[_arc.hive_] NEW [N]+Semble MP3 Album

[Alan Sondheim]

You're taking on BlueNote here, was just listening to Herbie Hancock DVD 
the other day, incredible stuff, this fits right in, thought the 4/4 would 
remain really appreciated the waltztime although wondered about the 
calliope effect or what I read as such - btw if you have any comments on 
the mp3s I've put up wd be glad to hear them - curious about the 
instrumentation you're referencing - this is so fucking sophisticated - 
clean - brings back memories of Downbeat magazine, that's still going but 
it's lost the edge from the Jones' Applecores days - anyway - you've even 
got the snare/hihat in there w/ the echo & that high flute - cool or even 
cold version of Mingus - then again I love the being-there of jazz, the 
_body_ of it, the real-time edge to it - can't stand those latenight 
talkshow bands - Paul Shaffer - all this cymbal work - there's an odd 
repression to at least the bands I've listened to - keeping the equalizer 
even-paced - I miss Cherry, Pharoah Sanders - that fucking dates me - well 
I used to go walking thru Cabbagetown - this is the revised edition - 
after the new money moved in - where's Walker Evans when we need him - 
there's an existential aspect to the being-outside-of-time in these peaces 
- that's cresendos and diminuendos as if there were solos - but then more 
- coming in - Ascension on quaaludes to the incandescent power (The Ogre) 
- tuned in tuned down - one of the problems I've got w/ digital - there's 
no noyz boyz - no string buzz cough breath errors - don't know if you 
listened to the Track stuff I've got up - it's all that - noyz of acoustic 
guitar - buzz/ - errors - strin/g slippage - hammer on w/ nail click - 
times you can hardly here the cords - alway/s had a problem w/ vibraphone 
btw - played xylophone at 1 point - again that hammer sound - vp takes it 
all out - anyway - west coast jazz - cool jazz - continuous transmutation 
of form - wonder about the beat - the 4/4/4 the most part but then I'm 
tired of breathing that way - prefer the 1/1 of fast new music - which can 
go to X/Y or any such - depends and usually doesn't - or nothing - when 
Ayler and friends loosen out into that boundary no-man's no-woman's either 
between open/close statements - lost in the bridge of infinitude - 
infinite speedup sends it Coleman or sum such - those fast riffs all 
orderly - I'm always wondering about beauty - that split in yr work - 
between the scratch-lexture and the cool jazz stuff - prefer the chalk but 
that's the annihilation/apocalypse in me talking - these are unutterably 
beautiful - alan



On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Talan Memmott wrote:

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> Blue Node // [N]+Semble
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> Seven, count 'em seven new tracks from [N]+Semble.
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> A little jazzier than the previous album, PulpCycle.
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> http://memmott.org/nsemble/
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> comments?
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