Wanna Watch Stick Men?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Oct 28, 2012
Currently touring Europe, Stick Men shared the bill at Frankfurt's Jazz Festival with Terry Bozzio. You can watch the whole concert here. Stick Men's portion of the show is about 38 minutes in. You can see Tony's snaps from the show by taking a visit to his web site.  

Theo Travis & Keith Tippett
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Oct 27, 2012
My thanks to Leonardo Pavkovic for letting me know that the recent concert by Theo Travis as a member Soft Machine Legacy was filmed and online. The concert also features special guest, Keith Tippett. You can watch the whole thing here. 

Andrew Keeling's Single
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Oct 25, 2012
The ever-prolific Andrew Keeling is releasing a single with this alt-rock outfit Otherworld on November 1st. Entitled For The Love Of A Woman, it's taken from the forthcoming album, Hyde. You can check out samples from the single here.

Wilson's Court In The Act
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Oct 24, 2012
My thanks to tboyd for the heads-up that Steven Wilson was at DGM HQ yesterday recording Mellotron parts for his forthcoming follow-up to last year’s Grace For Drowning album.

Writing on his Facebook page Steven observed "“Today I was at Robert [Fripp]‘s place recording the mellotron parts for my new album on his original sixties MK2 mellotron, famously the one used on the debut King Crimson album. Playing a real mellotron is quite an exhausting physical experience, but it sounds amazing….”

And this snap from Steven’s Twitter feed

You can check out more about the making of the album by visiting Steven’s brand new website.

Noisey & Bible Black
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Oct 23, 2012
Artist Jonathan Spencer's video Noise contains a hat-tip of sorts to Tom Phillips via the inner sleeve of King Crimson's Starless And Bible Black. Jonathan says "It's a very short video (2 minutes 15 seconds) about the nature of noise (both as a real phenomenon and as a metaphor for our media saturated wired world), it relies heavily on chance and serendipity. The project uses a number of compression algorithms for aesthetic effect and skips from stereo to mono." You can take a look at the video (and several others by Spencer) here. 

Mister Stormy's Monday Selection
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Oct 22, 2012
Mister Stormy peels back the layers of Thela Hun Ginjeet to reveal how clean and keen the rhythmic engine is in this particular song. 

All About Larks' Tongues Big Box
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Oct 22, 2012
All About Jazz's John Kelman has been delving deep into the 15-disc Larks' Tongues In Aspic box set.

LTIA - Makes Tales from Topographic Oceans sound like Gilbert O’Sullivan.
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Oct 19, 2012
My thanks to Rich Mlinar for sending me this review of the reissued LTIA. 

Fripp At Gibson
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Oct 17, 2012
My thanks to Lutz Stahlhofen who notes that Robert Fripp is featured in this rollcall of great guitar moments. 

Meet The New Boss...Same As The Old Boss
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Oct 17, 2012
Somebody is making a lot of money out of streaming services but it's not the musicians. Pandora want to make their business profitable at the expense of the very musicians that give their service its content, and thus value. Elsewhere,  Chicago-based musician Benn Jordan is discovering how difficult it is when dealing with streaming services, in this case, Spotify.