In the topsy-turvy world of digiculture, the scarcity economy of music has entirely gone… replaced by a scarcity of consumers and spectators. Momus’s celebrated maxim that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 people might have been over-optimistic.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Listening to Keith Jarrett “Treasure Island” (1974)
One of my favorite Keith Jarrett albums. Can anyone have only one? He’s put out so many great records throughout his career, and of such different temperatures. This is my favorite of the albums by the American Quartet.
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Kevin Ayers on DIY Recording
This, my first solo album ever, was conceived and put together in a living room in Herne Bay… This was an album of innocence, and like most first efforts, was probably the most original of my records.
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Odds and Ends: 2005 Improvisation “Ascension Hall”
Hope you all are having a good week so far. Today’s offering is an “Odds and Ends” track — i.e. a recording that doesn’t belong to any particular project. Actually, “Ascension Hall” was — I think — under consideration for my Java St.
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Deal with What You’ve Got
…John McLaughlin was another hero. Day-in, day-out, I tried to play like him, and I couldn’t come anywhere close. I saw a concert with Shakti in the early 70s, heard this incredible stuff coming out and it was this moment of despair.
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Album of the Week: Volcano the Bear’s “Classic Erasmus Fusion”
I bought Volcano the Bear‘s Classic Erasmus Fusion after seeing it on an Other Music display shelf in 2006. I had read about the Leicester, England group in a WIRE magazine profile in the January 2006 issue, but it was the artwork and production quality of the packaging that sealed the deal.
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Weekly Recap – 18 June 2011
You may have noticed that I’ve been updating the blog more frequently this week — I’ve been making an effort to put something up daily. I just think blogs are more effective when they’re daily. And by effective, I mean that they are more successful in drawing, and maintaining, a readership.
Audio Post: Urhixidur (Work-in-Progress) Excerpt No.2
“Urhixidur” is a track I started work on recently as a way to blow off some steam — it’s not really part of the work for my next album, but it’s turned into quite the project of its own.
Present Logicians Excluded, of Course
The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite… The poet only desires exultation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.
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On Recording, Part 4: The One Man Band
What with Paul McCartney‘s 1970 album McCartney and 1980 album McCartney II getting the now usual multi-levels-of-deluxeness reissue treatment yesterday, it’s a good time to yap some more about recording — this time, the one-man band.
