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Post by rodrigo on Sept 24, 2011 7:47:16 GMT -5
There's been some time since a live cd release isn't it? I've always expected some showsfrom the last years, like ones at Rome, or Paris, to be released in a multi-cd lavishly illustrated box, or at leats the Masada live series to continue, or the short-lived Naked City one, a Book of Angels marathon, a new Electric Masada... But nothing!!!! Let's hope he does something amazing for his 60th birthday..
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Post by sarahv on Sept 24, 2011 12:57:27 GMT -5
Maybe he figures that 2004-2005 filled the need for live albums for quite a while... I'm not sure what I would really hope for - I think everyone would agree that another Electric Masada album would be great (Book of Angels material, of course!).
I'm not sure about recording and releasing one of the Masada marathons, having seen many of the bands in and out of marathons I can't help but feel that a lot of the time they are not showing their best side when they only get 15-20 minute sets.
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Post by Offering on Sept 24, 2011 15:25:37 GMT -5
What about the Naked City live recordings? Volume 1 from the Knitting Factory came out years ago, and nothing since!
Co-signed on more Electric Masada.
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Post by stefanodoug on Sept 26, 2011 9:34:28 GMT -5
I guess that the simple reason why Zorn had quit releasing live stuff is that there were too many bootlegs around. I'm not talking about the last 6-7 years when musical trades moved on line (torrent sites) to a wider audience; even before this web-sharing era among the musical traders JZ's concerts were widely spread, hence the realization that outputting more live volumes wouldn't be worthy as the live market was already saturated with all those (free) recordings.
I'm a big fan of Naked City and I'm sure there are some professionally recorded shows which have never been circulating before, that I'd really like to buy officially released material (think about the artwork). Specially the KFC 1993 ending sets of the band when they played their full repertoire.
Masada Marathons would be great on video, less on audio supports (imho) but I would really appreciate another Electric Masada live album performing NEW tracks from the Book of Angels instead of the usual live arrangements. It's kind of a weird thing that despite the hundreds of tunes available EM keep on playing the same 3,4 tunes:-)
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Post by sarahv on Sept 26, 2011 11:55:47 GMT -5
I collect bootlegs because I want to hear as many of the live concerts as possible from a few bands I really like... I'd happily pay for a good quality live set. Audience boots are nice, and webcasts are nice, but there's no substitute for good lossless soundboard recordings :-) I imagine most people who are willing to listen to mediocre-quality bootlegs are more than willing to buy a great quality live recording from that same band.
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Post by mikestack on Sept 26, 2011 15:24:21 GMT -5
I collect bootlegs because I want to hear as many of the live concerts as possible from a few bands I really like... I'd happily pay for a good quality live set. Audience boots are nice, and webcasts are nice, but there's no substitute for good lossless soundboard recordings :-) I imagine most people who are willing to listen to mediocre-quality bootlegs are more than willing to buy a great quality live recording from that same band. Do some reading on dgmlive.com. It's King Crimson's live music service. I wish more acts would do things like this. The basic premise is they take live recordings of the band-- soundboards exclusively since at least 1994-- master them, produce artwork, and then sell FLAC files for $10 or so. Recently, they've been selling whole tours in this fashion. I believe it was somewhere in the 1-2000 range where they broke even on the price of producing the material (though I could be wrong). |
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Post by sarahv on Sept 26, 2011 16:40:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard of a few artists doing things like that. It's a cool idea, though I don't know if JZ & co have the size of audience you'd need to support doing a high number of live recordings. I suspect the money they'd make (if any) would not justify the amount of effort put in. I'd love for it to happen, though  |
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Post by mikestack on Sept 27, 2011 6:56:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard of a few artists doing things like that. It's a cool idea, though I don't know if JZ & co have the size of audience you'd need to support doing a high number of live recordings. I suspect the money they'd make (if any) would not justify the amount of effort put in. I'd love for it to happen, though So the King Crimson program is pretty intense-- they've got a live sound engineer doing (or did-- they haven't toured in quite some time...) live mixing, they then have their recording engineer work magic in the studio to increase fidelity, particularly on very old releases or audience recordings they resurrect. Then they master and produce artwork. Someone like Tzadik could probably get away with a somewhat less intense operation and still produce an excellent product. |
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