Ben Watt and Robert Wyatt

Ben Watt´s 1983 album "North Marine Drive" (Cherry Red) is available again, after a re-press was released a couple of days ago.

"North Marine Drive" is a beautiful album with Ben Watt (g, p, voc) and Peter King (alto saxopohone), and on this CD version you will also find the "Summer Into Winter" 12" (Cherry Red 1982), where Watt was working with Robert Wyatt on two tracks.

"Summer Into Winter" was also released on CD in 1993 (Cherry Red).

Here is what Ben Watt says about the Robert Wyatt tracks on his homepage:

"He played two takes of piano on 'Walter and John' and suggested keeping both, panned left and right. The stuttering interplay of the two parts is really lovely. His voice is so great too. He also played a little solo on 'A Girl in Winter'. If there is a naivety to the lyrics here there is also a great amount of heart".

Paal Nilssen-Love

Interview with Paal Nilssen-Love, for Subradar.no from jonassjovaag on Vimeo.

Norway´s drummer extraordinaire, Paal Nilssen-Love, interviewed for Subradar.

Activity level: 15 - 25 records and almost 200 concerts every year (?!).

OK, so you have to watch it on Vimeo or Subradar then! Embed code my ass!

Krokofant

OK, here is another punk-freejazz-blackjazz-prog-metal band from Norway!

The trio Krokofant is: Tom Hasslan (g), Axel Skalstad (dr) and Jørgen Mathiesen (sax), and their new eponymous album is out on Rune Grammofon right now.

Krokofant sound like Shining´s kind cousin or King Crimsons wild grandchild, but what can you expect from a band named after a mix of a crocodile ("krokodille") and an elephant ("elefant")?

I think you better check out this trio!

Cover: Kim Hiorthøy.

More Bagpipes!

Woha! Check out Mats Gustafsson and Erwan Keravec at the Jazzhouse (Copenhagen) 27th February 2014!

More from the same concert on Jazz Peter´s YouTube channel.

After seeing Gustafsson and Keravec I just had to go back to Sonny Rollins and Rufus Harley, here playing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" in Copenhagen in 1974.

Brodsky Quartet: Robert Wyatt Project

The Sounds New festival is happening in Canterbury 2nd - 9th May 2014.

On the programme they have Evan Parker´s 70th birthday concert, Icebreaker doing Brian Eno´s "Apollo" and (stay cool now!) Brodsky Quartet doing a Robert Wyatt Project (May 8th)!

Metal Machine Music For Airports

Thanks to Dangerous Minds I became aware of this fantastic mashup of Brian Eno´s "Music for Airports" (1978) and Lou Reed´s "Metal Machine Music" (1975).

That´s ambient noise for you!

We embed track number one, where Robert Wyatt is playing the piano. On Eno´s album that is!

Alpaca Bowie (video trailer)

Alpaca Ensemble present music inspired by David Bowie´s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, arranged and composed by Alwynne Pritchard, Ole Henrik Moe, Jon Øivind Ness, and Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje.

The music was performed live twice in April 2013 (Trondheim and Inderøy), and a studio recording was done in August, with plans for CD and LP release ultimo 2013.
According to Alpaca´s site "Alpaca Bowie" will be released in 2014, probably after the release of a new album with saxophonist Eirik Hegdal called "Moving Slow" (link to Norwegian language site).

Musicians:
Alexander Robson (viol)
Marianne Baudouin Lie (cello)
Else Bø (piano)
Andreas Elvenes (voc)
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (voc)