From way back in the days when Leyland Kirby was uploading tons of stuff on the VVM site on Brainwashed together with other artists such as the danish Kristian Bjørn Vester AKA: G-Pal, Gaeoudjiparl, Gæoudjiparl, Gæoudjiparl Goodiepal, Gæoudjiparl The Århus Warrior, Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, Goodiepal And Space Man Snarf, Goodiepal K. Vester, Goodiepari, Synthetic Voice Of Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen, The . . . and a few more:
How can musicians and singers coming from various backgrounds get together and produce a whole new music, so that it doesn't become just a hodgepodge of several different oral traditions?
This project, which initially took the form of a series of encounters between Keyvan Chemirani and other great voices of the world, led to the creation of a disc, entitled The Rhythm of Speech.
Then, after three working sessions initiated by the Abbaye de Royaumont, it came to realization. The languages are Persian, Tamil and Bambara, conveyed by 3 singers of immense talent, each representing a great vocal tradition: Persian classical music, Carnatic music of Southern India and the Didadi of Mali.
The languages have been allowed to break free from their prosodic framework, thanks to the rhythmical inventions, as subtle as they were unexpected, from the young percussionist Keyvan Chemirani.
Today I played two Matthew Herbert Big Band CD albums, and two 80s CDs - Thriller and Night Fever on alongish car journey. Now back home I need something a bit quieter, so will probably find some John Williams guitar music next.
From the Ubuweb Goodies thread: Recorded in october 1976 at Studio Zanibelli, Milan - Italy.
Mastered at Massive Arts Studio.
Originally released in 1977.
Artwork By [Cover Illustration] Magda Castel
Bass [Fender Bass] Roberto Del Piano
Drums Pasquale Liguori
Liner Notes Marcello Lorrai
Lyrics By [Words And Texts By], Voice [Spoken Voice] Giulio Stocchi
Mastered By Alberto Cutolo
Music By, Piano Gaetano Liguori
Recorded By Paolo Bocchi
Vocals Concetta Busacca, Demetrio Stratos
You might know him from his track Tahoultine
from the comp Music For Saharan Cellphones,
but this guitarist from Agadez broke the spell of the
traditional Tuareg acoustic guitar thru amplification
of both sound and the ideas of unrest in his country
of Niger. No auto-tune on this album (unlike the hit
singles). In the last year, he starred in the first ever
full-length film in the Tuareg language of Tamasheq
playing the part of Prince with this version of Purple Rain. Contorted distortions in the form
of a knob-kneed gallop with the traditional takamba.
Featuring Lindsay Cooper, Sally Potter, Phil Minton, Georgie Born, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Marilyn Mazur (!) , Kate Westbrook, Collette Lafont, Eleanor Sloan, Lol Coxhill and Dave Holland
Those last two Lindsay Cooper albums are wonderful.
Try Oh Moscow (which is from about the same time and
has Marilyn Mazur as well) and Music For Other Occasions which
is from a few years before and has a wonderful batch of performers too.
Since the great Scottish folk singer, Jean Redpath, passed away last month,
I've been going thru her various recordings - especially enthralled by her series of
seven volumes of The Songs of Robert Burns. This is the last one of the volumes and
features pianist Marilyn Crispell in a very different context than she's noted.
[CD: RecRec Music, Switzerland, 1994; #ReCDec 907
- LP originally released by Rift, USA, 1982; #RIFT 4]
1. Voice of America Part 1 (17'01)
Bob Ostertag: synthesizer, tapes, radio, contact microphones
Fred Frith: guitars, tapes, radio
sources:
- 1. "¿Qué Hacen los Extraños?" by José Armijo, Salvadoran singer.
- 2. Sandinista dialogue from 'La Guitarra Armada' (The Armed Guitar) by Carlos Mejia Godoy.
- 3. Song: "Revolución", from the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
- 4. Chronology of the Chilean Coup, 1973 - Rounder Records.
- 5+7. Let's Make a Deal!
- 6. TV coverage of the return of the Teheran hostages.
- 8. The Super Bowl, 1981.
From a concert at P.A.S.S., New York, USA in January 1981.
Recorded on cassette by Bruce Levinson.
2. Voice of America Part 2 (21'19)
Bob Ostertag: tapes, contact microphones
Fred Frith: home-made instruments
Phil Minton: singing
sources:
- 1. Salvadoran National Guard chanting slogans while training.
- 2. Chaquito, a small boy, speaking at his father's funeral on the Chinchontepec volcano, El Salvador: Film Institute of Revolutionary El Salvador, FMLN.
- 3+5. Small girl singing at a ceremony to mark the end of the literacy campaign in Esteli, Nicaragua.
- 4. Song: "Mourn Not the Dead", by Ralph Chaplin, member of the I.W.W.
From the Actual Festival at the I.C.A., London, UK in August 1981.
Recorded by Jean-Marc Foussat.
total time: 38'20
Many of the tapes used in these performances were recorded by Bob Ostertag in Nicaragua, 1980. Others were taken from current TV and radio shows. The use of taped material was not discussed by the musicians beforehand.
The performances on this record were improvised.
"Special thanks to Phil for stepping in to replace the smouldering wreckage of Bob's synthesizer at 10 minutes notice."
Cover photography by Tina Curran.
CD-layout by Rose Müller.
Not one of the better Sequences, to my ear. I am almost two thirds of the way through and very little has appealed to me much so far. Lots of vague and gloomy. YMMV.
Nice story on Mazur and your car! - Ha, I have to wonder if you've
ever found strange indentations on the inside near the driver's seat!
As, at one time, a budding percussionist (before composition took over my life),
I've recognized her style and've enjoyed Mazur's work on nearly everything that
I have of hers (or on other performer recordings).
Those Ostertag Nicaraguan tapes have shown up on other recordings
and sometimes have just scared the hell out of me each time.
Comments
An aeviternal omelet of antheximeter rays!
"Electronic orchestral maneuvres in the dark" - of the . . . . . predictable kind.
- Quite catchy, though . . .
Just the cloak of mid-'70s slow
effervescence from the twenty-teen
pretend-aerodynamicists.
Rock music. Ha ha.
Out of print, apparently. Golly I am glad I loaded up on old Prestige at eMu before it went away.
Simple Acoustic Trio - Habanera
Queued:
Thanks, rostasi.
ETA: WMRI, now there's a reminder of Amiestreet days.
Keyvan Chemirani, percussion
Sudha Ragunathan, vocal
Nahawa Doumbia, vocal
Ali Reza Ghorbani, vocal
Peter Rosendal - "Love for Snail"
Recorded in october 1976 at Studio Zanibelli, Milan - Italy.
Mastered at Massive Arts Studio.
Originally released in 1977.
Artwork By [Cover Illustration] Magda Castel
Bass [Fender Bass] Roberto Del Piano
Drums Pasquale Liguori
Liner Notes Marcello Lorrai
Lyrics By [Words And Texts By], Voice [Spoken Voice] Giulio Stocchi
Mastered By Alberto Cutolo
Music By, Piano Gaetano Liguori
Recorded By Paolo Bocchi
Vocals Concetta Busacca, Demetrio Stratos
Thanks for the reminder, jonahpwl, and for the orignal rec.
I have my Marcin Wasilewski CD pre-ordered.
You might know him from his track Tahoultine
from the comp Music For Saharan Cellphones,
but this guitarist from Agadez broke the spell of the
traditional Tuareg acoustic guitar thru amplification
of both sound and the ideas of unrest in his country
of Niger. No auto-tune on this album (unlike the hit
singles). In the last year, he starred in the first ever
full-length film in the Tuareg language of Tamasheq
playing the part of Prince with this version of
Purple Rain. Contorted distortions in the form
of a knob-kneed gallop with the traditional takamba.
Featuring Lindsay Cooper, Sally Potter, Phil Minton, Georgie Born, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Marilyn Mazur (!) , Kate Westbrook, Collette Lafont, Eleanor Sloan, Lol Coxhill and Dave Holland
(Yes, that's Louis Armstrong with Leon Thomas on 'The Creator Has a Master Plan'
- Oh . . . My . . . God ! ! !
Try Oh Moscow (which is from about the same time and
has Marilyn Mazur as well) and Music For Other Occasions which
is from a few years before and has a wonderful batch of performers too.
I've been going thru her various recordings - especially enthralled by her series of
seven volumes of The Songs of Robert Burns. This is the last one of the volumes and
features pianist Marilyn Crispell in a very different context than she's noted.
Malte Schiller Octet - "All the Way"
-Strings and saxophones, beautiful stuff.
-Thanks, I most certainly will . . .
BTW: A little curiosity re. Marilyn Mazur on an old thread called Hey ! - I can see my house from here . . .
Digging into Phil Minton:
Various - Sequence 8
Not one of the better Sequences, to my ear. I am almost two thirds of the way through and very little has appealed to me much so far. Lots of vague and gloomy. YMMV.
Nice story on Mazur and your car! - Ha, I have to wonder if you've
ever found strange indentations on the inside near the driver's seat!
As, at one time, a budding percussionist (before composition took over my life),
I've recognized her style and've enjoyed Mazur's work on nearly everything that
I have of hers (or on other performer recordings).
Those Ostertag Nicaraguan tapes have shown up on other recordings
and sometimes have just scared the hell out of me each time.
Saturday morning means country music (and pancakes)
Jason Steele's Messenger Collective Vol.1: Wirewalker
Various - Music for the Film Sounds and Silence
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Now playing: Giovanni G. Kapsberger - Arpeggiata Addio
Michael Trommer - Greyfields 1