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Ponga: Ponga
by Derrick A. Smith
The comparison between Ponga and the early-70s groups of Miles and Herbie Hancock is obvious but not facile. Obvious points of comparison are the tension that exists between the unpredictability of the live sources and the postmodernist structuring achieved in-studio; the coexistence of groove and physicality with an amorphous, ambiguous improvisatory conceptualism; and the omnivorous aspect of the music which renders it both in- and outside of its contemporary milieau.
Ponga as an album and a group entity creates a ...
Continue ReadingAmontobincapsuleisosilabrazilliaspacetimecontinuum: The Ponga Remixes
by Mark Corroto
I think I am beginning to sound like my father. Things I say remind me of him. For instance, when I opened this disc I muttered, “Remix, when I was a kid there were no remix albums.” Maybe not, but there was electric Miles’ Live Evil by way of “producer” Teo Macero, his cutting and splicing of reel to reel tape has been replaced by today’s drum machines and computer editors. And because nobody dances at the Knitting Factory, remixes ...
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