from freak fighter to lamp lighter

OccultHawk · 08-29-2020, 09:55 AM

Yesterday while watching a quarantine concert a was completely blown away by the avant garde violinist, Laura Ortman. I really hope I can spread the word about her music on Freak Fighter because she’s an unassailable powerhouse.

RAPID LANDS by Laura Ortman

As her Bandcamp page points out this was released in 2013. It was recorded on a 4 Track cassette recorder at a place called the Dust Dive in Brooklyn. Actually, it seems the Dust Dive refers to a place and a band of which she has been a part of.

https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/2fsm83

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Formed in Brooklyn, NY, in 2000, The Dust Dive is an "art-rock" band that regularly employs short-wave and citizen-band radio transmissions, radio-assisted amplification and feedback, and recorded telephone conversations in their musical recordings and performances. Band-members include multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist Laura Ortman (a member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and also founder of the Coast Orchestra); writer and monologuist Ken Switzer; and interdisciplinary artist and lyricist Bryan Zimmerman.

Not sure. The BandCamp page says “at” the Dust Dive and she’s the only musician credited.

Here’s the url:

https://thedustdiveflash.bandcamp.com/track/rapid-lands

OccultHawk · 08-31-2020, 03:32 PM

The Ocean Inside a Stone | Susana Santos Silva Impermanence | Susana Santos Silva.

A limited edition of 300 physical releases released in 2020 this is a fantastic and as always unassailable release from the brilliant Silva and her band.

The Free Jazz Collective Blog, the definitive most authoritative voice on free jazz on the internet gives it 5/5 Stars and an excellent review that can be found here:

https://www.freejazzblog.org/2020/06...silva.html?m=1

On this album I hear strong and extremely effective influence of both Charlie Haden and Don Cherry. Obviously both Haden and Cherry have a good deal of diversity in their releases so I’ll add more specifically Liberation Music Orchestra and Mu, two records that are both old friends that I love love love. Again, this may be redundant but I recommend this record fully.

OccultHawk · 09-02-2020, 09:41 AM

Listening to classical music on Spotify is a bit different than other genres. All the old composers being in the public domain is certainly how it should be but you don’t want to be ****ing with a goddamn high school talent show recital recording just because some dillweed’s soccer mom put it on there. So let’s take some very fundamental essential listening: Johann Sebastian Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das wohltemperierte Klavier or Wohltemperirte Clavier) is a great place to start. What it is is Bach composed a piano piece for every major and minor key signature there is. The music is intricate and extremely logical. It’s extraordinarily grounded. Listening to it is psychologically pleasing in a way that’s kind of similar to acing a math test when you know you’re killing it. So if you wanna listen to Bach and you don’t know much about his music this a really good starting point.

András Schiff The Well-Tempered Clavier - JS Bach

Presently this entire collection is available for streaming on Spotify

You can identify great classical performers by their association with labels. Decca ain’t no ****ing joke so you know you’re safe. The thing is Schiff didn’t only record on Decca. Dafuq does that matter? So, and I get that it’s not rocket science, but you can search by Schiff’s name and check out whatever he recorded on whatever label. It’s all going to be good.

Schiff also has some interesting interviews on YouTube. He’s a 66 year old European dude who has a lot to say about the far right and fascism in Europe. And he also loves to talk about music.

Now it turns out there’s a great accompaniment to The Well-Tempered Clavier

This dude

Wojciech Żywny taught Frédéric Chopin using the The Well-Tempered Clavier as his material. It should be mentioned that for this music to be practice compositions was indeed originally Bach’s intention.

I feel like we owe it to Żywny to at least check him out so I dug this one up:

But anyway later Chopin would compose a series of preludes in the tradition of The Well-Tempered Clavier using the cycle of fifths instead of Bach’s chromatic approach. For this you wanna go here:

Chopin: Preludes; Sonata No.2 Martha Argerich

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Again you can run Martha Argerich through Spotify’s search engine and get a lot of results. She’s a 79 year old Argentine cancer survivor.

Also there’s nothing wrong with checking out new performances either. Generally the standard is super high (but not always)

**Marie Monday** · 09-02-2020, 01:57 PM

That's a great post, I had no idea about those Chopin preludes! I'll check them out

OccultHawk · 09-02-2020, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

That's a great post, I had no idea about those Chopin preludes! I'll check them out

Thank you, Daddy.

**Marie Monday** · 09-04-2020, 04:19 AM

Just listened to it, it's lovely

Anteater · 09-04-2020, 08:43 PM

Didn't realize you were such a big Bach fan, OH. Very nice.

OccultHawk · 09-06-2020, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Just listened to it, it's lovely

Cool!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anteater

Didn't realize you were such a big Bach fan, OH. Very nice.

Thanks. I’m still in recovery from Frown’s criticism that I left him off the Freak Fighter Forty

Today’s Topic:

the dust dive - asleep or awake walk

A band that includes Laura Ortman 2005 release freak folk

Music that expels emotion like a bad marriage bring to tangibility the frailties of your father living inside you JAMC style. A brother drowned, a dragon in the navy. Setting out to sea in an orange sunrise to the heart of the distance. YES! All dust and ashes. Burial at sea beastie bin laden brooklyn davy jones locker. The Boer War. The sea burial wasn’t even real and you never got to wear khakis and only shot BB guns from the kiddo pool. Because it’s like that. And that’s the way it is. Don’t run. Don’t swim. The wild is not for us.

OccultHawk · 09-10-2020, 08:22 AM

Mean What You Say by Philly Joe Jones

I had to skip over about three PJJ albums because I couldn’t find them online so I’m moving on to this one. Unfortunate too because one with an all Italian band looks really interesting. Thankfully, a kind soul put this one up on youtube. It bounces from hard bop to cool. The band may not be stacked with big names but everybody steps up. Pianist Mickey Tucker whose most impressive credit imo is on Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s Blacknuss pushes forward with an aggressive hard bop agenda and sax player Charles Bowen composed a cool ballad and has some excellent pre-modal era Coltrane inspired passages. And Jones does his thing, of course.

OccultHawk · 09-11-2020, 08:03 PM

Fish Wool by Susana Santos Silva (tp), Yedo Gibson (ts, ss), Vasco Trilla (dr, perc)

https://jaccrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fish-wool

All tracks are improvised around a discernible theme. I’m not 100% sure but although these musicians from Portugal, Catalonia, and Brazil (respectively as ordered in title) have interacted in various ensembles this is, I think, their only release as a trio. To put this 2019 release in a historic context the noticeable influences are Ayler and Cherry. To my ears this feels less organic and more mechanical than either however that is in no way a criticism. The exploration within the framework of an existing paradigm can have equal or even more value than the pioneering earlier works. I’m not going to come right out and say this is definitely on that level but I do think it might be. This isn’t flashy music. I get that a cautious review might not be that intriguing but music that falls in the middle like this takes time to get to know. I’m a huge fan of Silva so I will be returning to this. I encourage all fans of free jazz and improvised music and even composed atonal music to tune in. She’s in a very elite group of the best of the best in a time that is absolutely saturated with incredible talent. Branch, Roberts, Halvorson, Silva. It’s a woman’s world out there but it wouldn’t be nothing without a man and a boy.

08-31-2020, 03:32 PM	#1152 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	The Ocean Inside a Stone \| Susana Santos Silva Impermanence \| Susana Santos Silva. A limited edition of 300 physical releases released in 2020 this is a fantastic and as always unassailable release from the brilliant Silva and her band. The Free Jazz Collective Blog, the definitive most authoritative voice on free jazz on the internet gives it 5/5 Stars and an excellent review that can be found here: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2020/06...silva.html?m=1 On this album I hear strong and extremely effective influence of both Charlie Haden and Don Cherry. Obviously both Haden and Cherry have a good deal of diversity in their releases so I’ll add more specifically Liberation Music Orchestra and Mu, two records that are both old friends that I love love love. Again, this may be redundant but I recommend this record fully. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-02-2020, 09:41 AM	#1153 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Listening to classical music on Spotify is a bit different than other genres. All the old composers being in the public domain is certainly how it should be but you don’t want to be **ing with a goddamn high school talent show recital recording just because some dillweed’s soccer mom put it on there. So let’s take some very fundamental essential listening: Johann Sebastian Bach** The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das wohltemperierte Klavier or Wohltemperirte Clavier) is a great place to start. What it is is Bach composed a piano piece for every major and minor key signature there is. The music is intricate and extremely logical. It’s extraordinarily grounded. Listening to it is psychologically pleasing in a way that’s kind of similar to acing a math test when you know you’re killing it. So if you wanna listen to Bach and you don’t know much about his music this a really good starting point. András Schiff The Well-Tempered Clavier - JS Bach Presently this entire collection is available for streaming on Spotify You can identify great classical performers by their association with labels. Decca ain’t no ***ing joke so you know you’re safe. The thing is Schiff didn’t only record on Decca. Dafuq does that matter? So, and I get that it’s not rocket science, but you can search by Schiff’s name and check out whatever he recorded on whatever label. It’s all going to be good. Schiff also has some interesting interviews on YouTube. He’s a 66 year old European dude who has a lot to say about the far right and fascism in Europe. And he also loves to talk about music. Now it turns out there’s a great accompaniment to The Well-Tempered Clavier* This dude Wojciech Żywny taught Frédéric Chopin using the The Well-Tempered Clavier as his material. It should be mentioned that for this music to be practice compositions was indeed originally Bach’s intention. I feel like we owe it to Żywny to at least check him out so I dug this one up: But anyway later Chopin would compose a series of preludes in the tradition of The Well-Tempered Clavier using the cycle of fifths instead of Bach’s chromatic approach. For this you wanna go here: Chopin: Preludes; Sonata No.2 Martha Argerich Label: Deutsche Grammophon Again you can run Martha Argerich through Spotify’s search engine and get a lot of results. She’s a 79 year old Argentine cancer survivor. Also there’s nothing wrong with checking out new performances either. Generally the standard is super high (but not always) __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-10-2020, 08:22 AM	#1159 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Mean What You Say by Philly Joe Jones I had to skip over about three PJJ albums because I couldn’t find them online so I’m moving on to this one. Unfortunate too because one with an all Italian band looks really interesting. Thankfully, a kind soul put this one up on youtube. It bounces from hard bop to cool. The band may not be stacked with big names but everybody steps up. Pianist Mickey Tucker whose most impressive credit imo is on Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s Blacknuss pushes forward with an aggressive hard bop agenda and sax player Charles Bowen composed a cool ballad and has some excellent pre-modal era Coltrane inspired passages. And Jones does his thing, of course. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-11-2020, 08:03 PM	#1160 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Fish Wool by Susana Santos Silva (tp), Yedo Gibson (ts, ss), Vasco Trilla (dr, perc) https://jaccrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fish-wool All tracks are improvised around a discernible theme. I’m not 100% sure but although these musicians from Portugal, Catalonia, and Brazil (respectively as ordered in title) have interacted in various ensembles this is, I think, their only release as a trio. To put this 2019 release in a historic context the noticeable influences are Ayler and Cherry. To my ears this feels less organic and more mechanical than either however that is in no way a criticism. The exploration within the framework of an existing paradigm can have equal or even more value than the pioneering earlier works. I’m not going to come right out and say this is definitely on that level but I do think it might be. This isn’t flashy music. I get that a cautious review might not be that intriguing but music that falls in the middle like this takes time to get to know. I’m a huge fan of Silva so I will be returning to this. I encourage all fans of free jazz and improvised music and even composed atonal music to tune in. She’s in a very elite group of the best of the best in a time that is absolutely saturated with incredible talent. Branch, Roberts, Halvorson, Silva. It’s a woman’s world out there but it wouldn’t be nothing without a man and a boy. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html