(Diez discos de archivo de) Hugh Hopper

[icrp1961]

Hola.

En el boletín de Wayside Music se anuncia esto:

HUGH HOPPER (10 CD series of archival recordings, all/nearly all never-before heard, as curated by Michael King. He's enlisted Hugh's personal archive, as well as the archives of friends of Hugh's).

No dice que sea un caja, y espero que no, pero diez cds con rarezas de Hugh Hopper, de sus archivos y del de los amigos pueden contener infinidad de gemas, relativas a muchas cosas que me gustan como The Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine; Isotope, Brainville, etc..., para empezar...

A ver en qué se concreta esto.

Nos leemos.

[Ángel H. Rodríguez]

Hola.

En el boletín de Wayside Music se anuncia esto:

HUGH HOPPER (10 CD series of archival recordings, all/nearly all never-before heard, as curated by Michael King. He's enlisted Hugh's personal archive, as well as the archives of friends of Hugh's).

No dice que sea un caja, y espero que no, pero diez cds con rarezas de Hugh Hopper, de sus archivos y del de los amigos pueden contener infinidad de gemas, relativas a muchas cosas que me gustan como The Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine; Isotope, Brainville, etc..., para empezar...

A ver en qué se concreta esto.

Nos leemos.

Pues justo hace un rato un tipo ha posteado esto en Facebook:

Hi guys, thought you may be interested to learn of a new Hugh Hopper release out soon via Voiceprint / Floating World Records...

Goat Hopper is the result of a session Hugh had with HRMAG back in 2008 but was never released. The CD also includes the original 45 minute remastered desk recording.

You can listen to the tracks here: http://honeyridemeagoat.bandcamp.com/album/goat-hopper

[icrp1961]

Hola.
Me esperaré al disco.
No sé de que va esta gente.
Por otro lado, al estar involucrado Michael King en lo de los diez cds (sea caja o no) no sé si estos se editarán vía Cuneiform o Reel.
A ver si aparece algo más de Clear Frame.
Nos leemos.

[icrp1961]

Según van llegando los boletines de Wayside Music, esto va bajando de diez a nueve, y de nueve a ocho discos. Me preguntó si todo quedará en una descarga de tres minutos en Bandcamp.

[icrp1961]

Hola.
Me esperaré al disco.
No sé de que va esta gente.
Por otro lado, al estar involucrado Michael King en lo de los diez cds (sea caja o no) no sé si estos se editarán vía Cuneiform o Reel.
A ver si aparece algo más de Clear Frame.
Nos leemos.

Reel ya no.

[icrp1961]

Será Gonzo Multimedia.
¡¡¡Fran!!!

Notad la incongruencia del texto sobre el número de discos.

HUGH HOPPER (8 CD series of archival recordings, all/nearly all never-before heard, as curated by Michael King. He's enlisted Hugh's personal archive, as well as the archives of friends of Hugh's. Mike says, "I've been tasked with compiling a series of CD releases celebrating the life and legacy of the late Hugh Hopper and the process has been an education in his kaleidoscopic musical world. This series, comprising nine CDs, will be released this year by Gonzomultimedia and we can thank Headmaster Rob Ayling for his unflagging support above and beyond the call of commercial duty. From Hugh's private archive, and additional contributions from his friends (most especially Aymeric) I have selected a wide range of high quality concert and studio recordings, none of which have ever been released nor heard publicly. You're in for a treat.")

[Ignacio]

Hola.
Me esperaré al disco.
No sé de que va esta gente.
Por otro lado, al estar involucrado Michael King en lo de los diez cds (sea caja o no) no sé si estos se editarán vía Cuneiform o Reel.
A ver si aparece algo más de Clear Frame.
Nos leemos.

Reel ya no.

Efectivamente 

[David Fresno]

Será Gonzo Multimedia.
¡¡¡Fran!!!

Notad la incongruencia del texto sobre el número de discos.

HUGH HOPPER (8 CD series of archival recordings, all/nearly all never-before heard, as curated by Michael King. He's enlisted Hugh's personal archive, as well as the archives of friends of Hugh's. Mike says, "I've been tasked with compiling a series of CD releases celebrating the life and legacy of the late Hugh Hopper and the process has been an education in his kaleidoscopic musical world. This series, comprising nine CDs, will be released this year by Gonzomultimedia and we can thank Headmaster Rob Ayling for his unflagging support above and beyond the call of commercial duty. From Hugh's private archive, and additional contributions from his friends (most especially Aymeric) I have selected a wide range of high quality concert and studio recordings, none of which have ever been released nor heard publicly. You're in for a treat.")

Lo primero que he pensado es que es una putada que estos discos no salieran cuando el bueno de Hugh Hopper necesitaba el dinero.

Lo segundo es asustarme al ver VOICEPRINT.  Creo que Gonzo Multimedia son más serios, ¿no?

Finalmente... siendo benévolo con el redactor... quizá se refiera a que son ocho volúmenes con nueve cds.

No dice nada de si tendrán o no "fastuosos libretos" o acerca del color del lomo. 

[icrp1961]

Benevolente con el redactor...

La primera redacción fue ésta:
HUGH HOPPER (10 CD series of archival recordings, all/nearly all never-before heard, as curated by Michael King. He's enlisted Hugh's personal archive, as well as the archives of friends of Hugh's).

10>9>8

Mas que preocuparme por Voiceprint, lo estaría por los achivos de Brian Hopper, de donde se nutrió la mayor parte de los bodrios (sonoros, no artísticos) de ese sello. Aquí hacen referencia a archivos personales, de Hugh Hopper y de los amigos, no al del hermano, lo cual me da cierta tranquilidad.

a wide range of high quality concert and studio recordings, none of which have ever been released nor heard publicly.

A ver si es verdad. Material inédito... tiene que haber toneladas, habida cuenta de todos los proyectos en los que participó.

[icrp1961]

Más ceremonias de confusión.
Del boletín de Wayside que acabo de recibir:
HUGH HOPPER (10 CD series of archival recordings, all/nearly all never-before heard, as curated by Michael King. He's enlisted Hugh's personal archive, as well as the archives of friends of Hugh's. Mike says, "I've been tasked with compiling a series of CD releases celebrating the life and legacy of the late Hugh Hopper and the process has been an education in his kaleidoscopic musical world. This series, comprising nine CDs, will be released this year by Gonzomultimedia and we can thank Headmaster Rob Ayling for his unflagging support above and beyond the call of commercial duty. From Hugh's private archive, and additional contributions from his friends (most especially Aymeric) I have selected a wide range of high quality concert and studio recordings, none of which have ever been released nor heard publicly. You're in for a treat.")
Me temo que habrá que esperar a que se publique.

[zappamacias]

En las pre-salidas de Gonzo para abril y mayo no está incluida esta caja todavía....

[icrp1961]

Yo es que las sacaría de a poco... La información de Wayside no habla de fechas concretas, sólo de "este año".

[icrp1961]

Parece que ya salen dos de los discos.

El primero, Memories, es una mezcolanza de colaboraciones.
Copio y pego del boletín de Artist Shop:
Hugh Hopper/Volume One: Memories
This is the first of a ten part series compiled by Michael King, a Canadian Hugh Hopper Scholar. This ten part series is to compliment an heretofore large body of work (over sixty titles) by presenting previously unreleased concert and studio recordings, with the focus on Hugh's compositions as performed by groups under his leadership. This first volume has the strapline "Many Friends" and features a dazzling range of Hopper plus collaborators over a period of some thirty five years.

El segundo, Franglo Band, debe ser material de este grupo.
Copio y pego del boletín de Artist Shop:
Hugh Hopper/Volume Two: Franglo Band
Technically, by processing his bass guitar with fuzz box, flanger, wha-wha, octave pedal effects, his use of tapes loops, and latterly computer programming, Hugh constructed multilayer soundscapes with great attention to detail. His creative template embraced aesthetics well beyond the orthodox roles assigned to the bass guitar and its practitioner. This ten part series is to compliment an heretofore large body of work (over sixty titles) by presenting previously unreleased concert and studio recordings, with the focus on Hugh's compositions as performed by groups under his leadership.

[icrp1961]

Mirad el enlace, en inglés:
http://www.goldminemag.com/reviews/album-reviews/hopped-hugh-soft-machine-legend-10-cd-retrospective

[icrp1961]

When is a box set not a box set?  When it's a ten part anthology, to be drip fed into our psyches over a period of presumably months, and each fresh dose delivering another CD's worth of largely unreleased, and (presumably) essentially essential, music from one of the key bassists of the rock'n'roll era.
Except to describe the late Hugh Hopper as a bassist is a bit like calling Jimi Hendrix a glorified banjo player, or saying Keith Moon was good at hitting things.  Some musicians so transcend all the baggage that their actual instrument was born with that their unadorned name is all you need to hear.  And Hopper's name guarantees genius.
Even when  spread over the 10-CD set of unreleased recordings scheduled for release by Gonzo Multimedia; compiled by Hopper expert Michael King; and drawn from across his career.  The earliest recordings capture the Soft Machine, whom he joined in 1969, replacing Kevin Ayers; the latest taken from his last ever musical performance.
And in between times... the full list appears at the foot of this page.  For now, discs one and two have already arrived, and if they are any indication whatsoever of all that is to come, then the next year-or-however-long is going to be the most exciting tht the Canterbury collecting crowd has enjoyed in a long time.

Disc one, Memories, is the simplest of them all, a seven track collection that rounds up rarities that stretch back to a summer 1969 Softs demo of the title track, and forward to 2004, and the Hugh Hopper Franglo Band... stopping off in between times with North and South, percussionist Nigel Morris, pianist Alan Gowen and a computer collage that it would be positively wicked to detail for you here.  Just listen to it.  "Hugh Hopper + Many Friends = Many Surprises," it says in the liners and that is so true.
So many different moods add up to a remarkable mixed bag.  North and South's "Shuffle Demons," from 1995, is a tempestuous sax-led romp; the Anglo-French Franglo Band's 2004 version of "Was A Friend" is smooth, undulating, almost Trip Hoppy in texture, and sets you up mightily for the same act's "Debonaire."
Hopper's computer work will startle anyone who thinks they know what to expect to happen when a bassist sits down at a laptop, and even the somewhat indulgent sounding prospect of Hopper's fuzz bass duetting with Nigel Morris's percussion, on a cut recorded with the two musicians an ocean and continent apart, is a glorious ride.  Hopper's own spoken introductions to the songs adds to the intimacy of the set, and so the spirit of the future is established.

"Shuffle Demon" reappears, albeit in considerably less excitable form, on disc two, a straightforward rendering of a Paris concert on March 13, 2004, aptly subtitled "Concert Performances of Classic Compositions."  Again it's the Franglo band at work... Patrice Meyer, Pierre-Olivier Govin, Francois Verly and Hopper, plus Gong veteran Didier Malherbe on sundry tootly things on the closing "Miniluv"... and the repertoire effortlessly lives up to the billing.  "Facelift" from the Softs, Isotope's "Sliding Dogs" and solo album favorites "Miniluv" and "Lonely Sky and the Sea" are all offered glorious work-outs, while the take on Coltrane's "Mr Syms" is positively delirious.
Across this pair and all future releases, other reviews and reviewers will doubtless tie themselves into glorious knots discussing Hopper's changing bass styles and approach to playing; the varying mindsets required to create his music; the musical brilliance that raised his vision into the rarified strata that we hear here.  All of which is important stuff.  The most crucial point, however, is ... well, yes it's all very clever and arty and all that stuff.
But it's also eminently listenable and utterly enjoyable, and that's an aspect of Hopper's music (and many of his old Canterbury cohorts too) that often gets overlooked. And, in so being, it maybe puts people off from exploring further.  The fact that you don't have to give a hoot for jazz rock, for improvisation, for fusion or any such nonsense as that.  At the end of the day, it's just great to play.
And we have eight more volumes still to come!

Volume 3 – North & South
co-credited with Scottish drummer Mike Travis (Gilgamesh)
Live in Aberdeen 1995

Volume 4 – Four by Hugh by Four
One-off quartet live at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, 2000

Volume 5 – Heart to Heart
Co-credited with guitarist Phil Miller (Hatfield/National Health/In Cahoots)
Studio duet performance, Amsterdam, 2007

Volume 6 – Special Friends
Rare concert recordings, 1992 through 1995, of Hugh's project with Phil Miller, Didier Malherbe (Gong), Pip Pyle & Elton Dean – a.k.a. Short Wave.

Volume 7 – Soft Boundaries
Triton, Paris concert recordings with Elton Dean, Sophia Domanich & Simon Goubert 2005 . a.k.a Soft Bound.

Volume 8 – Bass On Top
Improvised studio session with pianist Slava Ganelin & drummer Aahron Kaminsky, Israel 2007

Volume 9 – Anatomy of Facelift
Five live performances of Hugh's signature composition, Facelift, as performed by Soft Machine, 1969 through 1971. Includes extracts from Lois Frith's University Thesis: Anatomy of Facelift

Volume 10 – Was A Friend
Various rare tracks, including duets with drummers Chris Cutler (Henry Cow) & Seb Rockford and  concluding with Hugh final musical performance: Was A Friend, performed by Denis Colin Trio, 2008

- See more at: http://www.goldminemag.com/reviews/album-reviews/hopped-hugh-soft-machine-legend-10-cd-retrospective#sthash.KVq3wSnz.dpuf

[zappamacias]

¿Y no podrian sacar la caja y ya está?. A mí la gente esta de Gonzo no me gusta demasiado.

[zappamacias]

Además, es que sacándolos por separado el precio va a subir mucho. He estado mirando mis distribuidores y los volúmenes que ya están en la calle salen a 16.90 euros cada uno.

[icrp1961]

Sinceramente, prefiero que salgan así, "de a poco". Me interesan todos y cada uno de ellos.

[zappamacias]

Ok. Los voy pidiendo.

[icrp1961]

Ya se anuncian los volúmenes séptimo y octavo.

[zappamacias]

 

[icrp1961]

Ya tengo hasta el séptimo en mis manos. Falta poco.

[icrp1961]

Hay un artículo sobre estos discos en la revista El Chamberlin:
http://www.universosparalelos.org/elchamberlin/numeros.asp?view=plink&id=47