Captivated by a choir rehearsing John Dowland’s 1597 song “Come Again”. #111Words #Music #JohnDowland #ComeAgain #Choir #JohnPotter #BarryGuy #JohnSurman https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/05/captivated-by-choir-rehearsing-john.html

Study - Witch Gong Game II / 10
by Barry Guy and the Now Orchestra

"British bassist Barry Guy has expressed a vast affinity for the visual 'language' of Scottish painter Alan Davie's works and here delivers a sonic echo of Davie's Witch Gong Game II/10 alongside the shorter composition Study. With Vancouver's New Orchestra Workshop, Guy engages one of music's most intractably non-visual problems. That is, Guy's desire to image visuals in sound is de facto next to impossible. Compressing time so that a musical piece doesn't unfold along a timeline but rather leaps forth, as an arresting visual image can, is at least one of Guy's compositional strategies. Davie's paintings, in the words of liner notician Bill Smith, are "deconstructed to reveal the signs that are then used to generate a new language appropriate to the special needs of improvisers and composer alike..."

— Andy Bartlett (Earshot Jazz, April 1995)

https://mayarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/study-witch-gong-game-ii-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v57HDjpCB2M

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Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - ID 1 [start] https://mayarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/id-1-start #jazz #freejazz #bandcamp #EvanParker #BarryGuy #PaulLytton #music