Manafonistas

It was a great evening. Five hours of highway driving behind me. I’m not favouring cd over lp or lp over cd, but tonight I’m a sensurroundist, and what Steven Wilson delivers with his 5:1-lossless mix, is miraculous for all the details revealed on a multi-channel-mix that is true to the original version. I wouldn’t even have heared the police if they were banging on the door. I think the house has been empty tonight except the big circus in my room, the distorted guitars, the disembodied singing, the madrigal-like ballad, the cacophonic jazz-outbreaks, the tough seconds between furor and acoustic balladry. Not to forget the oddest time signatures, the freewheelin‘ lyrics and the end of the show – when all that has happened it dissolves into mist and vagueness (early child’s memory). On a caroussel that turns and turns and flies away. My night drink: Rooibusch Tea from Sylt. Masterclass King Crimson album. Lark Tongues In Aspic will be tomorrow’s loudest meditation.

Ornette, he has gone. He changed our way of listening …
 
He was one of the great artists of the (bygone) 20th century
He uncovered something, trusted his ears and (inner) voice,
kept track, distinguished and made no hierarchal differences
 
for me the quintessential song of Ornette still is UNA MUY BONITA,
 
 
listen H E R E
 
 
recorded in october 1959 with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, produced by Nesuhi Ertegün for Atlantic. It is from the album Change Of The Century, released in june 1960
 
 
 

 
 
 
Here are two obituary texts I like, one by Peter Margasak and one by Taylor Ho Bynum
 
 
And here is what Charles Lloyd said when he heard Ornette had left the planet
 

„Loneliness of the long distance runner. He knew his name and wouldn’t play the game. Deep in stardust he transposed the fight of Bird into the key of the Universe – the sighs, the cries, the tenderness, the warmth, the longing, the injustice and the justice. He understood and was beyond all that. Despite Kooliwaukee and Perspepitou, Pyramids came to say hello to him. He played on Vesuvius before it was swallowed by Pompeii. Music of the Spheres, his song is your song. Celestial. Manifest in the Absolute. Hologram.“

 
Charles Lloyd met Ornette during the formative Los Angeles years
 
Ornette created a song „Sadness“,
 
performed in 1962 at NY Town Hall w/David Izenzon — double bass Charles Moffat — drums Selwart Clark — violin Nathan Goldstein — violin Julian Barber – Kermit Moore — cello and himself on alto,
 
 
listen H E R E
 
 
And here is what Ornette had to say in Berlin, 1971. All from bygone days but …
 
 
listen H E R E
 
 
Was it (something) simple? …

• Air: Run
• Unbunny: You Run Like A Girl
• Six Organs of Admittance: Dawn Running Home
• Aurora: Running With The Wolves
• Tokio Hotel: Run Run Run (have a look at the various coloured window glass stones in the concert room, if you watch it live from Graceful Sounds on youtube)
• Lou Reed: On The Run
• Neil Young: Running Dry
• Bonny Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney: Only Someone Running

 
… Finally so runs the world away (maybe with Josh Ritter)
 

 
I greatly enjoyed reading this. You may too. The Ginger Line.
 

2015 ist für Armenier nicht irgendein Jahr …
 
 
 

 
 
 
Il bassiste Claude Tchamitchian (Marseille) a formé un sextette spéciale, sextet „2015“:
Géraldine Keller, voix, François Corneloup et Daniel Erdmann, saxophones, Christophe Marguet, batterie, Philippe Deschepper, guitare
 
 
VIDEO
 
 
Ici Tchamitchian sur Manafonistas
 
et
 
Tchamitchian RADIO ON DEMAND

Tigran Hamasyan is twenty-eight years old. He grew up in Gyumri, the former Alexandropol, also the birth-place of Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff however grew up in Kars, then part of Russia with a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual population of Armenians, Russians, Caucasus Greeks, Caucasus Germans, Turks, Kurds and Estonians. Kars is now situated at the Turkish side of the still closed Armenian Turkish border.
 

Here is a VIDEO clip of the second part of the piece „Kars (Wounds Of The Century“ from Hamasyan’s last album, based on the Armenian folk melody „Yaman Yar“.
 
 
 

 

2015 ist für Armenier nicht irgendein Jahr …
 
Levon Eskenian war gerade mit seinem Ensemble mit einem Gurdjieff/Komitas-Programm
 
 
 

beim Holland Festival in Amsterdam und in Brüssel – siehe unter HOLLAND and HAYASTAN
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
und kehrt zur Eröffnung des MORGENLAND FESTIVALs am 22.Juli zurück nach Osnabrück.
 
 
 

Als Prolog gibt es am 21. Juli ein Solo-Konzert von Djivan Gasparyan
 
Und Tigran Hamasyan hat sich mit Chor aufgemacht, dem Yerevan State Choir.
Bereits im September erscheint das Werk bei ECM.
 
 
 

Tigran’s first ECM project features Hamasyan on piano and the Yerevan state chamber choir directed by Harutyun Topikyan. The new project, named “Luys i Luso” which will be released in Autumn 2015, was recorded in Yerevan in October 2014 and produced by Manfred Eicher. This is Tigran’s extraordinary exploration of Armenian sacred music from 5th to 19th centu- ries, and includes compositions by Mesrop Mashtots, Grigor Naregatsi, Nerses Shnorhali, Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi, Khachatur Taronetsi, Makar Yekmalyan and Komitas – all of them arranged for piano and voices by Tigran himself.
 
ECM 2447 CD 473 2383
 
 
Tour Dates
 
23-6 Aghtamar Isl. (TR)
25-6 Diyarbakir (TR)
27-6 Kayseri (TR)
29-6 Vakifli (TR)
30-6 Istanbul (TR)
08-10 Lille (F)
09-10 Lyon (F)
10-10 Belfort (F)
13-10 Lausanne (CH)
14-10 Zurich (CH)
16-10 London (UK)
17-10 Dublin (IRE)
19-10 Angoulême (F)
20-10 Paris (F)
21-10 Nîmes (F)
22-10 Marseille (F)
23-10 München (D)
05-12 Los Angeles (USA)
07-12 New York (USA)