Over Tones

Oh my, you just have to check out the beautiful (contemporary-improv-) folk album "Over Tones" by Benedicte Maurseth (Hardanger fiddle, voice) and Åsne Valland Nordli (voice) on ECM (March 2014).

There are some Norwegian lyrics, but don´t you worry, you will understand the music.

Watch the video for some music and interviews in English, and then start shopping!

Televisione

Italian band Afterhours recently released a remastered version of their 1997 album "Hai Paura Del Buio?" (Universal Music It., 2014), with what looks like a bonus record with guests singing all the tracks from the original album.

Of most interest to us of course is the track "Televisione", with vocals by Cristina Dona and "The Friendly Ghost of Robert Wyatt"(YouTube).

Ghost or not, it´s a really nice tune! Available on iTunes (and you may listen here).

Thanks to Jean-Paul for the tip!

The Thing at La Dynamo France, Feb. 2014

IDA - Darwinius massilae

How about a science lesson on a Friday evening? Yes?

Check out The Science Slam Sonic Explorers, and here is how they describe themselves:

"The Science Slam Sonic Explorers group was formed in 2013 to produce audio realizations of scientific concepts explained to a mass audience.

Mission: To bring science concepts and new ideas to the populace at large in language they understand combined with music they can dance to!"

Today´s topic: The controversy behind the Earth's most magnificently preserved primate fossil: 47 million years old IDA, as described by Norwegian scientist Jørn Harald Hurum.
The music is by Gator Bait Ten.

Read the text over at YouTube.

We know how to party in this blog!

The Voices Of Robert Wyatt (again)

We have already had a couple of blog posts on the Falling Tree Productions´ portrait of Robert Wyatt, called "The Voices Of Robert Wyatt".

It was first broadcasted by BBC Radio 4 in October 2012.

Now Falling Tree Productions have uploaded it to SoundCloud.
Nice one, and well worth another listen!

Arve Henriksen & Elektronik Meditation

Live, Athens, Greece, 20th March 2014

Arve Henriksen : trumpet, voice,
Jannis Anastasakis : guitar, live-sampling
Deniz Angelaki : live painting

More info on YouTube.

And how about the 2014 Punkt Festival program? Should be out soon!

There Is No Expedient to Which a Leaver Will Not Resort

exit UNKNOWN FIGURE: he wastes everything but time from PK Worryshop on Vimeo.

Video from the installation "There Is No Expedient to Which a Leaver Will Not Resort to Avoid the Real Labor of Leaving" show at Cooper Union in April 2014, a Senior Presentation of Porter Diteman & Ruairidh Macleod.

Featuring WKL Dickson's experimental sound film for Edison Laboratories, and the music of Robert Wyatt ("Unmasked" from "A short break" 1992).

From Vimeo.