Freshly Guvera'ed:
My goodness! What a charming disc: music by and improvisations on Offenbach for clarinet and accordion. Agile, humorous, just the perfect music for waking up. (Unfortunately, one of the 19 tracks in unavailable individually.)
- From my best of 2012 list: Fred Frith guitar, bass, voice
Carla Kihlstedt violin, bass harmonica, voice
Zeena Parkins accordion, keyboards, foley objects, voice
Shahzad Ismaily bass, voice
Matthias Bossi drums, percussion, mayhem, voice
The Norman Conquest sound manipulation
- "Cosa Brava is about storytelling. I don't think about it too much. It just turned out that way. Some of the stories have words and some don't, but they share a sense of scenes glimpsed in passing. Torn photos, fragments of movies, distant shouts. One of my earliest memories is of a long drive north, as our family moved away from London to start a new life in the Yorkshire dales. I remember the smell of the car, and passing our broken down removals lorry in the middle of night. I was four years old, and sometimes it feels like I've been on the road ever since. I need to travel, and now my life depends on it, so there's never a shortage of stories. The musicians of Cosa Brava are fellow nomads and experienced collaborators, and some of the best storytellers around, so my stories also become their stories. It's been an exhilarating journey, and I still have no idea where we're going. In the end it doesn't seem very important."
- Fred Frith, February 2012, Liner Notes.
- "Cosa Brava is an experimental rock and improvisation quartet formed in March 2008 by multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog). Cosa Brava released in 2010 "Ragged Atlas" (Intakt CD 161) followed by "The Letter" in 2012 (Intakt CD 204)."
- Intakt Records.
- Kindly rec'ed by Kargatron on Dec 27th 2009 - Thanks again !
Maybe Monday:
Fred Frith [electric guitar];
Miya Masaoka [koto, electronics];
Larry Ochs [sopranino and tenor sax];
Joan Jeanrenaud [cello]
ETA: It's listed as a Maybe Monday album in the US.
Intakt Records - 2008
FRED FRITH electric guitar
MIYA MASAOKA 25 string koto and electronics
LARRY OCHS sopranino and tenor saxophones
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
GERRY HEMINGWAY drums, percussion, voice
CARLA KIHLSTEDT electric and acoustic violins
IKUE MORI electronics
ZEENA PARKINS electric harp and electronics
I just got reminded about this magnificent album because the Kranky label seems to be in the business of changing distributor over at Emusic from Kranky/iris to Kranky/The Orchard: - "As Adam Wiltzie from Stars Of The Lid told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine, his collaboration with Bobby Donne from Labradford began when "We all met during a Texas swing of a Labradford tour that Stars Of The Lid opened for back in 1996. They stayed at my house for a few days and we became great friends. A year later I asked them to collaborate on the Kahanek Incident remix for Trance. Subsequently Mark and Carter moved away from Richmond around this time, so Bobby ended up doing their end of the work. Eventually he brought up the idea of doing another record separate from our other projects."
The duo exchanged tapes over the course of a year or two and then Bobby Donne ventured to Austin, TX for a week to record at Wiltzie's home studio in May 2000. The in-person collaboration moved much more quickly than the exchange of tracks by mail. One track on the Aix Em Klemm album, "Sparkwood and Twenty-One", was written and recorded in the course of one day."
- Kranky - 2000
Time to bust out the Tudor Advent music. I've actually been reading about Elizabeth lately, and am now curious about the music of the time. Apparently she tolerated a good bit of Popishness in her favored composers, including Tallis
The North of Mali is a varied and special place, from the muddy banks of the Niger as it navigates through the scrubby Sahel to the jagged sun backed rocks of Adrar D'Ifoghas deep in the Sahara. The landscape is at times empty and sparse, but the culture is rich, with bustling cities, thousands of sleepy villages, and countless nomad encampments. But the people in the North live a perilous existence. Money is made to be spent and there is no saving or security. Often that model works fine. Community and family is strong and people rally together to help those individuals when disaster falls. Unfortunately, the disaster right now is affecting everyone. As armed extremists have taken over the North, driving out civilians, implementing bizarre forms of Sharia law, and effectively banning music, the North of Mali has been thrown into turmoil.
This compilation is a series of recordings taken over the past three years of various musicians, both modern and traditional. It's for sale on sliding scale. Pay what you want. 100% of the proceeds from this album will go directly to the people featured on the album. That's it. There is no bureaucracy - just Bandcamp and me walking down the Moneygram office to send off checks. There is no NGO who will redistribute the funds to everyone, so it wont help everyone. But it will go the musicians on these recordings you're listening to -- all musicians who are currently struggling in the North of Mali or refugees in exile and all who have been directly affected by the events.
The North is trying to be silenced. But I hope these recordings can stand as a reminder of what the North was, and what it can and will be again: guitar bands rocking in the evening streets of Niafounke, children gathering at the nomad camps of the Adrar, plucked takamba in the sandy houses of Timbouctou, and wistful village melodies sung out over the banks of the Niger.
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G.
From the Magnatune thread....excellent!
My goodness! What a charming disc: music by and improvisations on Offenbach for clarinet and accordion. Agile, humorous, just the perfect music for waking up. (Unfortunately, one of the 19 tracks in unavailable individually.)
Wonderful little EP from earlier in the year on Audio Gourmet. Deep Summer by Lights Dim. Free on bandcamp.
Guv.
Fred Frith guitar, bass, voice
Carla Kihlstedt violin, bass harmonica, voice
Zeena Parkins accordion, keyboards, foley objects, voice
Shahzad Ismaily bass, voice
Matthias Bossi drums, percussion, mayhem, voice
The Norman Conquest sound manipulation
- "Cosa Brava is about storytelling. I don't think about it too much. It just turned out that way. Some of the stories have words and some don't, but they share a sense of scenes glimpsed in passing. Torn photos, fragments of movies, distant shouts. One of my earliest memories is of a long drive north, as our family moved away from London to start a new life in the Yorkshire dales. I remember the smell of the car, and passing our broken down removals lorry in the middle of night. I was four years old, and sometimes it feels like I've been on the road ever since. I need to travel, and now my life depends on it, so there's never a shortage of stories. The musicians of Cosa Brava are fellow nomads and experienced collaborators, and some of the best storytellers around, so my stories also become their stories. It's been an exhilarating journey, and I still have no idea where we're going. In the end it doesn't seem very important."
- Fred Frith, February 2012, Liner Notes.
- "Cosa Brava is an experimental rock and improvisation quartet formed in March 2008 by multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog). Cosa Brava released in 2010 "Ragged Atlas" (Intakt CD 161) followed by "The Letter" in 2012 (Intakt CD 204)."
- Intakt Records.
Maybe Monday:
Fred Frith [electric guitar];
Miya Masaoka [koto, electronics];
Larry Ochs [sopranino and tenor sax];
Joan Jeanrenaud [cello]
ETA: It's listed as a Maybe Monday album in the US.
Cool kosmische synth music from Black Unicorn. NYOP @ bandcamp.
Intakt Records - 2008
FRED FRITH electric guitar
MIYA MASAOKA 25 string koto and electronics
LARRY OCHS sopranino and tenor saxophones
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
GERRY HEMINGWAY drums, percussion, voice
CARLA KIHLSTEDT electric and acoustic violins
IKUE MORI electronics
ZEENA PARKINS electric harp and electronics
G.
Craig
I have been watching Life on Mars on Netflix. I forgot how good this album was....
- "As Adam Wiltzie from Stars Of The Lid told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine, his collaboration with Bobby Donne from Labradford began when "We all met during a Texas swing of a Labradford tour that Stars Of The Lid opened for back in 1996. They stayed at my house for a few days and we became great friends. A year later I asked them to collaborate on the Kahanek Incident remix for Trance. Subsequently Mark and Carter moved away from Richmond around this time, so Bobby ended up doing their end of the work. Eventually he brought up the idea of doing another record separate from our other projects."
The duo exchanged tapes over the course of a year or two and then Bobby Donne ventured to Austin, TX for a week to record at Wiltzie's home studio in May 2000. The in-person collaboration moved much more quickly than the exchange of tracks by mail. One track on the Aix Em Klemm album, "Sparkwood and Twenty-One", was written and recorded in the course of one day."
- Kranky - 2000
ETA, this is better than I remembered.
G.
- Magnifique !
G.
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This day already needs some muscle to get through it.
See Bandcamp to buy/ NYOP
Listening to my 2012 albums.
Craig
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