Clear Frame - Zurich 2007 (r.i.p. Hugh Hopper)

Next one for Hugh Hopper...

Funny enough I just found Soft Machine's "Fifth" (and Robert Wyatt's "Comicopera") in the summer sales that are just about to begin.

The previous posts:
Soft Machine - Donaueschingen 1971
Soft Machine - Berlin 1971
Soft Machine Legacy - Lugano 2005

I am ashamed and sorry that I was noth among the 40 or so people who attended this concert - I remember considering if I should make it, but eventually it was one of those days where I was just too exhausted...

Here's an interview with Hugh, published in early 2008, by Bebbe Colli:
http://www.cloudsandclocks.net/interviews/HHopper_interview_08.html

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Clear Frame
Zürich (Switzerland), Rote Fabrik, Clubraum
September 20, 2007

Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone
Hugh Hopper - electric bass
Charles Hayward - drums
Orphy Robinson - vibraphone, percussion

1. Improvisation (51:54)
2. Announcement > Lover Man (7:14)
3. Improvisation (11:35)
4. Announcement > Improvisation [encore] (6:50)

TT: 77:34

Sound: A-/B+


Notes:

total audience: not more than 40 people!!!!

enclosed to torrent: scan of programme

recording: original mini-disc recording with
Sony MZ NH-700
transfer: --> wav (sonic stage) --> flac

don't sell this recording and buy the official
releases of the involved musicians.


:: ubu note ::

Lover Man came as "Improvisation"
I don't know if any of the other "Improvisations" are actual compositions.