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Night Watch
Sunday March 3rd, 2019 with Dav Fot
Anouar Brahem! Alberto N. A. Turra! Randi Pontoppidan

Starting in a drifty proggy kinda way... then rolling into a more acoustic side, thru jazz... and finishing in a double-feature - 2 new releases from Chant Records!
Starting with a bad case of the proggies, including 2 releases from Ottawa, 34 years apart... and both containing the same bassist: Ian McLeish!
Have Your Cake and Beat It
Permiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World - 1974
Skyclimber
MKM - Orchid Island - 2012 Canadian
Armageddon
RPM - & Friends - 1978 Canadian
One more Canadian prog track (from a band more known for folk-rock... but their first LP has some more adventurous stuff...), then into a bit of psychedelia before we find ourselves in the acoustic mire!
Baie St.-Marie
CANO (Coopérative des Artistes du Nouvel-Ontario) - Tous Dans Le Meme Bateau - 1976 Canadian
Crying into a Deep Lake
It's All Meat - S/T - 1970 Canadian
Yesterlove
Sam Gopal - Escalator - 1969
Our Love Lies
Swans - Children of God - 1987
Now we hit the acoustic mode!
Maps
Sills and Smith - Maps Burned or Lost - 2018 Canadian
The Voice that Carried Us Away, and then a Mosquito Came and Ate up my Sweetheart
John Fahey - America - 1971
The Astounding Eyes of Rita
Anouar Brahem - The Astounding Eyes of Rita - 2009
Waking State
Anouar Brahem - The Astounding Eyes of Rita
I had hoped to make a full feature of the Anouar Brahem, but time is tight! More on Future Nightwatches, promise! Off into jazz-land, starting with a preponderance of ECM releases...!
Mission
Steve Tibbetts - By Bye Safe Journey - 1984
Drifting Petals
Ralph Towner - Solstice - 1975
Ebony
Jack Dejohnette's Special Edition - Inflation Blues - 1983
Bullfrog Dance
Maneige - Composite - 1979 Canadian
Spaces (Infinite)
Larry Coryell - Spaces - 1970
Now, onto two new releases on Chant: “The Taan Trio live at Easy Nuts Lab” finds the Italian guitarist, composer and bandleader in a live set along with bassist William Nicastro and drummer Stefano Grasso. Both Turra and Nicastro also appear on the Chant Records album “Zeuhl Jazz” by the band Sonata Islands Kommandoh. The Taan Trio formed in late 2017 and quickly began touring in Italy and the US, evoking the sound of such influential bands as Pat Metheny with Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses or Bill Frisell with Kermit Driscoll and Joey Baron, adding a healthy dose of live electronics and jazz-core to create a uniquely 21st century take on the classic guitar trio format.
Darvish
Alberto N. A. Turra - The TAAN Trio Live at Easy Nuts Lab New
Trevor
Alberto N. A. Turra - The TAAN Trio Live at Easy Nuts Lab New
Andrea Rainoldi
Alberto N. A. Turra - The TAAN Trio Live at Easy Nuts Lab New
Wights Waits for Weights
Alberto N. A. Turra - The TAAN Trio Live at Easy Nuts Lab New
Cellule
Alberto N. A. Turra - The TAAN Trio Live at Easy Nuts Lab New
Randi Pontoppidan is a Danish vocalist, composer and improviser using only her voice, filtered through various electronic effects and machines. Pontoppidan has worked with jazz luminaries including Greg Cohen, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Sissel Vera Pettersen and with Danish poet Morten Søndergaard. She’s also an in-demand vocalist in the contemporary classical world, working with Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices and performing works by Steve Reich, David Lang, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and others. On ‘Rooms,’ a follow-up to her previous Chant Records album ‘Space Geode’ with Greg Cohen, Pontoppidan explores the outer limits and deepest secrets of the human voice while drawing on inspirations including free jazz, electroacoustic composition and sound poetry.
Hush Of Expectation
Randi Pontoppidan - Rooms New
Arctic
Randi Pontoppidan - Rooms New
Dis Appearance
Randi Pontoppidan - Rooms New
Gigongi - Three Geishas
Randi Pontoppidan - Rooms New
Dreamy
Randi Pontoppidan - Rooms New
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