Dance of the moving goal posts, by Stanley J. Zappa & Simo Laihonen with Suvadeep Das

Dance of the moving goal posts

by Stanley J. Zappa & Simo Laihonen with Suvadeep Das

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	1.	Dance of the Moving Goal Posts 04:29
	2.	Putte’s Bar & Pizza 06:05
	3.	Positivism for the Few 06:54
	4.	On the Subject of Forgiveness 07:56
	5.	Evening Bell 07:37
	6.	538 E 14th, City of Piss, USA 05:55
	7.	No New Sales, No New Listeners 07:32

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While the phenomena of musicians pegging their self worth to the splendor of the venues in which they perform is nothing new, let us never forget the fact that some (if not most) of the greatest music humanity will ever know was created in less than splendid environments.

And while the humble basement of Putte's Bar & Pizza isn't anywhere near as splendid as the assumed stomping grounds for culture's "blue chip" artists, it, along with the careful listening of the audience and the reindeer pizza freely given, catalyzed the music on this CD.

This is not to degenerate the environment of or the experience performing at the glorious Sibelius Museum in Turku, nor any of the other stops on that most halcyon of tours in August 2018, there is no question that the gestalt of those concerts and this one at the pizza parlour were entirely different. Perhaps that speaks poorly of the Laihonen Zappa
duo - that their output could be swayed by extramusical, environmental factors.

But then neither Laihonen nor Zappa are fish paste in a tube making robots. The music they do is as much a culmination of past events as it is a manifestation of the moment.

Furthermore, repeatability, that loadstone of efficient production, is
ultimately antithetical to this way, our way of being in music. If there is such a thing as "soul"--be it that which emerges from the corpse after death, or the ultimately indefinable, not unanimous and yet often spoke of quality many claim to perceive in music --Putte's Bar & Pizza encouraged as soulful a rendering of the Laihonen Zappa duo's work as any on the tour with a fantastic percussion reinforcement from Suvadeep Das on the final piece of the evening.

SJZ, November 2022

credits

released March 10, 2023

Stanley J. Zappa: tenor & soprano saxophone, alto clarinet
Simo Laihonen: drums, conga, frame drum, bell
Suvadeep Das: darbuka on ’No New Sales, No New Listeners’
Recorded at Putte’s Bar & Pizza, Helsinki on August 24th 2018 by Simo Laihonen
Mixed and mastered by Markus Pajakkala
Photos: Stanley J. Zappa & Toni Uuttu (concert photo)
’Putte’s Bar & Pizza’ and ’538 E 14th, City of Piss, USA’ originally released on ’Muster
Point’ LP/CD on We Jazz Records (2020)
Simo Laihonen plays Saari drums and Bosphorus cymbals.
Design and layout by Lucy Adlington.

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