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Phantasmagoria in Blue, Mick Harvey’s new album of duets in collaboration with Mexican artist Amanda Acevedo. Available now: mute.ffm.to/mhaa_pib
The album contains 14 tracks sourced from existing duets, songs that previously were not duets, translations from Spanish and a sprinkling of original compositions. Thematically it explores the perennial themes of mortality, love and mankind’s search for meaning as well as an enthused engagement with the enigmatic and mythical. Harvey and Acevedo met several years ago in Mexico City, but it was during 2020/21 that the project burst into life, as ideas were exchanged across the oceans and through the ether. The resulting collection of songs is lush and sweeping in its emotional content and is full of nourishment for the imagination and the senses.
Phantasmagoria in Blue, Mick Harvey’s new album of duets in collaboration with Mexican artist Amanda Acevedo. Available now: mute.ffm.to/mhaa_pib
The album contains 14 tracks sourced from existing duets, songs that previously were not duets, translations from Spanish and a sprinkling of original compositions. Thematically it explores the perennial themes of mortality, love and mankind’s search for meaning as well as an enthused engagement with the enigmatic and mythical. Harvey and Acevedo met several years ago in Mexico City, but it was during 2020/21 that the project burst into life, as ideas were exchanged across the oceans and through the ether. The resulting collection of songs is lush and sweeping in its emotional content and is full of nourishment for the imagination and the senses.
![CAN - Eins [Live in Aston 1977]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mw6pxVS_TIc/hqdefault.jpg "CAN - Eins [Live in Aston 1977]
The acclaimed CAN live series continues with the release of LIVE IN ASTON 1977, available via Mute and Future Days (the new EU label created by Spoon Records) on vinyl and CD: https://mute.ffm.to/can_lia77
The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1977 performance in Aston and features Schmidt (keyboard & synths), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Michael Karoli (guitars), Holger Czukay (wave receiver & spec.sounds), plus Rosko Gee (bass), who appears for the first time in the series.
This release features sleeve notes by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, sharing his first-hand experience of witnessing CANs live show.
LIVE IN ASTON follows the release of LIVE IN PARIS 1973, the first in the series to feature Damo Suzuki’s vocals [“…among the greatest documents of their untouchable alchemy…” – Record Collector 5*]; LIVE IN BRIGHTON 1975 [“Pure dynamite… keep them coming” – MOJO]; LIVE IN STUTTGART 1975, [Uncut’s Reissue of the Year, #2 in MOJO’s Reissues of the Year, #7 in The Wire’s Archive Reissues of the Year plus more]; and LIVE IN CUXHAVEN 1976, which again featured heavily in the Reissues of the Year.
Video & Artworks by Uschi Siebauer, http://haendehoch.com")
![CAN - Vier [Live in Aston 1977]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nQT7pzCkwZA/hqdefault.jpg "CAN - Vier [Live in Aston 1977]
The acclaimed CAN live series continues with the release of LIVE IN ASTON 1977, available via Mute and Future Days (the new EU label created by Spoon Records) on vinyl and CD on 31st May: https://mute.ffm.to/can_lia77
The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1977 performance in Aston and features Schmidt (keyboard & synths), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Michael Karoli (guitars), Holger Czukay (wave receiver & spec.sounds), plus Rosko Gee (bass), who appears for the first time in the series.
This release features sleeve notes by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, sharing his first-hand experience of witnessing CANs live show.
LIVE IN ASTON follows the release of LIVE IN PARIS 1973, the first in the series to feature Damo Suzuki’s vocals [“…among the greatest documents of their untouchable alchemy…” – Record Collector 5*]; LIVE IN BRIGHTON 1975 [“Pure dynamite… keep them coming” – MOJO]; LIVE IN STUTTGART 1975, [Uncut’s Reissue of the Year, #2 in MOJO’s Reissues of the Year, #7 in The Wire’s Archive Reissues of the Year plus more]; and LIVE IN CUXHAVEN 1976, which again featured heavily in the Reissues of the Year.
Video & Artworks by Uschi Siebauer, http://haendehoch.com")
