ici maintenants, here and now, space & time: shake the post-hippie brainstorm, gong n'existe pas, summer solstice 2001

live, sub-analyzed, improuvized: the post-gong-post-here-&-now-band ici maintenantes captured in full flight on a saturday night after the new moon and the summer solstice in 2001. hippie-kosmischen tribal gathering space-rock-notrock with purple flashes, and you may pogo your minds out whilst lysearching on the flokati-rug.

ici maintenantes in 2001 were sheffe sharp de strings (stephen lewry; guitar), kif kif le batter (aka le batteur; frank honest on drums), twink el-toes malone (no, it's the other twink: paul noble. keyboards and synthesizers) and tim "timmah!" flattus (tim hall, bass) plus some friends and relatives. 

accordeoning to discogs this cd is rather rare, and noboredaddy wants to sell it buy the time being; so there you go. i bought my copy directly from the band way back in 2005, and i am glad i did, and by the way, all homepages (with the exception of planetgong of course, but you cain't find the cd there) mentioned in the liner notes are down, gonegonegone and got lost in the process of growing old.

so sing along withuss:

01 - galaxy valley

02 - dinosaur kebab

03 - beautiful jam (listen directly)

04 - fight no more

05 - shakalayah (listen directly)

06 - tough jam

07 - aya shamaya

download ici maintenantes live in 2001

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TAPEZINE 004!! this is fuck off wreckords from something like 1983. featuring the impossible dreamers, white flag, here & now, and kommando holger meins

you may find a lot of information about tapezines 001 and 002 on fuck off records, at least some very few information on tapezine 003 on fuckoffrechords, but appsouludedlay no information on tapezine 004 on fuck off wreckords. so here we go.

according to the lack of information we got this tape must have been released some time around 1983 in london. as usual some of the bands mentioned on the cover or in the linernotes are not included on the tape, most of them are, and some bands not featured on the cover are included as well as well as some sounds on this tape can not be identified at all. i tried to figure it all out, and here is how i shipwrecked:

 

sickstay minuetes of tapezine 004:

- impossible dreamers > 05:00

- one million hamburgers > 08:00

- kommando holger meins > 12:00

- brainless radio poetry > 25:00 (end?) (listen to dave caddy directly in your brow, sir!)

- crazy alan dogend > ca. 25:00 (start?)

- our man in scunthorpe > 31:00

- white flag > 38:00 (listen directly in your browser)

- here and now band - bomb shiva shankar (39:00 to 48:00)

- gross katastroph (48:00 to 58:00)

- announcement of idiot ball room blitz and subway section; but my copy of the tape ends here. so-horry!

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dashiell hedayat was obsolete with gong in 1971; plus some rare tracks from beyond

i bought my copy of obsolete by dashiell hedayat for 99 dutch cent when i visited amsterdam in 1972. i had no idea what i had found there, and i only bought it because i liked the cover. listening to the record back home was a great experience, but not as mindblowing as you might expect. i already knew some things about gong, frank zappa, the velvet underground or cathy berberian and william s. burroughs, but it fit in to help me to puzzle in and out the current and the future aspects of my record collection.

throughout the following years obsolete was never too far away from my recordplayer; i must have listened to it some two or three million times. and i still love it of course. some time before obsolete in 1970 dashiell hedayat aka daniel theron realised an other rather interseting record using the name melmoth, and then, for some reasones or other, disappeared in the process of growing old.

so hear we goo-goo:

eh, mushroom, will you mush my room ? 

01 - chrysler 6:40 (listen directly in your browser)

02 - fille de l'ombre 2:18

03 - long song for zelda 7:45

04 - cielo drive/17 21:09

oh, and did i mention that the artists involved with this record included gilli smyth, daevid allen, didier malherbe, pip pyle, christian tritsch, william s. burroughs, and sam, the baby-son of robert wyatt? no, i did not; but now i did.

for your listening pleasure i added all of the bonus tracks i found on the swedish release of continental circus by gong that i mentioned as the obscure amazon-version in my blog-post about the italian version of continental circus way down below; and that is where you can find all of the information and music missing here.

and here we go for the gong bonus tracks:

05 - est-ce que je suis (french only a side, 1970) 3:39 (listen directly in your browser)

06 - hip hypnotise you (french only b side, 1970) 3:26

07 - dreamin' it (french tv, 1970) 7:12

08 - never fight another war (french tv, january 1971) 3:14

09 - excerpts from "camembert electrique" (french tv, january 1971) 2:14

10 - est-ce que je suis (french tv, january 1971) 4:46

11 - fohat digs holes in space (french tv, april 1972) 4:38

12 - dynamite (french tv, september 1972) 3:51 (listen directly in your browser)

13 - never glid before (french tv, september 1973) 5:40

14 - i am your pussy (french tv, september 1973) 5:04

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tom newman: the fine old faerie symphony from 1977 featuring mike oldfield and neil innes, plus some bonus tracks for your pleasure

yes, tom newman. i bought his first solo album fine old tom way back in 1975 just because i knew that fred frith was featured on some of its tracks; and it took some time for me to realize that i could like mister newman's playful music just for its own playfulness. and it took even more time to realize the odd mike-oldfield-connection and more important than that his rhizomaticly rooted connections into the canterbury scene. 

and eversince i started exploirating his mutual connexions to and or for within a lot of music that i liked i had to admit that i loved his nonavantgardexperimental approach quite a lot. the hermetic weirdness of his music is easily accessible for everyone.

tom newman released his third solo album faerie symphony on decca in 1977 as a collaboration with the likes of mike oldfield, neil innes, geoff westley and many others. in 1999 the german tempus fugit label rereleased the album including some bonus tracks from some of his other albums and some demo tracks. this version of the faerie symphony is what i am sharing with you right now.

faerie symphony
01 - the woods of
02 - fordin seachrain (listen directly in your browser)
03 - bean si (banshee)
04 - little voices of the tarans
05 - the fluter
06 - the seelie court
07 - the spell breaks
08 - the fairy song
09 - dance of daoine sidhe
10 - memories of culchulainn
11 - aillen mac midna
12 - the unseelie court (bad faeries)
13 - the woods of ...

bonus tracks
14 - sad sing (listen directly in your browser)
15 - excerpt from stonehenge
16 - will you be mine in the morning?
17 - excerpt from concierto de mango in e major
18 - day of the percherons (demo) (listen directly in your browser)
19 - the soujourn to the dun of culann the smith
20 - the courting of emer
21 - superman (demo)
22 - cycle for moving dunes

special bonus-track
23 - sad sing (german version) (listen directly in your browser)

download the faerie symphony and other stories

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gong 1970 / camembert eclectique / rehearsing and remodelling in ouster space

officially released as GAS 001 in 1995, this collection of gong rehearsals and sketches of payne from wroundabout 1970 seems to have vanourished in the dunst. you can still buy it via discogs for some 30 euro, or you can listen to it on this-here blog and then buy it anyway. and that's the best that you can do: listen to it and go and buy it, even if it's only for the booklet, or something. anyway.

gong in those times in 1970 were daevid allen (guitars and vocals), didier malherbe (saxophones and flutes), christian tritsch (bass), gilly smyth (vocals), raschid houari (drums), dieter gewissler (violin) and daniel laloux on horns, violin, bowed drums and vocals. dieter by the way had been playing with burton greene before and could be found later as being part of one of the many line-ups of kraut veterans embryo; the rest of the band stayed with gong for the better or the better worst, or got missing in the process of growing old. anyway.

and this is what you'll get:

01 - the montelieu demos 15:30

02 - garcon ou fille 3:36 (alternative version)

03 - dynamite / goldilocks 5:42

04 - rock and roll angel etc etc 5:38

05 - garcon ou fille 3:35 (submix; listen directly in your browser)

06 - hyp hynotize you 3:38

07 - haunted chateau rehearsals 13:17

08 - big city energy 3:46 (listen directly in your browser)

09 - gongwash indelible 5:49

camembert eclectique

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gong: the 1971 soundtrack for the film continental circus plus some flying teapots

gong recorded their free form punk improvisation continental circus in spring 1971 shortly after they supported and backed up dashiel hedayat on obsolete and around the same time they worked on camembert electrique. as they were an open minded and permanently floating project the cast of characters is slightly sliding and differing throughout the months with daevid allen, gilli smyth, didier malherbe, christian tritsch and pip pyle being present most of the time, amplified and enhanced by passing friends.

the album of course was conceived as a soundtrack to the film continental circus by jérôme laperrousaz. the original vinyl release had four long tracks and there are at least two, probably three different re-releases on cd: the 1994 mantra version presented the four genuine tracks, the italian 1994 reissue on giacomo records that you can find here adds two very long tracks that sum up to an extra benefit of 40 minutes and on the german amazon i found an indication to a version with ten or eleven extra tracks that i have no idea or hint about.

so listen to daevid allen (chant, glissandoza guitar), gilli smyth (space whisper), didier malherbe (saxophon, flute), christian tritsch (bass) and pip pyle on drums being engeneered by one venux de luxe playing these-a tunes-a:

blues for findlay 11:18
continental circus world 04:13
what do you want? 09:04
blues for findlay (instrumental) 09:38

blues for findlay (live 1972) 10:00 (listen directly in your browser)
flying teapot (live 1972) 27:39

the continental circus for your pleasure

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smoking: thee westfauster

lady june, lol coxhill, steve hillage, david bedford, tim blake, archie leggett. live 1972.

the early seventies of the last century surprisingly enough were some very interesting times for non-linear (art)rock and anti-(under)dogmatic improvisation. the gap between hippie and punk left a lot of space for social and sonic experiments and experiences of all kind. the sub- & contextualizations of kraut and canterbury were two of the gestating corner stones of the dawning of a new error. and though tubular bells and the faust tapes influenced millions of forthcoming generations: success and a fortiori commercial success was inaccessible and inacceptable. great times we had!

in 1975 i bought "lady june´s linguistic leprosy" in a cut-out sell-out in a german department store. and though brian eno was mentioned on the cover i had no idea what to expect and i still can not delineate what kind of sounds these were that i have been listening to many times since then. the music was far beyond my teenage stockhausen and stooges experience.

june campbell cramer was born in plymouth on the 3rd of june 1931. she was a poet trying to stretch the limitation of "words" and to spread the illumination of vivisected "words". in 1971 she created lady june. most of her work remains undiscovered, obscure, noncommittal and discreet with only very few traceable occurences. here is one.

ICES. the international carnival of experimental sounds. in 1972 lady june was part of an experimental tribal meeting at the london roundhouse. she performed a linguistic leprosy with david bedford (keyboards and), lol coxhill (soprano sax), steve hilledge (born hillage, of course, on guitars), tim blake (synthesizer and), archie leggett (bass), bobby stignac (percussion), tim cresswell (???), daevid allen (gong-guitars), jugglers, fireeaters and clowns (puke!). this copy of a second generation cassette tape starts and ends as harsh as it does.

side a, 224 kbps, 47:35, 78 mb
side b, 224 kbps, 47:38, 78 mb
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some more (kevin ayers, david bedford, lol coxhill, mike oldfield, mick fincher, ollie halsall, archie leggett, chris spedding, robert wyatt, brian eno... [just kidding...]): may i?

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.