tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15438652067061132432024-03-16T02:09:42.963+01:00The Savage Saints... którędy pójdą dzicy święciUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2675125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-77486113601574944532020-10-19T18:44:00.058+02:002020-10-19T19:26:59.848+02:00Królestwo - Antracyt (2020)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bysANpPRpqQ/X43BTAVpGlI/AAAAAAAAFCQ/aweAMWDAiRsLpf4xjJtTY92lycPTjYgUACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/a2278452118_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bysANpPRpqQ/X43BTAVpGlI/AAAAAAAAFCQ/aweAMWDAiRsLpf4xjJtTY92lycPTjYgUACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/a2278452118_10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Królestwo to założona w połowie 2016 trójmiejska grupa muzyczna, w skład której wchodzą muzycy takich formacji jak 1926, Hadal, Dule Tree, Pomelo Taxi, Baden Baden. Zespół eksploruje obszary z pogranicza math - noise - post rocka i yassu tworząc minimalistyczne, repetytywne struktury muzyczne.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Na początku 2017 r. zespół wydaje swą pierwszą płytę “Ćwiczenia repetytywne” (wyd. Music Is The Weapon) Zaskoczony bardzo pozytywnym przyjęciem postanawia od razu wiosną wyruszyć na krótką trasę koncertową po Polsce. Początek jesieni wieńczy wydaniem w sieci eksperymentalnego mini albumu “Słuchowisko”. Z nastaniem nowego roku formacja rozpoczyna pracę nad utworami na drugi album, które ostateczne szlify otrzymują podczas jesiennej trasy koncertowej w ramach Music Is The Weapon Tour. Rok 2019 to czas rejestracji i produkcji oraz trudnych decyzji co do przyszłości albumu. Ostatecznie na początku marca 2020 roku album “Antracyt” ląduje na platformie cyfrowej Bandcamp. Wkrótce potem zespół otrzymuje propozycję wydania albumu w formie fizycznej w wytwórni Gusstaff Records.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Antracyt" to album instrumentalny, nagrany w najbardziej klasycznym, minimalistycznym składzie (gitara, bas, perkusja) pełen transowych i hałaśliwych odniesień zarówno do amerykańskiej szkoły noise jak i do europejskich tradycji krautrocka. Repetytywność nie oznacza tu jednak nudy, czy braku pomysłów. Grupa nie wpada przy tym w pułapkę patosu i pompatyczności, jak to się dzieje często u współczesnych post-rockowców, gdzie finał każdego utworu brzmi jak koniec świata. Nie ma tu armagedonu, jest pure guitar satisfaction. (<i><a href="https://sklep.gusstaff.com/krolestwo-antracyt.html">gusstaff</a></i>)</p><p style="text-align: center;">***</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Królestwo is a band created in 2016, consisting of memebers of such groups as 1926, Dule Tree, Alterton. In their compositions, Królestwo balance between math, noise, post-rock and yass, whilst creating minimalistic repetitive musical structures.</p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1841303869/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 120px; width: 100%;"><a href="https://krolestwo.bandcamp.com/album/antracyt">Antracyt by Królestwo</a></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-71565558990245798872020-09-22T11:01:00.000+02:002020-09-22T11:01:11.393+02:00Piotr Bussold & Bogdan Mizerski - Po/Między (2020)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmGvN22FN80/X2m8UY0kpDI/AAAAAAAAN2Q/jdW1M5z-dPAG3eDvBVoOapis4GLY2ntdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s808/Zrzut%2Bekranu%2B2020-09-16%2B121120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="808" height="626" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmGvN22FN80/X2m8UY0kpDI/AAAAAAAAN2Q/jdW1M5z-dPAG3eDvBVoOapis4GLY2ntdgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h626/Zrzut%2Bekranu%2B2020-09-16%2B121120.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>An experimental project by two gentlemens: the poet - Piotr Bussold and Bogdan Mizerski - a double bass player, associated with the improvised and free jazz music scene. The self-released album contains one composition. Limited Art Edition of 10 copies (5 on black and 5 on clear vinyl). Each copy has a different graphic on the front cover made by <a href="https://ubrzegownocy.blogspot.com">Beata Żaczek</a> - graphic designer and illustrator. It is a musical collage of sounds by Bogdan Mizerski to poems by Piotr Bussold - an extraordinary journey into the world of improvised music and experiments. This LP is not available for sale. Only for connoisseurs. From the information we have obtained, it is supposed to be soon available in a digital version, but we cannot promise it.</p><p>(<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Piotr-Bussold-Bogdan-Mizerski-Po-Mi%C4%99dzy/release/15949121" target="_blank">Discogs</a>)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cz8mKc_RQM8/X2m9GzVyCKI/AAAAAAAAN2c/I53-7wD5NqQjRHGm06C-LT7QuQPEHzhHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2029" data-original-width="2048" height="634" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cz8mKc_RQM8/X2m9GzVyCKI/AAAAAAAAN2c/I53-7wD5NqQjRHGm06C-LT7QuQPEHzhHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h634/005.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-86435084615683943972020-07-03T19:27:00.000+02:002020-07-03T19:27:14.676+02:00The Psychic Paramount - Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural (2005)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Grają głośno. Ich surowe i mocno zniekształcone brzmienie porównuje się często do takich formacji jak Acid Mothers Temple, Lightning Bolt, Boredoms i High Rise. Projekt powstał w Nowym Jorku 2002 po rozpadzie zespołu Laddio Bolocko. Grający w nim gitarzysta Drew St. Ivany i basista Ben Armstrong chcieli kontynuować muzyczną działalność, dlatego uformowali nowy post rockowy akustyczny skład. Wkrótce, wspierani przez perkusistę Tatsuya Nakatani, wyruszyli w bardzo udaną trasę po Europie. Nie tylko pozyskali grono fanów, ale także wrócili z gotowym materiałem na pierwsze koncertowe wydawnictwo: "Live 2002: The Franco-Italian Tour" (Bewilderment and Illumination), które wzbogacono materiałem video autorstwa filmowca Arana Tharpa, lecz wydano dopiero w 2005. Technicznie rzecz biorąc, wcześniej ukazał się album "Origins and Primitives, Vol. 1", jednak z artystycznego punktu widzenia to właśnie płyta koncertowa jako ta najbardziej reprezentatywna w tym czasie uchodziła za debiut The Psychic Paramount. Nakatani niestety opuścił grupę tuż po wspólnej trasie. Zastąpił go Jeff Conaway (Sabers), z którym koncertowali w Stanach w 2004 i nagrali pierwszą studyjną płytę: "Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural" (2005). Ta sama wytwórnia zrobiła reedycję poprzedniego krążka: "Origins and Primitives Vol. 1 & 2" (2006). <i>(www.2010.off-festival.pl)</i></div>
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The Psychic Paramount is an American experimental rock group from New York City that was formed in 2002.</div>
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The band was formed by guitarist Drew St. Ivany and bassist Ben Armstrong after the dissolution of noise rock band Laddio Bolocko. Beginning with solo acoustic recordings by St. Ivany, they soon booked a European tour with a very short time to find a drummer. Finding Tatsuya Nakatani, the band had less than a week to practice before setting out for multiple shows in France and Italy. From this tour came the CD Live 2002: The Franco-Italian Tour, featuring recordings at locations throughout the tour, as well as a Super 8 video shot by New York filmmaker Aran Tharp. Nakatani left the band soon thereafter, but a new drummer was found in Sabers drummer Jeff Conaway. The band went into the studio this time to record 2005's Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural, released by No Quarter Records. In the spring of 2007 redoms and High Rise. The band have been chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before, they toured the USA with Trans Am and Zombi.</div>
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In February 2011, the band released their long awaited second album, simply entitled "II" on No Quarter Records, to positive reviews.</div>
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The Psychic Paramount have a raw, loud and harshly distorted sound to their music, often compared to the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Lightning Bolt, Boredoms and High Rise. The band have been chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychic_Paramount">wikipedia</a></i>)</div>
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...punkowo – noise’owa formacja Friction. Założyli ją Reck (voc, b) i Chiko Hige (dr, sax), którzy do ojczyzny powrócili prosto z Nowego Jorku gdzie grali w pierwszych składach tamtejszych formacji Teenage Jesus & The Jerks i The Contortions a więc duch nowojorskiej bohemy nowofalowej nie był im obcy. Do kapeli dołączył wkrótce gitarzysta Tsunematsu Masatoshi - aktywna i niekonwencjonalna postać tokijskiego undergroundu. Trio zaczęło koncertować a ich pierwsze single „Crazy Dream” (1979) i „Pistol” (1980) oraz debiutancki album „Friction” (1980) zdecydowanie wpłynęły na rozwój lokalnej sceny. Później zespół zrealizował jeszcze kilka płyt coraz bardziej psychodelicznych i awangardowych a jedynym stałych członkiem pozostał Reck. Masatoshi w międzyczasie założył własny zespół E.D.P.S a Hige już w 1978 powołał niezależną wytwórnię Gozira. (<i>Jarosław Sobkowiak - Historia Punk Rocka w Japonii, "Garaż” #21 w 2004 r.</i>)</div>
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Originally formed in 1971 as an avant-garde music group by bassist Reck, saxophonist Chico Hige, and drummer Sakuro Watanabe in Tokyo, Japan. They changed the band's name to 3/3 in the mid 70s, and Reck and Chico later moved to the United States, where they would form the band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks with Lydia Lunch and James Chance, and later became the original founding members of James Chance and the Contortions before returning to Japan.</div>
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Renaming 3/3 to form Friction, they recruited guitarist Tsunematsu Masatoshi, who had studied art at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music. They released a live album and single in 1979, and their first studio album, Atsureki (軋轢, meaning 'friction' in Japanese) in 1980, produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Tsunematsu left the band in December 1980 to become an artist, and from then on Friction has had numerous guest instrumentalists for lives and studio releases, all revolving around frontman Reck. The live video titled Dumb Numb was directed by Sogo Ishii. In 1999, Friction went on hiatus when Reck started producing for other musicians, but restarted in 2006.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-54609447781394790012020-06-01T18:21:00.004+02:002020-06-01T18:21:52.789+02:00Eliane Radigue - Trilogie de la mort (1998)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eliane Radigue to chyba najważniejsza kompozytorka powiązana z muzyką dronową. Lata poświęcone eksploracji róznego rodzaju syntezatorów doprowadziły ją do pozostania i zbadania granic jednego z nich, a mianowicie ARP 2500, z którym jest nierozerwalnie kojarzana. To właśnie z jego pomocą stworzyła swoje największe dzieła tj. Adnos czy Trilogie de la Mort. Dziś chciałbym napisać o drugim z nich. Trilogie de la Mort to trzy okołogodzinne utwory, których powstanie wiążę się ściśle z wieloletnią fascynacją Radigue buddyzmem i Tybetańską Księgą Umarłych. Sposób w jaki kompozytorka prowadzi narrację na tym albumie to dobry punkt wyjściowy do omówienia dzisiejszego hasła przewodniego jakim jest obecność. Już od pierwszych minut słychać bowiem, że Radigue nie zależy wcale na doprowadzeniu do jakiegoś kulminacyjnego punktu. Celem jest raczej zatracenie się w teraźniejszości, w chwili obecnej. Porzucenie rozmyślania o tym co już nastąpiło i co jeszcze nastąpi. Te dźwięki, w specyficzny sposób, walczą o uwagę słuchacza. Chcą by ten się w nich zatracił, wsłuchiwał w ich strukturę i barwę. Nie jest łatwo zachować skupienie przy tak mikroskopijnych i minimalnych zmianach, kiedy co chwilę atakuje nas kolejna dawka myśli i bodźców. A jednak warto wykazać się cierpliwością i zaangażowaniem. Jak mówi sama Radigue: “Moja muzyka może funkcjonować jako lustro odbijające mentalny stan słuchacza. Jest w stanie odtworzyć nastrój jaki ten w danej chwili posiada, ale by to osiągnąć, potrzeba otwarcia się na to doznanie, szczere wsłuchanie się w dzieło i poświęcenie mu swojej uwagi.” Kwestia obecności, przeżywania teraźniejszości w pełnym skupieniu to zresztą bardzo istotne zagadnienie. A przekaz Eliane Radigue doskonale to potwierdza. (<i><a href="https://progrefonik.pl/2018/08/23/interpretacje-presence-2/">Patryk Wojciechowski</a></i>)</div>
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Normil Hawaiians were an experimental post-punk collective from the South London area, centered around vocalist/guitarist Guy Smith. Formed in 1979, the group evolved from a more upbeat, punk-inspired band (producing the 1980 single "The Beat Goes On," which made the U.K. independent singles chart) to an eccentric avant-garde outfit in the mid-'80s, but all of their work contained politically conscious lyrics and a D.I.Y. mentality.</div>
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In September of 1979, Normil Hawaiians recorded their first demo at a studio in South London, with Smith accompanied by Jim Lusted (vocals/guitar), Janet Armstrong (vocals), Kev Armstrong (guitar), Colin Donaldson (bass), and Chris Westerman (drums). The following April, a buffed-up, expanded lineup (featuring Roger Smith on violin, the Famous Delfonso on sax, Nick Rose on bass, and Sue Leeves and Sarah Harley on backing vocals) visited a West London studio with producer Nick Godwin and re-recorded "The Beat Goes On," a catchy post-punk number from their demo, along with new song "Ventilation" and an uncredited cover of "In Heaven" from Eraserhead. The following month, a reduced lineup of the group (Smith, Lusted, Rose, Leeves, and drummer Brian Kealy) recorded a session for John Peel's radio show, which was broadcast three times during the year. Janet Armstrong left the group for a solo career. In October of 1980, "The Beat Goes On" single was finally released on London label Dining Out, and reached number 44 on the independent singles chart. Most of the lineup that performed on the group's Peel Session (minus Leeves and plus guest vocalist Stephen Berlin) recorded another session at a studio in the group's home town of Orpington in November 1980, produced by Lusted and Smith along with Kev Armstrong and Pete Leggett. The five songs were released as the 12" EP Gala Failed on Red Rhino Records in February of 1981. That same month, a stripped-down lineup (Smith, Lusted, and Armstrong) recorded a new single called "Still Obedient," which was released by Illuminated Records.</div>
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At this point, Smith had been moving the group in a vastly different direction than before, and an entirely new phase of Normil Hawaiians began. The group abandoned most of the punk influences of their earlier work in favor of a more unpredictable, experimental style, with atmospheric synths, acoustic guitars, and a greater emphasis on improvisation. In June of 1982, Smith, Simon Marchant, Mark Tyler, and drummer Noel Blanden gathered in Foel Studio in Wales (run by engineer Dave Anderson, former bass player for Amon Düül and Hawkwind) to record Normil Hawaiians' first full-length, More Wealth Than Money. Illuminated Records released the double LP, but label problems led to the album only being distributed in Europe rather than the U.K. Yet another retooled lineup of the band (Smith, Marchant, Blanden, Leeves, Jimmy Miller, and new bassist Alun "Wilf" Williams) recorded What's Going On?, the group's most politically minded work yet, in the summer of 1983, again at Foel Studio. The album was released on Illuminated Records early in 1984, and the group took their increasingly theatrical stage show to venues and festivals in Europe, with Lusted briefly rejoining the group during a tour of Switzerland. During the winter of 1985-1986, much of the previous album's lineup returned to Foel Studio to record the third Normil Hawaiians album. Another experimental, improvisation-heavy effort with directly political lyrics, the album was eventually titled Return of the Ranters, but the recordings were shelved and the group members went their separate ways, starting families and other musical endeavors. In early 2013, Return of the Ranters was briefly given a digital release, and in October of 2015, Upset the Rhythm finally released the album on CD and vinyl. A performing lineup was assembled for the first Normil Hawaiians concert in 30 years. The label re-released More Wealth Than Money in late 2017 (the CD edition included a second disc of previously unreleased demos), and What's Going On? was similarly given the reissue treatment in 2019. (<i><a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/normil-hawaiians-mn0001283509/biography">allmusic</a></i>)</div>
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Zygmunt Sulistrowski (ur. 18 maja 1922 we Lwowie) – amerykański reżyser filmowy, scenarzysta i aktor polskiego pochodzenia. Uczestnik powstania warszawskiego.<br />
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Syn Kazimerza Sulistrowskiego i Jadwigi z d. Olizar. Walczył w powstaniu warszawskim. Po 1945 wyemigrował do Paryża, gdzie ukończył Akademię Filmową, a następnie przeniósł się do Londynu.<br />
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Wkrótce wyjechał do Kalifornii, gdzie współpracował w International Film Enterprises w Hollywood. Wielkie wrażenie wywarła na nim podróż do Rio de Janeiro i Brazylii w 1951 roku. Zafascynowany przyrodą Amazonii oraz życiem i folklorem Indian, zrealizował w 1954 pierwszy film przygodowy Feitiço do Amazonas. W 1988 przeniósł pracę reżyserską z Hollywood do Manaus, gdzie wykupił 27.000 akrów gruntu w dorzeczu Amazonki, założył rezerwat Terra Verde oraz Centrum Badawczo-Ekologiczne (Resarch and Preservation Center of Amazonias Ecology) w stanie Amazonas. W 1991 wybudował tam hotel ekologiczny dla turystów Green Land Lodge.<br />
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Wszystko czego dowiedziałem się na jego temat oprócz tego to to, że zajmował się reżyserowaniem filmów porno i erotycznych klasy B (zresztą chyba większość tego typu filmów jest klasy B). Natomiast płyty ze ścieżką dźwiękową do tych filmów osiągają jakieś horrendalne ceny. To mix bossa nowy, latin jazzu, eksperymentu i psychodelii. Na pewno warto się tym bliżej zainteresować.<br />
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Zygmunt Sulistrowski (born: 1922). Ecologist and Polish film maker Zygmunt Sulistrowski pioneered the format of shooting low-budget soft porn on exotic locations.<br />
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As ecologist and film maker, he has devoted 30 years to the preservation of the Amazon region at his 27,000-acre Great Ecological Reserve called The Forest of Life.<br />
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Born and raised in Poland, he fought in the underground army (AK) and took part in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II. In 1946 he moved to Paris, where he graduated from the French Film Academy as a director-producer. He worked on several British productions and eventually came to California, where he established the International Film Enterprises in Hollywood. In 1951 Sulistrowski visited Rio de Janeiro and fell in love with Brazil.<br />
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Fascinated by the native Indians' way of life and the beauty of the jungle, he made Naked Amazon (1954), which was nominated for the Grand Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival. Throughout the years many of his films were presented at festivals in Cannes, Berlin and in Brazil. Most tell stories about love, adventure and suspense in remote locations in South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.<br />
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In 1988 Sulistrowski moved his office from Hollywood to Manaus in north-west Brazil and founded The Research and Preservation Center of Amazonian Ecology. In 1991 he built the Green Land Lodge hotel, where he promotes ecotourism. He also encourages research of the area's biological and genetic diversity. (<a href="http://www.poles.org/db/s_names/Sulistrowski_Z.html" target="_blank">source</a>) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-14336141460885404002020-03-11T17:50:00.000+01:002020-03-11T17:50:11.225+01:00Rabbota Ho - Rehearsal Without The Band (1989)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A much-coveted and totally blasting set: it’s unsurprising to discover, for example, that Numero Group’s Rob Sevier listed Al-Fatihah as his dream reissue in an interview with Dusted Magazine. The Black Unity Trio were based in Oberlin, Ohio, and their line-up was Yusuf Mumin (aka Joe Phillips) on alto sax, Ron DeVaughn (aka Abdul Wadud) on cello and bass, and Haasan Al-Hut on percussion. Wadud went on to become one of the most significant cellists in free jazz (having made a number of appearances in this list) while Phillips only turns up alongside Norman Howard on Burn Baby Burn.</div>
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For anyone following Wadud’s thread, this is the significant starting point. But it’s also one of the more sublime free jazz records you’ll likely hear, cut from the same cloth as some of the more questing, spiritualized ESP titles, but with a fundamental rawness that gives cuts like ‘Birth, Life & Death’ and ‘In The Light Of Blackness’ a ferocious focus – the way the former opens the album with gentle, lyrical runs, before nose-diving into free playing particularly from Mumin/Phillips, comes across like an object lesson in how to do this kind of music right. Someone reissue this monster! (<a href="https://www.factmag.com/2015/03/11/20-private-press-free-jazz/2/" target="_blank">source</a>)</div>
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We ask you for support for musicians from the Polish
psychedelic band Oranżada. A few days ago a fire broke out, in which all
the equipment they had accumulated for over 25 years burned down. Each
instrument had its own soul and was loved by them - there was, among
others, Ludwig drums from the 1960s, on which the band Czerwone Gitary
played. Of course, it will no longer be possible to recover these
wonderful instruments, but we collect on basic equipment, thanks to
which the band will be able to tour again and regain their old sound.
Our friends from abroad please use our PayPal address
savagesaints@gmail.com ..... and full information about what happened
can be seen <a href="https://zrzutka.pl/yrvwsz" target="_blank">here</a> .<br />
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Prosimy Was o wsparcie dla muzyków z zespołu Oranżada. Kilka dni temu wybuchł pożar, w którym spłonął cały sprzęt gromadzony przez nich od ponad 25 lat. Każdy instrument miał swoją duszę i był przez nich kochany - była tam między innymi perkusja Ludwig z lat 60-tych, na której grał zespół Czerwone Gitary. Oczywiście, nie będzie już możliwe odzyskanie tych wspaniałych instrumentów, ale zbieramy na podstawowy sprzęt, dzięki któremu zespół będzie mógł ponownie koncertować i odzyskać swoje dawne brzmienie.<br />
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La Tène is a three-headed beast spewing a singular energy in which one can detect echoes of traditional music, saturated repetition, ethereal harmonics or imaginary choreographies. All of these coexist in La Tène’s music and are freed from their origins in a unique framework. The Franco-Swiss trio perform music wherein every influence, however profound, is distilled by patterns becoming themes. The goal is not to break models, but to make their existence solid, concrete, as fragments cleverly carved out of rock so as to be reassembled. There are no starting points, no ending points, no standard form structures – these all disappear as the senses encounter the first shock waves. Obstacles are erected as</div>
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Wooden Veil dodają do pierwotnych ciemności metaliczny poblask elementów industrialnych, wplatając w muzykę właściwy postapokalipsie i cyberpunkowi motyw kultu ostatnich enklaw technologii w epidemicznie rozbuchanej naturze. Ambientowe przerywniki, szamański trans i demonicznie dziewczęce wokale (przypomina się „Zardzewiały miecz” R. Stillera) dokładają jeszcze swoje trzy grosze do procesu kreacji koherentnego uniwersum, a takich darczyńców można by wskazać jeszcze wielu. Dość hermetyczne dzieło, szczególnie biorąc pod uwagę eklektyzm, objawiający się żonglowaniem całymi konwencjami, nie tylko gatunkami. (<a href="https://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2010/01/09/podsumowanie-2009-filip-szalasek/">Filip Szałasek</a>)</div>
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WOODEN VEIL have been together since 2007 but they aren't so much a band as a multinational art collective whose music merely serves as an adjunct to their total art-practice. Based in Berlin, the individual members have collaborated with a number of underground bands but music is just one manifestation of their many-sided interests. The ensemble features German artist/writer/filmmaker Marcel TÜRKOWSKY and Japanese musician/artist and former geisha Hanayo (NAKAJIMA), along with fellow artists/writers Dominik NOÉ, Czech Jan PFEIFFER and American performer Christopher KLINE.</div>
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They draw comparisons with the rural art colonies of old, Shinto theatre, the avant-garde films of Alejandro JODOROWSKY and the performance art of Yves KLEIN. From this creative melting pot of influences they have crafted their own cult of rituals, shrines, talismans, robes and masks. These exotica, along with sinister conceptual videos, abstracted exhibitions and other happenings, help to create a mystique around WOODEN VEIL. Their self-titled debut album of 2009 was apparently recorded at various installations in order for the tracks to absorb the specific characteristics of each new place, and the music is arguably at its most coherent in the context of their performance-exhibitions.</div>
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In spite of the low priority that WOODEN VEIL give their own music, it offers a provocative and challenging synthesis of psychedelic industrial music and chaotic acoustic-based folk. Stark electronic departures and crude shamanic beats (performed on improvised percussion instruments) provide a backcloth for uncommon collisions of glockenspiel, banjo, hammer dulcimer, Jew's harp and zither. The album is currently available in LP/CD format and as a digital download. Similar artists in the database include early AMON DÜÜL, ANIMA-SOUND and EMTIDI. (<a href="https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8309">progarchives</a>)</div>
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Była to czwarta płyta w serii Polish Jazz, a nagrano ją w styczniu 1965 r. Dla polskiego jazzu był to rok wyjątkowo owocny, bo oprócz niniejszego niezwykle ważnego tytułu powstał też „Astigmatic” Krzysztofa Komedy. Te dwie pozycje wyraziły coś w rodzaju artystycznego manifestu naszych jazzmanów, prezentowały bez kompleksów, na co nas stać w demoludowym kraju nad Wisłą. Album firmowany przez Kwintet Trzaskowskiego nie zdobył niestety wielkiej popularności wśród fanów, i to nie tylko za granicą, ale też w kraju. Bez wątpienia propozycje Trzaskowskiego, a więc i ta, bardzo złożone konstrukcyjnie i perfekcyjne pod względem wykonawczym, mniej trafiają do przeciętnego słuchacza.</div>
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Trzaskowski był postacią wybitną. Posiadał dużo umiejętności jako pianista, ukończył ponadto studia muzykologiczne i współpracował ze znawcą muzyki współczesnej Bogusławem Schäfferem. Rozległa wiedza kompozytorska Trzaskowskiego zaowocowała pisaniem utworów nie tylko o charakterze jazzowym, ale i trzecionurtowym (łączącym właśnie klasykę i jazz).</div>
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Również na omawianym albumie, w sumie jak najbardziej jazzowym, mamy pewne nawiązanie do trzecionurtowego stylu w rozbudowanej kompozycji Synopsis. Jej warstwę melodyczną tworzą sekwencje dodekafoniczne, towarzyszą im zmienne podziały rytmiczne, swing się pojawia i znika, a partie improwizowane (szczególnie w wykonaniu Stańki) są freejazzowe. Wszystko jednak tworzy dobrze zaplanowaną i wyegzekwowaną przez lidera całość.</div>
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Napisany na potrzeby filmu słynny utwór Sinobrody mógłby z powodzeniem suplementować „Out To Lunch”Erica Dolphy’ego ze względu na atmosferę i estetykę. Porywa solówka lidera na fortepianie, jak i wspaniała praca sekcji rytmicznej. Trzeci długi utwór to wariacje na temat ludowej piosenki Chmiel, rozegrane w formule coltrane’owskiej. Na tle charakterystycznie kołyszącego rytmu Muniak wygrywa soczyste solo, potem dokłada swoje wariacje Stańko. W pozostałych trzech krótkich utworach o balladowym charakterze wyeksponowane są wytrawne partie solowe lidera, oszczędne i doskonałe w swej konstrukcji.</div>
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Podobno Trzaskowski był liderem bardzo wymagającym i egzekwującym partyturowy zapis, co właściwie jest mało wyczuwalne w tych nagraniach, gdzie każdy z muzyków Kwintetu miał możność zademonstrowania swych umiejętności w niemal dowolnej formie. Niewiele jest płyt firmowanych przez Trzaskowskiego, dlatego tym bardziej warto zapoznać się z tym wartościowym tytułem. (<i><a href="http://jazzforum.com.pl/main/cd/the-andrzej-trzaskowski-quintet">Cezary Gumiński</a></i>)</div>
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...Pisząc o muzyce tria, że wymyka się wszelkim standardom, to jakby nic nie napisać. Tazartès chyba nie musi już udowadniać tego, iż jest wybitnym wokalistą, ale na „Carp’s Head” pokazał bardzo szeroki wachlarz swoich wokalnych możliwości – swobodnie przechodząc od śpiewu gardłowego (przypomniał mi się niezwykły zespół z Tuwy, Alash Ensemble), makabrycznej opery w stylu Scotta Walkera („Dobra nasza”, „The End of Western World”), po klasyczną muzykę indyjską („Orient Calling”) i demonicznego bluesa, ale bliższego syberyjskich śpiewaków niż tych czarnoskórych z południa Stanów Zjednoczonych. Miejscami surowe, lecz bardzo intensywne i głębokie brzmienie może skojarzyć się z rozmaitymi OBUH-owymi produkcjami (wsłuchajcie się dokładnie w „Wolves and Birds” i „Wolves and Birds part 2”), to jednak muzycznie „Carp’s Head” dryfuje w nieprzewidywalnym kierunku, choć z udziałem wielu kultur z różnych stron świata. Całość nazwałbym analogowym skowytem z zaświatów (a może z Za Siódmej Góry?). (<i><a href="https://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2016/12/04/ghedalia-tazartes-pawel-romanczuk-andrzej-zaleski/">Łukasz Komła</a></i>)</div>
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The newest record produced by the group of three -- Ghédalia Tazartès, Pawel Romanczuk, and Andrzej Zaleski -- is the result of only a few meet-ups and a shared passion for music that shapes their perspective. The long play was recorded at the Rogalów Analogowy studio in the eastern part of Poland. It's worth noting that the space and surrounding countryside did not influence the sound itself as the record drifts away from the traditions of chamber music. The musicians, together as well as separately, avoid any mainstream influences. Thus, the acoustic record is peaceful, spiritual, and presents a wide variety of notions and emotions. The diversified vocal articulation and tone of Tazartès intertwines well with Zaleski's percussive play and Romanczuk's multi-instrumental skills. The rhythmic pulsation is constantly taking new directions, eventually turning into noise at some point. The voice, somehow dramatic, traps the listeners and sends them on a journey through non-existent quasi-stories. An elusive romantic magician personified by a carp-headed cat. French cult artist Ghédalia Tazartès is an uncompromising character who defies categorization. He recorded alone a dozen of albums, calling his way of working "Impromuz" for lack of a better term. Before the years 2000s, his public appearances remained exceptional events. Romanczuk is a founder of the Polish artistic group Male Instrumenty with whom he recorded ten albums. He composed several film soundtracks and collaborated with significant theater houses. His music collaboration with Andrzej Zaleski and Ghedalia Tazartes started back in 2014; however, he was familiar with their music for quite a time. Andrzej Zaleski -- musician, filmmaker, and curator -- has collaborated with: Ghédalia Tazartès, Aspec(t), Joe Giardullo, Eugene Chadbourne, Charles Hayward, John Hegre, Tatsuya Yoshida, Pavel Fajt, Sylvie Courvoisier, Vinz Vonlanthen, Male Instrumenty, Johannes Bergmark, and many others. He also played in bands like: Multicide, Mitch and Mitch, and 3 Metry, Za Siódma Górą.</div>
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Heikki Sarmanto, born 22 June 1939, Helsinki, Finland. Sarmanto studied languages and music at Helsinki University and Sibelius Academy before going on to the Berklee College Of Music (1968-71). He was named the best pianist at Montreux in 1971. He led his own bands from 1962 and in 1976 a workshop group he ran became the big band UMO. He has written New Hope Jazz Mass, a jazz ballet and a jazz opera, and was chosen by saxophonist Sonny Rollins to arrange and orchestrate his Saxophone Concerto (1986). He continues to write vocal, orchestral and theatre works in a most assured style.<br />
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Heikki Sarmanto is something of a legend in Scandinavia but not (yet) well known in the USA. The belated American release of COUNTERBALANCE may change that, as it features a warm, harmonious fusion of jazz, rock, and elements of Finnish folk music, using both electric and acoustic instrumentation. Before ECM Records, before the concept of world music, before fusion became a popular concept, Sarmanto was there, with an approach both user-friendly and forward-looking. ---Rovi<br />
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Italian progressive jazz masters the Claudio Scolari Project are back with more of some of the most stimulating contemporary improv music from either side of the Atlantic. The namesake Scolari remains the center of it all at drums, with his primary partner multi-instrumentalist Daniele Cavalca providing keyboards and sometimes a second set of drums. Scolari’s son Simone has been the trumpet player since he was a teenager.<br />
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Upside Down comes just a year and some change after their last release, Natural Impulse, which was their first album in six years. <br />
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The Claudio Scolari Project has now grown to a quartet with the addition of Michele Cavalca — Daniele’s brother — to hold down the bass duties. In addition to making this ensemble even more of a family affair, Michele taking over on bass frees up the prior bass player Daniele to concentrate on drums and keyboards, enabling more ‘live in the studio’ playing than ever before. And the more they play live, the more improvisation comes out. And improvisation is the core strength of this band.<br />
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Cavalca’s expanding keyboarding skills is apparent on “Smoke In C Minor,” not just in the use of synths for tactical accents, but on piano that plays just what is needed to sketch out the melody and nothing more. By not trying to do too much, Scolari is able to finish off the sketches Cavalca starts, with discretion and taste while maintaining a steady groove.<br />
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That song is just those two, who already sound like a whole band. But next up on “Underground Soul,” the other guys show up and the same, spacious angularity is maintained. The Cavalcas both wander but never drift too far from the harmonic parameters. The Scolaris eventually step up to the fore with their own display of liveliness.<br />
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Daniele has greatly expanded his palette on keyboards, giving the CSP sound a diversity not heard before. He plays a funky Rhodes-like electric piano on “Upside Road.” Claudio Scolari refuses to bow to the prescribed ways of doing thing, opting for a light, almost swing like pulse instead of a heavy backbeat. “And I’ll Make You Smile” is on the quirky, playful side. Daniele vamps on piano over a on synth-generated motif while his brother’s bass dances sprightly around him while Simone keeps it in the pocket.<br />
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“Upside Down” is just straight-up jazz, a loose swagger that saunters up and down note progressions as everyone comps and solos simultaneously. The elder Scolari and Cavalca team up on drums for “Twister” just riding the groove, feeding off each other and never getting overbearing. The two later team up for the short “Fast And Last,” a more furious drum duet.<br />
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“Syrah Hangover” is more akin to the downtempo stuff heard on Daniele Cavalca’s own album Cinematic, but the warm synth vibe is nicely complemented by the Scolaris and Cavalca’s piano musings hit the sweet spot. “Bismantova Castle” is a showcase for the two younger fellows, who both show a lot of melodicism and an understanding of the poignant effect of letting notes hang can have.<br />
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“Wired” is where everyone lets it hang out. Managing a wide array of keyboards, Daniele sets some loops into motion and solos on electric piano while Simone jousts with him and Michele establishes a low end groove while jumping into the fray. The elder Scolari maintains a steady swing, tossing in fills and bomb at the right spots. Daniele pulls double duty by freeing up a hand for additional drumming(!). This is all done live and spontaneously…and it’s very musical.<br />
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Using high-level musicianship and a great sense of harmony and rhythm to carry out one instantaneous idea after another is the trademark of Claudio Scolari Project, and they keep getting better at it. Upside Down is now out for sale at Amazon, CDBaby and other usual outlets. (<a href="http://somethingelsereviews.com/2019/12/29/claudio-scolari-project-upside-down-2019/" target="_blank">source</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-34924966500337506782020-01-31T17:13:00.001+01:002020-01-31T17:13:53.827+01:00Wacław Zimpel - Massive Oscillations (2020)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To muzyka, w której krzyżują się tradycje i tropy południa Indii, amerykańskiego minimalizmu, krautrockowego zanurzenia w transie, klasycznej kompozycji czy wreszcie jazzu. (<i><a href="https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/8708-muzyka-totalna.html">Michał Wieczorek</a></i>)</div>
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A native of Poznan, the multi-instrumentalist composer/producer Waclaw Zimpel has steadily been gaining recognition as one of the most singular and original talents to have emerged from Poland in contemporary times. His second solo album 'Massive Oscillations' is set for release on January 31st, and is his first for the Amsterdam-based label Ongehoord. At various points Waclaw deploys bass clarinet, alto clarinet, electronics, prepared upright piano and Yuri Landman guitar object. Wojciech Traczyk adds double bass and Holly Hock provides vocals to 'Release', whist all tracks were mixed by James Holden, who according to Zimpel "added his magic touch". 'Massive Oscillations' is Zimpel's most accomplished album to date - a hypnotic and beguiling work given to moments of subtle euphoria. Gently rhythmic, repetetive but morphing grooves are decorated with elegant musical flourishes. An exquisite vertical listening experience, tracks rev like ignition on a motor. They swell, undulate and breathe in a non linear motion, hovering more than moving, or steadily levitating heavenwards. 'Massive Oscillations' is the result of a nine-day residency at the Willem Twee studio in Den Bosch, Netherlands.</div>
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The longplayer is not only a consolidation of Zimpel's previous experiments, but is also driven by his curiosity and desire to explore new avenues and possibilities, striving to create an innovative musical vernacular. Inspired as much by jazz as electronics, minimalism and roots music from across the world, he doesn't so much blur boundaries as eradicate them altogether. "I was looking for new kinds of sounds and had an idea of where I wanted 'Massive Oscillations' to go," says Zimpel, "but that all changed the moment I started playing with the studio's collection of vintage synthesizers and electronic equipment."</div>
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In keeping with his restless improvisational spirit, Zimpel jettisoned previous ideas and set about using the studio's array of oscillators, generators, sequencers, tape recorders and filters (alongside his beloved clarinet) to capitalize on opportunities the facility offered him. Subliminal factors were also at play: Having tuned the oscillators by ear for 'Sine Tapes' and title track 'Massive Oscillations', whilst attempting to work out melodies on his clarinet, Zimpel found he'd inadvertently arrived at a lower frequency than intended. By a happy accident, he realized he'd subconsciously been tuning in to the bells of St Jan's Cathedral, which is located close to the studio. "It was this kind of magical coincidence that really helped shape the recording", he recalls. </div>
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Hampton Grease Band to amerykańska grupa rockowa, która rozpoczęła działalność jako zespół blues rockowy pod koniec lat 60. XX wieku w Atlancie w stanie Georgia w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Występowali z kilkoma głośnymi ekipami tego okresu, w tym Grateful Dead, J. Hendrixem, Procol Harum i Allman Brothers. W 1971 roku wydali jedyny album "Music to Eat" w klimatach eksperymentalnych, porównywany do Captaina Beefhearta, Franka Zappy, Mothers of Invention i Pere Ubu. Założyciel zespołu Bruce Hampton zmarł po ataku serca na scenie podczas swego urodzinowego koncertu (70 lat) w rodzinnej Atlancie w 2017 roku. </div>
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Hampton Grease Band may have ultimately been a band easier to appreciate in concept than to listen to in practice. They are also, for most listeners, a band that's much more fun to read about than to hear. For a brief period, though, they were offering some of the wackiest rock ever to be found on a major label. Clearly influenced by both Zappa and Beefheart, but more grating and even less accessible to the rock underground, they took early-'70s avant-rock aesthetics near to their extremes. This guaranteed an eternal cult reputation for the group, but also ensured that their commercial success in their own time was virtually nil.</div>
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Hampton Grease Band began as a blues-rock-oriented outfit in the late '60s in Atlanta, where the underground rock scene was barely big enough to support them. They managed to carve a reputation at a local underground club, as well as by playing support to psychedelic/progressive acts like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Procol Harum, and the Allman Brothers. The group steadily developed a more original sound, emphasizing intricate, Zappa-esque guitar lines and Bruce Hampton's off-the-cuff, non-sequitur lyrics, usually shouted in a throaty, scratchy wheeze that made Beefheart sound like Pavarotti. The band often betrayed the Zappa influence in their theatrical, sometimes confrontational stage show, in which Hampton would throw chairs at the audience, or sing while standing on a pizza. They polarized audiences, to say the least; they were pelted with cups of ice at one memorable gig that found them playing to a crowd of 10,000 as the warm-up act for Three Dog Night (a bill that must have been devised by Salvador Dali).</div>
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Hampton Grease Band generated enough of a reputation, though, to pique the interest of Columbia Records, whose curiosity incited Allman Brothers manager Phil Walden to sign the group. The Grease Band quickly recorded two albums' worth of material that could in no way be construed as having money-making potential. Half the songs, to begin with, weighed in at around the 20-minute mark; the silvery guitar work of Glenn Phillips and Harold Kelling often took its cues from improvised jazz, while the songs lurched unpredictably between melodies and tempos, all executed with impeccable finesse by the musicians. The crowning touch was Hampton, whose amelodic rants cross-bred soapbox preachers with bleacher bums. The lyrics took the Dadaist bent of Zappa/Beefheart to more inscrutable levels, most notoriously on "Hendon," with Hampton reading many of the words off the label of a can of spray paint. Phillips' silly faux-Latin miniature "Maria" was a much more radio-friendly novelty, but Hampton Grease Band were obviously going to be a much tougher sell than the Allman Brothers.</div>
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Confronted with the tapes, Columbia reacted most unpredictably, deciding to make the band's debut (and, as it turned out, only) record a double album, Music to Eat. Legend has it that it was, at the time of its release, the second-lowest selling LP in the Columbia catalog (beaten only by a yoga record). Columbia itself didn't help matters by marketing Music to Eat as a comedy album. Shortly after its release, Hampton Grease Band began to disintegrate, with the departure of guitarist Harold Kelling. Despite a well-received show at the Fillmore East with Frank Zappa, CBS dropped the group, which then signed with Zappa's Bizarre/Straight label. It seemed like a logical combination, but nothing came of it record-wise, and the band finally broke up in 1973 when Hampton left to, ironically, unsuccessfully audition for a job as Zappa's lead vocalist.</div>
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All of the members of the quintet that recorded Music to Eat remained active in music, especially Hampton (who recorded albums with the Aquarium Rescue Unit and other groups of the "jam band" scene beginning in the '90s, and who died after an on-stage heart attack at an all-star tribute concert celebrating his 70th birthday at Atlanta's Fox Theatre in 2017) and Phillips (who released nearly a dozen instrumental records, including some for the influential alternative rock indie label SST). As is so often the case with the most interesting cult bands, interest in Hampton Grease Band actually grew in the decades after their breakup, culminating in the reissue of Music to Eat on CD in 1996 -- on Columbia, the same label that had dumped them when they supposedly sold less copies than anyone else who had ever recorded for the company. (<i><a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hampton-grease-band-mn0000662905/biography">amg</a></i>)</div>
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Pierwszy zespół Michaela Giry działający w Nowym Jorku w latach 1979-81, próbujący swych sił w stylistyce no wave/post-punk.</div>
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Post-punk band from New York City. Formed in 1979, the band included future Swans singer Michael Gira on vocals, guitarist Rick Oller, bassist Dan Braun, Josh Braun on keyboards and Angelo Pudignano on drums. Jonathan Kane, also of Swans, would become the third drummer for the group. The group recorded only one EP, a self-titled effort on Labor Records, before disbanding in 1981.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543865206706113243.post-37656948830690858662020-01-20T19:25:00.000+01:002020-01-20T19:25:05.252+01:00Guruh Gipsy (1977)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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... "Guruh Gipsy" z 1975 roku, czyli jedno z najbardziej zdumiewających i szalonych przedsięwzięć w historii indonezyjskiego rocka. Za powstanie albumu odpowiedzialni są: Guruh Sukarnoputra (muzyk i choreograf, syn pierwszego prezydenta Indonezji - Sukarno) oraz zespół Gipsy (formacja założona w 1966 r. przez braci Nasution). Muzycy jako pierwsi udowodnili, że muzykę balijską i brzmienie gamelanu można w harmonijny sposób połączyć z dźwiękami gitar elektrycznych, perkusji i syntezatorów. Mimo że mieli do dyspozycji najlepsze w tym czasie studio nagraniowe w Indonezji, to zadanie nie było łatwe. Praca nad albumem trwała ponad 16 miesięcy. Do jego powstania zaangażowano kilkudziesięciu muzyków (w tym cały zespół gamelanowy z Bali), a dla osiągnięcia symfonicznego brzmienia partie niektórych instrumentów zwielokrotniono nawet dwieście razy (!).</div>
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Na albumie pojawia się również wokalista Chrisye (jedna z najważniejszych postaci indonezyjskiego popu), który wykonuje piosenkę "Chopin Larung" opartą na Fantaisie-Impromptu cis-moll op. 66 polskiego kompozytora. (<i><a href="https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/388/Artykul/1645894,Guruh-Gipsy-%e2%80%93-zespol-ktory-zabral-Chopina-na-Bali">polskieradio</a></i>)</div>
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Guruh Gipsy is basically a collaborative effort between Guruh Soekarno Putro - the fifth child of Indonesia's first President, Soekarno - and Gipsy. Guruh was born in Jakarta, 13 January 1953 and since his childhood her mother (Fatmawati) reckoned that he had strong passion for art and strong sense of accomplishment. Unlike his sister, Megawati, whom later became Indonesia's President, he pursued his dreams in art including music and choreography. He later established his own dance and music group called "Swaramaharddika" which was very famous in the 70s and 80s.</div>
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While Gipsy was basically a music group which its members are Nasution brothers: Gaury, Keenan, Odink, and Deby. It was previously established in 1966 under the name of Sabda Nada with members: Ponco Sutowo, Gaury Nasution, Joe-Am, Eddy, Edit, Roland and Keenan Nasution. They were very familiar with Balinese music and they ever did a gig at Bank Indonesia combining western with Balinese music with gamelan group led by Wayan Suparta Wijaya. In 1969 the band renamed themselves as Gipsy and the new line-up was established: Onan, Chrisye, Gaury, Tammy, dan Atut Harahap. They did cover for 70s groups like Procol Harum, King Crimson, ELP, Genesis and Blood, Sweat & Tears. In 1971 the line-up changed again: Keenan, Chrisye, Gaury, Rully Djohan, Aji Bandi, and Lulu. With this line-up the band played a gig in New York, USA.</div>
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This collaborative effort called GURUH - GIPSY was made possible due to Guruh strong passion for combining ethnic music of Bali based on pentatonic notes and western music which is based on diatonic notes. The effort took such a long time as it required sixteen (16) months of recording time. The elapsed time was used by Guruh for various complex activities, i.e. financing the project, scheduling with the only studio available at that time with 16-track system (Tri Angkasa), composing the music with Keenan Nasution (drums), Odink Nasution (guitar), Abadi Soesman (keyboards), Roni Harahap (piano/organ), and Chrisye (vocal). Actually, total studio days was 52 days.</div>
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The recording session was started in July 1975 and finished in November 1976. The long duration and difficulties faced during recording were due to many personnel involved during the session. It was not just Gipsy band members but it included violin players (Suryati Sumpilin, Suseno, and Fauzan), cello players (Sudarmadi Bambang Purwadi), contra bass (Amin Katamsi), flute (Suparlan), clarinet /hobo (Yudianto), and a group of Bali musicians. In addition to these there were backing vocals: Rugun and Bornok Hutauruk.</div>
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Music arrangement combining western music and Bali traditional gamelan required tight precision as the two had different spectrum in terms of notes and chords. For this purpose, Guruh spent a lot of time outside the studio to learn the subtleties of western music as well as Bali traditional music. He strived to find the best harmony that blended symphonic progressive rock with Bali tradional gamelan music.</div>
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His efforts paid off because the result was a brilliant album that was totally splendid!! It's masterpiece of symphonic progressive rock album with experimental music. (<i><a href="https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2764">progarchives</a></i>)</div>
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Recorded live at Orlyonok concert hall, Moscow, April 12-13, 1989. </div>
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Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley </div>
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Brytyjski zespół undergroundowy w klimatach psych- punkowych założony pod koniec lat 60-tych przez dziennikarza, wokalistę i kompozytora Micka Farrena, z dorobkiem trzech dobrych albumów z tamtego kolorowego okresu.</div>
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In the late '60s, the Deviants were something like the British equivalent to the Fugs, with touches of the Mothers of Invention and the British R&B-based rock of the Yardbirds and the Pretty Things. Their roots were not so much in the British Invasion as the psychedelic underground that began to take shape in London in 1966-1967. Not much more than amateurs when they began playing, they squeezed every last ounce of skill and imagination out of their limited instrumental and compositional resources on their debut, Ptooff!, which combined savage social commentary, overheated sexual lust, psychedelic jamming, blues riffs, and pretty acoustic ballads -- all in the space of seven songs. Their subsequent '60s albums had plenty of outrage, but not nearly as strong material as the debut. Lead singer Mick Farren recorded a solo album near the end of the decade, and went on to become a respected rock critic. He intermittently performed and recorded as a solo artist and with re-formed versions of the Deviants. Farren died in July 2013 at the age of 69 after collapsing on-stage at a Deviants show in London. (<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-deviants-mn0000818593/biography"><i>amg</i></a>)</div>
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Manchester post-punk act formed in 1979 by original members of the Durutti Column. They released two albums and their single "Wadada" received a Single Of The Week accolade in Sounds magazine and had some play on nighttime radio. The band split up in 1982, after which Chris Joyce and Tony Bowers drifted into Simply Red and David Rowbotham was murdered with an axe. It is hard to decide which was the worse fate. Sadly, reissues have not been forthcoming.</div>
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Gitarzysta Glenn Branca (...) przeprowadził się do Nowego Jorku w połowie lat 70., by pracować z teatrem, ale spodobała mu się scena punkowa tworzona przez kluby CBGB i Max’s Kansas City. Połączył siły z klawiszowcem/gitarzystą Jeffreyem Lohnem, tworząc w 1977 roku Theoretical Girls, z przyszłym producentem i dźwiękowcem Sonic Youth Whartonem Tiersem na perkusji i Margaret Dewys na klawiszach. Za życia zespół wypuścił tylko jeden singiel, U.S. Millie/You Got Me (1978), ale niektóre z piosenek Branki zebrane są na Songs 77-79, natomiast utwory Lohna wydano dopiero w 2002 roku na Theoretical Album. Materiał Lohna jest zaskakująco prostolinijny, ale mocny: U.S. Millie to anomalia, z klawiszami jak u Phlipa Glassa albo Terry’ego Rileya i marszowym werblem; nastroszone zbitki Computer Dating bardziej pasują do no wave’owego wizerunku grupy. Nawet TV Song Branki z 1977 roku to czerpiący z Ramones rock zbudowany na skróconych akordach, ale You Got Me, You i Glazened Idols, wszystkie nagrane na żywo w 1978 roku, zawierają dysonujące wzory akordów, zapętlone repetycje, rozbite sygnatury czasowe i energetyczne wybuchy szczękającej gitary. Piętą achillesową grupy był wokal. Ani ten Lohna, ani Branki nie były efektowne, a wycieczki w słowo mówione tego drugiego są ewidentnie artystowskie. W 1978 roku Branca założył trio The Static, z Barbarą Ess i Christine Hahn, żeby zaprezentować więcej swoich piosenek. Ich jedyny singiel Theoretical Record, zawierający My Relationship/Don't Let Me Stop You, również można znaleźć na Songs 77-79; to perfekcyjnie wydestylowany głośny, prymitywny rock z okrutnie rozstrojonymi gitarami. <i>(fragment książki "Muzyka. Przewodnik Krytyki Politycznej")</i></div>
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Over the last few years a great deal of attention has been paid to the NYC No Wave scene of the late 70s. There have been books, movies, and quite a few reissues/issues of classic and essential music. Acute Records is proud to have been involved with some essential reissues from the period, such as our first CD, containing Jeffrey Lohn’s contributions to the Theoretical Girls.</div>
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Jeffrey Lohn is an artist, composer, writer, teacher and plumber. During the genesis of the No Wave scene, he hosted late night concerts in his Soho loft, where artists like Tim Wright, Laurie Anderson and Nina Canal would gather and perform music. The No Wave scene was filled with artists, non-musicians, improvisers and composers who were being inspired by the energy and aesthetics, if not the sound, of the cresting CB’s punk scene. The raw and aggressive punk of bands like the Dead Boys were of particular interest to Lohn, who wanted to combine his “serious” compositions with the raw energy of punk rock. Finding likeminded people such as Glenn Branca (gtr, bass, vocals), Margaret Dewyss (organ, bass, vocals), and Wharton Tiers (drums, vocals), he formed the Theoretical Girls.</div>
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At the time there, were no bands on the New York City scene that better combined the accessibility of Punk, New Wave and plain old Rock and Roll with such avant-garde takes on classical composition and sheer noise. This combination made the Theoretical Girls both a cutting edge assault of noise-rock and an incredibly catchy rock band. Yet external pressures and internal politics thwarted the official public release of their music during their existence, other then a sole self-release 7″ the classic "US Millie/You Got Me," featuring one song each composed by Lohn and Branca.</div>
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Acute’s release of "Theoretical Record" collects over an hour of Jeffrey Lohn’s material. Now, for the first time in decades, his songs and sound will get the credit they are due. </div>
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