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serenity and noise, silence and order
New year, lots of new interesting records.
Futatsu is a duet between guitarist Taku Sugimoto and trombonist Radu Malfatti, two improvisers who have taken to playing as minimally as possible, even if this means playing nothing for minutes at a time. I don't know that I actually want to own this record, but it's interesting watching reviewers attempt to review a disc that consists mostly of long silences: Ed Howard, writing over at Stylus, does an excellent job. I enjoyed this review so much I read it out loud over the phone to a friend, long-distance no less.
The tiny Mr. Mutt label (run by Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli, who record for Apestaartje as tu_m) is releasing a series of limited edition CD-Rs from artists I like, most notably Apestaartje labelmates Minamo.
Speaking of Minamo, they now have their own imprint, Fabric. The first release is a compliation (details, including short excerpts); expect beauty.
And, finally, over at the Seattle Weekly, Douglas Wolk reviews the new Philip Jeck and the new His Name Is Alive. His Name Is Alive fell off my radar about six or seven years ago, which apparently looks to be about the time that HNAS frontman Warren Defever began disappearing into a set of hermetic studio experiments: the new (tour-only?) release, Brown Rice, is the result. Labels: music_commentary |
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
7:31 PM
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