John B Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Has anyone here seen the Willem Breuker Kollektief in concert recently? I just found out that they will be playing here next month and am planning on going. I haven't heard anything more recent than In Holland and was wondering how they were playing these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Has anyone here seen the Willem Breuker Kollektief in concert recently? I just found out that they will be playing here next month and am planning on going. I haven't heard anything more recent than In Holland and was wondering how they were playing these days. Just recorded an April '04 show off the air, and I think they're great! Love their way of (dis)organized chaos and order... the Kurt Weill stuff is cool, and their music has lots of parallels to the GDR stuff our friend couw likes that much (me likes it, too)! ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Has anyone here seen the Willem Breuker Kollektief in concert recently? I just found out that they will be playing here next month and am planning on going. I haven't heard anything more recent than In Holland and was wondering how they were playing these days. To my shame, I never heard anything by Willem Breuker. Probably subconsciously I was afraid that I would like it, and then I get another enourmous discography to explore (check the BVHAAST catalog out). So what label is In Holland on ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Has anyone here seen the Willem Breuker Kollektief in concert recently? I just found out that they will be playing here next month and am planning on going. I haven't heard anything more recent than In Holland and was wondering how they were playing these days. To my shame, I never heard anything by Willem Breuker. Probably subconsciously I was afraid that I would like it, and then I get another enourmous discography to explore (check the BVHAAST catalog out). So what label is In Holland on ? This one looks cool: BVHAAST 06/0701 The Institute of Sonology HIS MASTERS NOISE (2CD) Electronic works by Xenakis, Varese, Ligeti, Barrett, Boehmer CD 1: Concret PH 11 (Xenakis), Poeme Electronique (Varèse), Klangfiguren II (Koenig), Pier en Oceaan (Tazelaar), Voices of the Boat (Van Kreij), Katasterismoi (Barrett), Logos Protos (Boehmer) CD 2: Piece Electronique nr 3 (Ligeti), Disintegration (Snoei), Euridice (Tamminga), Lacus Somniorum (Hijmans), Asper (Kagenaar), Odysseia (Van Wersch) Recorded on various dates at various locations Barcode: 7 86497 44612 4 Why doesn't someone get it and tell me if it's worth the prize? B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 To my shame, I never heard anything by Willem Breuker. Probably subconsciously I was afraid that I would like it, and then I get another enourmous discography to explore (check the BVHAAST catalog out). So what label is In Holland on ? You must now listen to 40 tracks of Kenny G in penance and vow to mend your ways. Seriously, I've never bought any Breuker beyond In Holland (on BVHaast), but it is fantastic! This one should go right to the top of your "need to hear" list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 DD, that Zerbe comes pretty close to the Breuker things. Breuker is more sarcastic, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 DD, that Zerbe comes pretty close to the Breuker things. Breuker is more sarcastic, though. ...and wittier, funnier and more playful, no? Yet very close, I agree. ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 (edited) Another album I would not hesitate to recommend to all on Funny Rat is Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Live, on DIW. Otomo is most well known for his electro-acoustic work on turntable and guitar, but, on this disc he plays in a very straight-forward free-ish jazz way. The band consists of Otomo on guitar, Kikuchi Naruyoshi on tenor, Tsugami Kenta on soprano and alto, Mizutani Hiroaki on bass and Yoshigaki Yasuhiro on drums. They do really nice renditions of Wayne Shorter's Swee-Pea, Eric Dolphy's Hat & Beard and Jim O'Rourke's Eureka. The playing is fantastic and the tunes are given a lot of room to grow and evolve. Edited August 6, 2004 by John B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Another album I would not hesitate to recommend to all on Funny Rat is Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Live, on DIW. Looks good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Full mp3 files on Ned Rothenberg's homepage: http://www.nedrothenberg.com/sounds.html Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 New Zappa release Joe's Corsage can be heard complete in RA here: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/umrk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Curious about FMR label ( http://www.fmr-records.com ) - any recommendations? Also, anybody ever tried buying directly from them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Dorward Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Another album I would not hesitate to recommend to all on Funny Rat is Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Live, on DIW. Otomo is most well known for his electro-acoustic work on turntable and guitar, but, on this disc he plays in a very straight-forward free-ish jazz way. The band consists of Otomo on guitar, Kikuchi Naruyoshi on tenor, Tsugami Kenta on soprano and alto, Mizutani Hiroaki on bass and Yoshigaki Yasuhiro on drums. They do really nice renditions of Wayne Shorter's Swee-Pea, Eric Dolphy's Hat & Beard and Jim O'Rourke's Eureka. The playing is fantastic and the tunes are given a lot of room to grow and evolve. Speaking of which I don't suppose anyone's heard the band Emergency!, which has a couple discs on Studio Wee? I haven't heard them, but the lineup (with Yoshihide in it) & the tracklistings for their two discs (Loveman Plays Psychedelic Swing and Loveman Prays for Psychic Sing) look enticing: http://www.studiowee.com/StudioWeeE.html The idea of Otomo doing "Sing Sing Sing", "The Inflated Tear" or "Creole Love Call" is very appealing.... I don't know anything about FMR, but I notice they publish Avant magazine, about which I've heard veeery bad things. But the catalogue does look very good doesn't it? Well, report back on them if you order some FMR discs, I'd be curious to hear reports on some of those titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Some weekend listening: Sophia Domancich - Pentacle A beautiful album. I've given it the critical three spins, and I still love it as much as when I first heard it. The band features Jean-Luc Capozzo on trumpet (also with Louis Sclavis lately), Michel Marre (euphonium), Simon Goubert on drums, and Claude Tchamitchian on bass, plus Domancich herself at the piano. I find her to be an impressive piano player, as well as an interesting composer/arranger. The two brass frontline makes this a rather unusual affair, although it's far from being free or funny-ratish. However, the CD features beautiful playing, thoroughly european in quality, often full of "melos", sometimes almost like dancing music - definitely not jazz as far as hardbop-fascits criteria go..., but definitely beautiful music by a handful of great musicians. Then I finally got into the "Two Ts for a Lovely T" box of Cecil's, having listened to the first four CDs in a row - very good, very impressive, and very easily accessible! ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 (edited) Sophia Domancich - Pentacle An mp3 from the SKETCH records website: http://www.sketch-studio.com/sketch-jazz/sons/20vestiges.mp3 Nice! Compositionally reminded me of Andrew Hill a bit. Edited August 9, 2004 by Д.Д. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Sophia Domancich - Pentacle An mp3 from the SKETCH records website: http://www.sketch-studio.com/sketch-jazz/sons/20vestiges.mp3 Nice! Compositionally reminded me of Andrew Hill a bit. The whole disc consists of a rather short opening tune, and one suite, taking up all the rest. That suite is subdivided in several tunes again. I think the compositions are rather beautiful, and rather personal, too. If you see that disc at a good prize, go for it! I never heard the name of Ms Domancich before, by the way! ubu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 (edited) Is anyone here familiar with the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound? They seem to have a very interesting catalog. The disc that really caught my eye is a new Mats Gustafsson / Sonic Youth collaboration: "HIDROS 3 was written for Sonic Youth by Mats Gustafsson. Together with Gustafsson Sonic Youth teamed up with American guitar legend Loren Connors (aka Loren Mazzacane Connors), Lotta Melin, David Stackenäs and Lindha Kallerdahl. Armed with 5 guitars, electronics, voices, audiobox and contrabass saxophone, the group created a massive and monumental sound." They also have some releases from Jaga Jazzist and Kevin Drumm/Lesse Marhaug that I would like to here. I'll have to do a search and see if they have any distribution over here. Edited August 9, 2004 by John B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 I'm listening to Other Dimensions in Music Special Quintet: Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time right now. This disc has never really clicked with me. I always want to enjoy it moe than I do. The lineup looks great on paper: Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, Jr, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Rashied Bakr. The music, however, seems very aimless and "noodling" to me. This disc is growing on me, slowly, but I am still less than impressed with this one. Thom Jurek's AMG review of this one is all over the place. For half of the review I have no clue what he is trying to say and, for the other half, I disagree almost completely with his statements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 I'm listening to Other Dimensions in Music Special Quintet: Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time right now. This disc has never really clicked with me. I always want to enjoy it moe than I do. The lineup looks great on paper: Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, Jr, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Rashied Bakr. The music, however, seems very aimless and "noodling" to me. This disc is growing on me, slowly, but I am still less than impressed with this one. Thom Jurek's AMG review of this one is all over the place. For half of the review I have no clue what he is trying to say and, for the other half, I disagree almost completely with his statements. Got this one a few months ago and for some reason haven't played it yet; I don't know, something (wish I knew what) is keeping me from listening to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 I'm listening to Other Dimensions in Music Special Quintet: Time is of the Essence is Beyond Time right now. This disc has never really clicked with me. I always want to enjoy it moe than I do. The lineup looks great on paper: Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, Jr, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Rashied Bakr. The music, however, seems very aimless and "noodling" to me. This disc is growing on me, slowly, but I am still less than impressed with this one. Thom Jurek's AMG review of this one is all over the place. For half of the review I have no clue what he is trying to say and, for the other half, I disagree almost completely with his statements. Got this one a few months ago and for some reason haven't played it yet; I don't know, something (wish I knew what) is keeping me from listening to it... it's not that I find the disc to be bad, perse, it's just that I can think of many other discs I would rather be listening to, given my limited free time these days. Let me know what you think of it once you have a chance to give it a listen or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaney Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Which label is the lackluster disk on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Which label is the lackluster disk on? If you're referring to Other Dimensions in Music: Time Is of the Essence Is beyond Time, it's on AUM Fidelity 013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 (edited) Friends, I just returned back home from a 5-week trip. To my indiscribable delight, in addition to discovering that my trees are not dead, I also found some mysterious funny and ratty looking packages from usual suspects. Thanks a lot Tony, John B and Flurin! As soon as I recover a bit, I will listen to all the 74 CDs you sent me (should take a couple of days at least), and will report here. ------------------------------------ As for the Other Dimensions band, I have a CD of a cousin band called Fractured Dimensions (recent FMP release) - it's Parker, Carter, Campbell and Alan Silva. Despite my displike for William Parker, and indifference towards Campbell, I liked this disc quite a bit due to nice playing by Daniel Carter (who is a brilliant, if a bit unfocused musician, IMO), and even more so, insane synth playing by Alan Silva that really elevates the record beyond the typical post-free American blow-out. Edited August 11, 2004 by Д.Д. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Welcome back! How was the trip? I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on that disc. The Parker on FMP sounds like an album to keep my eye on. I'm not sure if I have ever heard any recent Alan Silva. Is anyone here familiar with Bobby Few? He played with Ayler and Shepp back in the day and does not have many albums as a leader available. This one is well worth tracking down: Continental Jazz Express is a solo performance recorded live at the 2000 Vision Festival and released on Boxholder. This is a wonderful, lyrical performance. Few reminds me of a more "out" Randy Weston here. Highly recommended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Д.Д. Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 The trip was good. It was nice to be in States again, even if I didn't get a chance to get to NYC. Left Russian CDs in Moscow, of course, so ubu will have to wait till Christmas to get his copy. Bought Pharoah Sanders "Live at the East" in London for insane £18. -------------------------------- As for Bobby Few, don't you find that he overplays a bit on this solo disc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_forumlogo.png.a607ef20a6e0c299ab2aa6443aa1f32e.png)
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.