Welcome to this new edition! Let's start with some bagpipin' jazz-prog, the Gwendal 4th album inspired me a celtic touch. Check that Gunnar Graps Magnetic band lp that i've found in Ponland, it is a real delight to my ears, it's sung in Latvian language, you will enjoy it too! We also have some experimental stuffs, rare soundtrack, and we keep the best for the end, KOM quartet & Agit Prop vocal quartet from Finland, one of the best discovery I made this year, I'll play more of it in the future... Stay tuned!
FRANCK ZAPPA - peaches en regalia
GWENDAL - les mouettes s'battent
KOUERIEN - suite des montagnes
RUFUS HARLEY - eight miles high
GUNNAR GRAPS & MAGNETIC BAND - odüsseuse eksirannakud
AUNT MARY - wishpering farewell
SAINT PREUX - voyage
ORION - folie
CLAUDE PERAUDIN - mutation 24
F. DE ROUBAIX - astralement votre
ALPHA BETA - astral abuse
LOURIVAL SYLVESTRE - derrière la mer et fantaisie
ALAIN GORAGUER - deshomanisation
DYNASTIE CRISIS - 4h de l'après-midi
PLACEBO - balek
PANTINCRUEL - le savon, le savoir, le lavoir
NADA - here comes funkenstein
KOM & AGIT PROP - III osa
Early 70's French psychedelic only! A selection of essential psych/prog numbers from France. Ange, Catharsis, L'Ame Son, Dashiell Hedayat for the most famous, to the most obscure Belisama, L'Assemblée, Fille Qui Mousse... A lot are missing, so it definitaly deserves a second volume. By the way, Clovis was on the mic tonight!
HENRY SKOFF TORGUE - les aliferes (talk over)
L'ASSEMBLEE - le chien
BALTAZAR - c'est bon
ALICE - viens
L'AME SON - je veux juste dire
METAMORPHOSES - amazonie
BELISAMA - belisama
HENRY SKOFF TORGUE - souliloque (talk over)
ANGE - tels quels
PATAPHONIE - structure poubelle
BREGENT - le chien (CANADA
DASHIELL HEDAYAT - fille de l'ombre
CATHERINE RIBEIRO - theme en bref
BERENICE - alors dieu chatia l'homme
FILLE QUI MOUSSE - cantate disparate
GILLES ELBAZ - l'espoir
ANGE - caricatures
BRIGITTE FONTAINE - il pleut
CATHARSIS - 32 mars
GUY DE FATTO - penchée sur l'attente
AURORA - le bonheur
I asked my friend Clovis to prepare a prog rock selection, and as usual he delivered a quality choice of records. Just by breathing inside the covers that good smell of cardboard, you can feel the good music... Expect some baroque and "satiny" atmosphere here!
Intro - Bo Hanson MARILLION - script for a jester's tear VAN DER GRAAF - lizard play OCTOPUS - son of sorrow MESSAGE - evil fait and charity STRAY - sister mary VAN DER GRAAF - the habit of the broken heart STRING DRIVEN thing - circus THIN LIZZY - johnny VIOLENCE FOG - brother where are you JETHRO TULL - cross eyed mary PELL MELL - alone STRING DRIVEN THING - easy to be free PULSAR - lone fantasy PAUL ROLAND - death or glory ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - strange music THE ST LOUIS HOUNDS - suicide
We're back from Poland with some souvenirs: Records!!! We brought a pile of lps and 7 inches from Gdansk's huge flea market and from Warsaw and Krakow's shops as well. So here in this selection you have some 60's beat, psych/prog stuffs, some titles from the cult "polish jazz" serie, and funny funky disco gems!!! Hope you'll enjoy it... Stay tuned for more!
POLANIE - nie zawroce GRUPA ABC - przeminelo z wiatrem tyle dni SKALDOWIE - prawo izaaka CZERWONO CZARNI - credo NIEMEN - enigmatyczne impresje PIOTR - diplomowany galernik NOVI SINGERS - introduction KRYSZTOFA SADOWSKIEGO - alpha centaura ZBIGNIEW NAMYSLOWSKI - gogoszary JAN "PTASZYN" WROBLEWSKI - sprzedaz glonon JAZZ CARRIERS - mala septyma LABORATORIUM - szalony baca EXTRA BALL - szczesliwy nieszczesliwiec COMPLOT OF 6 - pieprzem i sola ZBIGNIEW NAMYSLOWSKI - mango-boogie KRZYSTOF ZGRAJA - alex funky BREAKOUT - gdzie mnie wioda CZERWONE GITARY - coda ARP LIFE - bu-bu CHORUS AND DISCO COMPANY - discoland KOMBI - prezaciag ALEX BAND - ajoka VOX - ale feeling HALINA ZYTOWIAK - chwila chwile trwa EWA KUKLINSKA - moj azyl AURA - z nami sie baw
Here comes our summertime break! We'll be back in september to share all the music we like... A half of Opus Dopus will be in Poland in mid august to pick up some records there... Polish friends, if you are in Warsaw or Krakow during that time and want to guide us for a good diggin' session, then send us an email ;) Now enjoy the music: a bit of afro pop-rock, a fantastic CARAVAN track, a movie soundtracks session, and a little jazz funk bomb by Lucky Vlaviano (Demis Roussos' arranger). Have some good summer vacations!!!
RAY MANZAREK - begin the world again DUKE OF BURLINGTON - viva tirado MONTANA BAND - waiting MANU DIBANGO - the panther ROBERTO DELGADO interlude COEUR MAGIQUE - wakan tanka RAYMOND VINCENT - les plutoniens HATFIELD & THE NORTH - your majesty is like a cream donut CARAVAN - the love in your eye MERIT HEMMINGSON - jamtlandsk brudmarsch MEDITERANNEO - miopia LUCKY VLAVIANO - midnight is the time we need GOBLIN - blind concert GEORGES DELERUE - free J.B. PICKERS - freedom of expression ALAIN KAN - une éspèce de lolita CAN - future days
A selection of FUNK/SOUL music from late 70 early 80's... perfect for a saturday night! Get some boogie feels, sunshine grooves and bit of deep disco... A smile for the Banda Black Rio joint - hoje é sabado ;)
By the way, Opus Dopus is now a monthly show, 2nd saturday of the month, still live from Radio666 studios. Stay tuned!
TOWER OF POWER - mahdi (the unexpected one)
RENEE & ANGELA - secret rendez-vous
IDRIS MUHAMMAD - don't fight the feeling
SESSION II - fly by night
REVELATION - feel it
MANHATTAN RHYTHM - sweet lady
BANDA BLACK RIO - na baixa do sapateiro
DONALD BYRD - miss kane
BEGGAR & CO. - rising sun
LINX - you're lying
STARGARD - wear it out
DENNIS DEAN - lady change
DONALD BYRD & THE 125th STREET - sexy dancer
BRUTON LIBRARY interlude
BONNIE OLIVER - come inside
CAPPUCCINO - hell dance with me
VINCENT MONTANA JR. - it looks like love (Dimitri from Paris edit)
ISH - don't stop
Many good records this time again! Check the groovy cosmic prog "safari of love" by MIRO from his 'Real Life Games' lp. We also have some early Jean Michel Jarre obscure stuff with his POP CORN ORCHESTRA 7 inch. And don't miss the mind-blowing Moroccan psych organ from ABDOU EL OMARI very rare lp 'Nuits d'été' ... Enjoy the ride!
EDEN ROSE - on the way to eden HOOTEROLL? - south side strut ANARCHIC SYSTEM - generation MOR - gavotte DOMINIQUE GUIOT - farfadet DOMINIQUE GUIOT - les pinguoins s'amusent MIRO - safari of love SATIN WHALE - traum und wirklichkeit RICHARD SCHNEIDER JR. - illusions DIDER EUZER - special ero POP CORN ORCHESTRA - black bird ABDOU EL OMARI - afrah el maghreb JEAN COHEN SOLAL - concerto cyclique CHRISTOPHE - red mountain JOHN BLAIR - I don't know why MAGMA - c'om zanka
17 minutes is about the time you need to savour your arabic dishes, and here is the soundtrack of your lunch! Enjoy this freestyle selection of middle east records, i didn't take the time to wrote the name of the tracks but check the covers to feel the mood... So names though:
ELIAS RAHBANI, FREH KHODJA, "LOUKOUM" KEMAL RACHID, BALIGH HAMDI, LES ABRANIS, FARID ELATRACHE, ESIN ENGIN, THE SHEIK'S MEN, LES MOGOL...
Philippe Manceau, guitarist and composer tells us about the NOVELO experience:
"I was listening to Novelo yesterday with a certain amazement (I didn't even remember this cover!)... It was such a long time ago, and so many things happened in my life since then, and it's musically so different from what i do today. You know, my principle concern when i make music is to give perpetual excitement to the listener, in the sense that he will never get bored. But in this "tandava" serie of tracks , there are a many repeating moments and drawn-out passages. Although, there are some intresting things too, sure..."
"tandava 2": (the keyboard's getting hot at 3:10!)
Op.Dop: Philippe, could you make a quick historic of your musical experience before Novelo?
Ph.M: I have learned to play violin at the age of 6 during two or three years. And that are the only musical courses i took... I'm a self-taught. In 1964 (i was 10 years old), i go to La Réunion (french island located in the Indian Ocean) to live there, and decided to learn the guitar. In 1966 i create my first band with a guy called Alain Legros, i compose all the music for this collaboration. Back in France (at La Rochelle) in 1969, I'm 15, and here I don't know nobody in the music game, my friends weren't musicians at all... Despite everything, i continue to play guitar and impose myself to make a new song everyday! I had the feeling that one day, i will have to produce a lot... In 1975, I live in Tours, I start to be a "professional" musician, playing with local bands, and in the meantime I intergrate a band (which was only playing cover songs at that time), and this band is NOVELO.
Op.Dop: Which bands were you listen to, musicians that inspired you all along the way?
Ph.M: At La Réunion, i was sensible to the specific island rhythms, it was also the years in which I discovered The Beatles , and that was a true revelation! Then came Hendrix, King Crimson, Led Zep, Todd Rundgren, Bowie and etc.... In France I was listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Hancock, S. Wonder... and the Funk from that mid 70's period. But i can say that the main inspiration to me was/is The Beatles.
Op.Dop: Has Novelo released a full album?
Ph.M: No... Actually, the band didn't last for a while.
Op.Dop: Do you know if the other Novelo's musicians recorded some Jazz-Rock or Prog-Rock materials except Novelo
Ph.M: I don't think so.
Op.Dop: Tracks from this Novelo's record (Note that it's a split double lp, 4 bands: 1 side per band) are: Tandava1, Tandava2, Tandava4, Tandava5. So let us know, is there a Tandava3 somewhere!!?
Ph.M: Well... I don't remember of Tandava3. It was probably not good enough to record it...
Op.Dop: I've learned that you are now composing jingles and soundtracks for TV and movies... So, have you recorded some libraries or soundtracks records in late 70's or 80's?
Ph.M: Composing scores for images has always been my wish, but the music industry doors weren't easy to locate and quite hard to open... The opportunie finally came by chance in 1995. See, it's all about being here at right place, at the right moment: i did somebody a favour (some guitar studio sessions) and from there the guy asked me to make music for a documentry movie. Since that moment, I have made more than 40 scores for TV and movies... Little by little, it allowed me to built my own "pro" studio with all the fine equipment necessary to produce music. I now use this studio to record myself, musicians and make arrangements for TV music scores, jingles...
Philippe Manceau has just put on line the 4 tracks of NOVELO (which actually comes from my copy, yeah he doesn't even have his own record...)
Some groovy bongo rock, afro-latin prog, vocal jazz fusion... A deep and misty track from Quebec and a quite obscure 7 inch from a band called Tropical Band.
JAM FACTORY - sittin' in the trap DON ELLIS - theme from the french connection AFFINITY - three sisters INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND - in-a-gadda-da-vida DANTA - flying out MALON - rebellion JACK AREL - something happens PEREZ PRADO - free time JADE WARRIOR - maenge sketch SCORPIONS - i'm going mad TRIANGLE - récréation MESSENGERS - hancock's hideaway CSABA DESEO QUINTET - k14 MICHAL URBANIAK - paratyphus b CORTEX - chanson d'un jour d'hiver ORPHEE - langlade TROPICAL BAND - sea breeze
Feels like it's been a while since the last show hun?! But less is more!! We are back with good music for curious minds. Classic and Rare records from different countries as usual... Some jazz rock progressive and also electrocosmic stuffs to check and... hey, I can see a Raymond Scott track in the playlist!!! Check it out!
"Don't go around tonight / Well, it's bound to take your life / There's a bad moon on the rise."
Y'all know the song... We won't play some Creedance tonight but raw US & UK psychedelic from 1965 to 1969, selected by Clovis. And good to hear one more WHITE NOISE cut from "an electric storm" lp... defenitly one of my favorite psych record. Hope you'll enjoy!
Intro: Bedlam & the Crazy People
THE DEEP - psychedelic moon
COUNT FIVE - psychotic reaction
THE MUSIC MACHINE - see see rider
THE CASTALWAYS - liar, liar
THE MONKS - that's my girl
THE DIRTY SHAMES - blow your mind
THE CRYAN SHAMES - sugar & spice
THE MONKS - oh how to do how
REJECTS - all of my life
THE OMEGAS - i can't believe
THE SEEDS - pushing too hard
PRIMROSE CIRCUS - in my mind
THE BARBARIANS - moulty
JUST LUV - valley of hate
FRESH AIR - running wild
THE GREEN SCARAB - psychedelic wilderness
H.M SUBJECTS - don't bring me down
THE FINGERS - circus with a female clown
ORANGE MACHINE - you can all join in
THE EGGY - you're still mine
SONOSTAR - save wild basin
MONTANAS - a step in the right direction
THE BLACKBIRDS - space
THE YOUNG BLOOD - don't leave me in the dark
THE CHOCOLATE TUNNEL - ostrich people
WELFARE STATE & THE WHITE NOISE - silence is required
Yes! Easy funky session in the 666 studio, enjoying some 45s and 33s soul funk records! Nothing spectacular... Nothing really rare... But classics deserve to be played over and over again!
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