tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90463080994057200772024-03-06T00:28:20.895-08:00What's He Building In There?News items concerning the musical activities of JP SchlegelmilchAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-86523722630355267872017-04-22T13:11:00.002-07:002017-04-22T13:11:31.190-07:00Solo at Halyards with Grey McMurrayOn Monday April 24th I'll be performing another solo set of electric organ space music at Halyards. I'm excited to be joined by guitarist and vocalist Grey McMurray.<br />
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Monday April 24th<br />
<a href="http://www.barhalyards.com/">Halyards </a> 406 3rd Ave, Brooklyn<br />
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8:30pm Grey McMurray - Guitar and Voice<br />
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9:30pm JP Schlegelmilch - Yamaha YC-30 Electric Organ and Electronics<br />
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Also excited to have Jacob McCoy doing live art projections to accompany the music. Here's a video clip from the last show:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-75005784015566733832017-04-22T12:59:00.001-07:002017-04-22T13:00:26.306-07:00Hearing Things first official video!Hearing Things is excited to present the video for "Tortuga"! This track is from our soon to be released first album, "Here's Hearing Things". Slowly, but surely.<br />
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Here's a mention of the video by Nate Chinen on the <a href="http://wbgo.org/post/take-five-jason-moran-tomasz-stanko-linda-may-han-oh-joshua-abrams-hearing-things#stream/0">WBGO blog</a>.<br />
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Monday March 20th at 8pm<br />
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Halyards (406 3rd Ave, Brooklyn)<br />
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8pm Jason Nazary - Drums and Synthesizer<br />
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9pm JP Schlegelmilch - YC-30 Electric Organ and Electronics<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-20727473424942706192017-01-23T08:57:00.000-08:002017-01-23T08:59:17.170-08:00Before the Wall: A Benefit to Support Immigrant CommunitiesI'm so proud to be a part of this benefit concert on Friday at <a href="http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/1403170-before-wall-benefit-brooklyn/">Littlefield.</a> <a href="http://www.hearingthingsmusic.com/">Hearing Things </a>will be performing with two incredible bands, <a href="http://cargocollective.com/shilparay">Shilpa Ray</a> and <a href="https://kominas.bandcamp.com/">The Kominas</a>. All ticket sales will be going to support two incredible organizations, Sapna NYC and Women for Afghan Women.<br />
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Fri, January 27, 2017<br />
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm<br />
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$12 admission<br />
$25 admission, raffle ticket<br />
$50 admission, raffle ticket and drink<br />
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Tickets are available <a href="https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1403170?_ga=1.236470850.296868531.1477926636&__utma=1.842429045.1477926636.1482089589.1482266762.5&__utmb=1.2.10.1482266762&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1482089589.4.3.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=(organic)%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=(not%20provided)&__utmv=-&__utmk=31313599">here</a>.<br />
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Hearing Things goes on at 8pm!<br />
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More info about the organizations is below. Hope to see you there!<br />
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SAPNA<br />
sapnanyc.org<br />
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Sapna NYC transforms the lives of South Asian immigrant women by improving physical and mental health, expanding economic opportunities and building a collective voice for change.<br />
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Women for Afghan Women<br />
http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/<br />
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Women for Afghan Women is a grassroots, human rights organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York, particularly their rights to develop their individual potential, to self-determination, and to be represented in all areas of life: political, social, cultural and economic.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-12221044202277489422017-01-14T15:30:00.000-08:002017-01-14T15:30:39.976-08:00Kenny Warren Quartet at New Revolution ArtsTonight! Jan 15th 2017 at Cisco Bradley's New Revolution Arts music series!! Loft jazz, baby.<br />
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Here's a note from Cisco about the night:<br />
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The first New Revolution Arts event of 2017 is going to be a transcendent night of music, poetry, and artistic vision. Please come out for music and fellowship in the community. If you are an artist who has presented your work in the series before, please take advantage of the artist special. It promises to be an exciting night!<br />
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8 pm--Bonnie Kane 5-amp solo flute<br />
8:45 pm--Ekene Okobi and Maria Ines Toro Luna<br />
9:15 pm--Kenny Warren Quartet with J.P. Schlegelmilch, Noah Garabedian, Satoshi Takeishi<br />
10 pm--No Land, Daniel Carter, Devin Brahja Waldman<br />
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New Revolution Arts<br />
7 Stanhope Street<br />
Brooklyn (Bushwick)<br />
J/M/L Trains<br />
B38/B52/B54/B60/Q24 Buses<br />
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Please share to spread the word!!<br />
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$15 suggested donation<br />
Artist special: $10 suggested donation to artists who have played the series before<br />
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https://jazzrightnow.com/new-revolution-arts-series/<br />
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New Revolution Arts is a loft series in Bushwick featuring cutting edge jazz, improvised, and creative music and visual art.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-40321781695639684542016-10-08T12:27:00.002-07:002016-10-08T12:27:40.028-07:00Hearing Things on tour with Nick Waterhouse!Brooklyn, Boston, Philly and DC, look out we're coming to town!<br />
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Matt Bauder - Saxophone<br />
JP Schlegelmilch - Electric Organ<br />
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East Coast Mini Tour<br />
Four-night east-coast mini-tour opening for Nick Waterhouse<br />
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October 8th, 2016 8pm<br />
Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br />
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October 10th, 2016 8pm<br />
Cambridge, MA @ Sinclaire<br />
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October 11th, 2016 8pm<br />
Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry<br />
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October 12th, 2016 8pm<br />
Washington D.C. @ Rock and Roll Hotel<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-40613991945865427322016-02-14T07:42:00.001-08:002016-02-14T07:43:42.612-08:00Valentine's Ball at Barbes!<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Though someone once proclaimed in a song that "each day is Valentine's Day", you won't get to see a gig like this just any day, even in Brooklyn! I'm thrilled that Hearing Things will be sharing the stage with these wonderful bands tonight at Barbes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">9pm: The Fraternal Order of the Society Blues--disciples of Blues legend Carolina Slim play soulful tuneful songs that the people understand</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">10pm: Hearing Things--"kind of Middle Eastern flavored surf rock with old-school R&B honking and striptease-worthy themes" (Chicago Reader)</span><br />
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<br style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-9753862359724402222016-01-30T12:29:00.000-08:002016-01-30T12:29:37.143-08:00Three Magicians: Farmers by Nature at the StoneI made it out last night to Craig Taborn's residency at the Stone to hear the improvising group Farmers by Nature with Gerald Cleaver and William Parker. It was my first experience seeing them live, and the room was packed with free jazz musicians and aficionados. Before they started playing Gerald Cleaver remarked to the audience, "So should we pray now or later"?, perhaps in response to the hushed expectation that was beginning to electrify the room.<br />
As they started playing the music immediately had a very physical, tactile feeling, especially watching Craig Taborn and William Parker. There was nothing "abstract" about their improvising, everything felt rooted in the body.....or in the earth? Does the name of the band imply something to this effect? "Farmers" of the primordial soil of music?<br />
Every time I see Craig Taborn play the piano I'm struck by the way he's able to completely transform the instrument through the power of his musical imagination and staggering technique. There's always a moment where my ears stop registering the sounds as originating from the piano and the music enters a transcendent realm of pure sound.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-9683809039430343362015-12-16T13:16:00.000-08:002015-12-16T13:16:28.665-08:00Hearing Things at Music Hall of Williamsburg!Very excited for this one. We had a great time touring with Will Butler in March but didn't get to do a show in New York with him. Also excited to have a comedian on the bill, Jo Firestone!<br />
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We play at 9pm, get your tickets <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004F39B82F857D?brand=mhw">here!</a><br />
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Here's a hilarious informational video about the show.<br />
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October 23rd at the Hive in Bushwick, Brooklyn.<br />
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We're sharing the bill with Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality and Kendra Morris. We're on at 8pm and we would love to play....for YOU.<br />
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Here's a video of some recent live footage of the band at the Slipper Room in NYC.<br />
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Playing tonight with the Kenny Warren Quartet at the newest addition to Brooklyn's Gowanus-area music venues, Threes Brewing! This place has been a great new home to live music in Brooklyn, especially as a host to the recent Sound Minds Festival. I'm excited to play Kenny's music with this great band!</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Very excited for this new jazz festival at Three's Brewing in Brooklyn this Sunday. I'll be playing with Hearing Things at midnight. Please come out and support this festival, it's a great lineup of Brooklyn jazz/improvised music at its finest and there are hopes of it becoming an annual event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">7 pm - Miss Elie Sorbsel featuring Emilie Lesbros</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">8 pm - Bizingas Plays the Blues featuring Brian Drye, Kirk Knuffke, Jonathan Goldberger plus special guests Hank Roberts and Tom Rainey</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">9 pm - Dustin Carlson's Air Ceremony featuring DC, Mike Baggetta, Danny Gouker, Kate Gentile and Josh Sinton</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">10 pm - The Kate Gentile Quartet featuring KG, Jeremy Viner, Adam Hopkins and Matt Mitchell</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">11 pm - FOLKLORDS featuring Ajemian Jason, Peter Hanson, Nathaniel Morgan, Owen Stewart-Robertson and Jason Nazary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">12 am - Matt Bauder's Hearing Things featuring Matt Bauder, Jp Schlegelmilch and Vinnie Sperrazza</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Tickets can be purchased in advance here:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2019312</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-11095809287860289842015-07-10T17:37:00.000-07:002015-07-10T17:37:31.549-07:00Laila and Smitty at BarbesThis week I caught Kenny Warren's band Laila and Smitty at Barbes celebrating the release of their 2nd album. They're really pushing their avant-Americana style in new directions with more layered rhythms and some African-sounding textures reminiscent of tUnE-yArDs. Kenny's singing is understated but very emotionally direct. The band is great, and it was nice to hear Jeremiah Lockwood again on dobro, who was originally in the band before he moved to the west coast.<br />
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I brought both of my Yahama organs to the studio, here they are like a happy family.<br />
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The recording was done at BC Studios in Brooklyn, very cool place, slightly spooky vibe. I've heard rumors that it's haunted. Matt kind of looks like a ghost with a saxophone in this photo.<br />
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It's happening! Tomorrow, Sunday April 5th at Cornelia St Cafe, sets at 8:30 and 10pm. We will be celebrating the release of our new album, "Drifter". We've been working diligently and are so excited to share the music with you! We'll be playing selections from the album and a lot of new material as well. We hope you can join us!</div>
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Also featured on the Wing Walker website is a series they call the "Wildcard", where a band or musician pick out a few albums that they've been listening to recently. Drew asked each member of Old Time Musketry to participate, and the results are quite interesting! Check it out <a href="http://www.wingwalkermusic.com/2015/04/wildcard-old-time-musketry/">here.</a><br />
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This week Hearing Things kicks off our tour with 2 shows in NYC and then we hit the road opening for Will Butler of Arcade Fire! We've been rehearsing regularly since the fall and the music is really getting exciting! It's hard to categorize, so you'll just have to come out and <i>hear things</i> for yourself. (Get it?).<br />
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The first show is TONIGHT March 14th at <a href="http://www.nublu.net/">Nublu</a> in Manhattan. We go on at 10:30pm.<br />
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We also have a 45rpm record available only at the shows!<br />
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Matt Bauder - Tenor Saxophone<br />
JP Schlegelmilch - Electric Organ<br />
Vinnie Sperrazza - Drums<br />
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Here's the complete dates of the tour!<br />
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Sat 3/14 @ NuBlu<br />
62 Avenue C<br />
New York, NY 10009<br />
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Fri 3/20 @ Bar Lunatico<br />
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Howler's Coyote Cafe<br />
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Opening for Will Butler:<br />
Mon 3/23 - Chicago, IL, The Hideout<br />
Tues 3/24 - Bloomington, IN, The Bishop<br />
Thu 3/26 - Grand Rapids, MI, Calvin College<br />
Fri 3/27 - Toronto, ON, The Horseshoe Tavern<br />
Sat 3/28 & Sun 3/29 - Montreal, QC, Bar Le Ritz<br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If you live out of town or can't make it to the show, the album should be available on March 31st at the NCM East site, CD Baby, Amazon, Itunes, Bandcamp, and many more. Currently, you can pre-order a digital download of the album at Bandcamp and Amazon:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks so much for your support and we hope to see you on the 5th!</span></span><br />
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For the past several years I usually allot some time each winter to immerse myself in Schubert's song cycle <i>Winterreise</i> (Winter's Journey), a collection of 24 songs that tell the story of a rejected lover who wanders out of his village into a bleak winter landscape. This winter had almost passed by, Schubert-free, until I began reading a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/03/ian-bostridge-wanderer-schuberts-winterreise">new book by the tenor Ian Bostridge</a> which explores the themes of each song in the cycle. I've been listening to the songs daily and playing the score at my piano, occasionally belting out some fake German words or nonsense syllables for the vocal melody. I'm realizing that I haven't even scratched the frozen surface of this haunting work. <br />
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It's been a frigid winter in the Northeast, apparently one of the coldest and snowiest in the past 150 years. But the unsettling larger picture shows the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/02/24/surprise-january-2014-was-earths-4th-warmest-on-record-even-while-u-s-shivered/">trends of global warming</a> continuing, with January 2015 being the 4th warmest recorded January in history, and the 347th straight month of above normal warmth.<br />
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The thing I needed to really connect with the spirit of <i>Winterreise</i> was a trip outside of my urban Brooklyn environment. My wife and I took a drive to her hometown in the Hudson Valley and were transfixed by the austere beauty of winter in the country. We looked at the frozen Hudson river, with strange shapes of ice strewn over it almost resembling the ruins of some past civilization. We saw fields and farm lands covered with untouched white snow, and some with paths of footprints from previous Winter Journeys. One could easily imagine the protagonist from <i>Wintereise</i> wandering forlornly through these lands. <br />
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I was especially captivated by a willow tree by the river, which instantly reminded me of the linden tree in one of Schubert's most famous songs, "Der Lindenbaum". In the song the wanderer passes by a linden tree which brings sweet nostalgic feelings and memories:<br />
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<i>At the well before the gate<br />
There stands a linden tree;<br />
I dreamt in its shade<br />
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So many a word of love;<br />
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In his book Ian Bostridge explores the sinister double meaning of the tree, which also represents the romantic era's obsession with death. The attraction that the wanderer feels for the tree could also mean the solace of death's embrace and rest for his tormented soul:<br />
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Come here to me, old chap, <br />
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The chapter on "Der Lindenbaum" in Bostridge's book also makes connections to Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (another great winter companion):<br />
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"The chapter itself is called "Snow", and it creates, suggests, hints at a parallel between the predicament of the wanderer in Wintereise, compelled by his own nature to wander through a winter landscape, and that of Mann's protagonist, tubercular sufferer, who has sunk into the comfortable but deathly embrace of the snowbound sanatorium where most of the story plays out. In "Snow," Castorp escapes from his confinement, venturing outside, and gets lost in so doing he confronts ultimate questions. Reading "Snow" is, if nothing more, a good imaginative and mental workout for singing, or experiencing, <i>Winterreise</i>. "<br />
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Finding these kinds of connections in great works of art is one of the most fantastic things in life for me. Bostridge continues:<br />
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"There are many more detailed parallels. The relationship between this winter landscape and the confronting of existential questions, to start with: snowy blankness, "white whirling nothing," "white darkness" as a blank screen upon which the ultimate can be projected and grappled with in a sort of ironic, almost jocular, tone which the two works share." <br />
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Bostridge made a collection of music videos to accompany <i>Winterreise </i>which have a borderline goth quality that makes them feel oddly contemporary. Here is "Der Lindenbaum:"<br />
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I really enjoyed reading this Pitchfork review of the latest <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19834-led-zeppelin-ivhouses-of-the-holyphysical-graffiti/">Led Zeppelin reissues</a>, which include my two favorites, <i>Houses of the Holy</i> and <i>Physical Graffiti.</i> It's interesting how Pitchfork now has reviews of classic albums of the 60's and 70's along with their taste-making commentary on current musical trends. It's cool to get a contemporary perspective of these iconic records, and I found these reviews particularly well-written and insightful. <br />
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Mark Richardson's essay on the Zeppelin reissues reserves the highest praise for <i>Physical Graffiti</i>, comparing it to the Beatles' famous double LP:<br />
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"It's Led Zeppelin's White Album, the one they made when they were at their creative peak and had a million ideas, but were also under a tremendous amount of strain and saw the end starting to come into focus."<br />
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I hadn't thought about about <i>Physical Graffiti</i> in this way before, and it gave me a new appreciation for the sprawl of this record. Although it's hard for me to pick a favorite between <i>Physical Graffiti</i> and <i>Houses of the Holy,</i> I like thinking about the different approaches to making albums that these two represent. One is the no-filler, carefully considered masterpiece, the other a kind of outpouring of musical ideas. <br />
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This sent me to Richardson's <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13432-the-beatles/">Pitchfork review of the White Album</a>, which was even better. He mentions how the phrase "It's like their White Album" has entered the lexicon of music fans:<br />
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"To use the expression is to conjure a familiar cluster of associations: The work in question is large and sprawling, overflowing with ideas but also with indulgences, and filled with a hugely variable array of material, some of which might sound great one day and silly the next. A band's White Album is also most likely assembled under a time of great stress, often resulting in an artistic peak but one that nonetheless scatters clues to its creator's eventual demise."<br />
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Richardson lists some other records that fit the description of a "White Album": Prince's <i>Sign o' the Times</i>, Hüsker Dü's <i>Zen Arcade</i>, the Clash's <i>Sandinista!</i>, and Pavement's <i>Wowee Zowee</i>. But I searched my record collection in vain for "White Album" candidates, I think they must be an exceedingly rare species. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-46049074534394839332015-02-18T17:12:00.000-08:002015-02-18T17:12:37.636-08:00Tonight at Rye RestaurantI'm playing tonight in Williamsburg with my esteemed colleagues Kenny Warren and Dustin Carlson. I've assembled a special new set up for this performance: turntable, sampler, a stack of mostly classical LP's, and accordion. What will happen????<br />
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Curriculum plays at 9pm, they know all the good tunes. We go on at 10pm. This is part of the new <a href="http://aerandolphpresents.tumblr.com">A.E. Randolph</a> music series at Rye Restaurant. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-90114922719254914062015-02-10T09:28:00.003-08:002015-02-10T09:28:31.402-08:00Old Time Musketry and Los Bolos tonight at Bar Chord!Old Time Musketry is back at <a href="http://www.barchordnyc.com">Bar Chord</a> tonight sharing the bill with Los Bolos, a band led by Jesse Stacken which focuses on the music of Willie Nelson. <br />
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8:30pm Los Bolos<br />
Jesse Lewis - guitar<br />
Jesse Stacken - piano<br />
Dan Loomis - bass<br />
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums<br />
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9:30pm Old Time Musketry<br />
Adam Schneit - woodwinds<br />
JP Schlegelmilch - accordion and keyboard<br />
Phil Rowan - bass<br />
Max Goldman - drums<br />
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You can keep up with the schedule at Rye Restaurant <a href="http://aerandolphpresents.tumblr.com">here.</a><br />
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I also saw the band <a href="http://parismonster.tumblr.com">Paris Monster</a> play at Rockwood Stage 2 last week, I had been meaning to check them out for a while and they did not disappoint! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-43509325051829324092015-01-05T13:58:00.000-08:002015-01-05T13:59:16.910-08:00First shows of 2015!!Even though 2015 has not yet delivered everything that was promised to us in Back to The Future Part II, I guarantee that these shows will be at least as fun as a hoverboard or self-drying jacket. <br />
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Monday, January 5th at 9pm<br />
@ Bar Chord<br />
1008 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn<br />
$5 suggested donation<br />
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OLD TIME MUSKETRY leaps back into action with 2 sets of new and old classics!<br />
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featuring: JP (accordion and keyboard), Adam Schneit (sax and clarinet), Phil Rowan (Bass), and Max Goldman (giant drums). <br />
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Tuesday, January 6th at 10pm<br />
@ Union Pool <br />
http://union-pool.com/info/<br />
484 Union Ave, Brooklyn<br />
$10<br />
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Matt Bauder's HEARING THINGS. This band is really getting groovier by the minute. We'll be wearing suits.....<br />
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featuring: Matt Bauder (Tenor Saxophone), JP (Organ), Vinnie Sperrazza (Drums)<br />
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Come early for Jason Ajemian's FOLKLORDS at 9pm, record release show! Amazing music....<br />
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Monday, January 12th at 10:45pm<br />
@ The Manhattan Inn<br />
632 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY <br />
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Jonathan Goldberger (Guitar) and JP Schlegelmilch (Organ)<br />
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Excited to play some duo improvisations with Jonathan at this cozy Greenpoint haunt. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255441009697639204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9046308099405720077.post-32494435511013271192014-11-18T11:22:00.001-08:002015-03-03T18:55:40.699-08:00"Recrystallize" Released Today!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltbCCxUAKt3Bq81plv4_Wj96twlzHtPCqHRPSvTCguEYokD6eUNCnHsPj9Pb-DKxbeyB-bTD-iFiv22UadZW3Y4HCzAvkVLvBX1dUnfetf8o3qthKUjupkh7dEjLqDP_zHv9KfPpb18rB/s1600/NOOK_Recrystallize.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltbCCxUAKt3Bq81plv4_Wj96twlzHtPCqHRPSvTCguEYokD6eUNCnHsPj9Pb-DKxbeyB-bTD-iFiv22UadZW3Y4HCzAvkVLvBX1dUnfetf8o3qthKUjupkh7dEjLqDP_zHv9KfPpb18rB/s320/NOOK_Recrystallize.JPG" /></a><br />
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I'm happy to announce that NOOK's long-awaited second album is now available digitally on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/recrystallize/id940658097">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/nook3">CD Baby</a>, and for one week only it will be available on a "name-your-price" basis on <a href="https://nookband.bandcamp.com/album/recrystallize">Bandcamp!</a><br />
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Since it's digital-only, I'm including a liner-notes-style essay about the band and album below. <br />
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Long ago, before Barnes and Noble developed an E-reader, even before Barack Obama became president, a band called NOOK roamed the earth, more specifically in Brooklyn, even more specifically rehearsing in our drummer's living room above a tire shop on 4th Ave.<br />
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NOOK was the first real band that I formed when I arrived in New York. Kenny Warren and I were inspired by seeing bands like YeahNo, AlasNoAxis and Kneebody play at Tonic we started writing music that was heavily rock-influenced, melodic, but also informed by the raw energy of improvisation. We were lucky enough to find other like-minded musicians (friends) who were willing to rehearse a lot, learn increasingly complicated arrangements, and bring the music to life. James Windsor-Wells, Jeff Ratner and Patrick Breiner are great improvisors and also have a very open concept about how different kinds of music could relate to each other. <br />
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The band recorded the album "Captain Momentum (Himself)" in 2008 in a Brooklyn basement. After that things got complicated, Patrick moved to Wisconsin and Jeff joined the band Langhorne Slim and was on the road all the time. It became difficult to maintain the "Momentum" promised by the first album. <br />
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Kenny, James and I decided to keep the band going with new musicians, saxophonist Jeremy Viner and bassist Ben Gallina. We began working on new material but hit many bumps in the road, by this point everyone in the band had gotten much busier with various other musical projects and it became increasingly difficult to play. Then Ben was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to undergo cancer treatment, including chemotherapy. We were all amazed at Ben's spirit during this difficult time, I remember how he would still make the long commute from Washington Heights to Crown Heights to rehearse. We were all so happy when he made a complete recovery. <br />
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Despite all these setbacks we finally recorded a batch of new music in 2012. The album has been in a state of limbo since then, and the band itself is no longer active, but I'm happy to see that it's finally out there in the world at least in a digital form. <br />
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Everyone in the band plays great on this record. Some of my favorite parts: Kenny's soulful delivery of every melody, as well as his amazing solo on the complex rhythms of "No Time For Science"; James' deep groove and Ben's subtle bass harmonies on the middle part of "Captain Marginal"; Jeremy's blistering solo at the end of "Nation of Bears", as well as special guest Andrew Smiley's unmistakeable frenzied guitar on the same track. <br />
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The album title I took from a passage in William James' "On the Varieties of Religious Experience". In a section of the book where he discusses how religions and spiritual beliefs necessarily change and evolve over time he wrote:<br />
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"All we know is that there are dead feelings, dead ideas, and cold beliefs, and there are hot and live ones; and when one grows hot and alive within us, everything has to re-crystallize about it."<br />
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We hope you enjoy the music!<br />
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Also, a big thanks to Jonathan Anderson for his great work recording and mixing the record at Motherbrain Studios; and to Jonathan Jetter for mastering the record. <br />
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