From david turgeon Sent Wed, Jul 7th 1999, 21:16
From david turgeon Sent Wed, Jul 7th 1999, 21:16
> No one can deny that its a pretty incredibly dynamic album, > but to say "'music is rotted one note' is unmistakably fusion jazz." > doesn't settle with me. Can we say that the live Miles Davis albums > from the seventies are strictly fusion? Have a listen to Dark Magus. > This album, to me, while taking much from rock beats and fusiony sounds > is predominantly a free jazz album. i'll admit that my dismissing of squarepusher's recent output as straight-out fusion jazz may be a limitative diss. i don't mean it's necessarily bad. i can probably like bits of it. what i _do_ know however is that it has the 'fusion' sound which i've heard in weather report & al records. then again i'm not too knowledgeable in fusion so there may be subtelties i'm not aware of that make 'music is...' not a fusion album. i just know i don't enjoy its sound very much, & at this point i'll reckon that it's but a mere matter of taste. however -- from what i've heard of 'music is rotted one note', it's simply not free jazz. at least none of the free jazz i've heard. maybe on some conceptual level jenkinson envisioned it as being free jazz, but -- urhm. it just doesn't sound like it in the end. free jazz for one is a lot more hermetic, whereas jenkinson's sound instead tends towards eclectism. perhaps the term 'free' in 'free jazz' isn't that exact because of that hermeticism? blame ornette coleman. :) anyway. those are my thoughts, but i realize they're quite futile at this point, so feel free to disregard this message & go on with your life. :) those who like squarepusher (yes, even you crtrdge!), feel free to happily continue liking it, & i'll happily continue liking the music i like. the things i say anyway are only opinions, even if i don't prefix every sentence with 'i think' or 'in my opinion'. -- david