Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Blue

This is not a jazz recording, in the same sense that Magritte's pipe is not a pipe. Such are the conundrums presented by this literal, note for note transcription of Miles Davis's 1959 classic Kind of Blue. As an improvised artform, jazz is largely immune to irony, so MOPDTK's witty thought experiment is a brave attempt to provoke a debate about authorship and meaning. But like Schrödinger's experiment with the cat, the questions evaporate when you actually run the experiment. The liner notes reproduce Borges' baffling essay about transcribing Don Quixote, but unlike words, music – with all its infinite subtleties – really cannot be repeated exactly, and listening to this attempt is chilling, almost macabre. So save yourself the trouble – let other people do the listening. hotcuprecords.com