11/18/2023 0 Comments Carla bley 2018![]() ![]() ![]() Spanish and Austrian elements in her work that produced a fine, slight, subtle humour I kind'a agree with what Marcello is hinting at re Carla in this threadĪfter carla bley stopped collaborating with myriad mutually influencing people from paul haines through to gato barbieri those extreme left-field elements of her work lost their broader sense of fun, as she qua composer/ conductor/ dictator began to stick to just her own ideas, and maybe she'd exhausted the possibilities of trad. That this 'escalator.' thing can drag in such apparently commercially incompatible musos and prove that idea wrong and let them jel without having to worry about what the public thought, to let jazz and pop stars work side-by-side without the whole project being critically and popularly panned in 1970, well you couldn't do it now (sting on bass etc), but it really worked then, completely at odds with the pop music or even head music markets - and it sounds genuineĪppeal of bley's music in general (& humours role in that): ![]() Yeah i heard someone say to me "screw carla bley - jack bruce appears on those albums" - and he's all over bley's husband mantler's '70s work, y'know pinter and beckett set to music - "jack bruce - why did they settle for him etc." (whereas robert wyatt was implicitly "cool")įor most of theses weird one off projects by bley or mantler there are fellow travellers, some who would emerge years after these recording from '68-'72 for completely different big deal reasons elsewhere, like the drummer from pink floyd who stayed loyal to this alternative musical community (a bunch of pretty close friends) whatever you think of any other of his achievements No photos of all those collaborating musos from '68-'70, no libretto to one of the few 'rock operas' in extended english that you might actually like - Marcello would've been unable to provide a quarter of the detail he has in his fantastic article/stab at this impossible to pin down art happening thing without the beautifully integrated libretto, and listening to the cd on it's own is going to be very baffling for anyone else without it - this is music and words you come back to again and again, and a comparison to Alice in Wonderland is at least an attempt to identify the chronotransduction as something - it's something, and no-one i know who's experienced the lps/music with the booklet hasn't enjoyed it, even if we can't agree on anything else about itĮxcept maybe that it's an artifact from when the left and hippy attitudes within the avant music and lit circles connected and allowed something on this scale to happen, when rock stars and avant jazz cats really worked together in a response to the perceived limitations of the "sgt. ' is an art object maybe greater than the music itself, yet in these days of de rigeur cd booklets, the cd re-issue of this large evidence of a musical project going in as many driections at once as the number of 'songs' it contains, this double cd doesn't have any of that information, no booklet (it would not have been the same as mere cd booklet size anyway, to be fair) My point - track down someone with the booklet which was originally there in the 3lp box set and copy it or buy it - 'Escalator. The book's an lp sized coffee table presentation providing all the hard to decipher lyrics and band configurations and plot setting in chonological order (ie start to finish, quite a concession really), since all this stuff is often going on at the same time so you haven't a hope in hell of working out which character a singer is in, that's if you recognise the singer You need the book, and the way the six sides start and end is also kind'a crucial (for instance, the indian sides emerge as a new day/time/continent when played after the noir sides you think you're used to, maybe leaving you imagining you've woken up in a new listening experience altogether) Read Marcello's essay and note that he's often talking about inaudible stuff like lyrics that aren't sung (or sung underneath other singers/music) and stage direction type hints at the plot 'in the booklet' ![]()
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