3 July 2008

Joe McPhee "The Willisau Concert" (1975, hat Hut B) FLAC & MP3-320

To complement Dale & Wallofsound recent McPhee posts, here is the second Hat Hut release. Standing between "Black Magic Man" and "Tenor" is not an easy place for a record in a discography but this one fits quite well. The formation is a trio, with McPhee playing tenor and soprano, John Snyder on synthesizer and processed voice, and South African Makaya Ntshoko on drums. For those who don't like synthesizers, be warned that it is not used here as a gimmick or as decoration. It has a very big, uncompressed sound typical of the experiments of the 70's and at times it feels like it is the center point of the music, at least in terms of sound mass.

It has been a long time since I posted on Inconstant Sol so expect a lot of nice material in the near future. In the meantime, hope you enjoy this one.

Pierre


Note : I wanted to post K. Curtis Lyle & Julius Hemphill until now very rare "Collected Poems for Blind Lemon Jefferson" M'Bari LP as a complement to "Dogon A.D." but I found out that it has been reissued by Ikef records. The label does not seem to have a web site but is widely distributed.
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19 comments:

  1. nad31704 July 2008 at 00:03:00 CEST

    MP3-320 :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/126841100/hat_Hut_B_MP3-320.rar.html

    FLAC :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/126884832/hat_Hut_B.part1.rar.html
    http://rapidshare.com/files/126888848/hat_Hut_B.part2.rar.html
    http://rapidshare.com/files/126891438/hat_Hut_B.part3.rar.html

    High definition scans in both archives.

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  2. dalemcbdnl4 July 2008 at 06:05:00 CEST

    Go going Pierre. Thanks for filling the gap.

    Dale

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  3. lc4 July 2008 at 07:16:00 CEST

    merci beaucoup Pierre!

    si les choses à venir sont de cette qualité, je risque de rester vissé à mon écran d'ordinateur...

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  4. dalemcbdnl4 July 2008 at 12:02:00 CEST

    Hey Pierre, I meant "good" going. I'm a horrible typist!

    I was looking at my LP cover and I think the 1st tune on side B is titled: "Bahamiam Folksong".

    By the way thanks for the FLAC on this one. Often MP3s are good enough but not in this case.

    Dale

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  5. dalemcbdnl4 July 2008 at 12:04:00 CEST

    Still misspelled it!!! Darn it.

    That's "Bahamian Folksong."

    Dale

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  6. nad31705 July 2008 at 00:29:00 CEST

    IMPORTANT : DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE RIP I POSTED, AFTER LISTENING TO IT I FOUND OUT IT WAS VERY FLAWED (digital clicks). THIS APPLY TO BOTH VERSIONS. I'LL REDO A CLEAN RIP TONIGHT AND WILL POST NEW LINKS.

    Pierre

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  7. nad31705 July 2008 at 17:47:00 CEST

    MP2-320 :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/127339187/hat_Hut_B_MP3-320.rar.html

    FLAC :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/127312664/hat_Hut_B.part1.rar.html
    http://rapidshare.com/files/127319641/hat_Hut_B.part2.rar.html
    http://rapidshare.com/files/127331352/hat_Hut_B.part3.rar.html

    Here are the links to the redone rip. Clean one this time, sorry to all for the mistake.

    Dale,
    In fact I had hard times deciphering the hand writing on the cover. It make more sense that it is "Bahamian" than "Baliamian" though. But Bahamian as in Bahamas ???

    And would you happen to have the next volume in this series (Rotation) ? I heard it is quite good.

    Pierre

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  8. SOTISE6 July 2008 at 16:26:00 CEST

    pierre ,thanks alot for this its a great album which until recently ive only been able to hear from an mp3 160k source .. nice to have the upgrade and the original covers.
    best
    m

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  9. dalemcbdnl7 July 2008 at 04:27:00 CEST

    Hello Pierre...Yes, I have a copy of "Rotation" and I will try to get my friend to digitize it very soon. He does a good job but he's kind of busy so it might be a week or so before he can get around to it.

    Does Bahamian suggest Bahamas? Probably; that would be a reasonable assumption but I don't REALLY know.

    hatHut cover art was kind of funky during those early years but it was distinctive and I liked it. They remind me a little bit (in both senses) of early ICPs OR, for that matter, the much later "Screwgun" stuff by Berne -- "artistic" and often a little hard to read.

    Dale

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  10. nad31707 July 2008 at 23:04:00 CEST

    Great Dale, is "Rotation" as good as the others in the series ?

    If "Bahamian" does reffer to the Bahamas, the question is : does Bahamian folk music necesseraily includes ryhtmic sequences coming from a synthesizer ? Hehe, who knows ?

    Pierre

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  11. Anonymous9 July 2008 at 02:36:00 CEST

    Thanks so much for this, and for offering it in flac. I look forward to hearing it.

    --martini

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  12. Anonymous15 July 2008 at 03:13:00 CEST

    Many - many thanks Pierre & all! This is magnificent.

    

I saw Joe McPhee in Montreal this past Winter in a free concert part of festival in an art gallery. He was with the trio Undersound (with Dominic Duval on bass & John Heward on drums). Very strong concert, combining totally free moment with some moving citation(s) of Ayler in the whole. I shook his hand after the concert, manifested my deep love and interests and talked to him about his recent collaborations ("Two Bands & A Legend", "Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee") and reissues on Atavistic [http://www.atavistic.com/artist_details.php?id=85&c=M]. He told me that those reissues were very successful and - most important! - others are coming in the same collection. He also confirmed me that his concert (wich you can see on Youtube) at the Molde Jazz festival in 2007 with drummer Paal Nilssen-Love will be officialy release in the near future.



    Great man and musician. One of the top right now... on earth! Cheers.

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  13. Martin Carrizo17 July 2008 at 03:15:00 CEST

    Hello, I got to this important blog through jazz nekko place. First of all, thank you so much for this important post. I'd like to let you know that side b, second song (I mean B2) is missing in the flac files. Regards.

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  14. Martin Carrizo3 August 2008 at 00:21:00 CEST

    Sorry, the problem was with my "unraring" because a download failure, I believe. I downloaded the files again and everything is in place. Beautiful (and important) record. Thanks a lot again.

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  15. Anonymous1 October 2008 at 15:51:00 CEST

    to cut the matter short: this simply is one of the best sites I've ever found in the internet, a ray op hope in the dark!

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  16. luomosa6 March 2009 at 16:15:00 CET

    Hi nad thank you for this one

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  17. Daniel Karrer14 June 2013 at 12:43:00 CEST

    Hi again!
    Would you please consider a repost? I have just discovered this marvelous artist!

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  18. Unknown20 September 2013 at 09:56:00 CEST

    Hi.
    Could you upload it again?
    Thanks

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  19. funksta17 February 2018 at 22:14:00 CET

    Reup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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