Marcio Mattos and John Lawrence: basses
Davie Webster: alto saxophone
John Rangecroft: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ricardo Mattos: soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Maggie Nicols, Frankie Armstrong, Brian Eley, and Phil Minton: vocals
Ken Hyder has two web sites here and here.
There you will find tracks from the past and the present to download.
Here is an interview with him from 'The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as 'Voice'.
"...it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams."
(From a review of the first Talisker album)
This is my 'desert island disc' and it has never been reissued on CD!
Finally for those of you who were in the Feral Choir when Phil Minton came out here to Melbourne, you can watch (and hear) yourself here and you may recognise one of the vocal motifs from the above album.
Davie Webster: alto saxophone
John Rangecroft: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ricardo Mattos: soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Maggie Nicols, Frankie Armstrong, Brian Eley, and Phil Minton: vocals
Ken Hyder has two web sites here and here.
There you will find tracks from the past and the present to download.
Here is an interview with him from 'The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as 'Voice'.
"...it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams."
(From a review of the first Talisker album)
This is my 'desert island disc' and it has never been reissued on CD!
Finally for those of you who were in the Feral Choir when Phil Minton came out here to Melbourne, you can watch (and hear) yourself here and you may recognise one of the vocal motifs from the above album.
Hi Mona,
ReplyDeleteI saw your reference to Land of Stone and thought – that’s so sweet.
Thanks,
Ken Hyder
Such a lot of rare gems to be found here!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!!
http://nightofthepurplemoon.blogspot.com/
Hi Mona,
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, great to find an Iranian-Australian (I assume that's what you are?) who loves Ken Hyder's Talisker and feels strongly about democracy in Iran!
I located a 2nd-hand copy of Talisker's 1st album when I was living in Toulouse, France, back in the early 80s - somehow I grew up listening to lots of trad stuff (both Occitan and Celtic) before moving on to psychedelia, post-punk and free jazz. Relocated to London and got to hear lots of improv there - do you remember the wonderful Seven Dials club in Covent Garden in the mid-80s? One of my flatmates at the time briefly dated one of the guys from 23 Skidoo though I didn't know he'd been in the band, he is now Susheela Raman's partner/producer, I still run into him once in a blue moon. Been living in Paris for over 20 yrs now. Took part in one of Phil Minton's feral choirs last year, he's one of my musical heroes too! Funny how people's paths intersect.
Best,
JJ astrognomy (dot) blogspot
2Anon/
ReplyDeleteYou are sort of right...
Yes remember 7Dials well...
Still in touch w Fritz from Skidoo but you mean Sam!
email me and I will get back to you but not this sec/knackered and about to crash...I knew Phil well and saw the Feral Choir a couple of years ago here in 'teh'ran'!!!
regards/