Local Boston guitarist Issi Rosen released a disc last year, The Red Sea. Very un-zornish (no squeaks, shreiks, dirges, ...et al) but, if Masada like includes a blending jewish folk and american jazz (trad. guitar/bass/drums trio in Issi's case) I'd say what the hey - Red Sea is an excelent, imho, disc.
Now when are the new Frisell and Waits recordings hitting the bins? I've given up (almost) on a re-release of additional Evan Lurie discs, although and very happy with the new African Swin/Manny & Low sndtrk by John Lurie. Pure genius.
happy listening all
Bob
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:35:26 -0500
From: "Marc Downing" <mpdownin@fes.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: mike patton
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>From: Sulacco@aol.com
>To: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com
>Subject: Re: mike patton
>Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999, 1:15 AM
>
>In a message dated 2/23/99 10:33:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>goHarry@webtv.net writes:
>
>> I`ll start the ball rolling.....
>> John Zorn- Elegy
>> Wierd Little Boy
>> Anyone else want to add?
Mike did vocals on one track on Bob Ostertag's Fear No Love.
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:15:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeremy Isaac Mc Cormick <jm010f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: Zorn List Digest V2 #601
hey, i'm real inarested in this vision-festival which i'm assuming is at
USCarolina. I couldn't find anything on the web about it, so could
someone maybe fill in the details, like how much it costs, where its
taking place, where the performances will be held, and any pertinent
info. i might like to know. You can do off-list if you want. Thanks
in advance!!
jah jeremy
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:50:52 -0500
From: Tom Pratt <tpratt@ctech.smtc.net>
Subject: Bible Launcher for sale
I have a copy of Bible Launcher (TZ 7402, now taken by Ken Butler's
'Voices For Anxious Objects') up for sale. This disc was only available
for a short while until copyright problems forced Tzadik to cease making
copies (and maybe even destroy existing copies?). Please e-mail me
privately with offers. Thanks!
-Tom Pratt
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:56:30 -0500
From: Tom Pratt <tpratt@ctech.smtc.net>
Subject: new Tzadik
I see there are some pretty interesting releases planned for Tzadik for
March... taken from the Tzadik website (http://www.tzadik.com):
NEW JAPAN
Haino Keiji: Decided... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility,
Tangling The Prayer Called "I"
A new supergroup featuring Haino Keiji, one of the world's most powerful
and original guitarist/vocalists, Bill Laswell, contemporary music's
most personal and experimental bassists and Rashied Ali, Coltrane alumni
and godfather of free jazz drumming. Haino is pulled kicking and
literally screaming to new heights of inspiration by the most dynamic
rhythm section he has ever worked with. Passionate, ear wrenching and
exhilaratingly sounds from three of today's most creative and
uncompromising musical masters.
Microcosmos: Pilgrimage
Otomo Yoshihide (turntables) and Tenko (vocals) are two of the most
internationally acclaimed performers to emerge from the Tokyo
underground, and have worked with some of the best musicians from around
the world. Collaborating together in bands, improvisational groupings
and special projects for over ten years, this is their first duo release
and is the result of over two years of recording. A fascinating meeting
of two of Japan's most original musical masters.
COMPOSERS SERIES
Bill Laswell: Invisible Design
Tzadik is proud to present a new solo album by contemporary music's most
adventurous musical terrorist. An indefatigable instigator of countless
musical projects, from funk, rock, hip hop and jazz to world music,
ambient and a milliard of creative hybrids, Laswell steps here as a
composer. Eight tracks showcasing full range of musical obsessions,
radical studio techniques and virtuosic bass playing. Invisible Design
is a CD of Black magic and spiritual passion. Laswell's creative voice
has never been stronger.
-Tom Pratt
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:08:17 EST
From: XRedbirdxx@aol.com
Subject: "the impossible klezmer"
does anyone know anything about this group?? i saw them in italy this summer
at the lucca jazz festival and was blown away. very far out, free form, fresh.
and an intriguing woman vocalist: intense, possesed, erotic. but now i can
find nothing on them anywhere. if you're on this list you'll love them!
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:14:18 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: masada like in very broad terms
Bob Kowalski wrote:
> Now when are the new Frisell and Waits recordings hitting the bins?
Don't remember when the Waits is due to drop, but the ex tells me Frisell's "Good Dog Happy Man" is due in June if I remember correctly. It's Frisell, Krauss, Keltner, Horvitz, I think a pedal steel player whose name I've forgotten (help me, Jody), and Ry Cooder on a track or two.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - Alanis Morrisette on the Grammies
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:13:48 -0500
From: Eric Ong <eso200@is5.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: Frisell/Maryanna Amacher (was: masada like in very broad terms)
>Don't remember when the Waits is due to drop, but the ex tells me
Frisell's "Good Dog >Happy Man" is due in June if I remember correctly.
It's Frisell, Krauss, Keltner, >Horvitz, I think a pedal steel player whose
name I've forgotten (help me, Jody), and Ry >Cooder on a track or two.
Also in Frisell news, the new David Sylvian record, "Dead Bees on a Cake"
(due out next month), features Frisell, Marc Ribot, Kenny Wheeler, and
Steve Tibbetts. Another great supporting cast for Sylvian I guess. I
still love the fact that he had one of my favorite musicians, John Taylor,
on "Gone to Earth". Taylor is one-third of the group Azimuth, the other
two being vocalist Norma Winstone (Taylor's wife) and Kenny Wheeler.
Taylor was central to the British jazz resurgence in the late 60s/early 70s
(e.g. recent Surman and Westbrook re-issues on Deram), and is probably
located somewhere in the middle between the internationally recognized
Surman, Holland, McLaughlin, and a host of other important
players/composers, like Westbrook, who I wish received some of that
limelight. Mike Osborne especially comes to mind. What is for me his most
achingly beautiful playing occurs during a spine tingling duet with Norma
Winstone in one of the pieces on Westbrook's "Love Songs" which, I hate to
say, is not one of the current reissues.
Anyway, main reason I'm posting is that today I picked up Maryanne
Amacher's recent Tzadik release. Four of the tracks (7 in total) contain
what Amacher calls "Third Ear Music". She writes in the liner notes: "When
played at the right sound level, which is quite high and exciting, the
tones in this music will cause your ears to act as neurophonic instruments
that emit sounds that will seem to be issuing directly from your head."
Well, I listened to the whole disc in one sitting at a very high volume
(living alone has its advantages!) and overall, I'm really impressed. The
"Third Ear Music" pieces, I confess, are not the type of 'songs' you listen
to unless you really really want to listen and focus on the music. They
sound like really sharp, high frequencies or electronic blips and bleeps
spinning around really fast. Very trance inducing. Many of the other
tracks are these dense psychedelic clouds of electronic sound. Not exactly
monotone, but they could be listened to in that way, if you know what I
mean. On some of the tracks, there'll be this electronic drone rumbling
away, and suddenly underneath she'll throw in a very clear/hi-fi sounding
keyboard tone -- the contrast is unsettling. There's also an excerpt
entitled, "Tower Metals", which sounds like Aube or Merzbow messing around
with, well, metal samples/sounds, but in the hands of Amacher I felt she
was directing the sound with more thought, intricacy, and most importantly,
purpose. The music on this disc is, above all, very very drone-y and dense
w/ a surprisingly healthy amount of texture. I'd set aside some free time
for music listening if you're thinking of picking this disc up.
Btw, in a week or two, I'll have some real audio samples of this Amacher
disc (and others) up on my webpage, which is still under construction at
the moment. It's mainly devoted to Melville, but I'm hoping to devote some
of it to music.
eric.
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:04:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Saidel Eric J <ejs4839@usl.edu>
Subject: Re: masada like in very broad terms
According to Steve Smith:
>
> Bob Kowalski wrote:
>
> > Now when are the new Frisell and Waits recordings hitting the bins?
>
> Don't remember when the Waits is due to drop, but the ex tells me Frisell's "Good Dog Happy Man" is due in June if I remember correctly. It's Frisell, Krauss, Keltner, Horvitz, I think a pedal steel player whose name I've forgotten (help me, Jody), and Ry Cooder on a track or two.
Jerry Douglas? Not really a pedal steel player (in that he plays Dobro),
but he has played with Frisell before ...
>
> Steve Smith
> ssmith36@sprynet.com
> NP - Alanis Morrisette on the Grammies
I saw/heard some of that. I must say, I never heard her before and
based on this introduction I'll be slow to return. Perhaps I'm
just a fuddy-duddy.
- - eric
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:50:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Eric Martens <ericmartens@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: masada like in very broad terms
- ---Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com> wrote:
>
> Bob Kowalski wrote:
>
> > Now when are the new Frisell and Waits recordings hitting the bins?
>
> Don't remember when the Waits is due to drop,
I think I read recently that it's due sometime in April.
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:17:57 +1100
From: "Julian" <jcurwin@hartingdale.com.au>
Subject: masada-ish
I recently picked up "Search For The Golden Dreydl" by Naftule's Dream
(Tzadik) which is really great (thanks Peter!). It's kind of "funk klezmer"
with clarinet, trombone, piano, electric guitar, tuba and drums, well worth
checking out.
Julian.
http://www.hartingdale.com.au/~jcurwin/
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:24:39 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: masada like in very broad terms
Saidel Eric J wrote:
> Jerry Douglas? Not really a pedal steel player (in that he plays Dobro),
> but he has played with Frisell before ...
Uh-uh, not him.. Jerry Douglas I'd have remembered. I heard the "Nashville Trio" (Frisell, Douglas and Krauss) about a year ago in Brooklyn... Douglas made an indelible impression. No, the pedal steel player (?) in question here is a new name to this list, if I'm recalling correctly.
> > NP - Alanis Morrisette on the Grammies
>
> I saw/heard some of that. I must say, I never heard her before and
> based on this introduction I'll be slow to return. Perhaps I'm
> just a fuddy-duddy.
No, you're not. I'll admit that in general I'm pretty impressed by Alanis, as pop music goes. And, given that reservation, the song Alanis performed, "Uninvited" (from the otherwise useless "City of Angels" soundtrack, if I recall correctly) was better on the record than it is live.
So perhaps *I* am the "fuddy-duddy" you fear yourself to be... after all, while I struck out in such categories as jazz and rap and metal, the votes I cast in the "Big Four" categories (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best New Artist) were all winners - Celine
Dion with "My Heart Will Go On" for the former two, and Lauryn Hill for the latter two.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP -
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 02:35:39 PST
From: "Douglas Clarke" <dugc@hotmail.com>
Subject: Patton/Leng Chi
Mike Patton does not do any vocals on the studio version of Naked City's
L'eng Chi. However he has performed it live with them a couple of times.
