Monday, April 19, 2004
Have been having many musical epiphanies recently, perhaps it's due to the void that I am having now in my other aspects of life... well let's not bored everyone about my miniscule sorrows. Top 20 musical epiphanies/re-epiphanies Part I (1 - 5) (meaning, had them, then recently have them again):
1. Tony Conrad - Four Violins from Early Minimalism Vol 1, am listening to it as I'm writing this. This old buddy sawing away gracefully creating beautiful overtones which just give me the goose pimples (like i did 4 years ago).
2. Genya Live 1971 - A recently released long deleted 2 LP set from one of Japan's most talked about concerts back in 1971. Brilliant to the max, with Keiji Haino's Lost Aaraaff blasting away with Mototeru Takagi's Trio and Masayuki Takayanagi's New Direction Unit plus blistering blues rock from DEW and Blues Creation, and on top of that, riotous farmers and proletariat who were there to protest against the building of the Narita Airport by taking away their land trying to boo down some of the free jazzers.
3. Throbbing Gristle - TG24: 24 Hours of Throbbing Gristle - noise, pure unadulterated industrial noise on 24 CDs, I'm a sucker for musical(oxymoronic?) noise of all sorts, so that explains it.
4. Jazzactuel - Just got back this 3 CD set from a friend, an outstanding sampler of some of the most intense free jazzers, avantgardeners and space rockers together on the this early 1970s French label which helped to document this otherwise underrecorded part of music history. Ecstatic!
5. Khanate - Things Viral - These doom metallers just have to slow things down even further, grinding, snail-like pace plus pummelling rhythm section make them one of the top avant metal bands in recent months.
Will be back with next installment soon...
1. Tony Conrad - Four Violins from Early Minimalism Vol 1, am listening to it as I'm writing this. This old buddy sawing away gracefully creating beautiful overtones which just give me the goose pimples (like i did 4 years ago).
2. Genya Live 1971 - A recently released long deleted 2 LP set from one of Japan's most talked about concerts back in 1971. Brilliant to the max, with Keiji Haino's Lost Aaraaff blasting away with Mototeru Takagi's Trio and Masayuki Takayanagi's New Direction Unit plus blistering blues rock from DEW and Blues Creation, and on top of that, riotous farmers and proletariat who were there to protest against the building of the Narita Airport by taking away their land trying to boo down some of the free jazzers.
3. Throbbing Gristle - TG24: 24 Hours of Throbbing Gristle - noise, pure unadulterated industrial noise on 24 CDs, I'm a sucker for musical(oxymoronic?) noise of all sorts, so that explains it.
4. Jazzactuel - Just got back this 3 CD set from a friend, an outstanding sampler of some of the most intense free jazzers, avantgardeners and space rockers together on the this early 1970s French label which helped to document this otherwise underrecorded part of music history. Ecstatic!
5. Khanate - Things Viral - These doom metallers just have to slow things down even further, grinding, snail-like pace plus pummelling rhythm section make them one of the top avant metal bands in recent months.
Will be back with next installment soon...
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