I like the way the doodads fly...

The stridulating sounds of Steve Noble:



Steve Noble @ Boat-ting, London, 11/15/10



Decoy @ the Vortex, 11/20/10
Steve Noble - Drums
John Edwards - Bass
Alexander Hawkins - Hammond Organ

Both shot by Shuffleboil

What the guys from "Moonlighting" did

when they found out what was really happening...









Polish Festival at Cafe Oto, London 2010
Shot by theuglyonewithjewel

Moonlighting is a 1982 British drama film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It is set in the early 1980s at the time of the Solidarity protests in Poland. It stars Jeremy Irons as Nowak, a Polish builder leading a team working illegally in London.

Full Blast!

Please pardon my long absence; I just got back from my space-cation...
To help make up for it, here's some brand-new footage of Peter Brötzmann and Full Blast:



@ A38, budapest 2010



F16 taking off with afterburner switched on and doing a few loopings.

Presented at the Airshow in Berlin-Schönefeld on May, 20th 2006 near the airport.

If you have a subwoofer, turn the volume up to full blast and enjoy the roaring afterburner sound. while annoying your neighbours! ;-)

Sound distortion occurs at 0:14, no faulty camera microphone!

Do not attempt to annoy your neighbours! ;-}

Must bust in early May

Or possibly Free Games for May...films courtesy of Helen Petts:



John Butcher (saxophones), Okkyung Lee (cello) and - in the dark - Christian Marclay (turntables) and Steve Beresford (electronics). Cafe Oto, London, 05/07/10.



Beresford & Marclay



Lee & Beresford, 05/08/10



Lee & Marclay, 05/07/10



Marclay & Butcher, 05/07/10

Maybe yes, maybe no

Early Contortions, supposedly with Reck and Chico Hige of Friction:



A little later on:



Maybe someday I'll be able to put up my super-8 footage of James Chance strolling through Bryant Park...

Weasel hits the Big Apple...

But on the Planet Brooklyn, not the isle of Manhattoes, belted 'round by wharves...



Talibam! with Weasel Walter @ Zebulon, 12/23/09

Talibam! consists of Matt Mottel on synthesizer and Kevin Shea on drums & percussion. Weasel Walter joins them in this short clip filmed at Brooklyn's Zebulon club. Weasel Walter is on the far left playing electric guitar, small percussion instruments, drums, and bass clarinet. In the middle is Kevin Shea on drums, Matt Mottel is at the far right playing keyboards or synthesizer.

Christmastime is here...

And it may sound a bit strange in London...



Hannah Marshall ( cello ) / Roger Turner ( percussion ) / Tim Hodgkinson ( clarinet ) @ Mopomoso Christmas Special, the Vortex, 12/20/09. Filmed by Shuffleboil.



Tania Chen ( piano ) / Lol Coxhill ( sax ) / Dominic Lash ( bass )



Eugene Martynec ( electronics ) / Adrian Northover ( sax ) / Adam Bohman ( electronics )



Marillsa Gouvea ( voice ) / Macio Mattos ( bass ) / Rodrigo Montoya ( shamisen ) Terry Day ( balloons and recorders )

The Long and Short of It

Arto in the Dark

Arto Lindsay no Oi Multiplicidade, Rio, novembro de 2009. Tocando "O Mais Belo dos Belos", canção do carnaval baiano.

Krakow killed Apple Jack

Brought to you in glorious heads-in-the-way-o-vision:



Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet Live at Manggha Krakow

"Wewease Bwian!"

Lightning Bolt and Sun Ra Arkestra (but not together, like Sun Ra and the MC5
back in the old days...)

ilmmaker Peter Glantz explores musicl, spiritual, and cosmic connections between thmingly disparate grops.

We turned this sod of XLR8R TV over to flmmaker Peter Glantz, h went to Providence, Rhode Island's Foo Fest to take a close he festival's two main tractions— Lightning Bolt and Sun Ra Arkestra. Lightning Bolt, Providence's epic nose duo headed up by Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson, is known for suprising, chiastic, often transcendent performances. Sun Ra Arkestra became legendary in the world under the lead. Today, the Arkestra continues to flosh and promote the cosmic philosophy of Sun Ra under the direction of alto saxophonist Marshall Allen. Here, Glantz captures both their live perf and meditates on the spiritual alliance between these two far-lung musical pats

"Pretty harsh sound, right?" "Calm down, Grandma."

One of the best ways to start a gig...

The deathful love story of a free jazz saxophonist, Kaoru Abe (1949-1978) and a novelist, his wife, Izumi Suzuki (1949-1986). A film "Endless Waltz" was produced by Koji Wakamtsu Production in 1995.

Hana Bi Combos, thanks to Shuffleboil

07/17/09 at Cafe Oto, London. with Roger Turner, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Chino Shuichi, Shabaka Hutchings, Dominic Lash, and Benedict Drew.



07/18/09 at Cafe Oto, London. with Roger Turner, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Chino Shuichi, Kaffe Mathews, Hannah Marshall, Alan Tomlinson.



07/19/09 at Cafe Oto, London. with Roger Turner, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Chino Shuichi, Phil Minton,Lol Coxhill.

"Cherokee"?

Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra @ North Sea Jazz Fest, Rotterdam, 07/12/09

Mats Gustafsson, Axel Dörner, Cor Fuhler, Mizutani Hiroaki, Yoshigaki Yashuhira

Video by Shuffleboil

(I used this border to complement Axel Dörner's swell suit...)



Video by 010zico

Summer's Here and the Time is Right for Brrzzapp in the Streets

Multinatural Blackout PARADE
(Dance: the neediest of the Arts)