does anyone have any opinions on this record?
also feel free to talk about john cale/terry riley (i know they're both avant-garde, blah, blah), Faust & Tony Conrad, shit, even cale working w/vu etc
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(This was produced by Philip Glass: )http://www.connollyco.com/discography/polyrock/polyrock.jpg
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
also, very similar to these two albums, but even way weirder is the Lalo Schifrin & Mike Curb Congregation album "Rock Requiem". pretty fucking rad record.
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"Songs From Liquid Days" was the cry for help that no one was able to accurately answer.
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i went to see dj spooky many years ago at an instore (he was actually pretty good, surprisingly, playing upright bass over heavy jungle beats), but he pulled out that record to shock and awe the audience. blah.
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Sonic Youth have, of course, done enough of these to pretty much warrant a thread of their own.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Centipede were a kind of early '70s free jazz/prog rock Band Aid. The then wunderkind pianist Keith Tippett assembled as broad a church of musicians as any you could find outside of "Escalator Over The Hill" - rock is represented by members of Soft Machine, King Crimson, Blossom Toes and Patto; Brit fusion pioneers Nucleus are here almost in their entirety; a vast gallimaufry of musicians at the then cutting edge of Brit jazz, including the crucial South African contingent; old mates from his hometown of Bristol; and even a scratch string section of students at the Royal College of Music. Inevitably, with 55 musicians in the band (plus 2 apologies for absence in the sleevenotes!) Tippett did bite off more than he could chew. The music is a not entirely successful mix of R&B, Sun Ra and Penderecki, and rather than working as a unified piece of music, "Septober Energy" tends towards a series of interesting bits not particularly linked very well. The highlight is the long finale "Part 4," a kind of avant-"Hey Jude" where Elton Dean's saxello wails over the orchestral swell before everyone goes into a free-form scrum. The glaring omission, of course, is producer Robert Fripp, who was supposed to play guitar on the sessions but was somewhat overwhelmed by the difficulties in recording which the huge line-up presented (saxophonist Larry Stabbins later recalled that everyone had to queue up outside the studio before they could go in and do their bit). When playing live, soundchecks were known to take up to eight hours. Blossom Toes man Brian Godding was therefore left with the unenviable job of sole guitarist and doesn't quite fill all the gaps. Another problem is that three drummers are at least one too many - Robert Wyatt and John Marshall would have been enough in themselves, but Tony Fennell (who doesn't seem to have been heard of before or since) simply clutters the rhythm up. Worth investigating, though - there are some glorious episodes of music within, and the free-form riffing in the second section of "Part 3" may be of interest to fans of Radiohead's "National Anthem" who wish to join some dots.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Also: Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Han Bennink et al on the Vic Reeves album!
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Mike Gibbs was Oddie's musical other half in the first couple of series of The Goodies, thus lots of then-hip 'n' kool Brit improv types slumming it on those backing tracks.
There's also a track on the first Wombles album where Paul Rutherford unexpectedly pops up halfway through to do his multiphonic trombone thing. I'll be coming back to that later on in my ongoing 1974 blog piece (likely to be completed in 2074 by the looks of things...).
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link
The Conrad/Faust album isn't great, but the second track is pretty good. It actually starts somewhere and ends somewhere else, which helps.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Essentially a Beaver & Krause album with George, right?
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
The Monkees - Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius and Jones
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Not sure about Beaver but it has Bernie Krause's stamp all over it. To my knowledge he's barely credited though (I only have mp3s of the album). There's a story about it in Analog Days, about how Harrison surreptitiously left the tape running in the studio while Krause was demonstrating the Moog for him, and when Krause later showed up to get a progress report on Harrison's planned "Moog record," the first song Harrison played him was the bit Krause had improvised in the studio! Krause bitched about it and the reply was "I'm George Harrison; show me some respect."
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Henry Vestine of Canned Heat on Albert Ayler's "Music is the Healing Force of the Universe"
Lene Lovich and Andy Partridge on The Residents' "Commercial Album"
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
He took one look at Henry Vestine and said, "I would have liked your playing much better if I hadn't seen what you looked like."
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Between this and the "My Sweet Lord"/"He's So Fine" controversy I wonder what Harrison actually did write.
― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Paul Rutherford (the tromboning one, not the FGTH one) on Death In Vegas' Dead Elvis.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.kulichki.com/cddisk/frmercur/barcelon.jpg
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― slim_cop, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don A, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Secrets Of The Beehive, however, is awesome.
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
also, how could i have forgotten about the Robert Fripp & Darryl Hall album?
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 14 October 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 14 October 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 14 October 2004 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 16 October 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Saturday, 16 October 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Saturday, 16 October 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 16 October 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link