FRONTIER SCOUTS "Museum Collection" (AUS, 1984)

Following a similar path to the early GO BETWEENS and associated with them, talented australian indiepop songwriter ANDREW WILSON enters late 70's Brisbane scene with his outfit FOUR GODS. Under this moniker WILSON releases (for Able label) the single "Enchanted House / Reastless" (1980), helped by GRANT McCLENNAN on bass and LINDY MORRISON on drums.

His next step is FRONTIER SCOUTS, a band that Wilson forms in Sydney in 1982. Wilson's songwriting is now more matured, moving from post-punk angularity to a fresh indie-pop feeling. FRONTIER SCOUTS though remain a nearly unknown band... and soon disband leaving behind only one single ("When Daddy Blows His Top"/"Out Of Your Shell") and one 5-track EP ("MUSEUM COLLECTION", 1984), both for Au-Go-Go label.

Third and final act in WILSON's music career is ANDREW WILSON + ASSOCIATES. With that outfit, which includes, among others, contributions from Robert McComb (TRIFFIDS), Wilson makes a 12'' EP in Melbourne (1987). Late 80's Wilson quits music as one of the neglected heroes of australian alternative scene... and remains forgotten up to 1999 when Chapter Music presents the retrospective compilation AMATEURISM with 18 cuts from all Wilson's bands... and liner notes by Robert Forster.

FOUR GODS: Andrew Wilson (voice, guitar, percussion) - Grant McLennan (bass) - Lindy Morrison (drums) - Keryn Henry (drums) - Peter Morgan (guitar, vocals)

FRONTIER SCOUTS: Andrew Wilson (voice, guitar, perc.) - Brad Allen Waters (bass) - Graeme Hutchison (drums) - Debbie Auchinichie (backing vocals)

ANDREW WILSON + ASSOCIATES: Andrew Wilson (voice, guitar, perc.) - Nigel Harford (bass) - Steve Miler (guitar) - Robert McComb (guitar, vocals) - Julien Wu (guitar, vocals)


FRONTIER SCOUTS - When Daddy Blows His Top

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FRONTIER SCOUTS - museum collection

The Free Sounds Of SOUL NOTE (ITA)

With its numerous exciting works (recorded mostly in NY or Milano) by some top american, italian and european free-jazzmen and improvisors, italian SOUL NOTE label has established itself as one of the most creative forces in avant-jazz and innovative music of the last 30 years...

Few selections from the endless catalog of SOUL NOTE are here:

A

01. MENGELBERG/LACY/LEWIS/GORTER/BENNINK
the happenings (1984, "Change Of Season")
02. MAX ROACH
The drum also waltzes (1984, "Survivors")
03. BILLY BANG (featuring SUN RA)
Foggy day in London town (1993, "A Tribute To Stuff Smith")
04. GIANLUIGI TROVESI
Dance for a king (1998, "Around Small Fairy Tales")
05. HAMIET BLUIETT
Nu tune (1984, "Ebu")
06. JIMMY GIUFFRE 4
Cool (1983, "Dragonfly")
07. CONFERENCE CALL (G. ULLMANN/M.J. STEVENS/JOE FONDA)
Could this be a polka (2002, "Final Answer")
08. MAL WALDRON, STEVE LACY
Azure (1986, "Sempre Amore")
09. CHARLIE HADEN (w GERRI ALLEN, PAUL MOTIAN)
Sandino (1987, "Etudes")
10. DAVE DOUGLAS
Ballad in which Macheath asks everyone to forgive him (1993, "Parallel Worlds")
11. TONY SCOTT
Spirits return (1984, "African Bird Come Back! Mother Africa")
12. BILL DIXON
Dusk (1981, "In Italy vol 2")
13. RAN BLAKE
Vradiazi (1986, "Short life Of Barbara Monk")

B
01. PETER KUHN
Being human (1982, "The Kill")
02. GEORGE RUSSELL
Esoteric circle (1993, "Trip To Prellarguri")
03. GIORGIO GASLINI
Lampi (1994, "Lampi")
04. STEVE LACY TRIO
Flakes (1988, "The Window")
05. GIANLUIGI TROVESI
Verano (1998, "Around Small Fairy Tales")
06. CONFERENCE CALL
Liquid cage (2002, "Final Answer")
07. BILLY BANG QUINTET
Broken strings (1981, "Rainbow Gladiator")
08. ELLERY ESKELIN
The sun died (1996 "The Sun Died")
09. TOM VARNER
Prayer (1993 "The Mystery Of Compassion")
10. LEE KONITZ QUARTET
Taking a chance on love (1991, "Zounds")
11. ENRICO PIERANUNZI TRIO
L'heure oblique (1996, "Seaward")
12. BORAH BERGMAN, ANDREW CYRILLE
Red Shadows (1993, "The Human Factor")

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

listen to: part I / part II/

Sounds from 80's Australian Underground

LIZARD TRAIN - Beauty Underground

(7'', Greasy Pop, 1987)

tracks:
beauty underground - the day the sky went black

THE NEW CHRISTS - Born Out Of Time
(7'', Citadel, 1986)

tracks:
Born out of time - no next time

MINUTEMAN Voodoo Slaves
(7'', Citadel, 1982)
tracks:
Voodoo slaves - i wanna be your minuteman

YA YA CHORAL - Such A Dutch Man
(7'', M Squared, 1982)
tracks:
waiting time - god's buzzsaw - nonsense



THE CHAMPAGNE EDGE - Selftitled
(7'', Au-Go-Go, 1980)
tracks:
a different direction - the wind - in my house - facelift

ALAIN GIBERT "Chariot D'Or" (FRA, 1995)

The art of ALAIN GIBERT is related with both traditional musics and avant-garde. As a search for a new music idiom, it explores territories between folk memory and folk imagination. "CHARIOT D'OR" is one of the most characteristic acts of this quest. Recorded the period 1994-95, the album comprises 14 tracks, four of which are based on traditional themes derived from french region AUVERGNE (south France), while the rest are Gibert's compositions. The composer plays piano, trombone and sings in the strange local dialect. The line up includes also BRUNO CHEVILLON on contrabass, JEAN-LOUIS MATINIER on accordion and the well known LOUIS SCLAVIS on clarinet and soprano saxophone. The music, jazzy-acoustic, turns to advantage the simplicity of sounds and extends the soul of old traditions towards innovatism and improvisation without spoiling the original warm folk feeling. However, "L' Auvergne imaginee" is rather the place where the "old" and the "new", have lost their meanings.

Alain Gibert


ALAIN GIBERT - Santa Catarino

The "Musique Actuelle" of AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES (CAN)

L to R: Jean Derome, Diane Labrosse, Pierre Tanguay, Joane Hetu

A collective and a label, Montreal's AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES, has been introducing us, for the last 25 years, to the most exciting adventures of the francophone canadian "avant" scene.

Initially founded just as a cooperative between the avant-gard artists & improvisors JEAN DEROME, RENE LUSSIER, JOANE HETU & friends.

First releases, RENE LUSSIER's debut work "Fin Du Travaill" (1983) and albums from ANDRE DUCHESNE, WONDEUR BRASS, LES POULES, LES GRANULES... attract a small interest, mostly among fans of RecRec sound, avant-prog and the likes.

In 1991 though, when JOANE HETU establishes the DAME distribution company, AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES, taking the shape of a more regular label, extends its activities, adds its catalog many new artists... and gradually starts earning wider critical respect and international acknowledgement...

Nowadays AMBIANCES MAGNETIQUES music is available through its official website:

www.actuellecd.com

Rene Lussier

Ambiances Magnetiques: where new musics meet

a
01 RENE LUSSIER Clockville (1983)
02 LES POULES Chanson du pain (1986)
03 LES GRANULES Saturne (1986)
04 LES 4 GUITARISTES DE L 'APOCALYPSO BAR the as usual dance... (1989)
05 GENEVIEVE LETARTE Je ne tremble plus (2000)
06 ANDRE DUCHESNE limer (1984)
07 DIANE LABROSSE Constellations (1995)
08 JOANE HETU Fleurs iclatantes (1995)
09 JEAN DEROME Hymne aux palotins (1998)
10 L'ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS Poisson rouge (1996)
11 LES PROJECTIONNISTES Nuit blanche (1999)
12 ANDRE DUCHESNE Autant de lundis (2006)
13 HETU, LABROSSE, ROGER, PARKINS, TENKO Epilogue (1992)
14 LES GRANULES Sur la mort (1988)

b

01 WONDEUR BRASS Residence inconnue (1988)
02 JOANE HETU Ah! les beaux jours (1995)
03 GENEVIEVE LETARTE Contemplation (2000)
04 MICHEL F. COTE & DIANE LABROSSE Y tu mirar (1994)
05 JOELLE LEANDRE & QUENTIN SIRJACK Presence (2008)
06 MICHEL F. COTE Let's get lost (1998)
07 NATHALIE DEROME Esti quest belle ta peau (2000)
08 L'ORKESTRE DES PAS PERDUS La marche a Marie B. (1996)
09 LE 4 GUITARISTES DE L'APOCALYPSO BAR Scandinavian pedestrian (1989)
10 LES PROJECTIONNISTES Jeu de bloc (1999)
11 GENEVIEVE LETARTE La ragazza (1990)
12 LES GRANULES Le tango qui ne finit jamais (1992)
13 JUSTINE J'ai perdu le sommeil (1990)
14 INTERFERENCE SARDINES La girafe (2001)

download: part a / part b

tracks compiled by LaFolieDuJour
photos taken from www.actuellecd.com


GENEVIEVE LETARTE - Le Bout Du Monde (selected by Semilunio)

More Ambiances Magnetiques music at LaFolieDuJour:

WONDEUR BRASS - Ravir
LES POULES -Les Contes De L'Amere Loi

subterranean news!!

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of historical "CLUB FOOT"compilation, SUBTERRANEAN RECORDS is preparing a limited red vinyl pressing (450 copies) of the album. This release will coincide with a Feb. 11 2010 show at Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco. Some version of all the bands will perform... while SUBTERRANEAN is also working for some extra surprises...

For more subterranean culture see here: www.subterranean.org

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS "History of Rock N'Roll vol.1" (AUS, 1984)

reposted with a new link! as requested

While the third THE SAINTS album "Prehistoric Sounds" has already found the group aesthetics moved towards a bluesier, more soulful ground, guitarist EDMUND KUEPPER separates himself from puristic, narrowminded punk-rock plans, and forms THE LAUGHING CLOWNS, taking off the (embarrassed circa `79-`80) australian post punk status towards even artier, avant-jazz-blues-experimental horizons.

"History Of Rock N'Roll vol.1", released from HOT records in 1984, is a compilation of material selected from EPs the band recorded the 1980-`82 period.

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS,EP, rec Feb1980 (Holy Joe/I want to scream/The laughing clowns)

SOMETIMES, THE FIRE DANCE..., EP, rec June1980 (Sometimes)

LAUGHING CLOWNS 3 , EP, rec Nov1980 (Collapse board, Ghost beat, Clown town)

EVERYTHING THAT FLIES..., EP, rec Nov1982 (Every dog has its day, Everything that flies)

THEME FROM "MAD FLIES, MAD FLIES", 7``single, rec Oct1981 (Theme from "mad flies, mad flies").

THE LAUGHING CLOWNS (1980) : ED KUEPPER(guit, voc), JEFFREY WEGENER(drums), BOB FARRELL(sax), BEN WALLACE CRABBE(bass), DAN WALLACE CRABBE(piano).

THE LAUGHNING CLOWNS (1981-82): ED KUEPPER, JEFFREY WEGENER, LOUISE ELLIOT(sax), LESLIE MILLAR(bass), PETER DOYLE(trumpet).

History Of Rock N'Roll vol.1

MAGGIE NICOLS & PETER NU "Nicols 'N' Nu" (UK, 1985)

MAGGIE NICOLS - words, voice
PETER NU - piano

Avant vocalist Maggie Nicols and not so much known improv figure, Peter Nu unfold here a bare and incredibly daring piano-voice exploration, a free-music adventure which, further than any sum of its elements, leads to the inner aspect of the work, revealing regions of the artistic act, usually neglected, sightless.

Recorded in London in 1985, released from Leo Records and reissued later on CD. Still available.

tracklist

01. don't assume (21:40)
02. touching faces (2:50)
03. dynamite dream (3:45)
04. kids (9:40)
05. chad's blues (3:30)
06. after the storm (1:00)
07. i could write (1:30)
08. moments (8:15)
09. one note leads to another (17:40)

MAGGIE NICOLS & PETER NU - Moments

V.A. TERRA INCOGNITA vol.1 & 2 (Auxilio De Cientos compilations)

Terra Incognita vol 1

Terra Incognita vol 2

The two TERRA INCOGNITA compilations were released from spanish label Auxilio De Cientos in 1985 and 1986. The bands come from several countries and the music lies at the experimental-electronic-minimal synth fields. Compiling is quite good, behind the label, however, there are members of Neo Zelanda and Diseno Corbusier, spanish bands of the era that played similar stuff.
Twilight Ritual, Bene Gesserit, Attrition, DDAA, Ptose, Hector Zazou, Muslimgauze, Kastrierte Philosophen and other more obscure names are the guides through these "unknown lands"...

Terra Incognita I
&
Terra Incognita II

LES ELLES

Avant songwriters, actresses, humorists. Four girls refresh the tradition of french chanson-folk-art in their own theatrical grotesque-pop way. PASCALINE HERVEET writes music, lyrics and sings, SOPHIE HENRY is on accordion, piano and orchestration, SARAH AUVRAY does sound effects and vocals, while CHRISTINE LAPOUZE plays the cello.

LES ELLES start in Caen in 1992. Three years later they make their first (untitled) album with help of trumpetist (and future constant member) PIERRE MILLET and FRANCOIS HADJI LAZARO, owner of Boucherie Prod label. A second, also untitled and also acoustic and highly artistic work appears in 1997 from the same label. These first two albums are the best offer of the band. Nevertheless, due to the label's bad luck, they haven't the recognition they deserve.

first album, 1995

second album, 1997

Year 2000 finds LES ELLES with a new line-up, a new label (Inca Music) and a new, modernized, "more electronic" sound. SARAH AUVRY has left and PIERRE MILLET, STEPHANE DIATCHENKO (programming, samples) have been added instead. Albums of this second phase of the band are "Pamela Peacemaker" (2000), "Les Elles En Scene" (live, 2001) and - with a new line up again - "Siamoises" (2003), an inspired by and refered to the world of circus work that brings the band touring with the circus of Dr Paradis.

In the meanwhile Inca label faces financial problems and its final bankruptcy in 2004 leads LES ELLES temporarily in disbandment, but PASCALINE HERVEET, the main figure of the band forms a new version of LES ELLES, working on a new theatrical/musical performance named "Joseph"and releasing finally a self-produced album version of this project in May 2009.

The following LES ELLES compilation gives emphasis on the first two albums which represent the most interesting part of LES ELLES history so far.

LES ELLES compilation
(approx 56 min)

01 Nouche [1st album, 1995]
02 Quand je s'rais vieille [1995]
03 Water closets [1995]
04 Tom [1995]
05 L'amerloc [1995]
06 Simone [1995[
07 Une elle [1995]
08 La chatte de monsieur Clock [2nd album, 1997]
09 Le vase chinois [1997]

10 Le bal [1997]
11 Milo [1997]
12 Janine [1997]
13 Mauvais sang [1997]
14 Armand [Pamela Peacemaker, 2000]
15 Noel [2000]
16 La cantine [compilation track]
17 Trapese [Siamoises, 2003]
18 Bouche tru [2003]

- compiled by LaFolieDuJour -

LES ELLES - Le Chatte de Monsieur Clock

EPIC SOUNDTRACKS

Selections from the limited, mail-order only album "DEBRIS" (Normal / Return To Sender, 1995) accompanied with some tracks from his other releases.
"SLEEPING STAR" (1994) was EPIC's second solo album and ""CHANGE MY LIFE " (1996) his last. "GOOD THINGS" (2005) and the compilation "EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY" (1999) are posthumous releases. Listen also to "RISE ABOVE" album here.

An EPIC SOUNDTRACKS collection

01 Stealaway [Change My Life]
02 Sleepy City [Change My Life]
03 Something's Wrong [Change My Life]
04 Cry A Tear [Good Things]
05 Sunny Day [Debris]
06 Carolans [Everything Is Temporary]
07 Stack-O-Tracks [Debris]
08 Night Time [Everything Is Temporary]
09 I Got To Be Free [Good Things]
10 Hole Of A Heart [Everything Is Temporary]
11 The Persuader [Debris]
12 Lot To Learn [Good Things]
13 Waiting For The Train Again (group version) [Debris]
14 A Three Acre Floor [Debris]
15 Wild & Smiling (mystery session) [Debris]
16 Tonight's The Night (R'N'R Lullaby) [Sleeping Star]

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

LOUIS SCLAVIS TRIO "Ceux Qui Veillent La Nuit" (FRA, 1996)

LOUIS SCLAVIS - clarinet, soprano sax
BRUNO CHEVILLON - bass
FRANCOIS MERVILLE - drums, percussions

LOUIS SCLAVIS TRIO "Ceux Qui Veillent La Nuit" (1996)

More Louis Sclavis at Label Blue

ROMANO / SCLAVIS / TEXIER "Carnet De Routes" (1995) [listen: Annobon]
ROMANO /SCLAVIS / TEXIER " Suite Africaine"(1999) [listen: Soweto sorrow]

ROMANO / SCLAVIS / TEXIER "African Flashbacks" (2005)

LOUIS SCLAVIS QUINTET "Chine"(2003 reissue, first edition IDA, 1987)
LOUIS SCLAVIS SEPTET "Chamber Music" (2003 reissue, first edition IDA, 1989)
LOUIS SCLAVIS "Danses Et Autres Scenes" (1997) [listen: Germania valse]
LOUIS SCLAVIS "Clarinettes" (1999 reissue, first edition IDA 1985)

Caminos De Cataluña: Twenty years of label G3G (1989 - 2009)

RAEO (Mark Cunningham + Gat)

JAKOB DRAMINSKY

VICTOR NUBLA

G3G (a.k.a. G33G) is a Barcelona based label, named after its three "G" founders (Gat, Guillem, Gloria). Active since 1989, it has been releasing, mainly, music from local Catalonian artists. The most interesting of G3G works offer idiosyncratic and experimental views of current forms combining, sometimes radically, art-rock, electronics, jazz, world, ambient, minimal...

Label's bigger name is PASCAL COMELADE. Here, though, you can also find late 70's , 80's spanish underground personalities as JUAN CREK and VICTOR NUBLA, (both members of the historic experimental band MACROMASSA), contemporary improvisators as JAKOB DRAMINSKY, eclectic crossings of Mediterranea with New York as RAEO, (collaboration between G3G founder GAT and no-wave man MARK CUNNINGHAM )... and many other worth discovering artists.
Quite collectable are the very limited, vinyl-only "Tarot" singles of the label, released the period 1989-1995.

ANTON IGNORANT

MACROMASSA

a G3G sampler

01. ALIEN MAR - Selenita

("Alien Mar", 1996)

02. GRAN TEATRO AMARO - La nuova piuma

("La Vie En Rouge", 2002)

03. RAEO - Mambo maya

("Adios Jupiter", 1994)

04. RAEO - Kineshtesia

("Body Loops", 1999)

05. JAKOB DRAMINSKY - On a x-road to Bagdad

(v.a. "Ten Years After, una compilacion de G3G", 1999)

06. ORIOL PERUCHO - Las pelusas

("Insulto, Le Multaron Y Dejo De Comer", 1992)

07. PIERRE BASTIEN - Argel allegra

("Se Verla Al Reves", 2005)

08. MACROMASSA - El largo camino a las almedras

("Los Hechos Perez", 1992)

09. JUAN CREK & SERGIO OCA - Viento del sur

("Viento Del Este", 1996)

10. RAEO - Memorias del oasis

("Adios Jupiter", 1994)

11. PASCAL COMELADE - Patafisiskal polska

("Ragazzin' The Blues", 1991)

12. PASCAL COMELADE - Neo-realismo del'habanera

("Ragazzin' The Blues", 1991)

13. MINOX & LYDIA LUNCH - U turn

(v.a. "Ten Years After, una complilacion de G3G", 1999)

14. MACROMASSA - Alas plegables

("Los Hechos Perez", 1992)

15. PIERRE BASTIEN - Roba sabor

("Se Verla Al Reves", 2005)

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

Download: G3G sampler (15tracks)

photos of artists are from experimentaclub
(www.experimentaclub.com)

visit: www.g33grecords.com

Sounds Of Fortune: The Tarot Vinyls Of G3G (SPAIN)

The G3G "Tarot" Collection of limited, numbered vinyl singles:

XV - RAEO - El Diablo, 1992


XXI - GAWK - The World, 1992

XVIIII - MACROELVIS/SUPERMASSA - El Sol, 1994

XVIII - IGNORANT BUILDINGS - La Luna, 1989


XVII - PIERRE BASTIEN - La Estrella, 1993


VIII - MIL DOLORES PEQUENOS - La Justicia, 1995


XX - VICTOR SIERRA - Jugement, 1992

IX- PASCAL COMELADE & BELCANTO ORQUESTRA - El Ermitano, 1992


VII - ETANT DONNES - El Carro, 1993


RAEO - Mambo Maya

HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS "Piano Piano" ( 1991)

This post is for Richard, friend of Materiali Sonori releases, who have asked to listen to this 1991 album. Beside his pioneering and famous works with edging kraut bands as KLUSTER, CLUSTER, HARMONIA etc., the edging composer Hans-Joachim Roedelius also has released numerous solo works, most of which are ambient-newage-modern classical orientated... and "PIANO PIANO" is one of them. Simple piano sounds and few electronics are enough, for the composer, to draw slowly (piano piano) melodic, quiet, impressionistic landscapes of sometime great sentimental immediacy.

H-J ROEDELIUS Leicht Gemacht

PIANO PIANO (12 tracks)

LABEL BLEU: Jazz In Bleu Moods (FRA)

LABEL BLEU is the independent force of contemporary french jazz. Active since mid-eighties the Amiens based label has presented works from important and well known artists as LOUIS SCLAVIS, HENRI TEXIER, PAOLO FRESU, ALDO ROMANO, ENRICO RAVA, JUAN JOSE MOSALINI, MICHEL PORTAL, DAVID KRAKAUER & many others.
LABEL BLEU and sublabels INDIGO (ethnic, world jazz) and BLEU ELECTRIC (nu jazz, electronic) combine classic jazz values with avant directions, fresh sounds, innovative styles and world influences offering a wide spectrum of creations stamped uniquely by the bleu past-present-future sense of continuity.

JAZZ IN BLEU MOODS...an introduction to Label Bleu

a

01 HENRI TEXIER AZUR QUARTET - don't buy ivory, anymore!
02 SCLAVIS / TEXIER / ROMANO - Annobon
03 PALATINO -Tempo
04 PASCALS - Tour theme 2006
05 DANIEL GOYONE - Dance bulgar
06 ENRICO RAVA Tango for Vasquez & Pepita
07 MOSALINI / BEYTELMANN / CARATINI - Inspiracion
08 SCLAVIS / TEXIER/ ROMANO - Sowetto sorrow
09 PALATINO - Last call from the stars
10 P.A.F. TRIO - Paftastique
11 MICHEL PORTAL - Mutinerie
12 DAVID KRAKAUER - Moskovitz and loops of it

b
01 LOUIS SCLAVIS - Germania valse
02 PALATINO - Glenn's walk
03 JULIEN LOURAU - Tu mi turbi
04 DAVID LINX & DIEDERIK WISSELS - Lord of the groundless
05 MAGIK MALIK - Duo 237
06 VINCENT SEGAL - Castor
07 OLYMPIC GRAMOFON - Shiver
08 BATTISTA LENA - Il cha cha dei cosmonauti
09 JULIEN LOURAU - Diaspora
10 GARY LUCAS - Old dreams
11 PASCALS - Chakuriku
12 SCLAVIS / TEXIER / ROMANO - Viso di donna
13 CHRISTOPHE MARGUET - i
14 VINCENT SEGAL - Vienne

compiled by LaFolieDuJour

listen to part a
(12 tracks, 1 hour)

listen to part b
(14 tracks, 56min)

More Label Bleu at La Folie Du Jour

JUAN JOSE MOSALINI - Che Bandoneon
MICHEL PORTAL - Musiques de Cinemas
LOUIS SCLAVIS - Ceux qui veillent la nuit

SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER: Sound Activists, Public Entertainers

SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER was a brass band formed in 1976, in Frankfurt, by HEINER GOEBBELS, ALFRED HARTH, CHRISTOPH ANDERS... in an attempt to reinforce artistically the left student movement demonstrations of that period. The band, designed mostly for live appearances, was consisting of about twenty musicians and played on stage, at the streets and in diverse political activities.

In spite of the circumstances of its birth, The So-Called Left Radical Brass Orchestra never was a preacher of left dogmatism. Their repertoire crossed the music history from baroque & classical period, early twentieth century to free-jazz and avant-garde, including original pieces, traditonal themes, covers of Hans Eisler, Frank Zappa etc.

Their interpretations were imaginative, inventive, uncompromised but not snobbish, eclectic, intellectual and yet very amusing - a channel for direct communication with the people.

SLB discography comprises the albums: "HÖRT HÖRT" (1977) and "MIT GELBEN BIRNEN" (1980), which in my opinion are -along with one or two Cassiber's releases- the most interesting (of the many) works GOEBBELS & HARTH have both involved.

SLB musicians:

Christoph Anders, Alfred Harth, Heiner Goebbels - tenor saxes
Henning Wiese, Rolph Riem, Barbara Muller-Rendtorff - alto saxes
Thomas Jahn, Gudrun Stocker, Cora Stefan - flutes
Volker Haas, Reinhard Bussmann, Herwig Heise, Walter Ybema - clarinets
Klaus Becker, Johannes Eisenberg, Gunther Lohr - trumpets
Michael Hoehler, Peter Lieser - trombones
Uwe Schriefer, Jorn Stuckrath - tubas
Ernst Stotzner - voice

italian version of the first LP, released in 1979 from Franco Fabbri's legendary label L'Orchestra

second LP "MIT GELBEN BIRNEN" ("With Yellow Pears")



SLB - praludium (track selected by Semilunio)

Both of SLB albums have reissued in 1999 on double CD from Munich label Trikont. So here you get some samples only from these two great works.

SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER
(9-track sampler, 27min)

01 - ich bin halt die kotze aus diener glotze
02 - rote sonne
03 - ya no somos nosotros
04 - la resistenca se organisa
05 - homesick blues
06 - die hugel von ca'n geroni
07 - poema para el despertar de un nino
08 - praludium
09 - trauermarsch

sampler by LaFolieDuJour

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO " Tristesse " (Materiali Sonori, 1990)

Argentinian composer and guitarist LUIS RIZZO is one of the contemporary avant-tango and tango-revival acting figures, a competent heir to a really great tradition built by tango monsters (and also Rizzo's masters) as ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, JUAN JOSE MOSALINI, OSVALDO MANZI...
In 70's Rizzo participates to Mosalini's avant ensemble "Guardia Nueva", in 80's he stays in france and plays a lot in Europe. In 1988 he releases, with a trio, the album"Tango d'hier et d'aujourd'hui" (label Circe, France) and two years later, he meets italian producer Marco Castellani and starts his long collaboration with label Materiali Sonori.
"TRISTESSE" is the first fruit of this collaboration, a collection of 13 pieces written by various composers (11 tangos, 1 milonga, 1 valse), with Rizzo on guitar, Susanna Rizzi on vocals and Cesar Stroscio, future leader of the very good ensemble ESQUINA, (see our post for label Materiali Sonori), on bandoneon.

Listen to a sample here:

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO - Tristesse (composer: Luis Rizzo)

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO
(with singer Susanna Rizzi )
Cesar Stroscio - bandoneon
Carlos Carsen - bass
Adrian Politi - guitar
Luis Rizzo - guitar