From: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (Zorn List Digest) To: zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: Zorn List Digest V2 #890 Reply-To: zorn-list Sender: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Zorn List Digest Tuesday, March 14 2000 Volume 02 : Number 890 In this issue: - Vooruit Geluid Festival Re: death ambient + jon rose Hano/Brotzmann/Haino Europe Live Dates city planning; bley; jazz times; recent goodies arcana album design [no zorn content] Re: bacharach and gainsbourg AMM play Scotland shock RE: E# Re: bacharach and gainsbourg Recent Goodies (All Jazz, Little Zorn) Random Acoustics/Tom & Gerry (was Re: Recent Goodies) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:04:50 +0100 (CET) From: Yves Dewulf Subject: Vooruit Geluid Festival Hi all, Not directly Zorn-related but the line-up looks so promising=20 that I can imagine that some of you might be interested! more info at http://www.vooruit.be (only Dutch) Yves The program of the bi-annual Vooruit Geluid Festival in Gent,Belgium: Th.4 May 18.30 Fr=E9d=E9ric Le Junter Th 4-6 May 20.00 Larf: Victoria/Josse De Pauw=20 (+ Flat Earth Society and Roland) Th 4 May 22.00 City Kingz & Greetings From Mercury=20 (Jeroen Van Herzeele+Krewcial+Tlp+...) Th 4 May 22.00 Dave Douglas Sextet (Mary Lou Williams project) =20 Th 4-6 May, Th 11 May, Fr 12 May 24.00 Koba & Payday in March Fr 5 May 20.00 Ned Rothenberg's Sync=20 Fr 5 May 22.00 Lite 2.1: Ren=E9 Lussier & Victors Sa 6 May 20.00 4 Walls ( Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Luc Ex , Michael Va= tcher) Sa 6 May 21.30 The Spaceheads &=20 Crash Party (Tribute to Howard shore with Tom Barman(dEUS= ) and Dewaele Brothers (Soulwax)) Su 7, mo 8 May 20.00 A Medieval Circus on The Canterbury Tales=20 - John Cage Chauncecleer (Tom Hannes) Su 7 May 21.30 DJ Spooky=20 Mo 8 May 21.30 Silent Block & Martin Tetrault=20 Tu 9 May 22.30 Bob Ostertag & Otomo Yoshihide Tu 9 May 20.00 Shelley Hirsch & DJ Olive & Luc Ferrari:=20 Hermes Ensemble/DJ Olive We 10 May 20.00 For my father: Shelly Hersch We 10 May 22.30 Haco=20 Do 11 May 20.00 Misha Mengelberg & Ictus Do 11 May 21.30 Erik M & Catherine Jauniaux =20 & Rene Lussier & Martin Tetrault = =20 Fr 12 May 20.00 Cikori: Iva Bittova Fr 12 May 23.00 Eugene Chadbourne & Olla Vogala Sa 13 May 20.00 Tobias Delius Kwartet (Delius,Honsinger,Bennink,Williams= on) & Flat Earth Society (Peter Vermeersch Big Band) Sa 13 May 23.00 Jazzanova & Fauna Flash - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:27:53 -0500 From: "Joslyn Layne" Subject: Re: death ambient + jon rose Kurt wrote: >also pickd up a jon rose disc i haven't played yet. got me thinking, i >haven't >heard much talk of him round these cyberparts. i've been really digging to >him >lately. anyone else? Scott Handley wrote: Never gotten around to checking him out. I remember reading in some interview or profile that he made a lot of enemies in the improvising community for releasing a recording with a cast of dozens, without asking for permission to do so. I can't substantiate this now, but what's a little gossip? I recommend the 2CD retrospective on entropy records- both for those just starting to check him out, and for fans. It's a well-done cross-section of his recordings, with many photos of his creations.. 'paganini's last testimony' is quite disturbed and interesting, but i believe it's out of print. i caught a solo show last year and enjoyed it quite a bit. he's a very intense man; one of those who, in performance, make me [albeit respectfully- even with a bit of awe] doubt their sanity. another that comes to mind is jaap blonk... no idea about whether the above gossip is true.. joslyn - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:46:15 -0500 From: David Keffer Subject: Hano/Brotzmann/Haino Europe Live Dates I thought this might be of interest to the Zorn-listers in Western Europe. Here are the live dates for the upcoming European Tour featuring the trio Keiji Haino (gtr.) Shoji Hano (perc.) Peter Brotzmann(sax) March 25 at SJU Jazzpodium in Utrecht, Netherlands. March 26 at Dodorama in Rotterdam, Netherlands. March 27 or 28 at Stadtgarten or Loft in Cologne, Germany. March 30 at Minor Jazz in Graz, Austria. March 31 at Schlachthof in Wels, Austria. April 1 at Musik-Kultur in St. Johann, Austria. April 2 at Jazzgalerie Hans Falb in Nickelsdorf, Austria. If anyone in attendance happens to dub one of these shows, let me know. I am always interested in swapping Haino bootlegs. David K. Site Maintenance Man An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website http://www.planetc.com/users/keffer/haino/index.html - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:47:37 +0000 From: Simon Hopkins Subject: city planning; bley; jazz times; recent goodies Bill Ashline wrote: "One sees clearly with the urban planning of Robert Morris, a willful intent to make living in Manhattan as difficult as possible for those without resources..." Sorry about this, Bill, but my learned colleague Dan Hill has asked me to point out that that should be Robert Moses. Such pedantry! Someone mentioned the Paul Bley book a few posts back. Just wanted to mention that Dan and I interviewed Bley at the end of last year when he was over for the ECM 30th Birthday Festival in Brighton. We found him extremely engaging and funny. Had a couple of great stories about Robert Moog and about Herbie Hancock. We should have the interiew up as text, audio and video later this month. I'll keep you posted. The consensus here seemes to be that the JT interview wasn't that great. I beg to differ; I think it's pretty inspirational. Sure, there's not a whole lot of depth there about working practices and so on, but how can you cover stuff like that with such limited space. What comes over clearly is the man's passion and anger. His admiration of artists and musicians (even artists he has no real time for - eg Marsalis) is refreshing, while his disdain for the industry and for media in general is spot on. Likewise his pinpointing of TV specifically as a draining waste of time (reminded me of the White Dot association's inspiring anti-TV polemic 'Get A Life'). Yes, the man's pissed off, and sounds, at times, paranoid. But isn't he justified? And he's doing something about it - trying to assert complete independence in an increasingly, crushingly corporate world. On the recent goodies front, it's been a promising start to the year, I reckon. Here are some of the things that have tickled my fancy (some of them might be 1999 tail-enders; I am writing from an Old World backwater, after all... Revenge of Camper Van Chadbourne (Knit Fac) Fushitsusha - I Saw It! (Paratactile) Otmo Yoshide - Cathode (Tzadik) Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread (Leaf) Philip Tomasic - Figure (Sachimay) Prelapse - Prelapse (Avant) Ponga - Remixed (Loosegroove) D'Angelo - Voodoo (EMI/Virgin) Solutiore of Stareau (SoS) Skull - Snapz (Output) The Best of Os Mutantes (Luaka Bop) Yagi Michiyo - Shizuku (Tzadik) Extended Organ - XOXO (Birdman) Mark Ribot - Yo! I Killed Your God (Tzadik) Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture (Ozone) Anti Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue (Ozone) As ever, most of these have got soundfile-accompanied reviews up on motion http://motion.state51.co.uk simon hopkins a state51 rhoda street london e2 7ef t 00 44 (0)171 729 8493 sh is a member of the state51 conspiracy, incorporating motion http://motion.state51.co.uk skam musicbee the knowhere guide http://www.knowhere.co.uk/ - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:44:20 GMT From: "Scott Handley" Subject: arcana So is Downtown Music Gallery, for the same price. Just 'cause I like the underdog... >Amazon is selling copies at $20 each. The link is below: > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/188712327X/qid=953033936/sr=1-1/002-2092371-9494025 > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:39 -0500 From: Jason Tors Subject: album design [no zorn content] I was thinking about getting into album / cd design. If anyone on the list can share their thought and experiences with the medium that would be great. - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:11:59 GMT From: "Bill Ashline" Subject: Re: bacharach and gainsbourg >From: Marcel Cobussen >I would opt for >Derrida interviewing Zorn instead of Bourdieu!). I'd like to see an encounter between Derrida and Zorn too but I think Bourdieu would do much better as an interviewer, especially since when Derrida is in interviews he spends so much time talking about tape recorders! >I'm interested in everything that is written about these projects: every > >review, essay, commentary, interview, etc. in music magazines, >newspapers, internet sites, etc. I've posted this link previously, but will do so again... http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.195/mcneilly.195 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:33:08 +0000 From: "Scott" Subject: AMM play Scotland shock April/May coming, Glasgow plays host to a couple of serious improvisation weekends under the stewardship of Evan Parker. Appearances by AMM, Barry Guy, Han Bennink, Alex Von Schlippenbach and many others. Initial details can be found under the news section at the url below. Scott Russell - -- White Noise For experimental events in Scotland http://www.burntweeny.freeserve.co.uk - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:30:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Subject: RE: E# >Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:44:17 EST >From: XRedbirdxx@aol.com >Subject: E# > >tonight i witnessed elliot sharp and orchestra carbon perform radiolaria at >the KF. >as this was basically my introductory experience to his work, could someone >be so kind as to respond with a crash-course in his other projects/output? i Why don't you have a look at the website of esharp. It tries to be comprehensive of the various facets of his work. >enigmatic, i tend to presume that this query is far easier to answer than >that of the aforementioned would-be jz neophyte. >p.s. - and isn't radiolaria connected to the quasi-recent discussion of sine >waves and "difference tones"? I missed the discussion on sine waves. Indeed someone wrote - announcement of the concert you saw (taken from the 'Datacide' mailing list) ... >>Premiered at the 42st. Whitney Museum in December '99, RADIOLARIA is the >>latest of E#'s algorithmic compositions. Based on biological models of >>growth and reproduction, the 12-piece ensemble of winds, brass, samplers, >>and percussion plus real-time computer processing, uses sets of simple >>instructions to manipulate a variety of composed cores, creating structures >>in a mode analogous to that of organisms such as "radiolaria," a kind of >>aquatic, single-celled protozoa. These structures are not just ordered in >>time but also in acoustic space, with the stacked overtones of the >>interacting instruments manifesting difference tone effects and "ghost >>instruments." This effect is enhanced by the live computer processing of >>the massed sound of the ensemble to extract overtones and subharmonics fed >>back into the mix. Hope it answers. Urls below. Benjamin Pequet http://www.algonet.se/~repple/esharp/es.html http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/datacide - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:51:06 -0500 From: "Caleb T. Deupree" Subject: Re: bacharach and gainsbourg At 01:55 PM 3/14/00 +0100, Marcel Cobussen wrote: >Maybe somebody >can tell me where I can find these old e-mails you've sent to each >other. Archives are at ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/lists/zorn-list/archive. For news articles, if your university has access to lexis-nexis, I'd try there. - -- Caleb Deupree cdeupree@erinet.com It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. - -- Raymond Chandler - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:39:26 -0500 From: "Steve Smith" Subject: Recent Goodies (All Jazz, Little Zorn) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01BF8E06.278F1660 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just got the last disc by the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, 'Waltzes, Two = Steps and Other Matters of the Heart' on the GM label. What a fine, = fine band that was. It's possibly a bit superfluous if you've got the = hatART releases and/or the Random Acoustics, but as those are all = evidently out of print and scarce, this will do nicely. Seven live = tracks, nice sound. But what really has me posting is a most unexpected little pleasure: a = shiny new slab of emphatic and empathetic freebop jazz called 'Waterloo = Ice House' by former Dallasite/current Oregonian trumpeter Rob = Blakeslee, leading a quartet featuring the terrific and unheralded tenor = saxophonist by night / computer programmer by day Rich Halley. This is = out on a little label out of Corvallis, OR called Louie Records. It's = nothing that's gonna change the world, just one more example that fine = jazz is happening everywhere. I've been a fan of Blakeslee since his = collaborations with Dennis Gonzalez back in the late '80s, and more = recently he's been active on the 9 Winds label as a Vinny Golia = collaborator. Halley I discovered in college via his recordings on the = completely obscure Avocet label also out of Oregon - he reminds me of a = David Murray with less showboating and more taste, and I find it = incredible that he does this only part time (I was so taken with his = records which somehow found their way to my little college radio station = in San Antonio that I tracked him down and called him at home on a few = occasions). Drummer Dave Storrs also had some adventurous records on = the Avocet label at the same time. Bassist Clyde Reed is new to me but = complements the band nicely. Louie Records is at 644 SW 5th, Corvallis, = OR 97333 and they do seem to have a number of discs available via = Cadence, including a few led by Storrs which I probably ought to = investigate. Finally, I note that the quite lovely recording was = mastered by one Dave Trenkel and wonder if he's our own "fast and = bulbous" one...? Also picked up 'SATLAH' by Danny Zamir on Tzadik. I probably need to = give this a few more spins - on first impression I'm only moderately = impressed with this admittedly gifted young alto sax player who's a new = favorite of Zorn's. So far I'm just not too grabbed. But Zornies will = want to know that the man himself guests on a few cuts. More later, Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Rob Blakeslee, "Give Up the Chair," 'Waterloo Ice House' (Louie) - ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01BF8E06.278F1660 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Just got the last disc by the Gerry = Hemingway=20 Quintet, 'Waltzes, Two Steps and Other Matters of the Heart' on the GM=20 label.  What a fine, fine band that was.  It's possibly a bit=20 superfluous if you've got the hatART releases and/or the Random = Acoustics, but=20 as those are all evidently out of print and scarce, this will do = nicely. =20 Seven live tracks, nice sound.
 
But what really has me posting is a = most unexpected=20 little pleasure: a shiny new slab of emphatic and empathetic freebop = jazz called=20 'Waterloo Ice House' by former Dallasite/current Oregonian trumpeter Rob = Blakeslee, leading a quartet featuring the terrific and unheralded tenor = saxophonist by night / computer programmer by day Rich Halley.  = This is out=20 on a little label out of Corvallis, OR called Louie Records.  It's = nothing=20 that's gonna change the world, just one more example that fine jazz is = happening=20 everywhere.  I've been a fan of Blakeslee since his collaborations = with=20 Dennis Gonzalez back in the late '80s, and more recently he's been = active=20 on the 9 Winds label as a Vinny Golia collaborator.  Halley I = discovered in=20 college via his recordings on the completely obscure Avocet label also = out of=20 Oregon - he reminds me of a David Murray with less showboating and more = taste,=20 and I find it incredible that he does this only part time (I was so = taken with=20 his records which somehow found their way to my little college radio = station in=20 San Antonio that I tracked him down and called him at home on a few=20 occasions).  Drummer Dave Storrs also had some adventurous records = on the=20 Avocet label at the same time.  Bassist Clyde Reed is new to me but = complements the band nicely.  Louie Records is at 644 SW 5th, = Corvallis, OR=20 97333 and they do seem to have a number of discs available via Cadence,=20 including a few led by Storrs which I probably ought to = investigate. =20 Finally, I note that the quite lovely recording was mastered by one Dave = Trenkel=20 and wonder if he's our own "fast and bulbous" one...?
 
Also picked up 'SATLAH' by Danny Zamir = on=20 Tzadik.  I probably need to give this a few more spins - on first=20 impression I'm only moderately impressed with this admittedly gifted = young alto=20 sax player who's a new favorite of Zorn's.  So far I'm just not too = grabbed.  But Zornies will want to know that the man himself guests = on a=20 few cuts.
 
More later,
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - Rob Blakeslee, "Give Up the = Chair," 'Waterloo=20 Ice House' (Louie)
- ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01BF8E06.278F1660-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:04:03 EST From: JonAbbey2@aol.com Subject: Random Acoustics/Tom & Gerry (was Re: Recent Goodies) In a message dated 3/14/00 10:41:11 PM, ssmith36@sprynet.com writes: << It's possibly a bit superfluous if you've got the hatART releases and/or the Random Acoustics, but as those are all evidently out of print and scarce, this will do nicely. >> Random Acoustics will be resuscitated very soon, after a hiatus of a few years. Georg Grawe's not running the label anymore; he's evidently living somewhere in California (anyone know where?). I know that RA will be releasing a solo Thomas Lehn CD imminently, but I'm not sure what this means for their back catalog or what other new releases are coming up. I haven't heard the Lehn yet, but I should be getting a bunch of copies soon. so, I finally got to see Lehn perform over the weekend, in duo with Gerry Hemingway (Friday night at Bard, Saturday at Experimental Intermedia in NYC). the Bard show had a nice relaxed atmosphere, with a room full of shaggy-haired college kids chugging cheap wine straight from the bottle. they played 2 sets, about 90 minutes total. the second set ended with a crazy, raucous piece in which both of them were beating the hell out of their instruments, so hard I thought something might break. they stopped on a dime, the crowd went nuts, and then they did one last supersilent piece. a millisecond after they finished, subtly trailing off into silence, the clock in the chapel next door began chiming out 10 PM, and the musicians and the audience waited for it to end before again cheering loudly. it was a memorable, serendipitous moment. the XI concert also went really well, despite the terrible weather. it was SRO, with the crowd mostly being mostly older, XI-types, but with some young 'uns mixed in. musically, the show was very good, with some amazing moments, maybe not quite as consistent as their Bard show the night before, but still pretty kick-ass. it seemed to me that they were a bit nervous in the first set (it was Lehn's NYC debut), but the second set was gorgeous, the best of the two nights. what impressed me the most seeing Lehn live was his range of sounds and ideas, all produced by an analog synth. I've heard a ton of his music now, and he virtually never seems to repeat himself. I'd say over the two nights, he had a 90-95 percent rate of interesting ideas, which is pretty impressive for any free improv musician, let alone an electronic one. Jon www.erstwhilerecords.com - - ------------------------------ End of Zorn List Digest V2 #890 ******************************* To unsubscribe from zorn-list-digest, send an email to "majordomo@lists.xmission.com" with "unsubscribe zorn-list-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "zorn-list-digest" in the commands above with "zorn-list". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from ftp.xmission.com, in pub/lists/zorn-list/archive. These are organized by date. Problems? Email the list owner at zorn-list-owner@lists.xmission.com