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Subject: DAF?
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 11:30:14 EST
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From: star::malik  (Karl Malik  ZK1-1/D42 )
Subj; DAF, Ponty, Bach & Turnips

	1) I heard a nu-wave group on the radio the other day. I liked it
and would be interested in hearing more. They were called DAF - Deutsches
Americanes Freundshaft - or something like that. I would guess they're
German.

	Anyone heard of them? Have I got the name right? My record
store clerk never heard of them.

	2) Bought Jean-Luc Ponty's 'Individual Choice' album. I love
it. More electronics than on his earlier albums. Lots of precise,
sparkly sequencer work, rich synthesizer chords (Ponty plays most
the synthesizer tracks himself) and free, lyrical violin improvisation.

	If you already like Ponty, by all means get it. If you've never
heard of him (he's a 'fusion' violinist), but you like people like
McLaughlin, Corea, Hancock or Tangerine Dream, my guess is that you
won't be disappointed.

	3) I too, assumed that that comment about Bach being under-
rated was meant as ironic. I've met more people who single him out
as *THE* best composer of all times. I thought that what was meant 
was that even if we call him the best composer of all times, that's 
still under-rating him.

	4) Nice LaMonte Young (composer) quote - "I once ate a raw 
turnip with lots of mustard - I liked it better than any Beethoven I'd
ever heard."

						,Karl
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