Night Watch
Sunday December 2nd, 2012 with Dāv Fot
Dead Wrestler! Death Cake! Zion80! Phil Ogison! Exploding Meet! TBWNIAS! Can! Envelope 3!
With the 'Rerun' last Nightwatch, there's an overburden of features and new material to play - New material from Phil Ogison and Zion80, 2 new bands to feature (Dead Wrestler, Death Cake), and 2 new releases on the Birdman record Label from TBWNIAS and the Exploding Meet. Add to that a rare Can live performance and Evelope 3, and you have a very full Nightwatch!
| To start, a double-feature in the 'rock' vein: 2 'new' local instrumental bands, Dead Wrestler (who played last Friday at Cafe Pressed opening for TBWNIAS), and Death Cake, who were recorded live at Irene's Pub in September, in a great-sounding 2-mic' setup! |
| Sticky Bun Dead Wrestler - 6 Song EP - ind. 
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| Personal Magician Dead Wrestler - 6 Song EP - ind.
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| Balls in Your Court Dead Wrestler - 6 Song EP - ind.
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| Back To Rio Death Cake - http://archive.org/details/deathcake2012-09-15.oktava.flac16 - ind.
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| Youth's Last Luxury Death Cake - http://archive.org/details/deathcake2012-09-15.oktava.flac16 - ind.
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| Apparaitus Death Cake - http://archive.org/details/deathcake2012-09-15.oktava.flac16 - ind.
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| Next, an exciting new recording from Zion80, a New York band that interprets the music of Schlomo Carlebach thru the lens of Afrobeat. They should have a full-legnth release out in 2013! |
| Pischu Li Zion80 - Pre-release download - ind.
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| Wesley Don't Surf Red Snapper - Reeled & Skinned - Warp |
| Master Builder Gong - You - Virgin |
| Autumn Pensive in Em Phil Ogison - http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/153546334 - ind.
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| Finishing up with a new instrumental by Toronto composer/guitar master Phil Ogison (also half of Amoeba Starfish, riends of the Nightwatch, for sure!) - check his material out on Reverb Nation! Now, onto the eargerly-awaited LP of never-before-released material by Fredricton's Exploding Meet on the Birdman Sound record label. No longer in existence, and having only released 2 CDs (OK, one was a 2xCD) in the early-90's, they were light-years ahead of their time, so these live pieces are a welcome sight (sound). |
| Lola Palooza (1988) Exploding Meet - Mapping New Tangier - Birdman
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| Partridge Island/New Tangier/Fruitcake (1995) Exploding Meet - Mapping New Tangier - Birdman
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| New Tangier/Soundscape/Ensemble Improv (1993) Exploding Meet - Mapping New Tangier - Birdman
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| Appalachian Rain (1990) Exploding Meet - Mapping New Tangier - Birdman
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| Another new release on the Birdman Label is a recording of the live performance by The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol as the 'sound carriers' for Damo Suzuki when he came to the Dominion Tavern. Much like the Death Cake recording earlier in the program, the 'minimal' recording setup does not detract from the presentation at all! |
| Gonna Take Us To Saturn? I Don't Take You Anywhere! Damo Suzuki w/ The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol - Live at the Dominion Tavern - Birdman
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| Appropriately, the next track is one side of a 2-side-long piece by Can (fronted by Damo Suzuki), recorded in Koln in 1971, a full 41 years earlier than the Dominion set, finally seeing release on the B-13 record label. |
| Auf der Einbahnstrasse Can - Tago Mago Live (Koln 1971) - B-13 |
| While we're in the Krautrock frame-of-mind, an obscure-but-classic piece on the classic German experimental label, Brain Recorda - Yatha Sidhra's 'Meditation Mass', and the Lead-off cut, from 1974. |
| Part 1 Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass - Brain |
| And we finish up this edition of the Nightwatchj back on the local scene, something recorded in 2009, a solo effort by local guitarist Dave Lauzon under the name 'Envelope 3', just guitar and effects, playing at the Imperial Pub in Toronto. |
| They Put Howie In Space? Envelope 3 - http://archive.org/details/envelope32009-08-01.superlux.flac16 - ind,
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