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International Jazz Conspiracy
Jul 22, 2020 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Music/Experimental
With Emel
The program is a sonic journey through contemporary jazz, free improvisation, new music, hindustani music, flamenco, world music, underground, avant garde and art music from different corners of the globe, as well as interviews and live studio performances by local and visiting artists and the occasional musical restructuring*. An adventure in sound, a journey into the tone world.
We strive to present music with duende, a term originally used by flamenco musicians referring to inspiration, magic and fire in music. There is no direct translation for it in English, but the closest would be "soulful".
The famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca often speaks of duende. In his lecture "El juego y la teoria del duende" (Play and Theory of the Duende) he says:
"All through Andalucia. . . people speak constantly of duende, and recognize it with unfailing instinct when it appears... These dark sounds are the mystery, the roots... from which we get what is real in art... Thus duende is a force and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: ‘Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.’ Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of true living style; of blood; of ancient culture; of spontaneous creation."
Duende is not just found in flamenco though. In the liner notes of Miles Davis' 1964 album My Funny Valentine, Nat Hentoff says: "In trying to distill the particular mesmeric quality of Miles Davis, Kenneth Tynan has referred to the Spanish word DUENDE: 'It has no English equivalent,' he explained, but it denotes 'the ability to transmit a profoundly felt emotion with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of restraint... Miles Davis has DUENDE.' "
Hosted by Emel Sherzad.
'May music never just become another way of making money.'
- Keith Tippett
*musical restructuring: simultaneous playback/mixing of various audio sources, a.k.a. audio collage.
10:01 PM |
| Astor Piazzolla Sur: Regresso Al Amor (South: Regression to Love) La Camorra: The Solitude of Passionate Provocation Nonesuch 2005
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10:08 PM |
| John Coltrane Quartet Greensleeves The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (1995 Reissue) GRP 1995
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10:18 PM |
| Albert Ayler For John Coltrane Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings Impulse! 1998
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10:36 PM |
| Matthew Shipp Amino Acid Harmony and Abyss Thirsty Ear Recordings 2004
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10:42 PM |
| Matthew Shipp Abyss Harmony and Abyss Thirsty Ear Recordings 2004
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10:47 PM |
| Hu Vibrational Born From the Sea Universal Mother Soul Jazz Records
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10:52 PM |
| Dave Douglas Freak In Freak In RCA Bluebird 2003
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10:57 PM |
| Dave Douglas Culver City Park Freak In RCA Bluebird 2003
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11:07 PM |
| Le GGRIL avec Evan Parker Marcottage Vivaces Tour de Bras
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11:23 PM |
| Elliott Sharp Carbon Raptor Tocsin Enemy
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11:27 PM |
| Elliott Sharp Carbon Sockets Tocsin Enemy
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11:37 PM |
| David Shea Shock Corridor Shock Corridor DIWAVANT 1992
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11:52 PM |
| John McLaughlin Spectrum Extrapolation Polydor Records 1969
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11:55 PM |
| John McLaughlin Blinky's Dream Extrapolation Polydor 1969
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