TED MILTON, ANDREAS GERTH & PADDY STEER - OH PITY US

One of my all-time favorite bands is Blurt, and Ted Milton was their front-man. Here's an excellent ep with Ted playing sax and talking with music by Andreas Gerth and Paddy Steer.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

BERNIE GREEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA - FUTURA

Amazing album this, it came out in 1961, Bernie Green and his Orchestra imagining what music will be like in 1970, making use of all kind of weird electronics and instruments, the "Tonalyzer" for one... Really, an incredible album! GET IT HERE Enjoy!

A D R I A N B E L E W - T W A N G B A R K I N G

And speaking of the Talking Heads (and King Crimson).... Here's an album from Adrian Belew and this one came out in 1983.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

LES STRUCTURES SONORES LASRY-BASCHET RAPSODIE DE BUDAPEST

Here's an (very rare) album from the great avant garde group Lasry-Baschet, the two Bachet brothers, Bernard Baschet and François Baschet, they would invent and build instruments and they did this for nearly 50 years.... In their first years they worked with Jacques and Yvonne Lasry and percussionists Daniel Ouzounoff and Jacques Chollet.... When the Lasry's emigrated to Israel in the 60's the Baschet brothers kept going, inventing and building instruments and putting out more wonderful music.... I've been looking for more of their music on vinyl for years and years but so far this is the only album I've been able to find, these albums are really very, very rare....

Here's their website, loads of information and cool stuff: http://francois.baschet.free.fr/front.htm GET THE ALBUM HERE Enjoy!

DE PRUTSERS aka HET POBILOFONISCHE NARREN KOOR

Back in the 80's me and my friends Jan and Robo were in our own living room band, The Prutsers aka Het Pobilofonische Narren Koor. We would always record in Jan's house and we used every instrument we could get our hands on, guitars, percussion instruments, children instruments, a commodore 64 computer , pots and pans and anything else we could find. Back then we were all out of work stoners and we were in Jan's house almost every night till the early morning, either making music or playing board games or watching pro-wrestling.... We would record our songs using the so called "ping pong" method with cassette recorders, and later we used a 4 track cassette recorder... Often we had to try to record a song many times because we would be on the floor laughing all the time, tears streaming from our eyes, some of this stuff is.... well.... we were always stoned, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, total pot heads.... Mostly it's me, Jan and Robo but sometimes other friends would join in the fun, Jan and Robo could actually play instruments, me, I've been a drummer all my life in Holland but I would often play the toy trumpets and melodica and most of the times I would be the one singing... We did songs in English but most of our songs were in Dutch and we would also totally rape famous pop songs.... God, those were the days, incredible times, not a care in the world, all of us on the dole, all of us poor and not giving a fuck at all..... GET THE FIRST BATCH OF SONGS HERE GET THE SECOND BATCH OF SONGS HERE Enjoy!!!

J I R I S T I V I N - Z V E R O K R U H

This is such a fantastic album, bought this one in the early 80's.... Prague flutist J i ř í S t i v í n made rare inroads into syncretic forms virtually untested elsewhere. His cogent approach to classical, experimental and free jazz music facilitated his exposure to London’s improvised scene, including Scratch Orchestra and Cornelius Cardew. In an era when many Czech and Slovak jazz musicians faced significant obstruction by the Communist regime, Stivín’s cross-border activity may be surprising, but the results were nonetheless spectacular. His Jazz Q quartet recorded a trailblazing session with Radim Hladik’s Blue Effect. Later collaboration with guitarist Rudolf Dašek also gained notoriety on the continent. By mid-1970s, Stivín achieved a remarkable level of synthesis between electric jazz and baroque music. He used his versatility to create a poetic idiom of the highest standard. For many, such shameful heterodoxy would amount to little more than an artistic cul de sac. Yet Stivín’s luxurious arrangements are not only cosmopolitan and multifarious, but often entirely counterintuitive. It is therefore not surprising that in later years Stivín specialized in Vivaldi’s and Telemann’s repertoire. GET IT HERE Enjoy!

A R T Z O Y D - B E R L I N

Incredible album from Art Zoyd....

GET IT HERE

enjoy!