The autumnal sound of Britain at the turn of the 70s, looking out through wet window panes to a new decade with a mixture of melancholy and optimism for what might come next. With the Beatles gone and the pound sinking, a new and distinctive sound emerges, led by flutes and mellotrons.
Just thought I'd opine on the latest Joe Bonamassa, actually still available at eMu, https//www.emusic.com/album/157157124/Joe-Bonamassa/British-Blues-Explosion-Live . I am a big fan of his but this disappointed a bit. I mean, Mainline In Florida??? Couple of questionable song choices, and some are just like couldn't he have found a better one? The album in general feels a bit hurried and not thought out.
Welcome . . . His two albums on the Starkland label are equally brilliant:
- "I awoke to the sounds of cows in the pasture next to my home. Music to my ears, the moos inspired Garland Hirschi's Cows, a concerto in three “moo-vements.” The work includes the voice of the cows' owner, Garland C. Hirschi, who asks, “You wanna know a little about my cows, huh?,” and tells stories about growing up with cows and what makes them moo.
From the review in Fanfare, The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors: “Garland Hirschi's Cows is a meticulously crafted and aimed delight, a little masterwork of whimsy … an effervescent mix."
maroon cloud, a powerful eight-part suite by celebrated flutist Nicole Mitchell, is a paean to the human gift of imagination and its ability to foster resistance in our dystopian times. It features a drum-less quartet with Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid, pianist Aruán Ortiz and vocalist Fay Victor, recorded live at National Sawdust in Brooklyn as part of John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series (March 29, 2017).
The autumnal sound of Britain at the turn of the 70s, looking out through wet window panes to a new decade with a mixture of melancholy and optimism for what might come next. With the Beatles gone and the pound sinking, a new and distinctive sound emerges, led by flutes and mellotrons.
As this disappears onto a historic page I just wanted to say how much I love / hate this image.
It reminds me, almost too much, of growing up in semi-bulldozed Oldham of the '60's & '70's. (There wasn't as much green where I grew up!)
"News of the World" however (a shite, sensationalist newspaper, with some semi-nudity for the low IQ'd - to explain for folks not from England) was never let into the house and we burnt down our crapped out Methodist Church one Bonfire (anti-catholic) Night (it was a falling down ruin and the Minister took the lead); but I attended it's shiny new version for far too many years afterwards.
The music of course is a different matter entirely!!!
The fact that the shop is only half a building (with a stick of wood to hold it up!) says everything about the world I grew up in.
@BDB - I see your points about Joe Bonamassa's album. It reminded me very much of going to a local blues club in the !960s with mainly local bands playing covers of many of the same tracks sprinkled with a few classics. Not his best but still, for me, quite nostalgic.
@Lowlife - I shall follow up English Weather, very appropriate today, with plenty of rain for a change!
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The autumnal sound of Britain at the turn of the 70s, looking out through wet window panes to a new decade with a mixture of melancholy and optimism for what might come next. With the Beatles gone and the pound sinking, a new and distinctive sound emerges, led by flutes and mellotrons.
Great stuff - thanks @Brighternow !
1978, 81 & 83 - As / If / When 1992 - Symphony No. 2 (The Peak Of The Sacred)
Recorded live at St. Mark's Church, NYC
on May 14, 1982
2005 - Number One 2009 - Floating Signal
- "I awoke to the sounds of cows in the pasture next to my home. Music to my ears, the moos inspired Garland Hirschi's Cows, a concerto in three “moo-vements.” The work includes the voice of the cows' owner, Garland C. Hirschi, who asks, “You wanna know a little about my cows, huh?,” and tells stories about growing up with cows and what makes them moo.
From the review in Fanfare, The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors: “Garland Hirschi's Cows is a meticulously crafted and aimed delight, a little masterwork of whimsy … an effervescent mix."
recorded 2009 - In V.tro 2010 - East African Nocturne
2013 - Collusion 2013 - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear
I really enjoyed their album In V.tro with Z'EV so I decided to sample some more from Emusic.
2006 - SeieS 2008 - LLL
2011 - Cool Cruel Mouth 2016 - Of Grog Vim
This is out...All new, all different
http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-liberation-of-sound-by-edgard-varese.html
Henry Threadgill clears up a potential linguistic misunderstanding
2008 - Electronics 2008 - Electronics
2008 - Electronics 2008 - World As Will III
2010 - Electronics
Enjoying/listening to this as much as anything in the straight-ahead jazz dept this year
2010 - Old School: Alvin Lucier 2010 - Old School: James Tenney
2010 - Old School: John Cage 2011 - Old School: Karlheinz Stockhausen
2011 - Inside Piano 2012 - Neue Volksmusik
2014 - Metal Machine Music 2016 - KORE
2014 Reinhold Friedl / Franck Vigroux 2017 Quatuor Diotima, Reinhold Friedl
- Tobel - 39:23:00'
@Lowlife - I shall follow up English Weather, very appropriate today, with plenty of rain for a change!
followed by
Young Gifted and Black
RIP Queen of Soul