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instruments and voices
I was talking to Rich a while ago about how my musical tastes, in recent years, have leaned away from song-based albums, and towards instrumental albums. He asked me for some recommendations, and, as a result, I have decided to write up brief descriptions of ten of my favorite instrumental albums and post them on Rich's media weblog, Super Karate Monkey Fist. The first one is up there now: a review of Brian Eno's Music For Airports.
In other news, tonight vocal improviser / sound poet Jaap Blonk is playing in Chicago. Last time I saw him perform, he put on a solo show (performing his own vocal compositions as well as famous ones by Kurt Schwitters and Antonin Artaud). Tonight, however, he is leading an octet, with the remaining seven slots filled by the usual suspects of the Chicago improv scene: Guillermo Gregorio, Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jeb Bishop, Jim Baker, and Kent Kessler. I'm looking forward to the show.
(A reminder here, of the web's best sound poetry resource, UbuWeb.) Labels: music, music_commentary, sound_poetry |
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
10:27 AM
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