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Nov 22, 202417 min read
"I have suffered from the darkness; I wish for people who struggle in the darkness to try to escape from it and look for the light." Shizuka Speaks, 2008
So things that come out of me, they are natural to me, but they could be considered to be ‘dark’ because they are my reality.
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Oct 1, 20245 min read
June 1969: Bill Dixon's letter to John Cage, "And unless you believe, and this then is your way of expressing it, in artistic apartheid..."
In the second year of his 27 year tenure at Bennington College (1968-1995) composer and musician Bill Dixon penned a letter to the...
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May 15, 20245 min read
"I want no compromises whatsoever. What I do is not a form of entertainment. It's like a religious or spiritual experience."
From the Archives: In the May 9, 1970 edition of the Buffalo Evening News, a 31 year old Charles Gayle provides some of the earliest...
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Dec 7, 20235 min read
Offering the Gods of Free Jazz the Most Beautiful Fruit in Existence
Japanese music writer and Takayanagi scholar Yoshiyuki Kitazato on the Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit's Mass Hysterism in Another...
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Sep 5, 202312 min read
Acoustic Noise, Anarchist Utopias and the Never Ending Process: An Interview with Sult
Over the course of more than a decade the Norway / Oakland California "Acoustic Noise" trio Sult have forged a fascinating, visceral...
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Jul 27, 202323 min read
Going Straight to the Source, Hugh Glover on Milford Graves, The Children of the Forest Interview
Hugh Glover interviewed by Jake Meginsky, September 2021 Commissioned by Black Editions Archive on the release of Children of the Forest...
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