A pleasure to see this new site of Michael Haslam’s. Continual Song in the Open Township edition was one of the books that really got me hooked on the British small-press scene. Later work (& his heavily revised early work) can get too bouncily iambic & rhapsodic for my taste, but that one book remains [...]
The two older cats just had their annual vet visit. Hamlet is now officially 24.7 pounds (a gain of a pound from last year)… & it’s time to put him on a diet. This is going to be tricky as we have two other quite slim cats who definitely do not need a diet.
(More material from the October Exclaim that didn’t run in the print edition. Again, a 150-word target & a nonspecialist audience, which may explain a bit about the piece’s style.)
George Lewis, Sequel (for Lester Bowie) (Intakt). The latest album by AACM trombonist George Lewis is an electroacoustic project featuring eight players from disparate backgrounds. Four [...]
These little pieces were originally written because my editor at Exclaim asked for 150-word reviews of music DVDs at the last minute for the October issue. In the end neither appeared in the print version of the periodical (& locating them in the online version would take a braver soul than I — it’s a very hard site [...]
Various articles of interest in the Globe –
Yet another piece on Tanya Tagaq Gillis, who seems to be getting the hype machines into high gear. My only exposure to her music was the execrable improv gig she did at Guelph.
Mr Considine pontificates on Coltrane & enthuses about Diana Krall.