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The Story so far...
1970's- FM radio, Alternative Magazine & 1st US Indie Distributor of Euro Rock
1980's- D.I.Y. LP + Cassette & CD label
1990's- Distribution via the WWW
2010- Eurock.com ~ Multimedia Podcasting, Interviews & Reviews.
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EUROCK ~
European Rock
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A 30 Year History of Experimental Music
Electronic, Progressive & Space Rock
Interviews – Biographies – Reviews
7 X 10 ~ 714 Pages
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"The Millennium Edition"
Updated to the Year 2000
A Special Enhanced
CD that contains 40 minutes of
music by Japanese master musician Hiro Kawahara (of Heretic).
Plus CD-ROM session that includes 25 minutes of 16-bit audio w/
digitized video by Amon Düül II, Popol Vuh and Urban Sax,
the complete texts of all
original EUROCK Magazine back issues, rare photos, discographies
& index.
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"Without Music Life would be a
Mistake"
~ Nietzsche
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05.05.2013 Interview
@ AMBIcon
Interview:
Michel Huygen
CD Baby
INFO
Michel Huygen & I have been in
contact for over 30 years. I've been
reviewing and playing his music all along and the
Eurock files are filled with information, photos and
art work he has sent me. Just recently he and I
crossed paths, literally and unexpectedly, in the
same place at the same time. It was an incredible
case of happenstance leading to serendipity. I had
just gotten his new album, ExoSomnia,
and prepared a new radio program featuring music
from it, the incredible extended track entitled
"And Man Created Gods". It + the entire
Neuronium catalog in now distributed in the USA via
CD Baby. We had a great time hanging out at AMBIcon
& recorded an interview filled with incredible
stories about his history and long music career.
Take a Listen! It makes for fascinating listening
and is accompanied by many artifacts from the Eurock
Archives.
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Eurock
Weekly Radio Program
KUSF in Exile ~ San Francisco Public Radio
8PM Friday's Pacific Time
USA
In October 2011, I was invited by
KUSF in Exile SFCR
to host a weekly program
Friday nights 8PM to 9PM Pacific Time USA.
SFCR
features an
incredible array of diverse cultural, musical
programming and for years was one of the top College
stations in the USA. It now broadcasts online,
streaming Internationally via 365Live.com. The
programs focus is highly eclectic with music played
ranging the spectrum of sound and styles that
reflect my own wide ranging musical tastes. After 40
years I've come full circle to begin again a new
musical adventure featuring an eclectic selection of
music and bands. I'd be honored if you'd join me and
make listening a weekly ritual. With this new
program I try to create a flashback to the days of
early FM radio, when music listening was a ritual
that turned us on, tuned us in and opened up our
minds to a whole new way of looking at the world.
Tune in every week & listen to the Eurock Radio
Program, streaming
at 8PM Pacific Time,
USA. Click on the "Live Stream"
link column right.
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March
15, 2013 ~ Eurock
40 Years On...
View:
Eurock Magazine Cover Gallery
March 15 1971
I began Eurock as a radio program
on KFIG FM, Central California's largest commercial
station in the San Joaquin Valley.
Two years later, March 15, 1973, the first issue of
Eurock Magazine was published. Today that seems like a
long time ago in a land far away.
Remarkably, Eurock still lives
on reincarnated as a Webzine, as well a
radio program every Friday night broadcast via
Translove Airwaves on San Francisco Community Radio.
To the right you see me
in 1971 entranced by the music, back-dropped by the
art prints from Faust's 2nd album SO FAR and
art prints from a German Bellaphon Records 1971
calendar.
Above you see the
covers of the first 4 issues of Eurock magazine.
Feature articles, Interviews & Pictures from
these as well as all
issues of Eurock Magazine have now been reprinted in
the book European Rock & the Second Culture.
Click the Gallery link above and you can view as
well all 40+ original covers of Eurock Magazine.
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Music Millennium Book Talk &
Signing
Watch:
European Rock & the Second Culture
To commemorate 40 years of Eurock in JAN 2013 I gave
a book talk at the place my career took off, Music
Millennium in Portland, OR, one of the greatest
record stores there ever was. I talked about how it
all began for me, my personal love of music and the
development of the music and culture I promoted.
also shared a few
colorful stories and asides about my adventures in
life and the business of music. A nice crowd turned
out of friends old and new. A DIY video was recorded
so you can watch and will hopefully enjoy...
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European Rock & the Second Culture
Patterson, Archie
[ISBN: 978-0972309806]
Review 02/06/2013
In this thick anthology of rock history, Patterson
compiles every feature article and interview
published by Eurock magazine.
Described in the foreword as a documentation of a
time in history when “the limits of imagination and
what was possible sonically were stretched beyond
the norm,” the anthology is organized by year,
starting with 1973 and ending with 2002. Fans of
European rock and electronic music will value the
variety of content, from interviews with Holger
Czukay to collections of mini-essays by Robert-Jan
Stips. Without commentary or sidebars, the reprinted
musings, essays and articles about and by musicians
speak for themselves. And there’s a lot of rich
information to mine; the reader may discover Klaus
Dinger of the German rock scene or Heinz Strobl,
also known as Gandalf, and might learn a few things
about the underlying philosophies and theories that
contributed to new waves of sound and sonic
technology. Here, composers discuss the way they
probe into their inner “soulscapes” for a truer,
more authentic expression of sound, and reviewers
rave about the new albums and LPs of the ’80s and
’90s. One artist, Mark Shreeve, describes music as
an “undemocratic art” where many solo electronic
musicians are more satisfied by developing their own
ideas than by collaborating with one another. The
interviews dig deep into the inspirations and
motivations behind different movements, albums and
periods of creation. If anything, the nostalgic
experience of reading through these artifacts helps
one appreciate the combination of moments,
innovations and risks that created each new step of
a growing musical force across a continent. For
those readers interested in particular research, an
index in the book’s final pages organizes all
artists, bands and record labels mentioned.
A fascinating aerial view of a music scene spanning
three decades.
-Kirkus Indie
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Entropy Records
Hutch
Demouilpied - Otherness (DBL
CD)
18eme Boudoir - Le Cycle Des Lumieres
(DBL CD)
Esther Burns - La Valeur Du Vide
(CD)
Esther Burns - The Genius of the Crowd
(3" CD)
More INFO:
Entropy
Entropy Records out of Paris, France,
is one of the most interesting boutique indie record
labels I have come across in several years. They
release LTD EDITION art- concept CD packages. The
music of the various artists featured explores the
musical realms of ambient space and acid jazz, as
well as neo-classical and chamber electronics.
Highlighted above are four of
the labels latest album releases - Hutch
Demouilpied's OTHERNESS (DBL CD) and 18eme Boudoir's LE CYCLE DES LUMIERES
(DBL CD).
In addition the two releases by Esther Burns -
LA VALEUR DU VIDE (CD) and THE GENIUS
OF THE CROWD (3" CD EP).
OTHERNESS by
multimedia composer/ musicians Hutch Demouilpied
features a surreal series of soundcapes that
comingle cerebral electronics, musique concrete
inserts, ethereal voice, keyboards, trumpet and
the amazing atmospheric sax colorations of Pee Wee
Ellis. Disc 1 features original compositions, while
Disc 2 contains imaginative and unique remixes that take the
music into an entirely different musical dimension.
Both discs offer the listener a totally unique and
haunting musical immersion experience.
LE CYCLE DES LUMIERES
by 18eme Boudoir is also double disc set that offers
two distinctly different audio environments. The
duo, composed of Philippe Lechat "Lipo Cat" & Jacques
Vautier have created on Disc 1 a series of
experimental acid jazz textures haunted by synthetic
spirits that will musically linger within the mental spaces of
your minds eye. The musical themes are subtle and
spatial, filled with bass pulsations, synthetic
winds and celestial splashes of percussives and
exotic effects. Disc 2 is more
a series of dark ambient, scared soundtracks filled
with subtle looping synthetic pulsations, deep
warmly melodic themes, choral voices, an operatic
oratorio and delicate neo-chamber classical melodies.
Both discs combine to create a totally enchanting listening session.
Esther Burns is comprised of
Emmanuel Chagrot & Philippe Sangara. Their releases
are perhaps two of the most powerful fusions of
music and spoken word philosophical tracks I have
ever heard. An avid scholar could write a lengthy
dissertation on both the music and socio-political
theory behind the albums conception. The casual,
listener will instead become captivated by trying to absorb and decipher the
words and meaning behind the various texts by Ronald
Reagan's Doctor of Voodoo Economics Milton
Freidman, along with the counterpoint cultural analysis of poet
Charles Bukowski featured on THE GENIUS OF THE
CROWD, taken from his album 70
MINUTES IN HELL.
Their debut album, LA VALEUR DU VIDE ,
features tracts by Antonin Artaud, Robert Johnson &
Charley Patton + Phillip K. Dick. The music on both
works is an incredible amalgam of electronics, laced
with guitars, old fashioned keyboards, vintage
recordings, static, mechanical sounds, samples,
percussion, exotica and more. The words and music
fade in and out of each other to create a surreal
tapestry of intellectual stimulation and deeply
emotive
tone colors.
Of ALL the music I've heard
recently, these 4 diverse releases offer some of the
most unique and compelling music and creative
concepts that I've heard in the last few years. They
are my personal Favorites from 2012! I
highly recommend you check out the music released by
Entropy Records!
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Nico ICON
(DVD)
Review:
Nico
Watch Part5 Excerpt:
ICON
In the annals of European music, one
concert stands out as preeminent still today,
ranking as legendary
in terms of crystallizing a transcendent moment in
time for an era and its music. The two performances
held on Friday DEC 13, 1974 at the
Cathedrale Notre-Dame in Reims, France
featured Nico & Tangerine Dream.
Told in
flashback style, the film begins with Nico's manager
Alan Wise during her time with the Faction in the UK
led by keyboardist James Young. They toured in a van
promoting the album Camera Obscura.
Wise says Nico was "searching for extinction" and
Young calls her a "middle aged junkie", "queen on
the bad girls". The tour stories are horrifying as
during that time she was an addict.
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The Larry Mondello Band
The All American Underground Band
Read:
LMB
Watch:
LMB
IN THE BEGINNING, there was the
Leave it to Beaver show a television comedy of
the late 1950s. The medium of TV delivered the
message of society distilled into a handful of
characters for half an hour each week, spinning the
tales of an All American family.
There is always another storyline
however, a parallel plane of existence, especially
during the 1950s before the Pandora's Box was opened
and America turned into what it is today. When
secret lives were led and music was something
people did to simply explore their inner life, not
be cool or make money. There was no internet to
spread a virus or exorcise personal demons. People
came alive by exercising their imaginations, not
playing with computerized toys.
The works of The Larry Mondello Band
are completely unique and can only be categorized as
a product of Larry’s own personal state of mind. At
the very least, they are an artifact of the time
before the machines took over and downloading made
music simply a product of the ether, a non-corporal
substance. The LMB was the antithesis of all that.
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AskaTemple
John Ubel
(1996-2012 Oct.20th)
Read:
John Ubel RIP
Eurock LIVE
Podcast #25
Listen:
AskaTemple
One of the most
provocative bands and musicians I have come across
in my years spent chronicling the world scene of
experimental and underground music is AskaTemple,
led by Muneharu Yuuba whose stage name was John
Ubel. The band name, derived from the small village
he lived, also makes reference to the spiritual &
shamanist mysticism of his music that also contains
strong influences from the psychedelic era.
He passed away
recently and though a virtual unknown, it's a loss
of to the world of music today in more ways than we
can know. In this age of media saturation, it is
rare that such intensity of emotion as evidenced in
the music of AskaTemple is conveyed. Be it his
guitar playing, synthesized guitar compositions or
the band recordings, his music was devotedly
non-commercial and filled with a depth of passion
that only an artist who lives and works outside the
realm of daily life as we know it today can create.
The
article
by
Nicolai Murahama, keyboardist for AskaTemple,
reflects
on his strange story and includes an insightful look
at his musical history and life history .
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The
Cosmic Couriers
Once Upon on Time in Germany...
Read:
The Cosmic Couriers
In 1970, there were no German record
companies interested in German music. We showed the
German people that they could trust their own music.
(Mojo magazine, April 2003)
In Germany, and around the world, a new
international consciousness came into being during
that era, the times they were a changing, and
forever altered in more ways than anyone could have
ever imagined. The story of The Cosmic Couriers’,
Rolf & Gille, was in many ways a paradigm example of
that. Little known now and ultimately written out of
the cultural lexicon, sometimes dreams die hard, old
memories simply fade away. Rolf & Gille are still
alive, now living out of touch with the world today
by choice. Their dreams live on only as words in the
ether.
This new article offers for the first time original
documents from the Eurock archives, translated from
German into English. You can also watch original
video from a German TV debate about the German music
industry. Kaiser debates Nikel Pallat manager of
Berlin agit-rock band TSS, and the plug gets
pulled...
Read:
The Mythos of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser
Watch
Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser on German TV
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Via Lactea
Carlos Alvarado 1980 Interview
Read:
Via Lactea Interview
In the early days of the Mexican Rock
scene there have been few groups dedicating
themselves to doing experimental music and being
open to furthering their creativity. In the
beginning, there were Decibel and Chac Mool, both
featured keyboardist, composer Carlos Alvarado who
also led his own group, Via Lactea (“Milky Way”).
This interview conducted in the early
1980s was rediscovered while organizing the Eurock
archives and is published here in English for the
first time. In the interview, Carlos talks about his
ideas and his position in the Mexican rock &
electronic music scene.
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euroRock
In Opposition
Read:
RIO Blog
Rock began in opposition to
mainstream culture.
The metamorphosis from (black) race music into white
rock ‘n’ roll shook the very foundations of society.
It was an ungodly amalgamation of the blues from the
plantation fields, jazz and poetry in bohemian
enclaves, injected with country folk. Ultimately, it
was all bastardized by white boys in US garages
making noise.
The mode of music became revolutionized, and
ultimately co-opted as corporate record labels began
signing anyone up who could play an instrument, or
not, and hyping it to make millions. The commercial
record business literally exploded and FM radio hit
the airwaves. Today’s music scene is a different
animal. There are still bands around the world
making creative music without purely commercial
intent. The internet both facilitates their
existence, and to a great degree consigns them to
needle-in-a-haystack oblivion. In the real world,
indie labels, music stores, a viable distribution
network and counter culture ethos are withering,
even major label record companies are dying on the
vine.
Technology dominates.
Marshall McLuhan predicted the
creation of mass media in his 1964 book, “The Medium
is the Message”, offering fair advanced warning. In
1966, he talked of the creation of the Internet and
its lifestyle changes, the concept of a global
village, later twitter & more, envisioning its
substance and impact: "All media work us over completely.
They are so pervasive in their personal, political,
economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical,
and social consequences that they leave no part of
us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The Medium is
the Massage. Any understanding of social and
cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of
the way media work as environments. All media are
extensions of some human faculty--psychic or
physical."
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Stomu
Yamash’ta Eurock LIVE
Podcast #24
Listen:
Stomu Yamash’ta PODCAST
Stomu Yamash'ta performed his first concert,
Percussion Concerto, with the Kyoto Philharmonic
Orchestra in 1963 at the age of 16. By age 17, he
had transplanted to NYC and entered Julliard. During
the 1970s, he became internationally renowned,
releasing a series of albums adapting his
adventurous style to creating a new fusion of
experimental jazz, symphonic, electronic and rock
music. He released 3 albums entitled Go,
featuring a cast of international superstar
musicians.
In the 1980s, he reached a spiritual impasse,
returning to live in Kyoto where he took up Buddhist
studies. Yamash’ta returned to music when in the
1990s he discovered the musical powers of Sanukit
stones which generate sound over an 8000 hertz
spectrum, creating an 88-tone range. Using these
stones, he created an entire line of instruments and
began exploring a new sound concept “sacred music of
the stones”. Eurock LIVE Podcast #24
features music from his classic, early 1980s
Iroha trilogy, as well as from a series of
small label, privately released albums by Japan’s
foremost modern music composer Stomu Yamash’ta.
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Mikhail
Chekalin
MIR Records
Reissues & New Music
Listen:
Mikhail Chekalin
For More INFO:
Mikhail Chekalin
Between 2005 and 2010, MIR Records in the USA
released eight productions devoted to works by Mikhail Chekalin. The
label produced 4 CDs and 4 DVDs bringing his work to an
entirely new worldwide audience. The MIR label now embarks
on an ambitious new project, beginning with a
series of six CDs, titled the Historic Edition,
featuring previously unreleased material from his personal
archives. That is followed by his entire back catalog of
previously released albums, as well as unreleased archival
recordings and brand new music. The Historic Edition
series focuses on music from the middle of the 1970’s
through the early 1980’s. It does not include any of the
previously available Melodiya releases, but instead features
material not released before in any way.
In addition, MIR has now released a new
installment of 28 albums that feature both new
post-Millennium music and re-mastered reissues by Chekalin.
They include a selection of influential albums produced for
the state owned Melodiya label in the late 1980’s & early
1990’s. The music covers a wide stylistic spectrum from diverse experimental beat
influenced electronic music and avant-garde post-symphonic
experiments, to dense, ambient, neo-classic space
music compositions for keyboard and synthesizer. Over the
span of all 39 albums released to date by the MIR
label, you can hear the strikingly high level of creativity and
innovative spirit of the music Mikhail Chekalin
has been producing over the span of his entire career.
Now at last having his works available outside Russia
offers
experimental music fans in the West
a brand new listening adventure to undertake..
As the listener experiences Chekalin’s musical progression
through the years, they will in fact be hearing an audio
documentation of the history of experimental music by one of
the premier Russian musicians and composers over the last
half century. For artists there, music & art was not about
making money, but more importantly keeping their creative
spirit alive. In Chekalin’s case that was certainly true.
The
social and political dynamic of making art, music and real
life is clearly evident in the intensity and
emotional power of the music Mikhail Chekalin made.
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NEW
Kluster & CON Box Sets!
VOD100: Conrad Schnitzler
"ConTainer" T1-12 8 LPs
Music Samples:
CON
VoD
VOD102: KLUSTER "Klusterstrasse
69-72" 8 LPs
Music Samples:
Kluster
VoD
The Kluster box features music recorded at various
sound installations during the years 1969-1972.
The material on this Box-Set is all previously
unreleased!
The CON box offers a retrospective of his 1971-1983
works previously released only as a Very LTD EDITION
6xTape-Set by the
Transmitter Tapes
label in 1983.
Both box sets feature deluxe packaging w/ 4 DBL
gatefold albums on180 gram virgin vinyl, released as
LTD EDITION sets by the German label Vinyl on
Demand.
The Kluster set features
extensive and timely liner notes contributed by
Wolfgang Seidel and myself. The CON solo box
contains 4 double gatefold albums on white 180 gram
virgin vinyl with 4x 8.5" X 10.5" original CON
photos, black and white glossies + a bonus 7"
EP!
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Luis Perez
Sanctuary of
the Butterflies
Eurock LIVE Podcast #23
Listen:
Luis Perez PODCAST
Luis Perez
Resonance
Watch:
Resonance PREVIEW Clip
In the beginning, there was the music of
nature. First, there was thunder, then rain, the oceans
and rushing rivers. Following that was the wind, birds, bees
and pounding heartbeat of man.
Since 1971, Luis has dedicated his life to
the study of Pre-Columbian musical instruments and
researching musical traditions among Mexico’s ethnic groups.
In 1980, he released his first album and pioneered a unique
new music genre in the process. In the Navel of the
Moon featured modern music he composed & played with
ancient instruments.
Download the brand new Eurock LIVE Podcast #23 featuring
Luis Perez’ brand new album, Sanctuary of the
Butterflies. Listen to the music, see the
instruments, experience the past and the present come
together in a fascinating audio-visual way…
In addition to his new album, Luis is now working on a
documentary film entitled Resonance.
It will explore the world of sound
[one being music],
and its ramifications and repercussions around the world. It
will focus on a comparison between the use of sound by
ancient civilizations and societies in our own time. The
images, sounds and music of the film will evoke the harmony
of nature and explore the question of how the habitation of
the planet by humanity has influenced the course of history,
for the better or worse. Watch the 7-minute trailer and
get a glimpse into the cosmic sound of the spheres...
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Eurock Audio Archives #5
CON-Speak 2008
Listen:
Con-Speak1MP3
Con-Speak2MP3
Con-Speak3MP3
Eurock Magazine had published
articles and run an early mini-interview with CON. In the summer of 2008,
I sent him some
questions for a new interview and he kindly obliged. He
even went a step further bringing his own special
form of creativity to the mix. He chose also to create a
recorded addendum that told his story, and conveyed the
essence of what he really wanted to say. He sent me
the answers to the questions and a recording, which
consisted of three
different treated versions of his monologue to use how I liked. CON
passed away August 4, 2011. Listening now to this
series of audio recordings I think serves as a
wonderful reminder of the man, His creative energy
knew no boundaries, and certainly in so many ways
played an integral part in the beginnings of the
German "neumusik" revolution in Berlin back in the
late 1960s.
[All Rights Reserved. Audio Content NOT to be
Used Without Expressed Written Permission]
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Eurock
Audio
Archives #4
Interview w/
Cluster 2008
Listen:
ClusterINT08MP3
This is a
Summer of 2008 Interview with Dieter Moebius &
Joachim Roedelius w/ Tim Story done just before
their USA Tour.
Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius made music
together for over 40 years before finally going
there own ways in 2010.
Their final concert was
on December 5th of that year.
After several releases
done with Kluster and Conrad Schnitzler,
the duo
were joined by Conny Plank
on their
self-titled
debut album released in
1971 on the Philips Record label in Germany. In
1996 Cluster toured the US for the first time and we
met in Portland. Their concert was a revelation and
our pancake breakfast the morning after was
legendary. Almast12 years later they returned to the US and
toured again. Sadly the didn't play in Portland
however. While in the States they spent time
with their good friend and old pal of mine Tim Story who did this
interview for Eurock.
Tim is a renowned, pioneering US artist in his own
right. He and Joachim have also done several
excellent music collaborations together. Tim
also produced what turned out to be the final Cluster
album, QUA, released in 2009 by the
Nepenthe US label. Nepenthe also released in 2009
the legendary Human Being recordings LIVE AT
THE ZODIAC -BERLIN 1968 done at the Zodiac
Club. So take a listen to & enjoy the famed duo and
Tim having fun and talking music back then...
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Content NOT to be Used Without Expressed Written
Permission]
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Eurock
Audio
Archives #3
Gilbert Artman EXPO 1986 Interview
Listen:
GilbertINT1MP3
For More INFO: Urban
Sax
In 1986, I witnessed the spectacle of Urban Sax LIVE at
Midnight during the World EXPO in Vancouver, BC.
It began with barges floating across the river
amidst a shroud of fog while colored flood lights
panned the water.
The group was accompanied by a Native American drum
circle and climbers rappelling overhead amidst the
domed metal webbing constructed over top the open
pavilion, as well as up and down the building
walls. Urban Sax, attired in silver mesh and plastic
tubing serenaded the packed outdoor arena for over
an hour. Earlier in the day I interviewed Gilbert
Artman, aided by his kind manager Gilles Yepremian
serving as translator. We had a nice 25-minute
conversation with Gilbert talking about his musical
history and Urban Sax philosophy. The quality is
quite good,
so it makes for a very interesting listen with
most of the information not dated at all. Again
adjust your volume as needed & Enjoy!
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Used Without Expressed Written Permission]
Urban
Sax
Virtual
DVD Preview
Watch:
Virtual
VIDEO1
Virtual
VIDEO2
Virtual
VIDEO3
In 2012, the bands new DVD may at last see the light
of day. It will feature live performances along with
a revolutionary new concept, a "Virtual Urban Sax"
installation. Watch Previews for that at the links
above.
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Eurock
Audio
Archives #2
Conversation w/ Malcolm Mooney
1980
Listen:
MalcolmINT1MP3
MalcolmINT2MP3
For More INFO:
Malcolm Mooney
I was living in LA at the beginning of the 1980s when I
met Malcolm Mooney former lead singer of Can.
At that point Eurock Magazine was at its high point in terms
of distribution entering the 7th year. Malcolm
called and said he'd heard of my work in promoting Euro rock
and suggested we meet up. He invited me to his home and
there we had a free ranging chat about his time with Can, music, his teaching,
music and art. It was recorded on a small Panasonic portable
recorder. What was recorded
of that conversation is not bad quality and has not been
tweaked or edited for the most part. Adjust your volume as
needed. Malcolm was a great cat and is still active today in
art and music. You can check out his web site to catch his
latest projects.
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Eurock
Audio
Archives #1
Interview w/
Uli Trepte 1977
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UliINTMP3
In the late 1970's I was up in Portland running ITC and
importing Euro music as well as well as co-programming a
weekly radio program. In addition, Eurock Magazine was
gaining traction in Europe and making many new
contacts. One hilarious highlight of that era was
the magazine being featured on the record store set
of Robin Williams then popular TV program Mork &
Mindy. Right next to the cash register in full
display were visible several copies of the mag each time a
counter scene was shot on the store set. In 1977,
Uli Trepte of Guru Guru, Spacebox and later
Move Groove came to the US and stayed in LA with one
of my original Euro musical guru's Dana Madore who
ran a now legendary record store named Moby Disc at
that time. A real high point for me early on doing
Eurock was
having a
couple long conversations with him that led us to being
life long friends.
At one point we recorded and interview that was aired
on KINK FM in 1977. In retrospect he recounts his
personal history nicely I think. The unfamiliarity
with the technology involved only add a touch of humanity
to process. The recording quality is not bad. Adjust
your volume accordingly. My old pal Dana
supplies the humor at the outset when he answers the
phone. Uli passed away May 21,
2009, and I'd like to think he's still playing music
up in the ether. This recording lets you hear him
"in the flesh", perhaps for the first time, and for
me in some way keeps his spirit alive.
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The Move
LIVE At The Fillmore West 1969
(Dbl CD)
Listen:
Preview of the
Move CD
Read:
CD
Review
The Move was perhaps the greatest UK band who never got their big
break in the USA. If you listen to their music now however,
all beautifully re-mastered and reissued, you can hear the
genius and feel the power that came into play at their most
creative moments. In October 1969 they did their only
tour of the US. The band rented a car and U-Haul trailer
then took off on a 3-week road trip across the US on Route
66 to play several
dates, including the Whisky in LA and Fillmore West is SF. Today, through
some act of divine providence
a brand
new Move DBL CD of the last concert on that tour, LIVE AT THE FILLMORE WEST 1969,
has been released in the UK. Recorded direct
from the monitor desk, Carl Wayne kept the original tapes in
his personal archives in hopes they would someday see a
release. Now, more than 40 years later, listening to the
tapes cleaned up using the latest technology, you can
flashback and relive the music of The Move,
circa 1969,
Raw & Alive!
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Agitation
Free
- Shibuya Nights ~
LIVE In Tokyo
Listen:
US Eurock radio Preview of Shibuya Nights CD
Read:
CD
Review
For More INFO:
AgitationFree
Of all the German bands, Agitation
Free was certainly one of the most musically
adventurous.
Thirty-five years after first disbanding, the band
has reformed and in February 2007 performed LIVE in
Tokyo.
October 31, 2011 Esoteric records in
the UK released an album of that concert and it
truly is an Agitation Free “best of.” It features
five tracks from their 1972 release Malesch
and five from 2nd (1973).
It also includes three new compositions, plus
“Nomads,” my favorite track from their 1999 reunion
album, River of Return. Programmed perfectly,
the track sequence creates a magical, mystical tour
through those halcyon days when inspiration flowed
freely, guitars and imaginative synthesizer
soundscapes comingled to conjure up sonic panoramas
of far-off imaginary lands.
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Eurock On the Airwaves
Read:
Beware of the Blog Interview
Listen:
WFMU FM Radio Program
Listen:
KBOO FM "La Ruleta" Program
Listen:
The MOVE on KBOO FM
In the past 3 years Eurock has begun a new era
reincarnated as a Webzine and media portal. Recently
long time supporter Tony Coulter moved from NYC to
PDX. After decades we finally met face to face and
had a great time reminiscing. Tony has had a program on WFMU NYC
radio for 25 years. He also now also has a
blog for the station and in DEC 2009
interviewed me. What resulted was a quite nice
history of Eurock. In AUG 2011, he also had me guest
host his radio show and I featured 3 hours of music,
by 6 artists, from 6 different countries: Via Lactea
(Mexico), Electric Orange (Germany), Plastic People of the
Universe (Czech), Tangle Edge (Norway), Mikhail Chekalin
(Russia) & Heretic (Japan). I featured some of the best
progressive, experimental and electronic music from around
the globe.
In addition, another local artist and radio programmer,
Alejandro Ceballos, invited me to co-host his
"La Ruleta"
program on KBOO FM Portland. We had a wide ranging talk about the
history of Mexican progressive music and Eurock's
role in promoting it. That show was follow up by a
program featuring a musical history if the UK Psych-Pop band
The Move. At the links above all four of
these Eurock radio adventures are Archived and you
can listen to them at your leisure. Enjoy!
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Art Zoyd
Eurock LIVE Podcast #22
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Art Zoyd PODCAST
To usher in 2012
we bring you
the 22nd Eurock LIVE Podcast, a very
special multi-media program for you this time featuring
music and video by Art Zoyd from France. Art Zoyd formed in
the mid 1970’s. Their style ushered in a new form of French
fusion, which combined influences of Magma, mixed with
Zappa. They sonically alchemized diverse elements into a
stark, skeletal and frenetic structure to create a new
hybrid of freewheeling “gypsy jazz” and neo-chamber music.
They were one of
the 8 original bands in the “Rock in Opposition”
music collective. The RIO philosophy was that rock was a
form of art and culture, opposed to business as usual on all
levels. Their ethos, “making music record companies didn’t
want to hear".
Later, the band began to evolve musically even more with the
addition of Patricia Dallio on keyboards. The music became more
structured and composed. They wrote scores for dance
performances as well as multi-media installations. The
bands focus has turned to making music that engages the
intellect. Today Art Zoyd continues as a collective of
diverse artists and musicians who continue doing numerous
visual and stage presentations, as well as recording
projects. Download this Podcast & Enjoy!
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Electric Orange
Eurock LIVE Podcast #21
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Electric Orange PODCAST
Dirk
Jan Müller formed Electric Orange in 1992 and
released the bands first self-titled album in 1993
on the independent German label, Manikin Records.
The sound of the band often pays homage to early
period Pink Floyd, injected with a mega dose of
their unique modern cosmic krautrock vibe.
Müller’s dense layers of keyboard and
mellotron along with Dirk Bitner’s soaring space
guitar excursions characterize their sound that is
propelled by a dynamic rhythm section that mixes
heavy beats with exotic percussives. To date the
band has released 7 albums + a DVD. Electric Orange
makes some of the best space rock to come out of
Germany since the original golden era. The five
tracks featured on this podcast demonstrate that
well.
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Hiro Kawahara
Interview
Heretic
Eurock
LIVE Podcast #20
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INTERVIEW
Listen:
Heretic PODCAST
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Program
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Japan Electronica featuring Heretic
w/ Peter Frohmader & Steve Baltes & ToRi
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the
Japan experimental scene was in its embryonic phase.
Fools Mate Magazine was the main vehicle for promotion
and a handful of groups were beginning to mutate the sounds
of pop, rock and electronics into a new modern fusion of
styles and influences. Hiro Kawahara was one of the early
pioneers of a new form of Zen electronics that combined
mystical and spiritual influences with experimental
electronic rock. In this Interview he talks about the
history of his music and release
of the new album Requiem
(see the Reviews
page).
In the recent past while Skyping
w/ Hiro Kawahara I learned that
the air, water, rice and meat
are all now above safe radiation
levels in Tokyo. Over Labor Day
weekend 2011, my engineer
“Doktor” Bob and I created a
Special Eurock Podcast,
dedicated to Japan, 40 minutes
of music from the recent Heretic album.
While mainstream media moves from one
sensational headline to the
next, it is important to always
know and understand the real
human story and consequences of
what happens. In many ways music
can tell that story, in this
case it will give you chills and
fill your heart with the deepest
of emotions for all Japanese people
now going through the aftermath of
this disaster. You can
listen above to the 2011 US
Eurock radio program featuring
Exclusive Unreleased Heretic
music!
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Iggy &The Stooges
RAW
POWER Live
2010
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Iggy & The Stooges 1970-2010
May
15, 1970
I drove up to SF with a friend to see Iggy
and The Stooges for the first time.
Their
performance of FUN HOUSE & THE STOOGES
albums was primal performance art, jacked up to the
max, full of latent menace and a touch of insanity.
In 1973, I saw them perform RAW POWER in LA,
It was like a high fashion freak show
happening, with The Whisky teetering on the brink of
chaos. Iggy, the band, and the audience, caught up
in the heat of the moment. Now in 2010 the band is
back performing that seminal album again. The
band is hyper-charged and Iggy still throwing
himself with total abandon completely into each
performance. Read the story of their long strange
"death trip" as witnessed by yours truly back then
and now on their band new DVD.
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Emerson Lake &
Palmer
40th
Anniversary Reunion Concert @
UK High
Voltage Festival - July 25, 2010
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ARTICLE
It has been a
long and interesting journey for
ELP. Formed in 1970, the UK
music press dubbed them the
first supergroup. They were a
band composed of integral parts
from three big UK bands of the
time: The Nice, King Crimson and
Atomic Rooster. Imagine just how
super they might have been if
Hendrix had not died as he was
also rumored to be interested in
joining the trio as well. ELP
were the first band to combine
rock, classical and jazz into a
new and unique musical fusion
that sounded like no one else,
Today they are still today
worshiped by fans around the
world, and derided by hip
critics as utterly pretentious.
At the end of the video-doc on
the new DVD when asked to
characterize what ELP meant,
Keith answers tongue in cheek,
Extra
Large Parts, (Lol), or Everyone
Loves Potatoes, that's really
what ELP stands for. (Lol)
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MIT Museum Electronica Synthetic Homage
to CON
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MIT Electronica
Link
Virtual World Populated with Sensory Data
A long time Eurock friend and supporter Joe
Paradiso, professor at MIT and Director of the
Media Lab's Responsive Environments Group, emailed
me from ARS ELECTRONICA in Austria about his latest
project. He constructed himself a big modular synth
rig between 25 & 35 years ago - which is probably
the world's largest homemade synth. It will be going
into the MIT Museum in a month or two as a living
exhibition and he will be changing the patch every
month or so, hence it will generate a different
sonic environment periodically, and will be
continually streaming live audio online. As he
described it: "I've got my rig streaming sound into
a virtual world populated with sensor data that
we're running here in Austria now, it's linked back
at MIT to my lab running an autonomous patch. Even
though it is an old modular system, the rig is big
enough that it generates enough sound to hold your
interest for a while.
I
was thinking of Con while I was patching, as you
might be able to detect.
Check out what it is streaming now; the stream is
linked at the bottom of the page." Also check out
the "Virtual World".
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Plastic People of the Universe
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ARTICLE
When modes of music change, the fundamental
laws of the state always change with them. Plato
The Plastic People of the Universe were a band who made
music as an act of creation for a less material second
culture, not centered on marketing and selling. In the
process, the Czech government banned them and various
members were thrown in jail.
The government informed them they had to
obtain a license to perform or quit playing. They then went
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The Godfather of
Deutsch Rock Interview
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INTERVIEW
Before there was Krautrock, there was
"Schlager". Then along came the "Beat Club",
Germany's answer to "American Bandstand" and the
foundation was laid for a change in the mode of the music
which would shake the walls of Berlin and ultimately all of
Germany. Gerhard Augustin was the original co-host and
creator of the Beat Club" and a prime instigators
of the new German scene. As A&R man at Liberty/ UA in
Germany he signed Can, Amon Duul & Popol Vuh to the first
major label contracts on the Krautrock scene. This in depth Interview with him
makes for fascinating reading.
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Giorgio Gomelsky
Video Interview
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1st
London Blues Festival +
Crawdaddy Club
INTERVIEW
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Eurock INTERVIEW
Giorgio Gomelsky is one of the true
pioneers of experimental rock music. In these excerpts from Joly MacFie's
Punkcast he talks about his original Crawdaddy Club which was the first venue the Rolling Stones
played. In addition to that he also produced the first
recordings of the Yardbirds, Gong and Vangelis. He left the
UK and went to France to produce Magma and they went on to create
la scène souterrain musicale
Français.
Today Giorgio lives in NYC and still keeps attuned to
exciting new musical and technological innovations.
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The
Residents...Revealed!
Watch1
HERE
Watch2
HERE
Today
in 2013
it's hard to believe, and many younger people don't know how
different the music world was back in the late 60's and
early 70's. Bill Reinhardt, a DJ, film maker and sound man
for The Storefront Theater in PDX, was a friend of
the Residents during that time. In their very early days he
visited the boys down in SF and made a mini-documentary
film, unseen until just recently. The "band" has since
become a living legend and still makes some of the most
unique and experimental "music" today. Bill's film is an
amazing artifact of that time and that group of avant
artistes. Take a look. You will be amazed...
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Artist
Features
& More...
 
Manuel
Goettsching ~ Damo Suzuki ~ Attila Grandpierre ~ Giorgio Gomelsky ~ Luis
Paniagua
 
 
Kraftwerk ~ Ian Boddy ~ Luc Marianni ~ Gerhard Augustin ~
Oculo Rapido
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