[bit.listserv.allmusic] Avant Garde

HALLRL@MOREKYPR.BITNET (02/06/90)

>   An interesting experiment perhaps?  Try to make music that has no
>relation to time at all.  In other words no time signatures, etc...  It would
>have to be something just improvised, and recorded then learned without
>applying any sort of timing to it...  I think this would be very difficult
>to do, but then again, who knows?  Anyone know of some band who has tried it?
>King Crimson would be my best guess, if anyone at all...



I really don't know of any rock or fusion bands that play in the avant garde
style, I know Don Cherry (the father of Neneh Cherry) is a famous jazz avant
garde performer.  There was a song that the Dixie Dregs did called 'Leprechauns
Promenade' that had a section in the middle of it that lasts for about 20 or 25
where there is no set time signature, just chaos and noise.  My brother did an
arrangement of it for percussion ensemble, that's the only reason I remember
that song.
                                 Rando

p.s. Lynard Skynard (spelling?) albums tend to have superior aerodynamic
     properties for frisbee throwing, 8-) hee hee, I know from experience!

UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET (jeff beer) (02/07/90)

>
>I really don't know of any rock or fusion bands that play in the avant garde
>style, I know Don Cherry (the father of Neneh Cherry) is a famous jazz avant
>garde performer.  There was a song that the Dixie Dregs did called 'Leprechauns
>                                 Rando
>

Actually, Don is Neneh's step-dad.   And when I was studying with Don,
Neneh was hanging out.  This was back in the 70s, so she was barely a
teenager, if that.   She was speaking in Swedish with Don's son Eagle
Eye, who was even younger, so I laid the three Swedish words I knew on
them "tah day lundt" (excuse the spelling) which means "Take it Easy"
They were surprised.

I understand that Neneh is going to be on Don's next album.


Jeff Beer.