Ancestral items by Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Anthony Braxton and Krzysztof Penderecki—all unveiled within a single week in late 1973—set the stage for their contemporary descendants in this edition of Flotation Device. We hear aggressive new commentaries on Shakespeare and minimalism from Wet Ink founders Kate Soper and Eric Wubbels, while John Zorn and Bill Laswell pay homage to Wayne Shorter. Nate Wooley, Ivo Perelman, Mark Feldman, Timothy Daisy and Jeb Bishop all offer new improvisational perspectives. Thomas Simaku and Robert McClure compose for piano, Loo(p)cy does dark ambient and the French band Ni does loud avant-rock. New cross-cultural experiments from Korea and Nigeria round out the offerings from the Northwest's most audacious radio program devoted to new music.
Annotated playlist and photo credits with Comments.
