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Sunday September 1st, 2019 with Dav Fot
70's African Garage-Rock! Magma's 'Zess'!

Decided to bookend this show with features - to start, tracks from a compilation of oddities: African Garage Rock from the 70's, which owes more to acid rock/psychedelia & rock 'n' roll than afrobeat and funk. Then to finish, Magma's latest (possibly last? Let's hope not...) release, a 40-minute long cut called 'Zess'.
Lucked into a great new compilation on Nowagain records, chronicling some forgotten 'Nuggets'-style gems from Nigeria, Zaire and Zimbabwe, obscurities from 68-78, or thereabouts, which owing more to acid rock/psychedelia & rock 'n' roll than afrobeat and funk. More info can be had here: https://www.nowagainrecords.com/announcing-cant-you-hear-me/
Can't You Hear Me?
Paul Ngozi - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets - Nowagain Records
I Had A Dream
5 Revolutions - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
Amanaz
Amanaz - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
Breakthrough
Funkees - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
Peaceful Man
Peace - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
Fwe Bena Zambia
5 Revolutions - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
Poor Connection
Blackfoot - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
No Time
Witch - Comp - Can't You Hear Me? African Nuggets
Continuing on with something recent and local - a track from Not Really's newest album, and a note that their record release show will be happening at Cafe Pressed on Thursday!!
The Same Thing
Not Really - On The Spectrum - 2019 Canadian New
I Am a Voyeur
Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Ya Gotta Let Me Do My Thing - 1998
Faceless May
Nomeansno - Old E.P. - 2010 Canadian
Silk Road
Grails - Burning Off Impurities - 2007
Vibraciones Doradas
Causa Sui - Vibraciones Doradas - 2017
Jumping out of the post-rock into some in-rock: A little live Offenbach from '75!
Jam
Offenbach - Tabarnac! - 1975 Canadian
C'Mon
Man - Back Into The Future - 1973
Moving on from the jam-rock to something a little more funky and jazzy (though the metal influence in the Utopianisti track is undeniable... but it's a relatively new release) in a set I like to call 'The Pimp Set' :^)
Spanking Time
Utopianisti - II - 2013
Willie The Pimp
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - 1969
Ballad of Joe Pimp
Nucleus - We'll Talk About It Later - 1971
After the pimpy jazz-rock-attack... we backpedal a bit to something a bit more acid-y, world-y... still some jazz in there, though.
Baranzibar
Jade Warrior - Released - 1971
The Bite
Comus - First Utterance - 1971
Now, the BIG Finale - the latest track/album (and some have speculated, the last...) from French Zeuhl progenitors Magma! Of course, it's not strictly speaking 'new' - a first draft emerged in 1977. After being gradually completed, the piece debuted in concert in the spring of 1979. It became a staple of Magma’s repertoire until it was set aside in 1983. To Quote the Seventh Records site, to illuminate the story and where it sits in the Kobian legendry: " It is an immense celestial arena, an agora where all the voices of the universe resonate. Everyone has assembled for a last celebration, a gathering of the innumerable into a single point where everything comes together for the Day of Oblivion.
Zëss had long been plagued by its incompleteness and its recording was deferred for years. Four decades after its first draft, the work has finally been recorded in an orchestral version that gives it both its true dreamlike dimension and its transcending power. For Zëss is above all the visionary reflection of an immemorial dream haunting the most obscure part of our souls.
Zëss treads a line between a vital overflowing and the edges of the unlivable. It is an incandescent and heady oratorio where consciousness questions its other side in a measureless journey. Zëss indicates the ultimate reversal out of which bursts a beyond of music that only music can reach. Magma’s whole story condensed…"
Zess
Magma - Zess New
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