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Julian Priester - Love, Love (for the kozmigroov tip) relistened to this yesterday, it is a great record, and the other one on ECM also good talking of post-Milesian action, on and off ECM, I was surprised to discover recently that Santana's Lotus - a live double album, yikes - is actually...

oh yeah i think i've read about ambient artists doing that with trees and plants

Apparently bass clarinets and mushrooms are also involved (don't know if that means mushrooms in the John Cage mycologist sense or mushrooms in the shrooms / Terence McKenna sense) Described as "biological techno" in another article

Like throwing an antelope to a pack of hyenas, one hopes

Bjork releases gabber album https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/19/i-got-really-grounded-and-loved-it-how-grief-going-home-and-gabber-built-bjorks-new-album calling Thirdform to the thread...

Re: ECM - the original tracks. Actually it's here in Tidal (which I think you can listen to without subscribing now, just have to put up with ad breaks) https://listen.tidal.com/playlist/db87bf3a-8fe4-4043-8f21-c8f71fa7f703 it's the tracks but also sometimes the whole album by the remixed...

cf Nils whatshisname and the remix albums a far better convergence of electronic music and ECM, albeit in this case coming from the opposite direction is Re: ECM - Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer approach the label's work with tender reverence I once tried to listen to all the original...

I think he did a few for ECM, Bill Frisell - In Line has this sort of keening, sustain-heavy guitar sound, a thin spidery shimmery sort of sound, perhaps related to certain things Fripp developed, or that Michael Brook chap who does "infinite guitar". I must say though that everything else I've...

Clean forgot about the obvious convergence of ECM-world and Dissensus-world: Nils Petter Molvær. He did at least two albums that combined Scando-jazz mist-rising-over-fjord-at-dawn type biz with - no really! - drum & bass rhythms: Khmer and Solid Ether There's also (groan) an album of...

I will give this a read in the hopes that it can elucidate my vague feeling that what is good about ECM (the exquisiteness, the pensive subtlety) is also what is bad about ECM (or at least it gets irritating after prolonged exposure)

The other ones I seem to remember liking. Frisell - In Line (well I know I like this one, I played it the other day.) Jon Hassell - Power Spot Bill Connors - Theme to the Guardian Bennie Maupin - the Jewel in the Lotus (getting fainter the memory of liking here) Azimuth Norma Winstone David...

I seem to remember liking Mountainscapes by him. And it has a nice cover. I also like the name "Barre Phillips".

This is the equal-first ECM - "Parable" off John Abercrombie's Characters

I discovered the flaw in my plan which is that ECM on Youtube is Premium Members only. So then I thought I would create a video of my absolute favorite tune and list it as Private. On Youtube it says 'blocked'. However the link is in fact displaying on my screen through Dissensus - I don't know...

One figure in particular I can never get into is Keith Jarrett, so for an amuse bouche, here's something I came across at one of those websites that purport to know the personal wealth of stars and performers. This really tickled me, the unabashed made-upness of it: "The American pianist has...

I thought I was a fan of ECM but - having just done a deep dive - I realised there's really only a few things I flat-out adore.... some other stuff I like.... and a vastly larger expanse of leaves-me-cold. The adores to follow shortly But anyone here a fan of Manfred Eicher Sound? Got any tips?

Probably a shrewd move, for a second act of a career. There's a kind of ascendancy you can achieve through discourse and chatter. where your releases are Events. And then there's then popularity in the sense of being played a lot and people getting casual use-value out of your music. Sometimes...

An interesting thing about Beyonce I picked up reading one of these impossibly dreary and virtuous pieces on this new record - and it's something I sort of knew just through noticing that you never heard her songs on the radio, like, maybe once in a blue moon you'll hear something, but...

No, and - at the risk of belaboring the point already made - this idea that more generally pop music is lacking in danceabilty and fun and sex, and Beyonce was needed to remind everybody of the joys of embodiment, seems bizarre. Isn't that what the radioscape is routinely composed of anyway...

"Beyonce wants to do a record that's just fun and not a serious statement. Great! Let's write 4 thousand words of schoolmarmy drear explaining how significant this is"