Tuesday 17 February 2015

Doll By Doll

I've mentioned before how much I liked Doll By Doll. Buying their first single unheard purely for their use of Artaud on the sleeve.
An astonishing live act whether it was the second line up on the left or the latter version which at times saw Jackie dressed as a very imposing Samurai warrior (and was that Claire from Amazulu on bass one time?)
It was a sad day for music when Mr Leven died

An Elegy For Jackie Leven

Jackie Leven interviewed during the interval of his performance at the Fife Acoustic Music Club + Elegy For Johnny Cash live (Polish Club 22/10/09)

Courtney Pine on 'A Love Supreme' 50 years on (BBC)

Often cited as one of the greatest albums ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is revered not just by jazz aficionados but music fans the world over. Fifty years after its release, British saxophonist Courtney Pine explores what makes it such a unique and important record.
John Coltrane intended A Love Supreme to be a spiritual record - a declaration of his religious beliefs and personal spiritual quest. However the album also had a wider cultural significance. It was released in February 1965, just days after black rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated and weeks before Martin Luther King led the March on Alabama, and for many the sound and feel of the music captures perfectly the sadness, confusion and anger of America's growing black consciousness movement.
Courtney visits Gaumont State Theatre in Kilburn, North London, where Coltrane performed on a tour in 1961. He is joined by a trio of leading British jazz saxophonists - Nat Birchall, Finn Peters and Jason Yarde - whose lives have been inspired and shaped by A Love Supreme and the music and spirit of John Coltrane.
Our quartet of musicians explore why the album touches so many and continues to do so with each new generation
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A Love Supreme live in Antibes, France (26/7/65)
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison
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Although I have to say that my favourite jazz album of all time is Ayler's 'Spiritual Unity' every time I listen to 'A Love Supreme' it always brings to mind the late, great Sean Oliver from Rip, Rig & Panic whose fave jazz album it was and how often we good-naturedly tried to convert each other to our cause

Naval Reservist John Coltrane aged 18 (1945)

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Tomorrow - My White Bicycle


Tomorrow's pioneering paean to the joys of communal public transport has proved to be a classic of the British psychedelic underground

Mogwai Interview


Mogwai will be playing Melbourne's Hamer Hall on 1/3/15 and the Sydney Opera House on 2/3/15
Gotta admit that I wish I had the money to go to this gig but never mind...

Monday 16 February 2015

Tindersticks - Live @The Philharmonie Paris (10/2/15)


1. Keep You Beautiful, 2. Second Chance Man, 3. Medicine, 4. Dying Slowly, 5. Johnny Guitar, 6. Into the Night, 7. Boobar, 8. Come Feel The Sun, 9. A Night So Still, 10. The Otherside, 11. Drunk Tank, 12. Piano Song, 13. Factory Girl
Encore1 1. Hushabye Mountain, 2. She's Gone, 3. Sometimes It Hurts, 4. My Oblivion, 5. Trouble Everyday
Encore2 1. Another Night In, 2. All The Love/This Fire Of Autumn

Freedom Sounds Mix (Toby Whelan)


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'Fossils'


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Jah Wobble's Top Ten Dubs (Audio)


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1 KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN Augustus Pablo
I first heard this as a pre-release in 1976. Love the sound of Augustus Pablo's melodica; I am also kinky for the sound of the dubbed-up timbale drums that feature on this recording. King Tubby was the king of pure, heavy-duty dub at that time. It was released in this country on Island Records. Hearing 'King Tubby' for the first time had a profound effect on me: it was like hearing music from another cosmos. There are any number of good King Tubby compilations now around - Trojan Records and the Blood & Fire label are good places to look.
2 CONCRETE DUB Bob Marley
I no longer have this record... in fact, I have not heard it for probably 25 years, so I hope it does really exist and is not a figment of my imagination. If memory serves me well, it was the dub version B-side of an Island 7" single; probably of the track called 'Concrete Jungle', from the Catch a Fire album. It must have been one of the first ever domestically released dub singles. It was great to hear a dub version of a Marley track - I nearly always preferred the dub version of a tune. There was more space, and the bass and drums were pushed to the fore.
3 MARCUS GARVEY (DUB VERSION) Burning Spear
One of the very first dub versions I ever heard. I heard it in 1975 on a Friday night on the Capital Radio reggae show. I used to listen to that show religiously - Tommy Vance was the DJ. I now occasionally hear him DJing on heavy-rock stations as I channel-hop.
4 PROMISE IS A COMFORT TO A FOOL Trinity/Yabby You
A classic bassline, with a beautiful vocal refrain, and DJ chat. There are some bass lines that contain the whole mystery of creation within them. This is one of them. Other examples are Roy Budd's bass line to the title track of Mike Hodges Get Carter, and Cecil McBee's line on Lonnie Liston Smith's 'Expansions' are two that come immediately to mind. The crediting of reggae musicians is notoriously lax. There are three possible players, re this particular tune. All giants of the bass - Robbie Shakespeare, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett and Clinton Fearon. If I had to put money down on who it is on this track, I would say it was Mr Fearon.
5 TWO SEVENS CLASH Culture
For a while back in 1977, you could not get away from this tune. It still sounds heavenly. It reminds me of walking back from a party in Hackney on a Sunday morning as the sun was coming up. I couldn't get the tune out of my head.
6 JUJU MUSIC King Sunny Ade
There was a little-known dub version of this classic album, mixed by an engineer that I worked with, called Groucho. What he did was devastating. I would love to hear it again. It was on Island (again!) and was released around 1982.
7 ROWING Dennis Bovell
One of the great musicians of his generation. I used to watch him perform this with his band Matumbi. As with "Juju Music", I hankered after hearing it again. I'm pleased to say that the label Pressure Sounds has released a compilation of Dennis's dub stuff, which includes this track.
8 THE SAME SONG Israel Vibration
Similar to our own late, and very great Ian Dury, 'Skeleton,' 'Apple' and 'Wiss' [Israel Vibration's three members] were stricken by polio in the fifties. This blend of their vocals within a dub context is wonderful. Yet again, there is a great compilation on Pressure Sounds.
9 CONSCIOUS MAN DUB Lee Perry and the Jolly Brothers
You could not have a dub selection without Lee "Scratch" Perry appearing. This is a great example of his idiosyncratic style.
10 SMILING STRANGER John Martyn
This is taken from his 1980 album One World. It was one of the first records outside reggae to utilise dub techniques. Superb.
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The Sound of Young Scotland (Teaser)

Alan Horne, B.A. Robertson, Edwyn Collins & fan

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I remember that Nu Sonics/Steel Pulse gig upstairs at the Apollo and Steven Daly still owes me a bootleg from back in the days when he was at Listen after I got a cardboard display of Patti Smith's artwork promoting Easter from where he worked which pissed him off and so he said I could get a bootleg from under the counter at Listen Records. Gave him the artwork and...never got my hands on that Pistols bootleg I wanted but I've always imagined that Patti cutout in pride of place in his Vanity Fair office in New York. 
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Zé Otavio: William S. Burroughs

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DJ Food - Selected Aphex Works (Solid Steel 13/2/15)

Unless you've been living under a rock recently you'll have heard the news that Aphex Twin unexpectedly uploaded 155 of his old and unreleased tracks to Soundcloud and made them downloadable for free. Starting from his earliest demos through to known live tracks, later jungle experiments and beyond, this is the motherlode that his fans have always wanted. DJ Food, a long-time Aphex fan, has been through the entire collection with a fine-toothed comb and selected his favourites for the first half of the show this week. The hit rate was high but he's has managed to cram 31 tracks into 85 minutes to mark this unique occasion and peppered the mix with vintage interview clips of Richard James talking about his music
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39 Fnkmg
Floating
19 Ssnb
8 Utopia
19 [Slo]w early morning clissold sunrise
21 Hapshifter 1
12 Rough Beat Tune
Luke Vibert - Spiral Staircase [Future Music competition] [afx remix]
Thy're Here Aahha
33 Jonny Hawkes Broken Guitar[not Finished]
4 Red Calx [slo]
4 Red Calx
34.5 P.e.
5 heliosphan live
2 Afx 126b
15 Bradley Jam Pump
GPO Beat
Mortal 08
PrncDMC
Fork Rave
T13 Quadraverb
1 P-String
13 Short Mental fax
14 Make a Baby
14 Moodular Acid [pissflaps mix]
18 Mello Punchy
tigercubdelay
(HAB un23) (unfinished)
26 5 Demo
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Sunday 15 February 2015

Technical analogies are usually garbage

Rammellzee & Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982)


Toddla T meets Protoje


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Miley Cyrus: Tongue Tied


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Buddy Horinouchi Knitwear



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My desires are unconventional...

So show me

Cabane - Sangokaku

Features vocal performances by Bonnie Prince Billy, Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) and Caroline Gabard (Boy & The Echo Choir) as well as string arrangement by Sean O’Hagan of the High Llamas and mix by Ash Workman (Metronomy, François and the Atlas Mountains)

Father John Misty - Heart Shaped Box (SXMU 2/15)

Father John Misty - Live @The Greene Space (12/2/15)

Cairo Liberation Front - Remix Collection Vol 1


In just two years the Dutch DJ- collective Cairo Liberation Front has helped to make the world familiar with the existence of Electro-Cha3bi, a fascinating music genre originating from the popular neighbourhoods of Cairo.
After the release of their first mixtape, with only the best tunes of the underground of Egypt, worldwide media such as the New York Times and The Guardian featured them. With their notorious live reputation they played multiple live shows at big festivals and clubs all over Europe.
Quickly the collective were seen as the European Ambassadors of the Electro Cha3bi genre, also known as “Mahraganat”. In early 2014 they got asked by leading Dutch hip hop label Top Notch if they could remix the hyped single “Oeh Na Na” by Bijlmer rap group SBMG. This request opened up the floodgates and the collective started to get further requests to work on more electro-cha3bi remixes helping to spread the sound all across Europe and the States.
They worked together with baile funk superstar MC Maromba, made a remix for the fresh new talent from Greece, Polygrains, and they also collaborated with DFA/City Slang for a remix of Sinkane’s “New Name” off his latest album “Mean Love”.
This collection consists of previously released remixes, but the opener is a new one; this psychedelic tune is based on Al Lover’s collaboration with Trouble in Mind’s Morgan Delt.
Get ready for the new wave of Egyptian wedding rave!
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1. Al Lover feat. Morgan Delt “Super Strength” (Power Plants) [Cairo Liberation Front Remix]
2. Sinkane “New Name” [Cairo Liberation Front Remix]
3. Polygrains “More” [Cairo Liberation Front Remix]
4. SBMG “Oeh Na Na” [Cairo Liberation Front Remix]
5. MC Maromba feat. MC R1 – “Joga o Bumbum Mexe o Bumbum” [Cairo Liberation Front Remix]
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The Jah Wobble Story

Ian Curtis's Macclesfield home for sale

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Saturday 14 February 2015

ЯEFUELED #13



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Butch Anthony's Alabama Folk Art Compound


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Friday 13 February 2015

It all depends on what crap you've tweeted Richard


Why I Drifted Away from the Atheist Movement

The Chapel Hill murders: The beast of New Atheism?

Siska - Unconditional Rebel


The shortest shooting ever.
Written & directed by Guillaume Panariello
Cinematography by Thomas Rames
Visual effect by Benoit Maffone (La Planète Rouge)
Produced by VLB Recordings & La Planete Rouge : laplaneterouge.fr
Music by Siska : facebook.com/siskasoundofficial
This is a real video performance, a slow motion video, a sequence map with a traveling in front of 80 extras placed on 80 meters along a little road, lost in an industrial area. Filmed at 1000 frames/second with a Phantom flex 4k from a car driven at 50km/h, the shooting took 5 seconds for a 3'30 video: a living and dreamlike mural.

Silence resembling stupidity

David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars - Suffragette City (Live @Imperial College London 1972)

Television - Marquee Moon (1993)

Richard Lloyd on 'Marquee Moon'


My part is in the right speaker. The hard part I wrote for See No Evil. No-one has duplicated it correctly. Ever.
I also play the solo on the beginning song on each side of the Vinyl. Venus I play all the melody except the solo, which is Tom. Friction I wrote the beginning part which goes through the entire song -- no songwriting credit Tom plays the leads on this one because I have to keep my part underneath...Marquee Moon is mostly Tom's but I play the harder part in the verses, and the first solo after the second verse. And the double stop trills, but Tom showed them to me. I play the lead in the choruses.
After the third verse I take over the rhythm while Tom plays the solo. This seems like a different version than the original. It's a little symphony with parts we all knew. The rise happens three time and then come the "Birdies" by Tom.
Then it starts over and ends. This IS a different version.
That's me starting Elevation with the "cupped" minor chord Am Dm Em. And the leads in the chorus with the bends. Then back to the "cupped minors" I play the solo which is double tracked. It is written exactly and I can replicate whatever I play which either Tom of Andy Johns could believe till I did it. Lots of doubling by me on the record.
I wrote the line to Guiding Light and told Tom if I didn't get songwriting credit I would not play it. So finally I got one song as a co-write. I play the solo and the melody for the last minute is 8 tracks of one melody of mine.
Tom plays the piano. I play the solos. Tom is a good pianist.
I turned the rhythm on Prove It into a calypso/reggae and play the leads in the chorus. Tom plays the solo...till the vocal returns.
Billy's timpani trick begins the next song & I play the rhythm as in Foxhole. Otherwise I have little to do with it.
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Our Hole in the Wall:An Oral History of the CBGB Scene

Stevie Wonder - Live in NYC (1972)


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TimesTalk: Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden

Moderated by David Carr just hours before he died
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