THAT :: CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE
Unpopular Classics (Poulenc)
Live at QUEERING SOUND, 06 June 2021
Rhizome DC, Washington DC USA

THAT :: JS Adams + Christopher Mathews-Larsen
RECORDING :: Steve Sanford
MIX :: JS ADAMS

THAT :: CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE :: LIVE

Am7 CHORDS! MOTORIK BEATS! CICADAS! BUZZSAWS! KAZOOS!

LIVE @ QUEERING SOUND 2021 :: 13 JUNE 2021 :: RHIZOME DC :: WDC

CK BARLOW :: SAMPLER / ELECTRONICS
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN :: GUITAR / DRUM PROGRAMMING / AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE
JS ADAMS :: PROCESSING + EFFECTS / FIELD RECORDINGS / LOOPS / AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE / AUDIO PLAYBACK
JEFF BARSKY :: GUITAR
JOSH MAXWELL :: BASS
+
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION :: KAZOOS
AUDIENCE COORDINATOR :: CHRIS VIDELL

RECORDING :: STEVE SANDERS

ONE CHORD PONIES :: A LIFE OF INDETERMINATE REWARD

DECONSTRUCTION/RE-ADAPTATION OF LA VOIX HUMAINE (THE HUMAN VOICE), AN OPERA BY FRANCIS POULENC BASED ON THE ONE-ACT PLAY BY JEAN COCTEAU. HELLO? HELLO!

LIVE @ QUEERING SOUND 2021 :: 15 JUNE 2021 :: RHIZOME DC :: WDC

[ live performers ] 
CK BARLOW :: SAMPLER / ELECTRONICS
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN :: GUITAR
JS ADAMS :: PROCESSING + EFFECTS / FIELD RECORDINGS + LOOPS / SAMPLES / CALIFONE + PREPARED VINYL / AUDIO PLAYBACK
JEFF BARSKY :: GUITAR
JOSH MAXWELL :: BASS

[ digital contributitors ]
BLEEDINGBLACKWOOD . {AN} EEL . JASSIE RIOS . ROSHI NASEHI . SARAH O’HALLORAN . KATIE MACYSHYN 

RECORDING :: STEVE SANDERS
MIX :: JS ADAMS

LA VOIX HUMAINE :: 13 JUNE 2021 :: LIVE

Buy it here
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/other-worlds

Andrew Niven – drums, percussion, synth, sequencers
Eric Klerks – bass, 8-string guitar, synthbass
Max Kutner – electric and acoustic guitar

with
Mike Keneally ¬– keyboards, guitar, samples
Jonathan Sindelman – keyboards, organ
Daniel Rosenboom – trumpet
Jessica Lurie – baritone sax
Gregg Bendian ¬– vibes

Produced by Mike Keneally and Android Trio

Concentric Lines

ANDROID TRIO "Concentric Lines" from "Other Worlds" (Cuneiform Records)

A 4min 12 secs edit of Track 3 from the new Phoenix Rising album by Rovo and System 7. This track is a cover of a track by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, showing the great blend of guitar and electric violin. 
Rovo and System 7 play live in UK/Europe in March 2014:- March 7th Manchester (Ritz)  :  March 8th London (O2 Shepherds Bush Empire)  :  March 13th Amsterdam (Melkweg)

Buy from iTunes

Rovo and System 7 - Meeting of the Spirits (edit)

James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love - The Skin, The Colour

Bushman´s Revenge - Kugeln und Kraut

Krokofant - Bodega

From our upcoming release "Somnambulist" coming out on Cuneiform records January 20th! Preorder is available now here: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somnambulist

The Kandinsky Effect  - Somnambulist

X (Part 1)

Gyp The Blood

Nice Day for a Lynching-Kenneth Patchen

The bloodhounds look like sad old judges
In a strange court. They point their noses
At the Negro jerking in their noose;
His feet spread crowlike above these
Honorable men who laugh as he chokes.

I don’t know this black man.
I don’t know these white men.

But I know that one of my hands
Is black, and one white. I know that
One part of me is being strangled, 
While another part horribly laughs.

Until it changes, 
I shall be forever killing; and be killed.

Recorded by The Claudia Quintet +1 with Special Guest-Kurt Elling


The Bloodhounds

Recorded at Avatar Studios NYC May 2012 (Katherine Miller)
Mastered at Pinch Recording NYC May 2020 (E. Scott Lindner)

Personnel:
Matt Steckler - alto/soprano sax, flute
Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
Todd Neufeld - guitars
Dave Ambrosio - bass
Satoshi Takeishi - drums & percussion

01 Night Cravings - Master A 44

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BANDCAMP (hi-fi digital): http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-da-da-the-teenage-tapes

Swedish collective Mats/Morgan—also known as the Mats/Morgan Band—occupy, or more aptly, create their own sphere in the transcontinental music scene, a zone wherein progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, experimental rock, electronica, and progressive pop overlap and intertwine. The double-CD set Radio Da Da/The Teenage Tapes compiles Mats/Morgan’s earliest works but with a difference: These albums have been lovingly remixed, remastered, resequenced, and overdubbed by Morgan Ågren himself—they are virtually new offerings. Recorded in 1992 (Radio Da Da) and the years 1981-2008 (The Teenage Tapes), this compendium captures Mats/Morgan to some extent in embryonic phases, yet there’s nothing tentative or unfinished about its contents. Everything comes from someplace, and the genre-defying breadth of styles, bracing ideas, and high level of musicianship will appeal to both longtime followers of the group and neophytes, as well as fans of prog-rock and experimental rock in general.

Co-led by Swedish musicians Mats Öberg (keyboards) and Morgan Ågren (drums), Mats/Morgan remain one of the longest-running European bands (30 years!) in the sometimes-overlapping spheres of jazz fusion and progressive rock. The Mats/Morgan Band has released ten albums and played countless concerts and music festivals. Each has successful parallel careers as leaders and collaborators in a wide range of contexts. An internationally acclaimed drummer, Morgan frequently rates highly in drummers’ magazines’ polls worldwide. Morgan is one-third of a power-improv trio with Raoul Bjorkenheim and Bill Laswell that performs at festivals worldwide and recorded the album Blixt, a thorny, cathartic set released on Cuneiform in 2011. Öberg has performed and recorded with players the caliber of Denny Walley, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, and Bengt Berger’s Beches Brew.

Its sixth Mats/Morgan release, a two-disc set entitled Radio Da Da / The Teenage Tapes. This double-disc marks the American debut of Mats/Morgan’s second and third albums, both originally self-released in Sweden in 1998. Radio Da Da and The Teenage Tapes, augmented with previously unreleased material. On Disc One, Radio Da Da is Mats and Morgan performing nearly all instruments and vocals plus contributions from Thordson, Mussa, Jimmy Ågren, and more, augmented by two extra tracks. The brisk, snappy “Sigfrid” begins with some bracing Terry Riley/Phillip Glass minimalism before segueing into some searing, soaring keys-flights evocative of early electric-era Return To Forever. “Täljes Logan” and “Djungle Man” are likely inspired by Zappa’s more satirical songs, contrasting deceptively sweet melody with comically caustic dissonance, while “Kul I Parken” with its backwards melody, crisp percussion, and pulsing melodic motifs imparts a nightmarish, Tim Burton-like tone.

Disc Two: Teenage Tapes, which compiled the duo’s earliest works, including home and DIY recordings from as early as 1981. While the original Tapes contained 29 tracks, this edition has been expanded to 36 [!] tracks to include recordings up to and including 2008. Tapes seems relatively rough-hewn compared to Radio Da Da, yet never amateurish. Indeed, The Teenage Tapes finds the duo wise beyond their years, presenting playfully grandiose textures (the elemental, fugue-like “JP3”), thorny fusion, dream-pop interludes (“Wanna Dance?”), and gothic bebop (“Bandet Gär”). “Chicken Pie” pays tribute to the flamboyant proto-prog of Yes and Genesis while “Basflarp” is a stirring slice of Scandinavian funk, Billy Cobham and Stanley Clarke carving a niche in the Arctic Circle. While Teenage Tapes presents a band still finding its way, combining razor-sharp instrumental acumen with a puckish sense of humor, seeds of forthcoming greatness are already evident. “Bombonk” finds these youths blending the whimsical and the nightmarish with equal aplomb. “Foxtrot” (a nod to Genesis?) evokes post-Discipline King Crimson.

With the release of the double-CD Radio Da Da / Teenage Tapes, fans and novices will be able to go “forward” with Mats/Morgan in terms of a “new” opus to relish by jumping headfirst into the past via these hitherto-unheard (outside of Sweden) albums. Devotees of Rock In Opposition, the “old-school” prog of the Canterbury bands, fusion, and even commercial powerhouses Yes and Brand X will find vistas a-plenty to cherish.

Mats/Morgan, "Djungle Man" from  'Radio Da Da / The Teenage Tapes'

Rovo and System 7 - Hinotori (System 7 2013 Remix) (edit)

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Mats/Morgan, "Djungle Man" from 'Radio Da Da / The Teenage Tapes'

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