Jesse

A pure beauty by Scott Walker - a song included in "Drift" opus , one of my best CD in 2006

Nose holes caked in black cocaine

Pow! Pow!

No one holds a match to your skin
No dupe
No chiming
a way off miles off
No needle through a glove
Famine is a tall tall tower
a building left in the night

Jesse are you listening?
It casts its ruins in shadows
under Memphis moonlight
Jesse are you listening?

Six feet of foetus flung at sparrows in the sky
Put yourself in my shoes
A kiss - wet - muzzle
A clouded eye
No stars to flush it out
Famine is a tall tall tower
A building left in the night

Jesse are you listening?
It casts its ruins in shadows
under Memphis moonlight
Jesse are you listening?

Pow! Pow!

In the dream
I am crawling around on my hands and knees smoothing out the prairie
All the dents and the gouges
and the winds dying down
I lower my head
press my ear to the prairie

Alive
I'm the only one
left alive
I'm the only one
left alive
I'm the only one
left alive

The Turin horse

The begining of the amazing last movie of Béla Tarr starts with the story of a horse, in Torino, which is violently whiped by his coachman. The story says that Friedrich Nietzsche who was there embrace the neck of the animal, before to burst out stobbing... before to lose his mind.

"Nietzsche fut assez fou pour pleurer auprès d’un animal, sous le regard ou contre la joue d’un cheval que l’on frappait. Parfois je crois le voir prendre ce cheval pour témoin, et d’abord, pour le prendre à témoin de sa compassion, prendre sa tête dans ses mains”.
Jacques Derrida - "L'animal que donc je suis"  - ed. Galilée - 2006
 
As usual, the floating camera of the great artist Béla Tarr, in an absolute fluidity, works to generate a sensitive journey in clouds, dreams, torpor and sublime emptiness' contemplation.
A continuous wind, provoked by an helicopter during the filming, as well a minimal musical phrase used as a metronomic counterpoint bring us in a luminous meditation about existence of human being.
A masterpiece!

Girls' bands

      Mandoline club - 1920

      Temperance Ladies' Brass Band - Auckland - 1910

 

      Bura Ladies Brass Band  - Australia - 1915

     unknown band & location - 1932

     Kohala girls - Chicago  - 40s    >>>---<<<

 

     Trocadero ladies band  - Sydney - 1938

 

     Goldie and the Gingerbreads - 1964

     The Heartbeats - 50s

     The Honolulu Girls - Switzerland - 60s

Cross-currents

"Cross-current", a new release of the french label Shiiin, with a piece of Carol Robinson and Cathy Milliken.
Both of them are playing 35 sequences of musical objects with their oboes and clarinets.  These sentences are played by random with a software in a computer.
The acoustic space can be changed, and the musical result is always unpredictable.
... and amazing... a real sensual immersion into the sound as well an aesthetic pleasure ...

"... the improbable, in other words, that which is" - Yves Bonnefoy

     Carol Robinson @ Souffle Continu record shop - 22 sept. 2012

Bouba Sacko

 
Bouba Sacko was a malian legend, a virtuoso ngoni and guitar player, filmed by RTM.
He is here beside of the singer Sokona Sacko who represented the Kayes' region at the artistic biennale of Mali in the 80s.
He died last 2011 december.

Gino Bordin

Gino Bordin, born in 1899 in Vicence (North Italia) started with his brother
in the "Ottorino's African Jazz ", an orchestra which mixed accordions, banjos, guitars, bùmbass with horn, as well musical saw played by Gino himself.
In the early 20s, he went in Paris to play banjo and musical saw, as well an impressive harp-guitar, at Bousca's, a Bastille's famous place for dancing in Paris where the french "musette" started to be fashionable.
He supported Antoine Bouscatel who was one of the masters of the "musette" (bagpipes from Auvergne, France) and Charles Péguri at diatonic accordion.

"C'est une valse qui chante"
by Gino Bordin (muiscal saw) and Charles Paknadel (violin)
Parlophone 80483 - 1930/1931 / courtesy of Grass Skirt Records

Then he started to play guitar in the Hawaiian style, and became successfull through his concerts, radio shows and records on his own name, as well accompanying known singers as Tino Rossi, Lucienne Delyle, as well accordion aces as Louis Ferrari, Gus Viseur, Fredo Gardoni and many others.

A reissue of Gino's acoustic steel guitar music from the 30s had been published by Les Cook, manager of Grass Skirt Records and our friend Cyril Lefebvre who signed the excellent booklet. 

excerpt of the tribute played by Loïc Hula Boy in L'isle sur la Sorgue, south of France,  

last week-end, where was fixed a commemorative plaque on the wall of the house 

where Gino finished his life in 1977.
 

 

 

   

Gino Bordin with the "Ottorino African Jazz band", playing the musical saw

    picture extracted from the booklet of "Gino Bordin, virtuose de la guitare Hawaiienne"
    courtesy of Grass Skirt Records

 

   

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Lloyd Miller

Lloyd Miller (b. 1938) is an american musician and brilliant ethnomusicologist
who received a doctorate in musicology with his thesis entitled "music and song in Persia".

He is also known as Kurosh Ali Khan, a name he used while hosting a prime-time television show in Tehran, Iran in the 1970s.

Lloyd Miller demonstrates how piano can be properly used to play traditional Persian music. 

100 years

John Cage was born on the 5th september 1912, 100 years ago precisely.

Sonata V from "sonatas and interludes for prepared piano"
played by Bobby Mitchell.
(my best version is still by Gérard Frémy)

Beurdoquer

BEURDOQUER: v.tr. bringueballer, s'entrechoquer
origine : Saintonge

from performance "The great Learning - paragraph 5" at CAC Bretigny sur Orge - 16th may 2009
in the exhibition "Cornelius Cardew and the freedom of the listening"
photo: Steve Beckouet



GLAGEOTER: v.tr. se dit du bruit produit lorsqu'on traverse une flaque...
origine :Marne

Berdailler

BERDAILLER: v.tr. S'est dit pour produire des sons désagréables en agitant des objets...
origine : Normandie

GLINGUER: v.tr. S'est dit pour émettre un bruit de ferraille...
origine : Marne

& une illustration avec nos amis  "Jeune fille orrible"