Friday, March 9, 2007

MODERN JAZZ · Bubble Head Breakdown ,tape,1983,Australia

Modern Jazz was an electro-based live performance group assembled and co-ordinated by Ash Wednesday. Not a conventional group by any means, Modern Jazz was carefully designed to constantly evolve and change form, to include various configurations of numerous and diverse select musicians and artists. It was to exist, therefore, as a vehicle for creative input from a varied extent of sources. This input was often directed towards the idea of mating computer generated sound and vision to human spontanaiety (perhaps stange bedfellows to the uninitiated). When viewed from this angle, the name 'Modern Jazz', however ironic, was specifically descriptive.
Ash Wednesday is an Australian musician.
Wednesday played synthesizer in JAB (1976 - 1979) and The Models (1979 - 1980). In 1980 he released a solo single, "Love By Numbers". He formed experimental outfit The Metronomes with Al Webb and Andrew Picouleau. Throughout the early 1980s, he was a member of Modern Jazz, an improvisation group who performed to randomly generated techno beats. In 1988 he joined electronic / industrial band Crashland.
Wednesday moved to Berlin in 1992, where he worked with Nina Hagen, being involved with pre-production and programming for the album 'Freud Euch' ('Bee Happy') (1995).
Since 1997 Ash Wednesday has been a touring member of the legendary German band Einstürzende Neubauten. He completed several world tours with them and is present on their live albums, such as 09-15-2000, Brussels and numerous recordings from the Perpetuum Mobile tour (2004).
In 1999 he returned to Melbourne and formed The Tingler (with Crashland vocalist Lyn Gordon) and Machine Poets (with Garry Gray and Andrew Picouleau).
Sorry no pic sleve scans.

get this rare minimal synth gem here

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't suppose anyone has the following tape compilation from Italy do they ????

Called IT´S MY (THE) AGE it was released in 1982 on Echo Recho Internationaler and had tracks by SOMBRE REPTILES/TUMORBOYS/THE DADACOMPUTER/DANIEL CIULLINI/DER PLAN/THE PULLMAN OUTSKIRTS/ORGAN BANK/08/15/SUNDAY V/HARRY T/E.COLI/DER LUSTIGE MUSIKANT/THORNS OF AFFLICTION/DOM DUMMASTE/THE CROWBARS/INSECT BITES/COLIN POTTER/ANDREW DARLINGTON/FK 9/SUSAN VEZEY/BRIGADEN DER SEHNSUCHT/MARINE/262

Overhere said...

Hey great post mutantsounds - pop on over to 'they called it good at the time' to pick up Models 10" release - Cut Lunch. I will be posting more Models and some other post-punk stuff.

Any chance that the Foetus link could be re-upped I got one but Ache had gone before I could get it.

Thanks for the great blog - you were one of a number of bloggers that inspired me to start my own

cheers

Anonymous said...

Hey everyone deserves to listen to "Jesse Jameses Turd". Probably deserves a post of it's own it's sop hillarious and unexpected. Harhararar I'm still laughing!

Anonymous said...

Ive been hunting around for Modern Jazz - Black ep (1983) for awhile, do you possible have this to post?

Thank you always for the truly amazing work you are doing

cheers
rus

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_ said...

Black EP here:

http://bowieisacrankycat.blogspot.com/2011/07/modern-jazz-modern-jazz.html

Anonymous said...

This is just fantastic. Dark, melancholic, beautiful, artful, far above most of the other DIY stuff. Thank you, sir!

Anonymous said...

Off topic, but I think if anyone can help, it's you: Can you provide 48 Chairs' album "70% Paranoid"?!? Have read such amazing things about it and would love to have a listen. Thank you!