Scattered Work

back to its exposed Root

ben — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:12:10 +0000

The arc of the visible river is long
but it bends toward moments
in which a song reaches out
with its silents hands
to grasp the darkness to lead it
back to its exposed root
its first whisper
its fading blindness

Free Jazz Hour: Nov 9, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:05:06 +0000

Wild, wild free jazz. Not much else to say.

Mike Cooper – Tu Fuego – Tu Fuego (Side A)
Sun Ra – Atlantis – Atlantis
Noah Howard – The Black Ark – Ole Negro
Pat Metheny – Rejoicing – The Calling

Free Jazz Hour: Nov 2, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:03:21 +0000

A quiet, minimalist set.

Roberto Donnini – Tunedless – t’ 2 a
Terry Riley – Shri Camel – Desert of Ice
Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings – Propellers in Love – Odd & Even
David Behrman – Leapday Night – A Traveller’s Dream Journal – Setting B

Free Jazz Hour: Oct 26, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:01:52 +0000

I’m not sure if this show could be said to have a theme, we just traveled far and wide in the world of free music.

Max Neuhaus – Percussion & Electronics – Four Systems – For Amplified Cymbals
Cinorama – Garden, The Garden – Da Ga Ku Round About Poe
Brigitte Fontaine – s/t – Le Dragon
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom – Alife
Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti ‘75 + ‘76 – Saxolanota
Don Cherry / Dewey Redman / Charlie Haden / Ed Blackwell – Old and New Dreams – Togo
Arthur Doyle / Sonny Murray – Dawn of a New Vibration – Nomingo
Joseph Holbrooke Trio – The Moat Recordings – Condensation
Luc Ferrari – Archives Genetiquement Modifiees – Societe II

Free Jazz Hour: Oct 19, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:59:44 +0000

For this show, Jason Jay Stevens sat in with me and shared his music collection, or a fraction of it anyway. Turned me onto some cool stuff.

Amiri Baraka – Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers – Bang Bang Outishly
Misha Fiegin & Steve Good – State of the Union 2.001 – A Chinese Clicking Duck Music in Five Parts
This Heat – This Heat – Diet of Worms
Derek Bailey & Keiji Haino – Songs – Yume Ga Ichiban Muchi
DJ Spooky & Arto Lindsay – Under the Influence – Get Your Snack On
No Neck Blues Band – Inonomancy – The Shepard Takes A Shine to a Abyss
Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanbha – unreleased – Supplication No. 4
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – From the River to the Ocean – Sakti / Shiva
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie – Gallery of the Invisible Woman
Beans & William Parker & Hamid Drake – Only – “”"5″”"
Leo Wadada Amith & Ikue Mori – Luminous Axis – The Traveller

Free Jazz Hour: Oct 12, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:32:34 +0000

The free jazz take on metal, dub, and noise. Mind-melting.

Derek Bailey – Mirakle – This Time
Material – Memory Serves – Metal Test
Painkiller – Execution Ground – Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub)
Last Exit – Last Exit – Red Light
Rudolph Grey – Mask of Light – Implosion – 73 (second version)
Last Exit – Last Exit – Voice of a Skin Hanger

Free Jazz Hour: Oct 5, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:28:43 +0000

The mingling of Indian ragas with free jazz. Beautiful stuff.

Codona – Codona, Vol 1 – New Light
Aktuala – Tappeto Volante – Waruna
MV + EE – Livestock Moon Forms Rural Ragas Vol 1 – Cocola Moves Through the Guilford Fair
Samsimar – Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra, Vol. 1 – Bapikek Balam
Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Raga Du Matin
Angus Maclise – The Invasion of Thunderbold Pagoda – Heavenly Blue Part 4 and 5
Bismillah Khan – Shehnai Recital – Raga

Free Jazz Hour: Sep 28, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:26:29 +0000

A wild, free-funk-prog-rock freakout.

Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Paradise – Apollo
Jean Cohen-Solal – Flutes Libres – Concerto Cyclique
Pierre Henry & Urban Sax – Paradise Lost – Gate of Paradise
Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat – King Kong VI
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie – Theme de Yoyo
Don Cherry – Brown Rice – Brown Rice
Franco Battiato – Fetus – Meccanica

Free Jazz Hour: Sep 21, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:23:22 +0000

A strange, mellow set, starting off with Terry Riley’s early collaboration with Chet Baker, and moving on to Bob James’ early collaboration with Robert Ashley.

Terry Riley – Music for the Gift – Music for the Gift (parts 1-5)
Bob James Trio – Explosions – And On
Eivind Lonning, Espen Reinertsen, Martin Taxt, Tetuzi Akiyama – Varianter Av Dode Traer – Ti Morke Innfallslodd, 1
Dedalus – Pezzi Inediti + Materiali 74 – 76 – Saxolanota
Luciano Cilio – dell’Universo Assente – Della conoscenza – originale versione inedita
Anthony Braxton – The Complete Braxton 1971 – Comp. 6M

Free Jazz Hour: Sep 7, 2009

ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:13:34 +0000

This one was all about the LA Free Music Society, and came of the definitive document of it, the box set called “The Lowest Form of Music.” Because of the format of the box set, it’s difficult for me to give album names and years in many cases. But it’s pretty much all from the mid-eighties, and for the most part you’re only going to find it on the box set.

Tom Recchion – Back Beat
Dinosaurs With Horns – Totally Gone
The Precambrian Three – Drama by Shaksepeare
Monique et Aviv – I Am I
Smegma – Half a Billion – Glamour Girl 1941
Le Forte Four – Amazing Three (instrumental) – Flak Opera Rehearsal
Doo-Dooettes – Schlagerzeit (Tolstoy’s Anemic) – Look to This
Friends of Leslie – Freak Show (for Mayo Thompson)
Harold Shroeder – Silent Rituals
Tom Recchion – The Blue Blue Moon
Monitor – Beak
Monique et Aviv – J’Attends