m-city

m-city is in town. A huge stencil may be the first sign of spring in Bergen.

Good ones from 1974

I was asked to make a list of good ones from 1974, and couldn't resist the opportunity to make a list! I bet some good ones are missing here, and offer you the possibility to vote one in as number 25 on the list!

Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
John Cale: Fear
Brian Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets (on sale January 1974)
Richard & Linda Thompson: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Kevin Ayers: June 1, 1974
Bert Jansch: L.A. Troubadour
Ivor Cutler: Dandruff
Nico: The End
King Crimson: Red

King Crimson: Starless And Bible Black
Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller
Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek: Belonging
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe

Carla Bley: Tropic Appetites
Terje Rypdal: Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away
Ralph Towner: Solstice
Sonny Rollins: The Cutting Edge
Planxty: Cold Blow And The Rainy Night

Grateful Dead: From The Mars Hotel
Bob Dylan: Planet Waves
Henry Cow: Unrest
Slapp Happy: Slapp Happy (Casablanca Moon recorded once more)
??????? Your choice ???????????

The British Road

The Austrian trio Market Rasen is doing some serious improvising around and over Robert Wyatt's "The British Road" (originally on "Old Rottenhat" from 1985).
Market Rasen is Max Nagl (sax), Herbert Pirker (dr) and Clemens Wenger (keyb).

Motorpsychologic

Motorpsycho’s latest album, ”Little Lucid Moments”, is out now on Rune Grammofon (RCD 2073, or double LP RLP 3073). Hans Magnus Ryan, Bent Sæther and Kenneth Kapstad cook up some mean powerpsychoprogmetal. The reviewers in the Norwegian media disagree on how good this album is, but for me it works just fine. I think I can hear some great (?) prog bands here (one song out of four is a suite in four parts, no less!) mixed with some Metallica and a touch of Grateful Dead , but it still is pure Motorpsycho. If they are going to stretch out any of this material live, we will get two numbers during a concert, that is before the set of encores. Tour info from Rune:

18.04 Steinkjer (Studenten), Norway
25.04 Oslo (Rockefeller), Norway
26.04 Stavanger (Folken), Norway
28.04 Bergen (Røkeriet), Norway
29.04 Kristiansand (Kick), Norway
17.05 Berlin (Postbahnhof), Germany
18.05 Cologne (Live Music Hall), Germany
20.05 München (Backstage Werk), Germany
22.05 Firenze (Viper), Italy
23.05 Roma (Alpheus), Italy
24.05 Rimini (Velvet), Italy
25.05 Milano (Alcatraz), Italy
28.05 Eindhoven (Effenaar), The Netherlands
29.05 Utrecht (Tivoli), The Netherlands
30.05 Bremen (Schlachthof), Germany
31.05 Hamburg (Fabrik), Germany
01.06 Copenhagen (Lille Vega), Denmark
19-22.06 Louisville (Terrastock 7), USA
19.07 Burg Herzberg, Germany

Will we ever see RW live?

The big question among fans of Robert Wyatt is of course:"Will we ever see him live?". I'm not going to ask him to perform, the only guy who seems to be able to do that is David Gilmour! If we are unbelievably lucky we will be at a concert where Robert just can't keep off stage, like (we've mentioned earlier) at a Dylan Howe concert in September 2007 (see picture far down on D. Howe's MySpace site).
On YouTube we find two videos of David Gilmour and Robert Wyatt. Robert is sitting below stage singing "Comfortably Numb" on "In Concert" (2002), and plays cornet (5 minutes into) "Then I close my eyes" on "Remember That Night. Live At The Royal Albert Hall" (2006).

Fred Frith to play at Moldejazz

Im really looking forward to the summer festival season now! The programme for The Molde International Jazzfestival is almost ready (?), and yesterday we got some nice news. "Robert Wyatt and Stuff" will fight for tickets to see several of these artists:
Food (Iain Ballamy and Thomas Strønen + Christian Fennez)
Frode Gjerstad and Circulatione Totale Orchestra
Paal Nilssen-Love and Townhouse Orchestra with Evan Parker
Fred Frith and Lucia Recio.
See if you are able to find some more among all that Norwegian writing on the festival site.

Disco Lies

How about a scary "Disco Lies" video from Moby's new album "Last Night"? I have to admit that we have had some fun with chicken during Easter time in my Norwegian blog (1,2), and I want to make it clear that this blogger never eat birds or mammals. When chicken are used in "Wyatting" or "Robert Wyatt and Stuff" we follow the strictest regulations considering animal welfare.