From: zorn-list-owner@xmission.com (zorn-list Digest) To: zorn-list-digest@xmission.com Subject: zorn-list Digest V2 #83 Reply-To: zorn-list@xmission.com Sender: zorn-list-owner@xmission.com Errors-To: zorn-list-owner@xmission.com Precedence: zorn-list Digest Wednesday, June 11 1997 Volume 02 : Number 083 In this issue: Threadgill, Berne Re: zorn-list Digest V2 #82 Re: Threadgill, Berne Re: "That Burt Bacharach CD" Re: Threadgill, Berne half japanese Re: Threadgill, Berne berne Laswell Article Hellborg/Laswell/Brotzmann Masada Bar Kokbah is coming to Toronto! Re: Laswell Article Re: Laswell Article Re: Laswell Article Re: Laswell Article 100 OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODIES still available Re: Laswell Article Re: Laswell Article Laswell's APC Stuff Re: Laswell Article Upcoming Laswell Releases - Listening Impressions Re: Upcoming Laswell Releases - Listening Impressions Request for tour info Bobby Previte Re: Upcoming Laswell Releases - Listening Impressions Re: Bobby Previte Anybody there? Need Help re: Company 91 Re: Need Help re: Company 91 CDs/Tzadik Re: Need Help re: Company 91 Laswell Re: Need Help re: Company 91 Re: Laswell Pandit Pran Nath Memorial Broadcast Geoff Gersh solo Arcana Praxis Show Laswell's Miles remix album Re: Laswell's Miles remix album Re: Laswell's Miles remix album free sax on the net, quick!! Need Help w/ Cobra (rules & application) Will Trade Masada 4 or 7 See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the zorn-list or zorn-list-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:09:25 +0600 From: john Subject: Threadgill, Berne hello, for those interested, Henry Threadgill and Make a Move will be playing on June 6 in Richmond, Va at the Va Art and History Museum, i think that tickets are seventeen dollars and ten if you have a student id. also, if someone wouldn't mind, i would appreciate it if i could get the info to order the Berne/Bloodcount 3cd set, thank you john jpetrie@vt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:30:38 -0500 From: Mark Perlson Subject: Re: zorn-list Digest V2 #82 I think the Masada show in Montreal got moved to a much larger venue. Nothing for sure, but you might want to check it out. Ciao, Mark ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Mark Perlson Knitting Factory Works - Label Manager 74 Leonard St NYC 10013 ph 212-219-3006 fax 212-219-3401 http://www.knittingfactory.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:37:14 -0400 From: ssmith@knittingfactory.com (Steve Smith) Subject: Re: Threadgill, Berne A 3 CD's set of live shows of Bloodcount is release on Berne's Label, Scewgun. The 3 CD's set is a limited edition of 2000 copies and is available only by mail order. To order it send $32 (37$ overseas) US found payable to Screwgun Records: The screwgun Building 104 St. Marks Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217 Bloodcount UNWOUND disc one: : "We're only here for the food" (Live in Berlin) disc two : "An Avarage Daze" (Live in Berlin) disc three: " The Fan" (Live in Ann Arbor) (Please be advised that Tim and Co. are currently in England and Germany and will not be back until June 16 so nothing ships before them, I fear.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:41:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Holmes Subject: Re: "That Burt Bacharach CD" try cdUniverse. THey have it for $18.94 +S&H. Remember it is a two disk set, so this is a great price. It is under the title "Great Jewish Music". They have most regular tzadik release for around $13.98. Which is the cheapest I have found. I use them often, and usually get stuff in a couple of days. Thanks, Brian Holmes On Sun, 25 May 1997, Julian wrote: > Can someone tell me of a place on the net that stocks this CD (I have no > clue what it's actually called) at a reasonable price? I found it in a shop > in Australia and the price is ridiculous. Help would be greatly > appreciated, thanks. > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:55:15 -0700 From: "Patrice L. Roussel" Subject: Re: Threadgill, Berne On Wed, 28 May 1997 17:37:14 -0400 Steve Smith wrote: > > A 3 CD's set of live shows of Bloodcount is release on Berne's Label, > Scewgun. The 3 CD's set is a limited edition of 2000 copies and is available > only by mail order. To order it send $32 (37$ overseas) US found payable to > Screwgun Records: Mail order only? Are you sure? Tower Records in Portland (OR) -- not famous for its avant-jazz edge -- has it in store! I was really surprised to see it there (NY, I would understand, but Portland!). > The screwgun Building > 104 St. Marks Ave. > Brooklyn, NY 11217 > > Bloodcount UNWOUND > > disc one: : "We're only here for the food" (Live in Berlin) > disc two : "An Avarage Daze" (Live in Berlin) > disc three: " The Fan" (Live in Ann Arbor) > > (Please be advised that Tim and Co. are currently in England and Germany > and will not be back until June 16 so nothing ships before them, I fear.) Anyway, this is a great set and worth to get. Patrice. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:30:32 +0100 (BST) From: Philip Reno Subject: half japanese (apologies if this is irrelevant for most of you) Does anybody know when are Half japanese playing in London? I did not know where else to ask (but Zorn plays in at least one half japanese release so there is some relation) thanks Nick V ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 19:07:50 -0400 From: ssmith@knittingfactory.com (Steve Smith) Subject: Re: Threadgill, Berne >> A 3 CD's set of live shows of Bloodcount is release on Berne's Label, >> Scewgun. The 3 CD's set is a limited edition of 2000 copies and is available >> only by mail order. To order it send $32 (37$ overseas) US found payable to >> Screwgun Records: > >Mail order only? Are you sure? Tower Records in Portland (OR) -- not famous >for its avant-jazz edge -- has it in store! Patrice is correct, of course. I saved that message from some months ago so that anytime folks requested the Screwgun info I could forward it without much effort. Unfortunately, I didn't look very closely, or I would have caught that very error. "Unwound" is now in most large stores like Tower and HMV thanks to a distributor on the west coast called FTC. Forced Exposure and North Country take care of all the indie stores. So it's pretty common that you'll see it in stores now, and all subsequent releases from Screwgun will be there too. But on the other hand if you buy it at Tower there's a sticker applied directly to the cardboard package and you'll pay $39 plus tax, with no extra money going to Tim, as opposed to $32 by mailorder, almost all of which goes to Tim. So that's your choice. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 20:46:02 -0400 From: "ALAN E. KAYSER" Subject: berne The 3CD set is available from Jazz Sound here in Philadelphia for $32. They will mail order. However, Tim will also mail order and that way he gets the money. If you like Berne, and you should, then get this. It's great. Alan E Kayser aek1@erols.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:19:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "wesley@interaccess.com" Subject: Laswell Article Now that my inbox is below 400 messages, I actually have some time to type this up. This article appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times a few weeks ago (sorry, I lost the exact date). Reprinted without permission. "New Releases Bear Stamp Of Master Producer Laswell" Jazz Etc. by Lloyd Sachs As a producer of Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Herbie Hancock during the mid-'80s, Bill Laswell could have ridden the commercial gravy train and continued as one of the go-to guys in the studio. But the compromises and time-wasting he had to endure got to him. "After experimenting with that way of working," he said, "I decided to move as far away from it as I could." Having come to prominence with two "no wave" rock collectives in New York - Material and the Golden Palominos - Laswell formed Last Exit, a scorching band combining free-jazz and avant-garde rock. He also founded the Axiom label, whose artists included Exiteers Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson. Countless cutting-edge projects later, he finds himself in the agreeable place of being able to work for labels small and large, on projects ranging from an avant opera and his four-turntable band Praxis, to strong new albums by Henry Threadgill and James Blood Ulmer. To these ears, "Where's Your Cup?" (Columbia) is Threadgill's best effort since Too Much Sugar For A Dime," his electric collaboration with Laswell. Leading a new quintet, Make A Move, the alto saxist/flutist moves in yet another new direction on his mission to meld jazz, classical music and a gamut of world sounds ranging from Latin to Indian. Ulmer, celebrated for his shattering attack on guitar - and sometimes lamented for his rawboned vocals - applies a light touch to "South Delta Space Age" (Antilles). He leads Third Rail, a genre-mixing superband including Laswell, P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell, drummer Ziggy Modeliste of New Orleans' Meters and gospel-driven singer/organist Amina Claudine Myers. With their earthy tones and edgy, offbeat texture, Threadgill and Ulmer have proven difficult to record. But not for Laswell, who easily mastered the tricky bottom end of Threadgill's two-tuba, two-guitar band, Very Very Circus. "People overlooked the fact that he was using the tuba as a bass," he said. "You had to make it sound large and clear or else lose it in the mud." With Make A Move, a band of meditative intensity and soaring power featuring Tony Cedras on accordion and Brandon Ross on electric and classical-style guitar, Laswell found the going easy. "With Henry, you have to stay focused on the music, really listen and work kind of quickly because it can move so suddenly," he said. "You have to ready to go where it does. But I like his writing, so that was no big deal." With Ulmer, he put on his producer's hat before entering the studio. "I prodded Blood into playing in more of a pop vein," said Laswell, who played with him in a 1990 power trio that anticipated Third Rail. "Though he has aquired other information, he is inherently a rock musician." "I've seen him play in a blues-oriented, almost folk-feeling vein. Those, to me, are the elements to bring out in him." Built on glowingly nuanced funk grooves, "South Delta Space Age" boasts catchy pop hooks, blues licks, streams of neo-psychedelia, and hip-hop, voiced through Ulmer's half-smiling cover of Schooly D's "Dusted." Laswell is sometimes charged with being too hands-on in the studio, asserting his booming sonic vision at the cost of losing the voice of the artist. He'll admit to taking over "when that's necessary" - and when artists are in need of a personality infusion. With Threadgill and Ulmer, that will never be the case, though typically, they are hardly rewarded for their individuality. "Where's Your Cup?" is another underpromoted item by a label that seems to have signed the acclaimed artist for the prestige he brings them. "South Delta Space Age," released in Jpan in 1995, sat on the import shelf until recently. No surprises here for the producer. "Corporations don't like innovation," said Laswell. "It's too difficult for them to relate." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There's obviously a bit of misinformation in the above article (how Praxis got confused with the Invisible Scratch Pickles is beyond my best guess) but just in case some of this might be true... 1) Did Laswell work with Bowie? 2) What's this "avant opera" 3) Did Laswell play in a power trio with Ulmer? Any recordings? Thanks, Paul wesley@interaccess.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- GROOVE O(+> (the artist formerly known as Prince) <+)O - ---------- e - m - a - n - c - i - p - a - t - i - o - n one nation The Exodus Has Concluded - Welcome 2 The Dawn ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:22:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "wesley@interaccess.com" Subject: Hellborg/Laswell/Brotzmann Any info on the album _Ordinary Day_ credited to Jonas and Niels Hellborg along with Bill Laswell and Peter Brotzmann? Label unknown, but possibly MP though that could definately be an abbreviation. Thanks, Paul wesley@interaccess.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- GROOVE O(+> (the artist formerly known as Prince) <+)O - ---------- e - m - a - n - c - i - p - a - t - i - o - n one nation The Exodus Has Concluded - Welcome 2 The Dawn ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:22:27 +0000 From: cfinkle@YorkU.CA Subject: Masada Bar Kokbah is coming to Toronto! Hi, Just wanted inform the Toronto Zorn fans that Masada will be playing Harbourfront on August 25th and 26th, two shows each night! Jeremy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 19:38:53 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Laswell Article At 08:19 PM 5/29/97 -0500, wesley@interaccess.com wrote: >There's obviously a bit of misinformation in the above article (how Praxis >got confused with the Invisible Scratch Pickles is beyond my best guess) >but just in case some of this might be true... The Invisible Scratch Pickles have been the percussion unit for Praxis at some live shows. > >1) Did Laswell work with Bowie? No. Probably confusion with someone else. > >2) What's this "avant opera" It's a thing being done with Karl Berger. It will probably be released on Douglas. > >3) Did Laswell play in a power trio with Ulmer? Any recordings? Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, the recording was available briefly in Japan about six years ago and there are very few copies. Although I am sure Laswell must have one, it was not at Greenpoint (which is now defunct), and it isn't in his office. > >Thanks, > >Paul >wesley@interaccess.com > - ------------------------------------------------------------------- > GROOVE O(+> (the artist formerly known as Prince) <+)O >---------- e - m - a - n - c - i - p - a - t - i - o - n >one nation The Exodus Has Concluded - Welcome 2 The Dawn > - ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 00:55:07 -0500 (CDT) From: "wesley@interaccess.com" Subject: Re: Laswell Article On Thu, 29 May 1997, Jeff Spirer wrote: > The Invisible Scratch Pickles have been the percussion unit for Praxis at > some live shows. OK, now that makes sense. I guess the part about the "guitar player who wears a KFC bucket on his head" musta have been edited out by someone at the newspaper :) > >3) Did Laswell play in a power trio with Ulmer? Any recordings? > > Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, the recording was available briefly in Japan > about six years ago and there are very few copies. Although I am sure > Laswell must have one, it was not at Greenpoint (which is now defunct), and > it isn't in his office. Geez...for someone who has quite a reputation, Laswell has done some amazingly hard to get things :( Thanks for the info, Paul wesley@interaccess.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:07:59 -0400 From: ssmith@knittingfactory.com (Steve Smith) Subject: Re: Laswell Article >Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, the recording was available briefly in Japan >about six years ago and there are very few copies. Although I am sure >Laswell must have one, it was not at Greenpoint (which is now defunct), and >it isn't in his office. You might consider the augmented trio on Ulmer's "America, Do You Remember the Love?" (mid 1980s Blue Note) to fit that bill as well... Ulmer, Laswell, Shannon Jackson, plus sometimes second guitarist Nicky Skopelitis and vocalists the Fowler Brothers. Steve Smith ssmith@knittingfactory.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 08:21:55 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Laswell Article At 11:07 AM 5/30/97 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: >>Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, the recording was available briefly in Japan >>about six years ago and there are very few copies. Although I am sure >>Laswell must have one, it was not at Greenpoint (which is now defunct), and >>it isn't in his office. > >You might consider the augmented trio on Ulmer's "America, Do You Remember >the Love?" (mid 1980s Blue Note) to fit that bill as well... Ulmer, >Laswell, Shannon Jackson, plus sometimes second guitarist Nicky Skopelitis >and vocalists the Fowler Brothers. I don't think this is on CD. It would be really nice if it was, since I lost my vinyl copy. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 08:44:20 -0700 From: "Patrice L. Roussel" Subject: 100 OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODIES still available Just to let people know that Verge Distribution (Canada) still has the following record listed: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** - 100 OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODIES: Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins in duos with Pippin Barnett, Anthony Coleman, Tom Cora, Peter Cusak, Shelley Hirsch, George Lewis, Christian Marclay, Ben Neill, Zeena Parkins, Robert Poss, Ned Rothenberg, Elliott Sharp, Davey Williams, John Zorn, Peter Zummo. 1989 - Trace Elements, TE-1018 (CD) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Verge www: http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~verge/index.htm I remember people trying to put their hand on and wondering the meaning of life without it :-). Patrice. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:51:39 -0800 From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel) Subject: Re: Laswell Article >>3) Did Laswell play in a power trio with Ulmer? Any recordings? > >Yes. Yes. Unfortunately, the recording was available briefly in Japan >about six years ago and there are very few copies. Although I am sure >Laswell must have one, it was not at Greenpoint (which is now defunct), and >it isn't in his office. > What about Ulmer's "America: Do you Remember the Love", on Blue Note, 1987? It's credited to Ulmer, Laswell and Ronald Shannon Jackson. Nicky Skopelitis is on a couple of cuts, but it seems to be mostly the trio. Not my favorite Ulmer record, though. ________________________________________________________ Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org : www.peak.org/~improv/ "...there will come a day when you won't have to use gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire." -Sun Ra ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:21:09 -0400 (EDT) From: JonAbbey2@aol.com Subject: Re: Laswell Article In a message dated 5/30/97 12:45:31 PM, jeffs@hyperreal.com (Jeff Spirer) wrote: <<>You might consider the augmented trio on Ulmer's "America, Do You Remember >the Love?" (mid 1980s Blue Note) to fit that bill as well... Ulmer, >Laswell, Shannon Jackson, plus sometimes second guitarist Nicky Skopelitis >and vocalists the Fowler Brothers. I don't think this is on CD. It would be really nice if it was, since I lost my vinyl copy. >> Well, it may be out of print, but it was available at one point, because I've got one. Jon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:57:13 -0400 From: Sean Terwilliger Subject: Laswell's APC Stuff Thanks to the beautiful people at Downtown Music Gallery, I now own Laswell's APC tracks One and Two. THey are both really good dubby funk. However.... APC has a web site! APC has 2 other Laswell discs! One of them _F. Robert Lloyd - Think about Brooklyn_ Has Laswell, Sharrock, Fier and more. It's really good. The other _V.A. Think about Mustapha_ Which I havn't listened to al of yet has a really nice Nicky Skopelitis track. Oh yeah, http://www.apc.fr Took 'em a week to get the two new ones to me. - -Sean ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 18:06:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Hamilton Subject: Re: Laswell Article On Fri, 30 May 1997, Steve Smith wrote: > You might consider the augmented trio on Ulmer's "America, Do You Remember > the Love?" (mid 1980s Blue Note) to fit that bill as well... Ulmer, > Laswell, Shannon Jackson, plus sometimes second guitarist Nicky Skopelitis > and vocalists the Fowler Brothers. I'd warn anyone against running out and getting this one for the allstar cast. While it's not awful, it's very, very disappointing given the caliber of players involved. Chris Hamilton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:40:11 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Upcoming Laswell Releases - Listening Impressions Here are a few upcoming Laswell things I have now heard. Miles Davis: _Panthalassa - The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974_. I was originally told that this would be an "ambient dub" remix, but it isn't. Instead, it is remixed in the original spirit with an emphasis on some of the spacier and funkier aspects, and some ambient stuff linking together different sections. Mixes are very clean with the rhythm tracks more forward. This is in spirit close to last year's Pharoah Sanders' CD. Release scheduled for sometime later this year on Sony. Track Listing: 1) In a Silent Way: sections of "In a Silent Way" and "Shhh/Peaceful" from _In a Silent Way_ 2) On the Corner: "Black Satin" from _On the Corner_ followed by two unreleased jams from the same recording session 3) Rated X: "Rated X" and "Billy Preston" from _Get Up With It_ 4) He Loved Him Madly: From _Get Up With It_ Nicky Skopelitis and Raoul Bjorkenheim: _Revelator_. This collaboration between two guitarists doesn't fit any category. Some of it is ambient (almost new agey), some of it is very Middle Eastern, there is tabla through some of the tracks, and it is generally laid back although some of the guitar solos start to kick. Coming out on Douglas Records sometime. Track Listing, tentative names: 1) Sacrament; 2) Epiphany; 3) Fresh Meat & Roses; 4) Right as Rain Bob Marley: _Devotional Mix Translation_. Ambient dub remixes of Bob Marley tracks from the original masters. Includes classic tracks such as No Woman No Cry, Them Belly Full, Rebel Music, Exodus, and more. Includes classic tracks such as No Woman No Cry, Them Belly Full, Rebel Music, Exodus, and more. This is really eerie, listening to Marley's music without Marley, and very nicely done. Closer to traditional dub than much of what is called dub this day. Coming on Island, probably in September. Bernie Worrell: _Free Agent - A Spaced Odyssey_. This one is already out in Japan, but it's on Polystar which means US distribution is miserable. "Spaced Odyssey" is a fair description, this is funky stuff, occasionally even African influenced, with a lot of ambient overtones. With Hamid Drake, Aiyb Dieng, Dominic Kanza, Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Jean Pierre Sluys. This is produced by Bernie, with mix and additional production by Bill. There's also the live Praxis coming out on Douglas which is Praxis + turntables and has some great moments, but I think I have a pre-mix DAT so I'm not sure what it sounds like in final release. This is out in Europe, but there is no distribution deal in the US. On Douglas. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 20:54:41 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Upcoming Laswell Releases - Listening Impressions Following up on my own post, but I'm now at home and not listening on a tinny little boom box. Maybe it's the tequila, but - At 04:40 PM 5/30/97 -0700, Jeff Spirer wrote: >Here are a few upcoming Laswell things I have now heard. > >Miles Davis: _Panthalassa - The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974_. This is fuckin' amazing. Pushing the bottom out front really changes it, probably a lot closer to what it sounded like in the studio rather than Columbia's lame mixes. Some really ugly sounds, especially from the guitar, pop out beautifully, and there is some nifty synth texturing over the top that Bill may have added. If I can get legal clearance, I will play this on the Ann Arbor show on KFJC, SF Bay Area, in July. >Bernie Worrell: _Free Agent - A Spaced Odyssey_. If, like me, you thought Bernie's last few solo releases were lacking something, this one fixes all that. And Buckethead completely tears up the two tracks he appears on. Funky, noisy, all that shit. Hope someone in the US picks this up, because Polystar stuff disappears before it hits the shores. Eurodwellers might be luckier, Polystar does show up there. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 01:07:47 -0400 From: Malcolm Subject: Request for tour info I will be in NYC the week of July 1-5, 1997, and would like to find out if John Zorn will be performing during that time. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Malcolm Riviera malco@pobox.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 08:03:19 -0400 From: "ALAN E. KAYSER" Subject: Bobby Previte Does anyone have information on Bobby Previte, ie appearing in New York with his two bands, The Horse... and/or Latin for Travelers? Does he play on Tuesday evenings at KF during the summer? Any tour information would be appreciated. Alan E Kayser aek1@erols.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 02:13:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Hamilton Subject: Re: Upcoming Laswell Releases - Listening Impressions On Fri, 30 May 1997, Jeff Spirer wrote: > >Miles Davis: _Panthalassa - The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974_. > > This is fuckin' amazing. Pushing the bottom out front really changes it, > probably a lot closer to what it sounded like in the studio rather than > Columbia's lame mixes. Some really ugly sounds, especially from the > guitar, pop out beautifully, and there is some nifty synth texturing over > the top that Bill may have added. Given that the original records sound pretty damn great to my ears, this must really be something. I'm looking forward to this tremendously. Chris Hamilton ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:44:23 -0400 From: ssmith@knittingfactory.com (Steve Smith) Subject: Re: Bobby Previte >Does anyone have information on Bobby Previte, ie appearing in New York >with his two bands, The Horse... and/or Latin for Travelers? Does he >play on Tuesday evenings at KF during the summer? Any tour information >would be appreciated. >Alan E Kayser >aek1@erols.com Bobby does play on Tuesday nights around 11:30 with The Horse, which is free. They'll take a break from June 16 to 30 during the Jazz Festival but will presumably resume after that. And Latin for Travelers will be playing on June 30 as part of the Texaco New York Jazz Festival. You can call (212) 219 3006 (or e-mail me privately) for more information about tickets. The ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy and Human Feel (with Chris Speed and Jim Black) are among the other bands on the bill that night. BTW Bobby's first CD on his new label Depth of Field should be shipping in September... it's a studio recorded disc of duets with Zorn, and he's mighty happy with it... Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 13:07:08 -0400 From: Dave Brunelle Subject: Anybody there? Is anybody out there? I signed up for the list about 5 days ago...and nothing's come yet. I'm a Zorn fan, but more than that, I'm a Laswell fanatic. I'd like to know if anyone has any info on the really rare albums that the they've put out (as far as availability and through what sources) as well as any merchandise from either of them - shirts and such. I'm more than happy to share any info someone might be looking for on anything that I might have. Dave Brunelle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 14:27:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Howard Shih Subject: Need Help re: Company 91 I came across 3 volumes of Company 91 (on Incus?) and wasn't sure which one to start with. Is there a better one to get if I'm more into Buckhead & Zorn than Bailey & co? And speaking of Buckethead... what's up with Arcana 2? Howard Shih howards@m4dd.com Programmer/Analyst Meta 4 Digital Design Phone: 201-597-1720 Ext. 242 FAX: 201-597-1730 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 13:19:24 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Need Help re: Company 91 At 02:27 PM 6/6/97 -0400, Howard Shih wrote: >And speaking of Buckethead... what's up with Arcana 2? It's scheduled for a fall release on Axiom. Tony Williams' death changed the timing since the liner notes had to be rewritten, and it is now more of a "tribute" release. Also, Ornette never got into the studio, and Bill was waiting for that to happen, but now it just won't be on there. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 01:50:17 +0000 From: Scott Russell Subject: CDs/Tzadik - --MimeMultipartBoundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear All this is a re-post of two messages I sent earlier in the week which seemed to vanish into cyberspace: Anyone got any news on that Tzadik website that was mentioned a while back? Here are some items I've got for exchanging.Sorry about the lack of direct zorn influence but all are interesting: Painkiller, Buried Secrets. Phantom City, Shiva Recoil; Paul Schutze, Laswell, Raoul Bjorkenheim etc Live disc. Divination, Akasha. Double cd of Laswell Ambient/Drum and Bass type stuff. Featuring Harris and DXT Techno Animal, Re-entry. Massively long double cd of ambient soundscapes. Similar to FSOL but leans towards dub a bit more. Bowery Electric, Beat. Guitar drone rock with samples and some backbeats. Bardo Pond. First cd. Lengthy droning guitar jams with whispered, etherial vocals. Works up quite a storm in places. All the above are cds, doubles where indicated. I'm interested in exchanging for anything interesting and all the usual Zorn associations apply. Scott Russell. - --MimeMultipartBoundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 13:19:24 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Need Help re: Company 91 At 02:27 PM 6/6/97 -0400, Howard Shih wrote: >And speaking of Buckethead... what's up with Arcana 2? It's scheduled for a fall release on Axiom. Tony Williams' death changed the timing since the liner notes had to be rewritten, and it is now more of a "tribute" release. Also, Ornette never got into the studio, and Bill was waiting for that to happen, but now it just won't be on there. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 12:37:56 +1000 From: "Julian" Subject: Laswell I just got here like say a week or two ago, so can someone please tell me where Zorn and Laswell have worked together? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 00:40:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Hamilton Subject: Re: Need Help re: Company 91 On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Howard Shih wrote: > I came across 3 volumes of Company 91 (on Incus?) and wasn't sure which > one to start with. Is there a better one to get if I'm more into Buckhead > & Zorn than Bailey & co? Volume 3 is definitely the one to start with for maximum Zorn/Buckethead airtime, although all three are excellent. If you look at the track listing, each track is just titled with the initials of the featured musicians. (Buckethead is identified as BK.) Chris Hamilton ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 00:57:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Hamilton Subject: Re: Laswell On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Julian wrote: > I just got here like say a week or two ago, so can someone please tell me > where Zorn and Laswell have worked together? Oddly enough, I'm not sure this has come up before. Here's the ones I know about: John Zorn, _Archery_: Laswell plays bass. _Improvised Music New York 1981_: Laswell on bass, Zorn on reeds, with Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Sonny Sharrock, and Charles K. Noyes. _The Golden Palominos_: Laswell plays bass and produces. Zorn makes squonks on various reeds. _Rubaiyat_: A various artists record on Elektra. Laswell plays bass on Zorn's arrangement of the Stooges' "TV Eye". Praxis, _Sacrifist_: Zorn plays sax and co-composes one track with Laswell. Laswell produces and probably plays some bass. Then there are the four Painkiller records (_Guts of a Virgin_, _Buried Secrets_, _Execution Ground_, _Rituals_), which are of course collaborations with Mick Harris. OK, what am I missing? Chris Hamilton, feeling more than ever like a stamp collector ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 20:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: DMB5561719@aol.com Subject: Pandit Pran Nath Memorial Broadcast Pandit Pran Nath (November 3, 1918 - June 13, 1996) North Indian Master Vocalist Memorial Broadcast in honor of the one year anniversary of his death Friday, June 13, 1997 8:00 to 11:00 PM WFMU 91.1 FM East Orange, New Jersey Music from the MELA Foundation Archives presented by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela on the Hip Bone show with William Berger D a v i d B e a r d s l e y .. dmb5561719@aol.com * .. * ... .* .... *...... . ..* I M M P & B i i n k! m u s i c .. .. * .. .. * .. J u x t a p o s i t i o n Ezine * . .. * . .*.. . .. . . .*. . . . . .. .. http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm . .. .*.. . .. . ..*. . .. . *. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 03:13:48 PST From: gsg@juno.com (Geoff S Gersh) Subject: Geoff Gersh solo just wanted to let all you NYC area folks know about a gig I'm doing at the Knitting Factory in the Alterknit on Sunday June 15th at 11pm. i'll be playing elec. guitar, fretless prepared guitar and some other toys played with and without the aid of various delays and looping devices..... see ya there!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 10:39:59 +0200 From: anders.fransson@hoe.se (Anders Fransson) Subject: Arcana On the European Free Improvisation Homepage the concert scedule announced Arcana at the Frankfurt Festival June 7. With Bailey and Laswell offcource and Jack DeJonette on drums! Does anybody knowes more about it??? Anders - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Fransson, Biblioteket Hogskolan i Orebro, 701 82 Orebro, Sweden e-mail: anders.fransson@hoe.se Phone +46 19 30 38 66 Fax +46 19 30 38 55 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 15:13:38 -0400 From: Dave Brunelle Subject: Praxis Show Just wanted to let everyone know that there's a Praxis gig at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage on Friday, June 13. Dave Brunelle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:35:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Wlt4@aol.com Subject: Laswell's Miles remix album Bill Laswell's Panthalassa: Music of Miles Davis 1969-74 is scheduled for an August 19th release on Columbia. Anybody know what "panthalassa" means? Lang Thompson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:10:45 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Laswell's Miles remix album At 11:35 PM 6/9/97 -0400, Wlt4@aol.com wrote: >Bill Laswell's Panthalassa: Music of Miles Davis 1969-74 is scheduled for an >August 19th release on Columbia. > >Anybody know what "panthalassa" means? Hundreds of millions of years ago, the earth had only one continent, which later split into the continents we now know. The continent was called Pangea, the ocean that surrounded Pangea was called Panthalassa. I'm not sure how long ago it was exactly, but it explains a lot of interesting fossil finds. I posted track listings and a very short review on several lists including this one and at least one newsgroup. Artwork for the booklet is underway and as soon as it is done, it should be at the web address below. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 22:02:59 -0700 From: Jeff Spirer Subject: Re: Laswell's Miles remix album >At 11:35 PM 6/9/97 -0400, Wlt4@aol.com wrote: >>Anybody know what "panthalassa" means? And I said: >Hundreds of millions of years ago, the earth had only one continent, which >later split into the continents we now know. The continent was called >Pangea, the ocean that surrounded Pangea was called Panthalassa. I forgot to mention that Miles put out a CD called _Pangea_. And I didn't know what panthalassa meant until the guy putting together the liner notes told me. Jeff Spirer Axiom/Material www.hyperreal.com/axiom/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:28:09 +0100 From: cedric perrier Subject: free sax on the net, quick!! Wednesday 11, JOSEPH BUTCH ROVAN et ZACK SETTLE will perform live on the net sur RADIO BLOCKQUOTE at 1PM.(free music and/or/with powertronics) connect in time and /or listen to it later at http://www.cpp.fr/webcpp/indexf.html ok?? cedric demain sur radio blockquote la radio cyber de canal + en live real audio sur le reseau JOSEPH BUTCH ROVAN et ZACK SETTLE performeront en direct sur la radio du net ces deux improvisateurs free utilisent également des converteurs digital analogique digital analogique digital analogique digital analogique digital et accompagnent aussi à l'occasion atau tanaka je vous invite donc à vous connecter à 13hoo sur radio blockquote http://www.cpp.fr/webcpp/indexf.html ou même à écouter l'émission plus tard mais en live c'est toujours mieux. bon a + cedric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 19:42:58 +0000 From: cfinkle@YorkU.CA Subject: Need Help w/ Cobra (rules & application) Hi, I was wondering if there is any Cobra experts here. I need someone who truly understands the rules and how they work. I know some of them but I know there is a lot more to learn. If anybody can help me I would truly appreciate it. Thank You, Jeremy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:45:27 +0000 From: Dwight Haden Subject: Will Trade Masada 4 or 7 I'd like to interrupt with a small business proposition: I am willing to trade a Masada 4 or Masada 7 for a new or like new Painkiller - Buried Secrets. Must be Toys Factory, not Earache. Masadas are new, in original wrap. Email me offlist for more details, thanks. Dwight Haden === dhaden@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------ End of zorn-list Digest V2 #83 ****************************** To subscribe to zorn-list Digest, send the command: subscribe zorn-list-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@xmission.com". 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