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For us, by us but not FUBU
With apologies to Daymond John, the notion of creation for a set of insiders hits me as quaint from a musical standpoint. Maybe it still counts in fashion but for anyone who knows me, I can’t speak fashion! Yet production and mutual admiration (if ‘admiring’ applies to noise) definitely fills the for us/by us divot.…
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The false choice of authenticity
For instance, the “and the signaled bunny” album was derived from year-old recordings of mine on Audacity, and edited at 28,000 feet on a flight to the depraved deserts of southern Arizona. The cover shot, then, is cut-ups of my finger against my Microsoft Surface laptop. But when editing old recordings in an airplane using…
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Raison d’être
There begins with an image, and a word. I’m not one for “stochastic” it feels high-falutin, chance operations tucked between two of Burroughs’s Wild Boys, or John Cage counting measures into which the peripheral becomes the focus. Right now I have the “Grill” album which needs to be burnished, it is too peaky in the…
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Allison Russell @ World Cafe Live
In Philadelphia last night, Allison Russell and the Rainbow Coalition lit up the stage with expanded versions of songs from The Returner that invoked the sacred, the disenfranchised, idealism, love, and an unbroken circle, sometimes all in the same song (e.g. the masterfully expanded Rag Child, or the mystically-charged Snakelife). Elenna Canlas held it down…