Friday, July 13th
only rock ‘n’ roll
The Ex, “Soon All Cities,” 2018
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Each moment is an open door.
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2016
Saturday, June 11th
There’s Amsterdam.
There’s Ethiopia.
And there’s Amsterdam in Ethiopia.
The Ex & Han Bennink (drums), Ethiopia, 2002
2016
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
2016
Friday, April 1st
only rock ‘n’ roll
Building a Broken Mousetrap (2006), concert film of The Ex
2015
Friday, May 1st
only rock ‘n’ roll
The Ex, “That’s Not a Virus,” live, France (Annecy), 2015
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art beat
William Klein (1928-), 4 Heads, New York, 1955
2014
Friday, October 31st
only rock ‘n’ roll
The Ex, “Every Sixth Is Cracked,” live (studio performance), Netherlands, 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Dance in Brooklyn, New York, 1955
2014
Friday, May 9th
only rock ’n’ roll
The Ex & Brass Unbound,* “Cold Weather Is Back,” live, London, 2010
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Christopher Wool (1955-)
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*Roy Paci (trumpet), Wolkter Wierbos (trombone), Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Mats Gustaffson (baritone saxophone).
2014
Friday, February 21st
only rock ’n’ roll
The Ex, “Double Order,” France (Orleans), 2013
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lagniappe
found words
From the Chicago Reader music section (2/20/14):
. . . hails from the same quasi-grimestep/post-IDM interzone that’s home to artists as disparate as . . .
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This Liverpool trio plays what it calls ‘caveman doom’ . . .
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. . . retrofuturist murder ballad . . .
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. . . works the same territory that grindcore and sludge bands cleared in the 90s.
2012
Friday, 10/19/12
only rock ’n’ roll
The Ex & Brass Unbound,* live, Dublin, 2010
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lagniappe
last night
He read at the Art Institute of Chicago, where I sat rapt and happy.
Seamus Heaney, “Postscript,” Dublin, 2011
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*Mats Gustafsson (baritone saxophone), Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone), Wolter Wierbos (trombone), Roy Paci (trumpet).
2012
Thursday, 8/16/12
more sounds from Ethiopia
Getatchew Mekurya (tenor saxophone) with The Ex, live, Ethiopia (Hager Fikir Theater, Addis Ababa), 2007
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