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LOUIS SCLAVIS TRIO "Ceux Qui Veillent La Nuit" (FRA, 1996)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:00 +0000

LOUIS SCLAVIS - clarinet, soprano sax
BRUNO CHEVILLON - bass
FRANCOIS MERVILLE - drums, percussions

LOUIS SCLAVIS TRIO "Ceux Qui Veillent La Nuit" (1996)

More LOUIS SCLAVIS at LABEL BLEU

ROMANO / SCLAVIS / TEXIER "Carnet De Routes" (1995) [listen: Annobon]

ROMANO /SCLAVIS / TEXIER " Suite Africaine"(1999) [listen: Soweto sorrow]

ROMANO / SCLAVIS / TEXIER "African Flashbacks" (2005)

LOUIS SCLAVIS QUINTET "Chine"(2003 reissue, first edition IDA, 1987)

LOUIS SCLAVIS SEPTET "Chamber Music" (2003 reissue, first edition IDA, 1989)

LOUIS SCLAVIS "Danses Et Autres Scenes" (1997) [listen: Germania valse]

LOUIS SCLAVIS "Clarinettes" (1999 reissue, first edition IDA 1985)

Caminos De Cataluña: Twenty years of label G3G (1989 - 2009)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:20:00 +0000

RAEO (Mark Cunningham + Gat)

JAKOB DRAMINSKY

VICTOR NUBLA

G3G (a.k.a. G33G) is a Barcelona based label, named after its three "G" founders (Gat, Guillem, Gloria). Active since 1989, it has been releasing, mainly, music from local Catalonian artists. The most interesting of G3G works offer idiosyncratic and experimental views of current forms combining, sometimes radically, art-rock, electronics, jazz, world, ambient, minimal...

Label's bigger name is PASCAL COMELADE. Here, though, you can also find late 70's , 80's spanish underground personalities as JUAN CREK and VICTOR NUBLA, (both members of the historic experimental band MACROMASSA), contemporary improvisators as JAKOB DRAMINSKY, eclectic crossings of Mediterranea with New York as RAEO, (collaboration between G3G founder GAT and no-wave man MARK CUNNINGHAM )... and many other worth discovering artists.
Quite collectable are the very limited, vinyl-only "Tarot" singles of the label, released the period 1989-1995.

ANTON IGNORANT

MACROMASSA

a G3G sampler

01. ALIEN MAR - Selenita
("Alien Mar", 1996)

02. GRAN TEATRO AMARO - La nuova piuma
("La Vie En Rouge", 2002)

03. RAEO - Mambo maya
("Adios Jupiter", 1994)

04. RAEO - Kineshtesia
("Body Loops", 1999)

05. JAKOB DRAMINSKY - On a x-road to Bagdad
(v.a. "Ten Years After, una compilacion de G3G", 1999)

06. ORIOL PERUCHO - Las pelusas
("Insulto, Le Multaron Y Dejo De Comer", 1992)

07. PIERRE BASTIEN - Argel allegra
("Se Verla Al Reves", 2005)

08. MACROMASSA - El largo camino a las almedras
("Los Hechos Perez", 1992)

09. JUAN CREK & SERGIO OCA - Viento del sur
("Viento Del Este", 1996)

10. RAEO - Memorias del oasis
("Adios Jupiter", 1994)

11. PASCAL COMELADE - Patafisiskal polska
("Ragazzin' The Blues", 1991)

12. PASCAL COMELADE - Neo-realismo del'habanera
("Ragazzin' The Blues", 1991)

13. MINOX & LYDIA LUNCH - U turn
(v.a. "Ten Years After, una complilacion de G3G", 1999)

14. MACROMASSA - Alas plegables
("Los Hechos Perez", 1992)

15. PIERRE BASTIEN - Roba sabor
("Se Verla Al Reves", 2005)

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

Download: G3G sampler (15tracks)

photos of artists are from experimentaclub
(www.experimentaclub.com)

visit: www.g33grecords.com

Sounds Of Fortune: The Tarot Vinyls Of G3G (SPAIN)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:59:00 +0000

The G3G "Tarot" Collection of limited, numbered vinyl singles:

XV - RAEO - El Diablo, 1992

XXI - GAWK - The World, 1992

XVIIII - MACROELVIS/SUPERMASSA - El Sol, 1994

XVIII - IGNORANT BUILDINGS - La Luna, 1989

XVII - PIERRE BASTIEN - La Estrella, 1993

VIII - MIL DOLORES PEQUENOS - La Justicia, 1995

XX - VICTOR SIERRA - Jugement, 1992

IX- PASCAL COMELADE & BELCANTO ORQUESTRA - El Ermitano, 1992

VII - ETANT DONNES - El Carro, 1993

Today's track of fortune:

RAEO - Mambo Maya

HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS "Piano Piano" ( 1991)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:06:00 +0000

This post is for Richard, friend of Materiali Sonori releases, who have asked to listen to this 1991 album. Beside his pioneering and famous works with edging kraut bands as KLUSTER, CLUSTER, HARMONIA etc., the edging composer Hans-Joachim Roedelius also has released numerous solo works, most of which are ambient-newage-modern classical orientated... and "PIANO PIANO" is one of them. Simple piano sounds and few electronics are enough, for the composer, to draw slowly (piano piano) melodic, quiet, impressionistic landscapes of sometime great sentimental immediacy.

H-J ROEDELIUS Leicht Gemacht

PIANO PIANO (12 tracks)

LABEL BLEU: Jazz In Bleu Moods (FRA)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:50:00 +0000

LABEL BLEU is the independent force of contemporary french jazz. Active since mid-eighties the Amiens based label has presented works from important and well known artists as LOUIS SCLAVIS, HENRI TEXIER, PAOLO FRESU, ALDO ROMANO, ENRICO RAVA, JUAN JOSE MOSALINI, MICHEL PORTAL, DAVID KRAKAUER & many others.
LABEL BLEU and sublabels INDIGO (ethnic, world jazz) and BLEU ELECTRIC (nu jazz, electronic) combine classic jazz values with avant directions, fresh sounds, innovative styles and world influences offering a wide spectrum of creations stamped uniquely by the bleu past-present-future sense of continuity.

JAZZ IN BLEU MOODS...an introduction to Label Bleu

a

01 HENRI TEXIER AZUR QUARTET - don't buy ivory, anymore!
02 SCLAVIS / TEXIER / ROMANO - Annobon
03 PALATINO -Tempo
04 PASCALS - Tour theme 2006
05 DANIEL GOYONE - Dance bulgar
06 ENRICO RAVA Tango for Vasquez & Pepita
07 MOSALINI / BEYTELMANN / CARATINI - Inspiracion
08 SCLAVIS / TEXIER/ ROMANO - Sowetto sorrow
09 PALATINO - Last call from the stars
10 P.A.F. TRIO - Paftastique
11 MICHEL PORTAL - Mutinerie
12 DAVID KRAKAUER - Moskovitz and loops of it

b
01 LOUIS SCLAVIS - Germania valse
02 PALATINO - Glenn's walk
03 JULIEN LOURAU - Tu mi turbi
04 DAVID LINX & DIEDERIK WISSELS - Lord of the groundless
05 MAGIK MALIK - Duo 237
06 VINCENT SEGAL - Castor
07 OLYMPIC GRAMOFON - Shiver
08 BATTISTA LENA - Il cha cha dei cosmonauti
09 JULIEN LOURAU - Diaspora
10 GARY LUCAS - Old dreams
11 PASCALS - Chakuriku
12 SCLAVIS / TEXIER / ROMANO - Viso di donna
13 CHRISTOPHE MARGUET - i
14 VINCENT SEGAL - Vienne

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

listen to part a
(12 tracks, 1 hour)

listen to part b
(14 tracks, 56min)

More Label Bleu at La Folie Du Jour

JUAN JOSE MOSALINI - Che Bandoneon
MICHEL PORTAL - Musiques de Cinemas
LOUIS SCLAVIS - Ceux qui veillent la nuit

SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER: Sound Activists, Public Entertainers

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:20:00 +0000

first LP "HÖRT HÖRT" ("Listen Listen")

SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER was a brass band formed in 1976, in Frankfurt, by HEINER GOEBBELS, ALFRED HARTH, CHRISTOPH ANDERS... in an attempt to reinforce artistically the left student movement demonstrations of that period. The band, designed mostly for live appearances, was consisting of about twenty musicians and played on stage, at the streets and in diverse political activities.
In spite of the circumstances of its birth, The So-Called Left Radical Brass Orchestra never was a preacher of left dogmatism. Their repertoire crossed the music history from baroque & classical period, early twentieth century to free-jazz and avant-garde, including original pieces, traditonal themes, covers of Hans Eisler, Frank Zappa etc.
Their interpretations were imaginative, inventive, uncompromised but not snobbish, eclectic, intellectual and yet very amusing - a channel for direct communication with the people.

SLB discography comprises the albums: "HÖRT HÖRT" (1977) and "MIT GELBEN BIRNEN" (1980), which in my opinion are -along with one or two Cassiber's releases- the most interesting (of the many) works GOEBBELS & HARTH have both involved.

SLB musicians:

Christoph Anders, Alfred Harth, Heiner Goebbels - tenor saxes
Henning Wiese, Rolph Riem, Barbara Muller-Rendtorff - alto saxes
Thomas Jahn, Gudrun Stocker, Cora Stefan - flutes
Volker Haas, Reinhard Bussmann, Herwig Heise, Walter Ybema - clarinets
Klaus Becker, Johannes Eisenberg, Gunther Lohr - trumpets
Michael Hoehler, Peter Lieser - trombones
Uwe Schriefer, Jorn Stuckrath - tubas
Ernst Stotzner - voice

italian version of the first LP, released in 1979 from Franco Fabbri's legendary label L'Orchestra

second LP "MIT GELBEN BIRNEN" ("With Yellow Pears")

SLB - praludium (track selected by Semilunio)

Both of SLB albums have reissued in 1999 on double CD from Munich label Trikont. So here you get some samples only from these two great works.

SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER
(9-track sampler, 27min)

01 - ich bin halt die kotze aus diener glotze
02 - rote sonne
03 - ya no somos nosotros
04 - la resistenca se organisa
05 - homesick blues
06 - die hugel von ca'n geroni
07 - poema para el despertar de un nino
08 - praludium
09 - trauermarsch

sampler by LaFolieDuJour

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO " Tristesse " (Materiali Sonori, 1990)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Argentinian composer and guitarist LUIS RIZZO is one of the contemporary avant-tango and tango-revival acting figures, a competent heir to a really great tradition built by tango monsters (and also Rizzo's masters) as ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, JUAN JOSE MOSALINI, OSVALDO MANZI...
In 70's Rizzo participates to Mosalini's avant ensemble "Guardia Nueva", in 80's he stays in france and plays a lot in Europe. In 1988 he releases, with a trio, the album"Tango d'hier et d'aujourd'hui" (label Circe, France) and two years later, he meets italian producer Marco Castellani and starts his long collaboration with label Materiali Sonori.
"TRISTESSE" is the first fruit of this collaboration, a collection of 13 pieces written by various composers (11 tangos, 1 milonga, 1 valse), with Rizzo on guitar, Susanna Rizzi on vocals and Cesar Stroscio, future leader of the very good ensemble ESQUINA, (see our post for label Materiali Sonori), on bandoneon.

Listen to a sample here:

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO - Tristesse (composer: Luis Rizzo)

(If time allows, samples will be rotaring)

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO
(with singer Susanna Rizzi )
Cesar Stroscio - bandoneon
Carlos Carsen - bass
Adrian Politi - guitar
Luis Rizzo - guitar

ANDY STATMAN: Forms Of Spiritual World Music

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Statman's urban folk: from jewish mystics and bluegrass to impressionistic jazz and world eclectisism

ANDY STATMAN is a rare occasion of a multiculturalist, innovator and strongly rooted to the folk traditions artist. By a very young age, while he was already an accomplished bluegrass mandolinist, attracted by the free/spiritual jazz of Ayler and Coltrane and begun, as a saxophonist, his first adventures in avant-jazz and ethnic music. As a Jew, on the other hand, he involved with the old jewish music and, developing his clarinet virtuosity under the guidance of great Klezmer teachers (as David Tarras), he finally became one of the masters of the genre.

His approach though, in hebrew traditions hasn't been preserving the music of the past. On the contrary, Statman's art is in a constant search for an expansive form which extracts the timeless from the ancient jewish tunes and blends it with his many other influences.
This highly melodic world trip draws pictures of an urban-folk-bluesy american landscape and leads back to Balkan, Mediterrania, Eastern Europe, places where Chassidic culture bloomed. It has for sure its strong references to a collective memory, it is though the very personal journey of someone who attains to put to question our historical-geografical music certainties, communicating with us on the base of an old/new spiritual language.

...circa 1996

front cover of 1997 Statman's work, eloquently titled "Between Heaven & Earth"

A LFDJ introduction to Andy Statman

01 Shalom Aleichem
(Andy Statman & David Grisman "Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

02 Bashie's Bounce
("Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

03 Slivovitz
(Andy Statman Quartet "The Hidden Light", 1998)

04 Crossing the Bosphorus
("The Hidden Light", 1998)

05 Hispodedus
(Andy Statman "Avodas ha-levi: archival recordings from 90's", 2005)

06 Badekns Niggun
("Avodas ha-levi", 2005)

07 Yonah
(Andy Statman Quartet "Between Heaven & Earth", 1997)

08 L' cha dodi
("Avodas ha-levi", 2005)

09 Waltz
("Avodas ha-levi", 2005)

10 For the sake of my brothers and friends
("Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

11 Journey to the center of twang
(Andy Statman & David Grisman "Mandolin Abstractions", 1983)

12 'Till we meet again
("Mandolin Abstractions", 1983)

13 Mah Yedidus
("The Hidden Light", 1998)

14 Chassidic waltz
("Between Heaven & Earth", 1997)

15 Adon olam
("Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

16 If not for...
("Between Heaven & Earth", 1997)

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

LISTEN HERE
(16 tracks, 56min)

ANDY STATMAN QUARTET - If Not For...
"if not for Your Torah in which i took delight, i would have perished in my affliction" (Psalms)

" A holy melody has the power to bring someone to a state of prophecy" (A Chassidic Mystic)

THEE FOURGIVEN " Testify! " (US, 1987)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:30:00 +0000

TESTIFY! is a request. I don't think i 'll say much about it. Formed out of the ashes of THE UNCLAIMED, THEE FOURGIVEN was one of the garage/revival bands, i have listened to a lot in the past. That was long time ago... (and now i'm writing this, Koroviov, looking at me from the other corner of the room, he starts laughing...)

THEE FOURGIVEN main members were RICH COFFEE and RAY FLORES, while drums for this second LP " TESTIFY!", were played by BELA HORVATH.

L to R : Horvath, Coffee, Flores

TESTIFY!

&
check also previous post for their third LP

SALVATION GUARANTEED (1989)

THE MOONFLOWERS "Colours And Sounds" (UK, 1995)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:01:00 +0000

lunar plantation hits the earth

"...We Could Fly Away, Never Look Back
Leave The World Spin Silently In A Suicide Pact
And All The Colours And Sounds That Pass Through Us In Space
Fall Down To The Earth And Put A Smile On Its Face..."

...early days

...bloomed in France

History of the bristolian space-folk-jazz-funk-dub-psych wanderers, as it is told in their site:

The Moonflowers emerged in 1988 defiantly painted , endowed with puppy fat and a cacophony with antics. Soon showed they had flair and stirred the local scene.

Following the success of indie hit 'Get Higher' in 1990 they were transported to a national then international platform (scaffold), beseeching their audience/ followers to hold hands while they watched the group cavort and leap about in an effort to obtain world peace by the year 1999.

The band started a label and called it Pop God from which they released further efforts from themselves and other bands (Praise Space Electric, ME, Ecstatic Orange, Mammal etc.). They toured and sold produce and artefacts such as home made T-shirts and badges.

Moonflowers maintained constant touring and in 1993 released their second (though first really good) LP called 'From Whales to Jupiter and Beyond the Stars to Rainbohemia' which mixed folk, dub, rock and dance influences.

Yet still they aimed higher and dreamt they could free themselves -and us all- from the bonds of commercial modern existence and so decided to remove themselves from society to create their own utopia, their 'Rainbohemia', a place where days are spent in creativity with music and art a way of life.

The band waved goodbye to their friends and drove away in their yellow bus across the sea and far away...

In 1995 masters for an LP were sent to Pop God offices (from an unknown destination) which was the masterful 'Colours and Sounds' LP.

This record was released and though not well known, very worth tracking down for its incredible range and orchestration.

Fewer performances were reported from across Europe. The group was variously seen busking acoustically across France from a broken down old coach; performing as a three piece in Windsor with the singer, guitarist and a casio keyboard taking it in turn to play the drums, and gigging in Japan.

By mid 1996 the band considered themselves/ the world too far gone for further performances and decided to leave the world/ themselves one more album for now and then concentrate on helping/ growing another generation that may lead the world to more happytivity, healthdum and creatness.

Meantime though they have given their chains to a highly trained music force called the Rainbohemians, to dwell in our lands, play concerts and make records.
So these Rainbohemians did as they were bid and played some concerts and recorded an LP but still the waves were breaking upon the spirit of the moonflowers and so this force retreated to Rainbohemia and told what they had seen and done to the moonflowers there, now quite settled and ageing.

Then it came to pass that the moonflowers once again raised their standard (no pun intended), rallied round and made another LP for their most staunch supporters - the Japanese. This record is called "Brainwashing and Heartists Blue Life Stripes" as each member wrote a word and these words were pulled from a hat.

Another two forces were released from the rainbohemia stronghold:

the first, called Morning Star was led by the moonflower with the guitar and he went to the land where the vain but gentle young men, the leonard cohenists and the troubadours dwell. And he did perform with accordion and acoustic instruments and made records also. And this continues unto this day.

The second force has been called Solar Mumuns and is led by the one who was the eye of the little storm known as the moonflowers. Now these mumuns have only been seen once but have left a recording in their wake called "Breaking Waters". They appear and disappear as soon as they are seen, something new is forming, or is it something very old, ancient in fact.

By the end of the millennium one last album occurred. From vaults thought lost to humans but unearthed in the mid-winter storms of late 1999, a new record of moonflowers has been found. With instructions reading 'do not open until 2000' these recordings, complete with cover are now online for release. They have been titled "Dont Just Sit There, Fly!" spectral folkers and contain psychedelic glimpses of their gypsy-like existence and the world as they have seen or imagined it.

On June 1st 2002 a door closed forever for The Moonflowers when Toby Pascoe tragically died.

THE MOONFLOWERS - track 14 - Colours And Sounds

some samples from "Colours And Sounds" LP (+ extras):

track 3 - "nopar king"
track 5 - "shake it together"
track 6 - "revolution"
track 15 - "keepers of fire"
track 16 - "the world's most famous unknown people"
+
"morning pipe" (given free from band's site)
"silver hair" (given free from band's site)

listen here

J J BURNEL "Un Jour Parfait"

noreply@blogger.com (semilunio) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:18:00 +0000

French estetism in J.J.Burnel solo album. The last leader of The Stranglers offers us 12 slightly lewd tracks: with small “acoustic carvings” and French verses (the native language of J.J.B). "Un Jour Parfait" undoubtedly refers to the European pop art obsessions of the artist. 1988 Epic Records.

Un Jour Parfait Theme

Si J'Etais

Weekend

Tristeville Ce Soir

Un Jour Parfait

Via Dolorosa

Le Whiskey

Crazy (She Drives Me)

Garden of Eden

Reves

Waltz

Via Dolorosa (Spanish Version)

Here is the lyrics of the dashingly fragile track "Week-End".

Week-end

C' était l 'autre week-end
Je l' ai vue attendant un soupirant
C' était l' autre week-end
Les cheveux bleus au vent
Les yeux blonds espérant

Son regard, tant de peine
Un sourire hésitant soulignant vingt printemps
Son regard, tant de peine
La passion recherchant
La haine, l'amour, sans plus souffrir

S' en est allée de ma mémoire
De mon passé, de mon histoire
S' est transformée, blanc et noir
Pour un instant ou tout le temps

Contre-nuit, belle de jour
Rêver d' être l' amant
Alternant noir et blanc
Belle de nuit, contre-jours
Les couleurs me grisant
L' âme en amour à deux tranchants

S' en est allée de ma mémoire
De mon passé, de mon histoire
S' est transformée, blanc et noir
Pour un instant ou tout le temps

C' était l' autre week-end
C' était l' autre week-end

J J BURNEL - Week End

Week End

It was on the last week-end
I saw her waiting for a suitor
It was on the last week-end
Her blue hair in the wind
Her blond eyes hoping

The expression in her eyes, so much sorrow
An hesitant smile underlines twenty summers
The expression in her eyes, so much sorrow
Looking for the passion
Hate, love, no more suffering

She went away from my memory
From my past, from my story
Transforming herself, black and white
For a moment or for ever

Contre-nuit, daytime beauty
Dreaming to be the lover
Alterning black with white
Night beauty, contre-jours
The colours go to my head
In love soul has two cutting edges

She went away from my memory
From my past, from my story
Transforming herself, black and white
For a moment or for ever

It was on the last week-end
It was on the last week-end

Thanks to Joan for helping me with the french version

UN JOUR PARFAIT
(12 tracks, 44 min)

Touching The Vibrating Silence : Sounds from the Hermit Foundation Art Symposiums (CZE, 1993 & 1995)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:13:00 +0000

The Plasy Monastery
(front cover of "The Meridian Crossings" compilation)

Selections from two HERMIT FOUNDATION (art center in Czech Republic) compilations, with czech and international artists working on the basis of improvisation, modern composition and free-form sound. Apart from their innovative orientation, the tracks capture the haunted aura of the spaces of (former) monastery of Plasy (Pilzen), where they' re recorded, during the foundation's second ("GROWTHRINGS", 1993) and fourth ("THE MERIDIAN CROSSINGS", 1995) art symposiums.

01 VLASTIMIL MAREK & ROMAN BRENDA - untitled
singing bowls

02 TIBOR SZEMZO & MARTIEN GROENEVELD - untitled
flute, xylophone, seamachine

03 VOJTECH HAVEL - untitled
cello

04 MARTIEN GROENVELD - untitled
xylophone

05 JAROSLAV STASTNY - untitled
prepared piano

06 TIM HODGKINSON - untitled
clarinet

07 PAVEL FAJT - untitled
percussions

08 PETER CUSACK - Bees in the bush
with MICHAEL DELIA on kalimba [percussion similar to mbira, the african thumb piano]

09 IRENA & VOJTECH HAVEL - untitled
viola da gamba

10 ORLOJ SNIVCU - Concert for Plasy
performed by J. Koran, M. Sebesta, M. Janicek, M. Koran, S. Austen

Hermit Foundation Symposiums

selected by LaFolieDuJour

NEXDA "Two EPs" (NED, 1982)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:13:00 +0000

NEXDA - "2 46 1 21 and 6 57", 12'' (1982)

A1 Twofortysix
A2 Onetwentyone
B Sixfiftyseven

NEXDA - Second, 12'', 1982
A Threeseventyfive
B1 Fivesixtyeight
B2 Foureightynine

NEXDA - untitled LP (1984)

Dutch experimental-dub-post punk obscurities who acted in first half of 80's. They released two 12'' EPs (Plurex Records), one LP (Studio 12 label) plus split 7'' singles, a cassette tape & few tracks in various (rare now) underground compilations.

The tracks of their two 12'' (plus selections from their rest stuff) are here:

NEXDA

posted by request

PAVEL FAJT: Finding The Essence Of The Rhythm

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:42:00 +0000

photo taken by FAJT site

Percussionist, composer and multi-instrumentalist, PAVEL FAJT is one of the leading artists of creative music in Czech Republic. He has played with many top avant musicians as Tom Cora, Fred Frith, Ferdinard Richard & others, he has participated in alternative rock bands (DUNAJ, PLUTO) and yet his art is strongly related with traditional (ethnic) influences.
As an improvisator, Pavel Fajt approaching both the elemental (primitive) nature of percussions and the jazz/post jazz language, he "extracts" the noise from various objects and explores the transformation of it into music. Seeking the "essence of rhythm" he sometimes tests this "objects voice" up to an exhausting point where a sound or rhythm reveals a passage to another sound or rhythm.

photo taken by FAJT site

Apart from the well known to wider audiences records with czech alternative star IVA BITTTOVA, or the czech rock band DUNAJ, PAVEL FAJT has also written music for theatre performances & cinema, he has made solo albums and various others co-releases.

As an introduction to PAVEL FAJT, here's a compilation with tracks selected from some of these works:

PAVEL FAJT & JIM MENESES - Songs For The Drums, [Pavian,1994]
(samples: "my boy", "rosy rolls", "welcome to canaro")

FAJT HOMLER WAEGEMAN - Macaronic Sines, [Lowlands,1995]
(samples: "bottle song", "komida kapak", "postcard from azna sind")

DUNAJ - Pustit Musis [Rachot Behemot, 1996]
(sample: "v bilem")

FAJT, HOMLER, WAEGEMAN, KOEN VAN ROY- Corne De Vache [Victo, 1997]
(samples: "his master's voice", "tanecek", "bongo song")

PAVEL FAJT + MIKOLAS CHADIMA - Pruhledni Lide [Black Point ,1998]
(samples: "ale to nic, to prejde", "pruhledni lide", "kamen s napisem ruze")

PAVEL FAJT - Drum Trek [Indies, 2001]
(samples: "drum trek", "area sismica", "kvitosfera")

Listen to
PAVEL FAJT sampler
(16 tracks, 75 min)

compiled by LFDJ

V/A "WARFRAT TALES" (US, 1983)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:01:00 +0000

Compilation with L.A. bands which acted over or under the ground in the early 80's-postpunk-psych-garage revival era. Some good (THE LAST, 100 FLOWERS), some rare (THE QUESTION, CLOCKWATCHERS), some very popular (RAIN PARADE)... and among them all, THE LEAVING TRAINS whose memorable first LP "Well Down The Blue Highway" (1984) we recommend to explorers of that kind of stuff.

THE LAST - try to rise
THE LEAVING TRAINS - leaving train
100 FLOWERS - 100 flowers
EARWIGS - stop the clock
WEDNESDAY WEEK - boy you got me good
RAIN PARADE - i look around
THE QUESTION - brand new world
THE POINT - pothead
100 FLOWERS - from the fire
THE QUESTION - shall be love
RAIN PARADE - this can't be today
WEDNESDAY WEEK - anyone like me
THE CLOCKWATCHERS - mishap at greebsley's
THE LEAVING TRAINS - creeping coastline of lights
THE LAST - brand new drug

WARFRAT TALES

IN-POLY-SONS Label: The Nostalgic Avant-Garde

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000

front covers from two In Poly Sons compilations

A path for unusual music directions and unexpected art encounters, french label InPolySons formed in 1989 to promote "uncommercial" works of french avant circuit. Its debut release, "Ubu Et La MerdRe" (a tribute to Alfred Jarry's proto-grotesque play "Ubu Roi") presented, among others, names as PIERRE BASTIEN, TOM CORA, HANS REICHEL, MICK HOBBS, FAMILY FODDER, PTOSE... while many other important, french and international impro, RIO, or experimental artists have been hosted here ever since: PASCAL COMELADE, CHRIS PETCHANATZ (a.k.a. KLIMPEREI), LOOK DE BOUK, J.F. PAUVROS, RENE LUSSIER, FERDINARD RICHARD, GUIGOU CHENEVIER, DAVID FENECH, FREDERIC LE JUNTER... to name but a few.

An introduction to music of IN-POLY-SONS label

LES BATTERIES - heaven help yourself
( v.a. "No More...No Mouroir", 2002)

PTOSE - la montagne des couteaux
(v.a. "Ubu Et La MerdRe", 1989)

FREDERIC LE JUNTER - l'enclume des jours
("Chansons Impopulaires", 2005 )

OFFICER! - spaghettification
(v.a. "Ubu Et La MerdRe")

BASTIEN & GRIMO - out of antidote
("Rag-time vol.2", 2008)

BASTIEN & SIMONIS - tan q
("Mots d'heures: Gousses, Rames, 2002)

L'ENSEMBLE RAYE - flamme & co II
(v.a. "No More...No Mouroir" )

TOUPIDEK LIMONADE - laissons les nez foire titi
("Il y a Des Bulles Dans La Banquise", 1998)

GUIGOU CHENEVIER - egg, salt, vanilla
("Le Batteur Est Le Meilleur Ami Du Musicien", 2003)

GUIGOU CHENEVIER - too good too
("Le Batteur Est Le Meilleur Ami Du Musicien")

BASTIEN & GRIMO - malaria
("Rag-time vol.2")

FRANK PAHL & KLIMPEREI - empress pears
("Music For Desserts", 2001)

FRANK PAHL & KLIMPEREI - melon sorbet
("Music For Desserts")

OEDIPUS - que lindo meu amor
("Oedipus", 2003)

AA KISMET - oscilloscope
(v.a. "No More... No Mouroir")

J.F. PAUVROS - la chanson du cure-dent
(v.a. "Ubu Et La MerdRe")

DAVID FENECH - odette
("Polochon Battle", 2007)

KLIMPEREI - les soleils tristes
("Tout Seul Sur La Plage En Hiver", 2001)

FAMILY FODDER - is there merdre after the death
(v.a. "Ubu Et La MerdRe")

KLIMPEREI - la fin des vacances
("Tout Seul Sur La Plage En Hiver")

compiled by LFDJ

In Poly Sons Sampler
(20 tracks, 64 min)

LES BATTERIES "Noisy Champs" (FRA, 1986)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:25:00 +0000

First LP from LES BATTERIES, an improvisation outfit, initially trio of master percussion-man GUIGOU CHENEVIER (Etron Fou Leloublan) with other two drummers, CHARLES HAYWARD ( This Heat) and RICK BROWN (V-Effect, Curlew).
Apart from drums'n'drums'n'drums, a little saxophone is played sporadically by Guigou, while Charles, recalling his "songwriting" side, sings some lyrics with that delightful "untalented" style, found also in his solo works of that era.

RICK BROWN - drums, vocals
GUIGOU CHENEVIER - drums, sax
CHARLES HAYWARD - drums, keyboard, vocals, lyrics

produced by Ferdinand Richard,
released by AYAA disques, Reims, France

tracks:

A. Noisy Champs, Sunday & Dimanche, Identity Parade, Polar, Post-polar, Dernier Solo Avant L 'Autoroute, White Elegance
B. The Letter, Dernier Rendez-Vous Au Gord, Flintstone, Maksymenko, 3 Hommes Et Un Mouchoir, 3 Legs For Two Birds, Supply And Demand, Stop Those Ideas.

LES BATTERIES - white elegance

See also at La Folie Du Jour:
CHARLES HAYWARD - My Secret Alphabet
CHARLES HAYWARD - Survive the Gesture
LES BATTERIES - Demesure Revolutionaire
LE FEU DU JOUR compilation

posted by Koroviov (+ help of paramo)

"Le batteur est le meilleur ami du musicien " GUIGOU CHENEVIER

UNREST WORK & PLAY ...an introduction

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:57:00 +0000

"In Forms"
(LP, Recommended Rec, 1984)

"Sound Every Day"

(EP, Political Underground Rec, 1983)

"Andy & Chris"

(EP, Art Hole Rec, 1982)

Avant/free form duo of ANDY WAKE and CHRIS FRASER, related with the post-punk extension of RIO, and bands like THIS HEAT, THE WORK, THE MOMES...
Certainly, among the original and most interesting bands you can find digging the land of Recommended Rec, Woof Rec and the likes.

Samples from all the UNREST WORK & PLAY releases
you can get HERE

THE RED CRAYOLA " Three Songs On A Trip To The United States, Bismarckstrasse, 50 " (1983)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:16:00 +0000

Not often mentioned RED CRAYOLA's LP, made in 1983... with MAYO THOMPSON assisted here by ALLEN RAVENSTINE and JESSE CHAMBERLAIN. The three songs are eight... and the trip to the United States took place in Cologne. Originally released from Pure Freude label and reissued in 1997 by Drag City.

THREE SONGS ON A TRIP TO THE U.S.

More MAYO THOMPSON at La Folie Du Jour:

RED CRAYOLA - Soldier Talk

V.A. "CLUB FOOT", Subterranean Records, US, 1980

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:56:00 +0000

Legendary San Francisco label, SUBTERRANEAN Records, mostly known for classic late 70's/early 80's post-punk & proto-industrial releases, takes here a walk on the underground-art-jazz side of the area, presenting, in this mini compilation, sounds from avant obscurities as LONGSHOREMEN, CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA, NAKED CITY, BAY OF PIGS, ALTERBOYS...

Listen to CLUB FOOT compilation

First Impressions...

noreply@blogger.com (begemot) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:02:00 +0000

“For the first time since I had been in Barcelona [during the Civil War ] I went to have a look at the cathedral—a modern cathedral, and one of the most hideous buildings in the world. It had four crenellated spires exactly the shape of hock bottles. Unlike most of the churches in Barcelona it was not damaged during the revolution—it was spared because of its 'artistic value', people said. I think the Anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance, though they did hang a red and black banner between its spires.”

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, London, Penguin Books, 1962, pp. 179-180

“Shortly after entering Barcelona, four grotesque steeples appeared before me. Their peaks seemed to domineer over the city shining with gold. I was struck with a sense of conviction. As I approached, the holes pierced in those four tense conical structures, just like a tremendously appealing demonic whisper, clutched me with force. What I was looking at was Gaudi's last masterpiece Sagrada Familia.”

Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1959

And completely unfairly, favouring the second opinion:

An excerpt from Teshigahara’s 1984 documentary “Antonio Gaudi”.

(music, sound effects: Toru Takemitsu, Kurodo Mouri, Shinji Hori).

Hiroshi Teshigahara official site

Antonio Gaudi

La Sagrada Familia

TORU TAKEMITSU "Film Music 4 - Soundtracks to Hiroshi Teshigahara 's films " (JAP, 1991)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:38:00 +0000

The audio part of the monumental TORU TAKEMITSU - HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA collaboration, according to this 1991 JVC release, which collects music from 8 movies (from 1959 to 1989), including, of course, "Woman In The Dunes", "Pitfall" and "The Face Of Another" - the three TESHIGAHARA masterpieces you must see!

Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927 - 2001)

tracks:

1 The Face of Another (1966)
2 Summer Soliders (1972)
3 Pitfall (1962)
4 Shiroi asa (1964)
5 Woman in the Dunes (1964)
6 Jose Torres (1959)
7 The Ruined Map (1968)
8 Rikyu (1989)

pitfall, 1962

woman in the dunes, 1964

the face of another, 1966

LISTEN HERE

More Takemitsu and Teshigahara at La Folie Du Jour:

Toru Takemitsu - Garden Rain
Toru Takemitsu - In An Autumn Garden
Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman In the Dunes
Teshigara, Takemitsu - Antonio Gaudi (documentary)

SHINY GNOMES "Orange" (GER, 1993)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:48:00 +0000

A good garagy psych LP, the last of the "pure electric" phase, as SHINY GNOMES will give soon their music more trippy ambient-ethno-acoustic-cosmic directions ("MC CREATRIX", 1994) ... or even will go electronic ("WELTRAUMSERVICE", 1996).

ORANGE
(12 tracks, 50 min)

More SHINY GNOMES at La Folie Du Jour
WILD SPELLS
SOME FUNNY NIGHTMARES

The Germanic Internationalism of THE BLECH

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:45:00 +0000

Hubl Greiner, Rupert Volz (photo from THE BLECH site)

Founded by HUBL GREINER and RUPERT VOLZ, THE BLECH was one of the most interesting avant-rock bands came from Germany in 80's. Their love for unorthodox mixtures and subversive art marriages sent them to dig unsual (for the rock customs) territories, so that the jazz/electronic/alternative pop basis of their music is full of small (or big) curiocities of retro-germanism or eclectic internationalism: euroarabian motifs, third world percussive patterns, grotesque vocals, linguistic eccentrities, eastern european melodies, mad cabaret/Kurt Weillian marches and numerous other heterogenous elements, all treated with a distinctive, dadaistic passion for irony and seriousness.

THE BLECH were: HUBL GREINER (drums, piano, electronics, bass, percussion, various sounds), RUPERT VOLZ (vocals, brass instruments, trumpet, guitar, lyrics)... also contributed: THEROFAL (vocals, piano, bass), HELMUT BIELER-WENDT, SHIRLEY HOFMANN, ACHIM SCHMIDT, JENS VOLK and others...

WORKS:
The Blech, 1985
Zip Zip, 1987
Ich Wollte Meine Schuhe Zerschneiden, 1989
Liebeslieder, 1992
85-91 , 1993

...plus several other Greiner and Volz works as DER VOLZ, HULU PROJECT, etc...

THE BLECH - die einsame traene (from "Ich Wolte Meine..." LP)

ART & TECHNIQUE "Alea Jacta Est" , EP, (FRA, 1983)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:12:00 +0000

Compared to the very interesting exploratory, minimal-electronic-industrial ambience of their debut (and best) LP "CLIMA X" (1981), the 1983 three track EP "ALEA JACTA EST" finds ART & TECHIQUE been more interested in cold synth-wave dance structures, while b-side track "Another Day An Other Life" is a more atmospheric song.

works:

CLIMA X (LP, Hi-Tec, 1981) reissued from SPALAX in 1998
PUTSCH IN MEMORIAM (7'', Hi-Tec, 1981)
DIABOLUS IN MECANICA (LP, Hi-Tec, 1982)
ALEA JACTA EST (12'' EP, Hi-Tec, 1983)

ALEA JACTA EST
a1 - Radio City Deutschland
a2 - Psychic Dance Floor
b1 - Another Day An Other Life

ART & TECHNIQUE - noel tombe un jeudi (track from CLIMA X)