Friend of WOEBOT Sacha Dieu will be doing a Clear Spot on Resonance Fm, today Monday 19th of July from 19h00 till 20h30 (UK time).
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- David Jackman/Organum.
Thanks to Jim Backhouse for promising to get me this. Organum IS David Jackman. He's a geezer who emerged from Cardrew's Scratch Orchestra and part of a small nexus which also loosely included NWW and Morphogenesis. Morphogenesis was a nutty avant-garde collective which featured both Roger Sutherland (who wrote the excellent, but critically lambasted 'New Perspectives in Music' book) and Michael Prime (who got picked up by The Wire a while ago). Apparently in 1988, according to Craig Appleby, Stapleton was 'feeling' Jackman's stuff. Vis a vis my organic Avant-Garde micro-theory it's a very interesting connection. Sutherland's vision of the A-G is (I think suitably so) extremely occult-tinged. For example the hippy-avant Taj Mahal travellers figure highly in his cosmology as does Bernard Parmegiani. The thing about Parmegiani is that his whole concept of the continuum and mutability of sound, pairing together and mutating into one another similar sounds (swarming bees > clustering electronic glitches > rain > violin sounds > etc > etc) is pointedly psychedelic; it's an aural hallucination of divine sounds communicating to us through the filters of material existence. Parmegiani foregrounding the means of their transmission. This 'filters' thing is something I often used to dwell on, always connecting it to the "interfering" objects which musicians of the Third World often affix to their instruments or use to break the tone's clarity. Springs and rattles affixed to the necks of lutes, split reeds in wind instruments etc. Also by extension Miles Davis's loose skin from his lip occluding his embrochure on "L'Ascenseaur au Echaffaud" and John Cage's nuts and bolts in his prepared piano. I guess Morphogenesis and it's ilk probably didn't get proper dues (as per academification and revisionist simplification of modernism) but right now this nexus seems interesting. Looking forward to hearing some Organum.
- Guerra Peixe
Legendary Brazilian orchestrator. Did the Moraes/Powell Afro-Samba record. No takers yet.
- Walter Smetak.
Swiss-born Brazilian instrument maker. Word-of-mouth tip from Kodwo. No takers.
- Linda Lewis (esp. 'Lark')
Thanks to Joe Estes.
- Mark Wirtz Productions.
German (?) producer who worked out of Abbey Road Studios. Responsible for Keith West's "On a Saturday." Tipped off by Nick Wrigley. No takers yet.
- Pyrolator (esp. 'Ausland' and 'Inland'. Tried ordering these TWICE online...)
Thanks to Baz Van Hoof who is spinning me off some Der Plan, Abwarts and Palais Schaumberg as well. I had PS "Luna" at on stage and have unnaccoutably sold it. Check out Baz's great top 40 European LPs in (where else!) the k-punk comments box:
http://www.abe1x.org/movetype/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3414
- Gunshot (esp. 'Mind of a Razor'; I only have 'Colour Code')
Thanks to Adam Levine (aka Nordicskillz) who's also chucking in Hijack's "Horns of Jericho."
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Cathy at http://eyelet.blogspot.com/
Nordicskillz at http://www.taksi.blogspot.com/