Slight Bowed Return
Posted by Chris on March 7, 2006 at 10:37 am
One broken computer and much to-ing and fro-ing with Apple customer services later, Word The Cat returns…
RIP Ivor Cutler WFMU have a video for download here. I’ll try and dig up some mp3s to post in the near future. For a load of Ivor Cutler mp3s look here (thanks phil).
WFMU also host a great video of New Zealand drone/noise heads The Dead C performing on TV here.
The always interesting Words and Music blog currently carries this weighty piece from pianist Cecil Taylor with improv dons Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley. It’s on yousendit so get it while you can.
March’s delayed mix soon come. In the meantime here’s 11 minutes of bowed bass from Cecil McBee’s 1974 Mutima LP on Strata East. McBee is prolific. I know him best from his playing as a sidesman on Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders records from the 70s though he’s also played with Sam Rivers, Miles Davis, Horace Tapscott, Freddie Hubbard etc.
Cecil McBee – From Within 12mb
For Ivor Cutler, look no further than:
http://niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu/for/ivor/
I particularly recommend Egg Meat, which has always made me feel soiled and in need of a bath for some reason.
Ali Farka Touré has also just died…
Cecil McBee reminds me – I must give you that Umoja Ensemble disc on Strata East, it’s mindblowing.