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*** Bands
Albert et sa Fanfare Poliorcétique (Following a meeting with Albert Ayler at the Fondation Maeght, Denis Benoliel named his band after Albert. They released one LP in 1971 - La malédiction des rockers (Riviera 521194). The full story of the meeting is on the Ayler Remembered page.)
(Based in Louisville Kentucky, The Belgian Waffles have quite a few songs directly related to the Aylers or influenced by them. Specifically the tunes, "Flat Black Huey" which uses "Universal Indians" as a refrain and "Too Many Dustballs" which refers heavily to Donald Ayler.)
as Ayler's Angels:
*** Dance “The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler” Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet) From Adventurous Women Choreographers by Karen Onoda: “Karole Armitage, formerly of the Geneva Ballet and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, created modern works during the early part of her choreographic career, then began to set works in Pointe shoes. She now has a full-fledged ballet company, the Armitage Ballet. Combining conventional ballet steps and phrases with a modern approach to structure and space, Armitage has created a style uniquely her own. Her dances are of spiky, splintery texture, with hops often off-kilter and legs extended to the sky. Wrists are bent, legs and arms are often broken at eccentric angles. There is a sophisticated coyness to her dances, at once knowing and gawky. The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler, the second Armitage-David Salle production, is danced to an eclectic combination of music and voice. It ranges from the nightclub comedian Lord Buckley to the music of Webern and Stravinsky. In this work, Armitage's bold, skewed choreography is especially reminiscent of Balanchine. Salle's often whimsical stage designs and costumes include such devices as tutus lit from the inside.”
Douglas Wright New Zealand’s leading contemporary dancer/choreographer, Douglas Wright used a track from the Relyable LP, The Berlin Concerts - 1966 in a dance called "Hey Paris", the subject of a short film in 1988.
*** Visual Arts Riverboat Lovesongs for the Ghost Whale Regatta An installation by Michael Jones McKean, it was shown at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri from September 1st to October 21st 2006: “Michael McKean's Riverboat Lovesongs for the Ghost Whale Regatta steers a meandering course between the objective facts of navigation and poetic possibilities of exploration. Like many of his installations, it slips between varied levels of reference, in this instance from Twain’s pilot house to Ahab's foredeck to the abandoned shell of Donald Crowhurst's Teignmouth Electron. Stagecraft and artifice are balanced by the concrete presence of clay, wind, and rain, while Albert Ayler's saxophone provides a sporadic and elegiac soundtrack. Casting a shadow over the installation as a whole is the implication that adventure and aspiration may very well end in death by water. *** Other La Passion selon Albert Ayler In November 2002 a series of concerts were held in Brussels under the collective title, La Passion selon Albert Ayler. The following information is from the press release: “Le Collectif Inaudible présente : La Passion selon Albert Ayler "je joue un cri silencieux" au Petit Théâtre Mercelis à 20h30 les 5, 7, 9 et 14 novembre Une tragédie musicale sur une mise en texte et son de Guy Strale mardi 5 novembre 20 h30 texte interprété par Nathalie Rjewsky & Frédéric Lepers jeudi 7 novembre 20h 30 samedi 9 novembre 20 h 30 jeudi 14 novembre 20h30 organisé par inaudible asbl en collaboration avec le service de la culture d'Ixelles Une tragédie musicale évoquant une personnalité mythique et injustement méconnue : le saxophoniste noir américain Albert Ayler, un des créateurs du free jazz, suicidé de la société, à 34 ans, en 1970. * Along An Eastern Shore R. A. Washington’s ‘choreopoem’ in tribute to Albert Ayler, “Along An Eastern Shore”, performed by Daniel Gray-Kontar and the Albert Ayler Awareness Orchestra, had its world premiere at Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival on July 16th, 2006. Photos of the event by Lou Muenz are available on his website, and there’s a six minute video extract on the YouTube site.
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