Beyond the New Horizon with Solidarity Unit, Inc, Sounds of Liberation and newly unearthed live Juju from 1973. Brand new dispatches from Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog and Jamie Branch’s FLY or DIE, plus music for amplified strings and electric piano from Olly Wilson. Then a classic Carla Bley tune from Tony Williams Lifetime and Morton Feldman spruces up John Cage’s Cheap Imitation. Annotated playlist by host John Seman in comments.
Photo credits: Ceramic dog by Ebru Yildiz; Sounds of Liberation via WXPN; Olly Wilson via Oberlin College Archives; Solidarity Unit Inc via Eremite Records; Tony Williams Lifetime via Polydor; John Cage and Morton Feldman via Slipped Disc.
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Playing tracks by Jamie Branch, Sounds of Liberation, Juju, Solidarity Unit, Inc., Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog and more.
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Flotation Device - 2021-05-23
annotated playlist by host John Seman
Intro and set one [0:00]
1. [0:57] Jamie Branch: Theme 001; from FLY or DIE LIVE (International Anthem, 2021) note: recorded live at Moods, Zurich, Switzerland, 1/23/2020.
2. [5:38] Sounds of Liberation: New Horizon (Back Streets Of Heaven); from Unreleased (Columbia University 1973) (Dogtown Records, 2019) note: featuring Byard Lancaster.
3. [16:17] Juju: At Least We Have A Horizon Now; from Live At The East 1973 (Now-Again Records, 2019)
set two [28:30]
1. [29:41] Solidarity Unit, Inc: Beyond The New Horizon; from Red, Black & Green (Eremite, 2008)
2. [51:30] Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: B-Flat Ontology; from Hope (Northern Spy, 2021)
3. [57:07] Marc Ribot: Nan Guinan; from Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus (Knockwurst Records, 2021)
set three [1:02:39]
1. [1:04:03] Olly Wilson: Akwan; from Black Composers Series 1974-1978 (Sony Classical, 2019)
2. [1:20:27] Tony Williams Lifetime: Vashkar; from Emergency! (Verve, 1969)
set four [1:25:28]
1. [1:27:22] John Cage: Cheap Imitation Trio (Morton Feldman arrangement); from Complete Cage Edition 54: The Works for Piano 11: Cheap Imitation (Mode, 2021) note: First Recording featuring Margaret Lancaster, flutes, piccolo David Shively, glockenspiel, and Aki Takahashi, piano.