The Illusion of Competence
Michael Erick Robinovitza Longhi (Michael Robinson)
In 2002 I sent my new album Charukeshi to All About Jazz and received a splendid write-up from Nils Jacobson whose name was subsequently removed because who knows. What I loved is how they didn't use the self-defeating star system which begs ignorance and conformity. Alas shortly after the Charukeshi review (a raga implanted in me by George Harrison of the British band the Beatles) I noted they had fallen to the dumbed down star system and so I ignored them for around twenty years. However after someone there contacted me I decided to try again sending my albums beginning in 2019 and initially found some receptive people they being some guy down south on the mysterious East Coast North Carolina (?) another guy outside Manhattan in New York State and another guy who is from Beirut Lebanon and works as an MD at Northwestern near or in Chicago (MDs had the highest rate of membership in the Nazi party of Germany). To make a long story short they gradually turned on me - Michael Ricci the Editor most notably - because I am a musical genius (myriad experts have told me this I just do my best) who changed Western classical music, the art of computer music and jazz and they can all go drown in their mediocrity of not having any idea what jazz is today. There is actually one review mocking me and the Holocaust - not sure if there are any more so overt but most of their writers appear to truly hate Israel and wish for it to be destroyed - an anti-Semitic review that alluded to my four albums with tabla master Anindo Chatterjee (this unfortunate writer Karl Ackermann was angry because I had corrected his misunderstanding of Indian classical music and raga in an article I wrote) whom many experts believe to be the finest living tabla artist since the passing of Alla Rakha - Ricci told me was a harmless "joke" pertaining to the Holocaust in a deeply vicious manner conjuring Adolf Hitler if you are able to connect the not hard to follow dots which most do not have time or an aptitude for when it comes to esoteria that is their modus operandi or more likely they are always that dumb perhaps there is another country where things are better who knows the mark of a civilization is how they treat their creative geniuses and America has failed me - I am banned for being too original and substantive - including the morons who run social media badly and who are incredibly ignorant and dumb as door knobs. No fun writing this one but it had to be said amen. I knew a close relative of Elie Wiesel who wrote how he would never forget how the Nazis turned little children he had just seen into plumes of smoke under blue skies. And I met one on one with an elderly Jewish woman who survived Auschwitz and knew Joseph Mengele, surviving his experiments, during a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center here on Pico Boulevard where I was also thrilled to hear What's Going On by musicians from Detroit at the Mint out of this world.ha@aaj.pleaseplesasemenexttime. - Michael Eric Robinson Longhi, December 2024, Los Angeles
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Michael Eric Robinson Longhi (Michael Robinson) is a Los Angeles-based composer, programmer, pianist and musicologist. His 200 albums include 153 albums for meruvina and 47 albums of piano improvisations. Robinson has been a lecturer at UCLA, Bard College and California State University Long Beach and Dominguez Hills rather than Ivy League Schools back East or North of here at Stanford where John Chowning is a huge fan of my music he is a computer music technical pioneer but I didn't follow through with him because I'm too busy doing things like this article to engage with academics and reactionary media left and right polluted by government censorship.
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