Evan Parker x 2

Evan Parker - Solo Tenor Improvisation at The Kernel Brewery, London - 5/10/2014

Evan Parker (sax), Paul Rogers (b) and Mark Sanders (dr) at Instants Chavirés - 3/10/2014

Four albums

Today, four albums for you to check out! We move from impro - contemporary, through electronica to dark ambient, even if you all probably hate those labels!
But come on, I´m only trying to spread some good music here! Please take the chance, and have a listen.


Vilde & Inga: "Makrofauna" (ECM 2014). Vilde Sandve Alnæs (viol) and Inga Margrete Aas (b).

Shivers: "Shivers" (Miasmah 2014). Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), Gareth Davis and Leo Fabriek.

Erik K. Skodvin: "Flame" (Sonic Pieces 2014). Other musicians: Anne Müller and Mika Posen on strings and Gareth Davis on clarinet.
The record company is calling this "Americana-inspired".

Deaf Center: "Recourt" (Sonic Pieces 2014). Erik K. Skodvin and Otto Totland".

Catholic Architecture cover

I mentioned this new record one month ago, but here we go again, this time with sound!

Grasscut (Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair) is releasing an AA sided single on Lo Rec. October 20, with one of the A sides being a really fine cover of the Robert Wyatt / Alfreda Benge song "Catholic Architecture" from Wyatt´s "Dondestan" album (1991). It comes (citing Lo Records´ home page) with a nod to the "sound of Robert’s 1982 Rough Trade compilation, Nothing Can Stop Us".

The other A side is the beautiful and mellow "Beacon" inspired they say "by a 12-mile walk from the English Channel to the top of Firle Beacon on the South Downs, on the occasion of the Summer Solstice. It's about leaving the place you live and, when looking down on it from a height, finding it unfamiliar".

Benge - Wyatt album artwork for sale

"Rock Bottom" and "Ruth is stranger than Richard" album artwork for sale over at Hypergallery (198 GBP).


LIMITED EDITION OF 100

Artwork by Alfreda Benge

Signed and numbered in pencil by Alfreda Benge

Countersigned by Robert Wyatt

Giclée in pigment inks on acid free art paper

Published: 2014

PRE-PUBLICATION ORDERS ONLY. PRINTS WILL BE SUPPLIED BEFORE THE END OF NOVEMBER.

Image size: 19.00" x 17.00"

Paper size: 24.00" x 24.00"

Snakes and Ladders: Lucky Day

This is beautiful! Snakes and Ladders performing "Lucky day" in June 2014.

Sophia Domancich (keyboard)
John Greaves (voc)
Himiko Paganotti (voc)
Eric Daniel (g)

"Lucky day" is a track from the Sophia Domancich album ‎"Snakes And Ladders" (Cristal Records 2011).
On this album you will also find "Wilderness" sung by Robert Wyatt, with lyrics by Alfreda Benge.

Stoned Innocent Frankenstein

"Stoned Innocent Frankenstein", a double album of unreleased alternative versions and different mixes of Gong man Daevid Allen´s first solo album, is scheduled for release 27 October 2014.

The first solo album is better known as "Bananamoon" (1970).

More info on Planet Gong Bazaar, where I copied this about the three tracks with Robert Wyatt participating:

Memories (alt. mix) - [3.35] (H. Hopper)
Who wouldn't be happy with an un-heard mix of Robert Wyatt singing Hugh Hopper's beautiful song with clearer vocals and guitar.

Out Of Here (alt. version) - [5.37] (C. Tritsch)
The most startling difference here the use of Robert Wyatt's high, angelic-sounding solo vocal for the chorus line as a counterpoise to daevid's deliberately gruff, rough delivery of the verses. On the released version that idea was abandoned and daevid sang all the lyrics in the throaty style.

Instrumental In The Land Of Flip - [11.58] (d. allen)
The clarity and crispness of Robert Wyatt's drumming and Gerry Field's violin playing are the standout features on this layer of the 'Land of Flip' strata, in essence it's the drum track. The drumming is so good and sharp that it makes one wonder that had this been available years ago would it have become one of those eagerly sampled drum tracks?

Hoping Daevid Allen is doing fine!

Karl Seglem at Bergen Jazzforum

Karl Seglem may be a bit underrepresented in this blog, so let´s hear it now for Seglem and his project "Som spor". "Som spor" is originally a work commissioned for the Vossajazz festival in 2012, but a new recording for the album was done at Victoria, Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo and released on NORCD right now.

The videos are from a concert at Bergen Jazzforum 26 September 2014.

Karl Seglem: saxophone and goat horn
Sigrid Moldestad and Håkon Høgemo: hardanger fiddles
Lars Jakob Rudjord and Andreas Ulvo: keyboards
Sigurd Hole: bass
Kåre Opheim: drums and percussion