Street art for street papers. Press release.

I received a press release from Megafon, the Bergen street paper, today. They have collected 80 pictures from 61 street artists from all over the world. 16 November they will hold an auction in bergen, and the pictures will be exhibited from 10 November. It will be possible to bid by telephone and on the net, but I'm not sure if foreigners may participate. I'll check up on that, and come back with more info, and even manage name the artists who made the two pictures in this post.
Money from the auction will be used to arrange a Street Noise concert in support of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP).
You may try for some more info from Morten Heszlein- Lossius: morten@megafon.no.

INSP: www.street-papers.org
Megafon: www.megafon.no
Bergen kunsthall: www.kunsthall.no

Added Wednesday: It will be possible to make bids from abroad too (telephone and web).

A bit of Wyatt in the papers

According to The Oxford Times Ingrid Laubrock is citing Robert Wyatt on the album "Sleepthief". Wyatt says: "I’m not interested any more in what style someone’s playing. The only thing I listen to is the voice and whether it tells me something." Read a review and see a video in the great blog Free Jazz.

I hope you still have your German dictionary at hand (at least those of you that are not too familiar with the German language), because today's lesson is trying to understand Frankfurter Allgemeine's Frankfurt festival piece.

Frankfurt Jazz

The first reports from the jazz festival in Frankfurt are coming around. One day was dedicated to Robert Wyatt's music, and even if he didn't go on stage himself, he was seated up front all evening. I'll try to look for more reports, reviews and pictures in blogs and newspapers, and post later. Now, please find your German - English (or German - other language) dictionary, and read "Pflasterstrand".

Jimmy Carl Black 1938-2008

I was just surfing the net this morning, while listening to Jon Larsen's new record "The Jimmy Carl Black Story" (Zonic Entertainment 2008), and I suddenly realized that "the indian of the group" died 31 October. Sad news indeed.
Larsen's record is a double CD, where the first one is a quite surrealistic musical travel to Mars, while Jimmy Carl Black tells his own story on CD 2. The music is OK (makes me think a bit on Jean Luc Ponty in the 70s), and Jimmy Carl Black is a good story teller, and it's quite moving to listen to it these days of course, even if it's a good old rock and roll story!
See the previous album too.

Circulasione in Finland

Circulasione Totale Orchestra played in Tampere in Finland yesterday, with this crew:
Louis Moholo-Moholo - drums
Morten J. Olsen electronics - drums
Anders Hana - el.guitar
Frode Gjerstad - sax,clarinets
Nick Stephens - acoustic bass
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums
Ingebrigt H. Flaten - acoustic bass
Børre Mølstad - tuba
Sabir Mateen - sax and clarinets
Kevin Norton - vibraphone
Bobby Bradford - cornet
Hild Sofie Tafjord - electronics
John Hegre - soundman
This is the same band as the one that played at the Molde festival this summer, except from Hild Sofie Tafjord, who stepped in for Lasse Marhaug.
Frode Gjerstad writes that Finnish television recorded the concert, and it will be offered European Countries through EBU. Great news!
Sorry to the ones who wrote me after the Molde festival and asked if I knew if anything was recorded. I messed up my e-mails and lost the addresses (and, no I don't deal in sound files). Perhaps someone out there knows more than me: Was the Circulasione concert (or other concerts) recorded for radio or CD release in Molde?

Soft Heap

Soft Heaps " Al Dente" (Reel Recordings 2008) has arrived. This is a good live recording from 1978 (The Phoenix Club, Londddon), with Hugh Hopper (b), Elton Dean (as, saxello), Alan Gowen (p, synth) and Pip Pyle (dr). The bandet existed with this crew only in 1978 (I think). It smells jazz rock, but it smells quite good, and if more people shop, more money will go directly to Hugh Hopper. Hopper is not able to work these days, since he is being treated for leukemia.

Larger parts of the profits from the November sales of Hopper-related material at MoonJune, will also go directly to Hopper.

Cutler was here!

Ivor Cutler's labels
Originally uploaded by thisisp

thisisp found traces of poet, musician and maker of stickers, Ivor Cutler!

"it is up to you
whether you read
this label - my advice
is just to ignore it."
Ivor Cutler