Supersilent (Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken, Helge Sten) with Stian Westerhus (guitar) and Pekka (lights), from a commissioned work at NuMusic in Stavanger 2011.
I am not a big fan of strobes, but this looked like a cool show!
The Vegetarians? Heard about them today! According to CDBaby this is a Swedish - American band with Hans Annellsson, Marc Mollan and John M Gibbs, and they seem to have released at least four albums and a couple of EPs.
The new album "The Calling" (Annelssongs 2011) got me hooked, with cover songs of YES, Genesis, Adrian Belew, Kevin Ayers ("Song from the bottom of a well", "Super salesman", "(An even stranger) Stranger in blue suede shoes"), Bob Dylan, Amiee Mann, Peter Hammill, Chicago, Can and Matching Mole (Robert Wyatt, "Oh Caroline").
Judging by the other records by these artists, they really seem to like doing covers.
Some people think big! During the project "300 Acting Spaces" (2012 - 2015) there will be arranged 300 free concerts with improvised music. The shows will be streamed live, an active blog will cover the project and finally a book will be published.
The man behind all this is Alex Gunia, and it´s happening in Oslo, Berlin, New York, Beijing and Tokyo, in what is described as "especially designed performance laborartories".
Kick Off will be in Oslo 16 - 18 February, with (among others) Kjetil Møster, Lasse Marhaug and Maja Ratkje.
Read all about it over at 300 Acting Spaces, and I think this blog will be back with more from this project too!
Oh my! Please check out Håkon Kornstad in a teaser for a film called "Jazzed Out Oslo"!
Uploaded on YouTube by Mezzojazzedout, and I found it over at the hyperactive site "It´s a Trap".
We will also get to see other fine Norwegian musicians in the film, like Arild Andersen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Peter Molvaer, Tord Gustavsen, Mats Eilertsen, Frøy Aagre, Eivind Aarset and Mari Kvien Brunvoll.
I have to admit I just realized David Garland existed, but he seems to have friends in several camps.
On his new album "Conversations with the cinnamon skeleton", Vashti Bunyan and Sean Lennon join in (among others!), and Robert Wyatt says that Garland makes “Witty, melancholy songs, arranged and performed with such careful skill and a natural unforced originality".
Video for "The long view" by Takahiro Kimura.
Run on over to this site for more info on the musicians, links to other releases and streams and lyrics from this album! Nice work!
Working Week were formed in 1983, and in 1984 they released the EP "Venceremos (We Will Win)" (Paladin/Virgin), with Robert Wyatt guesting. The song is a tribute to Victor Jara.
And it´s a great song, isn´t it? I might just start a new round with The Classic!
This version, with Robert Wyatt singing, did not make it to the first Working Week album, but hey, at least it got a video!
Musicians on the record are (cut and pasted from here):
- Robert Wyatt - vocal
- Simon Booth - guitars
- Larry Stabbins - soprano sax,
tenor sax, flute
- Harry Beckett - trumpet,
flugelhorn
- Annie Whitehead - trombone
- Stuart Matthewman - tenor
sax
- Dave Bitelli - clarinet,
baritone sax
- Chuchow Mercham - double
bass
- Kim Burton - piano
- Mark Taylor - drums
- Dawson - percussion
- Bosco D'Oliveira - percussion
- Tracey Thorn - vocal
- Claudia Figueroa - vocal
