Godspeed You Black Emperor - Bootlegs

I found at archive.org some nice recordings with wonderful performance of gybe! in mostly lossless audioformat.

The "Live at The Roxy on 2003-04-06" Bootleg is compressed in lossless Shorten Format.
You need the .shn (shorten) plugin to play it in Foobar2000.VBR M3U PlaylistLive at Scottish Rite Temple of Freemasonry on 2003-03-05 (March 5, 2003)http://www.archive.org/details/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor

Robbie Basho - Song Of The Stallion

30.Aug.1940 - 28.Feb.1986

Born in 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland, he became an orphan in his early childhood and was adopted by Dr Donald R. Robinson and his wife, and grew up as Daniel R. Robinson jr.with a very typical middle-class childhood and youth.

Robbie Basho´s albums span everything from classical European artistry to songs of the Old West -he wove his Hindu, Chinese and Japanese scales and moods and Persian, Arabic or American Indian themes. He was sometimes criticized for taking too seriously the ragas that he offered up to the Beloved Higher Mind, but he also saw the lighter side of his musical cloud-tripping. “If you do it with reverence, it´s not as much of an insult to the Hindu gods,”he once joked in a Guitar Player interview. ...
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Interview (November 6, 1974)

An interview with Berkeley guitarist and composer Robbie Basho, one of the most innovative performers playing acoustically at the time of this recording. Robbie introduces music from his Vanguard record album "Zarthus" (1974) and talks with Charles Amirkhanian about world music influences in his recent work and his interest in American Indian music.




Robbie Basho - Song Of The Stallion
Recorded 1971
Label: Takoma Records; TAKCD 8913-2

Track Listening:

- Song Of The Stallion
- A North American Raga
- The Lady, She Is In Waiting
- Roses And Snow
- California Raga
- The Hajj
- Khatum


Basho's pure and crazy genius deserves a widespread hearing at last.

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Password:(1971) song of the stallion [takoma records, restored]

Swod - Gehen

Released: Aug 2004

Back in stock! If you've been looking for something evocative, timelessly special, a home-listening masterpiece to fall in love with - read on. Swod is the recording project of oliver doerell and stephan wohrmann, two accomplished musicians who met in Berlin sometime in 1991. Oliver plays guitar, bass and all manner of electronics - he is also a long-time family member of City Centre Offices having recorded an album and an EP under the "Dictaphone" moniker in between composing and performing musical pieces for theatre, installations and film over the last few years. Stephan plays piano and drums, arranging an almost neo-classical structure within a recording that already sounds ghostly and cinematic. Translated as 'go', "gehen" represents a labour of love from two musicians experienced in the art of seductive and evocative music making. Having first worked together producing live soundtracks to silent movies, oliver and stephan tread a delicate board of crystalline piano cascades and the sort of subtle electronic tinkering you can barely recognise or absorb in one sitting. It's fitting that the pair are so used to tailor-making their harmonious shards of sound to moving imagery, "gehen" evokes a plethora of half forgotten films and life experiences offered up in glimpses in the back of your mind. If you can imagine a sitting specially programmed by film directors Théo Angelopoulos or Krzysztof Kieslowski, or the music of eric satie, ryuchi sakamoto or keith jarret's "koln concert", you'll have some idea of what to expect. This is a breathtakingly beautiful album, ignoring generic stereotypes and restraints and opting, instead, for a life-changing, rich, and heart-stopping collection of some of the most evocative soundtrack pieces ever written. Sublime music.

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(2004) gehen

Do Make Say Think - You, You’re A History In Rust

Release Date: 12 February 2007 (Europe), 26 February 2007 (rest of world)
Duration: 48:25

Since Constellation issued their self-released debut record in 1998, Do Make Say Think have made one critically-acclaimed album after another. They are one of the most consistently inventive instrumental rock bands of the past decade, and one of the most self-realised: DMST members themselves have recorded, mixed and mastered all the band’s work, developing a highly original and finely detailed approach to audio production. You, You’re A History In Rust is the fifth record by Do Make Say Think and a brilliant extension of the band's unique sonic narrative.

In many ways the new album picks up where Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (cst025, 2003) left off - acoustic fingerpicked guitars are the recurring compositional anchor, with drums and percussion fluttering around these campfire themes while horns and electric guitars gather in swarms. The songs on You, You’re A History In Rust develop like moths drawn to a flame, instruments tracing erratic circles around a flickering, elusive centre. This organic non-linearity will be familiar to fans of the band, as DMST has been honing this kind of overlapping, multi-thematic ebb and flow over the last couple of records. And as these fans know, DMST's approach to musical deconstruction is never academic, forced, or played merely for effect; it is always a matter of weaving the captured elements together with the mixing desk played like a master instrument. As with previous releases, DMST set up in remote locations for the main recording sessions, tracking these new songs at a cottage and barn in rural Ontario, Canada and returning to their Toronto homebase at th'Schvitz studio for overdubs and mixing by production wizards Charles, Ohad and Justin.

Album opener "Bound To Be That Way" puts all these elements on fine display: recorded rhythmic and melodic figures fade in and out along with found and recovered sounds, lead instruments slide and shift in the mix, and the band's dual drummers deploy separate channels of syncopated stutter. "A With Living" will surprise hardcore DMST followers, as it features full-on verse-chorus-verse singing that builds towards lovely massed vocals before breaking down again into a beautiful modal horn denouement. "The Universe!" and "Herstory Of Glory" serve as tight, snappy firecrackers set off within the rest of the album’s pensive, dusky atmosphere. Constellation is thrilled to release this fifth album by one of our most creative, thoughtful, challenging and accessible groups. The CD is available in a 6-panel cardstock jacket and the LP features DMM mastering at Abbey Road and is pressed on 180g virgin vinyl. Thanks for listening.

Tracklist
1. Bound To Be That Way
2. A With Living
3. The Universe!
4. A Tender History In Rust
5. Herstory Of Glory
6. You, You’re Awesome
7. Executioner Blues
8. In Mind

Personnel
Ohad Benchetrit: guitar, horns, keys
Dave Mitchell: drums
James Payment: drums
Justin Small: guitar, keys
Charles Spearin: guitar, bass, horns, keys

Guests
Brian Cram: horns
Mr. Jay Baird: horns
Julie Penner: violin
Jason Tait: vibes
Deekus: marimba
Alex Lukashevsky: voice
Tony Dekker: voice
Jimmy Anderson: singin’ saw
Liyat Benchetrit: piano
Akron/Family (Seth, Ryan, Dana, Miles): voice + the abstract truth

Recording
Recorded by Do Make Say Think.
TRACKS 2, 3, 4 recorded at the Mitchell family cottage in Parry Sound ON, April 2005.
TRACKS 1, 5, 7 recorded at the Howard family barn in Delta ON, September 2005.
TRACK 6 recorded at th’ Schvitz in Toronto ON, May 2006.
TRACK 8 recorded to minidisk at Room 8 (rehearsal space), March 2006.
Mixed and mastered at th’ Schvitz by Ohad, Justin and Charles.

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(2007) You, You're a History in Rust