A seguire la più recente esecuzione di Paintbox Jane di Westbrook & Company - a St Ives in Cornovaglia presso il celebrato St Ives Jazz Club, l'ultimo prima di New York - c'era Angela Jianu: ne scrive per lo Smith's Academy Notice Board.

"The narrative in Paintbox Jane revolves around the French painter Raoul Dufy (played with panache by Tim Goodwin) as he paints an imaginary portrait of a female friend. It shares with A Bigger Show the quintessentially Westbrookian fusion of jazz, musical, cabaret and theatre, but on a smaller scale. The powerful big orchestra sound of the earlier show is here replaced by the more intimate music made by piano, vocals, saxophone and bass. On that summer evening of 24 July at the St Ives Jazz Club, this jazzy chamber music sounded perhaps more enthralling than ever before. The vocals provided by Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier and Billie Bottle soared above Mike Westbrook’s broody keyboards, Alan Wakeman’s groovy saxophone and Marcus Vergette’s dramatically pounding double bass. Jane Mann – for whom the show was commissioned – was among an audience who appeared mesmerised by both music and lyrics."

http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/PaintboxJane
http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/smithsboard/index.shtml#angela

La fitta trama verbale impressa da R. Stevie Moore al recente The Embodiment of Progressive Ideals può aver distolto l'ascoltatore dalle molte arguzie finemente annodate nel tappeto sonoro dal contitolare Alan Jenkins (con The Kettering Vampires). La versione solo strumentale dell'album, disponibile tramite Bandcamp, offre la possibilità di coglierle appieno: https://rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com/album/embodiment-progressive-ideal-instrumental

"Nashville's greatest underground music explorer makes a return with a new album of odd ditties, strange sermons and recitations retrieved from discarded product packaging and advertisement blurbs. Assisted by Deep Freeze Mice guitarist Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires, R. Stevie Moore lets blurt a plethora of miniature monologues, the bulk of which sound like they have been composed using the William S Burroughs / Brion Gysin cut-up method. Hilarious, manic and tinged with a sense of despair, Moore's latest laconic commentary on his own life, and the continually warping world we all share with him, is a revelation."

http://www.cordeliarecords.co.uk
https://rsteviemooreandalanjenkins.bandcamp.com/releases
http://www.rsteviemoore.com/cd/embodiment.html

Poche copie in vinile non potevano bastare, lo si sapeva, e bene ha fatto perciò Andy Partridge a produrne una versione anche in cd: è l'EP con le sue sgargianti ri-creazioni - cinquant'anni dopo - di Apples & Oranges (Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd) e Humanoid Boogie (Neil Innes, The Bonzo Dog Band), in mono e stereo oggi come allora.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3pntbc
https://burningshed.com/apples-and-oranges_humanoid-boogie_vinyl
https://burningshed.com/apples-and-oranges_humanoid-boogie_cd