Monday, 1 December 2008

Jorn Utzon - Sydney Opera House Archirect Dies


Details from 'The Sydney Morning Herald' here.

In Memory Of All Those We Have Lost Over The Years

Information here.

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Phil Minton's Feral Choir - Arnolfini Venn Festival 2008

Phil Minton & Maggie Nicols - Battersea Arts Centre London January 2008

Ken Hyder's Talisker - Land of Stone (ECM 1977)

You can get 'Land of Stone' here.

Talisker
Ken Hyder: drums
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.

Speeq - Trine (featuring Phil Minton on vocals)

Phil Minton with The Mike Westbrook Band - Concrete (from 'Mama Chicago')

Phil Minton - The Cutty Wren

Saturday, 29 November 2008

The editorial team here at 'Exile' busy uploading dead links

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Dead Links

When I started this blog I had download links through Zshare.
These no longer work.
I will re-up them over the coming days.
If you find a link that doesn't work leave a comment and I will rectify it.

Winona Ryder 'loses' 125,000 US dollar Bulgari diamond bracelet. Police investigate

Story from 'The Daily Mail' here.

Husker Du - Eight Miles High (Live Pink Pop Festival Landgraaf Netherlands 1987)

Do you remember?

Here are Husker Du's 'Northern Lights' demos recorded by Colin Mansfield in 1979.

William S. Burroughs blows Amy Winehouse's brains out!


Story here.

Installation 'The Only Good Rock Star Is A Dead Rock Star' by Marco Perego at Half Gallery in NY.

Sennheiser announce wireless earbud headphones

Story at 'boingboing' here.