Archive for November, 2009
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 9, 2009
Wild, wild free jazz. Not much else to say.
- Mike Cooper – Tu Fuego – Tu Fuego (Side A)
- Sun Ra – Atlantis – Atlantis
- Noah Howard – The Black Ark – Ole Negro
- Pat Metheny – Rejoicing – The Calling
Free Jazz Hour: Nov 2, 2009
A quiet, minimalist set.
- Roberto Donnini – Tunedless – t’ 2 a
- Terry Riley – Shri Camel – Desert of Ice
- Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings – Propellers in Love – Odd & Even
- David Behrman – Leapday Night – A Traveller’s Dream Journal – Setting B
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 26, 2009
I’m not sure if this show could be said to have a theme, we just traveled far and wide in the world of free music.
- Max Neuhaus – Percussion & Electronics – Four Systems – For Amplified Cymbals
- Cinorama – Garden, The Garden – Da Ga Ku Round About Poe
- Brigitte Fontaine – s/t – Le Dragon
- Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom – Alife
- Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti ‘75 + ‘76 – Saxolanota
- Don Cherry / Dewey Redman / Charlie Haden / Ed Blackwell – Old and New Dreams – Togo
- Arthur Doyle / Sonny Murray – Dawn of a New Vibration – Nomingo
- Joseph Holbrooke Trio – The Moat Recordings – Condensation
- Luc Ferrari – Archives Genetiquement Modifiees – Societe II
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 19, 2009
For this show, Jason Jay Stevens sat in with me and shared his music collection, or a fraction of it anyway. Turned me onto some cool stuff.
- Amiri Baraka – Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers – Bang Bang Outishly
- Misha Fiegin & Steve Good – State of the Union 2.001 – A Chinese Clicking Duck Music in Five Parts
- This Heat – This Heat – Diet of Worms
- Derek Bailey & Keiji Haino – Songs – Yume Ga Ichiban Muchi
- DJ Spooky & Arto Lindsay – Under the Influence – Get Your Snack On
- No Neck Blues Band – Inonomancy – The Shepard Takes A Shine to a Abyss
- Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanbha – unreleased – Supplication No. 4
- Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – From the River to the Ocean – Sakti / Shiva
- Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie – Gallery of the Invisible Woman
- Beans & William Parker & Hamid Drake – Only – “”"5″”"
- Leo Wadada Amith & Ikue Mori – Luminous Axis – The Traveller
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 12, 2009
The free jazz take on metal, dub, and noise. Mind-melting.
- Derek Bailey – Mirakle – This Time
- Material – Memory Serves – Metal Test
- Painkiller – Execution Ground – Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Red Light
- Rudolph Grey – Mask of Light – Implosion – 73 (second version)
- Last Exit – Last Exit – Voice of a Skin Hanger
Free Jazz Hour: Oct 5, 2009
The mingling of Indian ragas with free jazz. Beautiful stuff.
- Codona – Codona, Vol 1 – New Light
- Aktuala – Tappeto Volante – Waruna
- MV + EE – Livestock Moon Forms Rural Ragas Vol 1 – Cocola Moves Through the Guilford Fair
- Samsimar – Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra, Vol. 1 – Bapikek Balam
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Raga Du Matin
- Angus Maclise – The Invasion of Thunderbold Pagoda – Heavenly Blue Part 4 and 5
- Bismillah Khan – Shehnai Recital – Raga
Free Jazz Hour: Sep 28, 2009
A wild, free-funk-prog-rock freakout.
- Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Paradise – Apollo
- Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Concerto Cyclique
- Pierre Henry & Urban Sax – Paradise Lost – Gate of Paradise
- Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat – King Kong VI
- Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie – Theme de Yoyo
- Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice
- Franco Battiato – Fetus – Meccanica
Free Jazz Hour: Sep 21, 2009
A strange, mellow set, starting off with Terry Riley’s early collaboration with Chet Baker, and moving on to Bob James’ early collaboration with Robert Ashley.
- Terry Riley – Music for the Gift – Music for the Gift (parts 1-5)
- Bob James Trio – Explosions – And On
- Eivind Lonning, Espen Reinertsen, Martin Taxt, Tetuzi Akiyama – Varianter Av Dode Traer – Ti Morke Innfallslodd, 1
- Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti + Materiali 74 – 76 – Saxolanota
- Luciano Cilio – dell’Universo Assente – Della conoscenza – originale versione inedita
- Anthony Braxton – The Complete Braxton 1971 – Comp. 6M
Free Jazz Hour: Sep 7, 2009
This one was all about the LA Free Music Society, and came of the definitive document of it, the box set called “The Lowest Form of Music.” Because of the format of the box set, it’s difficult for me to give album names and years in many cases. But it’s pretty much all from the mid-eighties, and for the most part you’re only going to find it on the box set.
- Tom Recchion – Back Beat
- Dinosaurs With Horns – Totally Gone
- The Precambrian Three – Drama by Shaksepeare
- Monique et Aviv – I Am I
- Smegma – Half a Billion – Glamour Girl 1941
- Le Forte Four – Amazing Three (instrumental) – Flak Opera Rehearsal
- Doo-Dooettes – Schlagerzeit (Tolstoy’s Anemic) – Look to This
- Friends of Leslie – Freak Show (for Mayo Thompson)
- Harold Shroeder – Silent Rituals
- Tom Recchion – The Blue Blue Moon
- Monitor – Beak
- Monique et Aviv – J’Attends
Facebook: The Suburbs of the Internet
After about nine or ten months on Facebook, I’ve become truly disenchanted with the service. Perhaps it’s my own fault for accepting too many friend requests; requests from people I know only vaguely or not at all in fleshspace. It comes down to a problem of over-sharing. These 400+ people are spewing their random thoughts and intimate details, and these trivia are presented by Facebook as “News.” That probably sounds curmudgeonly, but I’m not alone. As Jane Jacobs wrote in her classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,”
“Togetherness” is a fittingly nauseating name for an old ideal in planning theory. This ideal is that if anything is shared among people, much should be shared. “Togetherness,” apparently a spiritual resource of the new suburbs, works destructively in cities. The requirement that much shall be shared drives city people apart.
This deluge of minutia is what is driving me away from the social space of Facebook. To the site’s credit, there are lots of ways to share selectively with different groups, and to hide people from your news feed. But the overwhelming tendency is towards the kind of sharing that would be delightful in an intimate, organic gathering of friends and acquaintances, only there are hundreds of people chattering this way at once. It’s an unworkable system, at least to my sensibilities.
In this light, it’s worth considering whether the social networking project has been too idealistic, too much in the heritage of the social planners Jacobs railed against, the planners whose greatest legacy is suburban sprawl. Facebook’s fine-grained settings do nothing to mask the fact that it is essentially an experiment in large-scale, top-down social planning (or more cynically, social engineering). Like the Garden City Movement, the Social Networking Movement lays out strict aesthetics, and shapes social interaction with complex, pre-conceived pathways for interaction. The network does not adapt to the needs or behaviors of its inhabitants, the way urban environments do, and the way that the internet as a whole does.
Luckily, it’s much easier to stop visiting a website than it is to uproot yourself from the suburbs. Just ask MySpace.
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