Night Watch
Sunday April 15th, 2018 with Dav Fot
3 new Chant Records Releases: Welf Dorr Unit, Sonata Islands Kommandoh, NPO Trio!!
Turning things around tonight and playing the oldies at the start to make room for the big feature at the end - 3 new releases on Chant - hitting the improv/jazz/funk with Welf Dorr Unit, Neo-Zeuhl with Sonata Islands Kommandoh and some great jazz/chamber improv from the NPO Trio!!
| Starting out with a couple of tracks from Chilliwack's debut LP - the reason is because, many (many!) years ago, my musical taste was evolving from punk/hardcore/thrash/noise into the (then-prevailing trend) of blues-punk and psychobilly. Renny Godier (currently host of Roots & Rhythms on CKCU) played a track for me... but wouldn't show me the cover. It was crankin', rockin' blues, with a scratchy almost-punky feel. I loved it... then Renny showed me the cover - it was a track from Chilliwack's 3rd LP ('All Over You') called 'Groundhog'. I was mortified - I was liking the same band that did the 'Gone Gone' song (My Girl), the radio hit? I STILL wouldn't listen to THAT song... but Renny gave me an eye-opener. And now, I play a few tracks for you, albeit from their 1st LP (their 2nd LP is also called 'Chilliwack, confusing matters a bit...), but definitely befitting the current Nightwatch thrust... |
| Seventeenth Summer Chilliwack - Chilliwack (1st LP) 
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| Chain Train Chilliwack - Chilliwack (1st LP)
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| The World Will end Yesterday Second Hand - Reality - 1968 |
| NightFlight Silver Meter - S/T |
| Finishing with a track that features Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer's 1st guitarist!), and then rolling into a set of prog, bouncing from 70's prog to current, back to 70's, then to current again!!! |
| Et La Musique Tourne Et Cetera - S/T
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| For a Silver Lining Montgolfiere - The Fall |
| Starless King Crimson - Red |
| Twisted Stems - The Heliotrope Guapo - Elixirs |
| One set of hard rock... one set of prog... might as well style-jump once again and hit some classic jazz-rock! |
| Facelift Soft Machine - Live at The Proms, 1970 |
| Oasis Toubabou - Le Ble et le Miel
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| The musical style-whiplash keeps a-comin' with a leap to post-rock and drone! |
| El Lago Labradford - A stable Reference |
| Would We be Alive? Residents - Intermission |
| Smoke (E.F.S. No. 59) Can - Flow Motion |
| Flavour: Zombie Expandafuzz - Bluets
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| Hepsibah TBWNIAS (The Band Whose Name is a Symbol) - Quality Rolls (Split with Crab Boat)
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| Flowers of the Water Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers Stand in Solidairty with the Disposessed, Impoverished and Embattled People of the World 
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| The BIG feature tonight is on the 3 new releases from Chant Records from New York!
The Welf Dorr Unit (formed in 2012 for a performance at the Evolving Music Series run by Arts for Art (presenters of the Vision Festival) ) combines free jazz spontaneity with the urgency of funk and rock inspired by the the motto “Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher”. Welf's other main project is Underground Horns, a 6-piece brass band which special recipe includes some funk, jazz and hip hop spiced up with African and other world rhythms Sonata Islands is an ensemble founded by Italian instrumentalist and composer Emilio Galante in 1998. Filled out by a rotating cast of some of Italy’s most exciting and genre-bending musicians, the band hosts an annual festival in Trento, Italy featuring an acclaimed mix of jazz and new music. Their previous projects include a multimedia project with Markus Stockhausen, a jazz rewriting of Gustav Mahler’s music, and a tribute to Japanese avant-rock of the 80s and 90s. ‘Zeuhl Jazz’ features Galante on flute and electronics along with William Nicastro on bass, Sergio Quagliarella on drums, Giovanni Venosta on keyboards and voice and Alberto N.A. Turra on guitar (Turra’s album ‘It Is Preferable Not To Travel With A Dead Man’ was released in 2017 on Chant Records). The album is dedicated to the spirit of Magma. NPO Trio (Meg Okura, Sam Newsome, and Jean-Michel Pilc) is a group of like-minded friends celebrating their freedom of expression through music and sounds. Within the context of experimental music, the group weaves through musical idioms of jazz and classical – Romantic to Atonal, blues to free jazz. |
| Sympathicus Welf Dorr Unit - Blood |
| Dixie Welf Dorr Unit - Blood |
| Big Tree Welf Dorr Unit - Blood |
| Love and Rage...Supreme Sonata Islands Kommandoh - Zeuhl Jazz |
| Sohia Sonata Islands Kommandoh - Zeuhl Jazz |
| No More Zombies Sonata Islands Kommandoh - Zeuhl Jazz |
| Yiddish Mama No Tsuki NPO Trio - Live At The Stone |
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