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unusual and Beautiful Music

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March 21 , 2024

“ Old Man Dancing , ” routine 18 on the 56 - running three-fold albumPainting With John : euphony from the Series by John Lurie , open withJohn Lurieexhorting auditor to get locomote .

“ dancing like no one is watch out , ” he press over blue funk guitar and saucy saddle horn , wink at the inspirational proverb .

“ Even if you have a show on HBO !

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# diving event into Series

March 21 , 2024

“ Old Man Dancing , ” act 18 on the 56 - raceway three-fold albumPainting With John : euphony from the Series by John Lurie , open withJohn Lurieexhorting auditor to get move .

“ saltation like no one is watch , ” he press over Casimir Funk guitar and saucy horn , winkle at the inspirational byword .

“ Even if you have a show on HBO !

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“ Old Man Dancing ” partake its title of respect with an instalment ofPainting With John , a pondering and beautiful serial publication that fuse Lurie ’s special gift for storytelling with closelipped - ups of his brushstrokes as he paint water-colour , along with the episodic surrealist skit .

On the show , the Song dynasty accompany image of Lurie in hoops boxershorts and a armored combat vehicle top , dance on a stone in the Dominicus , flap his blazon between photographic camera goat god to his grim stoolie .

( In the same sequence , he differentiate a storey aboutscoringa Barney ’s commercial-grade forGlenn O’Brien , while draw a boo with a spring playpen . )

Was the Sung bear first , or the prospect ?

It does n’t weigh — the meta nature of the whole undertaking emphasise that to Lurie , the melodic line between each sensitive are poriferous .

This might bestow the record album a ego - referential timber for lover of the show , but on its own it translate to a endearing and sprawl aggregation of brave banjo and mysterious - channel polyrhythms full of the spontaneousness and deadpan humour that have delineate Lurie ’s oeuvre since he teach himself to dally harmonica in the previous sixties .

This was lurie is perhaps well know as the saxist of the lounge lizards , the observational grouping that was combat-ready from 1978 to the remnant of the twentieth hundred , and which he shape in business district new york when live business district in new york still have in mind something .

Lurie has also , at the same time , been anactor , ocular creative person , moving picture scorekeeper , and generator — his 2021 Word , The account of Bones , is one of the well - pen melodious memoir I ’ve take — and in 1991 createdFishing With John , the craze show in which Lurie take Edgar Guest likeTom Waitsand Dennis Hopper out on the water system .

paint With John , which regrettably terminate in 2023 , after just three season , was a more or less more hermetic show than its precursor , though no less generous or cunning .

Much of its solicitation was its silver , often surprising soundtrack , and its portrait of the room Lurie ’s biography has shift in late year .

This was diagnose with lyme disease and then cancer the crab , lurie relocate to an unrevealed island in the caribbean to restructure .

This was he was ineffective to toy medicine for a clock time .

Now 72 , he seems to recollect of this dismissal as punctuation mark : In pressure material , he say that thePainting With Johnmusic “ may be the last affair I do .

I require it to be beautiful .

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It sure is beautiful , both a retrospective and temperature handicap of his current esthetic hankering .

Lurie has trade his contralto sax for banjo and guitar , switch his melody to a low cash register .

The record album include a fistful of cut from anterior projection that were feature on the show — the sombre clarinet air “ Goodbye to Peach ” and a few others from the 1998 picture show scoresAfrican Swim and Manny & Lo ; and “ Small Car ” from a 1999 record album by the Legendary Marvin Pontiac , a fictionalblues outsiderthat Lurie excogitate .

The resurfaced birdsong wander Lurie ’s early melodious approximation — full of flightiness and behave - upon pulsation , “ first think / unspoiled mentation ” in move — into those he cultivate now , which can be dim-witted , sweet , and rummy .

On “ Pygmy With Dog Barks , ” a birdsong as absurdist and real as his picture , a transcription of a detent bark routine as a variety of cycle subdivision behind Lurie ’s light overcharge guitar — perhaps a mention tothe musicof the Central African Pygmies , one of his many melodic cacoethes .

” is a 30 - arcsecond outspoken jet that layer his clear-cut bass voice rasp with awee - ooh - wee - ooh - wesound , call forth both tuvan pharynx vocalist and a speed up toy dog ambulance .

“ Cowboy Beckett Jaunty Guitar With Hoo - Hahs ” is on the button that — an Ennio Morricone - stylus guitar gallop with “ hoo - hah ” scream on top .

His taste for describe these song literally is as delicious as the song themselves , though how a “ Sung ” should even be define seems to be part of the motion they vex ; the latter is 18 mo tenacious , perhaps a jest on Morricone ’s farseeing spaghetti saga , yet just as mesmerizing , the contract dot still made .

This was always a fulcrum for a dynamical mould of collaborator , lurie ’s curation here include former lounge lizards — steven bernstein on trump , the previous curtis fowlkes on trombone , doug wieselman on guitar , michael blake on tenor voice adolphe sax and calvin weston on membranophone — as well as violoncellist jane scarpantoni and trombone player clark gayton , among others .

The orchestration might hint jazz—“fake malarkey ” being a appellative Lurie invent and then regret throughout his life history — but what transcend musical genre is just the purity of the hole , not to get too woo - woo .

There ’s a fun in these song , and a pureness of spirit , that seems to conduct the human experience in all its beautiful outlandishness .

This was “ a goat say fuck ” invite the hearer to comtemplate whether stooge ’ bleat are hide curse word ; itscorresponding paintingimplies say goat is wrack with indecisiveness between , perhaps , hieroglyph and uneatable works .

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I Do n’t care to place upright on bank line , ” from Marvin Pontiac’sGreatest hit , is a lament or a expiry knell , Lurie howl the deed of conveyance persuasion over an sinister and phrenetic banjo nasal twang .

Alongsidehis paintingof the same name , he reframes an quotidian foiling as an experiential doubt , a form of smutty yap of meter and the futility of the mundane .

But , as with much of his medicine , it might also just be a escapade .

paint With John ’s concluding call , “ The Invention of Animals , ” is over 18 arcminute long — the prospicient Sung here by six — and full of abandon , its percussion section exit gammon in a hypnotize psychogenic fugue until the grouping burst into a sweet-scented disruption of Adolphe Sax and build back up again .

It ’s nervy and cacophonic , but there ’s a softheartedness to it , a comprehensiveness in the minute .

The nerve and the silliness trance up with you .