Two recent albums featuring pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Kate Gentile have been exciting me for the last few weeks: Mitchell's A Pouting Grimace and Gentile's Mannequins... both of these were on several of last year's best-of lists, and with good reason... both have compositions with intriguing, knotty melodic lines that turn and twist on themselves... Mitchell's piano and electronics work is exquisite, and Gentile is a clean inventive drummer whose textures sometimes evoke Chris Cutler... in fact, much of this music evokes the improvisational textures of late-era Henry Cow, which makes sense when you consider that Mitchell used to play in Thinking Plague... Mitchell's music is also more than a little related to the work he's done with Tim Berne's Snakeoil... I continue to revisit Sonic Youth with awe at the sheer, oh I don't know, guitar-ness of it all... I don't know when I'll return in depth to Cecil Taylor... I am still reeling from the news of his death... In the meanwhile, I plan on continuing to explore Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell... especially since this week marks the ending of my Henry Threadgill listening spree... for me, the studio albums are far stronger than all the live shows, especially the Zooid ones... and his two most recent albums, In for a Penny and Old Locks are among his strongest ever...
Playlist 2018-04-16:
*AMM: Fine
*Lotte Anker/Craig Taborn/Gerald Cleaver: Triptych
*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: You've Been Watching Me
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2017-12-27 Nashville (selections)
*Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto
*Tomas Fujiwara: Triple Double
*Kate Gentile: Mannequins
*Barry Guy New Orchestra: Oort-Entropy
*Matt Mitchell: A Pouting Grimace
*Roscoe Mitchell: Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin
*Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side (disc 2)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-03-19 "Cornering the Market" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-03-26 "Bowser Intake Ratio" (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2018-04-02 "Hold It Against Me" (wav)
*Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa
*Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables (disc 1)
*Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude
*Sun Ra: selections (Bandcamp streaming)
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound
*Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
*Henry Threadgill Zooid: 2017-03-26 Knoxville TN (CDR)
*Lily Allen: Sheezus
*Colin Blunstone: Ennismore
*Carter Family: Volume 2 1935-1941 (disc 2)
*Firesign Theatre: I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
*Grateful Dead: 1969-02-22 Vallejo CA (CDR)
*Grateful Dead: Three from the Vault (1971-02-19 Port Chester, NY) (disc 2)
*J.B.'s: Funky Good Time: The Anthology (disc 1)
*Ozric Tentacles: Jurassic Shift
*Panda Bear: Person Pitch
*Lee Perry: I Am the Upsetter (disc 3)
*Rascals: Freedom Suite (side 4)
*Sonic Youth: Evol
*Sonic Youth: Sister
*Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
*Sonic Youth: Goo
*This Heat: This Heat
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Various artists: Eccentric Soul: The 4J Label
*Hank Williams: The Original Singles Collection (disc 1)
*WMWS: One Night Stand
*Yes: 1975-07-23 Providence RI (CDR) (disc 1)
*Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention: The Roxy Performances (disc 1)
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