Maja S. K. Ratkje and Joachim Montessuis

Listen to Maja S. K. Ratkje and Joachim Montessuis: "Janus" (Erratum 2013") (full album) here, and order the vinyl from Erratum.

What is it? Try "Experimental mouth music duet, free interlaced vocal noises, sonic poetry and free electronics". Sounds great!

Le renard ne s'apprivoise pas

LE RENARD NE S'APPRIVOISE PAS, captation, 45' - solo pour Nina Santes - Avignon, Les hivernales / CDC, juillet 2013 from Mylène Benoit on Vimeo.

The dance / performance "Le renard ne s'apprivoise pas" ("You can´t tame a fox") for you.
At around 16 minutes Nina Santes sings Ivor Cutler´s "I worn my elbows".

Info from Vimeo:
Design, choreography : Mylène Benoit
Interpretation : Nina Santes
Lighting designer : Annie Leuridan
Music : Wim mertens, Ivor Cutler, Guillaume Hairaud
Wardrobe : Florinda Donga, Léa Drouault
Administration : Valentine Lecomte
Touring : Magda Kachouche

Jazz and Fly Fishing

Jazz & Fly Fishing Season Two TRAILER from Jazz & Fly Fishing on Vimeo.

Jazz and Fly Fishing, what a combination!

The band is Håvard Stubø (g), Joona Toivanen (p), Tapani Toivanen (b) and Fredrik Hamrå (dr), and they play jazz and go on "rod trips".

"Season 2" is coming up, visit jazzandflyfishing.com for more info and videos.

Fred Frith and Nels Cline

I just want you to know that I finally got myself a mint copy of Fred Frith´s "Gravity" album (Ralph Records 1980), with cover art by Alfreda Benge. About time!

Let´s celebrate by watching this Fred Frith and Nels Cline video from the Alternative Guitar Festival at Subculture, New York (18 January 2014).



Added 27 January: Another Frith - Cline video here.

Supersilent with Stian Westerhus

Yesterday I was finally able to attend a concert again, after a (far too long) break! And what a show!

Supersilent (Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken and Helge Sten) brought Stian Westerhus along to Bergen, to play at Action Jazz in the Bergen Kjøtt venue.
Rock, noise, ambient, electronica? All of it I guess, but The Supersilent way, and as usual with this group, Henriksen playing more drums and electronics than trumpet.

Great lights/visuals by Bergen´s Birk Nygård.

There have not been any Supersilent albums since 2010 (the vinyl only "11"), so it might be time for a new one?

Cameras were rolling during the concert, so hopefully we will see some of it in not too long. In the meantime, check out the video from their concert at Jazzhouse, Copenhagen in October 2013 here.

Unseen Recordings - A web channel for experimental music

I´m quite sure a lot of you might want to follow the new channel Unseen Recordings on YouTube!
"Unseen Recordings is a web channel for experimental music. Every recording is unique, unfiltered, live and done in one take. The music here is boundary pushing and genre challenging, it is adventurous to the bone. Unseen Recordings will present around 70 new recordings each year with Danish and international artists" (from YouTube).

Here you see and hear Jenny Hval, Fire! Orchestra and Bill Orcutt.

Gary Windo releases

Gonzo recently released three albums by Gary Windo: "Dog Face" (originally released in 1982), "Deep Water" (originally released in 1987) and "Steam Radio Tapes" (never released before).

I just ordered "Steam Radio Tapes", which has Robert Wyatt on it. A couple of tracks ("Is this the time?" and "Standfast") are probably the same as the ones you may find on the albums "His master´s bones" (Cuneiform 1996) and "Angloamerican" (Cuneiform 2004), but there might be more with Wyatt? Anyone?