Breuker, Branca, and Young

Willem Breuker; Glenn Branca; La Monte Young

Breuker, Branca, and Young, numbers 13, 16, and 17 in the list of musicians for the year 2022. None are in the Top 100 (but all have been painted before.) Lots of negative space that begs for writing. I will sign it but I'll leave the writing to someone else.

Giovanna Daffini/Giovanna Marini

The second to last one for the top 100 2022 is a preview of 2023. Both Giovannas are in the Top 100 2023. I bought records of both performers while in Italy: Bella Ciao!

Marion Coutts/Gert-Jan Blom

Marion Coutts is a British sculptor, Gert-Jan Blom a Dutch musician and sound technician. Both played in the Dog Faced Hermans.


 

Willem Breuker

 Willem Breuker

And here's one from the home country. It doesn't happen too often that my Top 100 list features Dutch music. It's been a while! Willem Breuker (1944-2010) used the traditional Dutch "draaiorgel" (barrel organ) for his Psalm 64. The recording appears on Lunchconcert for Three Barrel Organs on the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) label that he founded in the mid-sixties together with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg. The LP is from 1966 and it's the first one he recorded under his own name. The 64 in the title does not relate to the year 1964 but is a psalm number (he may have composed the music in 1964 though.) The drawing is done with just pencil, an accumulation of several frantic hours of mark making. Like all of the Top 100 2020, the work is on 11x14 inch paper.