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Joined: May 26 2008
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 22:58
Peter Brotzmann was so f**king awesome! I had not, however, realized that an acoustic alto sax could still be that loud! The man has iron lungs! I think I may have done permanent hearing damage by not wearing earplugs and sitting 5 feet away from them! I also got the limited tour only CD of them performing in 2004 (212 of 525) and THEY BOTH SIGNED IT OMG OMG OMG. I also got the semi-rare albums Head On and A Night in Sana'a. The other rare ones they had was another one with Paal Nissan-Love and an electric bassist, and they've recorded a billion albums together so I didn't really care about the rare one, and an 11 minute EP of trio material from 1966 that was released with his art exhibition, and it was $10. No thanks. All the other stuff they had was just Okkadisk, and while I'm happy to support Peter and Okkadisk, I can get it cheaper from them and there's no need to rush without hearing anything first.
Joined: May 26 2008
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 23:22
Hamid Drake. Massive black dude with dreadlocks. Sorry, I thought I said that. He was fantastic too: he actually had a rhythmic pulse when he played! It seems like a lot of the drummers when they improvise don't really know what to do and decide to just try to play without any rhythmic pattern, which gets tiresome. Sunny Murray w/ Albert Ayler is a particular offender in my mind. I love Albert, but sometimes I want Sunny to just shut up. They released an album on Okka a while ago, Dried Rat Dog. I'll probably get that at some point: Peter is fantastic with a drummer because he can do whatever he wants without having to worry about clashing with somebody else's melody. I heard his new album with just Paal Nilseen-Love is great too. Although I now see that his semi-Albert Ayler tribute band, Die Like A Dog Quartet has Hamid Drake and now I'm super pumped for it.
It was amazing how quickly a half hour clarinet improvisation could go by. Sadly, he saved the tenor sax for the second set and only played alto, and I have school and work tommorow so staying in DC until 11:30 was a bad idea. I wonder why he doesn't play soprano like Evan Parker: it seems he could get a similar effect like the clarinet overloading with it.
Hey, the new Tzadiks are out. It's Frith/Zorn, Ned Rothenberg Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, and AutorNyo.
Edited by Henry Plainview - April 19 2010 at 23:26
Joined: February 08 2008
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 23:25
Nice, it sounds like it was a fun concert. I still haven't heard very much of Brotzmann's work yet, and this is the first time I've even heard of Hamid Drake. If he can keep a rhythmic pulse while playing with free jazz improv he must be a pretty sweet drummer.
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 11:13
OH.. sorry to hear that man... but at least you don't have classes today right...? I'm at my house, I have to made an script for a videodocumentary... it's a little tough to do when I get distracted with PA... you understand me right... ?
Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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