Archive for the ‘improvisation’ Category


The next batch of Calcinatio tapes are now available from Masters Chemical Society.


My “Monsters of Azeri Guitar” post has seen a lot of action & I’ve long been meaning to do a follow-up. First up, some bizarre cross-cultural jammage from Azeri television: Ramish jams with DJ China on Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E”. (thanks to Repot Geranium for the link) Intizar Flamenco shows his chops on Yeg Keremi.  [...]


For me every performance is a ritual. I try at the beginning of the day to get myself in the right timeslip, if that makes any sense, where coincidence starts to happen as I’m cooking breakfast and things like that. Read the interview here.


This Saturday (8/7/2010) live at The Josephine (Seattle): Quasi Mojo improv from Wally Shoup, Bill Horist & Mark Ostrowski Tertium Quid improv from Daniel Burke, Bill Horist & Dave Abramson Mood Organ


Matar Muhammad was one of the greatest players of the buzuq.  He was born in Lebanon in 1939 and passed away in 1995.  By all accounts, he was underappreciated and broke during most of his lifetime.  I haven’t been able to locate many of his recordings, but there is this 1996 CD : Get it [...]


Thursday, 6/3/2010 @ The Josephine, Seattle Simon(TM) – CD release!  sax & electronics from monster improviser and member of Diminished Men Mood Organ – only scheduled Seattle show for 2010!  new material from the depths of the Calcinatio project UPDATE 8/7/2010: 10 Spades Matt Shoemaker – one of Seattle’s finest!  first Seattle performance since “Wayward [...]


April update

26Apr10

It’s been a busy month+ so I wanted to take a minute to post a few quick updates on my activities: The first batch of Mood Organ “Calcinatio” cassettes are available from Dissonant Plane in Ballard, Seattle.  I’m making one 13-minute cassette of new material each week this year.  Supplies are extremely limited (editions of [...]


Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman ESG – You’re No Good Liquid Liquid – Optimo Wire – The 15th Broadcast – Lights Out Harvey Milk – Death Goes to the Winner Bo Weavil Jackson – Fight On, Your Time Ain’t Long Oval – Commers B2 Ken Nordine – Flibberty Jib Goblin – Mad Puppet (excerpt) Maxayn [...]


Broadcast in 1992, On The Edge was a 4-part miniseries about improvisational music in all of its forms. Written by iconoclastic improv guitarist Derek Bailey and based on his seminal book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music, the program admirably includes everything from traditional Korean music to French Catholic liturgical organ performance to downtown [...]



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