Birthday Presents
Jun. 21st, 2008 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningIt was my birthday recently - well, three months ago.
Yesterday, I received three birthday presents from my brother.
These were a couple of CD reissues - Ken Hyder's Talisker's "Dreaming of Glenisla", and the Chris McGregor Group's "Very Urgent" - together with a DVD set of The Wire a tv series set in Baltimore. (Whilst I know that my brother will have sent me this because, when in the States, he lives near Baltimore and once talked of moving there, I can't help thinking he maybe thought it was actually back issues of a jazz magazine I used to read, edited by the late Richard Cook, or maybe even a post-punk band I must once have seen...).
The Talisker CD is very interesting. I remember my brother having this on vinyl when it first came out in the early seventies, and hating it. Really hating it. My tastes have changed; now, I love it: a mix of jazz improvisation and Scottish themes, more experimental and less ceilidh than John Rae's Celtic Feet, more jazz and less folky than Colin Steele's Stramash
So good they named a whisky after it...
Yesterday, I received three birthday presents from my brother.
These were a couple of CD reissues - Ken Hyder's Talisker's "Dreaming of Glenisla", and the Chris McGregor Group's "Very Urgent" - together with a DVD set of The Wire a tv series set in Baltimore. (Whilst I know that my brother will have sent me this because, when in the States, he lives near Baltimore and once talked of moving there, I can't help thinking he maybe thought it was actually back issues of a jazz magazine I used to read, edited by the late Richard Cook, or maybe even a post-punk band I must once have seen...).
The Talisker CD is very interesting. I remember my brother having this on vinyl when it first came out in the early seventies, and hating it. Really hating it. My tastes have changed; now, I love it: a mix of jazz improvisation and Scottish themes, more experimental and less ceilidh than John Rae's Celtic Feet, more jazz and less folky than Colin Steele's Stramash
So good they named a whisky after it...
Gong
Date: 2008-06-21 02:56 pm (UTC)Good gig, but when I saw them in 1997 (sans Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, and with Didier Malherbe rather than Theo Travis) I think they were better. Mind you, Miquette Giraudy is rather attractive.....
Must buy their CDs - I only have collections rather than the originals.
Also another case of the premature death of a drummer.
HH
Re: Gong
Date: 2008-06-22 01:51 pm (UTC)