100 Copies

Don´t wait too long if you should happen to be interested in these albums. Only 100 copies made of each. Try desperately at shops like: Looop, Tiger and Robot.

Paal Nilssen-Love/Lasse Marhaug: "No Combo" (Pica 028 (in cooperation with PNL), 2011) was recorded live at the New Combo Club in Kukuoka (Japan) in February 2011. Music on one side, art on the other. The artist might be Lasse Marhaug, but no info is given.

The drummer Dag Erik Knedal Andersen just released his first solo album! The music was recorded in November 2010, the cover is designed by Lasse Marhaug and there seems to be no record company behind this album.

How do they sound? I don´t know, my house is invaded by carpenters and other handy men, and I had to hide my record player. But who cares as long as the covers and designs are cool, and the number of copies are limited?!

Ivor Cutler stencils

Ivor Culter 
Originally uploaded by STEWY'S STENCILS

In May Stewy handed out free Robert Wyatt stencils in London. Now he is at it again, with another one of this blog´s favorites, Ivor Cutler!
Twelve portraits of Cutler on cardboard was placed on Brick Lane (London) 05/08/11.

Emo Albino

Emo Albino is Ivar Grydeland and Ingar Zach, the guys behind the record company SOFA, and known from bands like Huntsville and Dans Les Arbres. Their second duo album "Lady Lord" is now out there for you to grab.
In my (not too advanced!) way of describing music, I usually end up calling this kind of music soundscapes, ambient or soundtracks. What you get is a slow flowing, dark river of crackling improvisations. I guess Grydeland and Zach play synths and drums, and also play with electricity and prepared instruments of different kinds, from music shops, kitchens and carpentry workshops? I downloaded the music, and their site only says they play "music".

I still love to own CDs and LPs, and Clare Cooper´s covers of the albums on SOFA are great, but when I could get the whole album (one track) for 8 Norwegian kroner at the shop Platekompaniet, I just couldn´t resist. The one track - one price policy seems to work over at Amazon too.

Fair or not, you may get a damned fine album for next to nothing.

Third

Burning Shed (Canterbury Scene) have released Soft Machine´s "Third" on 180 g audiophile vinyl. "Third" was originally released in 1970, and this is where we find Robert Wyatt´s composition "Moon in June".

Elton Deans Ninesense Suite

Just a short recommendation for you Canterbury fans today, about a great jazz album. It might even be free jazz. The music on "Elton Dean´s Ninesense Suite" (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) was recorded live in the early eighties by two quite different bands.

And even if track number one ("Natal"), played by Harry Beckett (tp), Harry Miller (b) and Louis Moholo (dr) might be the most inspired piece here (if i had to rate them), you may take the Canterbury quiz on "Ninesense Suite". In addition to the already mentioned gentlemen Beckett, Miller and Moholo, the musicians are Elton Dean (sax), Keith Tippett (p), Alan Skidmore (sax), Mark Charig (tp), Nick Evans (tb) and Radu Malfatti (tb).

Before you start googling Canterbury artists, check the musicians section over at Calyx, and read the review at Free Jazz.

A nice one!

The Wasted Call

A filmed version Ivor Cutler and Phyllis April King´s "The Wasted Call", from "Jammy Smears" (1976)!
Info on the film on YouTube.

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