Discography 1980

Lindsay Cooper
Outtakes For Other Occasions
No man's land (FR Germany), nml 8603C [CT] (1986)
1. Tsar's Band - The Assassination - The Evening Before (From The Play "The Execution") 2. Score From The Film "Give Us A Smile" 3. Washing Line (From The Film "Green Flutes") 4. Score From The Film "Against The Current" 5. Curtain Music From The Play "The Time Of Their Lives" 6. Trih's Song
Lindsay Cooper - all instruments; Chris Cutler (1,3) - percussion, drums; Maggie Nicols (2) - vocals; Irita Kutchmy (3) - flute, saxophone; Vicky Aspinall (5) - violin; Sally Potter (6) - vocals; Georgie Born (6) - cello;Fred Frith (6) - guitar.
Recorded in 1979-1984; recording details not known.
Note: This Cr20 tape was given for free to subscribers of the German LP edition of Lindsay Coopers’s „Music For Other Occasions“ (1986).

*Various Artists
Vario II
Moers Music (FR Germany) momu 01084 [12’’ 33 LP](1980)
1. Catatonic (4'35) 2. In flagranti (15'20) 3. For listeners only (4'20) 4. Odd couple (9'30) 5. Raffia (3'40) 6. V (1'05) 7. A (1'05) 8. R (1'15) 9. I (1'25) 10. O (3'00)
All improvised compositions by the improvisers.
Maarten (van Regteren) Altena (1, 2, 5, 6 - 10) - double bass; Günter Christmann (1, 2, 3, 6-10)- trombone; Paul Lovens (1, 2, 4, 6-10) - selected drums, cymbals, percussion; Maggie Nicols (1, 2, 4, 6-10) - voice; John Russell (1, 2, 3, 6-10) - guitar.
Recorded in June 1980 at Historisches Museum, Hannover (FR Germany).

*Hybrid Kids
Claws
UK: Pipe Records / Cherry Red Records (UK) B-RED-11 [12’’ 33 LP] (1980)
1. We Three Kings (Hopkins) (3’30) 2. O Come All Ye Faithful (Oakeley/Wade) (3’20) 3. Deck the Halls / Go Tell It On The Mountain (Traditional) (8’20) 4. Coventry (4’50) 5. The Holly and the Ivy (3’40) 6. No St. Bernard (6’20) 7. Listen, the Snow Is Falling (Ono) (4’10) 8. Dead Ducks (1’00) 9. Good King Wenceslas (Traditional) (2’50) 10. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (Lennon) (3’40)
Bonus tracks on 1997 CD:
11. Coventry - backtrack 12. Holly And Ivy - remix 13. We Three Kings - remix 14. O Come All Ye Faithful - remix
Morgan Fisher - keyboards, guitar, voice, bass guitar; Maggie Nicols (7, 8) - voice; Joel Cutrara (3) - rap; Lol Coxhill (3, 10) - soprano saxophone; Chris & Valerie Ross (4) - Mummers’ chorus; Quentin Crisp (5) - voice; Iain McNay (6) - anti-Christmas rap (6)
Note: An archetypal British eccentric whose extensive career spanned from pop to glamour to ambient music, Morgan Fisher was a part of „Mott the Hoople“, and their abbreviated version „Mott“, as well as brief tenure with the „Third Ear Band“. This second (and last) „Hybrid Kids“ album is a Christmas album (Santa "Claws"). Having turned his hand to deconstructing pop-songs, and miniaturisation, Morgan Fisher filtered Christmas through his warped brain. This time the fictional band idea was abandoned and the theme was to use art-punk arrangements to expressthe feeling of a dark, pre-Christian, pre-Christmas winter solstice. Morgan used tape loops to supply drums, orchestral sounds, and allmanner of sound effects. Recording dates not known.
Note: Re-issued in 1981, Japan, Japan Records JAL-2501. Re-issued on CD in 1997: Blueprint/Voiceprint Records (U.K.) BP-273-CD
Note: Maggie Nicols is misspelled Nicholls on LP.

*Various Artists
Miniatures. A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited By Morgan Fisher
Pipe Records (UK), Pipe 2 [12’’ 33 LP] (1981)
Edigsa (Spain), 15L0119-5 [12’’ 33 LP] (1981?)
Supporti Fonografici (Italy), SF007 [12’’ 33 LP] (1985)
Voiceprint (UK), VP 159 CD [CD] (1985)
Blueprint (AU), BP 159 [CD] (1998 or 1997?)
3.2. Look Beneath The Surface (Nicols) (1’00)
Maggie Nicols - voice
Recorded around 1981
Note: The “Miniatures” record edited by Morgan Fisher features one minute songs by Ollie Halsall and John Halsey, The Residents, Roger McGough, Morgan-Fisher, JohnOtway, Pete Challis and Phil Diplock, Robert Wyatt, Stinky Winkles, Mary Langford, Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman, David Bedford, Fred Frith, Maggie Nicols, Joseph Racaille, The Work, Neil Innes and Son, Herbert Distel, Lol Coxhill, Ken Ellis, Steve Miller, Norman Lovett, Patrick Portella, George Melly, Robert Fripp, Andy Partridge, Phantom Captain, Ron Geesin, Alejandro Vinao, Quentin Crisp, Simon Desorgher, Ralph Steadman, R. D. Laing and Son, Trevor Wishart, John White, Ivor Cutler, Zazou, Michael Bass & Ellen Tenenbaum, Martin Chambers, Bob Cobbing & Henri Chopin, Dave Vanian, Metabolist, Gavin Bryars, 1/2 Japanese, Simon Jeffes, Mark Perry, Michael Nyman, David Cunningham, Kevin Coyne, Etron Fou Leloublan, Neil Oram and Ken Campbell and Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, Pete Seeger. MN appears only on (3.2).

*Ulrich P. Lask
Lask
ECM-Records (FR Germany) ECM 1217 [12’’ 33 LP] (1982)
A1. Drain Brain (5’38) A 2. Tattooed Lady (3’51) A 3. Kidnapped (1’54) A 4. Should We Geanie? (8’02) B 1. Unknown Realms (Lask/Shirli Sees) (7’21) B 2. Poor Child (4’28) B 3. Too Much-Not Enough (5’28)
Compositions by Lasks, lyrics by Nicols except as noted
Ulrich P. Lask - saxophones, drum programming; Meinolf Bauschulte - keyboards; Maggie Nicols - voice
Recorded November 1981 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg (FR Germany)

*Lindsay Cooper/Maggie Nicols/Joelle Leandre
Live At The Bastille
SYNC PULSE Records (UK) SYNC PULSE 1789 [12’’ 45 LP](1984)
A 1. Heads Will Roll (5’08) B 2. Les tricoteuses (The Knitting Women) (6’26) B 3. Almost The Blues (3’33) B 4. Forgotten Faces (4’21) B 1. Ancient Station (6’45) B 2. Une journée (2’58) B 3. Dream On (5’17) B 4. Let Them Eat Telly (2’45) 9. Quiet As A Mouse (0’41) All music by the improvisers.
Lindsay Cooper - basson, electric basson, dismanteled basson, sopranino saxophone; Maggie Nicols - voice; Joelle Leandre - double bass, backing vocals on (1)
recorded March 25, 1982 at the ancient station Bastille, Paris (F)

*Various Artists
... The First 25 Years
London Musicians Cooperative (UK) Resonance RES8.2CD/RES9.1CD [magazine + 2xCD] 2000
CD 1: Gloucester Avenue
9. 16.04.83 (Mummy)(4'05) 11. 29.05.82 (2'57)
CD 2: Elsewhere
4. Slug (Al Dente) (5'43)
Line-ups: CD 1 (9) Mummy: Ollie Blanchflower - bass; Mel Davis -keyboards; Terry Day - drums, sax, vocals; Ed Deane - guitar; Mike Figgis - trumpet; Charlie Hart - bass, violin; Paul Jolly - saxophone; Maggie Nicols - voice; Davey Payne - saxophone; John Porter - guitar; Simon – drums; CD 1 (11): Susanna Ferrar, Sylvia Hallett, Maggie Nicols and Julie Tippetts
CD 2 (4) Al Dente (Michele Buirette accordion; Lindsay Cooper - reeds (recorders?); Maggie Nicols - voice; Elvira Plenar - piano, synthesizer)
Tracks of CD 1 were recorded live in 1978-1985 at 42 Gloucester Avenue in Camden Town, London (specific dates see track titles); track 4 of CD 2 recorded live at The Conway Hall, London (U.K.) on May 31, 1993
Note: The CDs document the activities of the London Musicians Collective over nearly 25 years in altogether 28 tracks of different and interesting line-ups (including John Zorn, Peter Kowald, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, Roger Turner, Chris Newman and many others). MN appears only in the three indicated tracks.

*Alfred Harth
This Earth!
ECM Records (FR Germany) ECM 1264 [33’’ 12 LP] (publishing date not known)
1. Female Is The Sun (2'29) 2. Relation To Light, Colour And Feeling (4'49)3. Studying Walk, A Landscape (5'15)4. Body & Mentation (6'05)5. Energy: Blood/Air (6'22) 6. Three Acts Of Recognition (Bley/Harth) (6'13) 7. Come Oekotopia (Phillips/Harth/Gurtu) (8'30) 8. Waves Of Being (5'51) 9. Transformate, Transcend Tones And Images (4'04)
Music composed by Harth except as noted; texts by Vicky Scrivener
Maggie Nicols - voice; Alfred Harth - tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet; Paul Bley - piano; Barre Phillips - double bass; Trilok Gurtu - percussion
Recorded May 1983 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg (FR Germany)

*Lindsay Cooper
Music For Other Occasions
no man's land (FR Germany) (?number?) [33’’ 12 LP] (1986)
no man's land (Germany) nml 8603cd [CD] (1991)
1. Speed Of Light (3’22) 2. Belfast (2’10) 3. The Number 8 Bus (1’25) 4. Torn Away (1’56) 5. Plate Dance (3’01) 6. No Missiles (1’52) 7. Royal Courts Of Justice (2’13) 8. Iceland The Long Dance (5’56) 9. As She Breathes (2’36) 10. The Assassination Waltz (1’38) 11. Who Knows? (1’26) 12. Exchange (2’05) 13. Elegy (3’38) 14. Domestic Bliss (2’37) 15. They're Moving In (1’49) 16. Julia/End Credits (3’16) 17. Next Century (1’17) 18. From Morning Till Midnight (2’09) 19. The Colony Comes A Cropper (4’33) 20. Fledermaus (1’35) 21. We'd Rather Fly (0’59)
All compositions by Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper - piano, electric piano, synthesizers, alto, sopranino, bassoon, glockenspiel, bass guitar on (14) ; Georgie Born - guitar, bass guitar, cello, electric piano on (1);Sally Potter - voice (1,9); Dagmar Krause - voice (3, 4, 6); Maggie Nicols - voice (7,15,16); Kate Westbrook - voice on (11,12), tenor horn; Chris Cutler - drums; Celia Gore Booth - musical saw; Vicky Aspinall - violin; Zeena Parkins - harp; Irita Kutchmy - piccolo; Helena Paul - cello (5); on CD bonus tracks (17)-(21) only: Elvira Plenar -piano (17,21), synthesizer (17); Alfred 23 Harth - soprano saxophone (17), bass clarinet (21); Annemarie Roelofs - trombone (17), violin (21); John Harle soprano saxophone (18); Helen Liebmann - cello (18); Peter Whyman - soprano saxophone (19), bass clarinet (19), flute (19); Robyn Archer - voice (20); Lynda Patching - violin (20); Teresa Blake - cello (20)
Recorded spring 1983 - summer 1985 at Wave and Milo studios, except the CD bonus tracks: (17) & (21) March 1987 at Trion Studio, Frankfurt am Main (FR Germany); (18) recorded March 1987; (19) recorded September 1990 at How Studio, London; (20) recorded July 1990 by Australian Broadcasting Company
Note: (15) also featured on *Various Artists, BAD ALCHEMY # 2 tape (1985)

IMPROVED ENTRY
*(Ulrich P.) Lask 2
Sucht & Ordnung
ECM Records (FR Germany) ECM 1268 [12’’ 33 LP](1984)
A 1. Freie Mädchen arbeiten im Hafen (3’53) A 2. Après-Ski (3’55) A 3. Mamamerika (3’07) A 4. Wir sind ein Kulturvolk (2’53) A 5. Ordnung (3’25)
B 1. None the Wiser (4’18) B 2. Kleine Narkosen (3’45) B 3. Kerngesund (4’00) B 4. Sigi Sigi (3’16) B 5. Sucht (4’25)
All compositions and lyrics by Ulrich P. Lask except B 1 lyrics by Maggie Nicols (percussion arrangements by Meinolf Bauschulte
Ulrich P. Lask - alto and tenor saxophones, computer programming; Meinolf Bauschulte - drums, electronic percussion; Maggie Nicols - maggie nicols, Donky kong II; Sigrid Mayer (A 1) - narration; Monika Linges - narration
recorded January 1984 at Tonstudion Bauer, Ludwigsburg (Germany)
It is interesting that MN is playing "maggie nicols" as well as Donky Kong.

*Irène Schweizer
Live at Taktlos
Intakt Records (Switzerland) Intakt 001 [12’’ 33 LP] (publishing date not known)
1. First Meeting (9’50) 2. Lungs And Legs Willing? (11’40) 3. Trutznachtigall (20’15) 4. Every, Now And Then... (0’55)
Irène Schweizer (1, 2, 3) - piano; Maggie Nicols (2, 4) - voice; Lindsay Cooper (4) - piano; George Lewis (1) - trombone; Joëlle Léandre (3) - doublebass; Paul Lovens (3) - percussion; Günter Baby Sommer (2) - percussion
Recorded on February 4-5, 1984 at the Taktlos Festival, Rote Fabrik Zürich.

The Relative Band
The Relative Band Festival '84
Pedestrian Tapes (Australia), PX 13 (CT) (1985)
Side A: untitled tracks Side B: untitled tracks
Marcel Cuypers: - piano, soprano saxophone; Jim Denley - flute, alto saxophone, flax; Luc Houtkamp -tenor, alto saxophone; Maggie Nicols - voice; Richard Ratajczak - bass; Jon Rose - violin, 19-string cello; Roger Turner - percussion; Simone De Haan (side 2 only) . trombone.
Side 1 recorded on April 12, 1984 at ABC Radio Studio, Sydney (Australia); side 2 recorded on April 7, 1984 at Cellblock Theatre, Sydney
Note: Two tracks of side 1 are available on Jon Rose’s LP Forward of Short Leg (1987) (see next entry).
Note: Part of this Jon Rose recording might also be on the compilation: Jon Rose, Fringe Benefits: 1977-1985, Entropy Stereo (U.S.) [2xCD] (1999).

*Jon Rose
Forward of Short Leg
Dossier Records (FR Germany) ST 7529 [33’’ 12 LP] (1987)
A 2. Third Man (improvisation) (2'57) A 5. Second Slip (improvisation) (1'49)
(A 2, A 5) recorded in Sydney (Australia), 1984
Jon Rose: violin, 19 string electric violin, cello, 19 string cello, piano; Maggie Nicols (2,5) - voice; Jim Denley (2,5) - flute, flax; Luc Houtkamp (2,5) - tenor saxophone; Marcel Cuypers (2,5) - piano; Roger Turner (2,4,5) - percussion; Richard Ratajczak (2,5) - double bass
Note: This record features Jon Rose in different combinations with David Moss, Elliott Sharp, Evan Parker, Shelley Hirsch, Paul Rutherford, Eugene Chadbourne, Roger Turner, Wayne Horvitz, Barry Guy, Christian Marclay, John Russell, Jim Denley, Luc Houtkamp, Maggie Nicols, Fred Frith, Michael Tinney, Richard Ratajczak, Marcel Cuypers, Jo 'Doc' Rosenberg, Tenko, John Gillies. Maggie Nicols appears only on (2) and (5) recorded on April 12, 1984 at ABC Radio Studio, Sydney (Australia).

*Maggie Nicols & Peter Nu
Nicols 'N' Nu
Leo Records (UK) CD LR 127 [CD] (1994)
1. Don’t Assume (Nicols-Nu) (21’34) 2. Touching Faces (Nicols-Nu/Nicols) (2’51) 3. Dynamite Dream (Nicols/Nicols) (3’39) 4. Kids (Nu/Nicols) (9’30) 5. Chad’s Blues (Nu) (3’25) 6. After the Storm (Nicols-Nu) (1’02) 7. I Could Write (Nicols-Nu) (1’24) 8. Moments (Nicols/Nicols) (8’10) 9. One Note Leads to Another (Nicols-Nu) (17’36)
Recorded 1985 in London (UK).
Note: The CD includes the whole of Leo Record’s LP LR 127 "Nicols 'n' Nu" and half of Maggie Nicols’ & Pete Nu’s LP LR 145 "Don't assume" at the same label.

*David Defries
The Secret City
MMC Recordings (UK) MMC 009 [33’’ 12 LP] (1985?)
EMI Records/ MMC Recordings (UK) CDP 7 90001 2 [CD] (1988)
1. The Secret City (6’00) 2. Reflections on the Great Invocation (4’19) 3. Naledi’s Dream Song (Mothle) (5’40) 4. Le marche à la marché des pêches (Peach March to Market) (11’45) 5. Bubbles (4’37) 6. The Charge of the Water Brigade (5’30)
All compositions by Defries except as noted. Recorded at Cod Storage, Acre Lane Recording Studios, London (UK). No recording date given
David Defries - trumpets, thumb pianos, percussion, voice, pipes, EMS synthesizer; Harry Beckett (2) - trumpet; Joao Bosco (4) - voice, shakers; Mamadi Kamara (4, 5) - percussion, whistles, voice; Ernest Shololu Mothle - double bass (1, 2), percussion (3); Maggie Nicols (2, 4, 5) - voice; Paul Nieman (6) - trombone; Roberto Pla (4) - congas, voice; Dai Pritchard (6) - bass clarinet; Nana Tsiboe (3) - percussion, flute
Note: Maggie Nicols is mis-spelled as Nicholls and welcomed as a musician “from England”.

*Irène Schweizer/Maggie Nicols/George Lewis/ Joëlle Léandre/Günter Baby Sommer
The Storming of the Winter Palace
Intakt Records (Switzerland) Intakt 003 [12’’ 33 LP] (1988)
Intakt Records (Switzerland) CD 003 [CD] (2000)
1. Now and Never (26' 00) 2. The Storming of the Winter Palace (10'05) 3. Living on the Edge (14'59)
Irene Schweizer - piano; Maggie Nicols - voice; George Lewis - trombone; Joelle Leandre - double bass; Günter Sommer - drums, percussion
Recorded live (1) on May 18, 1986 at the Moers New Jazz Festival (Germany) and (2, 3) on March 25, 1988 at the Taktlos Festival, “Rote Fabrik” Zurich.(Switzerland).
Note: This record was awarded with the annual award of records critique in Germany “Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 1988”.

*Pulse
Stormy Weather
Spotlite Records (U.K.) SPJ 535 [33’’ 12 LP] (1987)
A 1. Jazz Tanz (Riley) (7’28) A 2. Just for You (Nicols/Riley) (6’24) A 3. Fierce and Tender (Nicols) (8’18) B 1. Stormy Weather (Arlen/Koehler) (8’07)B 2. Afro Blue (J. Coltrane) (8’00) B 3. Rhythm of Your Own Life (Nicols) (5’55)Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn; John Watson - tenor and soprano saxophone; Lewis Riley - piano; Fred T. Taylor - bass guitar; Tony Richards - drums; Maggie Nicols - voice
Recorded live at the Big Top Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent (U.K.) on July 12, 1986, except (B 1, B 2) recorded April 24, 1987 at Woodcray Manor Studios

NEW ENTRY Tiziano Tononi's Future Ancestors
Going for the Magic
Splas(h) Record (Italy) HP 13 [12’’ 33 LP] (1989)
6 tracks, recorded 1987
Tiziano Tononi - drums; Andrew Cyrille - drums; Maggie Nicols - voice; Daniele Cavallanti - reeds; Gianluigi Trovesi - reeds

*Various Artists
International Women's Festival Of Improvised Music
Intakt Records (Switzerland) INTAKT 002 [12’’ 33 LP] 1988
1. Gaat Uw gang, dames! (6’00) 2. Kromhout 2 Cyl. 80 PK (4’10) 3. Vino Santo (4’55) 4. Hello (1’50) 5. Discovery (5’40) 6. Trutznachtigall II (8’45) 7. Nasty (3’05) 8. Eine kleine Drum-Music (3’05) 9. Metal Nuit (5’05) 10. Sweethearts of Rhythm (3’15)
Irène Schweizer (1, 5, 6, 8) - piano, drums; Lindsay Cooper (2, 7) - basoon, live-electronics;

Maggie Nicols (4, 7) - voice; Joëlle Léandre (3, 4, 6, 9) - double bass, voice; Annemarie Roelofs (1, 4, 9) - trombone, violine; Marilyn Mazur (1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10) - percussion, piano; Elvira Plenar (4, 10) - piano; Petra Ilyes (5, 10) - bass guitar; Flora St. Loup (3, 9) - voice; Co Streiff (1, 5) - alto saxophone; Mariette Rouppe Van der Voort (5, 10) - alto saxophone; Maud Sauer (2, 5, 9) - oboe; Maartje Ten Hoorn (4, 9, 10) – violin.
Recorded live on October 17/18 1986 at the first Swiss Canaille Festival, presenting feminist improvising musicians at “Rote Fabrik” Zurich (Switzerland).

* Julie Tippett / Maggie Nicols / Keith Tippett
Mr Invisible And The Drunken Sheilas
FMP Records (FR Germany) SAJ [12'' 33 LP] (1989)
A 1. Somebody in? (4’34) A 2. Remember? (16’37) B 1. Always! (21’26)
All compositions by Julie Tippett, Maggie Nicols and Keith Tippett
Julie Tippett - voice; Maggie Nicols - voice; Keith Tippett - piano
Recorded live on June 27 & 28, 1987 in Berlin-West (FR Germany)
Note: Julie Tippetts is spelled Tippett.