Dancing to Robert Wyatt

The dancer Paulo Ribeiro used "Insensatez", from Robert Wyatt´s album "Cuckooland" (2003), in his solo show "Sem um tu não pode haver um eu" (2013).

Info from Teatro Viriato here, and a promo video on Vimeo here.

Skadedyr

Check out the Norwegian band Skadedyr, and their album "Kongekrabbe" (Hubro 2013, int. release 10 January 2014), if you like hard-to-classify music, in the area of impro and jazz. It swings, it rocks and it makes some noise, and it´s great fun too, like the track "Partylus", sounding like the soundtrack to a wild party where people fight to play their favorite records.

"Skadedyr" is the Norwegian word for vermin, and four out of five track titles play with the word "lus", meaning lice. The album´s title is the kind of crab you see on the cover!
This band must be a treat in concert, as long as they don´t bring any vermin along.

According to the record company, Anja Lauvdal and Heida Katine Johannesdottir Mobeck are the driving forces behind the album, but they have a bunch of musicians to help out: Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson, Hans Hulbækmo, Torstein Lavik Larsen, Joakim Heibø, Ida Løvli Hidle, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Adrian Løseth Waade, Ina Sagstuen, Lars Ove Fossheim and Marius Klovning.

Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses Feat. Susanna Wallumrød

Now this is a concert I really would have liked to attend!
Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses Feat. Susanna Wallumrød in Trondheim´s cathedral, Nidarosdomen, August 2013.

Øystein Moen is on keyboards and Erland Dahlen plays the drums.

Duos on Rune

I´m a bit late with these two albums on Rune Grammofon, but finally having had time to listen, consider this a recommendation of the two, and check them out yourselves!
And with great music, you are never too early or too late. True?



Evan Parker & Joe McPhee: "What/If/They Both Could Fly" (Rune 2013) is a recording from the Kongsberg Jazz Festival 2012, and you may even watch a few minutes from the concert in the video above.



James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love: "Death Rattle" (Rune 2013) is a wild, raw and fantastic guitar - drum duo album! Just listen to the track "The Skin, The Colour", worth the money by itself!

Pulp Fiction Meets Ivor Cutler

Cockadoodledon´t!

Canterburied Sounds

Voiceprint / Floating World have rereleased "Canterburied Sounds", originally 4 CDs released by Voiceprint in 1998.

What you get is historical material from the archives of Brian Hopper, documenting the very early stages of the Canterbury scene.

Robert Wyatt is of course present on a lot of tracks, see which ones in glorious black over at Un Discographie de Robert Wyatt.

For the more than average interested Canterbury fan.

December Video Festival

Gare Du Nord from Lotta Melin on Vimeo.

I have been surfing YouTube and Vimeo a lot these last days, to catch up after my lost autumn in hospital.
Here is a selection of jazz, imrov, noise and dance for you.

- Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang and Ingar Zach at the Nefertiti 6 Dec 2013.
- Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans and Weasel Walter - Dither Extravaganza - Gowanus Lofts 26 Oct 2013.
- C Spencer Yeh, Chris Corsano and Stine Janvin Motland at Wels Unlimited 9 Nov 2013.
- Lasse Marhaug & Kjell Bjørgengen at Wels Unlimited 8 Nov 2013.
- "Gare Du Nord". Coreography Lotta Melin. Music Maja Ratkje.