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harmonium.ro wrote: Hey gang, Just wanted to say that I'm currently listening to the full performance by KH at the RIO festival last autumn and it's ******** brilliant! I've only heard the first two albums by KH and I like this much better (even though I'd rate both those albums with four stars out of five.).

KH? Koenjihyakkei?

Edited by A Person - June 21 2010 at 11:58

harmonium.ro wrote: ^ That's the only band with those initials that played on last year's festival, yes

Oh I see, I've not seen it abbreviated like that before, and I don't know much about the festival either.

THE LIVE DVD TO END THEM ALL- Five hour hammer feast!

Ordered my copy from Wayside and can't wait !!!
I tried to persuade Roger Trigaux to invite them to RIO 2010 ...better luck next time
Any of you good people got a chance to see this yet ??

For years, our fans have been asking for live versions of our songs. After several years in the making, our answer is ready, behold Haudasta lomilla ("On vacation from the grave"), the live DVD to end them all! This high quality release has hours of live footage from various gigs in Finland and abroad, topped off with plenty of goodies like our legendary music videos, short films and documentaries - a five hour hammer feast!

Live footage spans the band's history almost seven years and totals almost four hours. Starting from our legendary performance at Helsinki Festival in 2003 all the way to recent energetic club fiesta at Dubrovnik, Helsinki on New Year's Eve 2009, where we also performed most of the songs from the latest album Huuro Kolkko.

Additionally, there are concert hall performances, festivals and club gigs from Finland, Japan, Mexico and Denmark. The variety of venues portraits the band's uncanny ability to change the mood of the songs to fit the feel of the audience. In concert halls, we are quiet as a dead man's whisper, but blasting away with raw energy just after. Clubs gigs see people dancing polka in odd time signatures and festival gigs combine all that in multi-energetic soup that will only end up in total world music disorder.

Be prepared to find interesting versions of our songs, many of them evolved into whole new directions, blending threatre and music into visual experience studio albums cannot offer. You'll also get blown away by rare instruments like tubax, contra bass clarinet, bass sax and even theremin, all blended seamlessly into our live orchestrations. The sound is always raw, in-your-face and intentionally unpolished, just like live music was always meant to be.

To complement the impressive set of live songs, we have gathered our past music videos under a separate section. Here you can find the legendary "Helsinki-Istanbul" 8mm b&w flick Kebab tai henki!, the whole Violence Trilogy shot in Prague, Siltojen alla shot in Arctic Sea far up Norway and a new one, never before seen Eläimet huutaa (intro) from the album Maahan, also an 8mm b&w shortie, shot in China.

In addition to all this, the DVD contains a lot of interesting extras. One of the most interesting is the 28-minute puppet animation Elukka ("Animal"), for which the band did the soundtrack for in 2005 and which consequently won the award for best music in French film festival Premiers Plans in 2005. This is your chance to enjoy the whole film and our music in it, truly a magnificent, darkly humorous lycanthropic experience!

And it won't stop here - you might be interested in finding out how the band works behind the scenes. 15 minute document from Tuscany, Italy, where the band gathered up to record the album Huuro Kolkko in the autumn of 2008, will reveal some of our secrets - like how to build a fully working sauna on the hill using only modest local supplies and Finnish imagination!

The same trip produced also a horror movie with a homage to best Italian horror cinema - a carnivorous zombie shortie called Il Carne Bellissimo, starred by the band members themselves. The extra section is concluded by our encounter with extra-terrestial forces in Puebla, Mexico in 2009. Only the huge sombreros saved the band form burning up during an alien invasion attempt beside the the old pyramid!

This DVD is the most comprehensive collection you can find about Alamaailman Vasarat. All your favourite songs presented in their rawest form, timeless music videos and quality extras - a huge package, true collection item and
a perfect companion to our studio releases!

Padraic wrote: Man With Hat wrote: I'd look up some stuff on my own, but sadly my internets isn't performing well these days.   Any news on Rouge Ciel? Touring plans, making a new album, still together??   Just listened to their album Veuillez Proceder after a long while. Damn is that sweet stuff. debut is also excellent i'd love a new album from them

 

Udi Koomran wrote: THE LIVE DVD TO END THEM ALL- Five hour hammer feast! Ordered my copy from Wayside and can't wait !!! I tried to persuade Roger Trigaux to invite them to RIO 2010 ...better luck next time Any of you good people got a chance to see this yet ?? For years, our fans have been asking for live versions of our songs. After several years in the making, our answer is ready, behold Haudasta lomilla ("On vacation from the grave"), the live DVD to end them all! This high quality release has hours of live footage from various gigs in Finland and abroad, topped off with plenty of goodies like our legendary music videos, short films and documentaries - a five hour hammer feast! Live footage spans the band's history almost seven years and totals almost four hours. Starting from our legendary performance at Helsinki Festival in 2003 all the way to recent energetic club fiesta at Dubrovnik, Helsinki on New Year's Eve 2009, where we also performed most of the songs from the latest album Huuro Kolkko. Additionally, there are concert hall performances, festivals and club gigs from Finland, Japan, Mexico and Denmark. The variety of venues portraits the band's uncanny ability to change the mood of the songs to fit the feel of the audience. In concert halls, we are quiet as a dead man's whisper, but blasting away with raw energy just after. Clubs gigs see people dancing polka in odd time signatures and festival gigs combine all that in multi-energetic soup that will only end up in total world music disorder. Be prepared to find interesting versions of our songs, many of them evolved into whole new directions, blending threatre and music into visual experience studio albums cannot offer. You'll also get blown away by rare instruments like tubax, contra bass clarinet, bass sax and even theremin, all blended seamlessly into our live orchestrations. The sound is always raw, in-your-face and intentionally unpolished, just like live music was always meant to be. To complement the impressive set of live songs, we have gathered our past music videos under a separate section. Here you can find the legendary "Helsinki-Istanbul" 8mm b&w flick Kebab tai henki!, the whole Violence Trilogy shot in Prague, Siltojen alla shot in Arctic Sea far up Norway and a new one, never before seen Eläimet huutaa (intro) from the album Maahan, also an 8mm b&w shortie, shot in China. In addition to all this, the DVD contains a lot of interesting extras. One of the most interesting is the 28-minute puppet animation Elukka ("Animal"), for which the band did the soundtrack for in 2005 and which consequently won the award for best music in French film festival Premiers Plans in 2005. This is your chance to enjoy the whole film and our music in it, truly a magnificent, darkly humorous lycanthropic experience! And it won't stop here - you might be interested in finding out how the band works behind the scenes. 15 minute document from Tuscany, Italy, where the band gathered up to record the album Huuro Kolkko in the autumn of 2008, will reveal some of our secrets - like how to build a fully working sauna on the hill using only modest local supplies and Finnish imagination! The same trip produced also a horror movie with a homage to best Italian horror cinema - a carnivorous zombie shortie called Il Carne Bellissimo, starred by the band members themselves. The extra section is concluded by our encounter with extra-terrestial forces in Puebla, Mexico in 2009. Only the huge sombreros saved the band form burning up during an alien invasion attempt beside the the old pyramid! This DVD is the most comprehensive collection you can find about Alamaailman Vasarat. All your favourite songs presented in their rawest form, timeless music videos and quality extras - a huge package, true collection item and a perfect companion to our studio releases!

 

This ain't strictly prog but I think it will be appreciated by angular inclined folk. From memory, there are some The Ex fans on here; Chris, Claire?? (probably the stuff they did with Tom Cora) I decided to look a little more into related projects and stumbled on the band Dog Faced Hermans, in particular their album Hum of Life. Out of print for some time, it's been released in LP only format on 'mississippi records'. This one's keeping me sane while worrying about being homeless in two weeks if I cannot find a new house. Since I'm in a rather lackadaisical mood I'll leave you with a review, rather than my own pontification on art, history and life itself.

Review here:
http://magicistragic.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/dog-faced-hermans-hum-of-life/

Oh, and a pretty picture for those with wandering attentions.

Hey Apsalar, I finally listened to ZNR's Traité de mécanique populaire and reviewed it.

harmonium.ro wrote: song_of_copper wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Hey gang, Just wanted to say that I'm currently listening to the full performance by KH at the RIO festival last autumn and it's ******** brilliant! You're not wrong!  I was there! At the end Yoshida dashed off (missing the opportunity for another encore) to man the merch. stand himself!  What a lovely and down-to-earth chap. I found about KH last autumn, because of links from the zeuhl blogs to the YouTube video recordings of KH playing at the RIO festival. They were shocking, and nice. That girl was all over the stage!  And the first impression about the music was that it's some sort of "Zeuhl Metal" I'm so happy for finding this bootleg.

Sounds cool.

And yeah, "Zeuhl Metal" is what I thought too when I first started exploring KH, especially Grembo Zavia.

Mmm, now I own both albums by The World Heritage.  They're both excellent, I recommend them each.  If you plan to get their first (Icomos), you should soon though, as there are very few copies left available.  

Evolutionary Sleeper wrote: song_of_copper wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Hey gang, Just wanted to say that I'm currently listening to the full performance by KH at the RIO festival last autumn and it's ******** brilliant! You're not wrong!  I was there! At the end Yoshida dashed off (missing the opportunity for another encore) to man the merch. stand himself!  What a lovely and down-to-earth chap. Very cool, At the Minamo concert last night Satoko Fujii's husband and trumpet player Natsuki Tamura was manning the merch stand, so I got to meet him in addition to Satoko and FRED FRITH.

Edited by Henry Plainview - June 28 2010 at 00:28