ReR Quarterly, Volume 1, No. 1
SIDE 1
1. STEVE MOORE...The Threshold of Liberty (S.Moore) 9:25
2. LARS HOLLMER...Experiment {L.Bollmer} 1:19
3. CHRIS CUTLER/LINDSAY COOPER...Education (Cutler/Cooper) 3:45
4. 5uu's...compromisation (5uu's/Kerman) 3:00
5. JOSEPH RACAILLE...Dans Les Yeux Bleues (J.Racaille) 1:10
6. THE LOWEST NOTE...Naiwabi (The Lowest Note) 2:35
7. ADRIAN MITCHELL...Sorry 'bout That (A.Mitchell) 1:50
SIDE 2
1. KALAHARI SURFERS...Prayer For Civilisation (Warric) 5:02
2. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE...Indefinite (Mission Impossible) 2:58
3. ADRIAN MITCHELL...Song In Space (A.Mitchell) :35
4. STEFANO DELU...Pensa Un Numero (S.Delu) 2:13
5. MIKOLAS CHADlMA...A Walk Around the Brewery (M.Chadima) 6:06
6. ADRIAN MITCHELL...Saw It In the Papers (A.Mitchell) 3:40
Re 0101 volume I No.1
Compiled by Chris Cutler Wildly disparate recordings spliced and remastered at Cold Storage by Bill Gilonis Side 1 cut at CBS by Tim Side 2 cut and LP pressed by Statune.
Label artwork by Chris Cutler Front by X(our nativity);back cover by Graham Keatley;silkscreen-printed by Third Step Printworks, 675 Wandsworth Rd. London.
This is not a compilation. The tracks do not appear elsewhere. Nor is it a sampler: it has no advertising function and is indifferent to fashion. It is, rather, an attempt to apply the format of a magazine to a record: regular 'columns', commissioned pieces, extracts from concerts, introducing 'unknowns', and unrecordeds; items of interest, and special projects are what will feature here. The written part of the magazine will contain articles - as far as possible BY musicians; interviews, or anti-interviews, where they are worth doing or where no one else would do them (in this department especially we'd like to know who you'd like to see interviewed and we'll try to do it); features on the 'progressive' music histories of different countries; backgrounds and updates; news of forthcoming records, tours (with dates where possible), festivals, publications, and special projects relevant to the recommended interest - and, where possible, items answering needs and questions readers and listeners care to send in, since the idea of this publication is, above all, to be USEFUL, to contain things you've always wanted to read and to hear, and to introduce new thoughts and music.
This said, of course, I hope it will develop into more than this growing from the known and planned into something unplanned and qualitatively new. Still: first to crawl before flying ...
Back on solid ground, let's announce at once that this project is bound to start slowly and sketchily, and so far, since we don't 'exist' yet, we've had relatively few news items, and articles in. To compound matters, I've been touring a lot and having to assemble this 1st volume inbetweentimes. Now that we do exist, I hope every one will remember to send in their news, interesting items, contributions etc.
THIS FIRST ISSUE introduces a few less-known contributors whom you'd be otherwise unlikely to hear; a couple of live items; and the first of our solo instruments and other to-be-regular 'columns'. In future issues (and I promise at least four, a year's worth) there will be amongst other things, whole sides of special project recordings; rare archive materials; concert recordings; and commisioned pieces from 'known' recommended groups as well as 'new' contributors and unsolicited lengths of tape. If I'm still on my feet after a year, we'll take stock. Meanwhile, let me encourage you as strongly as I know how to SUBSCRIBE. First because each issue will be necessarily limited in quantity: it IS a magazine, and you may not find number two before they're all gone (better to have it fall automatically through your door every three months, don't you think?). Second, it is far more expensive to produce short-run records AND a substantial written magazine than it is to do a normal LP (and it is absolute Re policy always to pay our contributors. Too often committed fringe artists don't get paid, or are quietly blackmailed into exploiting themselves. It's my belief that the kind of public who will support this project are the kind who will pay a bit more to be sure that all the work that goes into it (including recording costs etc.) are paid, even if not well paid. In my own experience 'alternative' work is always expected cheap to the public and the artists and workers don't get anything; they're supposed to do it for love, or art, scrape by on the dole, or from scraps here and there. There are some odd ideas around about how musicians and writers and artists live. I hope we'll publish a few case-truths about this in future issues). Excuse me. The point is that, since production is expensive, the project is only viable if we get a certain amount of guarenteed support and the benefit of cutting out a lot of intermediary percentages (distributors, shops, importers etc, etc) by selling it to you direct. If it works we can do MORE: bigger formats, colours, who knows! So please, do think about signing up for the next few issues (we've been around for 7 stable years now and aren't about to decamp to Tobago). Also, subscription editions are different from normal, containing extra 'items', special prints, etc, etc.
COLUMNISTS: our regular contributors so far are Robert Wyatt, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Blegvad, Graham Keatley, X, and me. Also I hope we'll establish correspondants abroad over the next couple of issues and keep you regularly up to date, on a first and second world scale at least.
Finally, since I'm away a lot, it might take awhile to get this project smoothly running and some issues might be a bit late but I'll* do my damndest to keep on time. Your indulgence, please.
And your comments ..•wishes •.. contributions!
Thanks.
*We'll. With what profound pleasure I can announce that help has arrived: Chris Gibbins has slipped quietly into the Grand Coordinator Seat. So write to him or me equally from now on.
RECORD INFORMATIONS
LARS HOLLMER EXPERIMENT Sweden
Music and text: Lars Hollmer
Translation: Von Samla
Recorded at home by Lars.
Lars Hollmer is a long-standing member of Zamla Mammas Manna, and Von Zamla (6 LPs; see RR catalogue) and 2 solo LPs.
Joseph Racaille Dans Les Yeux Bleues France
Quand le soleil se couche sur Hawaii
Lee Hawaiiens se diesnt adieu
Ils se souhaient aussi
Une bonne nuit
Le lendemain
Tout le monde se dit "Bonjour"
Dans les eaux bleues d'Hawaii
Ils se baignaent
Puis ils se coiffent
Avec un peigne...
Music by Joseph
Text by Balthasar Racaille
Recorded at home and all parts played by Joseph.
Joseph and Hector Zazaou (with Patrick Portella) were ZNR, whose first LP, 'Barricades 3', is still available from Recommended (RR7), but whose second, 'Traite de mecanique populaire', is now sadly deleted (by SCOPA). Joseph's LP with Patrick Portella, 'Les Flots Bleus', is available from Recommended (RR16), and we still have a few copies of his 6 song EP 'Six Petites Chanson' (RR16.5).
The Lowest Note Naiwabi
Live concert recording from 'Ton-Zeit-Ton' festival in Basel, February 1985.
Bole - Guitar
Bill Gilonis - Yamaha-tiny-keyboard-instrument.
Catherine Jauniaux - Singing.
Stefan Van Karo - Drums.
Engineered by Elisabeth Schuler.
Adrian Mitchell Sorry 'Bout That U.K.
Adrian Mitchell, author of some 8 books, is a performer, poet, lyricist, novelist, writer for theater and TV, and one of the originators of the public poetry movement (one of our finest, if I may say so). His only other recordings are: 'A laugh, a song, and a hand grenade', an LP on Transatlantic done half and half with Leon Rosselson in 1966; and two pieces on 'The Last Nightingale', a Re Records miners benefit release. More to come, surely. Certainly here; this is Adrian Mitchell's quarterly column.
All three pieces on this record were recorded at Cold Storage on March 26th,1985.
KALAHARI SURFERS PRAYER FOR CIVILISATION South Africa
Kalahari Surfers was formed by Warric and Hamish in Capetown after they'd finished National Service together (in the army Military Band). At school in Durban Warric was much influenced by Indian music (Durban has a large Indian population and many fine musicians -especially tabla players) . They made a double-single in '82 'Burning Tractors Keep Us Warm' -released by PURE FREUDE Records in Solingen, West Germany -which was not so good Warric says; then a C-60 cassette: 'Gross National Products'. Since the first issue of this magazine is a bit late, 'Prayer For Civitisation' now appears (in a slightly different version) on an LP 'Own Affairs', pressed in the UK and distributed by Recommended (since no South African pressing plant would touch it, predictably enough). 'Prayer For Civitisation' was recorded on an 8-track mounted in a caravan by Warric, who also played everything except: saxophone Rick; singing - Ann. First names isn't coy, only safer all round.
Direct Contact:PO Box 27513, Bertsham 2013, South Africa
Prayer For Civilisation
Most white South African males are forced to undergo two years of compulsory national service. I was no exception. After an abortive attempt to flee to Europe three months before my calI-up (I didn't have a visa; was travelling on an illegal immigrant's return ticket to Italy and was consequently deported back to South Africa), I fasted for thlrty days drinking only distilled water: I'd heard of a young American avoiding the Vietnam draft that way. Instead of the expected 'discharged as medically unfit' I was classified G one K one: one hundred percent medically and mentally fit. Thus began two years of angst and suffering at the hands of some of the most psychotic, perverted human beings I had ever encountered.
Somewhere at the top of my list of those I would recommend for major psychiatric overhauls would be the army Chaplains: menacing men of God with a pleasant manner and soft gentle hands. Afrikaaners call them Dominee. The Dominee has great power and responsibility. Amongst other things they are burdened with the theological justification of the heinos apartheid policies.
The role of the chaplain in modern military establishments can never be exaggerated. His constant reinforcement of the political ideology through the word of God is a formidable weapon of indoctrination. Those...prayers before a bizarre military manoeuvre provide the mental environment necessary to ensure a teenage soldier's obedient participation. One dusty morning on a parade....I heard a chaplain extol the virtues of obedience. He explained, in all seriousness, how the ancient laws of God came down to us from heaven via the government, the army, our commanding officer and eventually found their way into the hands of the numerous sadistic little boy corporals who were in charge of us. The gist of the chaplain's discourse was that to disobey, even one's corporal was tantamount to disobeying GOD. The frightening thing was that 90% of the people around me believed him.
Almost everything in our country begins and ends with a prayer; television and radio broadcasts, parliament, military parades and speeches...Atheism is no different from communism; and anyone who is not in agreement with Afrikaaner calvinist policies is communist and part of the total communist onslaught against this country. Sundays, obviously therefore, are sacred. one is not supposed to buy or sell non-food articles such as the occasional blank cassette or a tube of toothpaste. The radio and television stations broadcast hours of boring religious programmes and church services. Sundays are hell. When I think of religion I think of control, of selfishness, of the determined will of a few to survive in a paradise at the expense of many. When I think of God I think of all those prayers He gets before major military undertakings such as the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cambodia, Falklands, Lebanon, etc. to mention a few. The colonisation of half the world has the Lord's blessing. More recently the Lord helped with Operation Palmiet when South African troops moved into a black township near Johannesburg to help Police maintain' law and order'. The 6th commandment should read "thou shalt kiII". This would undoubtedly make the chaplain's task a lot simpler.
"We pray thee that the end of the war may come soon and that once more We may know peace on earth. May the men Who fly this night be kept safe in thy care and may they be returned safely to us. We shall go forward trusting in thee~ knowing that we are in thy care now and forever in the name of Jesus
Christ amen"
prayer said for the crew of the 'Enola Gay' (August 1945) by Chaplain William Downey.
"These words form the preamble to the constitution of the Republic of South Africa they speak of demcoracy and our duty to our God and our Fatherland and at the same time answer the question that at the moment is so often asked: why are the South African forces in South West Africa?"
In the name of GOD we kill amen
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE INDEFINITE Sweden
Live-rehearsal recording, 1983.
Composed by Peter Briefe.
Peter Breife - Bass, Voice, Tapes.
Svante Brunnander - Guitar.
Ingemar Svensson - Drums
Jonas Astrom - Guitar.
The tape is from a discussion in the West German Bundestag and features Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and others in 1982.
ADRIAN MITCHELL SONG IN SPACE
"this poem is a dialogue between an astronaut and the planet Earth, and I wrote it after seeing the first photographs of the earth taken from space: the earth looking very blue and white and beautiful..."
STEFANO DELU PENSA UN NUMERO (solo guitar) Italy
Autodidact on guitar, Stefano is a member of L'Orchestra Cooperativa Milan; is presently studying at the University of Music, and playing in improvised groups. His first LP 'Chitarre Solo' was re leased by L' Orchestra in 1983 and is sadly now deleted. This is a new recording, made at Franco Fabbri's house on a Revox B77 with direct input and no overdubs, using his own-built 8-string guitar and both hands on the fretboard.
Direct Contact:Via S.Paulino 12, 20142 Mi lano, Italy
Next issue:the trombone
MIKOLAS CHADIMA PROCHAZA KOLEM PIVOVARY (A WALK AROUND THE BREWERY) Czechoslovakia
Along the wall and to the left
Along the wall and to the left along
the wall and to the left along
the wall and to the left along the wall
Bran odour dwindles
Dust rinses just
Bran odour dwindles
It is long until evening
to the left along the wall and to
the left along the wall
Up to the house there
To the buried, buried garden.
(translation:Mario Strelli)
Text by Ivan Wernisch
Music by Mikolas
Recorded live at a concert in Olomonc, Czechoslovakia, Autumn 1983
ADRIAN MITCHELL SAW IT IN THE PAPERS
"This is a longer poem that I wrote after reading a story in the newspapers. I rewrote it several times thanks to the advice of friends and men who I met in Gloucester Prison."
1. STEVE MOORE...The Threshold of Liberty (S.Moore) 9:25
2. LARS HOLLMER...Experiment {L.Bollmer} 1:19
3. CHRIS CUTLER/LINDSAY COOPER...Education (Cutler/Cooper) 3:45
4. 5uu's...compromisation (5uu's/Kerman) 3:00
5. JOSEPH RACAILLE...Dans Les Yeux Bleues (J.Racaille) 1:10
6. THE LOWEST NOTE...Naiwabi (The Lowest Note) 2:35
7. ADRIAN MITCHELL...Sorry 'bout That (A.Mitchell) 1:50
SIDE 2
1. KALAHARI SURFERS...Prayer For Civilisation (Warric) 5:02
2. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE...Indefinite (Mission Impossible) 2:58
3. ADRIAN MITCHELL...Song In Space (A.Mitchell) :35
4. STEFANO DELU...Pensa Un Numero (S.Delu) 2:13
5. MIKOLAS CHADlMA...A Walk Around the Brewery (M.Chadima) 6:06
6. ADRIAN MITCHELL...Saw It In the Papers (A.Mitchell) 3:40
Re 0101 volume I No.1
Compiled by Chris Cutler Wildly disparate recordings spliced and remastered at Cold Storage by Bill Gilonis Side 1 cut at CBS by Tim Side 2 cut and LP pressed by Statune.
Label artwork by Chris Cutler Front by X(our nativity);back cover by Graham Keatley;silkscreen-printed by Third Step Printworks, 675 Wandsworth Rd. London.
This is not a compilation. The tracks do not appear elsewhere. Nor is it a sampler: it has no advertising function and is indifferent to fashion. It is, rather, an attempt to apply the format of a magazine to a record: regular 'columns', commissioned pieces, extracts from concerts, introducing 'unknowns', and unrecordeds; items of interest, and special projects are what will feature here. The written part of the magazine will contain articles - as far as possible BY musicians; interviews, or anti-interviews, where they are worth doing or where no one else would do them (in this department especially we'd like to know who you'd like to see interviewed and we'll try to do it); features on the 'progressive' music histories of different countries; backgrounds and updates; news of forthcoming records, tours (with dates where possible), festivals, publications, and special projects relevant to the recommended interest - and, where possible, items answering needs and questions readers and listeners care to send in, since the idea of this publication is, above all, to be USEFUL, to contain things you've always wanted to read and to hear, and to introduce new thoughts and music.
This said, of course, I hope it will develop into more than this growing from the known and planned into something unplanned and qualitatively new. Still: first to crawl before flying ...
Back on solid ground, let's announce at once that this project is bound to start slowly and sketchily, and so far, since we don't 'exist' yet, we've had relatively few news items, and articles in. To compound matters, I've been touring a lot and having to assemble this 1st volume inbetweentimes. Now that we do exist, I hope every one will remember to send in their news, interesting items, contributions etc.
THIS FIRST ISSUE introduces a few less-known contributors whom you'd be otherwise unlikely to hear; a couple of live items; and the first of our solo instruments and other to-be-regular 'columns'. In future issues (and I promise at least four, a year's worth) there will be amongst other things, whole sides of special project recordings; rare archive materials; concert recordings; and commisioned pieces from 'known' recommended groups as well as 'new' contributors and unsolicited lengths of tape. If I'm still on my feet after a year, we'll take stock. Meanwhile, let me encourage you as strongly as I know how to SUBSCRIBE. First because each issue will be necessarily limited in quantity: it IS a magazine, and you may not find number two before they're all gone (better to have it fall automatically through your door every three months, don't you think?). Second, it is far more expensive to produce short-run records AND a substantial written magazine than it is to do a normal LP (and it is absolute Re policy always to pay our contributors. Too often committed fringe artists don't get paid, or are quietly blackmailed into exploiting themselves. It's my belief that the kind of public who will support this project are the kind who will pay a bit more to be sure that all the work that goes into it (including recording costs etc.) are paid, even if not well paid. In my own experience 'alternative' work is always expected cheap to the public and the artists and workers don't get anything; they're supposed to do it for love, or art, scrape by on the dole, or from scraps here and there. There are some odd ideas around about how musicians and writers and artists live. I hope we'll publish a few case-truths about this in future issues). Excuse me. The point is that, since production is expensive, the project is only viable if we get a certain amount of guarenteed support and the benefit of cutting out a lot of intermediary percentages (distributors, shops, importers etc, etc) by selling it to you direct. If it works we can do MORE: bigger formats, colours, who knows! So please, do think about signing up for the next few issues (we've been around for 7 stable years now and aren't about to decamp to Tobago). Also, subscription editions are different from normal, containing extra 'items', special prints, etc, etc.
COLUMNISTS: our regular contributors so far are Robert Wyatt, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Blegvad, Graham Keatley, X, and me. Also I hope we'll establish correspondants abroad over the next couple of issues and keep you regularly up to date, on a first and second world scale at least.
Finally, since I'm away a lot, it might take awhile to get this project smoothly running and some issues might be a bit late but I'll* do my damndest to keep on time. Your indulgence, please.
And your comments ..•wishes •.. contributions!
Thanks.
*We'll. With what profound pleasure I can announce that help has arrived: Chris Gibbins has slipped quietly into the Grand Coordinator Seat. So write to him or me equally from now on.
RECORD INFORMATIONS
LARS HOLLMER EXPERIMENT Sweden
Music and text: Lars Hollmer
Translation: Von Samla
Recorded at home by Lars.
Lars Hollmer is a long-standing member of Zamla Mammas Manna, and Von Zamla (6 LPs; see RR catalogue) and 2 solo LPs.
Joseph Racaille Dans Les Yeux Bleues France
Quand le soleil se couche sur Hawaii
Lee Hawaiiens se diesnt adieu
Ils se souhaient aussi
Une bonne nuit
Le lendemain
Tout le monde se dit "Bonjour"
Dans les eaux bleues d'Hawaii
Ils se baignaent
Puis ils se coiffent
Avec un peigne...
Music by Joseph
Text by Balthasar Racaille
Recorded at home and all parts played by Joseph.
Joseph and Hector Zazaou (with Patrick Portella) were ZNR, whose first LP, 'Barricades 3', is still available from Recommended (RR7), but whose second, 'Traite de mecanique populaire', is now sadly deleted (by SCOPA). Joseph's LP with Patrick Portella, 'Les Flots Bleus', is available from Recommended (RR16), and we still have a few copies of his 6 song EP 'Six Petites Chanson' (RR16.5).
The Lowest Note Naiwabi
Live concert recording from 'Ton-Zeit-Ton' festival in Basel, February 1985.
Bole - Guitar
Bill Gilonis - Yamaha-tiny-keyboard-instrument.
Catherine Jauniaux - Singing.
Stefan Van Karo - Drums.
Engineered by Elisabeth Schuler.
Adrian Mitchell Sorry 'Bout That U.K.
Adrian Mitchell, author of some 8 books, is a performer, poet, lyricist, novelist, writer for theater and TV, and one of the originators of the public poetry movement (one of our finest, if I may say so). His only other recordings are: 'A laugh, a song, and a hand grenade', an LP on Transatlantic done half and half with Leon Rosselson in 1966; and two pieces on 'The Last Nightingale', a Re Records miners benefit release. More to come, surely. Certainly here; this is Adrian Mitchell's quarterly column.
All three pieces on this record were recorded at Cold Storage on March 26th,1985.
KALAHARI SURFERS PRAYER FOR CIVILISATION South Africa
Kalahari Surfers was formed by Warric and Hamish in Capetown after they'd finished National Service together (in the army Military Band). At school in Durban Warric was much influenced by Indian music (Durban has a large Indian population and many fine musicians -especially tabla players) . They made a double-single in '82 'Burning Tractors Keep Us Warm' -released by PURE FREUDE Records in Solingen, West Germany -which was not so good Warric says; then a C-60 cassette: 'Gross National Products'. Since the first issue of this magazine is a bit late, 'Prayer For Civitisation' now appears (in a slightly different version) on an LP 'Own Affairs', pressed in the UK and distributed by Recommended (since no South African pressing plant would touch it, predictably enough). 'Prayer For Civitisation' was recorded on an 8-track mounted in a caravan by Warric, who also played everything except: saxophone Rick; singing - Ann. First names isn't coy, only safer all round.
Direct Contact:PO Box 27513, Bertsham 2013, South Africa
Prayer For Civilisation
Most white South African males are forced to undergo two years of compulsory national service. I was no exception. After an abortive attempt to flee to Europe three months before my calI-up (I didn't have a visa; was travelling on an illegal immigrant's return ticket to Italy and was consequently deported back to South Africa), I fasted for thlrty days drinking only distilled water: I'd heard of a young American avoiding the Vietnam draft that way. Instead of the expected 'discharged as medically unfit' I was classified G one K one: one hundred percent medically and mentally fit. Thus began two years of angst and suffering at the hands of some of the most psychotic, perverted human beings I had ever encountered.
Somewhere at the top of my list of those I would recommend for major psychiatric overhauls would be the army Chaplains: menacing men of God with a pleasant manner and soft gentle hands. Afrikaaners call them Dominee. The Dominee has great power and responsibility. Amongst other things they are burdened with the theological justification of the heinos apartheid policies.
The role of the chaplain in modern military establishments can never be exaggerated. His constant reinforcement of the political ideology through the word of God is a formidable weapon of indoctrination. Those...prayers before a bizarre military manoeuvre provide the mental environment necessary to ensure a teenage soldier's obedient participation. One dusty morning on a parade....I heard a chaplain extol the virtues of obedience. He explained, in all seriousness, how the ancient laws of God came down to us from heaven via the government, the army, our commanding officer and eventually found their way into the hands of the numerous sadistic little boy corporals who were in charge of us. The gist of the chaplain's discourse was that to disobey, even one's corporal was tantamount to disobeying GOD. The frightening thing was that 90% of the people around me believed him.
Almost everything in our country begins and ends with a prayer; television and radio broadcasts, parliament, military parades and speeches...Atheism is no different from communism; and anyone who is not in agreement with Afrikaaner calvinist policies is communist and part of the total communist onslaught against this country. Sundays, obviously therefore, are sacred. one is not supposed to buy or sell non-food articles such as the occasional blank cassette or a tube of toothpaste. The radio and television stations broadcast hours of boring religious programmes and church services. Sundays are hell. When I think of religion I think of control, of selfishness, of the determined will of a few to survive in a paradise at the expense of many. When I think of God I think of all those prayers He gets before major military undertakings such as the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cambodia, Falklands, Lebanon, etc. to mention a few. The colonisation of half the world has the Lord's blessing. More recently the Lord helped with Operation Palmiet when South African troops moved into a black township near Johannesburg to help Police maintain' law and order'. The 6th commandment should read "thou shalt kiII". This would undoubtedly make the chaplain's task a lot simpler.
"with confidence in our armed forces we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God"
"We pray thee that the end of the war may come soon and that once more We may know peace on earth. May the men Who fly this night be kept safe in thy care and may they be returned safely to us. We shall go forward trusting in thee~ knowing that we are in thy care now and forever in the name of Jesus
Christ amen"
prayer said for the crew of the 'Enola Gay' (August 1945) by Chaplain William Downey.
"These words form the preamble to the constitution of the Republic of South Africa they speak of demcoracy and our duty to our God and our Fatherland and at the same time answer the question that at the moment is so often asked: why are the South African forces in South West Africa?"
In the name of GOD we kill amen
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE INDEFINITE Sweden
Live-rehearsal recording, 1983.
Composed by Peter Briefe.
Peter Breife - Bass, Voice, Tapes.
Svante Brunnander - Guitar.
Ingemar Svensson - Drums
Jonas Astrom - Guitar.
The tape is from a discussion in the West German Bundestag and features Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and others in 1982.
ADRIAN MITCHELL SONG IN SPACE
"this poem is a dialogue between an astronaut and the planet Earth, and I wrote it after seeing the first photographs of the earth taken from space: the earth looking very blue and white and beautiful..."
STEFANO DELU PENSA UN NUMERO (solo guitar) Italy
Autodidact on guitar, Stefano is a member of L'Orchestra Cooperativa Milan; is presently studying at the University of Music, and playing in improvised groups. His first LP 'Chitarre Solo' was re leased by L' Orchestra in 1983 and is sadly now deleted. This is a new recording, made at Franco Fabbri's house on a Revox B77 with direct input and no overdubs, using his own-built 8-string guitar and both hands on the fretboard.
Direct Contact:Via S.Paulino 12, 20142 Mi lano, Italy
Next issue:the trombone
MIKOLAS CHADIMA PROCHAZA KOLEM PIVOVARY (A WALK AROUND THE BREWERY) Czechoslovakia
Along the wall and to the left
Along the wall and to the left along
the wall and to the left along
the wall and to the left along the wall
Bran odour dwindles
Dust rinses just
Bran odour dwindles
It is long until evening
to the left along the wall and to
the left along the wall
Up to the house there
To the buried, buried garden.
(translation:Mario Strelli)
Text by Ivan Wernisch
Music by Mikolas
Recorded live at a concert in Olomonc, Czechoslovakia, Autumn 1983
ADRIAN MITCHELL SAW IT IN THE PAPERS
"This is a longer poem that I wrote after reading a story in the newspapers. I rewrote it several times thanks to the advice of friends and men who I met in Gloucester Prison."
Labels: Adrian Mitchell, Avant Garde Project, Joseph Racaille, Kalahari Surfers, Lars Hollmer, Mikolas Chadima, Mission Impossible, Stefano Delu, The Lowest Note
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