The Seventh Sons :: 4 A.M. At Frank’s
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Saturday 5 April 2014
Friday 4 April 2014
TONIGHT IN LONDON: 23 Skidoo and Richard Heslop - Seven Songs @BFI Southbank
Followed by a DJ set from Don Letts in the benugo Bar.
Tickets £15, concs £11.50 (Members pay £1.50 less)
Wish I was there for this. Original guitarist Sam Mills will be playing alongside Jim Whelan tonight too
Thursday 3 April 2014
June Tabor & Oysterband - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Filmed at the Union Chapel London on April 19th 2012, directed by Judith Burrows.
Wednesday 2 April 2014
CAN - Live @Soest 1970 (Rockpalast Archive) *Uncut Version
0. Intro
1. Sense All of Mine
2. Oh Yeah
3. I Feel Alright
4. Mother Sky
5. Deadlock
6. Bring Me Coffee or Tea
7. Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone
8. Paperhouse
Holger Czukay – bass
Irmin Schmidt – keyboards
Michael Karoli – guitar
Jaki Liebezeit – drums
Damo Suzuki – vocals
High quality download @DIME
Irmin Schmidt on the CAN Biography
The British novelist, good friend and since Can-times collaborator Duncan Fallowell (who also wrote all the lyrics for my solo albums and the wonderful libretto for my opera Gormenghast) had the next great idea: why not make it two books in one? A biography and – what he called – a symposium. He made the first contact with Faber & Faber and they were excited by the project. No, they ARE excited! Lee Brackstone suggested Rob Young as the writer for the biography. We have known Rob for a long time and regard him highly. He knows Can, the music and all the band members very well, so we were straight away extremely happy about this choice and are delighted to have him on board.
The idea of the symposium fascinated me so much that I decided to make it myself (meaning to curate it, edit it...). To use Can as a starting-point for a wild selection of stories, statements and interviews seemed like a really exciting project. A collage of talks not only with musicians (like Bobby Gillespie, Julian Cope, Geoff Barrow) and
people from the music-business side of things (Daniel Miller, Jazz Summers, Hartwig Masuch) but also people in other arts, like writers, philosophers, film-makers, painters and other nerds and neuroscientists...
And pictures. In 2011 there was a great exhibition in Berlin called HALLELUHWAH! Hommage à CAN, with paintings, photos, installations, sculptures, etc., by over forty artists (including Malcolm Mooney) all based around the theme of Can. Some of these will also be included in the symposium.
I am also very happy that Max Dax, editor-in-chief of Electronic Beats, will join me in working on this project.
Looking forward to being surprised!
Irmin Schmidt
Bandol, France – 16 March 2014
Sunday 30 March 2014
'I wonder what happened to that coat?'
Here's a wee story about Keef and coats for you.
My ex sister-in-law used to work for The Stones in the wardrobe department and one of her jobs obviously was to scout around for clothes for them to wear on stage and for photoshoots. Anyway she had a friend who had this immaculately battered old leather jacket and she asked if she could borrow it for Keith to wear at a photo session and her friend said OK thinking that he would get it back after the shoot. Anyway apparently Keith fell in love with the jacket saying that he felt that he had been 'born in it.'
He then decided that he really wanted to wear it on their forthcoming tour and my sis-in-law had to go back to her friend and ask if he would allow his jacket to go around the world. Needless to say he was a bit reluctant but bear in mind that at this point the jacket is still in Keith's possession. Anyway eventually he agrees with the one proviso that the jacket is returned to him at the end of the tour.
Come the end of the tour and of course Keith wants to keep the jacket and will pay whatever the bloke wants for it.
Ex-sis-in-law has to go back to her friend and impart this news to him and he says 'no' he just wants his jacket back but he never does see that jacket again and as far as I know never saw any money for it either
My ex sister-in-law used to work for The Stones in the wardrobe department and one of her jobs obviously was to scout around for clothes for them to wear on stage and for photoshoots. Anyway she had a friend who had this immaculately battered old leather jacket and she asked if she could borrow it for Keith to wear at a photo session and her friend said OK thinking that he would get it back after the shoot. Anyway apparently Keith fell in love with the jacket saying that he felt that he had been 'born in it.'
He then decided that he really wanted to wear it on their forthcoming tour and my sis-in-law had to go back to her friend and ask if he would allow his jacket to go around the world. Needless to say he was a bit reluctant but bear in mind that at this point the jacket is still in Keith's possession. Anyway eventually he agrees with the one proviso that the jacket is returned to him at the end of the tour.
Come the end of the tour and of course Keith wants to keep the jacket and will pay whatever the bloke wants for it.
Ex-sis-in-law has to go back to her friend and impart this news to him and he says 'no' he just wants his jacket back but he never does see that jacket again and as far as I know never saw any money for it either
I was hoping to see Mick Taylor today too
Unfortunately parts 2 & 4 are not on youtoob. I do hope that Mick Taylor plays on the rescheduled gigs when/if they take place
Well I should have been seeing this mob today...
...but under the circumstances let's face it the gig at Hanging Rock was just never going to take place
Saturday 29 March 2014
Friday 28 March 2014
Michael Jackson - Beat It (Demo)
As Jackson couldn’t fluently play any instruments, he would sing and beatbox out how he wanted his songs to sound by himself on tape, layering the vocals, harmonies and rhythm before having instrumentalists come in to complete the songs.
One of his engineers Robmix on how Jackson worked: “One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. “here’s the first chord first note, second note, third note. Here’s the second chord first note, second note, third note”, etc., etc. We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57. He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills.”
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As Jackson couldn’t fluently play any instruments, he would sing and beatbox out how he wanted his songs to sound by himself on tape, layering the vocals, harmonies and rhythm before having instrumentalists come in to complete the songs.
One of his engineers Robmix on how Jackson worked: “One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. “here’s the first chord first note, second note, third note. Here’s the second chord first note, second note, third note”, etc., etc. We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57. He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills.”
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Thursday 27 March 2014
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Nick Kent's Soundtrack for the Seventies
Tuesday 25 March 2014
Swans - To Be Kind (DVD Trailer)
Swans "To Be Kind" out May 12th (13th U.S.) via Young God Records / Mute.
Kraftwerk - Live in Soest (Rockpalast 1970)
Got to say they were a damn sight more interesting live back then than now...
Millie & Andrea - LWE 81 Mix
1. Millie & Andrea - Intro
2. Pangaea - Memories
3. Andrea - Got to Forget
4. Perc - 1909 (Millie's Dark Room Mix)
5. Instra:mental - Forbidden
6. The Men From Del Bosca - Bajo-El-Austral
7. Chasing Voices - ʻAcidbathoryʼ
8. Altered Natives - Bullet blade knuckle slap Souled remix
9. Andy Stott - Drippin
10. Millie - Untitled
11. UNLTD & Israel Vines - Reclaim
12. Drexciya - AQUA WORM HOLE
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