TORU TAKEMITSU "Film Music 4 - Soundtracks to Hiroshi Teshigahara 's films " (JAP, 1991)

The audio part of the monumental TORU TAKEMITSU - HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA collaboration, according to this 1991 JVC release, which collects music from 8 movies (from 1959 to 1989), including, of course, "Woman In The Dunes", "Pitfall" and "The Face Of Another" - the three TESHIGAHARA masterpieces you must see!

Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927 - 2001)

tracks:

1 The Face of Another (1966)
2 Summer Soliders (1972)
3 Pitfall (1962)
4 Shiroi asa (1964)
5 Woman in the Dunes (1964)
6 Jose Torres (1959)
7 The Ruined Map (1968)
8 Rikyu (1989)


pitfall, 1962


woman in the dunes, 1964


the face of another, 1966

LISTEN HERE

More Takemitsu and Teshigahara at La Folie Du Jour:
Toru Takemitsu - Garden Rain
Toru Takemitsu - In An Autumn Garden
Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman In the Dunes
Teshigara, Takemitsu - Antonio Gaudi (documentary)

SHINY GNOMES "Orange" (GER, 1993)

A good garagy psych LP, the last of the "pure electric" phase, as SHINY GNOMES will give soon their music more trippy ambient-ethno-acoustic-cosmic directions ("MC CREATRIX", 1994) ... or even will go electronic ("WELTRAUMSERVICE", 1996).

ORANGE
(12 tracks, 50 min)

More SHINY GNOMES at La Folie Du Jour
WILD SPELLS
SOME FUNNY NIGHTMARES

The Germanic Internationalism of THE BLECH

Hubl Greiner, Rupert Volz (photo from THE BLECH site)

Founded by HUBL GREINER and RUPERT VOLZ, THE BLECH was one of the most interesting avant-rock bands came from Germany in 80's. Their love for unorthodox mixtures and subversive art marriages sent them to dig unsual (for the rock customs) territories, so that the jazz/electronic/alternative pop basis of their music is full of small (or big) curiocities of retro-germanism or eclectic internationalism: euroarabian motifs, third world percussive patterns, grotesque vocals, linguistic eccentrities, eastern european melodies, mad cabaret/Kurt Weillian marches and numerous other heterogenous elements, all treated with a distinctive, dadaistic passion for irony and seriousness.

THE BLECH were: HUBL GREINER (drums, piano, electronics, bass, percussion, various sounds), RUPERT VOLZ (vocals, brass instruments, trumpet, guitar, lyrics)... also contributed: THEROFAL (vocals, piano, bass), HELMUT BIELER-WENDT, SHIRLEY HOFMANN, ACHIM SCHMIDT, JENS VOLK and others...

WORKS:
The Blech, 1985
Zip Zip, 1987
Ich Wollte Meine Schuhe Zerschneiden, 1989
Liebeslieder, 1992
85-91 , 1993

...plus several other Greiner and Volz works as DER VOLZ, HULU PROJECT, etc...

THE BLECH - die einsame traene (from "Ich Wolte Meine..." LP)

ART & TECHNIQUE "Alea Jacta Est" , EP, (FRA, 1983)

Compared to the very interesting exploratory, minimal-electronic-industrial ambience of their debut (and best) LP "CLIMA X" (1981), the 1983 three track EP "ALEA JACTA EST" finds ART & TECHIQUE been more interested in cold synth-wave dance structures, while b-side track "Another Day An Other Life" is a more atmospheric song.

works:

CLIMA X (LP, Hi-Tec, 1981) reissued from SPALAX in 1998
PUTSCH IN MEMORIAM (7'', Hi-Tec, 1981)
DIABOLUS IN MECANICA (LP, Hi-Tec, 1982)
ALEA JACTA EST (12'' EP, Hi-Tec, 1983)

ALEA JACTA EST
a1 - Radio City Deutschland
a2 - Psychic Dance Floor
b1 - Another Day An Other Life


ART & TECHNIQUE noel tombe un jeudi (track from "Clima X")

COSMIC SOUNDS : The Now Of Yesterday - Jazz In Eastern Europe

Giving an exposure to neglected jazz-funk-fusion treasures from eastern european vaults and being in parallel a vehicle for new musicians who work in jazzdance modernity, the London based english-serbian nu-jazz label COSMIC SOUNDS has been representing since 1999 one of the most remarkable efforts for bridging the gaps between local and global, east and west, past and future.

Serbian architect, dj, music collector ZELJKO KERLETA, founder of COSMIC SOUNDS, speaks for the birth of his label (2001 interview):

"Cosmic Sounds was the name of the radio program that I was running between 1996-98. I was running it from London but it was broadcast in Belgrade once a week. That was just a hobby because I am an architect and was working full time for the BBC Architectural Department. As an architect I was doing 3D animations as a presentations for my projects. I found them pretty dull being played without sound so one day I just decided to do a background music using recently discovered computer tools for it. That's how I did my "Running Fast" track. Timewarp heard it and licensed it for their compilation Warp Factor 2 in April 1999. Gilles Peterson picked it up, playlisted it in Straight No Chaser, also Ross Allen and many others. Of course that gave me a boost and I did the whole album "Space Runner". In the meantime I met one of the best trumpeters Dusko Gojkovic who generously gave me all his masters to look after them. Also I knew that some of my friends in Belgrade were doing their own stuff. As a collector I already made a bunch of compilations on CD-Rs (for my personal use) from my record collection, dedicated to each of Eastern European countries that I made because I always had a feeling that they were heavily neglected on collectors market and jazz scene in general and was hoping someday to release it throu someone. Having all that undiscovered music around me the logical choice was to start a record label and share all that with the public. Name for the label was taken from my ex-radio program. And that was it. First release came out in November 1999 and that was re-issue of Dusko Gojkovic's rare 10" record with Kenny Clarke from 1961.[...]"

The great series of rare (60's-80's) jazz/fusion gems from eastern europe:

V/A THIRD EYE, czechoslovakian vaults, 2000


V/A WIZARD, czechoslovakian vaults, 2000

V/A RED SQUARE GROOVE, russian vaults, 2000


V/A BALKAN EXPRESS, yugoslavian vaults, 2001


V/A BAZAAR. polish vaults, 2002


V/A HOLDING HANDS, polish vaults, 2004


V/A SUNSET-SUNRISE, bulgarian vaults, 2002


V/A ANTHOLOGY, hungarian vaults, 2005


V/A BLUE LIGHT, hungarian vaults, 2005



La Folie Du Jour selects cosmic sounds

ALEX RJABOV ENSEMBLE SYNTESYS - Expectation
(from Red Square Groove, 2000)

ALEX SOPCHEK - New Delhi
(from Belgrade's Burning, 2001)

CSABA DESEO ENSEMBLE - Song for my father
(from Anthology, 2005)

KRZYSTOF KOMEDA -Kattorna [kitten]
(from Bazaar, 2002)

LALA KOVACEV - Emina
(from Balkan Express, 2001)

MILAN STOJANOVIC - Bar's groove
(from Balkan Express, 2001)

MILAN SVOBODA - Wait for me
(from Wizard, 2000)

TONE JANSA - Vizija [vision]
(from Bouyancy, 2001, [rec.1976-78] )

JERZY MILIAN - Ashkhabad bazaar
(from Bazaar, 2002)

RTB BIG BAND - ne ga se provadaj
(from Balkan Express, 2001)

ZELJKO KERETA - Running fast
(from Space Runner, 1999)

VESSELIN NIKOLOV - Hallelujah
(from Sunset Sunrise, 2002)

MISHA BLAM - Memory
(from Balkan Express, 2001)

RTB BIG BAND WITH GUESTS - si zaljubiv edno mome
(from Jazz Orkestar Radio-Televizije Beograd (1948-1978), 2005)

MENSON BENSON SEXTET - Favourite tongues
(from Belgrade's Burning, 2001)

JERZY MILIAN - Rewelacyjny Luciano
(from Bazaar, 2002)

LABORATORIUM - Taniec bialego karla
(from Holding Hands, 2004)

JANKO NILOVIC - Delirium
(from Rhythmes Contemporains, 2000, [first release 1973])

JANKO NILOVIC - Diamant dans l'espace
(from Rhythmes Contemporains, 2000, [first release 1973])

ZELJKO KERLETA - Summer's gone
(from Space Runner, 1999)

COXLESS PAIR (a.k.a. DVOJAC BEZ KORMILANA) - Jive samba
(from Contemplation, 2000)

ZELJKO KERLETA - The bull is dead
(from Belgrade's Burning, 2001)

music compiled by
Koroviov + paramo

listen to Cosmic Sounds Compilation
part 1 & part 2

ARTURO STALTERI "Racconti Brevi" + "...E il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna" ( ITA, 1987)

Second solo work of an expert in 70's electronic -progressive music, who expands here his art of landscapism and unlocks some new realms of imagination...

"...E il pavone..." was out circa early 80's. Reissued in 2004 by MP records.
The 1987 Materiali Sonori edition included as first part, the unreleased compositions "Racconti Brevi".

"Racconti Brevi":
01. Lo speccio di galadriel [5:30]
02.Passi sulle dune [2:30]
03. Danza della londra [1:16]
04. Piccoli pinguini [2:44]
05. Volo notturno [3:01]
"...e il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna":
06. Goa di fronte all' oceano [5:43]
07. Mulini [4:40]
08. ...e il pavone parlo alla luna [1:36]
09. La pescatrice di perle [4:08]
10. Morceau [0:49]
11. Raga Occidentale [17:03]
12. Nel palazzo dei venti [3:22]

ARTURO STALTERI - piano, guitar, synth
RODOLFO RUBERTI - electric guitar
DARIO BELLARDINI - clarinet
RICCARDO MIGLIETTA - tabla
DANTE MAJORANA - flute

Listen here to Raga Occidentale

More ARTURO STALTERI at La Folie Du Jour:

MATERIALI SONORI: The Dreamreality Of Sonic Materials
ARTURO STALTERI - Flowers

REBBY SHARP "Green Street / Hollow Earth" 7'', 1982

REBBY's first solo attempt. A two-track acoustic 7'' single released in 1982 from german label Zensor. Listen to it
HERE

More Rebby Sharp at La Folie Du Jour:

REBBY SHARP -In One Mouth And Out The Other

ORTHOTONICS - Wake Up You Must Remember

ORTHOTONICS - Luminous Bipeds

REBBY SHARP "Into One Mouth And Out The Other" (US, 1989)

REBBY SHARP worked here with SHIMMY DISC boss, KRAMER, and TOM CORA, DAVID LICHT and FRED FRITH for her first (and only) solo LP, a work quite different from her releases with ORTHOTONICS.
Influenced by the avant-art-rock spirit of Rebby's collaborators and also focused on the creation of a poor-sounded atmosphere with references to primitive folk or retro-folk, "In One Mouth and Out The Other" can be seen retrospectively as one of those distant odd pre-announcements of the "weird-folk/lo-fi" genres of the recent years.

REBBY SHARP
composition, vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin, banjo, percussion, artwork

KRAMER
bass, percussion, trombone, arrangements, production

TOM CORA
cello, voice

DAVID LICHT
percussion

FRED FRITH
guitar, violin

COBY BATTY
vocals

Listen to samples of the album here:


REBBY SHARP Just in time


REBBY SHARP The Harmfulness Of Tobacco