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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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Ezhi & Aka is doing sole nice discounts on preorders (some new designs)...and also taking orders on some classics. The polarized fluttee has quickly become one of my most used effects.
That was an « ok » album. (Not the best by Old and new dreams, but they have so few recordings, anything is dope)
Cherry is on fire, as usual. Dewey is still one of the most underrated players.
Haden’s bass is recorded thin (also huge ground noise when bass is alone), but still does his thang. (Read same as the Ornette stuff.) You can even hear a baby’s cry during Haden solo on the first track .
I’m a big fan of Motian (Bill Evans trio fanboy here) , he definitely holds his own on this one. But you can hear that it ain’t Blackwell.
Choppy in some parts, too « straight » in some parts. He’s on listen radar mode.
Still definitely worth a good listen. But not one that is going to pop into my mind when I’m in the mood for this kind of stuff.
On Lonely woman they are surprisingly « careful » and subdued.
Worst track is Charlie’s bass feature......they could have left that one out.
My 2 cents.
(I hate music critics, but I did it anyways.
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I loved everything about the recording, other than the quality. I'm sure this was never meant to be released, but really glad that it was! I LOVE Ed Blackwell, but it's so freaking cool to hear Paul in this format.
It's also so amazing to hear the audience going wild for this music. That would probably never happen today in the internet age. Now you can hear everything online. Back then seeing such incredible musicians live who travel to your Country to play was beyond exciting. I miss that. Many years ago a good friend took me to see The Bulgarian Womens Choir. I had no idea who they were. Saw them in a giant old historic church in Boston. Changed my life. These days someone would say "Hey! You want to go see this group?" ..and I could look them up online and see lots of videos, and ruin the initial shock/excitement.
Also...get off my lawn!
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I agree it was not a recording bad.
Maybe I was expecting more.....hmmm....
Burning high energy stuff.....
Now get off MY LAWN!!!
Have you seen/heard Jaap Blonk's live performance of Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (the one with with real-time captioning)? My understanding is that Blonk performed the piece from memory...and while the notion of reading a score of the vocalese certainly seems daunting, I feel like trying to memorize the part takes a special kind of dedication reserved for complete geniuses, or totally insane OCD victims.
Astonishing performance either way.Trivia note: There's an old recording of Schwitters performing "Ursonate" himself sampled [sic] in one of Brian Eno's tunes on the Before And After Science album.
Have you seen/heard Jaap Blonk's live performance of Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (the one with with real-time captioning)? My understanding is that Blonk performed the piece from memory...and while the notion of reading a score of the vocalese certainly seems daunting, I feel like trying to memorize the part takes a special kind of dedication reserved for complete geniuses, or totally insane OCD victims.
Trivia note: There's an old recording of Schwitters performing "Ursonate" himself sampled [sic] in one of Brian Eno's tunes on the Before And After Science album.
Ok, memorizing that is only for genius, eidetic memories or savants.
Wow.
Have you seen/heard Jaap Blonk's live performance of Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (the one with with real-time captioning)? My understanding is that Blonk performed the piece from memory...and while the notion of reading a score of the vocalese certainly seems daunting, I feel like trying to memorize the part takes a special kind of dedication reserved for complete geniuses, or totally insane OCD victims.
Trivia note: There's an old recording of Schwitters performing "Ursonate" himself sampled [sic] in one of Brian Eno's tunes on the Before And After Science album.
I have never heard of this...this is incredible. Thanks for posting.
btw, if any of you are unfamiliar with Jaap Blonk's singing -- and/or are looking for some atypical source fodder for your ambient/noise pieces -- you must check out this interactive soundmaking instrument from his website:
BLONK ORGAN -Bibliotheque Bajazzo-
(requires Adobe Flash)
-- you must check out this interactive soundmaking instrument from his website:BLONK ORGAN -Bibliotheque Bajazzo-
(requires Adobe Flash)
Have you seen/heard Jaap Blonk's live performance of Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (the one with with real-time captioning)? My understanding is that Blonk performed the piece from memory...and while the notion of reading a score of the vocalese certainly seems daunting, I feel like trying to memorize the part takes a special kind of dedication reserved for complete geniuses, or totally insane OCD victims.
Trivia note: There's an old recording of Schwitters performing "Ursonate" himself sampled [sic] in one of Brian Eno's tunes on the Before And After Science album.
somewhere, buried among too many other discs, i have the wergo edition of schwitters doing it.
All this Ursonate talk and this immediately popped into my head.
It doesn’t really translate.
There could be some kind of equivalent but nothing as exact as fubar with its world war connotations.
It would lost in translation.
TADETOR
tabernak au-delà de toute réparation
Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? As my downstairs neighbour says, more efficient in English, more beautiful in French.
Loved the discussion of panning.
and fubar has an important use of a good old anglosaxon epithet.
I feel like I've lost all sense of what is being discussed at this point.
