Paul Lamb sent me a cd of his band Burnt Noodle. A real gem. Very nice 1969 improvisations, based on well composed songs. Most tracks start with a song and ends in a long improv. Listen to it. I can hear influences of Jimi Hendrix (Electric Ladyland), Amon Düül II, Doctor John the Night Tripper and Ginger Baker's Air Force.
There are even videos on YouTube: Jim Meets the Space Aliens and Day by Day.



1 bipolar [6:01]
2 day by day [5:24]
3 on & on [10:54]
4 road flick [8:35]
5 uncap your brain [6:32]
6 jim meets the space aliens [14:54]

I wish more people would send me cd's like this one...

[Listen low quality]

You can find more information on http://burntnoodle.com/

I found this between my old video tapes.
'The sun does rise' and 'Amor' at 'Later with Jools Holland'.
I don't now which year, but probably 1994.


Click to view video

Tijdens mijn vakantie ontving ik een email van vriend Peter. Hij was in een koffiezaak de krant aan het lezen waarin een artikel stond over de heruitgave van 'Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music'. In dat artikel werd een stukje uit deze blog (vertaald) geciteerd.
Hij stuurde deze foto, gemaakt met zijn iphone:



Gelukkig had vriend Theo de krant nog ergens thuis liggen en kon me een scan sturen van het hele artikel. Klik hierboven op het kiekje voor de scan. Of lees de on-line versie op de site van de schrijver Frits van der Waa .

Ik had de officiële cd's al gekocht tijdens de presentatie daarvan in het Bimhuis. Zou u ook moeten doen, bij Basta: www.bastamusic.com.

In an old post I gave up hope to ever get the first fashion lp on cd. To my surprise Luke James, the singer of the band, mailed me a couple of weeks ago that he was releasing this cd.



There are different (single?) versions of Fashion and Bike Boys on the cd.
You can buy it from his MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/fashionlukesky for only $10 + $2,50 p&p.
He lives in California now, the lucky bastard.

1 Product Perfect [3:51]
2 Die in the West [4:13]
3 Red, Green & Gold [4:49]
4 Burning Down [3:33]
5 Big John [2:01]
6 Hanoi Annoys Me [2:56]
7 The Innocent [2:30]
8 Citinite [5:22]
9 Fashion [2:53]
10 Don't Touch Me [2:59]
11 Bike Boys [5:27]
12 Technofascist [3:39]

A rare tracks cd has soon to be followed, as a cd with brand new songs will.

Quite a catchy song done by Ryuichi Sakamoto in cooperation with Thomas Dolby.
The back side contains fifteen minutes of out of sync / random synth loops: Ryuichi's machines solo. It is used in the Field Work clip as background music at the beginning and the end.



1 Field Work [6:00]
2 Exhibition [15:29]

Not shared anymore. Complaints received.

Mark Stewart tour dates June 2008