October 17, 2014
Sun Giants, Power Skeleton, Ancient Warlocks
Darrell's Tavern, Shoreline
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| plastic glow skull - and it makes noise! |
The tiny hollow moment just before the heavy downbeat determines its exact character - its bounce, heft, and chutzpah. Sun Giants (bass, drums, and guitar/vocals) aims the rest of the rhythm at getting that hollow moment exactly right.
There are quite a few more little effects devices in Power Skeleton than people. They are also distinguished by having two drummers and by their assertion that they never play the same song twice. They use rock rhythm centered improvisation as an alternative method of determining time with amplified particulars.
I think my ears have finally recovered from Ancient Warlock's massive sound. Inside the collisions of feedbacks twisting through the space a further music emerges - as ephemeral and lyrical as the explicit music is granitic. The guys on stage, playing their instruments through their stacks of amps, create a sound, and that sound plays a music on the shape and substance of the space. We're in the thick.
Recorded
October 13, 2014
Imagine - John Lennon
Essentially an album of slightly tidied demos (just add some strings and it will sound OK) with one strong song (I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die), otherwise populated by an uncomfortable mix of idealism, bitterness, alienation, and the bad taste to air dirty laundry in public.
Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion - Paul Lansky
The smooth gradations of the early 17th Century pulled apart fantasy by fantasy. A concerto for modified voice and its pre- and re- verberations.
October 14, 2014
See Jungle! (Jungle Boy) - Bow Wow Wow
Part of the '80's reset of rock&roll: back to fun, back to competence, back to the self-obsessed myopia of teendom.
Eye Music - Stuart Dempster and William O. Smith [from Perspectives of New Music, vol. 24 #2]
Stu and Bill seem to be playing the audience response as much as trombone and clarinet, the sound and rhythm of collective laughter being an integral part of how the episode goes as music.
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse - Stan Brakhage
What is seen only when eyes are closed: inverted color schemes, oddly drifting weightless formations. Flashes (we blink) - flow (our eyes attempt to track what moves with our tracking). Not dreamlike, but the visual matrix from which dreams are configured.
Guitar Hell - Fragmented Brain Solos - Pete Comley
The sound is squeezed out through filters like pastry dough. The lyricism is reminiscent of Fripp, but with a distinct narrative flow. No objects are created, instead trajectories are followed.
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| Mike Marlin |
A scrapbook of sounds without any pretense of song-hood. Completely endearing. I had the distinct pleasure of improvising with Mike several times. Here's hoping he comes back to Seattle someday!
The Kinks Say Fuck You - Pulses [from The Funhouse Comp Thing]
A tightly packed and weighty solid, fit for throwing.
Four Songs - Spinning Whips
This was a small-issue CD I picked up when we heard them play at the Columbia City Theater several years ago. Their fat guitar sounds have more than a proggy hint of King Crimson.
October 16, 2014
Correte, amanti, a prova - Gesualdo - Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
Conversational flow, from glib and quick of wit to focused and precise. One moment we are listening to three or four sides of a conversation. Suddenly we are the object of singular attention.
Konzert in F Major, BWV 1046 - J. S. Bach - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
The placid and broad are played up to such an extent that the whole thing falls asleep.
Sonata in D Major, Wq. 137 - C. P. E. Bach - Charles Medlam, William Hunt, Richard Eggar
Quartet in C Major, Op. 1 #6 Hob.III:6 - Haydn
They sure loved their Menuets back then.
Symphony in F Major K112(112) - Mozart
Sonata in A-flat major, Op. 26 - Beethoven
Part of what distinguished Beethoven's piano writing is the degree to which the accompanimental figurations take on a life of their own, demanding their own resolutions and workings out - as though they are musical material as much as the tune is. In this early work the relations among the parts are still relatively polite.
October 17, 2014
Symphony in C minor (String Symphony #4) - Mendelssohn
In Session at the Tintinabulary
October 13, 2014
Banned Rehearsal 871 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosàly-Meyer
October 16, 2014
As Yet Unnamed Song - Keith Eisenbrey
Recorded drums, bass, guitar, and vocal tracks. Discarded the guitar and vocals.
October 17, 2014
As Yet Unnamed Song - Keith Eisenbrey
Tried again for guitar and vocals. I'm happier with it but want to sit on it for a few weeks.
Fox Spit 141017 - Keith Eisenbrey
Improvisation on acoustic steel string guitar.
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