22 great albums in 3 years? You're gonna have a hell of a time selling me on that. Quality beats quantity every time.
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Amazing. In my lifetime, I don't think I've listened to 22 albums by any single artist yet...
Closer to when I joined the site, the most recordings from one musician(s) I had listened to was Sonic Youth at 13. Now it's either Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, or Evan Parker at I've stopped counting but they're all at over 50 recordings listened to each. Improvising musicians tend to have decades-long careers and they're putting out multiple albums per year and they tend to hit years/decade-long hot streaks of highly critically acclaimed albums. If you want to use something like allmusic as an indicator, most of the well-known improvising musicians will have more 5 star or 4.5 star than most rock musicians will have total albums. Often very short compositions (if at all) and the nature of recording/distributing improvisation make it possible. I will say that I feel there's a different approach to listening between rock and improvised music, probably due to the prodigious output and the methods behind it: I believe improvised listeners (myself included) treat recordings like listening to performances, by which a I mean a listener of improvised music is comfortable with reliably evaluating a recording upon first listen because they are used to evaluating performances, which recordings are and are treated similarly to, on first listen. Of course, it's recorded, so, if it's badass, we can listen to it as much as we want. I also believe listeners of improvised music are more attuned to remembering performer's styles and less to remembering all of the nooks and crannies of a particular recording compared to rock listeners. Just different flavors but it's all ice cream/music.
Closer to when I joined the site, the most recordings from one musician(s) I had listened to was Sonic Youth at 13. Now it's either Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, or Evan Parker at I've stopped counting but they're all at over 50 recordings listened to each. Improvising musicians tend to have decades-long careers and they're putting out multiple albums per year and they tend to hit years/decade-long hot streaks of highly critically acclaimed albums. If you want to use something like allmusic as an indicator, most of the well-known improvising musicians will have more 5 star or 4.5 star than most rock musicians will have total albums. Often very short compositions (if at all) and the nature of recording/distributing improvisation make it possible. I will say that I feel there's a different approach to listening between rock and improvised music, probably due to the prodigious output and the methods behind it: I believe improvised listeners (myself included) treat recordings like listening to performances, by which a I mean a listener of improvised music is comfortable with reliably evaluating a recording upon first listen because they are used to evaluating performances, which recordings are and are treated similarly to, on first listen. Of course, it's recorded, so, if it's badass, we can listen to it as much as we want. I also believe listeners of improvised music are more attuned to remembering performer's styles and less to remembering all of the nooks and crannies of a particular recording compared to rock listeners. Just different flavors but it's all ice cream/music.
Have you heard the latest Okkyung Lee? You might dig it.
Hadn't even heard of it. Her Cheol-Kkot-Sae from this year is something I've been wanting to get around to, but haven't quite yet. Will have to track Dahl-Tah-Ghi down though, I'm a sucker for both strings and solos
I really wanted to come up with something more original and less obvious than these ones, but I couldn't think of any that I thought was better than these. These are two separate ones: 64-66, and 67-69.
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