The Un-Usual Suspects

Street artist AFK´s tribute to Bradley Manning, Anonymous, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Aaron Swartz was painted on a Bergen wall last night.

Møster! live at Øya 2015

Møster! playing "Bandha" (from "When You Cut Into The Present", Hubro) live at Øya (Oslo, Norway) 2015.

Møster! is Kjetil Møster (sax), Hans Magnus Ryan (guitar), Nikolai Eilertsen (bass) and Kenneth Kapstad (drums).

Play loud!

The São Paulo Tapes

Listen to Mônica Vasconcelos talk about a crowd funding campaign to make make it possible to produce an album of Brazilian resistance songs, 'The São Paulo Tapes', with the help of Robert Wyatt.

I can not find any info on where the campaign is set up, and how to contribute, but will come back with more later (here or in another post).

Morten Qvenild

Personal Piano by Morten Qvenild, Live @ Kongsberg Jazzfest 4th July 2015 from HyPer(sonal) Piano Video Stream on Vimeo.

Morten Qvenild (In the Country, sPaceMonkey, Susanna & the Magical Orchestra etc etc) recently released his first solo album "Personal Piano" on Hubro.

CD and download, but also a 45 rpm/140g double vinyl edition in an edition of 500, and with a Rihanna cover too!

Please watch the full concert from this year´s Kongsberg Jazz Festival (Norway).

Albatrosh - Duvet Day (stop motion video)

Check out this cute video for "Duvet Day", taken from the great Rune album "Night Owl" (2014) by Albatrosh.

Albatrosh is Eyolf Dale (p) and André Roligheten (sax).

RIO - Rock In Opposition 2015 à Le Garric / Tarn

Rock In Opposition - France Event is happening 18 - 20 September.

They seem to have both a Robert Wyatt stage and a Henry Cow stage.

For more info go here or here.

New Alfreda Benge Prints For Sale

We have already mentioned the paperback edition of Marcus O´Dair´s Robert Wyatt biography in the blog (July 9), and I just received info about an American edition out this week through Counterpoint and an Italian edition due in October.

To celebrate this there are three new beautiful prints of Alfreda Benge´s Robert Wyatt covers for sale at Hypergallery.

This time: Shleep, Comicopera and Dondestan!

There are still copies left of Alfie´s "Alice in Wonderland" print too. It´s on my wall now, getting some fine comments from visitors!

Mats Gustafsson, solo concert, Weidingen/Eifel from Kunst in Weidingen on Vimeo.

I kind of like the idea of having concerts inside art exhibitions, both when the art surrounds the musicians and when they play to certain pieces of art.

Here is Mats Gustafsson doing a solo concert (Weidingen/Eifel) around a sculpture made by Georg Herold.

Last year we had both Mats Äleklint and Mats Gustafsson interpreting Christian Marclay´s "Chalkboard" here in the blog.

David Gilmour & Friends

We have recently had a post on David Gilmour as presented in the September issue of Uncut, and here is another one, since the October issue of Mojo (number 263 2015) is finally on sale in Norway.

On the CD accompanying this issue, "David Gilmour & Friends", Gilmour visits on tracks by Phil Manzanera, Robert Wyatt, Ben Watt, David Crosby & Graham Nash, The Pretty Things and David Courtney, and there are artists that ".. have been hugely influenced by his playing style, the atmospherics in his music, and THAT tone" (as stated on the cover). Among the artist here (probably?!) fitting in the latter category is Dungen, Steven Wilson, B J Cole and Ulver.

The Robert Wyatt track is "Forest" from "Cuckooland" (2003).

Oh, and let´s not forget that David & Joe Gilmour play "Here, There and everywhere" by the Beatles! Not released elsewhere.

Linus & Økland / Van Heertum

The beautiful track "Felt" is taken from an upcoming album (Smeraldina-Rima late 2015) by Linus & Økland / Van Heertum.

Musicians:

Ruben Machtelinckx: baritone guitar/composition
Thomas Jillings: alt clarinet
Nils Økland: hardanger fiddle
Niels Van Heertum: euphonium

You might have missed the post (31 May 2015) on Linus + Skarbø / Leroux?

A new one from Møster!

The third album from Møster!, "When You Cut Into The Present" is set for relase on Hubro 11.09.2015!

Møster! is still: Kjetil Møster (sax), Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan (guitar), Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen (bass) and Kenneth Kapstad (drums).

Check out tracks from old, new and unreleased Hubro Albums on Soundcloud or on the Hubro site.

Robert Wyatt Interview

Over on PodOmatic you will find an interview with Robert Wyatt in bobcast: "Greenwich Sound Radio 'Creatures What You Never Knew About' 1984 Robert Wyatt talks and plays records from his collection (55 mins)".

I´m not able to embed it here in Blogger, so just follow the link.

The opening is classic Robert Wyatt modesty:
"..First thing I am gonna play is the version I did of "Caimanera" with Harry Beckett on trumpet, and then I´ll play the record I got it from, and you´ll see how wrong I got it"!

Dedicated to Robert Wyatt

Visit Une Discographie De Robert Wyatt for a list of records with tributes or dedications to Robert Wyatt.