Wednesday, 25 January 2017

More Doug Lofstrom in 1981' s Spontaneous Combustion, but free jazz





Doug is the gentleman in the center, and plays bass, flute, percussion and 'vocals.'  Corpolongo is on saxes and Paul Wertico on drums.
I should have realized from the title that we were to expect free jazz and spontaneous improvs and been a bit more circumspect.  What I find most irritating about free jazz is the mix of pure noise with dissonant atonal (which I often don't mind) and ridiculous dixieland sounds that are completely incongruent, as if you had a patch of renaissance cherub and Madonna inside a Pollock.

Here's the last track, thankfully brief:



ANYONE FOR A LOSSLESS?



7 comments:

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  2. Ouch! I'm with you on this one. Really like his "music" album from the other day though.

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  3. Thanks Julian. Very interesting music as I'm much more amenable to free improvisation. On another note, I recently finally caught up with the East River Consort post. Great record! Would you be open to sharing the Noonan, Levi and Houshmand LP?

    Anyway, all the best!

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  4. Thanks so much… and… always up for lossless files of these gems!

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