LA FOLIE DU JOUR

Sounds from 80's Australian Underground

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:14:00 +0000

(7'', Greasy Pop, 1987)

tracks:
beauty underground - the day the sky went black

THE NEW CHRISTS - Born Out Of Time
(7'', Citadel, 1986)

tracks:
Born out of time - no next time

MINUTEMAN Voodoo Slaves
(7'', Citadel, 1982)
tracks:
Voodoo slaves - i wanna be your minuteman

YA YA CHORAL - Such A Dutch Man
(7'', M Squared, 1982)
tracks:
waiting time - god's buzzsaw - nonsense

THE CHAMPAGNE EDGE - Selftitled
(7'', Au-Go-Go, 1980)
tracks:
a different direction - the wind - in my house - facelift

ALAIN GIBERT "Chariot D'Or" (FRA, 1995)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0000

The art of ALAIN GIBERT is related with both traditional musics and avant-garde. As a search for a new music idiom, it explores territories between folk memory and folk imagination. "CHARIOT D'OR" is one of the most characteristic acts of this quest. Recorded the period 1994-95, the album comprises 14 tracks, four of which are based on traditional themes derived from french region AUVERGNE (south France), while the rest are Gibert's compositions. The composer plays piano, trombone and sings in the strange local dialect. The line up includes also BRUNO CHEVILLON on contrabass, JEAN-LOUIS MATINIER on accordion and the well known LOUIS SCLAVIS on clarinet and soprano saxophone. The music, jazzy-acoustic, turns to advantage the simplicity of sounds and extends the soul of old traditions towards innovatism and improvisation without spoiling the original warm folk feeling. However, "L' Auvergne imaginee" is rather the place where the "old" and the "new", have lost their meanings.

Alain Gibert

ALAIN GIBERT - Santa Catarino

The "Musique Actuelle" of AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES (CAN)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:34:00 +0000

L to R: Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Pierre Tanguay, Joane Hetu

A collective and a label, Montreal's AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES, has been introducing us, for the last 25 years, to the most exciting adventures of the francophone canadian "avant" scene.

Initially founded just as a cooperative between the avant-gard artists & improvisors JEAN DEROME, RENE LUSSIER, JOANE HETU & friends.

First releases, RENE LUSSIER's debut work "Fin Du Travaill" (1983) and albums from ANDRE DUCHESNE, WONDEUR BRASS, LES POULES, LES GRANULES... attract a small interest, mostly among fans of RecRec sound, avant-prog and the likes.

In 1991 though, when JOANE HETU establishes the DAME distribution company, AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES, taking the shape of a more regular label, extends its activities, adds its catalog many new artists... and gradually starts earning wider critical respect and international acknowledgement...

Nowadays AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES music is available through its official website:

www.actuellecd.com

Rene Lussier

Ambiances Magnetiques: where new musics meet

a
01 RENE LUSSIER Clockville (1983)
02 LES POULES Chanson du pain (1986)
03 LES GRANULES Saturne (1986)
04 LES 4 GUITARISTES DE L 'APOCALYPSO BAR the as usual dance... (1989)
05 GENEVIEVE LETARTE Je ne tremble plus (2000)
06 ANDRE DUCHESNE limer (1984)
07 DIANE LABROSSE Constellations (1995)
08 JOANE HETU Fleurs iclatantes (1995)
09 JEAN DEROME Hymne aux palotins (1998)
10 L'ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS Poisson rouge (1996)
11 LES PROJECTIONNISTES Nuit blanche (1999)
12 ANDRE DUCHESNE Autant de lundis (2006)
13 HETU, LABROSSE, ROGER, PARKINS, TENKO Epilogue (1992)
14 LES GRANULES Sur la mort (1988)

01 WONDEUR BRASS Residence inconnue (1988)
02 JOANE HETU Ah! les beaux jours (1995)
03 GENEVIEVE LETARTE Contemplation (2000)
04 MICHEL F. COTE & DIANE LABROSSE Y tu mirar (1994)
05 JOELLE LEANDRE & QUENTIN SIRJACK Presence (2008)
06 MICHEL F. COTE Let's get lost (1998)
07 NATHALIE DEROME Esti quest belle ta peau (2000)
08 L'ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS La marche a Marie B. (1996)
09 LE 4 GUITARISTES DE L'APOCALYPSO BAR Scandinavian pedestrian (1989)
10 LES PROJECTIONNISTES Jeu de bloc (1999)
11 GENEVIEVE LETARTE La ragazza (1990)
12 LES GRANULES Le tango qui ne finit jamais (1992)
13 JUSTINE J'ai perdu le sommeil (1990)
14 INTERFERENCE SARDINES La girafe (2001)

download: part a / part b

tracks compiled by LaFolieDuJour
photos taken from www.actuellecd.com

GENEVIEVE LETARTE - Le Bout Du Monde (selected by Semilunio)

More Ambiances Magnetiques music at LaFolieDuJour:

WONDEUR BRASS - Ravir
LES POULES -Les Contes De L'Amere Loi

subterranean news!!

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of historical "CLUB FOOT"compilation, SUBTERRANEAN RECORDS is preparing a limited red vinyl pressing (450 copies) of the album. This release will coincide with a Feb. 11 2010 show at Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco. Some version of all the bands will perform... while SUBTERRANEAN is also working for some extra surprises...

For more subterranean culture see here: www.subterranean.org

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS "History of Rock N'Roll vol.1" (AUS, 1984)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:00 +0000

reposted with a new link! as requested

While the third THE SAINTS album "Prehistoric Sounds" has already found the group aesthetics moved towards a bluesier, more soulful ground, guitarist EDMUND KUEPPER separates himself from puristic, narrowminded punk-rock plans, and forms THE LAUGHING CLOWNS, taking off the (embarrassed circa `79-`80) australian post punk status towards even artier, avant-jazz-blues-experimental horizons.

"History Of Rock N'Roll vol.1", released from HOT records in 1984, is a compilation of material selected from EPs the band recorded the 1980-`82 period.

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS,EP, rec Feb1980 (Holy Joe/I want to scream/The laughing clowns)

SOMETIMES, THE FIRE DANCE..., EP, rec June1980 (Sometimes)

LAUGHING CLOWNS 3 , EP, rec Nov1980 (Collapse board, Ghost beat, Clown town)

EVERYTHING THAT FLIES..., EP, rec Nov1982 (Every dog has its day, Everything that flies)

THEME FROM "MAD FLIES, MAD FLIES", 7``single, rec Oct1981 (Theme from "mad flies, mad flies").

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS (1980) : ED KUEPPER(guit, voc), JEFFREY WEGENER(drums), BOB FARRELL(sax), BEN WALLACE CRABBE(bass), DAN WALLACE CRABBE(piano).

THE LAUGHNING CLOWNS (1981-82): ED KUEPPER, JEFFREY WEGENER, LOUISE ELLIOT(sax), LESLIE MILLAR(bass), PETER DOYLE(trumpet).

History Of Rock N'Roll vol.1

MAGGIE NICOLS & PETER NU "Nicols 'N' Nu" (UK, 1985)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:03:00 +0000

MAGGIE NICOLS - words, voice
PETER NU - piano

Avant vocalist Maggie Nicols and not so much known improv figure, Peter Nu unfold here a bare and incredibly daring piano-voice exploration, a free-music adventure which, further than any sum of its elements, leads to the inner aspect of the work, revealing regions of the artistic act, usually neglected, sightless.

Recorded in London in 1985, released from Leo Records and reissued later on CD. Still available.

tracklist

01. don't assume (21:40)
02. touching faces (2:50)
03. dynamite dream (3:45)
04. kids (9:40)
05. chad's blues (3:30)
06. after the storm (1:00)
07. i could write (1:30)
08. moments (8:15)
09. one note leads to another (17:40)

MAGGIE NICOLS & PETER NU - Moments

V.A. TERRA INCOGNITA vol.1 & 2 (Auxilio De Cientos compilations)

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:05:00 +0000

Terra Incognita vol 1

Terra Incognita vol 2

The two TERRA INCOGNITA compilations were released from spanish label Auxilio De Cientos in 1985 and 1986. The bands come from several countries and the music lies at the experimental-electronic-minimal synth fields. Compiling is quite good, behind the label, however, there are members of Neo Zelanda and Diseno Corbusier, spanish bands of the era that played similar stuff.
Twilight Ritual, Bene Gesserit, Attrition, DDAA, Ptose, Hector Zazou, Muslimgauze, Kastrierte Philosophen and other more obscure names are the guides through these "unknown lands"...

Terra Incognita I
&
Terra Incognita II

LES ELLES

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:49:00 +0000

Avant songwriters, actresses, humorists. Four girls refresh the tradition of french chanson-folk-art in their own theatrical grotesque-pop way. PASCALINE HERVEET writes music, lyrics and sings, SOPHIE HENRY is on accordion, piano and orchestration, SARAH AUVRAY does sound effects and vocals, while CHRISTINE LAPOUZE plays the cello.

LES ELLES start in Caen in 1992. Three years later they make their first (untitled) album with help of trumpetist (and future constant member) PIERRE MILLET and FRANCOIS HADJI LAZARO, owner of Boucherie Prod label. A second, also untitled and also acoustic and highly artistic work appears in 1997 from the same label. These first two albums are the best offer of the band. Nevertheless, due to the label's bad luck, they haven't the recognition they deserve.

first album, 1995

second album, 1997

Year 2000 finds LES ELLES with a new line-up, a new label (Inca Music) and a new, modernized, "more electronic" sound. SARAH AUVRY has left and PIERRE MILLET, STEPHANE DIATCHENKO (programming, samples) have been added instead. Albums of this second phase of the band are "Pamela Peacemaker" (2000), "Les Elles En Scene" (live, 2001) and - with a new line up again - "Siamoises" (2003), an inspired by and refered to the world of circus work that brings the band touring with the circus of Dr Paradis.

In the meanwhile Inca label faces financial problems and its final bankruptcy in 2004 leads LES ELLES temporarily in disbandment, but PASCALINE HERVEET, the main figure of the band forms a new version of LES ELLES, working on a new theatrical/musical performance named "Joseph"and releasing finally a self-produced album version of this project in May 2009.

The following LES ELLES compilation gives emphasis on the first two albums which represent the most interesting part of LES ELLES history so far.

LES ELLES compilation
(approx 56 min)

01 Nouche [1st album, 1995]
02 Quand je s'rais vieille [1995]
03 Water closets [1995]
04 Tom [1995]
05 L'amerloc [1995]
06 Simone [1995[
07 Une elle [1995]
08 La chatte de monsieur Clock [2nd album, 1997]
09 Le vase chinois [1997]

10 Le bal [1997]
11 Milo [1997]
12 Janine [1997]
13 Mauvais sang [1997]
14 Armand [Pamela Peacemaker, 2000]
15 Noel [2000]
16 La cantine [compilation track]
17 Trapese [Siamoises, 2003]
18 Bouche tru [2003]

- compiled by LaFolieDuJour -

LES ELLES - Le Chatte de Monsieur Clock

EPIC SOUNDTRACKS

noreply@blogger.com (paramo) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Selections from the limited, mail-order only album "DEBRIS" (Normal / Return To Sender, 1995) accompanied with some tracks from his other releases.
"SLEEPING STAR" (1994) was EPIC's second solo album and ""CHANGE MY LIFE " (1996) his last. "GOOD THINGS" (2005) and the compilation "EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY" (1999) are posthumous releases. Listen also to "RISE ABOVE" album here.

An EPIC SOUNDTRACKS collection

01 Stealaway [Change My Life]
02 Sleepy City [Change My Life]
03 Something's Wrong [Change My Life]
04 Cry A Tear [Good Things]
05 Sunny Day [Debris]
06 Carolans [Everything Is Temporary]
07 Stack-O-Tracks [Debris]
08 Night Time [Everything Is Temporary]
09 I Got To Be Free [Good Things]
10 Hole Of A Heart [Everything Is Temporary]
11 The Persuader [Debris]
12 Lot To Learn [Good Things]
13 Waiting For The Train Again (group version) [Debris]
14 A Three Acre Floor [Debris]
15 Wild & Smiling (mystery session) [Debris]
16 Tonight's The Night (R'N'R Lullaby) [Sleeping Star]

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

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 MICHAEL DELIA & JAROSLAV KORAN - untitled

05 JAROSLAV STASTNY - untitled
prepared piano

06 WIEL CONEN - untitled
guitar, electronics

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
(new link - corrected tracklist)

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)