Sunday's Best

The Sunday best playlist -

1/ Robert Wyatt & Friends - Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th Sept 1974 CD
2/ Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages CD
3/ Maurizio - M Series CD
4/ Ambrose Addekoya Campbell - London Is The Place For Me 3 CD
5/ Terry Riley - The Tuning Path played by Rova Saxophone Quartet (CD track)
6/ Steve Reich - Different Trains (Kronos Quartet) CD
7/ Lee Ranaldo - The End of Life In America/Angels (CD"Dirty Windows")
8/ Jeff Leopard - Til Next Time / Tastebud 7" single
9/ Dub Syndicate - Ital breakfast LP
10/ Napalm Death - One and The Same 7" single
11/ Gary Bartz Ntu troop - The Vietcong (LP track)
12/ Wnedell Harrison - Love Dream (feat. Leon Thomas) (LP track)
13/ Ui - The iron Apple CD
14/ Plan 9 From Outer Space soundtrack CD



Crappy day outside.Been raining. Glad i din't go to a boot fair today.Probably wil dry out later and be sunny.

I Found A Sound

Yesterday whilst in Sandpiper Books in the back room i purchased a book on The White Stripes for the stall,and discovered a CD with take me written on a white sleeve. Not much info on it unfortunately except for "Beautiful Music" printed on the CD itself (perhaps the artist) and a heartfelt plea to regain a woman's love on the sleeve (a lady called Helen).

Musically it is in the naff but oddly wonderful lo-fi aesthetics of outsider artists such as Jandek,Daniel Johnston,The Shaggs and so on. Simply done on a cheap sounding keyboard,with extra drum rolls,and an occasional vocal mumur reminiscent of Glenn Gould, it seems at first a terrible mess. Rhythm and melody seemingly going against each other,but then when one realise that early Pavement or US Maple followed a similar hapdash tragectory,the internal logic of the compositions begin to gel.Despite the epithet of "beautiful music" ,which in the conventional sense it isn't ,its naive and childlike structures prove to be quite beautiful within its own refernce points. A worthwhile find that made me smile at least.

The artist has hidden other "take me" free CD's around Brighton and Hove.If you see it don't discard - listen to it first.The drone track at the end of this short 33 min. ditty is worth it alone.!!

The artist is at http://myspace.com/ifoundasound

BBC Radio 6

BBC Radio 6 is a station i would not normally listen to except for the fact it has Stuart Maconie's "Freak Zone" every Sunday for 3 hours which i have started to listen to via the net.Today was the first time listening to it and it's really good. Capt.Beefheart,Jim O'Rourke,John Zorn,Gun,Oval,Wire,Mark Hollis,Ennio Morricone,Yes and so on.Three hours of it live from 5pm - 8pm but with the internet you can listen again.A real fscinating section was the French car Boot Challenge which four tracks from unusual LP's played together in a batch. Wired music indeed.

Missed the Radio 3 Kurt Scwitters event. Hope to listen to that on the internet,which Steve told me about.Met him in town today looking around Borderline.He was looking for inspiration but didn't find it. I know what he means!

Some interesting Ace label stuff in there though,esp one a ghoulish rock n roll collection.Some nice compilations in that shop - difficult to tear myself away really.