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79 Minutes / 160 kbps / 91.2 MB

01 Soft Pink Truth
02 Komet
03 unknown
04 Jan Jelinek
05 Farben
06 Pheek
07 Andrew Pekler
08 Stewart Walker
09 Spiess, Peter F.
10 Thomas Brinkmann
11 unknown / Swim label
12 Closer Music
13 unknown
14 CheckSum
15 ø
16 Taylor Deupree
17 ø
18 Gramm
19 unknown
20 Gas
21 ø
22 unknown / Scape label
23 Aphex Twin
24 Thomas Koner

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Ab Baars Trio

i feel like first time i posted this was kinda slept on. a pretty remarkable and remarkaly varied document of this group. inventive, playful, sensitive, and such a crisp clarity in their enunciation of ideas...

(for The Jam™ check track 3 of disc 2)

bigup ∞ for information concerning these 2 discs (which turns out to be 2 separate albums + 5 songs from yet another):

AB BAARS TRIO:
Ab Baars - clarinet, tenor sax
Wilbert de Joode - double bass
Martin van Duynhoven - drums, percussion

CD1: "Songs" (GeestGronden 22, 2001)

1. Wai-Kun (5:17)
2. Indiaan (4:50)
3. Klawulacha (4:18)
4. Hevebe Tawi (4:20)
5. Cherokee (8:51)
6. Wolf Song (4:56)
7. Maliseet Love (3:52)
8. Song (1:53)
9. Jeux (4:22)
10. Clayaquot War (4:30)
11. Song (5:54)
12. Aotzi No-otz (4:15)
13. Meshivotzi No-otz (4:08)
14. Dsichl Biyin (3:49)
15. The Indians (5:43)

All compositions Ab Baars, exc. 2 by Guus Janssen - arr. Ab Baars, 5 by Ray Noble - arr. Michael Moore, 15 by Charles Ives - arr. Mariette Rouppe van der Voort.
Recorded by Dick Lucas DATA RECORDS 4 February 2000 Theater De Burcht, Zaandam.

CD2: "3900 Carol Court" (GeestGronden 12, 1992)

1. Kimmel (6:27)
2. Visser van Lucebert (5:16)
3. Trav'lin in Plastic Dreams (6:03)
4. Krang (7:57)
5. 3900 Carol Court (4:27)
6. Glorpjes (6:29)
7. Asor (3:13)
8. Farfalla di Dinard (4:36)
9. The Dutch Windmill (4:17)

All compositions Ab Baars, except 3 by John Lewis.
Recorded by Dick Lucas DATA RECORDS March 15, 1992 Theater a.d. Molenlaan, Bussum and March 20, June 7 and 18, 1992 the Bimhuis, Amsterdam.

"A Free Step | The Music of John Carter" (GeestGronden 20, 1999)

10. Juba Stomp (4:00)
11. Morning Bell (6:13)
12. Sticks and stones (3:46)
13. Karen on Monday (5:00)
14. Night dance (3:47)
(5 of 10 tracks)

All compositions John Carter, arr. Ab Baars.
Recorded by Dick Lucas DATA RECORDS January 25, 1997 Bimhuis, Amsterdam & April 23, 24, 1998 Polanentheeater.

disc 1 disc 2

otte over, underwater

Hans Otte died December 25 2007 and it has taken me entirely too long to get this little memorial post together. I chose this release because I think it is somewhat atypical (the very New Age-y moments in Siebengesang) but also vivid in its beauty, which rests somewhat in opposition to the understatement and reduction of Otte's essential piano compositions, Das Buch der Klänge and Stundenbuch. The solo harp composition, Wassermannmusik quite easily stunned me on a first listen, and these recordings reveal an ecstatic element in Otte's work, an expansion on the minimal glow of the piano pieces.



Siebengesang (Seven-Song)
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Wassermannmusik (Aquarian Music)

Hans Otte - Piano
Cecilia Chailly - Harp
Petra Wiegandt - Clarinet

aquarian music

IMPORTANT QUESTION PLEASE HELP!!!

some PC users have said that a few or some of the files in the NGOMA mix does not work for them. if you have experienced this please let me know if possible which files are giving you problems, and what kind of problems.

thank you very much!!!!!

re-ups and new up

i think it makes me a hippie to love Sandy Bull and you know what I am 1. not ashamed and 2. proud. no not the lazy and smelly part, but the peace, man, and the love and the drugs and the nudity. it is super fun to be naked in public. i suggest you try it if you haven't. maybe later today? how about right now? your co-workers will just think it's cute. trust me.

so really, whatever post-ironic badman attitude i happen to be copping for laffs this week or the other, deep down inside i just want to space out on some trippy sounds and colors and the patterns they make... that and for everyone to get 1. along and 2. high as a kite. (and if you don't like it you can go suck your mum)

in addition to the 2 Sandy Bull albums previous posted you will find a new one: Inventions

Sandy Bull - 3 albums
VA - The Masters of Gospel
more coming in the space below...

Flora Molton, Eleanor Ellis

heavy "blues gone to church" rootsy gospel. next to zero information on the web about this singer and her timeless music, some of the most heart felt and beautiful in the cannon. i think this is the only disc representing American music in the entire Ocora catalog -- and have to say probably as good a choice as is possible: stark and minimal. so true. so real.

from Spinning in the comments:

"Flora Molton used to play outside of the old Woodward & Lothrop department store in downtown D.C. - I remember stumbling out of the Metro exit and hearing her voice. it was a bitter cold day in December, shortly before Christmas. I think she was seated on a metal folding chair (the kind used at card tables), but am not sure if I'm remembering that correctly... You can read more about her here.

She had a cardboard sign of some kind, too... for donations, maybe?

A few years after I first heard her, I ended up working a few blocks down the street from Woodies. There was an elderly blind man who stood on the street corner day in and day out, singing a wordless moan - he and Flora were the last real street singers in D.C.

I don't know this man's name, and wish i had more appreciation for his singing, which was monotonous (he never varied the tune), wordless, high, keening, and ear-piercing. It was very difficult to block out the sound of his voice, especially when our office windows were open.

I am sure he's long since gone."

it don't get more real than that do it? a living national treasure. singing on the street with a cardboard sign for donations.

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rebecca rebecca rebecca rebecca

hey I got through what passed for winter this year, pretty much w/out giving proper love to this place. so, here is, I hope, a treat.

to the best of my knowledge these recordings are apocryphal (but no less tasty for it).



the lovely lovely kai fagaschinski on clarient, michael renkel on guitar/preparations.

here's the lowdown.

rebecca exists since october 2001. the work began with improvisations. over the cause of time the same piece was repeatedly "improvised" again, reducing the concept of improvisation to absurdity. through repeated playing a musical piece, a composition come into being. the piece is not notated. rebecca remembers, and forgets. it is not so much a matter of interpreting a preconceived idea but rather of continuously working on and within the piece. the musical work becomes practice, action.
because the same piece is played over and over again in variations, piece and musician merge into a process. the concept of return is also hidden in the name ("re"). less obviously, "bec" (back) refers to the act of remembering, while "ca." (circa) stands for the vague, the indeterminate. this rotating around oneself and remembering as a means of drawing from the past, however, both aim at forward movement and outward communication. repetition as memory facing forward.

I think that is awful nice, and allows for sensitive, concentrated playing - a musical relation b/w the performers that is palpable - improvisation not simply being about showing up, skronking, wheeezing, scraping, clicking about and taking yr applause w/seriousness.

RE
BEC
CA

RE-UPS / WHERE MY DOGZ @?!?!?!

CHROME box
Showbiz & AG - Goodfellas
Alva_Noto & Opiate - Optofiles
Original Rumbas
Bali - Wayan Lotring
Java - Sunda
Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra
Emmanuelle Bertrand
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Pandit Kamalesh Maitra - Tarang

Born in 1928 in the East Bengali part of North India, the musician, composer and teacher, Pandit Kamalesh Maitra, has been living in Berlin since 1977. He may be the last and greatest master of the tabla tarang, a nearly forgotten classical instrument from North India. He has played with musicians as eminent as Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Trilok Gurtu, Charlie Mariano and Giora Feldmann.
... In the long history of Indian percussion, (the Tabla Tarang) evolved rather late but, in spite of its magical sound, has not shared the public appeal of complex "classics". It is made up of 10 to 16 single tabla-drums, tuned to the traditional raga scales and placed in half a circle in order of rising pitch. Tarang means waves and aptly describes the sounds evoked by the drummer. Quickly and suggestively, notes group into melodies and continually new cadences. The tabla tarang sounds rather like a marimba with a hint of gamelan and the resonance of a deep vibraphone. - Gabriele Stiller-Kern / full article here.

his popular recording is "Tabla Tarang - Melody on Drums". this one here, courtesy of Ambrose Bierce (who may have seen this concert with his own eyes?), is as far as i know not commecially available. (and incidentally, the House of World Cultures where this was recorded, is the place where we are planning a summer time NGOMA. fingers crossed!)

Pandit Kamalesh Maitra - Tarang
Live at the House of the Cultures of the World, Berlin, November 5, 1993
Kamalesh Productions CD9802, 1998

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and here is an example of the Tabla Tarang performed: