6 January 2008

company- fables (1980- incus 36) - flac


this too, was a lucky introduction to free improvised music.
bought on the same day as the previously posted fictions .. and the bailey/holland improvised duets on ecm(which i no longer own) this one was a real revelation and remains one of my favourite incus sets.
a very luminous album ..that hopefully may one day see the light of day once more.
the incus back catalog in disarray now that derek's gone
who knows..
fables incus 36- 1980
derek bailey -guitar
evan parker -soprano and tenor saxes
george lewis- trombone
dave holland -bass
side 1-
atg 4
atg 6
atg 3
side 2-
atg 13
atg 2
atg 9
if by any chance someone has the bailey/holland duets they could upload in either flac or 320 mp3 that would be wonderful!!
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32 comments:

  1. Anonymous6 January 2008 at 22:18:00 CET

    I'll happily up mp3s after I finish DLing, prob 320 or V0

    thanks, dipmong!

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  2. 10097 January 2008 at 01:08:00 CET

    the bailey/holland can be found here:

    http://tinyurl.com/32ecpb

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  3. Anonymous7 January 2008 at 02:40:00 CET

    thanks a 1000 times, sotise!! ;D

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  4. 10097 January 2008 at 03:45:00 CET

    and of course thank you!

    i was working on mp3s myself, but audacity is having a hell of a time with them (i.e. massive conversion times). normally audacity handles flac just fine, but these seem to be pretty heavy.

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  5. Anonymous7 January 2008 at 17:42:00 CET

    I lied, sorry, it's ogg V8 (256 target using oggdrop with the LPAC decoder which I really like, BTW)

    great sound for an 80 meg file

    http://sharebee.com/894a083e

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  6. 10098 January 2008 at 05:28:00 CET

    mp3s (@320):

    http://sharebee.com/8c278f40

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  7. kinabalu8 January 2008 at 21:58:00 CET

    Sotise,

    thanks for the flacs. I think I'll pass up the mp3s this time. By the way, a good programme for audio conversions is the Easy CD-DA Extractor. It's not free, but it's really a Swiss army knife of tools for handling digital files.

    Listening to this, I sense that there is a very thin border line between what may be called "new music" or "contemporary (art) music" and this. The former tends to be composed whereas this, I would guess, is basically improvised. How to tell the difference?

    I would be interested to hear some electric Bailey, if possible. I have the two discs he made with the Japanese duo The Ruins as well as one with Bill Laswell and Tony Williams, from his "New York - period", when he became acquainted with the "downtown" scene ...

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  8. 10099 January 2008 at 01:41:00 CET

    try this one for the mp3s:

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8MS4GCYC


    i had some luck using winamp + itunes.

    i've never quite understood the distinction btw electric bailey & acoustic bailey. as far as i know it's the same guitar, just that he uses the volume pedal to occasionally put the signal through the amp (to varying degrees), while occasionally playing w/o amplification. most of his stuff seamlessly goes back & forth (as one would expect given that the volume pedal is bailey's usual weapon).

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  9. Anonymous11 January 2008 at 14:28:00 CET

    Sotise,

    Thanks a lot for this marvellous record. Parker and Bailey were a great pair in the early days until something happened ...

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  10. Anonymous11 January 2008 at 14:52:00 CET

    Thanks for the post, this looks great.

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  11. Anonymous11 January 2008 at 19:13:00 CET

    Brilliant; I love this record, but had not heard it in years; you post great stuff, and as I have trouble with all the FLAC/Ogg things, I particularly appreciate when there is an mp3 option. Thanks again.

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  12. Anonymous11 January 2008 at 19:27:00 CET

    Thanks for this and the Garbarek. I think John Litweiler's maddening book 'The Freedom Principle' recommended this as one of the best examples of the Company shctick in the chapter on 'Free Jazz In Europe' (how odd to think of a book from 1982 devoting so little to something that looks so large for even US avant-Jazz afficionados now), which was evern more maddening cos I couldn't lay hands on it circa 1987-88.

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  13. Anonymous11 January 2008 at 21:45:00 CET

    Thanks for this - an important piece of work.

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  14. SOTISE14 January 2008 at 08:03:00 CET

    thankxs to all for your participation.. special thanks to
    hideo, 1009 for the uploads.
    reimer, nice to see you here.. i agree this is one of the great free improv albums of that or any era.. as good as sme at their best ..(for me anyway)

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  15. Anonymous14 January 2008 at 08:08:00 CET

    FUCK YOU SOTISE YOU CUNT!
    YOU PRETENTIOUS GIT THIS MUSIC IS SHITE.
    IN FACT IT AINT EVEN MUSIC.
    MORE REAL SOUNDS A LA JOE HARRIOTT PLEASE!

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  16. Anonymous14 January 2008 at 10:55:00 CET

    Regarding the above , what can you say?
    Ironic, that after the childish invective, he finishes with "Please"!
    Keep up the good work, Sotise, and all.

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  17. Anonymous15 January 2008 at 17:02:00 CET

    Corregir su antipatía
    Solemos aborrecer de grado, y aun antes de las previstas prendas. Y tal vez se atreve esta inata vulgarizante aversión a los varones eminentes. Corríjala la cordura, que no ai peor descrédito que aborrecer a los mejores: lo que es de ventaja la simpatía con Héroes es de desdoro la antipatía.

    Nunca quexarse
    La quexa siempre trae descrédito. Más sirve de exemplar de atrevimiento a la passión que de consuelo a la compassión. Abre el passo a quien la oye para lo mismo, y es noticia del agravio del primero disculpa del segundo. Dan pie algunos con sus quexas de las ofensiones passadas a las venideras, y pretendiendo remedio o consuelo, solicitan la complacencia, y aun el desprecio. Mejor política es celebrar obligaciones de unos para que sean empeños de otros, y el repetir favores de los ausentes es solicitar los de los presentes, es vender crédito de unos a otros. Y el varón atento nunca publique ni desaires ni defectos, sí estimaciones, que sirven para tener amigos y de contener enemigos.

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  18. intempestif26 January 2008 at 09:09:00 CET

    This is the best Incus release I've ever heard! What a surprise, I'm really lost for words here. My top 5 Incus list will look like this now:
    1. Fables
    2. Ode (London Jazz Composer's Orchestra/Barry Guy)
    3. Topography of Lungs
    4. From saxophone and trombone (E.Parker/G.Lewis)
    5. Music improvisation company
    Also, both Lot 74 and Taps by Derek Bailey.
    Thank you again for making this great music available.

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  19. serviceton13 February 2008 at 11:22:00 CET

    Surely the chap above ("F*CK YOU SOTISE YOU C*%T!") is one of sotise's nearest and dearest friends ?...
    At any rate, many many thanks for Company: Fables. The mp3s are still up (mid-Feb 08), though ogg & flac look like they have gone to god. No matter.
    Fantastic!

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  20. Sheesh Kabeesh18 February 2008 at 15:46:00 CET

    Thanks for this - keep them coming

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  21. Anonymous17 May 2008 at 16:49:00 CEST

    thanks for posting this! as of May 2008 the flac links are working.

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  22. Anonymous28 February 2009 at 12:27:00 CET

    Thank you. This is a genuine gem!

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  23. Gordon Forman15 August 2009 at 20:23:00 CEST

    I downloaded this quite a while ago and listened to it a few times and forgot about it. I listened to it yesterday and was amazed again. There is so much going on. Thanks

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  24. Phonemes19 September 2010 at 15:17:00 CEST

    Thank you for uploading this. I am listening to this now and liking it very much.

    The second flac link was dead, but I managed to track down the correct one. If you want this in flac, use these three links:

    http://rs141tl2.rapidshare.com/files/81606483/comp_fab.part1.rar
    http://rs249.rapidshare.com/files/81679606/comp_fab.part2.rar
    http://rs266l32.rapidshare.com/files/81607712/comp_fab.part3.rar

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  25. bruitiste16 November 2012 at 17:42:00 CET

    All gone... any chance of a re-up please?

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  26. anton16 March 2013 at 19:29:00 CET

    could i kindly request for someone to re-post the new links? i think they got deleted in a recent mishap as posted by sotise!

    a

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  27. SOTISE17 March 2013 at 11:15:00 CET

    FLAC...PICS
    https://mega.co.nz/#!gV8nER4Z!ViMzaXBv4_yIqyIyKShGdxKyASkSaAoU4RytjBkjcg0

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  28. anton17 March 2013 at 17:00:00 CET

    thanks you for that,

    a

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  29. akaboshi1416 January 2016 at 08:47:00 CET

    Someone please repost the files!

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  30. Miklos20 August 2016 at 07:15:00 CEST

    Any chance of a re-up? Can't wait to listen to this. Thanks!

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  31. mew231 March 2018 at 19:48:00 CET

    Re-up of the original flac rip
    https://1fichier.com/?s40a1gigun

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  32. francisco santos10 December 2018 at 11:07:00 CET

    BIG THX!...

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