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Lords of The Lounging Around

Warne Marsh

Reissued a few times on the wonder Swiss label Hatology,part of Hat Hut  Records ( also known as Hat (art) Now etc)
os this classic 1969 outing.

Warne Marsh - Ne Plus Ultra (Full)

A1 You Stepped Out Of A Dream 00:00
A2 Lennie's Pennies 9:05
A3 317 East 32nd Street 13:29
B1 Subconscious-Lee 21:45
B2 Touch And Go 29:05

Tenor Saxophone – Warne Marsh
Alto Saxophone – Gary Foster
Bass – Dave Parlato
Drums – John Tirabasso

A Digression into Hat Art

More Swiss label magic -

Silvan Schmid Quintet - At Gamut

Morton Feldman - Trio part 4

Vienna Art Orchestra - H.M. Blues

Maarten Altena Octet - Remix

Polwechsel - Südwest

Enjoy the music from Hat Hut,Hatology ,Hat (Art) Now.


Joe McPhee talks about the label -

Numbers

I love the music of Morton Feldman and his slow unfolding music that can stretch over very long periods of time. Here is a much shorter one from the double CD by James Tenney called Forms 1- 4. (Hat(Now)Art CD)

Morton Feldman - Numbers

Cage,Wolpe & Tenney

More modern classical stuff -

Stefan Wolpe: Piece for Trumpet and 7 Instruments (1971)

John Cage: Seven (1988)

John Cage (1912-1992): Seven, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and violoncello (1988).

Ives Ensemble.

"Seven" consists of twenty time-brackets, nineteen of which are flexible (with respect to beginning and ending) and one of them fixed. The fixed time brackets are different ones for each part.
The duration of all time-brackets is the same, with one exception in each part. The numbers of sounds in a time-bracket are different: one in the parts for flute, clarinet and percussion, between one to three for the violin, viola and cello parts and between three to five (per staff) in the piano part.
The sounds for the percussion part are chosen by the performer. In the percussion part, the notation uses numbers, indicating which instrument to play.

James Tenney - Form 4 (In Memoriam Morton Feldman) (1993)

Utterly sublime music by this underrated composer.

Enjoy

Early tape Manipulation To Plunderphonics

Early tape and analogue pieces - plunderphonics and collages -

James Tenney - Analog #1 (Noise Study)

James Tenney - Collage #2 (Viet Flakes) (1966)

The Residents - The Beatles Play The Residents & The Residents Play The Beatles

John Oswald - Pretender

This one has some bad language, so apologies in advance.

Negativeland - U2

enjoy

Mind Stretchers

I have been reading very heavily of late having devoured a philosophy book on Doctor Who, and now some more weighty stuff. Tomes that are thought-provoking and difficult or obtuse occasionally. These are -

Slavoj Zizek "Trouble In Paradise"
Theodor Adorno "Aesthetic Theory"
Christopher Cox "Audio Culture: Readings In Modern Music"

But I love it,. Grappling my mind and exercising it.

Just Wondering

Anyone seeing Christmas decorations still up?

Do you like bugs?

What is your favourite clothing brand?

Good Night