Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road (Cover)

Robert Wyatt´s "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" performed by THE WATTS (Tim Hodgkinson: clarinet, Chris Cutler: drums, Yumi Hara: piano, voice) + Canterbury Favourites (Yumi Hara, Kazuto Shimizu: keyboard, Toshiaki Sudoh: bass, Yuya Osabe: drums) at Akihabara GOODMAN, Tokyo, Japan, on 4 Dec 2017.

See Spockminder on YouTube.

Artaud Beats

The first studio recording album CD by The Artaud Beats, "Logos", is out 5 June 2015.
Including brand new mix by Bob Drack of E=mc2 (original mix over).

The Artaud Beats is Geoff Leigh, Yumi Hara, Chris Cutler and John Greaves.

You may buy a copy right here.

Lindsay Cooper

Let´s hear it for Lindsay Cooper (bassoon, oboe ++) today. She is perhaps best known from Henry Cow, but has played in numerous projects and bands (News From Babel, Art Bears, Hatfield and The North, National Health etc etc), and has released several solo albums too.

The other night I was listening to "Rags" (ARC 1980), her first solo album (and I´m sorry to say the only one I own so far). The album is a tribute to the needle women and workers of London of 1830s and 1840s, and the music is some kind of radical prog in the neighborhood of Henry Cow and Art Bears (please don´t hate me for that one). On "Rags" Lindsay Cooper is joined by Georgie Born, Phil Minton, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler and the singer Sally Potter, who is also a well known film director.

After playing "Rags" I found "Oh Moscow" on YouTube, recorded during the "Unidentified Movement" Festival in Volgograd (1991).

Musicians in the video:

Lindsay Cooper - bassoon, alto and sopranino saxophones;
Alfred Harth - tenor saxophone, clarinet;
Hugh Hopper - bass-guitar;
Phil Minton - trumpet, voice;
Sally Potter - texts, voice.
Veryan Weston - piano
Chris Cutler - drums

Wikipedia says that Lindsay Cooper was active until 1998. If you have other info, please comment.

And we have a Robert Wyatt link: "The Last Nightingale" (1984) with Chris Cutler, Tim Hodgkinson, Lindsay Cooper, Robert Wyatt and Adrian Mitchell, released to raise money for striking miners.

How I Invented Time

The Archimedes Quartet is David Thomas, Peter Blegvad, Chris Cutler og John Edwards, and I wish I was going to see them at Cafe Oto in London 3 December!

A little info stolen from the project blog "How I Invented Time": "Five years ago David Thomas described a bath tub epiphany to Peter Blegvad at a chance meeting outside an architectural college in Oxford. "Edison, Einstein, Eisenhower and Elvis - The Four 'E's Who Invented The 20th Century." This evolved, in the way of these sorts of conversations, into a Big Idea - a lecture / symposium slamdown to be refereed by Chris Cutler", and now they go live.

I hope this happening is being recorded, filmed or painted!

Peter Blegvad Trio with Karen Mantler

How about Peter Blegvad Trio (Peter Blegvad, Chris Cutler, John Greaves) and "Waste of time"? Guest at Cafe Oto (London) in September was Karen Mantler.
The sound isn´t the best, but Blegvad is Blegvad, and I wouldn´t mind a new album soon!

Tricatel and Chris Cutler

Here are some articles that may be of interest:

- "How Not To Run A Record Label: Bertrand Burgalat On 15 Years Of Tricatel" - published in The Quietus May 20th.

- "Collateral damage" - Chris Cutler on the cost of free music - published in The Wire issue #328.

Comicoperando: "Soup Song" live 2011

I already mentioned this concert, but here we have a video too, from  "Comicoperando - The music of Robert Wyatt" - live in London 12 May 2011. This is the encore, "Soup Song", and the musicians are  Chris Cutler, Annie Whitehead, Dagmar Krause, Karen Mantler, Michel Delville and John Edwards.

Comicoperando live in London

Comicoperando taking a bow 
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Comicoperando played their versions of  Robert Wyatt's music in London 12 May. Great concert, but poorly attended, or what? I wouldn't mind seeing this gang!
Gary Franklin took the picture (more on his Flickr) of Chris Cutler, Annie Whitehead, Dagmar Krause, Karen Mantler and Michel Delville or John Edwards (please tell me which one, if you know).

It is John Edwards! Thanks

And a review over at Blogdegezou!

Comicoperando 12 May

If you happen to be in London next week, please note the following (stolen from Jazzwise): "Next week on Thursday 12 May at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London there is a special concert by Comicoperando based on the music of Robert Wyatt".

Comicoperando is Dagmar Krause, Annie Whitehead, Karen Mantler, Michel Delville, John Edwards and Chris Cutler.

Chris Cutler

Roulette TV: CHRIS CUTLER from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

A friendly drummer from Bergen pointed me towards this video of Chris Cutler, made by  Roulette TV in 2001. We get a drum solo (a weak description in this case) and an interview.
You all know that Chris Cutler played in Henry Cow and Art Bears, and has cooperated with lots of musicians, several of them mentioned in this blog for various reasons. Cutler is also the man behind Recommended Records (now ReR Mecacorp).

Brainville 3: "Sea Song" (live)

I might as well steal profperplexed´s info. Profperplexed uploaded Robert Wyatt´s "Sea Song" performed by Brainville 3:
"Audience video that I made at Spirit Of '66 in Verviers, Belgium on 25 April 2008.
The song was written by Robert Wyatt and originally appears on his album "Rock Bottom".
Daevid Allen, guitar-vocal -- Hugh Hopper, Bass -- Chris Cutler, Drums
This was the final night of their tour and I think the last Brainville 3 gig."