When I interviewed Steve Reich for OHM, he basically indicated that "Pendulum Music" was done as a performance piece years ago and not something released as a recording. All of a sudden, there's these two versions of the piece done recently (which amazed him).
We originally considered including the version by Ensemble Avantgarde to include on OHM. At that time, we were in contact with Thurston and Lee from Sonic Youth to get some quotes for the liner notes. Lee mentioned that they themselves had done a version of the piece on "Goodbye 20th Century" and that we should consider using it. We liked the SY version better so we went with that one.
Reich mentioned that he hadn't actually heard the SY version yet and it so happens that Lee lives in the same building as he does. Reich said "I should go to his place, bang on the door and ask for a copy!"
As yet another side note to this, I mentioned to Lee that I had extra material from the OHM interview with Reich about the early tape pieces he did ("Come Out" and "It's Gonna Rain") that we weren't able to include in the liner notes. Lee said I should definitely transcribe that material and put it out. I contacted Reich again and got his approval to publish this material so it will be appearing in the next issue of Perfect Sound- I'll send a note to the list
when this is ready.
Best,
Jason
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online music magazine
perfect-sound@furious.com
http://www.furious.com/perfect
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:08:09 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@pop.sprynet.mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: lester's african children
Martin:
What label this be on? Same band that did 'The Fifth Power,' I see?
Kurt:
If this thing never came out on CD, try calling the Jazz Record Center in
Manhattan. They sometimes have the most staggeringly obscure things in
stock on clean used vinyl at collectors' prices. Don't have the number
handy but they're on W. 26th and they're listed. (Those not in NYC but
looking for rare vinyl can also try them for mailorder.)
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - the sound of waves of heat rising from the pavement...
Martin_Wisckol@link.freedom.com wrote:
> kurt queried:
> "my eye prize is lester's 'african children.' does anyone know anything
> about getting a copy? has it ever been on cd?"
>
> i can't be of any help in getting a copy, but i love my 2lp set. these
> guys are having a good time (a. blythe, amina, malachi and phillip
> wilson), loose and funky, fun blowing, arthur romping through open
> pastures especially satisfying....
>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:13:46 -0400
From: Brian Olewnick <olewnik@idt.net>
Subject: Re: game pieces
William Crump wrote:
>
> Is it just me, or is Cobra starting to sound a lot like Dungeons and Dragons?
If I'm not mistaken, Zorn actually did cite the game company Avalon Hill
as an inspirational source. I don't remember if they were ever involved
in D&D per se, but they were (pre-computer games) the leading creator of
advanced wargaming board games. I, for one, don't have much trouble
picturing the adolescent Zorn maneuvering game tiles around a hexagonal
map of Dunkirk or some such!
Brian Olewnick
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:22:49 -0500
From: "John Thomas" <jgthomas@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: RE: AEoC
> kurt_gottschalk@scni.com wrote:
> > that said, i have a aeco/fontella disc with no title, on a french label,
> which
>
Speaking of AEoC discs has anyone heard the one with Brigitte Fontaine
which I've seen around in the US as a very pricey import CD??? What's it
like?
Thanks
John
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:21:26 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@pop.sprynet.mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: SY 20th Cent. & "OHM" Box set
Perfect Sound Forever wrote:
> As yet another side note to this, I mentioned to Lee that I had extra material from the OHM interview with Reich about the early tape pieces he did ("Come Out" and "It's Gonna Rain") that we weren't able to include in the liner notes. Lee said I should definitely transcribe that material and put it out. I contacted Reich again and got his approval to publish this material so it will be appearing in the next issue of Perfect Sound- I'll send a note to the list
> when this is ready.
While everyone's waiting for that, head on over to http://www.newmusicbox.org and click on the column "In the Third Person" for a secret toy surprise... No, seriously, it's a bunch of little tiny interlinked articles by a couple of familiar Zornlisters (namely Jason and me) on the interstices between rock bands and new music composition. Sonic Youth is of course one of the bands examined.
Since we're co-credited you might never know who wrote what, which is less than fair to Jason since I don't think this was any of my own best writing. But this is a site imminently worth visiting by anyone who's the least bit interested in modern American composed music. Great Gary Lucas interview by the editor as well.
And in the photo, he's the "guitarist," I'm the "drummer."
Gratuitously,
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - clickety-clack, clickety-clack go my little fingers on the keys
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:30:00 -0700
From: Martin_Wisckol@link.freedom.com
Subject: Re: lester's african children
>Martin:
>What label this be on? Same band that did 'The Fifth Power,' I see?
I believe Horo, an Italian label. Don't know much about the label --
it's the only thing I have from them. Found it at Tower records in the
late '70s/ early '80s. Includes two sidelong cuts -- one Latin, one
funk. ...plus four others spread across two sides. I prefer it to Fifth
Power. Looser, more stretched out, funkier.... more open blowing....
Martin
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:59:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken Waxman <cj649@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Paolo Conte
If he's a jazz musician, look at IJM.com, the Italian Jazz Musicians
page. Maybe he's there. (But if he records for Warners his chances of
being jazz are slim).
The page is an excellent resource for things relating to Italian jazz.
Ken Waxman
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Ljova wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Do any of you music-moguls have any ideas about how one should go with
> contacting the Italian musician Paolo Conte?
>
> Do any of his bandmates have email? The record company (Warner Music)
> hasn't been at all helpful.
> Thanks so much,
>
> Ljova
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:14:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken Waxman <cj649@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Paolo Conte
Oops it should be:
www.ijm.it
Sorry Rick and L if I lead you astray.
Ken
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Rick Lopez wrote:
> on 7/12/00 5:59 PM, Ken Waxman at cj649@freenet.toronto.on.ca wrote:
>
> > IJM.com
>
- ---> Hey Ken--
>
> Have an actual link for this? I tried that abbreviation in my browser but
> get a FORBIDDEN message.
>
> Words on CTx10 when time permits.
>
> R
> --
> Marilyn Crispell, Susie Ibarra, William Parker, Sam Rivers, Matthew Shipp,
> David S. Ware, and Reggie Workman Discographies--Samuel Beckett
> Eulogy--Baseball & the 10,000 Things--Time Stops--LOVETORN--HARD BOIL--etc.,
> at: http://www.velocity.net/~bb10k
>
> UPDATE January 10, 2000:
> vids, a few CDs, baseball books, a few Cadence back issues, a few more
> CDs...
> ***Very Various For Sale:
> ***http://www.velocity.net/~bb10k/4SALE.html
>
>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:16:10 +0800
From: numbats@iinet.net.au
Subject: Re: lester's african children
>kurt queried:
>"my eye prize is lester's 'african children.' does anyone know anything
>about getting a copy?
Hi,
Sorry to go commercial, but I have a copy for sale. Please contact me OFF
list.
Also, strangely enough, I just sold a copy of the AEOC "Sophie/People on
ebay. Next time I will let the list know if I am selling interesting things.
regards,
Billy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:13:17 -0700
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Re: Eugene Chadbourne 7/11 @DMG
>>>I'll have to be on the lookout for the Beefheart covers album.<<<
It is a delight. STRINGS on Intakt is a must. All instrumental gorgeosity.
>>>Chadbourne's recordings, for me at least, have definitely not lived up to
the one time I saw him perform live, at the Young Avenue Deli in Memphis.<<<
He has come to visit us here in Ventura repeatedly over the past couple of
years. My two favorites are once sounding all new music classical with an
octet playing INSECT AND WESTERN MUSIC in a local art gallery, and once at
the Daily Grind Coffee Shop doing dueling kitchen utensils between his
prepared toaster and a found industrial strength coffee maker. I leaned over
to a patron next to me and said, "Watching Eugene right now reminds me of my
days as an intern on the back wards of Camarillo State Hospital." The
visuals coupled with that context resulted in us being thrown out for
laughing disruptively during a quiet part.
s~Z
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:46:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Oger <oger@worldnet.fr>
Subject: Leandre/Saitoh
>This is my first exposure to Tetsu Saitoh, who I like quite a bit. Can
anyone >recommend anything else by him (preferably that isn't too hard to
find)? I >know there is a duet with Joelle Leandre on Egg Farm, but I have
no idea how I >could get a copy.
>
>Dan
>
Dan,
There is a CD by Joelle Leandre and Tetsu Saitoh on label OMBA Records.
Write to :
Yoshiyuki Kitazato
Omba Records
3-12-18 Kamata
Ohta-ku
Tokyo 144-0052
Japan
Fax : 81 3 3731 8191
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:00:44 +0100 (WET DST)
From: Ricardo Reis <l43384@alfa.ist.utl.pt>
Subject: Sonic Youth: NYC ghosts and flowers
hi! any of you listened to the last Sonic Youth cd, "NYC ghosts
and flowers"? i being listening to it and the principal image that cames
to mind is a description of a walk around NYC under the distante effect of
marijuana...
salut,!
Ricardo Reis
"NON SERVIAM"
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:00:55 CEST
From: "Andreas Dietz" <andreasdietz@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Eugene Chadbourne 7/11 @DMG
>
> > I was wondering if there are any specific recordings that come
> > highly recommended. Thanks.
>
I have to add a CD recorded 1997:
The Hellingtunes (Intakt)
A sextet including Pat Thomas and Paul Lovens doing something like Country
and Western Chamber Music. Not as wild as some other EC stuff but worth
