Pillow Plays Brötzmann by Pillow, released on Bottrop-Boy in 2005.

How to improvise on an existing work of improvisation? American outfit Pillow took the plunge by carefully placing European free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann’s group improvisation piece Images on the rack. Don’t expect any tortured notes or twisted chords, though, as Pillow respectfully and patiently square up to Brötzmann’s music. Written especially for his Tentet and released on Okkadisk, Images is one of Brötzmann’s most meditative collective works of improvisation. Tentet member and cellist Fred Lonberg Holm took up the challenge and together with his Pillow quartet breathed new live into the composition, and a completely new piece of music is born. The reflective mood of Brötzmann’s original is admiringly kept intact in Pillow’s interpretation, considering that it’s constructed in eleven parts... - Sounohm

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Ben Vida:
🎵 The Beat My Head Hit

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https://benvida.bandcamp.com/album/the-beat-my-head-hit
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No idea what to expect from this last set of the day with Tyondai Braxton and Ben Vida, but there's an accordion on stage so I'm sure it'll be fun.

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Ben Vida, The Untitled.

In general, I listen to SuperPang albums on the way home from band practice. But, I've been stuck on The Untitled for about a month now. The first time I listened, I got so absorbed, I took a wrong turn and almost ended up in Berkeley.

It's an unusual record, Vida calls it "Musique concrète", but it sounds like there are some instruments and computers involved. I would call it spooky, haunting, and atmospheric.

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