ASSOCIATION P.C.-MAMA KUKU, LP, 1974, VARIOUS
Following Jim's post of their Erna Morena live LP and my subsequent post of their first recording (back when they were know as just Association), here's another choice selection from this international jazz rock all-star powerhouse (Toto Blanke, Pierre Courbois, Siggi Busch and Joachim Kuhn comprising the line-up here), Mama Kuku being the last of their five albums and recorded in a live collaboration with noted fusion flautist Jeremy Steig (whose wonderful album "Something Else" with Jan Hammer I'll be posting shortly). Starting out from a rather more subdued perspective than their prior outings and with Steig's delicate shadings well to the fore, the air of mystery and increased all 'round pleasure really begins here for me circa the third cut ("Dr. Hofmann"), whose glassily becalmed surface hides deep tidal flows of mystery. It's a calm quickly sundered by the bracing blast of "Ecnelis", a hard burning and stormy piece of work that presages some of the bracing sounds awaiting you on the side-long closer "Lausanne", whose aerated and winsome wiles slowly coalesce into peaks of inspired squalling.
AS AN ANONYMOUS INDIVIDUAL POINTED OUT ON THE COMMENT BOARD FOR THIS POST, IT APPEARS THAT MAMA KUKU HAS JUST BEEN REISSUED, SO I'VE PULLED THE LINK. INFO ON THE REISSUE CAN BE FOUND Here
8 comments:
Could you post "Sun Rotation" (1972) and "Rock Around the Cock" (1973)?
anonymous-I'll post Rock Around The Cock soon. As for Sun Rotation (a favorite of mine), go here:
http://direct-waves.blogspot.com/2007/02/association-pc-sun-rotation.html
hmmmm....let's try that Sun Rotation link again. Go Here
Dear V - thanx for link, by the way - do cd version of Association lonongplays exist ?
mama kuku just came out on SPV in the last two weeks. I would be careful of the copyright here guys. you know the censors are out. the other APC albums haven't been released yet
Hi Eric, I downloaded the "Mama Kuku" file before you removed it, but it's unfortunate it had to be removed for these two reasons:
1) "Mama Kuku" does not even come out for another two months (according to amazon.com)
2) The price + shipping is around $30 USD for just one CD.
Therefore, it would benefit people to hear a compressed MP3 of the original vinyl, as you originally had on Mutant Sounds, in order to decide if the reissue is worth paying big bucks for.
But I understand if you can't put it back up.
Why so much lps from MPS label haven't reissued? Troubles with copyrights? Or little interesting this kind of music?
I suspect that a lot of lps from MPS label haven't reissued on cd,why? Troubles with copyrights? Little interesting in this kind music?
By the way, Mr V, could you repost lp Laurent Petitgirard?
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