SUN RA un mondo eliocentrico

Sun Ra, un mondo eliocentrico, LRS, 04/2002, musica jazz

1. Fate In A Pleasant Mood
2. Hocus Pocus
3. Dawn
4. Second Star To The Right
5. Discipline 27
6. A Quiet Place In The Universe
7. Space Is The Place - We Travel The Spaceways / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Outer Spaceways Incorporated
8. Yeah Man
9. String Singhs - Discipline 27 / I'll Wait For You

Oh my god! If there was something stranger than Sun Ra, Then humanity should be alarmed a bit '.
Nothing is in perpetual motion like this album And I fear that the Earth will never again be graced by something like that.
Sun Ra was a eccentric screwball who came from Saturn, played a clavinet (A keyboard instrument played by archetypal), field feeding on piles of garbage from George Lucas, dressed as ancient Egyptian, was a fire-eater in his shows, because you do not fucking believe how pure a angel, attended the Rotary Club of Grosseto and often went to dinner at Bill Gates. Sorry, the last two are not true, but Sun Ra himself was a absurd liar ...
This is free-jazz stage more experimental, Using instruments never heard before then to create a'Only to plot music as in its intentions, something alien and at the same time spiritual. Sun RaAmong other things, was also a musician a invented the day music cosmic.
Using electric keyboards under a years after their appearance, Sun Ra quickly pushed the new technology to the extreme limit.
Surprise, intrigue and terror, then, and the fact that Sun Ra believed to have met these extraterrestrial people is really the most normal thing in the middle of everything.
And, among other things, was also a musician ..

Well, I still prefer his rendition of Pink Elephants on Parade, a revorking of an old Disney tune appearing on Stay Awake compilation. He could do all sorts of things in an unique way.
Watch out for a standout track „Dawn“ recorded live in Egypt with some local allstar musitians. This is a real order of the songs and their correct titles. Forget mp3 tags since they are splendidly wrong. This cd is long time out of print and thus I hereby am correcting this injustice.

Ole Lukkøye

Ole Lukkøye are part of the Russian underground. The band was formed by Boris Bardash and Andrej Lavrinenko in St. Petersburg in 1989. With the release of their second album "Toomze", the band showed the high ambition they aspired to: It's a concoction of British ArtRock, musical influences from all parts of the former Soviet Union and elements of ambient and trance which makes this music so intriguing. The group fuses traditional Russian styles (for example that of the Tuva-region in southern Siberia) with current western rhythms and sounds. The result, a dark and shamanistic psychedelic trance rock with much percussion and many acoustic instruments, opens a door between east and west. Ole Lukkøye knew the early albums of Faust, which found their way into the Russian music scene and acquired a cult following there. Thus the contact was established and after a meeting, the two parties agreed that Ole Lukkøye's fourth album Crystal Crow Bar was to be produced at Faust's studios in the spring of 2000.

Band's website

Ne Zhdali!

Gloriously wild, shamelessly blending elements of punk, Rock in Opposition, and traditional party music from Russian and Jewish extractions. Exit the mathematical instrumental compositions; these songs scream, shout, and laugh. They tap into the Ex's energy but pair it to the craziness of Palinckx and the Stick Men to cover up the sweet-and-sour feelings of a country freed from communist oppression but unable to fulfill aspirations. The horn section (Vadim Veeremaa and Oleg Davidovitch) plays intentionally out of tune; the rhythm section (Ilya Komarov and Vitaly Redchits) grooves through complex beats and sudden left turns, making them sound logical, almost inevitable. On top of it all, Soybelman sings his songs of surreal love in Russian and occasional Hebrew. Sounds like Melt Banana an Naked City covering beloved Soviet popular songs but in a wild & joyous mood.
Saw them play live twice and both concerts were damn good. I remember that guitar had an amp "Dinamit" (dynamite), of course made in USSR. It did not sound like that you know...

here are a few nice soviet guitars... but I wasn't able to find a picture of the amp anywhere. Anybody?

Rapeman live Stockholm 1988

This is the best Albini fronted band ever. Full-stop.
Better than Big Black, better than Shellac, and better
than Scratch Acid. On a par with Jesus Lizard.
Final show of their only European tour, with lot of
interruptions, edited out but not entirely. They had some
problems with PA that night so first song is missing since they
started again when the right channel "occurred".
just listen to them play...their guts out.

Psychic TV: my personal favourites...

Psychic TV were signed to WEA Records and subsequently CBS based on the infamy of Throbbing Gristle. Their first albums Force The Hand Of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet featured high production values, catchy pop songs written by Fergusson (with barbershop quartet vocals arranged by Andrew Pearson), and sound experiments primarily created by Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance. How about that lineup, ha?
Towards the end of this period Fergusson/P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album Allegory and Self: Thee Starlit Mire. It was at this point that Genesis became interested in acid house and techno. Alex Fergusson left and was replaced with techno artist Fred Gianelli.
In 92 Genesis got into rough wheather thanks to a fabricated accusation of satanic abuse, he exiled to California where he got introduced to Larry Thrasher, co-founder of the experimental noise band Thessalonians. This began a new period with Psychic TV returning to its psychedelic pop roots with Thrasher co-producing the critically acclaimed Trip/Reset.Sadly though it didn't last long.
So you might say that I prefer pop to techno? Guilty as charged.

Hafler Trio

Hafler Trio (or H30, for short) is a project of Andrew McKenzie, who explores various sonic phenomena through his records. Another issue that the project explores is a blurred line between the fact and the faction and various ways of mass manipulation – initially the band claimed that Dr. Edward Moolenbeek was its founder, but he turned out to be a fictitious person. Initially, Hafler Trio included Moolenbeek, McKenzie and Chris Watson from Cabaret Voltaire, but eventually McKenzie became a center of the project.
Hafler Trio debuted in 1984 with “Bang! An Open Letter”, which was supposed to demonstrate that the band was a part of ROBOL, a research organization and worked on issues related to perception with Dr. Robert Spirgeon (all of which, of course, were also fictional).
All Music Guide pointed out that “Bang!” contains different types of material, including harsh ambient music, which H30 would explore in depth later, as well as looped and layered news and radio broadcasts. AMG concluded that “The album’s overall effect is a spectrum of recognition, from overt to subliminal, and the relative brevity of the tracks makes for an overall disorientation, requiring more active listening than the group’s later works.”
I bought this because this is the first project Chris Watson was engaged into after leaving Cabaret Voltaire. It is on the border where music ceases to exist in its original form. There is no melody just sound collages that sometimes have a rhythmic pattern because they are being constantly repeated. I would categorize this as "not quite music but not quite not music"
Latter day singles Wolf Sheep Cabbage - Episode 1 from 2004, Right Here Where You Are Sitting Now from 1996, are ambient, drone, cloudscape sound textures. I have ripped these off vinyl but it is perfect cd music. When put on a repeat it works better, because one listen is not enough.

kings of dub

My favourite dub albums here on display.

Dub combo is a compilation of dub tracks from several Israel Vibration albums. It is the most laid back and the most classical dub of all albums here. Trans-cending.

Drums of defiance is more of a modern album, sort of trip hop meets dub meets african music. The feeling of this album is just great.

Twilight Circus Sound System is the most out-there dub into-infinity album of the three here on display. Chrome of dub. Deep groovy and reverberating into-space album. An endless chain of dub. Did I also mention hand made cover? I did not? No, I did.

best of 2009

Well, it's Jarvis Cocker and his Further Complications. It's way more exciting a record than anything bearing name Pulp. Plus it has signature Albini sound and signature Cocker wit and humor.
Not surpassed by anyone last year. Let's complicate some more this year Jarvis. Don't you get soft on me!

Cabaret Voltaire - Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is another 1976 demo tape that came to the surface and made it to the Brainwashed CV discography.

Tracklist

A1		Capsules	7:29
A2		Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again?)	4:48
A3		The Single	3:30
A4		Ooraseal	4:22
A5		Loves In Vein	4:30
A6		Dream Sequence 1	2:56
B1		Dream Sequence 2	3:42
B2		Do The Snake	5:59
B3		A Sunday Night In Biot	3:26
B4		She Loves You	8:44

My copy is two songs shorter than the one described on Brainvashed. It lacks Stolen from Spectra and Bedtime Stories.
Sound quality is... well this is a demo. Some of the songs appear on Methodology 1, and some on 1974-1976 album. Some versions do differ but only in length (they were edited because of the tape limitations, see they made these demos on c-60 cassette so they trimmed a song or two to fit on a cassette side.) Other versions seem to have different pitch. Again it is possible that the equipment they used to duplicate these tapes had different speed. But that only makes it all a bit more interesting does it not.
I like their early stuff. The sounds they produced back then show a great deal of creativity because it was not easy back then to create such sounds on equipment they had those days. I think highly of this period. Almost religious about it...

Companyia Electrica Dharma

Companyia Electrica Dharma is a long lived Catalan jazz ethnic rock combo. They have been around for more than 30 years with their first album dating as far as 1975. I've become acquainted with their work through two very different albums from 2000's. First one: Sonada! from 2000 and Llibre Vermell from 2002. Saw them play live 2003 promoting the latter. While Sonada is more upbeat and more Mediterranean and an overall cheerful album, Llibre Vermell is a medieval Mediterranean goth-like album. It's dark and it's all about creating a certain atmosphere, executed first rate . It only goes to prove that these are seasoned musicians each one a master of his own instrument. I was quite excited upon first hearing this record because I have never heard anything like it. The emphasis on their Catalan background is predominant but they also create a feel similar to some neo folk artists such as Death in June or later day Current 93 + The Ape of Naples era Coil.
The bottom line is, I really like this album.

Bill Laswell City of Light

I bought this mainly because it has some interesting names on the front cover, mainly Coil to be frank, but it apparently is not the track worth buying this cd for. Trilok Gurtu and Tetsu Inoue have done a finer job here. All in all this is a Bill Laswell record. It has his signature sound written all over it and I find it to be a pleasurable listen allthough it is not your every day music you know. It is much more in vein of an other Laswell record which I enjoy very much: Hashisheen : The End Of Law
it also has Hakim Bey on it but it features vocals of Sussan Deyhim, and I'm a big, no, I'm a huge fan of her work.

try city of light first

then buy