Favoriting Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson: Playlist from April 13, 2024 Favoriting

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Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.

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Favoriting April 13, 2024: Weasel Walter (first name, last name) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser best known for leading the seminal punk-jazz/no-wave/brutal-prog band The Flying Luttenbachers.
https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Albert Ayler  Holy Ghost   Favoriting Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings  Impulse!     
Cecil Taylor  Spring of Two Blue-J's (pt. 1)   Favoriting The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at The Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973      0:42:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Seth Andrew Davis / Alex Cunningham / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter  My Toes Die   Favoriting Branches Choke  ugEXPLODE  https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/branches-choke  0:55:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Forbes / Young / Walter  The Price of Genius   Favoriting Hard Living    https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/hard-living  1:47:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Evan Parker, Peter Evans, John Edwards, Weasel Walter  First Set   Favoriting Live in London May 22 2009  unreleased    1:35:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter Group  Fist Set   Favoriting Live November 23, 2011 The Stone, New York, NY  unreleased  Marcu Cummins(soprano saxophone), Roy Campbell (trumpet), Sabir Mateen (tenor saxophone)  1:59:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter  White Distempered Room   Favoriting Untitled ug 79  ugEXPLODE  https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-ug-79  2:08:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Martin Escalante + Weasel Walter  Mutilate   Favoriting Lacerate  ugEXPLODE  https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/lacerate  2:24:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Weasel Walter Large Ensemble  A Set   Favoriting Live February 21, 2017 Roulette, Brooklyn, NY    Weasel Walter (drums), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Chris Pitsiokos (saxophone), Michael Foster (saxophone), Matt Nelson (saxophone), Jaimie Branch (trumpet), Forbes Graham (trumpet), Tyshawn Sorey (trombone), Steve Swell (trombone), Tim Dahl (bass), Brandon Lopez (bass), Leila Bordreuil (cello)  2:35:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:03pm
Dave Sewelson:

Welcome to the Free World!!!
  2:09pm
Jeff g. via app:

Hey, free world, Dave, Weasel Walter!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:10pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Jeff g. via app @2:09
Hey Jeff!!
  2:11pm
Dean:

What a pleasure to hear from Weasel Walter! Heard him a few times in various combinations when he was in Oakland.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:11pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @2:11
Yeah Dean...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:12pm
Andrew Waterloo:

good afternoon
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:13pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Andrew Waterloo @2:12
yeah Andrew...
  2:14pm
Dean:

So many gems in his massive discography: Plane Crash, A Pound of Flesh, FLs...
  2:14pm
DavidJ:

Hi Dave Weasel and all.

I loved Contortions as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:15pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ DavidJ @2:14
yeah DavidJ...
  2:16pm
Dean:

I remember a show at Oakland's Stork Club. Weasel provided real-time criticism of the audience, the performance...it was hilarious. Then an over-the-top gig at Hemlock Tavern with (one of) The Ruins. Mick Barr, too?
  2:19pm
Dean:

Plane Crash: Kaiser, Smith, Walter. Not to be missed.
  2:20pm
Dean:

Question: The face paint? A Kiss thing or something else?
  2:22pm
Dean:

During Other Minds a few years ago I drove Roscoe to SFO from his hotel. He was p.o.'d with me, because I was driving a tiny sedan. Nobody informed me that he was bringing his wife and his bass player, not to mention luggage and instruments. We, uhm, improvised and go the job done.
  2:24pm
Chad:

Happy Saturday
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:25pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Chad @2:24
Hey Chad!
  2:29pm
Dean:

No more Jazz Record Mart, dammit.
  2:31pm
Dean:

Come west with Melt Banana!
  2:31pm
Dean:

DNA, Mars...
  2:32pm
Dean:

Eno's comp had to have helped. No New York.
  2:35pm
Dean:

Try Provo, Utah, for a change.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:36pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Still have to catch Luttenbachers.. came close in Ottawa a couple years ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:37pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Andrew Waterloo @2:36
Check them out Andrew...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:38pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Yah they had flight troubles.. bass player couldn't fly.. the airline lost their luggage.. it ended up being two drummers and a saxophone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:41pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Vinny Golia on sax
  2:43pm
weasel walter:

god. ottawa. LOL. i almost didnn't play! we sucked it up and improvised. it made people happy. vinny is a mensch
  2:44pm
weasel walter:

↳ Dean @2:20
DADA. some bizarre teenage concoction. the two lines under my eyes are from nikki sixx, motley crue, so you're half right
  2:46pm
weasel walter:

feel free to ask questions. i have a million stories
  2:48pm
Dean:

Do you have a taste for classical music, by which I mean pre-Medieval to the present, Eastern or Western?
  2:49pm
Dean:

If I had to guess, I'd say Xenakis? But maybe you're into High Baroque French opera, I don't know.
  2:50pm
weasel walter:

↳ Dean @2:48
20th century or death! LOL. xenakis is my biggest idol.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:50pm
Andrew Waterloo:

↳ weasel walter @2:43
Thanks for playing.. I know I appreciated it.
  2:51pm
Dean:

The book Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, something of an exhibition catalog, is right here by my side.
  2:54pm
weasel walter:

↳ Andrew Waterloo @2:50
thanks for listening!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:54pm
doctorjazz:

He Dave, Weasel, Free World Inhabitants!
  2:54pm
Dean:

I think you say as much in the liner notes, but A Pound of Flesh strikes me as a musical counterpart to confessional poetry. It screams (literally), "This is how I feel!" And it ain't pretty. Is this so? Or is it just a series of experiments with the sonic palette you've developed over the years?
  2:55pm
weasel walter:

but yeah, xenakis, messiaen, bartok, stravinsky, boulez, dlugoszewski, penderecki, kagel, all that riff raff
  2:56pm
Dean:

By whom I take it you do not mean Swiss symphonist Joachim Raff.
  2:56pm
weasel walter:

↳ Dean @2:54
a pound of flesh was me trying to figure out how to market all these disparate works i made so people wouldn't just ignore them. a four cd set is novel. these were just things i would work on when i had inspiration.
  2:57pm
Dean:

Got it, thanks.
  2:57pm
weasel walter:

↳ Dean @2:56
apologies to herr raff. never heard his riffs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:01pm
fred:

I saw Amirtha Kidambi last week (a former guest), amazing show
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ fred @3:01
fred...that's great news!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05pm
WR:

Hello Dave, esteemed guest Weasel Walter and drummer streamer streamers.
  3:06pm
weasel walter:

↳ WR @3:05
greetings
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:08pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ WR @3:05
W.R....welcome...
  3:08pm
Dean:

I did not know that you, uh, played with Adam & the Ants.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:09pm
fred:

↳ Dave Sewelson @3:03
A friend who's been in the punk/indie scene for years spent time with her and said she's the real deal, which is serious endorsement to me
  3:10pm
weasel walter:

LOL. adam and the ants historical reenactment! we reenactment of their chronology 20 years to the date. we did it for two years, playing on the dates of the original gigs, recorded 2 "peel sessions", repro of 1st single. big joke band
  3:15pm
Dean:

Sure as hell gotta be better than K-TEL.

I started writing poetry (again) a couple years ago, and I now have to acknowledge that WW's aesthetic has influenced my own. One poem, "Dancing Under Moonlight & Fog," has three brief subsections titled, "Ultra-Violence," "Destructive Hatred," and "Strangled Child." Thanks for the inspiration!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
Todd76Pct:

Eugene Chadbourne

"...violinist Polly Bradfield... whatever happened to her? She's still playing. She had a lot of children and went out to California. She was never that driven to have a musical career. She was a really interesting musician though, I really liked her. Very extreme. I think her solo violin album is one of the best things I've ever heard. Do you know that? I have to send you a copy. I've got lots of copies, because when she left New York, in a big hurry, she piled her records out in the street, so I kept them; every now and then I meet somebody who wants one or who I think ought to have one. We did a couple of concerts together in England and Belgium that came out on a record, Torture Time--that was another nice album."

(from an interview by Dan Warburton [3])
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:19pm
fred:

↳ weasel walter @3:10
I kinda met you many years ago, coming to Instants Chavirés in Montreuil from a central Asian gig. I remember your curiosity about it, and my awkwardness and desire to flee then
  3:19pm
Dean:

I have reason to believe that Polly Bradfield now resides in Sacramento.
  3:20pm
James:

Mike and Andrew are amazing musicians. Mike deeply influenced me in a lot of ways. The two records you did with them are really great, Weasel.
  3:20pm
weasel walter:

↳ Dean @3:19
i have heard a few rumors. yes. i was in oakland for a while and would hear stuff.
  3:21pm
weasel walter:

↳ James @3:20
mike is an incredible saxophonist. one of my favorites. he's not on the scene anymore, but i wish him well.
  3:22pm
weasel walter:

↳ fred @3:19
ha ha ha. don't be scared!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:23pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ James @3:20
talk about it James....
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:24pm
fred:

↳ Todd76Pct @3:18
That takes me back years, I don't even know when I last met Dan
  3:33pm
cherylflute:

checking in on the cosmic sounds
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:34pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ cherylflute @3:33
dig it cheryl....
  3:34pm
weasel walter:

ooops! phone is out of juice!!!
  3:35pm
weasel walter:

back in a minute
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:42pm
Jeff Golick:

This is a pretty good-sounding recording for 1009.
  3:42pm
weasel walter:

thank you.
  3:44pm
weasel walter:

the playlist is missing the forbes/young/walter track "the price of genius" from "hard living". LEST WE NOT FORGET!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:48pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ weasel walter @3:44
Lest we not forget......
  3:48pm
weasel walter:

my phone sucks. charging. LOL. DAVE! i sent you another unreleased jam to play. back asap
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:49pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Jeff Golick @3:42
Oh man.....DJ ERROR....part time human is I
  3:49pm
weasel walter:

you are killing it. apparently, i am not!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:53pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ weasel walter @3:49
let me know when you want me to go on to the next track..
  3:54pm
weasel walter:

↳ Dave Sewelson @3:53
at the top of the hour? that should be quite enough.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:54pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ weasel walter @3:54
okeydokey....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:56pm
Jeff Golick:

↳ Dave Sewelson @3:49
Sorry just bustin' (copyediting) chops. You two are wonderful humans.
  3:56pm
Rick Rees:

Just wanted to say hi Weasel. Hope you get back to SF pretty soon. I'll keep asking till you get here.
  3:57pm
weasel walter:

↳ Rick Rees @3:56
hey! cheers. some day . . .
  4:01pm
weasel walter:

after this melts everybody's brains for 10 minutes, let's do old ug79 with sandy and damon. sent a big band track too. saving up my juice to rap more at the end.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:03pm
fred:

↳ weasel walter @4:01
Any Joe McPhee lined up?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:04pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ weasel walter @4:01
got it....
  4:07pm
weasel walter:

↳ fred @4:03
nope!
  4:12pm
weasel walter:

mr. sewelson, i have sent you a track by myself and the great martin escalante to play after this. it's ducky.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:16pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ weasel walter @4:12
got it....up next...
  4:21pm
weasel walter:

i'm going to get back on the zoom vibe here, sewelson
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:30pm
WR:

and those seconds were marvelous. Gotta go get on the subway, will still listen when I have signal.

Great episode!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:34pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ WR @4:30
Thanks W.R.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:46pm
Gina Bacon:

Hi Dave and Weasel! I've been lurking...
  4:47pm
Dean:

We conceive of silence as the absence of sound. We do not conceive of sound as the absence of silence. Ergo, sound came first.
  4:47pm
weasel walter:

↳ Gina Bacon @4:46
howdy! lurk away.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:47pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Gina Bacon @4:46
GINAGINAGINA...lurk over to her show after we be done here.
www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:48pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @4:47
that's deep Dean....
  4:49pm
Dean:

"Ergo" makes anything sound deep.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:50pm
Gina Bacon:

↳ Dave Sewelson @4:47
Hahaha! Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:50pm
Dave Sewelson:

↳ Dean @4:49
you have to dig pretty deep to find out how shallow i am...
  4:51pm
Dean:

Nice koan, Dave!
  4:53pm
DavidJ:

It’s a Free World!
  4:54pm
Dean:

Not to be confused with a Buy One, Get One Free World.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 4:55pm
northguineahills:

got here at the buzzer!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:57pm
WR:

Thank you! Thank you! Great sounds!
  4:57pm
Frank Talk About Humans:

I know this guy from Cathode chat only. He knows Lydia Lunch
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:59pm
Todd76Pct:

Thanks, Dave and Weasel Walter for some great high-energy sounds and conversation this afternoon!!!
  4:59pm
Dean:

Such a pleasure to spend the afternoon with you all today. Thanks, Dave and Weasel.
  5:00pm
DavidJ:

Thanks Dave and Weasel!
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 5:00pm
northguineahills:

muchas dome dankes, david and walter. Melt banana. I've seen them live 5 times. thank the goddesses for the archives!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:02pm
Dave Sewelson:

Thanks all you LISTENEARS!!!
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