#NowPlaying #SaturdayOnStage #ExperimentalJazz

#MikeWestbrookOrchestra - "Démocratie [excerpt]" (live, 1982)

. . . and all the while, #LindsayCooper continues to solo away madly on #bassoon somewhere in the back of my mind . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9KZvwOl9M

#NowPlaying #ModernComposition
#MusicWomenWednesday

Had she lived, #LindsayCooper would have turned 75 yesterday. She was my favourite #HenryCow member, both in terms of her distinctive woodwind contributions but also her astounding compositional ideas - see Western Culture, side 2. Still, I reckon her post-Cow work is even better. The beautiful scores she wrote for various #SallyPotter-directed projects stand as some of the best politically-engaged #experimentalmusic of the 80s. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNq8HTGpSk

Feminist Improvising Group by Feminist Improvising Group, released on CT in 1979.

The Feminist Improvising Group (FIG) were a five- to eight-piece international free improvising avant-garde jazz and experimental music ensemble formed in London in 1977 by Scottish vocalist Maggie Nicols and English bassoonist/composer Lindsay Cooper. Their debut performance was at a "Music for Socialism" festival at the Almost Free Theatre in London in October 1977, and they toured Europe several times in the late 1970s and early 1980s. .. - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_Improvising_Group#Live_albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVfniSDy0dI&list=PLPgZ3iA3HALIguaaRX1xz4gGTV0Kdhm81&index=1

#FeministImprovisingGroup #MaggieNicols #LindsayCooper #GeorgieBorn
#IrèneSchweizer
#SallyPotter #AnnemarieRoelofs
#FrankieArmstrong #Feminism #FreeImprovisation #Music #Jazz #FreeJazz

Hopes and Fears is the debut album by the English avant-rock group Art Bears. It comprises tracks by Henry Cow, Art Bears's predecessor... in January 1978, and tracks by Art Bears... in March 1978.

...It also shows Frith experimenting with eastern European folk music on "Moeris, Dancing",[6] which he explored further on some of his subsequent solo albums, particularly Gravity (1980) and Speechless (1981).

Stewart Mason wrote at AllMusic that the album's longest track, "In Two Minds" is the closest Art Bears came to playing "conventional rock music". When Cutler was asked in an interview in 2004 whether the song was a "homage" to the Who, he replied, "It would be hard to deny the connection. It is so obviously a reference. I was certainly directly influenced in my youth by The Who – and in particular by Keith Moon." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-yz4q7OXEE&list=RD0-yz4q7OXEE&start_radio=1

#ArtBears #HenryCow #FredFrith #ChrisCutler #DagmarKrause #RIO #Music #AvantRock #PostPunk #LindsayCooper

SARAJEVO SUITE (LIVE 1994)
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-jacques-birge/blog/260625/sarajevo-suite-live-1994

#sarajevo #gaza #claudepieplu #lhommealacamera #jeanjacquesbirge #bernardvitet #henritexier #lindsaycooper #philminton #mikewestbrook #thomasbloch #balanescuquartet #bojanz #chrisbiscoe #katewestbrook #undramemusicalinstantané #noëlakchoté #sebastientexier #tonyrabeson #abdulahsidran #gerardsiracusa #sarajevosuite