Journey back to July 1973 with us, as Miles Davis's electric band gets a rowdy reception at their first Montreux Jazz Festival appearance. By contrast, Sam Rivers' gig that same week garnered a politer response. But it's Davis' influence that's evident in new albums from Pat Thomas, Michael Gregory Jackson, The Dwarfs of East Agouza and the dissident Russian composer Alexey Sysoev (who contributes a Chekhov setting for chamber ensemble and two female vocalists doubling on typewriter).
In Hour Two, we revisit contemporaneous premieres by Stockhausen (one of his most poignant and accessible works) and Maderna (his last completed piece, the Third Oboe Concerto, which requires a virtuoso soloist capable of reacting improvisationally to the thorny atonal material presented by the orchestra). We also say farewell to the late Clarence Barlow, survey fresh tracks from Yikii and Brandon Seabrook, and sample Unexplained Sounds’ new anthology of radical Finnish electronica.
