10 January 2020

WOLFGANG DAUNER - 1935 - 2020


Another great one has left us

R.I.P.
Wolfgang Dauner *December 30, 1935 in Stuttgart - † January 10, 2020 in Stuttgart.

6 January 2020

Naxos Orchestra - Coexist, Live At Polin



The orchestra Naxos is a unique project - by Milo Kurtis, who together with Konstanty Joriadis created a team gathering prominent artists from Syria, Yemen, Greece, Israel and Poland, where musicians settled permanently. Poland is a response to the popular trend in the world of culture and combining musical genres called world music. It combines the culture of the Balkans and the Middle East, the Mediterranean roots of most artists. The originator and founder of Naxos is a tireless seeker of new sounds - Milo Kurtis - Maanam co-founder, member of Ossian, Israel, Voo Voo and other iconic Polish teams. A multi-instrumentalist, playing on all kinds of ethnic instruments from around the world. Greek origin, for which Poland has become a place to stay, the same as America, where he lived a dozen years. It is in fact an advocate of a world without borders. Not only the music.

Naxos orchestra is composed by 9 persons. Artists are dressed in black, white Milo, Arabic galabii.
May 10, 2015 at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN, took place  a recorded live concert Orchestra. Thanks to the enthusiastic response of the concert audience, atmosphere was exceptional. This is the first album recorded in POLIN Museum.
http://www.gesle.folk.pl/?&akcja=szczegoly&rok=2016&id=52
automatic translation from polish


Milo Kurtis - clarinet, trumpet, percussions
Konstanty Joriadis - keyboards
Rasm Al-Mashan - vocals
Apostolis Anthimos - guitar
Lena Romul - saxophone
Piotr Olszewski - bass
Kamil Siciak - percussions
Adeb Chamoun - darbouka, riqq
Anna Patynek - percussions
Michał Przytuła - sound?

01 - Welcome to the Trip
02 -  Kostis
03 - Kostas
04 - Milo's Soul
05 - Tamina
06 - Ethnofunk
07 - Sen Konstantyna
08 - Goris
09 - Pondos
10 - Epilog
11 - Ta-Ma-Ra

total time 63'37''

recorded may 10, 2015, at Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw

MILO 302, CD
2015

2 January 2020

HUGH HOPPER MONSTER BAND :: French Tour 1974



Shortlived Monster Band was probably first HH's attempt to work with two bass format, what he did most succesfully many years later with Hughscore. The band sounds strong on Paris recording and also on unknown piece from Bordeaux, pairing of Elton Dean and Lol Cohxill works very well. Rest of audience recording from Poitiers I am sharing for posterity only (as it was seeded alltogether on Dime by our freind Propylaen in 2o12), because the amount of backround noise on these is really boring. First 4 recordings went through my mastering with much better result. Also included is single track of Paris FM recording from different source, which has some damage throughout, but is more complete and clean than Propylaen's version.


HUGH HOPPER MONSTER BAND - FRENCH TOUR 1974

1. Facelift (6:45)
2. Golden Section (7:50)
3. Lily Kong (5:34)
4. Oyster Perpetual (4:24)
5. Facelift (6:38)
6. Golden Section (7:32)
7. Oyster Perpetual  (4:23)
8. Sliding Dogs (4:46)
9. Lily Kong (fades out) (1:29)

1-3 Paris 12 March 1974, José Arthur's Pop Club, Bar Noir de la Maison de la Radio, FM
4 Bordeaux 20 March 1974 (same show as official LP - unreleased track), SBD
5-9 Poitiers 16 March 1974, Kosmess '74 Festival, Les Arčnes de Poitiers, AUD

Hugh Hopper - bass
Elton Dean - alto sax & saxello
Lol Coxhill - soprano sax
Jean-Pierre Carolfi - keyboards
Jean-Pierre Weiller - bass
Laurie Allan - drums (1-3, 5-9)
Mike Travis - drums (4)

Received in a trade many years ago.
CDR > EAC (secure) > WAV > FLAC (L8)
Uploaded to DIME by propylaen in November 2012.
Remastered and converted to FLAC (L5) by miloo2, January 2o19.

Enjoy!