2012-02-18 monolake over brussels

1978-06-16 suicide boo'd off stage in brussels' ab

2012-01-28 charles hayward over brussels

2012-01-16 > 2012-02-03 semaine du sound week van de klank


O oh it's that dishy Tomoko Sauvage … 2012-01-16 > 2012-02-03, depending on which part of the planet you call home, it's la Semaine du Son / the Sound(s) Week. In France on January 22-29 (except Paris which debuts January 16-21), they're organising the 9th edition. In Brussels (January 23-29) and Geneva (Genève, February 1-3) it will be the second edition, while Montréal + Québec seem to have dropped out after their second edition last year? In any case, the 'mother' site http://www.lasemaineduson.org/ isn't practical at all, and the Belgian site could be a tad more handy too. Hey and there'll be something called "Aimez-vous Tati?", while Triple Deck - see my Kapotski post earlier on - will perform in Brussels too: http://lasemaineduson.be/nl/triple-deck/

kashmere high school stage band

Mark Landsman's 83' "Thunder Soul" documentary on Houston's Kashmere Stage Band (as produced by Jamie Foxx, 2010) isn't featured on Now-Again's 2cd + 1dvd package (NA-5085, 2011). But it does feature there's a 12' making of, footage of a 3' live version of "Makin' whoopee" (1972) and a 27' documentary by Charles Porter (1973 - check the KSB on holiday in Paris, Brussels, Louvain, Waterloo, Breda and Bonn). It's a mighty package with a 40 page booklet to boot … but it has only one flaw: there's no song author credits, making it difficult to find out which tracks are KSB originals and which are cover versions. Speaking of which: expect more "Shaft" covers in a future post + find a free download of Egon's extended edit of James Brown's "Super bad" (as featured on the 2005 US - but not Jazzman's 2002 UK - edition of "Texas Funk: Black Gold From The Lone Star State 1968-1975" v/a cd) via the Now-Again site:
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/tag/kashmere-stage-band/  [5 pages!]
http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2010-03-12/977581/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5599377
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140539483/thunder-soul-70s-sensation-dusts-off-its-groove
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140891879/summer-school-funk-five-tracks-out-of-1970s-houston
http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/mark-landsman-on-his-influences-and-thunder-soul/
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/03/sxsw-2010-mark-landsmans-thunder-soul.html
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2011/06/kashmere-stage-band-thunder-soul-official-movie-trailer
http://www.indiewire.com/article/toolkit-case-study-the-long-road-of-thunder-soul
http://www.indiewire.com/article/interview_thunder_soul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmere_Stage_Band
http://funky16corners.lunarpages.net/?p=2009
http://stonesthrow.com/funky16/kash.html
http://thundersoulmovie.com/
http://kashmere.org/

2011-11-24 lkj kvs bxl

what's wrong with us?!

Tonight 2011-10-14 au B&B in Brussels (Belgium), tomorrow 2011-10-15 in Kaffee 't Hof, Middelburg (Zeeland, the Netherlands) and on 2011-10-26 in Bern: What's Wrong With Us? a sensational pre Sonic Youth no wave meets Soft Machine over at Lotte Lenya's foursome from Switzerland who've just recorded a new album ("Not Enough", tbr on Urgence Disk via Irascible) … Do check, they're intense! Great musicianship too.
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch/
http://soundcloud.com/whats-wrong-with-us
http://myspace.com/whatswrongwithusmusic
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch/demowwwus2011
http://www.whatswrongwithus.ch/menu300dpiphotos.html
http://lebedandbreakfast.over-blog.org/article-livingroom-concert-3-82959216.html
http://www.bee-flat.ch/programm/657/
http://www.matamore.net/agenda/

maddening unity

After "Here Comes The Crazy Man!" (Vogue 1974), Koen De Bruyne (RIP 1977), Patricia Maesen (RIP 1996) and Jean-Pierre Onraedt also played / sang on "Funky Tramway" (Vogue 1975) by Mad Unity, aka legendary library man Janco Nilovic's Brussels project. As reissued by Vadim (cd ànd lp) this Summer (2011) …

stop, look, listen: raphaël


The opening track of "Stop, Look, Listen". By Phil Raphäel with Paul Dubois, Robert Pernet, Johnny Perret and opera singer Rose Thompson, as recorded in Brussels by Pierre Pletinckx on 1972-06-03. As reissued on Heavenly Sweetness (HS043, 2011-02) …
http://www.muziekarchief.be/albumdetails.php?ID=83576
http://www.psychemusic.org/spiritualjazz.html#anchor_281
http://soundcloud.com/heavenlysweetness/raphael-stop-look-listen
http://heavenlysweetnessblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/les-discophiles-acharnes-qui-ecument.html

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