>I don't think I've seen this here yet, but... Columbia/Sony/whatever
>last week released three Miles reissues, "On the Corner", "Big Fun"
>(with extra tracks), and, for the first time in the States, about 25
>years later than they should have, "Get Up With It".
>
>"On the Corner" is essential stuff, his clattering funk explosion.
>
>"Get Up With It", beside including the noise fest "Rated X" and the
>propulsive "Calypso Frelimo", has the ambient masterwork "He Loved
>Him Madly", which inspired and influenced the ambient movement
>through Robert Quine turning Eno onto it (and Eno thus creating "On
>Land", which features members of Material, which gets vaguely near
>Zorn-relevance :-] ). It may be Teo Macero's masterwork.
"He Loved Him Madly" is, I think, the culmination of Miles proto-ambient
works like In a Silent way, parts of Bitches Brew, Big Fun, etc. For me,
it's one of the very few pieces of music that absolutely step outside of
linear time, every time I listen to it, I'm amazed that 32 minutes have
passed.
>
>If you don't have them, get them. (If you do, does anyone know how they
>compare to the previous domestic release of "On the Corner" and the
>existing import CDs of "Get Up With It"?)
>
I have both the new reissue and import CD of "Get Up With It". When I'm
feeling particularly geeky, I'll compare the sound quality, but a cursory
listen makes me think the reissue sounds a lot better.
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:37:55 -0500
From: kurt_gottschalk@scni.com
Subject: boy sean
playing the role of arbiter of artist attacks, let me add what i think is
verying important to reading the youngest lennon's character.
i know kristopher is just playin, but still, i think it's to sean's huge credit
that he is actually not trying to slay, nor cash in on, his father. i thought
'into the sun' had a charm to it -- nice atmosphere, cute melodies, a love song
to his lover. really not so different from his pop's last (premortem) release.
more importantly, however, he has been content to find his way slow and quiet,
doing small gigs, playing instead of leading. i'm sure he could have had a
bigger contract than grand royale, major session players, world tour with julian
and ringo's son wearing clothes designed by paul's daughter even. followed by
his acting debut.
i think he's conscious of developing his own thing, and given time he probably
will. i'm not crazy about the music, but i respect his apparent efforts to keep
things in scope.
kg
np: spring heel jack - disappeared
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Moran <moran@staff.juno.com>
Subject: note on Armstrong recordings
If you're in the NY-metro area, tune in to WKCR 89.9FM on Friday
afternoons for Phil Schaap's ongoing programs on Louis Armstrong. Two
programs ago he advised listeners to tape his broadcast of his own
re-mastering of the Hot 5s and 7s; apparently he had done a cleanup job
which isn't scheduled for release. In general, 'KCRs been doing a great
job of respecting Armstrong lately (including a solid week of his music).
- -matt
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:04:25 -0400
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: note on Armstrong recordings
>Two programs ago he advised listeners to tape his broadcast of his >own re-mastering of the Hot 5s and 7s; apparently he had done a >cleanup job which isn't scheduled for release. In general,
Though with the radio compression the clean-up might not make much difference.
Lang
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:03:48 -0700
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: 70s Miles Wannabes In SF
Yo Miles! will be at the Fillmore 9/1
Isham's Silent Way Project will be at Yoshi's 9/4
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:48:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Whit Schonbein <whit@twinearth.wustl.edu>
Subject: sonic youth ab infinitum
my own personal favorites:
evol
sister
daydream nation
syr 1
syr 2
a thousand leaves
i have not heard any of the sy-proper discs between daydream and 1000
leaves. i'm one of those people who grew up with sy and then wrote them
off after daydream.
i also wrote the cure off after head on the door, metallica off after
master of puppets, and rem off after life's rich
pagent; the lesson being, 'writing off' is a risky business. anyway, then
i got into jazz and improv music, which led me to syr 3, which led to syr
1 & 2, which led to 1000 leaves.
despite my bias, i don't think one can go wrong, if one wants to
experience what it was about sy that made them
what they are today in some of our minds, with evol, then sister, then
daydream nation.
after that, i don't know what to say, because everything after
that is biased by my previous exprience - but somehow, they managed to
reflect my own discoveries in music dispite my having written them off
(can't say that for the cure, metallica, or rem).
i must admit, though, having heard goo a number of times, it basically
makes me want to change the disc to daydream, evol, or sister, despite
enjoying some of the songs to some degree. i've heard many positive
things about washing machine (not including those on this list), and also
relatively good things about the 'star trash whatever' disc (which i heard
once and thought sounded like earlier sonic youth).
evol just isn't then same on CD without the infinite skip at the
end of side two (or was it sister?). i remember falling asleep to that lp
and waking up an hour or more later thinking, 'what the fuck is going
on? - wow - that's 'awesome' (as we used to say in those days).
(A BLURB ON SOLO SY PROJECT:)
finally, i'll put in a plug for the thurston moore, evan parker, walter
prati disc on materiali sonori, 'the promise'. starts pretty much like
a disc with parker and prati, with prati's signiture electronic
manipulations of parker, but then branches out, including a spoken word
track and a track with nice distortion. also, the disc has a really cool
program that allows the user to make improvised music by clicking on
different elements of graphic scenes - i think prati put it together. a
nice expansion on the evan parker electroacoustic project sort of thing.
this was supposed to be a short message,
whit
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 03:00:47 GMT
From: "Bill Ashline" <bashline@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re:Spring Heel (was: boy sean)
>From: kurt_gottschalk@scni.com
>
>np: spring heel jack - disappeared
How is this one Kurt? For me, most of their work has been a mixed bag, but
I absolutely loved the piece they had on Macro Dub Infection.
BA
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because machines are determinant, but because they express social forms
capable of engendering and using them."--Gilles Deleuze
"It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the
suffering it produces, and there is
a straight line of development between the gospel of happiness and the
construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our
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