A day out with Daevid Allen in the Canterbury area

I´m sorry to say that it seems like we have got the final chapter of Canterbury Soundwaves. I haven´t heard much of this last chapter yet, but what do you say to almost five hours of music and a day out with Daevid Allen?

We get Gong of course, Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and lots of other stuff too.

Thanks a lot to Canterbury Soundwaves.

Parker, Edwards, Prevost and Coxon

Oh my! Please check out Evan Parker (sax), John Edwards (b) and Eddie Prevost (dr) at Cafe Oto, August 2012!
And please note, they play at Cafe Oto again February 5th.

Evan Parker and Eddie Prevost also appear on the album "Cinema" (Fataka 2013), with John Coxon (el. guitar, prepared piano).
Fataka seems like an interesting new record company.

News from Rune Grammofon

Let me share some info, taken from Rune Grammofon´s newsletter.

Grand General - Grand General - CD/LP out now.

The band:
Even Helte Hermansen - guitar (Bushman´s Revenge)
Ola Kvernberg - violin
Erlend Slettevoll - keyboards (The Core)
Trond Frønes - bass (Sunswitch, El Doom & The Born Electric)
Kenneth Kapstad - drums (Motorpsycho)

Upcoming releases:

15.02 SPUNK - Das Wohltemperierte Spunk (6CD)

15.03 Hedvig Mollestad Trio - All Of Them Witches

12.04 Motorpsycho - Still Life With Eggplant

19.04 Jenny Hval - Innocence Is Kinky

20.04 Bushman´s Revenge - TBA (Live, LP only)

Que?

Well, even if we hear traces of Ivor Cutler in the beginning there, I have to tell you, I´m in doubt about this version of Robert Wyatt.

Das schlafende Mädchen

It seems like Robert Wyatt has been working on the soundtrack for Rainer Kirberg´s film "Das schlafende Mädchen" that was released a couple of days ago(IMDB on the film).

Info from YouTube:

"For our cinema release of The Sleeping Girl in Germany we composed a new soundtrack!

Especially for the new soundtrack, we founded the project Sleeping Men. It consists of electronic music producer and composer Daniel Paul Behnemann (founder of Berlin House label Cabinet Records), co-producer and music publisher Tøni Schifer (Crippled Dick Hot Wax) and director Rainer Kirberg. Further leading composers were Sascha Gottschalk (Pulsar Mod Club / Thief) and Moritz Reichelt (Der Plan), important protagonist of German New Wave (Neue Deutsche Welle).

With Karl Blake (Shock Headed Peters), another influencial musician contributed to the project's anchoring in an important era of pop history. Finally, the legendary Robert Wyatt (The Soft Machine) strongly supported the musical bridge into the early 1970s".

And a Happy 68th birthday to Robert Wyatt today!

Ode to Kevin Ayers

Seven Scarred Faces released the album "The Grudge" in 2012.

I´m not going to pretend I know this band, but when they have a song called "Ode to Kevin Ayers", they are OK I guess!

The following is stolen from their Facebook page:

"Seven Scarred Faces is a musical project headed by singer/songwriter Kevin Charlton, fusing psychadelia, folk, electronica and indie.
The first album, The Grudge, was recorded between June 2011 and May 2012. Partly recorded on 16 track porta studio in a darkened room, and partly in a professional studio (twisted star studios).
Contributing artists so far, to name but a few, include Jon Marett (The Retro Trade) Astrid Dines (History of Gardening) Nev Stevens (A Man Called Crow) Steve Riley (Singer/Songwriter) Ainz Charlton (The Retro Trade)".

Maja Ratkje på Festiwal Ad Libitum

Maja Ratkje + Aleksander Janicki from naŻywo.net on Vimeo.

Maja Ratkje at Festiwal Ad Libitum (Warszawa) 2012.

Video: Aleksander Janicki.