Quiet Sun

Bilek wrote: speaking of one-time supergroup projects reminded me of Centipede: Septober Energy album unfortunately never heard of it, but saw it's line up in Hulloder pages... The line up consist almost each one of the canterbury performers, plus ex-Crimson Ian McDonald! can anybody tell what this is like, and is it possible to include in the Archives??? more importantly: can anyone tell me how to get this?!?!? keep on proggin'

Centipede is certainly worthy of inclusion. Septober Energy was produced by Robert fripp but had most of Nucleus (also of urgent inclusion), the Keith Tippett group (actually it was K T's project) , Julie Tippetts (ex- Driscoll of Auger's Trinity) and so many more.

Double vinyl with one track/side, two of them great Big Band Canterbury but the other two almost Free Jazz.

There are many other records up that alley that should be in here : also KTG, Dricoll's 69 album and her Sunset Glow album she made as Tippetts.

You should not have too much problem finding this Centipede album as it was re-issued by Disconforme label that released all Auger's Trinity and Auger's Oblivion Express.

Agreed Quiet Sun should be here. (Mum was an asteroid daddy was a non-stick kitchen utensil......). A couple of QS's tunes found their way onto my long term favourite 801 Live, on which the 18 year old Simon Phillips is stunning.  Anybody caught the other live album, 801 Live At Manchester University (btw the original home of VdGG), which has Godley and Creme guesting -well they didn't have to travel that far with Manchester as their home patch; (record issued by Voiceprint)? The Finn Brother (previously of New Zealand's Splitz Endz and subsequently Crowded House) were Manzanera's other vocal  guests - and Manzanera reciprocated on one of additional tracks taken from a live Australian TV broadcast, found on a Crowded House CD single).

And if you are taking Keith Tippett you have to be careful because of his long term and independent association with free jazz. Have you heard him with Elton Dean's Just Us,  (I saw them live in 1975, Tippett spending more time inside the guts of a grande piano than playing its keys), and some of the duo albums he later did with Elton Dean (which really push the Canterbury tag). Then what about Ovary Lodge (British  free jazz) and Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (early Roger Dean artwork and an early Vertigo release, featuring a very British big band sound, with three drummers including Robert Wyatt). On the excellent Jazz Britannia series shown by BBC 4 earlier this year, Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts (ne Driscoll -  note: Julie deliberately uses the S, Keith doesn't, unlike his uncle the late Sir Michael Tippetts, who's music coincidently featured on last night's Proms), talked long and hard about the difficulties of retaining their musical independence, and so ending up surviving by picking potatoes one very lean year at the end of the 70's. Keith also mentioned the session work with Crimson, commenting that it was too short a part of his life to have meaning, and indeed he spent slightly more time employed on session work for a post-punk, new romantics band in the 80's, which nobody remembers but he got more money for!!!

gr8dane wrote: What about 801 band.I would assume that would be quite similar,since Manzanera,McCormick and Eno was also part of that venture? 801 Band Live is fantastic.I wish I had the full concert.

I wonder if you are aware of this extended version:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025AS1/qid=1122 397138/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/202-0064998-4346254

Dick Heath wrote: gr8dane wrote: What about 801 band.I would assume that would be quite similar,since Manzanera,McCormick and Eno was also part of that venture? 801 Band Live is fantastic.I wish I had the full concert. I wonder if you are aware of this extended version: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025AS1/qid=1122 397138/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/202-0064998-4346254

Yeah thanx,but i have not come across it in the stores yet.One day.

The price looks right.

Thanks for the input , guys!

I'll PM this to M@X and Ron