Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room What Music Are You Listening To ?

Ah Ok..I didn't even know about the CD, thanks.
thinks:[Now where did I put my credit card...?]

I have yet to purchase the cd version of From Brussels... but I do have the cassette version. I'll have to put it on the never ending 'To Buy' list.

Been rediscovering David Sylvian this week. I stopped listening to David, when I heard bits of Blemish, but I have been playing Dead Bees On A Cake & Everything & Nothing & I've come alive again. David has to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time. His arrangements & use of instruments are perfect to my ears & his voice, well, if velvet had a sound, it would sound like David Sylvian's voice. Smooth, warm, passionate, spiritual & hypnotic.

Really? I thought it was actually quite good - but then I have had to listen to U-Vox this week, so my judgement may be clouded.



I'll agree that the Prince album is a mixed bag perhaps, but it's by no means the biggest load of sh**e I've ever heard - there are many more and better examples of that if we need to compare...

I'm actually quite looking forward to hearing the new Prince album... there, that surprised you!

In the meantime, I'm listening to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari by In The Nursery...

Rob

'I Am sitting In A Room' (1969) by Alvin Lucier - Lucier records himself narrating a text, and then plays the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have a resonance the effect is that certain frequencies are gradually emphasised as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself.

The recited text describes this process "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now..." Alvin also has a stutter which becomes a ryhthm as the echoes and delays created by the acoustics and the tape come together.

A bit like the process John employs on 'Cathedral Oceans' but spoken not sung.

I'm listening to my new song, "The Flight of Birds" . I'm really happy with it... I think I've found the atmosphere and sound that I've been looking for...

Amazing . you don't half know a few odd 'uns Gazza! Just quickly looked him up in Wikipedia - quite a character ...

Heh! Cheers D! I only found out about this album because Paul Morley uses it as as the basis for his book,'Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Words-Music-Hist...84859217&sr=8-1

in which (i kid you not);

‘ a robotic Kylie Minogue traveling, with Morley, in a cyber-car towards a city of "sound and ideas." Morley's favourite pieces at the time of writing: Minogue's electro-pop song "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and Alvin Lucier's experimental "I am sitting in a room". From these seemingly unrelated musical compositions Morley reflects on the meanings of music in its many contradictory forms: the avant-garde and pop, the iconic and the obscure, the mechanical and the digital, the commercial and the creative, the human and the robotic'*

It's a brilliant book - you have to love Paul Morley to read it though (I think he's a genius) otherwise you'll throw it in the bin!

*From wikipedia

mmm..I'll put it on my wishlist and see what happens!

Revisited by Cowboys International - I´m hooked on this one! Ken Lockie surely has a great style. Thrash, Many Times, The Original Sin, Memoire, Today, Aftermath, Here Comes a Saturday etc all of them are enjoyable new wave classics with Ken´s vocals gliding over synths and guitar. If you like early Simple Minds go for this one. It's a lost classic.

Chris C