Gutbrain Records
c/o Rob Price
[No P.O. Box at the moment]
rob@gutbrain.com

CDs available:


I Really Do Not See The Signal
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Jim Black

Get Lost
Rob Price & David Grollman

At Sunset
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Joey Baron

Providence
Mr. Dorgon & Laura Cromwell

Blue Punctilios
Combination No. 10
(Rob Price, Victor Rice
& Ara Babajian)

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Chris Cawthray, Rob Price, Ed Zankowski

Alice Bierhorst
Joey Baron
Sandy Bell
Martin Bisi
Jim Black
Shelley Burgon
Chris Cawthray
Jason Crigler
Laura Cromwell
Andrew D'Angelo
Mr. Dorgon
Trevor Dunn
Ellery Eskelin
Lee Feldman
Scott Friedlander
Pete Galub
Greta Gertler
Jen Gilleran
Michael Gomez
Curtis Hasselbring
Head vs. Wall
Dan Hewins
Chesley Hicks
Kayt Hoch
Wayne Kral
Briggan Krauss
Rebecca Martin
Lucio Menegon
John Mettam
Matt Moran
Now's the Time
Reuben Radding
Ted Reichman
Elliott Sharp
Ches Smith

Ada Online
Ark Square
The Astronomy Picture of the Day
Barnacle Press
Bear Family
Boing Boing
CD Japan
Cinebeats
Cinematic Titanic
Daily Howler
Downtown Music Gallery
DramaWiki
Dusty Groove America
The Fate of the Artist
Film Music Society
Film Score Monthly
Get Your War On (blog)
Get Your War On (comic strip)
Godzilla Monster Music
Hang Fire Books
The Bernard Herrmann Society
Japan Society
jwz
Marlys
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Midnight Eye
Motif Backgammon
Nabokov Online Journal
NYCnosh
Pathologically Polymathic
Pulp of the Day
Rigorous Intuition
Bruce Schneier
Sakaya
Screen Archives Entertainment
Soundtrack Collector
Sunday Press
Super Happy Fun
The Times Literary Supplement
Toho Kingdom
Tokyo Food Page
xkcd
Zembla


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Curtis Hasselbring, Rob Price, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn & Shelley Burgon
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin (photo by Scott Friedlander)

Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski (photo by by Seven Stock)

Rob Price & David Grollman
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price is on other CDs:

Jubilee
Alice Bierhorst

Smell the Glove
Mr. Dorgon

Dim Sum Clip Job
Harmolodic Jeopardy

Game of Death
Reprisal

APPEARANCES

Wednesday, 27 February 2008

The next benefit concert for Andrew D'Angelo is tomorrow at Barbès.

I'm really enjoying the work of Lewis Trondheim right now, particularly the recently published Little Nothings.

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Andrew D'Angelo is going through some really hard times. There's a benefit concert for him at Tea Lounge tomorrow.

Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Andrew D'Angelo had his surgery and appears to be doing very well. Donations to help him pay bills and get him through the recovery period are still very much welcome.

One of the sites I look at every day is boingboing. Today boingboing has a link to this artist Lori Nix who creates miniature worlds and photographs them. She is amazing! If you check out her website, you can see a lot of her work, like this:

Yesterday I watched and enjoyed this movie Morituri, starring Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner. It's a WWII espionage drama, somewhat similar to John Frankenheimer's The Train. (They both anticipate Mission: Impossible in some ways.)

Brando plays a German expatriate living a pleasantly hedonistic life in India, oblivious to the war. British intelligence blackmails him into impersonating an SS officer and boarding a German ship to make sure it gets caught in an Allied ambush so they can seize its valuable cargo of rubber (needed for tires and other things).

Brando is the one for the job since his skills as an engineer will be needed to disarm the various bombs that have been planted throughout the ship so that, in the event of such an ambush, the precious materials are not taken by the enemy.

Yul Brynner is the captain. It's exciting to see these two very different actors working together. As usual, Brando's performance is one to be savored for all of its bits of business. However, I couldn't help thinking that he's out of proportion to the movie and the rest of the cast. Whenever he speaks, Morituri becomes the Marlon Brando Show. He's a lot of fun to watch — and impressive, too — but he overwhelms and steals every scene.

The photography is very good, with some very interesting and imaginative camera moves. Jerry Goldsmith's score is also great, with a haunting main theme written for zither, and some excellent cues written for the unusual combination of wood blocks, harpsichord and electric bass.

Monday, 04 February 2008

Everybody please help Andrew D'Angelo. You can donate through his website and go to benefit concerts. I believe the first one will be at Tea Lounge on Friday, February 22.

Friday, 01 February 2008

I clicked my way to Amazon Japan to order biographies of Masaru Sato and Akira Ifukube and couldn't resist ordering several other books, some about other Japanese film music composers, some about Nikkatsu Studio.

Of course, I can't read any of these, but I could painstakingly work my way through them with the aid of a dictionary and a book that explains the rudiments of Japanese grammar. Despite my having studied Japanese at the Japan Society for several years and knowing over 700 kanji, I still can't decipher even the titles of these books, let alone the text inside.

This limitation explains why I didn't know what this CD was, other than a "people who bought those books also bought this, or so we claim" item. I didn't need more than the cover photo to decide to buy it, though I was able to tell that it was the soundtrack to something called Captain Ultra.

Sometimes CDs like this contain music that I'm not into, lots of marches and stiff anthems. The music on this CD is by Isao Tomita, though, who wrote some music I really like, such as the score to Prophecies of Nostradamus.

Most of the Captain Ultra music is very good, with excellent use of electric guitar, analog synthesizers and tape delay. Some of it is acoustic and more conventional, occasionally reminiscent of some of Ifukube's work. There is a bit of march and anthem, but it's kept to a minimum.

I also broke down and bought My Favorite Ennio Morricone Music Presented by Junichiro Koizumi. I couldn't resist a compilation of Morricone film music cues put together by the prime minister of Japan (as Koizumi was when the CD came out). I'd like to see some other world leaders follow his example.