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For all of you geetar fans, check out David Fiuczynski's latest,
"Amandala." Stellar, creative chops, not many cliches, heavy bass/drum
grooves, and really interesting compositional ideas...this one's a
keeper. Fuze has been playing fretless for a while, and also has been
experimenting with 24 and 36 eq. It doesn't say what axes are on the CD,
sounds like a lot of fretless to me. Definitely a lot of interesting
tones going down. Also, although this is a few years older, the "Nordic
Four" CD, featuring Terje Rypdal and John Surman, is another very good
session...way out there, in the best ECM tradition. Rypdal has always
been a favorite of mine, and I've often thought he didn't get enough
recognition in the guitar world. He was a trailblazer, and on this CD,
creates some very deep soundscapes...happy holiday listening...Hstick
PS...what new music have y'all been listening to lately?

🔗D.Stearns <STEARNS@CAPECOD.NET>

Hey Neil,

I had Jazzpunk in my sweaty little hands just this Saturday, but faced
with the choice of getting what I was ostensibly at Borders for (a
gift certificate) and some new guitar music to check out I did the
right thing--no CD for me!

Have you heard this CD Neil? I know he plays the fretless-12-tet
double neck, and I've heard some enticing excerpts, but if I've got to
get one, Jazzpunk or Amandala, which one's the one to get?

I've always loved Rypdal. I love the early Nordic Miles stuff,
especially the first cut off of his self titled CD, "Keep it like
that - tight". What a great cut, they keep the groove pregnant from
start to finish, and check out Garbarek's entrance on tenor! After The
Rain is another Rypdal fave, actually that's my very favorite.

I just got an advance copy of Absolute Zero's new CD Crashing Icons
with new drummer Pip Pyle Monday, and while I'm still soaking it up,
there's no doubt that it's a mighty earful and then some! Imagine a
rougher more stripped down U Totem, and you'll have some idea of
what's going on. They're steadily moving in the direction of micro
tuning too, and I'm sure that some subsequent project is going to do
so.

--Dan Stearns

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Haverstick" <STICK@USWEST.NET>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: [tuning] Hot stuff

> For all of you geetar fans, check out David Fiuczynski's latest,
> "Amandala." Stellar, creative chops, not many cliches, heavy
bass/drum
> grooves, and really interesting compositional ideas...this one's a
> keeper. Fuze has been playing fretless for a while, and also has
been
> experimenting with 24 and 36 eq. It doesn't say what axes are on the
CD,
> sounds like a lot of fretless to me. Definitely a lot of interesting
> tones going down. Also, although this is a few years older, the
"Nordic
> Four" CD, featuring Terje Rypdal and John Surman, is another very
good
> session...way out there, in the best ECM tradition. Rypdal has
always
> been a favorite of mine, and I've often thought he didn't get enough
> recognition in the guitar world. He was a trailblazer, and on this
CD,
> creates some very deep soundscapes...happy holiday
listening...Hstick
> PS...what new music have y'all been listening to lately?
>
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🔗Robert C Valentine <BVAL@IIL.INTEL.COM>

> From: "Neil Haverstick" <STICK@USWEST.NET>
> Subject: Hot stuff
>
> For all of you geetar fans, check out David Fiuczynski's latest,
> "Amandala." Stellar, creative chops, not many cliches, heavy bass/drum
> grooves, and really interesting compositional ideas...this one's a
> keeper.

What I have of Fiuczynski (Punk Jazz) did a bit less for me than I'd
expected (though its a great bunch of players), but I certainly want
to give him some more listening time. Who are
the other players on this CD? I've also been interested in Lunar (Crash,
Crush) whatever... with Medeski, since anything with Medeski on B3 has
potential in my mind.

For a (somewhat) group relevent recent CD purchase there is Mr Lucky
which is J Granellis band with Dave Tronzo on the bottleneck guitar.
Dave has been playing in the cracks for ages.

Something I heard on the radio that Santa seems to be bringing me
is The Word, with Robert Randolph (?) a brilliant young slide player
and Medeski doing gospel music.

Also, not microtonal but another nice spin for fretted instrument
fans is Perpetual Motion, with classical repetoire played by Bela
Fleck on banjo. It actually sounds very appropriate as the banjo
produces a 'plink with fast decay' that is reminiscent of
harpsichord or clavichord. He is joined by same interesting others
in slightly unusual arrangements of classical chestnuts.

And I've been spinning a lot of Bill Frisell lately, an older
CD with Ginger Baker and Charlie Haden and his newest with Dave
Holland and Elvin Jones.

Bob Valentine

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🔗Neil Haverstick <STICK@USWEST.NET>

🔗D.Stearns <STEARNS@CAPECOD.NET>

🔗Robert C Valentine <BVAL@IIL.INTEL.COM>

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