November 30, 2011

hans fenger's music project at the langley schools

Once upon a time in the mid-1970s there was a man named Hans Fenger who taught music in the Langley School District outside Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) … We've already reviewed the "Innocence & Despair" cd - featuring 1976 & 1977 recordings by students of the Wix-Brown, Lochiel South Carvolth and Glennwood Elementary schools - in [uzine 02.06]. Since, George Plasketes has published an interesting chapter on the project in his book "B-sides, undercurrents and overtones: peripheries to popular in music, 1960 to the present" (Ashgate 2009-06, ISBN 9780754665618). All hail Brian Lind!
http://www.bastamusic.com/catalog/langley-schools-music-project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langley_Schools_Music_Project
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1132233
http://www.bar-none.com/langley-schools-music-project.html
http://www.scrammagazine.com/scram-magazine-fifteen
http://www.appelstein.com/langley/
http://myspace.com/langschool
http://www.hansfenger.com/
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/story.html
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/hanslett.html
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/kids.htm

November 22, 2011

el! ef! oh!

What with Warp rereleasing 1991's "Frequencies" by LFO, here's some LFO rarities …The studio tracks all date from 1991, the live tracks were recorded 1992-01-18 @ "la Rave de la grande Arche - La défense - Paris" which also featured Laurent Garnier, Eric Rug and Jérôme Pacman. Co-organisers Libération & Fnac Music later launched "Live In Paris 18.1.1992 (La Grande Arche De La Défense)", a six track mcd "hors commerce" in a rouge & noir sleeve by the Designers' Republic™. Sadly, the boundary between tracks 4 & 5 wasn't mastered properly on that mcd, with the intro of "LFO" starting at the end of "Sam & Dave". The 5'43" version below does feature the correct intro, though, as reassembled from the original aiff files. Hey and do check Luke Vibert's 2009 version of "LFO" as well, won't you?

November 8, 2011

fly low creature with the atom brain

Whilst we eagerly await the new Creature with the Atom Brain album (check "The birds fly low" for a fine teaser), let's revisit 2009's all too underrated nay mighty "Transylvania" (MR303 on Munich) for "Spinnin' the black hole" - like a perfect cross between Midlake and Sun Dial - or "Darker than a dungeon" with Koen Kohlbacher of Birds that Change Colour - or "Lonely light" with Mark Lanegan & Chris Goss - or "The color of sundown" or "Something is wrong" …

October 24, 2011

tom tom rizzi

Hey! I'm dancing here! I'm dàncing here!
http://www.james-rizzi.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rizzi
http://snaporaz.posterous.com/james-rizzi
http://disasterzone.hubpages.com/hub/James-Rizzi
http://www.somanyrecordssolittletime.com/?p=6173
http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/09/28/a-genius-of-music-and-art/
http://www.talking-heads.nl/index.php/tom-tom-club
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tom_Club
http://www.tomtomclub.net/discography/compilations/31-2009-tom-tom-club-deluxe-edition-2-cd-set

October 19, 2011

seven oft sampled minutes

Most of us first got to know this August Moon & Tyrone Thomas track via EPMD's "It's my thing" in 1988, I guess. More recently the original 1976 lp on Soul International has been reprinted (on coloured vinyl) via Amherst (cat. no. AMH 5511, 2009, still available). And see also: http://www.4080records.com/2008/11/23/classic-breaks-seven-minutes-of-funk/