tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post1364365432258900834..comments2024-03-29T00:12:48.217+01:00Comments on Die or D.I.Y.?: Univers Zero – "Univers Zéro" (Eric Faes – EF 1313) 1977Jonny Zchivagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09859740264284241032noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-58456795901340439452022-07-26T14:55:59.297+02:002022-07-26T14:55:59.297+02:00!st season of Lost in Space - black and white epis...!st season of Lost in Space - black and white episodes.<br />And new UZ album is Univers Zero – Phosphorescent Dreams,<br />from January of 2014.<br />northfieldhathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04219971856461258513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-39184588486035694392022-07-20T12:12:31.399+02:002022-07-20T12:12:31.399+02:00@northfiieldhat....luv-a-duck...you're in at t...@northfiieldhat....luv-a-duck...you're in at the deep end ain't cha? A recent VZ album!?<br />But good to see some references to american cult TV...will have to compare and contrast the soundtrack with UZ lp 1+2.Maybe that's where they nicked the idea,instead of stumbling upon it during recess at the Conservatoire? Then they bought some black clothes.Jonny Zchivagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09859740264284241032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-15724008288885891312022-07-20T09:44:42.419+02:002022-07-20T09:44:42.419+02:00Also, their most recent album is very nice. More c...Also, their most recent album is very nice. More canterbury. quieter. Grows on you.<br />northfieldhathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04219971856461258513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-59818065057476740662022-07-20T09:42:21.301+02:002022-07-20T09:42:21.301+02:00I was playing this album, and the next one, and my...I was playing this album, and the next one, and my kids said, "That sounds<br />like the Lost in Space music..." (60's US TV series)<br /><br />northfieldhathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04219971856461258513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-47434963535564305312022-07-20T00:24:51.260+02:002022-07-20T00:24:51.260+02:00Fanny Fanny Fanny! It may have been unfanny but Te...Fanny Fanny Fanny! It may have been unfanny but Telex were tekking the piss.<br />also<br />Fun Eurovision Facts: Telex ACTUALLY WANTED to finish last...but finished 17th.They were on course to be last until Portugal gave them 10 points. Morocco came second last in their debut appearance, were very upset, and have not participated since.Jonny Zchivagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09859740264284241032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-25050514481816580792022-07-19T23:30:24.306+02:002022-07-19T23:30:24.306+02:00An awesomely dark group in their day. They really ...An awesomely dark group in their day. They really did suffer for their art by all accounts. The use of harmonium and bassoon evokes 'And Soon The Darkness', France-set but close enough for Low-Countries Prog. The photos depict a Marc Dutroux study group.<br /><br />Telex represented their motherland Belgium at Eurovision IIRC with a thoroughly lame "null-points" number.Fanny Blancmangenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-55047548352399334272022-07-19T17:43:58.061+02:002022-07-19T17:43:58.061+02:00Cheers, mate :)Cheers, mate :)Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-6534041145600434712022-07-19T13:37:22.017+02:002022-07-19T13:37:22.017+02:00Unbelievable. Thank you, Anonymous! That's t...Unbelievable. Thank you, Anonymous! That's the version of Hoofprints I've been searching for--viewed all of 300 times over the past 12 years.parmaleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14166917258724450155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-61058109504675575362022-07-19T06:34:19.016+02:002022-07-19T06:34:19.016+02:00This one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Ddf3f5pM...This one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Ddf3f5pM0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-46290704499606376072022-07-19T01:39:10.249+02:002022-07-19T01:39:10.249+02:00Ya know, I was thinking last night UZ was the logi...Ya know, I was thinking last night UZ was the logical next step. The idea of Samla sharing a program with these guys and In Praise of learning-era Henry Cow sounds like such a cluster fook. Feeling like an emptied bowel afterwards only makes sense.rev.bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01571106308365761934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-58145377401903367532022-07-18T23:16:57.236+02:002022-07-18T23:16:57.236+02:00Jonny, that's pretty much how I thought you...Jonny, that's pretty much how I thought you'd feel about UZ, and why I recommended them to you.<br /><br />My take on rock history is simply that, knowing itself to be mongrel ("The blues had a baby and they called it rock'n'roll"-- and American country music has always acknowledged paternity) rock did its best to winnow through every other genre known to man in search of hooks. For example, rock with oboes dates back to a hippie era group called the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, with a long haired composer named Michael Kamen, who grew up to do the orchestrations for The Wall. Eventually I figured out that the real reason for the World Beat category was that the industry had so systematically strip-mined all Western musical forms that gamelan gongs and throat singing were all they had left.<br /><br />Also, I always knew I was gonna find something truly amazing in your blog, but I figured it would be something more like a band of teenage Mancunian introverts with Ataris and syndrums sounding like Wire circa 154. It turned out to be an obscure 20th century composer.mandolinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17170194575398601790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-76411482380371733932022-07-18T20:25:26.365+02:002022-07-18T20:25:26.365+02:00With Sorabji, the piano and organ symphonies are w...With Sorabji, the piano and organ symphonies are where it's at. They're actually pieces for solo piano and organ, but the voicings and harmonies and something or other are intended to _evoke_ a symphony orchestra. And it actually kinda works, but then I'm the person who insists that this one piece on one of John Fahey's Christmas albums is akin to a drone, or maybe a bumblebee, slowly flying around a Christmas tree and it occasionally drifts downwards towards this Lionel train which also circles the tree, and then it swoops back upwards towards this Little Drummer Boy ornament hanging from the tree... and so forth. Yet I've played this track for a number of people and no one else seems to "hear" all of that.<br /><br />Daniel Higgs, both with Lungfish and solo, has always gotten the image/music thing. There used to be a video for this partiuclar performance that's disappeared, but if you listen to this live version of "Hoofprints On The Ceiling Of Your Mind":<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUiqta_xvq4&t=313s<br /><br />and just use this:<br /><br />https://vimeo.com/9538057<br /><br />as the accompanying video, it's almost perfect.<br /><br />Holy Bible Time indeed.parmaleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14166917258724450155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-22731051466630794372022-07-18T19:33:40.717+02:002022-07-18T19:33:40.717+02:00Just listening to Sorabji: Sequentia Cyclica as pl...Just listening to Sorabji: Sequentia Cyclica as played by Jonathan Powell...and yes its freaking awesome! By the end of its 8 hour tenure, I might just be swinging on the end of a rope,smiling.Jonny Zchivagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09859740264284241032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-13487311729938242832022-07-18T19:27:35.083+02:002022-07-18T19:27:35.083+02:00Indeed, image wise, these types of band fly in the...Indeed, image wise, these types of band fly in the face of sartorial style.I can't help putting image on the same footing as the music because basically I'm a Pop music type ain't I? Crap clothes crap hair, and my interest wanes;especially if it doesn't match the music. The Magic Band and Trout Mask are a perfect example where the band image matches the music....i suppose CB was an artist after all...aesthetics first.Jonny Zchivagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09859740264284241032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-58724715317610760792022-07-18T19:22:55.116+02:002022-07-18T19:22:55.116+02:00LOL!...I think i remember walking into a trendy ba...LOL!...I think i remember walking into a trendy bar in Brooklyn once and hearing the phrase "Dude, Sorabji was freakin awesome!" as i walked in!<br />I was ready with my bluffers guide to Kant just in case i was set upon by a hoodie wearing amateur philosopher. I can just about hold my own on Prog, but early 20th century Classical ,i have to bluff and bluff hard.<br />I think Fly Pan Am was the band playing that night.....i knew i was in trouble when one of the guitarists said in conversation....Hey man, Syd Barratt was a genius. He went to speak to someone else when i drew a sharp intake of breath at his casual use of the 'G' word.<br />I will have to check out this Sorabji chap.Jonny Zchivagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09859740264284241032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-80475301700114443062022-07-18T18:42:25.778+02:002022-07-18T18:42:25.778+02:00Also: "Chamber Rock's "Smell The Gl...Also: "Chamber Rock's "Smell The Glove" moment" Totally! If you check out the photo of Henry Cow inside the gatefold of Unrest, THIS is what _those guys_ should have sounded like. (Not that I have any problems with Henry Cow's Unrest, it's just that the photo of the band doesn't match the content of the record.) Though the photo of Univers Zero, with the harmonium dragged out onto the lawn, isn't too shabby either. They shoulda been the band in Bergman's "Seventh Seal."parmaleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14166917258724450155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624282421125812337.post-32619432889616838062022-07-18T18:26:33.376+02:002022-07-18T18:26:33.376+02:00Dude, Sorabji was freakin awesome! There's ba...Dude, Sorabji was freakin awesome! There's basically only two guys who perform his music, and fans of the one guy invariably loathe the other guy--and vice versa. Seriously, they ceaselessly pore over the recordings and point out all the places where the loathed player allegedly flubs a note. I've listened, and I've imported the tracks to DAWs and play em at 1/2 or 1/4 speed, and I simply don't here these flubbed notes. But then, I'm an idiot, so who knows?parmaleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14166917258724450155noreply@blogger.com