Bhabishyat

Bhebey-bhebey ekta jinisher kono kinara holo na ostaaaaaad: amar bhabishyat sammandhye ami chhara shobai chintito!!! Jatteri!
'Bhalo thakte gele aj thekey thaktey hoye'

Raving

I went to see an exhibition today. Rather, to review it.
There's a difference when one goes to 'see' a display, and to see it to 'review' it. The last time I remember going to an exhibition purely for the purpose of soaking in visual pleasures was last year, sometime in March, jobless as I was, me and Dungri loitered into the Academy. There was no pressure of deadlines, no responsibility of gathering prints. Come to think of it, no sour-faced artist to encounter later.
Some of the artists I know and consider friends are more dynamic people, not afraid to bond. True, criticism has to be unbiased, where such relations should never hinder judgement. As far as art is concerned, though, it's always the work as a separate entity from the artist that seems to work for me. The writing, in turn, becomes a reflection of my honest feelings about that work, a personal reaction.
They say the trick is to find the balance between these two. I'm still trying.

bosch

"Think of mixing Fellini with David Lynch, sprinkling in a little James Joyce, and having it all put on canvas by Salvador Dali."
— Carl Linfert, Hieronymus Bosch, 1989

"The master of the monstrous... the discoverer of the unconscious."
— Carl Gustav Jung, on Hieronymus Bosch

....Get the picture?

So here's the funk......

The following lists my present collection of funk records......
The J.B.'s
Parliament
The Ohio Players
Funkadelic
Cameo
Mandrill
George Clinton
Jimmy Castor
The Brides of Funkenstein
The Fatback Band
Dyke & the Blazers
Brick
The ADC Band
Zapp
Slave
P-Funk All Stars
L.T.D.
B.T. Express
Con Funk Shun
Average White Band
Level 42

soul

Asha Puthli, Right Down There.....and Science Fiction Sessions, of course..Amazon doesn't even list her he he....
The new Johnny Lang record leapt at me from the speakers..
I wanna play deep-digging slow funk, with dollops of blues, like Robben Ford and the Blue Line. Tommy Brechtlein is just such an amazing drummer: it's unbelievable hearing him with Ford and then with Al Di Meola.
I also wanna play behind a Siedah Garette. Anyone listening?

Uberjam

Like his most famous employer Miles Davis, John Scofield has had his own classic band eras. With Bill Stewart, Marc Johnson and Joe Lovano, he used his characteristic playing and compositional skills to bring a freshness to the straight-ahead jazz quartet sound. On his 1987 Pick Hits Live, he and cohorts Dennis Chambers, Gary Grainger, and Robert Aries used a piercing intelligence to temper fusion's athletics.
His more recent funk efforts have suffered; some from the sensitive but 'grease'-deficient work of Larry Goldings and some from a general excess of politeness. Bump was an interesting foray into modern hip-hop grooves, but hitting the road in front of the jamband crowd has forged that sound and his road band into something to be reckoned with. It is no accident that Uberjam is credited to the John Scofield Band; the title tune was created by the members over three years of road dates. Far from being a pastiche, it demonstrates the cohesive unit that this group has become. Whether it is rhythm-guitar wiz Avi Bortnick adding Indian samples to Jesse Murphy's dub bass on Acidhead, or former Average White Band drummer Adam Deitch laying in the phat-ist of phat grooves, it is apparent that Scofield has come up with another classic ensemble.

Hike hai...

I wanna trek to Bhor and back......
On second thoughts, it's going to be too hot now.
Guess I'd wait for the rains to set in..

Tchphunkta

Single-strokes on a cracking snare, single-strokes on a cracking snare, a little bass-drum rooting, alternate left-foot on the 'and': that's Johnny Vidacovich doing the Cissy Strut with John Scofield: man, have you ever felt hot wax on your skin? The feeling's the same, only, this stuff is hotter!
Found a website for reading-challenged drummers: http://www.purechristians.org/Drums.html. The key in this method is say'n'play, as in mouthing out a DIFFERENT sound for EACH drum/cymbal you hit. Can get a little complicated when you're playing a songo, or let's say, any groove with ghost notes, like the one cited above, he he :).
Also on my hitlist:
Red Baron
— Tommy Bolin-Jan Hammer-Billy Cobham;
Chameleon
— Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters, Harvey Mason;
That's The Ticket
— Bob Berg-Don Grolnick-Will Lee-Mike Stern-Robby Kilgore-Peter Erskine;
Thunder from Down Under
— Frank Gambale-Stu Hamm-Greg Bissonette