Miles of Alp Horn
The other night at Monkey Town Montgomery, the proprieter there was playing some music behind the slowed down 8 1/2. It sounded to me like it could quite possibly be Miles Davis from the Bitches Brew/In A Silent Way period, but also slowed down. It wasn’t (though I can’t remember what it was), but since seeing that funky busking alp horn, I’ve wanted to see what slowing down Miles would sound like… The idea of Miles on Alp horn seems appropriate as the whole idea of an alp horn is to send sound for miles.
I had to record the music with my video camera in order to slow it down in i-film (I have limited tools, okay) so the sound is a little buzzy, but I thought the image of a tree out my window fit right into the mood.
April 19th, 2006 at 11:31 am
That wasn’t the Bill Laswell Panthalassa album, was it? He remixed a bunch of the late Miles Davis (including In A Slent Way) to dubby effect. Not quite as wonderful as it could have been, of course, but interesting . . .
April 19th, 2006 at 11:37 am
No it wasn’t… However, I did use a track off Panthalasa for Arc Along The Watchtower from which the BK bridge image is snatched… so it all connects. This was some classical miminalist and pal of Philip Glass (who also shows up on the soundtrack of AATW, but from his scoring of Bowie and Eno’s music… which brings us back to Heroes… whew it’s all one degree of speration around here).