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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :: - WHAT'S RATTLIN' ? - :: :: The Weekly Digest for Canterbury Music Addicts :: :: Issue # 93 :: :: Saturday, May 16th, 1998 :: :: :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: The Lighthouse Keeper <ptlk@netcom.com> Subject: H.Cow Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 22:11:02 -0700 (PDT) > henry cow available on CD > official: > legend (remixed) ESD > unrest (original) ESD > in praise of learning (remixed) ESD > (all w an extra track or two) > Concerts (double) (original) ESD > (coming: legend and ipol originals. ReR)> possibility of one or 2 cd's of unreleased pieces some time in the next 2 > years... Western Culture out on ESD also.The last two items are good news indeed, I've learned to appreciate the IPOL and Legend remixes, but my legend vinyl still gets more play. Chris, could you give us some hints as to what the unreleased stuff might be? p ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pip Pyle <pip@musart.net> Subject: PipNews Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 12:47:09 +0100 Hi Aymeric, Quoi de neuf, docteur? Thought maybe you'd like some of this info for your "What is Doing Mike Ratledge?" pages...Short of major unforeseen disasters, looks like my record will be out very shortly. I'm getting ready spiritually rolling up the sleeves to plunge my soul into the cess pit of the music business (I do not think of your website as being part of that category of course - wouldn't it be nice if soon it ALL became as simple and painless as that one day? We'd never have to dirty our hands again!) Hope yr well and things are rattlin' along nicely, best wishes and old paper bags PIP. Tuesday May 5th 1998Thought it was time to tidy up and update my page a bit, since I've neglected the housework since I was visiting Marky at Musart last year. So for all you kind folks who have been visiting the site and asking about a release date for my solo album "Seven Year Itch" (featuring Dave Stewart, Phil Miller, Richard Sinclair, Jakko Jakszyk, Hugh Hopper, Freddy Baker, John Greaves, Didier Malherbe, Elton Dean and many others) the news is that last week I went with my good buddy and producer Benji Lefevre to make the final little tweeks and finesses before burning the glass master for the CD. I've finished the sleeve as well this week with my friends at Giraffe, so yeah I'm really pleased to say that the bloody thing is finally FINISHED!!! I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head round this, it's been seven years since I started recording, so the title, which I gave to the project right from the start, turned out to be horribly apt in the end. I've been ruminating on some little detail about this record for such a long time now, that it's like there's a sort of void in my subconscious. Better get started on something else! Something a bit simpler this time, though!So, I think this should be available very shortly and of course if you want to (adopts slick adman voice) buy a copy you can either order from Voiceprint, Crescent or via me directly on Musart (I'll even sign it if you like!) Just run into <Pip@musart.net> What else of news? Last month I did some most enjoyable gigs over in France with my pals In Cahoots, reduced to a quartet, due to Elton and Jim having prior engagements. While of course their brass lines and solos were missed, we got into some other stuff, which often felt tougher and tighter. Phil had more soloing space available which he revelled in and Freddy was even more exuberant than ever! Although we only did four shows - Lille, Compiegne (where we had the pleasure of my compatriot Aymeric Leroy's company), Paris and Marseille - they were all well received and I'm hoping to get Inca on a few festivals this autumn on the strength of it...Either way, I've decided to concentrate this year mostly on this band (and launching my C.D. of course), which I think is on the best form that it ever has been in, which goes to show that sometimes keeping a band together for fifteen years pays off in the end (even if sometimes there have been less productive periods). I was in Rouen in April with John Greaves and Philip-Marcel Iung, a multi-instrumentalist, finishing off a pretty wild and off the wall C.D. project featuring rather loosely interpreted versions of material by John, Peter Blegvad and myself. If you want to hear the of how Peter's dick once came off in his hand, this record could be for you. Otherwise, I drop into Musart on most trips to Blighty, last time to slap a bit of tub bashing on the "Rebela" album that Mark is producing which is starting to vie with my record in the never-ending, torturous productions stakes. This afternoon, funk specialist Spy (from Mervyn Africa and George Clinton renown) was over doing some "bad dog" bass behind a passage that features Elton Dean, Lol Coxhill, Jim Dvorak and Doug Boyle: VERY deranged indeedy.The World Cup schedule is looking threatened by a few bits of gigglidge in England with Daevid Allen and Hugh Hopper. No idea what we'll be playing, but it obviously will not be 4:4:3 or a defensive system either... Until next time,Love, peas, sausage, roly poly pudding, crosby stills and mash. PIP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Age Rotshuizen <age@xs4all.nl> Subject: Coxhill & Ayers question Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 12:11:20 +0100 I noticed that according to the Canterbury Discography Phil Miller plays guitar on the Lol Coxhill Ear o/t Beholder album. Is this true? I couldn't find his name on in the CD-booklet. Same goes for the appearance of Geoff Richardson on 'The Confessions of Dr.Dream'. Does he actually play on this record and on which song? Age ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Anthony Shaw <tonyshaw@clinet.fi> Subject: D:Allen Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 06:36:01 -0700 An aging PHP just came across an ad in Tower Records for Dreamin the Dream by the relentlessly productive Mr Daevid Allen. Have I missed any reference to it in the pages of Calyx, or has it passed these ways unnoticed?? Any reviews or comments appreciated. Tony in Helsinki ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Beatrice B." <bea@mbservice.mbservice.it> Subject: kevin of my heart Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 01:19:54 +0200 I'm a new internet user. I found your website about Kevin Ayers. You're great!!! Thank you for living and, most of all, thanks to Kevin Bea and Katia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marc Godfrey" <arbitrage@mistral.co.uk> Subject: jean-pierre weiller Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 21:18:43 +0100 hi. i hope you can help. i would like to contact jean-pierre weiller, a one time member of hugh hopper monster band (circa 1979) and he worked on the world music festival held in france by unesco in 1991. He then went on with a project called uno mundo. i am not a groupie i just want to contact him regarding his uno mundo project. if you have any e-mail or other address for jean-pierre i would be grateful. thanks jacqueline lake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Age Rotshuizen <age@cable.A2000.nl> Subject: AGE Projex has moved! Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:42:47 +0100 Hello, I've moved my website to another server. The new addresses are: AGE Projex: http://people.a2000.nl/arotshui/The Wyatt discography: http://people.a2000.nl/arotshui/rw-main.htmlThe Canterbury Index: http://people.a2000.nl/arotshui/cant-ind.html The Top 50: http://people.a2000.nl/arotshui/top100.html Please update your links & bookmarks! Age ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RonKeenes <RonKeenes@aol.com> Subject: Caravan concert Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:03:36 EDT Dear Aymeric Ralph Cross has told me you maintain the Caravan website.Could you please enter our Caravan gig onto it for us. The date is SaturdayMay 23rd at The Park Hotel in Diss Norfolk England. Details and tickets can be obtained by contactiing Caron Keenes on 01379 854206. Many thanks for your anticipated help with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Guillaume Chesnel <gchesnel@etu.info.unicaen.fr> Subject: Musiccc Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:12:22 +0200 Hello I don't know if i could talk you in French, so I'll use my pooor English for a best. I just interest me for some band like Soft Machine - I heard its THIRD and FOURTH albums. I don't know a lot about the Canterbury bands but Soft Machine seems to be one of the lodestar's band. So, I'm looking for some music whish could musicaly be compared with Soft Machine (The THIRD album it's really a great album ) or some album live ? Some others bands I know and enjoy in the "old" music are King Crimson, Camel (mirage), Tarkus, etc. guillaume ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Roy Clay <royclay@bardenscamel.ndirect.co.uk>Subject: NEW OFFICAL PETE BARDENS WEBSITE and ARCHIVE CAMEL SITE "EARTHRISE" Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 00:12:52 +0100 Dear Aymeric After much hassle and work we finally have a NEW OFFICAL PETE BARDENS WEB SITE GOING up on 1st June 1998. This is a major 75 mb site. The old Mirage web site is now longer relevant as it was never written by Pete or even refered to Pete for anything. This does not mean Mirage is dead. In fact quite the opposite. After all Mirage was the pseudo-nom Pete toured under to expand his range to include not just solo material but also his Camel material. Without getting too heavy others felt it was a vehicle for them rather then Pete. In the end Pete decided he would not be pushed in directions he did not want to go and refused to be badgered and undermined by people playing his own music. The other members have gone off to form a band called HUSH. But Andy Ward never left his seat just got occupied by Dave Cohen who would not relinquish it even at Petes insistance. The situation now is that Pete is quite happy and well into the recording of a new CD with a major label and with the full involvement of Mick Fleetwood, Jethro Defries and Neal Heywood. He has every intention of touring by the end of this year with a band as yet undecided as to line up. Although it is fully expected that come June we will be able to annouce Andy Ward's return to involvement in the project. Whether he will tour as Mirage or Pete Bardens is as yet undecided. He is keeping options open as there is every likelihood on a multiple collaboration CD by various ex-Camel artists in way of a concept album... i.e SIDDARTHA which Pete originally had started work on before Snowgoose and co-written the RIVER MAN which had actually been submitted to DERAM for a listen. Still enough of that. The site......is to supplement SKYLINEs and MOONMADNESS via interviews and articles of actual memories etc.. i.e. In the June Features is an ARTICLE by PETE called RETROMINGENT or how camel got its name.Also Music files...RARE ALTERNATE VERSIONS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED and LIVE via REAL AUDIO and VIDEO fill the site from:PETE CAMEL ANDYWARD RICHARD SINCLAIR KIT WATKINS and COLIN BASS. Dedicated artist pages focus on their personal CAMEL memories and also where they are now and how they got there. the site URTL is http://www.bardenscamel.ndirect.co.uk June will contain an interview with Colin Bass RE: Jalan Kapo Also an interview via REAL VIDEO with ANDY WARD. A preview site will be up on Sunday 18.05.98 for testing....This is for 56k modems IE 4 and REAL AUDIO 5 player....all available via the site anyway Some samples of whats coming up are here including: THE ORIGINAL INTRO TO SUMMER LIGHTNING THE ALTERNATE GUITAR SOLO TO SUMMER LIGHTNING DRUM BASS SOLO 1978 LIVE USA NEVER LET GO FROM THE DESK LUNAR SEA LIVE VIDEO UDEN 1996 MIRAGEPETE BARDENS PASS THE PIPE FROM THE UNRELEASED BLACK ELK 1997 This will give you a feel for what the site is about. I hope you will support us and enjoy it all. Ofir has been most helpful to us. A CD store with Credit Card facilites has been set up as all the artists are supporting us and have arranged special deals which will allow us to expand the site and bring more and rarer material to all. We have some 15 hours of rare stuff on tape at the moment. All the best ROY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** FORTHCOMING CANTERBURY-RELATED CONCERTS ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [for more info : check out the 'Concerts' page of CALYX - see URL below] CARAVAN - EUROPEAN DATES[Hastings-Sinclair-Richardson-Coughlan-Leverton-Boyle-Bentall]May 23 - Diss, Norfolk (England), Park Hotel [tel: 0137.985.4206]May 31 - Utrecht (Netherlands), Tivoli (also Hugh Hopper Band)Jul 19 - Burg Herzberg (Germany), festival appearance [headliner] HUGH HOPPER BAND May 31 - Utrecht (Netherlands), Tivoli (also Caravan) DAEVID ALLEN - UK TOUR May 24 - Exeter, Cavern Jun 5 - Cheltenham, Axiom Centre KEVIN AYERS - CALIFORNIAN TOURMay 24 - San Francisco (CA), Great American Music Hall [tel: 415.885.0750]May 29 - Los Angeles (CA), The Gig [11637 W.Pico Bld] [tel: 310.444.9870] HERE & NOW May 25 - Leigh-On-Sea, Zero Six Club INVISIBLE OPERA COMPANY OF TIBET Jun 1 - Leigh-On-Sea, Zero Six Club PETER BLEGVAD TRIO [Peter Blegvad-John Greaves-Chris Cutler] Jun 05 - Kyoto (Japan), University Jun 06 - Kyoto (Japan), University Jun 07 - Kyoto (Japan), University Jun 12 - Tokyo (Japan), Star Pines Cafe Jun 13 - Tokyo (Japan), Star Pines Cafe Jun 14 - Tokyo (Japan), Star Pines Cafe Jun 15 - Tokyo (Japan), Star Pines Cafe PIERRE BENSUSAN/DIDIER MALHERBE DUO - UK TOUR May 20 - Brighton, The Concorde May 21 - Ashburton, The Lanterns May 22 - Southampton, The Gantry May 23 - Bury, The Met May 24 - Sheffield, The Board Walk May 26 - Chester, Tellford House May 28 - South Shields, The Cellar Club May 29 - London, The Weavers May 30 - Basingstoke, Fairfields Arts Centre FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA May 19 - Paris (France), Le Cavern Jun 15 - Paris (France), Peniche 'La Balle Au Bond' Jun 29 - Paris (France), Duc des Lombards Sep 3 - Paris (France), Petit Journal Montparnasse Sep 11 - Paris (France), Le Glaz' Art Sep 18 - Paris (France), Studio des Islettes Sep 19 - Paris (France), Studio des Islettes Oct 09 - Paris (France), Peniche 'Le 6/8' FRED FRITH - SOLO/DUO GIGSMay 18 - St. Etienne (France) (with Louis Sclavis/J-P Drouet) May 29 - Tullins (France), MJC (with Noél Akchoté) May 30 - Figeac (France) (with Louis Sclavis) JAZZ RUMOURS All Sunday nights at The Vortex [139 Stoke Newington Church St, London N16] feat. various combinations of the following musicians :Elton Dean, Jim Dvorak, Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard, George Haslam, Marcio Mattos, Alex Maguire, Liam Genockey... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * END OF ISSUE 93 _________________________________________________________________________WHAT'S RATTLIN' ? - WHAT'S RATTLIN' ? - WHAT'S RATTLIN' ?_________________________________________________________________________ CALYX - The Canterbury Website http://www.alpes-net.fr/~bigbang/calyx.html THE ULTIMATE ONLINE CANTERBURY DISCOGRAPHY http://www.alpes-net.fr/~bigbang/cantdisco.html WHAT'S RATTLIN' ? 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