RLW, faust, bequeen, merzbow, nurse with wound, satori, konstruktivists, lee ranaldo: four years in 30 seconds.

four years in 30 seconds:

a collection of music from around the world

in 1997 the british label dirter promotions delighted and enlighted the world (or at least 1200 inhabitants) with a 10-inch-vinyl-album featuring an interesting cross section of 25 rather familiar avantgarde artists with some exclusively commissioned works, all clocking in at about (you guess:) 30 seconds. regathered on this compilation were the likes of ralf wehowsky (aka RLW aka eaRLyW, more of his music can be found in the KLÄNG part of this blog), merzbow (a 1982 track reappeared on a very private tape compilation and might be found here within the next few years), nurse with wound (more paratopic information in an earlier post) and 22 other as follows. in 1998 the album was released on cd with all 25 tracks played backwards as bonus tracks. this cd release was a limited edition of 1000 copies and is what you are going to listen to right here and now.

01. faust spot
02. band of pain acid
03. rlw kitnabudja kid
04. stefan jaworzyn i am the king of goth! look upon my works, ye assholes, and despair!
05. satori tongue cracked dry
06. beequeen edie's second sun
07. idea fire company none but the first rate workmen will meet with encouragement
08. dual drimon drmn
09. merzbow hummingbird
10. pessary abort
11. paul gommersall mmmm...strange
12. contrastate poodles in practice dress at the battersea dogs opera
13. lee ranaldo first computer piece
14. splintered perihelion
15. incapacitants mutual fund explosion
16. pestrepeller maximum yak satisfaction
17. inversion 1:1 safety
18. business machines latex
19. the pickle factory update
20. east of the sun torcross
21. the shadow ring the way of the world (part 2)
22. headbutt terrible noise bringer
23. illusion of safety center
24. konstruktivist black mass
25. nurse with wound transcribe and dictate (heavy trad)
plus 25 bonus tracks

NO. this download is no longer available. steve pittis from dirter asked me to remove the links and i did instantly, of course. sorry, steve, i did not notice that legal downloads of this wonderful work are still available and my only aim was to get people to hear the music i love. sorry.

please visit emusic or audiolunchbox or any other service to buy this album and to help dirter to survive.



and the bonus track can be found in my wunschmaschinenklang podcast: faust backwards and back to forward again in one seamless and still very short track plus a summary in german.

miles davis live in europe. manchester 1960. berlin 1967. vienna 1971.

the album miles davis quintet live in europe was released in italy in 1989. it holds two long and beautiful tracks. the first was recorded on the 4th of november 1967 at the philharmonie in berlin during the berlin jazz festval. 43 seamless minutes featuring miles davis of course on trumpet, wayne shorter playing tenor, herbie hancock on piano, ron carter on bass and the unbeatable tony williams on dreams. the second session was probably recorded on the 27th of september 1960 at the free trade hall in manchester, not on the 6th of october as indicated (the wonderful kind of blue pages are extremely reliable). miles davis can be heard with sonny stitt on alto and tenor saxes, wynton kelly on piano, paul chambers on bass and jimmy (not: jimmie) cobb on drums executing a long improvisation based on cole porter´s "all of you".

1 - untitled medley
(berlin jazz festival, philharmonie, 1967-11-04. mp3, 224 kbps, 70 mb)
agitation (05:23) > footprints (08:53) > ´round midnight (07:55) > no blues (10:48) > masqualero (14:14)
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2 - all of you
(manchester, 1960-09-27 or 1960-10-06. mp3, 224 kbps, 25 mb)
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two miles live was recorded during a concert at the vienna konzerthaus on the 5th of november 1971. two complete sets are documented here on two cds. you can hear miles davis on trumpet again (would you believe??), gary bartz on alto and soprano, keith jarrett on electric piano and organ, michael henderson on bass, charles don alias on percussion, james mtume foreman on percussion, ndugu leon chancler on drums and one source has jack dejohnette listed as a second drummer. the cd was released on discurios in 1990.

two miles live - cd 1
(mp3, 224 kbps, 86 mb)
directions > honky tonk > what i say > sanctuary

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two miles live - cd 2
(mp3, 224 kbps, 81 mb)
it´s about that time > yesternow > funky tonk > sanctuary

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once again i accepted and adopted the tracklist and running order as found within the kind of blue pages being in rather little accordance to the information given on the cover. decide for your selves...

fred frith. guitar solos. 1991 cd version.

in 1974 fred frith released his first album guitar solos: eight improvized tracks for unaccompanied acousmatic and eclectic guitars. rather challenging even in those adventurous times, and it did not quite sell a million. i got my copy way back in 1975 for the equivalent of less than one euro and it was completely ruined and worn out in 1977. i loved this music and i still do.

so i was more than delighted when in 1991 recrec music in switzerland had the heart to give the people what they did not want or at least did not know they want: all eight tracks from the 1974 album, of course, plus the two frith tracks from"guitar solos 2" (a compilation with about 15 minutes each by g.f. fitzgerald, derek bailey, hans reichel and fred frith, released in 1976), plus the three frith tracks from the album "guitar solos 3" (a compilation album fred frith shared with henry kaiser, chip handy, peter cusack, keith rowe, eugene chadbourne, davey williams and akira iijima in 1979), plus five tracks recorded in 1988. find more information in the wonderful fred frith discography compiled by patrice roussel.

to keep the original aim and attitude of "guitar solos" the us rer megacorp re-released the album on cd without any bonus tracks in 2002 as part of the 8 cd package "become a friend of fred records". this edition is still available.




all 18 tracks are ripped to mp3 with 224 kbps and packed into a split archive with win.rar, including scans of cover, booklet, cd and inlay, of course. please be sure to download part one and part two into one folder and unpack. have fun.

download 120 mb split archive with in.solit.us
part one
part two

download 120 mb .rar-file with megaupload

friedrich gulda, ursula anders, günther rabl. liberation 1979.

friedrich gulda was born in vienna on the 16th of may 1930 and died untimely on the 27th of january 2000. most of you will of course know that he was a stand-offishly taken in interpreter of classical piano music, but some of you might not be aware of his excavations and disruptions he despairingly added to his bourgeois background to elude the regnant concept of upper class culture. closemouthed cracks at jazz in the late sixties of the last century and heavy-handed outbursts into double quoted "free improvisation" always were shadowed by his beethoven squeezed and stockhausen press-ganged cultural and historical backgrounds.

in 1971 friedrich gulda organized and curated the (very) international music forum at lake ossiach in austria. the invitation included not only weather report, tangerine dream and pink floyd but was extended to ethno-folk activists from behind the (in these times rather unmeltable) iron curtains throughout europe to musicians from india, suomi and tunisia to free improvisors not located within geographically or aesthetically restricted borders. the concept of "world music" was invented and baptized here and then. at the lake ossiach festival friedrich gulda met paul und limpe fuchs for the first time and he was instantly fascinated by their concept of free anima sound. the following years he tried to draw near their musics and tried using his well known name to draw free improvised music near to the perception of the classically cultivated class of listeners. (some rare anima might come your way with and without gulda in this here blog: please stay tuned.)

for a lot of reasons gulda and paul und limpe fuchs disbanded in 1977 or 1978. friedrich gulda then teamed up with the wonderful ursula anders on all kinds of percussion and some vocals (only very few traces can be found using the familiar search engines: and in this special case i do not know more than those or you) and günther rabl on bass (replacing johann anton rettenbacher, who has nolens volens been part of the anima sound experiancation until then). some of the music of this late or at least later trio has survived. the four tracks on the liberation cd have probably been recorded in 1979: have fun.
 

for your listening pleasure i included two tracks that were recorded a few years earlier live in concert with anima on the 8th of october in 1973 including friedrich gulda on prepared clavichord, e-piano, recorder, cromorne and voice, limpe fuchs playing percussion, pedaldrums, (foot)zither and singing and paul fuchs on fuchsbass and fuchsharp, metal sheet sounds, reed-reeds, saw and other selfbendivices.

this is what you get:

01 - monologue I
02 - monologue II
03 - performance (listen directly)
04 - good night

05 - trinity I
06 - trinity II

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(mp3 / 224 kbps / direct download / scans included)

the first edition of the german rough guide to jazz included the following words i wrote about friedrich gulda, anima, ursula anders and all the whys-abouts gulda ist ein arsch, aber ein ganz erträgliches....
 

and here is what i said:

"freie musik ist frei. ihr gegenteil ist die herkömmliche, konventionelle, unterschiedlichen traditionen verhaftete, gebundene, einem metrischen, tonalen, klanglichen, harmonischen, melodischen, rhythmischen, sozialen oder sonstigen system welcher art auch immer verpflichtete, eingeengte, angelernte, unfreie, mit einem wort die ganze uns bekannte bisherige musik. (...) es gibt nur wenige spieler, die freie musik im tiefsten begriffen haben und folglich auch hervorbringen können. jedoch wird ihre anzahl zweifellos rasch anwachsen, so daß sich die sache schnell verbreiten wird. denn ihre notwendigkeit liegt in der luft.“ (friedrich gulda)

friedrich gulda spielt seit 1959 auch jazz. obwohl er sein können und seine ausbildung im bereich der klassischen musik nie verleugnete, strebte er doch deutlich erkennbar von streng komponierter und nur noch zu interpretierender musik über dem thema verpflichtete improvisationen hin zu allumfassender, künstlerischer wie menschlicher freiheit. weggefährten im jazz und auf dem kreuzzug nach dem gral der freien improvisation waren johann anton rettenbacher, klaus weiss, manfred josel, fritz pauer, dusko goykovich, palle mikkelborg, ack van rooyen, ron carter, herb geller, kenny wheeler, rolf kühn und viele andere. mit all diesen musikern spielte er im lauf der 60er live zusammen, produzierte schallplatten und veranstaltete konzerte. 1971 organisierte er zum dritten mal das internationale musikforum am ossiacher see, wo unter dem motto „weltsprache musik“ klänge verschiedenster kulturen miteinander konfrontiert und in kommunikation versetzt wurden. es spielten zum beispiel pink floyd, tangerine dream, john surman, dave pike, der madrigalchor bukarest, le groupe liturgique de tunis, barre phillips, stu martin, weather report, otto m. zykan, arvid parikk, shashi bellare, george gruntz und viele andere musiker der klassischen, folkloristischen und improvisierten musik. hier traf gulda auf paul & limpe fuchs, deren anima-sound auf selbstgebastelten instrumenten, ohne achtung jeglicher konventionen, ihm als die musik der zukunft erschien. guldas äußerst verfeinerte musikalische sensibilität traf auf ungezügelte, primitive spielfreude, und es entwickelte sich eine lange währende freundschaft und eine sehr eigenartige, faszinierende musikalische zusammenarbeit. während paul & limpe fuchs fast telepathisch und ohne hemmnisse ihre ursprüngliche stammesmusik zelebrieren, greift der schöngeist am klavier kaum wahrzunehmende musikalische themen aus dem chaos, verformt und variiert sie, bearbeitet die ihn umschwirrenden klänge und kann doch nie so recht loslassen, kann nie sein können vergessen und versucht ordnung zu schaffen, wo doch längst eine eigene ordnung existiert. wunderbar.

erst später, nachdem gulda sich vom zwang befreit hatte, sich unbedingt und ohne rücksicht auf verluste befreien zu müssen, entstehen im zusammenspiel mit limpe fuchs, der schlagzeugerin und sängerin ursula anders, dem bassisten günther rabl und wenigen anderen freunden die wirklich entspannten und kommunikativen aufnahmen, deren schönheit in den frühen experimenten zwar immer bereits angelegt war, aber fast krampfhaft zurückgehalten wurde. gegenwart (1976), liberation (1979) und chopin and beyond... (1987) sind beispielhaft für die musik aus dem „land des unerhörten“, die musik, die „zur zweiten natur wird, die musik der zukunft ist". [rs]

the following fotos: (anders, gulda, rabl) © renate porstendorfer

back to sing for free: danny and the dressmakers, alternative tv, the astronoughts, wilful damage, the sell-outs and more.

street level was a london recording studio that gave home to the anarchist hippie punk avantgarde that in the late seventies and early eighties of the last century evolved out of an undogmatic conglomerate of jamming improvisers and free music activists. loosely connected with veteran campaigners like the pink fairies, throbbing gristle, gong, colin potter, here and now, mark perry (ATV of course aka alternative t´television) and others literally hundreds of sensitive noise combatants and weird folk buskers aligned, played and recorded in the shelter of street level.

to share the music with their unconcious audience street level created (adequate and bona fide for those times, preposterous thirty years later) labels like "fuck off records", "wierd (sic!) noise", "organized chaos" and others to release mostly tapes and very few vinyl editions of obscure sonic aspects of revolutionary activism. the very first tape they released was "i´ll be back to sing for free again soon", indexed as "FUCK OFF 1 (STEREO)" and this is what you are about to listen to, of course. you may find some information on some of the artists involved on the aforementioned site of street level, some links and complementary information will be added whenever i find some and your complementing comments are very welcome.

street level and all artists involved encouraged every body to copy their releases and to disperse and distribute them for free or at leat not exceeding prime cost. so spurensicherung shares a second generation copy with you.

side a: slightly sanesville:

dick heley - void burstin
dick heley - photograph of feeling
astronauts - secret file
astronauts - all night party
astronauts - back to sing for free again soon
dick heley & blankspace - fantasy
anal surgeons - wheres that fag
dog ends - aint no free unless its free
alternative tv - terrified of dogs

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side b: crazytown:

wilful damage - you hang at midnight
wilful damage - no-one cares
wilful damage - fictitious
wilful damage - farewell to innocence
danny and the dressmakers - ernie bishops dead body
danny and the dressmakers - how hot is a match
danny and the dressmakers - john e begood
danny and the dressmakers - what the world needs now
danny and the dressmakers - whole lotta pinball
danny and the dressmakers - dont make another bass guitar
danny and the dressmakers - manchester united
the sell outs - rock + roll honcert
seventh angel - from a sly fox to a pack of wolves
amazing zeepee silent orchestra - no kung future
planet gong - psychedelic man
blankspace -

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original linernotes, almost obliterate...

and of course you waited for the bonus track:

alternative tv can be heard performing the uncut radio session version of "cold rain" in the kraut mask replica podcast.

martin rev and alan vega. suicide live in hamburg 1978.

martin rev and alan vega formed suicide in 1971. they obviously found their inspiration in the likes of velvet underground and the silver apples, but even more obviously they influenced and imbued the new and upcoming generations of psychedelic punks in music, style and attitude: wire, television, the 39 clocks, the jesus and mary chain, deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft, soft cell, spacemen 3 and many more of course. martin rev and alan vega still seem to walk this earth.

12 days after their legendary riot gig in brussels suicide visited hamburg on the 28th of june in 1978 for a very short concert. only four tracks of an audience recording seem to have survived throughout all those years: here is a second generation copy of that tape.

you may listen to adorable versions of

• rocket usa
• cheree
• harlem
• 96 tears

in rather airless sound quality.

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(21 and a half minutes: mp3 with 224 kbps)

spirit 1969 and 1992. live and promo.

when we was young: oh, so very young: we were psychedelic punks: and we used to love wire, danny and the dressmakers, the 39 clocks, nico päffgen, the thunderbyrds, paranormale tonbandstimmen, the church of lennon and cale spedding pistols, marc bolan, lol coxhill and spirit. yes: spirit were one of the very few bands to survive the sixties and to be some thing like important to the seventies psycho beats. only a few days later we discovered thousands of other truthful minds. more no fun at long last.

today you might want to listen to eight tracks the spirit recorded on monday the 1st of september 1969 at the texas international pop festival. this "oh boy"-cd is way too short, of course, but no more sounds seem to be bequeathed from these days.

listen to: (1) fresh garbage, (2) elijah, (3) improvisation, (4) ground hog, (5) grammophone man, (6)dream within a dream, (7) i got aline on you and (8) aren´t you glad. randy california (guitar and vocals), ed cassidy (drums), john locke (keyboards) (?), mark andes (bass) and jay ferguson (vocals, percussion) (?). listen, please. (mp3, 224 kbps, 70 mb)
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in 1992 the wonderful hamburg line label decided to (re-)release most of the music spirit had played and given to the audiences throughout the years and to add some new information. all we need to know and we are proud to share can be found within the scans, please click to enlarge (some re-recorded and/or otherwise unreleased tracks for your pleasure plus sara fleetwood plus a 23 minutes interview).

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(and: the hidden bonus track:)
in 1969 spirit released the underrated "clear"-album. listen to the radio-promo.