Aaargh! He got me in one! Respekt to MC MC for firin' back.
(Thinks: I really must stop swearing so much!)
http://hemingwoid.blogspot.com/2004/08/suebotnik-small-tribute-to-big-guy.html
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Thanks to Seb Morlu for providing me with CD-R's of Walter Smetak's two long-deleted LPs replete with photocopies of their sleeves. Gwen Jamois, who has sold them in the past tells me these records are now beyond expensive, entering the terrain of museum prices (wink) I've only had the chance to dip my toe in to the debut on Brazilian Phillips (1974), which was produced by Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, a quite wonderful improbable sound world of Avant-Garde Tropical Futurism.
Kodwo Eshun, who tipped me off about Smetak in the first place last year also draws my attention to improviser Hugh Davis's recent letter to The Wire (August 2004) where he praises Smetak. Davis provides us with some useful links:
www.gilbertogil.com.br/smetak/etaktak0.htm
www.latinoamerica-musica.net/frame.html (select Smetak under "Compositores")