http://www.taktlos.com/taktlos12-tony-malaby-paloma-recio-us/ Bühne für grenzüberschreitende Musik Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 http://www.taktlos.com/taktlos12-tony-malaby-paloma-recio-us/#comment-5079 Willy Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:01:10 +0000 http://www.taktlos.com/taktlos12-tony-malaby-paloma-recio-us/#comment-5079 First, let me say that I really enjoy your blog. It is a vblaaule source of thoughtful musings on an underappreciated corner of the music world, and the joy you find in the music shines through in your writing.Second, I think Rainey is a treasure. I first learned of him through his work with Tim Berne and Mark Helias. His playing with Berne, especially, is just sublime. I imagine a fast, rocky river--jostling and flipping leaves, splashing stones, fluidly slipping past obstacles, sometimes silently, sometimes noisily, but always moving to an incessant yet varying natural rhythm. I am occasionally asked by friends with less unconventional tastes in music (friends who consider someone like Berne to be producing random noise) why I like the music I do. But to me the answer is simply that it is beautiful. It may not have an easy-to-see pattern, or perhaps any repeated elements to grasp onto. But this should not be a barrier. If we can find beauty in nature's chaos--in the patter of rain or the fork of a lightning bolt or a cliff wall or a stand of trees--it isn't that hard to find beauty in "free" or "free-er" kinds of jazz. To me, Rainey fits this picture quite well--he is the river. First, let me say that I really enjoy your blog. It is a vblaaule source of thoughtful musings on an underappreciated corner of the music world, and the joy you find in the music shines through in your writing.Second, I think Rainey is a treasure. I first learned of him through his work with Tim Berne and Mark Helias. His playing with Berne, especially, is just sublime. I imagine a fast, rocky river–jostling and flipping leaves, splashing stones, fluidly slipping past obstacles, sometimes silently, sometimes noisily, but always moving to an incessant yet varying natural rhythm. I am occasionally asked by friends with less unconventional tastes in music (friends who consider someone like Berne to be producing random noise) why I like the music I do. But to me the answer is simply that it is beautiful. It may not have an easy-to-see pattern, or perhaps any repeated elements to grasp onto. But this should not be a barrier. If we can find beauty in nature’s chaos–in the patter of rain or the fork of a lightning bolt or a cliff wall or a stand of trees–it isn’t that hard to find beauty in “free” or “free-er” kinds of jazz. To me, Rainey fits this picture quite well–he is the river.

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