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*Cats Cradle
Cats Cradle (Gift of Time)
33 Records (UK) 33WM104 [CD] (1997)
1. Invisible Man (Doyle-Doyle) (5.15) 2. Time and Again (Ardill-Ardill) (4.04) 3. Scribbling (Cats Cradle after John Stevens)
(0.51) 4. Cold Comfort (Doyle-Ardill/Nicols) (5.53) 5. D(s)Cribbling (Cats Cradle) (0.57) 6. Raining Down (Ardill-Ardill)
(5.43) 7. Niagara (Marshall-Marshall) (6.20) 8. Sense of Ourselves (Cats Cradle-Nicols) (2.10) 9. One Move Ahead (Nicols-Nicols)
(4.49) 10. Dynamite Dream (Nicols-Nicols) (7.00) 11. Music Is the Magic (Nicols/Ardill/Doyle-St. Farrell) (4.36) 12. Gift
of Time (Day-Nicols) (5.32) 13. Your Rules (Doyle) (6.15)
Arangements by Cats Cradle except (5) and (11).
recorded at "33" studios, Luton (England, UK); no recording date given.
Maggie Nicols - voice, piano, tap; Julia Doyle - double bass, backing vocals; Ann Day - drums, percussion; Nony Ardill
- guitars, backing vocals; Ruth Marshall - violin, trombone, backing vocals.
*Mike Figgis
One Night Stand. Original Motion Pictures Soundtrack
Polygram Records (USA) Verve 314559 025-2 [CD] (1997)
1. One Night Stand (8.13) 2. Angels # 2 (3.21) 3. Max And Karen (3.26) 4. The Organ Grinder's Swing (W. Hudson/I. Mills/M.
Parish) (2.12) 5. Liberty (1.01) 6. Exactly like You (D. Fields/J. McHugh) (3.00) 7. The Magging (1.44) 8. I'd Like You to
Stay (5.44) 9. Air On A G String (J.S. Bach) (3.34) 10. San Vincente (1.10) 11. A Question For Charles? (1.12) 12. Heart Noir
(Arlen Figgis) (3.43) 13. Life Is An Orange (3.50) 14. Maxwerk (1.07) 15. Graveyard Shift (1.06) 16. Karen And Max (1.58)
17. Angels # 3 (1.26) 18. Cavatina (L van Beethoven) (6.41)
Compositions by Mike Figgis except as indicated.
Original music recorded at Angel Studios, London (UK); no recording dates given. (6) recorded September or October 1959
in New York.
Dave Hartley - piano, electric piano; Ralph Salmins - drums; Laurence Cottle - bass guitar; John Parricelle - electric,
Spanish and accoustic guitars; Ray Warleigh - alto and baritone saxophones; Frank Ricotti - percussion; Chris Laurence - double
bass; Mike Figgis - trumpet; Miriam Stockley (7?, 8, 10?, 15?) - voice; Maggie Nicols (7?, 10?, 12, 15?) - voice; Juillard
Quartet (18): Robert Mann - violin, Joel Smirnoff - violin, Samuel Rhodes - viola, Joel Krosnick - cello; Jimmy Smith (4)
- organ (plus guitaris and drummer); Nina Simone (6) - voice, piano; Jimmy Bond (6) - double bass; Al Heath (6) - drums; Jacques
Loussier (9) - piano (plus bass-player and drummer).
*Les Diaboliques
Live At The Rhinefalls
Intakt Records Intakt CD 059 [CD] (2000)
1. Mercurial Drama (12.08) 2. Almost Straight Ahead (13.37) 3. Rheingefallen (4.22) 4. Tongue Talking (8.05) 5. Diverse
Moods' Wings (12.18) 6. Vals Diabolique III (4.34)
all compositions by Schweizer, Nicols, Leandre, except (4) by Schweizer
Recorded live at the Jazzfestival Schaffhausen Mai 21, 1997 by Schweizer Radio DRS
Irene Schweizer - piano; Maggie Nicols - voice; Joelle Leandre - double bass
Review
Music is designed to work long-term. In this case, the responsibility for the music is revealed in a carefully considered
and convincing choice, made from the wealth of the artistic possibilities. As a consequence, emphases arise that allow one
to experience the most varying artistic positions. In order to understand the entire artistic intention, one must follow the
music over the years. This approach for music can only benefit the listener. The youngest example and third recording of
the rousing trio: Les Diaboliques. «Live at the Rhinefalls.»
This live CD is without a doubt the strongest one of the «wild senoritas.» A pure earthly delight: a butterfly on a sleeping
python that has just devoured a young deer. Recorded in Irène Schweizer¹s home city of Schaffhausen. Voilà the home game
as a fait accompli.
Unfortunately, I was not present but remember their playing in my corner of the country, in Sedrun in the Bünder Oberland,
with great pleasure. They were simply heavenly. Of the highest composure, of the highest concentration. Maggie alone she
must be the new English synonym for «magic» was deep and spiritual like a glass of Lagavulin (please allow me to make a
small advertisement for the premium single malt from Maggies¹ home), then bittersweet like English breakfast jam.
Irène played an enthralling solo. Everything was in it, from Jelly Roll Morton via Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk
all the way to Irène Schweizer «in her own sweet and sour way.» During the entire solo, Maggie lay flat on the ground. When
Irène finished, Maggie stood up skipping and, with outstretched arms, whispered «refreshed.» Joëlle slaved away but had the
lightness of a Calabrian bricklayer who happily sings while working. In the end, the triumphal finale. Maggie, Joëlle and
Irène leave the stage, crawling on all fours: «Entre les hommes il y a un tel serieux» (as Joëlle says in the soundtrack to
the movie The Laughing Outsiders).
I listen into the music of this CD. As Tschaikovsky said, «A difficulty overcome becomes beauty in art.» I experience
this beauty as a space, colorful and sensuous, with depth and movement like the oscillating cover of the painter Rosina
Kuhn (by the way, the third nice job for their female friends). For instantaneous moments, there is nothing else. The intensive
experience of a moment, the feeling of being fully lifted in time, a feeling that appears not to know consciousness for the
past and the future: this belongs to many, to all (?) sensations of beauty.
Anything that radiates beauty causes something in me to resound, about which I can only say after it has passed: I was
entirely with myself and in the world at the same time; first and for a moment with faltering breath, then completely taken
in and sunken, marveling, swept along with the music, excited without effort and also peaceful, spellbound by the magic that
hits me. A feeling of joy. Composed, undisturbed beauty. Nothing is mediated. Everything is itself. Yes, it is powerful and
humorous at the same time. On the apparent secondary paths, there is not the slightest trace of hesitation or obstructive
thoughts that could mislead the free imagination. Here or there, or over there, they change the direction again and again
or let themselves, in love, float from an idea to the next, as if each idea were the main current of the story. Or the rivulet
unexpectedly widens to a body of water the river to a delta, the delta to the ocean until we suddenly recognize that everything
is pushed to the world¹s ocean, and that even the apparent excesses are only a part of an all encompassing wasteful excess.
Werner Lüdi
Translation: Bruce Carnevale
*Ken Hyder/Dave Brooks/Maggie Nicols
In The Stone
Impetus (UK) IMP CD 19732 [CD] (1998)
1. Rose Among The Heather (4.33) 2. My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose (5.24) 3. Gallus Grannie Goes Her Mile (Hyder/Brooks)
(2.40) 4. To The Erudite (Hyder/Nicols) (4.57) 5. Drum Salute & Lament For John Stevens (Hyder/Brooks) (9.40) 6. Pibroch
For John Stevens (Hyder/Nicols) (8.54) 7. The Geese Among The Bog (8.27) 8. The Jute Mill Song (Brookbanks) (4.03) 9. The
Eviction (8.38) 10. Smile in Your Sleep (McLean) (7.13)
Tracks are traditional tunes and songs (arranged by the musicians) except as noted
All tracks with Maggie Nicols were recorded at Oor Wullie Studio London, other tracks were recorded at Barefoot Studio,
London. (No recording dates given in the CD’s leaflet.)
Ken Hyder - drums; Dave Brooks (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10) - bagpipes; Maggie Nicols (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) - voice; Pete McPhail (10)
- low whistle; Don Patterson (10) - guitar; Marcio Mattos (10) - double bass
Note: With all interprets together track (10) represents one of the last line-ups of Scottish / free jazz group "Talisker".
*Mike Figgis
Loss of Sexual Innocence. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Polygram Records [CD] (1999?)
Philips Music (USA) Philips 289462697-2 [CD] (1999)
1. Africa (4'24) 2. Der Dichter Spricht (R. Schumann) (2'10) 3. Doppelgänger (2'06) 4. Träumerei (R. Schumann) (2'47)
5. Tango (7'08) 6. Nocturne in E Flat Major Op. 9, No 2 (F. Chopin) (4'56) 7. Twins (6'40) 8. Piano Sonata in C - Ardento
Section KV 545 (W.A. Mozart)(5'29) 9. Tree of Knowledge (4'05) 10. Pathetique Sonata - 1st Movement (excerpt)(L. vanBeethoven)(4'26)
11. Dukes Award (1'58) 12. Moonlight Sonata - 1st Movement (excerpt)( L. van Beethoven)(5'51) 13. Accident (2'30) 14. Loss
Of Sexual Innocence (2'59) 15. An Eye For An Angel (1'21) 16. Symphony No. 9 - Allegro Ma Non Tanto (excerpt)(L. vanBeethoven)(1'44)17.
Nocturne in D Flat Major Op. 27, No 2 (F. Chopin)(5'14)
All music written by Mike Figgis except where noted
Recording dates not known.
Miriam Stockley (1, 7) - voice; Maggie Nicols (5) - voice; Tony Coe (3, 13) - clarinet; Mike Figgis - trumpet, keyboards(?);
Joanna MacGregor (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 17) - piano; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted by Kurt Masur (16)
Note: This is the sound track of Mike Figgis's movie "Loss of Sexual Innocence". MN is heard on one track only.
*Loverly
Life
33 Records (UK) 33 WM 111 [CD] (1999)
1. The Elephant and the Dodo (Davis) (5.43) 2. Euro Speakeasy (Jolly/Higham/Fowler) (1.35) 3. The Same and not the Same
(Fowler/Nicols) (5.38) 4. The Magic Muddle (Loverly) (4.12) 5. Pagan Love Song (Doyle) (6.22) 6. Tears For My Love (Day) (3.52)
7. Great Barrier Riff (Jolly/Higham/Doyle) (1.27) 8. Bending Bars (Loverly) (3.38) 9. Melleniumumojumbo (Davis) (.47) 10.
The Dogs Of Leith (Day/Nicols) (0.56) 11. That's Life (Loverly) (3.41) 12. Take Heart (Nicols) (5.59) 13. Our Sacred Chants
Filled The Ever Now (Loverly) (7.06) 14. Fidel's Folly (Davis/Nicols) (5.54)
Recorded September 1998 at "33" studios, Luton (U.K.)
Maggie Nicols - voice, keyboards; Paul Jolly - clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano, alto and baritone saxophone; Mel Davis
- piano, voice, percussion; Julia Doyle - bass, percussion; Dave Fowler - drums; John Morrow - percussion
with Terry Day (4, 8, 10, 11, 13) - voice, percussion, bamboo reeds; Aura Vince (8, 13) - voice; Yadley Day (8, 11) -
voice, percussion.
*Various Artists
Freedom of the City 2001: Small groups
Emanem (UK) Emanem 4205 [2xCD] (2002)
A 7. Nickrahug A (15.34) A 8. Nickrahug B (2.50) A 9. Nickrahug C (7.47)
recorded live May 5, 2001 at Conway Hall during the Freedom of the City Festival in London (UK)
Maggie Nicols - voice, tap (feet); Caroline Kraabel - alto saxophone, voice; Charlotte Hug - viola
Note: All other pieces without Maggie Nicols.
*Maggie Nicols/Caroline Kraabel/Charlotte Hug
Transitions
Emanem (UK) Emanem 4068 [CD] (2002)
1. Undercurrents (For Paddy Ben Pan) (7.48) 2. Lullaby For Clement (13.16) 3. Broken Bridges (2.08) 4. No Now (4.59) 5.
Hymn Indoors (13.41) 6. Coming Out (10.18) 7. Up To Earth (3.48)
All music by Hug, Kraabel, Nicols
Recorded June 4, 2001 at Conway Hall, London (UK)
Maggie Nicols - voice, tap dancing; Caroline Kraabel - alto saxophone, voice; Charlotte Hug - viola.
*Various Artists
The Gathering. For John Stevens
Emanem (UK) Emanem 4091 [CD] (2003?)
1. Feast (28.05) 2. Click Piece (6.37) 3. Sustained Piece (6.49) 4. Mouse In The Desert (8.14) 5. Released (17.55) 6.
Beauty And The Beast (10.11)
Recorded July 1, 2002 in London (UK)
Angeline Conaghan, Hugo Danino, Evrah, Sharon Gal, Glynis Joseph, Juliet Morel, Carmel Morrisey, Zia Musafia, Maggie Nicols
- voice, etc.; Frank Charlton, Paul Shearsmith - trumpet; Shirley Hall - bass clarinet; Bernard Burn, Tom Chant, Dave De Cobain,
RichardI Leigh - saxophones; Veryan Weston - piano; Susanna Ferrar - violin; Morris English, Moshi Honen, Steve Moyes, Mick
Rodwell - guitar, etc.; Dennis Austin, Dave Fowler - percussion; Stuart Fisher - electronics.
Note: Instrumentalists also use their voices at times.
Various Artists:-
THE STATUTE OF LIBERTY Creative Routes Records
1 Drummer Man- Deadbeat International
Vocals - Jazzman John Clarke + Lloyd, Pete, Chas, Nuala, Paul,
Adotey, Niiboye, Arnold
2 Funk no. 3 - Deadbeat International,
Vocals- Lloyd Lindsay + Pete, Chas, Nuala, Paul, Adotey, Niiboye, Arnold.
3 Smoke- YOU
Vocals + bass- Captain SKarlet, Guitar- Alex One, Drums-Jazzbo Beatbox, Floating Cymbals-Abe Ductee
4 Sugar- Unity & Devision
Vocals + guitar- Unity Gain, Vocals + guitar- Dru Devision, bass-
Mark Mochan, drums - Leon
5 Only Rock'n' Roll Can Save Us Now- Crank
Vocals + guitar - Pete Mcdonald, guitar- Jose Cuervo, bass - Johnnie Walker
6 Adopt-a-Nutter Appeal- Dozzy Angel
Vocals- Dozzy Angel, keyboards- Alex One, percussion- Witley
Vocals
7 Pockets Of Resistance- Rhythm 'n' Voice Vocals+ feet- Maggie Nicols, Drums/Percussion-
Dave Fowler
8 Lost At Sea- Demons In Paradise
Vocals- Caz, violin- Chas, saxophone+ rap - Marky G, programming- Purple Paul
9 Lost & Found - Dozzy Angel
10- Sonic Nut - The Escapists & Liberty
Violin- Chas, saxophone + rap- Marky G, kit- Saul, harmonica- Ben,
bass- Les, keyboard- Jules, flute- Moss
11 Snowball- Deadbeat International
Vocals- Jazzman John Clarke + Lloyd, Pete, Chas, Nuala, Paul, Adotey, Niiboye, Arnold
12 Bonkersfest- The Section
Vocals- Mr Muses, kit- Mrs Flat, keyboards- Gem Barker
13 Spychosis - Dozzy Angel 14 The Statute Of Liberty- Deadbeat International ( Maggie sings on this
track) New recording 'HUMAN' with
Phil Hargreaves soon to be released
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