Oltre a quelle in vinile e in compact disc - singolo cd audio, oppure in coppia con il film in dvd The Muses Within - esiste anche una versione digitale di For The Ghosts Within, disponibile al sito dell'etichetta Domino nei formati mp3 e wav: chi ha acquistato il doppio lp - dove le facciate incise sono tre - la può scaricare senza ulteriori costi utilizzando il coupon allegato alla confezione. 
Alcuni scatti di Tali Atzmon, anche autrice del film, sono in Flickr, mentre recensioni dell'album sono un po' ovunque:
http://soundblab.com/content/content/view/id/2852
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/arts/music/25choice.html?_r=1&src=twrhp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/hmrj
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14761-for-the-ghosts-within
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-wyatt-atzmon-stephen-for-the-ghosts-within-domino-2100598.html
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/albumreview/wyatt-atzmon-stephen-for-the-ghosts-within
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15733/reviews/4141245
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/album-reviews/wyatt-atzmon--stephen_for-the-ghosts-within/article/contentID/21261

http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/wyatt-atzmon--stephen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taliatzmon/sets/72157624984560817

Radio Tre Suite Jazz trasmette mercoledì 3 novembre alle ore 20.30 il concerto del Willem Breuker Kollektief - ma Breuker, non in buona salute, quella sera non suonò - registrato a Novara, in Piazza Duomo, lo scorso 5 giugno. Frans Vermeerssen, sax; Hermine Deurloo, sax contralto, armonica; Maarten van Norden, sax tenore; George Pancras, tromba; Andy Altenfelder, tromba; Andy Bruce, trombone; Bernard Hunnekink, trombone, tuba; Henk de Jonge, pianoforte, sintetizzatore; Arjen Gorter, contrabbasso; Rob Verdurmen, percussioni.

http://tinyurl.com/2wbzbbw
http://www.novarajazz.org/concerti.aspx?Id=11&idPage=18

E' per l'etichetta Slowfoot il cd di debutto del Monkey Puzzle Trio, un progetto di Charles Hayward, Nick Doyne-Ditmas e Viv Corringham guidato sul terreno di incontro tra canzone, ricerca sonora e improvvisazione. Si intitola White World, e un paio di estratti sono in www.myspace.com/monkeypuzzletrio.

A new experimental project featuring This Heat drummer Charles Hayward, Monkey Puzzle Trio releases its debut album for the Slowfoot label. The other two members of this trio are double-bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas and vocalist Viv Corringham. Somewhere between avant-jazz and song-craft, the music on White World was all conceived from free improvisation committed to tape over four days. The recordings were then sifted through and edited into their final shape, coaxing out an abstract and rather original set of musical collages that seems to slip between recognisable musical forms.

www.myspace.com/monkeypuzzletrio
www.myspace.com/charleshayward
www.vivcorringham.org

Ritratto del Rundgren tutto sregolatezza e genio dello studio di registrazione attraverso quarant'anni di carriera come produttore, oltre che di musicista: A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio, scritto da Paul Myers, è un nuovo eccellente titolo nel catalogo Jawbone.

A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio by Paul Myers is a fascinating and authoritative trip through the land of flickering red lights inhabited by a studio wizard – and true star – who has rarely enjoyed a proper victory lap along the many trails that he has blazed. Researched and written with the participation and cooperation of Rundgren himself, Myers also draws upon exclusive new interviews with Robbie Robertson, Patti Smith, XTC, Sparks, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman, Cheap Trick, Grand Funk, The Psychedelic Furs, The Tubes, Steve Hillage, all members of Rundgren’s legendary band, Utopia, and many other key Rundgren associates.

http://jawbonepress.com/index.php?id=60

Spinning on Air, il programma radiofonico di David Garland per la newyorkese WNYC, ha recentemente ospitato una session dal vivo in studio di Van Dyke Parks assieme a Clare and the Reasons. Negli archivi web dell'emittente si trova traccia della puntata - è quella del 10 ottobre 2010 - con rimandi a video e immagini pubblicati su YouTube e Flickr.

www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/2010/oct/10
www.youtube.com/user/SpinningOnAir
www.flickr.com/photos/spinningonair/sets/72157625120412562
www.vandykeparks.com
www.myspace.com/clareandthereasons

Edizione speciale e commemorativa su etichetta Tzadik di due celebri lavori dei primi anni novanta di John Zorn con Naked City: Torture Garden e Leng Tch'e, qui riuniti in unico cd (un'edizione del 1996, Black Box, già li accoglieva entrambi ma come due cd distinti). Con Zorn erano all'epoca Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith, Joey Baron e Yamatsuka Eye.

The controversial and influential Naked City Black Box couples two of Zorn's most extreme and violent creations. Torture Garden (1991) presents Naked City's intense and groundbreaking music combining free jazz, bebop, r&b, country, funk, rockabilly, surf, metal and grindcore - usually in the same song! The rare, seldom heard Leng Tch'e (1992), released only in Japan and long out-of-print features Naked City in an agonizingly slow, brutal 32-minute assault. This special 20th anniversary edition brings all the music together on one CD, accompanied by a booklet complete with artwork, photos and essays old and new.

http://www.tzadik.com/

A Steve Reich è dedicato il ciclo Composer of the Week in onda questa settimana sul terzo canale radiofonico della BBC. Cinque episodi di un'ora ciascuno, con ascolti introdotti da Donald Macleod e ampi stralci di una sua recente conversazione con il compositore newyorkese. Dal 25 al 29 ottobre, ogni giorno alle 12.00 e in replica alle 22.00, ora locale.

Donald Macleod discusses a lifetime in music with the composer, in an extended interview conducted at his home in upstate New York in September 2010. Just as composers like Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mahler captured their era in their compositions, so Reich's music distils the pulsating rhythm and routine of 21st century urban life.Wry, witty and disarmingly candid about the ideas and influences behind his work, Steve Reich is an engaging and insightful guide to his compositions. The series presents a selection of music spanning his entire career, from the 1965 tape piece "It's Gonna Rain" to the premiere on British radio of his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Double Sextet" of 2008. We also hear some of Reich's most acclaimed works: "Music For 18 Musicians", "Different Trains" for string quartet, the 'video opera' "The Cave", and on Wednesday, a rare complete performance of his extraordinary, African-inspired work "Drumming". The series also features a number of less-heard works, including his Jewish-infused vocal piece "Tehillim" and a rare - and beautiful - foray into orchestral writing, 1987's "The Four Sections".

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vct73
www.stevereich.com

Ben quattro e tutte molto interessanti le produzioni di AltrOck uscite in cd nelle scorse settimane: Yugen, Iridule; Rational Diet, On Phenomena and Existences; Picchio dal Pozzo, A_live; Aranis (con Dave Kerman), RoqueForte.

http://production.altrock.it

Alcuni inediti di Derek Bailey rinvenuti durante la preparazione della ristampa del suo secondo album per la Incus, Lot 74, e ad esso temporalmente riconducibili sono ora raccolti in un album intitolato More 74: Solo Guitar Improvisations. Lo produce Steve Beresford, con le note di copertina di Alex Ward: quest'ultime si leggono e si ottengono in pdf al sito dell'etichetta nella sezione 'writings', dove è tra l'altro disponibile anche una versione aggiornata del copioso dossier biografico - oltre 1700 pagine - realizzato due anni fa da Carol Dallaire.

www.incusrecords.force9.co.uk/catalogue/new.html
www.incusrecords.force9.co.uk/pdf/More_74_Liner_Notes.pdf

Adrian Northover e David Petts danno alle stampe il nuovo capitolo, il nono, del progetto The Remote Viewers, con il titolo To The North. Le registrazioni sono state realizzate con l'apporto di Sue Lynch, Caroline Kraabel, Rosa Lynch-Northover, John Edwards e Mark Sanders. Un estratto - The Lure of Heresy - si ascolta in anteprima presso il sito web del gruppo, dove è possibile ordinare una copia del cd.

With their 9th release The Remote Viewers unveil a radically different sound. Recorded live in one studio session, with the rhythm section of John Edwards & Mark Sanders, this recording is a document of a band coming out of transition and rediscovering a group voice, to interpret the unique compositions of David Petts.

www.theremoteviewers.com

Il suo vero nome era Ariane Forster, ma la conoscevamo come Ari Up, forza trainante delle 'storiche' Slits, gruppo tra i più riottosi e influenti nella stagione del punk londinese e che lei stessa fondò nel 1976, sulle basi di uno smisurato amore per il reggae, assieme alla batterista Palmolive (Paloma Romero, successivamente una delle Raincoats). Da qualche anno il gruppo era tornato in attività con nuove produzioni discografiche e concerti, recentemente anche in Italia. La notizia della scomparsa della cantante è di ieri.
Così Ariane una volta descrisse la nascita del gruppo, lei studentessa appena quattordicenne: "I was still listening to Abba. I was a little schoolgirl in my poofy dress and long hair. I wasn't listening to rebel music, really. I was just listening to everything that was around me. "Dancing Queen" was my favorite. But I didn't take to none of these people. Like, who were they, these chicks in costumes? I couldn't relate to any of these women, whether they were like "Charlie's Angels" type glossy pop people, or disco slutty-looking whorey-looking women, or hippie scruffy women. I found my identity through punk. I found it by going to a Clash rehearsal in '76. I was never the same. I came back with spray paint all over me, tearing up my clothes and putting on an old shirt like a mini that barely covered my butt. That was it. I stopped combing my hair, and I found my identity. My mom took me to a Clash concert, that's where I met Palmolive. She had a little earring made out of a little pig, and she looked out of this world with her spiky hair and her motorbike boots and her tiny little mini. She just looked crazy. Palmolive just came up to me and said, "Let's do an all-girl band. Can you sing? Come tomorrow to rehearsal." And the Slits were made the next day."

http://www.ariup.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Up
http://pitchfork.com/news/40465-rip-ari-up-of-the-slits

Un set di dodici cd, sei dei quali completamente inediti, è annunciato dall'etichetta tedesca FMP per l'inizio del 2011. Si intitola FMP im Rückblick-in Retrospect e nella sua edizione completa - soltanto mille copie - comprenderà libro, catalogo, un ricco apparato di testi, contributi critici, foto e vari documenti; i cd saranno comunque acquistabili anche individualmente.
Le prenotazioni sono aperte al sito dell'etichetta: www.fmp-label.de. Uno dei saggi presenti nel libro, scritto da Bill Shoemaker, è già disponibile in Point of Departure.

http://www.fmp-label.de/special-subscription/FMPSubscriptionWEB-website1-index.html
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD30/PoD30PageOne.html

FMP-Publishing
Sachsenstrasse 50
D-46325 Borken
Germany
fmp@freemusicproduction.de
http://www.fmp-label.de

Scene dal Jazza Festival della scorsa settimana a Londra sono in un breve video girato dalla moglie di Gilad Atzmon, Tali, diffuso su YouTube. Resoconti dei due giorni di concerti, recensioni e commenti all'intera iniziativa - che avrà un seguito, con altri appuntamenti in Europa e Nord America - sono raccolti al sito del sassofonista: www.gilad.co.uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwLnO9gTXXg

La breve e gloriosa storia della Compendium Records - in attività ad Oslo a metà anni settanta, prima solo come negozio 'alternativo' di libri e dischi di importazione e poi come vera e propria etichetta discografica - è raccontata da alcuni dei protagonisti di allora in un sito web di recente apertura: http://compendiumrecords.wordpress.com.
Un'antologia in cd e doppio vinile uscirà a giorni, con brani tratti dalle dieci pubblicazioni che l'etichetta curò dal 1974 al 1977 (la prima uscita, è noto, fu Concerts degli Henry Cow): la si può ottenere attraverso www.plasticstrip.no oppure chiedendo a order@plasticstrip.no

Mutant Sounds recupera un antico vinile della Random Radar Records, A Random Sampler, antologia di inediti con brani di Fred Frith, Lol Coxhill, Steve Feigenbaum e tutto il giro dei Muffins, catturati in varie occasioni in studio e dal vivo tra il 1975 e il 1976. Qualche copia del vinile originale è ancora disponibile presso - ovviamente - Wayside Music.

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2010/10/va-random-radar-records-random-sampler.html
http://tinyurl.com/ars1977

Presso il blog Zeuhl and Beyond sono documentati con immagini e registrazioni audio i concerti - e le prove tecniche - di Aranis (con David Kerman), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum e Magma al Freakshow ArtRock Festival dello scorso 25 settembre a Würzburg. Alcune brevi riprese video sono anche su YouTube.

http://zeuhlmusic.blogspot.com 
http://artrock-festival.de
http://www.youtube.com/user/Amseldrossler#p/u

Dal concerto del 16 febbraio 2008 agli studi Orion Sound di Baltimora vengono le registrazioni del trio Bone - Nick Didkovsky, Hugh Hopper e John Roulat - ora confluite nel cd The Gift of Purpose, prodotto a ricordo del compianto Hopper e a sostegno della sua famiglia. Immagini relative a quel concerto, non utilizzate nella realizzazione del cd, sono in Flickr e in una galleria in What's Rattlin'?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naga3717/sets/72157603928081792
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/whatsrattlin
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/hopper.html

RéR Megacorp presenta la riedizione in cd dello storico album di Fred Frith Live in Japan, uscito nel 1982 con il sottotitolo The Guitars on the Table Approach in una confezione di due LP, successivamente venduti anche individualmente. Il trasferimento da vinile a compact disc è a cura di Tom Dimuzio.

Concert recordings made at various venues in Japan in 1981 and released by Recommended Records Japan in 1982 in an edition of 1000. Out of print since, though highly sought after, it has now been transferred and remastered by Tom Dimuzio for this official reissue. Fred was just starting out on his long career as a solo improviser when he made this double LP, and still using the now long retired Charles Fletcher custom double-neck guitar (one fretted, one fretless) and the Burns Black Bison, as well as a pilot's throat mike, a violin and (at one venue) the house piano. Some great music - and an historic and important document.

www.rermegacorp.com

Terry Riley, George Brooks e Talvin Singh suonano il 15 ottobre alla Multisala MPX di Padova per ricordare il grande maestro della tradizione vocale Kirana, Pran Nath: è un'iniziativa del Centro d'Arte, in occasione del settantacinquesimo compleanno di Riley.

Terry Riley performs Indian ragas with arrangements played by the ever progressive saxophonist George Brooks and Mercury Music awarded tabla player Talvin Singh. George and Terry both studied under the master Pran Nath, whose music was rooted in the masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a young man he survived a harrowing journey during partition from Lahore to the new nation of India and later to the US where his most dedicated students absorbed his teachings and continue to reflect on them in deeply personal forms of artistic expression. Pran Nath took the ancient traditions of fierce dedication to craft and guru and handed them to a new generation of American disciples. Pioneer of Asian Underground music and well respected tabla player, Talvin Singh will join Pran Nath's students on stage to perform traditional ragas arranged for piano, voice, saxophone and tabla. They will focus on some of the guru's favourite ragas from the Kirana tradition such as Darbari, Bageshri, Malkauns, Yemen and Bhimpolasi. In addition they will perform works from the Riley-Brooks duo repertoire including movements from Salome Dances for Peace and Ebony Horns.

http://www.centrodarte.it/concerti/2010/2010-10-15.html
www.terryriley.net
www.myspace.com/talvinsinghofficial
www.georgebrooks.com

Compie dieci anni il gruppo The Orient House Ensemble guidato da Gilad Atzmon, e li festeggia con un lungo tour di concerti - compresi quelli al Jazza Festival in corso da stasera - e l'uscita di un nuovo album, The Tide Has Changed. Dal concerto londinese di inizio mese al Ronnie Scott's vengono le riprese dal vivo e l'intervista trasmesse ieri da Jez Nelson per il programma della BBC Jazz on 3. Al sito web di Atzmon sono disponibili, tra i molti materiali in archivio, recensioni interviste e vari contributi scritti, tra cui il resoconto di una recente conversazione con Robert Wyatt.

Led by fiery saxophonist and award-winning composer Gilad Atzmon, The Orient House Ensemble was founded in London in 2000 and is renowned as one of the world’s most brilliant and inspirational jazz groups. Drawing on the music of Coltrane and Bird as well as the beautiful music of the Middle East to create something new and wonderful the Ensemble has been touring constantly all over Europe and the UK and recorded six albums to date, have won many awards and received constant worldwide critical acclaim. The musical history of The Orient House Ensemble is a story of a relentless attempt to cross the divide, blending East and West and forming a new improvisational language out of Jazz and ethic music. For Atzmon, artistic freedom is the true meaning of cultural resistance. He insists that that this is the exact quality that transformed Black American music from beauty into spirit. For Atzmon the true meaning of being a musician is a constant attempt to keep reminding yourself why you decided to play music in the first place. Though the Ensemble blends many musical ideas and styles it is always within the Jazz idiom: the energy, the subliminal communication, the poetic pain and ecstatic laughter. The Orient House Ensemble is there to keep jazz as a spirit of resistance: a struggle against musical stagnation and oppression of any kind.

http://www.gilad.co.uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v4n85
http://jazzaproductions.squarespace.com
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-a-conversation-with-robert-wyatt-about-cultural.html

L'edizione 2008 del London Jazz Festival si aprì il 14 novembre con una serata alla Queen Elizabeth Hall - se ne può ancora recuperare la cronaca in All About Jazz - tutta dedicata a Keith Tippett, presente nelle vesti di compositore, esecutore ed improvvisatore: alla suite Linuckea, eseguita con l'apporto dell'Elysian String Quartet, Tippett fece seguire un set in duo con il pianista Stan Tracey e uno con la moglie Julie. Quest'ultimo - non trasmesso dal programma Jazz On 3 della BBC, che però riprese i concerti per intero - viene oggi pubblicato dalla Ogun in un cd dal titolo Live At The Purcell Room.

A pretty wonderful live set of "spontaneous composition" from Keith & Julie Tippett - with moments of spare atmosphere and rapt tension - recorded at The Purcell Room in London, for the London Jazz Festival, captured for the BBC program Jazz On 3. The set is furnished by loose bits of hand percussion, piano and Julie's voice, always an alluring, beautiful thing! Keith plays piano, wood blocks, maracca, chimes, panpipe and more. Julie's brings both poetry and wordless vocals, playing thumb piano, shake, xylophone, hand drums and more. The performance is the single 46 minute piece "Mirror Image".

http://www.mindyourownmusic.co.uk/keith-tippett.htm
http://www.mindyourownmusic.co.uk/julie-tippetts.htm
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31703&page=1

I settant'anni li ha compiuti a gennaio, ma per i festeggiamenti in pubblico il batterista Tony Levin ha atteso di poter effettuare una serie di concerti assieme ai compagni di Mujician - Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers - e in trio con Aki Takase e John Edwards. Un'intervista raccolta pochi giorni fa, alla vigilia degli appuntamenti a Bristol, Leicester, Birmingham, London, Newcastle e Gateshead, si legge in The Jazz Breakfast. Auguri!

Tony Levin celebrates his 70th birthday this year with a six date national tour. The tour features two bands: Mujician with Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall and Paul Rogers, and a trio with Japanese pianist Aki Takase and bass player John Edwards. Mujician is the band that Tony has been most strongly associated with in the last twenty years and the trio is a group which Tony particularly enjoyed playing with at Newcastle’s On The Outside festival. Tony has worked with many jazz greats notably the late Tubby Hayes but these two groups guarantee that we will hear Tony at his best.

http://thejazzbreakfast.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/interview-tony-levin-at-70
http://www.mindyourownmusic.co.uk/concerts-diary.htm
http://raremusicrecordings.co.uk

A ricordare Harry Beckett, scomparso lo scorso 22 luglio, si raccoglie domani al Cafe Oto londinese un'intera comunità di musicisti e amici, con un programma di interventi preparati e spontanei a ritmo serrato da pomeriggio a tarda sera. Ci saranno Lol Coxhill, John Edwards, Adrian Sherwood, Annie Whitehead, Pat Thomas, Charles Hayward, Chris Biscoe, Veryan Weston, Fred Baker, Adrian Northover, Marcio Mattos, Caroline Kraabel, Maggie Nicols, Steve Beresford, Roberto Ottaviano, Francine Luce e molti molti altri, accompagnati idealmente anche da Mike Westbrook, Keith e Julie Tippett, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt, Serge Lazarevitch, Eric Barret e Graham Collier che non potranno esserci.

He was a key figure of important groups in the British free jazz/improvised music scene, including Ian Carr's Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, John Surman's Octet, Django Bates, Ronnie Scott's Quintet, Kathy Stobart, Charlie Watts, Stan Tracey's Big Band and Octet; Elton Dean's Ninesense. He has also recorded with Keef Hartley, Jah Wobble, David Sylvian and worked with David Murray. He toured abroad with Johnny Dyani, Chris McGregor, Keith Tippett, John Tchicai, Joachim Kühn, Dudu Pukwana's Zila, George Gruntz's Bands, Belgian quintet The Wrong Object, Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Band and Annie Whitehead's Robert Wyatt project, Soupsongs, which also featured Phil Manzanera and Julie Tippetts, amongst other jazz and rock luminaries.
In 1972, Beckett won the Melody Maker jazz Poll as 'Top Trumpeter in Britain'. He was a member of the Orchestre National de Jazz between 1997 and 2000. His most recent, dub-oriented album, The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett, was produced by famed British producer Adrian Sherwood and released on On-U Sound in late 2008.

Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
London E8 3DL
info@cafeoto.co.uk
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/

I gestori del 100 Club, cuore pulsante della musica dal vivo in Oxford Street a Londra da quasi sessant'anni, chiamano a un'eroica campagna di finanziamento - 500.000 sterline da raccogliere entro la fine del mese prossimo - per riuscire a salvare le sorti del locale, e per accompagnarne la trasformazione in organizzazione non profit. Informazioni e modalità di partecipazione alla sottoscrizione sono in www.savethe100club.co.uk/campaign.html

www.the100club.co.uk
http://blog.limewire.com/posts/50676-londons-100-club-needs-500000-by-christmas

Diamanda Galás è in Italia con lo spettacolo Your Kisses Are Like Fire il 9 ottobre a Bolzano (ex-Alumix), e con Songs of Exile il 15 ottobre a Reggio Emilia (Teatro Municipale Valli).
Nel suo sito web, tra i vari materiali, è ancora disponibile la registrazione - con trascrizione in inglese e spagnolo - di una sua conferenza, dal titolo Prayers for the Infidel, presentata l'anno scorso alla Concordia University di Montréal.

www.diamandagalas.com
http://www.diamandagalas.com/prayers.htm
http://www.transart.it/News/it/118/2460/22832.aspx
http://www.iteatri.re.it/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=1182

Robin Williamson è in questi giorni in Italia - fatto assai raro - per alcuni concerti nelle vesti, a lui assai congeniali, del poeta e cantore solitario: questa sera a Puianello, RE (Cinema Eden), domani a Milano (Teatro Dal Verme, con inizio alle ore 18.00), e venerdì 8 ottobre a Lugagnano di Sona, VR (Club Il Giardino).

Scotland-born multi-instrumentalist Robin Williamson came to fame as a founder member of the sixties psychedelic folk-rock group The Incredible String Band and played Woodstock, but moved on from that period of his life to become an accomplished poet, storyteller, author and Celtic bard in every sense of the word. As a performer Williamson has played thousands of gigs in all sorts of venues, from being a main act on festival stages, such as the Avalon stage at Glastonbury Festival, to much smaller and intimate settings that include stages set up in art centres, castles, cafés and church halls. His gigs are always very different and can be full of surprises. Robin is a skilled harpist and plays both traditional folk tunes as well as his own songs. He also plays guitar, bass, violin. harmonica, keyboards, bagpipes, whistle, banjo, mandolin, sitar, oud and a whole host of other instruments.

http://www.pigswhiskermusic.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/rwfans

Joe Boyd e Robyn Hitchcock hanno appena concluso negli Stati Uniti un breve ciclo di letture e canzoni dal titolo Chinese White Bicycles. Una registrazione presso gli studi della KEXP a Seattle è disponibile al sito dell'emittente (http://kexp.org), con una scaletta in parte diversa da quella del vero e proprio concerto, che ad esempio quella stessa sera proponeva My White Bicycle, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Chinese White, Reynardine, River Man, The Wind Cries Mary, Bike e Way Back in the 1960s.

Boyd sarà presto anche in Italia - a Bari il 10 ottobre e a Roma il 12 - per una ripresa di Way to Blue, omaggio a più voci alle canzoni di Nick Drake. Informazioni: http://www.joeboyd.co.uk

Legendary British producer and writer Joe Boyd stops by KEXP to talk about some of his musical experiences in the '60s and early '70s and to read from his book of memoirs White Bicycles. He is joined by singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock who covers some of Boyd’s famous tracks on acoustic guitar. As a producer, Joe Boyd helped shape the sounds of some of Britain's most enduring musicians: Pink Floyd, the Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, John Martyn and Nick Drake. The ever-witty Robyn Hitchcock descends from England's tree of eccentric psychedelia and is a huge Boyd admirer. So having Boyd read from his renowned musical memoir White Bicycles while Hitchcock plays songs his hero produced sparks plenty of fascinating anecdotes and geeky trivia.
 
http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rID=32307
http://www.joeboyd.co.uk

Le vicende della celebre etichetta Elektra Records negli anni dal 1950 al 1973, segnati dalla guida illuminata di Jac Holzman: le racconta Mick Houghton, in un corposo volume per Jawbone Press dal titolo Becoming Elektra.

It tells the story of Elektra’s growth from a small independent folk label to a major, multi-faceted, hit making concern. Jac Holzman’s role in founding and running the company is central to the story, and his capacity for lateral thinking – that led to innovations such as the first-ever sampler album, and a million-selling series of sound effects records – is a recurring theme. But the book is not just a story of one man’s business success. It is also about the label’s artists and the great music they produced, and other key people who gave the company its identity.

Becoming Elektra places the label in a broad context. A gripping narrative drawing in elements of musical and cultural history, and biographies of the main participants in the story, the book opens with a pivotal moment in Elektra’s history, when Holzman discovered The Doors. Moving into the 60s the story takes in artists that have had an extraordinary resonance down the years including some, such as Tim Buckley, who are far more popular today than in their lifetime. His story is told, along with those of artists that read like an inventory of 60s and 70s musical innovation: Love, Judy Collins, The Paul Butterfield Band, Tom Paxton, Fred Neil, David Ackles, Phil Ochs, Bread, Mickey Newbury, The Incredible String Band, The Stooges and The MC5.

http://jawbonepress.com

La puntata di Battiti in onda stasera - su Radio 3, a partire dalla mezzanotte - presenta un'intervista a Robert Wyatt in occasione dell'uscita ormai prossima dell'album For The Ghosts Within, realizzato con Gilad Atzmon e Ros Stephen. Tra i brani in anteprima: At Last I Am Free, What A Wonderful World, The Ghosts Within, What's New.
Altra recente intervista a Wyatt si trova - in lingua svedese - in Throw Me Away. E una pillola dolce è anche in http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/robert-wyatt-on-humming-whistling-and-wyatting.

http://www.battiti.rai.it/
www.throwmeaway.se/artiklar/varma-halsningar-robert-wyatt

Altri reportage dal festival Rock in Opposition del mese scorso: una recensione di Alessandro Achilli all'interno di Battiti (la puntata è quella del 30 settembre, e la si riascolta in streaming e in podcast al sito della trasmissione); gallerie fotografiche in Traverses, con gli scatti di Sylvie Hamon e Stéphane Fougère; alcuni strepitosi disegni dal diario di Baribrotzer (in Progressive Ears).

www.battiti.rai.it
www.rythmes-croises.org/traversesmag
http://www.progressiveears.com/

Si fa festa il 2 e il 3 ottobre a Parigi al rinnovato teatro Dunois per i trent'anni dell'etichetta nato: concerti con alcuni amici di sempre - Lol Coxhill e Steve Beresford, in formazioni inedite con Matt Wilson, JT Bates e Barre Phillips - e un dibattito pubblico su utopia e musica. Cin cin!

Retour à la case Dunois. À l'occasion de leurs 30 ans, les disques nato s'associent au (nouveau) Théâtre Dunois. Dunois fut l'un des lieux fondateurs de la collection, mais aussi de la vie musicale à Paris dans les années 80. Nous y retrouverons pour ce beau début d'automne des musiciens qui furent les héros de la maison de disques pendant cette décennie, des musiciens qui justement se sont largement exprimés sur l'ancienne scène du légendaire théâtre.
30 ans!... Une occasion de revenir sur les moments uniques, difficiles, riches, errants, chercheurs, sombres, lumineux assommants, vivants de ce qui a constitué pendant 30 années l’aventure des disques nato. Les 2 et 3 octobre prochains, deux compagnons de la première heure, Lol Coxhill et Steve Beresford présenteront deux formations nouvelles. Trio d'exception pour Lol Coxhill avec le contrebassiste majeur Barre Phillips et le batteur JT Bates, duo inédit pour Steve Beresford avec le trop rare (en France) ancien compagnon de Dewey Redman, le batteur Matt Wilson. L’après-midi du 2, on débattra aussi de l’utopie et de la musique. Ce n’est bien sûr pas un hasard si l’événement se fait à l’invitation du Théâtre Dunois.
Dunois et nato ont beaucoup ri, bourlingué et forgé ensemble à leurs débuts respectifs. Ce «Retour à la case Dunois» est bien conformément à la maxime de l’Art Ensemble de Chicago, un lieu marqué sur la carte musicale comme «de l'ancien vers le futur». Nous pensons que la musique peut encore un petit quelque chose pour le monde.

2 octobre:
17h: Table ronde "Musiques et utopie" (animée par Alexandre Pierrepont et Yannick Séité, en présence de Noël Akchoté, Fabien Barontini, Corinne Léonet, Jean Rochard, Sylvain Torikian, François Tusques...)
20h: Lol Coxhill - Barre Phillips - JT Bates

3 octobre:
18h: Steve Beresford - Matt Wilson

Théâtre Dunois7, rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris
Tél 01 45 84 72 00
Fax 01 45 86 39 24
contact@theatredunois.org 
 
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