[NewMusic] Lehn/Robair tour vids online

[Phillip Greenlief]

Ditto - YellowCake was shudder's favorite disc to listen to in the car
on our 2006 east coast tour.

Phillip Greenlief
c/o Evander Music
PO Box 22158 Oakland, CA
94623-9991
www.evandermusic.com

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From: newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu
[mailto:newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu] On Behalf Of Damon Smith
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:09 PM
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Lehn/Robair tour vids online

It is a great cd.

Damon

On Apr 10, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Kristian Aspelin wrote:

> In case others are interested, here is the Wire review to which Damon 
> refers:
>
>
>   Jacob Lindsay/Scott R Looney/Gino Robair
>   Yellowcake
>   Rastascan CD
>
>   The title alludes to uranium concentrates and their political 
> ramifications, such as the waging of disastrous war.  The music is 
> tense with texturally alert improvising.  Lindsay uses a range of 
> clarinets and Looney plays mainly electronically processed percussion,

> while Robair is once again credited with "energised surfaces" and 
> "voltage made audible."  In practice Robair deploys bows, rubbers 
> balls, motors and rosined sticks to sound metal and drums, and assigns

> a hi-hat function to a modular analogue synth, "a playground for 
> electrons", as he describes it.  30 years ago percussionists Paul 
> Lovens and Paul Lytton made a record entitled Was It Me?.  It's a 
> question that might frequently arise here, as the distinct members of 
> the trio meet and merge.  The timbre of the reeds blends with 
> electronics, while electronics and percussion also find common ground.

>  The outcome is far from homogenous:  there's plenty of excitement in 
> the interaction of the voices, the cut and
>  thrust of their separateness as well as their convergence.  Keith 
> Rowe is credited as main influence - not least, perhaps, for the cover

> design.  However, the lineage this music suggests to me is Lytton with

> Lovens or with Evan Parker, and that's a strong recommendation in 
> itself.
>
>
> Damon Smith <damon at balancepointacoustics.com> wrote:
>   Great trio. I wouldn't mind hearing a little more of this kind of 
> thing
> out of you on the home front. Congratulations on the Yellowcake Wire
> review too.
>
> Damon
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Robair, Gino wrote:
>
>> Hey gang,
>> For those of you who might be interested, I just posted a couple of
>> short
>> video gig excerpts on YouTube from a pair of the concerts I did with
>> Thomas
>> Lehn (two of which are with the amazing Carl-Ludwig Hübsch on tuba)
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v¬IzI0aqQWs
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjCM2NdDY
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97YV1rU0
>>
>> Also, if you have the time, a portion of this TV clip about a hip
>> Parisian
>> bookstore, En Marge, includes part of my duo concert with guitarist
>> David
>> Fenech (you may remember him from his performances here last year):
>> http://www.tribeca75.com/Une-librairie-En-marge-_a280.html
>>
>> Enjoy!
>> Cheers,
>> ginorobair
>>
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