THE LISTENING ROOM, co-curated by Phil Morton and RHP

031010 (The Double Tenth…), Liverpool Bluecoat Arts Centre, Neptune Room

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Joëlle Léandre

Presented by Capt Roger Henry Parry

My friend Francesco Martinelli of Pisa in Italy has produced a fine discography* devoted to this ‘extraordinary French doublebass player and composer’…

It covers 77 records (releases) made in the period June 1978 – October 2001 (that is some 23 years).

I have just under half of these releases.

The earliest of her listed discs that I have dates from 25 March 1982 (w. Maggie Nicols and Lindsay Cooper.)

The most recent was recorded in early October 2001.

* ISBN 88-8341-015-7 bandecchi & vivaldi editore, October 2002. It is dedicated to (the memory of) bassist Peter Kowald.

I heard Joëlle play live most recently at the Mulhouse Festival in France this year (26-30 August).

She did a couple of gigs and ran a workshop for several days the culmination of which was a set of performances by diverse groups drawn from the workshop members.

And we expect her here in Liverpool for our (umteenth already!) Frakture Festival next month (November) along with – amongst others – Otomo Yoshihide and Derek Bailey…

I’m going to look back over a portion – necessarily small – of her oeuvre to date, limiting myself to those releases of her that I have on CD:

PLAYLIST

Label/ no. title track title other personnel time

00.

ReR BJRCD violin music Seventh Table jon rose… 02:47

for restaurants

Rec. ‘autumn 1987’ (FM)

01.

Leo 337 out of sound out of sound lauren newton, vc; 05:12

urs leimgruber (ul), sax

rec. 010316 comp. collective

02.

Victo 067 quartet noir parts III+V ul; marilyn crispell,p; 02:45

fritz hauser, pc 04:28

rec. 980515 comp. ‘toutes les pieces sont des improvisations…’

03.

Leo 275 e’ vero nos. 9, 8, 5 sebi tramontana, tb 03:56

02:57

rec. 970721 comp. collective 01:56

04.

Tonesetters incandescences/ part one giorgio occhipinti, p 06:14

007 (Bel.) the european duo

rec. 970525 comp. collective

05.

Intakt 059 les diaboliques vals irene schweizer, p; 04:34

live at the rhinefalls diabol., III maggie nicols, vc (33)

06.

Leo 245 18 colors chartreuse lauren newton, vc 02:46

rec. 960204 comp. collective

07.

FMP 52 blue goo park moondog in rudiger carl, acc + 03:05

Erkenschwick;

Ron ronade 02:00

rec. 920709&10 comp. collective (41)

08.

Music & haunting the spirits… dream vinny golia, f+; ken 04:02

Arts 893 commandos filiano, b (left)

Rec. 920427 comp. collective

09.

hat ART L’Histoire de Mme trio Carl; carlos zingaro, vn 03:49

6122 Tasco

Rec. 920325 comp. Léandre

Or 920403

10.

hat ART palimpseste volatile eric watson, p 07:31

6103 (60)

rec. 910907+08 comp. collective

11.

in situ 038 ecritures au bord de l’eau carlos zingaro 02:58

rec. 900529 comp. coll. [O! Bordello…!]

12.

adda 184 urban bass taxi - 04:25

rec. 821114+15 comp. Léandre

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Joëlle Léandre participated in Derek Bailey’s ‘Company’ week, May 24-28, 1983 and appears on the related ‘Trios’ release (Incus LP 51) along with Globokar, Hugh Davies, J. D. Parran, Brotz., Jamie Muir, Ernst Reyseger (Reijseger), Evan Parker and John Corbett (10, all told.)

In 1997, she recorded duos with Derek on electric guitar in Montreuil (Paris) at the club ‘Instants Chavirées’. They played in the Vandoeuvre Festival at Nancy in the summer of that year (I was there! (w. Pauline))

13.

Potlach 198 no waiting five db 06:37

Rec 970509 comp. coll. (74)

Finally,

14.

FMP21 duos europa… soeurbet frereboise* peter kowald 03:51

Rec. 861214 comp. coll.

* playing on words – of which JL is very fond! – (words, and playing with them, lit and meta…), sorbet framboise… sister/ brother…)

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Other CDs I have…

Grave 1 grave w. pascal contet rec. 9406/9412 comp. coll and single

Montaigne john cage w. ninh le quan, pc rec. 9505/07 comps. by cage+ JL

Hatology 509 no try no fail w. ul; hauser rec. 960310 comp. collective

MES 0005 ryoanji w. k. wakao, p, pc rec. 981003 comps. by cage

MES 0013 john cage #4 w. k. wakao, p rec. 001110 comps. by cage

Note: An advanced Google on her name will get you ‘about 1,850 results’!

BUT before doing that go to Peter Stubley’s site at - http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/mleandre.html

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[030925 telcon w. PS/ Sheff en passant revealed recent (mid-year) heart problem for JL; observed how active she was in Mulhouse…]

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