LOWLANDS – List’nin’ Room, Friday,
15October 1999
On
the hot Friday, 6 August 1999 I went over from London, England with an old Hong
Kong friend of mine – whose surname happens to be Spain – to what I consider
the heart of the LOWLANDS, Belgium and Antwerp, to be precise. Lady Diana Princess of Wales took us
there. An old friend and Antwerp resident, Hugo, met us and eventually drove us
up to the Zuid Poel/ South Pole for the first sweltering
night of Fred Van Hove’s FREE
MUSIC XXVI.
01. Pijp/
WIMprovier Track 4: ballade voor honger en onrecht/ FvH at the organ of St
Marien Stadtkirche, Torgau, Germany in April 1997. 09:05
We
paid our entrance fee and got, amongst others -
Highlanders,
Irene
Schweitzer and Pierre Favre; here, she is with ‘a
different drummer’* -
02.
Irene + Han Bennink/ Intakt CD 010/1995 Track 1: Gnash
07:54 (17)
En
passant, this was the first time in over twenty years that I saw Pierre
Favre. The previous occasion was in Hong
Kong during the tour of ‘Solo Now’,
with
Gunther Hampel, Albert Mangelsdorff and Joachim Kuhn. I remember
him ‘doing’ Baby Dodds with knitting
needles… The concert lasted for some four hours, but that’s another story…
The
André Goudbeek Quartet with Phil Minton, and, as luck would
have it, they had there a hot-off-the-press, new CD -
03.
Andre Goudbeek 4/ WIMprovijf Track 7: Kras 07:00 (24)
AG, as, bclt, bandoneon;
Dirk Wauters, pc; Peter Jacquemyn, b; Bert Maris, t, flhn.
04.
AG4+Phil Minton Track 2: How do you like your tornado,
sir? 06:34 (31)
Next
evening, we paid again and got our dose of Free
Music, Night 2. This time, it
was, amongst others, –
‘Lokomotiv Konkret’ that ran by us first,
three Swedes-
05. LK/ Leo Lab CD 011 Track 1: Our Lokomotive 07:05 (38)
Dror Feiler, reeds, pc; Soren Runolf, g,
co, pc; Tommy Bjork, d, pc.
The
little fest ended with ‘Open End’, (Fred
Van Hove, Ivo Vander Borght, Luk Mishalle and Paul Vlamink).
Here’s
Fred
with IVB
–
06.
Lust/ WIMprotwee Track 8: Orde en rust
op aarde 07:35 (46)
They
opened, then ended with various combinations into which were injected at
various points the likes of the four Swedes,
Mr Goudbeek
and Peter
Jacquemyn (bass). They called this final fling, ‘These Poolish Things’! You’ll have to imagine them.
The
following day (Sunday) Eric Spain and I visited Brugge/ Bruges then Loppem and the Heidelberg Inn.
It was around 1730 when we slid in through the back gate in a break in the rain
and the garden party was in full swing. Host and hostess, more old friends of
mine, Tony and Marleen were very surprised to see
us. There it was that on 4th May this year I heard a solo session by
Joe
McPhee. He gave me a disc then and here’s something from it –
07.
The Brass City/ okkadisk 12025 Track 10:
The Roswell Incident
(for Roswell Rudd) w. Jeb Bishop, tb. 08:00
(54)
But
really, that was another story, too! As is how Roswell has found new
breath and is playing so well these days…especially in the LOWLANDS!
I’ll
finish where I started, with -
08.
Fred Van Hove Pijp/ WIMprovier Track 3: les
strapontins 08:30 (63)
The organ of St Marien
Stadtkirche, Torgau, Germany in April 1997.
[Next week, we’re off to Amsterdam for DB w. HB and youngster Tristan H (who achieved 50 this year) at the BIM and possibly the current Sun Ra Arkestra and possibly something over at Eindhoven… but that’s going – perhaps, as Holderlin used to say – to be another story!]
Bandoneon:
B & O neo N - B an do neon - B an don eon - B an done on - B and on eon -
B and one on - Ba ‘nd on E on - Band o’Neon - (A)bandon eon - Band 1on
Bandeau ni un!
Ban dough knee ‘n!
(A)bandon (hop)e (all y) e (wh) o (e)n (terrier!)
To Salute The Left
FAX
To HUGO
From Roger
Date: 991218
Subject: Pijp/
WIMprovier (FvH etc)
Hugo!
Most grateful I’d be
if you could bring
for me
a copy
of the captioned CD
for a friend here! I’ll see
you straight when I
get my new glasses – or when you I see!
R
P.S. 3 Jan 00 is a Pubic Holyday in this jurisdiction; you’d better be making arrangements toot sweet!