2nd edition of Cottage Industry, my newsletter highlighting small press experimental music labels, just dropped on Substack. Today I delved into the weird and wonderful world of 29 Speedway, a label and performance series founded by Ben Shirken (Ex Wiish, Beshken, Nu Jazz). Read it here:
Cecil Taylor - Piano
Sunny Murray - Drums
Henry Grimes - Bass
Jimmy Lyons - Saxophone
Any examples of artists who are so idiosyncratic in their greatness that you don’t listen to them as much as you should because it makes everything else pale in comparison? Think I read a Jim O’Rourke interview once where he described Luc Ferrari along those lines.
Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor all being born in 1926 is the avant-garde equivalent of Clinton, Dubya and Trump all being born in 1946.
Harry Styles recreates his favorite movie The Shout
New edition of The Wire includes my coverage of the Company 2025 event at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social , two beautiful nights of improvisation in tribute to Derek Bailey and Company week. Give it a read.
First thing i thought of
One of my favorite folkways albums to boot
Off the top of my head
our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor
Playing an improvised music gig on 3/8 that is highlighted in the local experimental music roundup by Levi D. "The boyz" and I will be laying down some laminal sounds at Constellation using amplified trumpet, wooden flute, clarinet, and sine waves.
