I bought a few cds (remember them?) while at the Confront 20th Birthday celebrations last Saturday. The only non-Confront release was this album on FMR that came via Steve Beresford who played that day. François Carrier alto sax and Chinese oboe Steve Beresford piano John Edwards acoustic bass Michel Lambert drums
Steve normally plays toys and samplers (his most public moment as i never tire of mentioning was as a member of The Flying Lizards playing a rubber chicken on Top of the Pops back in 1979 (a #5 hit fact fans). So interesting to hear him on the joanna here along with London stalwart John Edwards. Francois Carrier is Montreal based and someone I really need to hear more of.
I saw this in Bilbao and now in London, as described by the NYT
IN “The Visitors,” a nine-screen video installation by Ragnar Kjartansson that will have its first American showing next month, the artist lies in a pedestal bathtub almost in a trance, strumming a guitar as he repeatedly sings a refrain, “Once again, I fall into my feminine ways.” Over the course of an hour his voice falls and rises, on its own and in unison with performers on the other eight screens — each seen as if in a painting, playing an instrument in a different room of a beautiful, run-down mansion and singing the same enigmatic refrain at a dirgelike pace.
Last August the nine performers gathered in a room of the mansion, two hours north of New York City in the Hudson Valley, to rehearse. “The Visitors” would be shot later that week in a single take, with nine cameras distributed around the house, but that day they simulated being in separate rooms by avoiding eye contact.
To one onlooker what was most striking was the extraordinary emotional range and intensity of their performances. Limited to just a few simple lyrics, which they repeated dozens of times, the singers created an entirely absorbing ensemble piece that was alternately tragic and joyful, meditative and clamorous, and that swelled in feeling from melancholic fugue to redemptive gospel choir.
They were selling the soundtrack for £50 in London, but E music has it as an one track download
Well, shutting down kinda early in the garden but I'm all poohed out. Although not from outer space, it feels like the right time. A big thanks to @Lowlife for the heads up.
Oh! It's out! - ha! Mine's one of the more uninteresting ones I think, but I had made a textured version first, then I noticed that they wanted a more "raw" recording, so that's the one they got. The reference to "multiple flash installations" is linked to my contribution.
one of my friends in another group brought this album up again and there has been much talk about the idiot back story as opposed to the fine music. Also that the guy behind Analog Africa doesn't do all his own record finding and has been known to piss folk off with lack of credit etc. the music is still damn fine.
Bandcamp or Emu for those who want to pay for stuff. Not sure why I didn't pick up the cd to be honest.
Well, even though track 7 is not available on Emusic, I had to download this one too. I really enjoyed the Tabla Beat Science (same label) earlier this spring and as it's just about finished the rotation, I'm betting this will fill the void. Discogs
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Can they could possibly find anything new to say? Of course they can
François Carrier alto sax and Chinese oboe
Steve Beresford piano
John Edwards acoustic bass
Michel Lambert drums
Steve normally plays toys and samplers (his most public moment as i never tire of mentioning was as a member of The Flying Lizards playing a rubber chicken on Top of the Pops back in 1979 (a #5 hit fact fans). So interesting to hear him on the joanna here along with London stalwart John Edwards. Francois Carrier is Montreal based and someone I really need to hear more of.
Well, shutting down kinda early in the garden but I'm all poohed out.
Although not from outer space, it feels like the right time. A big thanks to @Lowlife for the heads up.
Sensing Electromagnetics
Mine's one of the more uninteresting ones I think,
but I had made a textured version first, then I noticed
that they wanted a more "raw" recording, so that's the one they got.
The reference to "multiple flash installations" is linked to my contribution.
thanks for the Person/Carter heads up - that's an instant wish list add.
Bandcamp or Emu for those who want to pay for stuff. Not sure why I didn't pick up the cd to be honest.
Disks four and five. Got this set effectively for $15 with emusic pricing and 2-for-1 boosters. Compare $43.99 at Amazon.
Darkside - Psychic
Great stuff.
A compilation album picked by Bill Laswell. (1996)
Discogs
tracklist
1) Broken Toys
2) Promises Kept
Bass – Charnett Moffett Drums – Elvin Jones Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Pharoah Sanders
3) Dick Dogs
Bass – Melvin Gibbs Drums – Abe Speller
4) Who Are You
Acoustic Guitar, Baglama [Saz], Sitar [Coral], Bass, Tar (lute), Baglama – Nicky Skopelitis
Guitar [Electric] – Nicky Skopelitis, Sonny Sharrock
5) As We Used To Sing
Bass – Charnett Moffett Drums – Elvin Jones Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Pharoah Sanders
6) Venus/Upper Egypt
Bass – Charles Baldwin Drums – Abe Speller Keyboards – Dave Snider
7) J.D. SchaaBass – Melvin Gibbs Drums – Abe Speller
8) Blind Willie
Wow, just terrific...I've added Guitar to the SFL as well as Whatthefuckdoyouwant with Peter Brötzmann
Pausal - Sky Margin
Discogs
Discogs
- Bass – Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble
- Cornet – Graham Haynes
- Drums – Sly Dunbar
- Drums, Tabla – Hamid Drake, Karsh Kale
- Guitar – Nicky Skopelitis
- Organ, Electric Piano – Amina Claudine Myers
- Percussion – Aiyb Dieng
- Producer, Directed By – Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble
- Trumpet – Nils Petter Molvær
- Voice – Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw*, Tigist Shibabaw
- Written-By – B. Laswell*, E. Shibabaw* (tracks: 2, 6), J. Wobble*
As a bonus Gigi is here too!Vaittukkol Kallakkatattal - Rod Stasick
and this
Fiercely Destined Carbons - from the Fluxus Anthology 2006