>Did anyone catch Marc Ribot playing backup for Chocolate Genius this=20
>past weekend on Sessions at West 54th? I only caught the last tune and=20
>he played this execellent guitar solo. Anyways, who is this Chocolate=20
>Genuis?? Does anyone know who else played with Ribot in the back up=20
>band. I didnt recognize anyone else.
Yeah, I saw it. Chocolate Genius is a native New Yorker by the name of Mark=
Anthony Thomas. He's signed to V2 Records (who happen to be a client at my=
job). His debut album is called "Black Music" and features Ribot on guitar,=
Chris Wood on bass, John Medeski on hammond and I don't recall the=
drummer's name...=20
If you want to get more info you can check out his web site at http://www.cn=
otes.com/cnotes.artists/chocolategenius.html
I like the album a lot. Very different from most of the Downtown NYC=
scene... a lot more commercially viable, but there are some great tunes.=
I've seen CG live a number of times and the lineup has been different each=
time. Usually he has the drummer from Ween in a live situation, although he=
did not last night. The only person besides Ribot that I recognized last=
night was Oren Bloedow on bass. Oren actually played guitar in Ribot's=
place when I last saw the band at Tonic in NYC.=20
Greg
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:59:40 +0200
From: Blind <lb@skynet-bg.com>
Subject: Re: Zorn Digest V2 #581 Re : 'Free form'
"Free form" : sometimes called 'noise' and non-structural because it'd
be difficult to find structure in
the only piece itself but maybe in the whole bunch of works.... The
musician can be free of anything
but of his own history - as a listener,
player, composer and improviser, the more complicated and freely treated
it is, the more his music is flux,
an individual process continually complementing itself. That may be
called 'structure' and also
the individuality of every musician.
And talking about scripting, what do you think of Braxton's schemes? (I
don't know
if there is some stuff written about these so maybe anyone can clue
me?)
> I only bring up that it's highly structured noise because so many untrained listeners just lump it as "noise" and dismiss stuff like that as pure garbage, people just goofing off, when it's as structured and difficult (or more difficult) as the average Beethoven sonata.
> he told us they only let him play on three songs so far, because that's all he had learned at that point. The idea being, here's this disc (I was totally into Soul Discharge at the time) that was so fucking wacked, and yet, it was sculptured enough that even this avant leaning, and I assume technically able, guitarist couldn't just pick up and play along.
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 99 14:05:13 -0300
From: hulinare@bemberg.com.ar
Subject: ikue mori/masada
>zorn and the masada quartet were incredible at the Roulette benefit
>Saturday.
It would be great to read any comments on that show. By the way, is that
true any masada cds are out of print?
Hugo
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:25:12 PST
From: "M. pathos" <mpathos@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ribot on sessions
Chocolate Genius' record Black Music features Marc Ribot on guitar. The
Genius seems wordy to me, a condition exacerbated by his tendency not to
enunciate his consonants. The songs get sort of samey after about the
tenth, but individually they're of high quality. For this genre, I'd
highly recommend Palace Music's Viva Last Blues over it.
>Did anyone catch Marc Ribot playing backup for Chocolate Genius this
>past weekend on Sessions at West 54th? I only caught the last tune and
>he played this execellent guitar solo. Anyways, who is this Chocolate
>Genuis?? Does anyone know who else played with Ribot in the back up
