972 - Art Bears "Live 19 mai 2008", le punk-rock brechtien est bien vivant !

Fred Frith (guitar, bass, piano, violin)
Chris Cutler (drums)
Zeena Parkins (piano, organ, accordian, voice)
Carla Kihlstedt (violin, voice)
Jewlia Eisenberg (voice, bass)
Kristin Slipp (voice)

01. Intro 1:02
02. Joan 4:40
03. First Things First 5:02
04. The Summer Wheel 3:08
05. The Slave 5:06
06. The Hermit 3:34
07. Rats and Monkeys 4:09
08. The Skeleton 3:26
09. The Winter Wheel 2:51
10. Man And Boy 5:47
11. Three Wheels 5:21
12. The Song Of Investment Capital Overseas 2:58
13. Truth 2:41
14. Law 0:53
15. The Song Of The Monopolists 2:14
16. Freedom 3:12
17. Albion, Awake! (unrecorded version w/lyrics) 1:38
18. The Dance 5:51
19. Presentation & encore 2:15
20. All Hail 4:58
21. Joan encore 3:45

380 - Art Bears spécial 29 février : les amis du punk-rock brechtien

Quelques illustres artistes souterrains réinterprètent Art Bears.
Une épopée sans pareille.
Entrez dans l'aventure sonore.
Cette musique magistrale est un univers infini. Art Bears reste LA plus grande aventure sonore et politique de ces dernières années.

Alboume 1 :
1. Jon Rose: "The Violin in Winter" – 3:49
2. Ossatura: "Tranne Lacrimae (Bar Tears)" – 4:12
3. Otomo Yoshihide/Ground Zero: "On Suicide" – 5:49
4. Massimo Simonini: "Artico & Baci" – 3:37
5. When/Lars Pedersen: "The Tube" – 2:44
6. Warrick Swinney/Kalahari Surfers/DJ Ballard: "Rats & Monkeys Remix" – 3:15
7. John Oswald: "Time/Bye" – 5:01
8. Chris Cutler: "Three Bears Room" – 4:49
9. Roberto Musci/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: "The World as it Hopes in Winter" – 3:55
10. The Residents: "The Bath of Stars"/"The Skeleton" – 4:51
11. Yasushi Utsunomiya: "Tokusa-No-Kandakara (91 Pieces Of 'C')" – 3:02
12. Herb Heinz: "The Skeleton" – 2:59
13. Martin Archer: "Long Winter" – 5:03
14. Jon Leidecker/Wobbly: "Winter/War/Force" – 4:09
15. Fred Frith: "Everything Again" – 4:14
16. Jocelyn Robert: "Coquelicot" – 7:17
17. Art Bears: "Collapse" (Cutler, Frith) – 4:51
18. Art Bears: "All Hail" (Cutler, Frith) – 4:08

Alboume 2 :

1. Roger Kleier: "Armed Peace Remix" – 2:36
2. Bob Drake: "Song of the Monopolists" – 1:16
3. Andrea Rocca: "The Three Wheels Remix" – 2:45
4. Vitor Rua: "Gold" – 1:27
5. Brian Woodbury: "The Fourth Wheel" – 4:10
6. Chris Cutler: "The Three Figures" – 1:06
7. Bob Drake: "First Things First : The Mix That Should Not Be" – 2:56
8. Stevan Tickmayer: "Monopolists Democracy" – 4:24
9. Anne Gosfield: "All is Encompassed in the Night (part 1)" – 1:35
10. Anne Gosfield: "All is Encompassed in the Night (part 2)" – 1:35
11. Anne Gosfield: "All is Encompassed in the Night (part 3)" – 1:37
12. Biota: "The Summer Mix (part 1)" – 4:08
13. Biota: "The Summer Mix (part 2)" – 2:47
14. Biota: "The Summer Mix (part 3)" – 4:10
15. Biota: "The Summer Mix (part 3)" – 3:09
16. Thomas Dimuzio: "Democracy Remix" – 4:26
17. Christian Marclay: "Some Truth" – 4:51
18. Art Bears: "Carved in Stone (Rebirth)" (Cutler, Frith) – 1:46

192 - Art Bears à Milan : le punk-rock brechtien revient

In December 1978, Art Bears joined Rock in Opposition
(RIO), and toured Europe in April and May 1979. For the tour, they added Peter
Blegvad (ex-Slapp Happy, guitar, bass
guitar, voice) and Marc Hollander (Aksak
Maboul, keyboards, clarinet) to their line-up, and rehearsed at the Cold
Storage Recording Studios in Brixton, London before leaving for Italy in late
April. They performed in Italy, France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia, including a
RIO festival on the 1st of May in Milan. Some of the songs recorded
during the tour were later added to the CD release of Hopes and Fears and The
Art Box (2003), a box set of Art Bears
material.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bears

Live 1
Riddle
First thing first
Winter force
The tube
Moers dancing Piers
On suicide
Maze, the dividing line

Live 2
The skeleton
Man & boy
Three wheel
The dance
The hermit
Little something
Alcohol

Témoignage brûlant, sans retenue, sans concession, d'actualité.

(liens dans le commentaire)

137 - Art Bears : du punk-rock brechtien ?

Fred Frith - guitars, violin, viola, harmonium, xylophone, piano, bass guitar on "Terrain" and "The Tube"
Chris Cutler - drums, electric drums, percussives, noise
Dagmar Krause - singing
&
Lindsay Cooper - bassoon, oboe, soprano sax, recorder
Tim Hodgkinson - organ, clarinet, piano on "The Pirate Song"
Georgie Born - bass guitar, cello, vocals on "Maze"
Peter Blegvad– bass guitar on "Coda to Man and Boy"
Marc Hollander – piano on "Coda to Man and Boy"

Un testament de la noirceur passée et à venir, en nous et partout, un disque prémonitoire, une épopée sublime et cassante.
Certainement pas un disque d'avant-garde, car tous sont inéluctablement dépassés, sauf justement...

Un disque unique.
Un diamant noir au coeur de lumière, et inversement.

Indépassable.

Side 1 (Áhá: Palace courtyard)

"On Suicide"

"The Dividing Line"
"Joan"

"Maze"
"In Two Minds"

Side 2 (Mer: Irrigated land)

"Terrain"
"The Tube"

"The Dance"

"The Pirate Song"
"Labyrinth"
"Riddle"
"Moeris Dancing"
"Piers"

&

"All Hail!"

"Collapse"

"Coda to Man and Boy"

Hopes and Fears, bonne écoute en passant