Monday, June 20, 2022

100 Faces from the Top 100 2022

100 Faces from the Top 100 2022

 In order of appearance clockwise from the top left corner, spirals inward:

1.     Marlene Marder (LiLiPUT)

2.     Les Dani de Nouvelle Guinée (CD cover)

3.     Katherina Bornefeld (The Ex)

4.     Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra)

5.     Allen Ravenstine (Pere Ubu)

6.     Anne-Marie Petrequin (anthropologist)

7.     Pierre Petrequin (anthropologist)

8.     Rundi woman performing "Ubuhuha"

9.     Rundi woman performing "Ubuhuha"

10.  Brian Elliott (Cromagnon)

11.  Austin Grasmere (Cromagnon)

12.  Paco Aguilar (Cuarteto Aguilar)

13.  Han Bennink (drummer)

14.  Lukas Foss (composer, conductor)

15.  Inuit singer performing "katajjaq"

16.  Inuit singer performing "katajjaq"

17.  Penny Rimbaud (CRASS)

18.  Charlie Parker (saxophonist)

19.  Jon Ibragon (saxophonist)

20.  Tirudel Zenebe (Ethiopian singer)

21.  Don Cherry (jazz musician)

22.  Ake Egevad (archeo-musicologist)

23.  Rosa Balistreri (Italian singer)

24.  Alice Coltrane (jazz pianist)

25.  Tukana elder

26.  Henri Lecomte (ethnomusicologist)

27.  Henry Grimes (bassist)

28.  Steven Feld (ethnomusicologist)

29.  Charlotte Heth (Cherokee singer)

30.  Cat Power (American singer)

31.  Kimya Dawson (American singer)

32.  Marjorie Shostak (ethnomusicologist)

33.  Instruments of the Kalahari San (cover)

34.  Stanley Diamond (ethnomusicologist)

35.  Miles Davis (jazz trumpetist)

36.  Miss Palu Vavau Tupou (Tonga)

37.  Jimmie Garrison (bassist)

38.  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

39.  Esna Redzepova (Rom singer)

40.  Lars Persson (ethnographer)

41.  David Sanborn (jazz musician, host "Night Music")

42.  Music from Mato Grosso (cover)

43.  Pierre Sallée (ethnomusicologist)

44.  Neil Young

45.  Rebecca Natialuk (Inuit singer)

46.  Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO)

47.  ???

48.  Ulahi (Papuan singer)

49.  Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)

50.  Andrea Quispe Chura (Q'ero)

51.  Andy Moor (The Ex)

52.  Caetano Veloso (Brazilian musician)

53.  Albert Ayler (saxophonist)

54.  Gal Costa (Brazilian singer)

55.  June Tyson (Sun Ra Arkestra)

56.  Sun Ra (jazz musician)

57.  Dave Thomas (Pere Ubu)

58.  Klaudia Schiff (LiLiPUT)

59.  Anna Kolegova (Chuchi singer)

60.  Howard Kauffman (anthropologist)

61.  Eve Libertine (CRASS)

62.  Terry Hessels (The Ex)

63.  Cuna Indian

64.  Deben Bhattacharia (ethnomusicologist)

65.  Iannis Xenakis (composer)

66.  Tangkul storyteller

67.  Donald Tayler (ethnomusicologist)

68.  Michel Vuylsteke (ethnomusicologist)

69.  Tom Herman (Pere Ubu)

70.  Nigeria (Jos plateau)

71.  Loren Bommelyn (Native American singer)

72.  James Mtume (jazz percussionist)

73.  Shuar woman

74.  Tom Maimone (Pere Ubu)

75.  David Blair Stiffler (ethnomusicologist)

76.  Alan Vega (Suicide)

77.  Ansambl Teodosievski (musical director)

78.  Alex Chilton (American musician)

79.  Nicole Beaudry (ethnomusicologist)

80.  Gee Vaucher (CRASS)

81.  Michael Hurley (American musician)

82.  John Cohen (ethnomusicologist)

83.  Hugo Zemp (ethnomusicologist)

84.  Irina Kolegova (Siberian singer)

85.  Getatchew Mekuria (saxophonist)

86.  Sunny Murray (jazz percussionist)

87.  Gyorgy Ligeti (composer)

88.  Elise Aguilera (Cuateto Aguilero)

89.  Rung-Shun Wu (ethnomusicologist)

90.  Brian Moser (anthropologist)

91.  Cajsa Lund (Archeo-musicologist)

92.  John Cage (composer)

93.  Music of Thailand (cover)

94.  Cathy Berberian (singer)

95.  Tukano shaman

96.  Music of the Indians of Panama (cover image)

97.  Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

98.  Music of Ngassa (cover)

99.  Aileen Figuaroa (Yurok singer)

100.                 My Larsdotter (My Bubba)

 There are a few questions in the list, they will be answered when I work on the new Top 100, I'm sure. I also noticed there are 101 faces rather than 100. That extra one (between 58 & 59) I can't identify.

Disorder

Vision of Disorder/Naxi group at Puji monastery, Yunnan, China
I've been experimenting with the concept of double exposure. I covered an old painting of Vision of Disorder (VoD) from 2015 with strings of tape and painted part of a Naxi group over top of it. Then I removed the tape. I hoped for magic when I pulled the tape but was was left with disappointment in stead. I thought for sure the sum would be greater than the parts. Below are small reproductions of the 2015 painting and the Naxi group on the same canvas. 30x40 inches.

Not really pleased with the result I am planning on changing the tactics a bit and try again. The image of the Naxi group comes from a book by Helen Rees: Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China (Oxford Press, 2000.) The book comes with a cd and a song from the cd appears in the Top 100 2022.