(I will listen at least once to pretty much anything Mike Portnoy plays on.)
Very interesting to learn from the sleeve notes that these early versions of Art of Noise tracks were built among other things from leftover snippets of drum recordings from the sessions for the Yes album 90125.
slightly left field but while searching through my Sonos radio stations found Linn Radio which is the radio from Linn Records. Both neighbours away and the sun in London is out so cranked up the sound and sitting in the garden.
Now here's a coincidence. Just a few days ago I was listening to an episode of Flash Strap on the WFMU Give the Drummer Stream when your man was playing a lot of Coloursound tracks. I really enjoyed the Joel Vandroogenbrock tacks having only got the Brainticket albums and the two Coloursound Meditations releases. Mesopotamia-Egypt / Middle Ages and South East Asia all stood out. Mind you I also enjoyed the John Tender and Eric Vann tracks. Always nice to welcome a fellow traveller.
Brainticket's one of those joys from the early 70's for me. Vandroogenbroeck's name came up last week when someone thanked me for the Jack Sels track on Random Radio 040. Sels was a Belgian saxophonist who died in 1970. I had erroneously thought that Vandroogenbroeck had played piano in his band, but I had my Belgian sax players mixed up - it was Jacques Pelzer he had played with (tho he did perform Sels' tunes sometimes). Anyhoo, it got me thinking again about J.V.'s light-hearted music and so the box-set came out of hiding.
Well, worst summer weather...Ever! Overcast with scattered showers again. It still smells great and the lawn's growing like crazy but all the sun lovers are crying. Still, it's given me some extra time to work through the alphabet. My visit with François Bayle has been great and I look forward to part 2...unless the sun comes out, then I'll get to it all a little later. François Bayle(Ubu Web, Emusic, Bandcamp) 2000 Camera Oscura - Espaces Inhabitables 2004 La Forme De L'Esprit Est Un Papillon 2018 Electrucs !
Well, it needs to dry up a bit more outside so, Fm3 2005 Mort Aux Vaches ps - It's been a nice way to ease into Sunday morning, but the sun is shining, the dew's on the dry and I can't wait to go hunting slugs. Time for the last.fm rotation.
@greg - thanks for this reminder. Acc/to Last.FM, I have listened to very little VM in the last several years (zero for 2017!) This one is an overlooked gem in my library.
"1995.A dark room and a shelf full of bulky 8-track tapes. The boxes
would sometimes proudly boast the title of an album like say "Crushed
Velvet Apocalypse" in bold felt tip pen, but look closer and there would
be a weedy biro
line through it and the word "session" replacing it.
Play the thing and it would be a big mix of the individual tracks for
the proclaimed album ,a weird and wonderful jam and some events that
were better left unheard.
Such were the building blocks of Cp 8 and 9.
Add to that the odd tracks from compilations, the songs from that
elusive 3" cd tat came with initial copies of "Maria Dimension" ,
cassettes which left blew oxide flakes to the four winds and it can be
seen that a serious journey could be taken here.
Lost bits of Shadow weaver, remnants of Maria sessions , scraps from 9 Lives are all here.
Damn it, thee's also "A Triple Moon salute" , which (along with "Damien") may be EK's personal LPD favourite.
Lastly there's the cover…..weird weird fishes EVERYWHERE -one of Elke's finest creations...
Take this brother, may it serve you well….."
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1985 Les Couleurs De La Nuit 1990 Erosphère
(Tremblement De Terre Très Doux/Toupie Dans Le Ciel)
1992 Vibrations Composées/Grande Polyphonie 1994 L'Expérience Acoustique
ps - it took 6 tracks to realize I was in random play mode. Just restarting now...
released August 2, 2019
keyboards: derek piotr
glass marimba: noah sanderson
saxophone: justin comer
ondes martenot (ondomo): david karp
(Piotr at Emusers)
A really eclectic mix of Holy Sons, Mavis Staples, Sun City Girls, The Field Mice and Trembling Blue Stars.
Sea Song
Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road
the lawn's growing like crazy but all the sun lovers are crying. Still, it's given me some extra time
to work through the alphabet. My visit with François Bayle has been great and I look forward to
part 2...unless the sun comes out,
then I'll get to it all a little later.
François Bayle (Ubu Web, Emusic, Bandcamp)
2000 Camera Oscura - Espaces Inhabitables 2004 La Forme De L'Esprit Est Un Papillon
2018 Electrucs !
ps - there was no sun
2010 Long Train Journeys 2010 Riser
2012 A Correction
2014 17 Years In Ektachrome
Fm3
2005 Mort Aux Vaches
ps - It's been a nice way to ease into Sunday morning, but the sun is shining, the dew's on
the dry and I can't wait to go hunting slugs. Time for the last.fm rotation.
line through it and the word "session" replacing it.
Play the thing and it would be a big mix of the individual tracks for the proclaimed album ,a weird and wonderful jam and some events that were better left unheard.
Such were the building blocks of Cp 8 and 9.
Add to that the odd tracks from compilations, the songs from that elusive 3" cd tat came with initial copies of "Maria Dimension" , cassettes which left blew oxide flakes to the four winds and it can be seen that a serious journey could be taken here.
Lost bits of Shadow weaver, remnants of Maria sessions , scraps from 9 Lives are all here.
Damn it, thee's also "A Triple Moon salute" , which (along with "Damien") may be EK's personal LPD favourite.
Lastly there's the cover…..weird weird fishes EVERYWHERE -one of Elke's finest creations...
Take this brother, may it serve you well….."
Thx for the heads-up on this new reissue @rostasi. Link goes to Amazon mp3