Word incoming about what releases are going to be available for Record Store Day 2012. I have whittled down the list to these highlights:
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – ‘Dr Who Sound Effects’ 180g LP
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – ‘Out Of This World’ 180g LP
Bevis Frond – ‘Hard Meat At The Midnight Court’ 7”
Circle – ‘Manner’ – brand new studio LP on Hydra Head
Duke Garwood & Wooden Wand – ‘Duke Wand’ 12″ on Fire Records
Faust /’Like A Stuntman’ – 12” single
The Flaming Lips – ‘The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends’
The Flaming Lips/Mastodon — ‘A Spoonful Weighs A Ton’
Gravenhurst ‘The Prize’ – 10”
Lee Hazelwood – ‘The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides’ – 2lp
Moon Duo – ‘Mazed Remix’ – LP (remixes of the album “Maze” from Sonic Boom, Cave, Gary War, Psychic Ills & Purling Hiss)
Natural Snow Buildings – ‘Monsters/Depths’ 7″
Nurse With Wound/Graham Bowers – ‘Rupture’ – LP version
Tangerine Dream — ‘Electronic Meditation’
Tangerine Dream – ‘Ultima Thule Part One/ Ultima Thule Part Two’
Tomahawk – ‘Eponymous to Anonymous’ [vinyl box set of first 3 albums]
V.U. “Loaded” pink vinyl
V.U. “Sweet Jane/Rock & Roll” 7”
Wicker Man – Willow’s Song/Gently Johnny 7”
The second TUSK Festival will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK over the weekend of October 5-7 2012 at the Star & Shadow. Announced so far are Keiji Haino, Pelt, Hieroglyophic Being and Gate (Michael Morley from The Dead C). A very limited number of early bird tickets are on sale at the moment for £25 from here
Radio Black Forest have announced that they are once again having a two day festival at Fell Foot Woods on the banks of Lake Windermere in the Lake District. They say there will be record stalls, films, talks, DJs and, of course, live music. Oh, and what live music they have.
They have got Faust (the Jean-Herve/Zappi version), Human Greed, Alexander Tucker, Cindytalk, Zoviet:France, Z’Ev, Hati, Gum Takes Tooth, Black Sun Drum Korps and Frog Pocket
Great news for the North West of England. The engimatic Jandek is playing St Margaret’s Chruch in Manchester on Saturday 21st April. Not only is this his first ever Manchester show, it is the only scheduled UK performance for the definitive Jandek trio which sees him backed with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.
UPDATE: while this news story is 100% genuine, the accompanying “image” that told you it had been blocked by your service provider and that local law enforcement had been notified was, of course, an April Fool. Apologies for any anxiety or panic caused. If you know anyone who went to ground as a result of this, please tell them it is safe to come out now.
Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can – The Lost Tapes, the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.
The Lost Tapes, out on 18 June 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore.
When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau.
Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.
What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.
Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously the tapes weren’t really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting.”
The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.
Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music.
According to Spin CDs, the box set will be a “very limited edition, numbered 10” square, old fashioned tape box style packaging with 24 page 10” booklet.” and retail for less than £30. They also have a tracklist:
The Lost Tapes – Part 1
1. Millionenspiel
2. Waiting For The Streetcar
3. Evening All Day
4. Deadly Doris
5. Graublau
6. When Darkness Comes
7. Blind Mirror Surf
8. Oscura Primavera
9. Buble Rap
The Lost Tapes – Part 2
1. Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore
2. Waiting For The Streetcar
3. The Agreement
4. Midnight Sky
5. Desert
6. Spoon (Live)
7. Dead Pigeon Suite
8. Abra Cada Braxas
9. A Swan Is Born
10. The Loop
The Lost Tapes – Part 3
1. Godzilla Fragment
2. On The Way To Mother Sky
3. Midnight Men
4. Networks Of Foam
5. Messers, Scissors, Fork and Light
6. Barnacles
7. E.F.S 108
8. Private Nocturnal
9. Alice
10. Mushroom (Live)
11. One More Saturday Night (Live)
Word just in today that Agitation Free have rearranged their UK dates. They were due to play next week (april 5th & 6th) but have now rescheduled for November. This is a fully reformed Agitation Free, playing their first ever UK dates in 2012? They’re playing:
9th November – Manchester Moho Live
10th November – London Jazz Cafe
here’s the official blurb:
Esoteric Recordings announce a series of live performances to mark the release of the new album by German legends AGITATION FREE. Of all of the experimental groups who emerged in Germany the early 1970s, Agitation Free was certainly one of the most musically adventurous. From their beginnings in Berlin in 1967, the band embraced the concept of performing long and free improvisations, experimenting with the use of liquid projectors, slide shows and their own films in live performances.
The Beat Studio that AGITATION FREE initiated under the direction of Thomas Kessler also developed into the creative centre for the Berlin groups ASH RA TEMPEL and TANGERINE DREAM. The sound of Agitation Free featured the pioneering electronics of Michael Hoenig, one of Germany’s best musicians when creating atmospheric melodies and powerful-layered soundscapes which both enhanced and defined the band’s style. Also featured were guitarists Lutz Ulbrich and Gustl Lutjens whose magic fingers could conjure up exotic Eastern scales or soaring melodic melodies with ease. Drummer Burghard Rausch and bassist Michael “Fame” Günther were a polyrhythmic rhythm section extraordinaire that propelled the music.
In February 2007, AGITATION FREE reunited to perform a series of concerts in Tokyo with the superb “SHIBUYA NIGHTS” being the resulting record of those shows. After almost forty years, the five musicians of AGITATION FREE have reincarnated their creative vision. This says much about not only the music, but the musicians who performed it. “SHIBUYA NIGHTS” provides ample proof that good music such as this can indeed be timeless.
The man behind Godflesh, Techno Animal, Jesu, Napalm Death and many others, Justin Broadrick, is releasing his first full length album as J K Flesh. It is called “Posthuman” and is coming out on April 30th on 3by3. Here is the first preview:
Jimmy Page is releasing a vinyl only release of “Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks” on March 20th to mark the Spring Equinox. However, there will only be a run of 418 numbered copies, sold from his website www.jimmypage.com
As part of their debut UK tour [of which we proudly promoted one date], Natural Snow Buildings put out a cassette on Tor Press with each of their solo projects taking a whole side of the tape. However, with only 60 copies made, it didn’t even last the whole tour!
Luckily for those who didn’t get one, Tor Press have made the whole thing free to download!
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