"Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. welcome to the drivel blog of "music detractor, Simon Reynolds"
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Monday, August 7, 2017
Μουσική στο στόμα
Anastasis Teil 2 von Anestis Logothetis - Fernsehaufführung 1971 mit Claudia Brodzinska-Behrend und Siegfried Behrend.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
forgot about ra
should always be mentioned in conversations about the synthesiser
feel like he is Rev's lost brother, especially here
Disco 3000 is still my favorite, taped off Stubbsy back in the day
do you know, I've seen Sun Ra and the Arkestra twice?
once in late 1985 at the Fridge, Brixton... just amazing... the full procession of the band through the audience in all their finery
and then, once again, in 1989 at the Knitting Factory - not quite as amazing, but still a grand sight and sound
and then - pinch myself in disbelief at the thought - around about that time I actually had an audience with the great man
it is really rather unbelievable to contemplate - i mean, it's a bit like having interviewed Miles Davis or Coltrane, or - in non-jazz terms - Stravinsky or Stockhausen - these would be equivalent figures in terms of 20th Century modernist out-there-ness....
but there I sat for a couple of hours, in a New York hotel, listening and taping, and I do not believe getting in so much as a word edge-wise
and - what's truly absurd - then having to edit it down to be a third-of-a-page featurette for a section of Melody Maker called Sidelines generally dedicated to up-and-coming bands.
an outrage!
(although in mitigation, I'm not sure NME or Sounds or Select would have given him any space at all by that point - MM was pretty much alone in holding fast to the cover-everything spirit of the golden-era music press)
(still, in the early 70s, Melody Maker would have - and in fact did - give Sun Ra a double-page spread)
Friday, August 4, 2017
Polskie analogowe epiki elektroniczne
1976
hard to work out what he's launching off from - Tonto's Expanding? Zawinul?
Or Time's Encomium?
that one is a tiny bit Magma
the whole thing in one bloc
Czeslaw Niemen had major prog form
so the synth excursion seems to be a detour from the main proggy path
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