We’ve all heard strings improvising before but we can always be surprised when it seems again totally new. That doesn’t happen too often, it is true. If duets are the […]

Trunpet, alto, double bass and drums. The sign of modern jazz but as a reference (considering Ornette Coleman’s original quartet and later various bands such as the Paul Motian quartet […]

I’m extremely thankfull to misses and mister Sony for sending me a copy of that best-of-the-best Annie Lenox and Dave Stewart works. Like probably many of us here I’ve never […]

Anything and everything for the Blues. »My heart to daddy« in this case. You’ll never see me saying a single bad word on an artist of the size of BB […]

How many MTV unplugged records do we keep at home? At the end I can’t really count much more than three: Nirvana, Bob Dylan and the bootleg copy of Björk […]

Since some year already I sort of prophetise the »Return of Fusion music and Jazz-Rock« But it didn’t come down on us yet. As I was opening my views to […]

It became so seldom that the classical music marketing and industry finds in one same artist (and person?), a good product as much as an original talent (and I’m volontary […]

»Musikalische Improvisationen im Reaktor« is what you should know first. A beautiful sound full of natural reverb, real nice tones and players obviously for a sort of »end of the […]

While many music critics are trying to announce the fall and death of electronic music (against a return to guitar music or rock bands), we still get loads of products […]

Includes the hits »Trapped in the closet (Chapters 1-5)« seems important enough here to be sticked on this new release. It doesnt probably have any relation at all with the […]

Gold showers on Verve as well. LESTER YOUNG wit OSCAR PETERSON TRIO is the compiled original double 10“ plus a crazy track (# 13!) where Lester sings himself (or let’s say hums better). Barney Kessel on Guitar (his best years) and what will you do if Ray Brown wasn’t on bass? Following is: Oscar Peterson…

Cultural Noise: Noise as a Musical Metaphor for Contemporary Aesthetics in Popular Culture

Heinrich Deisl

Lecture text presented at the Conference »Fourth Biennial Conference on Twentieth-century Music«, University Sussex, Dept. of Music, August 2005

Sonic injections to the braincells about deviant musics by the London-based writer and critic Alexei Monroe, best known for his books about Laibach/NSK.

In 1989, on their way to Ponto-Corvo, the radical advertists group Didi&Noël, driving a car at 6:34 AM, were arrested by the C.I.W. To this present day we still don’t really know the motivations of their trip, but it’s been said a secret meeting involving Che Guevara, Karl Lagerfeld and Carlos was to take place there. After about six years of research, the music critic from »Die Zeitung-Zeitung« (who wishes to remain anonymous) has hijacked some of their daily correspondence. A book shall be published next year which is temporarily entitled »Your Fuckin Kampf, Not Mein!« – Good Luck.

»So what are you looking for exactly, something easy, some new stuff?«, says the salesman to our client, lost in between two freshly arrived piles of the new »Groove or […]

Here comes the times of a difficult exercise. I started to listen to these three albums altogether, I mean switching tracks like: # 7 of this followed by # 1 […]

First of all let me take this opportunity to tell the label one thing: Why,with such great compilations of fantastic or special tracks, do we need to get such an […]

Somewhere I have a tape of Gulda and Cecil Taylor as a duet. I wonder if that got on a record. Cecil Taylor like Derek has this precious thing in […]

After a day of reviews it can happen that you just want to switch on the TV and watch EuroSport-channel, in search for some people actually DOING something as opposed […]

I can’t help, it’s so obvious that until I’ve done it for good I’ll have it in mind turning so here is that stupid joke: the thing with THE THING […]

Yes Ringo, well done again. Choose Love is his forever new album, the one before the next one, and most of the time the previous one we all sort of […]

Zawinul live at Zawinul’s. His syndicate being since over 30 years and even before it was called such, the golden school of world musicians and other undiscovered talents from Africa. […]

Talking Revival? Dig swing and Broadway Repertoire? Like Guitar á la good old daddy striking the strings up and down? Here you are, her Majesty is served twice. Pizzarelli Junior […]

Stamped on the CD itself, but twice as big as the credits of the album is a little warning: »FBI anti-piracy warning statement«. A sign of the times? Beware of […]

Produced and Mixed by Pop Chubby says the orange flashy sticker on the cover. What is not said is that Camilleri is a R&B, Blues guitar player and Vocalist from […]

Rare and Indus grooves in sampled and electronic music. Not much really to say here as the general feeling is rather functional and atmosphere music. It often happens that in […]

Listening to nowadays film soundtracks can often makes you go back to yesterday’s ones also. Not that there’s been so much progress in the function of music in films or […]

Kane sings for the girls though you can’t precisely say it’s a boys band. It’s just a trio taking a walk on the sea-side and then flying a B-52 back […]

Why would I review these three albums altogether? Because I felt pretty quickly, while playing these, that one comment on the first would apply even better to the next album […]

I’ve thought of a dozen ways to open this review but the best one is for me to shut up and listen to the fantastic opening of this double album […]