Wednesday 16 October 2024
Back to David Diggs with Love Song Strings from 1975
Monday 14 October 2024
Peter Hammill and Guy Evans in 1988's Spur of the Moment [flac temporary]
Well, here's a guy who needs no introduction as they love to introduce the famous...
This is I suppose improvised given the title, but the music is really truly interesting, not too abstract, with enough to hold on to make it well worth listening to. It's such a surprised given it came out in the year 1988. You can see that in addition to the VDGG people, a composer called Paul Ridout contributed compositions. Since the super useful internet archive is down for the moment, hopefully not permanently (shut down by one of our billionaire overlord kings, perhaps Elon himself personally ordered it?), I'll like youtube which has everything almost anyways but less accessible in general, link for this one here. I love the dramatic sound to it.
This album for sure takes over from The Long Hello, Vol. 4 stuff but is far far more thoughtfully complex. At times, like the description, it is indeed experimental, information here.
Another track I appreciated, called An Imagined Brother youtubed in link.
Friday 11 October 2024
Nic Potter from The Long Hello, VDGG
From discogs:
Profile: Bassist, composer and painter.
Born on October 18, 1951, in Wiltshire, England.
Died on January 16, 2013 in London, England.
Nic was in the Vol. 2 which was perhaps the least successful of the series, setting aside the last one-- sorry to put it that way straight off.
The music on these post-1970s albums is quite libraryish. There are keyboards, little of any other instruments, no guitarwork, and most compositions seem a little underdeveloped.
From Mountain Music, 1984, the Morning Suite:
Sketches in Sound (1986) and Self-Contained (1987) follow along the same lines basically. So it's like the Long Hello stuff from later but more monochromatic.
Wednesday 9 October 2024
"The Long Hello" Part 2
As I said last time the first installment is by far the best of the lot.
Monday 7 October 2024
"The Long Hello" from 1974 Part 1
This was the band behind Peter Hammill in VDGG, for the most part, as per discogs: