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New Releases for 2009!
NEW! Bob & Friends DVD - Live - 3 Performances
In other news; I played with Ornette Coleman on 5/01/09. I wanted do this for years and finally got a chance when he invited me to his home to play – just him and me. I still can’t believe it.
5 New Live Releases from our shows performed in 2008
& 1 new studio release Radio Silent.
As always you can check out our catalog section for more details plus cover art.
Reviews of the Bob & Friends Releases available here.
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New Release! from the downtown rock group Radio Silent.
Radio Silent is a New York City-based power trio, playing original music while recalling the great rock ensembles of previous decades. Though dedicated to the craft of songwriting, the band places equal importance on improvisation--their live shows feature extended explorations that travel well beyond the basic parameters of any given song. This is, perhaps, explained by the group’s background: guitarist Mark Daterman has recorded and performed with jazz and improvisational artists such as Oregon bassist Glen Moore and guitarist Robert Musso (see The Blimp War, MM#0018) as well as poets Juan Felipe Herrera, Marvin Bell, and Al Young. Lead singer and drummer Terry “Maxwell” Kestel started banging on pots and pans at an early age, and the rhythmic fantasia hasn’t stopped since. He’s worked in a multitude of settings, from rock to jazz to percussion ensembles, including the Zappa-influenced Jeebus and the Renaissance folk/space jam rock of the Bardo Brothers. He has recorded and performed with the Celtic/world music ensemble Shaman, as well as the Lower East Side garage/grunge band The Big Ifs. Bassist David McGauley, formerly of Marfa Mystery Lights and Dollar Record, is a veteran face with keen ears and fleet fingers on the late night Lower East Side jam scene.
So for those listeners who just want to sit back and enjoy the songs and playing, we’re glad to have you aboard. And for those of you more closely attenuated to the improvisation factor, keep in mind that on some tracks, the solos come straight “from the floor”; that is, they’re part of the original basic track, rather than overdubbed later (see if you can tell which!) Daisy Blues, the final track on the album, is, for the most part, a “live-in-the-studio” instrumental burner.
May you enjoy listening to this music as much as we did making it.
Radio Silent
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Improvised Music - Most of the music available for download from this site is improvised music. These are mostly recordings of live shows that are 100% improvised. There were no rehearsals and usually no sound checks before the show started. I know that in Machine Gun, we would usually just pick a key to start in and that would be it. That was the total extent of our group preparation for the gig. Everything else that happened was a result of the musical interaction of the musicians on stage improvising.
Solo records -- This category includes all of the CDs released under my name, and although I call them solo records, they all have friends, and guest musicians involved in one way or another. These records were usually written out, or conceived ahead of time or let's say composed music.
Ambient/ Electronic -- This group of CDs includes the three CDs that I released for the German based Fax label under the name Transonic. These CDs are semi composed and semi improvised. They were constructed from electronic sounds, effects and loops, and then in the mixing process, all of these elements were used to improvise the final mixes, in hopes of creating something new. Pete Namlook of the Fax label mentioned to me once that he thought that the first Transonic CD was possibly the beginning of trip-hop.
Friends -- This group of CDs includes my friends CDs from the original MuWorks catalog to friends that I have played with throughout the years to more recent CDs that I'm distributing for friends through this web site. They include CDs by Thomas Chapin, Pheeroan akLaff, John Richey (Lunar Bear Ensemble) Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, John McCracken, Mark Daterman and Glen Moore, etc.