Playlist, Week of 2019-11-10

Fun deep listening with my brother over the weekend...

Playlist 2019-11-11:

*AMM: An Unintended Legacy (disc 3)
*Anthony Braxton: Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (disc 1)
*Anthony Braxton: Sonic Genome 2019-10-31: Jazzfest Berlin 2019 (streaming)
*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade? "Who Doesn't Fade?"
*Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions (disc 1) "On The Corner (Unedited Master)"
*Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (disc 2)
*Herbie Hancock: Sextant
*Robert Landfermann/Ingrid Laubrock/Achim Kaufmann/Tom Rainey: Topaz
*Charles Mingus: Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 (discs 1, 2)
*New Ting: 2019-10-28 "Improv Impact Assessment Buddy" (wav)
*Wayne Shorter: Schizophrenia
*Three Body Problem: 2019-11-02 Washington DC (wav)
*John Zorn/Insurrection: Salem 1692
*Various artists: History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (CDR compilation) (disc 34)
*Area: 1975-08 Ferrara, Italy (CDR)
*Gentle Giant: Free Hand (selections)
*Grateful Dead: 1973-03-24 Philadelphia (CDR) (discs 1, 2)
*Henry Cow: Legend
*Kalyanji–Anandji: Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars, & Sitars
*Kinks: Arthur, or, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (50th anniversary remaster) (discs 1, 2)
*Lata Mangeshkar: Lata … As Never Before (discs 1, 2)
*Rallizes Dénudés: France Demo Tapes
*Sheriff Jack: Let's Be Nonchalant
*Sleepwalker: For This Time Only, Never Again
*Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor
*Lewis Taylor: Lewis II
*Lewis Taylor: The Lost Album
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1955: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1956: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Various artists: Squattin' and Sloppin' (CDR compilation)
*Various artists: Bollywood Funk

Reading List, Week of 2019-11-10

Reading List 2019-11-11:

*Deutsch, David. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications (started)
*Rankin, Ian. A Question of Blood (started)
*Creeley, Robert. Selected Poems, 1945-2005 (finished)
*Ellmann, Lucy. Man or Mango? : A Lament (finished)
*Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography (in progress)
*Schmidt, Arno. Bottom's Dream (trans. John E. Woods) (in progress)

Braxton's Sonic Genome in Berlin on YouTube

                     Alexander Hawkins in the green

Here's an experience that's not to be missed: a 6-hour video capturing the live stream of the performance of Anthony Braxton's Sonic Genome project at Jazzfest Berlin 2019 on October 31. I have listened to the whole thing once, and dipped in on some of the visuals... it's pretty damn amazing. The space it took place in, the Gropius Bau Museum, is a gorgeous space, lots of rotundas, open staircases, balconies, and some kind of plant structure in the middle of one of the halls. It must have been exhilarating to walk around and get immersed in Braxton's music. Here were some of the highlights for me:

0:00:00 - 0:15:00:  Braxton's opening, conducting what looks like the whole ensemble.
2:35:22 - 2:36:02: Close-up of Ingrid Laubrock soloing on soprano sax.
3:45:00-ish - The singers and the great orchestral riff that follows the singing, eventually joined by a sax trio including Braxton and James Fei.
3:58:00 - The whole orchestra breaks into this vocalizing/chanting section that's truly mesmerizing, and it looks like they're having a blast doing it!
4:29:30: A sweet quartet: flute/trombone/bassoon/tenor sax, in front of the plant structure... then joined by Alexander Hawkins at 4:30:35 playing melodica and piano from up within the structure! Great piano at 4:32:22. Augmented by Cymin Samawatie on vocals. (It thrills me to no end that Hawkins will be joining Braxton for a standards quartet tour in January. Oh, to be in Poland or London then...)

Playlist, Week of 2019-11-03

Fun to go back and revisit the music specifically commissioned for the 2012 Sonic Circuits Festival restrooms... I would love to hear any of this music any time I go to the stalls... In the process of populating the Magic Jukebox 2, I've enjoying digging up sonic nuggets... of course, when I think about it, most of my listening is digging for sonic nuggets anyway, so that process isn't really any different... but it has been fun to go through all the discs again and pull out old faves... my collection is in a constant state of flux, with my to-listen piles continually being swapped out with my to-be-filed piles... come to think of it, that's the way my book piles are too... so I spend a lot of time schlepping piles of things around: CDs, albums, books, comic books, papers, dishes, emails...

Playlist 2019-11-04:

*Ask the Trees: The Heart's Message Cannot Be Delivered in Words
*Anthony Braxton/William Parker/Milford Graves: 2007-03-16 Rome (CDR) (disc 2)
*John Coltrane: Live in Japan "Peace on Earth"
*Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (side 2)
*Paul Dolden: L'Ivresse De La Vitesse (disc 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings (disc 2)
*Steve Lacy Quintet with Derek Bailey: 1976-10-17 Paris (CDR)
*Chris Lightcap: SuperBigmouth
*New Ting: 2019-10-17 Shockoe Denim, RVA (wav)
*Tony Oxley: Ichnos
*Tyshawn Sorey: Pillars (disc 1)
*Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April Is the Cruellest Month
*McCoy Tyner: Sahara
*Various artists: Music for Restrooms
*Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra (Glenn Gould) (discs 1, 2)
*Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
*Digital Underground: Sex Packets
*DJ Spooky: The Gift
*Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings (disc 16)
*Al Green: Green Is Blues
*Howlin' Wolf:  Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960 (disc 4)
*Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door
*Lucas & Corey: Don't Know a Soul (Flat Fix)
*Paul McCartney: Flowers in the Dirt (Deluxe Ed.) (disc 1)
*National Health: Of Queues and Cures (side 1)
*Prince: 1981-03-22 Ritz NYC (CDR)
*Santana: Welcome
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1953: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Various artists: Country & Western Hit Parade 1954: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music
*Various artists: Katanga! and Ahbe Casabe: Exotic Blues & Rhythm vol. 1 & 2

Reading List, Week of 2019-11-03

Now to wait several more years for the third volume!

Reading List 2019-11-04:

*Ellmann, Lucy. Man or Mango? : A Lament (started)
*Schmidt, Arno. Bottom's Dream (trans. John E. Woods) (started)
*Rankin, Ian. Resurrection Men (started/finished)
*Kirby, Jack, and Stan Lee: The Essential Thor, Vol. 3 (finished)
*Pullman, Philip. The Secret Commonwealth (finished)
*Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography (in progress)
*Creeley, Robert. Selected Poems, 1945-2005 (in progress)

Video of New Ting at Shockoe Denim

New Ting at Shockoe Denim, 2019-10-17. Full audio here. Thanks, Katie, for the video!

Review of Ask the Trees

Really nice words from Daniel Barbiero in his AMN review of the new Ask the Trees release (along with RAIC and Stephen Vitiello/Molly Berg)... thanks, Dan!