Sonic Sunday
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jazzy_daveCuriosity is one of my most defining attributes in the musicological diaspora of curating and the immersive enjoyment that it provides.
Connecting with likeminded people via a forum or website adds to the enhancementt of one's musical journey.
Such a website is Now Spinning Magazine, which is an online forum and site dedicated to the physical product. No streaming or downloading is include, since these aren't tangable. You don't own the music there, you rent it.
This morning, whilst doing the chores of hoovering and son on, I blasted oot some deep slow heavy doom metal by Sunn 0))) - a perfect antidote to the tedium of chores.
I had an Angus beef and caramalised onion sarnie for lunch with a Scotch egg on the side. I listened to the dulcit tones of Sarah Vaughan from one of the Brazilian albums she made late in her career.
I followed this with three Cds from the recent Ian Dury box set and then towards the evening I dug out four albums from my Bill Fay collection. Bill Fay (9 September 1943 – 22 February 2025) was an English singer-songwriter. His early recordings were released by Deram, but following the release of his second album in 1971, Fay was dropped by the label. His work enjoyed a growing cult status in the 1990s, and his older works were re-issued in 1998 and 2004–2005. Fay's 2012 album Life Is People was his first album of all-new material since 1971.
Bill said, learning of his cult status, "Up until 1998, when some people reissued my albums, as far as I was concerned, I was gone, deleted. No one was listening. But then I got the shock that people remembered my music. I was doing some gardening, and listening to some of my songs on cassette, and a part of me thought they were quite good. I thought, "Maybe somebody will hear them someday." That same evening, 14 years ago, I got a call from a music writer telling me that my two albums were being reissued. A shock is not gonna get much bigger than that. It was astonishing to me. I won't ever really be able to believe that it happened. That's how I feel about it. I had come to terms with the fact that I was deleted, but that I had always kept writing songs anyway and that was good enough".
"Who Is the Sender?" was a new album by Bill Fay and released in April 2015. The second album track, "War Machine", came out as a single in February 2015. It nudged the charts but the album did well.
I just need to obtain two more of his albums to complete the section, his second album and the one before Who Is The Sender. Both should be able to find without difficulty, and like the others I have by Bill will be on CD.
Connecting with likeminded people via a forum or website adds to the enhancementt of one's musical journey.
Such a website is Now Spinning Magazine, which is an online forum and site dedicated to the physical product. No streaming or downloading is include, since these aren't tangable. You don't own the music there, you rent it.
This morning, whilst doing the chores of hoovering and son on, I blasted oot some deep slow heavy doom metal by Sunn 0))) - a perfect antidote to the tedium of chores.
I had an Angus beef and caramalised onion sarnie for lunch with a Scotch egg on the side. I listened to the dulcit tones of Sarah Vaughan from one of the Brazilian albums she made late in her career.
I followed this with three Cds from the recent Ian Dury box set and then towards the evening I dug out four albums from my Bill Fay collection. Bill Fay (9 September 1943 – 22 February 2025) was an English singer-songwriter. His early recordings were released by Deram, but following the release of his second album in 1971, Fay was dropped by the label. His work enjoyed a growing cult status in the 1990s, and his older works were re-issued in 1998 and 2004–2005. Fay's 2012 album Life Is People was his first album of all-new material since 1971.
Bill said, learning of his cult status, "Up until 1998, when some people reissued my albums, as far as I was concerned, I was gone, deleted. No one was listening. But then I got the shock that people remembered my music. I was doing some gardening, and listening to some of my songs on cassette, and a part of me thought they were quite good. I thought, "Maybe somebody will hear them someday." That same evening, 14 years ago, I got a call from a music writer telling me that my two albums were being reissued. A shock is not gonna get much bigger than that. It was astonishing to me. I won't ever really be able to believe that it happened. That's how I feel about it. I had come to terms with the fact that I was deleted, but that I had always kept writing songs anyway and that was good enough".
"Who Is the Sender?" was a new album by Bill Fay and released in April 2015. The second album track, "War Machine", came out as a single in February 2015. It nudged the charts but the album did well.
I just need to obtain two more of his albums to complete the section, his second album and the one before Who Is The Sender. Both should be able to find without difficulty, and like the others I have by Bill will be on CD.
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Date: 2026-01-19 09:09 am (UTC)Thanks for the Bill Fay anecdote. 🎵