quoted 2 lines Is Panthalassa (Bill Laswell getting
>> Is Panthalassa (Bill Laswell getting
>> jiggy with Miles Davis) any good?
Errrrrr
I possess something like 70 cds and cdr bootlegs of Miles' electric bands
between '69 and '75, one of my two year old son's middle names is Miles, and
I'm just reading 'Miles Beyond' a new book which for the first time
addresses this music properly and its author thinks Panthalassa is on the
whole a good thing.
Me, I borrowed it from the local library, gave it a couple of listens and
couldn't stand it - felt all the spontaneity and rawness had been drained
from Miles' music. You might love it though - if you're not acquainted with
this music it might be a decent starting point though I'd probably recommend
you pick up the remastered Bitches Brew instead - if you're coming from IDM
I'd recommend purchasing Herbie Mwandishi Hancock's 'Sextant' [1973] for a
yet to be addressed/surpassed combination of electronics and live improvised
playing... to learn more go to:
http://www.magma.ca/~dwatson/Kozmigroov2.html
I copied the intro page at the bottom of this email.
if you already know this stuff - my apologies.
BTW I do like early Laswell (Material, Last Exit, etc) - so I named my first
cat after him - weirdly enough Laswell, as he's grown older, has more and
more got Bill Laswell's facial expression (the one he always wears in
photographs) - sorta moody, sullen, overly serious...
All the best,
Colin.
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Kozmigroov* is a transgressive improvisational music which combines elements
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Kozmigroov is both expansive and highly rhythmic, and simultaneously finds
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Indicators span
* from the intergalactic electronic offerings of Sun Ra (arguably, the
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* to the cosmic funk of Herbie Hancock, The Headhunters, Lonnie Liston
Smith, and Charles Earland
* to the European progressive refractions captured on the MPS and ECM
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* to the Asian amalgams of Terumasa Hino, Masabumi Kikuchi and Shunzo
Ohno
* to the pan-global fusions explored by Don Cherry, Jon Hassell and
Charlie Mariano
* to the jagged free funk of Ornette Coleman's original Prime Time and
its harmolodic alumni (Ronald Shannon Jackson, James Blood Ulmer)
* to a host of recent Nu-Jazz revisionary sides from Erik Truffaz
Quartet, Kirk DeGiorgio's As One and Off-World Ensemble projects, The
Cinematic Orchestra, and Frederic Galliano's Electronic Sextet
This site is dedicated to all of the above, in addition to the seemingly
endless list of other musicians whose music resides either within or across
these nominal categories. Regardless of whether it's realistic to
circumscribe such diverse elements, there remains a common aesthetic at work
here. Kozmigroov can be said to represent a crossbreed which arises through
the breakdown of artistic boundaries and biases, a hybrid which embraces
other influences and new technologies, all the while maintaining a sense of
connection to the original spirit of the music.
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