Playlist: July 17, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, July 17, 3:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

Rent Romus stopped by to talk about the Outsound New Music Summit coming up next week. All the artists involved had contributed tracks to a promotional CD for — well, for situations just like this one:

….. Bonfire Madigan was a KZSU fave when I first joined, in 1998. I’m happy to find out she’s still performing — didn’t realize she even opened for Laibach. She’s a singer who plays cello, producing brusque songs that you might call tough-fisted, rough-edged folk (really it’s closer to indie rock, but not as “rock” minded as Rasputina). On Friday, she’ll be performing a 36-minute piece, “Portrait of the Artist as a Transliminal Criminal,” with accompanying film. Her site describes it as a one-time-only event.

WireTapMusic did a profile of Madigan back in May.

….. Natto recorded a couple of CDs on the 482 label earlier this decade. They practice a calm sort of improvisation, often meditative and probably influenced by Pauline Oliveros‘ Deep Listening aesthetic. Philip Gelb on shakuhachi (Japanese wooden flute)

….. Richard Waters is the inventor of the waterphone. It’s the instrument that made the V-ger sounds in 1980’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (If you don’t know what I mean, DO NOT go rent the movie to find out. Just watch Wrath of Khan and pretend there were no Trek movies before that.)

….. I’m not familiar with Peter Kolovos, but Rent described his guitar playing as a combination of noise and “surgical precision.” Who could resist?

And, notes from the rest of the show:

….. After the glorious experimentalism of her Xenogenesis Suite, Nicole Mitchell comes back to jazz form, with a mix of straightahead stuff and some world-music dabblings. Renegades features a subset of her Black earth Ensemble, focusing on the strings: violin, cello, bass (plus drums and Mitchell’s own flute, of course.)

….. Nancy Wright is a local R&B saxophonist. Friendly bar-jazz stuff; it’s not my type, but I played it as a nod to our blues DJ, Byrd of Paradise.

….. Whoever Libellula are, they put together a nice hour-long drone on this CD. I selected an excerpt where things shift and tumble a bit.

….. Matt Haimovitz is a cellist who puts out modern classical CDs on his own label. This disc of cello/piano pieces has some good dynamic stretches, exciting stuff. The piece I played is titled “Part I,” but it comes in two parts, so we heard part 1 of “Part I.” I like that.

….. Annea Lockwood once did a nifty CD, The Glass World, that featured the sounds of all manner of glass objects. Zach Wallace is likewise working with glass on Glass Armonica, but where Lockwood did lots of vignettes, Wallace works on long pieces. “5” has a droney, humming sound that’s I would guess comes from a bow stroked across the armonica (it’s one of these) which Wallace built himself out of wine glasses. Dusted has more to say here.

…..For the show’s final hour, I looked in the direction of outward-facing rock, inspired by the Bonfire Madigan track. (She’ll be performing a 36-minute piece during Friday’s “InterMedia” show for Outsound.) The 9-minute Eddie the Rat track was a particular highlight for me.

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
Mitchell, Nicole / Black Earth Strings	Renegades		Renegades Delmark Records
Lehman, Steve Octet (more here)	Echoes		Travail, Transformation, And Flow Pi Recordings
French Miami	Goddamn Best		French Miami Diy Release
Wright, Nancy	Rutabagas		Moanin’ Chicken Coup Records
15 Degrees Below Zero	3.4.4		Resting On A Edgetone Records
Mazurek, Rob Quintet (noted here)	The Earthquake Tree		Sound Is Delmark Records
Wallace, Zach	5 [excerpt]		Glass Armonica Root Strata
Lapslap (more here)	Nailed		Itch: 10 Improvisations For Instruments And Live Electronics Leo Records
Malaby, Tony	Obambo		Paloma Recio New World Records
Kowald, Peter	The Further Float [w/Tadao Sawai, koto]		Duos Fmp Records
Hooker, William/Sabir Mateen	One Just Man		Dharma KMB Jazz
	— (4:00 p.m.) —
Sexmob Meets Medeski (noted here)	Willisau Suite 1 [tracks 1-6]		Live In Willisau 2006 Thirsty Ear Recordings
Golia, Vinny Quartet	All Together Now		Sfumato Clean Feed
Natto Quartet	Kinpira		Thousand Oaks 482 Music
Rova	Maintaining		Morphological Echo Rastascan Records
West, Rich	Short I Am		Mayo Grout’s Known Universe PfMENTUM
Littlefield, Patti / Mark Weaver	A Grain Of Mustard Seed		Resonance Plutonium Records
	— (5:00 p.m.) —
Libellula	On The Occasion Of A Late Day Meeting [excerpt]		(2) Majmua Music
Fully Celebrated, The (noted here)	Reptoid Alliance		Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones Aum Fidelity
Haimovitz, Matt And Burrrleson, Geoffrey	Part I — I		Odd Couple Oxingale Records
Hanuman Sextet (noted here)	Come Down, Darkness		9 Meals From Anarchy Resonantmusic
Ton Trio (noted here)	One Last Thing		Way, The Singlespeed Music
	Interview: Rent Romus, Outsound New Music Summit		(more info at http://outsound.org)
Golia, Vinny	On the Train		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Waters, Richard	One Ocean		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Ghost in the House	Narcolepsy		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Rowland, Jess	Kotekan Seniman Alam Waves Fade into the Distance		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Fjellestad, Hans	calle calla		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Kolovos, Peter	untitled		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Léandre, Joëlle & Quentin Sirjacq (noted here)	Closing		Out Of Nowhere Actuelle Cd
Herndon, Anthony Wiliam	I Dont Know		Black Hole Universe Self
Bonfire Madigan	Lady Saves		Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a
Experimental Dental School	Tear Brush		Forest Field (No Label Information)
Sparks	Let The Monkey Drive		Exotic Creatures Of The Deep Lil’ Beethoven Records
St. Vincent	Black Rainbow		Actor 4AD
	— (7:00 p.m.) —
Thinking Fellers Union Local 2	Electrocutioner		A Stab at the Resident Vaccination Records
Pahl, Frank	Exit		Romantic Side of Schizopha, Th Fot Records
Westerners, The	My Banshee		Beautiful Departed West Arts Llc
We Is Shore Dedicated	Caetano Veloso		Rhinoceroses Huevo Imaginary Records
Eddie The Rat	Lela, My Familiar		Out Behind The 8-Ball Edgetone Records
Djam Karet	Lost, but not Forgotten		Devouring, the Cuneiform Records
Sunn O)))	Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia)		Monoliths And Dimensions Southern Lord Recordings