Robert Wyatt + Kevin Ayers + Soft Machine

psykokarkki · 04.09.2007 14:53

tossa vielä kevin ayersin haastis vuodelta 2003:

HAS THE ALBUM GOT A NAME ?

The working title is `The Unfairground'there's a song of that name
on it. I started it twice now, and am now abandoning it until
probably October. It's because I was trying to produce it myself and
I can't play, sing, write, arrange, produce and look after the
musicians' egos at the same time ! I definitely need a spare hand on
that so I've just given it up. The songs are there.

WHO'LL BE DOING THAT ? I HOPE SOMEONE NICE. I READ YOU WERE WORKING
WITH MICHAEL DE ALBUQUERQUE'S SON

That was the first time. He was a perfectly good engineer but there
was too much of an age gap in terms of his ideas and my ideas.

DOES SOMETHING NEW HAVE TO HAVE A LINK WITH YOUR HERITAGE, WHAT
PEOPLE EXPECT, OR IS IT A CLEAN SLATE EVERY TIME ?

I certainly don't go in with a clean slate. I mean, basically the
idea from the record company and the producer was to try and make a
more modern, more contemporary image to reach a wider audience, but
the way they want to do that is by trying to stick something on
someone that doesn't belong at all. And I am quite happy to try out
new sounds and things, this that and the other, but I don't the days
of me reaching a much wider audience are probably gone, but who
knows?

MUSICIANS YOU PLAN TO USE ?

Using the guys and some different people. A mixture of some here and
some there, you know. I can't drop names. October's still a long way
away. The songs are there I just haven't found the `songness', to do
them right in a way that I feel proud of.

SONG TITLES ?

`Brainstorm', `The Unfairground', `Geraldine' I don't have a set
list in my head. I think there's even one called `I Love You'
(laughs).

WILL YOU PLAY ANYTHING NEW TONIGHT ?

No. I refuse to do brand new stuff because people steal music these
days. I'm getting really sick of that. One bloke with a tape recorder
puts it on the internet and people download it. I've decided only do
stuff that is established.

WEB SITE FIND IT USEFUL ?

I have to admit I'm not particularly proud of the fact that I am
computer illiterate. It's done by other people. I have no love of
computers at all. But yes, as a tool I can see it's perfectly valid
for information gatheringand booking air tickets. But as a social
accessory it's not for me. And neither is the mobile phone! All
perfectly useful I'm sure, everyone has a good justification for
having one, but

DO YOU FEEL ALIENATED BY THE CURRENT MUSIC SCENE ?

I don't relate to the current music scene at all, mostly because
there's very little music in it. It's all videos. If you take away
the video and just hear the record there's not much going on. I don't
say that because I'm older, I don't find very much music anymore.
It's all very, very, identical, cloned music coming out, it doesn't
do anything for me.

IF SOMEONE UPDATED ONE OF YOUR OLD SONGS IN A NEW STYLE, WOULD YOU
APPROVE ?

I'd approve because it would make me money! (Laughs) But my songs
don't lend themselves to that kind of stuff, I don't think. I tried
once - they tried doing it a couple of times - but it doesn't work.
My songs are too personal.

I've never had a hit record so obviously I don't play popular music
in inverted commas. I've always appealed to a small group of people
who like something off the mainstream.

WHEN YOU FIRST CAME ON THE SCENE YOU WERE BRACKETED WITH SYD BARRETT
AS BRIGHT HOPES FOR BRITISH MUSIC.

Ray Davies was mentioned too. There was definitely a school,
musically, with others whose names I can't remember immediately, and
there was a particularly British school of songwriting. It didn't
travel very well, except to Europe - the English speaking countries
like Belgium and Holland. We're all contemporaries.

TRAGICALLY, SYD'S LOST TO MUSIC, RAY'S MADE A POT WRITING COMMERCIAL
SONGS AND YOU COME SOMEWHERE INBETWEEN ?

Yes, to be positive. (laughs)

COULD YOU HAVE LOWERED YOURSELF TO BANG OUT A FEW `YOU REALLY GOT
ME'S TO MAKE THE DOSH ?

There's nothing wrong with `You Really Got Me', it was a great song.

BUT THEY DIDN'T PLAY ON IT

Could be...who cares? It seems to me that era is far more interesting
particularly for those eccentrics, the English songwriters. But I
don't even live in this country anymore and I don't listen to current
pop music. So I could be completely wrong, there could be a bunch of
younger people out there doing it. I just don't know - yet. My
youngest daughter is 24 and she says people are going back to my era
of music and listening to those people instead of the plastic boy and
girl bands.

HARVEST FIRST FOUR ALBUMS ARE COMING OUT AGAIN. DO YOU APPROVE OF
THAT ?

I approve, but have no choice in the matter. They own the catalogue
and they do it whenever they feel like it. It's out of my hands.

STILL HAPPY WITH THAT MUSIC ?

I did an interview in Newcastle, where we played last night. They
played these things back and I thought wow, it's so different to the
way I play today. It sounds old fashioned and very slow and very
British I think it's among the stuff that I'm proud of.

ENO NICO & CALE WAS THAT AT YOUR INSTIGATION OR WAS IT SOMEONE'S
BRIGHT IDEA ?

It was Island's bright idea. I don't think it quite came off the way
it was supposed to come off, but it was an event. We were all on the
same record label together.

DID YOU KNOW THEM ?

Our paths had crossed many times and I'd played with them
individually and on tour with their different bands.

WAS THERE NOT A HYDE PARK CONCERT WITH THOSE GUYS ?

There wasn't with that line-up, it was with my band the Whole World.

CURRENT BAND

They function in Belgium as the Starvin' Marvin Band, and they play
as a band and they also play in various combinations. They've been
backing me for around ten years now. Marvin has been a good friend of
mine for ten years. He plays keyboard with me, though usually guitar.
His surname is Siau.

I can't remember why we started touring together. Someone probably
said hey, we've got a tour for you, you need a band. The Wizards of
Twiddly I enjoyed very much. They happened to be on the same bill as
me and my band. They said they knew a lot of my music so I said I'll
jam with you, being in a good mood at the time. We did and we liked
each other, so there you go.

ANYONE YOU'LD LIKE TO PLAY WITH THAT YOU HAVEN'T ?

Not off hand, I can't think. There are lots of individual musicians
whose names I can't immediately think of at this time. I haven't seen
Robert (Wyatt) in years. I've lived out of the country for 25 years
now. I don't see them.

CANTERBURY SCENE - DO YOU RECOGNISE IT AS SOMETHING TO DO WITH YOU ?

I think it's a lot to do with me, a lot to do with Robert Wyatt, Mike
Ratledge and later on Caravan. The Canterbury Scene meant that there
was a bunch of musicians of different generations following each
other . It started off with a group called the Wilde Flowers and this
split and became different formations; that led to the Canterbury
Scene.

CARAVAN ARE STILL OUT THERE
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I heard they went to the States recently which is amazing.

ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE LIMITED INROADS YOU'VE MADE INTO AMERICA ?

There again, I did some stuff in Los Angeles quite recently. In the
big towns I'm all right but in central America forget it, except
Cleveland which is the arch hub of Anglophiles.

ARE YOU CARRYING ON TOURING AD INFINITUM ?

The next project is to get this album done which I will do this
autumn, and presumably there will be some touring. We'll see what the
album does.

TITLE TRACK - OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT

I don't know if it's very original. The actual song, I'll tell you an
anecdote. Being a bit stuck for words these days, having said just
about everything I have to say, I used a combination of the William
Burroughs cutup method and chess clues, which have very weird
phrasing. I just took a bunch of chess clues, with very weird
combination of words, and turned them into a song. It worked, and I'm
very pleased with the song.

CHESS CLUES ?

What am I talking about? Crossword cluesvery cryptic ones, the ones
that leave you baffled.

Pilke · 04.09.2007 15:48

Unfairground sai Mojossa viis tähteä.En jaksanu lukea arvostelua kirjastossa, ostan lehden kuitenkin sitten kun se tulee kauppoihin. Paitsi vähän oli pakko kurkata päällisin puolin, siinä sanottiin, että se on miehen paras levy 30 vuoteen. colorflash

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psykokarkki · 11.09.2007 10:17

uuden word-lehden mukana tulee levy jossa näytteet uusilta ayers- ja wyatt -levyiltä, kannessa david gilmour.

lintumies · 11.09.2007 10:23

psykokarkki wrote:

uuden word-lehden mukana tulee levy jossa näyte kula shakerilta

colorflash :peuk:

psykokarkki · 20.09.2007 15:12

olikos pilke jo liittynyt tähän yahoogroupsiin?

joku latas "sen" tiedostoalueelle jonkun tuoreen parituntisen ayers-haastattelun ja uuden levyn lyriikat, jos kiinnostaa.

Pilke · 20.09.2007 20:42

Paljastuksissa nämä, mutta mulla ei o mitään hajua mitä noi groupsit käytännössä on. icon_question Vieroksun itteni kirjaamista melkeen yhtään mihinkään, varsinkin kaikki sähköpostitsysteemit on epämiellyttäviä, en taho kokoajan kaikenmaailman mainoksia. Himottais kyl se haastattelu, lyriikat toivottavasti on tajuttu laittaa kansilehtiöön.

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psykokarkki · 20.09.2007 23:14

no en oo käyny kattomassa mut ei ne varmaan kirjautumattomille näy. voin käydä toki kopsailemassa jos kiinnostaa, toi haastattelu vaan on varmasti aika iso. yahoogroupsit on siis sähköpostilistoja, mut toki voi valita no mail -option ja käydä netin kautta lukemassa.

Pilke · 21.09.2007 00:05

Liityin. viha colorflash

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jookcha · 15.10.2007 01:03

http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Ro … 5231030415

psykokarkki · 15.10.2007 09:11

tuli tosta jutusta mieleen että vopis hankkia ton uuden levyn.

ex-kolja · 15.10.2007 14:30

psykokarkki wrote:

tuli tosta jutusta mieleen että vopis hankkia ton uuden levyn.

Kuuntelin kerran luisterpaalissa läpi, mikä jätti samanlaisten ajatusten keskelle.

Feggy · 15.10.2007 14:34

Mulle tulee tänään postissa.

harry-irene · 15.10.2007 15:04

On se hyvä, muttei yhtä ylimaallinen ko Shleep.

psykokarkki · 15.10.2007 16:00

harry-irene wrote:

On se hyvä, muttei yhtä ylimaallinen ko Shleep.

:schleeplove:

psykokarkki · 24.10.2007 15:07

kevin ayers -haastis

käydään läpi tuotantoa levy levyltä jne.

psykokarkki · 14.12.2007 15:51

[quote:1982202f06]Kevin Ayers and The Whole World's 'Hyde Park Free Concert 1970' finally sees release Feb 4.
The Band: Kevin Ayers, David Bedford, Lol Coxhill, Mike Oldfield, and on this occasion,
drummer Robert Wyatt. "This summer 1970 Hyde Park Free Concert recording brings to life a
deliriously heavy, heady rock experience in overdrive. How else to handle Kevin's Soft
Machine classics Did It Again and Why Are We Sleeping. Restored as fully as possible from a
two track copy[/quote:1982202f06]

Pilke · 14.12.2007 23:47

JJJEI! Oi kyllä! Varmaan sis CD:stä on kyse? DVD ois jo niin ylitsepääsemättömän nannaa, ettei koskaan sellasta mahdollisuutta ole edes mieleen juolahtanut.

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psykokarkki · 17.12.2007 15:57

simon reynolds kirjoittaa ayersista ja wyattista

psykokarkki · 13.01.2008 16:42

ehkä kuuluisi R.I.P.-otsikkoon, mutta kevin ayersin isä on kuollut.

Pilke · 13.01.2008 18:34

psykokarkki wrote:

ehkä kuuluisi R.I.P.-otsikkoon, mutta kevin ayersin isä on kuollut.

Vittu että säikähdin, kun ehdin luulla... center

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Pilke · 02.05.2008 23:36

Ostin tosiaan viime viikolla sen Kevin Ayersin Hyde Park live CD:n, hieno on, äänenlaatu ei paras mahdollinen, mut ei paskimmastakaan päästä. Eikä liveissä aina ihan priima ääni mun mielestä edes pidä olla.

Popparin setä kertoi mahtavia uutisia; Kevin Ayersilta tulee pian neljän CD:n boxi!! dance En löytäny netistä mitään tietoa tosta, eikä Popperimieskään tienny yhtään millasesta ylläristä on kyse. Hitto ku sais jostain biisilistan. Voi kun ois joku kunnon juttu, eikä mikään "neljä ekaa paketissa". Harvinaisuudet ois niin ihanaa, etten uskalla edes haaveilla, tai sitten 80-luvun matskua, mitä ei löydy mistään. Jännittää.

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Pilke · 07.09.2008 00:25

Nonni, kohtapuoliin sen KA-boxin pitäs ilmestyä, mutta jälleen kerran, vittu mitä rahastusta nää boxit on. Kolme ekaa levyä on kokoelmia ja neljäs on ennenjulkasematon live vuodelta -73. Ei haistakaa kaka siellä levy-yhtiössä. Pakko ostaa kun pakettiin sisältyy toi livelevy ja "extensive booklet, previously unpublished photos". Jee jee, en ikinä kuuntele niitä kolmea levyä. Tuolta lisätietoa.

Mutta on iloakin, tuommonen lätty ilmestyy myös, joka sisältää "demo recordings and out-takes" 70-luvulta. Oi onnea ja autuutta! TÄTÄ mä odotin! sydan Tosta enempi jos kiinnostaa.

Jee.

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Pilke · 14.09.2008 12:00

Caribbean Moonin musavideo. On se söötti.

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DirtyBlueGene · 19.09.2008 16:37

Pehmismasiinan kolme ekaa hommasin taannoin vuosien odottelun jälkeen. Loistokamaa kyllä, "kakkonen" ehkä tällä hetkellä suosikki colorscroll

psykokarkki · 19.09.2008 16:37

DirtyBlueGene wrote:

Pehmismasiinan kolme ekaa hommasin taannoin vuosien odottelun jälkeen. Loistokamaa kyllä, "kakkonen" ehkä tällä hetkellä suosikki

"kakkonen" edelleen suosikki icon_cool

psykokarkki · 05.11.2008 19:43

[quote:c1c210c276="Jean-Babtiste"][quote:c1c210c276="Pilke"]
Soft Machine ~ Middle Earth Masters

Oon aika fileissä tuon Soft Machinen löytymisestä. Äänitykset on vuosilta -67 ja -68, eli Kevin Ayers kehissä.[/quote:c1c210c276]
Paappa tosta jotain kommenttia, onko yhtä hyvää kamaa ku kaks ekaa. Siis muutenkin ku että Ayers soittaa sillä. icon_wink [/quote:c1c210c276]
PILKE NYT HEREILLÄ SIELLÄ

Pilke · 06.11.2008 22:22

Toi on siis live ja KYLLÄ, hyvää kamaa! Onnistunut livelevy, äänenlaatu ei tietty mitään "Rufus Wainwright live at sinfoniasaluuna", mut vois olla paljon paskempikin. Antaa varmaan aika hyvän kuvan siitä millanen bändi oli livenä. Hassua miten vanha biisi Clarence on.

Biisilista:

1. Clarence In Wonderland
2. We Know What You Mean
3. Bossa Nova Express
4. Hope For Happiness
5. Disorganisation
6. We Did It Again
7. Why Are We Sleeping?
8. I Should've Known
9. That's How Much I Need You Now
10. I Should've Known
11. A Certain Kind
+12. We Did It Again (lyhykäinen piilobiisi)

Joko J-B:llä on tää:

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Tässä on studiobiisejä ajalta ennen debyä. Äänitetty 1967 aika Wilde Flowers -tunnelmissa, Daevid Allenkin vielä mukana.

Biisit:

1. That's How Much I Need You
2. Save Yourself
3. I should've Known
4. Jet-Propelled Photographs (a.k.a. Shooting At The Moon)
5. When I Don't Want You
6. Memories
7. You Don't Remember
8. She's Gone
9. I'd rather Be With You

Osa on varhasia versioita mm debyllä ja Allenin Bananamoonilla olevista biisestä (Save Yourself = I Should Have Known).

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ydis · 06.11.2008 22:48

miten nuo muut soft machinet vertautuu tuohon kolmoseen? ainoa kuulemani siis se

Pilke · 06.11.2008 22:54

En muista yhtään millanen kolmonen on, mutta eka ja toka muistuttaa vähe Pink Floydin Piperia, mutta vähemmän popimpaa. Nurinkurista. Tai jotain. Emmä osaa selittää nyt ainakaan Housen aikana.

icon_rolleyes

Ja We Did It Again on Maailman Paras Biisi.

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psykokarkki · 07.11.2008 15:34

kolmonenhan alkaa jo olla sellasta erilaista, moon in june ainoa laulettu, ja siitäkin peel sessio versio oli paljon parempi, ja tuon version sanoitus aika uskomaton. tosiaan varhainen pf hyvä vertailukohta ykköseen & kakkoseen, tosin noi on ehkä vähän jatsahtavampia.

YDINAUKIO, HANKI HETI VOLUMES ONE & TWO CD, ET TULE KATUMAAN

Street Spirit Sr.

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