RECENT LISTENING #1

Carter Tutti, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Ana Da Silva, David Nance Group, Miles Davis, Daniel Carter/William Parker/Matthew Shipp, MC/5, Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore, Citizen Electrical

CARTER TUTTI Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether (CONSPIRACY INTERNATIONAL); COSEY FANNI TUTTI Tutti (CONSPIRACY INTERNATIONAL) Having by now ventured much further below 20 Jazz Funk Greats into Throbbing Gristle’s netherworld of feral sound than would seem prudent, it’s time to lighten up a little and move on to the post-Gristle career of Chris & Cosey, beyond the records I already know, Heartbeat and Trance, and into their entire decade’s worth of releases from 1987 to 1997, not to mention their 2004 re-emergence (after a 7-year hiatus) to make more great music as Carter Tutti, such as this record from 2007, Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether. It’s super good, heavily electronic as you would expect, but with certain pieces/songs, particularly “Woven Clouds,” where if you took out the (already rather subdued and gossamer) electronics, you’d have medieval-style clear-bell British folk music, a ballad sung in a dream by a working woman in the 1600s. As for their trademark trance electroni…