Friday, July 28th, 2006 ... 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ... KZSU, 90.1 FM

Format:
ARTIST -- "TRACK TITLE" -- ALBUM TITLE (LABEL, YEAR)

King Crimson -- "Vrooom"/"Marine 475" -- Thrak (Discipline Global Mobile, 1995)

* Louie Belogenis, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Kenny Wolleson -- "Rashied" -- Unbroken (Tick Tock, 2005)

* John Voigt, Mike Khoury, Ben Hall -- [untitled track 5] -- Horizon (BrokenResearch, 2006)

Previously noted here.

* Collectif Inaudible -- "Festina Lente" -- Cardo (Emanem, 2006)

A shimmering gray of a piece, with breathy atonal flute, acoustic guitar, and percussion.

* Eri Yamamoto -- "Takeda No Komoriuta" -- Coablt Blue (Thirsty Ear, 2006)

Noted here.

Duets of mostly bowed bass (Silva) and various woodwinds, especially bass clarinet (Thomas). This one's got a darker, cooler feel that most of the others, although a restrained pace permates the session. Nicely blazing free-jazz with a cold-fire feel from Thomas, who's also part of the local trio Positive Knowledge.

* Cory Combs Trio -- "Heavy" -- Valencia (Evander, 2006)

* Actis Band -- "Sentiero Del Re" -- Allende (Leo Records, 2006)

* Grismore/Scea Group -- "Cletus N'gugu" -- Well Behaved Fish (Accurate, 2006)

* Steuart Liebig/The Mentones -- "Manchild Hustle" -- Nowhere Calling (pfMentum, 2006)

*! Sparks -- "There's No Such Thing As Aliens" -- Hello Young Lovers (In the Red, 2006)

* Gutbucket -- "Disciplining the Fugitive" -- Sludge Test (Cantaloupe, 2006)

# Tom Nunn -- "Streaming" [all]/"Explorentials" [excerpt] -- Burning Palms (Garuda, 2000)

Nunn playing the Octatonic T-Rodimba, a metallic instrument that can be played like a xylophone for cool tuned-percussion sounds ("Streaming") or bowed/tweaked/amplified to produce echoey metallic sounds ("Explorentials"). Cool stuff, and probably fun to watch live. Nunn will be one of about a half-dozen artists performing tonight for "Sonic Foundry," an evening of musicians on invented instruments, as part of the Edgetone Music Summit.

# Hans Fjellstad, Peter Kowald, Dana Reason, Jason Robinson -- "Manifold Runners" -- Dual Resonance (Circumvention, 2003)

# Comologic -- "Axis" -- Syntaxis (Circumvention, 2002)

# The Abstractions -- "Outfuck" -- Sonic Conspiracy (Edgetone, 2002)
# The Abstractions -- "Telephone - Long Distance" -- Sonic Conspiracy (Edgetone, 2002)

Tossing out a sample of what the Edgetone label (the folks responsible for the Edgetone summit) is like. "Outfuck" is a 36-second attack reminiscent of John Zorn's Naked City: punk, metal, and pit-bull jazz. "Telephone" is a cooler sound, fast sax/vibes in a free jazz context and much less of the crazy sonic experimentation that goes with the rest of the album.

I'd intended to play a longer and weirder track, "Dinner with Blue Dragon @ Extending Claw Cafe," for the second part. Turns out I've done that trick before, though, playing "Outfuck" then "Dinner." Granted, it was three years ago, but still -- I've repeated transitions too many times in the past and figured I shouldn't do it here.

Noted here.

One of the more adventurous tracks on the CD, still carrying a sound friendly to mainstream jazz fans but with a nicely fluttering, fast sax solo form Rick Mandyck and a great sense of freedom.

* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop anomaly
? = Item not in KZSU library

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