape and sound is coming clear and the whole work seems destined to become ”standard” one day. New wings for old words – so be it. This is the first complete recorded performance of Tao. Already, one year later, some parts have been modified, re-worked, developed. This music is complete, but, luckily for me, unfinished. Tao dedicated to: Existence–John Coltrane–Dawn The Way–Alberto Giacometti–Morning Bone–Lester Young –Noon Name–Charlie Parker–Afternoon The Breath–Gil Evans–Evening Life on Its Way –Duke Ellington–Night Made in concert in Basel, Switzerland, January 23rd, 1979 by: Steve Lacy-soprano saxophone Steve Potts-alto & soprano saxophone Irène Aebi-cello,violin & voice Kent Carter-double bass Oliver Johnson-drums END OF SEPTEMBER 2004: Two new recordings: hatOLOGY 611: ELLERY ESKELIN TEN Total time 63:46, DDD I take this music as a sign that whatever I may want or think I want there are forces at work beyond my awareness and that improvised music can offer wonderful surprises if one is open to them. Our celebration of a decade of music is marked with a project that does not look to the past but to the future. – Ellery Eskelin Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone Andrea Parkins - piano, accordion, sampler Jim Black - drums and percussion and guests: Marc Ribot - electric guitar Melvin Gibbs - electric bass Jessica Constable - voice hatOLOGY 619: eRikm & FENNESZ DONAUESCHINGEN 2003 Total time 66:27 Liner notes in translation. eRikm (Erik Mathon, Marseille) computer and 3-k.pad system Fennesz (Christian Fennesz, Vienna) laptop, computer and masterdistortion END OF OCTOBER 2004: One new recording and another essential reissue: hat(now)ART 151: JAMES TENNEY (1934) PIKA DON Total Time DDD 66:53, DDD, Barcode: 752156015123. Maelström Percussion Ensemble & Guests Contucted by Jan Williams. Tenney has often characterized himself as a kind of "tone scientist", that is, one working on an almost microscopic level with the primary materials of sound in order to expand our knowledge of its properties (what makes it what it is) and perceptual identity (how we respond to it). To do so, he has composed music that isolates the components of sound production into their most basic acoustic phenomena; music that explores and illuminates the subatomic pitch relationships within the harmonic series; music that combines these pitches into complexes motivated by systematic patterns or chance procedures. By thus objectifying music, and consequently rejecting its romanticized "self-expressive" nature, Tenney links composition with phenomenology. "The basic idea in phenomenology", he told Gayle Young, "is making a more strenuous effort to see things as they are, depending upon whatever one is focusing on." I think the best scientists and the best artists are precisely that – phenomenologists". – Art Lange hatOLOGY 591: PAULINE OLIVEROS THE ROOTS OF THE MOMENT (reissue, remastered) Pauline Oliveros accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward Total Time 58:19, ADD For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: "… to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels are more than coincidental. In fact Pauline would be as able a captain of any Starship in the fleet of the United Federation of Planets. A bit of a difference here though, for Pauline Oliveros, space is not necessarily the final frontier and the barrier at the end of the universe is just another interesting challenge. For Pauline Oliveros, like Sun Ra, Space is the place. – Joe McPhee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I hope it will happen in this order. Thank you for your interest. Best regards, Werner X. Uehlinger Hat Hut Records Quote
Guy Berger Posted July 25, 2004 Report Posted July 25, 2004 PAULINE OLIVEROS THE ROOTS OF THE MOMENT (reissue, remastered) Pauline Oliveros accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward Total Time 58:19, ADD For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: "… to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels are more than coincidental. In fact Pauline would be as able a captain of any Starship in the fleet of the United Federation of Planets. A bit of a difference here though, for Pauline Oliveros, space is not necessarily the final frontier and the barrier at the end of the universe is just another interesting challenge. For Pauline Oliveros, like Sun Ra, Space is the place. – Joe McPhee Am I the only one who thinks the blurb about Star Trek is a little weird/over-the-top? Is Oliveros (or McPhee) a hardcore Trekkie or am I missing something? Guy Quote
7/4 Posted July 25, 2004 Report Posted July 25, 2004 PAULINE OLIVEROS THE ROOTS OF THE MOMENT (reissue, remastered) Pauline Oliveros accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward Total Time 58:19, ADD For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: "… to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels are more than coincidental. In fact Pauline would be as able a captain of any Starship in the fleet of the United Federation of Planets. A bit of a difference here though, for Pauline Oliveros, space is not necessarily the final frontier and the barrier at the end of the universe is just another interesting challenge. For Pauline Oliveros, like Sun Ra, Space is the place. – Joe McPhee Am I the only one who thinks the blurb about Star Trek is a little weird/over-the-top? Is Oliveros (or McPhee) a hardcore Trekkie or am I missing something? Guy You never noticed the pointy ears? Quote
Nate Dorward Posted July 26, 2004 Report Posted July 26, 2004 I used to have that Oliveros--I liekd the first five minutes & then the rest of it was a slog. Don't know what I'd think of it nowadays. Quote
Guest Chaney Posted July 27, 2004 Report Posted July 27, 2004 I used to have that Oliveros--I liekd the first five minutes & then the rest of it was a slog. Don't know what I'd think of it nowadays. Maybe a better match for the hat(now)ART line rather that hatOLOGY? Quote
king ubu Posted July 27, 2004 Report Posted July 27, 2004 Besides the Lacy, the erikm/fennesz one could be interesting! Either I missed that broadcast, or they are indeed faster releasing it on hat than broadcasting it, for a change! (The Mitterer 2CD hatOLOGY was also broadcast, but as I have it in less than stellar sound, I'll get the release some day, too) ubu Quote
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