Micro Blue

Here's a nice compilation from Plop Records (http://www.inpartmaint.com/plop/e/home_e06.html), with tracks written by various artists made up of minimalistic sound patterns.

Below you can find the tracklist (and, by clicking on every single track you can also listen to an excerpt of it).

About Micro Blue:

http://www.inpartmaint.com/plop/e/home_e.html

Tracklist:

01 oppon soy / onpack
02 nuecynic / taisuke matsuo
03 waltzing my ~ / the rip-off artist
04 stitch / drummatic
05 tous les types sont adorables / dorine_muraille
06 perch / fonica
07 comp track1 / omb
08 post-sum /jetone
09 crystal of water / waki
10 bingolingo / geoff white
11 spher. / mondii
12 8412 / neina
13 dialog / yuzo kako
14 rusl / fonica

Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=O0M3UJXE

CAN: Live in Essex

This post is a gig that CAN did at the University of Essex in 1975, after their singer Damo Suzuki quit the band. Still their sound is of great impact both with and without any vocals (and where the songs are sung, it is mostly giutarist Michael Karoli singing).

The upload is a big(in fact I splitted it into 2 parts) but it is a high quality recording (and at 320 kbps).

Interviews with CAN:

http://www.spacelook.de/can/can_interviews.htm

A site on Krautrock:

http://www.krautrock.com/articles.html

CAN on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_(band)

Download part 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=9CLUZY3X

Download part 2:

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=WHJZ44AU

Warren Zevon: Live 1982

Many of you may not know WARREN ZEVON, but he was one of the most sardonic songwriters ever and even though he became famous for his 1976 hit "Werewolves of London", never made it to the top again after that. In fact it was said that he was more known among musicians than among music customers (to prove this, his 1990 album "Hindu love gods" had R.E.M. as backing band!).

It is also true that some of his discography (say, "Bad luck streak in dancing school", for instance) is not so good, but still his lyrics have always been full of wit and irony, actually a rather rare thing in the rock world (there must be a reason why bands like PAVEMENT or PIXIES never really got to the big audiences, and probably their use of irony is one).

Unfortunately ZEVON got cancer and died three years ago, but, knowing this would be his last effort, he got to record his last, beautiful, and heartfelt album, "The wind" (with such special guest stars as BILLY BOB THORNTON, JACKSON BROWNE, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, EMMYLOU HARRIS, RY COODER, DON HENLEY, and TOM PETTY), which I do recommend.

Official website:

http://www.warrenzevon.com/

Fan website:

http://members.aol.com/zevonfan1/private/zevon.htm

Info on WARREN ZEVON at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon

WARREN ZEVON Lyrics:

http://www.oldielyrics.com/w/warren_zevon.html

So, today's upload is a 1982 concert of his, and this is the setlist:

1. Johnny Strikes Up the Band
2. The Overdraft
3. A Certain Girl
4. Jeannie Needs a Shooter
5. [band intros]
6. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
7. The Envoy
8. Simple Man, Simple Dream [Souther]
9. Charlie's Medicine
10. Jungle Work
11. Play It All Night Long
12. Accidentally Like a Martyr
13. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
14. Cadillac Ranch [Springsteen]
15. Excitable Boy
16. [banter] > Ain't That Pretty At All
17. Werewolves of London

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=MU4RPXA0

The Stooges: Complete fun house sessions (disc 5, 6 & 7))

And finally here are also the last 3 discs (actually the seventh includes only two mono edit versions, but, hey, you should have enough of it!)

I'd like to thank those who have been so kind and grateful in the comments too: thanks! I'm glad you appreciate, and yes, I think it's perfect for a musicblog to upload the not-available-anymore stuff. Let me know if you have something else in mind.

Disc 5:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=MJSC3KAF

Disc 6 & 7:

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=JFJZ5LM0

The Stooges: Complete fun house sessions (disc 3 & 4)

Here are the third and fourth disc of THE STOOGES' "Complete fun house sessions".
For more INFO see the previous post.

Disc 3:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=IFGZI02K

Disc 4:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=L1OHXFI5

The Stooges: Complete fun house sessions (disc 1 & 2)

In 1999 Rhino edited the famous "Complete fun house sessions", a 7-disc box which includes all the tapes THE STOOGES played in the studio and that later led to the original 1970 "Fun house" LP, i.e. about 7 hours of music.

Now, unfortunately this box is not available anymore, but I'm going to try to post all of it, starting today from Disc 1 and Disc 2.

For all of you who are big STOOGES fans this is a chance to go deep into their best album.

Unlike THE BEATLES's "Anthology" this box is much closer to a live experience: most of these songs do not have very different arrangements from the ones that made it to the LP, and so they do not sound like proper "altarnate versions", but simply like slightly changed or extended songs (with guitar or sax solos or a different Iggy's vocal approach etc).

For more INFO about "The complete fun house sessions" (and the whole tracklist) see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970:_The_Complete_Fun_House_Sessions

Disc 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=V8FTBA9R

Disc 2:
http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=CFI7C4TR

Cluster: Sowiesoso

CLUSTER is a duo formed by Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. They were one of the best krautrock ensembles ever, in my humble opinion, and together they created a sound incredibly mellow.

In this 1976 album -my favourite one, by the way- they use very child-like and minimalist melodies, made up of keyboard progressions and electronic effects (if you have appreciated LULLATONE you will probably also like the last song in here, a very musical-box-like, "In ewigkeit", a slow and tender lullaby).

It is also not avaible anymore (on Amazon a used copy is on sale at 49,50 $ !), so take advantage of this!

For more INFO:

A CLUSTER biography (in italian and english) at

http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/cluster.html

An overview on CLUSTER's discography at

http://www.krautrockgroup.com/Cluster.html

A quite extended story of CLUSTER at

http://www.thing.de/delektro/cluhist.html

And here is the DOWNLOAD:

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=3PBUJHGT

CAN: DVD audio CD

CAN are probably the most famous german band in the world (after KRAFTWERK), and one of the best from the so-called Krautrock, i.e. the german "underground" rock of the 70's.

They (Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, and Jaki Liebezeit) formed in 1968, with american singer Malcom Mooney, who left after a couple of years, and then Damo Suzuky -a japanese kind of beatnik- joined in in his stead.

Their unique sound was shaped by always trying (as you can see on their DVD) to de-humanise their music, to avoid any connections with everything but music. Improvisation and post-production (whole albums were assembled putting together different improvisations, like the second half of "Tago Mago" shows) and so their concerts were mostly about improvisation too, an improvisation without any reference to a tune or whatsoever. They were only interested in rhythm. In fact if you listen to Tago Mago (1971), often considered their masterpiece, you'll see that some tracks seem to sound like drum 'n' bass.

They were always ahead of their time: electronics, ambient, progressive and psychedlic rock, avantgarde classical music, world music...they all sooner or later became ingredients of their recipe. A lot of nowadays post rockers (first of all TORTOISE) surely learned a lot from CAN.

About 2 years ago CAN released a magnificent DVD (http://www.spoonrecords.com/disco/dvd.html), with a documentary, a concert, and lots more of interesting stuff. Now it has been re-released, but without the audio CD that contained several tracks from the band members' solo careers. So, I'm going to do a big favour to those of you who want to buy the DVD (wich IS worth the money), but cannot have the audio CD anymore, by posting it here.

INFO

Their official website: http://www.spoonrecords.com/index.html

And this is the TRACKLIST:

-Irmin Schmidt & Kumo:

1 Goatfooted Balloonman 6:10
2 Fledermenschen (Live) 6:29
3 Las Plumas del Búho 8:14
-Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman:
4 Rhein Rauf 6:27
-Jaki Liebezeit & Drums Off:
5 Chaos On a Can 4:29
6 Velociraptor (Live) 5:33
-Holger Czukay & U-She:
7 Solitary Life (Live) 2:43
8 Time and Tide (Live) 4:04
9 Cruise (Live) 3:57
10 Sunday Morning (Live) 3:59
-Michael Karoli & Sofortkontakt!:
11 Lumpy Todda (Live) 4:09
12 Pounding Venus (Live) 5:19
13 Research Has Shown... (Live) 6:02

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=NJ0BWDWE

Gel: -1

For those who have appreciated LULLATONE, SORA, and other japanese electronic music I have posted, here is some more. Except that GEL is not japanese. He is french (and you can clearly get it by looking at his picture right here) and his real name is Julien Loquet, but he is published by Plop Records (http://www.inpartmaint.com/plop/e/home_e.html) as well as the other artists named above, and he plays electroacoustic/glitch stuff too.

This one is from 2003.

Enjoy.

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=K5L1CSK4

Re-post: Damon Albarn - Democrazy

Here is DEMOCRAZY'S re-post (for 7 more days!)

Democrazy.zip (41470 KB)

The Go-Betweens: Botany sessions

At last I upload one of my favourite bands: THE GO-BETWEENS. Australian born, but with a very british pop appeal: they split in 1989 after their beautiful "16 Lovers lane", only to reunite 11 years later, and by now they've recorded three more albums.

So, what you could find here is a bit of a gem for fans : the so-called "Botany sessions", i.e. the sessions for what had to be the following to "16 Lovers Lane" but never was.

The first (and longer) part is acoustic, with the only Forster and McLennan.

Official site: http://www.go-betweens.net/

For more info (and some video too):

http://www.beggars.com/us/gobetweens/

For interviews: http://members.ol.com.au/rgriffin/GoBetweens/

CD.1 duo session

1. Danger In The Past

2. Easy Comes Easy Goes

3. Broadway Bride

4. I Love You Still

5. What You Call Change

6. Open Invitation

7. Dream About Tomorrow

8. I've Been Looking For Somebody (cut)

9. Haunted House

10. Sally's Revolution

11. Just Get That Straight

12. Running The Risk Of Loosing You

13. It Had To Be Me

14. Signs Of Life

15. Nowhere By Any Other Name

16. The Man Who Dies In Rapture

17. House Of Snakes

18. Danger In The Past

19. The River People

20. I've Been Looking For Somebody

CD.2 band session

21. Drop

22. Making

It Right For Her

23. Just Get That Straight

24. She's So Strange

25. I Know What Its Like Without You

26. Stones For You

27. When Word Gets Around

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=D00J2IBY

Radiohead: more acoustic

Yeah, another session of acoustic songs from RADIOHEAD: this time a more recent one (circa after "Hail to the thief). Listen to this version of "Karma police"! It's really worth it.

1 Intro
2 I might be wrong
3 Sail to the moon
4 Go to sleep (false start)
5 Go to sleep
6 No surprises (false start)
7 No surprises
8I will
9 There there
10Everything in its right place
11 Karma police

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=WAZ7E6QR

Damon Albarn: Democrazy

This solo record by BLUR's (and GORILLAZ's) DAMON ALBARN is something of a curiosity. Edited only as vynil and on a very limited edition (about six or seven thoven thousand copies, as far as I recall) it's an insight to his music writing: all songs are recorded lo-fi on a 4-track and are often sketches of what could be a song.

Nonetheless it is possible to find in it some tunes that are are worth Albarn's name (specially if you are fond of his work with Gorillaz).

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=ICRLLJ2H

Do cd-rs have a short life span? 2

Now I've found something more about it on the web about cd-rs:

on this forum:

http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=289714

The general opinion is that what the IBM man says it's bollocks, but I still have some doubts about it...(or am I incurably pessimistic?). And you?

Do cd-rs have a short life span?

Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland:

"Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD," (...)

See the rest of it on:

http://msn.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124312,00.asp?GT1=7645

and tell me what you think about it.

A bit worried? (By the way, I think the man is a bit exaggerating: I have some cd-rs that are 5 years old and still work, but, I also have one that has some problems and I've heard a friend of mine saying that he had some problems with a couple of his old ones too...maybe they can last more than five years but surely not forever. Angy with the so-called hi-tech companies? I am).

Radiohead: Acoustic

Here comes a nice collection of acoustic performances from the Radiohead: lights on the very rare voice and acoustic guitar only "Motion Picture Soundtrack"(and whey they make fun of Oasis' "Wonderwall")

I'd say that mostly are from The Bends-OK Computer period.

1. killer cars
2. wonderwall
3. blow out
4. street spirit
5. lucky
6. high and dry
7. motion picture soundtrack
8. fake plastic trees
9. black star
10. street spirit
11. subterranean homesick alien
12. thinking about you
13. creep
14. just
15. lozenge of love
16. bulletproof
17. killer cars
18. banana co.
19. yes I am
20. airbag
21. fake plastic trees
    

http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=O6DL1XHM

Il Muccchio Selvaggio

L'altroieri ho aggiunto ai link quello del Mucchio Selvaggio e credo valga la pena spiegare perché l'ho fatto.

Per quelli tra voi (pochi, me ne rendo conto) che sono italiani e si sono avvicinati al mio blog apprezzando la musica di cui parlo e posto, e ogni tanto avranno -chissà- magari dato anche un'occhiata ai link e ad alcuni post non-musicali (non molti finora, cercherò di fare meglio in futuro) potrebbero apprezzare anche "Il Mucchio Selvaggio", che da molto tempo è uno dei miei punti di riferimento per quanto riguardi musica, cultura e politica.

Si tratta di un mensile musicale nato più di 25 anni fa e che negli ultimi ha cercato di toccare altri argomenti e di approfondire tematiche sociali e politiche italiane.

Ad esempio con articoli sulla mucca pazza, ma anche sulla P2, sulla Mafia, su Berlusconi, avvalendosi di collaboratori di alto livello come Riccardo Bertoncelli (http://www.festivaletteratura.it/archivio/schedaautore.php?autid=167), Massimo del Papa (di cui trovate il link per il suo blog qui a fianco), e Andrea Scanzi ( http://www.andreascanzi.it/), ed ospitando interviste di personaggi come Daniele Luttazzi, Gherardo Colombo, Enio Morricone, solo per citarne alcuni.

Insomma, se vi piace questo blog è anchemerito loro e quindi pago qui il mio debito di riconoscenza.

E se vi piace il mio blog provate a dare un'occhiata in edicola al Mucchio (e al loro sito, appena rinnovato, ci sono anche dei biglietti per concerti in varie zone d'italia in palio attraverso un concorso).

Grazie.

Radiohead: On a friday

Before choosing the name RADIOHEAD (after a TALKING HEADS song from "True stories" the band was called On A Friday -because they used to rehearse on fridays). These demos -circa 1991- were recorded before they changed their name and before they signed to EMI.

It is a very bizzare collection of songs by the way: it starts with classic rock songs (the Pablo Honey kind of thing), but it goes on with trip-hop and dance-influenced tracks (see "The new generation", or "Something to hate" where Yorke sounds like...Tricky!) with loops, drum machines and such.

Click on the single track to know more about it (it's a link to Radiohead At Ease Website).

1. keep strong

2. somebody else

3. i want to know

4. i'm coming up

5. jerusalem

6. what is that you say

7. something to hate

8. i can't

9. without you

10. give it up

11. how can you be sure

12. everybody lies through their teeth

13. rattlesnake in the big city

14. the new generation

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YR62ETTU

Lost Lennon Tapes

On the web it is possible to find several "lost Lennon tapes" and here are some.

Mostly are primitive acoustic versions (or exerpts) of songs for his solo career (but there is also a "He said he said" which is the acoustic mother of THE BEATLES' "Sha said she said") and beautiful sung piano-and-voice-only "Free as a bird" and "Real love", later re-arranged by the other Beatles for "The Beatles anthology".

And don't worry: soon you'll have more Lost Lennon Tapes soon!

1-Cathy's clown
2-Don't be crazy
3-Don't let me down
4-Everybody
5-Free as a bird
6-Happiness is a warm gun
7-He said he said
8-Heatbeat
9-Honky tonk blues
10-Howling at the moon
11-I'll make you happy
12-I'm crazy
13-Interviews ("More popular than Jesus...")
14-My sweet lord
15-Rave on
16-Real love
17-Strwberry fields forever
18-Tell me what I say
19-The best things in life are free
20-Walls and bridges interview
21-You send me


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GZJWSS3D

Sora: Re.Sort

If you have liked the LULLATONES you sure will appreciate SORA, aka Takeshi Kurosawa, whose music is almost as delicate as the (other) japanese electronic band. Probably even more beautiful. So, listen to all these microbeats mixed with music-box-like harmonies, minimalism and (in the seventh track) also some jazz.

Tell me if you think about it. I find it mellow.

For more info: http://homepage.mac.com/s_ra/

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T2WLSE39