Right - sorry. I was thinking about the Blue Series, part of Thirsty Ear.
This MBM record is pretty cool, thanks for the tip.
Is the Bad Plus worth checking out? I have an unfavorable impression of
them that's probably unfair. I thought their Aphex Twin and Nirvana covers
were corny.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Alan Lucas <alucas@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 43 lines Yeah, Meat Beat Manifesto's "At The Center" was part of Thirsty Ear's
> Yeah, Meat Beat Manifesto's "At The Center" was part of Thirsty Ear's Blue
> Series, and features Taborn on keys, Dave King (of The Bad Plus) on drums,
> and Thirsty Ear owner Peter Gordon on Flute. Really good album, well worth
> checking out. When I first heard this back in '05, a friend of mine was
> talking about how great Taborn was, but I never realized until five minutes
> ago that it was King on the drums. Talk about being ignorant about things!
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd listened to a record with him and Tim Berne after seeing he had a
>> credit on the Innerzone Orchestra album - the Tim Berne duo (or trio -
>> can't remember) wasn't particularly electronic but was very nice, lyrical
>> free jazz. Taborn is obviously an extremely gifted player.
>> That NYT piece was really good and it also lead me to Junk Magic, which
>> exceeded my expectations. Hyper-intelligent is right - really rewarding
>> harmonically and the electronics programming was adventerous. I'd like to
>> check out more of the Thirsty Ear series - seems like this sort of
>> idm/dance/jazz/hip hop fusion stuff got a push with some interesting people
>> involved like El-P, Spring Heel Jack, Matthew Shipp etc.
>> There's a lot of good jazz related music coming out with electronics, but
>> more on an "experimental" tip by way of musique concrete/EAI and not
>> rhythmic programming/dance related. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't think of
>> anyone doing that right now...
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I always feel ignorant when I discover music that I should have known
>>> about for years. Craig Taborn is a jazz pianist who rated a long piece in
>>> the New York Times last week (link below) and it turns out he is a longtime
>>> synthesizer lover, and he made an album 11 years ago (!) called "Junk
>>> Magic" which is nothing if not hyper-intelligent dance music.
>>>
>>> https://open.spotify.com/album/6YFRoF4ZfN8P93Oj5AAWUS
>>>
>>> The Times article:
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/magazine/the-ethereal-gen
>>> ius-of-craig-taborn.html
>>>
>>
>>
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