MIKE PLOOG'S "TOM SAWYER"
Mike's one of my favourite illustrators; had no idea he'd even done this 'til I found it among our local library's 'cancelled stock' section for 10p. It's every bit as beautiful as you'd expect....
View ArticleCANNONBURY: "THE KNOCK OF THE SHOE"
His Immaculate Joeness - that's Mr. J. Stannard to you, bub - raids his own archives here to dig out an uneasy-sounding claw's worth of treated field-recordings from his *ahem* Special Magic Shoebox....
View ArticleGILBERT O'SULLIVAN: "NOTHING RHYMED"
Some sort of G O'S reappraisal called for, I reckon... Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleLISZTOMANIA
Scored a vinyl of the Lisztomania soundtrack recently and musically it's every bit as bonkers as you'd expect, having come from a Ken Russell film. The music's produced / arranged by Rick Wakeman -...
View ArticleTHE ART OF GOOGLE BOOKS
As much as I generally have, um - how can I put this? - issues with Google's acquisition of intellectual / artistic properties via stealth content-digitisation creep, I find this v. interesing from an...
View ArticleESSENTIAL LOGIC: "AEROSOL BURNS"
Saw Laura and the boys play in Bristol on March 4th, 1979, with Stiff Little Fingers and Robert Rental & The Normal (whose live performance I posted about maa-a-a-ny years ago). When Essential...
View ArticleMISQUO-TED
This made me me laugh today: "The classic Status Quo line-up of Alan Lancaster, Rick Parfitt and Leonard Rossiter..." Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleDR. FEELGOOD: "BACK IN THE NIGHT"
Dr. Feelgood are like a form of, I dunno...shorthand for tautness and economy in music. Stripped-back / minimal rhythm; jerky, stacatto interjections from Wilco...but the leanness isn't laziness;...
View ArticleKLAUS SCHULZE: "IRRLICHT"
Irrlicht: Quadrophonische Symphonie für Orchester und E-Maschinen. Ahhhh...was just remembering how much I bloody loved this piece back in my teens in the 70s. Still sounds wonderful. Permalink |...
View ArticlePOLAR BEAR: "BEEPERS"
Damn. Forgot that an old friend of mine (who's really into Fusion) lent me this a year or two back. It's a bit more raw and frantic than the stuff he normally listens to, so I was surprised. I was...
View ArticleMICHAEL MOORCOCK: "THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE"
Pretty sure I've got another / older edition of this stashed somewhere, but couldn't resist the sub Nick Carter cover on this one - plus it was a NEL ! Oh, and the foreword by Jack Trevor Story is...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....