Sad news indeed. I just finished converting his Growing Up In Public lp to itunes this morning. We've been running errands all day and strangely heard nothing on the radio about it. Our thoughts go out to Laurie.
Agreed Craig - such a key person in recent world history we should not exclude from this list. But I do remember the Specials Free Nelson Mandela from the mid 80s.
Polish sound manipulator and noise musician Zbigniew Karkowski has passed away following a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 55.
Although well-versed in a number of different fields of computer and instrumental composition, Karkowski is best-known for his work as a noise practitioner and an especially brutal one at that. Schooled in music and technology in Sweden and the Netherlands, the bulk of his output saw him tweak, twist and layer field recordings into (frequently punishing) new shapes. An immensely prolific artist his catalogue reportedly runs to six or seven dozen albums he also played in the long-running trio Sensorband. His catalogue is full of collaborative projects and joint endeavours: making hammering noise-techno with Peter Rehberg as Pop; working with Merzbow as mazk; and collaborating in various live and recorded permutations with Jim O Rourke, Helmut Schaefer, Francisco López, and many more.
I first heard Zbigniew Karkowski on Sub Rosa's Anthology of Noise And Electronic Music series
and picked up his two releases from Emusic. Both were a great noisy listen.
The legendary Grammy Award-winning composer, jazz multi-instrumentalist, artist, and author Yusef Lateef, known for combining jazz with Eastern and world music instruments, died earlier today at his home in Shutesbury, Mass, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports. He was 93.
My friend and mentor Brother Yusef Lateef has passed. We are blessed to have been on the planet the same time as Yusef Lateef. https://twitter.com/sonnyrollins
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Craig
Power Tools - Wadmalaw Island (live) (Bill Frisell, Melvin Gibbs, Ronald Shannon Jackson)
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Drone For Lou
I'm unfamiliar with them, but they were apparently on eMusic Selects last year.
Craig
JOHN TAVENER - THE PROTECTING VEIL for cello and orchestra @ Youtube
French avant garde composer and pioneering sound artist Bernard Parmegiani passed away last week at the age of 86.
Craig
Video has a puzzling mishearing of the lyrics: it's "Hitler on the rise in South Africa," not "Declare our own rights"...!
Chico Hamilton.
He was only 26 and apparently had complications from an unidentified surgery. His debut album this summer was pretty darn good.
Everyone on this list is sad, but it's always weird when it's someone that much younger than me.
Craig
Sub Rosa 2005
I first heard Zbigniew Karkowski on Sub Rosa's Anthology of Noise And Electronic Music series
and picked up his two releases from Emusic. Both were a great noisy listen.