RAIC Release "Lovers Never Leave" Now on Bandcamp

Lovers Never Leave is a new album by RAIC, now streaming and available for download on Bandcamp. It consists of two sessions I was happy to participate in: a live performance at Sound of Music Studios (video here) and a session at the Harry Partch Appreciation Society practice space (more audio from that session here). While you're there, check out the other cool RAIC releases.

Playlist, Week of 2017-03-26

Playlist 2017-03-27:

*Daniel Barbiero/Sam Byrd/Jimmy Ghaphery: 2017-03-21 Rhizome, Washington DC (wav)
*Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: 2016-12-28 Nashville (wav) (track 4)
*John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 17
*Mary Halvorson Octet: Away with You
*Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
*Living By Lanterns: New Myth/Old Science
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-02-20 "Ash Pass Surprise" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-03-13 "Box of Voices" (wav)
*David Torn Prezens: 2008-03-14 New Haven, CT (CDR) (disc 1)
*John Zorn: Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Vol. 2
*Asha Bhosle: selections
*Deerhoof: I Thought We Were Friends (single/streaming)
*Henry Cow: 1978-01-13 Zürich (wav)
*NRBQ: High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (disc 1)
*Shirelles: The World's Greatest Girls Group (disc 1)
*UYA: 1990-12-13 Skidmarks (wav)
*Various artists: Y2K: The Byrd Edition (cassette compilation) (side A)

Reading List, Week of 2017-03-26

Reading List 2017-03-27:

*Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. Abandon the Old in Tokyo (started)
*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: The Early Years (started/finished)
*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese in Africa (started/finished)
*Jackson, Holbrook. Anatomy of Bibliomania (in progress)
*Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (reread/in progress)
*Silliman, Ron. The Alphabet (in progress)

Barbiero/Byrd/Ghaphery at Rhizome

                                                                      Phong Tran

Lot of fun playing at Rhizome this week! Great space for dynamics, and we were able to get quite quiet at times. The set is up for listening and free download at archiv.org.

Playlist, Week of 2017-03-19

Playlist 2017-03-20:

*Terry Adams: Talk Thelonious
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1993-07-18  Oakland, CA (CDR) (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (disc 4)
*Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (disc 3)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 17 (disc 1)
*Michael Formanek/Tim Berne/Jeff Hirshfield: Loose Cannon
*Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings
*Jelly Roll Morton: Volume Two (JSP)
*Music Improvisation Company: 1968-1971
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-02-27 "Several Round Things" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-03-06 "Coagulation of the Laid" (wav)
*Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry: Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (discs  5, 6)
*Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971-1979 (disc 4)
*Sun Ra And His Arkestra: Sun Ra And His Arkestra At Inter-Media Arts April 1991 (disc 1)
*Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
*Ahleuchatistas: Of the Body Prone
*Cobalt: Slow Forever (disc 2)
*Darkside: Psychic
*Henry Cow: 1975-05-17 Grenoble, France (wav)
*Madvillain: Madvillainy
*NRBQ: Workshop
*NRBQ: Wild Weekend
*NRBQ: High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (disc 3)
*Opeth: Sorceress (Limited Edition) (disc 2)
*Primus: Pork Soda
*Prince: Tokyo 1990 (boot)
*UYA: 1990-11-11/18: Yo Age and in Old (wav)
*UYA: 1990-12-05: Dreams of Brazil (wav)
*UYA: 1990-12-08: Rebuilding Billy (wav)
*Various artists: Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977 (disc 3)
*Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks: Orange Crate Art
*Zevious: Passing Through the Wall

Reading List, Week of 2017-03-19

Reading List 2017-03-20:

*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese in Africa (started)
*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: A Mid-Winter Morning's Dream (finished)
*Jackson, Holbrook. Anatomy of Bibliomania (in progress)
*Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (reread/in progress)
*Silliman, Ron. The Alphabet (in progress)

Nice Poster for Gig, Tuesday March 21

Barbiero/Byrd/Ghaphery Trio: Gig In DC Next Week

Chris Videll

Daniel Barbiero, Jimmy Ghaphery, and I will be improvising at Rhizome in DC next week. Double bass, alto sax (and maybe clarinet?), and drums/percussion/coffee cans.

Details are here, and there's a Facebook page. We'll be sharing the evening with Sahba Sizdakhani and Jim Strong. Rhizome is a great space for our kind of quiet(-ish) improvising.

Here's a video of our last performance there, last summer.

If you're in the DC area, check it out!

Playlist, Week of 2017-03-13

Playlist 2017-03-13:

*AMM: 2003-11-12 Glasgow (CDR)
*AMM: 2016-11-12 Budapest (CDR)
*Louis Armstrong: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (disc 4)
*Aych: As the Crow Flies
*Daniel Barbiero/Sam Byrd/Jimmy Ghaphery: 2016-08-27 Rhizome, Washington DC (wav)
*Bix Beiderbecke: Great Original Performances 1924-1930
*Anthony Braxton Quartet: 1993-07-18  Oakland, CA (CDR) (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (disc 3)
*Rodger Coleman: 2016-01-20 Portland Brew 12 South, Nashville (wav)
*Silvia Corda: Traces for Semi-Prepared Double Bass (Danile Barbiero) (streaming)
*Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Planktonic Finales
*Kris Davis: Rye Eclipse
*Kris Davis Trio: 2015-01-22 Vienna (CDR)
*Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-02-27 "Several Round Things" (wav)
*Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief
*Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry: Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (disc 4)
*R.U.B.: 2006-03-05 Tokyo (CDR)
*Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971-1979 (disc 3)
*Cecil Taylor Unit: 1975-07-25 Antibes (wav)
*Kevin Ayers and the Whole World: The Garden of Love
*Cream: 1967-10-15 Detroit (CDR) (disc 2)
*Mike Elder/Harry Forrest/Greg Jordan/Sam Byrd: 2017-03-04 (wav)
*Electric Wurms: Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk
*Flaming Lips: Oczy Mlody
*Grateful Dead: History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice)
*Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead [Skull and Roses]
*Henry Cow: 1972 Hemel Hempstead (wav)
*Mike Keaneally: Wing Beat Fantastic
*NRBQ: Scraps
*Shirelles: The World's Greatest Girls Group (disc 1)
*UYA: 1990-10-28 Plug (wav)
*UYA: 1990-11-04/07 Erd Nove (wav)
*UYA: 1990-11-07/11 Wingspan "Cher" Boogie (wav)
*Syreeta Wright: Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta
*Robert Wyatt: Odd Ditties (boot CDR) (disc 1)
*Yardbirds: Having a Rave Up (side 1)

Reading List, Week of 2017-03-13

I'm a little over halfway through rereading Pynchon's mammoth novel Against the Day, and it has been every bit as overwhelming the second time around. This is dense, magical prose, and it's a reading experience where the sentences practically force you to slow down to absorb their special Pynchonian rhythm. For example:

Out in the middle of the glaring night, somewhere disguised in echo and phase-interference, chimes had begun to sound, a harmonic-minor nocturne too desolately precise to be attributable to human timing and muscle-power, more likely one of the clockwork carillons peculiar to this part of Belgium, replacing a live carillonneur, whose art was said to be in decline.... (p. 562)

Now, that's a damn sentence.  I am constantly stunned and enchanted by his writing here, which rivals Gravity's Rainbow in its strange power. Here's some more:

It was said that great tunnels like the Simplon or St.-Gotthard were haunted, that when the train entered and the light of the world, day or night, had to be abandoned for the time of passage however brief, and the mineral roar made conversation impossible, then certain spirits who once had chosen to surrender into the fierce intestinal darkness of the mountain would reappear among the paying passengers, take empty seats, drink negligibly from the engraved glassware in the dining cars, assume themselves into the rising shapes of tobacco smoke, whisper a propaganda of memory and redemption to salesmen, tourists, the resolutely idle, the uncleansably rich, and other practitioners of forgetfulness, who could not sense the visitors with anything like the clarity of fugitives, exiles, mourners, and spies--all those, that is, who had reached agreement, even occasions of intimacy, with Time. (p. 659)

Reading List 2017-03-13:

*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: A Midwinter Morning's Dream (started)
*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: Voodoo for the President (started/finished)
*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: Banana Conga (started/finished)
*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: The Brazilian Eagle (finished)
*Jackson, Holbrook. Anatomy of Bibliomania (in progress)
*Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (reread/in progress)
*Silliman, Ron. The Alphabet (in progress)

Playlist, Week of 2017-03-05

Playlist 2017-03-06:

*Luciano Berio: A Portrait, Part I (CDR) (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (disc 9)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (discs 1, 2)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: Imaginary Vinyl
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 16 (disc 2)
*Duke Ellington/John Coltrane: Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
*Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2017-02-20 "Ash Pass Surprise" (wav)
*Plymouth: 2015-03-06 Amsterdam (CDR)
*RAIC: 2016-09-01 "Lovers Never Leave" Sound of Music Studios, RVA (mp3)
*RAIC: 2017-02-01  "Balance of the Three" Richmond VA (mp3)
*RAIC: 2017-02-03 "Balance of the Three" WRIR Party, Renaissance Ballroom, RVA (mp3)
*Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
*Cecil Taylor Trio: 1975-06-09 Village Gate, NYC (wav)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, Spp
*Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
*Various artists: 3 Nights at Cafe Oto (disc 2)
*Boredoms: Super Roots 6
*Cobalt: Slow Forever (disc 1)
*Funkadelic/Parliament/George Clinton & P-Funk All Stars: Live "The Funkadelic Collection" Greatest Hits 1972-1993 (disc 2)
*Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead
*Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun
*Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead
*Heldon: Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale
*Henry Cow: Legend
*Henry Cow: Western Culture
*Listening Woman: Getting Mystic
*NRBQ: High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (selections)
*Opeth: Sorceress (Limited Edition) (disc 1)
*Protest the Hero: Pacific Myth
*Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles 3
*Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles 7
*Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles 8
*Ernest Ranglin: 2016-07-30 Berlin (CDR)
*Thundercat: Thundercat (CDR compilation)
*UYA: 1990-09-27 Great White Electric Art Ensemble (wav)
*UYA: 1990-10-04 Psychedelic Jazz (wav)
*UYA: 1990-10-11 Wrinkles in Time (wav)
*UYA: 1990-10-14 Open Hole (wav)
*UYA: 1990-10-24 Rainbow Statements (wav)
*Wig Drop: Wig Drop 2

Reading List, Week of 2017-03-05

Reading List 2017-03-06:

*Pratt, Hugo. Corto Maltese: The Brazilian Eagle (started)
*King, Frank. Walt and Skeezix, Vol. 2: 1923-1924 (finished)
*Kirby, Jack, and Stan Lee. Essential Fantastic Four, Vol. 3 (reread/finished)
*Jackson, Holbrook. Anatomy of Bibliomania (in progress)
*Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day (reread/in progress)
*Silliman, Ron. The Alphabet (in progress)