Last Desert Island Collection (6) – Showtime mit Matthias Cordes

Moin Michael, mein alter Freund (und „Kumpel“)  Michael S. leitete kürzlich eine Mail von Dir weiter.  Glauben kann ich das alles noch gar nicht so richtig, denn ich verfolge Deine Radiosendungen seit ca. 1996. Kürzlich fand ich (in meinem Kassetten-Archiv) wohl eines der ersten Tapes der Klanghorizonte, aufgenommen am 30.03.1997 (u.a. mit The Köner Experiment, Terje Rypdal). Ich hab jahrelang so manche Freitag-Nacht am Radio verbracht und besitze heute noch jede Menge Tapes mit den Klanghorizonten.  —- Gar nicht so einfach, anhand eines Fotos 10 Platten auszuwählen.  Zugegeben, „Hierro“ und die kleine Finca am Meer scheinen wirklich ein Sehnsuchtsort zu sein.  Die Auswahl fiel mir sehr schwer, aber Eno, Budd, Schütze, Bang oder Henriksen sind dann doch eher für andere Inseln… Liebe Grüsse aus Bremen!

Meine 10 Platten für El Hierro: 

Hector Zazou- Chansons des Mers
Les Baxter – Jewels of the Sea
David Sylvian- Alchemy: An Index Of Possibilities
Brendan Perry – The Ark
Allan Taylor – Win Or Lose
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
The Paper Kites – Roses
Eberhard Weber – The Following Morning
Jon Hassell – Last Night The Moon Came Dropping…
The Blue Nile – Hats
(Matthias Cordes‘ Kiste)

Today is the last day for sending your island 10 list to Flowworker‘s HQ. What we have seen and HEARD over the days, is a fantastic collection of very personal favourites, recurring classics and albums that came to mind while watching the little finca on El Hierro, like an last oupost of civilization. Thank you so much, Lajla, for making that snapshot that set it all in motion! We all will be mysterious travellers next year, on our trip to a Canarian island: meeting friends and other strangers with the common bond that music can be. (A personal note here: i replaced, on my list, the beloved „Interstellar Space“ by Coltrane / Ali with, what I would call my absolute ECM „burner album“ (from my 150 ECM burner albums), Keith Jarrett‘s The Survivors Suite.)

Even Ildefonso Aguilar, founder of Lanzarote’s Festival Musica Visual, witnessed our lists (circulating there in Spanish translations with the „mini-essays“ in company) and invited me to come back soon to Jameos Del Agua and the other cave near Haria. He wants me to make two hours of „Klanghorizonte radio“ on the same little stage (Jameos de los verdes) on which years and years ago, David Darling played solo cello, and Eberhard Weber played solo bass. The tiny place is not that exclusive, no holy ground – thousands of tourists walk there week by week, all those chairs piled and covered with dust.

I will only play music from these island collections, recurring classics like „The Plateaux Of Mirror“ „On Land“, and „Veedon Fleece“, and some of those very personal favourites. It will not be a solo radio performance though, like the ones I did at the Punktfestival two times. I will probably share the stage with film director Wes Anderson and speak about „the creation of strangeness“. To keep it all in sharp focus, only two of his movies will be talked about (apart from the theme of desert island records), the one with the dogs (my favourite, Isle of Dogs), and „Asteroid City“. It‘s still all in the planning. (michael e.)