Woebot
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Yay! Let's have an Indo Jazz thread.
I'm doing a sleeve dump of some of the things I've picked up recently soon.
It's an amazingly fecund quarter actually. Think about the things it has inspired:
Minimalism:
La Monte Young. La Monte is simply an aestheticised stripped-back Alice Coltrane.
Phillip Glass. Likewise Phil's early stuff just extends the logic of Emil Richards and Bill Plummer's records.
Avant Disco:
Arthur Russell. Taught by Ali Akbar Khan. Those discs are (imho) just a orientalised/minimalised (see above) version of disco.
etc etc
Anyway my key thought is that in creating an "impossible" music (I mean it's a totally meaningless creation isn't it?) artists effectively stretched their concepts about what was feasible in music.
Perhaps it'd be good for people to today to work on more bizarre generic concoctions just to see what was thrown up. Like I dunno, Chinese House?
I'm doing a sleeve dump of some of the things I've picked up recently soon.
It's an amazingly fecund quarter actually. Think about the things it has inspired:
Minimalism:
La Monte Young. La Monte is simply an aestheticised stripped-back Alice Coltrane.
Phillip Glass. Likewise Phil's early stuff just extends the logic of Emil Richards and Bill Plummer's records.
Avant Disco:
Arthur Russell. Taught by Ali Akbar Khan. Those discs are (imho) just a orientalised/minimalised (see above) version of disco.
etc etc
Anyway my key thought is that in creating an "impossible" music (I mean it's a totally meaningless creation isn't it?) artists effectively stretched their concepts about what was feasible in music.
Perhaps it'd be good for people to today to work on more bizarre generic concoctions just to see what was thrown up. Like I dunno, Chinese House?
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