A Better Tomorrow #2: Dude Fest Mania
HewhocorruptsPhoto by Barclay Lewis Jess always comes back from Indiana’s annual Dude Fest with the darnedest pictures. Last year it was this lovely latrine. This year it was the above photo. It is of Hewhocorrupts, though it looks like an outtake from Will Ferrell’s Old School. That’s what Dude Fest seems like to me: a...
Chord - Flora
Flora (Neurot, 2009) is the anti-“Giant Steps”. Instead of Coltrane’s light-speed chord changes, it deals out exactly four chords, one per song (Am7, Gmaj(b13), E9, and Am). Chord, a Chicago collective, assigns each of its members one note in each chord. Each member must make that note interesting, using octaves, effects, and various articulations, over...