RFI Nmperign

I got the LP with Axel Dorner and remember it being pretty solid, and liking the tracks w/ him on them better than the straight duo ones. Haven't heard the double LP, but the fact that they named the piece recorded at Wesleyan "I Am Sitting In A Fucking Room" gets automatic respect from me. Btw, Kelley's playing on the Corsano/Flaherty 'Sanyassi' album is in something of a more "trad" free jazz vein than a lot of his other stuff, but you probly already knew that.

i gots the one on intransitive, with some dude playing tapes with them. that's pretty good. the fact that it's on intransitive should say more than i'm capable of right now.

kind of late but:

tue nov 9, 9:30pm
terrace club, 62 washington rd, princeton NJ
free

nmperign/jason lescalleet

Whenever Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley can't seem to get along, Jason Lescalleet comes by with his blissfully lo-fi tape machines, cracked electronics, and cranked amp to set things right. He takes nmperign's sparse-lush-angular question mark and drowns it in a murky, brown fluid, mixing up a menacing but ultimately medicinal bath of rib-shaking, electroacoustic pleasure.

The available recordings of this collaboration (_This is nmperign's 2nd CD_ Twisted Village 1999 and _In which the silent partner-director..._ Intransitive 1999) only hint at the extent and depth of the work these three have done together. This grave gap will soon be filled by their upcoming double CD on Intransitive Records, _Love Me Two Times_ (December 2004).

nate wooley/tim barnes

Nate Wooley and Tim Barnes have been playing together in duo and anywhere from a lot larger to not a lot larger configurations for about 18 months now. That is time enough to gestate two human babies. Nate has waited tables in New York for 3 years and has performed with all manner of improvisors, from Dave Douglas to Anthony Braxton to Jack Wright, besides his trio, Blue Collar (featuring Tatsuya Nakatani and Steve Swell). Tim runs the record label Quakebasket, which has released archival recordings of Angus MacLise and Christopher Tree, while also supporting new artists such as Glenn Kotche, Minamo, Michael Schumacher, Marina Rosenfeld, and Toshio Kajiwara. As a performer, Tim has played with such visionaries as Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Sean Meehan, and John Zorn.

Together they nimbly prepare sound, construct it, and let it decay into silence. Conversely, they prepare silence, let it construct itself, and push it thunderously into the next sound. The duo deals in the synthesis of new sound from acoustic instruments (Wooley's trumpet and voice and Barnes' percussion), and in the worlds of ambient sound, speech and the specific silence of different venues.

Too bad this thread died.
I finally picked up that Siwa 2LP a few months ago, and I really like it. It feels kind of Borbetomagus-y at times, which I can get into.

The Greg Kelley/Alex Neilson record Graveside Doles is really good. I kind of wasn't expecting much but was pleasantly surprised. I think both of these guys are often the x-factor in their respective tag-teams and groups, and both maybe underappreciated. This thing kills.

"two of the most intense young "free" dudes from different parts of the globe (kelley from boston, neilson from leeds) unite for this completely weird record, taking free music to a different level, recorded on top of eachother via mail. this sounds like moving the heaviest metal closet on a little rubber boat from brighton to the east coast of the united states, kicking off with a heavy free jazzy tune full of retarded trumpets stuffed with little babies screaming for a change slightly changing into ice cold acoustic metal scraping ambience. tons of different sounds to discover and very unclear whether they came out of a trumpet, a drumset, a mouth or a whale. comes in a black and silver fine line drawn cover by dennis tyfus limited to 400 copies"- Ultra Eczema.