Seattle Earshot festival is approaching and I'm giddy about it. I'm especially looking forward to the Hemingway 4 with Eskelin and Herb Robertson, not to mention Otomo Yoshihide next Friday at Polestar (if I'm not traveling). The town is pretty down about the loss of Don Lanphere, a local treasure on many counts. The festival should dry some eyes with its more-eclectic-than-normal lineup.
But this town needs Taku Sugimoto. More adventure, less dog paddling in terms of visiting artists. But we're getting there. I'll be attending a contact mic workshop this Sunday. What does the world yet know about Monktail?
Looking tremendously forward to the Amplify box, particularly the DVD.
Posted by al on October 15, 2003 6:54 AMAl, make sure you catch as much stuff as possible & slap write-ups of what you hear/see on the Bags billboard. Pickings have been paltry in the Twin Cities the last week or so & I need me some vicarious thrills.
And while I don’t have much interest in the content of the AMPLIFY box, I do have to admire the obvious work & love that went into it. From the description on the Erstwhile site it looks like a beautifully put together package- musically exhaustive & tangibly pleasing. Mad props to Jon!
Don Lanphere RIP- all I have are his early Prestige sides on a comp, but even then the man could blow.
Otomo's here on the 30th, solo and duo with Martin Tétreault, I'm looking forward to that. is he playing solo in Seattle?
thanks for the kind words about the AMPLIFY box, people seem very excited about it, lots of preorders. I think (hope) it's going to sell out fairly quickly.
"musically exhaustive" is the wrong phrase for it, though; it's been carefully culled, sequenced and ordered to maximize its playability (individual discs and overall) as opposed to most box sets that you play once through and then just gather dust. now, "musically exhausting", if you played all seven hours-plus consecutively (which I've done a few times), that I could certainly see.
Posted by: Jon Abbey at October 15, 2003 8:57 AMsequenced and ordered meaning the same thing, of course. I wish you could edit posts here...
Posted by: Jon Abbey at October 15, 2003 9:26 AM"a contact mic workshop"
Can there be such a thing as a contact mic masterclass?
Posted by: mke at October 16, 2003 11:18 AMI should get a certificate saying "Micro Journeyman" or "Minimalist Apprencice".
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