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News from the darkest corners of the
musical universe:
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Monday, January 15, 2007 ◦
Alice Coltrane, widow of the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and the pianist in his later bands, who extended her musical searches into a vocation as a spiritual leader, died on Friday in Los Angeles. She was 69.
Read full article here.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 ◦
Legendary musician, philosopher and anti-art activist Henry Flynt will make a series of presentations in San Diego and Los Angeles, including two lectures on "Musicology," a lecture on "Dignity" and a screening and discussion of his recent "Abstract Cinemas."
More info here.
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 ◦
Robert Drasnin is recording Voodoo 2, the follow up to the highly influential Voodoo, released by Tops Records in 1959. Although Voodoo was in fact the only Exotica record made by Drasnin in his long and varied career in music, it is considered a classic of the Exotica genre, and it is truly one of the finest examples of what this musical style sought to achieve in the 1950s and 1960s.
Re-issued on CD by Dionysus during the recent Exotica revivalist movement, exposure to the original Voodoo by a new generation has resulted in overwhelming demand for more. After a unanimously enthusiastic response to a live performance in 2005, Mr. Drasnin was delighted at the opportunity to go back into the studio to create a follow-up to his singular masterpiece, almost five decades later.
Although the record will be released by Dionysus Records in Spring of 2007, the recording is being paid for out of Mr. Drasnin's own pocket.
For full information, please see either
http://www.robertdrasnin.com/voodoo2.html
or http://www.myspace.com/drasnin
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 ◦
Raymond Scott was born in 1908, and we'll celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2008. Raymondscott.com plans to honor this pioneering musician, composer, inventor, and visionary in a multi-media way.
At least two CD releases are planned in celebration of the centennial. The first (set for release mid-2007) will be a selection of Raymond Scott Quintette recordings from the late-1940s, featuring innovative compositions and arrangements that futurize the style of Scott's legendary '30s Quintette. This compilation of long-out-of-print and unreleased RSQ recordings will take you on vacation to a "Street Corner in Paris," enchant you with an exotic "Snake Woman," mystify you with "Ectoplasm," and present a "Dedicatory Piece to the Crew and Passengers of the First Experimental Rocket Express to the Moon."
The second CD release will be an anthology of Raymond Scott's pioneering electronic music -- the long-awaited follow-up to the Manhattan Research Inc. CD & book set -- featuring vintage futuristic sounds created and performed by Scott on instruments he invented.
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Monday, January 01, 2007 ◦
After 3 years the 365 Days Project returns for another year of sharing:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/365_days_project/
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