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.
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Mitchell, Nicole / Black Earth Strings | Renegades | ![]() |
Renegades Delmark Records |
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Lehman, Steve Octet | Echoes | ![]() |
Travail, Transformation, And Flow Pi Recordings |
French Miami | Goddamn Best | ![]() |
French Miami Diy Release |
Wright, Nancy | Rutabagas | Moanin’ Chicken Coup Records |
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15 Degrees Below Zero | 3.4.4 | ![]() |
Resting On A Edgetone Records |
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Mazurek, Rob Quintet | The Earthquake Tree | ![]() |
Sound Is Delmark Records |
Wallace, Zach | 5 [excerpt] | ![]() |
Glass Armonica Root Strata |
Lapslap | Nailed | ![]() |
Itch: 10 Improvisations For Instruments And Live Electronics Leo Records |
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Malaby, Tony | Obambo | ![]() |
Paloma Recio New World Records |
Kowald, Peter | The Further Float [w/Tadao Sawai, koto] | Duos Fmp Records |
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Hooker, William/Sabir Mateen | One Just Man | Dharma KMB Jazz |
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Sexmob Meets Medeski | Willisau Suite 1 [tracks 1-6] | ![]() |
Live In Willisau 2006 Thirsty Ear Recordings |
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Golia, Vinny Quartet | All Together Now | ![]() |
Sfumato Clean Feed |
Natto Quartet | Kinpira | ![]() |
Thousand Oaks 482 Music |
Rova | Maintaining | Morphological Echo Rastascan Records |
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West, Rich | Short I Am | ![]() |
Mayo Grout’s Known Universe PfMENTUM |
Littlefield, Patti / Mark Weaver | A Grain Of Mustard Seed | ![]() |
Resonance Plutonium Records |
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Libellula | On The Occasion Of A Late Day Meeting [excerpt] | ![]() |
(2) Majmua Music |
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Fully Celebrated, The | 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 | Come Down, Darkness | ![]() |
9 Meals From Anarchy Resonantmusic |
Ton Trio | One Last Thing | ![]() |
Way, The Singlespeed Music |
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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 |
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Waters, Richard | One Ocean | Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a |
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Ghost in the House | Narcolepsy | Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a |
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Rowland, Jess | Kotekan Seniman Alam Waves Fade into the Distance | Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a |
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Fjellestad, Hans | calle calla | Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a |
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Kolovos, Peter | untitled | Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a |
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Léandre, Joëlle & Quentin Sirjacq | Closing | ![]() |
Out Of Nowhere Actuelle Cd |
Herndon, Anthony Wiliam | I Dont Know | ![]() |
Black Hole Universe Self |
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Bonfire Madigan | Lady Saves | Outsound New Music Summit sampler n/a |
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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 |
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Thinking Fellers Union Local 2 | Electrocutioner | A Stab at the Resident Vaccination Records |
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Pahl, Frank | Exit | Romantic Side of Schizopha, Th Fot Records |
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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 |
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Djam Karet | Lost, but not Forgotten | Devouring, the Cuneiform Records |
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Sunn O))) | Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) | ![]() |
Monoliths And Dimensions Southern Lord Recordings |