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Don Scott

Songs of the Doomed: Some Jaded, Atavistic Freakout

By Dan McCarthy

Label: TPR Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Morning in Woody Creek; Hell's Angels; Some Jaded, Atavistic Freakout; Irresponsible Jibberish; We Were Somewhere Around Barstow; Kingdom of Fear; What Limes; Strange Rumblings in Aztlan; The High-Water Mark; Owl Farm; Gonzo Journalism Article #3; White Rabbit; Evening in Woody Creek.

Hell's Angels

December 16, 2022

Album: Songs of the Doomed: Some Jaded, Atavistic Freakout
By Dan McCarthy
Label: TPR Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:36

Dan McCarthy: Songs of the Doomed: Some Jaded, Atavistic Freakout

by Dan Bilawsky
December 11, 2022

Songs of the Doomed is, in essence, the love child of self-stylized journalism and outré composition methodologies. Drawing inspiration from the work of Hunter S. Thompson, vibraphonist Dan McCarthy created the gonzo cypher to help translate some of the maverick's writer's lines into tone rows. The rules of serialism then cemented certain things in place while ...

Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation

By Peripheral Vision

Label: Step3
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: Whistle Up A Rope; Hanging In, Hanging On, Hanging Out; Reconciliation Suite; For Kent Monkman; The Foish Who Can't Do Math; Brooklyn's Bearded; Man Vs Zafu. CD 2: Title Crisis; Kopfkino; S N A Kee SSS; Neo- Expressionism For Pacifists; N12; Schleudern; Mutual Humiliation Society.

Peripheral Vision: Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 24, 2020

Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation sees Peripheral Vision celebrating their outfit's ten-year anniversary of collaboration. During that time, the group has released four studio albums and one live recording (Spectable: Live!, 2011), each time presenting fresh and stirring new music written by the leaders Don Scott and Michael Herring. More than anything though, the Canadian quartet ...

Peripheral Vision: Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation

by Hrayr Attarian
June 18, 2020

The fifth release of the Canadian quartet Peripheral Vision, the stimulating double album Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation crystalizes the band's creative vision of over a decade into 14 captivating originals. Composers Michael Herring on bass and Don Scott on guitar contributed all the tracks that range from the personal to the socially conscious with a ...

Peripheral Vision: Irrational Revelation And Mutual Humiliation

by Dan McClenaghan
May 22, 2020

The Toronto-based quartet Peripheral Vision offers up Irrational Revelation and Mutual Humiliation, the group's fifth release in a discography that began in 2014 with Sheer Tyranny Of Will (Step3). The leaders, guitarist Don Scott and bassist Michael Herring, anchor a tight rhythm section with drummer Nick Fraser, rounded out with alto saxophonist Trevor Hogg. Distinctively modern ...

More Songs About Error And Shame

By Peripheral Vision

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Blunder; Syntax Error; "And the metaphysical concept of shame"; Portrait Of A Man In A Late Nineteenth Century Frame; Chubby Cello; Click Bait.

Peripheral Vision: More Songs About Error And Shame

by Friedrich Kunzmann
May 20, 2018

The first half of 2018 sees the Toronto Jazz-scene bursting with fresh sound and innovation, bringing new and exciting nuances to what appears to be today's Status Quo. After the architecturally intense exploration that was saxophonist Gordon Hyland's Never Die!, by his group Living Fossil in February, the object of this review exposes shared similarities with ...