Metal Machine Music For Airports

Thanks to Dangerous Minds I became aware of this fantastic mashup of Brian Eno´s "Music for Airports" (1978) and Lou Reed´s "Metal Machine Music" (1975).

That´s ambient noise for you!

We embed track number one, where Robert Wyatt is playing the piano. On Eno´s album that is!

Alpaca Bowie (video trailer)

Alpaca Ensemble present music inspired by David Bowie´s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, arranged and composed by Alwynne Pritchard, Ole Henrik Moe, Jon Øivind Ness, and Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje.

The music was performed live twice in April 2013 (Trondheim and Inderøy), and a studio recording was done in August, with plans for CD and LP release ultimo 2013.
According to Alpaca´s site "Alpaca Bowie" will be released in 2014, probably after the release of a new album with saxophonist Eirik Hegdal called "Moving Slow" (link to Norwegian language site).

Musicians:
Alexander Robson (viol)
Marianne Baudouin Lie (cello)
Else Bø (piano)
Andreas Elvenes (voc)
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (voc)

Get The Blessing

Check out this great video of Get The Blessing at Visioninmusica, in Terni (Italy) 2014!
Musicians: Clive Deamer (dr), Jim Barr (b), Pete Judge (tp) and Jake McMurchie (sax).

I still haven´t heard their newest album "Lope and Antilope" (2014), but remember - Robert Wyatt is on one track ("Americano Meccano") on their 2012 album "OC DC"!

Robert Wyatt, il comunista

The Italian blog ideeinoltre.blogspot.it has a post on the Robert Wyatt history, focusing on the politics: VALERIO D'ONOFRIO: "Robert Wyatt, il comunista".

Google translate from Italian to English is working quite alright on this piece.

"...Robert Wyatt has never been a politician in the strict sense of the term, has never seen the policy as a job, it was simply an artist who in a restricted phase of his life he perceived with extreme urgency need to engage against racism, Western imperialism , capitalism now prevailing and generally against the huge inequalities and injustices he saw everywhere. For this reason he joined the British Communist Party , not as a leader or as a leading figure , but as a simple militant who loved to talk , exchange ideas , explore topics with other members of the party."

The picture is a detail from Alfreda Benge´s sweet cover to the sampler "1982-1984" (Rough Trade 1984).

Brötzmann

This Sunday has been quiet up til now (not everywhere unfortunately! - Ukraine etc), so I felt the need for some Peter Brötzmann again!

First out is Brötzmann with Jason Adasiewicz (vibes) and Hamid Drake (dr) at 2014 Winter Jazzfest in NYC (January 2014) (more on the WindowsHaveEyes YouTube account), and then Brötzmann with Han Bennink (dr) at the 34th birthday festival of The Ex (Den Haag, February 2014).

Groove On The Wireless #65 Love the Quixotic

"Groove On The Wireless #65 Love the Quixotic!" promotes Robert Wyatt.

On the playlist Wyatt´s Ivor Cutler cover "Grass" (7" Rough Trade 1981, also on "Nothing Can Stop Us" 1982) and Hot Chip feat. Robert Wyatt – "We’re Looking for a Lot of Love" (EP EMI/DFA 2008), but it´s not the EP version with Wyatt that´s being played, is it? More like the Hot Chip album version, from "Made in the dark" (2008).

"Grass" is available both on iTunes and even on vinyl, on the "Nothing Can Stop Us" reissue on Domino, but I´m not really sure if it´s possible to buy the Hot Chip EP any longer? Anyone?
I see a couple of copies are up for sale on eBay right now (cheapest one: USD 20).

Hamasyan, Henriksen, Bang, Aarset

Tigran Hamasyan (keyb), Arve Henriksen (tp, voc), Jan Bang (live sampling) and Eivind Aarset (g) at Bergen Jazzforum 28 February 2014.

According to the Bergen Jazzforum web site, the quartet will record an album for ECM later this year.