#elliott sharp

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"Bad Alchemy #7"

(cassette. Bad Alchemy. 1987)

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 04.30.24

Present This is not the end (Cuneiform) Terms All Becomes Indistinct (Skin Graft) Luc Ferrari Complete Music for Films 1960-1984 (Sub Rosa) Bobby Krlic Beau is Afraid OST (A24 Music) MXLX Kicking Away at the Decrepit Walls (Ba da Bing) Einsturzende Neubauten Rampen (Potomak) Hildur Guðnadóttir A Haunting In Venice OST (Hollywood) Aoife O’Donovan All My Friends (Yep Roc) Extra Life The Sacred Vowel (Bandcamp) Laura Wolf and Feverkin Signals (Bandcamp) Elliott Sharp The Complete String Quartets (zOaR) nosync soundsystem magic (Plasma sources) Melvins Tarantula Heart (Ipecac) Ches Smith Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) High On Fire Cometh The Storm (MNRK) Alain Goraguer Rare Soundtracks and Lost Tapes (1973-1984) (Transversales) Opiuo & The Opulent Orchestra (Bandcamp)

[musicmakesyousmart]

Elliott Sharp - The Boreal

Starkland

2015

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Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Century - powerful takes on racism with vocals by Tracie Morris, Mikel Banks, and Eric Mingus 

This latest Terraplane album, "Century", found its genesis in a 2020 radio-play for the Bavarian Radio in Munich commemorating the 100th anniversary of the book Negro, a collection of African-American writings, poems, and song lyrics edited by shipping heiress Nancy Cunard. The book is a collection of African-American writings, poems, and song lyrics. This volume, controversial as it was at its inception, introduced African-American literature and culture from the likes of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston to the unknowing white world. Beginning with a commission to write five songs based on the uncompromising and blistering texts found in the book, the project expanded. These texts took an unflinching look at life in post-Reconstruction post-WWI America with lynchings, beatings, and blatant racist discrimination the norm, and displayed courageous defiance and clear-headed analysis, often in guttural and graphic terms. The "n-word" was in common usage and is indeed found in some of these lyrics. A century later, how much has changed? As a son of a Holocaust survivor raised on the necessity of confronting racism in all its forms, I was unsure of how to proceed. With the encouragement, discussion, and collaboration of Tracie Morris and Mikel Banks, songs were written and recorded based on the old texts with new music to bring them to date. "Tol' Mah Capn", "Whip & Trigger", "Stan Boys Stan", "Goin To Atlanta" all frame their anger in a world-weary and slyly humorous stance. New songs as well were composed with Eric Mingus that comment on the state of things, pointed, but without falling into polemic: "Toppling Statues" is as direct as can be. The album continues with the instrumental memorials "Tulsa '21" and "The Murder of Elijah McClain" - grim reminders of a terrible past that is still very much present. Elijah McClain was a musician and his story resonated deeply with me but his is not the only one: there are far too many of late: their names, their names. The set is rounded out with a century-old song of continual relevance, Blind Alfred Reed's classic, "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?" and a new song, "Exit Strategy", that came out of a deep dive into an old hard drive. Lost guitar parts by the legendary Hubert Sumlin surfaced: obbligati to a track never completed for Terraplane's 2011 album "Sky Road Songs", now ready to go. –– Elliott Sharp, NYC June 2021

PRODUCED BY ELLIOTT SHARP Tracie Morris - vocals (1, 4, 11) Mikel Banks - vocals (3, 6, 11) Eric Mingus - vocals (2, 4, 8, 10) Hubert Sumlin - guitar (4) Al Kaatz - guitar (10) Melanie Dyer - viola (9) Taylor Ho Bynum - trumpet (6, 11) Dave Hofstra - acoustic bass (3, 9) Don McKenzie - drums E# - guitars, steel guitar, electric bass, banjo, saxophones, keyboards, electronics, drum programming Cover design by Janene Higgins. Image is a map of the United States that shows "free states”, "slave states”, and “undecided" ones, as it appeared in the book "American Slavery and Colour” by William Chambers, 1857 

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POST-POST-SCRIPTUM 1133

49 - QUE POURRAIT BIEN RACONTER CE PROJET ?

Et s’il s’agissait d’un livre abordant les rapports entre jazz et rock (et vice-versa) d’une manière enfin inédite ?

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Elliott Sharp, Author of IrRational Music

Elliott Sharp is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was awarded the Berlin Prize in Music in 2015 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. His composition "Storm of the Eye" for violinist Hilary Hahn appeared on her Grammy-winning album In 27 Pieces. His new book is IrRational Music, published by Terra Nova. He’s discussing his book along with David Rothenberg (who also has a new book, Nightingales in Berlin, published by University of Chicago) on Thursday, June 27, 2019.

City Lights: If you’ve been to City Lights before, what’s your memory of the visit? If you haven’t been here before, what are you expecting?

Elliot Sharp: When I first walked into City Lights in 1985, it was an adrenalized thrill, years of imagining of this most comprehensive and poetic bookstore coming to life.

CL: What’s the first book you read & what are you reading right now?

ES: Probably some Little Golden Book but my strongest early reading memories are of a natural history book with pictures of lots of dinosaurs.

At the moment I’m reading Gary Tomlinson’s A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity and Stefan Zweig’s The Invisible Collection.

CL: What are 3 books you would you never part with?

ES: The strongest parts of my essential books are burned into memory so owning the physical book is not so important at the moment.  Still, I’m always happy to dip back into Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Walter Benjamin’s Arcades, and Harry Partch’s Genesis of a Music.

CL: What writers/artists/people do you find the most influential to the writing of this book and/or your writing in general?

ES: For the writing of IrRational Music I’m especially grateful to my editor, the brilliant Evan Eisenberg, who always gave me cogent suggestions that were vital to my developing an authorial voice and likewise, David Rothenberg’s encouragement and enthusiasm. I draw inspiration from the great wealth of memoirs, history, fiction, and theoretical works by these authors: (to name just a few and in no particular order): Primo Levi, Philip K. Dick, Elias Canetti, the aforementioned Harry Partch and Thomas Pynchon, Iannis Xenakis’ Formalized Music, William Gaddis, Cordwainer Smith, Spinoza: A Life by Steven Nadler, Kobo Abe, Susan Sontag, Jack Womack, Douglas Hofstadter, Jonathan Lethem, James Joyce, Benoit Mandelbrot, Flannery O’Connor, and William Gibson.

CL: If you opened a bookstore tomorrow, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

ES: My bookstore would be called READ and everything in it would be a bestseller!

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Batman: Rogue Gallery

Series by Elliott Sharp

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06.13.24 Elliott Sharp: Die Grösste Fuge (The Greatest Fugue), a time travel opera, with Elliott Sharp composer, electronics, Nicholas Isherwood bass/baritone, Janene Higgins projection design and DGF String Quartet. At Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.