Sunn O))) + Om - Koko, Camden, London - Monday, 14 December 2009

Sunn O))) + Om
Koko, Camden, London
Monday, 14 December 2009

We had been to an office party earlier so were late arriving and I only caught the last piece by Om.

http://rapidshare.com/files/322745094/OM_2009-12-14.mp3


Sunn O)))

01 prelude
This is my title for a piece of pre-recorded orchestral music that was played before Sunn O))) appeared. It was fairly quiet and you will hear a lot of chatter over the top of it - more chatter than music in fact.
02 Agharta (now I've actually bought the CD, I know the set was basically Monoliths & Dimensions and Agharta is only a part of that)
Sorry if you were hoping to burn this to CD. Even if you get rid of the prelude, the set runs to just over 80 minutes without a break.

http://rapidshare.com/files/322766267/2009-12-14_Sunn.rar

I have a few video clips as well. I'll try and get round to uploading them one day. (Well I'll only upload them if anyone asks. I was quite far away and the dry ice effects were a bit OTT so you can't see much anyway.)
11 August 2012.  Image added.  It is no included in the downloads.

UPDATE 31/07/2015

The Sunn O)) set - along with many of their other shows - is now available for download here:
https://sunn-live.bandcamp.com/

OM
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/kvq1s3m6tjbjp34/OM_at_KOKO_2009.mp3

The Original Harry Partch Instruments, 27 November 1998

The Original Harry Partch Instruments

'American Pioneers' series

Barbican Centre, London

Friday, 27 November 1998

Dean Drummond & Newband

01 Partch: Five verses from

And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma

02 Drummond: Before the Last Laugh

03 Partch: Daphne of the Dunes

04 Drummond: Dance of the Seven Veils

05 Partch: Castor and Pollux

http://rapidshare.com/files/306685988/Harry_Partch_Instruments_1998-11-27.rar

Post-concert Q&A session with Dean Drummond (incomplete)

http://rapidshare.com/files/306669013/Harry_Partch_Instruments_1998-11-27_Q_A.mp3

Programme scan

NB. The programme covered six separate performances. I have scanned here only the pages relating to this particular concert

http://rapidshare.com/files/306666612/Harry_Partch_1998-11-27_programme.rar

City of London Sinfonia, 26 November 1998

Cit of London Sinfonia, conductor Marin Alsop

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)

Stephen Stirling (horn)

BBC Singers

Barbican, London

First Set

Zappa - The Perfect Stranger

Zappa - Dupree's Paradise

Babbitt - Around the Horn

Crawford-Seeger- Three American Songs

http://rapidshare.com/files/298272321/City_of_London_Sinfonia_1998-11-26_First_Set.rar

Second Set

Reich - The Desert Music

http://rapidshare.com/files/298295990/City_of_London_Sinfonia_1998-11-26_Second_Set.rar

Programme

http://rapidshare.com/files/298256813/CLS_1998-11-26_programme.rar

Ornette Coleman - 21 June 2009

Ornette Coleman
Reflections of This is Our Music
Ornette Coleman's Meltdown
Royal Festival Hall, London
Sunday, 21 June 2009

First Set
Bachir Attar and The Master Musicians of Jajouka
http://www.mediafire.com/download/99470u9slwy5ayy/Bachir_Attar_%26_The_Master_Musicians_of_Jajouka_2009-06-21.rar


Second Set
Ornette Coleman (alto sax, trumpet, violin)
Al MacDowell (bass guitar)
Tony Falanga (double bass)
Denardo Coleman (drums)

01 introduction
02 Follow the Sound
03
04
05
06 Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
07 Turnaround
enter Flea (bass guitar)
08
09 The Rite of Spring - with Baba Maal (vocal)
10
11
12 Dancing in Your Head
13 with Bachir Attar & The Master Musicians of Jajouka
14
15 Lonely Woman - with Charlie Haden (bass)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/7iv2aenfm91kdsn/Ornette_Coleman_2009-06-21.rar

Both re-upped 25/09/2015

Sorry but I am not overly familiar with Ornette Coleman's work and have relied on press reviews to identify titles. If you can fill in any of the blanks, please leave a comment or contact me direct.

Glenn Branca Electric Guitar Swarm, Barbican, London, 31 October 1998

First, a general comment. As I have said before, I still have several years worth of recordings to digitise and upload. Identifying all the performers and titles, adding and labelling track markers, scanning in any programmes etc. all takes time. So from here on in, I am likely to just upload the recording as it stands, with little editing beyond noise filtering. If you can add any information, please feel free to leave a comment.

My portable cassette recorder was starting to show its age and was becoming temperamental. So I have only four segments of the concert - none of them complete - totalling just over 1 hour. For a review, see http://www.glennbranca.com/reviews2.html

The four segments are:

John Myers' Blastula - announcement and first few minutes only
Wharton Tier's set - incomplete
Phil Kline 'Chant' - incomplete
Glenn Branca, Symphony No. 12 Tonal Sexus - start missing

So this is a flawed recording of symphony No. 12, but I think it is the best available at the moment. It has not been commercially released and I have not found any unofficial recordings anwhere.

http://rapidshare.com/files/278744411/Electric_Guitar_Swarm__1999-10-31.rar

(Apologies but the files are dated 1999 instead of 1998 in error.)

Ivor Cutler, 23rd June 1997

"A Wet Handle"
Part of Laurie Anderson's Meltdown
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Monday, 23rd June 1997

First Set
01 applause
02 Doing the Bathroom - Episode Two
03 You Call That Living?
04 On Holiday
05 The Taste of Gunny
06 A Blunt Yashmak
07 The Kiddies
08 The Specific Sundry
09 Just Listen
10 they were going to give me a tumbler...
11 I'm Happy (song)
12 I'm Going in a Field (song) C#
13 I Had a Little Boat (song)
14 Jam (song)
15 Doing the Bathroom - Episode Four - The Qually
16 A Great Albatross
17 A Bird
18 Half and Half
19 Squeaky
20 Oddly Comforting
21 An Original Sweet
22 The Whole Forest
23 She Ran Off
24 Little Hetty
25 Good Morning, How Are You, Shut Up (song)
26 Shoplifters (song)
27 A Suck of My Thumb (song) G
28 I checked up...
29 Out With The Light

Second Set
01 I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong
02 Doing the Bathroom - Episode One
03 I was talking to one or two people...
04 A Loaf of Bread
05 By The Bush
06 My Vest
07 The Thatcher Generation
08 My Disposition
09 It's Stupid
10 Goosey
11 Deedle, Deedly, I Pass (song)
12 Down and Up (song)
13 A Bubble or Two (song)
14 Darling, Will You Marry Me Twice (song)
15 When It Wants
16 Her Zimmer
17 The Farmer's Wife
18 Bets
19 Just in Time
20 The Breaking Point
21 Spring Back
22 Hell
23 A Man
24 The Place
25 Hello Explore
26 Mud (song)
27 A Great Grey Grasshopper (song)
28 What Have You Got (song)
29 A Wooden Tree
30 announcements
31 I'm Walking to a Farm
32 Thank you...

http://www.mediafire.com/download/e802n8sdwbcu70o/1997-06-23_Ivor_Cutler_First_Set_%40320.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/gtb3q839blz7gzs/1997-06-23_Ivor_Cutler_Second_Set_%40320.zip
RE-UPPED 17/05/2016



I have more stuff from Laurie Anderson's Meltdown to follow - eventually...

Leonard Barras - the missing episodes

Further to my post of 1 January, I am indebted to Bruce Goatly for filling the gaps with the following:

Eva and Adamson
Part 4 - Either That or Bursitis; Achieving the Unintelligible
(This corrects the title previously given)

Sideways a Bit
The first few words ("The trouble with Tully was...") are unfortunately missing and the next phrase ("nobody ever listened to him.") is muffled because it was at the start of the cassette.

UPDATE - post of 3 February 2012 "Flummoxed Four Times" also includes a re-edit of "Sideways a Bit" with the missing first sentence reinstated.
UPDATE - 18 August 2009

I recently got hold of a copy of the book "Up the Tyne in a Flummox" (you should be able to pick it up cheaply on Amazon). It states that "The various pieces collected in this volume were broadcast on Radio 4 between 1982 and 1986". (The earliest Barras recording I have was first broadcast in 1983, but I believe "Sideways a Bit" was from 1982. Outaspaceman [a keen champion of LB] has suggested there was an earlier series called "Up the Tyne in a Flummox", which would seem logical since I have "Further..." and "Even Further...")

The book includes "Certain Vicissitudes" (a one-off episode), all of "Very Likely" and three quarters of "Further up the Tyne in a Flummox". There are also four titles for which I do not have recordings, viz

A Fearful Conflagration
A Poultice for a Post
Public Exposures
The Finger in the Filing Cabinet

So it seems that the quest for Barras recordings is not yet over.

I tried a Google search for - Barras "A Fearful Conflagration". Nothing led me to "Up the Tyne in a Flummox", but there were a number of hits on Romanian websites, from which it appears the book was translated into Romanian with the title "Iubire in bataia vintului" i.e. Love in a Windy Place. (I'm not sure if there is a direct Romanian equivalent of "flummox".) Here is an example http://anticariat.net/carti/62551/Iubire-in-bataia-vintului-BARRAS-Leonard

"Wallsend Amnesia" looks even funnier in translation! Note the reviewer compares Barras to Chesterton. I look forward to hearing from LB devotees in Romania.

UPDATE. Dead download links removed. Please see post of 16 June 2015 for a complte set of recordings.