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Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 16:26:15 -0400
From: Brian Olewnick <olewnik@IDT.NET>
Subject: Re: Ribot
> Christopher Hamilton wrote:
> How so? I'm not challenging you; I just haven't been able to extract > a more focused conception from recent Ribot than the older stuff
> (which I agree is disjointed, albeit great fun). This has probably > kept me from listening to the disc of film music more, so tips would > be helpful.
I was thinking more of his work with JZ and Ikue Mori, I guess, though I
do enjoy his solo disc on DIW and the Tzadik 'Shoestring...' release
more than this one. It's not the stylistic jump cuts that bother me here
as much as the, IMHO, lack of inspiration on the covers and lack of very
interesting ideas in the originals.
Tom Pratt replied:
> As eclectic as the Film Music disc is, I find it remarkably seemless > and has a very "whole album" feel to it (I would certainly not > describe it as unfocused). I loved the Rootless Cosmos disc. It's > INTENTIONALLY disjointed - I mean come on, it's Ribot! How could you > not fall for the version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"?
Well, I remain unfelled. Admittedly, I don't find the original
particularly worthwhile. On the other hand, IMHO, 'The Wind Cries Mary'
is one of the more beautiful things Hendrix ever created,
guitaristically _and_ vocally, and Ribot's dissection of it sounds
uninspired in a peculiarly late-80's cut 'n' paste kind of way. Perhaps
my main complaint with the record is the plodding drumming of Richie
Schwarz, of whom I've otherwise been blissfully ignorant. Not that the
disc doesn't have its moments: for me, the highlight occurs towards the
end of the wonderfully titled 'Nature Abhors a Vacuum Cleaner' where the
band approaches Lifetime territory, albeit with Steve Gadd rather than
Tony Williams. ;-)
Still looking forward to the Los Cubanos disc,
Brian Olewnick
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Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 23:26:11 +0200
From: Edvin Berntsen <fam.berntsen@swipnet.se>
Subject: Touring summer 1998
I'm new to the zorn-list !!!
I know that John Zorn with his Painkiller will perform at the
International Jazz Festival in Molde, Norway - July 16. My question is -
do anybody know if Painkiller will perform somewhere else in Scandinavia
this summer ??? ...or do you know where to get touring information.
