New Morning Live (Volume 1), VA from Switz. 1978

 

Info for this LP rarity can be found here.  It doesn't look like there was a volume 2, unfortunately.

Live recording from the first birthday party of the club "New Morning" in Genève, Switzerland, 31 march, 1st and 2nd April 1978.

Mixed at Studio Aquarius, Genève, at full moon in April.

Copyright 78: K.B.L. Productions, 1206 Genève.

This album is dedicated to Bob Dylan. Made in France

The uncredited pressing company is derived from the marks of the group AGI / Audio Graphic Industries, we can find on the run-out grooves. Disco France was the pressing plant of this group.

I noticed that track B1 has involvement by Patrick Gauthier, the beloved Magma / Weidorje pianist.  Here it is, by a group called Angle (no releases), called Knock at Your Door:

I really like the closing track called Antica, by the Paolo Radoni Quartet:

It's amazing how only 4 musicians can sound so full and complete by themselves.

Otherwise it's a mixed bag, with folk songs, solo guitar stuff, pop, and a bit of vocal ssw.

Nothing too progressive.

Back to Gianni Marchetti in The Wild Eye OST [FLAC limited time only]

 

The brilliant Marchetti, posted before here and in other places before.  An earlier soundtrack, which is of course more generic in style since it's from the late 1960s (specifically, the 'Summer of Love').  With regards to this movie, I read on imdb that it's a 'movie within a movie' with the director making or attempting to make one of those mondo documentaries:

Paolo is a documentary filmmaker on a mission to see the world and present human nature in its true and raw form, even pushing his crew to the limit to capture the brutality of a world gone mad even at the expense of safety and a moral price.—Robyn Graves

Tagline:

He Used a Camera Like Most Men Use a Woman -- and a woman like something you'd keep in a cage!

Wow.

If you're interested, you can watch the movie on youtube here.  A very basic review from a commenter:

A rather unusual film about a man utterly devoid of scruples, capturing gruesome images of extreme situations. The ending reveals a kind of remorse for his nefarious actions in the face of the unexpected death of the woman he loved.

The cinematography has been beautifully restored.  

Samples,

The Desert:

Meeting with Barbara:

Romolo Grano & Gianni Oddi - Le montagne della luce (OST 1975)

 

Info here.  This is an OST for:

Music composed for the tv documentary Le Montagne Della Luce (1975, Giorgio Moser, prod. Rai)

A1, A2 first released on 7" (SRL 10781, Ricordi, 1975).

A3, B1 and B2 are previously unreleased.

About Africa, of course.  I posted this because I was completely taken away by the otherwordly beauty of the Kilimanjaro track, recalling Morricone at his most ethereally, transcendentally transporting:

Everything about this composition is so beautiful, with the female vocals, the synths, the progression of the elaborate melody, with the usual comments I have to make about why something so gorgeous has been so completely forgotten today...  

I read on discogs too the vocalist is the same one Ennio used for some of his unforgettable soundtracks.

I don't know if there is more Grano out there worth hearing, does anyone else know?

Tom MacDonald Exposed - Music to Activate, 1981 Calif.

 

An insane cover, but totally a sign of those naive times, when nudists expected their nutty trend would one day take over the world...  Why wouldn't it, being 'more natural'?  then again, why would it? 99 percent of humans as I see it would prefer to cover up their imperfections, and leave everything to imagination which is always more beautiful than the real thing, surely.  And in an era where sexual harassment is such a primal issue, why would women want to walk around naked in public and aggravate the problem?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be hard to work at a bank, or go there, if all the tellers were naked?  Insane times those were back then.  And the fact that they named this LP after the same exhibitionistic image / concept! As if the founder was a true believer!

Note the discogged information here:

1980s folk rock/soft rock group from Nevada City, California who released their sole album in December 1981 on the small local label Bennett House Records to little fanfare or success however new interest for the group would emerge when it was revealed that DJ Shadow had sampled their work for the song Bloodstain on 1998's UNKLE - Psyence Fiction.

It's basically soft rock, ssw, entirely.  There is little hint of the fact we entered into the dreaded 80s decade.  Movement featuring a solo piano composition is nice to listen to, but not representative:

The final track called So What reminds me so eerily of my old folk acoustic favourite Gene Hood, the one album in that dept that I adore so profoundly and feel so sad it didn't become better known:

Robert Wyatt in The Animals soundtrack, 1982

 

Can't believe I never heard this before-- and of course, it goes without saying I'm a lifelong, huge mega-fan of Soft Machine and all the artists that were involved with them.

Discogs page for the album here.  I believe, but I'm not sure, when I went to explore the post-Matching Mole releases from him, a long time ago, I passed this one by because of its erroneous description as abstract or experimental.  Admittedly there are passages that are exactly that, but there is at least half a (short) LP's worth of genuinely interestingly composed progressive synthesizer music.  Or maybe it wasn't listed there at the time.

Description:

Soundtrack to anti-vivisection movie 'The Animals Film' directed by Victor Schonfeld. 

Narration is by Julie Christie.

Luckily it has its own wiki page, here, on which you can read about the movie, if you're as interested as I am:

The Animals Film is a 1981 feature documentary film about the use of animals by human beings, directed by Victor Schonfeld and Myriam Alaux, and narrated by actress Julie Christie.

Synopsis

The Animals Film presents a survey of the uses of animals in factory farming, as pets, for entertainment, in scientific and military research, hunting, etc. The film also profiles the international animal rights movement. The film incorporates secret government footage, cartoons, newsreels, and excerpts from propaganda films.

etc.

I can just imagine how horrifying some scenes must be, based on the cover monkey.  Probably I wouldn't have the heart to watch it.  We have to bear in mind that standards are a little bit higher today than at the time, 24 years ago.  Only a little bit though.

Note the following though:

Robert Wyatt composed an original soundtrack for the film, released in 1982 on Rough Trade Records. The film also features music from the Robert Fripp album Let the Power Fall, Talking Heads and ex-Audience frontman Howard Werth. Critical reception of the soundtrack was mixed. Ted Mills of album database AllMusic described the soundtrack as "moody" and filled with "tasty-sounding analog synths from the late '70s", but ultimately it "disappoint[s] fans of Wyatt's vocals." It was later issued in a heavily edited form (losing more than 10 minutes, with no explanation given) as a Japanese CD, and all later CD reissues have been cloned from this master.

Part 1.2 is fantastic prog:

Part 2.2 with the classic Wyatt reverbed vocalizing:

Wonderful stuff. Exciting for me to hear, for the first time.  I'll try to watch the movie too, which I found here.