NGOMA mix 1 - dj zhao

The positive side of globalization: irresistable 21st century urban music arise on every continent. India, Cuba, Tanzania, Egypt, Cape Town, these are just a few places where wild hybrid styles are born: futuristic, bass heavy and electronic, yet drawing from the wealth of local musical heritage. the NGOMA series bring the heat from musical hotspots across the known world -- the wickedest beats and sweetest flows.
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DIRECT LISTEN AND SINGLE TRACK DOWNLOAD (192k)



SEPARATE TRACKS DOWNLOAD (320k):

rapidshare or megaupload

Fistfull of Improvisation 1

John Butcher (saxophones)
Xavier Charles (clarinet),
Axel Dorner (trumpet)
The Contest of Pleasures
http://rapidshare.com/files/49927730/ButcherCharlesDorner_ContestPleasures.part1.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/49928922/ButcherCharlesDorner_ContestPleasures.part2.RAR
Some intensely oblique textural nu-school shit. Recorded....hm....1997? 2000 at latest. Sharp if not prescient. IMHO, some of the strongest, or at least most wondrous, group material by any of the participants. A must-hear even if you usually don't care for the improv thing based on preponderance of squiggle-blat, almost all of which has been erased in advance by the participants. Scary-incisive groupmind energy. Keeper!

















Gunter Christmann (trombone/cello) & Thomas Lehn (analogue synth):
Temps Duree (1998, ltd ed of 150)
http://rapidshare.com/files/933906/ChristmannLehn.zip
light-speed and prickly-as-fuck. hard to place what makes this record special aside from the excellent playing, but it is definitely not a matter of just fine playing...the quickness here, the jabs and feints familiar to those of us who have listened to (probabably too much) "European free improv" quite a bit....these are here, but the moments of interaction seem to be packed especially dense..

Giuseppe Ielasi: solo live cdr (Absurd)
http://rapidshare.com/files/2656416/GI_solo2001.zip
This is nothing but nothing like Ielasi's more recent work, a much more spartan affair; those who like the quiet Kevin Drumm might find a lot to like here. I think this was released c. 2000, maybe a little earlier. I uploaded it quite some time ago, but the link still seems to work.



















Taku Sugimoto: OPPOSITE
http://rapidshare.com/files/826675/SugimotoOpposite_pt1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/826901/SugimotoOpposite_pt2.zip
Gossamer dew-speckled-spiderweb guitar spun with patience you could cut with a very sharp knife. I know we had this here at some point, but it's an old upload of mine, it's good quality, I think (mp3-320?), and if you haven't heard it yet, you must, must, must.

From Tanzania with Love Love Love

to counter all that negative energy in the Dirty South mix, here is one for grace and groove and love and light.

all the confusion is over. DJ Rhamadan straightened me out: it's a group called Melody from Zanzibar (no not Tanzania), and it is a good example of modern tarab.

rapidshare or mediafire

P(c)P: Full Flutes

So P(c)P: not the party, but still the trace of angels: Point (counter-)Point: a little name-branding for an ongoing category in which I put up a couple-few recordings or so that somehow to me seem like stealth fellow-travellers, worthy adversaries, or twins separated at birth. No implications about deeper connections, which might or might not exist or even be decently phantasizable, but sometimes an intersection---if only in my wayward hearing---is just serendipitous to call for passing-along. So I pass along! I swear, commentary about putative connections will be kept to a dead minimum, so as to avoid advertising a musicological competence that I most certainly do not possess. But if it's bomb, how can I not bell about it?

Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea: Madang, Volumes 1 & 2
http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=J2S07AG5 (both volumes, 199mb, mp3-320-LAME)

A few words on Vol. 1:
"Meant to evoke the cries of spirits, sacred flutes are played by adult men of the Madang region of Papua New Guinea. Pairs of long bamboo male and female flutes accompany ceremonies in the coastal villages near the Ramu River. The ravoi flutes from Bak are supported by two garamut carved wooden slit gongs; the waudang flutes from Manam Island are backed up by a pair of large and small slit gongs, and six singers, and the jarvan flutes from Awar feature accompaniment by a shell rattle. The mo-mo resonating tubes were recorded in the Finisterre Range. These recordings were made in 1976 by Ragnar Johnson assisted by Jessica Mayer while conducting research in a remote village in the Eastern Highlands. Their intention was to preserve this traditional music as it is played in the villages of its origin."
Those heard:
Vagh & Gombreh / Soagili & Ururu / Jogun & Sabina / People of Damaindeh-Bau
A few words on Volume 2: "Sacred flutes are blown ("Windim Mambu") to make the cries of spirits by adult men in the Madang region of Papua New Guinea. Pairs of long bamboo male and female flutes are played for ceremonies in the coastal villages near the Ramu River. There are the cries of six different pairs of flutes and one pair of conch shells from the Ramu coast, two pairs of Waudang flutes from Manam Island with singing and Mo-mo resonating tubes from the Finisterre Range. Occasional percussion is provided by wooden slit gongs and hand drums. These recordings were made in 1976."

A graspnote:
I was initially drawn to these recordings because Evan Parker cited them as key recordings of "ethnic"/traditional music practices for him, with the use of overtones and harmonics being particularly instructive to him in his own explorations of the saxophone. Turns out, Evan is credited in some respect with the reissue of these recordings, both of which were first released in 1977 and 1979 as the first two numbers of David Toop's Quartz label. I think these are amazing sounds and ways of organizing them; I think it's worth hearing both volumes (on repeat!), so I packed them together...hope this won't be too much of a problem. Hypnotic, understated, bracing, raw, elliptical and full.

Phill Niblock: FOUR FULL FLUTES (the Dirty Version)
http://rapidshare.com/files/80210854/Niblock_FullFlutes_APE.part1.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/80210600/Niblock_FullFlutes_APE.part2.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/80209585/Niblock_FullFlutes_APE.part3.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/80208635/Niblock_FullFlutes_APE.part4.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/80207765/Niblock_FullFlutes_APE.part5.RAR
(APE lossless, tracks already split, no CUE)

Phill avec filles....um.... [filles: Dana Reitz and Joan La Barbara, 1975]

A little hype:
"This CD was released by Experimental Intermedia Foundation in 1990 and includes Susan Stenger playing flute on two tracks. The scores were recorded using musicians playing instruments tuned to an oscilloscope in microtonal intervals; in this fashion Niblock creates "tone blocks" by editing out breathing spaces and assigning different pitch blocks to selected areas of the final eight-track recording. An photo of the incredibly arcane-looking scores for the three individual pieces is included in the extensive liner notes. One of the four tracks is actually the combination of the solo recordings by Stenger and Petr Kotik; the listener is encouraged to mix and match tracks on their own...." (lost source online...apologies)

“Phill Niblock’s music has no precedents, invites no comparisons, and doesn’t even suggest any metaphors to me. It is simply itself and must be heard to be believed,” wrote Tom Johnson in The Village Voice a decade ago. The same is true today—no one is doing what Phill Niblock is doing. Niblock takes the building blocks of music and stacks them in inimitable formations. In Four Full Flutes, adjacent tones beat violently against one another while clouds of harmonics hover above the wavering drone . . . When the piece ends, it takes the listener a few moments to recover. This physiological experience, when the ossicles slow their vibrating and the membrane hairs come to a standstill, is probably the only aspect of the music not regulated by the score . . . Playing this compact disc in a different room or moving around the room while the disc is being played actually alters the outcome. Similarly, the music can be experienced anew through different combinations, extra speakers, home stereo pyrotechnics, and volume level alterations. The effects intensify with louder levels of volume. The higher the volume goes, the higher you go. ” – Neil Strauss



CAMEROON: FLUTES OF THE MANDARA MOUNTAINS
(Ocora: Radio France 560110)
http://rapidshare.com/files/80193545/Cameroon_FlutesMandara_Ocora.part1.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/80192163/Cameroon_FlutesMandara_Ocora.part2.RAR
(mp3-320-LAME)

Recordings made in Cameroon, 1994-6, by Nathalie Fernando, Fabrice Marandola

From the liner notes:
In this presentation of music of the animist peoples of the mountains and the the plains, we selected the most commonly found instrumental ensembles along with encounters of a more singular kind, proposing an instrumental and vocal range, representative of the multitude of sonorities, languages, and customs to be found in this region. The musics recorded come from ritual or profane repertoires, and do not necessarily accompany dancing. In the Mandara Mountains, the musical instruments used depend on the agrarian cycle, their playing being determined by different stages in the growing of millet: the Ouldeme flutes, for example, are played in turn for sowing time at the end of the harvest.

For information and photographs of some of the instruments used by these musicians, and other similar instruments, go to:
http://www.sukur.info/Music/Aerophones.htm

Take Cover

Take note that Susan Archie, who handled the design of this package, was also the svengali behind the amazing-looking Albert Ayler and Charley Patton boxes from Revenant (I think I'm right about this...not going to check now); her work is so fine, to my own taste, that the wickedly timely sounds are beyond-done-justice. I only say this because this small, support-worthy label seems to have gone all-out in creating a product worth hanging on to. But this is no lecture, just a public service announcement. As for the music....


PEOPLE TAKE WARNING! Murder Ballads & Songs of Disaster 1913-1938
(Tompkins Square Records, 3CD box set, 2007)
http://rapidshare.com/files/79745440/PeopleTakeWarning.part1.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/79743819/PeopleTakeWarning.part2.RAR
http://rapidshare.com/files/79741141/PeopleTakeWarning.part3.RAR
(mp3-vbr, no booklet art, unfortunately...folder slightly mistitled, oops)

Label description:
“In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, the Depression gripped the Nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds.” – Tom Waits, from the Introduction

Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white performers from the dawn of American roots recording are here, assembled together for the first time. Whether they document world-shattering events like the sinking of the Titanic or memorialize long forgotten local murders or catastrophes, these 70 recordings – over 30 never before reissued – are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines.

Featuring beautifully remastered recordings by the some of the cornerstones of American vernacular recording such as Charlie Patton, Ernest Stoneman, Furry Lewis, Charlie Poole and Uncle Dave Macon, these songs tell of life and death struggles forever immortalized on these rare and compelling 78 rpms. Produced and annotated by the Grammy winning team of Christopher King and Henry “Hank” Sapoznik with an introduction by Tom Waits, the accompanying 48-page three-CD anthology designed by Grammy award winning Susan Archie brims with many eye-popping historic images never before reproduced.

TRACK LISTING:

Disc 1: Man vs. Machine
1. Titanic Blues - Hi Henry Brown & Charley Jordan
2. Wreck Of The Old 97 - Skillet Lickers
3. Bill Wilson - Birmingham Jug Band
4. The Crash Of The Akron - Bob Miller
5. The Fate Of Talmadge Osborne - Ernest Stoneman
6. El Mole Rachmim (Fur Titanik) - Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt
7. The Wreck Of The Virginian - Alfred Reed
8. Fate Of Will Rogers & Wiley Post - Bill Cox
9. Down With The Old Canoe - The Dixon Brothers
10. Wreck Of Number 52 - Cliff Carlisle
11. Kassie Jones Part 1 - Furry Lewis
12. Kassie Jones Part 2 - Furry Lewis
13. The Brave Engineer - Carver Boys
14. The Sinking Of The Titanic - Richard Rabbitt Brown
15. Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife - Blind Alfred Reed
16. Wreck On The Mountain Road - Red Fox Chasers
17. The Unfortunate Brakeman - Kentucky Ramblers
18. Altoona Freight Wreck - Riley Puckett
19. The Fatal Wreck Of The Bus - Mainer's Mountaineers
20. Last Scene Of The Titanic - Frank Hutchison
21. Casey Jones - Skillet Lickers
22. The Wreck Of The Westbound Airliner - Fred Pendleton & The West Virginia Melody Boys
23. The Titanic - Ernest Stoneman
24. When That Great Ship Went Down - William & Versey Smith


Disc 2: Man Vs. Nature
1. The Story Of The Mighty Mississippi - Ernest Stoneman
2. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob)
3. Dixie Boll Weevil - Fiddlin' John Carson
4. Mississippi Boweavil - Charley Patton
5. Ohio Prison Fire - Bob Miller
6. Memphis Flu - Elder Curry
7. Explosion In The Fairmount Mine - Blind Alfred Reed
8. Storm That Struck Miami - Fiddlin' John Carson
9. When The Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
10. Alabama Flood - Andrew Jenkins
11. Burning Of The Cleveland School - J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies
12. High Water Everywhere, Part I - Charley Patton
13. High Water Everywhere, Part 2 - Charley Patton
14. Ryecove Cyclone - Martin & Roberts
15. McBeth Mine Explosion - Cap, Andy & Flip
16. Dry Well Blues - Charley Patton
17. Baltimore Fire - Charlie Poole
18. Tennessee Tornado - Uncle Dave Macon
19. Dry Spell Blues, Part 2 - Son House
20. The Santa Barbara Earthquake - Green Bailey
21. The Death Of Floyd Collins - Vernon Dalhart
22. The Porto Rico Storm - Carson Robison Trio
23. Boll Weavil - W.A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor
24. The Flood Of 1927 - Elders McIntorsh And Edwards

Disc 3: Man vs. Man
1. Peddler And His Wife - The Appalachia Vagabond (Hayes Shepherd)
2. The Little Grave In Georgia - Earl Johnson
3. Kenney Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
4. Henry Clay Beattie - Kelly Harrell
5. The Murder Of The Lawson Family - Carolina Buddies
6. Ommie Wise - Clarence Ashley
7. Railroad Bill - Will Bennett
8. Frankie - Dykes Magic City Trio
9. Trial Of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 1 - Bill Cox
10. Trial Of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 2 - Bill Cox
11. Lanse Des Belaires - Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge
12. Darling Cora - B.F. Shelton
13. Billy Lyons And Stack O' Lee - Furry Lewis
14. Tom Dooley - Grayson And Whitter
15. The Story Of Freda Bolt - Floyd Country Ramblers
16. Pretty Polly - John Hammond
17. Fingerprints Upon The Windowpane - Bob Miller
18. The Bluefield Murder - Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers
19. Frankie Silvers - Ashley, Clarence And Gwen Foster
20. Fate Of Rhoda Sweeten - Wilmer Watts
21. Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
22. Poor Ellen Smith - Dykes Magic City Trio