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Han-earl Park: Anomic Aphasia
The music on Han-earl Park's third CD for Slam, Anomic Aphasia, derives from two similar but significantly different Park projects. The first is Eris 136199, an improvising trio consisting of guitarists Park and Nick Didkovsky (leader of Doctor Nerve) plus saxophonist Catherine Sikora. Described by Park as “the noisy, unruly complexity of the ensemble Eris 136199" ...
read moreThe $100 Guitar Project: Act 1
An online listing for a “no name," threadbare guitar; musicians with a distinct sense of humor; an idea, and one credit card... And a few emails later we've got something that combines the honest-but-struggling underdog, the ugly duckling, Pygmalion, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Kaspar Hauser, a Cinderella rags to riches, Herbie the Love ...
read moreNick Didkovsky: Ice Cream Time
Organicità e disorganicità totale, post-rock, irregolarità ritmica, enfasi, meta-linguaggio, pre e post-modernismo, post-minimalismo, neo-massimalismo, patchwork, ottiche di contrapposizione, new chamber music, nervi tesi, rumorismo, elettronica, iconoclasta, ritmi complessi, rigore, disequilibrio, sovversione, asimmetria, ambiguità, Franck Zappa e Edgar Varese... vogliamo metterci anche un caffé espresso? I segnali che il signor Didkovsky manda da anni sono questi. Rispetto agli adorati Doctor Nerve, ...
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