William Basinski, “dlp 3,” The Disintegration Loops, 2003.
William Basinski, “dlp 3,” The Disintegration Loops, 2003.
Clogs, “Three Two,” Veil Waltz, 2010.
Mattie May Thomas, “Dangerous Blues,” American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939), 2005 (rec. 1939).
John Coltrane, “Bakai,” Coltrane, 1957.
What’s most interesting to me about this tune is that it struggles alternately to stay close to then-current jazz conventions and, by including that quarantined polyrhythmic bit, move away from it. The group is characteristically satisfying but this seemingly conflicted effort is what draws me to Bakai. I feel something similar in my own music: I want it to move out from my own tradition (rock, punk, post-etc.) but if I can get it out there, I retreat to something more familiar. Why I do this is, I think, obvious enough. I’m not ready to work without a net.
Loop 2.4.3, “Zodiac Dust,” Zodiac Dust, 2009.
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Ronnie Boykins, “The Will Come, Is Now,” The Will Come, Is Now, 1975.
Anthony Davis, “Man on a Turquoise Cloud (for Edward Kennedy Ellington),” Lady of the Mirrors, 1980.
Masada, “Jachin,” Sanhedrin, 2005.
Leroy Jenkins, “Blues #1,” Solo, 1999.
Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid & Silvia Bolognesi, “Ova,” Hear in Now, 2012.