Thursday, January 28, 2010

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FRANK ZAPPA - Philly '76 (2009)



Somehow it was hard I needed.

In an amazing sound quality here rematerialize the ghost (sic) dell'omino mustache-and-fly directly from the distant 1976.

For an old fan expert, the high artistic quality of some of the dates of the '76 tour was already known thanks to the many illegal recordings available everywhere, but suffer in a perfect version, dynamic and beautifully edited ... was a problem of emotional backlash that has increased the sincere regret that those responsible for the audio from these wonders is no longer parties.

those circumstances, I believe it is necessary to report to all lovers of the instrument with four strings for excellence in the performance of the Patrick O'Hearn documented here has the supernatural, and is probably the time that the talent of the young Californian becomes appreciable at-all-round really (ZINY seems to understand a "normal" job than that proposed in this particular gig ... you know what i mean).

Same goes for Terry Bozzio and his overwhelming battery absolutely uncontrollable in his "zone Franka" (I know, is an acrobatic "cheap wordgame" ... but hey!) That the leader evidently has always rightly granted. It becomes even

very interesting at all appreciate the work of the English unit of marginal band, the guy that Eddie Jobson on keyboards in the short season can hold the weight of the complex arrangements, then take to deep drifts with his famous solo electric violin transparent.

the most careful and will also highlight the presence of a white singer (Odin) - which are strangely also entrusted the notes accompanying the disc - was really a few weeks, but certainly capable of providing an injection well suited to stress some funky-soul drifts (bottom) are always present in some Zappa.

Musically speaking, the concert is an extraordinary cocktail advances (for the time, of course) and some curious choices archives. The first category are certainly related, "Tryin 'to grow a chin," the overwhelming "City of tiny lights" (with an excellent solo / scat Ray White) - that will be published only three years later in "SHEIK YERBOUTY" - but also all tracks of the album Zoot Allures (curiously officially released worldwide that day or October 29, 1976) and then "Wind up working in a gas station," "The Torture Never Stops" (with an intense solo smagante " head), and Black Napkins "Find her finer."
It 's also a time of great conflict in the same half of the world with Zappa, and then American record of fact also all the songs then - after only two years - will end up in NY Zappa are considered the real valuable advances as "The Purple Lagoon" (mainly the intro), "Max needs Women", "Chrissy puked twice" (aka "Titties and Beer") and "Honey Do not You Want A Man Like Me?".
The second category are due instead "You did not try to call me" (evidently chosen for the vocal talents of Bianca) and the entire section "Rudy wants to buy yez a drink," "Would you go all the way? "" Daddy daddy daddy "and" What kind of girl do you think we are? " thought to participate in the concert of Flo & Eddie (cameo then deleted by the sudden death of guitarist Mothers of two former occurred under mysterious circumstances just hours before).

"PHILLY 76" also adds an unprecedented cover the long list of tracks re-proposed by Zappa in his career that is "Stranded in the Jungle" (a classic rhythm and blues led to success by and written by The Jayhawks Ernestine Smith & James Johnson in 1956). Curiously, even the glam-punk band New York Dolls had repeated the same song two years earlier in 1974 ... but obviously with a slightly different spirit. In conclusion

a disc which allows a fruitful kind of armistice between the multitude of Zappa fans who starts to understand the policy of the publications so far implemented by the home "mother" (and as could be defined differently?) Zappa Family Trust.
Thanks to this excellent publication, probably for a few minutes the world and the international zappianerie forget the "still missing" ROXY DVD!

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SOFT MACHINE - The Soft Machine turns on (1990)



The massive wonder of "Moon in June" opens the listening of this first compendium devoted to the size of the radio SOFT MACHINE in the period between 1969 and 1971.

And at the bottom there is a good reason for this selection Start pouring from their "song specially customized" by Robert Wyatt ... and not only that of chronologically because their "Moon in June "is the only song also sang the entire collection and is testament to the fact that the otherwise restless musical drummer Bristol then finally left for the enduring memories of past folds of a sound more and more instrumental in the development, significant taken place with more and more convinced by the group he had helped to found.

The desire of the great mass of sound (perhaps motivated by the desire of "collectivization" musical experience between young aspiring musicians emerging) leads the company to integrate the its essential line-up with an ambitious wind quartet formed by previously "enrolled" in addition to the three young Elton Dean Lyn Dobson talents, Marc Charig and Nick Evans.

The result is immediately apparent from these records is really the collective dedication to writing that the group was carrying out in full accordance with certain ultra-big band almost contemporaneous (see for example the project "Centipede").

muscisti Obviously the quality of the individual components in the band is still putting out great (needless to say that the bottom of the keyboard Ratledge and Hopper are not simply sensational) and the feeling that bands like Soft Machine is the spearhead of a "music smart" young people is absolutely undeniable.

If anything, it is also strange to think that these same records, other radio-broadcasting of the moment, they had to wait until 1977 to be appreciated only in part on a support replicable (the album was the legendary visionary and imaginative anthology triple vinyl "Triple Echo"), and even wait until the CD edition (to which I refer ) dated 1990 (by the independent Strange Fruit).

Or ... Luckily now we have recovered almost all the pieces of art that path in place, but come to think of the "soft machine" was actually in action at a different speed from the rest of his contemporaries. Maybe that particular moment of excellence would not last that much because already the "Fourth" valuable though it is no longer the same child joint intention (and shortly after the publication of "Fifth" will mark the final direction).


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SOFT MACHINE - Spaced (1969)



the late '60s to be part of an emerging music culture forward to new frontiers of expression also included the "obligations".

Spaced is in fact an almost obligatory - in fact - for Soft Machine as the role of "progressive" that their music was gaining in the contemporary art scene. In all probability, as recorded in the decaying abandoned structures on the banks of the Thames in those days - and now miraculously revived thanks to modern technology - Was not even remotely put into production by the group now increasingly engaged in evolving its own system of composition acrobatically mixing rock and jazz influences of minimalism and seasoned "alien". So this time you have to "thank" the system for having forced their hand, for having given to the three British youths a "homework" to play sound, or produce a certain amount of experimental music to accompany Spaced, multimedia show of the eccentric artist Peter Dockley billboard in London at the Roundhouse in London.

What we now have the opportunity to hear a version is plenty of "revised" (particularly in the lives and in the lineup) than recorded by means of luck to Bob Woolford, but is one of the most interesting creative episodes ever youthful age of music production.

The seven sections in which the material has been divided for ease of play, demonstrates very effectively how strong was the desire to go beyond certain boundaries of the musical language of the time (let's not forget that this is also the year of "Abbey Road "the Fab Four!) and how much contamination was present in the new intellectual generation of musicians who went" progressively "spreading. Near

some ways to what is musically then this (partly) in "Third" the material contained in this collection is presented as a series of "creative flow" developed in the claustrophobic conditions of minimal shapes, but at the same time expanded to the maximum possible kaleidoscopic nature of the stamps (but mainly non-natural) of the instrumentation used.

And speaking of things "altered", the modern technology now allows us to discover the wonderful melody hidden in the "reversed" tape, which constitutes the entire closing track "Spaced Seven" ... reversing the digital process the melancholy song unknown takes the form of a rickety Wurlitzer ... a hidden jewel impromptu but very poignant.

Maybe for some it is even easy to believe a record like this just a "narcissistic self-satisfied outing" probably did not deserve even to be publicly released because it was born by itself without a will really "art" of the group, though - to read carefully between the amorphous mass of sound that component - Spaced is in fact one of the most polished and artistic shots of a behavior that has actually formed the main basis for the emancipation of music (and consequently of the listener) the laws of the entertainment market, bringing the extreme synthesis will to change the concept of bringing music to essential food for thought.


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SOFT MACHINE - Grides (1970)



Autumn of 1970 sees the Soft Machine in stable quartet, perhaps defined as "classic" to the turn of the jazz group.

Let the trials with the effective line-up increased by several wind instruments, Wyatt, Ratledge and Dean Hopper give way to "dance" of the final consecration of progressive jazz. Already saw the part in the study had completed their third album (the historic "Third" of course) but they are on tour again, to keep alive the creative power of the collective.

Grides contains a concert recorded on October 25, 1970 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is well known, but a special feature of this documentation obviously lies in the posthumous find some more "order" and less aggressive of the group, apparently more committed to "listen" to attack more than an audience. Perhaps the awareness to play an increasing role in founding the new British rock scene hybridized with European jazz musicians unconsciously suggests a more substantial control in the performance. This does not mean loss of inspiration and creativity, but rather a clear manifestation of perfect symbiotic mechanism between the four minds that finally found common ground in live performances (which is not always able to keep the study had problems with the SEE ... "Moon in June" Wyatt and his legendary "do it yourself" just the "Third" and / or sessions at the BBC first documented in "Triple Echo" and then, later in "Soft Machine Turns on / The Peel Sessions").

This lower dose of "bad performance" suggests a more relaxed listening to appreciate the degree of maturity reached by the interplay of four (especially between Hopper and Wyatt) and the aesthetic sense of formal language in the making takes over the charging animal of only a few months earlier.


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SOFT MACHINE - Breda Reactor (1970)



in the endless (thankfully) a list of posthumous publications of the soft machine, has a weight that registration on 31 January 1970, although it is not just excellent quality, allows you to further develop the creative power of that particular moment in the scene of rock behavior "contaminated" by a decidedly jazz approach.

same line up (of course) of what will be proposed in 2000 the CD "Noisette", but the charge of the sound reveals far more savage and violent in this set (recorded at Breda in Holland, however, only four days before ).

Undoubtedly the more raw sound probably helps to "wicked" more "sound" of the general group, but it seems clear though is that a greater determination to Sound kind of aggression towards the public put in place by the quintet. The distorted bass

Hopper becomes pervasive and relentless support a sound development of muscle each other, however, able to magically suspend sometimes with that sweet sound, static and round like a perfectly smooth ball leaning against a piano as well in bubble. The flute Lyn Dobson seems more "bad" and in the economy overall peformance (and here "Backwards" is its most illuminating example).

Ratledge is simply unattainable in the long ride of his distorted a-only (a sort of "Genghis Khan-like attack" ahead of its time) in "Moon in June" and equally in long and twisted version of "Facelift" where the flute of Dobson carves out a space seemingly almost "abnormal", and totally unexpected makes its brief appearance between the audio-blended colors insanely far even a harmonica. .. devastating and far - to be truthful - devastated.

The spectral voice anemic Wyatt appears sporadically now chaos Electric ("Hibou Anemone & Bear", "Cymbalism" and the final Ayersiana "We did it again") but only the faint trace of a past where even ' element voice telling stories ... but obviously this was the time of crying and not whispering.

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SOFT MACHINE - Noisette (1970)



When the machine starts up, perhaps with a straight attitude, "Sport" the results are truly formidable. It is the

February 4, 1970 when the machine invades the soft fair hall in Croydon. the group is no longer the same as the last recording effort published the year before), but sees in it fiatisti also two of the new generation of jazz musicians such as Elton Dean of Albion and Lyn Dobson (the first will continue for many years, ' experience in the band, with the second - already memorable part of the band Manfred Mann - all will be revealed essentially a valid artistic collaboration).

The concert that evening February will have to wait thirty years to be fully documented on Compact Disc (except for a fragment of the composition "Facelift" proposed in the third official album of the group and an infinite number of illegal discs in this regard).

Despite this incredible time lapse, the material proposed is still quite bold and innovative for its time and although email is more unequivocal certainty of the intention of muscisti involved in moving towards a form of electric jazz more and more potentially " intro-versus-through, the quality of music has produced quite incredible considering the times. In

great sweep and the rhythm section (Wyatt and Hopper) as extraordinary is the work (all too often unfairly forgotten) of Ratledge on keyboards, while the two horns is "merely" entrusted with the task of adding the most "jazzy" sound and the attitude to improvisation.

definitely a listener who provides care and concentration, but still offers a great change in musical aesthetic satisfaction.

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SOFT MACHINE - Volume 2 (1969)



The things got awfully serious in the second chapter of "Soft Machine" and the transition to a much more complex (but at the same time complacent) sound dimension is absolutely clear.

As is immediately evident that the amount of creative energy components present in the band is overflowing and uncontainable, driven by an artistic trance stunt intended to carry them to great effect in the listener hybridization soundtracks in search of "new" and "progressive" youth language leaning towards a prodigious intellectual emancipation from previous generations.

Luckily, the creative flow of the machine does not stop even for a minute suggesting that Volume 2 as a total unsurpassed listening experience, able to move the brain into a delightful dance of attention and concentration.

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SOFT MACHINE - The Soft Machine (1968)



After 32 years I have not understood what really is to the extraordinary charm of the early Soft Machine.

It is important not speak of progressive jazz that comes commendably saw the group represent a kind of perverse intelligent fusion of different languages \u200b\u200bto each other like jazz, soul and rock. I am referring primarily to the form of mutant psychedelia "that allows one of the most unlikely one of the" power trio "of the time (bass drums and keyboards) to tell stories of side existence and behavior in songs seemingly fragile melodies and linear supported by a powerful music system progressive "deviated" from the distortions and "mutations electromagnetic" Instrument filtered and manipulated into exasperation.

Whatever the artistic opinion, one can not appreciate the willingness to go "beyond", to test the possibility of any form of interaction between musical instruments, personality and sensibility of the individual musicians involved, together with the sole aim of moving towards the boundaries of the "possible" scenario sound (and not only) in boiling youth music of the late sixties.

Submit to listen NOW Soft Machine to younger generations is (to borrow a quote from a well-known "elsewhere") all well and good, especially because it may be the only hope to remember that to reach new frontiers of art must have the courage to seek new solutions, new ideas to ride and not be afraid of the terrible claustrophobia of "niches" in which there is a risk (indeed we have the certainty) of being careless and poorly placed for generations likely to stimulate individual emotions, preferring a mass culture and uniformity.

Basically (again metaphorically) SOFT MACHINE is a stone, and on that stone ...