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23 May ' 10:39
Propaganda’s Wishful Thinking, Rethought for 2012
May 23, 2012Zang Tuum Tumb presents a remastered, repackaged and beautifully upgraded reissue of one of the most daring and accomplished remix albums of the 1980s: Propaganda’s Wishful Thinking.
Featuring industrial, machined reversions of Duel, Dr Mabuse, p:Machinery and Propaganda’s debut album, A Secret Wish, the album is presented in triple-gatefold ‘mini vinyl’ packaging with expanded artwork, historical essay and five previously unreleased bonus tracks.
One of the most anticipated releases in ZTT’s acclaimed Element Series, Wishful Thinking appears on June 04 and, as of mid-May, is already ahead of new releases from Kylie, Hot Chip and St Etienne – all, to one degree or another, descendants of Propaganda – on Amazon’s Hot 100 pre-order chart.
Full track list here
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16 May ' 12:52
Another preview from Can’s Lost Tapes
May 16, 2012Mute have released another teaser for the upcoming 3 CD set “The Lost Tapes” by Can.
Frank Zappa’s pre-Mothers recordings released on CD
May 16, 2012New releasesOn May 28 Crossfire Publications will release a 5-CD set of recordings from Frank Zappa‘s pre-Mothers era, with many tracks making their CD debuts. The set – which boasts one of the ugliest covers we’ve ever seen – is entitled “Paul Buff Presents Highlights From The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives.”
Paul Buff, owner of Pal Recording Studio in Cucamonga, California from 1957-1964, first opened up his archives in 2010 for a large series of download-only releases. This 156-track collection features 58 early masters by the late Frank Zappa, recorded at Pal and Original Sound Recording Studios. These recordings feature Zappa as performer, writer and/or producer.
Multi-instrumentalist Paul Buff created Pal Recording Studio in December 1957 with a simple two-track Viking recorder. The demand for stereo recording led Buff to create a homemade, five-track recording studio when the industry standard was still mono or two-track stereo recording.
Buff’s studio creativity and complete openness in recording musicians of all backgrounds and styles naturally resulted in studio bookings by many local artists. Pal Recording Studio quickly became a place where musicians could record their rehearsals and repertoire and leave with high quality recordings. One of those groups of musicians was The Surfaris, who recorded “Wipe Out” at Pal in late 1962. This surf standard is the best known Pal recording.
“Paul Buff Presents Highlights From The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives” has many in-demand rarities and unreleased tracks drawn from Paul Buff’s mixdown tapes and reference discs.
Pal functioned as the recording home for Buff’s record labels (Pal, Emmy, Yukon, Plaza and Vigah!) and for The Pal Studio Band, a group of musicians revolving around Paul Buff, guitarist Dave Aerni and young guitarist/drummer Frank Zappa. Buff taught Zappa the art of recording studio operation as The Pal Studio Band created a large body of work.
Emmy’s releases featured three singles by The Masters, cut by Buff and guitarist Ronnie Williams. The B-side of the second Masters single, “Breaktime,” featured overdubbed guitar leads by Zappa. Other early singles that spotlighted Frank Zappa were by The Penguins, The Hollywood Persuaders, The Tornadoes, Buddy And The Crickets, Ron Roman, Baby Ray And The Ferns, Brian Lord And The Midnighters, Mr. Clean, The Heartbreakers, Ned & Nelda, Bob Guy, Conrad And The Hurricane Strings, The Cordells, The Rhythm Surfers, The Woody Waggers, The Decades, and Johnny Barakat And The Vestells. Many Pal Studio Band tracks with Zappa involvement make their CD debuts in this box set, including some with original Mothers Of Invention vocalist Ray Collins.
While still at Pal, Paul Buff started working with Art Laboe, owner of Original Sound Records. Laboe asked Buff to create a new recording studio for Original Sound artists, and in 1964, Paul finished creating his own ten-track recording gear. Buff was already in place as Original Sound’s studio engineer when he sold Pal Recording Studio to Frank Zappa on August 1, 1964. Many Original Sound artists were engineered by Paul Buff, who had started making his own recordings at the studio the previous year.
Paul Buff’s Original Sound output was credited to his own name as well as many other artists. Tracks recorded with Dave Aerni were released as by The Bongo Teens and The Rotations. One-man-band recordings issued as The Hollywood Persuaders include the well known “Tijuana” and “Drums A-Go-Go.” Paul also recorded with his first wife Allison as The Catalinas, Lori Allison, The Buff Organization and with vocalist Ricky Dean. The Friendly Torpedoes featured Buff with The Music Machine’s Sean Bonniwell. Nearly the entire output of the All-American label (known for Strawberry Alarm Clock’s “Incense And Peppermints”) was engineered by Buff, as was Sugarloaf’s “Green-Eyed Lady” for Liberty.
“Paul Buff Presents Highlights From The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives” is available in DVD-sized packaging, with a 40-page, illustrated color booklet containing detailed information about the artists and the recordings. The five CDs in the set feature reproductions of the Pal, Plaza, Yukon, Emmy and Vigah! labels.
The first 200 pre-release orders from Crossfire Publications will be accompanied by two additional CDs – The Tornadoes’ “Now And Then” and “Charge Of The Tornadoes” – featuring an additional 11 tracks that Frank Zappa engineered at Pal during 1962-1963.
More info at www.crossfirepublications.com
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16 May ' 03:01
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13 May ' 11:49
Legendary bass player Donald “Duck” Dunn dies
May 13, 2012ObituariesBass player and songwriter Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band and a session player for Stax Records, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.
Dunn was in Tokyo for a series of shows. News of his death was posted on the Facebook site of his friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour.
Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.’s and as a session bassist for Stax Records, which specialized in blues and gospel-infused southern soul and Memphis soul music styles. Dunn also performed on recordings with The Blues Brothers, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Guy Sebastian, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Roy Buchanan and Arthur Conley.
Donald Dunn played himself in the 1980 feature “The Blues Brothers”, where he had one of the most memorable lines, “We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline!”. He later reprised his self-depicting role in 1998′s “Blues Brothers 2000″.
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11 May ' 12:00
Frank Zappa’s Roxy DVD one step closer to release?
May 11, 2012New releasesWhat’s the holy grail of all Frank Zappa releases? Surely the release of a Roxy & Elsewhere DVD – originally announced about ten years ago – is one of the most anticipated releases by Zappa fans, but so far it hasn’t seen the light of day.
Over the years Gail Zappa has given some hints about the state of the project. Technical and budgetary issues are given as the main reasons why the release hasn’t materialised yet.
But here’s the good news. The Zappa Family Trust have issued a newsletter which includes the following slightly cryptic info:
“All of the footage has now been transferred on a best light basis into HD and all camera angles have been “synched” by eye and heart and hand and edit to the original Nagra tapes. We now need to identify all usable camera angles and begin the actual edit. Still, we have miles to go in order to bring the best of the possibilities to a screen near you. And we need your help.
We still have a few wrinkles but our irons are hot and the details of our plan for the next Official Release is bundled in a unique opportunity to participate in a special, social experiment designed to open lots of doors for all Artists and their fans everywhere. Participate and You’ll be First. First with your own copy of a Soundtrack to The Roxy Performances. First with your name credited in The Roxy Performances, The Movie. And there are more Firsts. Stay Tuned.”
The details are not clear yet, but it looks like Zappa fans will be treated to a new Roxy & Elsewhere audio release (the part about the “next official release” and “a soundtrack to the Roxy Performances”) and an option to participate in some crowd funded release of the mythical Roxy dvd.
As Gail would say: keep watching the skies!
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10 May ' 14:28
Spy Music Festival 2012 Lineup Announced
May 10, 2012Festivals/ConcertsThe relatively young Brooklyn label Northern Spy has announced the lineup for its second annual Spy Music Festival, a sprawling music marathon running from June 29th through July 15th featuring 46 sets of music at 7 venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City.
Featured artists include stalwarts and emerging artists from a diverse cross section of the improv, jazz, noise, psych and indie scenes including Rhys Chatham, Matthew Shipp, Arthur Doyle, Eugene Chadbourne, PG Six, Guardian Alien, Magik Markers and many more.
The last twenty four months has been a whirlwind for Northern Spy owners Tom Abbs and Adam Downey. After a dramatic break with the owners of the legendary imprint ESP-Disk’ in the summer of 2010, a label they ran for more than three years, Abbs and Downey rushed to assemble funding and distribution for a new label that they alone could control.
Spy Music Festival, now in its second year, is supported financially by the not-for-profit Jump Arts, an arts presenting organization Abbs founded over a decade ago to shine light on fringe and unsung artists of the then thriving Downtown scene. This year’s fest is also proud to announce the media sponsors Tiny Mix Tapes and The Village Voice.
The full schedule of the Spy Music Festival can be found here.
For Your Ears: Ed Wrzesien – Chaos Atlantis
May 10, 2012Chaos Atlantis is a real-time sonification engine, a program that converts ocean-marine data into sound. It is currently using data generated by NOAA buoy 46059 located off the coast of Northern California. This buoy measures several variables including water temperature, air temperature, wave height, wind speed, and much more. These numbers are used to control the parameters of Chaos Atlantis.
For example, wave heights control the amplitude of oscillators in a variety of contexts such as ring modulation and amplitude modulation. Dominant wave periods determine which synthesizers are used to make sound. The speed at which new sounds are created (tempo) is controlled by the wind speed.The frequency or pitch of a tone is controlled by the water and/or air temperature. The many permutations of these variables create an ever changing soundscape that is both fascinating and unpredictable.
Website: www.chaosatlantis.com.
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09 May ' 08:28
Skafish Announces Kickstarter Project to Release 1977 Historic Chicago Concert
May 9, 2012General newsNew releasesJim Skafish announces a Kickstarter project for the release of the first-ever live Skafish CD set. The recording is a bootleg of a concert performed for Skafish’s 21st birthday at Ratso’s in Chicago on August 29, 1977.
Skafish’s proto-punk, avant-garde performances started shaking up the Chicago music scene in February 1976. By the time of the Ratso’s concert, the band had already created a buzz in the local and national media and had developed a devoted underground following. Skafish later went on to tour America and Europe with groups such as The Police, XTC, and Iggy Pop, and was featured in the cult classic film, “Urgh, a Music War!”
The recording features 27 songs, including 15 Skafish compositions that have never been released in any form prior. The planned two CD set will be a numbered, limited edition of only 2000 copies.
According to Skafish, he had no idea that there was a bootleg recording made of the show until he finally got the tapes a few years ago. “What’s so exciting about this,” says Skafish, “is that I can take my project directly to the people, and let my fans participate in the process.”
Fans are encouraged to visit the Kickstarter project page. The campaign lasts through June 24th. The anticipated official release date of the bootleg is on its 35th anniversary, on August 29, 2012.
Sweet Joe Russell of the Persuasions Dies
May 9, 2012Jesse “Sweet Joe” Russell, one of the founding members of a cappella group The Persuasions, passed away on May 5th while waiting for a kidney transplant. He was in his early-70′s.
Russell first organized the group with Jerry Lawson, Jayotis Washington, Herbert “Taubo” Rhoad and Jimmy “Bro” Hayes in Brooklyn during the mid-60′s. They got their first big break when heard them sing and flew the group to Los Angeles to record their first album. The Persuasions would salute their original mentor thirty years later with the album Frankly A Cappella.
Source: www.vintagevinylnews.com
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07 May ' 17:47
Sun Ra Arkestra in Switzerland June 22 – 23, 2012
May 7, 2012Festivals/ConcertsThe Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen will be involved in a unique program at the Uncool Festival in Poschiavo, Switzerland on June 22 – 23, 2012. A 20 piece Sun Ra Arkestra (including a string section) will be enhanced by guest performers on harp, viola, violine, and dance to form a 25 piece ensemble providing music for two unique world premiere musical theater programs that are titled “Oedipus” and “Akhenaten”. The concept and text for these theater programs is the creation of the Uncool Festival Director Cornelia Mueller. The original music for the title songs on this project is composed and arranged by Marshall Allen, the Musical Director of the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen. Marshall Allen will add the kora to his standard instrumentation of alto saxophone, flute, clarinet, and EVI for this event. This will be the first time in over 25 years that Marshall Allen has performed on the kora within the Sun Ra Arkestra.
There have only been two other occasions in the Sun Ra Arkestra’s 56 year history where a string section and guest performers have played a major role in an Arkestra performance. The first instance was the October 27, 1990 performance of the Sun Ra Arkestra with a Symphony Orchestra in Paris, France – which was recorded on the “Pleiades” CD release (Leo Records). The second manifestation was the “Space is the Place Spectacular” on December 31, 2000, which was a concert at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, PA following a month long residency of 10 Philadelphia based string musicians with the Sun Ra Arkestra.
The 2012 Uncool Festival will co-reside with the 17th Sun Ra Convention by Hartmut Geerken. The 2012 Uncool Festival is dedicated to Sun Ra Arkestra trumpeter Michael Ray, who will conclude the festival with a solo trumpet concert on Sunday, June 24, 2012. The “Oedipus” and “Akhenaten” performance schedule involving the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen is:
Friday, June 22, 2012 at 10:00 pm – “Oedipus” – Piazza Cumun, Poschiavo, Switzerland
Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm – “Akhenaten” – Piazza Cumun, Poschiavo, SwitzerlandMore details about this Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen appearance can be found at www.uncool.ch/2012/program.php
For Your Ears: Echo Beds – Arsonist Alibi E.P.
May 7, 2012DownloadsFor Your Ears“Take a contact mike and one or more of the following: water bottle, stacked cymbals, detached hood of a car, a sheet of metal, floor tom, chains, bricks, file cabinet — any item that can make a sharp, clattering sound — and process or amplify the sounds these items make together, and you’ll get a bit of the confrontational and eruptive sounds that Echo Beds uses in all of its sets.”
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23 Apr ' 14:28
For Your Ears: The Pool Whales
April 23, 2012DownloadsFor Your Ears“We have just made a self-titled album. It’s true, our sound is not that weird, it is essentially pop-folk. But, hell, this is our submission to your blog anyway”.
Oh, hell, we’ll post it.
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23 Apr ' 06:56
Gong related rarity reissued on vinyl
April 23, 2012New releasesIf the title “Dreaming The Magic of Your Maya” by Princess Flower and the Moon Rays does not ring any bells you may like to read this:
Recorded in 1968 and issued as a very limited private pressing (less than 100 copies made) this psychedelic raga freak-out is the brainchild of multi disciplinary artist Loren Standlee plus his partner Ziska with the cooperation of Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth in what was the first incarnation of Gong.
Loren and Ziska had been involved with the crowd of avantgardist free thinkers that settled in Formentera in the sixties, and back home in N.Y. they had also been connected to experimentalists such as Angus Maclise, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Pandit Pran Nath, and others.
This bizarre selection of sounds was the brainchild of Loren Standlee and Ziska and is in effect the earliest Gong recording. Loren Standlee and Ziska were among the “Formentera” (small Island near Ibiza, Spain) visionary poets, musicians and psychedelic ‘researchers’ in the early sixties. In Paris, they began hand-painting silk and designing clothes for many of the rock luminaries of the time, among them The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as haute couture designers in Paris and London. They met Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth at a poetry reading where Loren was playing Alto Flute and Ziska was creating vocal sounds to intermix with the flute. They began playing together as a group utilizing Daevid’s Italian echo chambers and soon they had a two-night-a-week gig playing at the Vielle Grille, an avant-garde club in Paris where you might hear Ornette Coleman playing upstairs or see Yoko Ono performing in a sack on stage.
Gong was formed and took two identities: one, only Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth’s material, and the other, the Gong sound of Daevid on ‘space’ guitar, crystals, feathers and other unpredictable objects, Loren on alto flute and jews harp, and Ziska and Gilli’s ‘space whispering’ chanting sounds which built up to sound climaxes. For the time, it was extremely avant-garde, and culminated in a gig to perform at Diane Von Furstenberg’s wedding where the group took LSD and both shocked and beguiled the party by performing for two hours, dressed in Loren and Ziska’s hand-painted silks and making sounds that no one had ever heard before. It put them into a kind of cult status.
Two of the tracks on the bonus LP, that comes with the vinyl reissue of “Dreaming The Magic of Your Maya”, feature the line-up of Loren, Ziska and Raj Samyana, which is basically The Universal Mutant Repertory Company minus Angus Maclise and his wife Hetty.
“Dreaming The Magic of Your Maya” will be reissued for the first time ever as a limited edition pressing of 500, double LP, with poster and insert. Pre-order your copy here.
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