Kjetil Møster solo

The Low Frequency in Stereo did a fine concert at Moldejazz this summer. They had sax man Kjetil Møster in the band, and he opened the concert with a solo lasting around 10 minutes. Svennejanson was there too, and he has put a quite dark video (with some audience talking (aaargh!)) on YouTube. It´s still quite good I think.

Added 3 August: "Solar System" from the same concert.

British Visionary Jazz

Check out the latest issue of Wire (#306) , it has got eight pages of Rob Young´ "The Primer: British Visionary Jazz". Young guides you through the period 1964 - 1976, and should be of interest both to Robert Wyatt fans and Canterbury followers. I´ll just mention a few artists: Keith Tippett, Lol Coxhill, Centipede, John Surman and Ian Carr.

Several of the artists mentioned in the piece are active still of course, and I´ll just recommend the new John Surman album "Brewster´s Rooster" on ECM. A nice one with Jack DeJohnette (dr), John Abercombie (g) and Drew Gress (b).

Some of Wire´s "Invisible Jukebox" interviews have been collected i a book (Quartet Books). Robert Wyatt is in it, and you may order it here.

Explosion/Implosion

I came home with lots of records after the Molde Jazz Festival. Good thing they sell records at concerts! Let me just recommend a couple of Mats Gustafsson´s, both on Lithuanian NoBusiness. "The Vilnius Explosion" is a hot CD with Marijus Aleks (drums), Arkadijus Gotesmanas (drums), Eugenijus Kanevicius (bass) and Ljuda Mockunas (reeds) and the LP "The Vilnius Implosion" is solo Gustafsson, playing saxophones and alto flutophone. Impressive!
"The Vilnius Implosion" is out in 500 numbered copies. The cover portrait is painted by Edward Jarvis.

In Molde I heard Gustafsson with both Otomo Yoshihide and The Thing. The YouTube video below is an edited recording from The North Sea Fest concert with Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra , and on Paal Nilssen-Love´s web site he writes that The Thing and Otomo Yoshihide will release an album on Smalltown Superjazzz. You may also pre-order Fire!: "You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago", with : Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling (Tape) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) from Rune Grammofon.
Puh, some of this musicians are all over the place!

Wyatt album and some more

- Don´t forget to order Robert Wyatt´s "Radio Experiment Rome". It´s even possible for me now, since I finally got my new security card from the bank (after loosing it somewhere).
- And how about the box setfrom Domino?
- Times Online writes about the Mercury Prize, and seems to mean that Jim Bob ( Carter USM) has grown older and wiser, and may be compared to Elvis Costello, Kevin Coyne and Robert Wyatt!
-Jim Noir may sing a bit like Robert Wyatt, if I understand a bit of what Nokoss write. Listen on MySpace.
- The blog "Then Play Long" has a post on Monkees, Wyatt and Soft Machine.

Assume vivid astro focus

If you are going to Oslo this summer, visit the National Museum´s exhibition at Tullinløkka. French and Brazilian artists exhibit colorful, psychedelic cartoon-like art, calling themselves "assume vivid astro focus", named after the band Ultra Vivid Scene and the Throbbing Gristle album "Assume Power Focus" (according to the brochure). I almost got lost in the exhibition, walking through hidden doors and ending up in closed rooms, but if you don´t wait too long before you visit, you may find your way out before they close (16 September).
And I know this may sound unbelievable since we´re in Norway, but you´ll get in without paying anything at all.

Offonoff´s "Slap and tickle" is out on Smalltown Superjazzz. Massimo Pupillo (bass), Terrie Ex (guitar) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) hand out 32 minutes of "Slap" and 16 minutes of "Tickle". This is energetic noisemetaljazzimprorock (or something like that) from Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2007. Tough Enough.
Cover: Kim Hiorthøy.

Crimetime Orchestra

Crimetime Orchestra´s concert at The Molde International Jazz Festival was pretty wild, noisy and lots of fun. You may see 10 minutes from the concert at YouTube, uploaded by gaburu .

Jazzaway Records recently released the double CD "Atomic Symphony" with Crimetime Orchestra , Sonny Simmons and KORK (Norwegian symphony orchestra). The material on this release was recorded at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2007, and is something else. I´m quite sure it´s better to listen to this concert several times, than the one we heard in Molde. Great album, to tell you the truth.
Musicians on the album are Vidar Johansen, Jon Klette, Gisle Johansen, Kjetil Møster, Øyvind Brekke, Sjur Miljeteig, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Anders Hana, Bugge Wesseltoft, Per Zanuzzi, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Mats Eilertsen, Per Oddvar Johansen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Sonny Simmons And Erlend Skomsvoll.
Kjetil Møster was not on stage in Molde (at this concert!) , Stian Westerhus replaced Anders Hana and Christian Wallumrød replaced Bugge Wesseltoft. feel free to comment if you know other differences in the two versions of the band.