News from Rune

Two new ones and one upcoming on Rune Grammofon

Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: "What/If/They Both Could Fly":



James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: "Death":



Bushman´s Revenge: "Thou Shalt Boogie!"

The Thing XXL live at Jazz em Agosto 2013

Check out The Thing XXL live at Jazz em Agosto (Portugal) 2013, playing "India".

Mats Gustafsson - Sax
Peter Evans - Trumpet
Mats Äleklint - Trombone
Terrie Ex - Guitar
Jim Baker - Keyboards
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - Bass
Paal Nilssen-Love - Drums

Maja S. K. Ratkje live at the Punkt festival 2013

Maja S. K. Ratkje with live video work by Tord Knudsen. Introduction by Dave Mullan. Filmed by IJ Biermann. Full concert.

Great music! Great lights!

Robert Wyatt "´68" (Cuneiform 2013)

Now folks, will you please find your credit cards and start ordering!
Cuneiform just released what Robert Wyatt calls  "The missing links in my life's work, no less!"

The album "´68" has 5 tracks of demos made by Robert Wyatt in USA, after the Soft Machine tour with Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968.
The music ended up in different forms on recordings by Soft Machine and Matching Mole, and lots of the music on ´68 is being released here for the first time.

Read more and order over at Cuneiform´s Bandcamp, and check out Aymeric Leroy´s interview with Robert Wyatt when you get your records.

Tracks:
1. Chelsa [Robert Wyatt/Kevin Ayers] 5:00
2. Rivmic Melodies [Robert Wyatt] 18:17
3. Slow Walkin' Talk [Brian Hopper] 3:00
4. Moon In June [Robert Wyatt] 20:33
5. Rivmic Melodies [Robert Wyatt] "Radio" edit 05:33

Musicians:
Robert Wyatt: vocals, piano, electric piano, hammond organ, bass, drums, percussion with
Jimi Hendrix: bass ("Slow Walkin' Talk")
Hugh Hopper: bass (second half of "Moon In June")
Mike Ratledge: Lowrey organ (second half of "Moon In June")

Arve Henriksen and Supersilent

Here you get Arve Henriksen (trumpet, vocal) at Jazzhouse Copenhagen (9 October 2013), with Jan Bang (live sampling), Audun Kleive (percussion), Ingar Zach (percussion) and Helge Andreas Norbakken (percussion), and Supersilent with Stian Westerhus Live at Paradox, Incubate Festival, Tilburg (17 September 2013).

Supersilent is Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken and Helge Sten.

Malala

Malala didn´t get The Nobel Peace Prize, but here is a tribute from Bergen street artist Habitus.

The heading means "Listen".

The stencil was part of a short lasting container street art exhibition.

Parker, Formanek, Alcorn live in Baltimore

Evan Parker (sax),  Michael Formanek (b) and Susan Alcorn (pedal steel) live at the Windup Space in Baltimore Maryland (September 29, 2013).