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Zorn List Digest        Friday, January 5 2001        Volume 03 : Number 231



In this issue:
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       surprise of the day
       Autro Brooklynitos
       Re: spaceways inc.
       bley peacock synthesizer show
       Re: Das Junges Brooklyners [was Re: FRITH/MORI/DRESSER]
       Re: Das Junges Brooklyners [was Re: FRITH/MORI/DRESSER]
       re: Current 93
       Re: bley peacock synthesizer show
       Emergency - Byard Lancaster
       Re: Current 93
       Re: Emergency - Byard Lancaster
       Re: Das Junges Brooklyners [was Re: FRITH/MORI/DRESSER]
       Re: Kimmo Pohjonen
       all-black labels arrghh

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:18:05 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: surprise of the day

#56 in the just-released VH1 poll of top 100 rock albums of all time? "Trans-
Europe Express" by Kraftwerk. Other examples of rock artists, according to the
list, are bob marley, parliament and miles davis. wow, i'm a bigger rock fan
than i thought.

if you're feeling interested, write me and i'll send you the list.

kg
np: more rashaan, who did not make the list.



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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:32:33 -0500
From: "Jim McLoughlin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Autro Brooklynitos

How dee

> Two words: Cuong Vu.
>
> Actually, I could offer a lot of other words, too: Matt Moran, John
> Hollenbeck (though he's actually in Manhattan), Andrew D'Angelo, Oscar
> Noreiga, Brad Shepik, yadda, yadda, yadda...

Before this discussion, I wasn't really aware that Black, Saft, Speed, and
the others you mention above were Brooklyn based.  I have my own notion of
the brooklyn scene which is a different circle of folks, thought I would
mention it as a contrast, and would be interested in other bklyn contingents
people know of.  It's intersting to see how different individual
perspectives are on how a given "scene" (Brooklyn or otherwise) is defined.

So here is what I think of when I hear "brooklyn scene"...

- - Chocolate Genius (Marc Anthony Thompson), whose featured Oren Bloedow,
Danny Blume and Brandon Ross in his band at Broooklyn Academy of Music
- - Harriet Tubman (Ross, Melvin Gibbs, and JT Lewis (whose actually from
Queens)).
- - Elysian Fields, Oren Bloedow and Jennifer Charles
- - Elysian co-horts: Danny Blume, Ben Perowsky (Liminal), and their studio
www.goodandevil.net

This circle bleeds into the one previously discussed, as Chris Speed plays
with Ben Perowsky's trio, Jamie Saft is invovled with a godandevil project
called LomO...  They just weren't the first people I thought of, probably
because I've seen them more in Manhattan at Tonic and the like.  Anyone know
if these folks play in brooklyn at all?  Always on the lookout for happening
brooklyn venues...

Pardon the rant, blabbing about my favorite borough is too much fun...

Now what about the Staten Island scene - that's a tough one ;-).  Vernon
Reid and Guy Kluscevek are the only one I can think of, and they always play
in Manhattan... There's also a strange surf-rock cover band, but I
digress...

JM

NP - Davey Williams and Numb Right Thumb - Texas Was Delicious


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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:40:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: spaceways inc.

One of my favorite releases of the year.  As someone said earlier, this is an
album of contrasts: the songs range from very slow and sweet (first and last
Sun Ra tracks in particular) to all-out funkitude.  I always turn up the
volume high to hear the quiet first track (Sun Ra's Tapestry From an
Asteroid") and then am blown away from the loud and funky second track
(Funkadelic's "Alice in My Fantasies"/"Cosmic Slop").  I urge you to check
this album out, particularly if you're not familiar with Vandermark.  The
newest Vandermark 5 album 'Burn the Incline' is also really good, but not as
accessible as 'Spaceways Inc.'

Ken Vandermark is a monster, and i'm very glad to have discovered his music
this year.  By my count, he was on 11 albums released in 2000, but i'm
probably missing a few.  At this rate, he might even challenge David Murray's
discography.

jeff caltabiano
n.p. frank lowe: black beings (1973) w/ joseph jarman and wm parker

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:42:42 -0500
From: Lang Thompson <[e-mail]>
Subject: bley peacock synthesizer show

http://www.borderlinebooks.com/uk6070s/b9z.html

I noticed a listing for this duo in the psych guide "Tapestry of Delights"
and was wondering if anybody had heard either album.  Psych?  Experimental?
 Electronic?

Thanks, Lang







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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:10:33 -0500
From: Steve Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Das Junges Brooklyners [was Re: FRITH/MORI/DRESSER]

[e-mail] wrote:

> > Two words: Cuong Vu.
> >
> > Actually, I could offer a lot of other words, too: > Matt Moran, John
> Hollenbeck (though he's actually in
> > Manhattan), Andrew D'Angelo, Oscar Noreiga, Brad  > Shepik, yadda, yadda,
> yadda...
>
> Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman...

A worthy addition, to be sure (not to mention a happily married couple since
last August).  But to be honest, the "Brooklyn Scene" that I was aiming to
"package," for lack of a better term, is the whole late 20s-early 30s posse
that arrived here in the late '80s and early '90s, many of them freshly minted
from the New England Conservatory.  Even though he's slightly older, I think
Matt Darriau might be another figure worth including.  Interestingly, not only
have they all lived in Brooklyn at one time or another, but most of them even
lived together in the same house at some point or another.

If we open up the Brooklyn scene to everyone who lives there, we'd have a long,
long list to compile, starting with Cecil Taylor in Fort Greene and including
Tim Berne, Dave Douglas, Mat Maneri, Susie Ibarra and countless others.  Of
course, now that prices in Brooklyn are beginning to rival those in Manhattan,
I'm starting to see more and more people out here in the Long Island City area
of Queens (including Ingrid Jensen and Jason Lindner).  Glad I got here before
the prices started climbing (and they have, just last year).

Steve Smith
[e-mail]
NP - Keith Yaun Quartet, "La ville qui dormait, toi," 'Amen: Improvisations on
Messiaen' (Boxholder)



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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:21:45 -0500
From: Steve Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Das Junges Brooklyners [was Re: FRITH/MORI/DRESSER]

Tom Benton wrote:

> > Andrew D'Angelo
>
> So I was mere moments from asking "Has this guy fallen off the planet or
> what?" and decided to go check in at allmusic.com and see if he's appeared
> on anything that's escaped my radar and discovered the following in his
> bio:
>
> "D'Angelo's Squawnk trio, featuring Ben Street on bass and Jeff Ballard on
> drums, released its debut CD in 2000 on the Lyceum label, which D'Angelo
> formed in partnership with Curtis Hasselbring. Lyceum also plans to
> release a three-volume collection of D'Angelo's chamber works, featuring
> Dave Douglas, Andy Laster, Brad Shepik and many others."
>
> Anyone have any idea what's up Lyceum?  A quick search of the web reveals
> absolutely zilch.  Savy marketers, those boys...

It's pretty much dead in the water at the moment.  D'Angelo and Curtis
Hasselbring had planned to get it started last year, but so far nothing.

Andrew is one of the bunch of musicians for whom I recently wrote an entry
for the next edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, so I was able to
get all caught up on what he's been up to.  He's been playing with his group
Squawnk for a while now - the personnel has recently changed, probably
becaure Ballard's gotten too busy with Chick Corea.  I don't remember the
names of the new rhythm section - they're no one I'd ever heard of, but
Andrew was highly enthusiastic about them ("and they're YOUNG!" he says).
He's actually playing tonight at Detour with that band.  Other than that,
he's been playing regularly with Matt Wilson (though he's not in Wilson's
newest group), and he just sent the CD-Rs of the chamber music to CRI at my
suggestion... oooh, I'm *such* an insider... ;-)  Otherwise, according to
him, he spends his spare time restoring brownstones, building lamps and
programming websites.

Steve Smith
[e-mail]
NP - Keith Yaun Quartet, "Amen de la creation," 'Amen: Improvisations on
Messiaen' (Boxholder)



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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:36:00 -0500
From: Taylor McLaren <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: Current 93

MEEP! [e-mail] wrote:
>if you're interested in the wild sound collage side of Current 93, I'd
highly
>recommend exploring the world of Steven Stapleton, aka Nurse With Wound.
>where to start?
To be honest, it's probably safer to find somebody who owns a pile of
Stapleton's discs and simply ask them to pick a random track or two from
their six favourites. To date, I've only been able to convince myself to
buy "Sylvie and Babs" and "Who Can I Turn To Stereo", but both strike me as
being perfectly good examples of what happens when you take a lot of
records and then feed them all into the Acoustimat Blenderizer.

>if you're interested in the overwrought goth singer/songwriter side of C93,
>I'm the wrong guy to ask
"Dog's Blood Rising" is the traditional recommendation, and I can't really
argue with it. For a bit of a latter-day antidote to its old-time
scariness, though, I'd also suggest either the "I Have a Special Plan for
this World" EP or "Soft Black Stars"... the Thomas Ligotti influence has
done a lot to help Tibet's sound along into less predictable waters, though
the melodrama is still out in force.

And heck, if somebody is just looking to get a feel for the World Serpent
thing in the first place, I guess it couldn't hurt to check out the
"Foxtrot" or "Terra Serpentes" comps that were released a couple of years
ago... both include at least one track by each of the abovementioned acts,
as well as a couple of other productive joinings of their respective
talents with other peoples'.

- -me

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 15:48:41 -0800
From: Jim Flannery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: bley peacock synthesizer show

Lang Thompson wrote:
>
> http://www.borderlinebooks.com/uk6070s/b9z.html
>
> I noticed a listing for this duo in the psych guide "Tapestry of Delights"
> and was wondering if anybody had heard either album.  Psych?  Experimental?
>  Electronic?

I've not heard those two but I have the first (70 or 71), _The Paul Bley
Synthesizer Show_, and really, I'd only describe it as "jazz played with
a monophonic synthesizer" -- fairly inside jazz, at that, not even as
outside as, say, his ESP or early ECM stuff.

- --
Jim Flannery
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:53:25 +0000
From: Philip Clarkson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Emergency - Byard Lancaster

>    Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 04:06:58 -0100
>    From: "Margaret Davis" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re:  EMERGENCY:   BYARD LANCASTER
>
>Dear Music Lovers,
>
>                            T H I S   I S   A N    E M E R G E N C Y     N
>O
>T I C E
>
>      The great musician, educator, & music~community leader BYARD
>LANCASTER
>has been ARRESTED in Philadelphia, where he lives, charged with PLAYING
>MUSIC ON THE STREET, & has been ordered to appear on Thursday, January 11,
>'O1 at 8 a.m. in courtroom #4O4 of the Criminal Justice Bldg., 13th &
>Filbert St's. He faces a possible jail sentence of up to 9O days (in a sad
>little fax postscript that says it all, he added, "...without my Sax...")
>&/
>or a possible penalty of $4OO.
>      On separate occasions, BYARD LANCASTER has played for both Bill
>Clinton
>& George Bush, as well as three Prime Ministers of Jamaica, W.I.  During
>his
>distinguished career, he has taught in schools & arts institutions in
>Chicago, Jamaica (W.I.), Massachusetts (Berklee College & Harvard U.),
>Minnesota, New Mexico, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Rhode Island (Brown U.), &
>many other places; he has recorded &/ or played with FELA ANIKULAPO~KUTI/
>JAMES BALDWIN/ KENNY CLARKE/ JOHN COLTRANE/ JOHNNY COPELAND/ BILL DIXON/
>ABDULLAH IBRAHIM (DOLLAR BRAND)/ RONALD SHANNON JACKSON/ KHAN JAMAL/ LEROY
>JENKINS/ "PHILLY" JOE JONES/ RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK/ BILL LASWELL/ HERBIE
>MANN/
>LEE MORGAN/ SUNNY MURRAY/ ODEAN POPE/ SUN RA/ SAM RIVERS/ SONNY SHARROCK/
>JAMAALADEEN TACUMA/ McCOY TYNER/ BARBARA WALKER, & many more; he has
>toured,
>played, & recorded in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Boston, Brussels,
>Chicago,
>Frankfurt, Kingston (Jamaica), Lagos (Nigeria), London, Madrid,
>Minneapolis,
>Montreal, Nashville, New York, Nimes, Paris, Vienna, Washington (D.C.),
>Zurich, & many places in between; & amidst all this, he has also found the
>time & strength to write & publish two books on his music & philosophy. You
>can read more about his illustrious career at his Web site:
>www.cyberenet.net/~kbillert/byard.html . BYARD LANCASTER should be
>appointed
>Ambassador of Inspiration ~ not thrown into jail.
>      PLEASE HELP WITH BYARD LANCASTER's LEGAL DEFENSE!!  If you are in
>Philadelphia or can get there on Thurs., Jan. 11th, please attend the
>hearing, as he feels it is important that the courtroom be packed. Whether
>you can attend or not, please send a letter or fax of support (preferably
>on
>letterhead) to his defense attorney, Jules Epstein, Esq., KAIRY RUDOVSKY
>EPSTEIN MESSING & RAU, LLP, 924 Cherry St., suite 5OO, Phildelphia, PA
>191O7, phone (215) 925~44OO, fax ~5365; if you have any credentials of your
>own that might impress a judge, please indicate them. Or you can fax BYARD
>LANCASTER at (215) 842~134O or Email him at [e-mail].
>
>Thank you for helping.
>
>Margaret Davis, Editor & Publisher,
>"Art Attack!,"
>the newsletter for & about liberation musicians in NYC,
>on the Web at
>http://www.jazznewyork.org .


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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:13:00 -0500
From: Matt Laferty <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Current 93

To the Current 93 debate, I would add:

On recent Wire cds, there have been excellent Current 93 tracks (on "Brain in
the Wire") and Nurse with Wound (on Wire Tapper 6).  If I'm not mistaken, both
are unavailable elsewhere (completists indeed...) and the NWW track is quite
crazed.  I'm a fan of Current 93's doomfolk stuff, but I'm also a Shirley
Collins fan.  Tibet put out 2 compilations of her and her sister Dolly.  These
records, and pretty much any other by them, get straight to the core of what I
think Current 93're trying to do.  While the "English Folk" of the Collins's are
pretty and her voice is heartbreaking, there is an essential resignation the
whole affair that I find quite enchanting and lovely.

but it ain't for everyone.

Just bought Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects's "Shabeesation"...anyone here have
the supposedly superior first album?

matt


Taylor McLaren wrote:

> MEEP! [e-mail] wrote:
> >if you're interested in the wild sound collage side of Current 93, I'd
> highly
> >recommend exploring the world of Steven Stapleton, aka Nurse With Wound.
> >where to start?
>


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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:30:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Emergency - Byard Lancaster

In a message dated 1/4/01 6:52:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< >      The great musician, educator, & music~community leader BYARD
 >LANCASTER
 >has been ARRESTED in Philadelphia, where he lives, charged with PLAYING
 >MUSIC ON THE STREET >>

I didn't even know you could be charged with something like--so many people
seem to appreciate street musicians (as long as they're entertaining which
i'm sure is the case here).  Guess i'll have to keep my outdoor practice to a
minimum.
~eriedell

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:31:01 -0600 (CST)
From: Tom Benton <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Das Junges Brooklyners [was Re: FRITH/MORI/DRESSER]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Steve Smith wrote:

> But to be honest, the "Brooklyn Scene" that I was aiming to
> "package," for lack of a better term, is the whole late 20s-early 30s posse
> that arrived here in the late '80s and early '90s, many of them freshly minted
> from the New England Conservatory.

And, before that, from Seattle in many cases: Speed, Black, Shepik, Vu,
D'Angelo, as well as Briggan Krauss, Aaron Alexander, and Michael Sarin.

> Interestingly, not only have they all lived in Brooklyn at one time or
> another, but most of them even lived together in the same house at some
> point or another.

A friend of mine once told me a story about getting a tour of Brooklyn
from, if I recall correctly, one of the trumpets from the
Either/Orchestra.  At one point, his guide remarked, without further
explanation, "And that used to be the Human Feel house."

oh, to have been a fly on the wall at that place...

Steve - ever get the feeling you might be writing a book about this shit
one day?


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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 07:50:11
From: "Jaakko VΣhΣnen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Kimmo Pohjonen

hi,
for those who are interested, there are some samples from his first and
so far only solo album "Kielo" at
http://www.musicfinland.com/arctic/listen.html

Jaska


>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:01:38 +0100
>From: "Robert van Heumen" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Kimmo Pohjonen
>
>i think he has only one release, called kielo, which is ssssssuper...
> >really
>great accordeon, but far from conventional.
>
>        ...r.o.b.b.i.e...d.i...h.e.u.m.o...
>
>
>- ----- Original Message -----
>From: Alastair Wilson <[e-mail]>
>To: Andreas Dietz <[e-mail]>;
><zorn->[e-mail]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:01 PM
>Subject: Kimmo Pohjonen
>
>
>>I haven't heard any Kimmo Pohjonen, but am interested. Do you, >>Andreas
>>(or
>>anyone else), have any recommendations as to where to start?
>>
>>I had never reckoned the accordion at all until seeing Stian >>Carstensen
>>and
>>Guy Kluscevek this year. Unbelievable talents.
>>
>> > >From: "Alastair Wilson" <[e-mail]>
>> > >
>> > >Instrument of 2000
>> > >
>> > >The Accordion. Obviously.
>> >
>> > if you like this instrument - as I do - you should check out Kimmo
>>Pohjonen from Finland (if you haven┤t before). He┤s really fantastic >and
>>unique.
>> >
>> > Andreas
>> >
>> >
>
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:30:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: all-black labels arrghh

In a message dated 1/4/01 6:18:03 PM,
[e-mail] writes:
<<
meanwhile, an all black disc fell out of its case. gasp! no scratches, but
what
is it? no marking, so not a psf, but maybe another haino title? turns out its
sunny murray/charles gayle. please tell all the labels, no more all-black or
all-white cds. they don't look _that_ cool. it's tired. >>

no, not a racial reference...
hell even the pretty multicolred colored ones
can be confusing.
all i can do these days is try to keep the cases
right next to the player, and if necessary,
read the serial numbers inside, and
if that doesnt help, see if the # of tracks
correspods to a lonely empty box, or sleeve, or...

steve koenig
n.p. braxton pno qt live knit v2 (leo)

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