| Greetings & welcome to the third
DMG newsletter:
ZORNnews- Started this week off with 2 Masada sets at Merkin Hall, both featured dancers. The first nite, Sept. 30th, had Masada accompanying Neta Pulvermacher & her 7 dancers. I recognized most of the tunes from Masada 1-6, great version of "Beeroth" from 5. The 2nd nite, Masada was in magic form doing mostly new material, accompanying Lynn Shapiro's dancer Marlon Barrios, on only one slower, spookier piece. Very well done. Besides the upcoming Masada & Bar Kokhba tours of the US & Europe, Masada will be doing 7 nites at the Knitting Factory, December 6th-12th. There will also be the world premiere of a new Zorn piece entitled "Duras" for Margaret Duras on Wed. Nov. 27th at the Knit as well. Masada Seven is expected any day now, don't forget to save your coupons from Five & Six... Also arriving in the same shipment are 2 new Avant cd's, the long awaited jungle collaboration with Derek Bailey & the Jim Plotkin cd. If you are a Zorn fan-addict like myself, you might want to get on the ZORNlist here at DMG, leave us with your phone # & you will get called the day we get any new Zorn product in stock. The next 7 or so Tzadik releases are due at the end of November & will include Zorn's Filmworks V and VI. Filmworks III and IV are due next spring. Word is that Joey Baron is working on his next release, which will include the likes of Bill Frisell, Arthur Blythe & Ron Carter!?! BRAXTONnews- Anthony's opera-Trillium
R will be performed by his TriCentric Orchestra plus 12 vocalists at John
Jay College in NYC on October 25 & 26. Tix are $30. & are now available
through ticketmaster. Mr. Braxton has just started his own label called
Braxton House, it's first 4 cd releases will be out shortly, hopefully
in time for his opera. The label plans on releasing 20-30 cds of Braxton
music only in the next few years. The first 4 cds are:
DIM SUM CLIP JOB-Harmolodic Jeopardy (Avant) This cool noise/punk/improv quartet consists of Laura Cromwell (ex-God is my CoPilot, Zorn improv & game pieces) on drums, Rob Price (Frisell & Joey Baron fanatic, good pal of mine) on lead guitar, Gordon Knauer (old KnitFact ticketman, also a good buddy)on sick alto sax & Jay Brown on el. bass. Zorn produced & influenced, tunes that jump from genre to genre. Mostly instrumental, no one in Dim Sum except Laura has been playing that long, yet it doesn't seem to matter. They are still tight, focused, and use noise in all the right places. This music has spirit & guts, even letting loose the oft painful reality of living on the lower east side. The only cover is by the Italian hardcore band-Raw Power, and some of this reminds me of my faves-The EX. Fun & intensity. ANDREA PARKINS trio-Cast Iron Fact (KFW) Accordion has really come a long way. On the more melodic & restrained side we have Guy Klucevsek & Astor Piazzolla (bandonian actually). But pushing this squeezebox to its limits is Zeena's sister-Andrea Parkins, so far we've heard Andrea with Braxton's TriCentric Orchestra & Ellery Eskelin's Jazz Trash trio. This is Andrea's first effort as a leader, and a dark mesmerizing work it is. Her trio includes Briggin Krause (Wayne Horvitz' Pigpen & Good Kitty) on alto sax and that hard working wonder drummer-Kenny Wollesen (New Klezmer Trio, and occasional Masada member). This is a perfect trio, ever evolving, creating moods, shifting textures, often free, yet always connected. There are a few Crispell like short solo piano pieces, as well as a number of well placed duo pieces. Kenny's playing just gets better & better, sometimes distant & skeletal, yet always right there when need be. Each piece a unique story that unfolds in its own way. Bravo Andrea!!! The CATLER BROTHERS-Crash Landing (FreeNote) Lead guitarist Jon Catler & brother Brad on el. bass, have been exploring & refining their distinct use of microtonality for over a decade. First with JC & the Microtones (old lp now out-of-print) and currently featured in LaMont Young's Forever Blues Band (3 hour sets at present). This is their first release on their own label, which hopes to put out microtonal music only in the future. The drummer of this jazz power trio is Jonathon Kane (also in LaMont's unit, Gary Lucas' Gods & Monsters, previously w/Glen Branca). This cd seems to me to be an extension of the very 1st Pat Metheny trio effort. A perfectly balanced trio, with an Ornette tune thrown in for good measure. Although Jon has a mostly clean warm jazzlike tone, he lets the rhythm team lock in the groove, while he swirls around the stratosphere, spewing swarms of buzzing notes like bees surrounding their hive. Both bros. have custom made axes (designed by themselves) to get 49 notes to their scale. What this means to non-musicians like myself is they often select notes that fall between the notes most other guitarists are accustomed to. Both brothers are perfect foils for one another, constantly swirling in and around each others terrain. Most of these tunes are moderate tempo jazz tunes, yet what stands out is when they slow it down to an eerie bass throb groove, Jon slides his fingers around the neck, so suspensfully like slide guru Dave Tronzo. Guitar freaks, this is a must have, so order yours today. (cost is $14.00) That's it for now-BLG. Hello, wherever you are and welcome to the funhouse mirrored image of the mind that is Mike's Space part III. I'll begin today with a surfer (web) tip. Point your newsreader toward alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless for an eyeful of Medical Scans that will show you just about everything that can go wrong with the human body. Warning: this is not a newsgroup for the weak stomached or easily offended, but the rest of us can go there and enjoy some seriously gruesome stuff. Get there quickly as binaries disappear pretty fast. Hot Babe Sightings- recent additions to the Hot Babes List are as follows:
Gina Gershon- typecasting seems to always put her in the sultry, smoldering, ex-hooker role and to this I say "what's wrong with typecasting?". Her "body" of work includes Showgirls and Bound. SEXY!!!
I need to say thanx to some People Who Make the Music Industry Suck Just a Little Less- (this is not a shameless kiss-up to get promo but instead a space filler as my idea generators are offline at the moment) Vanessa and Val at Victory, Andy and Sean at Relapse, Pat at Futurist, Brian and Ralph at Metal Blade, Cynthia at Fathom, Becky at Radical, John at Bleecker Bob's, Kristi & Kathy at BMG, Will at Logic, Ray at ILS, Paul and Joe from Controlled Bleeding, Mike & Howard at Rawkus, Lia at BMG, Brett at NOTA and Tammy at Pavement. Dealing with you guys makes this job O.K. My teachers all throughout my school years
complained about my concise, get-to-the-heart-of- the-matter writing style
and I always had trouble writing a three page report on something when
only one would do, so in the true spirit of rebellious adulthood I present
HAIKU REVIEW:
cold like dark of space
Mazzy Star- Among My Swan- Capitol country ballad goth?
Various Artists- Hypnotic Sounds- Hypnotic four star trance stuff here
AC/DC tunes
Bad Brains- Black Dots- Caroline four track from way back
Banco De Gaia- Live in Glastonbury- Mammoth/Planet Dog taped live from a rave
Various Artists- Storm of Drones- Asphodel/Sombient gloom buzz fade phase brood
Jesse Cook- Gravity- Narada nimble fingerstyle
Brutal Truth- Kill Trend Suicide- Relapse grind is still their way
new growth from these two
Mike- Ode to a Fall Evening- Mikeworx/digital cow comm. crisp night surrounds me
Wait I forgot my TV tip- If you're up try to catch 2 Stupid Dogs on the Cartoon Network nightly at 1:30 am. This is in no way highbrow humor but is instead minimalist, slapstick type stuff. Picture Ren & Stimpy and add a lot of subtlety and then... oh, just stay up one night and watch. Check out Dexter's Laboratory Saturdays at 9:30 am also. Now, just relax and feel all that stressful adulthood slipping away... Ciao! Emperor |
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