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If you are here, hear this!

You have found the secret cauldron where the next season's issue of jes' grew gets stirred up & out into cupcake molds. Sometimes there is (the) resistance.

Maria Schneider's Data Lords falls into that category.

Whereas Wagner once said “don’t look at the trombones, it only encourages them", I had the sense that Maria Schneider must keep looking at the trombones a lot. And they certainly deliver here.^[1]

Bob Moses, When Elephants Dream of Music, 1983.

Béla Fleck & Edmar Castañeda, Live at Big Ears Festival, 2019.

More memorable titles

Mosquito Coast

The Sorcerers, In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God, 2020.

A well-spent hour at Banzzaï (France Musique) led me to this memorable title,^[2] which is apparently the soundtrack to a documentary about the (re)discovery of ancient ruins in Mosquitia.^[3]

With unexpected citations and funny deformations throughout—wait! what are you doing to Antônio & Luiz in the trunk, there ?!—this made for a doubly smooth tour.

Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile, 2018.

Shabaka Hutchings (tenor sax) Theon Cross (tuba), Joshua Idehen (poetry), five drummers. Congo Natty (jongleur)

Ryo Kawasaki, Juice, 1976.

as described on the label. (Kawasaki 1947- April 2020)

!jazz

Ox on the Roof

Darius Milhaud, Le bœuf sur le toit, 1920.

Sea-sounds

Dominique Guiot – L'Univers De La Mer, 1978.

most excellent prog food :)

Some bob-foolery

overheard at the 2020 Wikiwiki BotSlam gala,^[4] from Easy Rider (1969). (lyrics)

Roger McGuinn, "It's Alright Ma, I'm only bleeding" (Bob Dylan), 1969.

Weird unwindings

Mary Halvorson (w/ Bill Frisell) – The Maid With The Flaxen Hair, 2018

Refs

1. Jump up ↑ Sebastien Scotney, "Album: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords", The Arts Desk, 24 July 2020.
2. Jump up ↑ Nathalie Piolé, Fabien Fleurat & Emmanuelle Lacaze, Les ombres amis, Banzzaï, 25 Jun 2020, France Musique.
3. Jump up ↑ Douglas Preston, Dave Yoder, Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest, 2 March 2015, National Geographic.
4. Jump up ↑ ^Lev!v^ich, "well that didn't go as planned, 2020 WikiSlam Bot Bracket, 4 Aug 2020, InedibleHulk's TP.