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Hello to all,
I was hoping to report on Gong's recent visit to the MIMI
festival in Arles (South of France), but sadly the gig had to be
cancelled due to rain... A proposal to reschedule the concert to
the following evening had to be turned down due to several members
being committed to gigs in England. I had a great time at MIMI
though since (a) I arrived early enough to see Gong's soundcheck
and so I got to hear them! (b) the amazing Thinking Plague from
Denver, USA, were on the bill the following evening and what an
extraordinary gig that was! I urge Italian WRers to catch them on
their short Italian tour.
Now I'm off to England to attend the Canterbury festival.
I hope a lot of you will make it - with Gong and Caravan on the
bill, this is an event that is not to be missed, and Colosseum,
Man and Arthur Brown are other great names from the 60s/70s rock
scene. See you there!
Aymeric
PS: Check out http://www.canterburysoundfestival.com for
more info on the festival... You can probably still make it (with
an ear to the ground of course)!
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From: Anthony Shaw <tonyshaw@clinet.fi>
Subject: Gong gig Imatra July7
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:42:09 -0700
Some impressions for old & young PHP's:
GONG GONE EAST - IN A FINNISH GARDEN
It's a forest glade about 30 km from the place of
encounter - the raindrops glisten as they lazily evaporate in the
early morning sun amid all-around hues of emerald and lime green.
Yet across my vision flash intermittent bolts of violet and
vermillion, images of a phoenix in full flight. It's the morning
after the night before's near inexplicable appearance of Gong at a
traditional jazz festival even deeper in the woods of Eastern
Finland than where I now sit waking.
Take a rock-n-roll circus 3000 km from the Hammersmith
Palace across the forest expanses of northern Europe and you can
expect some sort of strange cultural shift. But to a fast
middle-ageing Londoner of 70's origins there is a seamless link
with a myriad of near 30 year Gong-associations from Bradford
1974, thru‚ Nimbin NSW 1980, to Imatra July 2000. It hadn't been
easy to leave the family back home in Helsinki and drive 4 hours
east to within 30 km of the Russian border - my son had been in
hospital the day before, I had drawn a blank with lengthy efforts
to cover the concert for the Helsinki radio, the lawn was getting
desperately unkempt... I had arrived 3 hours before the scheduled
startof the gig - 3 hours to kill in a madly cavorting
jazz-saturated little town 30 km from the Russian border enjoying
its one week of street-carnival release per year. Did this make
any sense??
Maybe it was on the pages of WR that I'd picked up the
notion that DA had a habit of mixing with the audience before a
gig. So after an hour of aimless ambling thru‚ town I pushed thru‚
some bushes outside the arena, and there he stood amidst a handful
of youngsters‚ autographing amiably. From there on in it all
fitted together. There were bell-bottoms and tie-dye shirts mixed
with dreadlocks and tatoos, (other) baldies bunched in with
achnied crew-cuts, earth mothers and aerobic systers, Calvin Klein
alongside ginseng oil. The venue was a 60 metre square markee over
a cityside carpark, earlier filled with bronzed jazz diners
embibing Randy Becker, succeded by some tortured techno of local
Rinneradio, soon all filtered out to leave a huddle of
multiflavoured PHPs young and less-so focused in front of the
stage waiting for David Id to get his switches sorted.
Not having been in any full-blown rock concert since the
80s maybe I had just forgotten the suspense, the energy, the
thrill. I had really come expecting to be let down by the whole
experience. But after a short period of in-glid switch setting the
evening just took off. Even without my favourite French flautist
stage left, the 6 piece took to the air and proceeded to meld
sounds long rooted in those classic years of the trilogy with all
but 2 or 3 songs from Zero to Infinity. The set lasted nonstop for
well over 2 hours bound to terra-firma by the incessant solid
inventiveness of the rythm section, Howlett an endlessly twitching
ennervated elfin presence behind his rainbow speckled bass, and
above
his bare-ankled beachshoes. Shakti Yoni is no longer the
silken temptress of my adolescent fantasies, until her siren
song/spacewhisper takes to the ethers, sweeping in and out of the
programme in classic style, on and off the stage in her celestial
cloaks. The 2 other newcomers‚ stage left and right pull the focus
from the 2 vocalists, Zwigo with a galaxy of crystal sounds
including some unobtrusive guitar work on the final Om-Riff, and
Travis very comfortably filling Didier's old shoes with raunchy
and restful work on sax and flute. Oh that I could be in France
later this summer to see them together.
I think Daevid Allen needs no explanation to convey the
width of his creativity on stage. The songs were sung with
faithful variety, his costumes worn with easy aplomb - most
memorably the over-grown hooped babies‚ jumpsuit worn to introduce
the Body song (CD lent to a friend!).
The band works as a well-oiled flute - 6 sets of fingers
pulling simultaneously in different directions, but all with the
same target. DA maybe provides the inspiration, the breath, as
well as bredth with his sometimes vicious and often voluptuous
glissando guitar work. It is really a band with balls, funky to a
tea, and if I‚m still around in another 30 years, with or without
my prostrate, I will be looking out for them. I recommend you
don‚t wait that long to catch them. I think I would even undertake
a 40 hour drive next time.
Glide on, Gong!
Anthony Shaw
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From: "David Voci" <david_voci@tcibr.com>
Subject: Greeting From Hewins/If
Date: 10 Jul 00 11:09:52 -0700
Hullo Wrattlers,
A short note about Musart to begin as I have been keeping
in touch with Mark Hewins (sez hi to all) in London via
phone/email and on July 2, Mark asked me to write in here to
mention that the old copies of the What's Rattlin' are now back up
on the Musart site.
Mark is not putting up the whole of what Musart used to be
but for all readers here, please be advised that you can now go
and look up issues past as was available before Mark dismantled
the Musart site.
MH has a CD out currently on Impetus Records by a
band/project called Research btw.
Last item is a referral of some pretty CB similar music in
the form of the band 'If' from England, early seventies.
A large ensemble, very jazz rock like, and replete with
many brass instruments and jazzy guitar solos. I had the first
three on vinyl and made an 80 minute compilation to CDR from them.
I have seen a couple of these albums on CD though.
Ciao Tutti,
dv
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From: Ricardo Aguilar <aguilei@sol.racsa.co.cr>
Subject: Henry Cow box
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:28:31 -0500
Hi!
I'm a Henry Cow fan and I would love to see a big set of
thier concerts. I'm too young to remember that time, but I know
that those concerts were one of the best.
Please keep us informed of the whereabouts of this
project.
Sincerily
Ricardo Aguilar
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From: Gary Davis <artshop@artist-shop.com>
Subject: Artist Shop Radio
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:20:01 -0400
Hi, folks!
The latest Artist Shop Newsletter is out and you'll find
it in its entirety at <http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm>.
But here are some brief excerpts for Prog fans everywhere!
What I'm most excited about is that I've created a brand
new section to The Artist Shop called ARTIST SHOP RADIO.
You'll find it at
<http://www.artist-shop.com/radio>.
Artist Shop Radio is unique among internet radio station
in that it doesn't have just one source for the programming, but
many. And the programmers are basically the progressive musicians
and independent labels themselves who are getting such a raw deal
from todays radio industry.
Our current list of Artist Shop Radio Program Directors
include:
Roye Albrighton of Nektar
Adrian Belew Presents
Jon Durant of Alchemy Records
Marc Wagnon of Buckyball Records
Camel
Cuneiform Records
Richard Leo Johnson
Mike Keneally
LoLo Records
Magna Carta Records
Northside Records
Andy Rinehart
Neil Sadler
Richard Sinclair
Kit Watkins
Expect more to join in the near future!
Gary
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From: philT <pturnbul@bigpond.com>
Subject: Henry Cow Monster
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:55:48 +1000
> My only suggestion to further this, as has happened
with various
> musicians I like, is to up the ante to a 5CD set or
better yet,
> a 10CD monster.
I'm certain that many folk out there would buy a 10CD HC
box set without a tiny bit of thought, including me. But, to be
honest, I wouldn't be as enthused if it was of the 'throw every
scrap in and stir it up' variety. The members of the band should
have decisive input to cull what they think is of lesser quality -
not every improviation they ever did would have been great and not
everything they played would have been worthy of repeated
listenings.
--
:philT:
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From: Roger Farbey <R.Farbey@bda-dentistry.org.uk>
Subject: Ray Russell
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:27:39 +0100
Aymeric
Glad you're back. Here's a little obscurantist news for
you all. Ray Russell, one of the great but under appreciated
jazz/rock guitarists of the 1970's has had one of his albums
re-released this year. 'Ray Russell Live at the ICA' is the title
and, significantly for WRers it features the late Gary Windo as
part of the RR quintet. I have to say that from what I have heard
so far of this double CD, it is not for the faint-hearted, being
that there is a large amount of free jazz. Still, a jolly good
snapshot of contemporary jazz in 1971 - and R. Wyatt does get a
name check in the new sleeve notes for Gary Windo's connection
with him as does Gary's (and I quote here) 'Canterbury prog-rock
sessions'. Also featured apart from GW and RR are Harry Beckett,
Daryl Runswick and Alan Rushton. It's on the Moikai label (they
are in Chicago, IL) but please don't ask me where you can buy it,
I found it just by chance, although I subsequently learned that
HMV in the UK do stock it.
Cheers
Roger Farbey
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From: rumpan@innocent.com
Subject: GONG Imatra/Finland 7.7.00
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
For all the rattlers out there! Never compromise your
taste in music!
I've been a subscriber for ages now (so it seems) and this
is my first message, 'cause not much happens in Finland concerning
"Canterbury" related stuff (I missed Fred Frith last time.) BUT,
finally GONG visited and gig happened in Imatra (far east). I live
in Helsinki (capital) so travelled with couple of friends &
brother to see this once-in-a-lifetime -act, well - I don't think
they're going to visit here very soon, we're not part of the
Scandinavia - we're in Siberia! Well, my bro has been in contact
with Jonny so we hoped to get an interview from Daevid &
theband. Spirits were high.
When Randy Brecker left the stage all the "old" people
started to leave (it was a jazz -festival after all, with reserved
tables and all.) One Finnish "ambient" group played it's set for
happily raving neohippies, till the band came on. "Floating into
Imatra-gig" sort of started and came to an sudden end (Daevid
seemed frustrated with his glowsuit and enormous glasses) and the
riff to "Zeroid" started, some communication problems perhaps?
I was surprised to hear lot of tunes from the "Zero to
infinity" -album, of course "Radio Gnome","You can't kill me",
"Pussy" "Masterbuilder" swept across the stunned audience (new
album wasn't that known yet, mainly young people shouting "Oily
Way" etc, I've been a fan almost 20 years now so I missed the old
geezers, so to speak... eh, I'm 35) Anyhow, I met Daevid
before the gig and made completely fool out of myself, well - he's
my elvis - but he was in good mood and we chatted for awhile.
Bro's girlfriend took couple of photos, Daevid was forced to draw
us our own PHPs with greetings, mine says "Jaakko! Ears forever
open! Daevid OOO!" Lovely. We filmed the whole gig digitally
(nearly two hours) using 3 cams and were promised to receive a
copy of the minidisc of the gig (Venus De Luxe at the mixing
board, I presume...) so were trying to edit a clean version to TV,
no jointsmokers please. (Ha ha... humor?) Let's see...
Later Jonny e-mailed to my bro that the band wasn't happy
with the gig, well - some problems occured with Gilli's
spacewhisper -echo although "She's the great Goddess" was
wonderful as was "Pussy", highlights of the evening.
I was extremely happy to hear Daevid's sologuitar, he
seems to enjoy it a lot. Jonny told us that some of his solos are
just great but some not, it depends on his mood I think - but
that's only human. The silliest costume during "Oily Way" was just
pure fun. Mike Howlett really grooooved on stage! Finally back in
line, playing in the band! "Masterbuilder" was a blast. Perfect
ending for the perfect evening (no, audience didn't stay chanting
"You Am I...") Maybe the band and Daevid was just too tired
afterwards and we didn't get our promised interview (it's was 3 in
the morning, I saw that Gilli had a hard time walking down the
stairs but Daevid did some roadie -stuff, he's still his own
roadie, good!)
We packed and left happier than ever. Later we checked our
stuff and cursed a bit 'bout lighting, backgrounds were invisible
if you stood right at the front of stage, so my bro's close-ups
might be unusable - we are soooo pro! (Laugh now) And the band
played most of the time in semidarkness, Travis' saxsolos are
hardly ever visible (he stood in that blue light, one spotlight
missing eh?) but 'bout the conditions we might accuse the
organizer not the artists behind the visual image or whatever...
sorry, got little carried away. Meeting your elvis is like that,
everything should go smoothly or else you'll die right there. I
didn't die, or I did and went to 7th heaven. Maybe both.
...Keep rattling fellows! Eagerly waiting for that
Gilgamesh CD from cuneiform, AND that Matching Mole! Lots of great
stuff coming from so many sources. Sorry 'bout the long message...
The Future President of the Invisible Opera Company of
Finland
Jaakko Toijanniemi
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From: Mark Hewins <mail@musart.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Anyone out there? Well, Mark Hewins
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:56:20 -0000
Hello and greetings who so ever is on this list
(Aymeric etc.)
Contrary to popular belief MUSART has not stopped only a
review of the original Canterbury Musicians website was needed
after 5 years. My own community service is now over and I can
continue with my own work on the internet.
The statement is at musart.co.uk
A .zip and .hqx file of the original site will be
available very soon.
All the Musicians are well served by Aymeric who has the
time to donate to Canterbury Music. And a fantastically
knowledgable site.
News here at MUSART is; duo CD's of myself and Carol
Grimes and another of me and Theo Travis.
Also last weekend I recorded a saxophone quartet of Lol
Coxhill, Elton Dean, Chris Biscoe and from NYC Ivo Perelman. Thats
just some news. So as you can see there's still output-we havn't
'stopped'.
See you soon........
Mark Hewins
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From: "Musart" <mail@musart.co.uk>
Subject: MUSART WEB RE-INTEGRATION
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:33:57 +0100
27th JULY 2000
Hi to all friends of MUSART and Canterbury Music
WE'RE BACK!! musart.co.uk / musart.org / musart.net
Due to the amazing amount of interest in the original site
we have decided to re-position the web and re-publish.
You will be able to easily browse the site from;
http://www.musart.co.uk/muso1.htm
The site at 32 Mb is rather large as text sites go but we
will be making available .zip and a .sit (PC & Mac) archive
files very soon. this will make the site available to view off
line. (including the What's Rattlin' archive)
In the three months we were off line the MUSART studio has
been working continually on bringing new Music material to
fruition. Musicians recording here have included Elton Dean, Lol
Coxhill, Carol Grimes, Phil Miller etc. etc. Plus the usual
plethora of commercial works; Details will, of course, be
available on the notice board as usual, asap.
There may be a week or so of re-aligning the domains so
please bear with us on this. Also any donations for the upkeep of
the CANTERBURY MUSICIANS SERVER would be gratefully received.
Please send direct to me;
MARK HEWINS 81, Knollys Rd, London SW16 2JW - UK
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http://perso.club-internet.fr/calyx/index/concerts.html
==> DAEVID ALLEN / UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS
<================================
Aug 08 - NEW HAVEN (CT), Tune Inn / Aug 09 - NEW YORK
(NY), Knitting Factory / Aug 10 - WASHINGTON DC, Metro Cafe / Aug
11 - NELSON (OH), Strange Daze Festival / Aug 12 - CHICAGO (IL),
Schuba's / Aug 13 - MILWAUKEE (WS), Shank Hall / Aug 15 -
ROCHESTER (NY), Bug Jar / Aug 16 - PITTSBURGH (PA), Mr. Roboto /
Aug 17 - PHILADELPHIA (PA), Khyber Pass (56 S. 2nd Street) / Aug
19 - HOBOKEN (NJ), Maxwell's
==> CARAVAN
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Jul 30 - FAVERSHAM, Mount Ephraim Gardens, Herne Hill
(Canterbury Sound Festival) / Oct 11 - LONDON, Shepherd's Bush
Empire / Oct 12 - WOLVERHAMPTON, Wulfrun Hall / Oct 13 -
MANCHESTER, University (The Main Debating Hall) / Oct 14 -
GLASGOW, Renfrew Ferry / Oct 15 - CAMBRIDGE, Junction / Nov 17 -
Chiddingfold Club / Nov 25 - PARIS (France), Le Bataclan
Line-up: Pye Hastings, Geoff Richardson, David Sinclair,
Richard
Coughlan, Doug Boyle, Jim Leverton, Simon Bentall
==> GONG
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EUROPE:
Jul 29 - GUILDFORD, Stoke Park (Aladdin’s Cave Stage) /
Jul 30 - FAVERSHAM, Mount Ephraim Gardens, Herne Hill (Canterbury
Sound Festival) / Sep 01-03 - Planet Earth Festival (near Cheddar,
Somerset)
AMERICA:
Sep 06 - SAN DIEGO (CA) / Sep 07 - LOS ANGELES (CA),
Knitting Factory / Sep 09 - SAN FRANCISCO (CA), Great American
Music Hall / Sep 12 - EUGENE (OR) / Sep 13 - PORTLAND (OR),
Berbattis Pan / Sep 14 - SEATTLE (WA) / Sep 15 - VANCOUVER
(Canada) / Sep 17 - SALT LAKE CITY (UT) / Sep 19 - DENVER (CO),
Blue Bird / Sep 20 - LAWRENCE (KA), Bottleneck / Sep 22 -
MINNEAPOLIS (IN) / Sep 23 - MADISON (WI) / Sep 24 - CHICAGO (IL),
House Of Blues / Sep 26 - CLEVELAND (OH), Odeon / Sep 27 -
COLUMBUS (OH) / Sep 29 - WASHINGTON DC, Black Cat / Sep 30 - NEW
YORK (NY), Knitting Factory / Oct 01 - PHILADELPHIA (PA),
Trocadero / Oct 03 - BOSTON (MA), Middle East / Oct 04 - MONTREAL
(Canada) / Oct 05 - TORONTO (Canada), Lees Palace / Oct 07 - ANN
ARBOUR, Prog Festival
+ possible dates: Brazil, Chile and Argentina [early
September]
EUROPE:
Oct - Germany, France [12 dates], Italy, Scandinavia...
Nov 04 - ATHENS (Greece), Radon Club [tbc] / Nov 05 -
SALONIKA (Greece), Mylos [tbc] / Nov 20 - LONDON, Hackney Empire /
Nov 22 - SHREWSBURY, Music Hall / Nov 23 - WHITLEY BAY, Dome / Nov
24 - ABERDEEN, Lemon Tree / Nov 25 - GLASGOW, Renfrew Ferry / Nov
26 - EDINBURGH, Liquid Rooms / Nov 28 - SHEFFIELD, Boardwalk / Nov
29 - CAMBRIDGE, Junction / Nov 30 - NORTHAMPTON, Roadmenders
Line-up: Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mike Howlett, Theo
Travis,
Gwyo
Zeprix, Chris Taylor + Didier Malherbe [on selected dates]
==> HUGH HOPPER BAND
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A couple of dates in Holland ca. 18-20 september.
No appearance in Compiegne (France) as initially planned.
==> MAGICK BROTHERS
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Aug 26 - FESTIVAL EN STOCK, Les Amis de
l'Epouvantail (near Le Puy)
Info: +33 (0)471 089151
==> MUJICIAN
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Aug 26 - MULHOUSE (France), Festival of Jazz & New
Music
Line-up: Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony
Levin
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Jul 29 - LONDON, Vortex Jazz Bar [with Quartet] / Jul 31 -
LONDON, Vortex Jazz Bar [with Big Band]
==> HAPPY THE MAN
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Aug 18 - TOWSON (MD), Recher Theatre / Aug 19 - FALLS
CHURCH (VA), State Theatre
Line-up: Stanley Whitaker, Frank Wyatt, Rick Kennell,
Ron
Riddle, David Rosenthal
==> PRESENT
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Sep 30 - WURZBURG (Germany), AKW / Oct 19 - POITIERS
(France), Confort Moderne / Nov 01 - ANVERS (Belgium), Monty
+ dates to be fixed: KLAGENFURT (Austria), Verein
Innenhofkultur / TRIESTE (Italy), Teatro Miela Reina / SZCZECIN
(Poland), Kana Theater
Line-up: Roger Trigaux, Reginald Trigaux,
Pierre
Chevalier, Keith Macksoud, David Kerman
==> THINKING PLAGUE
<====================================================
Jul 29 - SCHIO (Italy) [North of Vincenza] / Jul 30 -
VITTORIO VENETTO (Italy) [North of Venice] / Aug 02 - ROVIGO
(Italy) [South of Venice]
Line-up: Mike Johnson, David Kerman, Dave Willey,
Deborah
Perry, Mark Harris, Matt Mitchell
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