danasgoodstuff Posted February 7, 2005 Report Posted February 7, 2005 (edited) Yesterday my friend of 30+ years, Charlie, and I saw BF at our alma mater, Reed College. He was playing mostly music from his recent cd of songs about the work of some German painter whose work I don't know (I'm sure someone here knows all about this). He shared the stage with Hank roberts, cello, Jenny Schiedman (?), violin, and Even K., viola. They had sheet music on stands, but I assume a good bit of what we heard was improvised. Announcements were somewhat crytic, per usual. They worked in "Pretty Polly" and "What's Going On" and who knows what else that I didn't recognize. Pretty abstract overall, but it worked live, due in part to the excellent sound which allowed each part to be heard clearly. Edited February 7, 2005 by danasgoodstuff Quote
Aggie87 Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 This is the 858 Richter group, it sounds like. Originally this came out as a combination book/CD, with music that was composed by Frisell and played by him, Hank Roberts (cello), Eyvind Kang (violin) & Jenny Scheinman (violin). The music was was composed based upon his reaction to Gerhard Richter's paintings (the above album cover is one of his works). The book/cd combo is still expensive ($175 thru Frisell's website), but they have now made the cd (SACD hybrid) available separately. Looks like it's $20 separately. I have it and like it quite a bit. It definitely isn't from his Americana bag. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Yeah, but if we're talkin' Sonic Youth covers, I'll take Pettibon over Richter any day. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted February 8, 2005 Author Report Posted February 8, 2005 Aggie, Thanks for filling in the details and corredting my too lazy to look it up spelling mistakes. If the're coming to a venue near you, go see 'em. Esp'ly if said venue is 'intimate'. Still waiting for the Bill Plays Lefty album, Dana Quote
Guest ariceffron Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 i am thinking about seeing this in seattle soon. how would you compare the strings to other jazz/strings combos. were the strings improvising with the lead instrument, a la FOCUS--- thats what i got from your review.... Quote
Guest ariceffron Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 by soon it looks like i mean tomorrow nite.... Quote
Brandon Burke Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Yeah, but if we're talkin' Sonic Youth covers, I'll take Pettibon over Richter any day. That's hilarious. And let us not forget Pettibon's amazing Minutemen covers as well. More to the point, I'm a huge fan of Richter's work and was not aware of this project. I can usually go either way with Frisell, not a big fan of modern guitar, but thanks for the heads up! Sounds interesting. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted February 9, 2005 Author Report Posted February 9, 2005 aric, The "with strings" was meant kinda tongue in cheek, it's a fully interactive small combo, all of whom happen to play stringed instruments. Hope you go and post what you think... Quote
Guest ariceffron Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 it was very good and he even did subconcious-lee written out for the strings and that was narly but i wish he took the charlie parker/strings approach more,-- that only happened for about 2 min. when they quoted 'what the world needs now is love sweet love" (ray coniff?) but all the material was very good Quote
alankin Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 The booklet of the 858 album includes eight paintings by Richter. (From a series of abstracts.) There's also a slideshow on the CD that goes through the images while the music plays. (I haven't tried that yet.) The music is more varied than his recent Nonesuch efforts. Quote
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