> the absence of the Knit, if it comes to pass, will leave a big, stinky hole in this city's musical soul.
Agree 100%. Unless they have massive plans to boost their operations (which has been kept secret), venues like Tonic and Roulette are not going to be able to take up the slack. I've had my share of screw jobs
from the Knit but it's still an institution that's worth preserving. I've seen dozens (hundreds?) of great shows and festivals there, from all types of artists. No other venue that scale, with four stages and
projects like the labels and such, offers these things in the city today.
Any investors out there wanna call Dorf?
Best,
Jason
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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:34:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: alberta <albertayler@email.com>
Subject: i put his head where his wallet used to be
marcin:
I can't believe that it was
possible to reproduce 'spillane' live.
kurt:
believe it. i was there, too.
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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:49:09 EDT
From: JonAbbey2@aol.com
Subject: Re: Yoshide New Jazz Quintet
In a message dated 4/2/01 7:27:46 AM, andywmarks@yahoo.com writes:
<< Why haven't I heard about this before now?
Someone here has to know something.
Give us the scoop!
OTOMO YOSHIHIDE'S NEW JAZZ QUINTET: Flutter CD
(TZADIK)>>
this is the first I've heard of this coming out on Tzadik. looking at Otomo's
web site, though, it looks as if he's got three Tzadik releases planned for
release in the works for 2001, this one, the Cathode sequel (Anode), and a
New Jazz Quintet with singers that I know nothing about.
I have heard an advance copy of Flutter, though, that Otomo sent me a while
back. the version I have, which may have changed a bit, has five tracks as
follows:
2 Otomo originals, Flutter and Spin
Serene, by Eric Dolphy
two tracks which are double-credited, Drift (Otomo)-Les (Dolphy), and Night
Lights (Gerry Mulligan)-Density (Otomo)
the Quintet is two saxophonists, bass, drums, and Otomo switching between
guitar and electronics. Sachiko is also on two tracks and Masami Akita plays
synth on one.
I like this record a lot, it's a pretty successful attempt to fuse sine-wave
electronics into jazz structures. my only quibble is that some of the more
jazz-oriented parts don't quite have the chops that jazz fans are used to
hearing. well worth picking up, though, and the final version will probably
sound better than the one I've got.
where did you get that blurb from, and when is this being released?
Jon
www.erstwhilerecords.com
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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:55:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: alberta <albertayler@email.com>
Subject: koenjuhyakkei
so, like, Arthur Gadney, goes, "howdy, somebody mentioned that he bought the new KOENJIHYAKKEI cd at a recent ruins show. could you perhaps post a review or comment? i loved their first one,
but wonder if i should pick this one up as well."
so, the new one, on tatsuya's magabiatsu label, is the third i have, and as i understand it their fifth release all told. the first two i have are both on hoppy kamiyama's god mountain label, and are pretty similar. good, but a little proggy for my liking.
the new one is great -- edgier, smaller groups (with different line-ups on different tunes), less orchestrated and less vocals. it's still recognizable as koenjihyakkei (tatsuya put it on the p.a. before the show, so i had a sorta blindfold test), but much stronger, methinks.
kurt
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:20:20
From: "William York" <william_york@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: lightning bolt
>I heard some Lightning Bolt on late night CBC radio a few weeks ago -- >a
>live recording from late last year. I liked it quite a bit, but I >have
>bizarre tastes when I'm driving at 3 a.m. I will admit I've never >heard
>the Ruins, so don't know how they compare, but the closest >reference I
>could think of would be Lemmy Kilmeister and some >speedmetal drummer doing
>a really long jam. The host referred to them >as part of a new wave of
>heavy metal, which I didn't think was
>really appropriate (though the thought of a metal resurgence minus the
> >wanky guitars does sound appealing.
Actually, there is one (Today is the Day, Soilent Green, Dillinger Escape
Plan, Nasum, etc) but it would not include Lightning Bolt or those sorts of
bands ... Like Jon Abbey said, LB strike me as coming more out of a no-wave
tradition, although I am sure they are certainly influenced by some metal.
BUT, as long as that music is being embraced by "hipsters" or played on
college radio stations, you can be almost fully assured that it isn't really
"metal" because that is still too big of a culture gap ... They might like
to call it metal, but the whole aesthetics are different.
I think some of these no-wave bands are interesting, but the way they (or
their audiences/record labels) sometimes patronize themselves by referring
to it as metal when they wouldn't actually go to a dingy metal club and
watch musically more advanced/interesting (and yet societally more
"low-class"/less arty) bands such as Gorguts or Soilent Green or Nile is
kind of lame.
Besides, sometimes I like the wanky guitar solos - the more ridiculous, the
Geez, I'd like to, but I just gave most of my millions
to subsidize Hat Hut, and then I used the rest to
catch up with everybody's top-5,10,20 lists. ;>
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