dfglv wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:39 pm there are solos on this record that sound like someone trying to drive a chisel through the core of the fucking planet - i've always assumed it's peter cosey, but i have no idea.

JohnAlbert wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 4:15 am

Krev wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 6:22 pmI saw them play this whole album once.

Are they still active?

They have what, two studio albums and a live one?

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:26 am

dfglv wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:39 pm there are solos on this record that sound like someone trying to drive a chisel through the core of the fucking planet - i've always assumed it's peter cosey, but i have no idea.

Peter Cosey's playing with Miles is incredible, incredible stuff. He seems underappreciated as a player, or maybe a "player's player" (which can be the same thing)

eephus wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:16 am

jirbling rake wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:26 am

dfglv wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 2:39 pm there are solos on this record that sound like someone trying to drive a chisel through the core of the fucking planet - i've always assumed it's peter cosey, but i have no idea.

Peter Cosey's playing with Miles is incredible, incredible stuff. He seems underappreciated as a player, or maybe a "player's player" (which can be the same thing)

yes that is pete, and yes it is apex predator activity

there's a spot in Prelude Pt 1 on Agharta that is, literally, the greatest electric guitar playing I have ever heard in my life

insane post-hendrix wah strangulation that hits about five or six peaks in a row, unbelievable, absolutely blew my mind the first time i heard it

he does many other, only marginally less awe-inspiring things on the other japan recs