#Ryan Sawyer

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Foggy Notion - The Bowery Ballroom, New York City, December 13, 2023

As you probably know, The Feelies released their Velvet Underground covers extravaganza Some Kinda Love late last year — a start-to-finish pleasure. But wait, just before the closing bell rang in 2023 there emerged another contender for the crown of Best VU Tribute Of The Year. Foggy Notion! No, not this Foggy Notion (which featured some Feelies, now that you mention it), but a righteous collective made up of Alan Licht, Sue Garner, Laura Ortman, Ryan Sawyer and Steve Gunn. Actually, it's not a competition; there should be at least as many Velvets tribute bands as Dead tribute bands, right? I think so, anyway.

Foggy Notion came together to play the "Banana album" in its entirety at Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum last September, and they returned to the stage last month to open one of Yo La Tengo's annual Hanukkah shows in NYC. With Licht tuning his guitar Ostrich-style and Ortman's slashing viola, the band is more faithful to the VU sound than most, with Sawyer keeping the rhythms gloriously Tucker-esque. But the quintet doesn't sound overly reverent, either, capturing some of the dangerous thrills of this music — check out the scuzzed/skronked instrumental breaks of "Run Run Run" or the ominous rise and fall of "Heroin." Lou would approve.

Thanks to the taper, Jesse J for the pic and John H for the technical assist! There are also some vids of the show over yonder ...

[dustedmagazine]

Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin — A Sublime Madness (Astral Spirits)

A Sublime Madness by Brent Cordero & Peter Kerlin

The partnership of Brent Cordero and Peter Kerlin precedes the pandemic, but the 2020 shutdown set the stage for them to make something lasting out of it. At any rate, it cleared their schedules. Furthermore, the tenor of the times created a milieu that the album acknowledges and responds to. 

Cordero, who has played keyboards for Psychic Ills and Mike Wexler, provides organ, piano and synthesizer. Kerlin, of Sunwatchers and the Solar Motel Band, plays upright and electric basses. They first recorded as an improvising duo on Kerlin’s album Glaring Omission, which documents his efforts to come to terms with the eight-string bass. But, with time on their hands and the state of the nation on their minds, they set about organizing their music into a cohesive statement. While improvisation still figures in their methods and sonic orientation, the album was assembled in stages, with guest players adding drums, horns, viola and synthesizer to the duo’s original recordings. In essence, the solos function to provide focus and emotional impact to music that takes note of examples that are jazz-adjacent, but not jazz-confined.

“Movement To Protect The People” opens with a churchy organ melody. It sets the stage for an intricate countermelody articulated by an upright bass, which is then overtaken by spare piano notes, which drift in time with Ryan Sawyer’s stately, swinging backbeat. With each change, I found myself waiting for a voice that never arrives — Robert Wyatt’s. The tunes, textures and vibe all sound deeply inspired by his work, and the title suggests that their hearts beat in time with that of music’s most compassionate communist. However, the title of the propulsive waltz that follows, “Decolonize This Place,” articulates a consciousness that is very tuned into the trials of the present; Kerlin and Cordero aren’t just playing out their Soft Machine dreams. And the music is equally tuned into newer information. The effects on Cordero’s organ during the first solo show an engagement with malleable, distorted sound shaped more by pedal-hopping guitarists than post-bebop keyboardists. And a rippling performance by tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis adds to Kerlin and Cordero’s virtual community. 

Over the next five tracks a steady stream of musicians, including Jessica Pavone, Ryan Jewell and Daniel Carter, add their distinguishing voices to music that sounds like it is trying to transcend the realities alluded to by titles such as “White Supremacy In Black Face” and “Affordable For Who?” You can’t change the facts on the ground by slapping stirring names on instrumental compositions. But in a time when the American political discourse has morphed into a naked donnybrook over the means by which dissenting voices will be told how to shut up, it feels as necessary to say where one stands as it does to give comfort to those who are standing up. 

Bill Meyer

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Live Concert Photography: Summer Thunder at Union Pool 8/6/23 feat. Xylouris White and Ismaily, Jones and Sawyer Trio

Live Concert Photography: Summer Thunder at Union Pool 8/6/23 feat. Xylouris White and Ismaily, Jones and Sawyer Trio @xylouriswhite @jimwhitedrums @figureight8 @ImDariusJones @Ryan_Lonewolf @AcademyRecords @UnionPool

Live Concert Photography: Summer Thunder at Union Pool 8/6/23 feat. Xylouris White and Ismaily, Jones and Sawyer Trio Summer Thunder is a free weekly showcase, presented by Academy Records and the folks at Union Pool that features up-and-coming nationally and internationally touring acts and DJs at the Williamsburg hotspot and music venue’s back patio.  Throughout the course of the annual…

[myearspleasure]

VENDREDI 17 FEVRIER 2023

C.A. QUINTET - TRIP THRU HELL

INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK - DRAGGING THE NEEDLEWORK FOR THE KIDS AT UPHOLE

JOHN DWYER, RYAN SAWYER, ANDRES RENTERIA - POSH SWAT

[brownwork]

Very happily, the 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band is back in action next week as part of the FIRE OVER HEAVEN Benefit Concert on Saturday, October 22 at Outpost Artists Resources @outpostartistsresources. This epic 6-hour concert will feature sets by the 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, William Parker, Eve Essex, Loren Connors, David Grubbs & Ryley Walker, C.Spencer Yeh, Anaïs Maviel & Che Chen, and Patrick Holmes, Ryan Sawyer & Marcia Bassett.

TICKETS: https://withfriends.co/.../1022_a_benefit_for_fire_over...

If you can't attend the concert there are other ways: donations of any amount can be made via withfriends https://withfriends.co/outpost_artists_resources/join or the Outpost website https://www.outpostartistsresources.org/donate.

Another great way to support is to purchase live albums from the Fire Over Heaven Bandcamp page https://fireoverheaven.bandcamp.com/. 30+ live set recordings to choose from! Please help us keep this series going.

[awhitewomansinstagram]

If I had a nickel for every time there was a story set in a high school about an initially decent girl joining a trio of popular girls in high school and then even though she’s helping the fragile members of that trio ends up deposing the leader of said group partially related to her involvement with a guy and gradually abandoning old friends in the pursuit of popularity while concealing the dark parts of her life from her parents ft. a quirky teacher until eventually her life collapses, also involving a guy, but she gets another shot at life while reconciling with friends and singing a final number about how everyone is beautiful and worthy and then that story was made into a musical starring Barrett Wilbert Weed, I’d have two nickels which is not a lot but it is weird that it’s happened twice

[fictionbish]

the way they LOOK at each other

the way they SHOW EACH OTHER AFFECTION

the way they even SING to each other

fuck the fact that they're toxic. they're my high standards.

[emmaspersonaldiary]

Veronica was so real for dgw cuz I would want this too

[ziggyplayedguitar96]

Happy Heathers Day!

[sspiderj]

heathers stickers

[killingfrankie]

might be getting a hamster. what do you guys think of the name Megan Thee Hamsturglar Reneé Laufey Tumblr Louderman Tina Wilbert Sawyer Janis Oscars Gerwig Hamilton Henningsen Woods World Burn Everything To Everyone Moana NYC Cravalho Grammy Gretchen Taylor Wieners Karen Shetty McAdams Pitch Perfect Gosling Lemonade Mouth Rebel Wilson Regina Lacrosse 8 Long Walks Raccoon Skateboarding Theatre Piano Snow Angel 00 Rapp UNO Evelyn Hugo Signed CD Fortnite Minecraft Tony Five Nights at Freddy’s R.I.P Twitter Coachella O2 Arena Broadway Sydney Madison Square Garden 1?

[bullet-prooflove]

A quick round up of updates on the blog including new characters added to the ASK LIST and a list of fics that went out last week:

Characters Added To Ask List:

Mike Mclusky

Robert Sawyer

New Fics:

Chicago Fire:

Playing For Keeps - Sam regrets what he said about your first night together.

Big Heart - Sam takes care of you after noticing you're in pain.

Chicago Med:

Winter Blues - Mitch struggles during the winter months.

The Wrong One - A disagreement leads Dean to reconsider his choices.

Zurich (NSFW) - Jack cancels his trip when he realises something is going on with you.

Cobra Kai:

White Roses - Daniel finds out you might not be as single as he thought.

Attention - Terry hasn't been paying you enough attention

The Red Room - Terry takes care of a threat.

Fire Country:

To The Moon & To Saturn - Bode finds a nerdy way to tell you how he feels.

Critical - Manny stays by your bedside after the crash.

Law & Order Criminal Intent - Toronto:

Who I’m Not - You remind Henry he’s not his father.

Fragile Heart - Henry has always believed love wasn't for him.

Mayans:

Home - Felipe knows your pregnant.

Mayor of Kingstown:

Hell or Highwater - You and Mike always find your way back to each other.

Stop Thinking - Robert needs to stop thinking and start doing.

NCIS - New Orleans:

The Fall - Dwayne knows you're heading for a fall.

SEAL Team:

Say it Again - You tell Eric how you feel for the first time.

SOA:

Yours - You and Nero put everything on the table.

Kings & Queens - You and Chibs marry under terrible circumstances.

Ass (NSFW) - Tig has always had a thing about your ass.

Top Gun Maverick:

Moonlight - Beau asks you a question about your wedding.

Yellowstone:

Final Words - Kayce discovers the truth about Lee.

More (NSFW) - Kayce tells you he needs more.

Missing You - You miss Kayce just as much as he misses you.

Until Your Dying Day - You make a promise to Lee.

Every Part of Me (NSFW) - Jamie wants to give you every part of himself.

Everything (NSFW) - Jamie wants everything with you.

Break Free - Jamie decides it's time to break free from Yellowstone.

Touch - After seven years in prison Walker's a little touch starved.

Everything You Dreamed (NSFW) - You are everything Walker could have dreamed and more.

The Other Woman (NSFW) - John was never meant to be with Evelyn.

With Me (NSFW) - Ryan and you send the night together for the first time.

[olsonholloway]

Big day for Heathers girlies

[fatty4cid]

sum freeze your brain goodness 🙏

mean girls 2024 revived my 2017-18 theatre kid phase (twas never just a phase) so ofc i had to do some heathers 🙏

[armyangxls]

I made a f/os account @whimsyspookyloves !!!!

And I made a reblog account @starry-ghost-tour !!!!

I'll still post f/os stuff on this account too!! I'm still figuring out what / everything I'm gonna post on that account!! :)) 💜🌞💜