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TWO NEW MYTH MAKERS TITLES RECORDED AT WHOOVERVILLE THIS YEAR!

We're delighted to say that new MYTH MAKERS with actor TREVOR COOPER and designer ROGER MURRAY-LEACH were shot at WHOOVERVILLE 15 this August.

Both interviews were conducted by ROBERT DICK and will be released later this year.

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Robert DICK

"Whispers and Landings"

(LP. Lumina rcds. 1981) [US]

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MYTH MAKERS 5 - JANET FIELDING UPDATED EDITION NOW OUT!

Delighted to say the new, shiny, updated JANET FIELDING edition of MYTH MAKERS is now available to buy on DVD, Download and Stream from our sales website: www.timetraveltv.com.

Combining the original 1985 interview by NICHOLAS BRIGGS with a brand-new one conducted by ROBERT DICK earlier this year!

This special extended edition is only available as an individual MYTH MAKERS release.

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Steel, Skin and Bamboo — If Wolves Could Buy CDs (Minus Zero)

When is a minor chord more than a minor chord? While some punning punchline or other ought to ensue, my listening notes pose this question as the first track of Steel, Skin and Bamboo’s long-delayed debut album fades toward silence. Fortunately, that glorious fade and its immediate antecedent form just one moment amongst innumerable ones that place the platter beyond so many similarly conceived but less successful genre-benders.

First, a little bit of backstory seems in order. For whatever reason, maybe a short-sighted record company decision, the recorded meeting of flute virtuoso Robert Dick, Bansuri master Steve Gorn and percussionist extraordinaire Gerry Hemingway wasn’t given its planned release in 1997. A quick glance at any of their discographies might shed light on that conundrum, as each regularly chomps at the shared bits of category, culture and convention. Dick and Gorn had been performing together for a few years, and the addition of Hemingway was just a logical step forward along a path of multifarious musical encounter.

If Wolves Could Buy CDs by Steel, Skin and Bamboo

Returning to that minor chord, and it is indeed a chord as Hemingway’s voice vibrates his snare, offers a subtle but clear picture of group chemistry in action from which the album takes off. “Quiet Please” presents the rapid-fire communication in staggering microcosm. It opens in the same sublimated space occupied by “Vedic”’s conclusion, but some composition is also evident. Of particular import are those restrained but energy-suffused multiphonics coming from one of Dick’s flutes. Adding Hemingway’s myriad taps and rolls, sometimes with fingers, on what sounds like snares-off snare and toms transforms the trio into a small ensemble. His cymbals, malleted and scraped, float and flutter by with speed and invention rivaled by each slide, puff and key tap as the two flautists converge, often picking up a note just where the other left it. The two flutes sound like a single instrument as they usher out the track in eerie thirds.

It isn’t that Gorn, Hemingway and Dick do anything other than they’ve always done, so those familiar with any of their numerous and boundary-defying projects will already know what to expect. It’s simply that they work so well together, that every gesture seems to complement the rest as the sounds fly by in alternating states of reflection and wise agitation. Check out Hemingway brushing that low tom, an anchoring device resembling a bass, while his sparkling cymbals and Dick’s chopped lines interact in meterless polyrhythmic counterpoint. There is also plenty more of that flute duo interaction, like the pitch-circling that infuses “Kausi”’s first moments, but equally impressive is Hemmingway and Gorn’s duo on “Vedic Reprise,” again with Hemingway’s resonant voice and as satisfying a conclusion as an album can have albeit without the minor chord! All three members’ voices get cameos, especially Dick’s basso profundo along with his bass flute. The trio’s instrumental doublings rival a Pierrot Lunaire ensemble in skill and finesse, from Hemingway’s steelpans to Gorn’s clarinet and the flautists’ continual interregistral instrument swaps. As the track title suggests, Gorn does play two ocarinas; imagine Rahsaan Roland Kirk if his travels had taken him to India. The recording is brilliant, both present and luxuriously atmospheric. Thanks are due Minus Zero for bringing such an important album to light. What an absolute joy it is to listen to this music, to partake in what was obviously such a meeting of like minds and kindred spirits! Yes, it’s healthy to maintain some intellectual distance. A few years in the academic world will drill that in deeply enough, but when the joys of creation are as palpable as they are on this expertly conceived trio album, distance be damned!

Marc Medwin

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JazzX5#137. Robert Dick - Joëlle Léandre - Miya Masaoka: Speed Of Silence (Solar Wind) [Minipodcast]

JazzX5#137. Robert Dick – Joëlle Léandre – Miya Masaoka: Speed Of Silence (Solar Wind) [Minipodcast]

Por Pachi Tapiz.

“Speed Of Silence” Robert Dick – Joëlle Léandre – Miya Masaoka: Solar Wind (Not Two Records)

© Pachi Tapiz, 2019

JazzX5 es un minipodcast de HDO de la Factoría Tomajazz presentado, editado y producido por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5 comenzó su andadura el 24 de junio de 2019. Todas las entregas de JazzX5 están disponibles en https://www.tomajazz.com/web/?cat=23120 / https://www.ivoox.com/j…

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[fluterants]

When you perform, you tend to focus on playing the flute well. But the audience knows you can play the flute - you're playing it and they can see that. The audience is there to hear the truth. Your truth. Focus on that.

Robert Dick

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Oh my god my flute list digest email tonight was sooo long because of all the awesome support of Robert Dick. I’m glad so many people (especially Robert Dick himself) are taking it as an opportunity instead of berating the show.