Showing posts with label Everyday Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everyday Life. Show all posts
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Autumn Rain, Swans, Joxfield & Ornette
Just an ordinary Friday, a day off duty, an indoor day because the autumn rain in this Godforsaken city showers like it use to this time of the year. A good ol' Gothenburg Autumn Rainy Day.
Taking a slow, long breakfast, reading the morning paper, sipping the coffee, listening to music; the first CD of Swans' "The Seer", the 27+ minutes Joxfield ProjeX track "Mah No 1" from "Shimmering Mah No 1" (yes, download for free here: http://archive.org/details/ca310_jp), Ornette Coleman's evocative "The Shape of Jazz to Come" from 1959 - one of the first free jazz albums. And next to come... well, no idea yet.
Bring the umbrella!
O'
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Mwendo Dawa - Live at Montreux - THE VIDS!!!
What a surprise!
One day I write a couple of words on Mwendo Dawa's live album from Montreux 1979, and the other day I find two clips from the same concert.
"Life is funny, life is free, got all them goodies come up to me..." (T Kupferberg)
Enjoy!
And anyone who wants to explore this great band, these great musicians, check the web of Susanna and Ove's own label, lj-records:
http://www.lj-records.se
O'
One day I write a couple of words on Mwendo Dawa's live album from Montreux 1979, and the other day I find two clips from the same concert.
"Life is funny, life is free, got all them goodies come up to me..." (T Kupferberg)
Enjoy!
And anyone who wants to explore this great band, these great musicians, check the web of Susanna and Ove's own label, lj-records:
http://www.lj-records.se
O'
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Christmas Bye-Bye
December 21st 2011 - Christmas tree
January 15th 2012 - Empty floor
Today Christmas was cleaned away from the appartment.
Pity: A little darker and less colourful.
Happiness: One step closer to springtime and summer.
Feels good.
O'
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Terrascope Rumble December 2011
For those of you who can't get enough of yours truely's reviewing of some odd sounds of muzak there is a new Terrascope Rumble section out now to wsave the last days before New Year. Pay a lot of attention to all great music mentioned in the long text. The last 1/3 written by yours truely. Take it away, Bob!
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_December_11.htm
O'
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Terrascope Rumbles August 2011
Anyone addicted to the Rumbles reviews from yours truely?
Last third part of the selected section
Get it immediately at
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_August_11.htm
O'
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Anyday Now
Just an ordinary Saturday morning, could be any day and it just is.
The sun is shining and that's nice, brings some energy to life.
On the player is Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s 'Cometary Orbital Drive' (2008), a 70 minutes piece divided into four parts, based on the note sequence A-E-D-A-G-Db, repeated within the frames of various surroundings, creating a mantra-like psychedelic symphony of a kind seldom heard.
Following that is the same band's very beautiful and varied 'Univers Zen Ou De Zéro A Zéro' (2002), the extended 4 LP version. Could this be Acid Mother's best album? No-one will tell you and no-one will ever know. Band pix above is probably from around that time.
Anyway,
meanwhile working hard on the cover of the forthcoming split single by Joxfield ProjeX/Ambient Darkwhite, 'The Steak RMX'/'Death Of A Sirloin Steak'.
Stricly limited once in a lifetime pressing, out on Tin Can Music in a present future close to you.
Keep updated!
O'
The sun is shining and that's nice, brings some energy to life.
On the player is Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.'s 'Cometary Orbital Drive' (2008), a 70 minutes piece divided into four parts, based on the note sequence A-E-D-A-G-Db, repeated within the frames of various surroundings, creating a mantra-like psychedelic symphony of a kind seldom heard.
Following that is the same band's very beautiful and varied 'Univers Zen Ou De Zéro A Zéro' (2002), the extended 4 LP version. Could this be Acid Mother's best album? No-one will tell you and no-one will ever know. Band pix above is probably from around that time.
Anyway,
meanwhile working hard on the cover of the forthcoming split single by Joxfield ProjeX/Ambient Darkwhite, 'The Steak RMX'/'Death Of A Sirloin Steak'.
Stricly limited once in a lifetime pressing, out on Tin Can Music in a present future close to you.
Keep updated!
O'
Monday, May 25, 2009
Vultures Invading...
A couple of days ago when I was about to eat my breakfast I realised I must have cooked an egg of a vulture, not a hen-egg, as usual.
Strange things are happening....
O'
Monday, April 6, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
In My Letterbox...
A couple of days ago, in my letterbox, a little package with Jonas Kullhammar Quartet's 8 CD Box Set 'The Half Naked Truth'.
Today, in the same letterbox, Daevid Allen's 'Gong Dreaming 1', the history and the mystery of his years with Soft Machine and the early years with Gong... Part 2 to come soon.
The future looks bright
O'
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Omar
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez' 'Calibration' on the stereo.
Just a really nice and modern psychedelic album.
Lend it an ear.
More interesting alone than with his Mars Volta
O'
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Not Too Much
A new week, another day... eehhr... but, wait... The week isn't new and the day... well.
Life goes on and what to report? Eeerrh...
Last Saturday I went to MW's 60th birthday party. During the evening and the early night a lot of snow was falling, so when it was time for me to take my bike home from the railway station of the city in the middle of the night I found something like....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
But, what the heck, it was just to start my journey home.... Just me and a couple of cars..
The rest of the weekend and the following days, after work, I continued with improving the sound quality for the Joxfield future releases PICNIC and BITS AND PIECES # 1 - 13 (More about that later...)
And then came the sun, than came the plus degrees Celcius, then the sun went away and this morning the rain is pouring down. And I really mean POURING DOWN.
Just an ordinary winter development on the Swedish Westcoast. Gosh!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
O'
Life goes on and what to report? Eeerrh...
Last Saturday I went to MW's 60th birthday party. During the evening and the early night a lot of snow was falling, so when it was time for me to take my bike home from the railway station of the city in the middle of the night I found something like....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
But, what the heck, it was just to start my journey home.... Just me and a couple of cars..
The rest of the weekend and the following days, after work, I continued with improving the sound quality for the Joxfield future releases PICNIC and BITS AND PIECES # 1 - 13 (More about that later...)
And then came the sun, than came the plus degrees Celcius, then the sun went away and this morning the rain is pouring down. And I really mean POURING DOWN.
Just an ordinary winter development on the Swedish Westcoast. Gosh!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
O'
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Good Moments
We do have a great town library here in Gothenburg.
We do also have some great, openminded concert arrangers, as Koloni.
Tonight there was arranged a free concert with the UK Manchester duo Liondialer, two guys on guitar + laptop & efx and cello + laptop & efx. Both of them also sampled loops during the fully improvised set of two lengly tunes. The second of them had a guest appearance by a good friend of them, unfortunately I didn't hear his name.
Good sounds, good music... yeah, good moments that makes you happy.
We were at least 100 in the audience. That's also nice. There is hope for the citizens of Gothenburg.
O'
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Dessert & The Helpful Son # 3
It's nice when your kids grows up, son # 3 had his 17th birthday a couple of months ago.
Yesterday some of my friends were here for dinner.
Starters and main dish I had ideas about, but the desert....
So, I asked J if he would like to find out something for desert and then fix it.
He did.
The sauce is made of cream and white chocolate.
ThanX J.
Yesterday some of my friends were here for dinner.
Starters and main dish I had ideas about, but the desert....
So, I asked J if he would like to find out something for desert and then fix it.
He did.
The sauce is made of cream and white chocolate.
ThanX J.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Words Without Pix
O,
I just noticed it was a while ago.
Time slips in a terrible speed.
Yesterday some snow in the air and later on the ground.
Today it was gone, just small spots of snow in the morning, gone in the afternoon.
Wet.
O,
Mah God, such an interesting observation.
Joxfield?
Well, the last days have been filled with some administration stuff of various kind which might show some dirictions for the future.
More about that another time.
The first lengthly track of the year is more or less finnished (41 minutes):
PHANTASTIQUE - SIDE A & SIDE B.
A virtual LP, one track (or if you prefere: a split version where the piece ís cut into six shorter pieces, four on SIDE A and two on SIDE B)
Basicly space-jam, jam-psych, jam-jam...whatever you'd like to call it. A lot of noodling guitars to awkward keyboardchords, heavy basses and straight drums and percussions...
Let's see what the future will bring to it, probably some availability for free downloads somewhere sometime.
Until next inspiring posting:
Goodnight
O'
I just noticed it was a while ago.
Time slips in a terrible speed.
Yesterday some snow in the air and later on the ground.
Today it was gone, just small spots of snow in the morning, gone in the afternoon.
Wet.
O,
Mah God, such an interesting observation.
Joxfield?
Well, the last days have been filled with some administration stuff of various kind which might show some dirictions for the future.
More about that another time.
The first lengthly track of the year is more or less finnished (41 minutes):
PHANTASTIQUE - SIDE A & SIDE B.
A virtual LP, one track (or if you prefere: a split version where the piece ís cut into six shorter pieces, four on SIDE A and two on SIDE B)
Basicly space-jam, jam-psych, jam-jam...whatever you'd like to call it. A lot of noodling guitars to awkward keyboardchords, heavy basses and straight drums and percussions...
Let's see what the future will bring to it, probably some availability for free downloads somewhere sometime.
Until next inspiring posting:
Goodnight
O'
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Patrick Out......And Some Better News...
For sure, the one who's alive will sooner or late be dead...
Four days ago our hero Patrick McGoohan past away at the age of 80.
First we learned to love John Drake and after that this 1968 fenomenal cult serie The Prisoner. Late last autumn I got my hands on the serie and started watching it and today I watched Episode 7, sort of celebrating mr PM. RIP.
But there are more positiv things to celebrate. As birthdays. So today the youth of the group raises his glass for a toast to Dr Y, the old guy of the group.
Cheers Yan!!!!
The pix? O, just the famous location for our basic recordings, the Kolpebo Studio with the wonderful view over the lake...
O'
Saturday, January 10, 2009
A Day In The Life Of A Tree
Hard time being a Xmas tree when the good times are over.
What's left is the Striptease. Prepare....
A bit cold without clothes...
The tree's a bit shy and ran away..
.. and left all the clothes.
At least good enough for The First Competition Of The Year:
HOW MANY NEEDLES ARE THERE?
If you're not sure, just guess - Closest to the truth will win some nice Joxfield ProjeX (sur)prices...
O'
What's left is the Striptease. Prepare....
A bit cold without clothes...
The tree's a bit shy and ran away..
.. and left all the clothes.
At least good enough for The First Competition Of The Year:
HOW MANY NEEDLES ARE THERE?
If you're not sure, just guess - Closest to the truth will win some nice Joxfield ProjeX (sur)prices...
O'
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Needle And The Damage Done
At least something creative and useful you can do when all the bloody needles of the Xmas tree suddenly falls off.
Maaaah God!
Where's the vacuumcleaner?
O'
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Another Morning
Another morning. Looking out of the kitchen window finding the weather being grey and gloomy. On a day like this I don't care.
Sipping my coffee, reading Haruki Murakami's 'Kafka On The Shore' - a wonderful and surreal (or is it? isn't life surreal in itself?) book, listening to nice music:
La Monte Young - Five Small Pieces For String Quartet
Five beautiful, very short pieces (1 - 2 munutes only), taken from the 'USA' album, sharing its bill with 7 other contemporary composers
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
I'm not a fan of rap music, but old toast and dub in combination is great and hearing these good beats and basses mixed with LKJ's deep voice is even greater
The AALY Trio feat. Ken Vandermark - I Wonder If I Was Screaming
I love Mats Gustafsson's powerful playing and his good taste of putting himself in the best musical enviroments, as here with this expanded trio. A lot of Free Form Music is supposed to be 'dufficult' listening to, but that's crap - just open up your ears and let it in and it will do the job itself. On the contrary, a lot of 'easylistening' music is really difficult to listen to - it aches all over me.
Manfred Mann - Mann Made
A few crappy Top 10 hits (Hi Lily Li Lo - Mah God!!), but also a lot of really good inspiring jazz and blues tracks. For me this album is the conection to Manfred Mann's most interesting project ever, Chapter Three, Volume One & Two, with its sort of Canterburian Jazzish approach - worth looking for
Today, thru the net, I droped into some good news:
(a link for the Swedish reading people: http://www.orkesterjournalen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=36)
I thought the second hand store Andra Böcker & Skivor (Other Books & Records) was gone forever, but they just changed addr
Sipping my coffee, reading Haruki Murakami's 'Kafka On The Shore' - a wonderful and surreal (or is it? isn't life surreal in itself?) book, listening to nice music:
La Monte Young - Five Small Pieces For String Quartet
Five beautiful, very short pieces (1 - 2 munutes only), taken from the 'USA' album, sharing its bill with 7 other contemporary composers
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
I'm not a fan of rap music, but old toast and dub in combination is great and hearing these good beats and basses mixed with LKJ's deep voice is even greater
The AALY Trio feat. Ken Vandermark - I Wonder If I Was Screaming
I love Mats Gustafsson's powerful playing and his good taste of putting himself in the best musical enviroments, as here with this expanded trio. A lot of Free Form Music is supposed to be 'dufficult' listening to, but that's crap - just open up your ears and let it in and it will do the job itself. On the contrary, a lot of 'easylistening' music is really difficult to listen to - it aches all over me.
Manfred Mann - Mann Made
A few crappy Top 10 hits (Hi Lily Li Lo - Mah God!!), but also a lot of really good inspiring jazz and blues tracks. For me this album is the conection to Manfred Mann's most interesting project ever, Chapter Three, Volume One & Two, with its sort of Canterburian Jazzish approach - worth looking for
Today, thru the net, I droped into some good news:
(a link for the Swedish reading people: http://www.orkesterjournalen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=36)
I thought the second hand store Andra Böcker & Skivor (Other Books & Records) was gone forever, but they just changed addr
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