Line Out - Comments on Scoring Branca from Soul Jazz http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from So Segal told me that if I loved Arthur Russell I should pick up Soul Jazz Records' The World of Arthur Russell. It was my introduction to the World of Soul Jazz and I'll never look back. I've been suspicious... Copyright 2008 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:08:08 -0800 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:38:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Steve Soul Jazz does great work

]]> Steve http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471363 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471363 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:32:42 -0800 Comment by segal Soul Jazz rarely, if ever, releases a dud. Problem is, the label's so prolific, you can go broke trying to keep up with its output.

If you're feeling Branca, you may also want to check out Ascension and Lesson No. 1, which Acute Records (a subsidiary of Car Park, www.carparkrecords.com) reissued in 2003 and 2004, respectively.

The other Branca release I have is Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus). Jon Pareles describes it in the liners: "Branca investigates rock's archetypal E chord for resonances, overtones, echoes, implications, in a structure filled with inexorable drama."

I saw Branca & Co. perform this piece in Detroit around then, and it has proven to be the most powerful concert I've ever witnessed. I'd even haul out that adjective one should use perhaps only once in a lifetime with regard to music: apocalyptic.


]]> segal http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471365 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471365 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:45:05 -0800 Comment by henri Damit, now I gotta go buy this.

]]> henri http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471373 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471373 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:38:46 -0800 Comment by christopher hong the label's so prolific, you can go broke trying to keep up with its output.

This, this is my problem.

]]> christopher hong http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471419 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2006/09/scoring_branca_from#c471419 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:38:27 -0800