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...
Talisker
Date: 2008-06-21 10:49 pm (UTC)It seems that the album needed 30 years to mature, because it's got better reviews this time round.
Your comments made me smile.
So I'm going to pour myself a wee malt. Talisker.
Thanks,
Ken Hyder
Re: Talisker
Date: 2008-06-22 10:43 am (UTC)Thanks for your comment. I thought I ought to point out that when I first heard the record in the seventies, I was a young teenager enthralled by Hawkwind and Emerson, Lake and Palmer - my tastes have changed a lot since then!
And a thirty year old Talisker is a rare thing indeed!