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About Me

Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved by using the stiff plastic Fibrecane no. 4 reeds on his tenor saxophone—and used a broad, pathos-filled vibrato. His trio and quartet records of 1964, like Spiritual Unity and The Hilversum Session, show him advancing the improvisational notions of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman into abstract realms where timbre, not harmony and melody, are the music's backbone. His ecstatic music of 1965 and 1966, like "Spirits Rejoice" and "Truth is Marching In" has been compared by critics to the sound of a Salvation Army brass band, and involved simple, march-like themes which alternated with wild group improvisations and were regarded as retrieving jazz's pre-Louis Armstrong roots.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/31/2005
Band Website: dolltest.com
Band Members: Scott Five : Guitarra
Nick Millward : Guitarra
Graham Black : Bateria
Boyd Remillard : Bajo

Influences: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
SLOAN
paranoia
loss
James Gang
Kinks
class struggle
The Byrds
Adam Smith and his "invisible hand"
The Jam
Beach Boys
Cheap Trick

Sounds Like: a memory
Record Label: Unsmashable Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Deal

Somebody shoot the professor, we gonna have us some regime change, Action Comics style! I know many of you out there are planning your independence day festivities quite early this year, trying to tr...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:50:00 GMT

Fifty-One

Oh Canada, hour one and only cat. You brought us the mountains called Shuksan, you brought us the rock upon which we founded the many true churches. You are fifty-one, on top, mighty, filled with at...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:38:00 GMT

Oh Thanks Be For Furry Hat

Thank you for this furry hat I set upon my head. I wearing all the more and some, quite even in my bed. This cheerful flap and buckle that 'tis fitting to a tee. Now I cannot imagine one as strappi...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:18:00 GMT

Passing Through The Stars

So this seven year old kid had a sure-fire hit song she wrote out for me. She told me to count the stars, all in a row, all the way to the moon. Apparently, there are 10 rows of stars. When she sco...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:53:00 GMT

That’s Why We Get Paid To Play This Thing Called Sports

"Maybe one day I'll be as good as you" "(laughing) ahhhh, it won't be that hard." "Yes! Clean sheets on the bed, that makes me happy."
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:26:00 GMT

What Doll Test Does Off The Clock.

Did you know what that was? Fun, but fun comes in all kinds of easy to use devices. One such circuit board of smiling munificence is The Paul Lynde Fan Club. It is a perpetual joy to pick up a drec...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Mosque Alarm Clock at Not Lame!

'"Mosque Alarm Clock" is a tasty adrenalized brew of no-filler powerful and rocking sharply crafted pop. At every turn, armies of chiming 12 strings stride confidently and rough-and-tumble incendiary ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:31:00 GMT

The Words Before They Became Words

Have you ever listened to the words that cling to the melodies of yer fave rave Doll Test songs?  Did you know most of them come from either the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics or the Daily...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Seattle Powerpop Blog Reviews Mosque Alarm Clock

When they made Mosque Alarm Clock, there was a room with four guys of them and no window in even!  How they did it, we'll never know.  Who could have moved those stone plinths over the miles...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:07:00 GMT

You don’t have to go to Morocco to get your "Mosque Alarm Clock"

.. There's a new record, thanks to your good friends at Unsmashable Records. Come celebrate and get one Friday Aug. 1 at the Skylark. The Fucking Lund Bros. are playing! http://www.myspace.com/unsmash...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:04:00 GMT