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Zarathustra – Half Ass Cut

Way of the Blade 3 – Zarathustra

Get Your Pink Baby T-Shirt for 2010

 Start 2010 off right with the Pink Baby T! The latest product from Mark Gould & Pink Baby Monster, the Pink Baby T is a gorgeous white t-shirt, featuring a high quality graphic designed by Michael Zansky.  Within the baby-blue sphere, jumps an excited child holding an atomic bomb whilst flipping the bird.  Nothing says “I can’t wait for 2010″ like this shirt.  And, in case it wasn’t clear enough, printed below in bright pink are the words: Pink Baby Monster.  $10

Genkin! Eat That Question! Echidna’s Arf! LIVE!

Mark Gould & Healthcare

The New Look

Every now and then, the 8bells office goes a bit nutty.  It’s time for a new website and so here it is.

Bliggidy Blam Review

Bliggidy Blam—Formal I

Brian McWhorter and Nate Wooley, trumpets; Mat Fieldes

and Tim Kiah, electric basses; Matt Aiken, drums

8Bells 002 (CD);

Bliggidy Blam’s first recording, is composed of thirty tracks in a mere 41 minutes. Perhaps it is appropriate to caution, “ Listen with an open mind! ” That is, to term Bliggidy Blam’s offering as unconventional is a gross understatement. From its instrumentation o f t wo trumpets, two electric basses, and drums, to its implemented “ABCD(X)” compositional form, the ensemble not only requires its listeners to digest music in a new light, it also challenges the status quo, and, perhaps, the often “vanilla” taste of conventional music making. Trumpeters Brian McWhorter and Nate Wooley serve up a delectable blend of  flavor as they successfully redefine the role of trumpet in an improvisational context.

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Pink Baby Monster Album Review

10/07

With this 2004 release of music developed at Juilliard, Mark Gould and his band Pink Baby Monster expose us to a whole new world of creative music making. Outside-the-box experimentation and defiance of all categorization seem to be the goal of this musical adventure. Possibly wanting to redefine the standards by which we judge music, Mark Gould and colleagues have juxtaposed such various genres as classical, jazz, rock, rap, and electronic music to propose an entirely different way of viewing our contemporary sonic landscape. Read the rest of this entry »

NYTE Review

Over the last three decades, the New York Trumpet Ensemble has had a variety of members that have represented both Baroque music (Festival of Trumpets and The Sound of Trumpets) and jazz (Trumpets in Stride). The current cast of the NYTE, with Mark Gould as curator, has taken a head-first plunge into experimental music, using a surplus of extended techniques. Read the rest of this entry »