couw

thanks bo, but rather thank sheldon for that awesome pic!

GREAT pics! toyed around with the first one as I really like it A LOT

BIG Tardi fan here. For Hans: that's "De Laatste der Laatsten" in Dutch translation, a good one. Purely from a Tardi perspective, this is somewhat like a cross between the Malet (Nestor Burma) books and the Guerre des Tranches (Loopgravenoorlog) stuff: defeatist detective story really; much like the Griffu, but with strong ties to the whole WW1 preoccupation The guy has an amazing line

...and if you do decide to make a comp, please include Blue Roll by RRKirk (RipRigPanic/Edith [latter actually]) just for fegging with your victim. This one is INSANE. It still drives me up the wall after all these years. Jump up from whatever your sitting, standing, lying, or kneeing on and DANCE the room till it shakes baby! Wooo! I included it on a comp for someone who hadn't had much exposure to jazz and she loved it A LOT. The other tracks were more predictable, rather cool generally, the smoother stuff. Started with Vince Guaraldi - Oh Good Grief, ended with Trane doing Welcome though...

I have listened to this set several times now and spend some qualitiy listening time with it (in the train, doing walkies, and I even found a nowadays rare moment to actually sit on the couch in the sweet spot). First off, I have to agree with Hans: in general the drums/percussion part is too loud. On some tracks it's quite okay, but on a track like Back Together... (tr. 3) I notice too much drums and too little saxophone. And things being as they are, I do tend to focus on Anderson's tenor and less on Hamid's percussion if I want to hear the meat of the story. This is rather a mixed bag for me to be frank. I really like some of the tracks; track one (with its references to Softly...sunrise; this may be my silly ears & reference) is a great opener. Track two is probably my favourite with its long nicely spun lines that paint a haunting story of nostalgic sadness; listening intently to this track is really like browsing an ancient photo book. Absolutely marvellous. Then, track three is much too erratic I find. Drake's drums/percussion is much too prominent and doesnot really seem to provide and anchor for Anderson to develop any story upon. So he resorts to short melodic bursts, none of which really seems to take off and take direction. Only after six and really only after 10 minutes or so it all tones down a bit and Anderson zones in and makes it all work. Maybe too much focus is laid on the mesmerising qualities of the drums/percussion. Anderson seems drawn in himself at times and resort to real short burst of... well just bursts really. Listen to track 6 where in spite of the cool percussion, there is no meat to speak of melodically. This track almost sounds like one of these nu-jazz turntable things, which can be very nice in their own right, but it is a bit out of place after all that these two have shown to be capable of. Somehow this IS very nice really, but also a bit of a let down. Unlike Hans, I really like the final track with the chanting. Overall, this still is really great music. It holds a larger promise than it delivers, however, and that sort of messes with its enjoyment. I am sure that repeated listening (spinning right now and liking track 3 much more than previously) will get me used to the shortcomings and focus on the strengths more. Because there are many of those here and I am really glad I got this disk.

hiding eh? let me guess... erm... you're behind the lamp! no? you're under the chair! no? I give up... anybody seen dan? he's hiding.

Oh, and I believe the Céline book w/ Tardi illustrations has recently been republished.

You're absolutely right, Céline was indeed a despicable character. As for "Journey to the End of the Night", I also plead guilty... I have the edition with the wonderful illustrations by Jacques Tardi. Not to be missed. you mean you don't have the other two volumes w/ Tardi illustration (Mort a credit & Casse Pipe)? Heheheh, the puking on the boat scene of Mort is hilarious! I have quite a collection of LFC books. Very impressive writer. A despicable guy in real life I know, but the anti-semitism doesn't show in his fiction works (not talking about the pamphlets here!) LFC did not write political books, he wrote books on society and other made their politics with it (notably the communists between WW1 & 2). BB did not make political films, so I can enjoy her films without being bothered by her politics too much. They do bother me though in both cases. Riefenstahl made political films, it is hard to judge her on artistic merit alone.

I think it is only available as Japanese import at the moment. There appears to have been a CD early in the 90s. I'll enjoy from the sideline, patience will bring it my way some day.

I wonder why I have never picked this one up I don't believe I have ever encountered it, it would have been in the bag with a cover like that! more better bigger picture here

maybe the people who made the list want to be ON the list themselves

I just received two of the regular Wewerka disks: Unforgettable Ronnie Ross and Night Bounce, although there is some uneveness in the sound quality between the different sessions, even on the same disk (levels, stereo stage, instrument placement) these have very nice sound indeed and offer superb music

it has to do with the alignment of the head-gap on the tape recorder/player. This should be exactly perpendicular to the direction of the tape, if not, there is a delay in the sound reproduced, the sound is smeared. This is most noticeable in higher frequencies. It results in swooshing cymbals for example. It's rather complicated as it means both the tape recorder AND the tape player need equal head alignment, of both head gaps in case of stereo.

with love from maren & couw

ah yes, our little town has one too. you can steer it yourself. http://www.stralsund.de/hst/de/infopool.nsf/html/webcamseite

midnight & all's well

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find them organ grooves already? more in the archives

purdy kewl indeed...

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thanks for posting that Larry. Now you really got me interested in this. .. (BTW: there's a typo in the second paragraph where "became" should read "become")

I shall check as I have both on CD now, but the site mike listed mentions an awful lot of recordings of Leo during '66 and '67.

correct me if I am wrong please: - Manifestation is heard only on Cosmic Music and has some ugly edits - Reverend King is also on CM and sounds all fine and dandy there (to me). - Peace on Earth is available in overdubbed form on Infinity and without overdubs on Jupiter Variation - Leo is only available in overdubbed and probably edited form on Infinity Does anyone have both the overdubbed and non-overdubbed version of PoEarth? How do these compare and how 'bad' are the overdubs/New bass parts? If Manifestation and Leo are excerpts from one longer performance, how do these two compare, also with respect to the overdubs? (Trane seems to have recorded quite many versions of Leo in 66 and 67 BTW.) final question: why o why o why?

shouldn't that read TLB? we split up when shopping. I do my record/CD/book/whatever hunting and she goes for shoes. She knows I want to do things much more purposefully than strolling through the streets for hours on end trailing behind big people with big bags blocking the way and not keeping even their way too slow tempo anywhere near constant. I hate that, I am one of those slender fast guys that slips through the masses and heads for where it's at.

the same shade of peachy pink in the background on that page... surreal!