Kiruna - Tarasarus (2007)

Kiruna - Tarasarus (2007)

Personnel:

Kåre Chr. Vestrheim - Rhodes, organ
Thomas Tofte - bass, micromoog (track 3)
Erland Dahlen - drums, percussion

Special guests:
Rolf Yngve Uggen - lead guitar
Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen - electronics (right speaker)
Jens Petter Nilsen - electronics (left speaker)

Tracklisting:

01 - Preglow
02 - April 19
03 - Black Widow
04 - Winterkinder
05 - Raldo`s Autostrada
06 - Sirens Of A Lost City, Part I
07 - Sirens Of A Lost City, Part II
08 - San Francisco Car Chase
09 - Underworld
10 - Afterglow

Irritating and fascinating! This is the second album of this Norwegian band - really hard to catch ... It is said Thomas Tofte, Erland Dahlen and Kåre Vestrheim went into the studio without any set plan and developed the musical ideas through free improvisation. With the help of some guests 'Tarasarus' holds instrumental jamming sounds like coming from another planet. The studio line-up is presenting a gloomy avantgarde styled bouquet with spacey, industrial krautrock, fusion and heavy crushing elements. Lush and playful electronics are substituting electric guitars. The sound mix has turned out in a luxuriant manner.

The opener Preglow appears like a warmup - a mixture of electronic sounds with a spacey background. KIRUNA is gliding into April 19 then - a song which reminds me of Terje Rypdal first, escalating more and more with drums, organ and bass inspiring each other. Belonging to my favourites Black Widow follows with a fusion inspired groove and wonderful Rhodes add-ons. On Raldo's Autostrada the band is supported by guest guitarist Rolf Yngve Uggen (ex Gluecifer). Dynamic pure and my highlight. This song has reached for a comfortable place in my best of song collection in the meanwhile - what a powerful heavy psychedelic presence! The 'Bitches Brew' and Soft Machine inspired The Underworld shows the three basic instruments soloing and swirling around each other lead by a special dramaturgy - wow! The vinyl only bonus track San Francisco Car Chase finally attracts my attention because made up like a Weather Report inspired fusion piece.

KIRUNA defines an unique environment with the songs. As for a conclusion my feelings are so so - I like those already mentioned tracks very much - they are more catchy I would say. But with the others I'm not able to make friends (at least yet) because they are crossing an imaginary line - too weird and free-formed noisy. Anyhow - 'Tarasarus' will appeal to fans of an avantgarde experimental approach for sure. [Prog Archives]

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"Tapes" podcast

Hello, listeners!
Thank your for musical taste! Thank you for listening to me!
Today I proudly present my weekly podcast show called "Tapes". Me and my friend mix jazz, dub, lo-fi, psychedelic, hip-hop and other exotic music. Sometimes you can here rare russian exotic tunes!
It will be nice if you like it!

Here you are an 11th podcast. Lisn ta it, matafakaz!

Tracklist:

1. BGM — Recovery Room (Vanity Records, 1980)
2. Rammellzee — New Meaning (Tri-Eight Recordings, 2003)
3. Octavius — Monochrome (Mush, 2003)
4. Green Zone — Zulal (Disc Callithump, 2008)
5. DJ Eye — Live at The Metro, Kyoto, Japan 3/25/01 (Not On Label, 2001)
6. Internet2 — Loca academia de policía francesa (Cartilage recs, 2009)
7. Hanadensha — Seasky Rainbow (Circle Sunshine Records, 1997)
8. LSD March — Love (Beta-lactam Ring Records, 2007)
9. Christine 23 Onna — Mondo Nude Mode (Alchemy Records, 2009)
10. High Tone — Dirty Urban Beat (Jarring Effects, 2010)
11. The Naturists — Shaving Cream (Interactive Records, 1993)
12. Tapes — Helix Dub (Jahtari, 2009)

Gnu - Midnight Breakfast (2001)

Gnu - Midnight Breakfast (2001)

1. Oriel (1:16)
2. Sandcrawler (5:15)
3. Straw People (4:07)
4. Poster (2:21)
5. Them (2:29)
6. Slap Yuppie (2:01)
7. Rubberband Soup (2:46)
8. Round-1 (6:31)

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All music by Masahiko Okura, except track 6, by Taiji Takahashi

Gnu
Masahiko Okura: alto sax, bass clarinet, keyboards, electronics
Shinichi Tsukamoto: keyboards
Taiji Takahashi: bass
Itoken: drums

Recorded by A/SK and Itoken at Laser Boy in March 2000, except track 1, by Masahiko Okura at Pink Sky in August 2001
Mixed by Masahiko Okura at Pink Sky
Mastered by Itoken at Mechanics Studio
Design by cubic music
Photographs and drawings by Masahiko Okura
Produced by Gnu

Released in October 2001

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Piero Bittolo Bon Jump The Shark - Sugoi Sentai! Gattai!! (2009)

Piero Bittolo Bon Jump The Shark - Sugoi Sentai! Gattai!! (2009)

Personnel:

Piero Bittolo Bon: alto sax, alto clarinet (5,6,9), flute (7), melodica (5,10)
Domenico Caliri: electric guitar, acoustic 12 string guitar (8,9,11)
Pasquale Mirra: vibes, glockenspiel (1,6)
Danielo Gallo: double bass, vox bass (4,8,10), prepared piano (5), national bike pump (10)
Federico Scettri: drums

nice guests:

Alfonso Santimone: hammond organ (11)
Gillian Quinlan: voice (8)

Tracklisting:

01 - Interstellar Turkish Kung Fu

02 - Cargo Cult
03 - La Loggia Dello Storione Greco
04 - Never Let Your Hats Alone
05 - Furgonauti
06 - Requiem for Four Triassic Triops
07 - Caporetto In My Mouth
08 - Heavy Metal Miss Jones
09 - Steve Sheldon's Nightmare
10 - 20 Goto 10
11 - Mambo Ricci

If jazz is dead, if the great masters aren't as great as they used to be, if Charlie Parker and Miles Davis' music is a relic of the past, how can you explain this record? Jump the Shark!'s Sugoi Sentai! Gattai!! is the debut album of one of the scene's best talents, the venetian altoist and clarinetist Piero Bittolo Bon.

Joined by four of the most brilliant musicians from the Italian new wave of improvisers, he carries out a refreshing, thirst-quenching and vivacious work, talking about the here and now, about this strange music we still insist to call jazz. Ornette and Dolphy being his inspirations (because jazz is history, after all), Henry Threadgill his putative father, Tim Berne the inescapable touchstone. New York lays at the horizon, Chicago behind the shoulders and Venice all around.

The breaking news is that Italian jazz is alive. Jump the shark and enjoy the trip![El Galo Rojo]

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Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu - Gagarin! (2009)

Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu - Gagarin! (2009)

Personnel:
Coung Vu: trumpet, fx
Enrico Terragnoli: guitars, podophono
Giorhio Pacorig: rhodes, piano
Danilo Gallo: acoustic bass guitar, 12strings bass, doublebass
Zeno De Rossi: drums, percussion

featuring Carla Bozulich vocals on #7

Tracklisting:
01. The Lady Is a Trans (Danilo Gallo)
02. Again, Again (Cuong Vu)
03. Serpente (Enrico Terragnoli)
04. I Met Einstein In A Dream (Zeno De Rossi)
05. Land Mine (Giorgio Pacorig)
06. Gian Maria Volonte' (Zeno De Rossi)
07. I Can't Feel It Anymore (De Rossi / Bozulich)
08. Jean Gabin (Zeno De Rossi)
09. ... And Again (Cuong Vu)
10. Amy (Danilo Gallo)

A truly remarkable quintet, Mickey Finn, embellished by Cuong Vu's trumpet: electric sounds - echoes of Miles Davis in the Seventies and English rock, posterities from Chicago and some funk - spreading in dreamlike and restless landscapes, haunted by low-fi ghosts.
Excellent performance by Giorgio Pacorig on keyboards and Enrico Terragnoli on guitar, backed by a sulphurous Danilo Gallo on bass and by Zeno De Rossi on drums, while Cuong Vu, as usual, paints his poignant and lysergic lines.
One of the songs also features of Carla Bozulich's intense voice. The album pays tribute to Soviet aviator and cosmonaut Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin, the first man in space.
[el gallo rojo]

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Katayama Hiroaki Quartet - Quatre (2002)

Katayama Hiroaki Quartet - Quatre (2002)

(Studio Wee, SW207) (Japan) (CD)

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1. For You (9:48)
2. Sous le Ciel de Paris (7:22)
3. March (9:02)
4. Quatre (5:30)
5. Hallelujah (9:55)
6. Por una Cabeza (5:45)
7. Improvisation (3:17)
8. Nairobi Star (Dedicated to Akira Ishikawa) (7:33)

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Music by Fumio Itabashi (1, 8), Hubert Giraud (2), Hiroaki Katayama (3, 4), Ieonard Cohen (5), and Carlos Gardel (6)

Hiroaki Katayama Quartet
Hiroaki Katayama: tenor sax
Fumio Itabashi: piano
Nobuyoshi Ino: bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion

Produced by Hiroaki Katayama and Hiroaki Wakiya
Recorded at Ongaku no Mori Hall in Kobuchisawa on February 26 and 27, 2002
Mixed at Gumbo Studio in Yokohama on March 4 and 5, 2002
Engineered by Shinji Kawase
Mastered by Hiroshi Shiota
Design and photography by Tomoo Maruono

Released April 2002

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Sim & Moe Kamura - Common Difference (2006)

Sim & Moe Kamura - Common Difference (2006)

(MIDI Creative, CXCA-1199) (Japan) (CD)

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1. 6:4:6 (5:56)
2. Along the River (7:18)
3. Sis (8:30)
4. Sea Song (9:31)
5. Roota (8:23)
6. Arm Connect (6:59)
7. Keep the Altitude (6:52)

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All music by Teruyuki Oshima except on track 4, by Robert Wyatt, and vocals on track 7, by Moe Kamura
All words by Moe Kamura and Teruyuki Oshima except on track 4, by Robert Wyatt

sim
Teruyuki Oshima: guitar, computer
Yoshio Otani: computer, electronics
Masahiro Uemura: drums

Moe Kamura: vocals

Produced by Teruyuki Oshima
Recorded by Teruyuki Oshima at Studio Seisho and others
Mixed by Teruyuki Oshima at Studio 201
Mastered by Shoji Hiromits at Sara Disc
Artwork by Teruyuki Oshima
Design by Ai Komoto
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Atsushi Sasaki and Moe Kamura

Released in October 2006

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