Wednesday, April 13th
passings
Getatchew Mekurya, saxophonist, March 14, 1935-April 4, 2016
Live with The Ex (music begins at 2:25), Netherlands (Nijmegen), 2011
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2016
Tuesday, April 12th
sounds of Syria
Omar Souleyman, “Bahdeni Nami” (prod. by Four Tet), 2015
2016
Monday, April 11th
bfwot*
DJ/rupture (turntables) & Andy Moor (guitar, photos), “Hot Pink Version,” France (Orleans), 2007
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*big fuckin’ world out there
2016
Wednesday, April 6th
sounds of New York
Oliver Lake and the FLUX String Quartet, live, New York, 2014
2016
Tuesday, April 5th
sounds of New York
The 12 Houses, live, New York, 3/6/16
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lagniappe
reading table
The process is fearless.
2016
Thursday, March 31st
Something to wash over you.
John Luther Adams (1953-), The Light Within (2007); New Music Detroit, live, Detroit, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
spring rain—
the uneaten ducks
are quacking—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2016
Saturday, March 26th
otherworldly
Iancu Dumitrescu (1944-), Infinity for bass clarinet and ensemble, Hyperion Ensemble (feat. Tim Hodgkinson, clarinets), live, Bucharest, 2009
#1
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#2
I love watching this guy conduct.
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh, Parisian Novels, 1887 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)
2016
Wednesday, March 23rd
More cello.
Marcos Balter (1974-), Memoria (2007); Katinka Kleijn, live, Brazil (Manaus), 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
. . . and the mystery itself is the gateway to perception.
—Lao Tzu (c. 5th cent. B.C.), Tao Te Ching, translated from Chinese by Sam Hamill
2016
Tuesday, March 22nd
More cello.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977-), Transitions (2014); Michael Nicolas, live, Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
Let Emily sing for you because she cannot pray . . .
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to cousins Louis and Frances Norcross (on the death of their father), 1863
2016
Saturday, March 19th
like nobody else
Cecil Taylor Unit (CT, piano, vocal, percussion; Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone, percussion; William Parker, bass, percussion; Rashid Bakr, percussion; Andre Martinez, percussion; Brenda Bakr, vocal) with dancers (Doretha Davidson, Leon Brown, Ron McKay, Pauline Zaguhei), live, Germany (Berlin), 1983
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