Rescue, 5 July 1997

Rescue Gala Performance in aid of War Child Part of Laurie Anderson's Meltdown Royal Festival Hall, London Saturday, 5th July 1997 First Set 01 Yungchen Lhamo - Lam Dorje Chang 02 Youngchen Lhamo - Om Mani Padme Hum 03 Yungchen Lhamo with Bill T. Jones - Ari-Lo 04 Salman Rushdie - Reading from The Satanic Verses 05 Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles - American Planes, Wind 06 Lou Reed - They're Taking Her Children Away 07 Lou Reed - Talking Book 08 Lou Reed - Into the Divine 09 Lou Reed - Rescue Night 10 Michael Nyman - uncredited piece - incomplete 

 Second Set 01 Electra Strings - Company (Philip Glass) 02 Laurie Anderson - Civil Wars Act 5, Scene C (Philip Glass) 03 Ryuichi Sakamoto Electra Strings - Untitled 01a 04 Robert Wilson - Civils Wars, Act 5, Scene B (Philip Glass) 05 Hector Zazou - False 06 Hector Zazou - Brave 07 Laurie Anderson - When the Jackals Sing

Much of this music was - and still is - otherwise unfamiliar to me. I have titled the pieces as best I can based on the programme, but apologies if I have got anything wrong. 

New link 4 March 2021

https://www.mediafire.com/file/532ykfi9p0xacan/Rescue_1997-07-05.zip/file

Laurie Anderson, 30 June 1997

Laurie Anderson's Meltdown
Speed of Darkness
Royal Festival Hall, London
Monday, 30 June 1997

Dancing in the moonlight with her wigwam hair
Royal Festival Hall Ballroom
29 May - 6 July 1997

Apologies for the rubbish sound on Speed of Darkness. The microphone obviously wasn't connected properly and there is only a faint hiss on the right channel. If anyone out there is knowledgeable about Magix Audio Cleaning Lab and can guide me on how to remove the right channel, please get in touch. It ran as a continuous performance; the split into parts one and two is just happenstance where I had to change tapes.

"Dancing in the moonlight.." was an installation. This recording was made on 5th July. At the end, you will hear part of the free event going on there as I emerge from the installation into the foyer.

01 Speed of Darkness - Part One
http://rapidshare.com/files/450087378/LA-SoD-1997-1.rar

02 Speed of Darkness - Part Two
03 Dancing in the moonlight with her wigwam hair

http://rapidshare.com/files/450087196/LA-SoD-1997-2.rar

Links re-upped 27 February 2011

Laurie Anderson and Friends, 26 June 1997

Laurie Anderson's Meltdown
Laurie Anderson and Friends
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Thursday, 26 June 1997

Note. Zero the Counter listed in the programme was a static display with no corresponding audio

First Set
01 Laurie Anderson - Difficult Listening Hour
02 Ken Nordine & Howard Levy - The Movie
03 Laurie Anderson - Chu Lu Lu
04 Ken Nordine & Charles Amirkhanian - The Interview
05 Laurie Anderson - Automatic Voices
06 Ken Nordine, Laurie Anderson, Lu Edmonds, Howard Levey - Mr and Mrs God
07 Lu Edmonds, Howard Levy, Laurie Anderson - Call On Line One
http://rapidshare.com/files/450125333/LAAF-1997-1.rar
Second Set
01 Ivor Cutler - poems from A Wet Handle
02 Ivor Cutler - Jam
03 Ivor Cutler - A Suck of my Thumb
04 Ivor Cutler - Down and Up
05 Ivor Cutler - A Bubble or Two
06 Ken Nordine etc. - Seven Ways of the Seven Days
07 Arto Lindsay, Vinicius Cantuaria - A Few Songs
08 Laurie Anderson - Crime and Punishment
09 Charles Amirkhanian - Dumbek Bookache
10 Charles Amirkhanian - Church Car
11 Charles Amirkhanian - Dutiful Ducks
12 Ben Ponton - Re-Mix (incomplete)
http://rapidshare.com/files/450133077/LAAF-1997-2.rar
Tape ran out so lost The Wildebeest

27 February 2011 links re-upped.

Terry Riley, 23 October 1998

Terry Riley, Jarvis Cocker, Members of Pulp, Smith String Quartet
American Pioneers
Barbican, London

Friday, 23 October 1998

First Set
01 Terry Riley - announcements
02 Terry Riley - Keyboard Study No 2 for piano
03 Smith String Quartet - Good Medicine
04 Terry Riley - announcements
05 Terry Riley - MissiGono

http://rapidshare.com/files/325560948/Terry_Riley_1998-10-23_first_set__320.rar

Second Set
06 announcements, applause etc.
07 In C (end missing)

http://rapidshare.com/files/325942885/Terry_Riley_1998-10-23_second_set__320.rar

In C lasted over one hour so it overran the available tape length

You will notice there is missing track 06. This is the introduction to In C. Owing to some technical glitch which I have not yet been able to fathom, this track was skipped in the conversion to mp3. On balance, I have decided to go with what I've got, rather than spend days trying to get to the bottom of the problem. You really aren't missing much.

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