Playlist: June 5, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, June 5, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

….. Should I mention the Matthew Sperry concerts again? See earlier entry.

….. Actually I will mention this: As the festival has evolved from year to year, the local Limited Sedition label has been releasing CD-Rs of Matthew Sperry performances, mastered from live tapes. The first was a set of solo bass performances; the most recent is a second all-solo, all-bass disk. Matthew’s playing included a lot of extended technique: sticking objects into the strings, scraping the bass body with mallets, etc., so the results are a percussive exploration of sound.

….. Fully Celebrated, formerly the Fully Celebrated Orchestra (even though they were always three or four people), puts up catchy, even funky heads followed by chaotic, free-jazz soloing. Loads of fun.

….. Forgas Band Phenomena is new stuff played in the old ’70s prog vein: long suites, searing guitar, woodwinds in the band. Cuneiform always puts out nice stuff, but at first glance, this is a standout.

….. Corey Wilkes‘ Abstrakt Pulse puts up hard-bop composing spread against free-jazz soloing — stuff that’s way out there when it breaks orbit. It’s not strictly head-solo-head patterns, either; “SICK JJ,” played here, pretty much stays in improv/free mode, while “Visionary of an Abstrakt” uses a recurring theme to punctuate a variety of exploratory, off-topic solos. On the way, the album sports one-minute free-improv interludes. Wilkes is only turning 30, but he’s the one who was picked to fill Lester Bowie’s chair in the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Album titles link into KZSU’s Zookeeper database; the icon means there’s a review or description there as well. Little links that say things like “more here” go to previous entries in this blog.

Artist	Track		Album/Label
Fully Celebrated, The	Reptoid Alliance		Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones Aum Fidelity
Bailey, Donald (more here)	USQ/Trology		Blueprints Of Jazz: Vol. 3 Talking House Records
Forgas Band Phenomena	L’axe Du Fou (Axis Of Madness) [excerpt]		Axis Of Madness/L’axe Du Fou Cuneiform Records
Chicago Afrobeat Project	(A Warm) Global Warning		Off The Grid (No Label Information)
Blanketship	Viva Butterfly		Sound Of Fun Surrounds You / Klangwunder Gigante Sound
Wilkes, Corey & Abstrakt Pulse	SICK JJ		Cries From Tha Ghetto Pi Recordings
Butcher, John/Gino Robair/Matthew Sperry	Duo Four [Robair and Sperry]		New Langton Arts 2000 Limited Sedition
Sperry, Matthew	Venue Nine 3		Solo Bass, Vol. 2 Limited Sedition
	— (4:00 pm.) —
Trio Hot (see also here)	Straight Into		Jink Nemu Records
Berthiaume/Sharp	Phase		Base Actuelle Cd
Mcauley, Jim	Okie Dokie		Ultimate Frog, The Drip Audio
Redman, Joshua	Just Like You		Compass Nonesuch Records
Carrier, Francois & Michel Lambert	Falls		Nada Creative Sources Recordings
Lotz, Mark Alban / Lotz Of Music (a bit more here)	Of Royal Herring (Den Koninklijke Haring)		Bite! Loplop Productions
Yasuma, Saco	Invisible Matters		Another Rain Leaf Note
Quatuor Bozzini	Stochastic String Quartet		Arbor Vitae Actuelle Cd
Bloom Project	New Light		Sudden Aurora Edgetone Records
Sperry, Matthew	One		Solo Bass, Vol. 1 Limited Sedition
Brand, Gail & Guberman, Morgan	Ballgames & Crazy		Ballgames & Crazy Emanem
Garland, Peter	Dance No. 3		Matachin Dances Cold Blue Records
Sonogram	Music Box – Jody Krushal		Gamelan Son Of Lion Innova Recordings
Revolutionary Ensemble (noted here)	Improvisation 1		Beyond The Boundary Of Time Mutablemusic
Pink Saliva	10:10		Danse Avec Robert Duncan Majmua Music
Sperry, Matthew	Studio For		Solo Bass, Vol. 2 Limited Sedition
Watts, Trevor	Opening Gambit		A Wider Embrace Ecm Records (Usa)