Friday, 10 February 2017

More Thermaenius with Copenhagen Boogie from 1982





Notice that on this subsequent album, Pierre Dørge the guitarist/leader shares compositional credits with Irene Becker, pianist (who was present previously).  All the bad habits of the previous instalment are still in evidence and (un)duly entertained: the interminable jams, ridiculous almost joke-like sax solos, live acoustics and in case you didn't have enough of the silliness, overlengthy sides, yet there is a bit more experimentation and complexity to the compositions which is a welcome sound for tired ears.

First notice that each side is named after a cardinal direction e.g. side one is South with its African percussive beginning and the excellent composition on the subject of the peacock (by Becker), ending in the West-- though certainly the leaders of the UK, the USA and soon France will perhaps ignore everything except the North, to their loss, as that first Southern side is quite strong (unlike their economies).  
So here's the (presidential) Peacock in honour of them:






...oh how simple the world was back in 1982, 34 years ago...






Well, let's not forget those fears of nuclear war were pretty terrifying... remember the evil empire and star wars...

6 comments:


  1. looks like I misspelled the band name on the files... anyone notice? apologies

    mp3:

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/zd5c96

    lossless limited time only (no reups):

    https://we.tl/Bcc0bLehMy

    new up of Michael Gordon's Philharmonic RIO album from USA, 1987

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/m0gazq

    Next up a big surprise for everyone I'm sure, a long-awaited treasure now available for everyone... stay tuned and look forward to that one.

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  2. Many thanks for these two albums by Thermaenius...
    Many, many thanks....

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  3. Thanks Julian, I hope this music isn't what inspired you to write about the sad state of affairs.

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  4. Hi Julian.I missed the boat on the Frode Thingnaes Armadillo album.Any chance you might have one of his quintet albums.?Thanks.

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  5. Can't thank you enough! Wonderful :-)

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