A few weeks ago I went to an afternoon party at Experimental Sound Studio to celebrate the weekly Option series organized by Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, and Andrew Clinkman. The series focuses on improvised music, but the entertainment for this event consisted of Vandermark, Daisy, and occasional Reader contributor John Corbett lined up behind a row of laptops, a CD player, and a turntable in ESS’s outdoor garden, spinning just about anything but improvised music. Corbett played one song that immediately stopped me, a common experience when I hear him DJ—it sounded vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it.
Tommy Meier Root Down, The Master and the Rain (Intakt) Jim O’Rourke, Old News #8 (Old News) Mat Maneri, Evan Parker, and Lucian Ban, Sounding Tears (Clean Feed) Gene Shaw, Debut in Blues (Chess) Anatol Ugorski, Olivier Messiaen: Catalog D’oiseaux (Deutsche Grammophon)
