Zdeněk Liška

Three Film Soundtracks (1966-) ...

Czech composer Zdeněk Liška wrote many soundtracks for Jan Svankmajer.  This is three favourites from the 1960s ...

Punch and Judy (1964) ... 

Byt (The Flat) (1966) ...

  
Historia Naturae (1969) ... 

Radio Prague ...

Plaid

Tekkonkinkreet (2007) ...

Plaid soundtrack for anime Tekkinkonkreet...

This City ... 

White's Dream ...

Safety In Solitude ...

Plaid gave a live performance of the soundtrack at the Barbican London, in 2013 ... 

For those unfamiliar, Tekkonkinkreet (a deliberate childish mispronunciation of the Japanese word for reinforced concrete) tells the story of Black and White, two street orphans who take it upon themselves to protect their city, the shanty-style metropolis of Treasure Town, from an extra-terrestrial property developer called Snake.
Black is the angry, fearless protector of White, who has a snotty nose and, apparently, acute Asperger syndrome, but also a purity of imagination that allows him to see the world in colours even more vivid than those of the kaleidoscopic city they call home. Them’s the basics... bigissue.com

Brothers Chase ... 

Tekkonkinkreet Ending ... 

 

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Between Nothingness & Eternity (1973) ...

Recorded in Central Park, New York... Most fully formed jazz-rock group in original incarnation ...

Sister Andrea ... 

 Tentative review ...

Trilogy ...

  Dream ...


 

Lou Harrison

Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1959) ...

Enrico Balboni (violin) with Tàmmittam Percussion Ensemble plays Lou Harrison's Violin Concerto with Percussion Orchestra ...Naxos release, 1998 ...

First Movement ...Allegro Maestoso... 

 
classicsonline.com ...

Guruh Gipsy

Guruh Gipsy (1976) ...

Indonesian prog rock with gamelan influences ...

Guruh Gipsy complete ...

1) Indonesia Maharddhika (0:00)
2) Chopin Larung (15:36)
3) Barong Gundah (22:49)
4) Janger 1897 Saka (29:49)
5) Geger Gelgel (38:37)
6) Smaradhana (50:36)
7) Sekar Ginotan (bonus) 

 While Gipsy was basically a music group which its members are Nasution brothers: Gaury, Keenan, Odink, and Deby. It was previously established in 1966 under the name of Sabda Nada with members: Ponco Sutowo, Gaury Nasution, Joe-Am, Eddy, Edit, Roland and Keenan Nasution. They were very familiar with Balinese music and they ever did a gig at Bank Indonesia combining western with Balinese music with gamelan group led by Wayan Suparta Wijaya. In 1969 the band renamed themselves as Gipsy and the new line-up was established: Onan, Chrisye, Gaury, Tammy, dan Atut Harahap. They did cover for 70s groups like Procol Harum, King Crimson, ELP, Genesis and Blood, Sweat & Tears. In 1971 the line-up changed again: Keenan, Chrisye, Gaury, Rully Djohan, Aji Bandi, and Lulu. With this line-up the band played a gig in New York, USA... progarchives.com ...

Chopin Larung ...

• Backing Vocals [Female Backing Vocals, Guest Player] – Hutauruk
• Bass – Chrisye
• Drums – Keenan Nasution
• Gamelan [Balinese Gamelan, Guest Player] – I Gusti Kompiang Raka
• Gamelan, Lyrics By – Guruh Soekarno Putra
• Guitar – Odink Nasution
• Guitar [Guest Player] – Gauri Nasution
• Piano [Guest Player] – Trisuci Kamal
• Piano, Organ – Ronny Harahap
• Synthesizer [Mini-moog] – Abadi Soesman

Jenger 1897 Saka ...  

Live TV 2009 ...

 

indoprogressive...

Carla Bley/Nick Mason/Robert Wyatt

Nick Mason's Ficticious Sports (1981) ...

Carla Bley Band LP released under Nick Mason's name due to Pink Floyd's current popularity at the time ...a poppy effort from Carla Bley who wrote and performed on all songs.  Vocals by Robert Wyatt ...this is rather fab, as long as you don't expect a Pink Floyd album ...or a Carla Bley album...

Can't Get My Motor To Start ...

Columbia, apparently attempting to cash in on Pink Floyd's explosion in popularity, released this album in 1981 under Nick Mason's name when in reality he's simply the drummer in this incarnation of Carla Bley's ensemble; Ms. Bley composed all the music and lyrics for this project. It's possibly her most overtly pop-oriented album, with all eight songs featuring vocals by Soft Machine alumnus Robert Wyatt. The music, by Bley's standards, is fairly pedestrian if occasionally catchy, though the lyrics are often wryly amusing... allmusic.com ...

I'm A Mineralist (great Philip Glass parody) ...  

Robert Wyatt vocals; Nick Mason drums; Carla Bley keyboards; Chris Spedding guitars; Steve Swallow bass guitar, Michael Mantler trumpet; Gary Windo tenor/bass clarinet, flute, additional vocals; Gary Valente trombones, additional vocals; Howard Johnson tuba

Hot River (Pink Floyd pastische) ... 

Siam ...

"Hot Water"(Hot River) is something of an "odd song out" on the album, in that it actually *does* come fairly close to the mainstream of 1970s progressive music. Chris Spedding's guitar lines are remarkably Floydian, and the concluding solo is too close to Gilmour's style to be coincidental. Wyatt sings the number in a more "progressive" manner as well, as might be expected (although some might claim that he sounds a bit too much like an Alan Parsons Project vocalist in this context). The song, however, is marred by (i) the fact that Karen Kraft's duet vocals don't fit the style of music very well, and (ii) the fact that the entire "song" section of the track seems underwritten. Still, this is only a few notches away from a four-star rating, and is a good way to end the first side... tranglos.com review ...

Boo To You Too ... 

I Was Wrong ... 

Vocalist Karen Kraft was invited to join the project when Spedding brought Bley to hear her play in an R&B band in New York City. "Nick and Carla informed me that they didn't want me to sing in my natural voice, but wanted me to sing like I looked," Kraft explains in an exclusive interview with "Floydian Slip".

"I was then and still am a very petite blueish-eyed blonde with a very big, deep, booming quasi-black singing voice," she says. "Nick and Carla were into the dichotomy of it all.

"They were looking for a 'burbling gospel sound' for 'Hot River,' which is a Pink Floyd takeoff. I volunteered that I could sing and gargle at the same time, so I have the 'gargle solo' on the record.

"We performed live a few times and had a blast. Nick Mason is a lovely man. It was a mighty strange trip for a girl from Bryan, Texas," says Kraft, who's now in Los Angeles, Calif., and records with SoulSkin for Askew Records.

"Fictitious Sports" was produced at Grog Kill Studio in Willow, N.Y., in October 1979. It was released in 1981, and rose to number 170 in the United States... floydianslip.com ...

Do Ya ...


Wervin ... 

23 Skidoo

Seven Songs (1982) ...

Debut album from industrial edged punk-funk group 23 Skidoo ... Paranoid, droning, with slappy bass and scratching guitar ...

Seven Songs ... 

A more descriptive title would have been "Seven Panic Attacks," but even a bland title isn't able to prevent the undeniably savage, pungent impact of Seven Songs, a half-hour long album that plays out like a soundtrack to being bounty hunted in an expansive jungle. Following "Kundalini," a hectoring brain shake that hardly resembles the dormant energy it's named after, "Vegas el Bandito" enters and doesn't imply the James Brown of "Cold Sweat" so much as the panic of night sweats, churning out a taut groove of slap-happy bass, pattering drums, horn trills, and a scratchy-scratch guitar line that chases its tail. An echoing trumpet carries through the end of the song and drifts right on into "Mary's Operation," an anemic drone of even creepier horns and tape loops. "New Testament" is an industrial death lurch of rusted metallic sheets, giving way to "IY," a cluster of conga acrobatics with needling saxophones and frenetic chants thrown on top. "Porno Base," the real knockout, contains little more than a series of abysmal bass pluckings placed just far enough apart to induce chronic paranoia, sounding less like a smut-film score than "Welcome to the Terror Drone." The finale, "Quiet Pillage," despite its exotica reference, could only be played in the ruins of a lounge post-carpet bombing. This is post-punk at its most invigorating and terrifying... allmusic.com ...

Popol Vuh

Nosferatu (1992) ...

Eleventh album by Popol Vuh parts of which form the soundtrack for Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: The Vampire ... The CD issued in 1992 comprises both albums previously titled as Nosferatu soundtrack music, Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts, and On The Way To a Little Way ...both full Popol Vuh albums in their own right ...

Through Pain To Heaven (On the Way To A Little Way)... 

Weinen und Lahen (movie version of Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts) ... 

 Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts ...

The Venus Principle ...

Zwiesprache der Rohrflöte mit der Sängerin ... 

Bad Religion

Into The Unknown (1983) ...

Second album from Los Angeles hardcore punk band is untypical of their usual format, with slower tempo songs leaning towards hard rock and even progressive sounds.  The use of keyboards was particularly alienating to their early fans...

Into the Unknown complete ... 

On its own it stands as an interesting experiment (the original band members had experience in progressive music) and predates Husker Du's move towards longer more complex songs...

Time and Disregard ...


badreligion.com ...

Suns of Arqa

Revenge of the Mozabites (2001) ...

Suns of Arqa debut album ...Michael Wadada and Adrian Sherwood ...

Revenge of the Mozabites ... 

In 1979 Suns of Arqa creator and mentor Michael Wadada set about recording the ground breaking Suns of Arqa album 'Revenge of the Mozabites' with his friend Adrian Sherwood. Together they formed the ‘4D Rhythm’ label – the world was not ready! Wadada retreated to the Pennine mountain range in Lancashire, Adrian Sherwood went on to create the formidable ‘On-U Sound’ label. Three years went by before a a very curious Peter Gabriel came across a rare copy of that first Suns of Arqa album; he was putting together the very first World of Music and Dance festival (WOMAD), and asked Suns of Arqa to come and perform....

 

Pierre Henry

Fragments Pour Artaud (1970) ...

Electronic pioneer Pierre Henry's spooky suite for treated voice and cello with electronics ...

Fragments pour Artaud complete ... 

 
Informations générales ...

Thomas Leer

Four Movements (1981) ...

Home made electro-pop from Scottish pioneer Thomas Leer ...

Tight As A Drum ... 

West End ...

  


 

Luigi Nono

Musica Manifesto N1 (1969) ...

Luigi Nono's musical response to events in 1968 ...

Non Consumiamo Marx ...for speaker and tape...

Text from writings on Paris walls (May 1968), documents on fights against Biennale di Venezia (June 1968) and found voices recorded live during street demonstrations.

Un volto del Mare 1/2 ...for soprano, speaker and tape... 

Un volto del Mare 2/2 ...  Text by Cesare Pavese 'Matin'

continuo.wordpress.com ...

 Philips label reissue ...














 

Original issue on Il Dischi Del Sole (1969) ...

luiginono.it/it/luigi-nono/opere/musica-manifesto-n-1-un-volto-del-mare-non-consumiamo-marx 

Jacobites

Robespierre's Velvet Basement (1985) ...

Nikki Sudden (of Swell Maps) formed The Jacobites with Dave Kusworth.  This was probably their best album. A delicate, decadent, frequently acoustic garage music from Birmingham England... Drums by Nikki Sudden's brother Epic Soundtracks ...

It'll All End Up In Tears ...

Where the Rivers End ... 

 Originally intended as a double album, it was reissued in 2002 as a double CD on Secretly Canadian ...

Big Store ...

 Robespierre's Velvet Basement, the shambolic second album by Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth's Jacobites, is a masterpiece of free-wheeling songwriting, loose arrangements, tossed-off vocals, and straight-to-the-gut emotional expression. The Jacobites were never influenced by what was going on around them; they preferred an earlier, more decadent era in rock, and in their sound one gets the jagged shards of Jagger and Richards, Stewart and Lane, and Ronson and Hunter. Not that The Jacobites sound anything like the Rolling Stones, the Faces, or Ian and Mick. Acoustic guitars are more prevalent than electronics, and the spirit of Marc Bolan's folky years hovers just above the cloud of cigarette smoke that made the studio blue. This is rock & roll of a type that had not been made since the '70s, and is only starting to be made again in the 21st century, but in the guitars and voices of The Jacobites -- with Nikki's brother, the late, great Epic Soundtracks, on drums -- one has to ask why it sounds so timeless, as relevant today as it was when it was made, as wondrously loose and garagey as only the best in rock & roll can be. Tenderness, pathos, vulnerability, humor, bitterness, who-gives-a-damn clarity, and genuine fire are what make Robespierre's Velvet Basement one of the great, unsung classics of the '80s... Thom Jurek ...

   

 

Epic Soundtracks

Popular Classical (1981) ...

A three track EP from the former drummer with experimental group Swell Maps, Epic Soundtracks.  Lead song Jelly Babies features Robert Wyatt on vocals and Vicky Aspinall (Raincoats) ...On Rough Trade RT084 ...

Jelly Babies ... 
 

 

 

A 3 Acre Floor ...

Jelly Babies will appear on a new compilation of Robert Wyatt collaborations ...

Different every time ...

Yangchen Lhamo

Party in Shangri-La  (2009) ...

A video CD by the famous Khampa singer from Yunnan: Yangchen Lhamo.  Traditional Khampa dance songs, with modern arrangement and beat...

Party in Shangri-La ...

" the language is Gyalthang Kham Tibetan, because Tibetans and Chinese love Karaoke they add the Chinese phonetic character sounds so that non-Tibetans can sing along."

Tibetan Song...

Tibetan Song ...

Party in Shangri-La (listen) ... 

yalasoo.com/YangchenLhamo pages ... 

Lug dzi Bumo ... 

Kham Gyalthang Folk Songs Zhongdian...

littlemoonshop.com ...

Jean-Jacques Perry

Moog Sensations (1971) ...

Pioneer of Moogy pop Jean-Jacques Perrey's solo library album for Editions Montparnasse 2000. Originally credited to his daughter Pat Prilly (because he was signed to a different company) ...

Moog Sensations ...

The Percolator (additional track  on CD reissue) ...

Borborygmus ... 

 Jean-Jacques Perrey was born in France in 1929. He was studying medecine in Paris when he met George Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled through Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synth. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York, sponsored by Caroll Bratman, who build him an experimental laboratory and recording studio. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of musique concrète. With scissors, splicing tape & tape recorders, he spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comique take on the future. Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment"...discogs.com ...

Ballet Intersidéral ...

JJP demonstrates the Ondioline on TV show (1966) ...

Moogy madness ... 

  

 

Terry Riley

Happy Endings (1972) ... 

Taken from a film soundtrack 'Les  Yeux Fermés' ...

Journey From The Death of a Friend ...

 "I never did have a desire to write film music, says Californian minimalist composer Terry Riley. "But people approached me." The initial approach came in 1972. "I was living in India at that time," he recalls, "studying vocal music with Pandit Pran Nath. Director Joël Santoni called from Paris and said he was making a film and he thought my music would work well with it." Riley flew to France at the end of March that year and recorded the soundtrack for Les Yeux Fermés (The Eyes Closed) at Strawberry Studio, a converted chateau near Paris favoured during the early 1970s by fashionable figures such as Elton John and David Bowie... The Wire April 2007 ...

Happy Ending ...

Happy Ending begins with subtle, shifting organ work that slowly develops a counterpoint of echoing, hypnotic saxophone lines. The piece shifts and evolves slowly for over ten minutes, becoming more urgent and focused with the introduction of a solo piano playing an almost jaunty air. The sax work does not change character at all, but the same notes that seemed languid when set against the organ are purposeful when contrasted with the piano. The piece starts as ambient, moves to minimalist, and ends as jazz, and the exact moment when one style moves to the other can never be pinpointed... allmusic.com ...

Les Yeux Fermés ...

The Residents

Mark of the Mole (1981) ...

The introduction of the Residents' four part Mole story ... With 'The Tune of Two Cities' this was eventually performed as 'The Mole Show'.  The story represents the conflict between two cultures, the Moles and the Chubs.  It has been related superficially to The Grapes of Wrath and Metropolis, but the story is told by sound textures and not characters...

Mark of the Mole ... 

residents.com/historical4/mole ...

The Story So Far: The Mohelmot people live underground in the desert in gigantic ant-like colonies. They are primitive and superstitious. Music has a ritualistic purpose that supports their love of darkness and their belief in work. A quirky storm causes water to fill their holes and forces them to cross the desert to seek another land. On the coast they meet the jolly Chubs who seem eager to welcome the exotic “Moles.” Soon it is apparent that the welcome has more to do with cheap labor than true acceptance... residents.com ...

Voices of the Air ... 

The album formed the basis of an early Atari 2600 video game (in 1982, never released)... atariprotos.com ...