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The Better Beatles - Paperback Writer

one more of fav band... weird project... The Better Beatles As far as cover versions bands are concerned, you don’t get any weirder than Better Beatles, as here we have a simple and singular concept: that of replaying classic Beatles songs in a minimal-post-punk fashion. The Better Beatles were a short-lived post-punk band formed in Omaha, Nebraska in 1981. The group consisted of Kurt Magnuson on bass, Dave Nordin on synthesizer, Jean pSmith on vocals, and Jay Rosen on drums and vocals. Their repertoire consisted entirely of cold, minimalist covers of the songs of The Beatles in an irreverent manner comparable to covers performed by The Residents ...

Small Medium Large (SML) Window Sill Song

SML · Jeremiah Chiu · Gregory Uhlmann · Josh Johnson · Booker Stardrum · Anna Butterss Small Medium Large ℗ 2024 International Anthem Espécie de super grupo de Los Angeles em estreia na International Anthem, o quinteto de Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Josh Johnson, Booker Stardrum e Gregory Uhlmann não passa sem nos fazer lembrar as composições mais sintetizadas de Herbie Hancock - e não fosse a terceira faixa do disco chamar-se “Herbie for Commercials”. mas tudo vai além disso: há aqui uma liberdade de mudança entre paisagens, de uma mestria da gramática dos sons que é raro encontrarmos noutros lugares - em “Rubber Tree Dance”, mais pelo fim, a naturalidade com que revertem o sentido da faixa e desaguam num mar de sons etéreos, calmos e bonitos - potenciados por efeitos e pelas técnicas de estúdio - é fascinante. Improvisações circulares e cruas editadas e arranjadas resultaram no que ouvimos no disco. Há funk, jazz, música ambiental com laivos de new age (não fosse Chiu membro integrante deste projecto), tudo ancorado por ritmos electrónicos e com uma improvisação de tom mais freak, psicadélica, como mote. Um piscar de olhos aos delírios kraut e jazz com inovações texturais electrónicas? Música de dança fora do baralho? As influências cictadas corroboram isto: Pole, Susumu Yokota, Can, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock. Encontram tudo aqui no novo International Anthem. Flur one of the best 2024 album Sounding at various points like a contemporary electronic dance record, On the Corner–style 1970s fusion, or 1980s New York mutant disco like Liquid Liquid and ESG, the West Coast quintet SML’s first album is constructed from live improvisations transformed through postproduction editing and processing. The group has its roots in Jeff Parker’s Los Angeles jazz venue ETA, which closed last year; bassist Anna Butterss and saxophonist Josh Johnson are also both on Parker’s superlative double album this year, The Way Out of Easy. Circular and raw improvisations edited and arranged resulted in the album. There is funk, jazz, environmental music with hints of new age (if it weren't for Chiu being an integral member of this project), all anchored by electronic rhythms and with a more freaky, psychedelic improvisation as the motto. A nod to kraut and jazz delirium with electronic textural innovations? Dance music off the deck? The influences cited corroborate this: Pole, Susumu Yokota, Can, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock. But the shimmery, pulsing sound of SML, with its synthesizers, guitars, percussion, and loops, has the potential to entice a listenership not usually drawn to free-jazz types, perhaps the way Chicago’s Tortoise did in the 1990s—with the squared-off anti-funk of “Industry,” for instance, or the near-ambient pit-a-pat of “Window Sill Song.” Enfield Tennis Academy. The tiny Los Angeles cocktail bar, with its specialty in avant-garde jazz and a name that winked at David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, dodged any accusations of snobbishness by cutting out the usual strictures: no two-drink minimum, no ban on talking or cell phones, and for a while at least, no cover charge. ETA became a destination for the new jazz scene’s westward migration from Chicago to L.A.; a weekly improv session led by Tortoise and Isotope 217 guitarist Jeff Parker was the highlight of the schedule, and a phenomenal recording of those shows, 2022’s Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, finally let the world know what was happening in the cramped back space of that long, narrow club. But despite its momentum, ETA officially shut down at the end of 2023, closing another chapter in the history of West Coast jazz.