Inizia oggi l'attesa - o temuta - campagna di ristampe di 60 album di Frank Zappa concordata dallo Zappa Family Trust con la Universal Music Enterprises, dopo aver ottenuto il blocco delle vendite e il ritiro del catalogo in carico alla Rykodisc. Si andrà a ritmo di dodici titoli ogni mese, da luglio a novembre 2012. Questioni, opinioni, entusiasmi e perplessità in merito all'iniziativa e alla qualità delle riedizioni abbondano nei blog e nei forum di discussione zappiani, soprattutto Zappateers, United Mutations e You Call That News?. GandsMusic offre qualche utile delucidazione sulle fonti relative alla prima sfornata di album, mentre in sede ufficiale la vedova Zappa risponde - come sa e come vuole - alle domandine dei fan.

Sono diverse le iniziative che celebrano quest'anno il settantacinquesimo anniversario delle prime incisioni di studio di Raymond Scott: concerti in suo onore e con le sue musiche, conferenze, proiezioni commentate del film biografico Deconstructing Dad, pubblicazioni di materiali inediti e ristampe - specialmente in vinile - di alcuni suoi rari lavori. Uno dei massimi conoscitori e divulgatori dell'opera di Scott, Jeff Winner, ha preso parte al programma monografico prodotto per l'occasione dall'emittente radiofonica di Berkeley, Kalx, ora archiviato in SoundCloud. Anche Battiti, il programma di Pino Saulo su Rai RadioTre, mette in onda domani sera, a partire dalla mezzanotte, uno speciale dedicato al geniale compositore newyorkese scomparso nel 1994.

2012 marks the 75th Anniversary of Raymond Scott's music, which is forever associated with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck - though bandleader-composer Scott had no interest in cartoons. Ever! Composer, electronic music pioneer, inventor, and bandstand drill sergeant Raymond Scott was born Harry Warnow, in Brooklyn, in 1908. After graduating from Juilliard, he wrote the 1934 hit song “Christmas Night In Harlem,” recorded by Louis Armstrong. In December 1936, Scott debuted his six-man “Quintette,” which featured jazz giant Bunny Berigan on trumpet and drummer Johnny Williams, father of famous movie score composer John Williams. By early 1937, Scott's Quintette were stars on radio, on records, and - after landing a contract with 20th Century Fox - in Hollywood films. The Raymond Scott's Quintette reeled off a string of quirky hit records, including “Powerhouse” (recorded February 20, 1937 in New York at their first studio session). Thanks to its being quoted by Carl Stalling in dozens of Looney Tunes, the "Powerhouse" melodies have become genetically encoded in the DNA of every earthling.

http://raymondscott.com/
http://raymondscott.blogspot.it/2011/06/celebrations-for-75th-anniversary-of.html
http://soundcloud.com/jeffewinner/kalx-radio-special-with-guest
http://tinyurl.com/cyz7wvc
http://tinyurl.com/6laty3w

La scaletta dei brani del concerto di Three Friends a Trieste giovedì scorso - ridotta, per motivi di tempo - ha proposto: Prologue, Mobile, Just the Same, The Advent of Panurge, Think of Me with Kindness, The House The Street The Room, Pantagruel's Nativity, I Lost My Head, Proclamation/Valedictory, Schooldays, Mister Class and Quality?, Three Friends e come unico bis Free Hand. Alcuni filmati sono su YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/photocronista
http://www.youtube.com/user/Meurglys75

Steve Hillage è stato ospite di Resonance FM lo scorso 9 luglio, proponendo dal vivo agli ascoltatori dell'emittente londinese qualche bell'esempio di glissando guitar: la puntata si riascolta in sintesi in www.a-wave.com/label/pages/resonance.htm

http://resonancefm.com/
http://www.a-wave.com/

Torna in una speciale edizione in vinile curata da Panegyric uno dei capolavori dei King Crimson: Lizard.

Lizard is the third in a series of King Crimson high quality vinyl reissues. The album's return to the 12" vinyl format is newly cut from masters approved by Robert Fripp. Manufactured on 200gm super-heavyweight vinyl & housed in a reprint of the original gatefold sleeve, this edition also contains bonus mp3 codes giving access to a download of a transfer of an original 1970 pressing. An album unlike any other by this most exploratory of Rock bands, Lizard is an often overlooked and under-appreciated gem.

http://www.dgmlive.com/
https://www.burningshed.com/store/panegyric/collection/340
https://www.burningshed.com/store/panegyric/product/340/4064

Serata a tema Gentle Giant questa sera a Trieste, nella splendida sede del Castello di San Giusto, in apertura del nono Trieste Rock Summer Festival: ci sono Three Friends, qui al debutto italiano, con i veterani Malcolm Mortimore e Gary Green, e con loro Mick Wilson, Lee Pomeroy e Gary Sanctuary, aiutati per l'occasione da Charlotte Glasson, e il sestetto, da qualche tempo devoto anch'esso al culto del Gigante, Ibrido Hot Six.

http://threefriendsmusic.wordpress.com/
http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/Three_Friends_(band)
http://www.ibridohotsix.it/
http://www.musicalibera.it/trieste_summer_rock_festival.html

Il più longevo tra i gruppi che vede impegnato il chitarrista belga Michel Delville, The Wrong Object, festeggia quest'anno dieci anni di attività e ha in programma di pubblicare un nuovo album in autunno, per l'etichetta MoonJune Records. Ad amici e appassionati chiede sostegno economico nelle ultime fasi di produzione: l'appello è in RocketHub.

http://www.wrongobject.com/
http://www.moonjune.com/
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/9245-the-wrong-object-s-new-studio-album
http://www.rockethub.com/profiles/29926-michel-delville

Alla serie di ristampe di importanti lavori brötzmanniani avviata dall'austriaca Cien Fuegos - tutte edizioni in vinile e a tiratura limitata, ereditate pari pari dalla FMP - si aggiungono altri due storici titoli degli anni settanta: Schwarzwaldfahrt, frutto di un soggiorno dall'esito insolito nella Foresta Nera, nell'inverno 1977, in compagnia di Han Bennink, e The Nearer The Bone, The Sweeter The Meat, tratto dal controverso concerto del trio di Brötzmann con Harry Miller e Louis Moholo al festival FMP di Berlino nel 1979. Concerto che così ricorda Eugene Chadbourne: "Saxophone terrorist Peter Brötzmann brought this group to the 1979 FMP Festival in Berlin and was promptly accused of retrenching; the sound of the trio hearkened back to the solid feel of black free jazz rather than splintering the brain with the seeming anarchy of the European free jazz scene of the time. The late bassist Harry Miller and drummer Louis Moholo both have South African roots and busily provided rhythm section support, together and in a variety of other combinations, for many different European players of a variety of persuasions. While listeners of the time might have felt Brötzmann was holding something back, the performance actually predicts the saxophonist's later activity, especially his '90s collaboration with players such as Hamid Drake and William Parker. While much of the European scene at the time veered toward inexplicable intensity, this performance is reminiscent of players such as Pharoah Sanders, with a slow, steady build toward a musical inferno guided by a similar feeling of intense spirituality."

http://www.peterbroetzmann.com/
http://www.cienfuegosrecords.com/

Torna disponibile su Incus Records l'album di Derek Bailey New Sights, Old Sounds, pubblicato in Giappone da Aquirax Aida per la sua etichetta Morgue nel 1978, e divenuto subito introvabile nel formato originale di doppio LP, uno in studio e uno dal vivo. La Incus ne produsse una versione in cd nel 2002, andata anch'essa ben presto esaurita. Scrisse all'epoca della ristampa John Eyles: "One cd is studio recorded, the other live. They provide an interesting contrast, one that goes beyond his using acoustic guitar in the studio and electric guitar live. In the studio, Bailey is introspective and exploratory. With no other player to react to, he sounds exposed. His avoidance of the expected, of clichés, of well-worn paths (call it what you will) seems more tangible than ever. Sometimes, his deliberation is almost painful to hear. Live, although his methodology is not radically different from in the studio, Bailey sounds more assured and fluent, less introspective. He has the audience to react to, but is not just playing to the audience, he is playing to the gallery. On this early trip to Japan, he seems keen to make a lasting impression. The live set uses amplification and feedback to good effect, with periods where the sound is just in control, teetering on the edge of chaos."

http://www.incusrecords.force9.co.uk/
http://www.incusrecords.force9.co.uk/catalogue/general2.html#old_sights
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/jvhj

A l'improviste, programma settimanale di France Musique dedicato a jazz e improvvisazione, propone un concerto in solo del bravissimo Paul Rogers, registrato per Radio France il 14 gennaio di quest'anno. Poco distante, negli archivi video dell'emittente, si trova un concerto dell'inseparabile Paul Dunmall, in trio con Hasse Poulsen e Mark Sanders, registrato lo scorso 5 maggio.

Paul Rogers est de la race des très grands. Musicien rebelle, toujours en colère, il poursuit depuis trois décennies un parcours exemplaire, sans jamais la moindre concession, avec une intégrité, une exigence, une sincérité qui forcent le respect. Son unives, nourri tout autant au free qu'à la musique baroque, folklorique ou au punk le plus crasseux est l'un des plus riche et original qui soit. Un univers sans frontière aucune qui n'aurait pu tolérer d'être limité par l'instrument. Et avant même de commencer à tourner en rond avec la contrebasse, il a décidé, il y a maintenant quelques années, de mettre au placard sa grand-mère et de se faire construire cette 7 string bass, propotype inédit bardé de cordes sympathiques, qu'il ne lâche plus depuis.

http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/improviste
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/video
http://tinyurl.com/yjbvx43
http://tinyurl.com/cl9sqcl

Per la prima volta su etichetta psi, dopo i molti titoli su Ecm, un nuovo album documenta l'attività dell'Electroacoustic Ensemble guidato da Evan Parker: Hasselt, da un concerto tenuto nel 2010 nel capoluogo del Limburgo belga. Con Parker c'erano Richard Barrett, Peter van Bergen, Lawrence Casserley, Peter Evans, Agusti Fernandez, Barry Guy, Ishikawa Ko, Paul Lytton, Paul Obermayer, Walter Prati, Ned Rothenberg, Joel Ryan e Marco Vecchi.

http://evanparker.com/
http://www.emanemdisc.com/psi12.html

Presso il Vortex Jazz Club londinese, a cura di Tim Ward e Oliver Weindling, è stata avviata una raccolta di fondi a sostegno della famiglia dello scomparso Lol Coxhill; il funerale si tiene martedì 24 luglio presso il City of London Cemetery, seguito da un ritrovo presso l'HMS President al Victoria Embankment.

http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/
http://londonjazz.blogspot.it/2012/07/vortex-collecting-for-lol-coxhills.html
http://www.hmspresident.com/

Soft Machine Legacy con ospite Tony Levin, nel concerto a Sant'Anna Arresi lo scorso settembre: stasera a Radiotre Suite Jazz, alle ore 22.30. John Etheridge, chitarra; Theo Travis, sax, flauto; Roy Babbington, basso; John Marshall, batteria; Tony Levin, stick.

www.radio.rai.it/radio3/radio3_suite/radio3_suite_jazz
http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article_print.php?id=7101

Prende il via domani a Nickelsdorf (Austria) l'edizione 2012 dello storico festival di jazz e musiche d'improvvisazione Konfrontationen, con concerti e iniziative pomeridiane e serali a ritmo serrato fino al 22 luglio: il programma completo è al sito http://www.konfrontationen.at/ e in pdf in www.konfrontationen.at/ko12/konfrontationen33.pdf

Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf
Untere Hauptstraße 13
A-2425 Nickelsdorf
++43/2146/2359
http://www.konfrontationen.at/
jazzgalerie@konfrontationen.at

Gli organizzatori del festival Unlimited di Wels (Austria) diffondono, come di consueto con ampio anticipo, il piano di massima di concerti e iniziative in programma a novembre presso la sede dell'Alter Schlachthof, quest'anno dal 9 all'11: tra i nomi in cartellone Keith e Julie Tippett con Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker con Peter Evans e Okkyung Lee, Han Bennink con Ches Smith, Led Bib, Albert Newton - ovvero Pat Thomas, John Edwards e Charles Hayward -, Kaffe Matthews, The Magic I.D., John Butcher con Tony Buck, Nate Wooley con Paul Lytton e Phil Minton con il Feral Choir. Informazioni e iscrizioni al laboratorio di Minton - che prelude appunto alla formazione del Feral Choir - si ottengono tramite info@musicunlimited.at, tel . 0043 7242 56375.

http://www.musicunlimited.at/

Cerimonia di apertura dei giochi olimpici di Londra oggi su Resonance FM alle 20.00, ora locale. In puro stile Bing Selfish: The Bing Selfish Radio Show - Olympic Special.

The power mad madcap decides to run a new kind of Games in this picaresque satirical musical comedy - As we know by now, Bing Selfish is Emperor of the World, excluding pesky democrat-riddled Australia and Patagonia. Notwithstanding that, he has decided to host the Olympic Games. Selfish style. On the radio. Come for the opening ceremony, stay, for the security guards are no way letting you out until this one has "stayed the course".

Resonance104.4FM
Monday 16th July
8pm-9pm UK time (which appears to be stuck somewhere in the 1980's at the minute)

http://resonancefm.com/listen
http://resonancefm.com/schedule
http://resonance.macropus.org/
http://www.bingselfish.com/

Esce a giorni Wing Beat Fantastic, l'atteso album di Mike Keneally che documenta gli esiti della collaborazione compositiva con Andy Partridge iniziata nel 2006 e la cui realizzazione ha visto fasi alterne fino a oggi: un'anteprima è in http://www.keneally.com/promo/little_wing_beat.html

This magical new album from composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mike Keneally is the highly anticipated result of a songwriting union between the famed rock experimentalist and legendary XTC tunesmith Andy Partridge. Their collaboration produced eight new songs, combining Partridge's innate sense of angular pop melody and beautifully intelligent poeticism with Keneally's experimental bent and surrealist tendencies. For Partridge fanatics, the album will be a trove of rare new material from a songwriter who's released precious little new work over the past decade. For Keneally enthusiasts, Wing Beat Fantastic represents his most melodic and pop-oriented release ever, while still maintaining the rich, detail-studded arrangements, love of sonic adventurism and superb musicianship for which he is renowned. More than any other Keneally album, Wing Beat Fantastic has an emotional resonance that engages the heart as adeptly as it does the mind.

http://www.keneally.com/
http://chalkhills.org/
http://store.keneally.com/products/mike-keneally-wing-beat-fantastic
http://www.keneally.com/promo/little_wing_beat.html

Festa di compleanno per Eddie Prévost questa sera a Londra al Cafe Oto: intervengono John Tilbury, John White, Sebastian Lexer, John Butcher, Harrison Smith, Michael Parsons e Seymour Wright tra gli altri. Auguri!

A celebration for the 70th Birthday of Eddie Prévost, a percussionist of immense fire, grace and invention and one of the most important figures in British improvised music. Prévost was one of the founders of the essential AMM and has collaborated with the greatest improvisers internationally. He has kept a continuous contact with the scene since the 60's and always manages to invent anew his contribution to "meta-music".
This special birthday concert will include the following performances as well as further contributions and appreciations from John Tilbury, Victor Schonfeld, Evan Parker, the Eddie Prevost Workshop and more amongst the special home-made cakes and party food... AMM: Eddie Prévost (perc) & John Tilbury (piano); Michael Parsons (piano): a special composition for the occasion; John White (various) and Sebastian Lexer (piano +); Harrison Smith (saxes), Gerry Gold (trumpet) and Ute Kanngeiser (cello); Seymour Wright (alto sax) and John Butcher (soprano/ tenor sax).

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/eddie-prevost-70th-birthday.shtm

Tim Owen ha seguito i concerti di Fred Frith con John Edwards, Mark Sanders e Christian Marclay al Cafe Oto londinese la settimana scorsa: http://tinyurl.com/oto2012-frith

Omaggi, commenti, ricordi personali e aneddoti a proposito di Lol Coxhill affiorano sul web presso riviste, quotidiani, forum e blog. Scrivono della sua scomparsa amici carissimi e antichi compagni di ventura:
Steve Beresford: "He was recognisable by a single note, and that was his intention. He sounded like Lol when he played with The Damned and he sounded like Lol when he played with Evan Parker."
Judy Dyble: "His name was Lowen and he was a lovely man. I was part of a short-lived band with Lol and Steve and Phil Miller, as (would you believe) Dyble Coxhill and the Miller Brothers or DC and the MBs for slightly short. We did a small tour of the Netherlands and some university gigs and then went our separate ways, but in that short time I learned a huge amount about freeform improvisation and learned to love it immensely".
Fabrizio Spera: "Incontrandolo più volte nella sua città, mi ha sempre colpito quanto fosse forte la sua presenza all'interno della comunità musicale londinese. Lol attraversava la città in bus e anche negli ultimi anni, sebbene in condizioni fisiche sempre più aggravate, Lol era sempre presente. Tra locali, pub, negozi di dischi, gallerie d'arte, in concerto, o semplicemente tra il pubblico ad ascoltare la musica degli altri, la sua presenza, come del resto quella di Steve Beresford, rappresentava una sicurezza per la comunità."
Bruce Lee Gallanter: "Sometimes in the mid-nineties, Lol played a short US solo tour on the East Coast. On his way to a gig, Lol was in bad car accident and broke his jaw, thus ending the tour since he couldn't play for a while. He returned to England to convalesce and was given a benefit show in London to help raise money for his medical expenses. A number of the UK's finest musicians played in various combinations throughout the night. While Elton Dean was sitting in the back of the club, a jam session was taking place on stage. A rather large woman in a long dress took to the stage and was playing tenor sax. When it was her turn to solo, she wailed and blew away everyone else on stage and in the club. Elton looked to see who was playing so well, but didn't recognize her. Everyone was mystified as to who she was. When her long solo was over and everyone in attendance was hooting and hollering for more, she pulled off her wig to reveal a bald head and guess who it was underneath... none other than Lol Coxhill himself!"
Scrivono di lui Jean Rochard in Le Glob, Stef Gijssels in Free-Jazz e Christopher Ballard in The Nomadic Subject. Articoli sono in The Wire e The Guardian. Helen Petts dischiude la sua preziosa, personale collezione in http://tinyurl.com/6ppmnry, ma filmati del Nostro si reperiscono in quantità anche altrove su YouTube. Uno tra i più belli, e simbolici, degli ultimi anni è quello che lo ritrae serenamente impegnato ad allietare la danza di una bimba - la figlia di Caroline Kraabel e John Edwards - durante una festicciola tra amici in giardino: una Biancaneve volteggiante senza sosta alle note del magico Soprano Calvo.

http://www.nato-glob.blogspot.it/2012/07/lol-coxhill-1932-2012.html
http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.it/2012/07/lol-coxhill-1932-2012.html
http://thenomadicsubject.blogspot.it/2012/07/rip-lol-coxhill-1932-2012.html
http://thewire.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&article=9391
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/11/lol-coxhill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF0MCesk3bE&feature=related

David Toop ricorda Lol Coxhill: "After a certain age you become accustomed to the passing of legends, the chiming of a clock that fades into inaudibility, yet I felt bereft and tearful, not only because I counted Lol as a strange sort of friend and had played with him on and off since 1971, but because he was a person whose way of living, presence, being, conversation, wit and music enriched and challenged your own existence."

http://davidtoopblog.com/2012/07/10/end-of-play-for-lol-coxhill

Mike Westbrook scrive: "One of the great individualists in jazz and a much loved figure, Lol will be greatly missed by his fans, friends and colleagues. He is remembered here with great affection, respect and gratitude as a founder member of the Brass Band in the 1970s. Lol had a long, hugely varied career. The scene will be poorer without his unique presence and distinctive soprano saxophone, which took him literally from Hungerford Bridge to the concert halls and jazz festivals of the world. Rest in Peace."

http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/

E così Ben Watson: "Our greatest, most inventive, most persuasive and most discursive saxophone player: not simply a musician, but a dyed-in-the-wool subversive of the spectacle capitalism makes of music. Lol was there at the origins of practically every worthwhile style of Anglo pop - Ska, Bop, Hippie, Improv, Punk, Noise - but peeled off as soon as the movement came to be about fame and money rather than playing. He was our Ornette Coleman, and everyone who saw him loved him".

http://www.unkant.com/2012/07/lol-coxhill-rip.html

Ciao Lol. Inimitabile.

http://www.lolcoxhill.com/
http://londonjazz.blogspot.it/2012/07/rip-lol-coxhill-1932-2012.html
http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/69-2012/12425-jazz-breaking-news-saxophonist-lol-coxhill-dies-age-79
http://jazzhouserecords.blogspot.it/2012/07/memories-of-lol.html
http://www.progrockmag.com/news/lol-coxhill-r-i-p

Su etichetta Ogun torna alla luce - ed è la prima volta in cd - In His Good Time, album di Chris McGregor tratto da un concerto in solo tenuto a Parigi al Palais des Glaces il 18 novembre 1977. I brani in più rispetto all'originale in vinile, pubblicato nel 1979, provengono da quello stesso concerto. Wheeeeeeeee!

"For the first time on CD, this solo outing by the renowned South African band leader and composer Chris McGregor, recorded live in his adopted homeland of France in 1977. Best known as a member of the Blue Notes and leader of the international big band the Brotherhood of Breath, McGregor rarely recorded solo; his two recitals for the French Musica label have long since disappeared, and "In His Good Time" has been unavailable for many years. This long-awaited reissue comes directly from the original unedited analogue tapes and boasts a wealth of bonus material, restoring in its entirety the first set of the evening, a continuous performance of original works and arrangements of traditional South African folksongs. Five tracks edited from the second set complete the collection."

http://tinyurl.com/c8lutch

Prodotto in soli cinquecento esemplari, il cofanetto ReR recupera in 7 cd nove titoli Sun Ra del catalogo Saturn: Artyard in a Box.

9 classic Saturn releases on 7 CDs. All of them great, all of them quite different from one another and all featuring a lot of electric keyboards and Moog from the boss. The albums are Disco 3000, Sleeping Beauty, On Jupiter, Beyond the Purple Star Zone, Oblique Parallax, Horizon, Nidhamu, Dark Myth Equation Visitation and The Antique Blacks - all beautifully packaged in three-fold digipacks. Limited, numbered, edition in this low price box set.

http://www.rermegacorp.com/
http://tinyurl.com/artyard-rer

Da una delle sue realizzazioni sceniche più sconcertanti degli anni recenti - nessun attore in scena, nessun musicista ad eseguire le partiture - viene il nuovo album di Heiner Goebbels, pubblicato su etichetta Ecm: Stifters Dinge. "Stifter’s Things is a composition for five pianos with no pianists, a play with no actors, a performance without performers - one might say a no-man show. First and foremost, it is an invitation to audiences to enter a fascinating space full of sounds and images, an invitation to see and hear. It revolves around awareness of things, things that in the theatre are often part of the set or act as props and play a merely illustrative role. Here they become protagonists: light, pictures, murmurs, sounds, voices, wind and mist, water and ice".

http://tinyurl.com/stifters-dinge
www.heinergoebbels.com/#/en/archive/works/complete/view/4/media

Tim Owen ha seguito i concerti di Thomas Lehn con Tim Hodgkinson, Hannah Marshall, Philipp Wachsmann, John Butcher e Roger Turner al Cafe Oto londinese il 26 e 27 giugno scorsi: http://tinyurl.com/oto2012-lehn

Per il suo nuovo ciclo di concerti al Cafe Oto londinese, Fred Frith incontra domani John Edwards e Mark Sanders e dopodomani Christian Marclay: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/fred-frith-residency-2012.shtm

One of the most inventive and eclectic figures in contemporary music, guitarist and composer Fred Frith takes up residency in Café Oto again for two days of improvised encounters with three of London's most dynamic musicians - Christian Marclay on turntables, John Edwards on double bass and Mark Sanders on drums.

http://www.fredfrith.com/
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/fred-frith-residency-2012.shtm

Serata cremisi per Aymeric Leroy presso la libreria parigina L'arbre à lettres, dove presenta stasera le sue due ultime fatiche editoriali per Le Mot Et Le Reste, un testo sui King Crimson e la versione in francese del libro autobiografico di Bill Bruford: http://tinyurl.com/cuu9kn2

Après son opus sur Pink Floyd et sa magistrale histoire du Rock progressif, Aymeric Leroy continue à explorer ce genre musical trop décrié, mais mal connu, qu'est le rock progressif. Cette fois, c'est au groupe fondateur du mouvement qu'il s'attaque. Parallèlement, il traduit la passionnante autobiographie du légendaire batteur de Yes, King Crimson et de son groupe Earthworks, Bill Bruford.

http://tinyurl.com/cuu9kn2
http://atheles.org/lemotetlereste/formes/kingcrimson/index.html
http://atheles.org/lemotetlereste/attitudes/lautobiographie/index.html

Nel perdurare del periodo di inattività del gruppo-madre Stereolab, Laetitia Sadier pubblica il suo secondo album da titolare solista, Silencio, su etichetta Drag City. La cantante si è esibita quasi in incognito qualche sera fa a Londra al Cinema Museum, convocata in bizzarra compagnia da Marie Merlet.

http://www.dragcity.com/products/silencio
http://www.pitchperfectpr.com/a_lae.html
http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2012/cinema-songbook-marie-merlet

Prosegue la pubblicazione in podcast delle amabili e istruttive conversazioni musicali di Louis Philippe con Danny Manners: negli episodi più recenti il ricordo va agli album Yuri Gagarin, Rainfall e Sunshine e alla fine (ahimè) dell'esperienza él Records: http://www.louisphilippe.co.uk/podcasts.html

Il catalogo è fermo da tempo, e le riserve ormai agli sgoccioli, tuttavia per procurarsi un titolo Siesta il momento è ancora propizio. La stagione anzi lo impone, assieme alla prova costume: Algebra Spaghetti, Simultaneous Ice Cream, i volumi Songs for the Jet Set, la trilogia di viaggio Sol y sombra, Educación y descanso e Información y turismo, e poi Erre que Erre, Derby, Expreso, vivaci e colorati come certi ghiaccioli ai piccoli frutti... yummy!

http://www.siesta.es/