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Hamilton Yarns

I have not dome a music post for a while so I will start with two tracks from a band I have seen twice, as they are based in Brighton. Yes, my old city that lived in for many years, and bought their first album on LP and a couple of CDr's. They self-produced all their recordings and hence available only on Lp or CDr. This can make their recordings hard to find but their last major work from 2015 is available - and if not the whole album is downloadable at Amazon.

I also knew a couple of the members of the band.

That album was also number 8 in Wire's Avant Rock best of 2015 in the Jan 2016 issue of the mag.

So here are a few tracks from that 2015 album on CDr only -

Hamilton Yarns - Thick of It

>Hamilton Yarns - Forget Things

Hamilton Yarns - Across the Sky

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Hamilton Yarns Plays In Oxfam Brighton

Somebody must have uploaded this during the free music festival in Brighton 2007 as I was there seeing them and also The Vitamin B12 - another Brighton collective of improvisers.

Hamilton Yarns at Oxfam Western Road Brighton

This is from their first album - on LP and now difficult to find -

Hamilton Yarns - Are You Still There?

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The Vitamin B12

This is a Brighton based improvising and experimental collective. When I lived in the city I saw them enumerable times and they played locally in churches, local hall, of charity shop spaces. I knew all the members of the band including Stephen Drennan and the instigator of the collective Alasdair Willis. In fact, The Vitamin B12 is a varying number of individuals, from one upwards, but nearly always including Alasdair Willis.

There are few YouTube videos of them and also their music is on small self-produced albums or cassettes.

The Vitamin B12 - keio rhythm 03

The Vitamin B12 - North Lane and The Laines

The Vitamin B12 - Formation 21

Vitamin B12 - Sleep patterns

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Time's Encomium

Classic sixties electronica -

Charles Wuorinen - Time's Encomium (1969)

Charles Wuorinen (*1938): Time's Encomium for synthesized & processed sound (1969) -- Pulitzer Prize Winner 1970

Wuorinen created Time's Encomium using the RCA Synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, a machine that several other prominent American composers employed during those early days of electronic music (including Milton Babbitt).




I have a copy arriving tis week.

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Oi Meghan, That English Forecaster Nailed It

Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Snagged from a_phoenixdragon.

Diolch yn fawr iawn, boyo!

Just Because ....

That Wesh town Llanfair PG leads me to this -

Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

I say, Carruthers, we English like our mispronounced town names.

From the Coolest Office

The latest Wire is out today and in their virtual office ambiance list is a new Beach Boys reissue.



This is a 5CD set that is explained below here -


New Beach Boys Anniversary Box Set Announced

OMG! if it is reasonably prived it does sound like something that .. well we shall see.

Yeah, the 5CD set is overpriced so I would stick with the 2CD version and wait a few months for the price to drop.

Wired 4 Sound #1

More musical excursions -

The Beach Boys - Cool, Cool Water

The Beach Boys - Surf's Up

The Beach Boys - Feel Flows

Alice Coltrane - Jai Rama Chandra

The Fourth World Quartet - The Transformation of Oz

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Wired 4 Sound #2

And then more ...

Jackie Leven - Levens Lament

Juana Molina - Sonamos

Sonamos (Remastered) · Juana Molina

Segundo

℗ Juana Molina|Crammed Discs

Released on: 2021-06-04
Producer: Juana Molina
Mixing Engineer: Daniel Melero
Mixing Engineer: Juana Molina
Composer: Juana Molina

Leslie Winer - Skin

Musician, poet, iconoclast, model, artist, enigma...
In the modern era, you’d be hard-pressed to find an artist who continues to push the creative envelope as much as Leslie Winer. Three decades after her revolutionary debut album Witch, her work remains just as startling, fresh, and as vital as the day it was committed to tape. Yet, somehow, she’s largely flown under the radar, until now...

When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It is first and foremost a sum of disparate elements: intoxicatingly strident drum loops, jagged slices of distorted guitar, and of course, Leslie’s blithely cool yet unflinchingly self-assured words skating across the soundscapes like timeless poetry—it’s a sonic collage that is both as nuanced and headstrong—a reflection of the complexity of the artist herself.

Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Jah Wobble, Helen Terry, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, this expansive anthology solidifies Winer’s reputation as an innovator and a trailblazer, extending her reputation far beyond her traditionally accepted credit as the grandmother of trip-hop made popular later by Portishead, Massive Attack, and others.

Bobby Womack - Lay Your Lovin’ On Me

From the recently reissued "The Poet


Bobby Womack - I Wish I Had Someone to Go Home To

From the reissued album "The Poet II"


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