Music today has continued into weirdo land with Port Of Suez, lots of crazy ouds and percussion with mad violinists playing weird Arabic scales. It’s worth it just for the album cover. Then off to Andy Votel’s label of esoteric content, Finders Keepers. The Sound Of Wonder – The First Wave Of Plugged-In Pop At […]
Music today has been mostly Mandrill, a Soul/Funk band from Brooklyn that nobody seems to remember. I’m missing a couple of their albums but I have the first two, self-titled (1971) and Mandrill Is (1972). Then there’s a gap of two albums in my collection, Composite Truth and Just Out Of Town, released in 1973 […]
Music today went on a wonderful journey around the world. I have some Odeon, India, albums (Odeon is the label, a branch of EMI). They are soundtracks to movies and as you know the Indian movie industry is huge – there’s Hollywood, there’s Dollywood and there’s Bollywood. I would be typing for years should I […]
Music today started from the sesh I had with Rohan in Sydney and Talking Heads, Once In A Lifetime came up so tonight I went to what I thought was my favourite Talking Heads album, Fear Of Music, from 1979. It’s produced by Eno and the band and has something very Bowie about it, but […]
Music today is all Dylan, I need a dose of those stimulating words. Dare and I went to see the Dylan Desire tour at Earl’s Court in London in the seventies and I’ve always loved that album. So I may go seventies Dylan today having played a lot of the sixties albums quite frequently and […]
Music today has been a journey into the past of the Steve Miller Band. It took him seven studio albums, a half live and half studio album and an Anthology before finally on the 9th album he came up with The Joker in 1973, the single hit the No.1 spot, the album No.2 on the […]