David Liebman & Richie Beirach – Unspoken
Richard Beirach – Elm
Richard Beirach – Trust
Richard Beirach – Live at Maybeck Recital Hall
Steve Kuhn – Wisteria
Steve Khun – Promises Kept
The Complete Blue Note Elvin Jones Sessions, Mosaic
Chick Corea – Trilogy
Chris Potter – Imaginary Cities
Tyshawn Sorey – Oblique-1
Anouar Brahem – Thimar
AMM – Laminal
Sun Ra – the Antique Blacks
Sun Ra – Space Probe
Sun Ra – Sub Underground
Yes – In The Present – Live from Lyon
Magma – Magma (Kobaia)
Daniel Lanois – Trip
Yes – Big Generator
Keith Jarrett, Handel – Suites for Keyboard
Terry Riley and Zeigeist – Intuitive Leaps
Idil Biret, Pierre Boulez – Piano Sonatas
Chick Corea & Hiromi – Duet
John Stowell and David Liebman – Blue Rose
Henry Threadgill – Everybodys Mouth’s a Book
Thelonious Monk – It’s Monk’s Time
Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Himself
Thelonious Monk – Monk Alone
Heinz Hollinger, JS Bach – the Trio Sonatas, bwv 525-530
Angela Hewitt – Ravel, the complete piano music
Angela Hewett – Gabriel Faure, piano music
Kyle Gann – Custer’s Ghosts
Tomita – the Ravel Album
King Crimson – Live at the Orpheum
Yes – the Word is Live
A film by Paul Ridout featuring the music ‘Slow Motion Blackbird’ taken from the album ‘Shift’ by Chris Hughes and produced by Chris Hughes & Paul Ridout.
In September 1967 Steve Reich wrote the score for ‘Slow Motion Sound’:-
“Very gradually slow down a recorded sound to many times its original length without changing its pitch or timbre at all”. He later remarked (1974) that it had remained a concept on paper because it was technologically impossible to realise.
By 1994 the technology had evolved thus allowing Chris and I to add this piece, along with Pendulum Music, to the collection that is ‘Shift’.
Reich’s intention had been to use a recording of children learning by rote. We referenced that with our recording of a violinist learning a blackbird’s song. The original violin phrase which doubles the blackbird’s song was played by Stuart Gordon, but, to this day the blackbird remains anonymous.
Captain Beefheart in 1983. Photo: Deborah Feingold/Corbis
Tom’s poem for Captain Beefheart
NOW DON IS LIKE THE BONES IN A WATERMELON
OR THE SEEDS IN A FISH AND YOU CAN SEE HIM
THROUGH THE BLUE SMOKE OF A TRAMPS FIRE
IS HE STILL IN 1129 AT THE DAVENPORT HOTEL
IN SILO, MISSOURI? NO…YOU SEE MY FRIEND YOU
WILL NOT FIND HIM THERE. HE CAME FROM THE CLAY
AND HE HAS GONE BACK…LIKE RATS, LIKE RAVENS
ROOKS, AND COAL BLACK ROSES…SHARKS, SHADOWS,
SHOES AND SHEEP. HE IS NOW LIKE THE PLACE ON
THE COUNTER, WORN AWAY FROM YEARS OF MAKING CHANGE.
HE IS NOW A SIREN IN THE NEXT TOWN OVER…ONLY HIS
TAIL IS STICKING OUT OF THE GROUND.
DON, HE WAS A GIANT AND HE WALKED AMONG US ON THIS
EARTH, NOW LONG GONE…
HE HAS GONE BACK INTO THE FROGS CROAKING THROAT…
LISTEN, IN THE DESERT THERE IS A FORK STUCK IN A TREE…
PUT YOUR EAR UP TO IT AND THUMP IT, BOW IT, SWALLOW THE
SOUND AND THEN GROW IT…
DON SEEMS TO BE TELLING US ALL…DO NOT FOLLOW HIM
JUST TAKE WHAT CLUES HE LEFT AND WITH THEM,
GO AND BUILD A STRANGE HOUSE OF YOUR OWN
-TOM WAITS
David Liebman & Richie Beirach – Unspoken
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