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Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis and Other Jazz Luminaries
Studio album by Desert Island Dicks
Released Flag of the United Kingdom July, 2007
Flag of Australia August 24, 2007
Genre Free jazz, noise
Label Flag of the United Kingdom Amoebic Productions AMP003
Flag of Australia Glitch City GC008
Producer Desert Island Dicks
Desert Island Dicks chronology
Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis and Other Jazz Luminaries
(2007)		 Stretch Marks
(2008)

Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis and Other Jazz Luminaries, sometimes abbreviated to BMtHoMDaOJL, is the first full-length album by multinational jazz-noise collective Desert Island Dicks. It was jointly released in 2007 by Britain's Amoebic Productions label and Australia's Glitch City.

The album consists of time-compressed versions of three well-known albums by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, namely 1969's Bitches' Brew, 1959's Kind of Blue and 1960's Sketches of Spain. Each track on these albums is condensed from its original length to one of ninety seconds, thus compressing each one at a ratio relative to its original length. The effect produced has been described as "ironically guidelined free jazz",[1] and as "massively compressed, like a shot of Turkish coffee... [a] formula [that] isn't always going to be entirely successful... [b]ut when it works, it can sometimes shock you into hearing the original in something of a new light".[2]

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Davis/Dicks, except where noted.

  1. "Pharaoh's Dance" (Joe Zawinul, Dicks) – 1:30
  2. "Bitches Brew" – 1:30
  3. "Spanish Key" – 1:30
  4. "John McLaughlin" – 1:30
  5. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" – 1:30
  6. "Sanctuary" (Wayne Shorter, Dicks) – 1:30
  7. "Feio" (Shorter, Dicks) – 1:30
  8. "So What" – 1:30
  9. "Freddie Freeloader" – 1:30
  10. "Blue in Green" – 1:30
  11. "All Blues" – 1:30
  12. "Flamenco Sketches" – 1:30
  13. "Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)" – 1:30
  14. "Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)" – 1:30
  15. "Will o' the Wisp" – 1:30
  16. "The Pan Piper" – 1:30
  17. "Saeta" – 1:30
  18. "Solea" – 1:30
  19. "Song of Our Country" – 1:30
  20. "Concierto de Aranjuez (Part One)" – 1:30
  21. "Concierto de Aranjuez (Part Two Ending)" – 1:30

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ingus Lovecharts, Modern Jazz: Reflections, pp. 172–4.
  2. ^ http://cyberinsekt.livejournal.com/143305.html


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