At 08:24 AM 11/4/98 -0800, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
>
>I was checking my Arto Lindsay discography and realized that COUP DE TETE has
>only one pressing (LP from 1981). Could it be that it never got a CD reissue?
>
>Any help about subsequent pressing is welcome.
cdnow lists a german import, no label, but the catalogue number is SELEC
M9759.
As a result of this thread, I've been going back through my Hanrahan music,
loving every bit. No one's mentioned All Roads Are Made of Flesh, which
has a great live version of Jelly Roll Morton's Buddy Bolden's Blues (one
of the few examples of Hanrahan performing a cover), and boy do they sound
great live! I also prefer his work with Jack Bruce. Hanrahan seems able
to get the best work from Bruce, better by far than any other context in
which I've heard him.
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Caleb Deupree
cdeupree@erinet.com
Computers are useless; they can only give you answers
- -- Pablo Picasso
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 21:20:00 -0500
From: Brian Olewnick <olewnik@IDT.NET>
Subject: Re: Hanrahan recs?
Steve Smith wrote:
> Claire Bathe? Do you mean Carmen Lundy on "Love Is Like a Cigarette"? If the
> latter, she's still around, gigging sporadically, but her career just never > really took off.
Ach! Getting my Hanrahan confused. Bathe (there's an accent on the "e")
is on that second Conjure record, where she sings a stellar version of
Allen Toussaint's 'Running for the Office of Love', another song
deserving of mega airplay. She's also, like many of the females KH seems
to associate himself with, stunningly beautiful.
> - The lyrics of "A Poker Game" are simply brilliant... one of Hanrahan's fewish
> straight narratives, about four friends playing poker on a boat, and one of them
> can't stop winning every single hand... "When he tried to buy them champagne with
> the money / It was like trying to make them drink their own piss."
KH's lyrics in general, even at their self-pitying, hair-shirt extreme
are several ply deeper than you're likely to find elsewhere, pop or
avant.
> - Brian: You couldn't be a bit more correct about "Make Love 2," and "A Small Map
> of Heaven" is also deliriously beautiful. Hanrahan has referred to "Vertical's
> Currency" as his "Smokey Robinson record."
Another in that same category, though not quite so overtly pop-oriented
is 'Two (Still in Half-Life)' from DDAE. The sound of the entwined
electric basses of Swallow and Tacuma is one of the most sensual I've
ever heard. What an incredible song!
> Paul Haines (that anthology that included Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Bobby > Previte, Wayne Horvitz, Robert Wyatt, too many others to name)
And some of the best Paul Bley I've heard in recent years. What's Haines
do day in day out? Anyone know?
>to Milton Cardona.
His 'Bembe' is delightful and he's an amazing musician to catch live.
Brian Olewnick
NP: Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens-- Mouth Eating Trees
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:01:08 -0500
From: Brian Olewnick <olewnik@IDT.NET>
Subject: Re: Hanrahan recs?
Caleb T. Deupree wrote:
> and boy do they sound great live! I also prefer his work with Jack > Bruce. Hanrahan seems able to get the best work from Bruce, better > by far than any other context in which I've heard him.
I only caught Hanrahan's band live once, at the Public Theater (NYC),
probably around 1985-86. It was kind of strange and disjointed, Kip
running around the stage, side to side, whispering instructions to band
members, pointing out cues, etc. Bruce seemed a bit bemused by it all,
singing his lines off of lyric sheets and, truth be told, acted a bit
condescending; once, after a typical purple-toned KH lyric, he mumbled
something like, "I'm only reading what's here..." Perhaps it was simply
an under-rehearsed performance. I'd be interested to hear from other
folk who've caught him live.
Brian Olewnick
NP: Dama Mahaleo, 'Kobaka'
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 00:56:08 -0800
From: cd <cappyd@uvic.ca>
Subject: Masada in Seattle
Anyone attending the Masada show on Friday in Seattle?
- -Cappone D'Angelo
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:26:28 +0000
From: Daren S Williams <Daren_Williams@uk.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: John Zorn at the Barbican, London, 29th October 1998
Christopher Walker wrote:
> If you were in the seat immediately behind SB you were presumably sit=
ting
> next to me (FWIW).
Well my partner & I we in seats M45 & M46 (as I remember). Not sure if=
I'm
being stupid but wot's FWIW?
Stephen Drury playing Carny was fantastic. My girlfriend hadn't heard =
much
John Zorn before (I only
subjected her to Masada) but she reckoned Carny was worth the price on =
entry
alone. Which actually
didn't mean a helluva lot as I bought the tickets!
Cheers
Daren Williams
=
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 08:40:47 -0500
From: Sean Terwilliger <seanter@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Hanrahan recs?
"Patrice L. Roussel" wrote:
> I was checking my Arto Lindsay discography and realized that COUP DE TETE has
> only one pressing (LP from 1981). Could it be that it never got a CD reissue?
>
Nope. I've got the Cd. It's a German American Clave issue. Stock #
1007. For what it's worth, this is one of my favorite Hanrahan issues.
Have we figured out if Shadow Nights 1 is different from Thousand Nights
1?
- -Sean
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 08:53:16 -0500
From: Sean Terwilliger <seanter@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Hanrahan recs?
Steve Smith wrote:
> And the 1986 veraBra pressing of "Desire" on CD does include "Jack
and the Golden Palominos."
Yep! I hve that. In fact I'm listening to it now, thanks to the renewed
discussion on this list. I cannot believe the the re-issue did not
include that track.
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:53:41 +0100
From: jtalbot@massart.edu
Subject: how long?
i guess i've been on the zorn list for about a year now. my question is how
long has the list actually been in existance. thanks
peace
jt
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:02:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Eric Martens <ericmartens@yahoo.com>
Subject: old news/new question
@ the risk of reopening dead wounds (terrible metaphor, that), the
other day I came across something that brought to mind the fairly
recent discussion of Zorn and composition, particularly the issue of
"context":
From the Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, introduction
to the selection from Jacobean blood-tragedist John Webster:
"Modern scholarship has found a source for nearly every phrase and
concept in [Webster's] plays. But, trite though it is to say so, what
he makes of his reading is distinctively his own. His art is one of
brilliant highlights and black shadows of furtive and dangerous
intrigue carried out in the flickering light of hell-fire." (Apologies
for the overheated prose, I didn't write it -- & besides: is it any
worse than Zorn's liner notes?)
Torture Garden, anyone?
And the new question, as promised: I just purchased the Fred
Hersch/Bill Frisell "Songs we Know" album of standards (& deadly
weapons -- thanx for the fdbk.)& I'm curious as to other people's
opinion of it. Listening to it right now, the vibe I get is akin to
the quiet parts of the GB3 Falling Off the Roof album, a la "Our
Spanish Love Song"(1), but then, that's about the only recent Frisell
I've heard, so I don't have much to compare to -- the obvious
defference here being Hersch's piano and (alas) no Ginger Baker.
eric martens
1) (when was the last time you got an email w/ footnotes?) Out of
morbid curiosity: Has anyone heard the version of this on the recent
Metheny/Haden album (title escapes me . . . Missouri something)?
