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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :: - WHAT'S RATTLIN' ? - :: :: The Weekly Digest for Canterbury Music Addicts :: :: Issue # 155 :: :: Wednesday, May 10th, 2000 :: :: :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSART WEBSITE - THE END ??? A few days ago, the following text appeared on the Musart website: * * * * * "May 2000 - June 2000 The Musart.co.uk web site has been in existence for 5 years. Matt and Ihave never had the resources to continually update the site as we would have wanted and the result is the vast and crumbling Cathedral edifice you see today. Hopefully helpful to some and a pain the neck for others; even funny at times. It would be a mammoth task to bring the design and structure into the 21st Century and so I am thinking of taking it down. It's up to you! If you want the site to stay then please email (site@musart.net) with any comments or suggestions. The number of positive responses will give us an idea of whether or not the effort involved would be worthwhile". * * * * * I haven't had the opportunity yet to discuss these matters with Mark Hewins, but I both understand why maintaining the Musart website is an awful lot of work, and think that maybe there are ways of changing the concept of the site, so that it would be less demanding to the people in charge of maintaining it. In any case, I want to express my full support with the idea of a musicians-based website, which has always been the basic concept behind Musart, and one that has always supported the *whole* Canterbury scene, long before my own website even existed. I really think Mark and Matt Knights deserve a big round of applause for their past work, and everyone's encouragement to carry on doing it, in one form or another. Of course, should the Musart team decide to discontinue it, I would happily keep passing the information on to WR subscribers. But I would feel much more alone, and I don't think I want to experience that feeling. So you know what you have to do - flood Musart with supportive e-mails! Tell them to keep going! Send them suggestions about how to do it! Aymeric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT THE CANTERBURY SOUND FESTIVAL MOUNT EPHRAIM GARDENS HERNE HILL, FAVERSHAM, KENT, ENGLAND SUNDAY 30th JULY 2000 Featuring: Gong, Caravan, Colosseum, Arthur Brown and Man Tickets priced £15 in advance Available from: CSF Ticket Sales PO Box 30 Faversham Kent ME13 8AA UK NB: UK Applications must contain S.A.E.European bookings must add £1.50 per ticket for postage and administration costs.Cheques / Postal Orders payable to "The Canterbury Sound Festival Ltd." Direct applications not subject to booking fee. Also available from: Ticket Web Tel: +44 (0)20 7771 2000 http://www.ticketweb.co.uk Stargreen Tel: +44 (0)20 7734 8932Way Ahead Tel: +44 (0)20 7403 3331 http://www.wayahead.com The Freak Emporium Tel: +44 (0)1753 893008Canterbury Bookings Tel: +44 (0)1227 455600 All agencies accept Credit Card bookings but are subject to a booking fee Tickets £20 on the dayOne Child under 14 years of age free per ticket holding adult The Festival Website will be active as from the end of May 2000 http://www.canterburysoundfestival.com Please note, the Festival site only has a capacity of 3000 people. Advance booking is strongly advised. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CuneiWay@aol.com Subject: Gilgamesh & National Health Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:17:53 EDT Hello WR We've got more complete information on our Canterbury-related upcoming releases that we can share: To be released SEPTEMBER, 2000 GILGAMESH "Arriving Twice" [Cuneiform Rune 140] ALAN GOWEN piano/electric piano/synth all tracksPHIL LEE guitars all tracksMIKE TRAVIS drums all tracksNEIL MURRAY bass 1)-2)PETER LEMER electric piano/synths 3)-4)STEVE COOK bass 3)-4)JEFF CLYNE bass 5)-8) 1) With Lady and Friend 4:252) You're Disguised 17:52 Orange Diamond Northern Gardens Phil's Little Dance Northern Gardens 3) Island Of Rhodes 6:52 Paper Boat As If Your Eyes Were Open 4) Extract 9:275) One End More 9:11 Phil's Little Dance Worlds Of Zin6) Arriving Twice 1:417) Notwithstanding 4:218) Lady and Friend 4:06 Tracks 1)-2) recorded Autumn 1973, Pathway Studios, London, UK Tracks 3)-4) recorded Autumn 1974, London, UK Tracks 5)-8) recorded Autumn 1975, London, UK This will include a booklet with a history of the band, and previously unseen photos. All tracks are demo, rehearsal or test recordings and are previously unissued. --------------------------------- To be released JANUARY 2001 NATIONAL HEALTH "Playtime" [Cuneiform Rune 145] ALAN GOWEN keyboards JOHN GREAVES bass, vocals PHIL MILLER guitar PIP PYLE drums with guest guitarist ALAIN ECKERT on some of the tracks recorded in France 1) Flanagan's People 15:57 Toad Of Toad Hall2) Nowadays A Silhouette 6:293) Dreams Wide Awake 8:184) Pleides [Seven Sisters] 10:265) Improvisation 1:176) The Rose Sob 1:467) Playtime 9:388) Squarer For Maud pt.1 5:119) Squarer For Maud pt.2 7:49 Tracks 1-4 recorded April 27th, 1979 at Bresse-sur-Grosne, France. Tracks 5-9recorded December 1st, 1979 at The Main Point, Philadelphia, PA, USA This will include a booklet with a history of the band during Alan's time with the band as a quartet, and previously unseen photos. All tracks are previously unissued live recordings. Thanks to everyone for your interest & your support of our releases. Steve/Cuneiform Records ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Roger Farbey" <Roger@farbey.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Keith Tippett Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 23:24:22 +0100 Hello, Disconforme, the Spanish label has just re-issued on CD the first three Keith Tippett albums. The first "You are here, I am there", from 1969, is a total classic and a must for any serious Canterburyphiles. It features a line-up of Tippett on piano plus Soft Machine acolytes Nick Evans (trombone), Marc Charig (cornet), Elton Dean (sax), Jeff Clyne (from Nucleus and Isotope) on bass and Alan Jackson (Mike Westbrook etc etc) on drums. The album has been long deleted and I only ever had heard it from a rather poor tape recording which I had treasured for years. It has a Softs/Just Us feel but is not of the free jazz school that Keith Tippett later adopted more widely. Amongst the eight tracks the feel of the pieces ranges from sensitive arco bass playing to wonderful Mingusian ensembles, one tune being a pastiche of sorts, but incredibly, an improvement on the original of the Beatles' "Hey Jude". Whilst I still think that Tippett's second album, "Dedicated to you but you weren t listening" (with, in addition to Charig, Evans and Dean, Gary Boyle and Robert Wyatt amongst others) is not merely Tippett's best album but one of the greatest jazz-rock albums ever produced (it is also now re-issued by Disconforme and was previously only re-issued by Repertoire in Germany), "You are here..." must rank a close second. They are allegedly produced as a limited collectors' edition so my advice is to hurry along to your friendly record shop and order them now. By the way, the little sticky label on the front of the cellophane wrapper on "You are here" cites the musicians' collective histories as including membership of (and I quote) Working Week, Bad Company, King Crimson, Nucleus and Soft Machine. Cheers Roger Farbey [The label in question is erroneous in the case of the albums you mention - it applies solely to Centipede's "Septober Energy", which has also been re-released by Disconforme - AL] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: policy.office@mihra.org (Roger Bunn)Subject: Centipede were close friends <?> well some ;-) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:53:54 +0100 Centipede with Mike Patto too Huh? In fact Ollie Halsall and the Patto band...I was around, mostly playing golf with Mike to kill his worries and pain, at the time, t'was just after Patto had been diagnosed with limph cancer, about an hour later. And Mike had walked out into the LA hotel pool area and had accosted his number one hero Groucho Marx, who then spent the whole afternoon with Mike (as anyone of any reasonable humour and intelligence could do, sometimes), signedtons of photographs, and then the Boxer tour was cancelled. This happened just before or after <?> the Centipede album was recorded. And around the same time as a couple of Patto benefit concerts by Dick and the Firemen. Right? :-) Who were talking about doing the Centipede Paris gig the following week. Funny that, was thinking of calling Keith this week. Rr Music Industry Human Rights Association http://www.mihra.org / policy.office@mihra.org Drugs http://www.mihra.org/2k/drugs.htm Media http://www.mihra.org/2k/media.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** FORTHCOMING CANTERBURY-RELATED CONCERTS ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [for more info : check out the 'Concerts' page of CALYX] http://perso.club-internet.fr/calyx/index/concerts.html ==> DAEVID ALLEN / UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS <================================ Jun 06 - BRUXELLES (Belgium), VK Club / Jun 08 - COPENHAGEN (Denmark), Loppen or Stengaden / Jun 11 - BERN (Switzerland), venue tbc / Jun 12 - WINTERTHUR (Switzerland), venue tbc / Jun 21 - LIEGE (Belgium), La Zone / Jun 28 - DIKSMUIDE (Belgium), 4AD ==> CARAVAN <=========================================================== [P.Hastings-G.Richardson-D.Sinclair-R.Coughlan D.Boyle-J.Leverton-S.Bentall] Jul 23 - PEER (Belgium), Belgian R&B Festival / Jul 30 - CANTERBURY Festival / Autumn 2000 - European tour ==> GONG - EUROPEAN TOUR <=============================================== [D.Allen-G.Smyth-M.Howlett-T.Travis-G.Zeprix C.Taylor] May 12 - MALVERN, Fringe Festival / May 29 - BLANDFORD (Dorset), Festival / Jun 25 - GLASTONBURY Festival, Avalon Fields / Jul 07 - IMATRA (Finland), Big Band Festival [with Randy Brecker Quintet (USA), UMO Orchestravs. XL and Rinneradio (Finland)] / Jul 25 - ARLES (France), MIMI Festival / Jul 30 - CANTERBURY Festival with Didier Malherbe on selected dates ==> NUCLEUS <============================================================ Jun 22 - LONDON, The Annexe (1 Dean St, W1) Jul 17-22 - LONDON, Ronnie Scott's Line-up: Ian Carr - trumpet and flugelhorn Phil Todd - saxes Mark Wood - guitar Geoff Castle - keys Davide Mantovani - bass guitar Nic France - drums ==> SLAPP HAPPY <======================================================== [D.Krause-P.Blegvad-A.Moore] May 13/14/16/17 & 26/27/78 - TOKYO, Star Pine's Cafe (Kichijoji) May 19 - SAPPORO, Bessy Hall (Sapporo) May 20 - KYOTO, Kyoto Univ. Seibu-Kodo Information: Eyewill: tel/fax +81-3-5485-6490 mailto:kjeyewill@aol.com ==> JOHN ETHERIDGE <===================================================== with "SWEET CHORUS" [tribute to Stephane Grappelli]:May 21 - KESWICK Jazz Festival / Jun 03 - KENDAL, Brewery Arts Centre / Jun 04 - RICHMOND, St George's Theatre (Swaledale Jazz Festival) / Jun 10 - St ALBANS, The Maltings / Jun 24/25 - UPTON Jazz Festival / Jun 30 - GLASGOW, Montrose/The Linx Hotel / Jul 02 - ABERDEEN, Lemon Tree with THE KENNEDY EXPERIENCE (also w.D.BOYLE) May 22 - LONDON, The Dome / May 29 - SARK, Channel Islands QUINTET with J.CLYNE/J.MARSHALL/H.WARREN/J.SIEGAL Jun 09 - WAVENDON, The Stables J.ETHERIDGE TRIO w.D.PHILLIPS/J.MARSHALL Jun 16 - LONDON, Vortex Jazz Bar (Stoke Newington) with ZAPPATISTASJun 07 - BATH Fringe Festival, Windows Arts Centre / Jun 23 - LONDON, Blackheath Concert Halls (SE3) ========================================================================= * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** AND OTHER GOOD GIGS... ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ==> JAN GARBAREK GROUP <================================================= [J.Garbarek-R.Bruninghaus-E.Weber-M.Mazur] May 11 - CRETEIL, Maison des Arts / May 12 - LE HAVRE, Le Volcan / Jun 02 - GIESSEN, Freilichtbuhne / Jun 03 - COUTANCES, Festival / Jun 05 - DRESDEN, Kulturpalast / Jul 06 - MUNCHEN, Tollwood Festival / Jul 07 - MAINZ, Zeltfestival / Jul 08 - DUISBURG, Traumzeltfestival / Jul 09 - OSNABRUECK, Schlosshof / Jul 11 - NUERNBERG, Serenadenhof / Jul 12 - TUTTLINGEN, Zeltfestival / Oct 11 - LINGEN, Theater Wilhelmshoehe / Oct 12 - HALLE, Steintorvariete / Oct 13 - BREMEN, Glocke / Oct 14 - WILHELMSHAVEN, Stadthalle / Oct 16 - LEVERKUSEN, Forum Festival / Oct 17 - TUEBINGEN, Stiftskirche / Oct 18 - VORARLBERG, tba / Oct 19 - INNSBRUCK, tba / Oct 20 - SALZBURG, tba / Oct 22 - GRAZ, tba / Oct 23 - WIEN, tba / Oct 24 - LEONDING, Kuernberghalle / Oct 26 - HANNOVER, Expo 2000 / Nov 01 - RENDBURG, tba / Nov 02 - HAMBURG, Musikhalle / Nov 03 - NEUWIED, Heimathaus / Nov 04 - LUDWIGSHAFEN, Pfalzbau / Nov 08 - FRANKFURT, Alte Oper / Nov 09 - FLEIN, Block E / Nov 10 - FREIBURG, Konzerthaus / Nov 11 - AALEN, Festival / Nov 12 - BASEL, Messe / Nov 23 - AACHEN, Eurogress / Nov 25 - KTREUZTAL, Stadthalle / Nov 28 - GOETTINGEN, Stadthalle / Nov 29 - PADERBORN, Stadthalle / Dec 01 - GENEVA, Victoria Hall / Dec 02 - LUZERN, Kultur- u. Kongresszentrum ==> INVISIBLE OPERA CO. OF TIBET <======================================= May 29 - BROAD CLYST Festival (Devon) / Jun 23 - GLASTONBURY Festival, Green Fields, Croissant Neuf ==> MAGMA <============================================================== 30TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS: May 12/13/14 PARIS, Le Trianon (80, boulevard Rochechouart) + May 19 - Clermont-Ferrand / May 27 - Lille Official website/tickets: http://www.seventhrecords.com ==> THINKING PLAGUE <==================================================== Jun 18 - BETHLEHEM (PA), NEARfest / Jul 26 - ARLES (France), MIMI Festival / Jul 29 - SCHIO (Italy) [North of Vincenza] (tbc) / Jul 30 - VITTORIO VENETTO (Italy) [North of Venice] / Aug 02 - ROVIGO (Italy) [South of Venice] / + other Italian dates t.b.a. 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