FULL COLD MOON (02 December 2009)

The musick dedicated to this Esbat is:

OVADIA MONI THEATER ORCHESTRA

OYLEM GOYLEM


Original Issue: 1991 Fonit Cetra (CDC 60) (Buy it here!!!)

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Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

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1. Firen di Mekhutonim aheym
2. Dem ganefs Yiches
3. Ani maamin
4. Bulbes / Trellohaposervico
5. Finf un tsvantsiger
6. Rustemal ca la Listeava
7. El Mole Rahamim
8. Khassidishe Nigun
9. Rozhinkes mit mandlen)
10. Der shtille Bulgar (Suite)
11. Zogt der Rebbe
12. Yoshke Yoshke
13. Vi azoy s'iz nisht git tsu geyn
14. Trink briderl
15. Dire gelt
16. Yiddish folk song
17. Di fartraibung vun dem Moshiach
18. Quadrille
19. Tants yidelekh
20. Nigun
21. Shabes
22. Tants/Freilech
23. Le Dovyd mizmoyr
24. Friling/Fidl volach
25. Wen der rebbe
26. Vilna

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from All Music Guide:

A collection of traditional Eastern European klezmer songs from a pair of Italian stage reviews, with emphasis on musical director Moni Ovadia's ebullient vocals. Solid performances and orchestration plus a number of nice touches, like the unexpected piccolo solo that brightens "Rustemul ca la Listeava.

Bob Tarte

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from http://www.cornelldailysun.com:

Moni Ovadia is an Italian musician who happens to be particularly moved by klezmer music, and because the near-extinct Eastern European genre contains only a handful of groups and bandleaders, he is one of the bigger names for klezmer enthusiasts. Nevertheless, he does an excellent job maintaining all the soul and witticism that the music is most known for. Yet play this for your grandparents and you might just stop them from demanding why you don't have a job yet.

With a full ensemble of professional musicians behind him, including strings, clarinet, light percussion and accordion the music is so realistic, you might just feel as if you were back in the shtetl, humming a Yiddish melody while milking the cows.

Most of the songs are a hilarious series of insults which we can all learn since English lyrics are included but sound all the better in Yiddish. The song "Dem Ganefs Yiches" shows us that the language invented the "yo mama" joke, as well as the lesser known "yo brother" and "yo papa." And who said it was dead?

RISING MOON (japrocksampler musick)

CAESAR J.A.
JASHŪMON

Original Issue: 1972 Victor (SF-1021)

Reissue: 1999 Blue Interactions (PCD-1465)

Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

Impossibly hard-to-find (even the reissue) masterpiece by J.A. Caesar ranking #10 in Julian Cope's Japrocksampler bible!

Recorded live at a theatrical performance by Tenjo Sajiki at Shibuya Kokaido on January 30, 1972.

This guy was a graphic design student, who adopted the name J.A. [Julius Arnold] Caesar, often also found spelled Seazer and even Ceazar [just to confuse internet searches even further!], and was known by the late 60's as one of the few 'true hippies' on the local scene. He apparently won a competition for hair length!

His music often featured elements of Japanese percussion, 'sekkyobushi narrative music', progressive and psychedelic rock, raw heavy rock, and other influences as diverse as Carl Orff and Pierre Henry.

1 Kyōjobushi
2 Jin
3 Shishi no Ko
4 Tōkyō Junreika
5 Haraisō
6 Kyōchō
7 Hahasute Hannyakyō
8 Okasaretara Nakeba Ii
9 Doko e Doko e to Satsu!
10 Kurama Tengu
11 Jashūmon
12 Bokoi Jigoku
13 Karasu
14 Kanokeburo
15 Wasan
16 Tsuru no Tēma
17 Kuchibue Sanka
18 1970 nen 8 gatsu
19 Wasan

from Volcanic Tongue:

Beautiful book/CD Japan-only reissue of a particularly inspired side from Tenjo Sajiki, the Japanese avant guerrilla theatre company founded by legendary poet/film maker/counter-cultural provocateur Shuji Terayama that existed contemporaneously to first wave avantists like Flower Travellin’ Band, Keiji Haino’s Lost Aaraaff and Les Rallizes Denudes and that featured dusted acid/rock/folk/avant moves composed and executed by the young wunderkind JA Seazer.

Alan Cummings rates this particular one as a real early peak for Seazer’s music. Written for a series of foreign performances in 1971 – Nancy, Rotterdam, Belgrade, Zagreb and other areas of the Balkans – Seazer is rumoured to have composed and recorded all of the music for Jashumon/Heresy in the space of a few hours the night before the troupe left.

This particular recording is drawn from the only Japanese performance of the play, January 1972 in Tokyo. Released at the time on a now very rare side by Victor, this massive new edition adds a clutch of new material, including two powerful performances by Kan Mikami.

The music is fairly astounding throughout and for the most part defies any attempt at pithy generic description but the piece include flashes of huge, organ-led marches supported by clouds of choral song and throat-shredding death/folk vocals, brief episodes of forlorn traditional breath lost in a thin soup of electronics and gongs, massed acid chants ala Ya Ho Wha 13 and bursts of modal guitar psych.

The accompanying book is a beauty, featuring a ton of performance shots and all-Japanese text.

Highest recommendation.

BLACK MOON (the dark side of musick)

WALKER SCOTT
TILT

Original Issue: 1995 Fontana (526 859-2)

Reissue: 1997 Drag City ( DC134CD) Buy it!!!


Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

1 Farmer In The City
2 The Cockfighter
3 Bouncer See Bouncer...
4 Manhattan
5 Face On Breast
6 Bolivia '95
7 Patriot (A Single)
8 Tilt
9 Rosary

from Amazon:

You have to have an open mind to sit through this album. It is very disturbing and I would not listen to this on my personal stereo late at night. This is challenging in the extreme and not for the faint-hearted. Having said that, this is a work of such genius and beauty that, to me, it is like opera. Here is a man who can sing anything - and proves it on this album.

My advice to everyone who wants to know about this album and wonders if there is anything similar to it, is to ignore all his early albums. I listened earlier to "Boy Child" - the compilation of Scott's music from 67 to 70. It's a magnificent collection from his first six albums, but this is nothing like that - the music on "Boy Child" and "Tilt" could not be further away from each other, they're light years apart.

To have any clue about what to expect musically and lyrically here, you might listen to the last Walker Brothers album - "Nite Flights" - and Scott's previous release "Climate Of Hunter". Even then, you'll put this on your stereo and listen in wonderment and disbelief.

You can't categorise this music, you can't sing along to it - you just listen to it and marvel at it's originality and it's brilliance. The musicianship is magnificent and simple and the strings, in all of this albums oddness, stand out beautifully.

A distubing work of genius. As others have said, you can't accuse of Scott Walker of selling out, of writing to get hit records. The bad news is that there has been nothing from Scott since this album - 9 years of nothing, although I am ever optimistic that there is another album in him. The further bad news (for other writers, that is) is that most of them could not write material of this massive quality even in their dreams (or their nightmares).

This is immense in the extreme. A strange but glorious masterpiece.

Geoff Hall

RED MOON (musick & other arts)

LAIBACH
KRST POD TRIGLAVOM-BAPTISM

Original Issue: 1987 Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien ( WULP 005/006)
1988 Sub Rosa ( SUBCD 001-9)

Reissue: 2000 Sub Rosa (SR09) Buy It!


Margot-meter: 4 moons / 5

1 Jezero / Der See, Valjhun / Waldung, Delak
2 Koža / Die Haut
3 Jägerspiel
4 Bogomila - Verführung
5 Wienerblut
6 Črtomir
7 Jelengar
8 Apologija Laibach / Laibach-Apologie
9 Herzfeld
10 Krst / Die Taufe, Germania
11 Rdeči Pilot / Der Rote Pilot

From Sub Rosa website:

'ART IS FANATICISM THAT DEMANDS DIPLOMACY'

EXPRESSION / SYMBOLS / STRUCTURE
1988: the score of the theatrical spectacle - baptism below triglav- was released on sub rosa records. this masterpiece is still a massive cornerstone of the label's history, and was - by way of anecdote - after several vinyls, the first cd we produced...

2000: we decide that it is time to reintroduce this long time deleted album into our catalogue: be ready to face once again one of the most controversial bands ever!

A review from Discogs:

Laibach's supreme masterpiece. This is modern classical as it's best, the history of Slovenia in music, from prehistory down to modern times.
"Krst / Die Taufe, Germania" is their best track ever, with hammering industrial steel drums, obsessive machinery noise, apocalyptic trumpets and the gloomy demon voice. The ideal soundtrack for Doomsday.
This 2LP set came in a box strongly resembling the Deutsche Grammophone ones!

Scrap_Iron, 2003