TheCapitalClinic

[First posted on Jan 30, 2008 and to be updated from time to time.] To: Transient Phase [and your existing and growing Fans] I first came to notice your work because of the intriguing name you have selected for yourself and your group as being in Transient Phase. I will use that notion to serve as the theme for my initial review of the work of your group. I explain below the reason for my interest in what you are doing in advancing your art because of its coincidence with my own approach to...

[Note: this blog was revised on January 29 at 10:30 am to add a Pablo Casals and a Yo-Yo Ma video and to add better context to the quotations to clarify what the "inner ear" [or the "third ear"] is all about] Echo Root recently posted a poem here at fuzz, "Birth of a Muse (poem)" that your should check out. When I first read this poem, I immediately related the imagery to Anil K. Rajvanshi essays on the "Nature of Human Thought" that I have been...

To: Christopher Lee and Fans [Existing or Potential] – First Posted January 27, 2007 - [Detach Player on Christopher Lee’s 5-Track Upload while checking out this review and provide additional commentary below] To get the Artist’s framework for his work of art [which may not be necessarily yours], here is what CL has said about his debut EP album, “999 Seconds” [part of a PM quoted with CL’s kind permission]: The idea behind it is based on time (the album is 999 seconds long...

To: Christopher Lee and Fans [Existing or Potential] – First Posted January 27, 2007 - [Detach Player on Christopher Lee’s 5-Track Upload while checking out this review and provide additional commentary below] To get the Artist’s framework for his work of art [which may not be necessarily yours], here is what CL has said about his debut EP album, “999 Seconds” [part of a PM quoted with CL’s kind permission]: The idea behind it is based on time (the album is 999 seconds long...

As you know, the fuzz community of artists is growing at such a rate that enhanced "music discovery" tools beyond just the typical "check me out" entreaties are critical to aid us in finding music that we like [which is in the final analysis key to an artist's success]. There simply is too much music being added to all of the music websites, including fuzz [particularly with the well-publicized troubles and cut-backs at the major labels], to sort through without the...

To: Echo Root and Fans [Existing or Potential] - [Revised for detail January 27, 2008]: Echo Root has just given the fuzz community a delicious sampling of what is self-described as, "Zen Junk" - I relish that unique layering of terms with surprising "za-zen" result. Its novelty and surprise set the proper frame for Echo Root's innovative work. Place a fuzz marker on this artist's homepage because it will be well-used. Also, I appreciate the novelty of Echo...

Chris Molla recently wrote a "must-read" blog by those attending the Nightschool for Entrepreneurs . His thoughtful piece about the taxonomy of music [check it out] raises a whole boatload of issues - so much so that I don't know where to dive in. One area to explore with productive result would be in developing a sound taxonomy in aid "music discovery" in the era of the digital Long Tail in which music has become, by definition, more accessible in variety and...

2Serenity wrote a blog about "no more hiphop4 me" that deserves comment. Her short but directed blog raises a number issues: hip hop vs hip slop, marketing vs spamming, aesthetics vs censorship, art vs street cred, engagement vs exhibition, and more. What are we to make of all these juxtaposed issues surrounding music and still make music work its magic for each of us on fuzz, whatever our politics, whatever our sensitivities, whatever our anger or ambition? Much to think about...