PUSSYNBOOTLEGS - THE OPENING SONGS (August/September 2010)

A message by Ottadamson:

Hello! Could you tell me please what are these songs (artist and song name) which are in the Medley series, File Factory upload section? All the songs are really really good and I would be very happy to know what songs these are :) I'm from Estonia and I love your blog! My e-mail is.... [xxxx], so maybe you could send me the names of these Medley songs :)

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A message by Groet:
me too, and wat is the name of that song in that file factory ting ? tnx - groet
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Dear visitors who asked me for titles of the songs in the sequence:

I published an exstensive entry about all the songs that you can hear on my blog when you click on my opening page.

this is the link:

http://countess-vanessas-diary.blogspot.com/2010/09/opening-songs-xtc-locanda-delle-fate.html

Your COUNTESS

KEITH TIPPETT - Blueprint (RCA Victor, 1972)

"All the music is improvised" ... splendid incipit for us free lovers ;)

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more recommendable albums by KT:

"Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening" Vertigo, 1971

About 20 years ago there used to exist a bootleg of this album, VERY WELL done, I must say, but one thing is mercilessly determining, if you want to detect whether you hold the original or a fake: look at the vinyl, the serial numbers are originally machine-typed, not hand-written, and the two dis-levels of the label, around the rims and around the center (see foto below), the only places on a vinyl record that bootleggers are not able to imitate. This is valid also for hundreds of other bootlegs: check the labels, and you will discover the truth.

CENTIPEDE - Septober energy (RCA Neon, 2 LP, 1972)

Everybody knows (by just seeing fotos, usually) the original front cover, just a writing on a white ground, but this is the second UK edition, much rarer than the first, oddly enough ;-)

"Ovary lodge" (RCA Victor, 1973)

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KEITH TIPPETT and the ELYSIAN STRING QUARTET - Live at the London Jazz Festival 2008 (Radio Broadcast)

For those who love Keith Tippett and his extremely interesting experimental musical planet...

Half-an-nour of music in one track, "Linuckia"

(photo stolen from his official 'myspace' blog)

Keith Tippett – piano

The Elysian String Quartet:
JennyMay Logan – violin
Emma Smith – violin
Laura Moody – cello
Vincent Cipprell – viola

GENTLE GIANT - Playing the foole (Bootleg, rec. 1974)

For long time this remained the only existing bootleg of Gentle Giant. The first further bootlegs will appear not earlier than in the Compact Disc era, I never ever saw any other Gentle Giant bootleg on vinyl. This LP was already enough famous at the time, till the point that the band itself decided to adopt the title for the official double live "Playing the fool" (omitting the final E) that saw the light 2 years later.
This bootleg, despite what stays written on the sleeve,
1 - is not live
2 - wasn't recorded during any "American tour".
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List:
1. Proclamation - 2. Funny ways - 3. Experience - 4. So sincere - 5. The advent of Panurge - 6. Mr. Class & Quality - 7. The power & the glory.
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All the tracks were recorded in studio, but they're all alternate versions of the originals. So many of these re-constructed and variated versions served as a framework for the forthcoming  concerts, because here we have the same arrangements in the way we hear them on the live albums.  Shame for "Mr. Class and Quality" which is suddenly interrupted: it's quite rare to find this song around on bootlegs, the band stopped playing this track live, at least from 1973 on.  I don't know if this bootleg was ever reissued on CD, anyway, as it usually happens by me, this is the vinyl rip - no surprise.  At the end of the album there is "The power and the glory", the original studio track that didn't appear on the same-titled LP, but on single. I didn't take it away, so the bootleg is complete, for purists...  :-)

Enjoy

The COUNTESS

ATMO - The sea and the dark land (Mellow, 1993)

Second album by a quite interesting Italian Progressive group

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MIKE WESTBROOK CONCERT BAND - Celebration (Deram, 1967)

Mike Westbrook's first album,
one more pearl of British Jazz of the 60s...

Mike Westbrook (piano)

John Surman (baritone and soprano saxes, bass clarinet)

Mike Osborne (alto sax)

Malcolm Griffiths (trombone)

Harry Miller (bass)

Alan Jackson (drums)

Dave Holdsworth (trumpet, flugelhorn)

Tom Bennellick (French horn)

Dave Perrottet (valve trombone)

George Smith (tuba)

Dave Chambers (tenor sax, clarinet)

Bernie Living (alto sax, flute)

tracks:

1 Pastoral

2 Awakening

3 Parade

4 Echoes and heroics

5 A Greeting

6 Image

7 Dirge

8 Portrait

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