Ok! I LOVe this album! What do I tell you? This is what happens when Krautrock meets Jazz in a little studio in Hamberg where Deep Purple and Queen are soaked into the walls. Apparently, that’s not half untrue, as originally this band were doing covers of Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep. the moved toward […]
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Alcatraz: Vampire State Building – The uncompromising devotion to Prog/Kraut Rock goes Jazz.
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Art Bears – Winter Songs and The World as it is Today
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Art Bears were an English avant-rock group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members,Chris Cutler (percussion, texts), Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards) and Dagmar Krause (vocals). The group released three studio albums between 1978 and 1981, and toured Europe in 1979. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with Henry Cow – but they are amazing. I adore their music. Someone gifted me these two […]
Szinbad – beauty in the profoundly ugly from Zoltan Huzarik
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I watched an amazing film today. Amazing because it was a combination of the most beautiful cinematography I’ve ever seen – so exquisite it brough tears to my eyes with its beauty – and the dullest character I have ever seen. I swear, if this man had sat and stared at a wall for 2 hours, […]
Friedrich Gulda – Jazz Austrian style
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Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields. treat yourself to ten minutes today and indulge in some of these You Tube videos – the man is brilliant. Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In […]
A Heaven of Others – Joshua Cohen on ending up in the wrong place at the right time.
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How did I get here, if I am still an I? If how and where is here? can still be asked and why? He got here how he got here. How anyone gets here. How and where it is not my domain, this answering of questions. It is unbecoming. Truly insulting. Beneath me. Below. Rather it is I, […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 41 – 45
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This post is part of a series. You can see the previous post here. Oh it’s all happening here today with this selection of amazing music. Its the first half of the 1970’s still, and the most brilliant musicians are learning about musique concrete and jazz fusion and adding it to funk, blues and groovy jazz heat. […]
Contempt – Enjoy a little Avant-Godard
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“’The cinema,’ Andre Bazin said, ‘substitutes for our gaze a world that corresponds to our desires.’ Contempt is a story of this world.” I just cried my way through a third viewing of Contempt (Le Mépris) a film I never ever tire of. I know there are some vague problems with this film – it doesn’t have […]
Creel Pone #5 : Who are they, where do they come from, why are they here?
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I have a lovely little line up of electronic music from the uber label Creel Pone here for you this time. We’re on a journey through the label – earlier posts start here if you want to take a peek. I only discovered electronic music last year, but since I have I haven’t looked back! The music […]
Rhodri Davies | Dominic Lash – Delicate Double Bass, Harp and Wind
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Rhodri Davies – Five Knots Compost and Heist Split Series 007 Available for download. Rhodri Davies makes the sounds on this beautiful recording by placing an electric harp in two positions on the stone pier at Aberystwyth, his home town on the west coast of Wales. The recording is called Five Knots, which makes sense when you realise […]
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