tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post8219900934707932895..comments2024-03-03T13:59:25.573-08:00Comments on If You Know What I'm Saying: the opinion upgrade from uranusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-5668171570627332082012-04-19T15:38:01.482-07:002012-04-19T15:38:01.482-07:00I'd like to see it too. The music was recorded...I'd like to see it too. The music was recorded in three hours (after technical problems), between Braxton, Antoine Duhamel and bassist François Méchali. <br />http://www.cinezik.org/compositeurs/index.php?compo=duhamel-ent2<br /><br />"La coupe" (the image on imdb) takes place during the 1998 football world cup ; a group of tibetan monks (I took them for Shaolin at first sight) try to go see the event, from what I gathered. <br /><br />Hoping to find more on La coupe à dix francs, and watch it one day !Nuage fiché qui rêvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379323343291456318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-38241840659826805412012-04-18T16:32:16.683-07:002012-04-18T16:32:16.683-07:00p'tain de merde, chsavais pas du tout... now i...p'tain de merde, chsavais pas du tout... now i gotta voir ce film, haven't i... merci mon pote :))<br /><br />very very interesting - where the fuck did that lame-ass photo on imdb come from?? (or is there actually another movie of the same name? "la coupe" - didn't think of it in that sense at all, was thinking of a completely different word; so i didn't question the pic when i saw it)<br /><br />but i mean yeah, i would now be really interested in tracking that down. being french it will, no doubt, be both brutal and very good :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-7297136664970899682012-04-15T17:51:22.312-07:002012-04-15T17:51:22.312-07:00Hi Cent' ; on the movie La coupe à dix francs,...Hi Cent' ; on the movie La coupe à dix francs, imdb has a wrong photo. Whoever added the picture of "la coupe" may have wanted to play on words : "coupe" can be a cup like a football cup or a drinking cup... or something completely different, an haircut, the latter applying to the film).<br />This is a drama that deals with social matters. Near a little village there is a factory that employs most of the young men. A conflict erupts between the boss and the workers, he wants them to cut their long hair. There is one worker who is hard to convince, his father takes part in the conflict by forcing him to go see the coiffeur, eventually the insurgent has his hair cut like the others. Being the target of mockery, his situation becomes unbearable and he makes self immolation before the horrified colleagues. A tough end for a movie I had never heard about. <br /><br />http://www.cinema-francais.fr/les_films/films_c/films_condroyer_philippe/la_coupe_a_10_francs.htmNuage fiché qui rêvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379323343291456318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-67323572616029861402012-03-11T05:32:44.572-07:002012-03-11T05:32:44.572-07:00and goddamn if i didn't hurt myself recently, ...and goddamn if i didn't hurt myself recently, by being so involved in my new job that i neglected my correspondence and thus never found out from any of my london friends that (probably) my second favourite reed player ever was doing a motherfucking two-day residency at cafe oto, with the same r-section that i saw <a href="http://ifyouknowwhatimsaying.blogspot.com/2011/02/feet-of-clay.html" rel="nofollow">with john tchicai</a> - and i only found out the week it was about to take place, i.e. technically in time to make the saturday night, yet knowing full well that in practice it just wasn't gonna happen at such very short notice. so lo and behold it didn't, and boy did i ever have the mother-in-law of a nightmare day at work yesterday (not twigging till this morning that this always happens to me when i arrange to be elsewhere-than-i'm-supposed-to-be)... as i deserved to for allowing myself to miss out on the rare chance to see a living top-level master at close range (hell, tchicai was only feet away from us; i have never been that close to live-sound-of-braxton, alas... some way back from the stage on both of the occasions i have seen him live; i have NEVER seen mitchell). shit shit shit. just gotta eat it on this occasion and know that i missed out... it happens. will i get another chance? let's hope so. in the meantime, good on you messrs edwards and marsh, that's a nice one for the cv now isn't it :)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-26791631276418918442012-03-11T05:14:02.949-07:002012-03-11T05:14:02.949-07:006. ok... aha, here i bloody am all over again. let...6. ok... aha, here i bloody am all over again. let's keep it brief: dave's estimable strengths - aside from his honest and wholehearted commitment to music in the first place - include near-comprehensive technical facility, tireless stamina, discretion/taste, and clarity (and indeed identificity) of tone. i don't think anyone can really argue too vociferously with me if i assert that he lacks imagination.<br /><br />the latter is one of the deciding factors in a player's adaptability to braxton's way of thinking [ = manner of asking complex questions in real-time environments, almost a sort of musique concrete abstraite ;-) ]<br /><br />hence... i still ultimately will always (probably) conclude that what glued the two men together was a bond as between brothers, and to be honoured for all that, and (preferably now) questioned little if at all further.<br /><br />7. the aeoc played with everyone sooner or later (like brotz and bailey etc - and c.t. and b. of course. they're never *as a band* at the very top of my list, though mitchell is right up at the top of my list as a player for sure (see third comment below..!) but the idea of a date with both braxton and lowe is just droolworthy, it really could see me losing the plot if it goes (went) well - did b. and f.l. play together otherwise..? off the top of my head i believe they did not... i'm a huge admirer of mr lowe's - his sound combines toughness and incredible visceral thrill with measured intellect; this is not a common meta-text to encounter, i can tell you... julius hemphill's sound combines the same qualities. early david murray, probably... (debate could continue endlessly)<br /><br />8. - one of the interviews reproduced in the back of the composition notes. i am still planning to do that article (i.e. student studies 3) - but i confess that in the meantime i had long since forgotten about it...centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-76057393948459751512012-03-11T01:00:19.434-08:002012-03-11T01:00:19.434-08:00unreadable? you can tell me :)
1. well not *reall...unreadable? you can tell me :)<br /><br />1. well not *really*, obviously, but the bit about the box of boots is indeed totally true. and as far as origin stories go, that's the only one you're getting ;-)<br /><br />2. ahem. there is actually a slight exception to this rule, in that i don't necessarily leap to add standards dates to the collection. would probably end up grabbing them anyway, of course, but... well, depends on other factors such as personnel and repertoire, etc <br /><br />3. having initially studied under bertram turetzky, dresser went to italy on a fulbright scholarship to work directly with franco petracchi. thing is, by the look of it that was in 1983 and was only (iirc) supposed to be for a year. maybe he stuck around or something... in any case, g.h. recounts to lock that he knew dresser was already in europe when j.l. fell through the trap-door. it does make more sense that he would just up and leave when he *wasn't* in the middle of something special and important, such as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study under the direct supervision of a(nother) maestro. this is especially true because...<br /><br />4. ...by his own admission (lock again), when dresser joined the band, he had no idea what he was doing and did not understand how to play the music at all - nor could he even follow the scores. of course, a musician of this rarefied level is still going to play better than most in a situation like this, but it will be interesting nevertheless to hear what "exalted floundering" actually sounds like - ! and for this reason it's not worth shedding too many tears about having only a fragment of (what i'm presuming was) his first gig with the band.<br /><br />5. - and yes, part of the motivation for this ruthless self-correction and opinion-upgrading is the fact that most people seem to refuse to engage in anything of the sort... indeed some older collector-fetishists appear to cling desperately to their own cherished opinions like a shipwreck survivor to a rubber ring. (of course i only understand this behaviour on the "takes one to know one" principle, but this is not an example of there-but-for-the-grace: i have undertaken a lot of hard work to ensure that i don't end up like that. hence my (genuine) lack of sympathy for those who never self-examine. it may not be warm or pretty, but it's not hypocritical either...)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.com