#downtown scene

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Trisha Brown’s ballet, Lateral Pass, premiered in 1985 at the Walker in Minneapolis. Featured music was composed by New York trombonist Peter Zummo and performed with Arthur Russell among others.

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Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 120: Alfonia Tims & His Flying Tigers "Future Funk/Uncut!"

I had heard recently a 2010 interview with Melvin Gibbs (whose work I generally admire, and who as an interview subject, is always chock full of incisive observations and interesting stories about the NYC downtown scene) mentioned the name of someone I had never heard before somehow, the late guitarist Alfonia Tims. Of course as I go digging, I find a great tribute to him, but this actual release…

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Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 43: Toshiki Kadomatsu "Before the Daylight"

What is I told you that the following cast made a Japanese City Pop record: Vernon Reid, Nile Rodgers, Bill Frisell, Cindy Mizelle, Nick Moroch, Eddie Martinez, Vickie Sue Robinson, VJ Smith, Michael Brecker, Lenny White, Arto Lindsay, Jeff Bova, Phillippe Saisse, and Peter Scherer. Yeah, well in 1988 they did, for Toshiki Kadomatsu, himself a fixture on the Japanese pop scene for decades. It’s…

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Mars - 11,000 Volts 1978

11,000 volts and you break down Have your breakdown X one, X two and X two squared Fall on the floor and learn to ... In cripple your brain is a wrist watch Don’t say I’ve got no heart what I put together I can take apart (Eating garbage Old cookies in the garbage can The letter will never come The letter will never come) Mars - 11,000 Volts

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Revisiting the Downtown scene

NY Times critic’s notebook

Kamikaze Ground Crew, the Jazz Passengers and the Microscopic Septet — three bands from New York’s Downtown scene of the 1980s — shared a stage last week for the first time. They made me wonder: Were the ’80s also our least existentialist decade, one of our most embodied? In a digital marketplace of crippling choice, there’s room for a lot more of that. The old downtown scene isn’t just a guide for today’s eclectic thinkers; it’s a foil.

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SoHo Weekly News, NYC, mid 1970s.

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"Until the mid eighties,” Luc Sante says, “I was pretty unaware that what was ­going on all around me was specific and special, but I was fed by its vibration . . . New York City kind of ended for me at the same time that my youth did.” The following magazine ­covers, collages, and flyers are documents of that lost youth, with annotations by Sante. We are grateful to him for letting us reproduce them here.

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Mars - 3E / Scorn from Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings, NYC 1977–1978 – CD, 2003 (G3G/Spookysound) (Spain; limited edition) (later released on LP by Important) (reissued by No More in 2008)

3E - Mother said I don't like the way you always want to stay in bed I don't mind the service But I think you're getting overfed I said Mama this is better than a girl Because from this standpoint I can understand the world You're not suppose to break your toys Drop the papers - make the noise It's too much mystery to always only see half a face Out on the street marching unrestrained the human race All this ceaseless motion takes all my might Close the curtains give up the light Take the file smooth me down Drop the bodies on the town The wall cries out: "Hey pal I'm starving how about something to eat" Opens up his lips tunnel tongue regurgitates the street Mother unbondaged mouth wakes up the hand underneath the steps - trips down the stairs drops the milk gets the sheets all wet Mother don't abuse your child It's not the time to make the smile Scorn- A transcription of the unintelligible mutterings of John Candia, a homeless man befriended by Sumner.