Saturday 14 January 2017
Friday 13 January 2017
Black Cab Soundtrack 'Akira' (The Astor Melbourne 14/1/17)
For this performance Andrew and James of Black Cab were joined by Toshi Sakamoto on taiko drums. This material (and more) will be recorded for release later in the year
Recorded on handheld Tascam DR-40
Andrew on 3RRR the day previously
Wednesday 11 January 2017
Sleaford Mods - B.H.S.
'Buy a company, run it down, take the money, fuck the workers, it’s legal'From Sleaford Mods’ album ‘English Tapas’, out 3rd March on Rough Trade Records
1971 Cartoon by Genesis P-Orridge & Spydeee Gasmantell of COUM Transmissions
COUM are fab & slinkyHere's a frame from a rare collaboration between @genesisbpo and me,📗 1971. Mebar The Green Raider @CoumTransmision pic.twitter.com/Sv6vuDIIEN— Spydeee Gasmantell (@SpydeeeG) January 9, 2017
Tuesday 10 January 2017
An Artist With No Labels: Gee Vaucher at Firstsite
Gee Vaucher: Instrospective will be on view from 12 November, 2016 – 19 February, 2017 at Firstsite; Lewis Gardens, High St., Colchester CO1 1JH; Open Monday – Saturday 10AM-5PM; Admission: FREE
Monday 9 January 2017
Anarchestra: 'um . . . yeah, so I did this'
Anarchestra is an orchestra of over two hundred unique musical instruments built (with a few exceptions) by Alex Ferris (1954-) an American musician, composer, and theorist, to explore alternative timbres, tunings, and methods of playing
Music in the World of Islam - 1: The Human Voice
"...In 1976, 'Music In the World Of Islam' is released, a 6-LP box set of recordings by Jean Jenkins and Poul Rovsing Olsen. Jean Jenkins, Appalachian banjo player, ethnomusicologist, and curator at the Horniman Museum, London, wrote this in her sleeve note: "The human voice is the foundation of all music within the Islamic world. Indeed, in some areas it is the only type of music which exists." Her recording of "Abu Zeluf", sung by Dunya Yasin, a girl from a northern mountain village in Lebanon, is sampled for two tracks on Eno & Byrne's 'My Life In the Bush of Ghosts'..."
(David Toop - from 'My Life In The Bush of Ghosts' site here.)
Tracklisting:
(This track is used by Brian Eno and David Byrne for their track called 'Qu'ran' from the album 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts')
2. Unknown - Dhikr (A Sufi Ceremony: Fayoum Oasis, Egypt)
3. Habibola Halika - Houri (Secular Vocal Musci: Sandandaj, Kurdistan, Iran)
4. Unknown - Bedouin Wedding Songs (South of Wadi Musa, Jordan)
5. Jabr Bin Husein - Ghazal, Or Love Song (Tarif, Abu Dahbi)
6. Amir Mohammed - Gurdum Gurdum (Love Song: Daulatabad, North Of Balkh Afghanistan)
7. Rasha'ida - Song At The Feast After Ramadan (Near Nagfa, Eritrea, Ethiopia)
8. Unknown - Haddadi (Muharraq, Bahrain)
9. Wasimxzama Khan Naseri - Kavali (A Devotional Song: Hyderabad, Deccan, India)
10. Dunya Yasin - Abu Zeluf (Beirut, Lebanon)
(Used by Brian Eno and David Byrne for their tracks called 'Regiment' and 'The Carrier' from the album 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts'. Also sampled by New Order in 'Evil Dust')
11. Unknown - Leader / Chorus Song (Jijiga, Harar Province, Ethiopia)
12. Mehein Fin Baqid & Dahai Fin Baqid / Hateim Atiya Khalil Sayed - Radha / Ga's (Bedouin Song, Sharjah, UAE; Ga's - Fayoum, Egypt)
13. Unknown - Love Song (Aqcha, Afghanistan)
14. Aqi Pishak - Tahlil (Baghdad, Iraq)
The Human Voice
Eno: The Lost '70s Pop Album (Unofficial Compilation)
2. The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) [single, 1975]
3. Big Day [from Phil Manzanera's "Diamond Head" 1975]
4. Miss Shapiro "
5. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch [live, with The Winkies 1974]
6. Totalled [live, with The Winkies 1974 - a radically different version of this song would appear on 1975's "Another Green World" album as "I'll Come Running"]
7. Fever [Peggy Lee cover; live, with The Winkies 1974]
8. Baby's On Fire [live, with Kevin Ayers, John Cale "June 1, 1974"]
9. Third Uncle [w/Phil Manzanera's band "801 Live" 1976]
10. The Fat Lady Of Limbourg "
11. Wolf [from "Peter And The Wolf" various artists inc Phil Collins, narrator: Viv Stanshell, 1975]
12. Wolf and Duck "
13. Wolf Stalks "
14. Luneburg Heath [w/German group Harmonia featuring Michael Rother from Neu!, and Cluster, from "Harmonia 76," unreleased until 1997]
15. Broken Head [from "After The Heat" w/Cluster, 1978, initially a somewhat hard-to-find import-only album in the US]
16. The Belldog "
17. Tzima N'arki "
18. R.A.F. [w/Snatch, "King's Lead Hat" b-side, 1978]
19. Qu'ran [w/David Byrne, from first pressings of their album "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts," recorded 1979, released 1981]
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Sunday 8 January 2017
bvdub presents Waiting For The World To Go By (mnml ssgs mx01)
This was my introduction to the wonderful world of Brock Van Wey back in 2008
Saturday 7 January 2017
Alfreda Benge's letter to Melody Maker re: Clapton (23/12/78)
(Context: Eric Clapton AGAIN expressing support for Enoch Powell in an interview a couple of weeks before)
Via
Meanwhile back in 1976
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