With thanks to Kargatron for pointing out MG many years ago.
- "As a composer/violinist/improviser Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936) has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s in New York City as a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and as a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde, and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. His "Soundings" improvisations have received international acclaim for having "reinvented violin playing," extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the instrument and revealing new dimensions of expressivity. Since the mid-1960s he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound-textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks.
Goldstein has been labeled an "improviser" and a "composer-violinist" (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, "At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation," and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of that compositional-improvisational dialogue begun in the early 1950s in the aleatoric, "chance" pieces of composers like John Cage, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman."
Have just been reading about Astaire, which led me to this, which is just glorious. Put together at Granz's behest...Peterson together with Barney Kessel and an all-star combo (interracial, not coincidentally). Pretty much your only chance to hear Astaire sing (and tap) in a true jazz setting, rather than in a production number. Not a great voice, of course, but still great performances. There may be no better way to "get at" this great selection of tunes, so many of which were written for or introduced by him.
The book I was reading is an interesting one, will write something about it soon...
"Lief Hall is a multimedia artist and musician from Vancouver, Canada and currently living in Berlin. As one half of Canadian 'femme noir' pop duo MYTHS, Hall toured with Grimes in 2012 and composed an electronic opera. Her solo music has developed out of a practice in audiovisual performance art and experimental vocal composition. Hall's album Voices (2014) featured her work as an experimental vocalist, use looping and layering to evoke dreamlike sonic landscapes that explore harmony, dissonance, texture, tone and rhythm. Hall's most recent EP, Transform, marks a new direction in her solo work. Its dark electronic pop aesthetic merges the experimental dance music sensibility of MYTHS with layered vocal harmonies, exploring themes of love, identity, and fear in a posthuman world."
"exploring themes of love, identity, and fear in a posthuman world."
Oh great...And here I'm just catching up to post-punk.
There are a ton of late, great Mal Waldron albums once you start looking. Jackie helps keep this one connected to the jazz/blues heartbeat, as perhaps compared with the brainy wanderings that happen between Mal and Steve Lacy
Getting ready to check out of a San Diego hotel. For the last ten. Minutes some kind of engine, maybe something to do with a ship across the bay, has been droning and hitting a beautifully harmonic resonance. Add the occasional car swishing by and a few seabirds, and snatches of conversation from the sidewalk, and if I had bought what I am hearing at the moment by, say Celer, I would have thought it a well mixed release.
Listening to tracks from a forthcoming five LP set, Commencing, collecting rarities, unreleased material, live recordings and tracks from early cassette-only releases celebrating Volcano The Bear's 20th anniversary. Selected and annotated by VTB's Aaron Moore
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Performers are A Winded Victory for the Sullen / London Brass / Nils Frahm
Goldstein has been labeled an "improviser" and a "composer-violinist" (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, "At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation," and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of that compositional-improvisational dialogue begun in the early 1950s in the aleatoric, "chance" pieces of composers like John Cage, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman."
New World Records 2008
Returned from a great trip to Canada, doing the jet lag shuffle at present, one of my purchases
Swervedriver - I wasn't born to lose you
Thanks for the reminder, certainly worth playing again.
I've been playing The Beatles White Album whilst out and about in the car this morning.