Dylan Howe on Bowie's "Low". "Subterraneans"

A jazz take on Bowie's cold masterpiece. Surprisingly, it works very well

And Now, For Something Ccompletely Different: Zun Zun Egui

Psych, africano, oriental, latino? Um cocktail de tudo isso

Tesouros do Baú: "Les Chants du Ghetto"

Este vinil é um objeto fora do baralho, tanto pelo tema como pelo estilo. Uma obra de Sarah Gorby, cantora Yidish, com estruturas sonoras de Lasry-Bachet, além de uma belíssima capa de Raymod Moretti, é um álbum que está muito distante da cultura de entretenimento (tal como a concebemos hoje), mas é uma obra de significado profundo sobre a raiz da música. Explico: o disco é uma recolha dos cantos judeus nos campos de concentração e nos ghettos (como o de Varsóvia), orquestrados  por Lasry-Bachet.

Nas mais duras condições que se possa imaginar, sem certezas sobre o dia de amanhã, afastados das famílias e dos amigos, vivendo no limiar da sobrevivência, os judeus continuaram a fazer música e a cantar. No campo de Theresienstadt, para onde foram deportados muitos artistas, às espera de passar para os campos de extermínio, continua mesmo a criar teatro e a fazer representações.

Naturalmente, a temática do disco são os próprios acontecimentos da guerra, os lamentos sobre a perda dos seres queridos - várias canções são sobre crianças. Alguns temas assumem mais uma estrutura de marcha, o estilo necessário para instilar resistência nos corações, como o último "Letzen Weig" ("O canto dos guerrilheiros"), mas a maior parte são de género confessional.

Parece ser uma obra cujo relevância se perdeu, embora haja várias reedições e possa encontrar com facilidade à venda na net. O Youtube tem várias canções de uma edição mais recente desta obra, mas nesta aldeia global a primeira visualização de alguns temas é minha!

Não será a musica festiva de Domingo de manhã que alguns gostariam, mas é uma obra interessante, sensível e de um interesse humano e histórico muito grande.

Modry Efekt / Radim Hladik

For you prog heads out there -  Radim Hladík, Of Czech Group Blue Effect, or Modry Efekt, in Czech

Filme perdido dos King Crimson com Keith Tippett e Michael Giles

With compliments to Dangerous Minds

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/king_crimson_lost_top_of_the_pops_performance_of_cat_food_found

This March 1970 Top of the Pops performance by King Crimson circa their In the Wake of Poseidon album was long thought to have been wiped by the BBC, but now some 45 years later, it’s turned up in black & white, taken from a Swiss-German TV series that often used TOTP clips called Hits a Go-Go.

Doing a lip-sync to their “Cat Food” single, this is the sole known footage of Greg Lake, Keith Tippett, Michael Giles, Robert Fripp and (a sharply dressed) Peter Giles together onstage.

To say that this is a King Crimson fan’s “holy grail” is a bit of an understatement, I should think!

Titilações do Peru #1 - Stefano Bollani - "Sheik Yer Zappa"

Album de 2014 de Stefano Bollani, pianista de jazz italiano,  com composições de Frank Zappa.  Modo jazz. Das composições de Zappa já sabiamos que eram dificeis e arrevezadas, principalmente as da primeira metade dos anos 70. Agora sabemos que se adaptam bem a arranjos jazz. Não é matéria virgem, mas Bollani faz arranjos muito interessantes em que a guitarra de Zappa é substituída pelo piano e o resultado é um disco que se ouve com bastante prazer

Wiki Stefano Bollani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Bollani

2014 in Songs #14 - Linda Perhacs - "The Soul of all natural things"

The oldies rule... 

A come back of 2014,the 70 years old Linda Perhacs, is not just another come back: The Soul of All Natural Things" is only her second album, after "Paralelograms", published in... 1970.

This is Laurel Canyon vibe, California hip...Subtle and quiet, the songs voice Linda's spirituality and connection to nature and praise a return to more human times...

2014 in Songs #13 - Leonard Cohen "Slow"

Do you still remember 2014?

I am a lazy bastard, so didn't publish all the 2014 great works before year end! Here they are, the last ones.

#13 Leonard Cohen, the golden voice, the living legend, alive and kicking at 80 but... slowly...

2014 in Songs #12 - The Phantom Band - "Clapshot"

From "Strange Friend". This is has little to do or Christmas... Scottish strange guys... organic krautrock or something like that...

2014 in Songs #11 - Goat - "Hide From The Sun"

Psych is the hype - but Goat, the Swedish band, don't settle for less than Experimental rock, hard rock, fusion,afrobeat, worldbeat, acid rock in Wiki terms. Nevertheless, this "Hide from the Sun" is pure psych, like if it came out of San Francisco on an acid afternoon.

13th Floor Elevators, anyone?

2014 in Songs #10 - Beck "Morning"

Not so dark as 2002's "Sea Change", this year's "Morning Phase" shares the same tranquility, with less unrelentelessness and discomfort. Beautiful, sometimes moving and certainly accomplished - heralded by several magazines as "THE" best of the year or one of the best.

2014 in songs #9 - Neneh Cherry - "Blank Projet"

Neneh Cherry and a raw album - stripped down and powerful: one of the best of this year that is going to die soon.

2014 in Songs #8 - My Brightest Diamond - "Pressure"

From "This Is My Hand", the 2014 album of My Brightest Diamond, aka Shara Worden.

Put in the same folder as Sufjan Stevens and Owen Pallett - inteligent and vibrant music

Great Gigs in the Cloud: Episode 4

One of my all time favorites, the mighty and magical Annie Haslam in Renaissance.

Brings great memories from my childhood, and I have to thank my family for that. They're the one's to blame.. I had it easy, really!

SET-LIST:

CARPET OF THE SUN
MOTHER RUSSIA
CAN YOU HEAR ME
OCEAN GYPSY
RUNNING HARD
TOUCHING ONCE
PROLOGUE

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON
8 JANUARY 1977, ENGLAND

ANNIE HASLAM - LEAD & BACKING VOCALS
JON CAMP - BASS, BACKING VOCALS
MICHAEL DUNFORD - ACOUSTIC GUITARS, BACKING VOCALS
LOHN TOUT - KEYBOARDS, BACKING VOCALS
TERENCE SULLIVAN - DRUMS, PERCUSSION, BACKING VOCALS


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Spiritualized - "Do it all over again"

Há algo de natalício neste tema...

Keith Emerson / Greg Lake - Live from Manticore Hall- 2014

Keith Emerson and Greg Lake released this year ‘Live From Manticore Hall,’ a 10-track live album recorded during the duo’s 2010 world tour. 


The record contains some of ELP’s best-loved songs including Lucky Man, From the Beginning, Tarkus and also "I Talk to the Wind" from King Crimson's first album.

Don't expect the full-bodied  sound of Emerson Lake & Palmer or the truculence of Mr. Palmer. This is an intimate set of songs, guitar and keyboards. 

Palmer decided not to continue to play live with them after  a 2010 performance by the trio at the High Voltage Festival. In his own words: “We rehearsed for five weeks, which I could never understand why we needed to rehearse that long,” “Upon hearing the recordings, maybe five weeks was not long enough. It wasn’t to the standard that I liked and I didn’t think it sounded that good.”

So, we are left with two thirds of the band, that do a good job of making us want to listen to the originals again...


Track Listing
‘From The Beginning’
‘Introduction’
‘I Talk To The Wind’
“Bitches Crystal’
‘The Barbarian’
“Take A Pebble’
‘Tarkus’
‘C’est Le Vie’
‘Pirates’
‘Moog Solo’ / ‘Lucky Man’

2014 in songs #7 - Blues Pills - "High Class Woman"

Blues Pills fabricate a form of powerful blues rock that finally ended up in a form of an album this year.  This young American-Swedish-French quartet create a very unique, intense and extraordinary rock atmosphere.

Their wesbsite cite as referrences Aretha Franklin, THE ORIGINAL FLEETWOOD MAC, LED ZEPPELIN, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and CREAM. 

One natural highlight is the voice of Elin Larsson, strong and full of soul. 

Listen to one of the best songs of their album "Blues Pills"




http://www.bluespills.com/index.php/en/

2014 in songs #6 - Messenger - "Somniloquist"

Messenger is an new UK band and "Illusory Blues" is their exquisite debut album. It is one of the best this I head this year. Beautifully crafted, elusive, nicely built, with grandeur and mystic.

 Listen to "Somniloquist"  ont his list, as an example.

2014 in Songs #5: The Eels - Lockdown Hurricane

The real Hombre Lobo has come back with another very good album in 2014, "The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett"


And a very good video too for "Lockdown Hurricane"

For Crimson Heads

King Crimson's "The Elements of King Crimson" is a two-disc set that collects recordings largely unreleased on CD of alternate takes, live recordings, rehearsals and completed tracks culled from 1969-2014

Created to promote the band's 2014 tour of the same name, it's sold exclusively through the band's merchandise booth on the tour and from the Discipline Global Mobile online stores. The box's content is less focused on actual songs and more on song "elements"; extracts of studio recordings, alternate takes, mixes with one or two instruments isolated, live recordings and rehearsals; the tour box is the first CD release for most of the tracks included. Some of them have already been released for digital download through the DGM Live website while some others are set to be included in future DGM releases; it also comes with a 24 page booklet. The box marks the first time both studio and live recorded material with Gavin Harrison is released on CD, the first time material with Jakko Jakszyk is released under the King Crimson name, and the first time material with Bill Rieflin is released overall.

1.	"Wind Extract"	Michael Giles, Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake	In the Court of the Crimson King 1969, London	0:31
2.	"I Talk to the Wind"	McDonald, Peter Sinfield	In the Court of the Crimson King 23/07/1969, London	4:12
3.	"Cadence and Cascade" (Greg Lake vocal)	Fripp, Sinfield	In the Wake of Poseidon 03/02/1970, London	4:29
4.	"Cirkus" (guitar extract)	Fripp	Lizard 11/09/1970, London	0:15
5.	"Cirkus" (live)	Fripp, Sinfield	Live at the Marquee 1971 10/08/1971, Marquee Club	8:43
6.	"Hoodooo" (extract)	Fripp, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison, Jakko Jakszyk, Bill Rieflin	Elstree band rehearsals May 2014	0:23
7.	"Sailor's Tale" (guitar solo - early take)	Fripp	Islands 08/09/1971, London	6:13
8.	"The Talking Drum" (Steven Wilson alt mix)	Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Wetton, David Cross, Jamie Muir	Larks' Tongues in Aspic October 1973, London	6:43
9.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic" (extract)	Fripp, Bruford, Wetton, Cross, Muir	Elstree band rehearsals May 2014	2:36
10.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic" (extract - David & Jamie)	Cross, Muir	Larks' Tongues in Aspic 16/01/1973, London	2:40
11.	"Fracture" (SW 2014 mix)	Fripp	Starless and Bible Black 23/11/1973, Concertgebouw	11:28
12.	"Fallen Angel" (extract - RF harmonics)	Fripp	Red 08/07/1974, London	1:14
13.	"Fallen Angel"	Fripp, Wetton, Richard Palmer-James	Red July 1974, London	6:22
14.	"21st Century Schizoid Man"	Giles, Fripp, McDonald, Sinfield, Lake	USA 30/06/1974, Palace Theater	8:27