soundfan Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) Fail Better: OWT No Business Records Excellent free improvisation from this Portugese quintet, recorded live in 2014, released 2016. Marcelo Dos Reis: guitar Luis Vicente: trumpet Joao Guimaraes: sax Jose Miguel Pereira: double bass Joao Pais Filipe: drums. http://jazzandblues.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/fail-better-owt-nobusiness-records-2016.html Edited April 13, 2017 by soundfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundfan Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Burkhard Beins / John Butcher/ MarkWastell: MEMBRANE I received this CD release today, came in a metal tin, even had it's own plastic sleeve. Burkhard Beins : feedback 28" concert bass drum, analog synth & live-electronics John Butcher : tenor & soprano saxophones, acoustic & amplified feedbacking. Mark Wastell : amplified 32" paiste tam-tam & mixer Limited edition 150 copies, black vinyl-styled CD, housed in DVD size metal tin together with three photographic postcards. Liner notes from John Eyles. Recorded live in concert at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London on 13 April 2014. Recording engineered by James Dunn. Mixed & mastered by John Butcher. Review: This marvellous release from Mark Wastell’s Confront label documents a meeting of these three heavy hitters convened at Dalston’s Cafe Oto, last March. This was the first time all three had played together, although, as John Eyles remarks in his liner notes, they had all worked with each other, before, in outfits such as Powelchsel (Butcher and Beins), The Sealed Knot (Beins and Wastell) and Chris Burn’s Ensemble (Wastell and Butcher). This familiarity, combined with rigour and expertise of their respective improvisational methodologies, means this is a very accomplished set. These guys know what they’re doing and so there’s no faffing about. They’re locked in from the first seconds of Membrane 1, setting up a long, ringing sequence of notes, driven by Wastell’s metallic tam-tam murmurs. At first things are slow and sub aqueous, Wastell setting up a liquid sonic field that makes everything like it is taking place at the bottom of a cold, clear ocean. Butcher comes in sensitively at first, his breathy hisses moving through the shimmer like an eel. At around 11 minutes, he casts forth some simple, abstract phrases, before slipping back into the depths. Beins is even more circumspect and, occasionally, it’s tricky to figure out whether the electronic tones and chain-like rattles that occasionally ripple across the surface of this piece are him or one of the other two. There’s definitely something going on, however, something creating that sense of textured depth that seems, on the whole, organic but sometimes humming like a vast, dormant machine. At times, Membrane 1 approaches the timeless, womb-like states to which late 90s ambient post-rave comedown music aspired, but rarely achieved. There’s a heavy strangeness and thickness to the sound, which those ambient gurus missed in their layers of synth and whale song. Mind you if I was listening to this piece in a chill out room at 4am after a night of hedonism, I doubt I would be chilling out – rather the opposite, I suspect. For Membrane 2, things are rugged and earthy rather than glistening and watery. Again, the trio sets up a dense sonic ecosystem, Butcher braying atonally at first, his blasts punctuated by, hollow hisses and underpinned by a tempestuous, glowering tam-tam drone. Wastell keeps up the intensity throughout the first half, his fast, rhythmic beats giving things a stormy momentum as Beins comes in with a whole lot of wiry scratches and fuzz, jostling with Butcher’s hollow, hostile exhalations. The second half of Membrane 2 is wiry and metallic, sharp, echoing clangs followed oxy-acetylene hisses, all of which seems to force gasps of pain from Butcher’s horn. It feels like we’re listening to some mechanical entity under duress, about to fall apart. Yet just as suddenly as it started, it stops, gearing down to something more subdued, a series of churning hums and brassy whispers. (PAUL MAGREE) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenikoy Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) Wife away again. "Kids do you want to hear some really crazy jazz?", "Yeah!", "Right then". Edited April 13, 2017 by enikoy 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Misterioso Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, enikoy said: Wife away again. "Kids do you want to hear some really crazy jazz?", "Yeah!", "Right then". Ok, but where is that really crazy jazz? Great record! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenikoy Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 13 minutes ago, Misterioso said: Ok, but where is that really crazy jazz? Great record! You are right, 6 & 7 year olds are much more open to sounds. Next...... 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Misterioso Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) My 4-year old likes to call himself Thelonious Monk (and calls me John Carter). Wonder where he got that from? Edited April 13, 2017 by Misterioso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwbasement Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Memories of Bill Evans Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wim Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viognier Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain. Also played this last night when I got home from a local gig. Enjoyed with an Oban 14 year old. Perfect way to end the evening. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viognier Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Kicking off a weekend of tunes with some Miles. Bags Groove. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balk2117 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 A great album to kick start this glorious weekend! Enjoy! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Mike Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Grant Green Idle Moments BN75 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analog brother Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) nice, chilled-out great friday of no work whatsoever. fire! + oren ambarchi riveting freeform..... Edited April 14, 2017 by analog brother 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Ryo Fukui - Scenery (1976) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwbasement Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Grant Green - OleoSent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Mike Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Grant Green - Matador 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundfan Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 @enikoy played this a couple of days ago. Picked up my own copy at Rockinghorse Records in Brisbane this morning. Great stuff. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABG Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Chillin' with Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk. Mine is the 45RPM AcousTech pressing. Superb music. Superb pressing. There's something about these old Blue Note recordings that really makes my system shine. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzdog@groovemasters Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Some CDs for bed: Joe Henderson Lush life the songs of Billy Strayhorn Verve Records ?– 314-511-779-2 CD 1992; John Coltrane Body and Soul JCI TSD-3600 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Misterioso Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Anyone else here saw the Miles Electric Band tonight in Melbourne? Amazing concert! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey d Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 9 hours ago, Misterioso said: Anyone else here saw the Miles Electric Band tonight in Melbourne? Amazing concert! Up here at Bluesfest the sound was totally fecked up. I had to walk away. Very, very disappointing. Gregory Porter has been the class act, Trombone Shorty was supercharged & great fun. Santana on tonight. Budddy Guy tore it up too. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Misterioso Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 9 minutes ago, mikey d said: Up here at Bluesfest the sound was totally fecked up. I had to walk away. Very, very disappointing. That's a shame. Christian Scott was very impressive. Funky performance of the whole group. I really enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbuzzardstubble Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Elvin Jones introduces Takehisa Tanaka - When I Was At Aso-Mountain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroen Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Miles Davis Quintet - Cookin' My current favourite Miles period on Prestige playing while cooking. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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