#Listening to Annea Lockwood's Thousand Year Dreaming
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#Listening to Empire, by RED Trio + John Butcher
Empire, by RED Trio [Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernani Faustino, Gabriel Ferrandini] with John Butcher, released by the Lithuanian NoBusiness Records label.
#Listening to Parker, Guy, Lytton + Peter Evans on Clean Feed
Always a novelty the trio Parker/Guy/Lytton here together with trumpeter Peter Evans. Need time to assimilate this tremendous edition by Clean Feed . It's a journey... and I am travelling, ... have to return here soon... Scenes in the House of Music : Evan Parker (tenor sax); Peter Evans (trumpet); Barry Guy (bass); Paul Lytton (drums) Clean Feed, 2010
#Listening to Monkey Puzzle, by Evan Parker and Ned Rothenberg
Monkey Puzzle is a studio live recording released in 1997 by Leo Records , with Evan Parker playing soprano and tenor saxophones, and Ned Rothenberg playing bass clarinet and alto saxophone. Two superlative musicians that will be next Sunday in Lisbon, for Jazz em Agosto . Countdown mode....
#Listening to The Eleventh Hour, by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth album from Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Computer technology and sampling sharing a sound field with a range of acoustic instruments, where free improvisation copes with real-time sound processing. Architectural music: shapes, structures, ideas and colours. Dense, huge and imposing. Powerful. Evan Parker’ ever-expanding Electro-Acoustic Ensemble will play live in Lisbon, at Jazz em Agosto 2010 .
#Listening to Between The Whiles, by Zeena Parkins
You could talk to electric harpist Zeena Parkins about her collaborations for hours: After all, she's appeared on Björk's Vespertine and on the soundtrack for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint. She played on Matmos' The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast and toured with the exploratory electronic duo. She's worked with Christian Marclay, John Zorn, Jim O'Rourke, Fred Frith, Ned Rothenberg and a jaw-dropping fleet of others. She's made two records with electronic composer and former DNA drummer Ikue Mori as Phantom Orchard... Zeena Parkins interview for Pitchfork
#Listening to Bug Music, by Don Byron
Music of the Raymond Scott Quintette, John Kirby & his Orchestra, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, arranged and transcribed by Don Byron. (Nonesuch Records , 1996) Full orchestra: Don Byron , clarinet, baritone saxophone, vocals Steve Wilson , alto saxophone Robert DeBellis , tenor saxophone Charles Lewis , trumpet Steven Bernstein , trumpet James Zollar , trumpet Craig Harris , trombone Uri Caine , piano, vocals Paul Meyers , banjo David Gilmore , guitar Kenny Davis , bass Pheeroan akLaff , drums Joey Baron , drums Billy Hart , drums Dean Bowman , vocals