CBGB 1987 / Taktlos Festival 1986, by Curlew

CBGB 1987 / Taktlos Festival 1986

by Curlew

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	1.	Ray 11:07
	2.	Moonlake 09:54
	3.	band intros 00:25
	4.	Barking 03:10
	5.	To The Summer In Our Hearts 05:43
	6.	Mink's Dream 04:47
	7.	Light Sentence 04:10
	8.	Agitar / The Victim 04:07
	9.	Oklahoma 05:49
	10.	First Bite 02:32
	11.	Kissing Goodbye 05:02
	12.	One Fried Egg 05:01
	13.	The Hard Wood 06:18
	14.	Feelin' Good 03:12
	15.	Davey's Improv 05:43
	16.	silence between CBGB and Taklos 00:10
	17.	Ray 07:13
	18.	Moonlake 08:03
	19.	Barking 03:12
	20.	Mink's Dream 03:50
	21.	Shoats 06:12
	22.	Light Sentence / Agitar / Improvisation / The Victim 17:40

about

Curlew needed a bass player, so I asked Wayne Horvitz if he would be interested. Wayne played keyboards, and I thought a keyboard bass would be pretty darn great. And Wayne would be in the band.

I knew he would be a good fit when I saw him playing the keyboard (a DX7) with his fists at Curlew's show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He was clearly a creative and unconventional musician.

We played at CBGB and then after, opening for Chuck Berry at Queens College (Queens) (booked by the estimable Glenn Leslie of Art Rock Management, now sadly departed) the night before we left for Europe.

Our first gig was at the Taktlos Festival, Zurich, Switzerland, at the Rote Fabric. The Curlew recording Live in Berlin came from this same tour.

We did have one close call when Davey lost his passport in Nuremberg after our gig there. We couldn't get into East Germany without a passport, so Pippin and Davey went back to the bar where they had been the night before, woke up the bar owners, and found Davey's passport. They were able to find it just in time for us to transit from Western Germany through East Germany and on into West Berlin.

All in all, it was a great tour with a great band. I'm so glad that I asked Wayne to join us.

- George Cartwright

credits

released October 27, 2023

George Cartwright - saxophones
Wayne Horvitz - keyboard and keyboard bass
Pippin Barnett - drums
Tom Cora - cello
Davey Williams - guitar

Recorded live off the board March, 1987 at CBGB, New York City, New York [1-15] and February 8, 1986 at the Taktlos Festival, Zurich, Switzerland [17-22].

Mastering and cleanup by Ian Beabout, ShedSounds Media.

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