Showing posts with label Zeena Parkins. Show all posts
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October 30, 2021
Art Bears - Festival International de Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville, Quebec (2008, Unreleased)
ART BEARS SONGBOOK - ALL LIVE!
Colisee des Jardins, FIMAV, Victoriaville QC Canada
May 19, 2008
Tracklist:
01. Intro 1:02
02. Joan 4:40
03. First Things First 5:02
04. The Summer Wheel 3:08
05. The Slave 5:06
06. The Hermit 3:34
07. Rats and Monkeys 4:09
08. The Skeleton 3:26
09. The Winter Wheel 2:51
10. Man And Boy 5:47
11. Three Wheels 5:21
12. The Song Of Investment Capital Overseas 2:58
13. Truth 2:41
14. Law 0:53
15. The Song Of The Monopolists 2:14
16. Freedom 3:12
17. Albion, Awake! (unrecorded version w/lyrics) 1:38
18. The Dance 5:51
19. Presentation & encore 2:15
20. All Hail 4:58
21. Joan encore 3:45
Musicians:
Fred Frith: Guitar, Bass, Piano, Violin
Chris Cutler: Drums
Zeena Parkins: Piano, Organ, Accordion, Voice
Carla Kihlstedt: Violin, Voice
Jewlia Eisenberg: Voice, Bass
Kristin Slipp: Voice
The Norman Conquest — sound manipulation
Thirty years later, Art Bears' diminutive discography is considered a seminal and highly influential part of the avant-prog/RIO movement. A series of small, independent occurrences including the 30th anniversary of the group's formation and the 25th anniversary of FIMAV created a most happy happenstance—Art Bears Songbook. Rather than a reunion (Krause was not available), which all-too-often implies by-rote replication of music for nostalgic baby boomers, Frith and Cutler decided to re-examine the trio's repertoire and refashion it for a thoroughly modernistic and expanded group that included three of Frith's four Cosa Brava band mates—keyboardist/accordionist Zeena Parkins, violinist/singer Carla Kihlstedt and sonic manipulator The Norman Conquest—along with singers Jewlia Eisenberg and Kristin Slipp. The result was a performance that rang true to the spirit of Art Bears, but avoided excess reverence. The powerful emotional depth of the material (and its once again all-too-relevant lyrics) was not only enthusiastically received by FIMV festival goes, but was so compelling that some were quite literally moved to tears.
Book-ending a performance of the Winter Songs cycle with choice material from Hopes and Fears and The World As It Is Today, the show was an all-too-brief 75-minutes. But, opening with a high-energy version of Hopes and Fears' "Joan," with Kihlstedt's overdriven electric violin setting a high bar for the whole performance, it was immediately clear that the group was going to deliver on the audience's expectations, a remarkable feat considering the build-up of anticipation that took place over the months since FIMAV first announced the show.
April 01, 2009
Tim Hodgkinson/Dagmar Krause - Stop Mortal (1995, Live, Italy)
London Musicians Collective/ Dagmar Krause
Stop Mortal (59:31)
Musicians:
James Clapperton: piano
Nicolas Hodges: piano
Tim Hodgkinson: piano, composer
Zoë Martlew: cello
Charles Mutter: violin
Chris Cutler: violin
Zeena Parkins: piano
Stop Mortal, 1995, for voice, piano, violin, cello and sampler, commissioned by Musique Action Vandoeuvre, and performed at Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Musique Action Vandoeuvre, Konfrontationen Festival Nickelsdorf, Nordlyd Festival, Trondheim & Bergen Ny Musikk. With Dagmar Krause, Nicolas Hodges, Charles Mutter, Zoe Martlew, James Clapperton.
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