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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: NEW cd, LIMIT, & Azure's new song with viola & a great review of
LIMIT by Jeremy C. Justus!
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 02:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
NEW CD, LIMIT, & Azure's new song with viola & a great review of LIMIT by Jeremy C. Justus! http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=138 http://www.alansondheim.org/newstory.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/newstory.mp3 Her singing reminds me of ululation, the viola thins and expands, difficult singing and difficult playing, something raw and polished. Review of LIMIT by Jeremy C. Justus: "The thing sweeps in with a cacophony of horns, Azure's echoing haunt, frenetic strings. These, the first three of Limits seventeen songs. Im talking about Alan and Azures new album. Ive been saying to Marissa lately that Im tired of guitar-driven Western music made by straight white guys. Alan is a straight white guy. Alan is also a guy who said to me this summer, when I was going on and on about metal in Scandinavia, metal in Southeast Asia, metal in Africa, he said, I have really no interest in Western music. Metal in Asia is subversive because its a Western art form. Not because its primal or aggressive or satanic or whatever. Same everywhere else. I havent given up on metal. But like a bloodletting, Alans words opened a space for me to open into. Alan and Azures music is a lightning bolt to my brain. Its shocking. Its demanding. It is a conduit. A passageway. Later in the album, words echo before theyre spoken, sounds before theyre played. RevReb. Reverse Reverb. Imagine convulsing your way into a word a moment before it is spoken. Ineffable. I dont know if youre ready for it. I never am. Whos ever ready to meet their limits, to know what bounds in which they live, to know how tight they are, to not so much move against restraint but find explore depths and directions and dimension inside of and beyond environs? Look, theres no smart way to talk about Alans work. Anything you can say about it, hes said already, in the music. But you should listen to it." Our new cd LIMIT can be ordered - http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=138 and here's a sheet - http://www.alansondheim.org/LIMIT.pdf We'd greatly appreciate your patronage; LIMIT involves reverse reverberation and inverse dynamics, and is, at least for us, a new music. Please support us! http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=138 Meanwhile, enjoy Azure's new song, which is raw, only reverberation added; this is more or less a final version, on the way elsewhere -
