Al compimento del suo quarto anno di vita un importante, meritatissimo riconoscimento è stato conferito al Cafe Oto - nella persona del suo responsabile, Hamish Dunbar - da una fondazione londinese, la Genesis Foundation, decisa a premiare nuovi talenti e forze emergenti nel campo delle arti di ricerca e d'avanguardia: "Hamish showed entrepreneurial courage in founding Café Oto and in a remarkably short time has designed an innovative space that has created a new audience for avant-garde music. His proven ability to bring different artists together, and the role he plays in forming creative relationships made him stand out from the other finalists. Transforming a disused warehouse into such a vibrant venue shows a degree of fearlessness that will stand him in good stead and make him a great mentor to musicians for many years to come. All the judges said that Café Oto was the venue that they wish to visit!”. Congratulazioni!
www.genesisfoundation.org.uk/content/genesis-prize
www.genesisfoundation.org.uk/content/hamish-dunbar-caf%C3%A9-oto-awarded-inaugural-%C2%A325000-arts-prize-genesis-foundation
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston
London E8 3DL
www.cafeoto.co.uk
Sarà pronta a fine maggio 2012 la riedizione dell'album di Robert Wyatt The End Of An Ear curata da Esoteric Recordings; si può prenotarne un copia già ora presso il sito dell'etichetta, oppure tramite Burning Shed.
"Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce a newly remastered edition of the legendary debut solo album by Robert Wyatt. Recorded in August 1970 whilst Wyatt was still a member of Soft Machine, his first solo outing was a blend of jazz and experimental music that he had pioneered on his composition ‘Moon in June’ on Soft Machine’s Third album. The sessions for The End Of An Ear saw Robert Wyatt joined by guests such as Dave Sinclair of Caravan and Soft Machine alumni Mark Charig and Elton Dean among others. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been newly remastered from the original master tapes and features a booklet that fully restores all original album artwork with a new essay."
www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=3666
www.burningshed.com/store/canterburyscene/product/104/3715
Cuneiform Records diffonde un filmato che anticipa l'uscita, prevista a maggio 2012, dell'album postumo del compianto Lars Hollmer Med Mjölad Hand / With Floury Hand. Assieme alle ultime registrazioni di studio di Hollmer ci sono vari materiali inediti e d'archivio e un dvd tratto dalla sua partecipazione al Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portogallo nell'aprile 2005.
This May, 2012 CD/DVD release by Cuneiform Records of "Med Mjölad Hand/With Floury Hand" is the final album by Swedish new music/avant-folk legend Lars Hollmer. Med Mjölad Hand is the album Lars was working on before he died. This CD/DVD set includes a professionally filmed DVD from 2005 of a performance by Lars solo, in duo with bassoonist Michel Berckmans (of Univers Zero), and one song with Miriodor, plus extras. All of the recordings on the CD and DVD are previously unreleased.
http://tinyurl.com/cancg8p
www.cuneiformrecords.com
www.gaudela.net/gar/index.html
Bill Bruford riprende temi e argomenti del suo fortunato testo autobiografico (Bill Bruford: The Autobiography; Jawbone Press, 2009) in un incontro pubblico alla Malmo Academy of Music (Svezia): http://tinyurl.com/78kh796
Bill Bruford’s professional musical career began in 1968. He was a guiding light in the British Art Rock movement, recording and touring internationally with Yes and King Crimson from 1968-74. Since then he has worked with many other artists, including Gong, National Health, Genesis and U.K., as well as leading his own bands Bruford and Earthworks. Bill Bruford: The Autobiography is his first book.
www.billbruford.com
http://jawbonepress.com/index.php?id=9
Breve itinerario tra le musiche di Pierre Bastien, Look De Bouk, Klimperei, Déficit Des Années Antérieures, Ptôse, Hector Zazou e Joseph Racaille: Musiques illusionistes, puntata di Battiti in onda stasera a partire dalla mezzanotte su Rai RadioTre.
http://tinyurl.com/6rtfab8
Simon Barber e Brian O’Connor di Sodajerker on Songwriting conversano con Andy Partridge sulla genesi e la realizzazione di alcune sue celebri canzoni: tecniche compositive, fonti di ispirazione, esempi pratici e qualche trucco del mestiere...
Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Andy Partridge of XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear joins them for a conversation about the writing of some of his greatest songs, including ‘Senses Working Overtime’, ‘Love on a Farmboy’s Wages’, ‘Ballet for a Rainy Day’, ‘Scarecrow People’ and ‘Brainiac’s Daughter’ among many others. With his guitar at hand, Andy talks Sodajerker through his writing process in a way only he can!
http://sodajerker.com/episode-8-andy-partridge
Clean Feed pubblica un album di particolare interesse storico e simbolico per il jazz portoghese (e non solo): Estilhaços, registrato nel 1972 a Lisbona dal quintetto di Steve Lacy con Steve Potts, Irene Aebi, Kent Carter e Noel McGhie: "This is a very special work for all Portuguese jazz fans, not only because of historical reasons, but also emotional ones. At the end of the dictatorship, “Estilhaços” had the emblematic power to represent freedom in music: it was recorded live during a Lisbon concert in the beginning of 1972 (the revolution happened two years later, in 1974), being the first jazz record released in Portugal. What can seem strange is easily explainable: for the authorities, jazz was a decadent black music".
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=397
Nuovo gioiello di casa nato: Crescendo in Duke, il repertorio di Duke Ellington riletto dal pianista Benoît Delbecq, con Tony Coe, Tony Malaby, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Steve Argüelles, The Hornheads, Yohannes Tona e Michael Bland. Storie e retroscena in Le Glob, e su YouTube una presentazione di Igor Juget.
Benoît Delbecq est un passionné d’Ellington, du pianiste et du compositeur. Travailler son répertoire, c’est à la fois abandonner un peu de timidité face à un tel géant, mais aussi le comprendre mieux, saisir les ponts que cette musique a dessinés pour notre présent. Lorsque Benoît Delbecq reprend Ellington, il ne s’abrite pas derrière le répertoire, il affirme toute son originalité. Pour Crescendo in Duke, Delbecq ne revisite pas forcément les thèmes les plus «standards» du répertoire Ellingtonien, il explore! Car au-delà des arbres magnifiques maintes fois entendus et joués, se cache une forêt de plus de 1500 titres. "Le monde de Duke Ellington est un monde de danse, de chavirements et d'orfèvrerie sonore. Jouer sa musique, c'est se mettre au service d'un influx créatif unique qui a la vertu d'appeler à des prolongements fugitifs d'aujourd'hui".
http://www.natomusic.fr/catalogue/musique-jazz/cd/nato-disque.php?id=286
http://www.nato-glob.blogspot.it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBQl43Tuxc
Il festival di musica contemporanea MaerzMusik, in corso a Berlino da qualche giorno e fino al 25 marzo, è dedicato quest'anno agli anniversari di John Cage e Wolfgang Rihm, con interventi e contributi a vario titolo di Joan La Barbara, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Quartetto Arditti, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier e Gordon Mumma. Tra i protagonisti dei laboratori e dei concerti notturni della serie Sonic Arts Lounge ci sono inoltre Elliott Sharp, zeitkratzer, Nicolas Collins, Tomomi Adachi e Werner Dafeldecker tra gli altri. L'appuntamento di domani sera offre particolare spazio ad Annie Gosfield, accompagnata nell'esecuzione di sei suoi lavori da Stephen Gosling, George Kentros, Frances-Marie Uitti, Roger Kleier e Chris Cutler.
MaerzMusik 2012 serves as an experimental setting: by presenting the work of John Cage and Wolfgang Rihm, who both mark anniversaries this year, two artistic positions confront one another that could hardly be more contradictory in their respective radicalism. They can be viewed as poles of a contemporary musical cosmos which emerges as a multi- dimensional, creative field of tension, constantly developing further yet without really being reconciled under the ostensibly protective roof of 'anything goes' pluralism.
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/aktuell/festivals/02_maerzmusik/mm12_info/mm12_info_1.php
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/aktuell/festivals/02_maerzmusik/mm12_programm/mm12_programmpdf/mm12_programm_pdf.php
Settimana di celebrazioni per Heiner Goebbels nell'anno del suo sessantesimo compleanno, con la prima importante retrospettiva dei suoi lavori in Regno Unito al festival Frontiers +, concerti, seminari, convegni e il conferimento di un dottorato honoris causa. Dal 19 al 23 marzo 2012 all'Università e al Conservatorio di Birmingham: www.heinergoebbelsfestival.org
Heiner Goebbels' works embrace the many aspects of his life in music in ways that feel both entirely natural and very personal: leftfield rock and improvisation, radio plays, notated music, cinema, critical musicology and theatre. He has an affinity with Hanns Eisler. Just as Eisler's work alongside Brecht's theatre inspired a new radical music, so Goebbels' work with the director Heiner Muller in the '80s and early '90s spurred him on to create a musical idiom both new and very much his own. The Frontiers + programme celebrates Goebbels' ground-breaking work, alongside works by related composers. Plus, the Symposium offers a chance to hear Goebbels himself discussing his unique approach. The Birmingham City University will award Heiner Goebbels a Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University "in recognition of his unique and distinguished achievements as a composer and his outstanding lifelong contribution to the development of contemporary music".
www.heinergoebbels.com
Steve Beresford, Mats Gustafsson, Maja S.K. Ratkje, John Butcher, Erikm, Dave Tucker, Sylvie Courvoisier, Toshimaru Nakamura e Michel Doneda scelti da Ed Pinsent per la puntata di venerdì scorso di The Sound Projector - rivista mensile autoprodotta e programma radiofonico settimanale presso Resonance FM - dedicata all'improvvisazione: ora in podcast in www.thesoundprojector.com
The Sound Projector is a radio programme dedicated to new music, sound-art, noise, and certain surprising combinations. It is possible to regard the radio show as the aural equivalent to The Sound Projector Music Magazine, a self-published music magazine produced by Ed Pinsent in London. The magazine’s contents, mostly reviews of submitted records and CDs, are often themed according to the editor’s personal choices and naming schemes.
www.thesoundprojector.com/2012/03/16/mostly-improvised
Non è tempo d'esitar, l'edizione è limitata a mille copie! Elton Dean's Ninesense, The 100 Club Concert 1979, per Reel Recordings: Elton Dean con Alan Skidmore, Mark Charig, Harry Beckett, Nick Evans, Radu Malfatti, Keith Tippett, Harry Miller e Louis Moholo - cui si unisce anche Jim Dvorak nel secondo set - il 5 marzo 1979 al 100 Club di Londra.
Reel Recordings releases a stunning two compact disc celebrating the thirty-third anniversary of The 100 Club Concert 1979: an exhilarating jazz concert performance selected from the private tape library of Italian jazz aficionado Riccardo Bergerone. Produced in cooperation with the Estate of Elton Dean, the musicians, and Ogun Records. For the many friends and fans of the late saxophonist and composer Elton Dean, this poignant double compact disc release is the debut presentation of a complete concert performance from Elton’s ensemble of Brit-Jazz firebrands known as Ninesense. Complimenting this release is a twelve page booklet from the pen and archive of Riccardo Bergerone, the young Italian friend of Elton who recorded this extraordinary concert using a Pro Sony TC-D5M cassette recorder at the stage front table. All of the musical magic from these magnificent charts and soloists are potently heard, and on full display! Completing Riccardo's special document of Elton's Ninesense in full concert flight is an inner three panel photo gallery of Ninesense in concert, courtesy of the Jak Kilby Archive. Remastering: doctoring, sonic nursing via outboard Drawmer tube EQ & tube Compressor by Michael King.
http://reelrecordings.org/elton_dean_ninesense.php
Da un concerto in Belgio del luglio 1979 un nuovo prezioso documento Ogun sull'attività dei Blue Notes: Before The Wind Changes, con i magnifici quattro Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Dyani e Louis Moholo.
Second recording from the Blue Notes' 1979 tour of Belgium and Holland, taken from tour organiser Rob Sotemann's tape archive. Whereas the critically acclaimed first volume from this archive, Spiritual Knowledge And Grace (OGCD 035) featured an impromptu collaboration between Blue Notes members Louis Moholo, Dudu Pukwana & Johnny Dyani and American tenor sax powerhouse Frank Wright, Before The Wind Changes focuses on the established quartet line-up with Chris McGregor at the piano and features an incendiary performance from Waregem.
Ogun Recording Ltd.
79 Farrant Avenue
London N22 6PD
ogunrecords@googlemail.com
Scade tra un paio di settimane il termine entro il quale candidarsi a ottenere uno degli ultimi biglietti rimasti per partecipare alla serata The Wire Salon-An Audience With Robert Wyatt del prossimo 12 aprile al Cafe Oto londinese. Serve superare l'esame dello staff della rivista The Wire con un'interpretazione - non necessariamente musicale - di una canzone di Wyatt. Informazioni in dettaglio in http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/8525
Robert Wyatt is appearing at The Wire Salon on 12 April. Tickets sold out in just a few days, so we're running a competition for three people to win pairs of tickets. Rather than create a Googleable trivia question, we're asking readers to send in artistic interpretations of a Robert Wyatt song. Any media is accepted: painting, illustrations, video, audio, interpretative dance, or sculpture (the latter suggested by Edwin Pouncey). Entries will be judged and selected by the staff of The Wire, and winners will be notified by email or phone. Closing date for entries is midnight GMT on 25 March, and winners will be notified by 5 April. NB: The Wire will not pass on contact details to any third party, and we cannot return any work sent in, but we may show your artwork to Robert Wyatt come April.
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/wire-salon-an-audience-with-robert-wyatt.shtm
"Berlusconi was such a thrill, now here comes Monti to collect the bill"... Eugene Chadbourne rilegge Berry Gordy e Janie Bradford alla luce della situazione economica e politica in Italia: Monti (Money, That's What He Wants), in prima esecuzione al Centro Stabile di Cultura di S. Vito di Leguzzano (Vicenza) la scorsa settimana. Ce n'è traccia in www.youtube.com/user/photocronista
Ones de crom di Ràdio Castellar 90.1 FM mantiene al proprio sito web un ricco archivio di podcast di facile accesso con occhio e orecchio di riguardo per art rock, elettronica, avanguardia, free jazz e improvvisazione: tra le puntate più recenti ci sono speciali su Evan Parker, Rafael Toral, Mark Stewart, Eugene Chadbourne, Z'ev, Agustí Martínez, Jim O'Rourke, e più indietro Derek Bailey, This Heat, Sun City Girls, Keith Rowe, Red Krayola, scena downtown newyorkese, noise nipponico, folk sperimentale, minimalismo storico...
http://onesdecrom.podomatic.com
Giunge alla diciassettesima luna l'almanacco canterburyano curato da Matthew Watkins, Canterbury Soundwaves, forte stavolta di rari materiali audio e video - alcuni ancora in progress - a margine di un'intervista a Mark Hewins, con uno sguardo alle sue passate collaborazioni con Elton Dean, Pip Pyle, Hugh Hopper, John Greaves, Steve e Phil Miller, Gong e Lol Coxhill.
http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com/2012/02/episode-17.html
Torna in pista la Mike Westbrook Band con una ripresa di Fine 'n Yellow in tre concerti tra il 7 e il 10 marzo a Londra e Lund (Svezia): calendario e dettagli - anche degli altri appuntamenti dei Westbrook, in particolare quelli del mese prossimo - si leggono in www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/mikewestbrook/diary.shtml
The new Mike Westbrook Band with Kate Westbrook, saxophonists Andy Tweed, Chris Caldwell and Chris Biscoe, Karen Street, sax and accordion, Steve Berry on bass, Mike Westbrook on piano and drummer Simon Pearson, launches its expanded live version of Fine 'n Yellow at the beginning of March 2012 with two London dates, at the 606 on March 7th and The Spice on the 8th, followed by a Swedish festival on the 10th at the Mejeriet, Lund.
http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/fineyellow/index.shtml
http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/fineyellow/info.shtml
http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/katewestbrook/yellowfigleaf.shtml
Chi è il più grande chitarrista sconosciuto (!) per Destination Out?
"In Europe, he is revered as an innovator and guitarist on par with folks like Derek Bailey and John Fahey. He invented his own unique language on the instrument – but he didn’t stop there. He radically modified and created wild new hybrid guitars that produced sounds like the koto, organ, harpsichord, chimes, and even electronics. All of this in the service of extending the expressive possibilities of his music. We’re slightly embarrassed to admit that we’re relative newcomers to him ourselves. He’s virtually unknown in the U.S. and we’re guessing many of you aren’t overly familiar with him either. When he recently passed away, it was hard to find more than one obit for him across the entire English speaking internet!"
http://destination-out.com/?p=3638
Louis Moholo è in concerto a Milano, al Teatro Manzoni, con Francine Luce, Henry Lowther, Jason Yarde, Alan Tomlinson, Ntshuks Bonga, Alexander Hawkins e John Edwards: Louis Moholo Unit Special Edition 'Dedicated To The Blue Notes'. Il 4 marzo, alle ore 11.00.
http://www.aperitivoinconcerto.com
Due settimane di concerti all'insegna dell'incontro e dell'interazione tra musicisti di Zurigo e di New York (e non solo): Intakt Records at The Stone, dall'1 al 15 marzo. Informazioni, rassegna stampa e programma completo in http://www.intaktrec.ch/wordpress e in http://thestonenyc.com
Intakt Records is a Zürich based record label that produces creative jazz. It was formed in 1986 by Patrik Landolt and Rosmarie A. Meier to serve the needs of a community of creative jazz artists in Zürich, Berlin, London, etc, committed to exploring the edge of improvisation, composition and innovation. Intakt is a non profit association. In the executive committee are the musicians Irène Schweizer and Lucas Niggli. «Small in budget, but immense in quality», praises “The New York City Jazz Records” Intakt Records. More than 200 recordings have been released up to today. For these two weeks in The Stone, Intakt Records founded the association “Zurich-New York” with veteran drummer Pierre Favre as chair to finance traveling and accommodation of the Zurich based musicians to make their stay in New York possible. Two years of work and the project is now on track: From the 1st to the 15th of March 2012 ‘The Stone’ will host a thirteen day festival with 26 concerts. ‘The Stone’, probably the most important address for creative jazz in New York, will become a place for musicians from Zurich and New York to collaborate. Established names from the Swiss jazz scene such as Irène Schweizer, Pierre Favre, Lucas Niggli, Dieter Ulrich, Philipp Schaufelberger, Gabriela Friedli, Jan Schlegel, Christian Weber und Co Streiff along with newcomers such as Michael Jaeger, Fabian Gisler, Samuel Blaser or Julian Sartorius will play with musicians from New York such as Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Russ Johnson, Ray Anderson, Elliott Sharp, Fred Frith, Tim Berne, Tony Malaby, Tom Rainey, Ingrid Laubrock, Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman.
http://www.intaktrec.ch/wordpress
http://thestonenyc.com
