Radio Canada International
llmod1
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Been really getting into the releases on this label over the last few years.Have already got, amongst others, the following:SkywalkSahhik HakimNick AyoubTed MosesElectric Ninja GroupMoe KoffmanRoger SimardWhat other releases do people recommend?
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Sounds fresh
One of the best releases on RCI, imo. The track "Morning" is a killer!
Some of my other favorite releases in the series...
Billy Robinson "Evolution's Blend"
Kathryn Moses
Ron Proby "Evian"
Trio Pierre Nadeau
The Music of Fred Stone
Al Michalek Quartet "Voices"
Pierre Leduc et Son Quatuor
So much great stuff though released in the RCI series as well as released by CBC (and not just jazz)... Mutual Understanding, Perth County Conspiracy, etc... some of the early transcriptions in plain stock sleeves are great too (although hella raer)...
have one for offers...
also have Sadik Hakim and a few others...any RCI heads feel free to PM a dude
I'd like to find the Ron Proby: Canada LP...pm me if ya got
I tried to warn you
Emile Normand is the best.
Solome Bey has one that rips too.
These were the rage at one point.
I had the Nick Ayoub at some point but traded it for Jef Gilson's Malagasy...now I'd like to find a copy again, since I remember liking it a bit.
Anyone have an extra Emile Normand?
had the copeland-s/t (pre-GRT) for years and it RULES...
very, very hard to find... it's not written about because hardly anybody has it... there are NO copies floating around (pressed in way smaller quantities than the RCI titles, some of which were sold commercially)...
perth county is also on the CBC LM series (not RCI) and should run you $500 up... like the copeland, the LM disc was released before their commercial debut on columbia records of canada... same goes for hagood hardy & the montage LM (pre-CTL/GRT)... all unique material recorded for CBC broadcast-only...
a KILLER RCI (that people aren't on the nuts of) is armas maiste's "a song for all seasons"... on the folk/nature tip (thanks to contributions for quebec SSW j. corcoran)...
the CBC has a very deep catalogue that spans eras and musical styles (classical to jazz to folk to psych to EZ to whateves)...
on the CBC LM tip, i've just produced a reissue of doug randle's songs for the new industrial state (1970) for CD/digital release (the OG LP is still kicking around for under $40 via a 1971 commercial pressing on the kanata label, owned by jazz icon gene lees and producer dave bird, cop it NOW...)... out on january 27/09... beautifully arranged minor key groovy pop-psych w/ vocals from laurie bower (mutual understanding) and tommy ambrose + the creme of the toronto studio/jazz scene of the late 60s (bobby edwards, peter appleyard, guido basso, arnie chycoski, doug riley, rob mcconnell, moe koffman, bernie piltch, etc...)...
more to come...
light in the attic (http://www.lightintheattic.net/) will have a randle micro-site (w/ audio sample) up within a week or two if ya wanna peep... toronto heads should keep their ears open for a listening session for sometime in february w/ artists in attendance... here's a shot of doug from last year... total wzrdry...
I WILL PAY.
I WHOLEHEARDETLY ENDORSE THIS PRODUCT. Great record!!!! I didn't think I would be into it, but fell quite hard for it. Everything is tasteful and living, breathy and minimal orchestration in the way the best EZ/POP stuff can deliver from Canada and the world.
What's funny is that I bought a copy of this (the LP) from stop33 in Toronto and then forgot it at his house!! Luckily I was able to turn up another copy
http://www.lightintheattic.net/releases/dougrandle/
hope some of you check this out...
lates for now...
An uncle of mine is currently one of the head curators at the CBC archives in TO... I'm dying to have a look, if Ken let's me...
somehow i can see cannonical furiously typing a PM... "man, if yer uncle can get me a PCC i will give you over $500 and a club monaco sweatshirt... i'll even throw in a private press cassette that only 3 people have if it's minty..."
This one really is killer. I have an extra if anybody wants it.
The Nick Ayoub LP is probably my favourite RCI release. There's tonnes of awesome stuff on the LM series LPs that's still pretty unknown since the LM appeals were never commercially availably and there's lots of them. Maybe a project for the future!