Thanks, sorry for the delay in writing. Of course I read; I often reply
back-channel as well; if I'm saying something short, there's no reason to
clutter the list up.
Re: musicians - Foofwa watches soccer (football) for the same reason; we
sat through a couple of games on tv.
- Alan
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, phanero wrote:
I've posted several of your pieces on the blog.. most recently the Maud
Liardion piece..
I just thought you weren't reading anything!! The fountain was amazing, and
the piece
with the black smoky presence also.. There was also one which had beautiful
writing..
Just got back from seeing Yale's Tokyo Quartet, playing on four Stradivariu,
A cello, viola, and two matched violins.. this set of instruments is called
the paganini quartet as i guess paganini played some of them or something..
we heard some mozart, higdon and brahms..
the reason i bring this up is the unconscious movements of the players
are like dance, and in the specific bodily configurations manifesting
and being manifested there was something which reminded me strongly
of your work.. there was a kind of epiphenomenal manifold in which
each was participating but also was experiencing..
anyway i thought of you as i watched those amazing musicians
tonight
and ritual is never far from the player but i've been listening to Giacinto
Scelsi today
lq
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: blastitude review (fwd)
(my new attitude since my work doesn't garner comments any more on the
lists, so well as might advertise with jetlag)
http://www.blastitude.com/19/RECORDS.htm
RITUAL ALL 770: The Songs CD (FIRE MUSEUM)
This just in: a label from San Francisco called Fire Museum Records has put
out a CD reissue of the debut album by
Alan Sondheim's classic Providence-based Ritual All 770 band. (Man, this is
the fourth Providence-related review in a
row, and I'm strictly using alphabetical order here. That town must really
be "The New Seattle.") The album is called
The Songs, was recorded in March 1967, was self-released in enough of an
edition for the name "All 770" to end up on
the NWW list, and is a must-hear for fans of the group's two subsequent
albums on ESP-Disk (Ritual All 770, also from
1967, and T'Other Little Tune, from 1968). In fact, it's my favorite of the
three. Gorgeous but constantly challenging
improv mystery-movement with femme-chorale vocals. Sondheim is credited
with a super-whopping 19 different instruments
(including his slippery weird electric blues guitar leads that you will
remember from the ESP releases), and is joined
by others on a basic core lineup of bass, trump
et, cornet, "jazz drums," and tabla (with many other instruments filling
out the ensemble). Again, the two women on
vocals are awesome (Ruth Ann Hutchinson and June Fellows). Also check this
wild interview with Mr. Sondheim, and
there's always the strange and deep asondheim.org.
out now! ritual all 770/
alan sondheim- the songs fm-04
fire museum records
p.o. box 591754
san francisco, ca. 94159 u.s.a.
http://www.museumfire.com
For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt .
Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General
directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
