#okraina

Okraina, Boris Barnet, 1933

Okraina (Boris Barnet, 1933)

Claude Gauthier - MIchèle Arnaud - Leonard Cohen - Paul Dufault - Jacques Jansen - Third Ear Band - Hamed Bel Hadj - Paul Bowles - Nico - Cora Vaucaire - Léonor Boulanger & Maam-Li Merati - Cheveu & Groupe Doueh - DJ Rupture - Ghislain Poirier - The Ex - Gilles Deleuze - RIchard Pinhas - Mme Le Guenna & Le Bouc - Edouard Picard - Adriano Celentano - Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta - Roberto Musci - Can - Pascal Comelade & Jac Berrocal & Jaki Liebezeit & Pierre Bastien - Stereolab & Nurse with wounds -Captain Beefheart.

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Okraina (The Outskirts) by Pyotr Lutsik (1998)

“My first deep exposure to LEONARD COHEN was the "Bird on a Wire" documentary by Tony Palmer, which was, against the odds, broadcast on public television in New Zealand around 1974 or 1975. At age 15 or 16 I thought it was too dark. A few years later, in the late '70s, I wanted things darker. The first Cohen LP was very clever but a little too "up." The second was too public and political for me. Songs of Love and Hate seemed more honest, more about personal failure. I liked it, although Cohen tended to disown it, especially “Dress Rehearsal Rag” and “Last Year's Man”, neither of which he performed live later on. I like “Last Year's Man” for the same reason I like Nick Drake's “Poor Boy”. It wallows and parodies at the same time. I came across the Suzuki OMNICHORD OM-27 because it was mentioned in relation to another Canadian, Joni Mitchell. It looked like a mystery box of potentially very good or very bad sounds, like a Bontempi chord organ customized for space travel in a Stanley Kubrick film. Irresistible... I was fortunate to meet JESSICA MOSS because of the 12 hour Drone event at Le Guess Who Festival in Utrecht in November 2017. I thought it would be cool to jam with some of the other people scheduled to play their own pieces so I asked the organisers, Bob Helleur and Jacob Hagelaars, to sound out the other droners a few weeks before the festival. Jessica replied, I sent a sample piece, and we talked, more than rehearsed, a day before the performance. We did our piece live and then some months later I sent her a recorded piece to which she added her magical playing.” -- Roy Montgomery 

Okraina | Boris Barnet | 7/10