let's get serious

whew! So, I am back. It's a lot musty in here. And so:
here's a little doozie i've been prizing in 2008. Masabumi Kikuchi w/Elvin J. and G. Perla, Hollow Out.
I lifted this from the awesome O.I.R. blog, which features a nice and frequent jazz smattering. This is a very obscure, strange, quiet-tense, intense piece of music.



What else? Keith whining going "eeeee" and playing blues with G. Peacock and a drummer named 'Motian' (Motion) at a place called the Deer's Head Inn is a really nice piece, another quiet star.
Along with Ralph Trowner (g) and G. Peacock playing deconstructed flamenco duets, goes by the name 'Oracle'.
And... Marion Brown's "sweet earth flying" with paul bley on keys, keeping in the obscure/quiet/out 'n free genre. Indie band His Name is Alive did a nice Marion Brown tribute album "sweet earth flower: a tribute to Marion Brown", that jives with the overall vibe of the albums in this post so far, and starts spanning into 'Kind of Blue' electric piano wash and/or post-metal drone that the kids are listening to these days. Eric Kloss' "Consciousness" to shakes things loose-w/Chic, Jack DeJ, and Dave Holland. "The Creator has a Master Plan" by Pharaoh Sanders with Leon Thomas coming in on vocals about 8 minutes in. At about 20 minutes in this gets fantastically, deeply far out, dissonant and unhinged. I have yet to stick it out, but I'd love for you to try. Kind of a musical 50 lb. hamburger contest like from that John Candy movie about the great outdoors. However, if you get through the music is its own hamburger reward b/c I haven't got any t shirts or shwag to distribute.
P. Sanders has a daughter about my age that I met one night-she was in an underground theater performance with a friend. She seemed normal, or at least normalized-but then she is an actress. I'd love to meet her again.
Another recent discovery: I've got my outside and inside mixed up all over again.

Update: I made it through "the creator has a master plan", mostly intact.
sorry the links are spotty, if anyone asks for something on here that they can't find, i'll get it on here.Another really weirdly endearing bit of music is Moondog "Elpmas". Xylophones harmonies, bird chirps, orchestral snippets, chants, a steady percussive repitition.

Books I am reading:

Foucault: Madness and Civiliazation
Zizek: The Sublime Object of Ideology
J. Berger: G (re-reading)

Books to read:

H. Miller: Sexus
S. Beckett: Molloy
R. Rucker: Postsingular
Habermas: Reader
Physics Textbook about Circuits
GRE study guide