Written-By, Performer, Violin, Voice – Sarah Neufeld
Notes
All songs written and performed live (no overdubs/loops) by Colin Stetson (tenor and bass saxophones, contrabass clarinet) and Sarah Neufeld (violin, voice).
It doesn't surprise me that I'm a little late to finally get to him. I did search of the boards and I do wonder how I missed all the posts - from years back. Oh well, better late than never and I guess my ears must ready now.
I believe I'm going to stop here and let these play out through the rotation.
Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson - Stones
ps - Recorded live on stage at the 2011 Vancouver Jazz Festival. I'll look forward to checking the SFL and seeing those others there. Now if I could only get past page 3 before the kitty's all used up.
Fred Ho' and the Saxophone Liberation Front Snake-Eaters (Mutable/Big Red Media 002) (UPC: 801021700227)
Snake-Eaters debuts Fred Ho's Saxophone Liberation Front, featuring composer Ho on baritone saxophone and Hafez Modirzadeh (soprano), Bobby Zankel (alto) and Salim Washington (tenor).
Darker than Blue, inspired by Curtis Mayfield's song, We the People Who are Darker than Blue, employs shifting meters (including a blues section in 11/8 and 11.5 /8), 12-tone serialism, compound meter ostinati, and Lydian chromatic approaches to orchestration.
Ho's Yellow Power, Yellow Soul Suite coincides with the soon-to-be publication of the Drs. Roger Buckley and Tamara Roberts' festschrift by the same title, and includes the previously recorded "Fishing Song of the East China Sea" (originally a flute trio with bass violin on the out-of-print recording by Fred Ho and the Asian American Art Ensemble,Bamboo that Snaps Back; and the now-defunct Brooklyn Sax Quartet recording The Far Side of Here), as well as Afro-Asian adaptations of other Asian folk songs.
Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist) is an homage to one of Asian America's greatest innovators, martial artist-actor-philosopher-teacher Bruce Lee. Lalo Schifrin-esque tropes from the epic film, Enter: The Dragon, combine with the élan of Stan Getz-ian bossa nova and cool styles, and epitomize the Zen-like philosophy and pugilism of Bruce Lee: the art of fighting without fighting; or as Ho has stated: the point of technique is to have no technique (and by inference, be completely intuitive, improvisational and in the moment).
Reflections (Upon Reflections!), in a sonata-like form of Exposition upon Monk's classic tune, an extended Development that is a significant departure from a chord-changes based tune, and a brief Recapitulation. Misty-ificaton is a "what-if" supposition: What if the DNA of Errol Garner's Misty was mixed with the genes of Rob Zombie's films? Frightening? Horrifying? Or, Hyperbolized? Steroidal balladry?
During the international campaign to oppose the celebration of the Columbus quincentennial, in which indigenous peoples joined with anti-imperialist and pro-social justice forces worldwide, including a vast array of artists, the old Fred Ho composed the Beyond Columbus and Capitalism suite for the Rova Saxophone Quartet, which would during the 1990s lead to the formation of the Brooklyn Sax Quartet when Ho was asked to do numerous benefit concerts throughout New York City
Reflections(Redux and Prefigurative) has Ho playing Thelonius Monk's melody in the very bottom register of his low-A horn while voicing the accompanying saxes down-upwards, and ending with a collective bluesy-gospel romp towards an ending chord of precursory possibilities.
Finally, the extraordinary duet by Fred Ho and Persian-American vocalist Haleh Abghari, Dear Reader, based upon a James Tate poem, which was commissioned in 2006 by the Guggenheim Museum Works and Process series.
acoustic doom and pseudotango of lost, deep, wooden men. double doppelgänger of chamber music and wheezing jazz for ghost towns. tobacco warm and gloriously dark, smeared in smokey, scorned love and dust.
Krügers Medbragte - Den Sindsyge Broders Bøn
" Krügers Broughtalong - The Insane Brother's Prayer"
- Translated from norwegian (or danish wich is practically the same)
The Youtube link was NA in Denmark so I changed it to Bandcamp.
- ""Den Sindsyge Broders Bøn" is an instrumental soundtrack of Nordic death tango. Guitars, banjo, upright bass, accordion, musical saws and percussion interweave a glorious folkloric journey which reminds us of an unnerving Weimar Republic cabaret troupe or an intoxicated Tom Waits rattling out a musical accompaniment to old, fireside murder ballads."
@rostasi - thanks for the tip on Krügers Medbragte. I listened via youTube and bought the album on bandcamp (15 NOK is a great deal, about $1.80 USD).
From Last.FM - "Saturated dark ruby. Sweet and high toned saw singing and smokey oak banjo moves. Concentrated and earfilling on the low notes with beautiful balance, velvety tannins and a long finish. Soft attack of pure, decisive blackened tango. Spicy damson and oak character that races through the Painted Ladies of Deadwood Gulch to the Harlots of the Barbary Coast. Sounds for vigilantes, badmen, lawmen and hangmen found in great south-western tales."
There's been a few people lately that have made me think of David Poe and I just found out that finally the double booster deal is available to Canadians tonight. Here goes a short 5 track album I'm not familiar with Duncan Sheik but I've been a fan of David Poe since T-Bone Burnette introduced me to his self titled album in 1997. It also included Colin Linden, Marc Ribot, and Don Heffington in the guest list.
ETA - I couldn't resist adding this too. From my favourite album, this track features Linden on slide guitar tasters and Heffington on green drums.
Susan Cadogan - Susan Cadogan http://www.listentothis.info/2016/02/susan-cadogan-susan-cadogan-1976.html?m=1
"An unusually romantic record from master Lee "Scratch" Perry. Sunny, sensual vocal layering from Susan Cadogan, whose voice I can't get enough of. Perfectly gritty reverb. Apparently this didn't attract much attention in Jamaica at the time of its release but it did well overseas, especially in the UK. I can't really think of anyone who wouldn't love this."
ps - Thanks again, that took me back. Made me think of one of my favourite guitar players Earl "Chinna" Smith.
This will be occupying much of my time for the next couple of weeks...five shows (July 1, 3,5,7,8, 1978), each in a beautiful folder with some of the best Dead art I have seen in a long time. Plus a 48 page book.
I don't usually like to post an album more than once (or, at least, not in succession), but this is really floating my boat. I really hope they upload their newest to eMusic, too. Not sure why it's just the single. Maybe a failed upload of the whole album?
-Really on a Barwick kick lately. This album hits me similar to how that Riceboy Sleeps album does... soothing and soft, but it insinuates itself onto my consciousness. Even if I drift off into daydreams while listening, it becomes the de facto soundtrack to the imagery. I decided to pass on picking up her new album "Will" at eMusic, just gonna pay a couple extra bucks and get the CD from Amazon. It's the kind of music, IMO, where the extra money invested in a better medium pays dividends.
-I got this CD from my old brother-in-law, who would get me (thankfully) a non-jazz CD each year for Christmas. His taste was impeccable, and each time, he picked something that I'd never heard before, and, consequently, became something I kept buying more of. Off the top of my head, this CD by Julianna Barwick, and also Dosh "Wolves & Wishes" and Balmorhea "Rivers Arms". I still listen to all three of these pretty frequently. I think he may have got me a Tzadik label album once, too, but that was probably on request (or he poached it off my ex-wife's list). Nice memories tied in with all that. I still think getting a CD giftwrapped as a present is a cool thing.
"This is a rich record full of dynamics, thick grooves, and coruscating soundscapes. I can hear the threads leading back to my previous albums, but in Arc they're woven into some other kind of strange and beautiful tapestry. When I listen to it I get strange visions, that I won't go into here, because hopefully, you will see your own. - Dan"
- "In its constant pursue of the lost treasures of
the Italian avant-garde music, Die Schachtel in collaboration with the
University of Padua has recovered from the ashes one of the lost and
truly shining diamond of the early electronic/digital scene of the 60s
and 70s. After more than two years of painstaking research and audio
restoration, Die Schachtel is proud to present a new release dedicated
to Teresa Rampazzi, a seminal yet very little known female Italian
composer/musician, Founder of the "NPS-Nuove Proposte Sonore"
experimental music collective, inspirer and one of the chief
protagonists of the "Centro di Sonologia Computazionale". The "Musica
Endoscopica" box edition features a selection of her compositions,
published here for the first time ever. "Musica Endoscopica" is an
immersive journey in early digital+electro-acoustic music: dense, long
drone pieces made of complex textures explore the computer's capacity to
produce endless variations of source material, and at times anticipate
some of the electro-feel to emerge in the years to follow."
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Ps - Wow, still blown away. I'm amazed to hear so much sound, including wild animals, from 2 people.
Here's the credits and notes from discogs
Credits
Notes
2007 Discogs link
ps -More incredible sounds, loses a point for having one of those darn hidden tracks.
A short EP
This how to video helped me understand.
or you can see the whole performance here
Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson - Stones
ps - Recorded live on stage at the 2011 Vancouver Jazz Festival.
I'll look forward to checking the SFL and seeing those others there. Now if I could only get past page 3 before the kitty's all used up.
Thanks, to all of you for filling up my tiny brain with some incredible sounds.
from here
Fred Ho' and the Saxophone Liberation Front
Snake-Eaters
(Mutable/Big Red Media 002)
(UPC: 801021700227)
Snake-Eaters debuts Fred Ho's Saxophone Liberation Front, featuring composer Ho on baritone saxophone and Hafez Modirzadeh (soprano), Bobby Zankel (alto) and Salim Washington (tenor).
Darker than Blue, inspired by Curtis Mayfield's song, We the People Who are Darker than Blue, employs shifting meters (including a blues section in 11/8 and 11.5 /8), 12-tone serialism, compound meter ostinati, and Lydian chromatic approaches to orchestration.
Ho's Yellow Power, Yellow Soul Suite coincides with the soon-to-be publication of the Drs. Roger Buckley and Tamara Roberts' festschrift by the same title, and includes the previously recorded "Fishing Song of the East China Sea" (originally a flute trio with bass violin on the out-of-print recording by Fred Ho and the Asian American Art Ensemble,Bamboo that Snaps Back; and the now-defunct Brooklyn Sax Quartet recording The Far Side of Here), as well as Afro-Asian adaptations of other Asian folk songs.
Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist) is an homage to one of Asian America's greatest innovators, martial artist-actor-philosopher-teacher Bruce Lee. Lalo Schifrin-esque tropes from the epic film, Enter: The Dragon, combine with the élan of Stan Getz-ian bossa nova and cool styles, and epitomize the Zen-like philosophy and pugilism of Bruce Lee: the art of fighting without fighting; or as Ho has stated: the point of technique is to have no technique (and by inference, be completely intuitive, improvisational and in the moment).
Reflections (Upon Reflections!), in a sonata-like form of Exposition upon Monk's classic tune, an extended Development that is a significant departure from a chord-changes based tune, and a brief Recapitulation. Misty-ificaton is a "what-if" supposition: What if the DNA of Errol Garner's Misty was mixed with the genes of Rob Zombie's films? Frightening? Horrifying? Or, Hyperbolized? Steroidal balladry?
During the international campaign to oppose the celebration of the Columbus quincentennial, in which indigenous peoples joined with anti-imperialist and pro-social justice forces worldwide, including a vast array of artists, the old Fred Ho composed the Beyond Columbus and Capitalism suite for the Rova Saxophone Quartet, which would during the 1990s lead to the formation of the Brooklyn Sax Quartet when Ho was asked to do numerous benefit concerts throughout New York City
Reflections (Redux and Prefigurative) has Ho playing Thelonius Monk's melody in the very bottom register of his low-A horn while voicing the accompanying saxes down-upwards, and ending with a collective bluesy-gospel romp towards an ending chord of precursory possibilities.
Finally, the extraordinary duet by Fred Ho and Persian-American vocalist Haleh Abghari, Dear Reader, based upon a James Tate poem, which was commissioned in 2006 by the Guggenheim Museum Works and Process series.
The Youtube link was NA in Denmark so I changed it to Bandcamp.
Great stuff ! - Thanks.
From Last.FM - "Saturated dark ruby. Sweet and high toned saw singing and smokey oak banjo moves. Concentrated and earfilling on the low notes with beautiful balance, velvety tannins and a long finish. Soft attack of pure, decisive blackened tango. Spicy damson and oak character that races through the Painted Ladies of Deadwood Gulch to the Harlots of the Barbary Coast. Sounds for vigilantes, badmen, lawmen and hangmen found in great south-western tales."
سورة مريم) الطبلاوي الجزء الأول
- continuing with:
And:
Kaada/Patton - Bacteria Cult
audio maelstroms from a band with a crappy name.
Here goes a short 5 track album
I'm not familiar with Duncan Sheik but I've been a fan of David Poe since T-Bone Burnette introduced me to his self titled album in 1997. It also included Colin Linden, Marc Ribot, and Don Heffington in the guest list.
ETA - I couldn't resist adding this too. From my favourite album, this track features Linden on slide guitar tasters and Heffington on green drums.
ps - Thanks again, that took me back. Made me think of one of my favourite guitar players
Earl "Chinna" Smith.
WOW ! (to both of them)
Thanks to all for this. WOW indeed BN!
This will be occupying much of my time for the next couple of weeks...five shows (July 1, 3,5,7,8, 1978), each in a beautiful folder with some of the best Dead art I have seen in a long time. Plus a 48 page book.
I am #1296 -
Western Skies Motel - Generations
I don't usually like to post an album more than once (or, at least, not in succession), but this is really floating my boat. I really hope they upload their newest to eMusic, too. Not sure why it's just the single. Maybe a failed upload of the whole album?
Julianna Barwick - "The Magic Place"
-Really on a Barwick kick lately. This album hits me similar to how that Riceboy Sleeps album does... soothing and soft, but it insinuates itself onto my consciousness. Even if I drift off into daydreams while listening, it becomes the de facto soundtrack to the imagery. I decided to pass on picking up her new album "Will" at eMusic, just gonna pay a couple extra bucks and get the CD from Amazon. It's the kind of music, IMO, where the extra money invested in a better medium pays dividends.
-I got this CD from my old brother-in-law, who would get me (thankfully) a non-jazz CD each year for Christmas. His taste was impeccable, and each time, he picked something that I'd never heard before, and, consequently, became something I kept buying more of. Off the top of my head, this CD by Julianna Barwick, and also Dosh "Wolves & Wishes" and Balmorhea "Rivers Arms". I still listen to all three of these pretty frequently. I think he may have got me a Tzadik label album once, too, but that was probably on request (or he poached it off my ex-wife's list). Nice memories tied in with all that. I still think getting a CD giftwrapped as a present is a cool thing.
Not sure about this - so very different from the Blond on Blond, Highway 61 etc era.
Low/slow blues from the title track:
"This is a rich record full of dynamics, thick grooves, and coruscating soundscapes. I can hear the threads leading back to my previous albums, but in Arc they're woven into some other kind of strange and beautiful tapestry. When I listen to it I get strange visions, that I won't go into here, because hopefully, you will see your own. - Dan"
Robert Wyatt - foreign accents
Just in at Bandcamp - Sublime death/thrash metal from Aarhus / Denmark:
Andrew Weathers - "Littlefield"
A bargain on Bandcamp for $3...
http://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/album/littlefield