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    ec Aa Ted) uel Meet atari) ip a al Meso lacy ree a es rae eet se ead eeu) bg oe lore ray The best music around for less at Amazon.co.uk Jonny Trunk Rob Elis ‘The maide Outside Thusie For The Home Voi Patt ANH bie Nation Rsorser available at amazoncouk: ae Gell and you're done” Price does not include P&P. Offer subject to availabilty. Information corract at time of going to press — please see Web sito for more details Inside Jack Rose 26 Drone group Pet's so syed Dr Ragtime rvtafses US toe flk wit his klidoscope picking. Gy David Keenan Rammellzee 30 The art, rapper, gral Witor and Gothic Futait waror take up hie war of wade, By Greg Tate Ghost 38 The Tele paychadle epaedtesk scones most therwordy group tl Edwin Pouney analy striae 7 Invisible Jukebox 20 Ser Luc Ferrari The elscreies paneer gets cut up over tacks by Gar De Sol, Kago Ashley and more, Tete by Dan Wsburton The Primer 46 Letters 6 Charts 52 Out There 100 Sa Bites oa CocoRosie 12 aastcme“""""" Dean Roberts 14 nee Pelican 16 The Masthead “his sourpuss rubbed up against Brion Wilson's [SMILE show on London's South Bank and eamme up ‘rong. On page 88, Davia Toop wiles movngy sn ‘ecuratey about this 1960s mastepece of Americana tat slmost never wes rm the orepecti of the Amorcan musics of Duke Elington, ‘George Gershwin, Hary Partch and Frank Sinatra. rather than fom the peeved non wisdom of Wilson racking up tying to eutdo Tho Boades" et Poppa. ‘he Amerean route is a much mate helpful approach tw understanaing the pce Asef, even as k ment ‘tyme more commonplace atemots tet Into the (Great Rock Canon ‘Spiling ut tam the Royal Festal Hal ito Sturdy mint Landon gulch restored noemat serves to this parte or sourpuss however when only fly loaded Pod stood between sanity ana ‘waneport rage on the way home. Here's one NapDy ‘bunny who doesnt subscribe to te notion of "a ‘smug fraternity of iPod owrership", as Wire witor ‘atin Shaughnessy unehartably puttin his review {of Glacamo Spanc's A New Loop in last month's {ose Piatform section, Hal t= only 2 too ther to be used or abused, and you ean imagine tt Ginter Miler for one putting ito uses Its makers never Intended when he deploys I as anos generator on Time Travel. the Erstwhile CO he shares ith Otomo Yoshida, But me, 'have to confess to being wholly Uunereative In my use off as an overstacved sound ‘ort What's great Sdouk of couse, fs at once ‘You're ougged in you don't hve to speak to anybody again for 17 days svaigh. Ang what other soune arler fs capable of carrying the entre Ring cx, the complete works of Merzbow al of Grateful Dads Dick's Picks archive ve sets ane any rumber of Fushteusha COs, and stil nave room for gs Poa's “The Passenger"? As a moble soundtrack to seeing the ety's ripped backsies and al ts coments passing te sther side of a windscreen, the latter Song ean be best ‘Of couse none oft 6 t0 Impl that te porsonat “soundtracks peop pack for themsehes before Submerging nto the ey nigh = nye comparble to the heart and soul Brian Wgon pout Ino the inflly protracted compostion of SMILE ut. as wit the Walkman 20 years carer, this latest carrier Dormits ts users to define th toms of the Telstonship win their environment andthe people ‘around ther. I won't stop anybody punching me right Imm smug mouth but kes arora a cegree of protection fom all the crazies you ae contorted with 5s you negotiate the lng rie home [Much as might selfish champion the iPod for reaser's of perstnal sanity, however, ‘evelopments ia the field are a ile unnerveg, Heard the vel tumours about the coming stware at's ‘capable of tenserbing any vocal Woek nt ines of ‘ning text with a bouncing ball 0 facitate is omversion rto 2 personal motile karaoke machine? Whe hasn't aveady seriously embarassed thomsolves wallng cut an a cappella accompaniment toa Fushsusha song ike “A Death Never To Be ‘Complete that's inaudible to everyane else? Not ust ime, that's for sure. Itmetopettan ie wasn't wale ‘encugh already wth people carelessly stepping in ‘ont of teins white reading text messages on hele moble phones, don't the manctacturers oF ts flendish new software realize how things might eet 9 hole lot worse wth people going bravely unto ther ‘eats in hea traffic while tying to bellow along to ‘the bouncing ball ric of your choice? Not so easy to Took smug jacked nto an iPod dieing with death and ging a fttruck in timo to Fonnesz's tke on Tho Beacs os" “Encl Summer". san tll you Here's to the Inauguration of the campaign to got Pod karaoke recognise as an entree sport at tis ‘surme’s olmpis. (CHRIS BOHN ea PMMA nit kent ‘and Floor East 82:94 Wentworth Stret London £1758 UK. ‘Tol +44 (0)20 7422 5010 Fax $44 (020 7422 5011 Infegthewireco.uk Adventures In Modern Music Issue 242 April 2008 380. ISSN 0952-0680 (USPS 006231 Editorin-Chit& Publisher oy Heington fonyathowresoat Estor Gyre Body aeetonracouk Deply ator Avs ise howe cmethoviracus evews Edtor Guia Suton desarce cout Contbuting Eton Rod Young rutenecak [an rection & Design Ket Eso, Son Fos ‘Medentemons com ‘Aébvorsing Sates (142 5014) ear Tt ayo ‘hata osian chamebone cou ‘averting Production ‘Sinan eager co vk ‘Sunecrption & Administration 74295022) Benowee, Po End bobowre cask Web Ear Lins OrervcRatl Snanwe couk Mares Bon, Ben Boris Sanath Brown Pip Ca, a Grn Bron Cy, Jr Covi, Oetosn Co. ‘Asn Cures, Geta yal ror Deg, Pt Eg, ‘ae Coy is ch, Lata Gr hy in, Jina, oer and, ton gn Solan ee ic Bey Rae i ich, hereto nestor Diane ins ‘Son Rajat on Pg, Sor Reon Pa Shap, {Gre Shap Php Shabu Bl Shoomaer Me Sree ‘an Warounon Ea Wee Bon Wien’ Bon Watson a Wie, Bey Wihrcon Images Any Tau, Frank Bae Keen Bac ‘Gis Bu. Thomas Bui Matias Ex abt Gale, ‘iy Hows Semon Lagh Seanser Maer Suge orl ‘ta She un aang foo, oman ‘Sy cao, ke Wo ako Yose ner a Oo ‘Subscriptions (seepage 106) Distributors foe ‘News stands Ingependent record shops: ‘Bookshops DECAY MUSIC De renee crm Pea Colt reece) si Crd PCnNNe ay Saeee maT ‘THE PIANO PS ee Lakes) Ne eR aucun AEs RS eee eens influential and sought-after classical composer's of today, the Nyman at 60 celebrations is launched with a concert at Hackney Empire on 22nd March. See Reet 6 special edition Nyman albums will be released on 22nd March 2004, STP ete haere en Roe coc For informasion on Hackney Empire rickets, call the Hackney Empire Bax Office: 020 8985 2424 Cee ease eras Raa eee eR Les BZ Letters Write to: Letters, The Wire, 2nd Floor East, 88-94 Wentworth Street, London E1 7SA, UK Fax +44 (0)20 7422 5011, em: Il letters@thewire.co.uk Letters should include a full name and address Blue skies thinking ‘Thanks fr the cover photo (cLOUDDEAD. Th Wire 241) of tree aubousl bearded blokes in white ‘verals, ther hands apparently cp with blood. Bet mat one reat brouare the uncommitted browsers focking tate tls WH Smith, Ite a'shame you couldn't have put Lge on tho cover instens fy my reckoning t's been almost ve Years Since you ast bestowed this honour on 3 mrosecn composer (Saeknausen,IssU6 184), SUY @ rrajor interview wih arguably the greatest ing omposor merits highlighting more than (to queto Davis Stubbs) "wee shapstess, skinny audes who ‘ude a mil catatonic an thelr press sets Richard Res Jones Shon, UK Bear market enjoyed Julan Cowey’s interviews with the former ‘nee af he st wo Slbums by Robert Cistgou, ona as tanta as to what they would sound ke. Having picked up Henry Cow's great Westora Cute recors ‘a Slane Hope's debur imagined some hyd of Frank Zappa, structured chaos and austere eines, ut peas Fi never rally nd out for mist ‘ou see, despite Chis Cutler's worthy iceals of commited lat wing form of music, not many listonrs can afford o buy a coffee table boxset with ‘llth trimmings. Why not release the tee records ‘Separately, 50 the curious can vestigate, rather ‘than jut the overindulges or someone else inthe musie BZ? "ympatnge strong withthe group's sentiments. A hind of bland, passioress Kony pervades much of the fas today, teeing of krowall cowards. Lucky, fr te 98 2 hid to 803, al | goum to remember ie Boing dogged along to GLC/CND marches o” essing bizare performance (musieyar atthe KA, ‘So perhaps Margaret Thatcher i provoke people ‘ether into submission or art authatixtan anger more ‘than today's enacowy climate, Anynow. dant Be eit Maybe you nad to make money, Cue, Fth end 'Keouse, but tthe people nee your musi, or ese oul ose relevance complet ‘On anothor nota atogethor, good to hear Jonnifor Herrema of Royal Tux is back on the radar (Bitstream, Same issue) was wondering wt had happened 0 ‘one ofthe mast uncompromised an sometimes wright terrving singers of the last decade. Thank you and keep up the good wor ‘iis Jones Loncon, UK eR report hat At Beas” CDS wil be avaabie ‘Separately fom Abs/May armors. Priced at £45, The [rt Box works out at £7.50 per CD. Meare, a the time of gang to press, mn. rarmogacar.com was sung Art Beas’ debut LP Hopes Ar Fears fr £5. Not exact ett ping poiies ~ Ea Just sensing praise for wo great features in The Wire 2A. tian Coey's Art Bears pleco was very informatie. On Fred Frth mentioning that there wos ‘once tk of hin being possible contender tobe In the produoor's chair for The Sex Pos, my mind has boon shortruin a fo how things may hve tunes ‘out. Henry Cow sometimes came out wih rawedged Imusieal moments, ike sections of te ie track “Groningen” onthe 1976 album Concerts, and Fth's ‘on Tig forthe short aggressive congo, the “what IP" scenarios a pleasure to ul over. if merry serves me welt 1974 he waxed rca in one of the Ukmusle wesiles spout the ear 60s Kinks Nt “YOU Realy Got Me", which was featured as pat of is “Guitar Soto column, Looking ts very broad mucieal aients and experienc (oven 30 yeas a), maybe he might have sculsted The Pols’ sound into hae ti ‘something more otter, een John Lyon's Bast comments out the ea unrecorded Pistols sounding Sieve tie he PL su What indo “The othe reat feature was Edwin Pouncey’s ‘overview of fe No Wave tle winners: Maram sti amaze tat he ook “Helen Fordsdle as pljed {on BBC Rado 1 ona Sunday afternoon in 1979. Tis was part of Davis Bowe lays. when ho was initedt lay sore of his favours musi ofthe dy. ner how many sterers were stared by the sound ‘ot Sima cranes Goon sounding Suc vocal emnaatos! Tha who he, rtises which make ou ting! {im Jones via emai Missing Eric Fest ad foremost, may thanks for publishing the Ningis Primer (he Wire 240), a wil lp the next sererton of Ning.s lovers Sot thet way tough 2 lege and somewhat csorgenised eto. As ‘someone wh discovered Mingus inthe TO om Sirois by te lak of eterton given to the George ‘Adams /Don Pllen ines fom a eve fame Changes One and Two were the gems ofthe seaand ‘lane era, and much beter realise then te ened tocors at ae gen a exapes of at ‘Ato | ease the necs to concentrate on legimate recordings avaiable on C0, the 1964 fne- Up wah Ere Dolby might have boon Better served by athe incsin or maybe Fantasy can be persuaded to reissue The Great Conor OF Chaes Ainaush Ar 8 bit mention of the Lie Choteawvatn 1972 booteg release might have helbed cover the bre pei when Dane Richmond Enough compas! Keep up the gest work, and how about an Ene Dap feature inthe ner fue? Uns Torogrosa Tenon, USA BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY \ GREATEST PALACE MUSIC 2xLP- CD + 22.03.04 cL to rococo rot. hotel morgen cd Ip 19.04.04 Letters Disco discourse The Day: A History OF american Dance Music Culture 4197079. (Print Run, The Wiro 240) ite puazing Contrary 1 Peter's suggestion. Ido eiscuss the relationship betneen Stonewall gay pride andthe polities ofthe gxydlacotheque in painstaking deta ‘appen in New York and nat Padueah, Kentucky” — tts postion asthe preeminent gay metropolis nthe Western world, unique concenttion of recor fd time again. | resolutely reluse to suggest tht Dis ecated cisco ou of thin a. and no that many ‘early dance his ould ot be stnbuted to the Dds Eto, et Dy fas to ciscuss the music ofthe evod in enough etn = touches on the greatest lemma | faced while writing the book: Mow to simultangovsy couse the Dis, the dance venues andthe mosie simuanecush/? the empheais | give t Dese payers led me fo fttle tre book A History OF Dance Music Cute which contains a very eerent romise fo that of A story OF Dance Muse, Nevorteoss I make a pint of repesteay rlerencig the reards that DJs payed toughout the book, angin the lst sevun chapters | devote ough | sectors tothe Dl, the etude and the muse. ‘Tha musi e discussed in terms of key aestnete remoing, and the ie cle of yen recor the wider music duty, ae well as the ayn wich prontes of rack ‘isouas 708 musie i more deta ard expec hat these = Ihe, I hope, Love Saves The Day nil ontote tout underetanding ofthis period ‘Tim Lawrence v2 emai Bowling action ‘The “lack Briteh painer named Franke Going” mantone by Greg Tato (visible nabox The Wire 240) is undoubtedly the Guyanese arist Frank Bowing Koon fo his are canvases, Bowling came to Eland in 1950 and susie at the Siage ond Roya! Coleg of Art He soon bult hme reputation, not establskment cognition, and afer winning 9 prize st ‘be Fst Wert Festal of Nog Art n Senegal in 465, he move to New Yr the following yer. He ‘elute wo Eran ten years later ard has contaved to-exnbit on bath sides of te Anti. His work i ‘egretente in the ealections of the Tata Galery, New ea York's Muscum of Modern Art nc Metropoitan 1969, 15 of his paintings were shown atthe Haywara Galery in the exhditon Te Other Story: AtoASan Arua In Pst War Bai most hie hugo arte canvas works, they were an impressive Se Val Wilmer Londs0, UK ‘Amen corner just wanted t address review of my CD i your Iagatine (Ou, The Wire 240). The rvewer seemed {o suggest tt Tas Muti an t(Sounomurdorer & 54:1) also produced under the name Rema sh lumped our two CDs together. Remarc (aka Mare Forrester is one ofthe pioneers ofthe mashup ‘Amen’ Jungle style tat we ty to emulate. Remare Tadd and myseit have a sell burn on Rephiex The seen countless reviews fr toth and this has happened befor, but can Kind of understand the mi up and wanted to clear up any misunderstanding that the review mht pve people Wrong room Thank you very much fo the revlew of my CO foam an Si (he Wve 240). selreleased tis CO in an cition f 50 (3.8 ou, on stFnames lel Chaba Recordings. Unfortunate, I seems you sted the contact for my CO as www. cnaba net com. which is the Website for an urveated group ealed Cnaba. The oom With Sky wil be offal eleaed na frst ‘ten of 500 copies. wih 3 romastrng by Sophan Mathie on the span abe wan spent) in June/suy 2008. Raa, thanks for the postive reve! John Hudak wo ema Bonding over Bananafish [Aer hres manths wth a broken am, whieh came at the tll end of @ yor marued by pain, wotry and too many trp tothe emergeney oom, was geting hard to emie, Ten came the latest issue (Tho Wie 240), The always Toure tho Enpnanios section interosting as ale ant een of each ate tg ideas. In easing Mare Master's ieee on Bananafsh | was reminded now my Sparkie Gi partor Kurt an | tet and bonded over an ‘sve ot Bananas, & Liscussion ve! the magazine and elated MUSIC led rose om session arch became Spare Gr the Seattie noise duo that ges t avay fr fee Bananafish continues tobe an ingestion to Us and to eee eee see It trumpeted inthe ony other musio magazine | feo ese doe wae oven athou Kut ck Wire, ana thas sinco complete th rok}. Special kde for atacking each esue none go. We fine ourselves havieg © spsly new methods of ead ech tne on Sper. Grenoble étrangers ennobled Fest excuse me fr my very bac Enish. | nse road The Wve for years, maybe singe the begining. | sti Unik i's the best magazine Tor goups tat are Unknown by the large Bub inthe The Wire 289 | read the artic about Jerome Nostnger and se that he was fom Grencoie in 00 groupe se bon: Vnence, Noetnge's “equip! Nise Kin, The Hscer, ana arbeulary Etane Donn. ‘fn understand that Jerome wouldnt alk abou tant Donnés, but @ profesional wile In magezine Ike Te Wve hos to make 8 minim of mestigaton ofthe diferent groups that explore eletroecousie musi, especialy ina te city tke Grenoble. in the past 20 years they have made sx or seven recotds. OX, they made totaly ferent recoes Srterward, working with people ike Aan Veg, Genesis POridge, Mtoe! Gra and Lye Lunch, and mae concerts a ls that sy very ft fom thet Boginings, but you can’ forget tham when speaking Sout someone from Grenoble te veal cfu to kaow something about tis ‘range’ dio ul for example, tey Bu oUt 8 Book Wonderland ith a CD two yore ago ae lst yor 9 fabulous CD on Virgin of the musi fr th Fencnfim 1a Ve Newel oy Pre Grancreux, wha is working, wth Alan Yoga on the fonastl fis Sombre), and reve see one word in Your magazire abou nok too Inte for spenlong about them: courage, mes aris Laurent Grenoble, France ‘comectons {sau 241 nthe arte on Mars, the song “14,000 ots" was incorecty tld "£1,600 Watts" A subbing ‘torn ran Morton's review of Ca Meo! Yon Hausswotf and John Duncan's Stn Soler confused Prato tbe tala cation a he Neos Forelo Gallery vith Moded's Prado Museum. In Cine Gal's Global ‘column, a subbing err in the review of Les Ferme De Teton’ Songs OF Rejoice stated thet Kin Monammed V came to the Moroccan throne 35 years go In fet Ras fhe years ag, PAU Lg Ue eRe a Foren maecietear td Ketel cavel fe At = THE MOST SUBLIME MELANCHOLIC RELEASED MARCH 29TH TRIUMPHANT’ STRAIGHT NO CHASER Pts eeu oe stor CEC tag c ETE rau co.uk=™ [BLOCKHEAD PRODUCED AESOP ROCK INSTRUMENTALS) 5 Se prac ors cLOUDDEAD "ten" The final album from hip hop's most transgressive trio. Special limited edition CD double pack featuring the Boards of Canada remix of "dead dogs two" “there's an abiding beauty about 'Ten', as well as an underlying intensity... others may rule hip hop but it's CLOUDPEAD who will inherit the art! ee cL OUDDE amazonco.uk' and you're done? BDCDOEs/BDOES STURT st- 1A} OSE UT Re Ries mee bet UE LL 6 14m Siting nA Room comeoser Nin Luce makes @ ‘Contrary Musi Network our erties Feedback Finan, Flowing tne succose of he tours Japanorama and Turntable Hel hs package tur, ‘er of te Leonardo Muse Journal, Nios Cons ‘epanese omn'experimentaist Otomo Yoshino no input mae Tshimaru Nakamure; Sarah Washington of Improv autt ReSponge; Austianwceo art ane Sermetime Mego lel collaborator Bly Roz and ‘Computer Be. Srey ane ogoter they wl bo exooring ‘he state of sound repeating en set na colbration a {or lsteJune/eaty Ju. waremrtours.2-e.uk >> ‘exhibition, in May, n ich vitor wl be abl to our {be hstoreal tableaux and artefacts ofthe Vitoran Duldng wile stoning to a custom-made MPS player Containing selections of sound and musle erated by a ‘nity of ted musicians ond artists. A mop euces Partcinating artists include David Byrne, Comelus, ox Cactenu Twin Elaabeth Fraser, Fauine, ian Wooing, Jane & Luise Wilson, Jere Dal, Lala tans rom 20 My unt 30 Ags, var => Two ttane fro impravisaton tes fae aff a the pening ng ofthis year's Freedom OF The Clty festa in London. The opening ever features the ‘@lomaton of he rade sloevene out NEY (Musi Eretronica Va, with 9 neu featuring ogra! members Alvin Curran, Federc Rass and Richa Tetebaum. MEV's longterm nese Improv undersecred 60s src eay 06, and forged Inks between he wo fof academe composition, Ft rt and fe jazz, Tei Bish equivalent, AMM, also appear on tne same bil ‘he lor standing tro of Ket owe, Eada Prevost ana sicemy << European imorowsor, an rs rm 1°3 Myst London Canvay Hal stesomanemrse om >> David Toop's new book, Haunted Weathers Musio Silence And May. The Book, whose tie according tothe autho Is ‘a metaphoveal term 10 Suggest 9 pe uncortainy exctoment and profound chang”. 2 withthe sheer volume of must now composed tvosi prectioe in vars fore icung personal memo, reportage and tanelogue, The book ie ceampanit by 2 double CD compton, ais called Haunted Weather, issued by Geman aba Staub, wth 30k by Cvs Watson Kath Rowe & ohm Tb David Cuninghamn, Oval, Spontaneous Mast Eneomble, and more wi serpent com ‘mv staubgod de >» Revenant Records have ‘onfmed the elease of @ rine CD boxset ot Uurvleasea recorsirgs by the aeat Te saxophonst, Albert Ayer. Entles Hol Gros, the set easton many recordings that have cetlated or sera years 25 bootlegs as wo as mach completly uissuod tate ining Abert and Don Ayers searing Intonded tin the gaps in approcatng tho totaly of mysterious death in 1970. Ha), Gross sated for release in Orie 2008, wr revenantoeare.cam >> ‘Scat Walker whose lst stom Ti came ext boc 43995, has lef his record abel Mereary and signed 0 AAD. He is Just embartng on rooting sessions fr his date are si moot points st ts stage >> Cheago Dostrock out Town & Country ae anol of US Ive shows wih ore musician and ‘theorst Tony Conrad n May. Acpesranoss confirmed £0 tor clue euttalo Sound Lab (9 May), Bar College 20) sn New York Tose (11 oF 22), Dates wl be ante short wicca >> Wh tho ‘Sent n Febromy of Trevor Manwaring 2 he ago ot 49 and ater 2 lng ness, London's under youn ‘committed furs, Trevor worked forthe UK brech of the Fench label and dstrbutor Haina Mun. The compary soeciaisd in cortemporay cassia, jazz and ire us, but thanks to Trevor's invotvement feo Uneategosabieundeygound and auido musi. bn Darel, his relentless champroning ofthe Jepenese PSF label oid a major roto in alerting an Intemational auchense to the muse of he hes of Kl fis pasion forthe most mncornpomsing muse istung now and srhive reordnge by the es of Derek Bae. Evan Parker ana guteat Gary Sth. A longterm supporter of The Wve nfs pofessona ie, Trevor was also a persona trend to many of he mogatine's sot! sn relonce wre. Hel be Sorely missed >> Roger Sutherland, Scratch chest fur, authar ofthe book Nw Peet In sic ‘un Tavern Felis 1994) and founder mene of te English improvising eecvoacoustc group oronogenesi, aso Ge in February, a he age o 5. He was proigousy weltinformed about the mosical ‘and visual ate, and Yor amoet tree decades Mad ono articles tos host of magzeines ard oumals Inckdng London Magazine, Resonance, rt And tts, The We and, acer, Tampa. Merphogeress cane int begin 1985 when, a taught at Cy University on New and Exsermental Nusies, somo of tre students “simply rt Performing win the group, But Pe supported ther in Dn wey he could, a othe end his eemmont to fat and music was unaminshed )Adciional material & ty ran Money é “Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. | was the holy ghost.” ALBERT AVLEA — HOLY GHOST: AARITICS 962-70 MULTI CD SET OCTOBEN 200+ FROM REVENANT NECORDS “we wore raised that greed ise ans fuck secur, lve in the moment and de ina bul. We cc’ go to the doctor much but we waned The Cosby Snow dd ate casserole.” Sisters Sera (24) and Blonca (21) Cassady ~ aka CocoRsie - were bor in twa and oval esctve, and ined @ nomad Ife with thle rmotner a Cheoiee teacer turned painter. The two Sisters tke to cress up, and thai pring Joweiry provides a percussive backaop t the eas couse In House OF My Dreams), thir debut album on Tough And Ge, Important chided lessane were freedom and onatachment~ moving on~ stuf ke that.” says Bianca over the phone fom thelr rookiyn Nat "We realy don't ee Ike we have a tome. Ie been in ive living out ofa suteace,etualygoting ver st, iting the road.” ‘Tis aly getting over stu bs the diving free comtact and led seperate Ines for along wae. Siera was all setup in Pris and busy ging to opera schoo! when Blanca snowed vp unannousced. Soon ae they were knee deep in home recorsing na ty apartment located n the 18th arendissoment. Tot alenation vrterec they got over stu Located someuhere between Bessie Smith and Bille Holla on onesie, and Cocteau Twins and Roxanne Sante onthe other, La Maison i earthy end romantic Dut algo fel, creamy and ethereal. The occasional hea, one bestbon rack up the olor andecape. ‘ha Southern blues craw they apt isnot studies, but efets a genuine ove fra prewar sound, a longing or ote past ane a place tat no longer cust,“ dnt feet connected to ay particu tine = ‘ven to tis tine” Banca elaborates, “Tie i not a Inother ers. When | it oan to wit, leant have my caiphone even in my peripery. Al the objects in my ‘om ao ant deal wih new ings. We oe ways indging in creatirg ou own realy ara hang something around that marks ‘the now nterferes with ‘hat me tavelng, Heasom oF being anywhere a any tine." Pts’ cobbles suoets and Gothic eathocrals proved the perfect misoenscene for hor haat bejeweled fantasy word, something New Yor's madern buzz count provi. “Something about France is dea, maybe dormant” she continues. “ie so much aout the past, the od arentectre. The treats of Pars rock with arousal and everyone = £0 rieay perfume. New Yor s too busy for love.” “he sil gospel vocals on “Thal Rain Song” souna Ime they were recarced inal on empty eke Jr and Sing bys smal congregation of hamsters, move reminiscent of te 2990s recrcrgs fund on Harry Smith's Antotgy OF American Fotk Music tan anything presuced today. But ulon, not technology hot atvacted to technology.” Bianca asserts. “We Tecotded La Maison onthe most baste equrent. ‘hallengod us ereabvoly Because me Had to use our minds t erate what we wanted with almost nothing From my experince when ean sit down wth something that nas too many options lose that Bianca isthe wet (and taker - the interview was ‘eonatted almost entiey wth Ne Bu aie to ‘omprasize CocoRosie's symbiove working relationship lo workin ory close proximity to one another, I's a litde Rappening,” she explans. “It happens the same momen. Sera wl da lite tinkering onthe plano, Th get te twtr and mayoe she" wate the enous =i just devote realy Tose! she understands my ‘arin raty wo gi write someting an 1 come to hot wth that, she knoe how fo atest tetas Her lrguage = sent in the melodies tnd move orlented towards wing. But ks 2 fandom conglomeration, Sometimes we snap places, Co Molson wos the result of the fst attempt a. piaying together even though toy both nave Deen ending towarss making muse separately, Serra was By Rane Hilde Neset sued by medieval sacred choral music back in high Shoot and wanted to study that whon Re oie attacted attention. “Right avay a those people ‘pera vole. 50 lent end up with the oharcs to Sing meceval mie. They deeded that my wee was mote Mozart and Puccini The song “CandyLang vith ts careful harp arrangement accompanied by Sierra's soaring soprana lament and yt raping ‘he eventually dropped ou, ower. “Probably one ‘ofthe main groblom,” poss Sera, “was thatthe Scoty of classical musi and opera there is eal naron and partiar aucanes~ upper class elit. Ang if you nave asprations of dang macorn music I sls avery naron group of people hat yu ast © ‘ork with and there ended up not nein enon ‘Soorwaye forme, Te other thing, tat community od euch &nanow mind about the eretor, te composer." When she voiced an inarest in wets rrusie as wl as singing, she encountered resistance “re was seen a8 too amoitous: hey arent nto the muitasking ye of thing, W's ust one road in that community, you choose one spect | endod up jst wanting to really expand an wantod to beso much move than jst a soprano. ‘Slera’s classical background has provided fertle ‘ound Tor he duo to pay tn. Her tectngue s. ved os sruture that can be filed with impulsive ideas, maverick recording techniques and onic ‘periments thatthe classi! wora rejected. "Sierra seal Nazi about ging cursehes a mathematica structure to work to,” Blanca quips. “She insists on realy eesimented maths ard i's not he way | would mess when Ido something by myself but when | stick ry mess within her maths i ike something beautiful Js born! La Msiton De Mon Réve Is rleased in ‘rl a Toven And Go DAVID BYRNE GROWN BACKWARDS THE STUNNING NEW ALBUM “Like to get songs o fina ther lace inthe ac and sort of oat hee,” saye Dean Roberts, who began his lotr, White Winged Mth here the lrval furtorngs of his curent sound began to pupae. The lopidopeenc moniker hols good across Raters ‘sibsequent mancewres, for his sisi tals 3 ‘eather gt take on fre rook. White Winged Moths est tear, So Blanket was released in 1996. Aer tha, Rober's went gue, Sdopting nomad Me tha ook hm fam Rustelask {Europe the Unites States, and back to Europe ‘again, icing te occasional radar bip inthe frm of (CDs Gn Mile Pstoou, Ritomel, Kranky and Este "Tava moved around a lot” ackoowadges Roberts by ema on a temporary retreat in NZI have avaiod prety extensive over th last ton years | have Evite fr lng periods n ferent paces. Fret New Yer thon Bologna, row Vienna. Having afernt plases 0 eal home Isa eal wonderful part oft ‘One of hese homes, New York, was the set for ‘Ard Te Black Moths Play Te Gand Cinema, whch splayed these age. postapocalati vistas forthe frst time, Recorded in what sounded le 3n feormeus, col of, ghostedelecticaccustc songs wore inrtupted by cal Interventions wth which e's previously been experimenting more expltly on 1008's Al Cracked Medias “I wrote ond recorded And The Blick Moths. in 1999 wth Tim Barnes,” he says, ‘ng that he has dra a ino under at Kn of ‘xpi play wn ctl media “Alot of vation wth ormputors happened ina big wave, but t's become Ineresingy mundane and personaly ¥ dont think can tok with Re always bene gitar payer and the ‘omer has bean a set extension tam time ‘ume, especiay in terms of arrangement and tronsfigiation, Te music Pm sng now is essentially ‘ater mocng wih outsider songwriter Matthew Valentina, clist and La Mente Young essocate (Chaioe Curt, ang eutart Alan Lek, Roderts mage ‘one more recoding, this time wth sian Wernor Lost etyrambier By Rob Young ain Patetsecser, Aluminum Estwte 2000), before Jipping om te radar tor anotrer tee years. Tact, he hod culty relocated to Bologna where he hooked uo wen mutbinsrumertalit mprousors Giuseppe reac, Valero Tica, Cristian Als ang others, ana ‘worked up is new elease, Be Mine Tonight (Hanky) ‘ver the years Roberis has perfected an laoayncrate reorang technique tet erows onthe resonant propertios of nda rooms. By oentng, his instruments and soice around singe conta Imerapnone ancane boundary mic attached to te wal, he achieves striking eects mixed with 2 ‘cnemate eat “On Be ine Tang." ne 33/9, “1 ‘choreographed my parts round tis stereo mic ontigiraton, 30 would be singing eer parts at ‘orvingastances tem the mie, 2nd backing vocals ‘tom the hallay, through open French doors ito the ojecent room. we wanted a faranay gta sound, Yaleno woul just move the amotier around the Rouse 18 opposed 0 using some horrible reverb eect. an't magine thse songs produced in any omer way” ne goos on “Ir the windows stated ating, he ‘lect iter buzzes, | strug for breath or ‘whatever, is tho ature of tho take. Tho way wei Spatial estortons Rappen. I's hind of lke km you have your polnt of focus that sits inte ame ena roves within 2 setng~ the staging and context is cverthing.” Be Mie Tonight's four ongoxm tracks al bul on smal fragile elements: the tng of Roberts's Fncer Telecaster or his isolated plano custers, the patting ‘of Aron fvrapoo's brushes percussion. The songs Souler, but isteas of bursting ino faves, a8 MeN be expected, they tend to bum down to embers an {00 fry into twilght long ar tre singar as ‘parted the scene. This frayed aporoach Is pursued ‘n'a new, a5 yet uneleased recording Roberts has ‘ade with Doeldecker and inereesingy ubiquitous ‘Grummer Marty Sronaimey of Racin and Taps), ‘ahh shoul emerge later ts you, Roberts mentions he's crown to “weird songarters” ofthe 1970s such a5 Bran Eno, but the closest pons of comparison are Talk Ta’'s autumnal Spt OF Eden, bs of tes Davis's ticking nA Silent Way, occasional the 0p fat ihsions of Car's rythm section. I suppose my strain to ook muse has amas been towards this Sort of cuggestea harmony ortho pur sonic Glements comments Robert. “Arangemant a8 @ Justaposkion of esture; having loose arrangements ‘hat canbe reontgwed oF extended. The Bets! fxm Is wery feb In my songs, 0 its more © matter of resharing the songs evory tine I pay Reberts's employment of Improv musicians reinvgorates thee fee music by frig the space for trore mythme structures dered tor ook and 22 His vies af dense ana pibate poet, laden wth imagery iat points tothe way ces her out races of huranty,leving te enonyrous rarator and other Characters "Marsist friends", "the sole atoning f town” to wander the stoets whese spectaces ana ‘stractone are resistant to meaning rots, “Chereters cp up again, and the same people trom The Black Mod's Pla The Grand Cinema ae there in Be Mine Tongnt.” he acenewledges. “They are getting a tle more theatrical. They also crop up inthe fReotangs | have Just done wih Datadecker and Braralmeye. Ths tm they have names and are tle bit more spectie about the stations theyre fs. The many of my time & spent developing hese reat and veal ideas and hom to put people into music and to realy ing, I's king of tka 8 pay 9 sora Tm ery intrested n'a kind of poetry. erature, toate Chem, pop must, ar tat works with a detail ‘bservaton and stu of he human coretin. My ‘Songs tend fo go though themes of capt, migration tnd disappearance, bred in wih the cass themes! sito, nope, far, love, etcotra.” Everything hinges on edition he concides. “Pages (ot nots] are often bated down to afew Ines. Ive boon serousy ito Robert Aahley and that has intuences the way | aporocen the subject me, oF at least composition of hres. | often have two or more ‘recs running simutaneousy. ara is Become 9 lalogue."" Be Mine Tonight out now on Kary CHRIS BROKAW ™ ‘ Rly ay Da eed es Pe Re) Rare Cory ete a er ieciulaadad al Heavy music has always been about the rythm ection. On Black Sabbaths fst six albums, bassist their lessons haven't been lost on sveceedr onoratons of soir worshipers, Tosa, Metal ‘Served ets he Neurosis, Ii, Cit OF Luna ana thors have almost entirely sted the guar slos ‘ut of thelr songs in favour of complex pereussve Now Gricago quartet Pelican have gone one step further ard eliminated arate crucial Metal rope: the vocals. Dspensing wih higelched screams and Comaric grunts, the group af entirely Istumenta ‘On thelr ettiod debt E ond thee fst abo, Australasia bath on Hiya Hea), they Wo created & Sound that incorporates both Prog an postrock, oven 2351's also clear inspires by the rythms of Doom Metal “Winen we write the songs,” explains guitarist Weve Oe Broum, “trey come out of timc Hs, 098 shen webring to the band level, we do. Sirangoments that are more moloeslycompox {uses when We fst start the Bringing in of melody, {was more to mask not hang a singer, but now more instincts. We jst stueture oUF pieces In Ways that ore more mela (e Brau and fellow guitarist Laurent Lebec form the core of ha quartet, along wth drummer Lary Horwog. The thie of ther have been together about fve years fat ony as Pecan But algo as thee quarters oF te progress grindcore grup Tusk, who have two bums of ter own — Get Ready and the forthcoming Tieo Of No Return. "We're tying t brage te gD Bcc inthe late 1980s and early 1900s, onto sound are at bot best, as on Australi, ie impossie to imagine anyone would ire intern her ease rence by singin, Pelean sre about to release two spit EPs, one with the Oymola, Washington instrumentalists Growing (6 faint venture between Hyara Mead and Krank) ane fone with Foor, a‘sludgotore outfit whe ft te side dwn by recruiting a singe. For ther par, De Brauw favour, "We usta the Instrumental thing because that's what i hod” he asserts, "There were fout of Us, none of us ealy wanted fo sing, and no hag those stretched out. jammy songs. o we were lke, Tiss fine without a singer. But really does make huge atfecence. So mary people wre ae tuned oft rate to that sive of singng. Whun they liston to Musi, t's usualy the vocals that they relate fo, and ifthe hear somebody who's ust screaming and i's ‘hen it's gonna turn botwoon ear 70s Yes and Discordance Ais.” De Braum says of Tusk. Yes? “Relay ds't get much respect, but i's so incredibly toch he raves. Stowe Howe's wrk onthe eecte star forget hat sult iso tight” Obvious, everyting about grindcore is vory compressed." he continies exlaning ow Pecan ‘eoied out of Tusk. “So me wanted todo something musi. Won we st strted, wo wore into alt of oor stuff ike Steep and Boris fom Japan. The more we worked together, though, we stated to bring 8 psychedelic ting int lay arouna wth guitar ‘tects ana things like that” They elsted Lebec's ‘Sourge: brother Bryan on bass, and began paying local shows, vertualy recording tre four tack EP that as pickec up and essed by Hyera Head “a EP is leary ifuenced by second generation ‘Doom Metal groups, wh electes to ply even stoner and lower than their masters Bink Sabbath. At the ome time, ye ar try, requemty making Incremental shite that sound wrong forint £0" 19 ‘apt onthe fy. Avery gindcore Wk Is fr groups to lay one ifr no mare then ten sen before ‘changing. "We ke the ies of pling the ground out from undemeath the listener,” comments be Brau Australasia, by contrast, is oss oppressne, ar tecora, even featuring acoustic gutare on 8 few tacks, ‘Winre te absence ofa vocalist was sometmes fe. ‘onthe EP the album announces the ero a 9 fl formed entity with ts own sound and agenda, This is ‘hore thy beter lind lt God, wh ied te same realy harsh and unoieasan them off" Polca’s hometown sueoess putes ae pleases De Brauw in equal measur. “The biggest suaise bout this band," he concludes, “is that we've been able 0 bing in peope tom its of eerent scenes to our sons. So when we're heading Bs, we 10 Bing in-as mary bonds as posible, Because we want {0 Drak down that whole scene Segregation thing tats boon plaguing Chicago since! got nto playing music RS =a cel) Ber er aera Sree eee eae eee errs eee el SN Me foe) a Cicer ee oes eRe eee ees Be eam eae ror Pre nee arsbe ie Gi mca cca enee EM I Er oR comand Ca ere ee ag Ea eee aie a *ies one of Stapleton's strangest concepts, @ tre egeariienebg mie css Se aie te ia a eer at Pe eke oT) Cnn eerees Bete-lactem Ring Records www.blrrecords.com POB S715 Partland, OR 97278 USA te esd OR aa eee tee de ee ee cement ae ees ore a ee ein ee ee eae eet eer cee i renee ke) ate ray eee ce ee | ea ea) Eee ae aoe cee tua fee ee cee acre See ee ered Co eee eto eee eee ene acy Ronee er rm ere Ree re eon ear Pee otis ae toed eee eae worlds of sound from eT Ne Tan mnie epee eee MC NU art eee en rs ireearen nom ret nL nias fixetianre crane tated ees a ia Pelee ncaa eas Pease rane res Peete eR wg Poteet ae mT foreseen ct eure eee rere aed aoe erg to Race aoa ae uae Fae eMail IS CO tee) Rea een eats feo eee bry eee iuca met eek} ESiReacMne eee Ting Poe oa ae nc ierecn omen Ra arg Pee tun one Peace nti Briere ie iP ria A ference mate este Prete iree cer era tam ret Loree eae rma cae Laer one] bshitee roan a EE invisible sound rt f un -LPD Seed the on-line music store for alternative, experimental & avant-garde in instantly downloadable mp3 format. cd and vinyl f\ \ www. invisible-sound.com This month: Inthe Cambodian capital, David Crosbie absorbing a wealth of Influences ater the oblivion of Lefton Combate shadow that: Sohne Cam Shape Semon OF Migration fesoner Bens Se Inthe beginning tere was nothing A period of ‘rome agaran communism in Cambodia, executed between 187579, left atid ofthe country's Bopultion seed, a grester proportion than any ote teror regime ofthe 200 contry. The chet erhiteet ‘ofthis url epstogi, Pol Pot, fread a ety of just. Under 2 milion inhabitants int the countysce estroying all tennant of erature, eign, musk, Sana history and banishing any exchange of eas Prom Penn become sn sbondoned urban landscape ‘one of creams and nightmares, fr those who coset fomember. For 2 county which Is now fining ts identty onthe world stage, the arts ean provide an ‘open door of opportunity for people to explore anc Understand ter story, novonood and cert In the absence of formal vers or profesional musicians, a confuonce of pit ees has forced Musi to Feturn to the sets. Beggars accompany {heir pless on the twostringed to ou. Countless street nawiers vel cutter Wades in an apocahpte woe, tn eoremonies for the deceased andthe ney wed in ‘hs consolidated Buddhist town mpose ingerng "goof eunhore moods nthe stoet for days tore Homever, tis absence of professonatian, stuctae nd loomledge n music hos lowes for some intriguing revivals. In 1994, Delphine Kessen co ‘eunded Sovanna Pum, an ats function seccatad to nurtuing ad resurecting Khmer arts eluting music, classical dace, spoken, singing and shadow forms of teow, eng even the ores. It was Set up a8 ‘an olet forthe cys talent, who “had nowhere to Perform in Phnom Pon. “heate founder and cretor Mann Hosal emphasis the cfelty of developing "a dead art form such 08 shadow thet, whieh was lost after 3979, when 90 por cot ofa known artists wore hile during the rege, Tada, 80 professional artists ‘te employed and weekly performances usualy sell Out to toursts, expats and lca, with sect his ‘ager ling he isles. This pubic poventaion of ‘he improvised ane tractional sound of pipet muse whose args are irked strongly wth Ian, Hinduism), composed ot hand erums, te, cymbals, Sslophone andthe to ou, has crested a foundation for ‘he population to identity Kher musical Medtage. This malgamation of at and musi was overtly eneves ‘5 South Lancon's London iterations Festi of ‘Theatre (UF in 2003, ‘Seasons OF Migration, choreogranhed ty Sophiine Cheam Shap (¢retunee Kher rom the United Stole) ard ner husband Jonn Shop, as subjected classical dance performance tothe experience of ‘ute shock, hough classiest dance has evolved, the Imusic has retained the pnpeat ste: as the Symbolism changes, the structure ofthe music i left Static ara thettore meaningless. Shapiro has attemated to reeratute ths problem, rat ony ‘dance bet though music In coloration with ‘eamposor Chima Ung. anothorreturneo fom North ‘most completed production, combining aspects ot bath pinpeat ane Wester asset. As Jahn Shapiro nts out, “The reasons for introducing change were ‘thomate. We wore not imposing change fr te eako ‘of change. By brnging n'a contemporary experience land apaving tis to a ational at form becomes In peor postcommnst times it has been the ‘objective ofthe ethst to reflect on thew sore Pom Ponhcurarsy sts wth an uresoied ‘vernment end pola sesassinatons continually {veaten the staity of tape democracy, satis telecon ofthe state is never mee pertinent than how. The French Cura Conte's recent presentation ‘of 2 sie known as ayay nas one exaple of is. Husband and we team Moung Sovann and Unn Lay ‘Sim combine radii wih a multtude of ses to, ‘express 8 parody of society. pushing against tas in the process Les are renlaced withthe spoken word. Rather ‘than using encoded anguage particular to classical dence, ay Is delvered ina dec, succinct and often ‘oars language. Noto. he singers retain Wom SSlioguising. neeod prefering to use salogve ond humour to ereate momentum, Whereas classical dance opt muse inthe Baergreund, ts symbolism luansmtted twough the hand movernents of the dances, ayey places the pnpeat sound more into the middle. Consequently dance, comedy. satire and theatre are placed inthe foreground. The informality ‘ofthe movements and sever of he Inetruments Streten the roe taken by tre music into an entirely (rose cura excecimontaton is also beginning to veri, Non Governmental Orgonsation (NGO) as ‘ale Salpot Khmer Amatak (SKA) has brought the last survng musicians trom te provinces to toach Western artists Khmer Instruments and sys. Yr Seng, the country’s foremest clo (nigh ana ow pied ute) player ony srved the Rhret Rowee regime ty declaring be was a areessor an not ‘usin, To prove tthe felling day ne was eked to {ut thehairof 400 sors. Now ne's teaching Beau ‘old who together ae attemting to incorporate the teachings oftheir Khmer professors ino thet fon ound, Th rout i a comoolingFiture of macabre bass, roling aroun the exotic ss of he cle, creating an energised dub best. “Muse Is inclusive, fang we want to move aay From the wadtion indigenous sounds,” states Shivers. But, as El Carton Proreecon, a guar loaring tho tro ou, points ox, “Tho fut isin the unique Khmer scale which becomes incteasngy comple, wih tonal eels being Varios sno impose, ‘Convers ns eaterna influences oe brought carefuly to those native sounds, tre nsatabio ‘rrand from ta cys youth markt for Kamer (and sometimes Wester) HipHop, emanates frm the Cambodian ghettos of Long Bese, Caforna ~ the highest cencentation of Kets ning ousie of Phnom Penh. One of te most popular abu of ast Year was abiack matt copy of Galama ty Prach Ly @ Fetugee Khmer row residing In Long Beach. The alburt ‘questions the org term sulering caused by wars, ‘splacement and tani ofthe Camboaion penpe ‘The sentiments echoed by other expaite Rimers ich ae Seana who have now begun #o work on calabration rojees a part ofthe Cambodian Masters Performers Programme, held by the SKA ‘organisation hs the Comodian economy enters ino the hegemonic Soba rue ofthe WTO next yea, to oppression and faure ofthe poor ramains amb uous. But for ase Unthaty satan econome Westy wil Seousy prevent ‘hats becoming on emerge oal movement. ks Mihail Bulgavor wrote in response to the events surraunang Stanism andthe ensuing erosion of ‘Reedom ard inteligentsia inthe 1930s: "manuscets ‘ont bur Hetstes: weloane to/sovannaphum ‘Svan Phun), wwusmorhiion.com (SH, wirnigesticcom Prac Ly) a en ‘ 4 i & < MORE BETTER DIFFERENT THE AVANT-GARDE ALBUM OF 2004 COs eee So Dae ras) monika 37 TN ae i WINEHOUSE = IN MY BED/ ‘monika enterprise bein infow@m-entorprise.ce distr via indigo, hausmusik, baked goods, red, wide, forced exposure Every month we play 2 seri of REFER which thoy are HORM sent and rnowledse JewBEYey'e about to heer. This mont LUC eo FERRARI ‘Tested by Dan Warburtdh BBs by Anna Schor us Born in Paris in 1929, Luc Ferrari studied piano with the legendary Alfred Cortot, ‘analysis and composition with Olivier Messiaen, and during the 1950s was a frequent visitor to that hotbed of European — post-war serialism, the Summer School in | Darmstadt, Germany, where he befriended the major composers of the day ~ Karlheinz ‘Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, Henri Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel and Pierre Boulez. After working with musique concréte pioneer Pierre Schaetter, in 1958 he was one ‘of the founder members of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRWD, with Francois- Bemard Mache, Francois Bayle and Berard Parmegiani.In the early 1960s he became director of the Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris, conducted by Konstantin Simonovic, and also made several films on New Music for television with director Gérard Patri. ‘Landmark electronic works such as Hotérozygote (1964) and Music Promenade (1969) moved away from the Ideological ‘dogma of early musique concréte towards a mature style that welcomed the inclusion of flold recordings and sounds of everday lit, most notably in the epochal Prosquo Rion (1970), which captured the sound of daybreak in a small fishing village on the Dalmatian coast. Ferrari's oeuvre has recently been enthusiastically rediscovered by a younger generation, notably David ‘Grubbs (who has released three CDs of the ‘composer's music on his Blue Chopsticks Imprint), which has led to several ‘collaborations with contemporary ‘electronica artists like DJ Olive, Erik M and ‘Otomo Yoshihide. The Jukebox took place in Ferrari's ‘spacious studio in Paris, two days before the ‘composer set off on another gruelling ‘concert tour to Italy, Germany and Belgium. OLIVIER MESSIAEN CHRONOCHROMIE Probably Oiseaux Exeiques. No, but there are plenty of bids In though. There atnays are. Which piece is tis? It's tho opening of Chrnochromie. ike the pleces tom that peed lt. t's later on that he spoied I. He tipped himself up trying to Sound tke Messiaen ara Deca 2 epee. Why was Mossiaon such an important inftunee on his students, your generation? Because he was one of the fist people to ta about contemporary musi nthe Conservator, which was Something bacause they usualy stopped at Debussy ‘and Ravel. Suscen tere was By ~ rot even 8 professor of eompostan bi 9 professor of ana — who analysed all the stores that we, as students, had ro access to, Thote were ne records of thie music ‘2ralabe atthe te, remember, and we dt Rave the Stores, but he dd He helped us discover whst Contemporary musie was. He wes very pleasant gi Frio mystic ond Tm certo not religous, ena hs mystica lous side was a i ofa problem forme, butT know that what | was learning Was very important TOD DOCKSTADER NO2 [Must be about 1960, sounds ike Pitre Hn, but naw en t's not Stocknausen~ not ngorue tough = ts nt Boro, because know is stuff very tel snot Use! Beeause ne only da one [electron] plece, Artizulabon, ana W's rot Pousseu | don't kw. es not European. American then. fs not Ussachevsy, i's not Bebe Barron. who i #2 Tod Dockstader, ftom a 1961 Folkways album, Wow, dont now hi at al! e's a selftaught composer who stopped composing athe nd ofthe 19608. He stopped? That's interesting because tis is very ovignal. i's certainty not musique coneréte. There's Vary Ito studio scurc sound, Ito prepared pare, ut not much, There are alt of pure econ Sounds. I coesa't sound ike anyting ese rom that pera, ow di you meet Pitre Schacter? | met his daughter Mareclaro, who was 2 beautiful fat an exhibition opening in an art gallery, and we Started talking about music sald ed Varese and Messiaen and tld ner been at he frst musique Conerte concerts afew years eaier and she oi, have to introduce you tomy father” So Schaefer ‘camo to ano of my iano recta, whors I was paying Scores by people nha werant very wal known, Including my ow, and he seemed happy tat | wasn't realy wring sera! musio - though wea rent nthe Iridleof ey tot petec—batny trae Fe seman ‘80aped seratsm. He invited me tothe stud to work ‘wth him, ut I wated because Thad a ot of instrumental muse ta fh, and some concerts in Germany, ard went to hn about two years ister at the end of 1957, id you enter into the ideological polemic between Fronch musique conerite and Gorman eloktronisehe Musi No, the ideotogleal aitterences ain't morest me, but ‘hot was the soit oF the tes. Pure eleerone music hav interest me much ether. we aways aoided Streotpes. Ive alvays profrred to werk wth Irstuments and tape |e that superiestion. | dont Ie al the labels eter electronic, electre, fexenmentl, seousmati, a5 Frangis Baye cals Nowacays we cal what the young composers are doing ‘tetrencn I just eal elec laugh). MAURICIO KAGEL TRANSICION I Frou Pearse WIOHOPNOME MODE 108 1 dot know that all, There's live plano ad nye recorded pian. Maye two planos. There's some ‘ect. I's definite by someone intuences by Wenem andthe Second Viennese Schoo. End ofthe 119506, Darmstact pened, ‘Theres Just one plonst, witha petcuslonst paying the inside ofthe plano, I that gves you a clu. ‘Thores a Cagelan element tot. Cou it be David Tuco? No, I's by 2 tnd of yous. [Usoke at 60} No! Ga alors! W's very god! | woula ever have guessed. Maybe I's the modern recording "ist met Kagel n 1958 atte Expo in Brussos, where tore were concerts of New bss, bath ‘tectonic and instrumental, He'd jst ved fom ‘rgortina, and we bocame cose fiends. When he care to Pais he stayed at my place, and when Iwas ving In Beran 4967 he used to come and sleep on ur sofa, His legs nung over te eae Decause Ne was so tal ‘You's often associated with Kage, because of you try to hide your sone of humour. ‘A sense of humour was very important at the time, a5 ‘2 way of gating away fom the purely strumenta Kagel was one of te Watt venture eto musie theatre, sto what we can do theatrical with musician, tir gestures, the way they behave was ‘ery funny, I think at that me he was influences by (Cage, ane o was I, but | became more interested In ‘mating music win actors, rater than making theatre wih musicons I wented fo escape from pute music ~ fd trom music teat 0 = to work ih tons, ung the woe, not as in opera, but as @ spoken element. Using texts of my own, ‘What are your momeres of Darmstadt? Vas tered when fst went to Darmstadt in 3952 fend sonal these houses In vine. Germany wes ‘desvoyed. seen the war a6 @ id, and ry memories of wartime a8 a his were extremely wolent. | tink ‘hat volonce, that energy spied over into the sora polome- but twas a pesto ene. It was tore | tet Hono, Madema, Garo, Stoshausen Boulez 8 ite, | waa there n 1987, when Cage anived. That wes wonderful He was someone whe stepped outice roms and he stowed us that seriasm was aendy feademe. He was 9 serous uy. and thought 218 About what he was doing. but when he performed his Dees wih Tudor twas fantastic. Everybody laughed Erceot Boule. fuel ECHL TAYLOR (RIPE ORAS CONC ACK Ceci Taylor. H's vary vary good. Not very wal recorded, ‘ough Looks a CO] 1966. Lyons, Anorew ther (nods on 90, war ft raceme Coes Aon pc Rs Vsti Ue wan te missed Tone eprint ne es ss ones Boon ne work eh nt ticle ute cs saan nee {tetra sto ene tom en ee Biron wns or om wig the movment ewe ome pty somes chet Un oor frp ah ep eh Jor campus ht same or ag arora Heenan my cman Torin the INA arénves someanere. havent even got Fronenacminisration i it woud bo nie To 20 ani, though ROBERT ASHLEY “PURPOSEFUL LADY SLOW AFTERNOON” Lourie angerson? [Abit before ~ it's not the composer speaking. {er't kon. [Looks at CD] Ashi. of couse Oh it You'd payed “She iss A Vistar woud Rave gt. tet Bob Ashley 1970. | wanted to make a seies of fms tke te ones 'd made in Exope, an wert to the States on 2 facttinding mission, The projet tured ‘ut to be ton compleated and too expensive, but | got foe tp out of and mot alot of gest musicians, Ineluing Terry Riley, Stove Reich and Ashley, who Was ‘Mite Cotege at the tne | was fair wh the ‘wor ofthe Sone Arts Union. Ike vin Lira. ‘dn know Ashiey warked much wth women's voces win is operas he's the one who does te speaking What ite | understand ike very much, that rather CCagean approach of teling stoves of que ordinary tings, but sgt twiste, bordering on the surreal Have you ever boon tempted to write an opera? "ve done things that consider operas. Les Ghansons Pour Le Core (1994) and anther one that hash bose recorded called! Cahir Du Sor (1992), for an ‘cess, 14 instrumentalists and slde projections. The ‘1655 tls @ story about wra'snappenng in the love but never speaks roc to tho orchosta. t's 2 kindof ealogue wittt communication, and wat she ‘sys about the muse la true, (Laughs) Thre a ‘ate anayses, Cagetve observations that Rave ating to do with tre asic, even ero poe [Ashley's operas wore conceived for television. 1s @ ‘shame thatthe Europeans, who probably have more ‘money for such projets, have never explited the ‘medium to the ful. Ys. A fen years ago he could have done something slong those tines tn Germany. NOt today thon, JOHN CAGE ETCETERA, Jotn Cage? [looks at the CO] I's called Etter? ‘You once nominated alate Cage orchestral pleee as ‘ne of your al time favours discs. Yes, Sevon-Fon I think tf. One of his ast works Ie absoutly fabulous. Waste an hour wth images projectes ona seecn and intrumortalsts plying Sustaned sounds, 1's avery Deoutfuladventae in ‘oun. But is pece i very Ieresting - there's & fentaste openness of anguage, with those ite Clarinet meedos, and those noises inthe background. “hare a1 ite loop that remind mo oF what | was, cing in Tutolagos 2 ‘Arnold Schoenberg deseibed Cage not ‘composcr but aa an inventor Would you agree? Forme he wos 2 composer In ary ease, hve quite & wide detrition of what comoesiton is. When you're a Compose, everything you do is composition. Whether | 2 Hovpll ofan stalin, i's al composition ‘ink tha the Gage who da m= graphic scores nthe 19508 was just as teh @ composer as the man who uarote the Sonatas An intevses [or prepares pare, ‘You have tobe realy ood to co someting that Stands the test of tine while beng ferent each time, Ike the Concert For Plana Ard Oretesta whi | love. That forme is the mark ofa feat composer's ‘inking and sensibly. ve been very influences by ‘Cage bt noon | do ovr sounds The NG musi. 1 ave ny Ite chance operations, things I cutive ihe ‘iti garden, a do what | want wth them, Cage wasnt cogmati other ~ some of his aleatary woes present maselans with alot of attude thes very Ie. he the Engh expression by chance’ ~ In French ofcourse “ehanee’ means lok, That's geet, GASTR DEL SOL “THE SEASONS REVERSE” emus be Davia (Grubbs, but Ive never neara him plovng with drums aloud tat Which sum ‘bis? | he the fact that you can Hear of sting oso whon David pays the gut. But those rum. [rakes a face] 11 the Mest tack tom the taal Gast Det Sol album, [te sti Ferra founded in 1982. org tine ago, ‘2nd he seemed tobe 2 tr and in ave of me tat ne ‘Said nothing. And was timated by his tiny. | met David whan | was ined to conference In Gneago sx ‘or seven yeas back, when he came up to me and Sa, "a ie to relssue Tutngos 3 and Inert Just Ihe tat was suprsod and deighted tat ne knew ‘hose pcos that eae out on vl £0 fg Ag, nd We became good fends, He's @ very warm peton and we hove 8 geet tie togetne, even thous speak English Ike Spanish cow, a we sy. ‘iron ai you fst hear Davi pay? ‘Tpat must have been at the Pompidou Conte, with [gatas] Noe! Azote and [szxopronist] Quertin Role. When Dava lays with Noe there's an amazing centerte cordile! ‘You must be happy that younger musilans are “lscoveing the music of your generation. Ie wondertu yes. think here's great cost on the part of those youn ons for everying that came tom te 19608 and 70a, Fst they got nfo the ook ‘eonorate music, wth Menai, The Dis wore Wary intrested n tnt. Talking of Dis, you've worked with several notable {umtablte over recent years. Ys, though | don go to see them In concert much. [maa resistant enough to standin 2 sweltering lab vt abe of 25 yor ol, | eaw OJ Ome pay 28 the Pompidou Contre (wth Cristian Maly), ana afterwards somebody invoduced me 1 in. We Start sooing eoeh her and worting together on 3 ‘commission from the Ghent Festal called Los rchives Sauvées Des Eaux.1 drew up eked of 20", olan of action you ie, wih dynamies marke ond ‘what have you, a kind of way of measuring time — asa ‘compose ant help meaeuring time ~ and forthe Performance, which lasted about 50 er 60 minutes, 1 Played CDs, ike areal Dy, and he dd nis twrtables. ‘was trees at rst Ou | Bink ve mace a lt oF Dragress, Im ao as afl as used to be. ‘You once sad that what you Iked about DJs was the estate. rac}. Fer me musique conerte's about gesture, an Improvisation in ont of @ microphone, ard ater wards payng wih tape recorders in concert is aso 8 iestie, Ihave problems wth machines which cen" fstial Bt now wo'e retin to the Besta, even ‘ith dgtal machines ~I'm fascinates by the way DJs ‘work with records, the dractness ofthe gesture Ive ‘worked wih Erk, Scanner, Maron Tevsaut and ‘tomo [Yoshie becouse | saw hin ply once and t Diew me away. sai, tis g's making musique eonorte Ine, ke we Wouls Reve Ike 0 G0 45 years go call these gs the nowweaux coreets~ they Use machines wi & real sense of exoerimentaton. Don’t you think that the advent of now technology ‘nas made things too simple? ‘ol sit hove ona timo. thik ts oo tat these machines ae avaiable. The hore stud is a eat eo ATereated ry fst hore studio back in 1970, wi) a ‘couple of tape recorcers and ot much els. dn Ik aches that cot fos much and do oo muh. As far time g, you don't buy them very often NOEL AKCHOTE "202" ‘That's the sound of td's electronic muse t's Nod Isnt 2 | tink ve got tis. Tellus about your now career 38 an improvising Pianist on the Be Chopsticks CD Impromicro- ‘Acoustique. Was that Akchets's ia? No, no. David inode me #0 Noe whe I's seen play Ive at Les instants Chavis In Montrail, nor where | we. was fasensted by te way he plajea. Aer we 0% 10 know each other | suggested we do something Together, wit peroasionat Rola Auzet. To reassure myself sketched outa Kind of vague plan of action, ‘atch we dict oon ata, We just went into the Stuaie and it worked very wel sta my irons. Toy the plano, but there are ots of oy there to. als uses the resonance of me plano Reet and ‘woke with feedbock, Wet we recorded was fed ack into the suc tough loudspeakers and we each had Fandield mirophones so wo cous olay withthe loudspeakers a the same time. ve alnays loved ‘eocboek, and ve worked wih it ever since stated saning musique cones [re there any plan to tour with Auzet and Akchoté? Not into immediate aur. There's 9 concert on 6 ‘Aon ere in Paris at the Tate Sisia Monfrt. with the world prenres of Tautologies Et Enurons ard Presque Rien Avee Instruments, which use What | cal'SM [snes mischievous. that's ‘Sons Nemorises laughs] ~ sounds | recored with Noe and Roland. But m eal ate busy atthe moment - is {ung to find mysalf onstage wit these peoole toe times as yourg as Iam. Rmust lok funy too. Tm having 2 great te, fut leant hand otilg ae wal 2 they ean ERIC LA CASA & JEAN-LUC GUIONNET "VENTS SUR ECOUTES" Wil, say's ater Presque ion laughs]. Les paysages soncres: soundscapes. | have no idea who it 1s a recording of one of France Culture’ Atelos de ‘Création Radlophoniquo, a ploce by Eric La Casa a Jeane Guloont with texts and music by other ‘sound artists. There you heard text by Cvs Watson. ‘he fst radio pce I id was called Porat Spe. e was commissiones by Hertel SWF In Gaden aden in OTL I ink they asked me because they realised thatthe pices done afore then, tke Metroagote (1968) and Music Pomenace (1965) ane oF course Presque Rien No 1 (1970) were moving in that general ‘ection. For me, Horspes nave booome something fault distin rm my ennoert works, because @ Morspot ssn opportunity to work ety with the woiee, and with ereumstances With Portai-Spe recorded people in a local factory ‘anda printing work, using the reporting technique to ‘rete a tnd of autobiography In which | wasn very pesent. twas a story ha ved, though ay microohones, but at the same time a story of otner oople and eter creumetances encountered aig the TS nota simplo unadultoratod documentary though. Not ata Once te Feld recordings fished, here's 2 fot of hard work todo inthe stud, Ht takes me two months atleast to produce Horse Presque Rion No 1 was undoubtedly a landmark. don't kn if fs oF not You could say John Cage had arcady done everything. But twas 9 continuation of what | was doing before, mixing flecvonc sounds ang fea recordings. Presque Ren No twas 6 radical steps that | dispensed with the ‘electronic sounds atogether The people at SACENE {Franco's copyright author] asked me about that. ‘hey seid: 'Where's the muse? We had 9 lvely bate. [Laughs] Nowadays they've got used othe aes, thank. springtime is carpark family time sg dvis-"curling pond woods” (carpark) ea mix "wall of nose” cd (acu Fee “sera a cee cn 4 racks compton casino versio, ‘en daira doo $9 60% (9) rama, 24a alec aon ‘heck ot or ot ies Tor dtat wun.corpartozeds com ww paw-tracks.com ai 2 ee fort prof 2! ctrl cen Sec: incre nds ot the mis of 1751 soy ome Cpt ra & Pa peace a, tate melita ny he ee: utablemusic Phone 212 627 0800 « Fax 212 627 5504 « Email: info@mtablemusic.com| cee a lost vanished modaities of old te The kaleidoscopic fingerpicking style of Jack Rose picks up ec 1 perfected in his Improv group Pet, [American roots musi But the exploratory sound the sey refracted through erone minimalism, modemist Bluegrass ang Words: David Keenan. Photos: Heather Leigh Murray Felday aight s jam night st Pildiphia Music Exchange and al the usual suspects are howing ot the moon, There's Dan Base, legendary rcord Collector and harmonica wing (George Bullet Wiliams, 2 cohort of Gukka Wot's trom the 19208 and 30s, [s his man), Crs Simpson, co-owner ofthe Exchange ana ful time E's evangelist, and Tony Noages, long term empoyee, poster arist and owner ofthe Tega Sunrise COR isbel. As the beors me passed round, Louisiana evamp rock doty and Ens cokaike Tony Joe Whe fe spnning onthe tuntabe. For Jack Rose this fs home ram home He's played sole recordings and Lbs by his group Pe. Regulars, gn know him best a Or Ragtime, tho old imey persona he used cover when he fst began to reste wth the protean forms of prewar Arerican song, feeling his way trough tunes lke “Old Country Rock, -Buex Dancers Chee" and “Krone Sues His oxn compositions, ferociously personal iio for acoustic gute, a populated by tho same Arnerean orehitectre, echoing wth the long gone songs oF inerantbiuesmen, ragtime musiians and dance orenectres wro spoke In tongues too foal, crude or Rose's conceptions, there's te same sense at mmanence, of prophecy and becoming tat characterised many of those early ses, but he has traded thee vein ofthe Now Kingoom or te Last Judgment fora gimase ofan equal mythic pr 1940s America, x vanished cultural landscape now looked in the gran of old 786, ts detals obsewed by decades of crackle and state. Orowing an his background in ee nao and snakechorming drone as 8 mamber of the improvising onsomele Pal. Rose channels the codes of prewar blues inte revtalsing vatory systems that pulse with organic modes, his Sie wor sounaing ke te brakes on subway ea, his ten, kaleoscopie picking isle daaing constllations of repeating cvertones that ech th all ign fights of minimalist Terry Rly ane Henry Fy. Shere | yew up nthe suburs there werent alot ot ocal musicans who played in a oeal se.” Rose elses, "S0 when | heard lof that on time stu fr the tsi tne, det reteet onthe Amerie I as ving 2 a, was ike the sen musi that feted me in some unexplainable way. I was mestrerised by tke broaseasts fom outer space. “mean. no one can actually pay tke tht today." he insists. "No one an duplicate that whole prenae sound, The famous 786 collector Joe Bussard has soi this many times but tree's a stoping port, 2 certain rythm that ony that era had and then Ras gone. al that oxrome syncopation that was also Inerecby propulsive, a sound ke two gts a once. Mlretanally fo, these guys would sng and it es teal wayward, there wos No Berfect pitch or anything Iie that. Charley Patton woud singin ways that relates tothe musie of Inca, In fact Ian myths are much the same as alot ofthe blues ythms tat were used. ut hyhms change and efecte times, andthe rythm of ou ea is rock ‘Dceasanaly, eve, there sre people who have 8 foot im each er, John Fahey was one of tem, he was abi to got tat old ry. Whon I ply. ty to onnect wth the rhythm of pre-1942. |r to, but cant quit pull io, soi ends up somewhere else, While Rose's take on ste! string instrumentals ‘coral ones a sett fo epoentrascng macemits tke John Fay, al of his work bears his own ‘ump, soscessed ct he some Kind of devouring energy thle ges of inte leah. "Fr me, 010 ‘seouste perfomance has become the fra ang he says.’ ust you, westing wih an instrument. Jove that. When Tim there alone paying the guitar, ‘cused on tying tobe myself completa, rg 0 react a8 nyse fo every movement ne ao tying 0 incorporate inspirational mteil the way Fahey di, to ‘0p tutes to peope that | ke But such way {hat its ever overt ike to Heep it hen, Subliminal, because I wan to focus on my om voce, nd that's the most iu ting. For 2 vee | ‘ought! sounded lea aacond rat Fay. had to realy werk my a8 off. He casts a huge shadow.” Rose's two sao albums to te, 2002's Red Horse, \hite Mule ard 2008's Opium Musick, were both ‘rgaly oleae ae ned ection LBe on Eline, but they've now been bundles on one CD (by Boat Happiness Inthe UK and Vat ithe Sates) a8 Tao Orarnas Of Jack Rose. Togener they acd up to one ot ‘he most since documents of contemenraxy ste! ‘Sting techiguo,showeasng the leaps tha Rose has ‘made across sx and 12 sting ad lap guar. I ‘pane with "Red Horse", a melancholy blues uinindng 3 ve of singing steel tat reterences the ‘we, ard ends inthe oling waves of “Back Pests” 2 beaut homage tothe watorways of the Mississiop’ and the turbulent muse of Jot Cottrane In between he rune off 2 Beak, introverted take on Bind wie Jonson's “bark Was Te Net, Cold Was The Ground, @ best series of duets with Pett catort nike Gang on tampura and Cul De See's Glenn Jones on gar, 20 9 elute of speloncing For me the whole frgerpicking thing took of when was and got these two County blues ‘snhologis, County Blues Volare One and Two 00 Fotlorays,” Rose relates. "I had heard some hid net oor who was visting fom Jersey and he was Singericking and | asked what he was doing. He ‘showed me tvs book, Masts Of The Intrumertal Blues Guar and wert out and got my own copy. ‘hats what tuned me on tothe County ues ‘ecor6s. Atul, John Fahey was i ere to but never pa any atention to him atthe tne because trae talking aot him in terme ofthe new se of rage and because he wasn't an oi Back man. | never actually heard fim unt been playing Bet ‘ora year or we. | got an elec guar as S000 a5 | heer Led Zeppelin and began taking gitar lessons. My teacher somenow conuneed me that there nas ‘money tobe made staying ooze tues 60 I gave up Angorpckng fer ton years.” Wl ater highschool in Fredencksburg, ‘gina, Ase met Jason Bil, 8 one tee member ot ‘he Texan psyeh group Choralambides end ow half of ‘elon Eclipse recording arsts Mayantes, Bi wines hiv to experimental music and fee jaz, inreducng him to underground labels tho Sittreeze ‘2nd Majora 2s wel as eyaups Ike The Stooges and ‘he Grotefl Deo the later being a partir ‘eveaton in the way they expanded on the innereny ‘iat structures of eg tne muse using bastaraises ‘vont gare tecmiques, White atoning clogs in Rishon Virgia Reso nook! up tn Pack Best as part ofthe post hardcore group Ughynead, both jumping ship Yor loc ‘hats Pet when the rest of Mike Gangot's group qut fn him. "Plt mere doing songs when Ist ined he toca, “Mike was abolutey it al that, igs ke Sons Youth and Dinosaur dr Our ft album, Brown (jeopedia (1995), is mostly made up of stuf that was leh ovr tom te sorgarirtoa days, atreugh even thin that context we were doing ot of improvising. But twas the second eur, Buring/ Plamen? Fockots (1996), tat saw th ti fly rage the Drohor, a vious, slimorovsed assault that occuies ie own Blasted universe somewhere between The Dead c's suaigtsocassotertusais and he Inaustiat suengihelectney generated by Fipp & Eno cea No Puseyfooting "ack ot the beginning of Pelt we hod never esx stuf ike AVM or anything,” Rose says, We were just intrested in suetning and exporting wth eound Inept by groups lke The Oesd C. was realy pretty {ust Ud of simpy doing song based st.” Mast ot the enly Pel recordings were Ine psyehede Diowouts, wih Rose often manipulating 0 etctc autre at ence. ane primed wit twin E bows st to ‘lt an etemaly peaking atone, the other donee {trough a mroge of cel wast untl 2001's Tate Jn Fahey that the group began to more fully intgrate acoustic elements, lating open ther repertoire m order to taken tractonalApp=aehion mata Ike “The Cuckoo” and “Deep Sunny South a assemble monstrous ras fom rypnetc combinations of agepicke autrs, sane Bons, Deed sings and what sounds ike sete ‘charges from the tails of comets, Meanie Pet Srouted! an offshoot in the form of Gal's Black Twig Plkers, aie, banjo ana guitar vio cedeated tovfurneang the tociton of ‘mountain raga “Mike bought banjo pret early on in Pelt,” Rose ‘oeals “He was getting heavy ito ol tie musie nd then ata certain point bath Mike and moves Yo South west Virginia and started to realy investigate ‘he source of a wae Miko wna got mo int but it wasn't easy. He kind of forced me to play i an old orb exoeiene, hate ploving that Stu. See this ger, ow i's ext of rig here? | had to get ‘ight sttehes in there. Soon after hapaene im playing oid tne music with these guys ane wn that ‘ype of musi you gotta hold those chords down for ‘aly longtime. My finger would bein total pain, so ‘one ofthe reasons | strted fingerpicking again wos. thot Iwas trying to gure outa way to use open tunings while playing tho old time tunes, ut to ‘case the pin really. Mike had been interested in Incorpraing at of ol tine must nt Pet for 2 {id a coupe of old fk tunes on thre and ey were ust the worst recorcng sessions for me, realy auf {Te atmosphere ofthe recording sto was terse and Mike was encouragrg me Yo fngrpick again, but ‘aha | was Rearing in my head ust wasn't coring “aaseay, ido Wink my Skil eve was UD fo what it should bo,” ne conten,“ new I wanted foe 00d at | couldnt work, a have to stop working and {st focus on that. Next in was, {lot my Jo, 80 thats exact whet Ii The vahuasca sessions tok bout to years and twas just before they were finished that | ost my oo, October 2000. My giiiend and | wet to France fora vacation | picked up her brothers guitars and messed around and thought, ou no, eye | shoul ral do something wih Ths nemoloyment Moke use of Sole” By tis time Rose had fay encourtered the music of ‘ormposer Tory Fy, a of when ved up te loose rusia trans that had been Mepoing between is ‘are fr 80 long, “Pot ha always ben intrested in Indian muse and a tht tut" he expan, “20 has Boon yng fnd a way to incorporate Inan style music te fer ekrg guar. | was listening © a lot of Sun Cty Gis ecores at he time and geting inspiration tom them, but here wes realy by model fer tat sort of erg Then | lscoveres Jahn Fahey 1873 album, Fore Forward Voyages ane seamed ile # was al ak ou therefore, lhe s eprint. For 0 org thought that one record was morose Ne could have Come up wth a that on tho spot “Tern Riley wos another nteesting connection tat hole sot things for me," he continoes. “Iwas toni to alot of his eat too mean, he and Faney nad no contact th each other. tt I ealy ‘musical elavonship Between them. 1 Dagan to work ‘one Rlcrescue woy of playing further evaegerting Faroy’s use of repouton. To mo they realy sounded ‘or similar and somewnere Between th two of them there was Robbie Basho” tke Takoma, vanguard an Windham it between American primi traditions with Eastern modal drone ‘and a supremely benign worldview. Fra longtime Basho existed nthe shadow ofthe considerably more ‘eeent yea, with payers ke Glenn Jones and ‘German guitarist stetfen Basho Junghens (wo went 40 or as to adopt Robbie's surname aso create talisman) ring upto testify tothe gargantuan reach Cf his gutar conceptions, “The way Basho played mas ‘ory alfforant to Fahy," Rose insists. “He seamed more expressive and openended. With lt of Fahey’ Stut, you Wy to play someting that even vaguely (over, you can't escape rom i. Stystcall i's so {pect 2 looked n on et, whereas Bach's playing isso open and wide. When Pelt were Irwestigtng all the drone stuf and the modal sttt it wes detinely coming more from Basho tan Faney {rot expansive records ike Song OF Tae Staion 2973), That was 8 record that realy Blow me oven, The way Basho payed. his songs just seom 20 intensely persona He wae never 2s armoured as Fay,” ne continues, “ard think that's wt Fahey was Wy 0 work against nis Inter ecards. Maybe he sow that in is own music as wo. Moye that's why ho eke Basho, dont krow. Fahey was very avare of what he was projecting, whereas Basho was consiceraby more ‘eles, Fahey nad a tis “who haste Dggest dc” that version of “Dare Wos The N e hime rm ary 2 Robert Jorson test pressing. “lt would be realy eotctcal 9/1 flowing ina wasn,” ho though that's what | haopened ‘Once upon a time Inthe Bronx, Defoe HpHoo Nod 2 name, or ame tobe dened by the Five E¥ements of IMcing oeakdaneing. Bboyng turtatlrg ane te painting inown ab graff, had Wikers, These scribes wroteon the taina of New York's subway system, Most they wrote ther names: a host of eau noms de plume. They rendered old abstractions of the siphaet in sprayain and magic mater, cosine the ietors to iat Ike gaseous bubbles an expose ‘uaworde wth mufsroctonl arrows, I ary figuration Cartes of he Viters themselves, Atha most ‘ambitious ora epic, hese Wigs coverod ere | Outsie the ett, these mobi murals were seen a¢ Be _ Undercover cops inthe ainyards ofl raids on tho _earagos during Gtnan's preveyard shi 20m the Witingproot airs made io Jooan, to arve Witers oy tom tne system forever

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